Welcome to Annie Marion three. It is that time of year. Ari, this happened yesterday afternoon

after our show was recorded, but it is something that happens every August, every preseason

camp. There's a message board that starts to smoke and smolder and then becomes a river of

fire as a rumor just rips through a fan base. And sometimes it's true. Sometimes it's not.

In this case, the rumor yesterday was that Garrett Nussmeier, LSU's quarterback, had gotten hurt at practice that it didn't look good.

Now, pretty quickly, thanks to reporters like Shea Dixon from on three's The Bengal Tiger,

they got the correct information out there that he was not seriously injured, he was going to be fine,

and that it's all good.

But that moment of panic panic that 30 or 45 minutes

where everybody in ls use fan base is on pins and needles is fascinating to me because i go back to

a mailbag question we had a couple weeks ago rie where we had we had we had one of our listeners

ask us,

who feels comfortable with their backup?

And I, we, we just racked our brains.

And I think we came up with Georgia Tech, and that's pretty much it.

Yeah, I think we figured out that, like, people who know or who could be excited about their backup quarterbacks could just be people who are excited to see a freshman, a freshman who hasn't played yet play. Like, I mean, like, Alabama is going to have the best backup quarterback in the country because it's probably going to be Keel and Russell, right? Like that you... But you don't know if he's any good.

He's a freshman.

But I'm saying like that's the only time where you can feel like he's any good.

You know, I remember back when I was on the Ohio State beat, like in 2015, I wrote a column

saying that Ohio State was wasting a scholarship by having a fourth quarterback on it.

Because if you get to the fourth quarterback in a season, you're screwed.

And then funny enough, they ended up winning a national title with their third stringer.

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