It's the offensive line.

Facts some people just don’t understand football. No matter what play is called it’s 11 on 11 everybody has a assignment. If a mf can’t block by week 9 and he’s a junior how can that be on play calling.

We are weak not only on the offensive line, but we don't get pressure on D either.

If we don't improve on the lines, 10-2 is the ceiling.

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Facts some people just don’t understand football.

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Even casual fans could see pass protection would be an issue going back to the spring. A coordinator worth his salt would tailor the offense in light of his personnel strengths and weaknesses. I dont care how sorely we are lacking on the OL in terms of bodies, what we've seen from the offense to date is unacceptable.

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If a mf can’t block by week 9 and he’s a junior how can that be on play calling.

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Because if a "mf" can't block by week 9, you don't keep calling play-action and 7-step drops to exacerbate the problem.

Our motherfricking offensive line gave up a sack percentage of motherfricking 9.03% last year, good for 114th in the country


This year, our motherfricking offensive line is giving up a sack percentage of 7.72%, good for 92nd in the country


It seems our motherfricking line is doing better this year, maybe its our motherfricking scheme

Indeed. Burrow is much better at escaping them than Etling was.

Hell, Burrow actually gave Bamas D line the slip a few times.

it's not the o line, hell everyone has scored on bama but LSU, no way around it, it happen to miles not bringing a offensive coach, Ensminger has to go period

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Facts some people just don’t understand football. No matter what play is called it’s 11 on 11 everybody has a assignment.

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You don't think the OL is missing assignments?

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If a mf can’t block by week 9 and he’s a junior how can that be on play calling.

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First: who's job is it to bring in OL? Why did a lot of OL (OT specifically) bail on the program? What happened to all of the recruits?

Second: LSU has a coaching staff. The coaches are supposed to help the OL develop their skills so they're not terrible. That's literally what the coaches get paid to do.

Third: If your OL is getting pushed around, there are techniques you can use to mitigate that: you can run traps, tosses with pulls, add a FB / H-back / TE, etc. I've seen teams put an extra lineman on the line as an 'eligible receiver.' You can use lateral motion to guide DL penetration away from the gap. There are options for run blocking; you can utilize quicker drops, fast routes or straight up abandon the pass and run the triple-option; there are always options!

I'm not sure the 'scheme' or 'play-calling' is bad or inferior, per se, but I can say the lack of adjustments, flexibility and versatility of the offensive scheme is a serious issue. LSU lined up to run an old-school offense and they ran an old-school offense.

They got housed.

Nick Saban has no problem dominating the Pro Style offense. In order for us to beat Bama with that style....Oh frick it.

Why can't it be both? We are definitely deficient in offensive line talent and we have a terrible scheme.

The notion that you have to have the best players all the time to win is laughable. Saban is great because of players and scheme. Plenty of teams win year in and year out with inferior players. Gameplan and scheme can help equalize.

Not a lot of people are on here saying we would have won with a better scheme. However, we most assuredly would have been more competitive with a better scheme/gameplan. If your line can hold blocks don't run long developing plays. End of story. 3 - 5 pass catching options and quick passes.