1. MSU is an inferior team so naturally both quarterbacks looked and played better, showed improvement, and exhibited better leadership, but against the quality programs where the pressure on the quarterback is much greater, the offense will continue to struggle as long as we stick to this two-quarterback nonsense. It’s time for the coaches to look towards the future. JaMarcus Russell has proven he’s much cooler under pressure than Marcus Randall and a much better passer, which gives LSU’s offense a much-needed dimension. Give him all the reps in practice and all the snaps in the games.
  2. Please enlighten me. What, specifically, has happened to prove this to you?
    Was it Randall's 7-7 passing yesterday? Was it his opening the last 2 games with a long scoring drive? Was it Russell's fumble in the red zone?
    I like Russell but I'm not going to complain about "the system" when 51 points are put up on the board.
  3. Of course, my observations aren’t based against an inferior and undermanned MSU team. Instead, they are based on both quarterback’s performances and the team’s performance over the entire season thus far. Who led us from a deficit to a victory in the OSU game, when the other guy couldn’t find much less hit a wide-open receiver in the first half? Who coach Saban had on the field at the end of the Auburn game? Look at the stats not just in yesterday’s game but also over the entire season.

    Sure MR performs well when he isn’t under pressure, i.e., opening drive of the Auburn game, but as soon as the opponent’s defense makes adjustments and puts him under pressure, his performance deteriorates accordingly. The Auburn and OSU games were more than adequate proof of that. I mean, as for as performance over the entire season is concerned, a redshirt freshman quarterback with very little experience shouldn’t be able to stand in the same shoes as a fifth year quarterback, but just the opposite is true: a fifth year quarterback can’t stand in a redshirt freshman’s shoes. It’s time the team looks to the future, and makes JR the starter. It’s the only way the offense this season will be able to reach its full potential. Otherwise, they will continue to struggle against the quality teams.

    Reality is this LSU offensive team will never develop the continuity to reach its full potential as long as the team sticks with this absurd two-quarterback experiment. I mean we have a less than quality by SEC standards fifth-year senior quarterback who needs all the reps he can get, sharing reps and time with a very talented but lacking experience young redshirt freshman quarterback, who is going to be good but needs all the reps and time he can get also himself. Therefore, neither quarterback is getting all the reps and time each deserves and needs, and, hence, this deficit, unfortunately, shows up in the games, especially against the tough opponents.

    Then we have the offense as a whole trying to get used to playing with two very different quarterbacks with two very different quarterbacking styles. It’s impossible to completely jell and to develop continuity under those circumstances, say whatever you want? Never mind the fact also that Jimbeaux has to get two game plans and two very different quarterbacks ready to play each week, not to mention the rest of the offense also, in the same allotted time he had in previous years just to get one quarterback ready to play. Jimbeaux is good, but he ain’t no superman! Hence, we have a situation where each quarterback should be getting Jimbeaux’s undivided attention, getting his divided and shared attention instead, and some people still wonder why both quarterbacks and the offense as a whole struggles against the quality teams, and admonish Jimbeaux’s less than creative play calling. Come on, it’s obvious isn’t it?
  4. Under Saban, LSU is 36-0 when the offense scores more than 24 points a game. The LSU defense led the nation in scoring defense last year at 11 points a game and is averaging less than that this year.

    If this offense can score more than 11 points a game, it will win most of its games, due to the exellent LSU defense. If the offense can manage 24 points a game, they can win them all.

    So, can this offense score between 11 and 25 points a game against all contenders? I think they can, but they still have to prove it against a Top-10 team.
  5. If that is all this offense is scoring with all the talent Saban has assembled on this team, then this offense will be grossly under performing, and that’s all there is to it. It’s time to junk this two-quarterback experiment before we lose more games. When you play with fire sometimes you get burnt. Now we got burnt once already, we can’t afford to get burnt again this season. I mean we already gave the Auburn fans the impression their defense is much better than it really is!
  6. I agree that UGA's D is better then Florida's but Florida's D looked real good yesterday.....Yes I know UF played KY but they still only gave up like 133 yards passing(most of it on the first drive) and the leading Rusher for them was the QB (22 yards).....I am not going to say Florida's D is great but it is not bad also the offense did real good but they could not score in the redzone (which they need to to win big games) Leak wasnt on yesterday but he still had 263 yards passing and Fason had 210 yards rushing......Florida end up having a little over 530 yards on offense.