re: 8-16 Just Won't Cut It Against Bama

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I think 50% completions and two interceptions will make it more difficult to beat Bama. However, I am optimistic that Jennings will perform much better. He's improving. Mett's biggest improvement in 2012 came during the two weeks of practice before the Bama game. Jefferson's biggest improvement in 2010 came during the two weeks before the Bama game.

In short, I'm not going to sit here and tell you that we'll beat Bama going 8-16 with two picks because I don't think Jennings will go 8-16 with two picks; in particular, he won't throw two picks.

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Exactly what I have been stating.

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the talent difference between those teams and Alabama is a lot.

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you mean the ole miss team that beat Bama? The one constant is the idiot level with those who have stated the same thing for 3 weeks in a row now...

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This team right now with average QB play (60% 200 yards 1.5 TDs)

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We can round up and add in Harris' stats if you like to make the team stats look better...even then you are overstating it.

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will win us a championship

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See there is where we disagree. Every national champion has needed its QB to pull them through at least once. I don't see a medicore armed QB, with poor field vision doing that for us. And now we have 10 games + of data to reflect on it.

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There is no fact behind it at all

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. Or rather, to be fair, there is the debate. It comes down to which QB you believe will be better suited to win us games in 2015? For a variety of reasons I won't belabor here, I go with Harris.

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MSU, Ole Miss, and Auburn will be looking for offensive pieces as well as Bama. LSU will retain all their WRs, a QB with a year of experience, and possibly the best RB in 2015. The defense will again be stout.

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I agree with all of this. But I'd submit that we are better suited in 2015 with a Harris with a year (or realistically now a few games) of experience than we are with a Jennings with a few games of experience. Again, that is the debate.

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I believe Jennings can become a pretty good QB. He won't blow you away with his talent, but I think if he can get better.

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I'll admit the above. But I think Harris has the arm strength, athleticism, etc. to become a great QB.

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He won't blow you away with his talent

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Harris can blow you away with what he can do...

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but I think if he can get better

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So can Harris, with reps. And Harris has a bigger ceiling.

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I'm pretty sure Harris will win out in the spring, and lead us to crazy LSU record setting offensive output.

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So you agree with me. Now tell me why I shouldn't be concerned that the fallacy in your argument is that Les won't go with Jennings because of "experience."

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Thing is, Both QBs, under the tutelage of Cam, will be able to lead us to a championship, because of the type of offense we run, and the fact that we pride ourselves on strong defense.

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Able? Perhaps. I like my odds with the better protoype.

Again, as I have said before, for better or worse, we will start AJ from here on out until we lose a game. I'm resigned to that, even if I would do otherwise if I were Les.

I'm a homer; I think we win them all. But just as I think replacing Welter with Beckwith made us better and replacing Martin with Adams made us better, I believe that next year replacing Jennings with Harris will make us better.

My hope is that we win out, we win big enough to get Brandon more reps so he too is "experienced" and that we have a real QB competition in the Spring, with the best QB getting the job.

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My hope is that we win out, we win big enough to get Brandon more reps so he too is "experienced" and that we have a real QB competition in the Spring, with the best QB getting the job.

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I think Harris only plays this year if AJ is injured. I do think he'll take the job next year though

Thanks for stopping by, gotta go

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You are a ray of optimism Roger. But why do you think this to be so?

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not Roger but...

- Miles/Cameron are only putting the current offense on the field because that's what they have to work with now, it's not where they want to be
- Harris has shown more arm and pocket awareness, just needs to be able to execute in the run game
- and as I stated, at no time has Miles shown a propensity of sticking with a lesser option

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no, we have the QB who can, at this point, execute the offense the best

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The best offense execution we have seen this year has been led by Brandon Harris (New Mexico State and Miss State). Even the announcers on TV noted that the Tiger offense was "different" with him at the helm.

Harris struggled against Auburn at Jordan Hare in his first SEC start. That's fair. But AJ wasn't winning that game. He did nothing against Auburn. That gamne was unwinnable given the development of our team at the time.

Given how poorly our QB play has been, I'm unwilling to agree with you that AJ is better at executing the offense right now. And I certainly don't believe, nor does any objective observer, that AJ will be better in teh future than Harris.

All I am willing to concede is that, because he has gotten all of the reps in practice and in the games, that AJ is the right call to start the Bama game. If we get down by 10 plus points, there is very little doubt that Harris gives us the better chances to rack up points quickly.

And I firmly believe, based on raw talent, moxy and the limitations of the other, that we can win a national title with Brandon Harris in 2015. With Jennings, I will root, root, root for it. But I predict that I will end up like a Cubs fan. Disappointed again.

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But if you sit here and tell me that we'll beat Bama going 8-16 with two picks you're sorely b mistaken.

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You're right. 8-16 with 2 picks won't do.

9-17 with two picks will though.

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Given Jennings rate of improvement recently, I don't think that will be a problem.