Miles playing his usual poker

I see all kinds of posts about the bland offense and all kinds of other complaints. Meanwhile, Miles is not showing anything at all unless and until he absolutely has to. Miles wants to make the FLA, TENN and Bama teams/coaches think long and hard about how much they have to prepare for Lee and JJ, so he introduces JJ into the game in an interesting and early timeframe, and then again in the 3rd QTR, just to add a measure of uncertainty. Miles knew the consternation it would cause, but to hell with that, as he knew he could get it out of the way and move on - as should all of the people who were stupid enough to expect polite applause when JJ came onto the field. Are you freakin kidding me? What a naive person you are if you had that expectation from this fan base.

And oh Saban... let Trent Richardson run the wildcat. Miles knew that was in their package already, just like with Ingram last year. Saban probably also knows that LSU has Ware in a wildcat package, but in addition to Lee and JJ (and maybe Mett), Ware coming in to take direct snaps is something he will have to guess at - at least a bit.

Plus, we have 3rd and 4th stringers like Blue and Magee with more/some experience now, while the opponents have less of our playbook on film leading up to the bigger games.

Miles is a poker player. He shows no cards until he has to. Does he play it too close sometimes and risks close games against teams we should shallakc while Bama, Wisky and OU types are running their 1st teamers out there into the 4th QTR? Yes, he does. But when he has the horses and coaches like we do in 2011, he will pull it off, unlike the last 2-3 frustrating years when those horses and coaches were not in place like 2011.

Patience people. Miles has a poker playing system, and he is running that system to a T.

Relax folks. Genius is hard to follow, so trust the Hat on this one. He's got the winning plan.

Geaux Tigers !