I think it can be effective to a certain extent. LSU's D looked a bit gassed in the 3rd QTR when WVU got into the rythm.
It's genius. Wow, I don't get what you people are saying. You do what you need to do to get an advantage over your opponent. It's been this way since football was invented. You guys sound like a bunch of whiners.
Alabama and LSU have run a little of the no huddle from time to time. But in many ways the power formations we run are designed to do the same thing. Keep pounding the run game down their throat with sledge-hammer backs and relentless play calling until the accumulative effect began to takes its toll. From there, you see defensive players with hand on hips, holes opening up and that familiar look of what do we do now. (early in the 3rd quarter for arky yesterday) We know what happens to the defenses of Oregon and WV as their offenses attempt the less effective version of the no huddle.:yelwink2:
I have no real beef with the hurry up as long as people keep perspective on why teams do it. I have a real beef with fans who think that every injury against a hurry up team is a fake. You don't boo injured players, period. You aren't a genius just because you call a fast game. In the end, football is still about blocking and tackling, which this LSU team does real well. GEAUX TIGERS
Agree completely. You do everything you can to win and the no-huddle offense is the latest fad of the past 5 years. It will pass as defenses adjust to it. It's only a gimmick if a team uses it the entire game like Oregon. When LSU does it, it tends to be very effective because defenses are used to having time to line up and play power football. It's hard to complain about something that we ourselves use...
That's EXACTLY why they run it. Inferior teams see it as sort of an equalizer. Superior teams do it to gain that much more of an advantage. There's never going to be any rules against it, so might as well design a defense to stop it.
which is why lsu had no need to fake. they practiced how to defend it then played against oregon and contained them. miles and chavis implemented a drill using two offenses to learn how to defend against it, and im sure a lot of coaches will now be using that method of preparing for teams like oregon.
