re: Possible reason why offense passes just deep downfield

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If the defense is too aggressive, Harris will escape the collapsing pocket. He ran all over Auburn's over agressive scheme. It's going to be pick your poison. Plus, we can also bring use more read option to keep the defense guessing

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To me, that's the key to it (as the O stands now). Harris looks great on the move. OL has had it's struggles. AND combined with play action, that can open up the passing game, kind of low hanging fruit.

I like me some "old man football", but I'd prefer to have a viable plan B. Read-option and Pass-Run option seems to fit LSU and it's current players just right. BH has had some bad reads on that, but not THAT many... not for his 2nd - 4th start.

ETA: if you can't stand in the pocket, and you can't get rid of it quickly enough... move the pocket. After that, I don't really give two frucks how the yardage comes. BUT, split the field in half, make the D choose to commit to run and I bet all of a sudden receivers magically start to look lonely.

Just one note on that. For some reason I noticed this with Arky and started watching LSU: The receivers have to get into his lanes/vision if he rolls. Have seen some of that not happening with LSU, but the # of plays so far are too small to say "it's an issue".