Last Wednesday, Zach Mettenberger was one cool, confident quarterback facing the pressure.
With a blitz of reporters -- a "microphone graveyard," he called it -- in his face as one of the headline players at SEC media days, he fired well-thought out, calm answers like a quarterback delivering strikes against a constant pass-rush.
Asked about the pressure put on him this season to perform as LSU's new starting quarterback, Mettenberger calmly shrugged, "I just have to take care of my one-eleventh of the offense. I have to minimize turnovers and get the ball to the playmakers on our team."
With a blitz of reporters -- a "microphone graveyard," he called it -- in his face as one of the headline players at SEC media days, he fired well-thought out, calm answers like a quarterback delivering strikes against a constant pass-rush.
Asked about the pressure put on him this season to perform as LSU's new starting quarterback, Mettenberger calmly shrugged, "I just have to take care of my one-eleventh of the offense. I have to minimize turnovers and get the ball to the playmakers on our team."
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Gary Laney joined ESPN.com in 2012 after spending a year and a half as online sports editor of the Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate. Before that, he covered LSU sports for the Advocate. He has also been the sports editor at the Beaumont (Texas) Enterprise and covered McNeese State athletics for the Lake Charles (La.) American Press. Laney currently lives in Baton Rouge. Email him at glaneyespn@gmail.com