re: Auburn Breakdown. (Since this week vs. Towson should be boring.)

We have the better passer.

He cuts the turnovers down and Im good. Cant put the ball on the turf against these next opponents coming up after Sat.
If we can keep him clean, we'll be fine. We wont face a good defense until UGA imo.

Strip sack from behind was the only real bad turnover like I said. He wasn't taking chances with the ball until later on in the game when we kind of knew we had them beat.

Really, every QB has turnovers -- it's half the timing and half the reason. Taking shots downfield when we're up is good for a guy who doesn't have a bunch of snaps. I think what I'm most concerned with at this time is having a creative rush offense.

Hopefully during the Auburn game we start to open up some more option looks and get our playmakers the balls. We can always turn into a throw-first offense, but one dimensional offenses generally don't win championships.

Context matters.

A pass into triple coverage when you're leading by one possession in the 4th Quarter on your side of the field is not the same as throwing into double coverage on third and long when you have a fairly comfortable lead.

They're not "good", but it's clear that Mullen was trying to get as many downfield passes as physically possible in order to get Trask ready to make those passes going forward.

They're forgivable when the damage they do is minimal. The one that was egregious was his fumble because he had to have known that he was about to be sacked. He can't just stand in the pocket for that long and expect someone to not come and hit him from behind.

That being said, telling him to run is a lot easier than telling a guy in his third year starting not to throw off of his back foot across his body to the middle of the field late on the first drive.

Or how to properly run a mesh play inside the red zone and fumble it.

All turnovers are pretty bad, but some are objectively worse than others.

It's all in the way you do it.

Trask's Total QBR is adjusted to competition, so that's a moot point.

He also played one quarter vs. Kentucky. Franks averaged 58 yards a Quarter, Trask averaged 126. Similarly, Trask was throwing at a defense that knew he was going to throw (referred to as "passing downs" for most metrics used to quantify how good a passer is).

Who knows what the offense would have looked like had Trask started the games before.

All we know at this moment is that Trask broke Franks' single game passing record in three quarters vs. Tennessee (since he shared snaps with Emory all game and Emory closed the game).

The four "full" quarters he's played he's averaged 104.75 passing yards. He's done this with a very broken run game, so he's actually throwing at a disadvantage (this is likely why ESPN's Total QBR rates him so highly).

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Bo Nix hasn't thrown even remotely close to Trask's high on the year (293, with two drops mind you). Nix's high was 207 against Tulane and only hit 51.4% of his passes.

After Tulane, he has failed to hit 200 passing yards in every single one of his games, including Kent State. Trask beats him in Total QBR and QB Rating comfortably.

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Sorry to say this but our QB as of today and until next Saturday has not played or beat any team that could come close to beating aubbie.

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And we absolutely dominated Tennessee, came back against Kentucky after our QB "as of that day" went down losing 21 - 10.

Trask is 53 - 3 in SEC play since he's been and if Kellen Mond can throw for 300 yards against Auburn (lmfao) I'm pretty sure Mullen and crew will be able to.

Trask has not been tested yet . Let’s see how good Trask is after playing some good teams .

So your saying Trask will clearly be the better QB on the field when we play Auburn? I would offer a ban bet on this but I have done it in the past and you were scared to take it .

UF-Auburn will be like UF-Ole Miss in 2015.

UF will come out pissed.

I don’t see why it’s funny . Almost every coach in college football agrees with me that Nix is more talented.

You Straws must not care about recruiting rankings . You could argue that Trask is a better QB right now but not that he is more talented.

Yea Nix has a higher ceiling for sure but right now he is not a great QB by any means.

AU is dead last in passing yds in the SEC. Im more worried about their run game which is #1 in the SEC.

Agree Nix will be a very good QB in a year or two...but not now. He will be a Fromm type QB...not flashy but handle the offense.