If this is the Saints offense.....

Are we supposed to run plays just to run them?

They’ve ran two recently for like zero yards

It’s not as of an effective post from the shotgun

Teams with good defenses have used several versions of rush 3-4 with spy, press man, and deep zone.
Try to get negative plays and incompletions and gang tackle clyde. That's about the only way to stop burrow.

Screen passes dont typically work well against that.

The rest of the teams that dont have a defense that matches up... why should you take the risk of a screen when you can just hand it off to clyde for huge chunk runs?

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Where the Hell is the screen pass to Clyde?

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All our other shite is working so well. Why change it?

Very hard to perfect like the saints do. Takes perfect timing and coordination, must not be doing it well vs our defense in practice.

Clyde has like 50 catches this year.

I don’t know the record but that has to be up there for most ever by an LSU RB

Who cares about a screen when he’s catching balls over the middle on LBers and getting 15 yards

This is not the saints offense. Everyone says this but JB brought concepts to LSU of the saints offense. People need to watch the saints games bc our offenses aren’t the same. DB runs tons of play action from under center. They run max protect a ton.

We've run it a fair amount, especially if you compare to the previous couple of years. However, couple of notes:

A) It's probably a read, if we suspect zone it's not an option on read/audible.

B) Most of our check downs are in the middle of the field with a reciever (including RB & TE) entering the zone late after a clear out by WR. This is something that most don't realize and most teams can't/won't do. If pressure comes from outside, we're going to look to the middle (step up in pocket) and RB/TE might chip but isn't going to worry about that pressure and be the late route in the middle. This is the scenario where you pre-guess and run wide screens. I.e., our reads and post-snap adjustments 'override' that pre-snap guess; it is a better option.

C) In the grand scheme of things when we have other reads/plays working for us, the RB screen wide is just not that effective comparatively. For us, in this offense, the RB screen is a setup play for other-better plays. Hence the sparing use.

D) Lol, we still don't run them very well. Better, but instead of a bread and butter play it's a hard tack and salt play for us. It's the play that got Emery in trouble.