Let Lebby build

[Quaoarsking]

Lebby's only mistake against Texas was continuing to go fast and not burning clock in the 4th. Snapping the ball with 25 seconds when you have a 17 point lead in the 4th Q is stupid. You drain that clock and limit possessions.

If we have a 4th quarter lead tomorrow and we're still doing that, it would be a damning sign for Lebby's long term future here.

[Tbonewannabe]

Lebby's only mistake against Texas was continuing to go fast and not burning clock in the 4th. Snapping the ball with 25 seconds when you have a 17 point lead in the 4th Q is stupid. You drain that clock and limit possessions.

Our lack of depth and stupidity caused the bad penalty, long plays, and ST TD

And hopefully the young head coach learns from that. My biggest complaint is that he either needs someone he will listen to when those decisions need to be made or an OC that can take things off his plate.

[StarkVegasSteve]

If we have a 4th quarter lead tomorrow and we're still doing that, it would be a damning sign for Lebby's long term future here.

You're not wrong. I think we see Lebby chew the clock a little better tomorrow.

[StarkVegasSteve]

And hopefully the young head coach learns from that. My biggest complaint is that he either needs someone he will listen to when those decisions need to be made or an OC that can take things off his plate.

He's probably not going to give up playcalling unless it's for Kendall to come do it. He just needs an offensive analyst to tell him what to do in certain situations. It'd be incredible if we could get someone like Billy Napier to come be an analyst for a year.

[MBDawg601]

Re-watched the Texas game. we manhandled them for 3.5 quarters.I honestly had given up last Saturday, but after re watching the game we are SO close I can fkn taste it.

I?m all in on Lebby. 98% of the teams cannot say they?re 3-4 plays away from being in the playoff race, we can though and are doing it with 1/4 of the talent. To be honest, every game (other than A&M) I?ve had a blast watching and feel like at any given moment we can score. I have not had this much fun and heartbreak in football in quite some time. It?s a bitter sweet thing, but to have something to feel passionate about again, says something.

[Maroon Glasses]

Personally I want Lebby to keep calling plays. As much heart break this season has caused so far, it has been a long time since I have loved watching us on offense. Yeah we have some questionable play calling and wtf drives, but overall our offense is fun to watch. Defense is a bend but dont break style and has 360? from last year. I do agree with some posters that as fast as our offense moves it can really hurt you at times, especially in the 4th when our D is worn down from lack of depth. Thats where Lebby has to learn to use clock. Maybe revert to more of a Leach style offense with the short dink and dunk passes mixed in with running the ball. But if we can establish some depth of defense in the off season, then Lebby style of quick play shouldn't hurt us as bad imo. I just think our defense is so worn down by the 4th quarter. But damn I am proud of how much they have turned it around and the intensity they play with. Besides the dumb, inexcusable penalties that have lost us games.

[Coach34]

And hopefully the young head coach learns from that. My biggest complaint is that he either needs someone he will listen to when those decisions need to be made or an OC that can take things off his plate.

Thats not really necessary. Lebby was thinking they were tired and he was going to keep going fast to keep his foot on their throat. He has to change that mindset to win games.

[Maroon Glasses]

Thats not really necessary. Lebby was thinking they were tired and he was going to keep going fast to keep his foot on their throat. He has to change that mindset to win games.

Correct. You're the first person I've seen say this. His mindset wasnt to become conservative. It was to continue to score and not let up. It just back fired on him. But the mindset was definitely to keep his foot on their throat. The execution just wasn't there.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Correct. You're the first person I've seen say this. His mindset wasnt to become conservative. It was to continue to score and not let up. It just back fired on him. But the mindset was definitely to keep his foot on their throat. The execution just wasn't there.

He thought like an OC. He has to continue adapting to think like a HC.

[HoopsDawg]

He thought like an OC. He has to continue adapting to think like a HC.

Really sucks that Reese it out tomorrow.

[Medic601]

Im a no body and my opinion doesn?t matter but i am beyond happy with Lebby. I feel our program has made GREAT strides over the past 2 years.

Sure, he has made some mistakes but he is a young first time head coach in the big leagues, cut him some slack.

I support him fully and think by next year, we will be a WHOLE new program.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Really sucks that Reese it out tomorrow.

It does and against a defense with a pulse I'd be worried. But these are the last 3 weeks, since they fired the DC, what they have given up on the ground:

Tennessee: 264
A&M: 217
Auburn: 230

Now Auburn can't throw a forward pass and Tennessee really didn't want to that night. A&M, however, did and had good success. Reed was 23/32 for 280. Almost 9 yds a completion. Shapen has been at 9 and 9.1 the last two weeks. I suspect our run game opens up the deep ball and Shapen is a lot more accurate than Reed on the deep ball, and that's saying something.

I predicted 48-24 earlier in the week and I'm sticking by it.

[Maroon Glasses]

Anyone else think this could be a good opportunity to let KT get some opportunities to run the offense? Especially as bad as Arky run defense is. Might could be a good game plan to utilize.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Anyone else think this could be a good opportunity to let KT get some opportunities to run the offense? Especially as bad as Arky run defense is. Might could be a good game plan to utilize.

No. Stick to the gameplan. If it calls for him to go in, then let him go in. You don't change things up Week 10. Kamario also has not really shown the ability to be able to run even a zone read, much less an RPO. You stick to the 5-10 plays he knows how to run.

[Maroon Glasses]

I'm really hoping he can pick up the offense this off season. It's a huge difference thats hard to comprehend for most to go from being the best high school athlete on the field to playing QB in the SEC. Especially in an RPO offense and trying to read defensive schemes.

[StarkVegasSteve]

I'm really hoping he can pick up the offense this off season. It's a huge difference thats hard to comprehend for most to go from being the best high school athlete on the field to playing QB in the SEC. Especially in an RPO offense and trying to read defensive schemes.

Yea. And a few tried to tell the masses that and they didn't, and still don't, understand.

He went from running an extremely simplistic offense at Noxubee Co to an SEC offense. Which, no matter what offensive system you are in, is going to be 100000x more complicated than a HS offense. Especially a MS HS offense.

He has all the physical abilities to be Cam Newton, but he has to learn and master the offense.

[Todd4State]

You're not wrong. I think we see Lebby chew the clock a little better tomorrow.

Having Fluff will help with that.

[TrapGame]

Having Fluff will help with that.

Fluff might have a huge day tomorrow.

[Todd4State]

He thought like an OC. He has to continue adapting to think like a HC.

This kind of reminds me of when Cohen was our baseball coach in year two. He was trying to do things that I knew were good but we just didn't have the talent to pull it off. We got talent in 2011 and those decisions somehow started to work a lot better.

[Todd4State]

Fluff might have a huge day tomorrow.

He's not 100% I wouldn't think so if he cracks 75 yards I'll be happy.
We need to rotate Booth in and split carries and take it slow with Fluff.