Instead of blaming Bustle....

[CajunMarine81]

_ I have been critical of Bustle. And maybe Jay is partial to Bustle, but honestly guy's, Bustle isn't the biggest problem we have. Fielding Yost would have a hard time coaching Postman Masson and his little girl pocket presence. _

You can be upset about the performance... and in some cases, yes, it is their fault. WAKE UP MAN!!!!! BUSTLE RECRUITED HIM (although I like masson). BUSTLE CALLED THE PLAYS! WEAK ASS PLAYS!!! IT ALL FALLS ON THE COMMANDER!!!!!!!! You can call Masson a little girl running around, BUT IT'S BUSTLE _______!!!

[ULtimateCajun]

It baffles me how we could look so good for 3 quarters against Ark. St. And then play like we did tonight. Its the story of Bustles career here.


igeaux.mobi

[ragin91cajun]

_ Your right Bustle did start Masson. But lets see his options coming into the season. Masson only healthy guy with experience. McGuire was hurt. Gauthier was at one time suspended and also hurt at the beginning of the season. So it was Masson or nothing. Kinda. _

I'm not talking about coming into the season. I'm talking about tonight. Masson wasn't very good against Georgia and was far short of spectacular against Arkansas State. Gautier's injury at the beginning of the season wasn't enough to keep him out of either of the first two games. As for McGuire, I think he got hurt while practicing at running back (I could be completely wrong about this, but I do remember him taking reps at this position in the spring because of excessive injuries. The fact that coaches would ever allow their number two quarterback to be practicing at running back never sat well with me). By the way, Bustle's ineptitude to make a change at the quarterback position has been a problem for several years.

[raginsaints]

Chris Masson is deathly afraid of being hit, he curls up into the fetal position if any defender gets near him. Our playcalling is awful, the middle screen doesn't work bc our oline isn't good enough. The zone read doesn't work, our receiver catch like they have no hands. Our defense tackled like middle schoolers, really terrible safety play. Bad special teams. Bad head coach. Fire everybody.

[cajunhawk]

_ You can be upset about the performance... and in some cases, yes, it is there fault. WAKE UP MAN!!!!! BUSTLE RECRUITED HIM (although I like masson). BUSTLE CALLED THE PLAYS! WEAK ASS PLAYS!!! IT ALL FALLS ON THE COMMANDER!!!!!!!! You can call Masson a little girl running around, BUT IT'S BUSTLE _______!!! _

I totally agree. But eventually players have to play. A coach can only put a player in position. The player has to preform. The coach cannot be a catchall for every problem. It's a two way street.

[TuffGuy84]

_ I totally agree. But eventually players have to play. A coach can only put a player in position. The player has to preform. The coach cannot be a catchall for every problem. It's a two way street. _

I agree and disagree with you. Masson is a statue in the pocket, and even with that, doesnt have the passing ability to throw over 10 yards accurately. This is a huge problem when you have an offensive line that is getting blown off the ball in passing situations, and are only barely decent in run blocking situations. While Masson is by no means a good QB, its not like the coaches is putting him in a position to be successful, and that falls on bustle. The fact that Bustle is still starting him when Gautier and McGuire (pre-injury) were better options falls directly on him. The fact that through the first 3 quarters that first down was almost always guaranteed a pass play falls directly on Bustle (why the hell would you not run). Finally, the straw that broke my back tonight, the thing that made me seriously think that I'd rather have an assistant coach run the team and go 1-11 than have this buffoon as the coach for one more second was getting the ball back with 7+ minutes to go in the game, and literally killing the clock, and having no urgency to even attempt to still try to win the game. That is an insult to me, the 17,000+ other fans that were at the game, and worst of all, its a huge insult to the players on the team. Seriously, he needs to go make bad McDonalds commercials somewhere else, cuzz his shtick is getting really old.

[raginsaints]

I'm done with being emotionally invested in a Rickey Bustle coached football team. I'll still go tailgate and I'll watch the games but the losses aren't going to ruin my night.

[SlappyCajun]

This thread boils down to two things:

1. We are not recruiting good enough players. Especially on the lines. Even our O Line last year that was so good. Two of the players Bustle and Fisher were orginally walkons. We have also not had a DE or DT be anywhere close to the top of the league since Bustle arrived.

2. We have no offensive identity.

We started the triple zone read with Babb. It was deadly with Mike and Fenroy. Then, we simply did not pick personell to fill the holes. If we want to run the zone read, we might as well let Gauthier or McGuire run it 90% of the time.

I've been a Cajun football fan my whole life. Until we put something close to a decent product on the field. Tailgating will increasingly become an LSU viewing party. We might as well project the game on the side of Cajun field


igeaux.mobi

[DaddyCajun]

_ My only gripe is we run a read offense with a QB that doesn't throw very well and doesn't like to run.


igeaux.mobi _

Masson seemed to have a VERY dificult time "reading" the defense Saturday and then the O-line seemed flat to be kind and did not give a dancing QB much time to throw whether in the pocket or sprinting out, the line also seemed to run block only when they wanted to and that was not too often. When the ball was not sailing over the heads of the recievers there were some good catches but also some bad drops. Streeter looked great!

Defense NEEDS to learn HOW to TACKLE!!!! Bumping and arm tackling is NOT how it is done. WRAP THEM UP MEN, PLEASE!!!

Special teams were even inconsistant at times.

Not a good game by any stretch. Damm.

[awadelewis]

You can't solely blame Masson for last night's poor performance....

Let's start with an O-line that couldn't pick up a blitz the entire game. It was obvious that the MTSU coaches watched the tape from the UGA game. But, come on, this isn't SEC caliber talent you're playing out there... our O-line is supposed to be able to stop these guys.

Defensive players missing tackles the entire night. Come on, people! I saw players making errors on tackles that you're taught to avoid in frickin' middle school. And what was that zone defense our secondary was trying to play? MTSU was able to pass the ball into the flat the entire game.

That said, Masson is not capable of playing an option offense. Period. Combine that with our inability to provide any sort of pass protection and you get the result we had on scoreboard last night.

And we had two weeks to prepare for these guys. I said earlier in the season that it was too early to think about tar and feathering Bustle. Well, now's time to start thinking about plucking the chickens... this keeps up, we're going to see that 2-10 record some of the national media was predicting for us.

[CajunNation]

1. We are not recruiting good enough players.

This is the answer to all of last night's failures.

[cajunhawk]

MTSU in the first half saw that Masson is a big baby in the pocket. So they pinned their ears back constantly. It worked almost every time. They rarely sacked him, but it was a practice in futility watching Masson try to figure out the blitz that he seen on every single drive of the game. The moment that sums up the entire night, Masson's option pitch for negative 5 yards. He wasn't this bad last year. He seemed decent enough. It may have been the O line we had last year. But when you are blitzed for the umpteenth time and you make the wrong read for the umpteenth time it's time to pull him.

Now the coaching staff.....after sleeping on it, you guys are right. This is a double blame. The coaching staff was god awful. Masson can't handle the blitz, lets not give him any extra blockers in the backfield. Masson is having trouble making reads and can't handle the pressure and is forcing throws into coverage. Keep passing. Special teams coach needs to be fired. And Fourqier needs to run his D until they puke. And after they puke....tackling drills. Plus the 6 yard cushion the MTSU wide outs got all night, is just broken and needs to be fixed. Three words for Bustle.....RUN THE BALL!!!! We all saw what Streeter and Spikes are capable of. It's time to think about the future. No Masson, No shankle. Let's get ready for next year now. Give the youngens some playing time.