Article for the "it's scheme" crowd

It is the fricking scheme. It no way shape or form should the offensive staff ever put Burrow under the fricking center to run those 6-hour long developing play-action plays. Quick passes, WR & RB screens, true RPOs...... there are ways to mask an average o-line. I'm sick of hearing that shite.

I dont think anyone is saying there isn't a talent gap between LSU and Bama. It is not so significant that we should expect the results we have seen in the two games Ensminger has called.

You dont think USL, Arkansas, or any of Bamas other opponents wouldnt swap lines with us in a heartbeat? They would.

The issue is we know there is a talent gap, and we still try to out talent them. E could have done things to help the ohlone and Joe. He could have tried bubble screens and other quick developing plays. Instead on third and 2 we were running up the gut.

That is an issue of scheme.

That explains the o-line issues. What about the scheme?

It's scheme, coaching, and players. Not just one. There is more than enough blame to go around.

Fantastic article. Thanks

Is this really an either/or question? I mean, obviously this line has been struggling all season, even against Southeastern. They've had depth issues for two years resulting from multiple recruits that have not panned out, transferred, or gotten injured. It doesn't take being a brain surgeon to see that Bama has better depth.

However, with that said, it's also obvious that the scheme wasn't doing the already suspect line any favors. There are ways to mask a mediocre offensive line by putting your QB in the shotgun and running a West Coast style offense with quick timing routes. If the line is struggling to block, the QB needs to get the ball out of his hand as quickly as possible. They didn't do that. Plus, they wasted nearly every first down running straight into the teeth of the defense for usually 2 or less yards. It clearly wasn't working, but they kept doing it anyways.

The real crime was not going spread west coast tempo when it was clear the stand-up approach wasn't working. The one series they ran tempo was one of the best series for the offense before a penalty and a reversion of play calling resulted in a punt. Tempo is how you beat a team that has more depth than you because it keeps them from being able to use it through substitutions. More tempo would have worn out Bama's D-line allowing the LSU o-line to appear stronger as the night wore on.

They didn't do this. LSU instead ran an offensive game plan that maximized Bama's strength's and exposed the Tigers' own weaknesses.

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If your scheme requires an outstanding OL to run it, its not really much of a scheme. You can run almost anything if you have a bunch of 5 star OL.

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right, i mean if we got NFl all pro quality lineman out the gate shite then we could probably pound bama all game. scheme be damned but we will never have that. thus we need a scheme and we had one last year

So no offensive coordinator in the country could've gotten this offense to be ranked any higher than 100's because of the o line? Complete bullshite.

If you want to beat Alabama with our current scheme, you have to out-recruit them, particularly in the trenches. Period. And you won't be able to because they can give the middle finger to recruiting rules.

So you have to scheme around their strengths. That's how Big Game Bob Stoops beat them. That's how Freeze beat them and how Malzahn beat them. You can't simply line up and allow a 4 man rush to get to the quarterback in 2 seconds and destroy the pocket in any scheme, but you damn sure can't do it when you're doing play action nonsense that takes an eternity to develop and is predicated on your line being able to block a 4 man rush while freezing safeties and linebackers.