By no means is LSU making a statement tonight. Miss St is passing too easily on LSU right now. The LBs and DBs need to step up their games. Coverage is a definite weakness. Even with a good pass rush from the DL which is often happening. Im not sure if its the coverage schemes or the players. I think its a little bit of both. I see too much cushion in a lot of sets. I really like the aggressiveness of Muschamp.
It doesn't look like it does it?? I said in a previous post, it appears we are playing to our competition this week. It's not "pretty", but I'll just take the "W"--who cares if we are #1, #2 or #3 after this week. I just want to avoid being another footnote for "upset week".
Davie brought up a good point: MSU is the first "power offense" that we've faced this year after facing all of those "spread option" teams. I think this is a "feel out" game for us on defense.
Opponent aside, when you look at the offensive numbers, we're really not doing all THAT bad on offense: If you were to say, with a freshman QB playing the entire game, and being 18 of 26 for 218 yards and 1 INT....a RB that has 104 yards on 21 carries....and a WR that is 1 yard away from breaking the 100-yard mark, all against an SEC opponent that went to a bowl game last season, wouldn't you take it? ....don't have to like it, but I'll definately take it....
