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Which would be a time to call the game in a safer way. The D just didn't step up. How was he handcuffed? They still did passing plays. JJ wasn't as good in the second half as he was in the first.

Honestly? With the way our pass defense has been this year I would have called the dogs off so to speak after a 4 TD lead in the 4th quarter. But then again, I'm a very aggressive play caller so I would have kept the peddle to the mental until the final gun with just a few safer calls salt and peppered in there. Arkansas's defense was garbage and we had showed with the aggressive nature that we couldn't be stopped but when we changed the game plan is when we began to fall apart at the seems and we played not to lose while Arky played to win and kept fighting to win while we prayed the clock would hurry up and run and get out with a "quality win against a quality football team".

Damn right the defense didn't step up; they haven't all year thus proving my point of not taking your foot off the gas on offense. They still did passing plays? I'm sorry but I don't look at how many times someone throws or if they "throw passes" to judge something. I look at if they (offense) are taking what the defense is giving you which LSU DID NOT! Waiting to put all the pressure on a QB for a 3rd and long play every drive is not what I would call smart in any situation. After the last TD drive in the 3rd quarter we only went to the air 8 more times and most of the time that was on 3rd down. We also went back to the ole hand off up the middle with Charles Scott into 8-9 man fronts that was not getting anything the whole day. One of the main reasons JJ was not as affective in the second half is because of the bad situations they put him in and began to take a step back in the offensive philosophy.