re: Auburn-LSU: Miles wants better execution

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Obviously, we have our work cut out for us Saturday night, and LSU's really, really playing well," Auburn coach Gene Chizik said. "Just exactly what you would think in an LSU team: very big, very physical, great speed, phenomenal on defense. Special teams are really, really tops in the league in about everything, so it's just going to be obviously a great matchup, and we're going to have to play really well to beat them in Baton Rouge."

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He must be watching film from 2007!

All these wants and needs makes me sick. Just "do" get the job done. And if he wants better execution, maybe he should use his players to their strengths. why not run RS and Trindon, and Keiland on option and the wild tiger, and have JJ throw deep so we can open some running lanes so the draw looks like it could become a threat for defenses. i mean if JJ does get a few more ints or incomplete passes, at least it would seem as if we would try long passes. At this point JJ should'nt be thinking of stats, Scott doesn't so we can punch em' in da mouth and win convincingly against a quality opponent.

Miles said that all the defense was lacking last year was execution. What I would say is that what the team is lacking is good coaching. Execution is the bi product of good coaching and play calling.

What I "want" is Miles to accept responsibility for once. If he doesn't turn things around the second half of the season, he will "want" to update his resume.

When the defense (and many fans) seem to know where plays are going, when the quarterback is rushing to get the play off as the play clock runs out again, and when plays seem to lack any attempt to confuse the defense, perfect execution is required. Unfortunately, it seems that Coach Miles thinks that running the same plays executed better will work. This may work against teams with less talent, but against teams of equal talent, there has to be some attempt to keep the defense off balance and guessing.

In particular, Coack Miles really seems to want to play smash-mouth football and dominate the other team's defense at the line of scrimmage while running between the tackles. We don't seem to have the talent in the line to do this, but worse, the other team's players and coaches seem to know this (alnog with everyone else in the stadium).

I hope I'm wrong. I really like Coach Miles, but I don't think he sees that play calling has a major effect on execution. And I'm concerned this doesn't bode well for the future.

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"He's a very, very team-oriented guy," Miles said. "He wants to be on the field. He wants to have impact. He wants ... in special teams, he wants ... he just wants to play. We want to keep him fresh because we want to hand him the ball
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Auburn-LSU: Miles wants better execution
There is a reason it's called "Check with me" and not "Check with everybody." A quarterback and his offensive teammates go to the line of scrimmage and look to the sideline for signals, real ones and decoys, for an updated play call based on the defense's alignment.

They are checking with a representative of the coaching staff, not with everyone in attendance

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Duh.....no shite. This tidbit makes me feel so much better about our offense. I really thought they were looking to the fans in the stadium to make the call. I'll sleep much better now knowing that there is a method to the madness.

I never thought of it that way, but you're right. He really doesn't understand the criticism. That a little scary.

Not bad, Scoop. Not bad.