Anyone else think we may see Nick Griffin

[LAMSUFAN]

this week or next week if our current backs continue to look mediocre? Elliot looks done, Ballard looks average, and we really haven't seen enough of Perkins to judge how good he is. He is damn fast, though. Mullen's hand may be forced here, either this week or in the future. I know physically Griffin looks ready to play.

 

[missouridawg]

I think we'll see much much heavier doses of Perkins before we see Griffin. No reason to burn Griffin's redshirt yet in my opinion.

 

[LAMSUFAN]

it's painful watching him

 

[Todd4State]

It wouldn't hurt.

 

[FlabLoser]

I think we havne't tried hard enough to run the ball. The Auburn game's play calling was just completely craptastic.

And I also think you can't just platoon this man RBs and have it work. Guys need a rhythm, a feel for the game. I just don't think a guy can get rolling on 1 carry every 10-15 minutes.

 

[Todd4State]

in our last game was influenced by the fact that we threw the ball so well against Memphis. When you have two QB's- one going 7 for 9 and a RS freshman going 13 for 16, I could see where it would be tempting to keep doing that.

I'm not defending the playcalling- you are correct, it was crappy. I just wanted to throw that thought out there.

Also, how many passes did we drop? Those hurt us as much as anything. Obviously, our passing stats would have been better had we eliminated even half of those.

Regardless, I think Dan has to go back to the basics and at least against SEC defenses- especially our next two games- try to go back to the run. Our passing attack is a work in progress at this time, and I wouldn't be surprised to see us get better as the season goes on. By the Egg Bowl, we may even be functional agianst SEC defenses throwing the ball.

 

[57stratdawg]

as the execution in the passing game. The reality is that if Bumpis and Berry make 2 or 3 more catches and Relf hits Perkins in stride, we win the football game.

I think we'll probably still see a run/pass of about 60/40. Just gotta hope our players make the plays that were there against Auburn.

 

[RougeDawg]

this year. Ballard has clearly shown he can hang with any SEC defense but we are somehow pass first this year. Perkins is legit also. Please God, let leave Elliott for mop up duty. My grandmother could tackle him, and she's 86. Don't know about Griffin though. Mullen may be thinking about saving him. I say we run the 17 out of Relf with Ballard and Perkins in the option. LSU will not be able to stop that for 4 quarters. IMO

 

[VirgilCain]

wide-open receivers..... terrible pass. Wide-open receiver, good (or decent) pass.... stone-hands.

I really want to go back into this in depth, but this topic has been discussed ad nauseum.

 

[EClass04]

I agree with Todd that our success throwing the ball against Memphis led to us being a bit more pass happy than normal against Auburn, but I don't think burning Griffin's redshirt is the answer to correcting our offense.What we reallyneed to do is refocus on establishing the run and not abandoning it when the other team goes up by 3. I also think Vic Ballard is the guy you start looking at to carry the load. He's not spectacular to watch but he gets the tough yards in the red zone, and he showed against Memphis that he can wiggle into a seam and take one to the house. Until we establish the run, we'll continue to struggle mightily against SEC teams. We especially need to be on point in the run game when Russell is in because everyone knows he's not a threat to run, so the defense basically gets to drop an extra LB or Dlineman into coverage because there's no spy responsibility on the QB. If nothing else, you've got 5 guys on the Oline and some TEs with tons of starting experience, soshow a little confidence in those guys and run the ball.

 

[Sarc Dawg]

That Auburn's fourth corner is a true freshmens. If true, I supposewe were trying to workthatin our game plan.

 

[8dog]

every missed play can always be blamed on execution. However, we run the option a hell of a lot better than we throw so we should have been running more option instead of relying on execution from a passing game that we know is not great.

 

[chew1095]

I dont give a rats *** if we throw the ball 100 times or run the ball 100 times, someone needs to step up on the offensive side of the ball and make plays.

We had some issues in the first half on defense, but Diaz did a great job making half time adjustments. The defense pitches a shut out in the second half and we craptastically cannot make plays on offense to close out an SEC opponent at home.

It doesnt get any easier from this point on, so QBs, WRs and RBs, step the 17 up.</p>

 

[Hidog78]

Who in 17 said Russell can't run besides c34 ? The plays have not been called for him to.

 

[DrKennethNoisewater]

Elliot looks done, Ballard looks average, and we really haven't seen enough of Perkins to judge how good he is.

Elliot 15 carries
Ballard 12 carries
Perkins 11 carries

I just don't see howanybody could reach those conclusions with so fewtouches for each back. Ballard look average with 12 carries while Perkins has just 1 less carry but we haven't seen enough of him to judge how good he is? So after his next carry we should know? We need to run the football more.

 

[chew1095]

I will say it again. I dont give two ***** who it is, someone needs to step up on offense.

Instead of "Rocking the Deuce", Elliott looks like he is snapping a deuce everytime he gets the ball.

 

[boomboommsu]

...that AU's pass defense looked terrible in their first game. turns out it was a fluke. everyone on here seems to forget that we really only had one game of film to study.

 

[Johnson85]

is the basics. My thought is that Mullen won't accept when his offense can't perform the basic, fundamental tasks invovled in running an offense. That's why we see the playcalling on the goal line at LSU last year. I kind of understand it. If you can't trust your qb to pitch to a wide open NFL caliber RB, and can't trust him to lob the ball over the line of scrimmage to a wide open player, you are 17ed anyway. Admitting that and simply trying to run the ball every play of the game isn't a much better option.

Same thing with Auburn. If they're going to give us wide open receivers and we can't throwtheh ball to them and then catch it, we're pretty much 17ed anyway. I wish we had just tried to run the damn ball, but at the same time, at some point we have to do things a good high school team can do. If we catch those balls, all the sudden people can't gameplan to just stop the run. Right now, that's all we're going to see until we prove we can make people pay in the air.