First off, a short passing game controls the clock equally as well as a running game.
Secondly, and more importantly, the teams that win in the SEC do not dominate time-of-possession. The old Majors/Fulmer approach of "let's not score, we need to control the clock" is long gone.
Alabama has run 684 plays this year to their opponents 672.
Georgia is 741 to 728.
Florida is 696 to 728!
LSU of 2011: 870 offensive plays to 897 by opponents.
Auburn 2010: 948 to 963.
The offense's job is to score points. Chaney's offense scores points; AND I'll say again, Chaney's offense moves the chains. Second most first downs in the league.
Ok I can see you are looking for an argument. No one disputes your points. I am only saying that our defense was so bad this year that any type clock management control was our only hope at winning. Now, where was your super scoring offense against the powerhouse of Vanderbilt? Where were they last year against Ky. Yes, they scored on Troy, and reluctantly on Acron. The fact is when faced with competition, the offense sputtered as well. Now you have given examples of these SEC teams and their offensive plays, where you failed here is to account for their W-L record vs ours. We are not just an offense of a Defense we are one team and granted the offense was the strength of this team I am simply saying we should have used our strength more. After all your plan didn't work this year now did it 0-7 in SEC. Now running the ball does control the clock better than screen passes because too many screens are dropped. Had we controlled the clock better and ran the ball more against Mizzoui when we were up 21-7 we most likely would have won that game: however, because we did not, we will never know. What I do know is that we could not rely on our D to win games. Alabama, Georgia, Florida, LSU and Auburn in those years you mentioned had great D's, ours is far from even good
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