re: "Jefferson Should Have Played Earlier": Guilbeau Is An Idiot

I guess my question supes, is how much is seeing enough of Jarrett Lee to where you have to decide, "look this kid is not getting any better, we need to give the youngster the majority of the snaps in practice and see what he can do."

i tend to agree with GG, that given how JJ has responded to being thrown into the fire, it should have been earlier than it happened.

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so if he didn't know the whole playbook he might what? throw a bunch of interceptions for touchdowns...

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Yes, and then not come back to throw TDs the way Lee did on multiple occasions. It would be entirely possible for a QB to play even worse than our QBs did for most of the season. I know, I've seen it (Melvin Hill rings a bell).

Consider the example of Urban Meyer (the guy who's about to play for his 2nd National Championship in 3 years). Do any of you really believe that Chris Leak was a more talented QB than Tim Tebow? Of course not. But Tebow never started a single game his entire True Freshman season, despite the fact that he enrolled in January and had the additional benefit of spring practice before that year. And he was a Heisman Trophy-winning QB his first season as a starter. So why did Meyer continue to start Leak throughout that 2006 season instead of handing the reigns over to the "obviously" more talented Tebow, even after Leak lost the game at Auburn?

It doesn't matter what the answer is; the point is that there are good reasons for not starting a more talented QB ahead of a less talented one when the more talented guy is less experienced, and especially when he is a true freshman who didn't even get to campus until just a few weeks before the season started. Obviously, we did not get the level of QB play this year that Florida got from Leak in '06, but we still don't know what kind of play we would have gotten from Jefferson had he been thrown in earlier (perhaps before he was ready).

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and even with a stripped down version of the playbook, couldn't have made more mistakes than Lee.

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Yes, he could have. It absolutely is possible for a QB to be much worse than Lee ever was.

I think it's funny that people think JJ was ready at Ole Miss, but not against Tulane. He didn't automatically become ready after a few weeks. The kid would've played the same for most of the season if you ask me. Some of you act like there was some big learning curve from late September to early November, and I just don't buy into that at all.

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And and as long as people believe that somehow he has insights that the coaching staff doesn't have

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That is probably the most depressing fact about Guilbeau's existence. The entirety of his professional success is built upon people who truly believe he has more coaching prowess than Les Miles. It seems he never, ever writes anything that does not proclaim that Miles not only did not do the best thing, but that he himself knows absolutely what would have been guaranteed 100% to be more successful. I cannot fathom why more people do not wonder, "if he always knows how to be a more successful coach than the guy who's making millions of dollars a year doing it and has trophies on the mantle, why is writing a crap article instead of preparing his team for another National Championship?"

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His job is to be an objective journalist

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He writes about a team that has -- in the last 9 years -- gone 90-27, won three SEC Championships, won two National Championships, and has the #1 recruiting class in the country. How is it that he can write "objectively" about such a program and still have the majority of his articles be critical?

"Objective" writing about LSU's football program at this point would have to be overwhelmingly gushing with praise.

not this year King Joey. And not even at times last year.

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pretty easy to look back on what he's done and say that now karma

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sure it is.

but do you really see 38-3 and not wonder what this team could've achieved?

If it makes any of you feel better, I look at my own decisions in the exact same way.

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It's not bashing Les to say that it could've worked out.

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No, but it is bashing Miles to say it would have worked out, and that Les was wrong not to try it.

I don't read his drivel anymore, but the discussion has pretty clearly suggested that he said it was a mistake not to play Jefferson earlier. That's not a "what if," that's an "I know better than Miles."

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I don't read his drivel anymore, but the discussion has pretty clearly suggested that he said it was a mistake not to play Jefferson earlier. That's not a "what if," that's an "I know better than Miles."

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that's actually not what the article said.