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re: 3rd and Chavis - How does Les deal with it?
Posted on 8/23/09 at 10:42 am to NorfolkVATiger
Posted on 8/23/09 at 10:42 am to NorfolkVATiger
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Les is conservative? How did he get the reputation as the "mad hatter"?
a horrible reputation
our gameplans and playcalls are conservative the vast majority of the time
we sprinkle in a trick play here or there which are just well-calculated (and may not be les's anyway)
and then people see him going for 4th downs against UF and jizz themselves, but we HAD to go for those
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He's a gambler
no. he's not
when has he "gambled"
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going for it on fourth down
against UF? you mean when we were down and there wasn't any time left? he had to go for it on 4th
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lots of special teams trickery,
4-5 fakes, which les may or may not have called (he definitely didn't call the one against ASU. that was jackson)?
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the pass at the end of the Auburn game in 2007
which was followed by him not going for 2
he also hires conservative coaches. bo p was a "rush 4 and drop 7" guy. chavis is also. crowton isn't aggressive (very horizontal offense which has been made even more conservative with all the i-form up the guy shite we run)
look at our general gameplan. very conservative. lots of rushing up the middle out of the i. horizontal passing. our D doesn't blitz much anymore and we play soft zone coverage.
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Posted on 8/23/09 at 10:54 am to SlowFlowPro
Has anyone every noticed that every defensive coordinater in the country gets bashed about their 3rd down calls (accept saban)? It's not the coordinaters 9 times out of 10. Third down is generally the most important down for offenses too as it determines the difference bwt continuing the drive and punting. I would think that any defensive coordinater knows more about 3rd down defense than anyone on this board.
Posted on 8/23/09 at 1:58 pm to SlowFlowPro
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against UF? you mean when we were down and there wasn't any time left? he had to go for it on 4th
You obviously don't remember that game very well, or you're just pulling shite out of your arse again to pump up your post count.
The score was 24-21 with somewhere around 2 minutes to go in the fourth quarter, with LSU facing a 4th and 1 inside UF's 10 yard line. Les didn't HAVE to go for anything. A 27 yard field goal would have tied the game with less than 2 minutes to play. A very high percentage of FBS coaches (>90%) kick the FG in that situation. If Hester gets stuffed there, LSU loses that game and the National Championship. So, don't just blow that off.
The last second pass against Auburn wasn't as big of a gamble as most make it out to be, but it was a very smart play call with a senior QB. If he makes that call with Jarrett Lee, it wouldn't be nearly as smart.
As for not going for 2 afterwards, that was Les getting caught up in the moment just like when he tried to call timeout in 2005 against Tennessee after an interception. Has nothing to do with him being conservatitve or not.
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