Joe Brady leaving LSU

frick the moral victory....they won a Natty. Not a single damn one of us that wouldn't trade places with them today.

True, but hopefully this was a Cam Newton miracle season for them and now they go back to 3 or 4 losses a year.

Weird post to be attacked by other Dawg fans. We are a strange and tortured bunch.

Baylor is also interested in Aranda.

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But ya they broke through and we continue to wallow in mediocrity...so while I am glad their fortress was damaged, they still won the war.

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You call our current run “wallowing in mediocrity”?? We are spoiled rotten when a #4 finish is met with such disappointment. Not preaching, I’m there too.

As far as the war goes- did auburn win the war when Chiz bought and backed his way into a MNC? Or did they have a historic, yet flukeish, season? Odds are LSU more like auburn than Bama.

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LSU posters talking about Monken to replace Brady. He was there under Les 2005-2006 as, get this, Passing game Coordinator

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Then we just need to give him play calling duties and OC/co-OC title...

Actually it will be Jorge Munoz who has been on staff as an offensive analyst and Joe Burrow attributed much of his success to. So much so he specially mentioned him in his Heisman speech and invited him to NY.

Also note Brady never called plays. Ensminger did. While Ensminger was looking for the next play to call, Joe was analying the previous plays/drives and talking to Joe about it.
So he wasnt our OC and never actually called plays.
Not saying the impact he made was not huge and his loss stinks.

But no LSU fan who doesnt have their head stuck up their arse thought he would be here for long. I fully expected him to leave this year. I am glad he took this lighting in the bottle and got paid a ton of money. He has never actually been an OC and he parlayed it into an NFL gig for millions.

As for Aranda he is not going anywhere. But will once a good HC job swims by. Which could be next year or after. Not yall on this board but I have to chuckle how all year people have been saying "LSU's Defense is horrible, LSU's D sucks X team is going to kill them, Vandy put up 38 points on this horrible defense, Ole Miss 600 yard etc etc" but now are saying the potential of losing Aranda is "devastating" which is confusing...

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Are you sure Brady didn't call plays? I thought I read an interview with Ensminger where he said they share that duty. I believe he said Brady was better with tight formations and empty formations so E would tell him they were using one of those formations next that Brady would call the play for it.

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Yeah... they definitely split duties:

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Q. How do you two decide how the calls will be made during the flow of a game?
STEVE ENSMINGER: We talked about it before the game. I tell him, I know what my strengths are and I know what my weaknesses are. Joe is better with our compact packages. Joe is better at our empty package than I am. So I tell him, we talk about it before the game, Look, when I want to go empty, be ready. If it's third and whatever, and I have a call, I make it. If not, I tell him. He has it all highlighted. I'm like, Take it.

We can go to empty right now. I said, Joe, I'm going empty. Take it, he's ready for it.

Compact meaning our bunch packages, a condensed formation, stuff like that. He's better at that than I am. I know it. I tell him, Hey, I want to go whatever it is, bunch, pack 'em all in here. I said, Call it. He's ready for it.

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FWIW, it does also mention the bit about Joe Brady talking to Burrow after series were over, but during the series, it seems pretty clear that they split play calling duties and at a minimum it was groupthink in terms of determining what to do with a specific down/distance.

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Q. How much easier does it make having Joe being able to adjust?
STEVE ENSMINGER: The first thing when he gets off the field, he talks to Joe Brady. I love Joe Brady. He's sitting there explaining to him what he saw the last series. I'm sitting there trying to get ready for the next series.

But he's so smart. What did you see on this play? Coach Brady is telling him, Hey, this is what we got. Joe Burrow is telling him, I saw this, everything else.

There's very few times in your career you get a chance to coach a quarterback like that, that he comes off the field, he saw it all. I'll be honest, when you're calling a play, you feel comfortable with it, you see the coverage, you see the blitz, what's going on, and I don't blink either because I know he sees it and is going to make the right decision.

He will find it. Coach O puts a picture up in our team room of an eagle that's focused, and it says: If you chase two rabbits, you get none. I told my best friend, Bill Johnson, at his house the other night, When I see that eagle's eyes, I see Joe Burrow. That's how focused he is.

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I could be wrong. Solely basing this on the article in the paper that said.

"But the Ensminger-Brady dynamic in the booth on game day was a cooperative. Ensminger was the play-caller, both coaches have said, and after offensive drives, Brady broke down the previous drive with Burrow while Ensminger prepared the plays for the next drive.

It was a process that allowed LSU to be a "step ahead" during a game."

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See my edit above. *After* an offensive series, they definitely took 2 different responsibilities, but that "plan ahead" part is irrelevant outside of the first set of downs pretty much... you can plan a 1st and 10, and maybe a 2nd short vs 2nd long but you're not game planning the whole next series once you're actually in the flow of the game. Alternatively, you might pick out a handful of plays, think of some variations/wrinkles and say "I want to see if these fit into our next series".

But if anything, Brady being the one who is breaking down what you saw means he's the one offering up strategic advice about how to beat it to your QB - what to look for, who to key on, what receiver might be breaking open late but you're missing the read by locking in too early. I'd argue that is more critical than "I think these plays might work in the right situation next possession".