re: Is everyone underestimating the 2014 LSU football offense?

I expect us to have an average SEC offense. It's pretty unusual to have a great offense with a freshman quarterback in this league. That doesn't mean we won't win a lot of games; Les has a good winning percentage even when fielding below average offenses.

Yes table your expectations

No.

We lose a great QB, a great RB, and 2 great WRs, along with 1 of our best OL.

OL is the strength of the offense, no doubt about that.

Magee will be solid for us because hes a good RB. LF should be as well, but still a freshman. Im almost done with Hilliard

Dural is the only WR that is locked into a starting role. All the other WRs havent done anything before and didnt look that great in the spring game. Hell, i think Bolden looked like 1 of our best WRs in the spring game. DeSean Smith will be 1 of our top pass catches.

But Dupre and Quinn are still just incoming freshman. I have no idea if these guys are game ready considering they havent even practiced with us yet. They will be going against some of the top DBs in the country in the SEC.

And, the biggest question mark of all, is the QB spot. We have no idea who plays, what kind of QB they are, what they can handle, etc. It doesnt matter if you have awesome WRs, if youre QB cant get them the ball its wasted away.

That said, we will be better than what we were in 2009. We have a great offensive coach in Cam Cameron. He will find ways to simplify it for our young guys, and it will still be effective. But we are def going to have our ups and downs on the offensive side of the ball next year.

I think it will be weak. We have a strong Oline, but an inexperienced.....everything else.

This will be like the J.J. offense where the D stacks the box every play and dares us to pass...and we pray we pick up the first on a qb scramble.

Agreed KG

People will have to brace themselves for a fact of life when playing fr at this level. Inconsistency. A few plays will have this board claiming multiple heisman trophies, and nat titles. And other plays in the same game will have people on this board wanting Jordan Jefferson back. Well maybe that last thing is a bit of an overstatement.

Know what we will have to cheer for this year.

I'm not buying any QB or WR yet. And we haven't had a great OL in a long time. But I'm a realist.

these aren't average freshman however... they are all ELITE talent. Harris was the #1 dual threat QB coming out of high school and fournette was the #1 ranked player in the ENTIRE country... a once every 10 years type player...

I think the offense is in good hands with cameron at the helm.

I am all in for the Tigers, but our biggest problem area is QB. I look for every team we play this year will put 9 in the box & make us throw. The big question is can we?

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This will be like the J.J. offense where the D stacks the box every play and dares us to pass...and we pray we pick up the first on a qb scramble.

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On 96 of Jeremy Hill's 203 carries last year, he ran against 8 or more men in the box and averaged nearly 8 yards a carry. This was quoted in an ESPN article about Jeremy Hill after pro day. Stop talking out of your arse on nonsense. It seems like you guys take anything you've seen only on here and continue to quote it as gospel. We are always going against stacked fronts because we are a power run offense. We also don't throw the ball 380+ times a year, so we confuse nobody. Mett threw the ball less than 300 times in 12 games.

We have Dural and Desean who are set for breakout years. Leslie is good enough to be a downfield threat and we need one of Diarse/Quinn/Dupre to be a reliable WR3. I've seen Treadwell explode last year as a true freshman, and Wallace is a terrible decision maker. I saw Coates go from 6 catches the previous year, to 42 catches and over 900 yards with a QB who can half throw and only practiced two weeks of the offense before playing his first D1 game. Seems like people still doubt Cam's involvement and still doubt the talent that LSU has. Whoever the QB will be, he is poised to throw between 2600 and 2900 yards. Both have the ability to rush for an extra 200-400 yards because of mobility, and the OL.

I have seen too many SEC freshman RBs run all over teams with no passing game up to prolific passing games. Fournette has the OL and major talent to dominate right out the gate like Collins did last year. Magee averaged 7.3 yards per carry last year and even dropping down to 6.3 would make him a great back. We have 3 tune up games, a depleted Wisky defense, and an MSU team at home to get our offense in order. I have no doubt about us coming out and doing just that.

Sorry, I just don't see how this offense will be bad. Don't see it at all.

That was poetic




Too many people here just like throwing out the generic 'coach speak' and act like its gospel when they have no idea what they're talking about