Exactly! LSU does not have a short or intermediate passing game. Those passes that keep drives alive, move the chains and make the LBs play the pass instead of being able to concentrate on stopping the run game only. That's been the key to Bama's recent championships. They haven't had high quality QBs or a prolific passing game, just a high percentage move the chains eat the clock passing game that also opens up running lanes. The exact kind of passing game you need to compliment a quality running game. You also don't need a great QB to run it successfully. It's the same type passing game that many here have been screaming for season after season. However, in the Schembekler offense the forward pass is an after thought only to be used in emergency. Despite all the preseason talk each season Miles/Cameron have no desire to develop a passing game. They are both disciples of three yards and a cloud of dust. I see no way things change unless Miles feels his job is on the line.
and what makes it more frustrating is that we have the athletes to have a short passing game. Harris can do it, we have seen it, but its so fucking inconsistent
I think it's partly because Miles won't break it out until he absolutely needs it. Most teams don't hide half their play book until a big game. They run their offense until it becomes second nature. They especially use the early cream puff games to work on the parts that need work. Miles runs his same old ancient offense until he absolutely has to do something different and then wonders why it doesn't work like a well oiled machine. A short to intermediate passing game is what this offense needs. It's what this QB needs. It's what this team needs. Just wait, Miles will talk about it all off season. We'll hear non stop how the TEs and RBs will be incorporated into the passing game. Then game one against creme puff U, it will be right back to 3 yards and a cloud of dust.
3 yards was a luxury saturday night. What a fucking frustrating game to watch. Miles is a great guy and a decent coach, but him and his staff win mostly on talent alone.
Something else I have said for a very long time. When talent meets talent and it becomes about x's and o's and not jimmys and joes Miles is as lost as a goose in the fog.
Harris throws a pretty decent long ball to big receivers who can outjump and outmuscle smaller defenders for the ball. He throws a great fade to Dupree in the corner of the endzone. Every once in a while he makes a good throw on a crossing route. But for some reason he can't throw a screen or any short pass with any accuracy. The quick pass over the middle to Fournette would have been a long gainer or maybe a TD if Harris had put it in LF7's hands. The question is why? He probably wasn't called upon to make those throws in high school. But why haven't the coaches made him learn to make those passes. A couple of hundred reps a day on the short ones should make him at least somewhat proficient at it. Why hasn't Cam worked on this?
And it would be nice, for a CHANGE, to be on the national stage and be able to SHOWCASE LSU as a dominant force in college football.
