While tossing bouquets at Ohio Joe..

Re-read my post. I said it improved yesterday. I was responding to a post listing our overall ranking through 4 games. Yesterday was our 1st game this year with a 100 yard rusher. CEH did less dancing yesterday than he did the 1st 3 weeks. That might be because he actually had holes open up yesterday. The one thing I love about CEH is he always keeps his legs moving.

 

The rushing game is coming around. Honestly while I love this passing game we have, I would like to see a little bit more rushing (can't believe I said that).. I did see some things I liked yesterday though and we are fortunate to have time to polish it up a bit before the gauntlet that is October-November begins. CEH is proving his worth, and I was also impressed with some of the moves I saw from #4, John Emery Jr. Dude's got some skills.

As far as the defense, I've said it before and I will say it again.. When you concentrate on building an explosive offense for your team, it comes at the peril of the defense. Guys don't have time to rest and can't keep up the pace. We end up not having enough fresh legs to keep rotating in the game. When guys get tired, they make mistakes both mental and physical. As a whole, teams with an explosive offense don't usually have much of a defense to balance it, though there are exceptions. But that comes after years of recruiting for it and even then still many teams can't pull it off. There aren't many teams outside of the NFL or Tuscaloosa that are consistently successful with that kind of balance. That's just how I see it anyhow. If LSU can maintain this style of offense for a few years and they recruit properly, they can get there. I don't think we're there this year. We just have the luxury of having a very good QB and receiving corps. When the real SEC play begins, we will quickly find out what they're made of.

 

I am stunned by the performance of the defensive unit. There were some plays in the Vandy game were almost comical, if not so embarrassing. I think it will take more than just a leader stepping up, but without so leadership we are going nowhere. “Blocking and tackling” comes to mind.

I always thought, and continue to think the “DBU” moniker is one of the dumbest in football. Especially the vocal competition to claim the title. Dumb.

At best it just shows that regardless of how big, fast or athletic these guys are, they are still essentially children. Young and dumb.

 

It's been going on a lot longer than LSU and DBU. In the 70's Penn State was called Linebacker U.

 

How pissed it's this dude gonna be if we win it all and don't have a top 30 defense in the process? Got damn what a miserable life. I feel sorry for someone that can't enjoy what we're watching

 

I mean this dude is literally pissed we have the best offense the SEC has seen in its HISTORY through this point if the season. Holy frick!

 

No, you're right to say that. We have to be more balanced. You won't be seeing these types of numbers when we play the FUs and AUs with better defenses. I mentioned this in another thread, but even Miles' offense was usually successful against inferior competition and that's what we've played so far. It was when we played better teams that could match up against us that we struggled when we couldn't pass. Same will be true when our passing game struggles. We'll need to run the ball to keep the D honest.

I hear you, but what I don't understand is, when the offense was getting conditioned to run the uptempo offense, why didn't the defense do the same? For no other reason then when teams do it to us? (And shouldn't athletes at an elite D1/FBS school already been in this kind of shape? I think the biggest problem on D is the the lack of a pass rush and missed tackles.

 

He’s an idiot...has always been an idiot and will continue to be an idiot! Claims to be an LSU fan but would like nothing more than to see this team fail so he could say I told you so. His hatred of O is so great that he roots against the team...pathetic