There are several reasons. 1 Miles wants to recruit a running QB to run a power running game. 2 The play calling, personnel grouping, etc are beyond predictable. 3 Coaching up the position has been poor, despite who the OC is under Miles. 4 The player has to realize the situation is they won't pass much so make the most of it.
Why is it so easy for everybody else to have an effective short passing game with unheralded QB's some of whom are even walk-ons while year after year we can't do what should be simple? With the exception of the Mett years.
Not to be a sunshine pumper - I still consider myself on the fence - but we all agree the one thing we didn't want to see last night was an all-run attack against an outclassed non-conference opponent. We all seemed to agree beforehand that this would be a good game to work on the passing game, knowing that we could pull it back anytime and run the ball to a win if necessary, which is what happened. So has anyone considered that the insistence on throwing the ball upfield was simply an experiment? Maybe Miles/Cam feel confident that we can work the intermediate stuff and wanted to see if we could successfully stretch a defense. Obviously a failed experiment, but I think that's a better explanation than the belief that our former NFL head coach/offensive coordinator suddenly doesn't know how to run a passing game.
I actually kind of predicted that in a different thread. I don't think they told Harris to only look for the deep ball though. Again though, if LSU doesn't drop passes, we aren't having this conversation, Harris would have been 9-15 for about 150 and 2 TD's. You'd take that all day long right?
Absolutely, but it wasn't all on the receivers. Harris missed some throws too, and many of the throws he was attempting were low percentage to begin with.
It sure did seem that he was trying to force things by throwing deep or with low percentage throws in general; going for the "home run" as it were. The most egregious was the fade to Dupre when Fournette was open in the middle of the field.
Agreed. And honestly (though it's another 'if').. Those 2 pass interference calls against #1 for EMU... I think at least one of those, maybe both, are catches. He knew that which is why he took the penalty rather than giving up the yards or the score. I'm sure he's looking at film in hindsight saying "hell I shouldn't have interfered, he'd have dropped it anyway".. It is a bit frustrating knowing this could have, and should have ended up with LSU scoring 60+ points. But this is why they play the games I guess. Onward to SC and making the ol' head ball coach lament the fact that the man everyone calls an idiot, keeps beating him.
I mean, it is my opinion our O would greatly benefit an O that basically threw 5-15 yard passes all game. That is more than enough space for WR's considering 8-9 and fronts because of LF.
