Worst possible thing for Miles

After watching Miles' press conference and taking a few hours to decompress and break down the game, I can say that yesterday's game was the worst possible outcome for Les Miles.

1. He obviously put JJ in the game when we got inside the 5 and called a run for him thinking that if JJ scores it makes him the hero and dampens the calls for Lee to be the starter at QB. Listen to the press conference and his cryptic comments about the JJ run. Clearly he really wanted JJ to score there.

2. JJ gets stuffed on the run, then the coaching staff melts down and tries to insert a different package onto the field with no TOs and the clock running - resulting in the utter chaos that you saw at the end of the game. Lucky for us, we were so confused that we confused Tenn and they had 13 men on the field.

3. LSU wins anyway, despite the utter mismanagement of the clock by the staff and now everyone is left to conclude that LSU is winning in spite of Miles rather than because of him. Miles' post game comments thinly disguised the fact that he knew he had embarrassed the university and the team. How a man with his experience could understand so little about clock management is hard to comprehend. Most HS kids have a better grasp of it than Miles does.

4. Lee's play - sure it wasn't always pretty - but he was 16-23-185 and 1 INT. He made several clutch throws - the 47 yarder to Randle and the 4th and 14 to Tolliver that stick out. Now there is a legitimate QB controversy, which is the last thing we needed. Miles has limited brain power. We need him to focus what molecules are left on the Florida game plan, not on defending JJ in the media all week and answering a thousand clock management questions.

If there are two take aways from this game its that we have an utter idiot for a head coach and OC and we now have a QB controversy that our staff will not be able to handle.