re: Passing . Limited deeper throws

Fairly new WR room, brand new O-line vs a very good defense, particularly upfront

The gameplan was to not turn the ball over.

The offense is going to open up a ton in the next few weeks. Relax

Clemson played a lot of 2 high safety look to take away deep passes as much as possible, we also made a concerted effort to help out our new OL by getting the ball out of Nuss' hands as quick as possible.

Honestly couldnt have asked Clemson to play a much better defensive look for us, shame we didnt take the FG in the 1st half and got robbed of a TD because that should have been a 27-10 game in the end. We definitely dominated both sides of the ball more than the score showed.

Thanks for the insight.

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Nuss's 4.55 is the lowest among SEC starters by a significant margin.

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Also, we were one of the only teams in the league that played a team with a pulse, let alone one with a very above average defense.

I expect those numbers sway heavily in favor of LSU in the coming weeks and I expect some deep passes vs La Tech

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Was the lack of deeper passes a product of what Clemson was doing?

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Yes.

The Clemson played cover two most of the night so that left the short passes and screen game open. The short passing game also helped the OL because Nuss got rid of the ball quickly to neutralize Clemson's pretty damn good DL.

ETA: it was a solid strategy by Dabo IMO. If LSU was going to beat Clemson they had to do it by a thousand cuts. In college that's difficult to do. It requires sustaining drives and not making mistakes. The more plays you run on offense the higher the risk of a mistake. Dabo was playing those odds. In the end LSU's offense led by Nuss beat Dabo and committed very few mistakes.

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Offensive play calling looked somewhat better…however I wished we used the middle of the field more instead of just passing to the sidelines…

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I'm convinced some of you don't even watch the games. I can think of several times Nuss found Anderson over the middle for big plays.

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A lot of short safe passes.

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I wouldn't call 14 passes behind the line of scrimmage short safe passes.
Utilize your strengths and take what the defense gives you.
We literally ran the same play 3 times in a row with Johnson, throwing the ball behind the line of scrimmage and Clemson just let us do it, and we got 2 first downs doing it. If teams want to give us that, i'd literally do it every single play until they commit to stopping it, and Clemson didn't commit to stopping it.
Those 14 passes behind the line of scrimmage averaged 7 yards per play. I'll take that every single down.
Between Anderson, Thomas and Brown, we've got some serious speed on the outside. We don't have Chase, or Jefferson, or Nabers to go run precise routes and demand double teams, but what we do have is 3 or 4 guys who are very dangerous with the ball in their hands after the catch, so we put the ball in their hands quickly and gave them opportunities to make things happen.

we showed all this against a good opponent, and hopefully we don't do too much different against Tech and wait until the next week against UF, but we've set ourselves up to demand the defense do something about those short successful plays, which should lead to opportunities for easy deep ball success.