But the Mountaineers scored in the next two plays anyway. Jarrett Lee was then seen putting on his helmet and throwing warm up passes as he was expecting to go in the game.
However, he was then told to take his helmet back off as Jefferson would return again. I noticed that Lee was walking very fast through the players and appeared to be upset. However, on the next set of downs they sent him in and I thought he did OK, but a procedure penalty nullified a first down and they finally had to punt.
On the next series, Jefferson returns to run the clock out and Lee is forced to watch. It is this manner of treatment that must hurt Jarrett Lee's feeling and threaten his confidence when there is this almost type opportunity from Coach Miles. Jarrett Lee has proved to all Tiger Fans that he is a man and took his demotion like a man without whimpering or complaining.
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. Lee, who eventually lost his job to fellow freshman Jordan Jefferson and spent most of the past two seasons as his backup, is the SEC's most efficient quarterback this season with a Most impressively, the same quarterback once derisively know as a Walking Pick Six has thrown just one interception in attempts this season, the lowest percentage.
Not bad for a guy expected to back up Jefferson once again before the latter's August arrest following a fight in a bar parking lot weeks before the season started. Saturday night in Tuscaloosa, Lee gets another shot at the Crimson Tide, this time in college football's most anticipated regular season game in years.
Lee's LSU team is No. Alabama, also , is No. You keep your head held high. That's just life, full of ups and downs. Lee's dramatic improvement would amaze anyone. Just last season he had a miserable But those closest to him are most impressed by his resiliency. Beyond a few cursory conversations with coach Les Miles about possible options, Lee never gave serious consideration to transferring.
A lot of guys that have been in his situation would choose to leave. He could have said, I'm going to pack my bags and press the reset button. He stared adversity in the face and said, 'I'm going to beat it,' and now he's seeing the fruit of his labor. Miles hired the former Tulsa and Louisville head coach to replace former offensive coordinator Gary Crowton, under whom the Tigers ranked 92nd in pass efficiency last year But there were some players and plays that could have helped us win.
I felt we had a great game plan going in, but it didn't work out for us. Lee is the second outgoing starter to suggest the game the offense played on Jan. The Tigers gained 91 yards and didn't cross midfield until the midway point of the fourth quarter. Jefferson was sacked four times, completed one pass that covered more than 10 yards, and none that covered At one point in the third quarter, he "threw" one of the most stunning interceptions on record and was booed by his own fans when he returned to the lineup on the next series.
At the half, the Tigers were 0 for 5 on third-down conversions with one total first down; they finished 2 of 12 on third down with five first downs. They never seriously threatened to score. During the regular season, Lee started the first nine games after Jefferson was charged with battery in a preseason bar fight, including comfortable wins over Oregon, West Virginia, Florida, Auburn and, yes, Alabama, though he was benched for much of the Nov.
For the season, though, Lee was virtually mistake-free, leading all SEC starters in pass efficiency at the helm of the highest-scoring offense in the league. Still, with a national championship and arguably the best season in LSU history slipping away, he was left to stand by watching as Jefferson grew increasingly impotent, flustered and self-destructive. The snub made such little sense that LSU fans immediately began grasping for explanations other than "Our coaches just ignored our other competent, veteran quarterback," including unfounded rumors of a pregame rift — possibly over playing time, possibly along racial lines, depending on which thread you were reading — that somehow convinced coach Les Miles to leave Lee planted on the bench despite the ongoing meltdown.
Lee like every other player or coach on the record, including Miles summarily dismissed the rumors — "All that stuff, the rumors about a confrontation before the game, all that's false. We were excited. We had a great game plan.
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