Post game thoughts.

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The offensive play calling has to, has to, has to make adjustments.

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this is my biggest problem with a lot of the cliff jumping tonight (not putting you in that category, just saying). Our offensive play calling was lights out. LSU honestly had massive problems trying to adjust. SC had 211 yards on this defense last week. Florida had 237. Washington had 183. We had 410 today.

We had all of one 3 and out all day and it was after Trey's return and we were starting at the 15. And this is against one of the elite defenses in the country. We scored 4 times. We missed 2 FGs meaning we put ourselves in position to score 6 times. Even on plays that failed there were great play calls that were there if executed (Malena TD called back, JFF pass to EZ in end zone, broken draw play that JFF had to eat (that was going to be a huge play))

Offensive playcalling is not our problem. Execution most definitely is.

You are the first two Ive seen that liked the playcalling. KK is in way over his head.

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honestly dude, you've made it pretty clear you hate this offense and it appears you are doing nothing more than looking for reasons to bitch.

I truly don't envy people like yourself that can't enjoy a game at all.

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I truly dont envy people like you who are content with anything less than a title and people like you are the reason we have never had one. The good effort, good job kid of sports fans. Being respectable and cheering on the players just for putting on maroon is enough. Pathetic.

And do you think Im alone on that opinion? Dig through just about any article today. They almost universally disagree with you.

My fear going into this game was that our D-Line would be physically dominated by LSU's O-Line. With the exception of LSU's last TD, I never saw any evidence of that. Our four turnovers didn't help at all in that manner.

I liked JFF. I thought that he showed great restraint. He looked like a freshman on the two interceptions (the middle one being entirely on the receiver), but when you start a freshman, that is going to happen.

What I don't like. Our 3rd offensive play of the game, it's 3rd down and 1, and we have an empty backfield. There are few universal truths in football, but one is that on 3rd and 1, you get into an I formation, and you run the ball down their fricking throat. I was going to complain about the lack of offensive balance, but we actually ran 38 times... more than I would have guessed. I still think that with our offensive line, we should have a physical running game, and we don't.

I am not going to pile on Bertolet. Him missing the XP and a 32 yard attempt were ugly, but to say he cost us the game, you're saying that the 50 yarder he did make and the 52 that he missed were sure things, when in college football, both of those kicks are under 50%.

Turnovers cost us this game.

I think that it's very easy to over-analyze football. Last season, I was measuring the ratio of yards to points in the 1st half versus the 2nd half of games. The results were interesting but really only showed that we typically put up fewer yards in the 2nd half, that the drop off was a lot less than generally thought, and that we moved the ball but rarely scored in the 2nd half... (and rarely for the same reasons from week to week).

Jump to 2012. In our first loss, in the 2nd half Florida put a spy on JFF and kept him in the pocket. It killed our offense.

In the 2nd quarter Saturday, LSU appeared to change from a 4-3 to a 3-4 (bizarre!) and we didn't move the ball nearly as well after the switch. JFF also had three interceptions after this switch, two of which were his fault.

Essentially, both defenses made changes to put the game in the JFF's hands, and he didn't take care of business either time. At this point in his development, he doesn't read defenses well. He looks at his primary receiver and then runs if there is nothing there, at least that's what I see watching us. With the athleticism of Florida and LSU, nothing much came from him running in those situations.

I didn't believe in this offense when Leach ran it at Tceh. In a way, however, it's worked better for us than I expected this season. It's just a matter of having a QB who can do his check downs and find the open man. Something which should happen for JFF as he gains experience.

Just my two cents.

think we're not seeing more option solely because on the option you often see a QB get absolutely drilled by the DE on the pitch. I think they are trying to reduce the number of clean shots Manziel takes if possible

On the QB draw, it's really a set up play (as all draws are). Hopefully you can get a few yards and periodically break a nice run, but it's designed to stress the LBs who may drop too quickly against the draw or hesitate and don't get the drop on a future pass play. Our problem this week is, as you point out, we couldn't create lanes to make it dangerous at all. Simply doesn't put much stress on anyone when the DTs can make that play every time.

I was unimpressed with the offensive play calling. Watching KK call the plays is like when you create yourself on Heisman Race in old NCAA games or present as a quarterback. You refuse to do anything but pass and scramble to pad stats. Sometimes you run the same plays over or you try to get too cute, only to lose a game you very well had in the bag, but you threw an interception trying to pass on the 1 yard line, then, when you are about to go on a game winning drive but your QB fumbles after getting a first down with his legs. Then you get all mad and tell yourself that this is the 4th or 5th time you have played this game, but you never want to save it because you want to take A&M to new heights and they can't have a blemished record. Start, quit, yes.

Some frickers on here are ridiculous. Most of you don't know shiite about playcalling besides asking madden, yet you continously whine about "play-calling" because your hard-headed dumbass self wants to "run it between the tackles" because "that's what Alabama and LSU do."

NEWSFLASH! Bama and LSU can afford to do that because they have better players than everyone else!! Their defenses have superior players and superior depth than anyone they play. Thus, they can afford to play conservatively. They can afford to play that "under center, between the tackles" offense. If the current A&M team would play the style that Bama plays, we would have no chance because we'd both be doing the exact same thing but they'd be doing it with better players. They'd load the box, and it would be like running into a brick wall.

We put up more yards than anyone else on LSU and if it wasn't for a missed PAT, a chop block, a missed 30 yard FG, and silly INTs (one that bounced off our best receivers' chest and one that was poor communication between the WR and our QB) we win this game. Execution cock blocked us from a win, not play calling. Play calling had LSU all fricked up the first 3 or 4 series. We caught 'em with something they hadn't seen all year and we were moving the ball. After that they adjust, and guess what......THEY DO THAT TO EVERYBODY. NO ONE MOVES THE BALL FOR 4 QTRS ON LSU.

So stfu with your idiotic whining on playcalling, and try to enjoy the fact that we got a pretty good team in college station.

/rantover