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FSU should honestly easily be in the top 10. FSU has so many good players returning and they will be much better. Only hard teams we play are wvu and clemson and those defenses suck which means our much improved offense will be able to score a ton. other than that there are no hard games and we could easily go undefeated if not 1 loss.

The last time he had to replace a starter at QB MSU went 6-7. I know, JohnLs players, but that is as close as we get. MSU has a better D so I wouldn't such a drastic drop off.

I'm not really concerned about what we started the game with, or even this season. Michigan is a I-Form team, that is running spread tendencies right now. Too make use of our players on the roster they used a slot guy this year, but the players we are recruiting tells the story IMO. TE's, pocket passers, FB's, big RB's, big WR's. Slot guys are not a loss for this team.

i'm not saying that there's not going to be some growing pains, but Maxwell has much more natural talent. if anyone's seen him throw the ball, they know he has much more zip on the ball and can put the ball into those tight spaces. he has much better footwork and is a much better runner than Cousins. he clearly is lacking the experience, but he has more than Cousins originally had coming in in 09 and he we pretty good outside of a few mistakes that cost us a game. i'd honestly expect him to be around where Cousins was his first year starting.

300+ Attempts, 60% Completions, 2,500 Yards, 20 TDs, 10 INTs

the thing is, we're hopefully not going to have to rely on him nearly as much as we had to rely on Kirk this year. we have unproven talent at WR and proven talent with our RBs and OL. this year we had unproven talent at OL and proven talent at WR and QB.

we had a lot of growing pains with the OL early on this year but once things got in place, they started to get better. i'd expect our WRs to unfold in the same way. We have returning Fowler and Mumphery who coaches rave about as being impact players. only problem is Fowler's been cursed by the injury bug and Mumphery never really had a shot with the older guys in front of him.

We also have Tony Lippett who is a monster of a skill player who can go both ways, but he's going to have a shot at full time WR in the spring. We also have a stable of new guys: Andre Sims Jr and Juwan Caesar are two guys that have routinely been mentioned as impact scout players (both true freshman, red-shirting).

Incomers we have Burbridge who everyone knows and MacGarrett Kings who is a Keshawn Martin type player who our coaches believe can come in day 1 and replace Martin. not to mention the fact we could still have Arnett who is an absolute play maker.

the nice thing with this is we don't need all of them to be great. if two of them emerge and separate themselves from the rest, that's great. if we need to have constant rotation with 4-5 guys who get 30+ catches each, that's fine.

No. Message boards cut out a lot of research, not everything I know is from personal research. Tough to believe I know.

There are enough differences to make that a poor comparison. You highlighted the JLS players, but it was more about indecision on the part of the coaches on picking starters in the secondary, at RB and at QB. As for indecision, 3/4 of the starting established starting secondary returns, with the starting nickelback and back-up SS (Drummond and Jones respectively) fighting for the FS spot vacated by Robinson. Running back is established. Only similarities are the new QB, and anyone that watched MSU in 2009 knows that QB was far from the biggest problem on the field. Cousins threw for nearly 2700 yards (2680) with 19 TDs and 9 INTs as a RS Soph that year, and that's with Nichol throwing for another 700 yards as well. FWIW, Cousins had 43 attempts going into that season.

Maxwell has 51 attempts in his career, or 8 more than KC.

Oh wow. No man, you guys are much more a shotgun team than an I-formation team. I watched the entire game last night, Dennard lined up under Center much much less than in the shotgun.

Not sure why it's relevant that Maxwell had 8 more throws then KC coming into this year.

I think pollsters are aware of the faceplant this year, and it'll offset the fact that you're bringing in a great class (again).

What good is hype if your team can't back it up?

Not sure if serious. Troll or just massive homer?