re: Lunch with O thread

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What sparked this question? I didn't see any major changes in personnel Saturday.

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Mainly at WR. It is a well known fact that the previous regime favored two guys.

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I don't see how a back up receiver getting snaps is the equivalent of reinventing the wheel to some people.

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....I haven't seen anyone suggesting this

just acknowledging the obvious, that perhaps the assistant coaches wanted to see a few other players get some time

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No. I just felt like telling you to shut the frick up.

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Mom, is that you?

The personnel changes came with the varied packages. Many skill players were used in four-wides, the I-form and ace (balanced 2TE, 2 WR, 1 RB) formation.

Using a lot of TEs, WRs and RBs now prevents the defense from knowing what play is coming or what player is the primary target on pass plays based solely on specific personnel groupings.

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why does sconas questions always suck?

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He needs to stay in the Admin's good graces so he can get a shot at a gig with LSU network one day. Look at the niche Gordy has carved out for himself. That's gotta be a goal...

Haha

Cheers

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What sparked this question? I didn't see any major changes in personnel Saturday.

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Because that's exactly what happened. O allowed the position coaches to make the decisions on personnel, aka, who should play and who needed a rest. Because of this, you saw a much better flow to the offense changing people in and out. In the past, Miles and Cameron would call a play, and then say who they wanted in at the skilled positions. It created mayhem of people running on and off.

This was the case not just with Gage, but with every WR that stepped on the field, TE and RB's. It's why you saw much more of a RB rotation between Guice and Williams, as opposed to Guice sitting on the bench an entire game watching Fournette play.

I'm amazed at the amount of LSU fans that watch every single LSU snap and don't pick up on the smaller things of football. So many fans that don't understand just how middle school our offense was prior. The fact we would run in a RB to play fullback on a fullback dive, we would have a WR cover the TE on a running play, of course the famous toss left to start games, options to the short side of the field, the acknowledgement that we would purposely avoid throwing to the middle of the field because it was "dangerous". An offense that didn't have a four WR set, much less 5? Maddening.

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The terms positiger and negatiger were thrown around a lot in the past, you are just a negative twat.

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This question came from Ensminger saying he left the personnel decisions up to the position coaches, that it was their job and he trusted them to do it.

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Didn't hear this, thanks for sharing!

All I asked was the background for the question. I expected there had to be something more than a different WR3 getting playing time, but if Ensminger said that then I understand the source of the question.

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major changes in personnel Saturday.

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the fact that Jazz Furgeson and Russell Gage played didn't seem striking to you!?

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the fact that Jazz Furgeson and Russell Gage played didn't seem striking to you!?

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They came in as 3rd and 4th WRs. I wasn't able to hear the radio show so I didn't know what the context of the question was. It seemed to imply there were some major moves, of which I don't consider the 3rd and 4th WR to be a major shake up, so that is why I was asking.