I’m not a Miles apologist by a long shot but what if hedve committed to an offense like the one we used with Morris Watts? Heavy run game the way Miles liked and using the option as a short passing game. Not spread but under center like we did with Herb Tyler. We knocked off Bama in 2011 using something like it on a very limited scale with Jefferson. If you took guys like Jefferson, Jennings and Harris and developed them in a system like that we may have turned them into very effective complimentary college QBs. Herb wasn’t super talented but the offense we ran wasn’t complex and took advantage of what he did best.

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Posted by JawjaTigah

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Posted on 12/8/17 at 5:31 am to Madking

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If you took guys like Jefferson, Jennings and Harris and developed them in a system like that we may have turned them into very effective complimentary college QBs. Herb wasn’t super talented but the offense we ran wasn’t complex and took advantage of what he did best.

You nailed it! This is all anybody was asking of CLM and his QBs. And it was the one thing that he just never seemed intent on having a real “want” to develop - I mean beyond occasional verbal mentions. Like he lost sight of why LSU recruited those kinds of QBs to begin with (see also R. Shepherd).

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Posted by cj2002

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Posted on 12/8/17 at 6:31 am to Madking

The lack of Qb play and to compound the problem miles by formation, and play calling caused defense to cheat, and stack more numbers in the box then we could block.

That's why we struggled with weaker teams, and when we played superior teams like bama, we never had a chance, with the exception of a couple of games.

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