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Good bye RPO reliant offense!!
Posted on 10/27/25 at 11:48 am
Posted on 10/27/25 at 11:48 am
Hard to establish a solid run game when your receivers are always running routes and hardly ever blocking. Sloan, you should’ve known this. Kelly, you’re an idiot for not only not knowing this, but not saying anything to your offensive coordinator when you had several opportunities.
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Posted on 10/27/25 at 11:49 am to xGeauxLSUx
Dude let Dembrock go for THIS?
Posted on 10/27/25 at 11:49 am to xGeauxLSUx
Sloan is a complete dumbass. I hope he has to go coach at UMass or something.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 11:52 am to xGeauxLSUx
I'm just glad they tried to get under the center this year on short.Yardage
Posted on 10/27/25 at 11:56 am to xGeauxLSUx
Every team in the SEC is running an RPO based offense. The type of offense we ran wasn’t the reason we sucked.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 12:14 pm to redfishfan
They most certainly are not. They have RPO sprinkled in but they’re not using it as the base for their run game.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 12:22 pm to xGeauxLSUx
quote:And that's with Will Campbell
We were dead last in the SEC in rushing.
Garrett Dellinger Miles Frazier and Emery Jones in the starting 5. (Chester at Center with BD coaching killed it)Posted on 10/27/25 at 12:23 pm to xGeauxLSUx
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They most certainly are not. They have RPO sprinkled in but they’re not using it as the base for their run game.
Yes they are. Maybe not post snap RPOs but every team is using pre snap RPOs on the majority of their run calls.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 12:24 pm to redfishfan
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Yes they are. Maybe not post snap RPOs but every team is using pre snap RPOs on the majority of their run calls.
Bro…EVERY RPO is post-snap
Posted on 10/27/25 at 12:29 pm to southsidedell
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Dude let Dembrock go for THIS?
Pembroke wasnt let go. He left for the same job at ND
Posted on 10/27/25 at 12:29 pm to Gings5
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Sloan is a complete dumbass.
i would bet that he pays more income tax than you make annually…
Posted on 10/27/25 at 12:29 pm to xGeauxLSUx
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Bro…EVERY RPO is post-snap
Lol no. It's amazing what people think they know but really don't even have a basic understanding of how it works.
A short quick example of a pre snap RPO.
You have a run called with a route tagged to single WR side into the short side. Say you have inside zone called tagged with a hitch to the boundary. The QB is looking at pre snap alignment and counting numbers to know if he should hand it off or throw the hitch. He makes the decision pre snap what he's going to do. A pre snap RPO. Coaches use the phrase "easy access throws". So you may have a run called but if the defense is just going to give an easy 5 yards on the hitch you take it.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 12:36 pm to xGeauxLSUx
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Hard to establish a solid run game when your receivers are always running routes and hardly ever blocking. Sloan, you should’ve known this. Kelly, you’re an idiot for not only not knowing this, but not saying anything to your offensive coordinator when you had several opportunities.
Especially when your qb will not run. That blows the RPO's up. Not to mention, a young and inexperienced line needs to know without doubt that I need to run block for the running back or pass block. Nuss was not an RPO qb. Not to knock him, but when you do not run with the qb you are wasting a play and stressing a young O line.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 12:36 pm to Gings5
Posted on 10/27/25 at 12:42 pm to xGeauxLSUx
I have no issue with RPO offenses... they can be very successful.
But the 2025 LSU Tigers were missing several, 2 of them key, things for it to work.
1. An OL that can block at multiple levels and make good decisions/adjustments pre-snap. Without that the run plays (and pass) take too long to develop and with a poor blocking OL you need every advantage you can get; quick hitting is one of those.
2. The entire offense reading the defense and basing decisions on both where pressure is coming (if any) AND zone vs. man. If you are against zone the WRs must block; if man the WRs can clearout for run by running routes. We were just guessing and running the play as called and that is one reason both the run game and the dink-dunk suffered greatly at times.
But the 2025 LSU Tigers were missing several, 2 of them key, things for it to work.
1. An OL that can block at multiple levels and make good decisions/adjustments pre-snap. Without that the run plays (and pass) take too long to develop and with a poor blocking OL you need every advantage you can get; quick hitting is one of those.
2. The entire offense reading the defense and basing decisions on both where pressure is coming (if any) AND zone vs. man. If you are against zone the WRs must block; if man the WRs can clearout for run by running routes. We were just guessing and running the play as called and that is one reason both the run game and the dink-dunk suffered greatly at times.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 12:46 pm to redfishfan
It’s amazing that you don’t understand if the WR are running a route, they’re not blocking for a run.
Sometimes it’s both sides…so what? Still shouldn’t be your base offense. Especially not how you establish a run game. It’s a more advanced play action.
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You have a run called with a route tagged to single WR side into the short side.
Sometimes it’s both sides…so what? Still shouldn’t be your base offense. Especially not how you establish a run game. It’s a more advanced play action.
This post was edited on 10/27/25 at 12:48 pm
Posted on 10/27/25 at 12:47 pm to xGeauxLSUx
The rpo on 3rd and 7 at the end of the first half was something else
NOBODY THOUGHT YOU WERE RUNNING
NOBODY THOUGHT YOU WERE RUNNING
Posted on 10/27/25 at 12:49 pm to Dissident Aggressor
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i would bet that he pays more income tax than you make annually…
Great post Mrs. Sloan. Enjoy UMass.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 12:56 pm to xGeauxLSUx
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It’s amazing that you don’t understand if the WR are running a route, they’re not blocking for a run.
I completely understand that. That's why the run is generally ran opposite of side of the route or route combo.
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Still shouldn’t be your base offense.
Then you disagree with pretty much every college OC in the country. QBs have the freedom to take those free access throws almost anytime. There are times where they are calling straight up runs with zero tags, but it's not near as often as you think.
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