re: Column: The case for Jarrett Lee

One thing I know about life, "You never know how high you can feel until you know how low you have been."

When you feel the low, the high is within reach and so much more appreciated. Never, never, never, give up!

AlwaysATiger

It is about philosphy, not stats.

Excellent points, Carl.

Lee's interception problem last year was part of Gary C and L. Miles also. They called terrible plays like the 1st play of the UGA's game that you mentioned.

This year they have been calling very conservative plays to avoid interceptions, hence the inept offense thus far.

I don't think Les and Gary have been fair to J. Lee at all.

You nailed it beautifully.

Now I don't know if Les and Gary are men enough to start Lee to see if he can get the offense moving.

I have no problem with any coach changing the line up a little to try to get a spark, and I have no problem with a coach giving a guy who struggled in the past another chance.

I have no problem with Miles playing Lee.

But has JJ really been that bad? I am not sure that his performance justifies throwing him to the dogs. He gives up a lot of sacks, but that has a lot to do with coaching. Time for Crowton to step up and earn his pay.

We need Crowton to teach JJ not to take 6 sacks per game, and teach JL not to throw 3 INT's per game. Then, it wouldn't matter who Miles played.

No win in georgia with J.lee. he wouldn't have came through in that last drive. he wouldn't have made the game saving run either.the pressures to great 1.5sec -2sec to throw, with current blocking.With that pressure and his heart he'd be throwing the ball vertical alright, straight up in the air for pick 6's . face it LSU is not the best team in the nation, can't score from the 3 and 3rd. He's got to find a good O-line somewhere, should have tucked the ball and transfered, instead of pick sixing a year of his football life.

No chance JL plays unless JJ gets hurt. while many of us might complain and gripe LM would might accept a 10-2 year. in order to do that, we need the defense to continue to improve and the offense not to commit turnovers.

Alabama is very beatable but you cant't tunrover the ball or give them a pick six (they only scored 1 offensive TD against S. Carolina.

JL is too risky, one turnover and that is the game with the defense they play.

I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF A 5-1 TEAM CHANGING QBs.

how about the OL blocking for a 1200 yard back last year that is on pace for 1/2 that this year.
we need better OL play that is the most pressing problem. none of our QBs are good enough now to "win the game" for us.

we expected the QBs to be "average", we expected the OL to be "good"

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Our defense in '09 has allowed the O (& JJ) to play at a much slower pace than what was demanded of JL in '08.

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I can't deny that as the D has saved our bacon, to this point, this year and helped cook it last year.

I don't think any reasonable person wouldn't admit that Lee had a heavy hand in cooking our bacon last year as well with the T/O's. My goodness, 16 T/O's with 7 being taken to the house by the other team. What would be said if a RB had a history of T/O's like that and he continued to be given the ball? Were they all totally his blame alone? No! Was he asked to do too much too soon? Yes! Should he be given another chance at some time? Yes! Should he replace JJ at this time? Hell no!! Should he, at this time, see action in a game whose fate is still undecided? I have to say no given his history of throwing the ball to the wrong team at an alarming rate.

Hey, I just want to win and I don't give a damn who wins it for us!

I would like to see Lee get more of a chance. At the end of the year he was really getting beat up mentally and physically. They need to get him in more to build confidence. I would like to see him run a little more. Some more running might slow the rushers.

I agree with Carl 100%. JL was a freshman last year who was basically thrown to the wolves because of the Perilloux fiasco. He wasn't ready and a lot of his pick 6s were because of that inexperience. JJ's not ready either and I really think that is part of the problem with the offense. Everybody complains about the vanilla offense but I really think the coaches are afraid to open up the playbook more because JJ can't handle it. The OL has had some problems but a lot of the sacks are not because of the OL lack of blocking but because of JJ's indecision and holding on to the ball too long. As far as the running game, it will never get better until the passing game gets better. Until it's proven that we can extend the field with the passing game teams are going to continue to load up the box making it almost impossible to run. I don't care how good the OL is, you cant block everybody when they constantly load up with 8 in the box. Give JL another chance. Even with the pick 6s we were scoring right at 30 points per game. With our defense this year I'll take that number every time.