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re: Outside of Leonard, what Freshman are you most excited to see?

Posted on 6/9/14 at 4:21 pm to
Posted by tubucoco
las vegas, nevada
Member since Oct 2007
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Posted on 6/9/14 at 4:21 pm to
Listen we can argue about this til we are blue in the face, but I don't agree with your assessment either. Harris is not some kid who can only do one thing well. The fact is he can do both pass and run well which is why he threw for over 3,000 yards and ran for over 1,000 yards in HS. Cam Cameron is a very experienced coordinator that is familiar with a lot of offensive philosophies. He did a lot of college coaching running different types of offenses before he went to the NFL.

you make it sound as if Harris is just a passer. that's not true! If you give him a lil room he can take it to the house. shite, Jennings is more of a pocket passer than him, but Jennings still can't pass or throw the ball as well as Harris. Harris is an athlete that probably not this season because of experience is capable of winning a Heismann for LSU because he has that kind of abilty.

And you gave game by game analysis of games played the second half of last season by LSU when their offensive philosophy changed, but I didn't need that. I already knew the TAMU game was more suited for running because of the conditions. But my point was the offense changed the second half of the season because the play callin was different. You could tell Miles wanted to go back to running more like they are accustomed to and Cameron obliged him because Cameron wasn't power running like that early on. That's Miles' game, but I saw nothing wrong with what Cameron was doing early on in the season. The ball was being thrown around really good by Mettenberger who had gotten into a groove with Beckham and Landry. There was no need to change against Fla because they could have thrown on them to, but it is what it is. Missouri with a backup QB threw all over Fla after they played LSU.

And you mentioned Seattle and Russell Wilson. I don't expect them to run offenses like that in the pros because it's the pros. But in college ball, yeah, everything pretty much goes. Whatever works. But truth be told I don't expect them to run a offense like that because of who Miles is. he believes in that 3 yards cloud of dust pound it out offense. But with weapons like you just mentioned they recruited and brought in. You would like to see an explosive offense utilize all that talent.
This post was edited on 6/9/14 at 4:33 pm
Posted by KG5989
Das Boot
Member since Oct 2010
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Posted on 6/9/14 at 5:08 pm to
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you make it sound as if Harris is just a passer. that's not true!


Every time I said anything about Harris I said he is a great athlete with the ability to run... never said anything about him just being a passer. I said hes a pass 1st QB that has the ability to run, because thats what he is, but never said anything along the lines of Harris just being a pocket passer.

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But my point was the offense changed the second half of the season because the play callin was different. You could tell Miles wanted to go back to running more like they are accustomed to and Cameron obliged him because Cameron wasn't power running like that early on. That's Miles' game, but I saw nothing wrong with what Cameron was doing early on in the season.


And you keep saying that our offense had a major change from the 1st half of the year to the 2nd half of the year... and we didnt pass it nearly as much and we ran the ball more...

Through the 1st 6 games of the season, Mett threw 157 pass attempts. The last 6 games of the season, SEC crunch time, he threw for 139pass attempts. And he missed the end of the Arky game so if you add the 7 attempts Jennings had, even though Im pretty sure Mett would have been throwing it more than he did, he would be at least at 146pass attempts.Rushing wise, we had 230attempts in the 1st 6 games of the season and 234attempts the 2nd half of the season.

The difference in passing attempts per game in the 2nd half from the 1st half was just 1.8pass attempts less per game, rushing attempts was just 0.6 attempts more per game. Not a big difference, especially when you consider the blowouts that occurred early on in the season. Not sure where this blatantly obvious offensive change occured...

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But with weapons like you just mentioned they recruited and brought in. You would like to see an explosive offense utilize all that talent.
Yea... and running type of system that Auburn runs would not utilize that talent to the fullest. I mean you do realize LSU just became the 1st team in SEC history to have a QB go over 3,000yards passing, a RB go over 1,000 yards rushing, and 2 WRs go over 1,000 yards receiving....and set an LSU record for total yards per game at 453.3ypg. I would say thats a damn good job of utilizing the talent on the team.
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