Will Rogers

So the fact is, I think there should be a legitimate battle, and I mentioned this on the boards, and I think a lot of people took it as a decent suggestion.

If we go back to 2024 when Fish was kind of blooding Deamon Williams in and just trying to kind of ramp up his reps slowly but surely, he would get, he would get a few plays here, a series here or there under Will Rogers, and then by the end of the season, he was the starting quarterback.

I think much the same can happen with Elijah Brown, Deamon Williams.

I think Elijah Brown should start the games.

If you remember, you think back to the week before we beat Arizona, and we ran the ball a lot.

We had Will Rogers at quarterback.

Zach Arnett was the head coach, and we ran the ball a lot against Arizona, and all we heard that week was, "Man, why are we not throwing the ball? Why are we not throwing the ball?" Kevin Barbe, offensive coordinator.

And we came out and we just tried to throw the ball early and kinda force things, and we were going three and outs and they were scoring, and they just beat the dog out of us in the first half.

This is not enough."

But you know, about three or four years ago, it was Will Rogers was QB.

Mm-hmm.

And we played LSU really well down there.

It's not time to develop a quarterback.

Two years ago people were screaming that Will Rogers needed to be replaced by DeJuan Williams.

And he probably could.

Because ...

Like, we was decent.

You know, we had Will Rogers at quarterback.

You know what I'm saying? And a nice receiving core.

But, yeah, that's when we was the air raid at the time.

That's real.

You know why I don't think it matters? Why? Will Rogers led the SEC in that for three years.

Guess who won Heisman's in that window? Bryce.

So it's like I see it.

Well, Greg's point was that that's nonsense with a capital N. Mario said if they lose the next two games and they lost four in a row, then he would consider doing something like that to maybe give Elijah Brown a drive or two here or there.

I mean, they basically did that with Will Rogers and DeMond two years ago.

because things were falling apart.

So it'd be an admission in year three under Jed Fish that we're just as inconsistent offensively as we were in year one, which would be an indictment on him if he did that.

Like, that's what I'm talking about.

If you are known -- Like, if Mike Leach would've shown up in Starkville and Will Rogers just couldn't throw the football, nobody else could.

When you can't do what you're known for as a head coach, either broad brush, offense, defense, Shane Beamer, special teams, or even at a micro level, that -- Like Gus Malzahn, you know what he was always about? There was the eye candy, the shifts, and the motion.

He was a power running game.

Yeah.

The reason we're not seeing Rogers on the field right now is because Rico Scott is killing it.

Yeah.

I mean, 56 yards, two touchdowns.

I thought the wide receiving corps was too packed.

There's just not enough room for him.

When Will Rogers transferred from MC State, I said, "Now Rico Scott's not gonna get the touches." And Rico Scott, I don't know what his yardage is through three games.

I think we had said 300 yards is all Rico Scott needs this year.