Oh. No biggie. The conversation is slow over on Tidefans so I'm hanging out here a lot tonight. Not trying to rub anything in.
Okay..my bad...that would have left us passing the ball 11 times. Something tells me that wouldn't have worked out to well. The O would have had mostly three and outs and the D would have been slaughtered from being exhausted.
As i've said from the beginning... JL is showing signs of getting better. At times he makes mistakes... but then at times he makes brilliant throws. Yes he has a lot of INTs but he also has 13 TD passes and will surpass 2000 yards passing on this season. Not too shabby for a KID fresh out of high school and thrown into the SEC. I feel sorry for this kid. All he wants to do is win and all he's getting is thrown to the wolves... first by his coaches and now to his so called fans. Lee has an awesome arm and at times shows brilliance that in all honesty most other SEC QBs don't have. I think JL will lead us over OM and AR and we'll end the season with 3 losses... and like I said again... not bad for a so-called "rebuilding" year.
The media and fans are turning the kid into a headcase. No one around me booed Sat...but they could be heard loud and clear throughout the stadium. I hope someone got knocked out. The kid is fading fast. I hate picturing Lee the way this guy describes him above...he deserves better than that. http://blog.nola.com/lsusports/2008/11/les_miles_has_to_fix_lsu_quart.html I hate the pick 6's as much as anyone...but he's still a 19 year old college student. He's a youg kid...and a Tiger.
I'll put it this way, in 2-3 years this kid will either be a bust, or our opponents will be sick of hearing how Jarrett Lee proved all the critics wrong.
I always use this as the benchmark. Matt Stafford: 52.7 % completions 7 TD 13 INT as a freshman. Granted, that was as a true freshman, so you expect Lee to be a little ahead of him statistically, because of the extra year. and . . . he is. Lee is: 53.4 % completions 13 TD 14 INTs. If Lee follows Stafford's progression, he should be an above average QB next year. A very good QB his junior year. Then one of the country's elite his senior year. We don't see the sore-thumbs of these young guys very often at schools like LSU, because rarely are they stuck in the spot to where they have to play babies at QB. Usually your 1st lumps come in 35 point blowouts, so you can ease into it. Lee was thrown straight from the ice box into the fire.
