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re: The screen vs Alabama.

Posted on 1/22/13 at 10:43 am to
Posted by Thorny
Montgomery, AL
Member since May 2008
1920 posts
Posted on 1/22/13 at 10:43 am to
To be fair to Mills, Yeldon sold the chip block really well. In that defense, Mills' assignment is to blitz unless you see the RB go out, indicated by the RB running "across the eyes" (running a looping pattern away from the blitzer to get free). Yeldon, instead chipped in on Mills, faking a block and then slipping inside of the blitz to get free. A well coached technique that took advantage of a tendency we had shown in the aTm game (the play had gone for a TD in that game as well, but it was called back for a block in the back administered to Reid).

Many say that TM7 would have picked it up, but I am not sure. More likely, he would have taken a skinny track to the QB and had a better chance to disrupt the pass in the air.

Bama called the right play against our tendency. Kind of hard to beat that when it happens (and yes, LSU had called a good gameplan against Bama's tendencies all night, so don't take this as a Miles bashing Saban loving post).

GEAUX TIGERS
Posted by jrevonte
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2011
1801 posts
Posted on 1/22/13 at 10:52 am to
I posted the play up top, Yeldon never crossed Mills face...Yeldon stepped up, Mills had a str8 line to McCarron...had Minter been in man he would have slid to outside to cover Yeldon. Instead he bailed to hook curl...what's funny is that Yeldon flared into open space without anyone there to cover him...

This was a coaching decision that cost us the SEC West title at the very least
This post was edited on 1/22/13 at 10:53 am
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