Stats: Malik Rosier - 15/35 259yds 42.8%cmp 1TD pass 2INT's, 16 carries 7yds rushing & 1TD
Deejay Dallas - 8att 38yds rush
Travis Homer - 7att 30yds rush
Jeff Thomas - 5rec 132yds
Lawrence Cager - 2rec 42yds
Brian Hightower - 1rec 32yds 1Td
Only 83yds total rushing on Offense & 11 penalties for 85yds
LSU: Joe Burrow - 11/24 140yds 0TD's
Nick Brosette - 22att 125yds 2TD's
Defense gave up 156yds total rushing.
First let me start off by holding my L for Defending Manny & the Defense this offseason, I thought they would improve, but I was 100% wrong. Manny needs to go, unless we can get this thing turned around & go on a 12 game win streak, I've seen enough of Manny's Defense to know that he hit his peak last year & I don't see a whole lot of improvement going forward. Our pass rush/run Defense is non existent & our Pass Defense is equally as bad. I understand he's not going to be fired this season, but at the end of the year we need to find another option. No excuses.
Now... This god forsaken Offense needs to be overhauled, I was saying it all last year & this offseason, and I'm going to say it again, this Offense is archaic & predictable. The refusal to develop any of the young QB's reared its ugly head, Rosier is simply not the answer.
For the Fundamentalists who defended Rosier at every turn this offseason, I look forward to the continued excuse making. Those INT's were not his fault, that pick 6 wasn't his fault right? None of those overthrown balls when he had time were his fault either right?
Major programs all around college football are starting True & Redshirt Freshman, because they have actual OC's & QB coaches that can get them ready. And don't for 1sec try to tell me he won the QB competition fair & square, there was no QB comp, you can't get the young guys ready if you give all the 1st team reps to one guy. I don't expect us to get blown out like this again (I hope not), but I can see us losing at least 2 possibly 3 more games this season if we don't galvanize this team & wake them the fck up.
Maybe a QB change would do the trick, but if Richt sticks with Rosier come **** or high water (like I said he would back in the Spring), I hope he learns a valuable lesson about betting the house on an inaccurate 5th year Senior & refusing to adjust the Offense to fit our personnel.
We are a Spread Option team, we do not have the OL needed to run this long vertical Offense that is predicated on nothing but Deep ball throws & we don't have the OL necessary of being a traditional power run team. We need to run an Uptempo high octane Offense with a quick passing/rushing attack. Frost didn't beat anybody off talent alone last year, he killed teams with scheme that is centered around High-speed pace keeping Defenses off balance & shortening the field for his QB, which also opens up the run game.
Ultimately this all falls on Richt. He hired a bunch of questionable assistants with very little experience. I like all our Coaches, but no amount of burying your head in the sand can deny that our team has been out-coached in these big moments. This is now two 4 game losing streaks in the Richt era, can't keep doing the same thing over & over again expecting different results.
We need an OC, a REAL QB coach & a Special Teams Coach (Hartley just coach TE's & recruit). And Richt needs to quit hiring High School & inexperienced coaches expecting them to learn on the job. It was a fxckin embarrassment to get taken out behind the woodshed by an incompetent dope like Eddie Orgeron, can't let this happen again in ACC play this year, Richt better snap the **** out of it & get this team ready to go by 9/15 & 9/27, cannot afford to play like dogsh*t anymore.
On the bright side, Jeff Thomas, Deejay Dallas & Brian Hightower were the only ones who showed up tonight, those young guys played like they actually gave a ****. But otherwise, just about everybody else got smacked around & looked completely outmatched vs an average LSU team missing several key starters. This is not Miami football & it needs to be fixed immediately.