Any and every coach will tell you: "If it's good enough to get your hands on it, it's good enough to catch it" Obviously, the throw early in the game to Peterson (the one thrown behind him where DP got a hand deflecting it as he passed by) was not a good throw. But Clement had one hit him in the old bread basket and couldn't bring it in. Beckham dropped one in the endzone. Boone dropped some...
I have to agree .... I think you are being a little hard on Lee. Great Receivers MAKE THE PLAY! Great Receiveers make QBs look good. I don't totally blame this on either Lee or the WRs. LSU has been prepping for a JJ run game all year long .. cause lord knows, he would not have passed any better. I"d at least give Lee a B .. at the very worst, a B-. I give the play calling at times a D ... five yard plays when you need 10 are sure ways to punt. I also take issue a tad with your DB grade. Our pass defense needs a lot of work. Thomas passed at will in the short and medium range. I still give them an A, because they are just plain dang good ...but there is always room for improvement. .... .. .. except for the DL .. they are simply brutal!!!!
Boone's drops were the worst and it happened more than once. Good news is he appears he can get open, but he needs to obviously catch the damn ball. I think I need to watch the game over one more time and see how many were obvious drops vs those that would have been great catches on balls that weren't quite accurately thrown. I don't have a problem revisiting Lee's grade out. The biggest thing I took away from his performance and that will serve him well going forward is he didn't force things and played very much within himself. Heck one touchdown pass and no interceptions as an average per game would not be bad at all.
nice recap. ill give Lee a solid C. thing is, oregon is smalllll. we wont be successful being one-dimensional in the sec. gotta improve a lot to have an effective rushing attack against the bigger boys.
While Lee's passes were a little "off" Mushberger said Darron Thomas threw behind/low to his receivers in order to "allow them to make a catch in front of the defender". I like that excuse. Lee was doing the same thing.
that's the concern moving forward receivers need to catch the ball and Lee needs to improve his accuracy.....our passing game is like pulling teeth.....so hard to make progress
I enjoy that faster tempo offense that we started at the end of last season. Gets people on their heals and wears em down. As far as Lee, B-, he's not peyton manning but we dont need him to be. He managed the game well and had no turnovers!! Our defense looked awesome, and they are just gonna get better. By NC time, they will be scarry good...
Check the stats before the 4th quarter.... It's called prevent.. What some don't understand I think is that a prevent does a few things. Some would consider it, prevent a TD, but mainly it is to prevent the BIG play. What LSU did, was force Oregon to use multiple plays. I, like many of you can’t stand free TD’s, but it did force Oregon to use lots of time in getting that first TD to make it 20. After that, it was even more vanilla and basically a score now go the phuck home D. But anyway, outside of those 2 prevent D’s, Oregon had PEDESTRIAN numbers.
How many of our defensive players were selected for All-SEC? It looks like a few coaches were biased or wrong.
