re: LSU Offense: 2nd Half Drive Chart

The pass rush was pretty much running free the entire 2nd half. How the frick we didn’t hit them with draws and screens is beyond me. High school OC’s are making those calls every Friday night yet a screen pass is a foreign concept to a major college football program? It’s mind blowing.

Totally. Anytime your LT ends up facing your QB or RB as many times as we saw the front #77, you know things are going poorly.

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But Ensminger’s second half performance was unacceptable. Period point blank.

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I do agree with this for the most part, but our receivers have got to hang on to the ball. I think this game exposed us to the fact that we are not good enough to overcome this many turnovers. We won our first 5 games by forcing 10 TOs and only committing 3. 3 TOs to Florida in the Swamp is not going to get it.

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pass rush was pretty much running free the entire 2nd half. How the frick we didn’t hit them with draws and screens is beyond me.

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because they were rushing four?

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SE has no control over that.

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Coaches absolutely have control over getting their players ready to actually play and executing.

The bottom line is that the offense has disappeared for multiples quarters in 5 of 6 games. That is 100% on the coaching staff. It happens too often to be an anomaly. Something the staff id doing/not doing is allowing this lull to happen most of the time. And you can't blame it on competition, because it's happened against the two cupcakes too.

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We attempted 5 different screen plays in the 2nd half. Don’t let your narrative get confused with the facts.

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I thought it was 6 actually. But anyway, my points would be...

A) seems like most of them would be pre-snap blitz read reactions. They seemed pre-planned. I saw twice (I know once) where we ran a screen to the opposite side of an undisguised blitz. That's an indicator of that. Sometimes they seemed forced; which, in my mind, is also an indicator of them not being on the field reads.

B) We still suck at executing them. OL doesn't sell them and their release timing is horrible. We don't have a receiver plan B (throw back to sideline preferably). RB doesn't sell them. For all the people that buy into the "save the good plays" this is what happens. This is why you run that shite against SLU and LTU, so when it matters you can fricking execute it.

C) This is nit-picking I admit. They need to be sprinkled out more. What UF was doing in the first half was reason enough to back them off. The "all or nothing", either we are going to runs screens or not, or HUNH or not, motion FL or not, is a pet peeve of mine.

D) I do want to see screens with a deep wheel by RB in the next series. HOWEVER, that'd likely be a sack right now.

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We attempted 5 different screen plays in the 2nd half. Don’t let your narrative get confused with the facts.

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Prior to this game, had we run 5 screen plays in a single game? If not, the Swamp isn't a good place to try them out. We should've been working on those against SELA, Tech, and Ole Miss.

The bottom line is that Ensminger didn't really make any changes to counter the adjustments that Grantham made. When we got the ball back down by 1 with a little over 3 minutes to play, we run up the middle twice and then have to pass on 3rd and 9. That's inexcusable. Also, after Brossett picks up huge gains, he disappears in favor of CEH. WTF?

No it doesn’t!

frick.


Dude drops the fricking football he dropped it.... not a coach.
Players/leaders take responsibility for their actions on the field.

Minus one drive 105 yards on 33 plays


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