Joe Burrow By The Numbers

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When was the last time for an LSU QB? When was never? Joe In the NCAA Stats...

Joe is tied for #1 in TD passes (9)

Joe is #2, in Completion, 81.8%

Joe is #4, in total passing yards, 749

Joe is #2 in QB Rating.  219.1

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Big Numbers...

Joe Burrow and LSU's offense setting LSU QB, WR recruiting foundation

 

Ron Higgins • TigerDetails

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Joe Burrow doesn’t realize the magnitude of what he’s doing.

After the first three games of the 2019 season for the 3-0 No. 4 ranked Tigers, LSU’s fifth-year senior quarterback is already in places no Tigers’ QB has experienced.

Completing 85 percent of his passes for 1,112 yards and nine TDs, he’s ranked second nationally in passing yards and passing efficiency operating an offense averaging 55 points and 551.7 yards.

All Burrow, who arrived in Baton Rouge last season as a graduate transfer from Ohio State, understands is he’s not too hyped about the Heisman Trophy talk that is building weekly as the Tigers enter their SEC opener Saturday at Vanderbilt.

“It’s week three and this is the first SEC game,” Burrow said Monday two days after his school record sixth straight game completing 20 or more passes in first-year passing game coordinator Joe Brady’s new offense. “The numbers are great, but I’m all about winning games. I told you that when my numbers weren’t great last year and when they are great this year I’m going to tell you the same thing.”

But beyond the numbers, which are staggering when you begin to add the context of years and years of LSU head coaches and coordinators that refused to add updated offensive schemes featuring an attacking passing game, what Burrow and the offense are doing reaches far beyond this season.

One of the biggest reasons the Tigers have rarely, if ever, been able to recruit a five-star rated high school quarterback is the offensive system the Tigers had been stuck in for years.

Just a handful of times since the mid 1980s has LSU used passing as its primary offense weapon.

And those were when Tommy Hodson was QB from 1986-89 under head coach Mike Archer, Rohan Davey’s breakout season of 2001 and Matt Mauck in the 2003 national championship season under Nick Saban with Jimbo Fisher as offensive coordinator, JaMarcus Russell’s 2005 and 2006 seasons under Les Miles, Matt Flynn’s 2007 national championship season under Miles and Zach Mettenberger’s 2012 and 2013 seasons under Miles.

As far back as the LSU record books indicate dating back 68 seasons to 1950, the Tigers have never ended the year with more passing attempts than rushing attempts.

Even when LSU set a single season record for passing attempts in its 2007 national championship season with 442, it was still 170 less attempts than the number of rushes.

LSU’s sporadic commitment to the pass is directly linked to having a quarterback to successfully handle it. The Tigers’ problem, especially under Miles, is they never consistently committed to throw as an essential offensive weapon.

As college offenses changed in the last 10 years with spread formations and four and five-wide receiving formations, Miles stuck to his plodding I-formation.

While the college football elite that won or challenged for national championships climbed in up-tempo passing offenses as fast as the acceleration of a Corvette, LSU sat contently its Volkswagen and puttered down the road with an offense good enough to win at most 10 games but not equipped to win an SEC or national championship.

And because most high school teams had also switched to the spread, LSU never had a fighting chance to seriously contend in recruiting any of the nation’s best high school quarterbacks.

This past summer at its elite camp, LSU hosted its best-ever lineup of quarterback prospects. That was without a single actual game snap from Brady’s new offense.

And now after the Tigers have unleashed the beast, the recruiting impact in LSU’s chase for quarterbacks, receivers and running backs is dramatic.

When Orgeron was asked about it at his weekly in-season press conference Monday, he turned into “Coach O Master Thespian.”

He pulled out his cell phone and acted out what happens now when he texts highly-rated skill player compared to the last couple of years.

“So, here's me texting a skill player,” Orgeron said. “You ready? `Hey, this is Coach O, can you call me? Bing, hello!’ As opposed to, `Hey, this is Coach O, can you call me? No answer.’

“There's high interest, and guys are being noticed. Especially being on ESPN Gameday, being a national TV game like that (the win at Texas two weeks ago) and having a quarterback doing what he's doing, there's high interest across the country in our offense and coming to play for the Tigers.

“There was always high interest. Now that we're playing even great offense, there's even higher interest.”

Tiger Details publisher Jimmy Smith, a veteran national recruiting expert and high school talent evaluator with a focus on LSU recruiting, said Orgeron isn’t exaggerating.

“In a skilled position like quarterbacks, recruits often to refer previous players in a system and the success of those players in the system as a way to compare and contrast and how they might be able to fit,” Smith said. “Now Joe Burrow being a national name, all these quarterback recruits are referring to be the next Joe Burrow in this offense. That’s something you haven’t heard ever covering LSU.

“And with the receivers, there’s no more concern if they’ll get enough balls thrown to them. Even in the past when LSU committed and signed great receivers, you’d still hear some concern about that affecting their collegiate careers. You don’t hear that any more. Now, they are just eager to get there because they already see there’s ample opportunities for everyone.”

Burrow said he hasn’t talked to any recruits and he doesn’t know enough about LSU’s past struggles to find a quarterback. Yet, he hopes sticking to some basic principles will create a legacy and a sustained recruiting foundation.

“Whenever you go somewhere new, you want to leave it better than you found it,” Burrow said. “With what we’re doing right now and the trajectory we’re on, we’re going to do that. But we’re going to have to keep it going.

“I haven’t talked to any recruits. I’m hoping the whole world is seeing what we’re doing and taking notice, realizing LSU is an explosive offense and explosive team.”

 

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'Out of the Dark Ages': How LSU's Lethal New Spread Attack Was Built

After years of a pound-it-out, ground-based attack, LSU has gotten with the times, bringing in a low-level NFL assistant and a transfer QB to—finally—install the spread offense. Folks in Baton Rouge might not recognize the new attack, but with the Tigers sitting at No. 4, they certainly don’t mind it.

By Ross Dellenger

September 17, 2019

 

 

 

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Buddy Breaux watched LSU play Texas from the far reaches of Darrell K Royal Stadium, the tip-top of the upper deck, in the “next county,” he says with a laugh. But no distance, big or small, could keep him from recognizing a truth about what he was seeing below: His LSU Tigers football team looked different.

There were rarely snaps under center. There were no fullbacks and sometimes there were even no running backs. There were—gulp—no huddles. There were as many as five receivers on the field. There were crossing routes and verticals. There were deep ins and deep outs. There was, unfathomably, the spread offense.

“All of my friends . . . we’re looking at each other pinching ourselves. ‘Is this real?’” says Breaux, 69, a past president of the Tiger Gridiron Club. “A lot of the general fan bases in college football, they have no idea of the frustration the fans had here.”

LSU’s 45–38 win over Texas on Sept. 7, in which the Tigers had 573 yards, 28 first downs and five touchdowns—stretches beyond its significance on the surface: a road victory over a top 10–ranked, Big 12 powerhouse. In front of millions on national television, in a sold-out stadium of mostly burnt orange, a program, stuck in the Stone Age offensively, signaled thunderously that it has sprung into the new millennium of offensive football.

“People are going ballistic,” says Dan Borne, the longtime public address announcer at Tiger Stadium. “It’s shock and awe when that offense gets the ball.”

Even the governor is on board. “The excitement is real, and it is palpable,” says John Bel Edwards.

To understand the significance of LSU’s recent offensive transformation, you must understand its checkered past. There were serious problems in the passing game, from scheme to personnel. LSU had six different starting quarterbacks in six seasons (2011–16), and up until last season it had not cracked the top 80 in passing since 2013, a season in which the Tigers had future NFL stars Odell Beckham Jr. and Jarvis Landry. Even then, they finished 45th nationally in passing.

Through three games this year, the Tigers are second in the nation in passing yards per game, at 436.3. According to STATS Perform, 128 of their 134 snaps in their first two games were out of the shotgun, a 95.5% clip. In 2017, 39.7% percent of LSU’s snaps were out of the shotgun, the 12th-lowest rate in the FBS and the second lowest in the SEC. During Les Miles’s last five years as coach, from 2012 to 2016, 33.2% of snaps came out of the shotgun.

The personnel use has dramatically changed, too. LSU is using more wide receivers and fewer tight ends. The Tigers operated from formations with three or more receivers on all but two plays through the first two weeks. In Miles’s last five years, just one-fifth of the Tigers’ snaps were from a formation with three or more receivers.

“I wish I could have had a chance to broadcast [the new] offense,” laughs Jim Hawthorne, who spent 36 years as LSU’s radio play-by-play voice and is now retired. “Fans I know have said, ‘Wow! That’s the real deal!’ And then they say, ‘What if we had been running this offense with those two receivers, Odell and Jarvis?’”

Jacob Hester, a fullback and tailback from 2004 to ’07, was a bruising benefactor of Miles’s run-first scheme. He defended Miles from critics, pointing out that between 2005, when Miles was hired, and ’15, LSU won 77.8% of its games, a pair of SEC championships and the ’07 national title.

But as offenses transformed to shotgun-based spread schemes, Baton Rouge remained an island employing fullbacks, tight ends and the I. For Hester, things changed in the 2016 season-opening loss to Wisconsin. With expectations of a tweaked offense, LSU executed on the first play of the season, a toss dive from the I-formation. Leonard Fournette was stopped for a three-yard gain, the No. 5 Tigers went three-and-out and lost 16–14 to the unranked Badgers.

“That was the breaking point to me and all the people that thought LSU could do it the old-fashioned way,” says Hester, now a radio show host in Baton Rouge. Miles was fired three weeks later, after an 18–13 loss at Auburn. Ed Orgeron was promoted from defensive line coach, and LSU had taken its first step toward offensive enlightenment.

Side-by-side formations depict the difference between LSU's old (left) offense and its new (right) spread one.

How LSU got from a notoriously outdated ground-based offense to this juggernaut is a winding journey with two essential events: the acquisition of a transfer quarterback from Ohio State, Joe Burrow, and a gutsy decision by Orgeron to hire a 29-year-old, low-level NFL staffer to overhaul an offense that was consistently winning double-digit games every year.

 

That coach, Joe Brady, the team’s passing game coordinator and receivers coach, does not lack in confidence when asked about the risk it took to hire him. “If you ask me, I think it was a pretty damn good decision,” says Brady, who was hired away from the Saints last January. “It might be something that could rub people the wrong way, and they could sit there and say, ‘Why this or that?’ But Coach had a clear-cut vision of what he was looking for. We were looking for the exact same thing. Our visions matched.”

Of course, the change goes beyond visions and schemes. The Tigers have a strong, competent quarterback built for the spread. Burrow, a redshirt senior, was recruited and signed by Ohio State to operate in the system. When he decided to transfer in the spring of 2018, Burrow and his father, Jimmy, a longtime defensive coordinator at Ohio University, were aware of LSU’s offensive reputation. In fact, others used that to try to influence his decision.

“We were, by other coaches, reminded, ‘Hey, you’re going down there to be under center and hand the ball off to a tailback 60 times a game,’” Jimmy recalls. “We had to research the QB situation then and be convinced that things are going to be different with the offense.”

In January, as winter workouts began at LSU, offensive coordinator Steve Ensminger walked into the quarterback meeting room, distributed a new playbook and told his players, “We’re going to the spread, baby!”

The change was long overdue, and the Tigers weren’t the only college football blue blood to embrace the new system. USC and Michigan, who for years clung to a pro-style system that leaned on a bruising rushing attack, spent the offseason transitioning to the scheme that has been run by the last five national champions.

The spread converts even the most traditional coaches, including Nick Saban at Alabama. Starting with the hiring of Lane Kiffin in 2014, his program has slowly evolved into the shotgun-based RPO scheme we see today. “In defending some of this stuff through the years, you see the issues and problems that it creates,” Saban said, “and you try to implement some of these things yourself.”

Greg McElroy, who played quarterback for Saban from 2007 to ’10 and is now an ESPN analyst, believes the coach’s conversion was triggered by back-to-back losses to a spread-centric Ole Piss team in 2014–15. “If you can’t beat’ em,” McElroy says, “join’ em.”

So perhaps it’s no coincidence that LSU adopted a more wide-open offense after losing to Alabama eight straight times. Change isn’t always brought on by a lopsided series against a rival, though. Many coaches overhaul their offense out of desperation, a hopeful job-saving move. That’s the case for USC’s Clay Helton, whose prospects were not helped by Saturday’s 30–27 loss to BYU. But sometimes it works wonders. At Missouri, Gary Pinkel failed to reach a bowl in three of his first four seasons before a switch in 2005 to the spread extended his stay by a decade. At TCU, Gary Patterson’s 2013 team limped to a 4–8 record before a move to the spread the very next year resulted in a No. 3 ranking.

There are holdouts, though. Stanford, Wisconsin, Boston College, Michigan State, Kansas State and Iowa, among others, still operate from a traditional offense. “You can score a lot of points that way,” McElroy says. “I don’t think you can score a lot of points that way against Alabama and Clemson.”

Case in point: LSU scored 10 total points in its last three games against the Tide. The Tigers will find out just how improved they are on Nov. 9, when they travel to Tuscaloosa. “At LSU,” says Rick Neuheisel, the former coach who’s now an analyst for CBS, “everything is measured by beating Alabama.”

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Bob Shoop flipped between watching three football games the night of Sept. 7: LSU–Texas, Penn State–Buffalo and BYU–Tennessee. One stood out from the others. “LSU has won games in the past like 14–13 or 17–10,” says Shoop, the defensive coordinator at Mississippi State. “They won this one 45–38. My response to that initially is, ‘Welcome to 2019.’”

Shoop and his boss, Bulldogs coach Joe Moorhead, played a roundabout role in that transformation. Brady, a Florida native who played receiver at William & Mary, worked under both of them as a graduate assistant at Penn State in 2016. At Penn State in 2015, one of the graduate assistants working under them was Brady. The hardworking youngster—when he spoke to SI last week at 11 p.m., it was the earliest he had left the LSU football facility since camp began—was soon hired by the Saints as an offensive assistant, the NFL’s equivalent of a graduate assistant.

 

During the 2018 offseason, Orgeron asked several New Orleans assistants to give presentations to the Tigers’ offensive staff. Brady did a segment on the RPO. A few months later Orgeron turned to his offensive coordinator with a plea. “We’ve got to go spread,” he told Ensminger. This was a vision Orgeron held since taking over for Miles. But having inherited a team built for the run, he knew it was going to take time. The roster had eight fullbacks. At one point in ’17, LSU had as few as eight healthy scholarship receivers. “It was painstaking,” Orgeron says. “I would look at the offense and say, ‘This is not what it is supposed to look like.’”

In addition to a QB and a deep group of receivers, he needed Brady. In 2017 he’d taken his first trip to Louisiana—on Valentine's Day, as luck would have it—to interview with the Saints, whose assistant offensive line coach, Brendan Nugent, had coached Brady at William & Mary. Days later Brady found himself in some awe-inspiring situations: seated next to Drew Brees or listening to Sean Payton construct plays. He spent long days and nights poring over game film. He would have done it for free. Two years later he’s gone from making five figures to pulling in $400,000 a year while scheming the offense of the fourth-ranked team in the country.

“Lucked out with all that,” Brady says. He’s humble. It is not his offense, he says, but is instead a conglomeration of ideas from the staff organized by Ensminger. He’s too modest to tell you that many of the ideas are his, the drop-back passing concepts from Payton and the RPO game from Moorhead. “The majority of stuff I brought is from New Orleans,” he says, but there are other schemes weaved in, including wrinkles from the Kansas City Chiefs. LSU players spent the offseason watching film of the Saints and Penn State.

Ensminger and Brady, separated by more than 30 years in age, work in tandem to create the game plan and call the plays. Ensminger decides when Brady gets the call. “Hey, you got it on this one!” the 61-year-old will say. “It’s all predicated on how he’s feeling and if he’s in a groove,” Brady says. Sometimes Brady gets a third-down play. Other times he calls an entire drive.

No matter who makes the call, it’s usually aggressive. Late in the Texas game, LSU was leading by six points at its own 39-yard line with less than three minutes left. Facing third-and-17, Orgeron asked Ensminger through the headsets, “What you think about a four-minute offense?”

“Nope. We’re going to pass the ball and go down there and score,” Ensminger told him.

Orgeron’s reply: “Go ahead.”

For Brady, it was an easy call. “It’s all I really know. I’ve been with Sean Payton for two years, there’s nothing that he’s scared of. We had a good bead on Texas. They’re a pressure football team. In a critical situation, they’re going to want to send the house and knock you back even more, force you into a turnover.”

Ensminger called four vertical routes and kept the running back, Clyde Edwards-Helaire, in the backfield as a sixth pass protector. In a collapsing pocket, Edwards-Helaire made the saving block to provide Burrow with enough time to find receiver Justin Jefferson, who broke a tackle and jaunted 61 yards for the game-securing touchdown. “Last year,” Burrow said, “we’d have pounded the run game.”

When he arrived in Baton Rouge in January, Brady knew of LSU’s offensive perception—run the football and play good defense, he says—but he never really looked at it from a “Hey, LSU has never done this type thing.” He realized quickly when his phone after the Texas game was bombarded with texts. “How does it feel!?!” many of them said. His response: I don’t know. “I just have no idea. We’re in season. We play all these dang night games. You have success in a night game, you wake up and go back into work. It’s a new week.”

On Oct. 19, LSU plays at Mississippi State in an SEC West battle. Brady and Ensminger’s offense meets Moorhead and Shoop’s defense. “Hopefully,” says Shoop, “our fans will ring those bells loud enough to confuse Joe Brady."

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Nearly 40 years ago, Arkansas coach Lou Holtz switched away from the veer option solely because of the disadvantages it created in recruiting. Holtz says he had trouble signing skill players. Today those teams that moved from the option to a more pro-style offense are now switching to the spread for the same reason. "If you're a receiver, would you rather sign with this offense or LSU's old offense?" asks Pete Jenkins, who retired as LSU's defensive line coach in 2017.

 

Ironically, the Tigers have never had trouble signing good players. In fact, Louisiana is talent-rich, and six of LSU's last seven signing classes have ranked in the top seven nationally. However, most high school athletes these days are playing in a version of the spread. It explains why more true freshman quarterbacks than ever are playing and succeeding: They've spent years operating in the same schemes at the prep level. Now that LSU is running an offense its recruits are familiar with, they have an easier adjustment to the college game.

But the switch to this style of offense isn't all positive. There are drawbacks to a quick-paced system that puts the ball in the air so much. One of them reared its head in Austin: The Tigers lost the time of possession battle by eight minutes. Their defense was on the field for 85 plays, the most in a regulation game since 2013. As a result, LSU's defense, one loaded with five-star athletes and led by the highest-paid defensive coordinator in the nation, Dave Aranda, allowed 38 points and 530 yards. Even against Northwestern State last Saturday—a game LSU won 65–14 and completed 29 of 33 passes for 488 yards—the D was on the field for more than 33 minutes. "You get the people and they want to go so fast and run so many plays as quickly as they can," says Randy Edsall, the UConn coach. "That's all well and good, but if you're not making first downs or scoring points, you're putting your defense in a heck of a bind."

Neuheisel expects a "correction" from the traditional powers that have recently switched, meaning the LSUs and Alabamas will drift back toward their old ways. "They'll go too far, and they'll realize maybe Burrow gets nicked or they can't salt the game away," he says. "We saw Alabama not be able to run the ball in the national championship game [loss to Clemson last year]."

Edsall agrees. "Like anything else, things evolve," he says. "You'll start seeing more people doing things under the center."

There are other issues. Defensive coaches now have three full games of LSU's new offense. That's two more than Texas coaches got. "This is the SEC West," says Shoop. "People adjust."

But LSU's offense is finally, in the words of Buddy Breaux, "out of the dark ages." And Brady isn't planning on making it easy for foes to catch up. "We're just three games in," he says. "There's so many levels we have to reach. We've barely scratched the surface."

 

[LSUDad]

How good has Joe Burrow been?  He's piloted 27 drives for LSU this season (not counting end of game/half), which have resulted in:  • 17 Touchdowns • 5 Field Goals • 3 Punts • 2 Interceptions  Meaning #LSU has scored on 22 of its 27 drives w/ Burrow. That is 81.5%

[Hatchertiger]

Looks like Joe has helped burrow LSU's offense out of the hole that it had been stuck in.  

[Fishhead]

11 hours ago, Hatchertiger said:

Looks like Joe has helped burrow LSU's offense out of the hole that it had been stuck in.  

That's bad...

 

 

 

I like it

[LSUDad]

The only QB over the past 20 seasons to have a 83% completion percentage and 1,100+ pass yds in his first 3 games:

LSU Football’s Joe Burrow 

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PFF: Joe Burrow could pass Herbert, Tagovailoa as NFL prospect

ByKEVIN FLAHERTY 11 hours ago 

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Could LSU’s Joe Burrow end up as the top quarterback prospect in the 2020 class?

It’s not a farfetched idea according to Pro Football Focus, which notes that he could pass not just Oregon’s Justin Herbert, but also Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa, generally considered the likely No. 1 pick in next April’s NFL Draft.

“Burrow has lit opposing defenses — and our grading system — on fire through three games,” PFF’s Michael Renner wrote in an article on risers and fallers. “He’s earned himself a cool 92.7 overall grade, and his 87.8 adjusted completion percentage leads the nation. We saw glimpses of this guy in 2018, but the difference in his ability to get through his progressions quickly is about as big a leap as I’ve ever seen from a college quarterback in the span of a year. He’s got a quick release and is unafraid to give his receivers a chance to make plays. A few more games like this and he’ll pass Justin Herbert. A whole season, and there’s a very good chance he passes Tua.”

That’s high praise, though Burrow’s early play has certainly made room for more effusive talk. While any number of quarterbacks have put up monster efficiency seasons so far, few have done so while 1) carrying such a big burden for their offense and 2) while playing a schedule that included a game against a top 10 team.

But that’s precisely what Burrow — whose on-target percentage of 88.9 percent ranks third in the nation — has done in passing for 1,122 yards and 11 touchdowns through just three games. Considering he passed for for 2,894 yards and 16 scores in all of last season (13 games) that’s quite a step up in production. His traditional completion percentage of 83.3 percent leads the nation, while his passing yardage ranks second and his touchdowns thrown is tied for third.

Just ask Texas how good Burrow can be. LSU traveled to Austin to take on the then-No. 9 Longhorns and withstood an epic performance from Texas’ own quarterback, Sam Ehlinger, who passed for 401 yards and four touchdowns and ran for 60 yards and a score.

That’s because Burrow was darned near perfect while facing a secondary that was extremely talented—of the six players the Longhorns started in the defensive backfield, four received five-star mention as recruits in either the industry generated 247Sports Composite or 247Sports’ own rankings, the Top247. Burrow completed 31-of-39 passes against that group for 471 yards and four touchdowns and the game’s biggest play. With LSU facing a third-and-17 from its own 39, Texas sent the house. Burrow stepped up into the pocket to earn an extra second — and it was just a second before he was hit — giving him the time he needed to hit Justin Jefferson 18 yards downfield and past the first down marker.

Burrow’s pass was also enough on the money that Jefferson had plenty of room to run after the catch, with him shaking loose for a 61-yard touchdown after shrugging off a trailing Texas defensive back.

That play — with so many national eyes on him — that game and Burrow’s numbers so far make him one of the frontrunners to capture the Heisman Trophy, along with Tagovailoa and Oklahoma’s Jalen Hurts.

Could Burrow parlay that success into topping Tagovailoa as the No. 1 quarterback prospect for 2020? Stranger things have certainly happened.

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Joe Burrow's 357 passing yards in one half is the most by any player vs. an SEC team in 15 YEARS!

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Burrow sets a new SEC passing mark vs. Vanderbilt

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(Photo: Terrell Weil, 247Sports)

 

 

LSU quarterback Joe Burrow's Heisman Trophy push has been put on display over the first three weeks of the college football season, and things didn't slow down when the Tigers went to Nashville on Saturday.

Despite an 11 a.m. kickoff, the offense showed no signs of sleepwalking, with Burrow going 18-for-24 passing for 357 yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions.

Burrow's 357 passing yards were the most in the first half by any player against an SEC team in 15 years, per the SEC Network broadcast. 

Burrow is now 93-for-114 passing (82%) for 1,479 yards, 15 touchdowns and two interceptions, by far one of the best quarterback stat lines among FBS programs.

Sophomore wide receiver Ja'Marr Chase hauled in seven catches for 199 yards and three touchdowns in the first two quarters to push the Tigers out to a 38-17 lead, while Terrace Marshall had four catches for 75 yards and Justin Jefferson had two catches for 18 yards and a touchdown. Stephen Sullivan also got in the mix with three catches for 48 yards.

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He's unreal...we are now doing a Joe Burrow segment in every podcast.  

[LSUDad]

Bert Jones Talking about Joe...

 

https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/lsu-football/lsu-great-bert-jones-raves-about-joe-burrow/

[Eq4bits]

aaron murry, on espnu radio yesterday was effusing Joe Burrow love, said hes BETTER than Hurts and Tua, expects him to be 1st QB taken in draft.

also radio heads keep talking about ‘what a story’ if Bama & Ok meet in post season..... well what about ‘the story’ if LSU meet Ohio in the post season? I’ll add that it would be glorious for Joe to make Urban Meyer eat his words about ‘Joe playing like a girl’ and beat them.

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I remember this summer Burrow went to the Manning Passing Academy, along with Tua, Fromm from Ga. and I think Herbert.  After it was over, someone asked him if he had learned anything at the Academy.  Burrow said "Yes, I learned I can throw with anyone in the country".  His confidence has soared over last year.

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3 hours ago, houtiger said:

I remember this summer Burrow went to the Manning Passing Academy, along with Tua, Fromm from Ga. and I think Herbert.  After it was over, someone asked him if he had learned anything at the Academy.  Burrow said "Yes, I learned I can throw with anyone in the country".  His confidence has soared over last year.

the mannings (all of them) also told him to slide or get OOB & not take so many hits

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35 minutes ago, Eq4bits said:

the mannings (all of them) also told him to slide or get OOB

not shocking since all of the mannings are pussies. 

[Nutriaitch]

Just now, Nutriaitch said:

not shocking since all of the mannings are pussies. 

also trivia for the day:

Jordan Jefferson has as many SEC titles as the entire Manning family combined. 

[Hatchertiger]

2 hours ago, Nutriaitch said:

not shocking since all of the mannings are pussies. 

[Eq4bits]

how long did it take you to find that picture 

[Hatchertiger]

11 hours ago, Eq4bits said:

how long did it take you to find that picture 

I know exactly where to find it I was at that game and witnessed it first hand.