I was talking with a former LSU Lineman and he was just baffled why we didnt run more...

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Either Sloan is clueless or his play calling is being overshadowed by BK's directives. Or both.

The offensive play calling and the overall OL play have both been atrocious. And it’s inexcusable in year 4 for a coach with this contract.

We need an offensive minded HC.

Joe Brady will probably get an NFL HC gig soon, but that’s the type of HC we need. Kelly doesn’t control one side of the ball, and relies on his coordinators. He’s Midwest Ed O except he can’t recruit as well.

Well anyone who has played any level of football knows that if you are having problems with straight up blocking or defenses are keying on your running plays that you use misdirection to counter this. These are plays that can be installed in a practice. We arent talking brady level new offensive schemes. Just your standard counters, inside traps, reverses, Inside shuttle passes, tunnel screens, pitche/tosses. We can utilize the te like fb and hb and get another body on body. The straight lead dives are infuriating as they are mundane and unimaginative. you dont have to be Nick Saban to scheme for our offense and thats just not acceptable.

you could tell me you were talking to a homeless man on the corner and i would agree with this take

They try to fully address this by throwing those quick screens.

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Misdirection plays and sweeps and tosses. No counters, No inside traps or screens, No reverses. Nothing to take advantage of aggressive defenses and trouble straight up blocking.

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Cubelic has been talking about this too. We have a very bland offense. I don't think Sloan knows how to see what the defense is doing and attack that. Lane does that. Good playcallers do that.

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No counters, No inside traps or screens, No reverses

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We've ran all of these minus the traps. We actually had some success against SC on counter. We've ran 4 or 5 reverses or end arounds this year. All of them successful. We actually overuse screens if anything. Need to rely on them less and throw the ball deep more which we don't because Nuss can't throw right now. If we wanna complain we need to do these things more then I'll agree but we saying we don't do them isn't true.

Oline is so dysfunctional, they are keeping it simple...I guess.

I understand that they call so many RPO‘s that require the lineman to pause for the possible pass because they don’t know if they’re gonna run block or pass block that takes away their aggressiveness and their ability to fire off the ball.

But I agree the lack of pulling guards, etc., is perplexing.