The game against SC state doesn't really say anything which is basically the best case in a game like that. Too much difference in talent level to really draw many conclusions. So not really much has changed since the UL game.
Against UL, King was very similar to the offense as a whole. Great in the second quarter, and mostly bad outside of it.
2nd Quarter - King was 5/6 (83%) for 184, (30.6 ypa) 2TD, 2 rushes for 13 yards.
Rest of game - King was 14/26 (54%) for 129 (4.96 ypa) 1 TD, 1 INT, 8 rushed for 40 yards. 1 fumble. Those numbers aren't good on their own, and it should be noted that the last drive he was 5/6 for 67 yards which was against UL when they were playing mostly prevent bringing 3 and trying to leverage the clock. Obviously King and the rest of the offense still need to execute but
For King, and the offense as a whole, the second quarter was a clear outlier. He's not going to average 83% passing and go over 700 yards in a game with 8 TDs for one game much less that be an average or anywhere close to it. Also, the rest of the game likely, and hopefully, is also not a completely accurate indication given that it was the first game in a new system. He will likely pass for over 54% and probably average more than 172 yards passing a game. He'll almost certainly fall somewhere in the middle of those numbers, and the question is where will he fall in that spectrum. Was that second quarter a fluke predicated on a big play frequency that we won't normally have? Or was it just an exaggerated example of an offense that will generate big plays fairly frequently? One game won't really tell us that.
The thing that concerned me about the UL game is that our success seemed very reliant on the big plays. Our TD drives in the second quarter were 3,4,5 and 9 plays. However, for the 9 play drive the last 6 were to go 12 yards to punch it in after getting there off a 46 yard play. A similar thing happened against SCSU where 4 of our 6 TDs were either off a short field set up by the defense or a big play. We did have two sustained TD drives but also 3 drives that petered out into FGAs which isn't good considering our kicking situation and defense. It should be noted that a drive that has a big play take away an opportunity for a sustained drive which affects things.
Overall, I'm not really that concerned about King other than the tendencies he came in with from TAMU. The longer he is here the less influence that will have though. I am significantly more worried about our OL which I think is a bigger cause of the feast or famine that we've seem to have had so far this year.
