Initial Thoughts on Vandy

I have no idea why he kept his job after last year, but he’s back at the same old nonsense. Despite the Peach Bowl, JJ is not an option QB (though he’s not much of any kind of QB).

I think it’s time to try Lee some more. I’ll take the INTs for TDs as long as we can score. Tolliver, Shepard, and Randle are way too talented for the offense to be this bad. We’re not winning a title w/ JJ; why not take the gamble and see if Lee can give us the needed boost? With this defense, we don’t have to be great on offense, just decent enough.

Tomorrow morning.

Crowton’s stay at LSU has pretty much gone how I was told by one Chicago Bears fan when he came to BR: “He’ll look great for about a year or two, then you’ll see pure garbage and no cohesiveness or theme to his playcalling whatsoever, and finally they’ll end up terrible at QB.”

I hesitate to put all of it on Crowton, but alot of Jefferson’s lack of complete football intelligence goes on him. I see him now and I don’t think he’s any better than he was 2 years ago. I think Miles will have to run Lee out there sooner rather than later.

Even worse, the coaches feel the need to keep calling running plays for Jefferson. Can we admit he is not a running quarterback?

What I don’t like about this is that we continue to call QB runs when we don’t need to. We’ve got 5 Scholarship backs on the team. Let them run. We have TWO scholarship QB’s on the team, let’s try to treat them as a scarce resource and try to protect them a little more.

Like you said Poseur, it aint like JJ is lighting the world on fire on the ground anyway. I’d like to see one or two plays a game where JJ runs AT MOST. Ideally that number would be 0.

Because the offense is never going to be good as long as Crowton is at the helm. Please, there has to be somebody better out there.

what we are. Nobody should fool themselves with that 4th quarter “power running game”. That’s against Vandy. They got tired. Alabama and Florida ain’t gonna get tired.

I am sick and tired of the absolute lack of a real identity on offense. We have some of the best players in this country and they can never get in any rhythm whatsoever because our goal apparently is to be creative instead of putting the best guys out three and let them do what they do best over and over again. We’re wasting these guys!!

1. I actually think (except for the 2 minute thing) the game was called pretty well. The problem with the offense today (after the first 3 possessions, in which the OL was struggling) was simply that Jefferson was throwing the ball inaccurately. If Jefferson throws the ball accurately last night, that offense would have hummed. Even when Jefferson completed passes, however, they were not on-target. He had a couple catchable balls dropped, but even those were made non-routine by Jefferson missing the target.

2. The interception was a terribly thrown ball. Just terribly thrown. It was supposed to be a fade, and it was underthrown by about 8 yards. Had it been well-thrown, it’s a touchdown. I genuinely believe that if Jefferson had thrown the ball decently accurately last night, we would have gone into halftime with 17 or more points and we would have had another touchdown in the 3rd quarter. It would have been a rout.

3. I was commenting earlier to someone that I thought the coaches did a fine job last night. The defense was studly. The offense seemed to find an identity with Ridley running the ball effectively in the 4th quarter. We just need to have accuracy from the QB. If this team improves the way young teams should, and if last night’s game was an aberration for Jefferson, this team will be scary good down the road. I’m just worried that last night may not have been an aberration though.

I really think Les was right when he said at halftime that the team just needed to execute better. The game was called well. The OL even did a good job of protecting Jefferson, and the receivers got open. He just couldn’t get them the ball.

4. Jefferson running the ball was one of our most reliable short-yardage plays. It seemed whenever we had 3rd and 2-4 yards to go, they would call Jefferson’s number and he would pick up the 1st. That’s the dimension that Lee will never be able to add. He brings no mobility at all to the position.

I do believe, however, that Lee could maybe help this team. The best throw of the night was the one Lee gave to Randle. Lee just has a different rhythm than Jefferson has. Jefferson moves so slowly when he plays. He’s slow going to the LOS. He’s slow taking the snap. He takes a drop and looks for his receivers. The offense has a definitely deliberate rhythm with him in the game. Sadly, this is even true when we were in 2-minute drills last season. Lee seemed to bring better pace to the game. People also forget the positive things he brought in his freshman year. There were crippling interceptions to be sure, but the offense actually moved when he was in the game.