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marcmc99 · Sep 17, 2006

I hoped I'd see something to make me feel better about the loss, but some of this stuff just bugs me a little. Looks like it should have been a win had everything gone according to plan.:dis:

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“We have to return to running the football when we want to run it,” Miles said, “and I want you to know something: Our kids will do that. Our football team will do that.”
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“We like the guys that we have at tailback, to be honest with you,” Miles said.
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Russell’s pass didn’t reach the end zone.

“You’d like to have thrown it in the end zone and made the play in the end zone,” Miles said. “Your clock’s running down, you’re in a position where if he extends the route and we put some air underneath it, the ball’s either caught in the end zone or not.

“The quarterback played extremely well all day. For him to throw a stick instead of putting a little air under that ball at the end … if it had been a little deeper, it’d been a score.”
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With 2 seconds left, you’re trying not to risk much, but at the same time you’re trying to get it in the end zone,” Russell said.
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“He threw it a little sooner than I expected,” Davis said. “I expected him to throw a jump ball.”
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Davis refused to speculate on whether LSU should have passed the ball more often on its final two series.

“I can’t question the offensive coaches’ calls,” he said. “I think they called a good game, but we waited a little bit too long to execute.”

Russell said he knew Davis would have had a better chance at scoring had Russell waited a little longer to release the ball.

“At the time,” Russell said, “you’re not thinking about pressure, because the clock in your head is going off, telling you how many seconds you have left (before you could get sacked), and it feels like you’re holding the ball too long.”
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Fisher and Miles defended LSU’s decision to run on first-and-10 and on second-and-7, the latter from Auburn’s 30 with less than 4 minutes to play.

“We felt like we had what we wanted,” Miles said. “I remember the play. It was a play that should have busted up in there, but it didn’t happen.

“You’re certainly in a position where throwing the football is something that they expect you to do, and we felt like we had a great call.”
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“They had a hole inside,” Fisher said. “We thought we’d be able to pop a run. We had 3 minutes. It was 2nd-and-7. We’re going to be in four-down territory. If you make 3 or 4 yards, you’re third-and-three, and you’re at the 25.

“We figured if they played two-deep, there were enough guys in the box, and we tried to run the ball back inside.”

Fisher said he didn’t let it deter him that LSU’s running game had been ineffective for most of the second half.
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“Yeah, but you still have to stay with … it’s your game plan,” Fisher said. “You could throw it every down, but 3 yards there to make a third-and-4 and have two shots to make it? Or, if you popped it, the numbers were right, because they’re not expecting you to run. You know what I mean?

“We had a run-pass check, and they went into coverage, and we checked back to a run.”
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“That was mainly my fault,” Russell said. “We go over that in practice. I should have gotten the ball out of bounds or thrown it away.”

Miles agreed.

“He should never have taken that sack,” Miles said, “but he knows that. He’s trying to make a play, scrambling off to the side. That may have cost us more dearly in time than in yardage.”
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red55 · Sep 17, 2006

Anybody who has watched much football knows that you have to mix the run and the pass. Any good defense will stop you if you get one-dimensional.

The coaches are not responsible for everything that goes wrong out there. Russell did not manage the clock well on the final drive. That unfortunate sack cost us 15 vital seconds. That could have been two plays at the end and a possible winning score.

marcmc99 · Sep 17, 2006

What was it, 5 drives inside Auburn territory with no points? Some fans and the offensive coaching staff may want to hang this on one drive, but the poor offensive play calling runs much deeper than one drive.

Miles and Fisher are bound and determined to run the ball with Vincent and Broussard, well that's great. Tulane and MOO U can cure what ails almost anyone in that department. But, they'd better get their heads out of their @$$e$ before the competition elevates again against the likes of FL, UT, and Bama.

JP4LSU · Sep 17, 2006

red55 said: ↑

Anybody who has watched much football knows that you have to mix the run and the pass. Any good defense will stop you if you get one-dimensional.

The coaches are not responsible for everything that goes wrong out there. Russell did not manage the clock well on the final drive. That unfortunate sack cost us 15 vital seconds. That could have been two plays at the end and a possible winning score.
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But Red, LSU was 1-dimensional that entire drive and then they call a running play 2 times in a row. It sounds like JR checked the pass off and called run, which is on him considering we haven't been able to run all day, but he was doing what he has practiced.

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