LSU defensive coordinator Dave Aranda has had a lot of homework to do preparing for Lincoln Riley’s Oklahoma offense. It showed Tuesday, at a Peach Bowl press event in Atlanta.

When Aranda was asked about a question about scrambling quarterbacks, the Tigers coordinator gave a lengthy answer, getting into all the “gadget plays” you have to be ready for against the Sooners. Aranda amusingly grabbed a water bottle to show how OU uses tight ends. Brian Holland shared the clip on Twitter:

Here’s how the full exchange went, per the official transcript from the press conference:

Q. Coach, would you say Hurts is the best scrambler since the Ole Miss quarterback Plumlee. What did you take away from the second half of that game, how you played defensively, and the concerns you have regarding Hurts in this game?
DAVE ARANDA: I would say yes. I think it’s a different style of runner. Hurts like to put his foot in the ground quite a bit, where I think Plumlee is more of a straight line guy, where I think Hurts will try to set you up and cut it back on him.

I think the lessons learned would be the team defense aspect. I think that’s the challenge with Oklahoma is what we talked about before, the spread offense. There’s so many plays, gadget plays, or it’s a run and there’s a tight end over here blocking, and then he releases late.

Or it’s a run this way or looks like a run. The receiver is shallow like he’s going to run a mesh route and takes up off the field.

There’s so many plays that they’ve got that are triple option plays, and you have to stay on your guy. You’ve got to build a heavy rise in the right spot. So I feel like the mistake I made in the Ole Miss game was when we had a breakdown here or breakdown there, I didn’t pull everybody to the side and get them together and say, hey, this is what happened. This is where I went wrong. This is how we fix it.

I feel I try to do that as best I can. I feel like in the past, I have. I don’t know why in that game I did not. What ended up happening is one thing started to fester, the next thing. So the outside guy is going to try to make plays inside. The inside guy is going to try to make plays outside. We’re missing guys now. The math doesn’t add up.

Oklahoma will put you in that situation in a fast way, and so we’re going to collectively play team defense. As adjustments come up, we’re going to have to make those adjustments as a team.