This is for all you "O's fault for Fla loss" crowd. Might want to also blame O for telling Guice to fumble on the 5 yd line too. Hell I am positive O told Growden to muff the field goal snap too. Oh I forgot O probably told Jackson to fumble the kick return and blow a coverage too. The top image is how this play was designed, or at least how we think it was designed. It's a fake dive to FB J.D. Moore (orange circle) and a pitch to the left to RB Derrius Guice (black circle). TE Foster Moreau (red circle) is expected to get the sealing block on the edge, a block that should spring Guice to the outside. The bottom image is about 1 second into the play. Remember when interim coach Ed Orgeron said that Guice "ran the wrong way" on this final play? This is what he's talking about. Guice is heading right - not left, where the play is designed to be run. QB Danny Etling actually double clutches before pitching to Guice because he sees the running back darting right. The blocking in the bottom image from Moreau (red) and Moore (orange) is exactly what LSU wants. It's all set up for Guice to out run the free linebacker to the outside left. In the most crucial of situations, the sophomore has a mental lapse.
One mistake, hell, a few would be fine. But some share of the cornucopia of errors in this game has to be put on Eaux. It wasn't one play that lost this game. And everyone who says he's trying to make salad out of shit, I'll halfway grant you that if you halfway grant me that every decision Eaux makes is magnified because we only have a condensed body of work with which to work.
Of course O is not perfect however looking back at his first 5 games before Fla these mistakes were not occuring. All teams have that one "murphy's law" game. Bama did at Ole Miss and Ohio St at Penn State and so on and so on.
Why wasnt 7 in on the last play? He dictated to the team when he was going to play evidently. Who knew on senior day that Leonard would coach his final day in TS??? Sorry O...not a HC decision
Wasn't there a timeout right before this play? If so, that is what is so frustrating. How can you have a mental lapse right after a timeout with the game on the line? Everyone should have known exactly what they were supposed to do. The QB and RB should have reviewed the play with each other during the timeout to make sure they were on the same page.
And I don't totally disagree, but Eaux's candidacy was already built with hope and dreams. Maybe he'll survive it, but it was a major blow to his resume in my opinion.
One play doesn't win or lose a game. The previous handoff to Moore was a case of going to the well too often, for example... and while that sort of play might be OK at midfield it's not OK at the one yard line.
