re: Guilbeau says LSU assistants wanted to pass more at Bama

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Call me crazy for riding again with Miles but I think he will be ready to mix it up this year if needed.

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We hear this shite every offseason

Imy watching it now big dog. First two drives safety walked down into the box 80%

We tried passing. Harris looked terrible. Losing a game with Fournette getting more touches is better than losing a game with Fournette getting fewer touches. At least we put the ball in our best player's hands. And Bama wasn't shutting us down by overloading the box; they were overpowering us with a normal front 7, meaning lots of Tigers (besides Fournette and Harris) weren't stepping up to the challenge.

Passing more was not the solution to that game.

We weren't good enough to beat them. Accept it and become good enough.

Yeah... I'm sure he made it up.

Guilbeau is a loser

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It's the fact that it's the most predictable, unimaginative ground game one can come up with.

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Only someone who knows next to nothing about football can make that statement. LSU has a very imaginative running game. All guys like you look at is who got the ball, and where did he run. You'll look at the tailback going off the right guard twice and say we ran the same play, even though once was a zone blocking scheme and the other had the left tackle and guard pulling through the hole. And one was out of a one wide set, and the other was out of three wide. Our running game is extremely deceptive. But our passing game is so ineffective that it allows teams to load up against the run.

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LSU’s offensive assistant coaches tried to convince LSU head coach Les Miles not to run right at Alabama’s formidable Front Seven last season.

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First GG paragraph.

The rest of the article is completely void of a quote from an LSU offensive assistant coach or even an unnamed source from LSU.

I don't care if Bama's front 15 was the equivalent to the '85 Bears, GG is one of the worst "journalists" in a world of bad "journalism". He might as well just be a GoogleAd.

See even Miles is even quoted as "we feel what we do running in the first quarter will pay off in the 3rd quarter" or whatever..

but this isn't an inferior team.. the only people getting worn out by this is LSU's offensive line going up against the D.. Sometimes I just loathe Les' philosophy.. It's great against inferior teams.. It's not so great against equally talented teams. He really thought he was going to wear down their D for the 2nd half?

Any ways, yes Harris missed some throws.. including that series to Fournette.. he definitely needs to work on his short game and not always firing the ball when there's an open guy.. but it still seemed more effective to at least try to pass at times when we clearly were not doing anything on the ground in this game. The point is though.. the throw to the rb was open.. it was there.. why not continue stuff like this rather than running into a brick wall. Perhaps you allow your QB to get in a groove. The rb was never going to get in a groove in this guy.. the line was getting too abused.

Also, at least when we did pass we did draw a huge pass interference call and picked up a 1st down that set up the TD pass.


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Fournette gets blown up on 1st and 10 from midfield for yet another loss. not his fault though..

2nd and 12 and what do we do?? pass for a td

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Here's 1st down on the next series..

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Oh look playaction on 1st down and a completion to Malachi Dupre for a 1st!

2nd down ANOTHER THROW and ANOTHER 1ST DOWN! Pass INT!

Next 1st down, Harris QB run on a zone read for another 1st down..

next 1st down, an incompletion but a safe throw.. guy was double covered. 2nd down run for nothing with LF... and then back to obvious pass situation and incompletion.. but I believe we still got a fg from it..

so yeah.. actually we at least got first downs and yardage via the pass.. even if Harris missed some throws.. he was making some really nice connections.