Yep, too much of the same. I just don't like closing that case........ Lets look at a few stats.... First three games of last year. Mett had 4TDs with 2 Ints and a long of 46 yds This year 9TDs with 0 Ints and a long of 52 yards. Mett yards last year at this time, 609, this year 797. Last year the offense was a major struggle, this year, hes been taking his foot off the gas in games. How many Victory Formations? Even the lesser teams Les and Cam has not tried to make look bad. We could name the score in most games. Oh, most of the formations are the same to an extent, but its whats being done out of them. What being done using the NFL Passing tree. This offense is far from finished, I do like whats being done. The offense is light years ahead of last year. Many defenses could cover LSU within 15 yards, those days are gone. Mett isn't the only one benefiting from Cams help with the offense. A few Jrs could leave early this year. I'd like to see more, but what I've seen is good, we still have to do it against the better teams in the SEC. Remember this, Mett was pressured and sacked last year vs auburn, Ellis Johnson likes to bring pressure. The first three games last year, Mett was sacked 5 times. This OL is still trying to get together as a team, but getting better each game. Last year, if a team stacked the box, we still ran the ball, this year, teams pay. I do think Studs is one of the better OL coaches.
That number would be 4 TDs........I know everyone is talking about the teams we played this year, last year, Wash was 7-6, North Tx was 4-8 and Idaho was 1-11.
I know and I agree. I was just pointing out the folly that this year's offense is the same as years past. Cam is the type of OC this program has needed for a long time. I think a lot of the loss of Jrs this year was due to the fact that many of the guys had lost confidence in the offense to pull it's weight. Having Cam as OC will not only keep guys around who might consider leaving but will also help recruiting big time as these guys know they will be prepared for the NFL. Hard to beat the combo of Chavis and Cam.
Yeah, but he had his two best games last year against arguably the two best pass rushes...USCe and bama. I remember we were all scared shitless of what Clowney would do to him when Faulk went down, but he was awesome in that game and Clowney was a non-factor. Man, he was friggin' badass in that bama game, too. I can think of several instances when he was about to get shellacked but stood strong in the pocket and completed the pass. He really seems to be a big-game type of QB (in Tiger Stadium, at least).
Absolutely. However, I thought the playcalling at the very end of our last drive was horribly pussified. Mett's throwing darts all night long and we try to run it up the middle on 3rd?? I think we even wasted a down on the Warecat. Aaagghh!!! I think the latter is more likely. He's had so much good pass protection that he's been constantly just scanning the field, looking to not only see who's open, but who's most open. Ok, that might be a stretch, but he's going through his progressions very well. I've even seen a few times where he drops back, doesn't see anything he likes, then trots over a few steps, plants, and fires. It's not a roll-out or a threat to take off running; it's more of a repositioninng and changing of the angle. It's little things like that that have made a huge impact. In one of these past cupcake games, we got down in the red zone and committed some stupid penalty. It might have even been two penalites. Anyway, we got backed-up pretty far, and Cam called three straight passes, either to the EZ or at least enough for the first. Incomplete on first, incomplete on second. Third down, Mett fires a shot to Landry over the middle...complete, TD. They are showing a lot of confidene in him, and at the same time building his confidence in situations like that.
Last year was alot like 2010 except Miles didn't have the nuts to call a 4th down play like he did in 2010. The infamous river left. Damned if you do and fail, damned if you don't and fail, but IMO, ZM was clearly the best player on the field in that 2nd half, and Miles trusted Jordan Jefferson more in 2010, than he trusted ZM in 2012. That's scary.
He trusted Jefferson a lot. Too much. It's the only thing I can't defend him against with Miles' bashers, and it's becoming the main thing they bring up. My entire office HATES Miles based on that one phuck-up of a championship game.
