TOTALLY AGREE!! Ive been saying this all year. We're probably gonna finish 10-2 this year with a good bowl game and that is awesome. But, if it's possible, we are better than that. We should be planted in the no. 2 spot waiting for tOSU. A few people on this board know me personally, and they know how competitive I am, probably to a fault. I hate to lose more than I like to win. Now, if we lose cause the other team is better, fine. But not one team we've played or will play is better than us. We beat ourselves and I can't accept that. And the biggest reason, I think, for the losses is the conservative play-calling. Like players, coaches also learn from losses but it doesn't look like Miles has yet, i.e. Ole Piss. I hope he does however. I would love it if Miles could prove me wrong. I would be the first to admit it. He has his chance tomorrow. What Tiger team will show up?
In the Auburn game, we beat ourselves but the refs sure did help us. Even with the bad officiating, LSU would have won that game with even a decent running game but we had none to speak of which forced us into trying that dang bunch formation to attempt to get any yards on the ground. Our RBs, or lack there of of taleted & experienced ones, really hurt us there. Obviously, if you watched the Florida game, you will see that playcalling was once again not the problem. It seemed the whole team was a little bit off and jittery. JaMarcus was okay, running game was alright, but the WRs were off, the whole defense was off, and specal teams were just terrible. The team may have been prepared physically, but they were not mentally. Our offense scored 20 points against Ole Miss in regulation which should have been more than enough to win the game. Conservative playcalling wasn't the problem - our team came out flat, their's came out fired up, and we weren't expecting the trickery from Coach O. Those are the only 3 factors that made the game so close. I'm not saying you can't blame some of that on the coaching, but it isn't playcalling.
You're right CP, we did come out flat vs. Ole Miss. But you don't think trying to force a non-existent run game with JV for three quarters isn't conservative? We didn't open it up until the fourth when we had to. All Im saying is, I wish we would open it up at the beginning of a game instead of at the end when we have to, really vs. the good teams(AU, Ark for ex.).
As great a year as JR has had, his season will more than likely be defined by this game. Even with all his gaudy numbers he's put up, in the games that mattered most he has come up short. He has one more chance to redeem himself tomorrow. I am on his side and I have confidence JR will have "the" game we've been waiting to see against a tough opponent. Let's also hope we don't see JV running it 15 times for 33 yards. If that happens, JR won't have a fighting chance. Go Tigers! Kick some pig ass!
JV wasn't being near as ineffective as he had been in the past. He was actually doing a decent job of running the ball. And that is not conservative playcalling, it is loyalty to a senior that was a vital part of us winning the national championship. KW was hurt.
Is Johnny Unitas on the bench? Or even Matt Mauck? Flynn has exactly one start, Perilloux has zippo. Russell has come from behind to win about 4 or 5 times. THAT is why he was in the game against Ole Miss . . . and guess what? He won it for us! Sorry, I meant to be cynical, rather than rude. I was just annoyed by the poll's assumption that the offense was "lackluster". I've been watching Tiger football for decades and this offense is a good one. Even the best teams take some losses, especially in the SEC. LSu has only lost to highly ranked teams and it is nothing to be upset about. Auburn and USC got beaten by unranked teams!
Well now. Aren't you special. You may be competitive, but you have no idea what you're talking about. With JV carrying the load for the 1st 2 series, not the first 3 quarters, LSU was consistently getting 2nd and 4 or 5 and 3rd and short. The problem was not JV, or the running game. The problem was JR being a little off in his passing (overthrows to wide open receivers) and a nagging 4 man rush that always had at least one guy forcing him to move around more than he'd like to. To compound the problem, the return teams forgot how to tackle and the defense was always "back to the wall". All you saw was JV starting and you lost all ability to rationally analyze what was going on.
Red, your homerism is blinding you. He said "we let JV play three qtrs of football against ole miss, when we have better options on the bench."
You give a new meaning to the song "Rose Colored Glasses". Im sorry, but YOU have no idea what you're talking about. JV was in there the first 3 quarters with the exception of AB and JH a few times. Ill give you that JR was off, way off. But he got it together in the 4th. My thing is that we should have played that way to start the game.
They converted on 1 fake punt. Big deal! They didn't make the 2nd. And I dare you to rewatch the game...on that onside kick, we had 3-4 players that WERE NOT FOOLED, but it simply bounced Ole Miss' way. And your comment about "playing the same ineffective RB for 3 quarters" stuff proves your delusional misconception of this game because LSU had the ball a WHOLE 2 min in the 3rd quarter and ran 1 series (actually, one and a half series) in the 3rd quarter. We won a game that we didn't play our best. Get over it already and quit crying.
