re: QB situation next year.

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The only knock on him coming out of high school was accuracy and decision-making

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And height. I think this may be the only thing where Jefferson had the clear advantage over JR coming in.


But I think the difference between this situation and the other 2 maybe is that RP and Lee in '10 and JJ in '11 is that the 2nd QBs in all those years were also the 2nd string QBs. By all accounts, Miles mentioned Rivers would be the guy behind Mett this year in a disaster situation. If Rivers emerges as #2 going into the fall, I'm not sure Les would be quite as likely to play #3. We'll see.

I think you def see Randall next year as the backup and complement to Mett. But like someone else said it will prob be 80-20 to 90-10 Mett to Randall.

and who knows. You need to get Randall some experience in case of injury or maybe even if Mett lights it up and decides to go pro after a year.

I've heard a lot of hype about the pure arm strength of Randall that you wouldn't expect from a guy of his size. Heard at a combine he threw a ball 80 yards.. Plus the kid can roll, I wanna say he ran a 4.4 so why not give it a shot? With Mett next year slinging the ball all over the place I wouldn't mind seeing a Wild Tiger type deal with Randall. Like people have said, it's just another thing defenses have to prepare for.

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He was highly recruited. He has been a pleasant surprise on the scout team. Miles went out of the way to mention him early, vis-a-vis the preparation he gave the team for the mobile QBs we faced early.

A true dual-threat, he is a better running threat than Jefferson is right now. The only knock on him coming out of high school was accuracy and decision-making (sound familiar) - hopefully he is getting better fundamental coaching (or taking to it, depending on to whom you listen) than Jefferson did his first few years

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And height.

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He's not tall, true, but at 6'0" or 6'1", that's plenty of height for a true dual-threat.

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Miles mentioned Rivers would be the guy behind Mett this year in a disaster situation.

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I heard him say the opposite, mid-season (just a couple of games ago).

(And you can't trust a word out of Miles' mouth on stuff like this, anyway.)

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Heard at a combine he threw a ball 80 yards.. Plus the kid can roll, I wanna say he ran a 4.4

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I just caught wood.

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And that really depends on o-line play with a pro-style QB. We saw this in the game with Bama. We struggled with the pro-style offense. It wasn't until we were able to run the option and spread out the Bama D and force 11 on 11 situation were we able to execute adequately on offense.

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True....But.... there are ways to neutralize that, quick routes... curls, outs, timing routes off a 2 or 3 step drop... (i love JL, so dont take my head off Rant), and a more complete QB can execute these things.... It would have backed the D off or else we would have picked em apart... But obviously that wasnt an option... But with Mett, I think he will bring all that to the table..IMO

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You will see JR next year regardless of how good or bad JR is at QB. Who else is going to play QB when LSU has a 45-0 lead?

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Rivers??

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True....But.... there are ways to neutralize that, quick routes... curls, outs, timing routes off a 2 or 3 step drop... (i love JL, so dont take my head off Rant), and a more complete QB can execute these things.... It would have backed the D off or else we would have picked em apart... But obviously that wasnt an option... But with Mett, I think he will bring all that to the table..IMO

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I get what you are saying but at the college level there simply is not enough time during the week for the QBs and WRs to practice and perfect a full array of quick outs, timing routes, back shoulder trows, etc. At least this year there seems to be a few plays with these type of throws under Kragthorpe. I've already seen the JL to RR back shoulder throw successful a few times. (Under Crowton they were non-existent). The point is, with a limited number of perfected "timing routes" (which is indefensible if run perfectly which is extremely rare at the college level) good defenses (a la Bama, Florida) can defend against these passes. When that happens, Met as no where to go. At least a dual treat QB can rely on his feet when a play breaks down and it also forces defenses to guard against the option.

Met is going to be a good QB. However I would caution everyone about elevated exceptions. We have to put the exceptions for Met in perspective. When Met was at UGA he did beat Murray out of a starting position however not by much and Murray is younger than Met. Murray is an okay SEC QB but he is not necessarily tearing it up. With Murray as a baseline, my exceptions for Met are slightly better QB play than Murray next year. Is that BCS championship level of QB play? Is that a sufficient level of QB play to get us though the rigors of the SEC without an L? I don't think so. That's were Randall come in. I hope he's up to the task next season because I really think we will need his legs to make another championship run.

I would expect Randall to be the more likely candidate to replace Mett when he leaves than Rivers.