re: LSU cannot lose Lee

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Wouldn't an interception not returned for a touchdown also have won the game?

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Yes. In which case, that would have outweighed the drop. The two are not mutually exclusive.

Apparently unknown to most ranters, there are more than one factor in winning (or losing) a football game. And -- especially in a close game -- many, MANY different things can each, individually, be the difference in the game.

If:

1) Lee doesn't throw the pick 6, OR
2) Mitchell doesn't drop the TD pass, OR
3) D. Byrd hauls in that early pass instead of allowing the pick, OR
4...) etc. etc. etc.;

we win the game. Any one of those things could have made the difference, and by doing outweigh all the other mistakes/missed opportunities.

Think of the '05 Arizona State game. Those two blocked kicks could easily be said to have outweighed the shredded defense for most of the game; but so, too, could that TD throw by JaMarcus, and that circus catch by Doucet, and the defensive stop that followed.

Had any one of those been screwed up, then the blocked kicks would not have outweighed anything.

So Lee's pick-6 was a big difference in that Bama game, and enough to mean the difference between victory and defeat in a close game like that. But so was the drop, and many other mistakes that were not Lee's. So to suggest that he and he alone lost that game is just narrowminded.

And I'm not saying you said that; just explaining why it shouldn't be said.