[lex24]

Elijah is by far the most talented QB we have. He throws a beautiful, accurate, catchable ball. (And, given that our receivers have considerable difficulty gaining significant separation from the D backs covering them, EB's accurate throws are even more important to our O being successful.) Remember how accurate he was against Cal Poly SLO, completing 7 of 7 in Q4.

Sorry, but I am not willing to anoint any QB as "the answer" because he completed 7 of 7 against a clearly inferior team in garbage time. Yes, he did well. There is reason to believe he is in fact a much better passer than either Daniels or Lamson. However his recruiting evaluations seem to indicate that while he is relatively elusive in the pocket he is not a running threat. He was classified as a "drop-back" passer. If we had a better OL that might be just fine. With the one we have, he might not have the protection he needs to excel, or even survive. That may be why he wasn't out there already. We just don't know yet. We will know a lot more when TT is willing and able to put him out there as "the QB". We haven't seen that yet. The injury undoubtedly postpones that date considerably.

I would also like to caution that as KJ Costello proved it is very difficult to have a good passing offense if your receivers can't get significant separation at least a meaningful percentage of the time. Costello was generally pretty accurate. However, 50/50 balls are just that and the defense wins the battle often enough it becomes very difficult to win games throwing those passes. The QB inevitably becomes overly aggressive, because otherwise he would almost never throw the ball at all. For example Ayomanor has great body control, can jump very high, and battles for the ball pretty well. However expecting him to "win" that battle on every play is unrealistic. The losses are often interceptions. Hard to sustain drives that way.

Neither Daniels nor Lamson are in the same stratosphere as Costello.

[lex24]

Elijah is by far the most talented QB we have. He throws a beautiful, accurate, catchable ball. (And, given that our receivers have considerable difficulty gaining significant separation from the D backs covering them, EB's accurate throws are even more important to our O being successful.) Remember how accurate he was against Cal Poly SLO, completing 7 of 7 in Q4.

Sorry, but I am not willing to anoint any QB as "the answer" because he completed 7 of 7 against a clearly inferior team in garbage time. Yes, he did well. There is reason to believe he is in fact a much better passer than either Daniels or Lamson. However his recruiting evaluations seem to indicate that while he is relatively elusive in the pocket he is not a running threat. He was classified as a "drop-back" passer. If we had a better OL that might be just fine. With the one we have, he might not have the protection he needs to excel, or even survive. That may be why he wasn't out there already. We just don't know yet. We will know a lot more when TT is willing and able to put him out there as "the QB". We haven't seen that yet. The injury undoubtedly postpones that date considerably.

I would also like to caution that as KJ Costello proved it is very difficult to have a good passing offense if your receivers can't get significant separation at least a meaningful percentage of the time. Costello was generally pretty accurate. However, 50/50 balls are just that and the defense wins the battle often enough it becomes very difficult to win games throwing those passes. The QB inevitably becomes overly aggressive, because otherwise he would almost never throw the ball at all. For example Ayomanor has great body control, can jump very high, and battles for the ball pretty well. However expecting him to "win" that battle on every play is unrealistic. The losses are often interceptions. Hard to sustain drives that way.

Neither Daniels nor Lamson are in the same stratosphere as Costello.