Why does denbrock ignore the quick passing game?

Nothing about how the offense is called makes any sense.

It just seems like denbrock isn’t scheming like I expected. When I watch the defense I’m like ok yeah Matt house is really SCHEMING.

100% agree with this post. It's maddening they don't do this more often

Something like that, BAW

You guys are friggin drunks if you think LSU has ignored the quick hitters. We run them a lot. A few have been completed; Daniels sailed a few out of reach; and a few have been dropped. Our success rate has been low.

Rollouts are the stupidest fan idea of all - on a par with “muh…trick plays”. You can’t call roll outs against a seven man zone, which is what we’re facing most of the time. All that does is make the field smaller and the throwing lanes smaller.

Bubble screens are also ineffective against a seven man zone. To beat a seven man zone is simple…you play-action fake, and when the LBs take a step up, you float the ball over their head; and you have your receivers break down between the zones; and you hit seam routes. But what is required of all of these plays is a QB who reads it and throws the friggin ball. We don’t have that QB, which is why our opponents are playing seven man zones.

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Defenses are basically playing prevent defense because they don’t want to get beat deep, which literally means they’re giving us the shorter routes.

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Did you watch the Auburn game, because that’s definitely not what they were doing. They bracketed Boutte, sat on short routes, played a lot of zone and basically dared us to throw deep. When we did attempt WR screens and short passes, guys were immediately in traffic after the catch.

Other than the pass to Emery out of the backfield that he took to the 1, Auburn was focused on stopping the short stuff and was usually in position to make the play. I expect most of our opponents the rest of the way will use a similar gameplan until we force them to have some respect for the deep ball.

That’s what I saw. We ran short patterns quite a bit but Auburn closed very quick in their zones. Those short passes were dropped in some cases or slightly behind the receivers other times because JD had tight windows and waited a second too long to deliver the ball. He won’t see much man because of his scrambling ability so he has to be very accurate and on time with the quick hitters.

Exactly. Being at the game and seeing the whole field. Auburn was begging LSU to throw deep and was all over the short routes. There was a bunch of single high safety with the safety not as high as usual. We had one on one on the outside over and over.

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Defenses are basically playing prevent defense because they don’t want to get beat deep, which literally means they’re giving us the shorter routes. But denbrock is like meh I’ll just keep doing these long developing routes.

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None of this is really true, but I’ll address the easiest part first: Going into the Auburn game, a whopping 74% of our passing attempts were targeted <10 yards past the line of scrimmage.

The only reason Auburn isn’t included is that I don’t have a passing chart available yet.

So the contention that we aren’t making short throws is.. pretty silly. I would agree that we generally aren’t getting the ball out fast enough. But that looks like more a function of execution than playcalling. It also has nothing to do with whether opponents are “basically playing prevent defense” (SPOILER: they aren’t).