Well said. I'm gonna go ahead and get some brown on my nose and say this is the type of response I was looking for. Great post.
For the most part LSU was ill-prepared and piss poor all the way around. By far the worst performance by the WRs. TT should have been sitting on the bench. He could have sat along side Shepard.
The pass to Randall should have been intercepted. It was tipped and Randall was not able to bring it in. Could he have? Sure, maybe 7 out of 10 times, but a tipped ball for a receiver that's running full speed isn't the easiest thing to catch. It's hard to compensate for the balls change in trajectory after being tipped. Just saying...it sure would have been nice if he would have caught it. That, however, is the type of breaks that we haven't really had go our way all year.
No one gets a pass. what i dont understand was if TT was having so many problems why keep throwing to him..why even have him on the field...I am sure RJ Jackson would have liked to see some playing time and has preformed very well when the coaches have called his number.
He dropped two in a row before catching the one that set us up for the last TD. He is inconsistent, but has the ability to be very good.
Not really the wideoutS as much as it was Terrance Toliver dropping balls all over the place. Lafell dropped one but Toliver had a horrible game. He caught balls that were pretty tough to catch and dropped balls that should have been caught. The field conditions were inside our players heads, i don't care what Miles says. Also all the dropped interceptions didn't help either, Penn St. fumbled 4 times also and we didn't get one. Honestly everyone wants to point the finger at Jordan Jefferson but lets be honest. This system sucks a big fat one. We have taken a guy who has very little experience running a spread pass heavy offense, and tried to turn him into Graham Harrell. He has absolutely no help from the offensive line or the running game, and the outcome of the game is put in his hands almost every down. That is ridiculous. He needs help, and skill position players who are some of the best in the country dropping balls all over the field just put more pressure on Jefferson. It's not too hard to figure out odds, and percentages. Something has to change, because it was obvious who the better team was, which team was more talented, and which team was better coached, and which team was more disciplined.
I did not see one single LSU player who was ready to play football today. The pisspoor gameplan and playcalling, that's on the coaches. Being ready to play is up to the players themselves. Trindon did his part, the rest not so much.
I agree. That was one of the few bad passes that Jefferson threw, but if you're going to make a gamble that was the way to do it. Had it been intercepted, Penn State would have had the ball in just about the same spot had Helton punted. Wait, I take that back. Helton would have given Penn State much better field position. It would have taken a spectacular catch by Randle to pull it off and he almost did...
Sorry, I really disagree about the players other than what you said about Trindon (<-- see, I got it right this time LSUFanZone :lol. The defense kept PSU out of the endzone multiple times while being put in really bad positions throughout the game. That's even after the refs ensured that our CBs couldn't play aggressive (I'm sure the trash-talking didn't win any points with the refs either though). The team had a horrid first quarter, but calmed down and played, wide receivers included. TT's hands were non-existent in the first half and hurt us multiple times, but finally came alive in the second and his hands put us scoring position later. I'm sure no one more the RR wishes he caught that pass, but it was a tip drill. LSU lost this game completely on lack of offensive production, most of which I place on Crowton's "system", his apparent lack of understanding of running the ball (especially in any sort of smashball style, of course this is hurt by the poor run blocking O-line as well) and his under-utilization of his players strengths.
