re: Why the lack of snaps for Harold Perkins?

Posted by Jamey21

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Posted on 11/29/22 at 9:23 am to Taurus

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I love how all of a sudden everyone knows more about defense than our defensive coordinator who up until the A&M game everyone was praising. At the end of the day, players need to make plays and LSU didn't

Thank you!! Exactly

These coaches see these kids on the field everyday. They know who should be playing and WHY!

I remember at the start of the season everyone bitching about Josh Williams starting. They were complaining " why do we have a Walk on starting??

Now you know why jackazzes? Coaches want to win games a lot more then we do. They jobs depend on it.

Stay in your lane!

Posted by beautigers65

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Posted on 11/29/22 at 12:13 pm to Pintail

Perkins needs to play the edge 100% of the time with a college scheme that let's him rush the passer like Lawrence Taylor / Von Miller. Pressure and disruption on the quarterback is way more valuable than any linebacker play (coverage or run support) that he could provide from off the line of scrimmage. For a running quarterback, I would say the spy position would count as quarterback disruption, so that is fine.

Posted by Hot Carl

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Posted on 11/29/22 at 12:24 pm to Alvin3176

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They should put him spy and stop the damn running back then. Use him to stop the run not just the pass. Not sure why they didn't use him like that. Wouldn't of hurt to try.

Posted by Switek

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Posted on 11/29/22 at 12:29 pm to MNOCEOMS

This is the only excuse

Posted by Switek

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Posted on 11/29/22 at 12:32 pm to geauxtigers33

Baskerville has been good all year except Saturday

Posted by Hot Carl

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Posted on 11/29/22 at 12:32 pm to beautigers65

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Perkins needs to play the edge 100% of the time with a college scheme that let's him rush the passer like Lawrence Taylor / Von Miller. Pressure and disruption on the quarterback is way more valuable than any linebacker play (coverage or run support) that he could provide from off the line of scrimmage. For a running quarterback, I would say the spy position would count as quarterback disruption, so that is fine.

Almost none of y’all (the simple ones who think like this) know anything about football, but exactly how big do y’all think 18-year-old Harold Perkins is right now?

Posted by SlowFlowPro

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Posted on 11/29/22 at 12:34 pm to Hot Carl

Probably 220 or so.

Did you see what he did at edge playing whatever weight he was playing this year?

I'll copy and paste something I posted earlier on the RB:

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His value on the edge will always be greater than his value playing LB. That's the problem with your math.

Edge is a much more valuable position and presents many more opportunities to make big plays. Whatever alleged schematic value in moving him around almost assuredly isn't worth the loss in value-production by playing him at an inferior position (value-wise) that he plays much less well.

Also, any time spent working on developing at LB will take away from time developing him at edge.

I don't get the EV calculation on this.

Posted by skullhawk

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Posted on 11/29/22 at 12:45 pm to Pintail

Was it a lack of snaps or ineffectiveness? How many snaps did he get compared to previous games?

A&M threw the ball less than 20 times. Rarely in third and long where Perkins can pin his ears back and get after the QB. I also noticed that when LSU kept their three linebacker personnel instead of going to nickel, A&M would motion out the receiver/TE, and Perkins was forced to go out with him, taking him out of the play or creating a mismatch.

For Perkins to be effective, LSU needed to force more obvious passing situations by stopping the run. Even when A&M passed, it was all quick out of the QBs hands. LSU's defensive failures are all tied to being unable to stop the run consistently.

LSU has been effective at stopping the run against teams with much better run game resumes than Texas A&M. I think the team thought that A&M was ready to roll over and didn't bring their best effort. I also think you are dealing with some fatigue on that side of the ball due to lack of depth.

Posted by beautigers65

Member since Oct 2015

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Posted on 11/29/22 at 12:48 pm to SlowFlowPro

He is listed as 6'2 220 and that is big enough to rush the passer in college when you have elite get-off, quickness, speed and bend. And if one knows anything about football, one knows that disrupting the quarterback is worth much more than anything else on defense. Next is an elite shut down corner. An off the ball linebacker is last.