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Did Met have a limited offensive playbook his first year at LSU?
Posted on 10/21/14 at 2:01 pm
Posted on 10/21/14 at 2:01 pm
Did he have difficulty learning the playbook his first year?
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Posted on 10/21/14 at 2:03 pm to GumboPot
I'm not buying the Harris "playbook" excuse. He's been in the program since January and he seems like a bright kid. He knows the playbook.
Posted on 10/21/14 at 2:04 pm to GumboPot
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Did Met have a limited offensive playbook his first year at LSU?
Yes, it was called "The Bench".
Here's his entire bio for his first season at LSU
SOPHOMORE SEASON (2011)
Played in five games with no starts … Completed 8-of-11 passes for 92 yards and his first career touchdown on a 19-yard strike to Kadron Boone against Northwestern State … Ran 25 yards on a bootleg down to the one-yard line at Ole Miss ... Entered late against Auburn, West Virginia, and Kentucky and did not attempt a pass as the team ran out the clock.
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Posted on 10/21/14 at 2:08 pm to atltiger6487
quote:To be fair, he has turned the wrong way several times this year.
I'm not buying the Harris "playbook" excuse
Posted on 10/21/14 at 2:09 pm to WildTchoupitoulas
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Yes, it was called "The Bench".
That's right. I forgot about the 2011 season.
Posted on 10/21/14 at 2:11 pm to The Mick
So what we have here is one QB with limited skill and adequate knowledge of the playbook and another QB with advanced skills and limited knowledge of the playbook?
Posted on 10/21/14 at 2:24 pm to GumboPot
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So what we have here is one QB with limited skill and adequate knowledge of the playbook and another QB with advanced skills and limited knowledge of the playbook?
I would say that was a fair evaluation.
Posted on 10/21/14 at 2:27 pm to GumboPot
He redshirted his first year. By the time he began playing in his RS soph season of 2011 he had the playbook down. He then changed coordinators in 2013 and had to learn a new playbook.
Posted on 10/21/14 at 3:18 pm to GumboPot
quote:That's what my sources tell me.
So what we have here is one QB with limited skill and adequate knowledge of the playbook and another QB with advanced skills and limited knowledge of the playbook?
Posted on 10/21/14 at 3:19 pm to GumboPot
Why does "everybody" have difficulty learning the playbook at LSU? This is what I want to know. What is the ONE constant at LSU? (QB's come and go).
Posted on 10/21/14 at 3:20 pm to GumboPot
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Did Met have a limited offensive playbook his first year at LSU?
I don't think so, but he did have that cool set up in between those big crates where no one could see him and he couldn't see anyone else.....
Posted on 10/21/14 at 3:20 pm to GumboPot
Not really sure, but I wish that the hitches and comeback routes we had back then would be part of the WR routes this year.
Posted on 10/21/14 at 3:40 pm to RANDY44
We got METT from JUCO. His freshman year he attended Georgia until he was suspended.
Posted on 10/21/14 at 3:43 pm to atltiger6487
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I'm not buying the Harris "playbook" excuse.
what do you think it is then? pet player, naked photos, bbq?
Posted on 10/21/14 at 3:43 pm to c on z
Mett did not red shirt at LSU Randy. He had very limited action in 11, then started in 12 and 13.
Posted on 10/21/14 at 3:50 pm to Tiger_n_ATL
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Why does "everybody" have difficulty learning the playbook at LSU? This is what I want to know. What is the ONE constant at LSU?
QB's at LSU are generally asked to manage the game via checks, reads, adjustments, etc. It's not that they don't know the "plays", they just don't have the experience to make the right decisions based on what the defense if giving them. Schools like A&M, Miss State, Auburn, etc. don't task the QB with those responsibilities.
Bama has the same issue this year, they've had countless top QB prospects come and go with none developing while McCarron started. That's why they're working their way through the season with a 5th year senior that they really don't want out there.
Posted on 10/21/14 at 3:58 pm to GumboPot
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Did he have difficulty learning the playbook his first year?
I think the play calling was either uncreative or stupid, so he looked like an idiot a lot his first couple of months as a starter. Does anyone remember the Florida game in 2012? It was like Jennings on a bad day. Then they completed like a 50-yard pass, but then there was a fumble on the same play.
I don't know about this "know the playbook" theory for Harris.
Posted on 10/21/14 at 4:19 pm to theknightswhosay
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I don't know about this "know the playbook" theory for Harris.
Yeah its more like he doesn't know the plays at all.
Turns the wrong way, has to burn timeouts, throws in the stands because he doesn't know where receivers are running, etc.
The kid is a freshmen, and he plays like one. He will get better, but you can't just force him in there and expect him to learn on the fly. That's a great way for him to develop bad habits.
Why does everyone act like the QB position is so easy to play? There are only like 15 effective QBs in the entire NFL. When people say we run a pro system, its not just power I. Qbs are expected to make reads and anticipate deeper routes.
This post was edited on 10/21/14 at 4:20 pm
Posted on 10/21/14 at 4:20 pm to GumboPot
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Did he have difficulty learning the playbook his first year?
No he had a train wreck of a OC. Stud calling Krag's plays wasn't a great idea. But we were so solid running the ball in 2011 that you can't really fire him that year.
Cam is not only probably the first coach that really developed a QB, but he is also the best OC we have had since Jimbo.
Posted on 10/21/14 at 4:22 pm to atltiger6487
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I'm not buying the Harris "playbook" excuse. He's been in the program since January and he seems like a bright kid. He knows the playbook.
Its the difference between knowing your class material and really knowing it so that you can bust it out on a test.
When you blank it is because you don't know it well enough. He probably could tell you any play on the street, but when the pressure is one (and at Auburn the pressure was on) he wasn't ready.
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