re: Smart Football's Chris Brown breaks down the "winning play" in OT for LSU...

Yeah. He was clearly out of bounds. He must've thought he had more room because he could have run another 1/2 yard inside and it would have been TD.

To me, it makes me wonder if JJ taking that big, looping angle isn't by design.

We're inviting the uncovered defender to read the quarterback, but also tempting him by having Jordan stay relatively deep in the backfield as he runs laterally.

Typically, the complaint there with him being so deep is that you want to initiate that uncovered or unblocked player making that read and comitting by "pressing the line" or pushing towards the line of scrimmage, which JJ really does not.

Instead, the invites the kid into the backfield, and Ford stays deep enough that it allows Hilliard time to identify the edge guy and get a hat on him.

Seems counterintuitive almost, but it works in this instance.

I also really think we ran this after seeing how 'Bama would read the keys when we ran it earlier in the game. Don't discount what Brown brings up in terms of us rearranging the blocking assignments once we saw how Bama was going to defend that play.

My point-quite literally-is that our offensive coaching staff completely rooked and outcoached the Alabama defensive staff by showing this look to them early and allowing them to stop it. Just so we could see how they matched up.

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That play call took balls

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yeah JJ barely got that ball off.. bad things could have easily happened

interesting

I like seeing it broken down like that, and when you have a block by the fullback, TWO guys out of the play, courtesy Faulk, and no penetration, you're hoping the guy, by some miracle, accidentally steps out of bounds!

I have a new respect for the option. I was always one who felt if the defense plays technique, the option is of no effect... au contraire, when you lay it out with the overloaded wide side, that makes the short side option a much smarter move, provided it is properly coached.

This really is evidence if everyone just does there job a team succeeds. The LSU section I was in went absolutely insane when this happened.

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JJ probably turns upfield with the ball (like he always does)

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Didn't think about this until I read your post, but yea, JJ kept all year long. I've been criticizing him for hogging the ball. But in this game he pitched most of the time. Maybe they were setting bama up all this time.

Some folks post that it doesn't matter on a running play who the QB is because one QB can hand off as well as another QB.

Some folks post that a QB running a play takes away a carry from a more talented running RB.

This play shows why a running QB makes a running attack better. With a QB who is a running threat, the defense has to account for the QB.

On this play, Jefferson completely takes the DE out of the play. Without the threat of Jefferson keeping the ball, that DE would have either neutralized Hilliard or tackled Ford. Either way, the play doesn't work without a QB who is a running threat.