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Junior quarterback Jarrett Lee came through Saturday in the clutch against Florida and engineered the final four plays that won the game for LSU.
 
LSU coach Les Miles said poise and leadership are integral at the quarterback spot, and he said he liked the way Lee and fellow junior Jordan Jefferson exhibited their skills in LSU’s 33-29 victory, except for Jefferson’s interception that led to a Florida touchdown.
 
“We are operating two quarterbacks in what appear to be the best possible scenarios,” Miles said Monday. “Both guys are really pulling for the other, and both understand they each have a contribution that needs to be made.”
 
Miles said offensive coordinator Gary Crowton is “doing a heck of a job” in deciding when to play Jefferson or Lee in games. As far as how the rest of the season will pan out, Miles was less committal, saying it is important to have both the run and the pass as a threat on the offensive side.
 
“It’s a work in progress, certainly, but one game certainly helped,” Miles said. “Now, hopefully we’ll go quickly through the next games, and the ease of how we play them will continue to manifest itself. If at one point in time, the balance were to swing where the contribution is not equal to the number of reps, then certainly we’ll give thought to playing them differently.”
 
Miles said Jefferson and Lee showed more “swagger” at the quarterback spot. On Saturday, though, it was Lee who spiked the ball to stop the clock on first-and-goal from the Florida 3-yard line.
 
“Everybody kind of understood that we were going to get it clocked,” Miles said. “I don’t think that there is anything magical necessarily about [Lee] getting it done quickly. Certainly that’s what we needed to have happen because we had the downs. We just needed some more time on the clock.”
 
Miles was asked Monday about wide wide receivers coach/ passing game coordinator coach Billy Gonzales’ relationship with Florida coach Urban Meyer. Gonzales abruptly resigned from Florida in December 2009 and returned to the sidelines at his former school for the first time Saturday.
 
“The only thing I can tell you … is how Coach Gonzales represented Urban Meyer and his time at Florida with great respect, enjoyed it fully and in a simple way was looking for a change,” Miles said. “He had little impact on game plan [for Florida]. He knew personnel, and that’s really all he shared with us.”
 
 
 
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