re: What do you guys think about the game Crowton called?

Not sure!

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Or it shows what a QB can do (even one as inaccurate as Jefferson) when you utilize the middle of the field and make the secondary cover you in space. It also shows what happens when you use your scheme to set plays up instead of just randomly switching from formation to formation.

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Right - Jefferson hasn't thrown deep at all this year.

Good lord. How many freakin' times do we have to go over this?

1. There was nothing special about the calls in this game. What you saw was a superior team executing against an inferior team. The offensive line opened up some gaping holes. LSU's athletes made plays.

2. God help us if that was JJ's "A" game. The guy hit on only 10 of 19 passes. His "B" and "C" games have been so bad, that when he has just an average game, people on this board wet themselves because it seemed so much better than it was. Yes, he hit TT for a couple of long balls, but he also BADLY missed on several others and was lucky the Ags dropped what would have been INT #2.

Those two things said, it was nice to see LSU execute its offense for only the 3rd time all season and get a big win in a bowl game, but we can't continue with an OC whose offense needs 5 weeks at the end of a season in order to execute properly.

Thanks, Gary, but we'd rather you not come back.

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That was nowhere near any gameplan we have had all year. Instead of saying we were going to simplify the offense, we actually did. We lined up 2 TE, I form and pounded for 5 yards a pop. And to my astonishment, we didn't go away from what was working. We took away JJ's carries and gave them to Ware with great success. We minimized the read option. And since we pounded the hell out of the ball, we were able to set up the PA to our big fast WRs downfield.

Nothing of that game screamed Gary Crowton at all.

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Every game this season we have run the option, we did in this game. We ran the zone read, we did in this game. We ran the t.e./pro set/power I, we did in this game. We ran the quick slant, we did in this game. we attempted a couple of deep balls, we executed it in this game and u.n.c.. it was the same offense.

The difference was, the wr's caught the balls, j.j. threw "some" accurate balls (first two series he didn't). the run game was working due to the offensive line blocking, not because the play wasn't called before.

j.j. did a better job with ball fakes. he did a better job of scrambling for first downs on third and long to keep drives alive. bottom line he played better.

did we have a few additional "wrinkles", yes. however, most of the offense was the same as all year. we just ran it better.

florida, bama, and atm, were all top defenses that we executed against. we just didn't call different plays in those games. j lee played well at florida, jefferson played well against bama, ole miss, and atm.

i found it interesting that d. johnson was saying how difficult it was to defend the lsu offense. he said this all game long. he said that it is so multiple and there are so many things to prepare for that it is very difficult for another team to defend. what would he know, he is only a all pro and more likely than not hall of fame full back.

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Im still not sure he called that game.

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he hit the deep ball which opened up the run.

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If you saw it that way and not the other way around then I don't know what to tell you.

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QB play has been the missing link for two years now.

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Detractor say that is Crowton's fault for not developing them. I think it's a little of both. Sean Payton couldn't have got much more out of JJ and JL this year, IMO of course. Gary's prob gonna fall on his sword for this one.

Billy G called the game friday. Crowton will be stepping down by Wednesday.

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Sean Payton couldn't have got much more out of JJ and JL this year, IMO of course.

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So you're saying that GC is just as good a QB coach and OC as SP?

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Really? Cause I recall running the read option all season, and we certainyl did NOT do that in the Cotton Bowl.

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dude, stop. you're making yourself look silly. ware got a big run off the left side of one of them. jefferson got a good run off the right side on one of them.