This about explains it all

I don't disagree. Mett was certainly off, but Alexander was awful--which was unusual for him.

 

Mett needs to look in the mirror and protect his guy, and throw himself on the sword, not Alexander.

 

I agree. If he doesn't do what he's done ALL year and overthrow a wide open Landry and/or if he completes the pass on 2nd and 2 on the final drive, all of this is moot. Don't call out other players when you sucked too.

 

Correct! The guy is a multimillionaire--purportedly due to his "coaching."

So why is there so little of it in evidence--coaching, that is???????

 

You're losing your edge Red, that's the nicest I've ever seen you tell some dickwad to go phuck off!

 

Maybe he's eating too much grass. The running game I saw showed the promise to bust open some big plays and I would have stuck with it.

 

So it all boils down to 2 play calls in my mind. Forget Studrawa's incompetance as an O coord, forget the 2 incomplete passes on 2nd and 3rd, forget the gameplan, forget the fact that we abandoned the run.

When you have the lead (even a slim 2 pt lead), 2nd and 2, ball on the 50, 1:58 on the clock, and Jeremy Hill behind a solid line and a great blocking fullback, YOU DO NOT ROLL YOUR FUCKING QB OUT!!! You run up the damn gut 2 or even 3 times if necessary to get the first down, and then you run the damn clock out. PERIOD. Maybe it was Stud's call to roll Mett out, i don't know, but Les should have stepped on hus nuts and said "No, we are running it right here". Hell, even if you have to run a QB sneak to gain TWO FUCKING YARDS, then DO IT! It really was that simple, and our coaches absolutely blew it.

Excuse the language, it just makes me completely sick to watch this kind of crap year in and year out when our team is so close to winning big games like this. It is not fair to our players.

 

Hard too disagree as I wanted them to run as well but remember the first down that got the 8 yards was a pass and the 2nd down had two wide open receivers that Mett missed. Had he made that pass game over.

Play calling and success have been elusive as many note and I agree that a serious review and changes need to be made in our O.

I think more than the concept game planning and play calls it is that few of the players on offense (in any position) show growth in understanding or execution in their time at LSU. The running backs excepted and to some degree the O line it seems no player improves on his strengths or corrects his weakness. To me this is more important than play selection, for as we have demonstrated (Washington & Alabama), when the players execute the offense works well moves the ball & scores.

The ability to get consistant execution is on the coaches and their ability to analyse and teach. We have had zero QB development since Jimbo left. Likewise the WRs & TEs don't show much improvement as they get older. Les has made numerous changes in O coaching personnel over the last 5 years but still has not found the right mix.

I agree that the Stud as OC experiment should be over and he should concentrate on OL duty. Krags has been a dissapointment (maybe due to illness) as well. We need a young QB coach to bring the QBs from bad to adequate at least. I would give the WR coach a little more leash.

This would bring more benefit to the offense than merely concentrating on play selection & game management. With well coached fundemental football execution we would face fewer situations like 12/31.

 

mett and lee improved.

otherwise i agree with your post.