“When he did square (his body) and throw in the pocket, he threw a nice ball. “He didn’t trust protections, he didn’t trust his ability to go through progressions,” the scout told me. One NFL scout told me Daniels is a “project” as a thrower and can be forced into “predictable throws and outcomes” when game-planned. In 3 seasons at Arizona State, Daniels completed 62.3 percent of his passes, but barely 60 percent last season. You know what’s more valuable? A quarterback who can complete a high percentage of passes and stress defenses in the run game.
Any quarterback who can extend plays - and/or avoid bad plays - with his ability to break containment and stress defenses is a valuable commodity. This one was pushed as much by new LSU coach Brian Kelly as anyone.īefore we go further, the statement is actually 100 percent true. QB Jayden Daniels will give LSU an added dimension offensively with his ability to extend plays with his dynamic running ability. So to recap, Oregon, because Lanning knows the Georgia personnel, because Bo Nix has played against the Bulldogs and won’t be intimidated, and because Oregon has a recent history of a big nonconference win on the road, can play spoiler in Week 1. A win at Ohio State that was led by 3 players no longer with the team: Dye, TB CJ Verdell and QB Anthony Brown. An impressive moment for Cristobal’s program, no doubt - but a win against a team playing a first-year redshirt freshman starting quarterback (CJ Stroud) who was still figuring it out. But in 3 games last year against the 2 most physical teams in the Pac-12, Oregon lost to Stanford and Utah (twice) by a combined 66 points.įinally, there’s the Oregon win last year at Ohio State. Nix will be playing with an Oregon program that, under Cristobal, made huge strides to become more physical and less finesse. The same Nix, who in 3 games against Georgia as the Auburn starting quarterback, had 1 TD, 2 INTs and completed 56 percent of his passes - and lost 3 games by an average of 17.3 points. Oregon is traveling to Atlanta for a de facto Georgia home game, with a new quarterback (Nix) and without its best offensive player from last season (TB Travis Dye transferred to USC). Smart, in his first season as coach, won 8 games and didn’t get his first signature win until mid-November with an upset of top-10 Auburn. Georgia had better players in Smart’s first season of 2016 than Oregon does now. While Lanning did solid work for Georgia under Smart, it’s not close to the same thing as Smart leaving Alabama after 9 seasons, ready to finally make his mark as a head coach. This one arrives with multiple levels of misinformation, including but not limited to: Lanning’s “knowledge” of Georgia, the carryover of Oregon’s rise in “physicality” under former coach Mario Cristobal, the Bo Nix factor and Oregon’s win at Ohio State in Week 2 last season. New Oregon coach Dan Lanning, the former DC at Georgia, knows Georgia’s personnel so well, he’ll set up the perfect game plan to pull the upset. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I debunk the 3 biggest myths of the SEC season out of peace and love - and because, well, some of you might have a close relationship with our friends at FanDuel. Now that it’s officially game week - that’s right, Week Zero, baby - it’s time to straighten the crooked lines before next week’s grand opening.
Yet here we are, in the middle of talking season, spreading nonsense and feeding the monster of misinformation. When those three things happen, the best team wins at a high percentage rate. It’s not rocket science, and it sure as all get out isn’t some age-old coaching axiom. It’s completing a high percentage of passes, protecting the ball and tackling. Truer words could never have been spoken. “At the end of the day, it’s about playing better than the other guy.” “Sometimes you get deep in the weeds of ‘if this, then that’ stuff,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said. Forget about those myths you’ve been hearing and focus on football.
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