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It Sounds Like Brian Kelly Is Excited About The Future With Freshman QB Walker Howard

by Staff Reporter

October 11, 202246 Comments

Jake Crandall / USA TODAY NETWORK

During Monday's press conference, head coach Brian Kelly was asked about five-star freshman QB Walker Howard and how he has progressed since arriving in the spring.

quote:
Q. This isn't a question about playing him now, but just since you got Walker Howard in the spring until now, how much has he improved, how much has he picked up on and learned since you started coaching him?

BRIAN KELLY: I would say every day that he is with us, there's more knowledge because I'm in the meetings with the quarterbacks. He has a great football knowledge. He is mentally strong. He believes he is better than every quarterback we have, which is awesome. I love that.

I don't mean that in any way other than he just has that kind of make-up, which is what you want. He respects everybody in the room. But, yeah, he continues to develop, and we have a good feeling about him.

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Vernonbrew22•20 months

Howard represents a bright future for P&G. These lean years make me appreciate the great run we had the past two decades. Tigers will get it back. Expecting better than 6-6 or 7-5 this year was just not realistic. Razor thin depth but competitive

Jwils•20 months

Man the CBK lovefest sure has faded LOL

lsufan79•20 months

Prisoner of moment douchecanoe. Go pull for Auburn.

arealtiger67•20 months

Good QB play does indeed make for better offensive performance. But solid O line play makes good QB play easy. And, when you match solid O line play with a great QB and skill players, you get something exceptional... ask Joe Burrow! LINK

arealtiger67•20 months

Let's not rush any young QB into the pit until BK puts a solid O line in front of him. Until then JD is a viable option.

ExpoTiger•20 months

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but I wish people would stop shitting on Kelly until he’s been here for at least 1 season. We all knew it was going to be a tough year and that we have plenty to fix. Good qb play makes the world go round and we won’t have that for at least a year. So many problems are alleviated by good qb play. Wish we could all just give the guy this season to get things worked out.

Sissidog02•20 months

Exactly 1 year from Today, full season, full recruit cycle, full SEC schedule, then let these COUCH Coaches spew their experience of coaching Elite athletes in an Elite Conference, I’m sure CBK and Staff will be ready with pen and paper feverishly taking notes from some of the best coaches, from your 6yr old sons flag football teams that are 3-3 in their division of the west region of their neighborhood league.

Hurricane Mike•20 months

I don't believe anything an LSU coach says about a QB until I see it. We're going on about 15 years of bullshite at the QB position outside of a couple transfers.

FLObserver•20 months

Really sad when the best 2 QB's that have played for us in the last 15 years were mett and burrow. Both were only great 1 year and both were transfers from UGA and OH ST as you mentioned.

Sissidog02•20 months

Yes but in that 15 year span we LSU did field the GOAT QB in college football history So there’s that.

FlyinTiger93•20 months

Brian Kelly put 1 quarterback into the NFL, and his career sputtered and died. What faith can we put in Kelly to develop any quarterback? Right now, it is a failed experiment.

kobsa•20 months

That and a history of unimpressive ND offenses were my biggest concerns after looking at the Denbrock and BK hire.

TigahJay•20 months

Yet Kelly just had him handoff against Southern…

TigahJay•20 months

Let the kid throw

BayouBengal99•20 months

He has that calm natural confidence. It’s not manufactured. It doesn’t need work, it’s there and isn’t going anywhere no matter what happens. He’s not fragile and knows who he is. I think all these QBs can be successful, they just need the right offense. For some reason coaches get to LSU and think they don’t need to use any gimmick plays. Why? Use all your tools, especially the first year of building this thing!

cajunmud•20 months

I envision Myles Brennan going, "huh, I'm 3rd, lawd, lawd, lawd, okay, good luck with that."

TaderSalad•20 months

“Im 3rd and the guy that can’t hit the broad side of a barn is starting…”

ezride25•20 months

Imagine a qb who sits in that room and thinks they aren’t better than the rest and you’ll start to see an image of Max Johnson come into focus.

Sissidog02•20 months

Max had a better LSU career than Brennan, let that marinate for a minute, and only played 1 year to Brennan’s 16.

NPComb•20 months

I wonder if he's happy with the present?

PureBlood•20 months

Nuss is going to transfer and then JD and Howard will be the two for a "neck in neck" competition where JD will "win" again because he's got "more experience." I'm becoming fluent in CBKese

saintslsupels•20 months

Great point, only BK uses words like win and more experience.

NASA_ISS_Tiger•20 months

Don't forget JD will be "1A" and Howard will be "1B".

LSUrme•20 months

Yep.

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CanebreakCajun•20 months

We are all excited about Walker Howard.

Lithium•20 months

No shite, The son of a former LSU QB who came to LSU to play because it was one of the Last wishes of his Mama. It's going to be a Movie when he he holds up the Natty trophy in the Purple and Gold

Springlake Tiger•20 months

I think part of the reason Kelly is sticking with Daniels is that he fears Nuss might do well and create a qb battle next season and he really wants Walker to start with little controversy.

jamboots08•20 months

Nuss couldnt hit a bull in the butt with a bass fiddle.

Cwils2222•20 months

Right he’s not starting a guy because he thinks he will be to good and win too many more games.

A_Rational_Tiger_Fan•20 months

Nussmeir is awful

DVinBR•20 months

Redshirt this year, improve the offensive line over the offseason, eat next year

jbird7•20 months

I believe he’s better than every other QB we have also. Put him in.

BayouBengal99•20 months

Walker Howard is NOT ready yet. He won’t be ready next year either. He could probably play next year but he’ll take some lumps. I thought Daniel’s played much better in this game, he just needs to have an offense designed to highlight his play. Not use one or two of his skills, use them all. Have a threat to run, give or pass every single snap. We do that mixed in with quick passes, down field passes, big runs from the RBs and give the ball to Boutte and Bech out of the backfield and let those guys bully people. You have to mix it all up and confuse the defense. That’s it. We do that and you’ll see a much better team. We could have beat Tennessee y’all. It was clear that they couldn’t stay with our WRs. Had we ran to the outside those DL couldn’t just crash inside on run plays. They were plugging the middle. Run around that shite.

Giantkiller•20 months

This is coach speak for “I’m not actually saying anything”.

Giantkiller•20 months

This is coach speak for “I’m not actually saying anything”.

LongueCarabine•20 months

You can say that again.

TommyDaTiger•20 months

You do have the right to remain silent if you wish