To what do you attribute the sudden and dramatic change in LSU's offensive production in the 3 games since Miles was fired? They didn't go to a wide open spread, but the subtle tweaks Ensminger has made are paying huge dividends so far.
Same exact players who could do NOTHING offensively the last couple years. And they were without Fournette for 2 of the 3 games under Orgeron/Ensminger.
They set LSU offensive records in the first 2 games, and they looked unstoppable against Old **** yesterday. Night and day difference in offensive production. They look to be much more diverse offensively which is opening up the run game.
Tough call to judge on the last 2 opponents.
So Miss gave up 35 to Kentucky, the only other P5 school they played.
In 4 of Ole ****' P5 games, they gave up 45, 48, 34, and 38.
I do agree, though, that they are now playing with "a little somethin" on O.
I'd love to see them lay a 40-spot at home against 'Bama next week.
The teams LSU has played are far from elite defensively. But one of the major knocks on LSU the last few years is they've even struggled against bad defenses.
The excuse that posters are making that LSU hasn't played elite defenses and therefore their stats are inflated is actually pretty inept thinking. Just to remind you guys, USF put up 30+ points on FSU and we could barely touch the endzone. UNC was far from elite defensively yet we couldn't move the ball on them, and just now against V-Tech their defense is pretty dog****.
Not sure if there was changes made for LSU in the playbook (maybe a few wrinkles) but sometimes when HC's get fired the players either get fired up or just lose all faith in the season. . When watching the LSU games earlier in the season the offense looked eerily similar to Richt. Just trying to stuff Fournette down the defense's throat when they stack 8-9 in the box. There was no Play Action no misdirection, nothing. The same can be said for Richt.
There have been countless times where we line up in Shotgun, have Walton in the Backfield and there are literally 8-9 players in the box and they just stuff the runner. At that point there needs to be some motion from our Tight ends, some sort of Jetsweep motion fake, some wrinkle to change it up (the Kaaya QB keeper was definitely not it), or how about an Audible...just shows Richt has no faith in Kaaya. Instead, Richt just runs the same plays over and over again with no innovation and it essentially becomes a high school offense. Our playbook consists of RPO's with no QB threat, Four verticals, and Slants. I have yet to see a motion, or a Tight end stack offset the line, no counters, just pure garbage.
As a sidenote, while watching the OSU v PSU game the PSU quarterback would run the RPO on some plays and the defense would have to account for him because he is a threat. The LB's and S for OSU were flat footed because their QB could take off and run with it leading to an easy inside route for the PSU receivers. While small wrinkles and playcalling changes everything, we simply are running an offense that does not work for Kaaya...in the end hindering Richt and Kaaya. However, from what I've seen even if we had Nkosi back there running this Richt offense it is difficult to say how successful it would be. The plays are too vanilla and Richt has no feel for the game whatsoever. He puts us in a negative position right from the get go and if we dont get positive yardage on 1st down it almost always becomes a 3 and out.
Kind've turned into a small rant instead of answering your question Chise but from what I saw there was just a little more creative juices flowing in their offense compared to what I have seen in the past. They also have Fournette who is an Elite back, while we continue to have Walton run into the line and Yearby with no breakaway speed. It really is just a combination of everything and how much we suck atm.
