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You be the judge.
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Yet the one thing I never saw coming: Jeremy Johnson, a joyous version of the once-crestfallen quarterback, emerging as the competent backbone of that offense. In that stadium. Against that team. After the confusion he exhibited throughout September until his humane benching.
That same guy was out there slinging the ball around like the LSU game didn't happen. Sure, Gus Malzahn and Rhett Lashlee made precise calculations about how often to use Johnson as a passer and generally asked him to make leveraged throws. It was superb, shrewd coaching and that cannot be argued. Yet most of the credit rightfully should fall at Johnson's feet.
He was the guy out there completing each of his first nine throws. He was the guy somehow finding a way to sail that ball into the only place Tony Stevens could catch it during the fourth quarter. And it was more than simply making plays under pressure. He clearly was having fun on the field, which is something he didn't exhibit often during his first turn as the Tigers' starter. Johnson jumped around as the fourth quarter began in an effort to energize his teammates. He screamed toward nobody in particular after the Tigers' first two touchdown drives, which is taking a page out of Cam Newton's book
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Yet the one thing I never saw coming: Jeremy Johnson, a joyous version of the once-crestfallen quarterback, emerging as the competent backbone of that offense. In that stadium. Against that team. After the confusion he exhibited throughout September until his humane benching.
That same guy was out there slinging the ball around like the LSU game didn't happen. Sure, Gus Malzahn and Rhett Lashlee made precise calculations about how often to use Johnson as a passer and generally asked him to make leveraged throws. It was superb, shrewd coaching and that cannot be argued. Yet most of the credit rightfully should fall at Johnson's feet.
He was the guy out there completing each of his first nine throws. He was the guy somehow finding a way to sail that ball into the only place Tony Stevens could catch it during the fourth quarter. And it was more than simply making plays under pressure. He clearly was having fun on the field, which is something he didn't exhibit often during his first turn as the Tigers' starter. Johnson jumped around as the fourth quarter began in an effort to energize his teammates. He screamed toward nobody in particular after the Tigers' first two touchdown drives, which is taking a page out of Cam Newton's book
