Tigerdemand

My thing is mathieu is ranked higher than most lsu players in draft. He has had impressive workouts and could be a great nickel back. Throw everything out the window he is a ballhawk. Then put that with his ability to make plays. Sproles could focus on running the ball and not worry about returns. Cause lets face it sproles avoided returns this year. And the other return guys are embarrassing. I mean roby fumbled a couple returns. Mathieu has incredible upside. I think that his past kept him out of first round but I'm surprised he's this high.

By the way he did pass drug test and when he did interview with espn you could tell he has grown up some

SDSU is where I'm studying. I didn't see the interview with Saban that all of you mentioned. This was just what I noticed. And you do realize one corner can't stop a screen considering he has five lead blockers at that point.

First off let me start by saying in no means am I a Saban fan. And the reason this post is a week late is because I wanted to research to make sure Saban was calling the plays the last drive.

This is what I noticed:

On the last drive of one possession games lsu always plays a prevent until the other team gets about to the lsu 35 and Chavis dials up the blitz. Well Saban knew this and exploited it to the max. He knew that lsu defense would be tough inside the thirty. So he comes out n takes what the d gives him. Ah mcarron knows the next three plays before he runs the first one. They can throw wherever as long as they get a first down because of clock stoppage rule to move chains (which I think needs to be done away with). Well they moved the ball and ran a no huddle so lsu could not adjust. Then as soon as they got to about the thirty five he threw an incomplete pass. Saban knew this gave lsu time to adjust and they would be coming out dialing up blitzes. And what is the biggest play you can make against a blitz. A screen. And I do believe that he either gave mcarron the choice or he signaled in the direction once they saw lsu line up. The screen went to the side lsu sent three extra blitzers. And he could have walked to end zone.

Now I didn't notice this right as it was happening so I can't say I would have done the blitz on that play differently. But I do know that the conservative two safeties deep doesn't work in college. The clock stops when teams get first downs. It is too easy for a team to drive 80 yards in 45 seconds on a prevent defense in college. They knew bama just needed a field goal so they weren't going for the home run. It was actually as lsu got the ball back that I realized how Saban baited is into that screen

Jordan Jefferson
Jarrett lee
Dj Howard

Tell me we wouldn't be butchering sec opponents with these clowns.