re: Nix inaccuracy....

It's mental. If we are ahead, like state, he can hit them on the numbers almost every play but when the pressure is on its like the game is overwhelming him and he just starts overthrowing everything. He's scared to throw it near the WRs incase it's picked off but he's throwing too far away for the WRs to have any shot. While state isn't a good defense it's still hard to put the ball in an accurate spot that much and then miss every thing by a mile in bad games.

Plus Gus doesn't let him run enough to make plays to make him comfortable in the game and that makes it worse on his mindset.

Idk if Gus can fix it. Gus is blaming everyone else for putting him in a bad position and now Nix is talking that way. He's not blaming the anyone but saying they were in bad positions all night.

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Its clearly Gus at this point

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Mostly. Some is Nix's mindset of playing scared but Gus clearly isn't helping. I kept watching the game and Gus was giving him nothing short to get in a rhythm.

If Gus is going to live or die by Nix then he needs to just turn him loose and let him run if he wants and give him easy pass til he gets going. With the playoffs out of the question then Gus needs to spend the rest of the year working with Nix for the future.

Nix is due to breakout at any time. Just needs to be a bit more proactive in his decision making.