re: Former Tiger FB player in Mobile explains

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Brian Ware, tiger player from the early 2000's ??? (under Saban) was on sports radio in Mobile today. He knows both Saban and LSU. Said only QBs to beat Saban since the Utah loss in the Sugar Bowl has been Tebow, Cam, Jefferson, and Garcia.....all decent running QBs....said CLM knew that was his only chance, especially after what happened to JL Nov 5. Said everyone knows Lee can't take the pressure. Also said T-Bob got blown up every play Nov 5, so he was not in the game. Said we needed to stretch field and those adjustments were made at half, but JJ couldn't execute and/or line could not hold up. Another adjustment was our FB was split wide in the slot (instead of Sheppard) to confuse Tide D (didn't work). And finally, he indicated that Bama's Defensive calls were all sent from sideline based on our formation....and when we went hurry up, they could not adjust....but we only used it for a few plays (which we did gain a few yards). He was very insightful and in many ways defended CLM....but acknowledged Bama's great D. Our plan was to stop Richardson and make McCarron beat us....he did!

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All that sounds good, except for when Bama was just shoving it down our offenses throat, I think LSU should have adjusted by throwing the ball downfield to force the Bama defenders to move the 9 players out of the box. So what if you throw a pick? You weren't moving the ball anyway. I say that about any quarterback that was in the game. And if that quarterback couldn't pass the ball down the field, then try another one. Cause it was painfully obvious by the 2nd quarter that we weren't going to move the ball with the game plan we entered the game with.