TheRightMan

Frankly, if I have LF, then my team is gonna be a running team.

But, our offense is completely devoid of certain elements that just boggle the mind.

If you want to loosen the linebackers who keep stuffing your run, single receiver fly routes do jack shite for that.

If the pass rush is eating your arse, quick slants, screens and WR screens are the typical response.

I could go on, but the point is, we seem to do NONE of the standard things you'd expect in response to defenses and worse, we ALWAYS enter games seemingly oblivious to the other team's demonstrated weaknesses.

This has gone back for a long time. I can still recall facing an AU team with an absolutely awful pass defense and JR at QB.............and Miles ran ground and pound. It was as if Miles was completely unaware of AU's film.

I get that you do what you're good at, but you can't be fricking obtuse about it and Miles has ALWAYS been obtuse about it.

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I think around $1 million would be the budget, which would likely be close to double what he's the guy is making now and would make him the highest paid OC

This is silly. We'd be able to find another OC given it is done early enough. Most of your points are silly.

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Kevin Steele makes $1M. This represents at least a $250K pay raise from the salary of virtually every non-SEC defensive coordinator in the nation. In most cases, it represents DOUBLE their salary.

And yet, we hired a guy who absent us hiring him, wouldn't have a top 40 DC job this year.

Me thinks you underestimate factors other than straight cash in the job hunt for these guys.

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Yea, why would anyone want to be the highest paid OC in football Dumb

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If you could make 200K next year but the company was in danger of going out of business the following year, or, get hired by a stable company making $175K, you might just well take the 2nd job.

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Yeah, that's why. Definitely not because Chavis left after most of the available DC's had signed on elsewhere

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Um. Slow down just a sec.

Are you under the impression that the only DCs who are "available" are currently unemployed DCs?

I mean, was Chavis "available" in December?

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That's an excellent point right there. Post of the day.

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I'm pretty sure that if Miles had been an Army general in the musket era, he'd have been like.........."frick those flanking movements.........we have the better Army..........all we need to do is shoot the best".

Meanwhile, the other Army shoots all his guys in the back.

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Harris is progressing fine during his first year. His QB Rating is trending up. His YPA is trending up. His YPG is also trending up. He has not had an SEC game with a Comp% below 60%.

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Well, um of course he "progressed" thus far. I mean, we treated him like a parapalegic for the first 4 games. I literally never thought I'd live to see the day again when an LSU coach was scared shitless to let his QB throw against Syracuse and Eastern Michigan.

If someone forced me to bet my paycheck today, I'd bet on Franks being gone.

I thought he was exceptionally kind. It was actually worse than all that.

is this.

Sort of standard operating procedure for dealing with teams that are blowing your OL up is to run quick passes and screens. Just prior to the half against Arky, we did that.

Honestly, I was like, "holy frick, I sincerely didn't even think that shite was even in our playbook!!!"

It's just weird. I mean, you have literally never watched a football game in your life where a team was getting a huge rush where the analyst didn't comment about how the offense would have to take shorter drops and run plays to slow the DL down. When you watch LSU, it's as if we have never even heard of the concept.

The same goes for in games like Alabama. Their LBs were completely selling out to fill so even on the occasions that LF was able to split the DL, there was a LB right there waiting for him. Watch the tape. Those LBs were playing the run as if our QB had a broken right arm.

Now quick. What are you SUPPOSED to do when LBs are playing you like that? Does a deep one man route pass have any effect upon LB play? Nope. Again, we did NOTHING all game that even attempted to react to what Bama was doing.

That's the fundamental problem with Miles.

The man takes the "we do what we do" mantra to an absurd level. frick man. Even mediocre coaches try to take advantage of matchups manipulate matchups in their favor. Miles' entire approach to offense is literally, "my guys have to be better than your guys or we're just gonna suck".

It's baffling.

Cmon. I think even the pumpers are honest enough to admit that if we were doing a coaching search today having lost some other coach, and our admin hired Miles, we'd all be pissed as frick.

The man wouldn't be in demand at any school remotely on LSU's level. He ain't leaving this place for another job.

Russell and Flynn played at LSU when Franks was 11 and younger. They might as well be YA Tittle. Mett is all he can remember and tart was year sandwiched between a series of shite shows