🏈 Jefferson: Play calls hurt LSU in BCS title game

[BAMANEWSBOT]

LSU quarterback Jordan Jefferson believes the reason the Tigers suffered the first shutout in BCS title game history, losing to Alabama in a 21-0 rout on Jan. 9, is because of the offensive game plan.

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[TerryP]

 

[Splittine]

" Jefferson told WCNN. "Alabama was a little bit more prepared than us.

Really, just a little bit?

 

[TerryP]

Just off the top of my head we've had Hebert, Lee, and now Jefferson voice their disappointments.

I can't escape this notion. There is an attitude with these guys that Les and his staff are hoping has been purged. I recall it being at least three years before we had our "attitudes" weeded out of our program. In fact, we had to deal with some of it with Saban's recruits. These things migrate, spread, you name the word.

The notion I can't escape? Just because those seniors have moved on, changing the mind-set of 60 or so players doesn't happen overnight. I don't see any team punching LSU in the face next season before we meet them. What happens then?

 

[jdpas29]

if they don't solve their QB problem and run block inside better, they may lose before they get to us. i have no idea how the mettenberger guy is going to do.

 

[planomateo]

I seemed to recall Torshiro Davis mentioning this discontent in LSU being part of the reason he flipped to Texas.

 

[planomateo]

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you are damn right on this Terry. Coach Les Miles seemed to go the distance defending Jordan for a few years and this is how Jordan repays him...

that's some character right there.

 

[TerryP]

if they don't solve their QB problem and run block inside better, they may lose before they get to us. i have no idea how the mettenberger guy is going to do.

He has the air of a confident QB.

Whether what he's saying is hot air?

"It's my team."

It's not the content of this article that draws my attention. It's not the context either. It's all about the timing. That was from a week after the game. What's happened since then puts all of this in a new light.

A loss before us? It'll take an upset. LSU will be favored in every game up until we play: possibly then as well. In fact, I wonder if we'll LSU favored by less than seven before we meet.

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[psychojoe]

Considering that Mettenberger left UGA under a cloud, you wonder if he will be the type of leader LSU needs at the QB position. I heard that Randle gave unhappiness about the situation as a reason he was leaving early.

 

[Duder]

LSU quarterback Jordan Jefferson believes the reason the Tigers suffered the first shutout in BCS title game history, losing to Alabama in a 21-0 rout on Jan. 9, is because of the offensive game plan.

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Did Jordan Jefferson acknowledge that Jordan Jefferson hurt LSU as well?

 

[Duder]

Considering that Mettenberger left UGA under a cloud, you wonder if he will be the type of leader LSU needs at the QB position. I heard that Randle gave unhappiness about the situation as a reason he was leaving early.

Ya know, it seems I've seen a controversial JUCO QB come into his own on an SEC team and become a leader of a championship team...

 

[UAgrad93]

Ya know, it seems I've seen a controversial JUCO QB come into his own on an SEC team and become a leader of a championship team...

Where Joe spoke of one QB leaving UGA under a cloud (his being one of a sexual assault nature I believe), your QB left with a bigger one! Granted the NCAA cleared your school of any wrongdoing. No one in their right mind should believe that while one school made an offer for his services, no one else did because the "money was too much."

 

[psychojoe]

Ya know, it seems I've seen a controversial JUCO QB come into his own on an SEC team and become a leader of a championship team...

That circomstance was a perfect storm. A freakishly great athlete as a QB, and several stars lining up right for him. How would his legend have changed if Clemson had not been Clemson and missed a chip shot FG or dropped a wide open pass in the end zone. Who knows, maybe LSU will prove to be the equivalent of the Oakland A's of the seventies, always bellyaching and scrapping with each othe roff the field, but winner of three consecutive World Series. There is, after all, a lot of talent down there. It just feels like there is a lot lacking as far as buy in and unity, both important commodities when it comes to winning.

 

[TerryP]

Ya know, it seems I've seen a controversial JUCO QB come into his own on an SEC team and become a leader of a championship team...

Comparing a dead oak tree to a dead weeping willow here...

 

[TerryP]

Did Jordan Jefferson acknowledge that Jordan Jefferson hurt LSU as well?

This is actually funny. The mental image of Jefferson talking about himself in the third person?

"Jordan didn't do well. Jordan thought the WR was open, but Jordan was more worried about being hit again. Jordan was hurting and Jordan wasn't Jordan's self."