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Texas A&M, Missouri & Auburn are probably the furthest from pro style offenses in the SEC right now. A&M runs an air raid spread while Auburn is uptempo ground attack oriented. Auburn can hit you with power or get to the edges. There's also a large number of schools that use a blend of spread & pro style but the schools who are strictly pro style are LSU, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas & Georgia.

when you watch pro games the one offense out of all those that looks the least like what you will see on Sunday including Texas A&M, Missouri, and Auburn (for the casual viewer not looking at pre-snap hand signals, pre snap reads, route trees, pre snap QB reads, and hand signals from the sidelines) is LSU's offense. So maybe if we kept all that stuff that you say makes it a pro style offense (for whatever reason we would want to do that) and made it look more like what the rest of college football does and what the NFL looks like (the spread, the pistol, running out of different formations, using misdirection, but keeping it simpler like the other college teams do) we would have more success in our passing game. Add in working on it and developing it in real game time situations, maybe it wouldn't be such a monumental task to complete a forward pass. You do agree that the ability to complete a forward pass could make our offense even harder to stop and make the run game even better?

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Posted by boxcar willie

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Posted on 11/12/14 at 11:16 pm to boxcar willie

Why does every TE, every RB, and every WR look out of their element in the pass game? It's not just the QB's. Something is seriously wrong. A long with a lot of other things, like the style of offense we run, formations, overly complex or not complex enough pass game, pre snap pro style whatever, it is a lack of game time reps and emphasis on trying to develop a pass game going all the way back to spring and continuing throughout the season that have made it inept.

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Posted by BigBrod81

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Posted on 11/12/14 at 11:56 pm to boxcar willie

Our personnel groupings & formations are very much pro style. Just because we aren't pass heavy doesn't mean that the aspects aren't pro style oriented.

We are run heavy right now because the coaches are playing to the personnel's strengths right now. This season we have inexperience at WR & QB. We have a veteran O-Line & a plethora of power backs. The coaches are just trying to win games while allowing the young guys to develop. That's the point you are not understanding. It may not be pretty & doesn't please those who wide open throw the ball all over the field offense but what is being done right now will pay dividends next season. The things you want to implement only add more to the plate of the young skill players. When you do that, you open your offense for more mistakes & turnovers which would lead to more losses. It's basically impossible to change an offenses philosophy & identity like that midseason. That would cause even more problems then what we currently see.

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