Joe Sloan...great QB coach but not a great play caller...

He’ll get better. New OC you’ll have high and lows

Any running game at all would make Sloan look great. It’s just nonexistent.

Play calling is predictable. 1st down is a 5-7 yard pass design. 2nd is always a run. 3rd is another pass. If they get a first down. it's 3 passes.

Yep, to predicable.
If pass on 1st down, then 2nd is a run.
If run on 1st down, then 2nd is a pass.

also 90% of passes or outside the numbers, extremely few drag or middle of field passes. Maybe this is Nuss I not sure.

While this isn’t an excuse, the run game would be a whole lot better with a dual threat. Making the defense have to respect 3 possible options instead of just 2 (handoff or pass) would open so many more possibilities. The run game should be better regardless, but Nuss’ unwillingness to run hinders it a ton.

C- as a play caller.

Run game F.

OC is responsible.

Go back and watch the all 22. Guys were open all night and Nuss just didn't have it. It's a lazy take to just blame play calling when guys are running wide open and our QB whos been good all year can't get it to them.

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Any running game at all would make Sloan look great. It’s just nonexistent.

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This. The lack of a consistent run game is what’s pigeon-holing the play-calling. It makes it far more predictable and the RPO game doesn’t work if the run isn’t a real threat. Saturday night we couldn’t run inside or outside. People criticized the deep shots to Hilton, but they were clearly trying to back the defense off to have some prayer of opening space to run the ball.

The best thing BK can do to help Sloan is hire a Run Game Coordinator analyst next season. There are plenty of former HCs and OCs who know how to be more creative in the run game and could use some career rehab. Find one and pay them well to come help with tweaking the playbook and game planning.

This wouldn’t be an on-field coach, so they wouldn’t be calling plays or anything like that. This would just be an analyst who understands the run game better than a QB specialist like Sloan. Making a smart supplemental hire worked wonders for Ensminger in 2019. I don’t expect those kinds of results, but this could still be a big help in showcasing what will be a very talented backfield next year.

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Any running game at all would make Sloan look great. It’s just nonexistent.

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And, as has been stated here ad nauseum, you can blame the lack of a running game this year on last-year's performance of Jayden Daniels - and the coaching staff's inability (or unwillingness) to address it during the summer and fall camps.

Anyone with two functioning eyeballs could see that the LSU running game last year wasn't a real running game so much as it was a man playing amongst boys when Jayden decided to run. Plus, a lot of people overlook just how good he was passing the ball while on the move, which kept defenses from completely selling out to stop his runs.

That type of success made it easy for a lot of folks to look past the shite run-blocking from last year. This year, though, we have a run-shy QB (for whatever reason) paired with an OL that's elite when pass-blocking and JV at run-blocking. The chickens come home to roost, eventually.

IMO, it's far too late in the season for Sloan to magically pull any kind of running game out of his butt. It would be better to dance with the one you brought with you and lean on the short-mid passing game, along with starting to target the middle of the field more and throwing to Green on sideline 1-on-1 jump balls.

And, maybe, force Nuss to run 3-5 times a game opposing defenses don't laugh out loud when we're pretending to run stretch-options or have him rolling out.

None of those do squat for our actual running game, but they do play to our strengths and give us the best chance to run the table for the rest of the season.

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He’ll get better. New OC you’ll have high and lows

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This.

I still don’t like that he’s cutting his teeth at LSU, but it is what it is. He was promoted to keep underwood and for his work with QBs, which seems to be excellent.