TechinItEasy

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So stopping the outside is better than trying to explode through the middle right?

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It's neither better nor worse. They are both equally necessary.

You made the comment that not many teams can rely on breaking up plays consistently. I will contend that not many teams can rely on their safeties/corners making consistent unassisted open field tackles against a runningback.

But if you ignore one area to beef up the other, we will simply take advantage of the area you ignored.

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Stopping the option is about pressure.........You have to stop it before it starts.

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Ding ding ding!

Assignment football will slow it down, maybe force us to pass more than we want...but won't necessarily stop it. Even when UGA managed to play their assignments we were still getting 3-5 yards/play because by the time we made the dive read, keep read, pitch read(then pitched) we would already be a few yards up the field.

Busting through the OL and stopping the play before it starts is the only way to "stop" it(as in any offense, really).

Some teams were fairly successful with this early on...but our OL has really come together well the last half of the season, and they deserve more credit than they are getting for the overall improvement this team has seen throughout the season.

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No sarcasm. Are you from the 50's to 70's and enjoy watching boring offense that is all but dead? I understand that trends and fads are cyclical, but I don't ever want to see LSU run the option on a consistent basis. The spread is nothing more than the run-n-shoot, and people still haven't figured it out.

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You've obviously got it all figured out...someone should pay you $3mil a year to coach football!

Be sure to watch the GT game....leading the country in plays of 20+ yards is far from boring.

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There is a reason nobody in the SEC runs the option anymore. The SEC defenses have too much lateral speed for the option to be successful. Despite the horrible defensive gameplans LSU still has some of the best defensive team speed in the country. I don't see the option being successful against them.

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:lol: :lol:

Have you been under a rock for the last 6 months?

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and stopping the option with a month to prepare is completely different as well

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No...it's the same. You just have more time to work on it.

I was responding to a poster who chalked up an LSU win b/c GT doesn't pass and LSU's run D is so good.

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That's what I'm saying when I say one dimensional. Just focus on stopping the run.

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This makes a whole lot more sense rather than bringing up meaningless rushing defense stats.

My point has been "run defense vs an option team" is something entirely different than "run defense vs a traditional team".

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Hey, you know... you're likely to get "a season's worth of option" in the bowl game. Make sure you DVR it.

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Haha...at least their being good sports about it. It's no fun when one side breaks down into "oh ya!? You're a nerd!" or "oh ya!? you smell like corndogs!"

But, like I said before, you painted the picture with only one color...and it was purple.

I was just evening it out with some white and gold.

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Are you aware that you will be playing a team with 3 weeks and a year full of film to prepare for that attack? If you guys run over us it will be because our coaches are totally incompetent...not because your offense is so dynamic that it is unstoppable. If we get good play out of our QB, then GT is in trouble.

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We've got the same three weeks to prepare for you...and there is decades of film on the option, not one year.

I'm not saying anything is unstoppable..quite a few teams proved that it is, in fact, very stoppable like any other offense.

Let's face it, asking LSU for decent QB play this year is like asking for a small miracle.

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Against, if so good then why not in the mediocre ACC's title game? Medicore passing stats on 100 tosses for the entire season. Lost 2 of their final 5 games, struggled vs Gardner-Webb, Clemson..tussles vs BC, VT, Va, FSU..4 of 5 games played away from Dodd were basically 3 pt games(winning but 3 of 5)..etc..

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Nobody is really saying we're "so good"...at least I'm not, the media might be drinking the kool-aid a bit.

But with the way our offense has played this year, when we get up against defenses with tendencies similar to your own, we have run pretty wild.

UVA, UNC played sound defense and tackled well, they managed to stop us + we turned it over 3 times in each game(leading to 21 of UNC's 28 points).

Gardner Webb we did not run our offense. Our third string QB is literally incapable of it(he is solely a drop back passer)..We called "dive, keep, or pitch" before every play, no option at all.

FSU we were stomping until our starting QB went out. FSU fans will tell you this.

Our first 3-4 games of the year we didn't have a clue what we were doing, BC and VT were total crapshoots...everyone seems to forget that this is the first year we have run this offense, with players recruited for something else.

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I will be heavily drunk by halftime if we don't have 8 guys in the box 50% of the time.

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You will be soberly watching a beat down then. :lol: