Brady’s offense and copycats

Brady has established a very cool and creative offense at LSU. But it’s not a magic offense. I think a lot of the more talented offensive coordinators could watch LSU film now and copycat the same plays. It might not work as well without Burrow, CEH, the LSU receivers and O-line, but the play design is on film for all to see.

I really hope Brady stays at LSU, but if he doesn’t I don’t know that anyone could better copy Brady’s offense than Ensminger can. He sees it everyday. It’s not like Brady leaves and Ensminger removes his plays from our playbook. I don’t know about bringing in another young gun like Brady to help Ensminger as some suggest. The type of cooperation and chemistry Brady and Ensmingrer enjoyed isn’t something I think can easily be recreated.

I can see Brady leaving now. I don’t see how without Burrow next year, Brady’s star could ever shine brighter than it is now.

Worst case scenario if Brady does leave is Ensminger can run that offense now. No one can copy the offense better than Ensminger who sees it up front and personal every day.

That said, aside from the design of an offense, there is the intuition needed to call the plays in a sequence that works best and do game day adjustments when defenses throw a new wrinkle at you. You can’t copycat intuition.

Brady has said Ensminger calls most of the plays. Does he, or is Brandy just being nice and sharing the credit? Who knows?

I truly hope Brady stays and continues his partnership with Ensminger. But I think Ensminger is a smarter coach than people think. If Brady does leave, I think the offense under Ensminger looks a lot like we have now on paper. Whether it works as well will be more up to how well Myles Brennan plays than anyone else.