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Catch-22 of the LSU passing game
Posted on 12/28/14 at 10:31 am
Posted on 12/28/14 at 10:31 am
LSU is starting a true sophomore QB with no game experience or extensive knowledge of the playbook.
In order to win games this year, they limit their QB via playcalling, emphasizing short throws or throws along the sideline with little chance of being intercepted.
As a result of said playcalling, defenses sit on underneath routes and our passing attack neither moves the ball nor turns the ball over.
Nothing will improve until Jennings improves. He will be a Junior next year and one of only a handful of returning QBs in the conference. This is a huge offseason for him, for his young WRs, and for LSU football.
Godspeed.
In order to win games this year, they limit their QB via playcalling, emphasizing short throws or throws along the sideline with little chance of being intercepted.
As a result of said playcalling, defenses sit on underneath routes and our passing attack neither moves the ball nor turns the ball over.
Nothing will improve until Jennings improves. He will be a Junior next year and one of only a handful of returning QBs in the conference. This is a huge offseason for him, for his young WRs, and for LSU football.
Godspeed.
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Posted on 12/28/14 at 10:33 am to chilge1
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In order to win games this year, they limit their QB via playcalling, emphasizing short throws or throws along the sideline with little chance of being intercepted.
This is what LSU did with JJ in 2009. Lots of underneath, safe stuff.
Posted on 12/28/14 at 10:37 am to chilge1
We didn't utilize the quick game, short throws, hardly at all. It seemed like run, run, bomb to Dural.
I'm not going to get into it, because it will give me a head ache. Our offense is just really poor by design. I can't help but think about the what ifs, if we just had a normal offense.
i.e. Anybody who has played in a bowl game so far outside of Navy.
I'm not going to get into it, because it will give me a head ache. Our offense is just really poor by design. I can't help but think about the what ifs, if we just had a normal offense.
i.e. Anybody who has played in a bowl game so far outside of Navy.
Posted on 12/28/14 at 10:37 am to chilge1
Catch-22? We don't throw it enough to even have a catch-22. Maybe catch-11.
Posted on 12/28/14 at 11:08 am to chilge1
Posted on 12/28/14 at 12:52 pm to chilge1
If Jennings wasn't Jeff Driskell bad then you might have a point. 3/4 of the way through the season Harris had more TD passes than Jennings did..
Posted on 12/28/14 at 1:09 pm to chilge1
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extensive knowledge of the playbook.
You lost me right here. Jennings came in January 2013. He had all of spring 2013. 2013 summer practice, 2013 fall camp, all of bowl practice before the Outback bowl. Then the entire 2014 offseason and practices. If he doesn't know the offense upside down, inside and out by then he never will.
Now I don't believe any of this just making the point that your argument is wrong.
Posted on 12/28/14 at 1:22 pm to chilge1
Brandon Harris has to be the future if LSU is to win a Natty! 
Posted on 12/28/14 at 1:43 pm to chilge1
Bottom line, Jennings sucked at damn near everything he was asked to do. He didn't suck because he was limited. Just like JJ he sucked because he sucks.
Posted on 12/28/14 at 1:54 pm to chilge1
I like Jennings. He seems like a good guy, works hard, accepts responsibility. That being said, I just don't think he has the physical tools to be a solid SEC quarterback & the guy who can win championships. Whether Harris can do it or not, we can't be sure, but I think most would agree that he's more gifted physically by far.
But unless Jennings has a horrid bowl game and Harris lights it up, I don't think there's any chance Harris starts next year, at least not until we lose a key game that knocks us out of the race.
I'm a big Les Miles fan, but for all the talk about "open competition," Harris has virtually no chance to win the job in the spring or fall camps. He has to overshadow Jennings in the bowl game or wait for Jennings to implode during the 2015 season to move into the lineup.
But unless Jennings has a horrid bowl game and Harris lights it up, I don't think there's any chance Harris starts next year, at least not until we lose a key game that knocks us out of the race.
I'm a big Les Miles fan, but for all the talk about "open competition," Harris has virtually no chance to win the job in the spring or fall camps. He has to overshadow Jennings in the bowl game or wait for Jennings to implode during the 2015 season to move into the lineup.
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