Where most people focused on Lee’s picks, that offense scored right at 31 points/game. Had the defense been what it was before and after that year, no one would have cared about his picks. The guy could put points on the board. He got some justifiable criticism but he definitely didn’t deserve all the blame. Miles should have been the one blamed for that year because of his fiasco failure of an experiment on defense with the dual DC’s.

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Posted by Tiger Ugly

Baton Rouge

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Posted on 8/27/22 at 2:53 pm to BigBrod81

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Surely did. There's a time & place for it still in today's game.

An argument could be made I suppose, but pitch dive was the staple of Les's offense. That's my beef with it.

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Posted by mmcgrath

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Member since Feb 2010

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Posted on 8/27/22 at 4:15 pm to Alt26

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So it is ironic that Jarrett Lee is the one to make the post because (fairly or unfairly) it was his play that led to that approach.

It wasn't really Lee's play. The coaching staff hung him out to dry with horrendous play calling. I remember one of his last plays before getting pulled: having an int or two in the first half, the coaches call a play with an empty backfield to start the second half and it was a wr screen that got jumped with no other threat on the play.

Also, a while back I compiled all the guys who intercepted his passes. Almost all of them played in the NFL and a couple were exceptional pro players. Didn't help that he had to throw a lot with a weak defense against those secondaries.

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