re: This being an interception was wildly disappointing

I had not seen that. Thanks.

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I got the feeling basically nobody wanted to be playing this game on our side, outside of a guy like Barion honestly who clearly came to play. The offense was just in slush mode all game just about. Lazy blocking, some lazy throws, Durham didnt even try really it seemed like; rough night

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Then you didn’t pay attention. Aaron Anderson definitely came to fricking play. Thomas made a couple of uncharacteristic errors, but still played with effort. Berry definitely came to play.

The entire fricking defense outside of a couple of subs at the very end came to play.

Nuss didn’t have effort issues. He just didn’t play very well and was pressing too much on top of that. But it’s not terrible to have a QB who’s above 50% and wins when he’s having an off night. We’ve seen what happens when a QB who’s not great to begin with has an off game plenty of times.

And before you talk about the opponent, USF and Troy had no business winning and coming close vs 2 P4s, respectively. South Carolina St definitely didn’t have any business hanging around with USCe. We can’t afford anymore performances like that, but hopefully this got it out of their system.

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To get dominated by a 3 man Louisiana Tech front is embarrassing

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Here's the thing. A 3 man mint front or tite front is the hardest front to run the ball against. That's what Tech played. You have to use a few end arounds and sweeps because running the ball inside against it is very difficult.

I've never seen a QB with an arm like Nuss struggle with corner deep balls. He seems to be very comfortable on deep throws that should be much harder to throw. When it comes to something as simple as a corner streak he always throws behind or just tosses it too far to the inside, which is the worst spot to put them. I'd love to see a breakdown on why this has been a problem for him in his career. It's strange because he can make all the throws.

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No one should be worried about the QBs ability to throw a football.

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I mean, I probably would have said the same thing a couple of weeks ago but at this point he’s completing 44% of his passes >10 yards downfield. That’s #11 of 16 starters on the SEC.

It’s also in line with his completion percentage last year on throws >10 yards downfield (45%), which was.. also #11 of 16 starters in the SEC. Of course, last year he threw more deep balls than anyone else. I was willing to chalk it up to being one-dimensional and “asking him to do too much.” But I think at some point you have to start wondering whether there’s a mechanical issue.

Granted, there have been some drops and some bad breaks (see: Brown’s TD against Clemson). And we haven’t thrown very many deep balls at all so far this year compared to the rest of the league so the completion % could skyrocket. Maybe he lights up Florida’s secondary and we go back to Heisman conversations. I hope so. But I don’t think it’s crazy that worry is starting to creep in.

too open?

so wide open, you take a little off just to make sure you get a big play no matter what

or the ball slipped, it was not a very good spiral

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Their movement up front, especially when they brought 4 or 5, really confused the OL, especially Thompson and Davis. They got turned around on stunts and guys coming from different areas multiple times. And vs the run, even when they would have 7 or 8 ready to drop, they started in the box looking run before bailing if it was a pass play. And their LBs closed on RBs quickly.

Tech coached and played a hell of a defensive game. We should have played better against it, but you have to tip you cap to a good gameplan and coaching there.

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I concur. And to add. LSU ran several sweeps and end arounds to keep them honest and had success of them. We only ran inside zone twice all game. We knew that wasn't gonna be there. We did run Duo alot down by the goalline and just tried to ram our way in but it only worked on the Caden Durham TD run. We used a ton of split zone and had success outside of the 1 TFL.

Yeah I don’t claim to know the answer.. could be mental as well, I suppose.

Or could be that he’s an excellent deep-ball thrower and the stats are skewed by a bunch of stuff outside of his control. I mean this is the same guy who threw a ball 40 yards into a basketball goal at Manning camp.

All I’m saying is that I don’t think it’s crazy for fans to start worrying a bit about the deep passing game. (Worrying a bit, not melting.)

Well they better get their shite in a pile We facing a wounded gator this week and a Coach fighting for his livelihood.

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Im not understanding your math- did he drop a TD and then a 2pt conversion? (Are there 4pt TDs now?) You saying we would’ve gone for two and made it if he would’ve hung on to the dropped TD?

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I’m saying he cost LSU 2 TDs on drives they ended up settling for 2 FG. That’s 14 points instead of 6, an 8 point difference.