Hey, man...I NEVER said it hasn't sucked! LOL! No, it's sucked so hard the paint is missing. But the offensive approach, the formations used, the plays called, all of that changed when Crowton left. All of a sudden the formations were more traditional and the plays were simpler. It certainly wasn't more effective at eating up yards, but you can't deny that the offense scored a lot of points that year. The D and STs scored their share and set the offense up quite a bit, but it was the offense that actually scored the majority of points. Our red zone efficiency was off the charts, if you recall, and THAT'S on the offense. And it's the primary reason Stud got another year. To be clear, I'm not justifying it. I'm just saying that's why we were stuck with him again last year. In summary...Crowton was fired because he lost the magic of '07 as the SEC figured him out. Kragthorpe never got to coach a down as OC. Stud did JUST well enough to keep his emergency promotion. And now we have a real coordinator. The change in formations and plays called when our coordinators changed is enough evidence to debunk the "Les is running the offense" rumors. We will be better this year.
IIRC, Bama scored on a screen where we ran a called blitz and one of the freshmen DB's blew an assignment. So youth cost us that one.
Gotcha. That Yeldon TD was touch to watch. Everyone and their mother saw that play coming....except....
On that play, yes. However, on the 3 or 4 completions leading up to that play, our DB's were playing 10 yards off of the receivers, and we were not pressuring McCarron.
Bingo. We were playing aggressive defense all game and went completely soft and prevent on that last drive. The only time LSU got aggressive was that last play and you could feel the fact that Bama knew they were going to be aggressive, hence the delayed screen. You could feel it pre-snap.
