Receivers getting open

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I watch other college football teams and I see their receivers getting open and catching the ball and running with it. I rarely see LSU's receivers that wide open.

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I've seen the same thing the past several years now—not on every single play of course, but in general, it often appears to me that opposing receivers get separation on us, but we rarely do the same. I think some of it has to do with the softer coverage we've seen from the Tiger defense in recent years. I think that's tightened up this season—we're playing closer to the opposing receiver; that's my impression. As for why we rarely seem to get much separation from our defenders ... I don't know. Probably some of it has to do with the problems we've had at QB.

I am no expert but I think you hit it right on the head. It has to do with our QB and the play calling. This past weekend was the first time this year that I can remember our receivers going deep and we throwing to them. I think the other coaches know that we will throw the ball on short routes and therefore have their DB's play us tight as they can because there is no way we are going long (until this past weekend). Just saying

For this year and the last two years, I can tell you from sitting in the stadium that LSU has had receivers running wide open quite often. The quarterbacks locking in on one receiver and inablity to go through progressions is the problem.

When JJ is QBing they probably figure, What's the point of getting open?