Everyone has the respect of the LSU run that is why you have 8-9 in the box. What are you talking about? Every team plays LSU the same way, then everyone is surprised when the run game doesn't do crap. As far as stats if you saw the game, Toliver took a 5 yard pass into 41 yards, Peterson was completely wide open... other than that it was basically WR screen passes. Even the WR screens are way off, I don't know how Shepard even caught that one. Absolutely no DC is scared of LSU throwing the ball, how many do you want in the box... 11? Here is what you do if you are DC against LSU. You put 8-9 in the box when you see Jefferson in there. Jefferson gives you 7-10 wins a year if the talent around him is top 5 in the country like LSU has. Crowton is a big part of the problem but what Jefferson lacks you can't teach, which is why LSU is near last in the SEC in offense and very close to the bottom in offense college wide. I assure you the defenses will be playing exactly the same way next week. If they are unable to find a passing threat that you prefer, I expect the same outcome next year as well. LSU is absolutely no threat in the passing department with Jefferson in there.... and if I were the other team I would be begging Crowton to keep running those option plays.
Like I said hard to have a conversation, I guess they could have scored 0 points and had less then 100 yards in offense. I can't take this.
Again, for your slow ass...I repeat, CHARLES SCOTT HAD 84 YARDS ON 13 CARRIES! The run game was certainly doing crap, then he broke his collar bone. Then our D couldn't get off the field, then our supposed "Throwing QB" sat back like a deer in headlights and waited to get sacked.
That is why everything I said at the beginning of the year has come true... Scott up the middle play would not work constantly against SEC teams and unless Jefferson could pass from the pocket the offense would struggle. As far as Lee, he shouldn't have been throwing at all except in the first series where they were already 2nd and I think 25 when he came in. Alabama played normal coverage or even deep when Lee was in there.
Of course, like I said Alabama took the 8th and 9th out of the box when Lee got in the game, that is when Scott had a good run. Go watch the game again. That Scott up the middle play is not going to work constantly in the SEC, it certainly isn't going work with 8 and 9 guys in the box. Keep rewriting history. Yeah, LSU is one of the worse offenses in the SEC and the nation because it has worked... OK, time to wake up. The only reason it worked in the 2nd half is because Alabama had to pull there 8th and 9th guy out of there. It really only worked on a few plays... the 34 yard run, that was basically it and Ridley had the speed to get outside. Alabama was playing way back when Lee was in there, next week you will see 8-9 in the box back when Jefferson comes back.
I agree that the playcalling could have been much better when Scott went out. But that's about all I could agree on. Yeah, Bama was really worried about Lee when he got in. I mean, he burned all the good teams last year, so why wouldn't they be worried? He couldn't be stopped. Pleaaaaaaase... Enough already. This myth about JL being this good deep threat is pretty funny. Go look at the numbers in each game he's played in and compare his numbers to JJ's. Tell me what you see. Hell, if Bama played back (as you said) when Lee came in, it's because they were probably just scheming for a pick 6 (he threw one of those and three others against them last year). What was JJ's longest completion? What was JL's? Okay, how about 2nd longest? Scott was doing good when Jefferson was in there as well. He had the majority of the yards he would end up with already before Lee came in. Scott had rushes of 4, 6 & 10 yards on the drive when JJ got hurt. In fact, he had just run for 10 and a 1st down the play before the injury/sack. And that sack was on the OL, he had no chance at all to do anything and tried to get rid of it as best he could. We didn't have a WR in the area though. That sucked bad. If it was a false start, the thing should have been blown dead. But since it wasn't, there was a facemask by them as well. But one play does not really mess up the offense for the whole half. I mean, JJ had a 28-yard completion in the 1st quarter that was called back because of an illegal formation. It didn't stop us from having a successful drive in the 2nd quarter that scored. You didn't see Lee make any mistakes? I'm pretty sure you're messing with people. He had some awful throws in there. The game is not over until it's over. The Int. was just one more bad throw in a series of bad throws. That one throw was so bad that the refs called off the PI call because the ball went about 50 yards out of bounds. Also, as soon as Lee got in we burned like two timeouts in 10 seconds. One of those was because we couldn't get the play off in time. You keep saying Jefferson was NO passing threat AT ALL. Well, it's not even my opinion, but you're factually WRONG there. He threw a perfect TD pass against Bama to give us the lead for the first half. And you keep saying that the 7 points weren't anything in 2.5 quarters and all this stuff... Well, how many other SEC teams have had a TD against Bama in the first half this year? ZERO. No team has accomplished that since November of 2008. JJ did it with a 12-yard TD pass on Saturday. And LSU was in the middle of their first offensive possession of the 2nd half when Jefferson got hurt. It was going well too (inside Bama territory) until the grounding call/injury. JJ didn't get to finish the drive, but had played really good up until his injury. Most of his passes were very good, he made good plays with his feet, hadn't turned the ball over/ taken numerous sacks and he had a TD. As for Lee, I thought he did good on his first two drives (that's not an easy environment to get thrown in). But after that he was pretty awful. When the guy is off (which is too often), he's one of the most inaccurate passers I've ever seen. Those pick 6s last year did not happen because our guys just didn't really give an effort to tackle the other guy. They usually happened because he threw the ball so far away from any LSU player that there was nobody within a 5-mile radius there to make the tackle. If we need Lee, I hope for him to succeed. And he can have his moments. But those are few and far between. The guy is tough and I admire that. He's definitely not the reason we lost or anything crazy like that. But he doesn't offer anything better that I can see.
Just a quick update on what our QB situation SHOULD be, Ryan Perrilloux leads all of FCS in QB Rating well head of the next-best guy, App State's Armanti Edwards according to ESPN's Bruce Feldman.
You know, this wasn't are year going into this season and most of us knew that. With that being said, we put up a damn good fight to get to the NC game in " another down year". That means something. JJ looked really good. Didn't take bad sacks. Ran the option better. Scott Looked GREAT! Ridley looks awsome. Peterson is the man. #11 shepard is very very good and so many more. In the end, injury's just took their tole on the Tighers. Very good fight tho.
