re: The O line is simply not good

I am not a football coach. Never said I was. I can, however, look at statistics (garbage national rankings on offense) and know that something is wrong.

I repeat, there are college teams, WITH MUCH LESS OFFENSIVE LINE TALENT THAN LSU, who produce greater offensive production. How do they do that? frick if I know. I'm not a football coach. But apparently, it's do-able, and not some mystical, unattainable goal (i.e., the "dream" for LSU to one day field a 21st century offense is not a pipe dream, is do-able, is not a mystical fantasy.)

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Cregg hasn’t been the homerun hire I thought he’d be

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I remember how high the Rant was on him and I said based on his experience I had never heard of him and wasn't sold and was downvoted to eternity lol

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remember how high the Rant was on him and I said based on his experience I had never heard of him and wasn't sold and was downvoted to eternity lol

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I just wonder how much difference there is and what's required to be successful in the NFL as opposed to college.

I'm assuming that most NFL players have the footwork down. Maybe they don't have to spend nearly as much time on fundamentals in the NFL as they do in college. In any event, somebody has to do a better job getting the players ready to play.

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Offensive scheme 2%

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Looking at 2016 and 2018 which games do you think we effectively out schemed our opponent that had a good defense?

I'll say Moo State this year. UGA this year although they got a lot of short fields from the defense, but at least they executed on the opportunities given to them.

I can't really think of any outside of that which is concerning to me. I think you're discounting the scheme a little too much here.

The other area of the offense I would be curious to see how you rate is in-game adjustments. How big of a problem do you see with E's ability to make in game offensive adjustments?

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I don't think we out schemed MSU at all on offense.

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Well I would say went in with a game plan of clock control as a priority knowing our D could keep them under 10 or so points. So I guess I would say the O executed its game plan well even though it's not exactly the most inventive plan.

So if you can only cite UGA as a decently schemed game then how/why are you defending E?

You want to lay a load of shite on 18-21 kids and absolve guys literally making millions of dollars. I think Orgeron has done a good job, overall. I like Ensminger. But his offense is ranked way, way down in production. There are numerous schools that don't have the budget, recruiting base, etc., and frankly, don't have the level of offensive line talent that LSU has. Yet they somehow manage to produce much better offensive production.

Scheme? Better pass routes. Better designed pass routes. (Coordinators design pass routes, right?) Better designed screen passes. More quick passes. Call it whatever the hell you want. "The New, Improved LSU Offense." "The Bayou Blitzkrieg." Don't care what it's called or labeled.

I know for damn sure that LSU has better O linemen than Memphis, Utah State, Washington State, Florida Atlantic, other programs. (all of whom are ranked much higher in offensive production than LSU.)

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So if you can only cite UGA as a decently schemed game then how/why are you defending E?

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I said defending the coaches as a whole not necessarily E.

I think we need a new OC that is actually innovative.

I also think that our OTs and Brumfield (I know not a popular opinion) are awful. That is why I say defend the coaches, you really do get hamstrung if 3 out of 5 OLmen are bad.

E doesn't do them any favors scheme-wise though.

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Offensive scheme 2%

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Bruh...

Alabama knew every play we were going to do. We have no deception in our plays. That was said by a guy we're supposedly trying to bring in next year, Sean Salisbury. You are not seeing how badly we need a new playbook.

Here's the deal. Orgeron doesn't know what type of offense he wants. He hired Matt Canada (whose offense wasn't really what Orgeron said he wanted.) So (even though Canada's offense was actually more productive than this year's, and actually scored points on Alabama) Canada didn't work out. So he hires Steve Ensminger, a nice guy, true Tiger, who has been working in relative obscurity as LSU's tight ends coach for several years. Hasn't been an offensive coordinator in over two decades.

First of all, does anyone think LSU's tight ends have ever been fully utilized in the passing game? Has Steve been coaching them up on their blocking skills for the past decade? BTW, nothing wrong that, per se. But, also, LSU's QB play has generally been acknowledged as poor over the past decade (people say LSU could possibly have won another NC during that span with at least decent QB play) ... and wasn't Ensminger on staff during this time? I mean, we had this great offensive mind, QB whisperer on staff, who didn't materially contribute to the quality of our QB play, simply b/c nobody thought to ask him?

See how silly all of that sounds?

This is not a vendetta against Coach Ensminger. Would love to see him on the football staff, in the football office, in some capacity. He has much value to add. But LSU simply needs some fresh blood and new thinking on the offensive side of the ball. Pay me a million dollars and I'll immerse myself in the intracacies of offensive X's and O's. Otherwise, the best I can do is simply point out that what we're doing ain't working. Which admittedly doesn't take much sense to do, but apparently others would rather put blame on the players.