re: How would YOU run our offense?

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What ever UTAH used v.s. Alabama in the Sugar bowl!

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If we played with half their emotion 3/4 of our problems would be solved imo. Players are a reflection of their coach in terms of intensity too.

Miles is lost...as were our players most of the time in the last couple of years.

I'd choose to pound it.

If (when) that doesn't work b/c all defenses will have 10 in the box until we prove we can pass....

Spread it around to talent on the outside (we were horrible about this last year). Force defenses to cover Tolliver & Shep every play. Even if we use them as decoys, the D still has to cover them. Screens, slants, passes to rbs out of backfield. 4 WRs sets, etc. Spread formations. We'd have to nickle and dime 'em.

Stop running the option. Shep is the only one who can run it - & he's been moved to wr. Either move him back and let's run the Pat White offense, or let's move forward and use the QB as a passer. We have 39 other players who can run the ball just fine.

NOTE: I will concede that the option (Spread/Tebow offense) might be necessary. I just wish JJ was a bigger running threat.

Concerns: Passing down field.

If our QBs can only make 1 read, let's put them in position to succeed with roll-outs. This gives our O-line & qb a little more time. It also puts us in better position to throw the ball away, or to run. Either way, the read is easier. Screens and roll-outs are our friends. (JJ throws better on the run, anyway)

If something or someone is producing, don't abandon it for the rest of the game.

I understand the idea behind not always running the option to the short side of the field but there comes a time and a place for running the ball to the short side of the field. With players as fast as ours we have to speed to hit the edge even to the short side. To not have defensive lines slant and backers loading up to the wide side you have to occasionally run it to the short side. Its the same idea as running it to the weak side. Yea, there are more blockers that way but to break tendencies you have to switch it up. To consider adandoning the option all together is just a joke. One of the best ways to utilize our speed is to be able to run options, zone reads, zone options, and similar plays that attack the edge. Most people on here don't know the difference between a play on NCAA and a real play that works in football. I would run mainly pro set, gun, single back(ace) and basically not try to do too much, which was our problem last year. The key to any offense is rhythm and momentum and trying to have 500 different packages at the same time trying to get 35 people the ball is not ever going to work. We don't play to our strengths; crowton tries to create them himself. JJ will never be a qb that can audible and he can never make more than a 3 wr read progression; he just cant. Like the guy above said, we need to run bootlegs etc, where your reads are all laid out in front of you. We have the team to keep it simple... but who frickin knows

J Jefferson a good qb, could improvise and told to run when an open field. R. Sheppard needs to be LSU no. 2 qb. He is a great runner and I bet he could do option well. I also bet he could pass short and medium. What a threat, do Miles and G. Crowton think about this?

veer offense

Shepard would need to get the ball once every set of downs. Whether its on a end around, a reverse, just a straight up run out of the back field, or a pass down the field.

Jefferson would do alot of rolling out to the right!

Since Jefferson isnt amazing at the deep ball I probably wouldnt send much of anything past 25 yards. I think this offense is capable at racking up alot of Yac and I would try to exploit it. I always love watching the Ravens on defense after they intercept the ball and how they lateral it to one another, I would try to make it where it is possible on almost every passing down to have a lateral avaible cause those things are just nasty and can rack up alot of yards.

Ridley and Ford would get lots of counters and pitches to the outside.

Options would be run to the long side of the field. Sometimes spice it up with alittle triple action.

Lots of Misdirection and Trickery would be evident in my offense.

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How does this apply to running the LSU offense...

You would suggest the offense employs this strategy?

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after a team intercepts the ball, dont they try to advance the ball? Doesnt an offense try to advance the ball? You get how they can fit together now. I would suggest they dont make it what makes the offense tick but make receivers aware that they can lateral the ball. It woul be the same sorta concept as on the play with Holiday and Lafell in the 08 game at Florida. It created once of the bigger plays we had on that awful night!

A-11 OFFENSE... j/k ROFL