re: Miles Says Offensive Scheme Is Not The Problem

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3 yards and a cloud of dust had us undefeated in the 2011 regular season even with poor QB play.

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this is so wrong on so many levels. the 2011 defense and special teams won a lot of games with jarrett lee being the most efficient QB in the SEC for 8 of them. he had 14 TD's and 1 int before being benched at bama.

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Maybe you should support your team.

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People still do. you don't seem to get it.

Not very talented? I don't think anyone thinks that. We have tons more talent than Moo State, Baylor, Wisconsin, etc, etc. Only teams that should boast an equal talent would be the like of Bama, FSU, maybe Ole Miss. Youth might be a problem but talent is not.

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He's a stubborn arse.

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I used to think this Katy... but now I believe he is only doing what he is capable of doing. I think that Les is a great guy but things need to be simple for him. I honestly dont think he would be capable of doing anything else other than what he knows. For those that would argue that I am wrong and he could incorporate changes and execute as well as anybody; my response is that he is not stubborn but poor at problem solving.

Les has never shown me any reason to believe otherwise. What you see is what you get. FTR... I usually dont like what I see.

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Les hired a guy who's system is a zone blocking one, yet les' scheme calls for a man blocking system. I don't know that much about Oline play, but I do that that trying to run the power-I Behind a line that is zone blocking is really, really stupid.

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Somebody brought this up on the post-game radio show. It just doesn't make sense. Miles is supposedly an offensive line specialist, so he should know that this is not going to work, no matter how well we execute it.

LSU seems to have a history of a lot of different players being "unable to execute"; especially in the passing game.

Total offense
Year Rank
2009 102
2010 81
2011 57
2012 77

Passing YPG

Year Rank
2009 97
2010 107
2011 106
2012 94

Those numbers don't kill you when you have a "lights out" defense. When you don't (like last year, and thus far this season), you better be able to put points on the board against good teams.

There's a lot of ways to describe Les Miles' offense, but for me, it is the most "risk averse" offense in college football. Miles is terrified of letting his passing game make plays because of the risk that they might also turn the ball over from time to time. The funny (sad) thing is that in times when LSU has been "forced" to throw (usually to catch up or keep up), the passing game has delivered. See: 2012 2nd half v. Bama; 2012 v. Ole Miss; 2010 v. UF; 2014 2nd half v. Wisc.

Les, you obviously thought your QBs, WRs, TEs, were good players when you recruited them. Give them a chance to make plays!!!!

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That doesn't look like an offensive scheme problem to me.

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first 10 drives beg to differ...

7 punts
turnover on downs
fg
end of half

51 plays for 209 yds...offense scored 3 pts defense scored 7

Well, if we had the Broncos OL and Mett under center, then yes, the offense wouldn't be a problem. It would be simply out talenting other teams with the I.

But they guys we have don't do that, so the problem is the offense. Miles is wrong.

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first 10 drives beg to differ...

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So you have no problem with the defense giving up nearly 360 yards on just 9 plays?

I swear sometimes I think Tiger fans would rather watch LSU score 45+ points a game and lose all their games than watch LSU win all their games 3-0. When the defense is on the field it's still called 'football'.

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end of half

51 plays for 209 yds

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That's why they play TWO halves. You don't seem to have any clue as to how the LSU coaching staff approaches winning football games - which is what they are paid to do, and which they do with greater frequency than any other coaching staff in the history of the program.

They are NOT paid to put on an offensive show.