re: Scott Woodward intro press conference tomorrow @ noon

The best way to judge an offense is based on yards per play and red zone scoring. Yards per play generally determines the effectiveness of an offense as it is evaluating its success on every given play. Red zone scoring is important for obvious reasons, a good offense will score in the red zone. Here is how LSU has been ranked nationally in those two metrics from 2011 to present:

Yards Per Play:
2018 - 83
2017 - 34
2016 - 13
2015 - 11
2014 - 71
2013 - 74
2012 - 74
2011 - 36

Red Zone Scoring:
2018 - 36
2017 - 103
2016 - 70
2015 - 56
2014 - 102
2013 - 47
2012 - 29
2011 - 5

Take a year like 2011, when LSU's offense was running like a well-oiled machine. 5th in red zone offense and 36th in yards per play, pretty good when you look back on how much they relied on the run. Contrast that with 2018. As the poster above did, he immediately went to passing stats thinking it would show a successful offense. But in reality, the team was in the bottom quarter of YPP. Red zone scoring pretty good, getting a reliable kicker really skews LSU toward the top in that category.

If you really want to see something depressing, take a look at the offensive touchdowns per game over the same time period.

2018 - 52
2017 - 74
2016 - 53
2015 - 32
2014 - 87
2013 - 18
2012 - 74
2011 - 19

Under Miles there were peaks and valleys, with the peaks being well into the top third to quarter of all teams. The problem is as of late it's just stagnant mediocrity, no peaks whatsoever and hovering in the valleys that LSU hoped to bounce back from.