Where's all the NEGATIVE NANCYS????

I went back and studied every single pass play. Not as bad as it seemed the first time I went through it. Of his 39 pass plays (not all ended in an attempt o: stupid sacks), Jeffeson threw 10 balls that I considered to be off-target, but only 3 of those were really poor passes. That's actually pretty damned good. And of those 3, he was hit or about to be hit twice. And on the flip side, Jefferson made 4 passes that I thought were very good, including the 2 TD passes to Tolliver and Lafell and the great pitch/catch with Randle.

This is still happening, but it seemed to me on watching the replay AGAIN that the defense was selling out to the formation and personnel packages. They stacked the box a lot in the I. Play action passes would be a very welcome wrinkle, por favor!

 

Hi Texastiger....

 

I don't understand your numbers.

He was 21 of 31 with either 5 or 6 drops (depending on who you talk too).

He was sacked 3 times.

So that is 33 pass plays, then the two PINT calls make 35. Where are you getting the other 4?

The adlibbed runs? He scored on one of those, and gained on all but the three that were sacks.

And how could he be off on 10 passes when he completed 21 and had 5 or 6 dropped?

 

I counted 4 drops (i.e. shoulda been caught) and maybe 1 that would've had to have been a superb catch.

Only counted two real sacks, so the third must be a scramble out of bounds for a loss.

I only counted 3 scrambles, one for a TD, one for a first down, and one that I thought was no gain, but may have been for a loss (3rd sack).

Completion has nothing to do with my analysis other than some throws weren't catchable, I guess. I gave him credit for throws that were short (Holliday) or high (Lafell, Randle) on purpose. Any throw that clearly required the receiver to either make a great grab or to significantly adjust or to wait forever for the ball, I counted as being off-target.

10 non-perfect passes out of almost 40 pass plays is friggin pretty good, especially when I'm being very, very picky while looking at this.

I outlined every pass play, by quarter, on my blog if you want to gander at them. I counted every play that Jefferson intended to throw, including a nice pass to Dickson that was called back, the one interference call, and the late hit call. I did not count his designed runs, and there were a lot of them.

 

Dude, how anybody can throw over a 6' -plus lineman and hit TH is talented :grin:

 

First of all read my posts, I am not a negative nancy so to speak. I saw LSU play below the level I thought they would play during the first few weeks. I hoped the bye would give CLM a chance to open up the playbooks, see what we were doing wrong a fix them. He did that and more. We looked like a great football team. So for now I will say CLM may not be the greatest coach, but when he is on he is really on. Tulane will be a warmup for a very good Bama game. We control our own destiny so lets se how it goes.

 

I was ecstatic over the offensive issues all being addressed...but there's still a lot of work to do. Especially with the running game. I'm glad we have Tulane next week...I think this is better for us than a bye.

...and this is coming from a sunshine pumper .

 

Agreed Tulane will be better than a bye. Bama should be worried.......

 

I love those short routes. If JJ has a problem making a long throw decision just give him quick short routes and move those chains!

 

Apparently our play calling did somehting to spark the tigers... since we're now being thrown around the media outlets as the 4th team that could spoil the tops hopes... I like that. We don't have to win 60-0 to garber respect... we just have to move the ball and put some points on the board. Saturday night was a good move forward and look forward to seeing us move the ball better.