Where we stand post-Washington debacle

[hdhntr1]

Does Lujan think Lausch is our QB of. the future or is he a place holder for the QBs he's recruited for '25 and '26? I guess we'll see over next 8 games. Lujan must think the others in our QB room have less ability now and a lower ceiling than Lausch. A down year assuredly.

Even if he is such a place holder it would be for another year or to. Would seem unlikely that they would try to start a guy right out of HS. And by that time Lausch could potentially have 2 years of starting under his belt and would only have one more year of eligibility

 

[Jaguar 88]

Cignetti coached three different QB’s to All-Conference honors his last three years at JMU. Now he has Roarke playing at a high level. He will have to decide if Tayven Jackson is ready to take over that team in 2025 or if he needs to go grab another QB in the portal. His offense is pretty dynamic and would attract a lot of guys. Dude can coach.

That is what I was hoping for, a dynamic OC being hired, when Fitz was canned. A dynamic system that would attract top recruits, knowing they can thrive in a high powered offense. All I know is that our starting qbs so far aren't cutting so far. I hope Lausch gets better as time goes on. I am sure he will to some extent, but we can't go back to 2019 and expect good recruiting classes. Hopefully we can get 100% healthy with the bye. A win vs Indiana and/or Maryland will go a long way to build Lausch's confidence if he has all his weapons and line around him. Not bowling this season is going to set the program back a bit. I guess a lot of patience is in order, as always.

 

[usopen30]

Henning is fairly consistent but Kirtz has been pretty up and down this year

Sorry, I meant to say "and sometimes Kirtz" but a brain fart intervened.

 

[hdhntr1]

Agreed on the transfer comment but the Indiana powerhouse comment is comical. They’ve played no one of substance. Yeah, they’ve been the hell out of the teams they’ve played, and that’s a credit to them, but their QB is a 6th year guy. It’s not like he’s going to be there for 2 more years…

I think he was just talking about the challenge the represent this year. They have shown that they can score pretty prolifically and it looks like a difficult task to deal with them this year. DOes not matter if he is going to be here for two more years. Heck we don't even know if we will be playing them. But we are in a couple weeks and we seem less able to deal with it

 

[gocatsgo2003]

First INT was because the receiver fell down (Henning, I think). Several guys slipped and fell on the field.

No it wasn’t. The WR fell down, but he was behind the LB and Lausch threw it into the defender’s lap.

 

[realklysickoflosing]

Agree. We fought to a 7-5 season last year and that was with Bryant for most of the season. Our run is harder this year with OSU and Mich, a stronger Illinois team, probably stronger Maryland team and an Indiana scoring machine that I don’t see us keeping up with. So if Indy, Mich and OSU are almost certain losses, we absolutely have to beat Maryland again, Purdue, then 2/3 of Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois. Seems less likely than last year unless our OL gets healthier AND it just clicks for Lausch and/or Wright over the bye week.

Illinois looks to me like one of the stronger teams they will play, so you can count that one out. We did see Lausch play well in the Eastern Illinois game, so we know he can throw accurately if he has time. Obviously, on Saturday he didn’t. The other issue is that his receivers rarely got any separation at all. Kurtz also seems to be in a funk.

 

[FanatiCat]

Lausch obviously is not solely to blame for the poor performance by the offense, but his performance was absolutely not close to be being enough to win, and anyone who says otherwise has no feel for the game and lacks basic understanding of how important the play of the QB is. I haven’t given up on him yet, let’s see what the next few games look like.

And yet, if Lujan would’ve let him run it in from the 1 on the infamous FG drive and if 2 successive well placed TD passes (challenging catches but placed where they had to be) were caught, it would’ve been a 1 score game and winnable. Not to mention the last drive where a 100% accurate 20 yard first down pass to put us in scoring range, bounced off the WR chest and goes the other way for an INT return.

Yes, the first 2.5 quarters he was inaccurate and indecisive or not reading the field. But like last game, he improved and led the offense well but was not helped by bad drops and bad playcalling.

 

[AdamOnFirst]

Lausch obviously is not solely to blame for the poor performance by the offense, but his performance was absolutely not close to be being enough to win, and anyone who says otherwise has no feel for the game and lacks basic understanding of how important the play of the QB is. I haven’t given up on him yet, let’s see what the next few games look like.

Lausch was too inconsistent and randomly inaccurate to put in an average or better performance, but he did do a lot of things to be built on: he continues to be a good decision maker, a good runner, and a competitor. He delivered some good, catchable balls into tight coverage. It was something to build on for a young player.

The same can’t be said for senior, multi-year starter TEs and WRa who couldn’t catch the ball all game, lines that can’t block, RBs who can’t hold onto the ball, etc. I think everybody obviously agrees the QB needs to be better along with the rest of the offense, but he was far from the worst offender. He was a heck of a lot better than, say, Michigan’s QB on Saturday.

 

[phatcat]

I'm not a QB expert but I was at the game and Lausch seemed totally unable to complete passes that a decent QB could do.

You'll have to wait for a couple of losses where everything else is OK and for Lausch to still struggle for some of the people here to give up (Like Wright in the Duke game - any mediocre P4 QB wins that game). Until then, we will get excuses