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LSU wasted the best offensive line in college football this year
Posted on 1/8/17 at 12:02 am
Posted on 1/8/17 at 12:02 am
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As a collective unit, no offensive line performed better than that of the LSU Tigers in 2016. The group finished atop our offensive line metric, largely because all three starting interior players had overall grades of at least 74.5. The Tigers were led by C Ethan Pocic, whose overall grade of 82.7 was bolstered by his pass-blocking performance that saw him yield just 11 total pressures with no sacks or hits allowed. LG Will Clapp was also outstanding in pass protection, as he was responsible for just nine total pressures, with two hits and no sacks. RG Josh Boutte was the only member of the interior trio to give up a sack, but his lone sack charged to him was accompanied by just seven other pressures.
Not surprisingly, the success of LSU’s run game can be directly attributed to the outstanding play of the offensive line. Tiger runners averaged 6.6 yards per carry on the season, and earned 46.8 percent of their yards before initial contact. By comparison, Alabama and Clemson runners gained 40.7 and 40.1 percent of their yardage before contact, displaying perfectly just how much more efficient the play of the LSU offensive line was. With Pocic and Boutte both graduating and onto the next level, the Tigers are unlikely to duplicate this year’s effort in 2017. However, this year’s group can take pride in knowing the unit put together a truly elite 2016 campaign. — Josh Liskiewitz
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Posted on 1/8/17 at 12:04 am to Bench McElroy
It sure didn't feel like we had the best Oline when I'd watch us play
Posted on 1/8/17 at 12:05 am to Bench McElroy
No
Posted on 1/8/17 at 12:17 am to philly444
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It sure didn't feel like we had the best Oline when I'd watch us play
Why is that? Were there a lot of tackles for loss by the opposing defense against the LSU offense? From all of the clips I've seen of Fournette this year, it seems like he has huge holes to run through on a large majority of his big runs.
Posted on 1/8/17 at 12:26 am to Bench McElroy
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You are taking away on of their favorite excuses. If LF had Bama's oline, LF would've won the heisman and not Henry. Well, it turns out LSU had the better line the whole time.
Posted on 1/8/17 at 12:29 am to Bench McElroy
The tackles on that OL was trash.
Posted on 1/8/17 at 12:35 am to Bench McElroy
We had a solid interior Oline. And we had guards playing tackle. Our OT's struggled big time.
As far as the tackles not allowing a ton of sacks, credit that to Etling who has elite pocket presence. The one elite thing he does have
And credit Guice for making our Oline look good. Cause he is a straight up beast that can rush for 20 even if there is no hole. Something Fournette cant do as well.
As far as the tackles not allowing a ton of sacks, credit that to Etling who has elite pocket presence. The one elite thing he does have
And credit Guice for making our Oline look good. Cause he is a straight up beast that can rush for 20 even if there is no hole. Something Fournette cant do as well.
This post was edited on 1/8/17 at 12:38 am
Posted on 1/8/17 at 12:40 am to Ryan3232
Etling and elite should never be in the same sentence.
Posted on 1/8/17 at 1:32 am to Bench McElroy
Our Oline was good at run blocking, but the pass pro was suspect. I guess that'll happen when you play guards at tackle. Once we ran into Dlines with a pulse it was tough generating offense.
Our Oline overall was pretty good, but it's a stretch to say that we had the best Oline in the country
Our Oline overall was pretty good, but it's a stretch to say that we had the best Oline in the country
Posted on 1/8/17 at 2:22 am to Bench McElroy
That idiotic rating system is not worth even bringing up. Nobody is stupid enough to think LSU had even a very good OL this year, let alone the best in the country.
Posted on 1/8/17 at 2:42 am to Bench McElroy
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The Tigers were led by C Ethan Pocic, whose overall grade of 82.7 was bolstered by his pass-blocking performance that saw him yield just 11 total pressures with no sacks or hits allowed. LG Will Clapp was also outstanding in pass protection, as he was responsible for just nine total pressures, with two hits and no sacks. RG Josh Boutte was the only member of the interior trio to give up a sack, but his lone sack charged to him was accompanied by just seven other pressures.
Scores are incredibly inflated.. LSU only attempted 269 passes on the season. A lot of those were play-action and two-man routes designed to help pass protection. 1 sack per 14.5 attempts. Alabama threw the ball 385 times giving up 24 sacks.. 1 sack per 16 attempts. Mizzou gave up 14 sacks in 448 attempts.. 1 sack per 32 attempts
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Why is that? Were there a lot of tackles for loss by the opposing defense against the LSU offense? From all of the clips I've seen of Fournette this year, it seems like he has huge holes to run through on a large majority of his big runs.
5 TFL/game and 1.5 sacks/game.. 757 plays ran this season.. 63 plays per game (only 3 teams ran less plays).. that's a little more than sack/TFL on 10% of plays ran.
This post was edited on 1/8/17 at 2:52 am
Posted on 1/8/17 at 8:42 am to Bench McElroy
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LSU wasted the best offensive line in college football this year
I don't see how that is accurate. Any team with a decent front 7 caused problems for us.
Posted on 1/8/17 at 8:54 am to Bench McElroy
Miles/Orgeron
Posted on 1/8/17 at 9:07 am to thatdude1985
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Etling and elite should never be in the same sentence.
Are you kidding? His Heisman campaign slogan next year will be "Eliteling for Heisman".
Posted on 1/8/17 at 9:10 am to Bench McElroy
define "waste".
How did we "waste" them?
How did we "waste" them?
Posted on 1/8/17 at 9:17 am to Ryan3232
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As far as the tackles not allowing a ton of sacks, credit that to Etling who has elite pocket presence. The one elite thing he does have
Correct.
Etling hides the fact that our O-line is terrible on pass protection.
Posted on 1/8/17 at 9:19 am to CBandits82
I particularly didn't think there was a team in FBS whose OL really set itself apart. Maybe FSU? But, if you watch enough of their games, they had occasions where they shite the bed. Pitt's was decent. Georgia's is good, LSU good, Bama good but not one that I can think of as great. Maybe I'm missing someone but I just don't see it.
Posted on 1/8/17 at 9:22 am to ColoBama
Agreed, none were really incredible.
As far as wasting them, we went to a decent bowl and whooped Lamar Jackson's arse. I'll take that for this insane year the LSU program had.
If they are "wasted" because they didn't make the playoff that is silly. You have to beat Bama to get in and no one is really doing that right now.
The O Line was not "wasted".
As far as wasting them, we went to a decent bowl and whooped Lamar Jackson's arse. I'll take that for this insane year the LSU program had.
If they are "wasted" because they didn't make the playoff that is silly. You have to beat Bama to get in and no one is really doing that right now.
The O Line was not "wasted".
Posted on 1/8/17 at 9:48 am to Nuts4LSU
Exactly.... We were terrible actually....
Posted on 1/8/17 at 9:50 am to Bench McElroy
Well that's not going to please the Fournette apologist.
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