An objective look at Ensminger’s offense

I’ve been a harsh critic of Ensminger as recently as yesterday. But after rewatching the fiesta bowl, I’ve changed my tune.

I’m not trying to pick on the kids, but our offensive line is woefully bad.

UCF was far from a “vaunted” front 7 and we missed assignments up front in the run game almost on every play. Deculus misses bad on run plays and there are more than a few where he doesn’t touch a soul. We attach, and then they shed our blocks with ease. It’s no wonder we can’t run the ball on Bama.

Pass Pro:

This is where I start to feel bad for Ensminger. There are VERY few plays where we protect with 5 and a RB and someone doesn’t completely whiff on a block. Not outnumbered, but completely whiffed on even numbers. Burrow has zero time on most of these plays and is usually flushed...eliminating half of the routes.

There is a large part of the offense that is max protect, leaving a FB/Hback and TE in to block. Leaving two routes.

Try calling an offense and getting someone open with two routes. This is where you see fades, stop and go, posts, but that’s it. Shot plays.

You know where shot plays do NOT work? (Low percentage)

The Red Zone.

So, my case study reveals that Ensminger really was hampered by the offensive line. Mainly by the RT and the LG, LT in the bowl game.

This isn’t a problem that is exclusive to LSU ...a lot of teams suffer with the same lackluster line play and DONT WIN 10 games and the Fiesta Bowl. So all in all, Ensminger did pretty good with what he had.