Mett Will Continue to Struggle and It's Become Obvious to Me

Let me preface this by saying I didn't watch every snap from our earlier games. I'm as big an LSU fan as anyone, but it's hard to really delve into all the 4th quarter snaps against the Little Sisters of the Poor. However, I have watched each of our last three games twice, and something has become very evident to me.

Our coaching staff doesn't trust Mett's ability to read a defense.

Before you disagree with this statement allow me to explain my reasoning behind it. As everyone knows, our offense is based on a power running attack. We want to hammer it at an opponent and take a few, selective shots in the passing game, primarily just to keep them honest.

Now when you run this type of offense, it's very obvious and accepted by pretty much everyone that the counter to it is a strong play action attack. This brings me to the most troubling aspect of our offense, and it's something I've noticed primarily in the last two games.

We hardly ever run play action, and I'm pretty sure I know why.

I don't think this coaching staff believes in Mett's ability to read a defense. They don't trust him to turn his back to the defense on a run fake, turn his head back to the defense, and diagnose the coverage. You also see this lack of faith in the predominant use of quick slants where a QB's read requirement is largely pre-snap if any at all. Hell even when we run 5 or 7 step drops it's usually in a 1 or 2 man route combo where the goal is a deep route on a double move. Once again this allows the QB to virtually lock onto one receiver as opposed to having to scan the defense.

I noticed this in the USC game, and it's become shockingly apparent during the Texas A&M game. If it doesn't change quickly (and by quickly I mean in 2 weeks) then we have no chance to beat Bama.