Holliday can open up the offense if used right. Imagine having Perrilloux and Trindon in the backfield with Doucet, Byrd, and Toliver/Lafell out wide or Dickson at TE. That is scary good.
I don't think LSU is softer with Holliday, just predictable. If Holliday is in the backfield, chances are 80% that he's going to get the ball. You can't be predictable against modern defenses.
I wonder why we never sent Holiday down the field on a Fly making the LB or Safety cover him which will be very hard with his speed. Its called creating mismatches.
I don't know about Crowton's line of thinking, but my guess is the fear of more interceptions because he's such a small target & moves so fast it's easy to throw over/behind him.
True but with his speed and with a spread offense with him inside with a LB or strong safety guarding him most likely single coverage. A good QB should be able to hit him on a fly easily with being open.
Bingo. Instead, it went something like, "Stuff. Between tackle only. Stick with this guy for no reason. Play our ass off. Stuff. Going to do better. I like what I see." Are the other receivers 5'6" as well? :hihi: Cheap shot, I know.
and if they kept him in more it wouldnt be predictable. AND with a healthy O line it wouldnt matter if they could predict it, by the time they realized it he'd be past them. Predictable doesnt equal stopable. Id put him in for every kick return and every punt return. Myabe not every play though. I like Miles but I think when he gets a play over on another coach like he did with the fake kick, he gets somewhat of an air of infallability about himself. I dunno maybe thats just me, reading it wrong. I keep trying to see his reasoning, like for pulling Scott, telling myself he knows way more than I ever did, but deep inside I know it was a mistake to take a hot Rb out of the mix, it just isnt done anywhere else and even a dumb azz like me can see that.
JS, I just finished watching the game again. (THAT was painful!) I think you are exactly right about the RB situation. The way Scott was playing, they probably should've just kept giving him the ball until KY figured out how to stop him. That would've opened up the play-action game. Of course, that would involve throwing the ball and someone actually catching it and hanging on to it.....which was not going well at all.ldskule:
We had alot of things go wrong in this game and we still dahm near pulled it out, amazing. if youd have told me all the penalties, and alot of them were critical, the pulling of Scott and the O line letting flynn get knocked around ...without telling me the score, I would have expected it to be worse! not Flynn's fault, he isnt like Tebow and you see even when Tebow is rattled he cant play well. You have to protect the QB. In a situation where you cant protect him, best to have someone like RP back there ie another running back giving you the option. matt's mobile but he aint as fast as RP lets face it. and dont get me wrong I love Matt, id rather the O line step up. if we fix ANYONE of those penalties, we'd have won the game. small margin, yet sometimes its all thats needed. OH well we aint out of it YET! les will fix it and we'll hang 50 on the WAR CHICKENS :geauxtige
I haven't watched the replay yet paducah but I keep thinking about those last runs in OT. I could swear that on one of Hesters runs a little jump or step to the left would have gotten us a first and then the very last run, I think it was Scott, same thing a quick move to the left and first down. Was I just seeing things?