re: IMO Brandon Harris isn't bad

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LSU was down 21-0 to Arkansas and 24-0 to Ole miss which led to a large amount of pass attempts. Not due to the fact that Lsu was handing the ball to Brandon Harris and unleashing him. Hardly a great situation for success.

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Was about to post the same thing. When you're getting run out of the stadium very early in the game, we had to abort the running game and just start chunking the ball around just to play catchup. We did good to cut the lead to 7 against Arky and then gave up a long KO return that led to a FG and the lead was double digits once again.

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LSU was down 21-0 to Arkansas and 24-0 to Ole miss which led to a large amount of pass attempts.

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By the time those scores were on the board:

Arkansas: LSU dropped back to pass 10 of the first 23 plays, including 3 sacks, 2 timeouts, and not including 2 rushes. So he either attempted a rush or a pass in 12/23 plays to start the game. Fournette had 46 yards rushing at this point. Further, 5/6 plays to begin the game were drop backs. Harris also fumbled the ball inside the LSU 20 which lead to the 3rd arky TD.

Ole Miss: Started game with an incomplete pass after a first down, and delay of game on 3rd and 6. Next drive, we turn the ball over trying to convert 3rd and 2 on a rush. Next drive, same thing but 3rd and 3. We are down 10-0 at this point. Long drive by OM, 17-0. Next drive, interception inside LSU 20, and the game is over. We were down by 14 with 7:30 left in the third. That is plenty of time to win the game. It was the Harris show from there on out, and we didn't score again.

Please don't mistake what I am saying. I am not trying to dog on Harris, I really like him and think he has a lot of potential. I am simply saying that he was certainly not shut down in either of those games, and was given a legitimate opportunity to win each game for us.