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Lack of Trick Plays

Posted on 1/4/20 at 6:05 pm
Posted by Earthquake
USA
Member since Nov 2007
986 posts
Posted on 1/4/20 at 6:05 pm
I was thinking back on the season and realize that i couldn't remember our offense running any trick plays. No flea flickers, no half back passes etc:
Coach O basically said we gone line-up, man-up and beat the sh%t out you.
Do you think he will have a few trick plays up his sleeve for the Championship game?
Posted by cmjg10
NTX
Member since Feb 2009
137 posts
Posted on 1/4/20 at 6:07 pm to
I don’t think our offense will need trick plays to move the ball.
Posted by NorthTxLSU
Dallas, Tx
Member since Nov 2018
11579 posts
Posted on 1/4/20 at 6:08 pm to
why use trick plays if no one can stop the normal ones
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
100767 posts
Posted on 1/4/20 at 6:08 pm to
Every play is a trick play.
Posted by tigernnola
NOLA
Member since Sep 2016
3589 posts
Posted on 1/4/20 at 6:14 pm to
Ah guaraannntee Cher. Hope we never pull them out of the playbook, but Coach E will not miss a lick. Better to have it & not need it, then need it & not have it.
Posted by MarlinMan
BSL
Member since Sep 2007
2536 posts
Posted on 1/4/20 at 6:15 pm to
That’s what LLes had to do... O recruited and wanted a real QB... no need.
Posted by chadr07
Pineville, Louisiana
Member since Jan 2015
8849 posts
Posted on 1/4/20 at 6:17 pm to
A historical offense does not need trick plays. LSU has averaged nearly 50 ppg thorough 14 games without having to use any trick plays. I think they will be fine.
Posted by Shiftyplus1
Regret nothing that made you smile
Member since Oct 2005
13597 posts
Posted on 1/4/20 at 6:18 pm to
Payton rarely runs trick plays either. He'll have 1 or 2 flea flickers every season, but that's it.
Posted by Tuco Pacifico
Member since May 2013
377 posts
Posted on 1/4/20 at 6:40 pm to
Trick plays are like jambalaya sauce. Cheap, false, and reserved for amateurs.
Posted by jimbeam
University of LSU
Member since Oct 2011
75703 posts
Posted on 1/4/20 at 6:49 pm to
Our trick play is the forward pass on 1st and 2nd down.
Posted by TH03
Mogadishu
Member since Dec 2008
171589 posts
Posted on 1/4/20 at 6:49 pm to
We don't need trick plays. Only low IQ fans want them.
Posted by VanRIch
Wherever
Member since Sep 2007
10682 posts
Posted on 1/4/20 at 7:09 pm to
Trick plays are for desperation. We have never been and won’t be desperate
Posted by eddieray
Lafayette
Member since Mar 2006
18184 posts
Posted on 1/4/20 at 7:17 pm to
Posted by geauxtigers
biloxi ms
Member since Nov 2003
1835 posts
Posted on 1/4/20 at 7:18 pm to
sigh this is why we can't have nice things
Posted by Nado Jenkins83
Land of the Free
Member since Nov 2012
61202 posts
Posted on 1/4/20 at 7:55 pm to
That flea flicker riley called was desperation at its finest
Posted by Earthquake
USA
Member since Nov 2007
986 posts
Posted on 1/5/20 at 12:41 am to
I wasn't advocating for trick plays i just thought it was interesting that we having used any and might be something we may use in the big game
Posted by TigerWatch
Metairie
Member since Feb 2004
3289 posts
Posted on 1/5/20 at 7:28 am to
I’m sure we have some but we simply haven’t needed them all season.
Posted by AugustaTiger
Augusta, Georgia
Member since Dec 2017
759 posts
Posted on 1/5/20 at 7:30 am to
I think the defense needs to be ready for them against climpsun.

Teams use trick plays when they know they can’t beat you straight up.
Posted by Swamp Angel
Somewhere on a river
Member since Jul 2004
8073 posts
Posted on 1/5/20 at 8:11 am to
quote:

Trick plays are for desperation. We have never been and won’t be desperate


I don't know about that. I'd like to be up by enough that we can use some trick plays just to show off and provide entertainment a la Harlem Globe Trotters of football. Maybe have Burrow turn around to face his own goal line and throw a no-look-over-the-shoulder to Chase or Jefferson for at least a first down.
Posted by drexyl
Mingovia
Member since Sep 2005
23173 posts
Posted on 1/5/20 at 8:15 am to
quote:

I’m sure we have some but we simply haven’t needed them all season.
this is a huge advantage in the NC game. Clemson has to pull out - not trick plays - but go deeper into their playbook with TL running the ball. We were vanilla af against OU.

I don’t know what a “trick play” would look like with this offense but I imagine it would result in all 11 defenders falling down at the same time.
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