What I make of it is either he is a poor judge of talent or terrible at teaching and coaching QBs. I have never seen an elite program hide their QB more than LSU. If we are going to hide our QB and so damn scared to throw the ball, then run a Paul Johnson style offense. At least their is some deception and more fun to watch than the crap at LSU.

It tells me either he can't evaluate talent, or he ain't the QB guru at developing talent we were told to believe.

If it was that bad, teams should have been able to stop us on 3rd down. There has only been one team in the history put up a better % of third down conversions.

That is because he had once in a generation talent assembled at one time. If it takes that level of talent for his offense to be successful, LSU is in trouble. You have to game plan and call plays that are flexible and adjust to your talent.

not worth what they paid him this year IMO.

Hey, every once in a while AJ will turn and toss the ball to the RB that is about to slam into the wall.

That's changing it up right? Same back, same hole, but the toss is oh so sneaky. No one ever expects that.

I hate that play so much. I want to break my television every time I see it called. Why not just hand it off traditionally. The toss just makes it a higher risk of a turnover to gain 1-2 yards.

I bet our playbook is like two pages (front and back) long. Game plan meetings have to last all of 5 minutes. I wish the toss play up the middle would get ripped out the playbook like the coach in Unnecessary Roughness; "Don't run that play again it doesn't work!"

I'm with you. Easily the shittiest play in there. I don't think it has ever worked. And before one of you wise asses gets loose on YouTube I'm not talking about the toss sweep. I'm talking about the turn and toss right up the gut. It sucks.

Since the end of the regular season this year I've been looking at offensive numbers across FBS play. One of those areas is third down conversions.

I'm not sure what you're driving at with the statement "There has only been one team in the history put up a better % of third down conversions."

Two thoughts here. One, there've been two teams in the last five years that have had a higher third down conversion percentage than the 2013 offense. Secondly, what's the difference between converting a little over 57% versus say 55%? Yes, two percentage points but it's picking nits to use that stat as something to base a teams success upon. There are far too many variables to consider.

Now, if there's a 15 percentage point difference when comparing one team to another? There's something to consider. Yet, there's still a large number of variables coming into play there as well.