re: Simple question but one I’ve not seen much of here, why didn’t we throw more jump balls?

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Coaches clearly didnt want to take many "risky" throws and settled for 3 points too often. I dont get it either. If you're not going to recruit speedy WRs but rather big tall guys, you have to throw them jump balls, that's how that works.

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Exactly.

You recruit 6'5 and 6'6 WRs for a reason. It's because most DB's covering them are 3, 4, sometimes 6, 7 inches shorter. If you aren't going to use the physical advantage a tall WR gives you, then why have them on the team?

If anyone listened to Gary Danielson during the SECCG, he discussed many times how you have to be willing to go at Bama's CB's in one-on-one battles. If you aren't, then Bama's defense is going to suffocate you. The gist being, to beat us you're going to have to do it by making tough throws.

LSU has the WR's to challenge Bama's (and others') CB's. If you look back at the 2017 LSU/Bama game you will see that some of the success LSU had in the passing game was simply just throwing sideline routes to Sullivan.

Guys like Sullivan and Anderson aren't going to line up on the outside and simply just fly by DB's. But, they would be difficult to cover on accurately placed back-shoulder throws. They can essentially "box out" DB's like a basketball player.

If's LSU is going to run an offense where the scheme rarely creates coverage busts, then they better have guys who win one on one battles. "Jump balls" are why you get guys like Anderson and Sullivan on the team. Use them!

(PS. The WR rotation was one of the strangest things I've seen at LSU. There seemed to be no rhyme or reason to it. It wasn't based on matchups or how a guy was playing. It simply looked like it was predetermined regardless of what the defense was doing or the results on the field)