First off, if I hear Verne Lundquist say that one more time, I think I'll puke. I tried to put it on 870am, but they had about a 20 second delay from the telecast.

Second, besides Jones and McFadden being the real deal, why weren't we able to stop this. I just KNEW we'd make some halftime adjustments and make them throw in the second half. I thought it was a real tactical blunder on Ark. part to abandon this formation; first on the 4th down 3 call and then on the game's last series. I'm not critizing the D. They could give up a million yards and I wouldn't care as long as we won. But, I'm just wondering what it is about this scheme that caused us so many fits.

I would compare it to CBs covering WRs. The WRs ALWAYS have the advantage, because they know where they're going. Arkansas was able to take that advantage behind the line, and with TWO guys with their speed, the defense couldn't get a jump on the direction of the play. They either stay in the middle and get beaten outside, or vice versa. And the Arkansas players did a great job of executing the scheme with some pretty good seal off blocks.

I'll be curious what some of the folks here have to say, because I too, thought it was a very interesting dynamic in this game.

I would have liked to have seen LaRon playing some LB in these sets, because McFadden can throw decent, but by no means could he have picked us apart.

The problem is that we didn't and don't know when or where these plays were coming, because if I'm not mistaken, the QB slots out to WR on them.

I don't think any team could stop this offense. Only Nutt could himself. If LSU would not have had 2 TO, they probably would've scored on those 2 drives. That would have put Ark in pass mode. But the TO kept them in the game. If McFadden ever gets hurt, and I hope he doesn't, Ark will be crap. He is that team.

I turn down the TV and listen to the game on radio.

It looked like Laron was lining up like an OLB on the strong side more often than not. However, Arkansas really did a great job of sealing him off long enough to run by him. And with that speed, that doesn't take too long. It was maddening, because it looked like the LSU guys were lining up in the right places, and STILL couldn't stop it!

Disclaimer: This is just from watching the game once. I'm sure there are more specific answers to be found during a rewatch.

In every other game this year I saw LSU D linemen and LB's running down running backs before they turned the corner. Not today, today even out DB's had a hard time getting there in time to stop those two from getting to the edge and turning it upfield. Make no mistake, both of the arky RB's are the real deal and deserve a ton of credit. I wonder if bringing in and extra safety to shadow the RB like D's use a spy to shadow a running QB would have helped any. I didn't see many DL's or LB's get more than a sniff of McFadden on most of the running plays to the outside, he's gooooooooood.

As I mentioned in the original thread, I tried to do this. But the radio telecast was about 20 seconds behind the TV telecast. On Holliday's KR, he was already in the endzone on TV before he even caught the ball on radio.