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re: LSU D too small
Posted on 2/10/16 at 2:52 am to TigerOnThe Hill
Posted on 2/10/16 at 2:52 am to TigerOnThe Hill
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As you watched our defensive line get blown off the line of scrimmage in the AL, OM and AR games did you think our DL was big enough??
Almost EVERY defense eventually cracks if it's getting no offensive support. Our 2011 defense was one of the rare exceptions. They held it together in Tuscaloosa, which is why we won 9-6. They kept us in the Arkansas and Georgia games in spite of two quarters in each game of complete offensive ineptitude. They were talented, experienced and deep. Last year we were talented, not extremely experienced, and not deep. But as the OP pointed out, we were just as big as 2011.
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Posted on 2/10/16 at 1:21 pm to Penrod
quote:
Almost EVERY defense eventually cracks if it's getting no offensive support.
True, and I blamed a lot of our losses in prior seasons to a weak offense that couldn't keep our defense off the field late in the game. OTOH, our DL was getting beat up early in the aforementioned games, long before our offensive ineptitude had taken effect.
quote:The other "big" question is the size of our DL in comparison the size of the other team's OL. I don't have the rosters in front of me for AL, AR and OM, but I have the general impression AR and OM OL's have been getting "bigger" since '11; it feels like AL is always big (and strong). If we stayed the same size and other teams got bigger, it's the same effect as our DL getting smaller. Another thing is that none of us here can measure the ball player's strength. Even if the sizes we see are similar, the strength may have declined. This could happen for a number of reasons (genetic make up of the player, nutrition, work ethic of a player, etc), despite having a good weight/fitness program and staff.
But as the OP pointed out, we were just as big as 2011.
This post was edited on 2/10/16 at 4:15 pm
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