re: 3rd Down Confusion Aside, how bad was the 2nd down call?

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DING DING DING!

We have a winner!

Our coaches set JJ and the entire offense up to fail by not having a quick pass play ready to run on 3rd & Goal. Instead, the coaches bet the farm that JJ would score on 2nd & Goal and that the nation wouldn't find out just how unprepared the coaches were for 3rd & Goal.

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DING DING DING

We have a second winner

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Funny, I thought we were talking about LSU, not every week in the NFL

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My point is that if it works in the NFL it can work in college. Unless you think college defenses are better than NFL defenses.

JJ isn't Vince Young.

My 12 year old niece was at her fisrt LSU game and when JJ ran on the field she turn and said JJ's coming in, LSU will run the ball right?

Well-I would love to have seen the massive turd the Tenn defense would have laid if PP would have been put in the Wildcat with Ridley!!!!

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but the very worst thing that could have happened to this offense was JJ breaking that long run for a TD.. that was the option play that we all want to go away.. thats what he came in to run.. everybody knew it.. and just like it does 9 times out of 10, it didnt get shite.. but now, since JJ got by one guy on a terrible attempt at a tackle, we will have to suffer that play as long as GC is here..

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First of all, without the long TD run that JJ had, we ain't even in the game on that final drive. So that would have been worse for the team.

Second, it was a fake handoff to Shepard on that 1st play . It wasn't the option where he has a choice to pitch it that we all don't like because they usually have miserable execution of it. And he made a nice juke move on the defender, wasn't slowed down and took it to the house.

Third, the play toward the end was more of a QB sweep. He wasn't pitching that ball at all. And it did get us a yard closer to making it in and we needed every inch in the end.

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JJ had half the field open for a TD, he just chose to run into the arms of the defenders.

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That looked nice and everything, but they likely would have have chased him down. It's always surprising how fast defenders get there when they believe you're going outside.

some of these post are so stupid it makes me want to post something just as stupid..... like why didnt we fumble into the endzone and recover it for the touchdown?

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He could have jogged into the end zone on that final run.

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Well, I guess that's your opinion...

#43 for Tennessee was basically playing for the outside and Peterson was blocking him for us but he hadn't driven him back. If JJ keeps going to the outside, I do believe #43 would have got him because he was driving Peterson back pretty easy and even got a hand on JJ after he decided to go inside.

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It's second down and the clock isn't running and you have 32 seconds left.

You throw the ball. No running play is acceptable in that situation.

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You call the plays that are most likely going to get you in the end zone without a disaster. For LSU, they were relatively sure they'd get two plays to get the two yards. They might have been able to get a third play, but that wasn't for sure.

The first down pass looked like it should have been intentional grounding. Maybe I'm forgetting something about the rule, but it's fine to throw it 20 yards out of bounds and out of the end zone if your outside the pocket, but not when you're in it. If you're in it, you have to have a WR in the area. We had none.

Also, our previous drive ended with a underthrown pick in the end zone. Why would you give your QB another chance to possibly do that again (either QB) when you have a RB that was over 120+ yards on the day lining up against a tired D from two yards out??? A guy that had been driving them back all day...

If you can't get two yards on two plays at home against a weaker opponent, you don't deserve to win anyway. Ridley has been the offense - you put it in his hands in that situation because he's clearly your best chance at success. Of course, they went with JJ on 2nd, but he had run really well against them in his few carries. So that wasn't a terrible choice either. Just not real sure why they those to go shotgun and run that particular play when it brings the possibility of getting tackled 2-3 yards behind the line.

Passing from the two is hard and there are many more guys sitting there waiting to pick a pass in such limited space. Eventually, Ridley got it in and that's what should have happened.

The run by JJ wasn't a bad call, it was just poorly executed.