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But again, everyone says Miles looked for ANY excuse to bench Lee for JJ. That just isn't true.

After throwing an awful pick against Bama, and JJ coming out and giving us some stability, Miles put Lee back in as the starter in the second half. What did he do? Throw an even worse pick. He simply couldn't attack that D. It was obvious.

It's hard to admit, but LSU pulled off a HUGE upset by beating Bama the first time. It simply wasn't going to happen again no matter who played QB unless our D and ST won the game for us.

While I agree with everything you said, is that really reason enough to bench Lee for the remainder of the season? Up until the Alabama game, Lee was the most efficient passer in the SEC. He converted 3rd downs, and he had the accuracy to make defenses pay for stacking the box (something we did not see much of this past season) - I just don't think throwing 2 picks against the number 1 defense in the country is reason to bench a QB that, up to that point, had a fantastic year for a QB that has been completely inconsistent?

I still think it would have been a different game had Miles not benched Lee and Bama had to prepare for both QBs again.

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I love Miles, but the biggest mistake he ever made was saying he'd "be honored" to play Bama again. They asked him that question while he was still on the fricking field after the game, and I have no doubt if he had more time to think about the ramifications, he would have answered differently

Yeah I kinda wish Miles had said something different. It was pretty disrespectful of the reporter to ask that though. I mean you just beat the number 1 team, at their place, in OT, and the first question asked is 'how bout a rematch'?

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Posted on 4/5/13 at 1:31 pm to Chimlim

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I just don't think throwing 2 picks against the number 1 defense in the country is reason to bench a QB that, up to that point, had a fantastic year for a QB that has been completely inconsistent?

I hear ya. But to me, it wasn't just that he threw 2 picks. It's that he looked REALLY bad doing it. I mean, he threw those 2 picks on SEVEN attempts. He looked scared and out of control the way he had in 08. That was the scariest thing to me. He didn't look the way he did the rest of 2011, which was confident and in command of the O.

Like I said, his best performance IMO was against MSU. He threw an awful pick that really could have cost us that game in the 3rd quarter, but the next drive he came right back and threw a perfect fade to RR for a TD that pretty much sealed the win. It was great.

He didn't respond like that on 11/5. He looked like the old Lee tugging at his shoulder pads and backpedaling as he threw to avoid the rush.

That was what scared me and probably Miles. It just seemed like all the progress he had made came crashing down in the face of that rush.

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I still think it would have been a different game had Miles not benched Lee and Bama had to prepare for both QBs again.

I agree here. Him not playing in a straight up arse raping against Ole Miss really confused me. But I don't think he should have come against Arky. JJ was playing well, and I never really saw a point when Lee coming in would have helped the team and may have actually hurt our momentum after TM's punt return and our quick score before half.

UGA was weird too, because it looked like we had settled down by half due to our D and ST, but their D was still swarming the way Bama's was when Lee struggled so bad. Then our running game took off early in the 2nd half and we didn't want to ruin that momentum.

I said in the weeks leading up to 1/9 that is was a huge advantage for us that Saban was having fits preparing for both QBs, and I see now Lee not playing after 11/5 kind of took some of that advantage away.

But the fact is, Saban didn't really need to prepare for Lee anyway. His D was already prepped for him to great success for 11/5. They already knew how to stop him and had proven that they could and would.

Still, I do think the fact that Lee didn't go out and sling it around when we were crushing OM early in the game just to give Saban something else to think about is a much more valid complaint than him not playing on 1/9 or against Arky or UGA.

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Yeah I kinda wish Miles had said something different. It was pretty disrespectful of the reporter to ask that though. I mean you just beat the number 1 team, at their place, in OT, and the first question asked is 'how bout a rematch'?

Oh I completely agree. That's why I said "while he was still on the fricking field."

It really pissed me off at the time, and does even more so now given what ended up happening.

It was just a total bitch move, and I wish Miles would have slapped her down the way he did at halftime of the Tennessee game in 2006.