re: Beyond merely stupid- stupid to the 10th power.

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I miss that Les Miles. He has disappeared.

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allowed his OC to let Deangelo Peterson to run a reverse around the left side for big yardage.

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No he hasn't. LSU didn't call that play in a vacuum. They saw Bama's end showing a tendency to forget his contain responsibilities. They took a smart gamble based on what the defense was doing. That's exactly what they did on the controversial second down. They saw Clemson selling out to stop the run and took a wise gamble that worked beautifully except for one thing - a player failed to make a routine one-foot-in-front-of-the-other play!

The coaches knew something that I also knew: Clemson was going to blitz the edges and every gap. There was going to be ZERO yards rushing on that series. Hill got ZERO yards against that D. I don't give a shite how many yards he averaged against honest fronts because he wasn't going to see one of those.

A playcaller's job is to get his guys into advantageous situations. On first and second down that's exactly what LSU did, and props to whoever made those calls.