Gautier focused on being starter

[cajun4life]

It's not about not liking Blaine, everyone I know loves his effot and grit. But what we see is two qb's who are not comfortable in this offense. Blaine is the better playmaker and gives us the best shot to win IMO. Having said that, neither qb has played well enough to win a game for us. That is what we need next week, a qb to step up and take over a game. We need the offense to fire on all 8 cylinders not 4 or 6 like we have been seeing. FIU it too good to beat with just the D and special teams outscoring the offense.

Blaine IMO has established himself as the starter, but he has to be much better in the short to intermediate passing game. I think he will get there, but we need him to get there this week and I'm not sure he will in time for FIU. This is the biggest game of the schedule, a win here would set the tone for the rest of the season.

Blaine has done what he needed to do as qb/playmaker to EARN the job and it will make this offense better.

[ram1fan]

I was talking to a former player during the game...and HE brought up Brad. He said..."You know...the thing about Brad is that he just WINS."

This is not a knock on Brad because I think he's a wonderful young man. But im just trying to find the justification in this post ???? As I recall Brad is 1 & 2 as a starter (Arkansas St. win & Ohio and Ole Miss lost) huuummmm....

[CajunFreak]

This is not a knock on Brad because I think he's a wonderful young man. But im just trying to find the justification in this post ???? As I recall Brad is 1 & 2 as a starter (Arkansas St. win & Ohio and Ole Miss lost) huuummmm....

I think we all really love what Blaine brings to the table and would be ecstatic if he turns out to be the caliber of QB we know he can be... The thing about Brad is... I have never really thought he ever got a fair shot at the starting role being all his (with the previous staff). It always felt like he was just the temparary fix. His performance in the Ark St. game is stuck in many of our heads... & I think that type of effort is what we all really would like to see from our QB no matter what nummbered jersey he may have on.

[Just1More]

I'm not sure why Brad hasn't been able to compete for QB play. Regardless, from the play so far... and I was leaning more toward Chris early on from his past passing success... there is no doubt that Chris was given the opportunity last night... with all of the conditions in his favor... and looked like he's regressed from his prior average QB skills. Blaine needs some polish... but without question he overtook Chris last night. I'm not one of these people (that apparently watch too much NFL football and/or play too much fantasy football) and think you can go out on the market and replace your personnel. We have who we have and have to make them work out.

As much as I respect Hud, I think Brad needs to be an option at QB. Let's face it... Chris looked horrible last night. I can't understand it. Our OL is in definite need of improvement, but he was given ample opportunity to get set and throw, and he was horrible. Conditions were ideal. I will add that our OC needs some serious rework. If Hud thinks that offensive playcalling was good, he and I need to talk. Just to start out, we line up 2 WRs to the short side and throw with the WRs looking back into the sun. That alone... to start the game... was downright mental midgetry. And thank goodness we didn't keep up the 4 penalties in a row! Is that a record at UL?

I'm not ready to rave about Blaine... especially in the passing department. Without any pressure, he dropped back and threw over the middle into quadruple cover to his deep route, when he had an open underneath route in his direct field of vision... wide open. Nevertheless... he made Chris look like a highschool freshman last night.

Word to Hud... be very suspicious of your OC right now... or... if you have something to do with that playcalling... set aside some of the hype for a day or two and get your heads back into Xs and Os offensively.

Good job on simply winning the game. FIU is no Nicholls State. They are going to hand us our asses on a platter if we play like we did last night. And no... I'm not getting silly about the W... it was our instate FCS game in near perfect home conditions.

[Turbine]

As I recall Brad is 1 & 2 as a starter (Arkansas St. win & Ohio and Ole Miss lost) huuummmm....

He was bad in his SEC start against Ole Miss.

If I'm not mistaken his 384 yards and 2 TD's vs Ohio were high water marks for UL last year.

With this years defense . . .

I think Blaine will be fine.

[Just1More]

I sense that Blaine not only won out last night as the starter, he also won the support of his teammates. As I read my first post, I didn't think I gave Blaine the credit he definitely deserves. He is a gamer. When Blaine threw that wabbly bomb for a TD and proceeded to fly down the field in a celebratory highstep, he showed his heart pounding desire to be the guy that gets it done. It's a little bit immature for a QB... but it probably stems from his intense desire to lead our offense. I like it. Right now... Blaine has too much desire for us not to get behind him. Even with me wanting to see Brad get his chance, I see Blaine as the go-to UL QB. Being recognized by Hud as that person may also foster improved play. Seeing what I've seen so far, that is what I would move on this week.

[SlappyCajun]

We have a QB problem, because our All American TE has one catch for -1 yards after two games. He is an unbelievable weapon, and we can't get him the ball.

I don't know enough about football to criticize the play calling, I know we had wide open wide receivers or TE's that we missed on multiple occasions though.

[cajun tom]

Wish we had an option 3.

We are becoming like LSU fans, not satisfied with winning. We have to critized the two quarterbacks.
We are 2-1.

[SlappyCajun]

We are 2-1 in spite of, not because of our quarterback play. I think it is fair to be concerned.

[Turbine]

I am giddy about the ball being in the air for 60 yards.