re: The problems, straight from the horse's mouth

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We're really not, it's on the coaches if they cant find 4 reliable receivers to go to out of:

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I mean we're thin at receiver experience (Chark a junior, Gage a senior, right?). Their performance has not been consistent either. Also, you can't put all of them on the field at once, especially when you keep seven to block and one to throw.

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I think if we clean up the completely blown assignments

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On offense, when we block it correctly, that tends to be an positive play. Our running production is down - under 5 yards per carry. At this point, I would open it up and run shotgun - not necessarily with tempo - but shotgun sets. Heck, you can run out of them, particularly on 1st down - CEH is made for that. And if they load the box and you're in the shotgun with 3 wides, you ought to be able to hit a quick slant or quick out with timing.

Defensively, we have to get better overall play out of the dline and better tackling from the backers and DBs - assignment wise, we're doing "okay" on defense with the young players, we're just having trouble finishing plays since Chatt. We're getting some pressure on the QBs, but MSU and Cuse got the ball out so quickly, pressure didn't help as much as we would like.

I don't understand how you get to this level in your career as an Olinman and you can't fricking block.


6-5 300lbs and you know the fricking snap count plus what guy is yours and you can't block him.
I just don't get it.

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we will look good against Troy

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We're lowering expectations every day.

LSU's got a long row to hoe -

I really like what we did right before half-time. There were lots of tight double route concepts where the WR fakes one way then turns 180 deg in the other direction. These concepts slow down the defender and are quick at the same time. I also like the HB route Cam Cameron used, where he takes the back and sends him either through or around the LOS, then over the middle and either stops or continues depending on the coverage.

Canada must find a way to attack an aggressive defense and our offense must perfect this with quick throws. Etling needs to be smarter as well. Use the pump fake against defense's who put their hands up, pump fake, slide, and throw.

Something else the offense could do much better is selling the PA pass. When we do a good job of selling it, it works well. When it's ran half arse, it normally fools no one. Canada just needs to find a way to make this offense drive the field. The motions we use here at this time, aren't what Canada used at Pitt. They had much more variation and used 3 to 4 options. I think it's our personell not his offense. They just can't run it efficiently for whatever reason.

They can still use it but wait until we have a defense guessing before we do it. He simply has to be more creative in his play calling and find ways to attack an aggressive defense. Every defense will play aggressive against us so find a way to attack that. Also have a plan to attack it when they back off. LSU has to be more prepared, and have back up plans ready. Our fakes are much more simple then what he used at Pitt and that's why it works so well over there. He had multiple people doing 3 to 4 different things in the back field and that's what fooled teams. LSU runs like 2 options out of it. If you send someone in motion throw the ball to that guy after you fake to him, then fake the hand off to Guice. You could fake the hand off to the motion guy, fake the throw, then hand it off to Guice. But for these fakes to work you have to hurt the defense with something similar first, so run a similar offense without the fakes first, hurt the defense on quick throws, to the flats, over the middle, using the backs, TEs, WRs, and then start moving folks all over the place, using fakes and such. It's not going to work straight out the gate while the defense is at its best and has nothing to be concerned with. Our offense should build into that type of game IMO.

There are many options when you use all these fakes and you have to show that some of it is quick so the defense doesn't just crash in. You have to let them crash in a few times, and hurt them when they do it. The next time they'll back off a bit. Etling also is never an option to run which he should IMO to add another wrinkle to a defense focusing on our RBs. I liked the shovel passes they used against Cuse but they were ready for it. Not every team will be ready for that so keep that as an option. Canada just needs to trust that our offense can perform. If he doesn't then his offense will be limited. We have to use everything or simplify it completely, one or the other. Maybe I'm just crazy lol

Ideally

I'm getting fed up with the amount of excuses. Yes we are thin in some areas and it will be a struggle but we still shouldn't be playing this poorly.

A lot of our issues reflect poor coaching on the offensive side of the ball between Grimes and Canada's play calling

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I'm getting fed up with the amount of excuses. Yes we are thin in some areas and it will be a struggle but we still shouldn't be playing this poorly.

A lot of our issues reflect poor coaching on the offensive side of the ball between Grimes and Canada's play calling

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I have absolutely no problem with using the 'depth and talent' excuses against teams with more depth and talent, i.e. Florida, Auburn, Bama, and maybe even Tenn.

The problem is we lost to a team that STILL has less talent on the Oline and Dline, and barely beating a team that would have exactly ZERO startes on either of our lines.