The truth about last night's offense

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“It was a play. It was a whole play. It was part of the whole deal,” quarterback Danny Etling said afterward. “I’m not going to tell you if I could’ve snapped the ball before or if I could’ve snapped it after, who could’ve got the ball. Everything is kind of hidden with our offense right now, and we’d like to keep it that way.”

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No, players and coach Ed Orgeron say, you did not see the complete Canada offense during the Tigers’ 27-0 season-opening win over BYU on Saturday night in New Orleans. Pat of it — a big part — remains shrouded in secrecy.

There were no throws to offensive linemen, for instance, or a single shovel pass. Admittedly, 13th-ranked LSU (1-0) was vanilla, running the ball a whopping 57 times in a stat reminiscent to years past at this school. LSU passed the ball just seven times on its first 31 first-down attempts.

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“All the first down passes, intermediate passes … there’s a lot of stuff he didn’t have to run, but had it in his call sheet. He gave me his call sheet. About like that,” Orgeron said, gesturing with his hands as if he were holding an object that ran from his head to his chest. “Might have used 10 percent of it.”

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“There is a little bit more,” Etling smiled when asked the offense. “We found what plays we liked and found what plays worked and stuck with those. (We’ll) probably change it up again next week. It’s whatever the defense is going to give us and whatever we think is the best way to attack them. Tonight, we were able to run the ball however we wanted to, and we kept putting it down their throats.”

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