re: Root Cause Investigation - O Line

They lost some ground after Dellinger went down

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In business or industry, when something does not go as planned, we do a root cause investigation.

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Go through the “5 whys” for us on the o line sucking

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Are experts (Pro O-line coaches, for example) brought in to critique coaching, techniques, scheme, etc??? What other deep dives would be done, and who would lead these? Please tell me something.

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I don't think your $100M HC and AD would want that.

I don't buy for a second that our coaches lamented Nuss not keeping the ball on the option.
I believe completely that because LSU had no backup QB that could win anything, Nuss was instructed not to run, unless he had an open field in front of him and could run for a first down. He actually did that toward the end of the season a couple of times. Next year, I am pretty sure whoever our QB is, will be running more of the option reads and scrambling more. We are not dead in the water if Nuss is forced out of the game for a while or even the season from being hurt on the field. LSU offense will be better because of that.

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wth is he supposed to do

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He has options that can be coached:
1) throw the ball away;
2) roll away from pressure, throw ball out of bounds
3) if you can't escape just go down, take small loss, don't get hit/injured

Point being, he has options when pressured up the middle, running backwards should not be one of them as it has never produced a positive play.

So funny how many people do not know the difference between dominant and dominate. Geezus. Ignorant and lazy.

The OL was decent, but I just don't understand why we can't have one of those mauling OLs that teams fear. With the exception of the last two years, Alabama's OL used to blow massive holes, and even if the opposing team knew what was coming, it didn't matter. I'm tired of hearing about all these players with 4/5 stars, but they play like a two-star when they get on campus!

Sloan told Davis to spend 95% of practice on pass pro since he planned on throwing the ball a thousand times.

It held up until Dellinger goat hurt.

Too bad for the ground game.

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It didn’t matter who the back was, we haven’t been able to run the middle in ages & certainly not this year.

Durham does not have a vision problem, yet only successful runs all looked like some sort of stretch play.

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Eh I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. Yes, most (if not all) of Durham’s explosive runs were on outside zone calls. But that doesn’t mean that they were his only successful runs. He also fought injury for a significant chunk of the season.

I would say there were a lot of different issues plaguing the rushing game, and that lack of vision/patience (particularly from Jackson) was one of them.

I also think Sloan tried too hard to force the power running game. I’m not a fan of running zone exclusively, but we struggled to get pullers across cleanly on counter/power calls all year. Either because the lead guy was hesitant, someone on the IOL got pushed back into the lane of the pullers, the RB didn’t let the blocks develop, or some combination of all three.