re: Bill Walsh on the Les Miles philosophy of football

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we need to be less predictable on offense

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Like Bama was when they ran the ball 70% of the time with 1 RB getting 70% of the carries?

When your OL is getting stuffed and your QB is completing like 32%, what unpredictable O should we run? Wishbone?

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Both Arkansas and Ole Miss are inferior to LSU in terms of talent.

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You choose to remain ignorant and/or blind, but if you truly believe OM did not have better talent at multiple meaningful positions than LSU it's because you can't be objective. Start with the QB, WR DT, LT on down the line. Accept the truth, then you will be less frustrated. OM has 5 5* players from that 2013 class, 3 of them have a shot of being drafted in the top 15 of the draft depending on one's drug charges, get over it.

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He adapted.

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Being able to adapt is what separates a very good team from a championship team. If the general philosophy of a football team is to first establish the run & have a solid defense, if you have the tools to do this it will be successful, but the formula to stop stopping a team built like this is simple. Do not allow them to establish the run game. That's what Syracuse attempted to do, but simply didn't have the tools to do it. Alabama is a team that has the tools to do it. This is when having a balanced offense is important. If we could just establish a more balanced offense then we are a championship team.

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Having 5 great players on a roster of 40 means nothing. Sure, they had 5 great players, but they still had to fill the other 35 spots with garbage players nobody else wanted. OM is a one trick pony at best. They will never win a NC with how they recruit.

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No the rosters are 40 instead of 85? Use your mind, just because someone points to 5 doesn't lead one to believe that the rest of the talent is bad, why would you even think that? Some of you guys are so myopic on talent with the belief that LSU has better talent than everyone it's like you're brain washed. I would rather be starting highly talented experienced juniors than talented freshmen. Other than LF where is this overwhelming talent advantage LSU put on the field this season vs other good to great SEC opponents? And then, in areas of real ability, people on here keep poor mouthing T White as if he is not legit talent-wise for the NFL when he played half the season on a bad wheel and even stated he didn't have his top gear after coming back from injury in the games he played.

You are likely arguing semantics here and at least in part agreeing with people who are saying we need to be more creative. What I think most people mean when they are saying that we need to be more creative is that they want the offense to be less predictable. This is driven by the fact that we have so many looks that what we are doing can be determined by how we line up. In this regard, we've been too creative.

FWIW I think the critical flaw in our offense is that we have no short to intermediate pass game. Our passing game is primarily 25+ yards down the field and this does not slow down a strong rush. Against a good d-line we need to get the ball out quicker and a long pass play just doesn't develop that quickly. Unfortunately, this is the area that Brandon Harris has struggled the most on. If we could consistently hit some crossing routes, running back screens, use the tight end - we would be running a lot of plays where we could get the ball out within 3 seconds of snapping the ball. Anything longer than that, as a d coordinator I'm basically sending a run defense that tries to get to the QB after he doesn't hand it off. This only gets worse when the blocking by the offensive line looks like they are setting up a screen when they aren't. Alternatively, send BH on a bootleg. He could have a few downfield options, the shovel pass to Fournette or he could run as well...

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Arkansas O line was the biggest in college football. They imposed their will on LSU's depleted and thin D line.

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Yet Arkansas managed to lose 5 games. I think you know what will happen if LSU loses 5 games.

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Like Bama was when they ran the ball 70% of the time with 1 RB getting 70% of the carries?

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they have the talent to do that. We don't.

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When your OL is getting stuffed and your QB is completing like 32%, what unpredictable O should we run? Wishbone?

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nothing we were going to do on offense was going to work against them I don't care how well we execute. To much of a talent gap. But the other games, Ole Miss and Arkansas, we match up pretty well talent wise. Still doesn't mean we can just line up and straight up run over them.

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The middle of the field is usually open when LSU is on offense. We have to include the TEs in the passing game

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that's a good example of the kind of things we need to be doing on offense to be more creative and less predictable. When people say we need to be more creative, more balanced, less predictable, etc. I don't think they are meaning we need to be an HUNH spread air raid offense or wish-o-bone that other posters say that they mean. I think they mean we should just run a normal offense like other teams do and like we did against Texas Tech and South Carolina and other games that we executed well in and that we tried to run and develop for large amounts of this season. OUr offense has already started down the right path just as long as it continues to be developed along those lines.

I formation pound the ball into the stacked box offense could still be a integral part of our arsenal just not the primary weapon. It can still be used situationally perhaps (for those that are so attached to it).

Moneyg thank you for your. Good sense !