DING...DING...DING! You hit the nail on the head. Crowtons offense is too complex for anyone other than a super smart, experienced QB. Just look at his past. When he has an exceptional QB it excels, when he doesnt its average. Look at the reads and calls Flynn was responsible for last year and he was a 5th year senior. Did he know the entire playbook? If not then you're using the wrong playbook. The other thing is the offense we are running is not the spread he ran for years and years at LA Tech, BYU and Oregon. He's a spread guy and has no history of running anything like this. He is developing an offense that is a work in progress. Miles gave him a mission to develop something suited for our talent so this is new ground for Crowton in many ways. DING.....DING...DING. In the first half our run/pass ratio on first down was 60/40. Not counting the last drive with 21 seconds left, you know how many passes we had on first down in the second half? ZERO! Calling it conservative is being too kind. Scrapping the play book would help as much as letting the defensive players call their own scheme. IE: it would be a good thing. The playbook needs to be re-worked from the encyclopedia volume it is now to something inexperienced QB's can run. I think its accurate to say that Crowton out smarts himself sometimes and especially when he is limited by young QB's. I cant believe with this offensive line we cant run a simple screen pass. Do they even work on it in practice? Clair may can answer that. Has Crowton ever heard of a toss sweep? Keiland Williams would be perfect at running the toss sweep. Other than the designed QB runs, every running play yesterday was off tackle of guard. Nothing by the running backs goes to the edge in this offense. I still think Crowton is a good fit for us but he needs to rework that playbook for our green QB's. We made a pitiful defense look all world yesterday in the second half when we should have been blowing them out.
These last two paragraphs are right on. A toss sweep - WOW, revolutionary!!! Shoulda been doin' it all frickin' year!
I'm not denying that we got conservative. I'm sure if Miles could go back in time we would not have been as conservative. IMO, Miles was afraid of ruining Jefferson's confidence like this season has done to Lee. That said, I still believe that if Jefferson knew more plays our offense would not have gotten near as conservative. Next year doesn't set up particularly well for us with all that we lose off the lines - 7 or 8 starters/primary backups on OL & DL combined. However, even with those losses we should be a better team.
not really. AU, Florida, and Vandy at home. UGA on the road, but lose QB, RB, and Massiquoi. plus have a dreadful coach. Bama on the road will be tough no doubt. UW on the road, but a dreadful team.
I've been thinking...I know, not usually a good idea. But what I've come up with is that this team has played like a team divided all year. I WONDER (gosh, I hate to bring this up) if the team was divided over the RP dismissal? That is the sort of thing that would leave lingering bad feelings and could break up team unity. Just thinking. I don't know any more than the rest of ya and probably less than some. But it IS something that could be a factor. :geaux:
That idiot got every chance in the world and he still screwed it up. I am sick and tired of people trying to bring him back into the team discussions. He deserve to be booted. Hell, If he was not booted last Feb, then I am almost positive he would have done something else stupid during the season and he would have been booted then. If the guys on the team can't see that he was a disease then its on their head. I don't mean to jump on you and i am sorry if you take it that way.
No offense taken. I think booting him was the right thing to do. Just wondering if some of his pals might've got their panties in a wad over it. Trust me, I won't bring it up again! :geaux:
heh. sorry It very well might be a valid question. I would be interested to see how many "friends" he had left at the end of his LSu career. I just got really tired of hearing people whining about him yesterday plus dealing will that the LSU hating ULL fans got to me. It drove me a little nuts.
