re: The Fundamental Flaw with Miles's Offensive Philosophy

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Posted by Springlake Tiger
I get it. He wants to run the ball to slow down the game, outphysical his opponent, and not turn the ball over. This is a good strategy ONLY if you have a dominant defense. LSU's defense is not dominant or even close to dominant. Once LSU falls behind, they have almost zero chance of catching up with this offensive philosophy, unless the opponent has a pathetic offense (see Florida).

Sometimes you need to abandon your philosophy for an interim period of time. See Nick Saban in 2001. After figuring out that his defense wasn't good, he told Jimbo to unleash Rohan and try to outscore everyone b/c the defense simply wasn't good enough. He then reverted back to his usual strategy/philosophy on offense when he thought his defense was good enough.

Bottom line, Jennings is not mentally or physically capable of leading a prolific passing offense. And the other teams' defenses know this. Play Harris, let him hand the ball off and "if" you do fall behind, you actually might have a chance at coming back via the forward pass.

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