re: What is your honest opinion of Matt Canadas

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You're comparing a true freshman to a 4th year junior. Even given that discrepancy, Hurts was still better vs. than the 3 teams being mentioned.

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It was a troll post.

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Look, when you have to defend your starting qb this much vs. unbiased opinions, your qb probably just isn't that good. But but but his td/int ratio was 2.2 to 1 and Nathan Peterman's junior year his was 2.5 to 1. See! Negligible difference you don't understand ratios! Dude, the difference is 20 touchdowns to 11. I just don't understand why LSU fans can't make an objective judgement on his ability, or lack thereof.

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I did not post that 2nd thing you quoted, so not sure why you are addressing this like I did everything.

I was using facts, and the facts say that OVERALL Etling's junior season and Peterman's junior season were very similar. A passer rating difference of THREE points is very negligible. You can try and nitpick whatever you want, passer rating looks at everything related to passing, completeion %, yards per attempt, TD%, INT%, etc...the difference in the two seasons passing boiled down to a 138.57 for Peterman and 135.54 for Etling. Peterman had a better TD% and completion %, Etling better YPA, INT%. It all boiled down to a minute difference in how effective they were as passers overall.

The comparison here is simply to point out Peterman was basically an unknown before Canada coached him last season. He was as mediocre as Etling was. Also, if you actually watched Peterman last season under Canada, he does NOTHING special. Simply made a lot of fairly easy throws. Something Etling is definitely capable of. We've has such crap for offense and QB development for years it's like we just assume it can never get better. Heck I remember the jump Mettenberger made from his junior to senior season. Now Etling doesnt have that kind of talent, but he's pretty dang similar to Peterman in a lot of respects, and Canada made him look a lot better than he really was. Sometimes great coaches can make mediocre talents look really good - happens a lot in the Big XII (see Baker Mayfield).

People who just randomly look at Peterman's stats last year and just assume "oh he was a great QB" because his passer rating was so good, no, he was a solid QB who simply executed easy passes very well overall. It's not like Canada was making Peterman throw 15 yard outs and 30-40 yard fades, and a ton of timing routes; watch the tape and see how easy Peterman had it.

Kiffin with Blake Sims is another good example of taking a pedestrian talent and elevating to play at what appeared to be a high level, but it was just executing simple things.

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Is he capable?

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Did you watch him play at all last year? We still tried to throw it deep probably too much which is by far his worst thing. When we kept things easy and rhythm passing (mostly short, some intermediate) he was pretty decent. Now, the Alabama game was just awful all around, but outside of that when Miles was gone, Etling looked a lot more comfortable spreading the ball around as quickly as possible instead of trying to complete a bunch of NFL throws which we know he's never going to be good at.

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Over half of his 14 completions were check downs to running backs and tight ends.

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Which is exactly what we need more of. Not a "frick it, throw it deep" mentality when your first read isn't there. What moves the chains? Get it out to a playmaker and let them do their thing. Are you telling me we shouldn't be giving it to guys like Guice and Chark sooner or have Etling throw it more downfield which we know he's not good at? I'll gladly take Guice on a dump off pass or Chark on a misdirection run play. A lot of Canada's Pitt offense that he's installing here for Etling is predicated around deception to help your QB out, that could be really big. Make defenses cover the whole field and every play.

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Peterman got drafted in the 5th round.

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Yes, after:

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Canada made him look a lot better than he really was.

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That's the point here. You think Peterman was on draft boards before Canada coached him? Hell no, again, he had a season very similar to Etling's last year.

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Peterman is a good enough arm talent to warrant using a draft pick on

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His arm was completely average. The fact is Canada made him look very good overall in his offense last year and helped him get drafted. Again, do you think he gets drafted if he had a similar year to his junior year? Not even close.

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Do you really believe Etling is going to get drafted next year?

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If Canada makes him look good enough like he did Peterman anything can happen. Hell Matt Flynn got taken on a 7th round flyer pick and that dude's arm was weak as shite.

Of course it can be done in one year. He will have elite skilled talent at his disposal and he got things done with smaller and slower guys before. Etling will decide how much the offense improves. He doesn't have to be Eli Manning for it to work. He just needs to hit the high percentage throws and not throw picks.

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See! Negligible difference you don't understand ratios! Dude, the difference is 20 touchdowns to 11. I just don't understand why LSU fans can't make an objective judgement on his ability, or lack thereof.

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I'd bet that LSU also had twice as many rushing touchdowns than Pitt did. See how that works??

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What is your honest opinion of Matt Canadas

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He is an ACC offensive coordinator.

Average at best

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I'd bet that LSU also had twice as many rushing touchdowns than Pitt did. See how that works??

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In 2016, Pittsburgh had 36 rushing touchdowns. In 2016, LSU had 30 rushing touchdowns

Please tell me, how does that work?

Everything works out ideally, and you have a league average QB. Which is a significant upgrade, but not enough.

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I remember correctly he was a Broyles award finalist. Anybody on Alabama staff get nominated???

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Of course not. We only have scrubs on Saban's staff bro. LSU has all of the elite coaches. Yep, that's it.

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Etling had 2.5 less games than Peterman also was hurt all year.

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A year under his belt is huge for Etling. You guys will be better this year. We will see how much more soon enough.

You guys are stupid! Etling is a 5th year senior. The coaches trust his decision making. No doubt he will have his ups and downs during the season, but that's football. I expect LSU to start slow, but once we start clinking on all cylinders, look out!

Also, our defense will super salty this year!

I see us winning no less than 9-10 games.