In nine games, Jefferson threw for yards and six touchdowns while rushing for yards and three touchdowns. Jefferson accounted for all of that while sporting a quarterback rating of In 11 games, Lee threw for 1, yards and 14 touchdowns on completions, for a quarterback rating of When you compare each quarterback's production in , I think it's blatantly clear who should have played the majority of the BCS title game at quarterback.
Sure, Jefferson played the majority of LSU's previous matchup with Alabama, but the reason LSU won wasn't his "versatile" play, it was their dominant defense. I'm not even sure that Miles had a good reason for why he kept Lee on the bench. When asked why he kept Jefferson in the game, here's what Miles had to say about it :. But we felt like with the pass rush that we were getting that we needed a guy that could move the seat and not sustain that pass rush.
Really Miles? Jefferson's 18 yards passing, five yards rushing and one fumble was really impressing you at the end of the first quarter? Or maybe it was his total first-half production of 26 yards passing and 10 yards rushing that undoubtedly proved to Miles that the Tigers' best chance at beating the Crimson Tide was to keep him in the game.
I'm pretty sure responding to the pass rush wasn't LSU's problem. The Tigers' problem was that Jefferson, who the head coach decided to keep in the entirety of the game, couldn't have thrown the ball into the ocean if he was standing on the shore.
Even someone watching their very first football game would have recognized that Jefferson wasn't doing his job well, and that is why I'm so shocked that the Coach of the Year couldn't even realize that. While I understand the logic Miles was using, it seemed that he Lee would or could have provided a spark to lift the Tigers offense. Miles was just figuring that if the quarterback was going to be stationary and not moving, it would be too easy for Alabama to target him and take him out.
Sometimes coaches tend to over coach in situations and sometimes they let their gut instincts get the best of them. It's kinda shocking considering Miles is usually unpredictable.
What irked me the most though was that he didn't give Lee a chance at all to get on the field in his final collegiate game - made even worse by the fact that he's actually played really well this season and Jefferson and the offense wasn't doing anything at all. Let the guy, at the very least, go out there and take a few snaps in his final game.
I understand Miles thinking Jefferson gave him the better shot to win, but no letting Lee on the field once all game, even when it was decided, as a sort of thank-you is pretty classless. Unless I've missed something, you all can't possibly be referring to the Jared Lee that I've seen absolutely stink up the joint vs. Alabama during his 4 years at LSU. Yes, Lee had some success early this season, but against Alabama on Nov.
Lee vs. Alabama has a TD to Interception ratio Please let that marinate And we feel that he deserved a shot? A shot at what? Throwing another interception? If LSU was playing any other team, I would concede there being a possibility of Lee providing a spark. However, he was playing Alabama - and when he played Alabama he absolutely positively stunk. The past 2 LSU wins vs.
My critique is not simply that Lee has an awful history with Alabama, it's also his psychological make up versus Alabama. The kid played well all season prior to November 5th, but he mentally went in the tank from jump in Tuscaloosa. I don't see how him sitting on the bench watching JJ and the offense do nothing for 3 quarters would have him believing that he could come in a do anything better, especially with the threat of the run being non-existent at that point in the game. This isn't YMCA youth basketball.
He doesn't get to play just because this is his last game! I'll listen to Russell Shepard bark about not getting to play, but Lee had his shot s already vs. Alabama and he showed he was not capable of playing well versus them. I think it would have been cruel for Les Miles to run him out in his last collegiate game and have him be treated like a rag doll by Upshaw and Co.
I really think folks have forgotten what Alabama defense did to Tyler Wilson, John Brantley, et al when their offenses became 1 dimensional. Brantley literally got his ankle broke in half and Petrino mercifully pulled Wilson before he sustained a season long injury.
Lee coming into that situation would have been like a baby bird falling into a river of piranhas. No bueno.
Lee not playing was his best case scenario because now we can have discussions like this where he somehow comes out looking like a martyr. I firmly believe had he played the conversations about him would not be nearly as gracious as this one.
Though your point is well-taken. Lee has a horrible history against Alabama. I get that. But the offense wasn't doing a damn thing with Jefferson in there, so why not try to change something up and get a spark? Jefferson had 3 quarters to make something happen and he couldn't.
Doing something, anything is better than doing nothing and continuing to see your offense flounder time and time again. Sorry dude, but Lee could not possibly have done any worse than JJ was. At least Miles should have tried something, and don't forget last year he put Lee in, against Bama, and he did well. There is more here than meets the eye. Putting Lee in to take the last snap in the SEC game was a slap in the face.
We fans have a right to know the absolute truth here. If Miles' explanations so far are the truth, then we will never see another BCS title until he's gone. Well lee can say he did not lose the campionship game jefferson done it all by himself!! If lee had not lead the team in 8 games they would not even have made it to the sec championship!!!
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