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re: Les Miles is groundhog day
Posted on 9/26/14 at 10:50 am to JawjaTigah
Posted on 9/26/14 at 10:50 am to JawjaTigah
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But after that game, what kept JJ playing more and JLee playing less? Or should I say "who kept JLee playing less and JJ more?"
Do we NEED to keep doing this? I mean...there is an answer, and it has been stated on here n numerous times.
If you don't like that answer, just say so...but are we going to pretend it hasn't been asked an answer 100 times by now?
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Posted on 9/26/14 at 11:01 am to GeauxTigerTM
quote:A rhetorical question, mon ami, is what you saw. Maybe you didn't like it, but there's a lot that is repeatedly being swept under the rug by apologists and pumpers - thus the re-stating/re-asking. If it weren't happening with our own favorite team, week in/week out, in some fashion every game, your point would be well made. But there is fresh fodder for the mill weekly... thanks to who?
f you don't like that answer, just say so...but are we going to pretend it hasn't been asked an answer 100 times by now?
This post was edited on 9/26/14 at 11:02 am
Posted on 9/26/14 at 11:02 am to GeauxTigerTM
Never mind...I'll answer my own question.
Les Miles stayed with JJ all that time because he CLEARLY never got over 2008 when Lee straight up cost LSU games with turn overs. I always felt that was unfair to Lee that whole blame on Lee, as he was only a RS freshman and he was being asked to do things by the staff that he should not have been doing. It was a cluster from all sides.
In JJ he saw a safer option. If he could get production out of him, great. If not, we'd win running the ball and killing teams on D.
This mindset never changed while these guys were here...even after Lee started 2011 really well. When Lee went all deer in the headlights in Tuscaloosa and Miles turned to JJ who promptly stopped turning it over and LSU hung on to a win, Miles' mind was made up. Safer was the way to go when you think you can't throw it without a high risk of turning it over...even if it means you stagnate your own offense.
No one has to agree with him...but anyone that refused to see this is what the situation was and is is being intellectually dishonest.
So...that brings us to today. At least to this point, Miles seems to think Harris must pose a bigger threat to turn it over than Jennings, which is why Jennings is still the guy even though the offense under him has been stagnant.
It's not "favorites." It's a mindset that we all ought to know by now. When he has a guy under center HE THINKS can sling it effectively without being a turnover machine and hurting the team's chance of winning, he turns him lose. When he doesn't, he goes old school and pounds.
Les Miles stayed with JJ all that time because he CLEARLY never got over 2008 when Lee straight up cost LSU games with turn overs. I always felt that was unfair to Lee that whole blame on Lee, as he was only a RS freshman and he was being asked to do things by the staff that he should not have been doing. It was a cluster from all sides.
In JJ he saw a safer option. If he could get production out of him, great. If not, we'd win running the ball and killing teams on D.
This mindset never changed while these guys were here...even after Lee started 2011 really well. When Lee went all deer in the headlights in Tuscaloosa and Miles turned to JJ who promptly stopped turning it over and LSU hung on to a win, Miles' mind was made up. Safer was the way to go when you think you can't throw it without a high risk of turning it over...even if it means you stagnate your own offense.
No one has to agree with him...but anyone that refused to see this is what the situation was and is is being intellectually dishonest.
So...that brings us to today. At least to this point, Miles seems to think Harris must pose a bigger threat to turn it over than Jennings, which is why Jennings is still the guy even though the offense under him has been stagnant.
It's not "favorites." It's a mindset that we all ought to know by now. When he has a guy under center HE THINKS can sling it effectively without being a turnover machine and hurting the team's chance of winning, he turns him lose. When he doesn't, he goes old school and pounds.
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