re: Miles defenders: a summation of the issues most have with Miles.

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His teams have always seemed undisciplined when juxtaposed with LSU teams under Saban

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Ok, fair point. But how often has that cost us a game. Once in 10 years? Carry on.

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Miles as always displayed an affinity for upperclassmen,

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Yet our leading running back is a true freshman, and the two QB's are freshman. And the WR's.....never mind. Carry on.

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The running back platoon is absolutely ridiculous and nonsensical. I am used to running back by committee, but I don't think it works very well when you are rotating four guys.

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2 things here:
1) When you read a box score, Jennings and Harris are not running backs even though they show up in rushing statistics. Most of the time they are running for their life behind our shitty O-Line. Not sure if you knew that.

2) When you look at the Wisconsin, Mississipi State, and Auburn games combined, Fournette and Hilliard have combined for 56 carries, the next 2 guys are Williams and Macgee that have combined for 20 carries. Again, it's not a platoon it's giving the starters rest. They account for more than 70% of the total carries.

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Players. Why recruit players that operate under the spread and can flourish when in space and bottle them up by running straight into 9 man fronts? Why sub Harris in and let him operate more out of the gun and when he finally starts, it looks like he is using Jennings' packages? Play to the their strengths

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You want the entire team of starters to learn 2 separate playbooks based on who the QB is?

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Harris was set up to fail. He should have been eased into the game with confidence boosting short yardage safe throws and running intermixed

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That's like saying I am set up to fail because my parents didn't set up a trust fund with a billion dollars in it. Jennings is getting killed out there. He hasn't been a world beater. Harris needed to come in to show what he can do.