re: Ryan Clark Nailed It...

I know our o-line isn’t great, but do you know how perfect the O-line has to be when there is nothing that makes the d-line guess? When a d-line knows what’s coming and knows the snap count they are gonna beat even a more talented o-line 9 times out of 10. If you keep a defense guessing the d-line and linebackers have to hang back a little bit before rushing the passer or attacking a gap. That helps mask deficiencies on an O-line.

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frees up a scholarship because we would never punt.

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Not sure if serious, but it's funny...

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Without an offensive line that can block and give your QB time to throw,

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That’s partly on Cregg but scheme definitely is a factor. There are plenty teams with less talented OL that can be effective passing etc.

Scheme will get you so far, but you also have to have the Jimmies and Joes to match up against the opposing team's players. Like I said before, I'm for LSU going to a spread offense. But Clark's saying "it was 100% scheme" against Bama the other night is just hyperbolic.

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I’m guessing Ryan Clark caught a couple drives of the game and thinks he’s expertly qualified to comment on it

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I’m guessing Clark is pretty qualified to comment on football in general.

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Without an offensive line that can block and give your QB time to throw, NO scheme will save us against Bama

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We were the only team to hold Alabama under 30 points

We were the only team to get an interception on Tua

Despite this we were also the only team to get shut out

8 other teams scored points on Alabama. The idea that their defense is invincible is beyond absurd

It's the scheme

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When our offensive coaches say they have a few wrinkles it means they added one double reverse and maybe a couple wild cat plays.

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We didn't even get that against Bama. We got absolutely nothing creative. Pretty mind-boggling. Astonishing that they would play it like that two times in a row in Tiger Stadium. On top of that, we punted at the Bama 38 and kicked a FG at the 15 down 22 with 10 minutes left. They laid a total egg.

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It may be arguable there’s schematically some things they can do better, but to say it’s 100% is dumb

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Don't take everything so literally. What he means is that's the most glaring problem that needs to be addressed.

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Unless we are just that bad at evaluating O-line every year.

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I'm beginning to think we've been sold a bill of goods about how good some of our linemen are. We may very well have an evaluation of talent/development of talent problem, Idk.

But the idea that no coordinator could out up points with our offensive line is absurd and just cover for poor coaching