Agree fully. Also, LSUs offense is smoother the last two weeks, whereas ALAs has flattened. LSU is +10 in turnover margin, and doesn't beat itself with penalties lately. ALA, not so much. The storyline is just waiting to be written. LSU back in the SEC and BCS championship mix after next week, amigos. Then, we can start talking SECCG against FLA as a revenge game.
This. Period. Bama thrives off T/O's, and LSU is the Ebinezer Scrooge of college football in that area. We'll put up just enough offense to win if the defense can find an answer to the screen pass.
Listen, I am a Les supporter but as we all know public speaking is not his strong suit. Typical Les speak. It has to be a personnel issue. If it was coaching or technique they've had more than enough tiime to fix it.
Turnover margin is huge. It was huge for LSU in 2007 as well. Bama is definitely going to try to out-fox Chavis. But I don't worry too much about it. I'd be surprised to see very many big plays. Too much speed and talent on the defense. I do have one worry - Jefferson has gotten lucky with a couple of near-interceptions in the last few games. If his luck changes, our turnover margin advantage could take a vacation at the wrong time. But - nada we can do about it, so I'll just chew my cuticles and hope for the best!
I agree. By saying it's an execution issue, he can answer the question without publicly trashing his boys. What's at the heart of execution issues? Personnel. Doesn't mean they suck. Just means there's some growing and learning going on. I know I'm a broken record on this, but Brett Helms was a very good center, and you just can't easily replace Big Herman. And that gap, my friends, is where Charles Scott got A LOT of his yards last year.
I feel good with the improvements in play calling and the overall play of the O. Still in all the O stalled a few times on Tulane last night. Im happy where we are going into Bama. I think LSU has a great shot to win the game. Although I still dont feel confident with that OL. If its execution then its very poor coaching for them to be this sorry this far into the season. I think some of it is coaching but a lot of it is the players as well. They just dont have "it" as a line. I think everything is coming together enough to score enough to beat Bama but we need better blocking overall than weve seen thus far. I didnt like how the D played last night. Tulane moved the ball pretty consisntently against the LSU D last night. The QB was completing a very high percentage. The drives stalled thanks to them being Tulane and finding a way to not score but they threw extremely well against the LSU D and ran pretty well at times. Our run D will have to be much better as well as coverage against Bama. Tulane looked like a strong O last night. It was a pure bend but dont break D, not the dominant D weve been seeing.
Phenom, I get all that you are saying, but I truly don't think we were playing as aggressively as we could've last night. I think that was by design. Nothing would've sucked more than getting a key defender injured against Tulane. Please notice that they still didn't score on us, and we scored a lot on them. But we were not playing balls-out. I feel like we WILL next week.
I think you were right about just kind of coasting through to not get any injuries. Most of the game a lot of second and third stringers were in the game, a lot more than normal. I hope Peterson is locked up one on one all game with Jones. They made the mistake and put Hawkins on Green which a TD happened. Great coverage though, but still Id rather have Peterson locked up one on one with our opponents best WR.
I definitely hope that Peterson is on Jones the entire game next week, becoming his freakin shadow. I truly believe that Miles was not going to get any of his guys hurt last night, because we were not laying the wood like we did last week and like we will next week.
