Lets talk Screen Pass

No one wants to explain this? It’s mind boggling.

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this simple play?

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It's not all that simple. There's a lot of moving pieces that have to come together at the proper time for it to be effective.

The QB has to invite the pass rush, giving time for his oline to release and set up down the field. It starts with Burrow selling the play and not telegraphing that its a screen

The RB has to escape the garbage and float out into open space to take the pass


LSU has done none of this well. Burrow hasn't put much touch on his passes to float them over the pass rushers. Many of them get batted down.

The o-lineman aren't all that athletic to release and set up the blocks. Watch the Saints line setting up screen blocking vs LSU, the Tigers are really sloppy.

Personnel tells don’t help.

Especially with our wrs. Certain groupings you just know what is coming

2012 was a lowkey good screen team the like 3 times we ran screens

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Why is LSU the absolute worst at running this simple play?

You would think that a team that regularly allows the defense into the backfield unabated would be able to use this ability to fool a team into falling for the screen. We do not.

Thoughts?

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Don't get confused with a defense that is in the backfield so often vs a defense that is built on speed (or with numbers) that gets in the backfield.

Bama was usually on rushing four, aggressively, but not just shooting gaps. That "mush rush" was effective keeping the QB in the pocket but applying pressure at all points.

Screens are good for a defense that is build on a speed rush, using that speed against the DL. Bama's DL is built on power and discipline.

Our screens were not effective because Bama's LBs and such were in position to sniff it out.

Maybe WR screens would have been better actually. Keep their front seven close to the line and attack their secondary and hope our receivers could find space. We have lost the WR screen part of the playbook.