re: Offensive Analysis of Arkansas game

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good decisions, good throws, and good maturity from Jennings.

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and zero points? is this a joke?

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Why are we still not "executing" this late into the season? How can we expect to "execute" in the future? I feel like execution is used here like a substitution for bad luck and is an attempt to absolve those responsible of blame.

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I can promise you that no one will attempt to give this a serious answer. My answer is monumental coaching failure. What other explanation could there be. Next to last game and the offense "still can't excecute". WTF does that mean at this point anyway? If not now, then when will they execute. Other teams are able to execute, just not LSU. BTW I agree they cannot execute consistently. Yes, the game plans would have resulted in at least two more wins with good "execution". But part of the problem with execution is the personnel used to do the executing. From an execution stand point, AJ leaves much to be desired. BUT if the receivers had not dropped all of those passes AND the kicker had not put the ball out of bounds, then this is a different season, but LSU has those excuses too much lately. And, yes, IMHO it all goes back to Miles. It is his team top to bottom, front to back, side to side-100%. The buck stops with him.

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White Tiger

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I'd like to extrapolate on what you've said.

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they cannot execute consistently. Yes, the game plans would have resulted in at least two more wins with good "execution". But part of the problem with execution is the personnel used to do the executing. From an execution stand point, AJ leaves much to be desired. BUT if the receivers had not dropped all of those passes AND the kicker had not put the ball out of bounds, then this is a different season, but LSU has those excuses too much lately

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Landry and Beckham would not have dropped those passes. Blue and Hill would have gotten to the second level running. If people want to gripe about recruiting its an honest criticism. No one could have foreseen the new CBA and the mass exodus that followed, but this didn't affect QB recruiting. That's a separate issue which is explained in-depth in another thread.

But people expected the offense to take major steps back. They expected 8-9 wins because you can't lose two WRs, two RBs, and a QB, all of whom are currently STARTING for NFL teams without having to rebuild the foundation. I don't think anyone expected the OL to be a liability, but they had to learn a new system.

And we're not replacing allstars with allstars either. We're throwing infants into an ocean and doing the best we can to keep their head above water until they learn to swim. We are simplistic, "1950s style" on offense because you can't do what we did last year before knowing the basics. The truth is that our offense isn't big enough, fast enough, or smart enough in its first year to performed like a machine.

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We scored zero points

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Considering how everyone praises Saban for "the process" and for what it's done for Bielema, it's funny how now the only thing that matters is the score.

I rewatched part of the game and came away with the opposite conclusion. Jennings had a wide open receiver on third down and over threw a 10 yard pass by about 15 feet over the receiver's head. Missed an easy 2 yard throw on another drive. Fumbled to kill a scoring opportunity. A number of the receiver drops were poor throws by Jennings.

Overall, Jennings is just not making enough plays. Tries to force balls to Dural instead of throwing to the receiver that is single covered. His back shoulder throws are off the mark. Terrible on check downs, both in using them and in missing the throws.

You can try to sugar coat it all you want, but a QB completing less than 50% of his passes this late in the season just isn't getting it done.

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But what if they don't come back? 

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And which of those players do you see with a third round grade or better?

Can you at least wait for NFL decision day before making this argument? It makes you seem like just another arse.

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83/125 Total offense; 71/125 Scoring Offense; 61/125 Passing efficiency Not as bad as thought after all!


True sophomore QB
True sophomore WR
Two true freshman WRs
Two true freshman RBs

And we're average. What did you honestly expect?

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Wouldn't average put us in the MIDDLE of those ranking stats? We're bottom half of total offense and scoring offense, and slightly above 50% of the country in passing efficiency, but you can be really efficient and still not move the ball.

For example, you could go 3/3 with three two yard catches and still end up punting.

110th in passing yards.

Only Air Force, Georgia Tech and Navy have less total completions and as far as i know those teams run the triple option.


ETA: LSU now 64th in team passing efficiency, and now officially on the bottom half of NCAA FBS.

LINK

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Wouldn't average put us in the MIDDLE of those ranking stats?

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You can keep your head out of your arse and say that the 63rd team out of 125 has a below-average offense by strict definition, or you can say that 1-40 is on the high end, 41-80 is in the middle, and 81-125 is on the low end

OR I can bump this thread in a week when our offense gets a boost from playing aTm's defense.

Your call.

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83/125 Total offense; 71/125 Scoring Offense; 61/125 Passing efficiency

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Jennings is actually 83/106 is passing efficiency. That's not good.