re: Why would Miles not start Lee?

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I can't understand how anyone would want Jefferson on the field after watching any game other than Georgia Tech. He holds the ball FOREVER and takes sack after sack. How anyone can get behind a QB that lead the worst LSU offense since...honestly I can't remember an LSU team with a worse offense statistically in my lifetime...is beyond me. I'm not saying JL should 100% be the starter, but to blindly say JJ should be is retarded. He has shown NOTHING to say he should be the #1 right now.

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LA Tech.....

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Gee, how about this. Miles will start the quarterback who he thinks gives him the best chance to win that day and the next. It could be Lee, it could be Jefferson, or it could be Carlos, that kid from around the block who always plays quarterback when my kids play in the street.

Carlos looks pretty darn good with that ball. After a 3-one thousand, he is either off or the ball is out of his hands. Don't think I've ever seen him take a touch-sack, at least not two handed.

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Carlos?

I think it is mostly #2. I haven't been at the practices but most reports have said that Lee outperformed Jefferson this Spring and Lee was MUCH better in the Spring Game. So I don't think #1 is true.

#3 cuts both ways. Jefferson is a risk averse QB who has difficulty finding an open receiver other than the primary receiver or the safety valve. As such defensive coordinators lick their chops knowing they can aggressively play the run and as long as they cover LSU's #1 receiver, it's probable they can shut us down. Jefferson is kryptonite to an otherwise explosive offense. And LSU (with a young defense) will need to score to win. So Miles going with Jefferson poses risks to Miles. A Jefferson led offense is almost incapable of scoring more than 30 points so the games will always come down to the 4th quarter, whether it's Florida or Vanderbilt. And that means that LSU is susceptible to being upset if the opposition gets a few breaks (see e.g., Miss State 2009) and it also means you will probably lose half of the games against similar competition (which guarantees 2 or 3 losses).

Lee brings different risks of course. Lee can light up a defense and will require teams to play the pass more honestly, which opens up the running game. But Lee can make the "big play" for the other team as we have all seen.

And I think that is the reason # 2 is the answer. Lee has Les snake bitten. Just as Jefferson takes sacks so as not to make Lee's mistakes, Les plays Jefferson so as not to let Lee make those mistakes. I don't know if it's Lee who is pysched out or if it is Miles. But that seems to me to be what is going on.