Over the past 20 years or so, when LSU has lost the week before playing us, they have beaten us. Not good.
I don’t expect to learn too much tomorrow. Two teams with new coaches because the previous coaches burned the house down. This just simply is an unabaked FLA/LSU cake. I’ll be looking for: 1) DL playing with awareness when LSU runs the back end out of the middle and hopes QB gets cheap yards right up the chute. We have struggled with that all year. Keep those lanes messy and make him throw or suffer the consequences. 2) Back end forcing outside back in, regardless of LB play. Not their job to clean it up, do your role. 3) Cover 3/6 not artificially enlarging the dead spots. Offense is sneakily good, despite all our pass game woes. Run game is money, AR is coming along. All D for me and I’m keeping it at three, because I have learned as a teacher that there is power in that number. These things are fixable week to week and if so, we run these fools out.
Dunno. Could have more to do with the program being mediocre for the last decade or so...... Here's to smacking around their fine southern gentleman of a coach and treating all footwear appropriately.
One thing I can categorically call a given is that LSU CANNOT pass block our defensive line. Take that to the bank. Big "if," but if we can get a lead in 2H and make LSU throw, we will win going away. Trey Dean seems like a likeable young man, and it would be good to see this his last year playing reinvent itself these last 6 games. He is not effective at all in coverage, but he is like a heat seeking missile when used in safety blitzes. If we get a lead tomorrow night, turn him loose in some blitzes. He can do something good then, and it gets him out of coverage. Just a thought.
Offense will be fine. Only one step forward on O tomorrow and that is AR not gifting a TO. Against UT he was perfect (for high-end football.) No abominable miscues, his mistakes were the type that can be overcome by a good team. He needs to do it again, and string a bunch together. Let’s see how the D is growing up.
