Aranda thoughts?

they super deep and too cerebral for us.

He brought a brand new system in and it will take some game time to get it in completely where the players understand it and can execute. I like what I see so far!

I like what I have seen form the DL and most of the secondary.

Tolliver needs to wake his arse up on certain plays.
Rickey Jefferson too.


LB are average. What I mean by average is that we have good pass rushing LB's and good run stopping LB but not any good coverage LB's.

Aranda is working with a 4-3 recruited defense and turning them into a 3-4 defense and a very good one at that.

They doing pretty damn good for a completely new system and DC

So far so good. He's good at what he does.

I think they only had < 60 yards rushing. They keep that up and Key will eat...secondary needs some work, playing the ball better, but not bad, so far.

Agree that the corners play soft way too much. They also need to have better ball awareness. But I think they will get there.

Before two fumbles and onside kick in the middle of the fourth, he held Miss St to 170 yards and 6 points.

JSU had 13, and Wisconsin had 16

Keep in mind we are installing a new defense for the 2nd straight year and this time it's a 3-4.

- Key is already tied for 2nd in the country in sacks
- Tre White is a shutdown corner
- LSU is 12th in 3rd down conversions allowed, and only allowed 4 of 29 to two power 5 teams (3rd in country but the two ahead of us only played 1 game)
- LSU is tied for 10th in the country in sacks



So far LSU is ranked 22nd in scoring D, but we'll finish in the top 10 most likely. Outside of the baffling play by some corners, I am very high on this defense, and it is about as makeshift of a 3-4 as you can find.