2019 FB G8: Louisiana 31, Texas State 3

[ManAboutTown]

Some people are critical and some people are happy with the performance. That should tell you what you need to know about the QB situation. It's that way for a reason. Has he improved? Sure. Are there legit issues? Absolutely.

I love winning by 28 and still having a ton to work on. I love playing young players and 2 deep. Keeps the entire team engaged.

I do not buy the 16 day BS. If you pay attention to any amount of CFB elsewhere, coaches are literally judged on how their teams perform off of a bye week. If you want to say the team struggled to get "up" for TxSt, I'll buy that way more.

I think the real issues were not having leader of the WR corps on the field (Bradley), shuffling the line with Hunt out, conservative play calling in the 1st half (yes it was), penalties on money downs, trying to integrate new guys in the offense, and Levi bailing out of the pocket too early. Kick coverage was also not to standard last night.

The defense might be better than the numbers, but they're still not anything special. Secondary left WR wide ___ open all night long. They crowded the box, even with their DBs. Even with all of our issues, Mitchell got what he wanted, Calais was effective and Lewis had MANY opportunities to hit receivers for TDs.

[Esqueleto]

He has improved a lot this year but when you starting point was Louisiana college back up anything looks better

I'm not gonna say he has improved. I think the coaching staff has done a fantastic job protecting his shortcomings after the Mississippi State game. All you're gonna get from him is a bunch of dump off passes, WR screens, and the occasional 50/50 ball to Bradley. With our defense and run game this year, I suppose that's good enough to win most games. Just don't expect to beat good teams without the ability to throw the ball down field.

[Turbine]

You mean developing that muscle memory right?

At least someone caught my humor.

I thought I put it through the uprights.

[cajun_lannister]

I'm not gonna say he has improved. I think the coaching staff has done a fantastic job protecting his shortcomings after the Mississippi State game. All you're gonna get from him is a bunch of dump off passes, WR screens, and the occasional 50/50 ball to Bradley. With our defense and run game this year, I suppose that's good enough to win most games. Just don't expect to beat good teams without the ability to throw the ball down field.

That's my fear and the reality we have seen our offense crumble against better teams

Sad part we would have a legit shot to be 8-0 right now with the inside track to the cotton bowl we were only missing a QB

[AirBill]

That's my fear and the reality we have seen our offense crumble against better teams

That's misleading. Truth of the matter is we've only had one bad offensive game this season, and that was against App. We've scored at least 28 points in every other game, including an SEC team.

Levi's not great, but he's not nearly as bad as many people here would have you believe.

[zephyr]

I went through all the games to see which QB played better. Other than App and Miss St I thought Levi outplayed them all. Did you really wish Vitt was our QB during the TX st game? If so, one of us is missing something.

I would agree. I honestly didn't see much of the game due to other engagements I had to attend but rewatched it this morning and I don't know what some of you are talking about. There are some on here who just dislike Lewis. It's as simple as that. I thought he made the throws he needed to. He just wasn't given a lot of opportunities to air it out. The deep ball he threw to Leblanc in the first quarter got eaten up by the 20 mph head wind. Outside of that, I saw some good passes to Bell and Williams to name a few and the TD pass to Calais was on the money. Some guys will not be happy as long as he is the QB.

[zephyr]

That's my fear and the reality we have seen our offense crumble against better teams

Sad part we would have a legit shot to be 8-0 right now with the inside track to the cotton bowl we were only missing a QB

BS. Lewis did not kill us in the game against App. Our OL could not hold the line and he was constantly under pressure. They beat us at every individual matchup and that's partially just scheme.

[zephyr]

Calais was effective and Lewis had MANY opportunities to hit receivers for TDs.

Can you name the many times he had chances to hit receivers for TD's that weren't actually hit for TD's?

[zephyr]

I'm not gonna say he has improved. I think the coaching staff has done a fantastic job protecting his shortcomings after the Mississippi State game. All you're gonna get from him is a bunch of dump off passes, WR screens, and the occasional 50/50 ball to Bradley. With our defense and run game this year, I suppose that's good enough to win most games. Just don't expect to beat good teams without the ability to throw the ball down field.

You obviously missed the nice slant to Bell and the really nice deep out to Jalen Williams into the wind.

[CrappDaddy]

That's my fear and the reality we have seen our offense crumble against better teams

Sad part we would have a legit shot to be 8-0 right now with the inside track to the cotton bowl we were only missing a QB

We had a shot to be 8-0 with Levi. We did t get it done. As a team, they did not get it done. You can’t single out a few plays the Levi did or didn’t make in those games and say without a doubt that those are what decided the game. The guy is having a good season. He isn’t Joe Burrow but he is playing pretty good football and he’s not giving it away to the other team. We need to appreciate the team we have and not the team we could have if we had a blue chip QB.