re: If we ever start to run a Wild "Tiger" Formation

He's a passing threat until proven otherwise.

This year if he gets a pitch, teams now know he is a threat to throw.

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the disadvantage i see to him being the QB is that once trindon leaves, we don't really have that super explosive speed guy that will make Ds worry about the sweep off the motion

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Yes we do. Drayton Calhoun.

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that was just a HB direct snap, not the wild-x

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I hope I never see this play again, ever, from Crowton.

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Um, no? Times have generally been faster...

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slightly (which always happens when kids go to their on campus workouts), but the 40s are still slow

if you start slow, and those times increase like they always do, then in the end you're still running slower times

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The funny thing is you refuse to just simply accept a mathematical near impossibility.

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having a slow class isn't an impossibility

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the disadvantage i see to him being the QB is that once trindon leaves, we don't really have that super explosive speed guy that will make Ds worry about the sweep off the motion. shep is a great option for this with his speed.

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We've got plenty of speed and any number of our kids could line up in the slot. LSU's biggest area of concern is the effectiveness of the o-line. The center position is a gaping hole with question to experience, ability and depth and no team can sustain ball control without solid play from the keystone of the o-line. Hollidays importance to our offense is minimal compared to the overall performance of our o-line. Also..if Jefferson is not the qb, he should be off the field out of harm's way.

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the advantage of shep at the QB position is that he is an actual threat to pass

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This was always my problem when Holliday came in. The defense always knew what the play was going to be, pitch or handoff to Holliday. They may have used him as a decoy for a few plays, but he can't block and he's a small target as a receiver.

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There were many times DMac took a direct snap and ran out of what was considered the wild-swine formation.

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but he only did this after the motion man had gone past him

FWIW, I think Morris Claiborne will be the surprise guy who could take a pitch and also have the ability to pull up and throw.

JJ moves from "pistol" to out wide left, Shep from left slot to Wild Tiger QB, Claiborne behind CScott in backfield I, play flows as an option right, Dickson runs a seam route, JJ runs an underneath crossing route, Lafell lined up on right side runs an out and up, Shep reads 1) dive to Scott, 2) keeper, 3) Pitch to Claiborne, Claiborne reads 1) keeper, 2) JJ across at 15 yards downfield, 3) Lafell deep downfield, 4) CScott in a hook route 10 yards downfield where Dickson cleared out. (CScott also possibly picks the defender covering JJ in his crossing route.

How's that for a play, with playmakers?

Mo Clay

I don't think you need JJ out at WR if you are going to keep Shep nearly exclusively at QB on the depth chart. Typically, the only reason you keep the QB on the field for the modern "sigle-wing" is to not tip off the D before you line up and create an extra level of anxiety for them. (Because you aren't really running any "special" personnel on or off the field.) At this stage of the game, Shep won't be playing enough positions outside of QB to keep him apart of vanilla personnel packages, for a wild-whatever he would have to be run on the field specially for the play.

So you take out JJ when we run the wild-whatever. If you want the most multi-faceted athlete on the edge, put RR.