re: The question is, why did it take Brady to change the offense?

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If the spread is the be all and end all, then why aren't other teams in the playoffs. Once again, if LSU had talented QBs for all those years, the passing game would have been just fine. 2013 season PROVES that!

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This is half correct & half wrong. Different variations of the spread for over the past 20 years have turned lesser talented teams into contenders & helped certain programs over that timeframe like West Virginia, TCU, Baylor, Ole Miss, Oklahoma St. & Mississippi St. reach heights that, had they not been running the spread, wouldn't reach. All those schools have played in BCS or NY6 bowl games in the last 10 years because of successful spread offenses.

The school who has benefited the most from the spread in the CFP era alone is Oklahoma. That is a program that has had an inability to pull in high level recruits on the defensive side of the ball. OU has also lacked elite coaching on the defensive side for a long time yet still they have made the CFP 3 years straight off the strength of being a spread offense.

LSU was going to see an increase in offensive production this past season from just the route concepts Joe Brady brought in alone. The offense could have operated with a lesser experienced QB & the production would have been better than 95% of all past Tiger offenses. What made it special is Burrow's leadership, toughness, intelligence both pre & post snap & his uncanny accuracy. Mix that in with a solid offensive line & future NFL players at the skill positions & what you got was tGoat offense in major college football history. People need to understand that it is not one particular person or idea that lead to the outcome in 2019. It was multiple reasons. Some reasons won't be around in 2020, some will. The ideas & concepts are still there. No matter what, the offense will still be good in 2020. Just how good will depend on several unknowns at the moment.

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Brady left for a promotion with LSU & when he did, Payton didn't seem too happy about losing what now looks like his star pupil.

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Payton didn’t try and work him in his organization? He could have promoted him, right?

Now he has to face him at Carolina.

I’m guessing Payton has a tighter budget than O has.

And another thing Brady played WR and coached LB. As a player he knows how to attack a defense’s secondary. He had to have taken what he learned with LB and their progressions and utilized that with his ideas for passing. He knew the soft spot of a defense against a spread offense.

It took getting rid of a granite head head coach. Kansas now has the problem.

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Payton already has a long time OC in Pete Carmichael. Payton himself is also heavily involved in the Saints offensive game planning & play calling. What title/promotion was Payton supposed to give Brady?

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I looked on the Saints site and besides Carmichael I counted 9 other coaches on offense. I do not know what these guys make or if Brady is better than any of those guys; however, Carolina apparently thinks he is.

It really took Burrow, baws

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Also hot take is LSU would have won it all this year no matter what offense they were running. The personnel was that good

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uh, we had almost all this personnel in 2018 and the offense was average, at best.

The new scheme helped immensely.

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Most coaches know the spread offense. It's not a mystery.

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No they don't.

The devil is in the details. It is far more complicated than you understand it to be.

Ensminger readily admitted this.

It took Orgeron making the decision to go with the spread. Taking the risk of making the change. Brady was great. Glad to have had him.. good luck to him..

There are many coaches that understand and can coach the spread RPO. Anyone in the kings bury, leach, Urban Meyer, layne Kiffin, Sarkesian, Gundy coaching trees.

Troy Syracuse run the spread RPO. Gus M runs a version of spread RPO.

Herman runs the spread RPO.. the OC Herman let go, Tim Beck, is an Urban Meyer disciple. Dana Holgerson no doubt has trained a couple of guys

Sean Salisbury

Whatever.. figure out who will come and who,is a cultural fit.

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Burrow had a lot of throw aways and drops his first year at LSU. The point is, his passing stats his first year at LSU look worse than they really were.

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The drills Brady put the wide receivers through made all the difference in the world. This season it was absolutely shocking when we dropped passes. It just didn’t happen often.