Maybe not but if we had a great defense that made the other team go 3 and out combined with a high octane offense scores like 70-14 might be more in order
that's the thing though... high powered offenses make the defensive numbers look better until they face a team with an actual good defense... 2 examples, both of our crystal footballs came against high powered offenses (oklahoma was considered one of the best in history before the game)... we held them to 14 pts (7 hard earned and 7 in garbage time)... we held ohio st. to 24 pts and well below their season rushing, passing and scoring averages... and that's after we spotted them 10 pts in the first quarter...
Until they face a team with a great defense and a ball control oriented offense that keeps their offense off the field.
I have to question both of their abilities to recruit an SEC Championship caliber QB with advanced passing skills! We plain and simply are recruiting the wrong QB's to run this Offense. More "Square Peg Round Hole" BS. Too much talent at WR and RB in this program to not have an advanced Pocket Passing QB that can effectively and efficiently deliver the ball to our playmakers. We don't need "Dual Threat Wonders" that would probably have trouble throwing a football into Lake Pontchartrain while standing on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway. Time to get the Advanced Passers in here. Harris can improve, but he's not the answer. Maybe it will be Etling or Franks in 2016. (But true freshman rarely make much noise)................................
Great post, you make a lot of great points. However, I can't just put the emphasis on Cam, Miles has to be criticized here. LSU has had trouble putting together a good passing attack for most of his tenure here no matter who the OC is. Who ever is to blame, it has to get fixed. The passing attack is inexcusable for a school who recruits like LSU. I too do not want a TCU offense. I just want an O that can pass when it has to. An O that can keep a D honest and off balance. I much rather have a dominant D that LSU has become known for. Offense's like TCU, Baylor, Oregon, etc are fun to watch but they don't win championships. The SEC won 7 in a row because of great D. I hope LSU can find balance on O and bring back a big, nasty, dominant D!!!
After more than a decade how do you blame the oc caj? This passing game is groundhog day +7. That takes some real imagination there.
It's never going to happen. That's not Les Miles football. Les Miles football is ground and pound and play field position. I just don't know if it's gonna work with a suspect defense and below average special teams. If LSU had the 2011 or 2012 Defense, game over, wouldn't need to throw it. I don't see this defense being the type of D you can lean on and I damn sure don't see our special teams being the unit you can depend on to flip field position or pin teams deep.
When we had good QB's we had a good passing game. Mediocre QB's bad passing game. I'm was blaming Cam because I thought Harris has much more capabilities than he had shown and the lack of shorter pass calls to help him get into a rhythm. I thought against USCe Cam did a much better job and Harris showed glimpses of his talent.
