Worle and Allen where both RBs in high school with very little blocking experience... Theriot.. wasn't he a QB? I know his profile shows passing stats from his senior year. The point is that playing FB is a skillset.. You can't just plug in an over sized RB, as Miles has try to do. Works very rarely (Hester was pretty good, but he was just mean(and a better RB)). I think Dickson will have better luck at FB because he has blocking experience, but he still isn't a true FB.
Do you follow recruiting? There's a great thread here and Bhelm is the man on this stuff. He can help you out. Worle and Allen and Theriot were recruited as FBs, in much the same way that Early Doucet and Reuben Randle - both high school QBs - play(ed) WR in college. Pretty common.
Did Alabama play a center at guard? Sure helps to have a guy that is 30-40 pounds heavier on the right side of the line. Did Alabama play their best available RB? Were was Ford? Jefferson is a decent QB when he is not under the clock, as soon as he has to run a 2 minute offense he fails miserably---why not bring in a QB that has a stronger arm and see what he can do with clock management (Lee)? When a team is running a quick slant over and over and over. Why not have the D-line stand up at the line and try to swat away the quick pass. How many times can you blitz Peterson until you realize it is not working? Analyze that. Gruden for Coach
A lot of high school FBs are just bigger, slower RBs. They usually aren't their best RB, so they aren't getting recruited to go to the big schools. That's what I see, anyway.
Let's see. No. Yes. On the sidelines. Because he's not the starting QB. Because the scheme was penetration and pressure, not containment and "swatting". And, Maybe they realize it now - after reading your excellent and well developed post. Not so much analysis as answers to questions, but I did my best with what you gave me. I'm curious, though, how any of that has anything to do with the OP, which addresses the question of whether LSU runs a 3 yards and a cloud of dust kind of offense.
It's the "bottom line" of the OP. Based on the facts from the game, is LSU a three yards and a cloud of dust offense? Which is one of the big themes from folks in the game thread last night.
