BOL Round Table

You do realize he picked us to win don't you?

I think he was just trying to give a blueprint on how to stop our running game, not necessarily saying that lsu can or will. I could be wrong, but just my opinion. Meyer knows that that sh*t is easier said than done.

They were asking how do you stop Bama's running game. He said LSU usually plays a base with the corners on an island and a FS in the middle allowing the SS to cheat into the LOS and keep 8 in the box. He said LSU has occassionally played 9 in the box bc Claiborne and Mathieu are so talented that you could give them no help. He said it would give the defense numbers against a power running set BUT it left the secondary weak bc if any receiver got the least bit of room he could take it to the house.

I though he was actually complimentary of Bama. He basically said the game plan may have to be all or nothing. Stack the box and hope the corners make it or keep the FS back and get pounded. Im not a big fan of Meyer as a coach but you'd be a fool to say he can't discuss X/O's with the best of them!

Some people can be such dang homers that they don't understand what people are saying.

Why bring facts into his biased non objective opinion?

Lol... +1

I understand what he was saying, and i know he picked us, but he was implying on the video board that LSU could stop our run. If he is so damn smart, then why could he not stop us?

Relax, man... Meyer gets paid to answer questions like that now, and put nice little film clips up to go along with his answer. He used to get paid to coach football, until Bama made his heart almost explode.

Let the man make his living. If he had been honest, ESPN wouldn't want to keep him around:

"Now let's go to Urban Meyer to break down stopping Alabama. Urban, how do you stop Bama's running game?"
"Well, f*** me, if I though it was possible, I'd still be coaching. Back to you, Kirk."
"Urban... don't you have some film to show us? Or... something?"
"What the Hell do you want, Kirk? I can show you some film of Trent Richardson trucking some guys? Does that help?"
"Well... what kind of front does LSU need?"
"*Sigh*... okay, Kirk. Here's a picture for you. It's called the Hoover-eff-ing-Dam. It's 600 ft thick of concrete. If LSU puts that on the LOS, and gets enough points early, then maybe they'll have a big enough cushion when Bama finally wears it down midway through the 4th."
"...Uhh... thanks... Urban... I guess..."

Entertaining... sure, but not what he's paid to do. And in all honesty, I thought it was a decent segment. And what he said was true: put 9 in the box, pray the corners can play on an island... if LSU has to pull two safeties out... they're toast. That will mean that AJ was beating man coverage repeatedly, and now Trent can run against a 7-man front.

Please grow a pair and stop seeing bias where none is.

I like Urban. He's a great analyst, probably the most knowledgeable one ESPN has. But I do think he underestimates the power running game. He never had it at Florida and he could never stop it against us, but I'm not sure he wants to admit that. So he says something like you can always stop the run. But with a beastly power game against a fast, undersized defense, like the ones Urban had and like LSU's defense, sometimes you would have to put so much of your resources toward it that it jeopardizes your pass defense to an unacceptable degree. I don't think Urban ever really accepted that, and it cost him some games against us.