After yesterday's spring spring game, mission tentatively accomplished on that front. On the other hand, as far as the passing game is concerned? Hide the women and children.
While the Tigers had a pair of 100-yard rushers , Michael Ford (139 yards) and Stevan Ridley (104) the quarterbacking was suspect to say the least. Starter Jordan Jefferson and backup Jarrett Lee combined to complete just 17 of 40 passes and two interceptions.
Miles attempted to downplay the performances of his two main QBs, but there was no hiding the concern in his postgame remarks.
"Yeah, there were some throws that were not ideal," Miles said according to the Shreveport Times. "I'm always concerned. I like our guys to throw perfectly. I don't know that anybody does that, though. I see a lot of quarterbacks that throw a ball a little off left or right, so.
Miles added that the way the game was structured could've affected the way the QBs played.
"Well I don't know that we threw exactly what we wanted to throw today," Miles said. "I think we kind of pulled back some of those things.
"But in a scrimmage that we wanted to make sure that we ran the football and looked at two backs, I think that was probably the first step. We ran the football pretty well in the first half, and then we had a running clock in the second half and those were the minutes that we wanted to throw the football. So we got it accomplished on the back end, maybe not as well as we would have liked."
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