re: I hope we get the same Brennan back as 2020 for the bama game or at least the Aggie game.

And that logic is completely ignorant because it’s already been proven false which is why I posted the numbers. An injury doesn’t erase that fact.

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You completely missed what I said but let’s apply your previous logic about not having certain guys to another example. Is Brennan better than Burrow? Going by your logic Brennan didn’t have Chase or Jefferson or CEH or that award winning Oline and still put up similar numbers so he’s better right? Or is your logic selective and only works when you need it to support your bias?

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Not at all. You are the one who brought up Brennan putting up better numbers first. I just pointed out that you conveniently left out that Johnson played without Terrace Marshall Jr, Arik Gilbert, John Emery and TDP. Max Johnson wasn't named SEC Offensive Player of the Week for nothing against UF. That's non-biased people who voted to give him that honor and he was the first LSU QB to ever throw 3 TDs in The Swamp. My point was that he played a big part in those last two wins even though you clearly tried to downplay his role. They were good team wins and he played his part well.

I hope Myles gets back fast and can help us win games and I'm open to seeing what Nuss can do at any moment considering how our offense has looked, but that doesn't mean I need to discredit Max's accomplishments from last year.

Brennan had his issues last year, particularly in the opener against MSU. He held the ball too long and his footwork in the pocket seemed questionable at best.

That said, I thought he looked way better in game 2 (Vandy, so take it or leave it) and game 3 (Mizzou). I get why people were railing in him for the third down stats, but I think that’s being willfully ignorant of the difference in offensive philosophy/play calling we have seen with the different quarterbacks.

We took a ton of shots deep with Brennan and had success doing it, but it also put us in a lot of 3rd and long situations. Conversely, we have played a lot of “dink and dunk” football with Max which has made 3rd downs much more manageable but has also resulted in a lack of explosive plays.

In my opinion, we are seeing the reality of the two QBs’ strengths. Brennan throws as good of a deep ball as I have ever seen. I don’t think this is really up for debate. However, he seemed to struggle with a lack of touch in short throws - an area where I think Max is strong despite the rash of drops we have seen so far this year.

Personally, I think they were asking Brennan to do too much and I think they haven’t been aggressive enough with Max. I think both would struggle with the lack of pass protection or any semblance of a running game that we have seen this year. But I also think Brennan’s potential to burn defenses deep would at least force them to rethink the strategy of loading the box and sending LB’s on every play.

You could be right if things don’t change quickly. Put Nuss in there, use Goodwin and Kiner as your 1-2 punch at RB, stop rotating so many WRs and go with Boutte, Palmer and Bech 80% of the time or more, get Clarke out of there, find a safety who’s not scared to hit somebody and for frick sake play Mason Smith and Roy together.

I wasn’t trying to do that, I actually like Max. What I was trying to explain was that the hype around him all summer didn’t reflect what we’d seen from him on the field. He did a great job of being smart and making plays against Florida but he did have a lot of help and it was much more of a team effort than it was him carrying us to that win. Ole Miss he was even better regardless of them being such a bad D but we did force 6 turnovers. Both games were very close so you can’t just ignore those things and simply say Max won the games alone or did almost all the heavy lifting. That’s all I meant.

Are you dumb enough to believe that a non mobile QB is going to succeed behind this oline? Especially with no running game. Furthermore with said QB absolutely terrified of being hit. Let’s not forget that. Take it another step that QB had an abysmal 3rd down conversion rate. But yea he’s the savior.

Max’s 3rd down% was 17% last year and you’re assigning a team stat to one player. Since that post is so ignorant I feel like I should tell you that running plays are included in a teams 3rd down% because apparently you don’t know that.

I’m convinced guys like that either didn’t watch the games last year, didn’t pay attention if they did or were too drunk to remember the games. It’s like they saw this stupid narrative on the Rant, it fit their bias, so now they just repeat it.