re: Chavis needs more blame.

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chavis needs more blame

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agree. I don't like his propensity to have elves playing on the D line and safeties playing LB. he uses the same three blitzes on every 3rd down….time to come up with something new

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Chief ain't all he is cracked up to be. Very predictable defense. He needs 11 All Americans to win

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I'm starting to agree more and more with this. After watching the last two years, it seems to me that not only does he need physical specimens at each position, those guys also have to have very high football IQ's.

I think Chavis' scheme puts a lot on his guys. You really have to have top notch playmakers at every level.

And everybody knows he's going to be in man coverage and he's going to blitz from man coverage. Doing so leaves gaping holes in the defense. Guys like Eric Reid could cover those holes in a hurry. Guys like Kevin Minter can fill holes quickly as they happen. But you don't always have guys like that every year. We certainly don't this year.

We simply don't have the personnel to run the same defensive scheme we have run in the past. I don't know if more slanting from our D-line and run blitzing is the answer, but we can't run a base defense and hold up against the run.

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He's known as one of the best at making adjustments at halftime and he did absolutely nothing. Not to mention the appaling lack of not substituting when we were getting gashed. Every coach needs to be held accountable. Not just miles, but also cam and chief.

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At the end of the day, there was no adjustment he could make. The other teams players were bigger, stronger, and better than our players.

Now, everyone needs to be held accountable for the lack of talent on this team.

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maybe its pure attrition

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and Welter playing MLB

As another said he needs world beaters for his D to be effective. It is very simple, but typically we have the guys that can execute it to the point that it doesn't matter what the opposing team does. Plus he insists on playing Welter. Beckwith is far and away the better player and he looks for any excuse to plug Welter back in.

Last season should have opened everyone's eyes. The defensive sets I witnessed Saturday night are an indication of the remainder of this season. Four down linemen, no one in the MLB space and five DB's against a running team???

Our front seven aren't nearly as talented as those of 5 years ago. We keep signing DB's and "athletes" but are lacking in linemen and LB's. We haven't had a dominating LB in so long that I can't recall.

I believe there are some players in the doghouse that need to receive playing time. And not just next week, but the rest of the season.

I believe there are some players in the doghouse that need to receive playing time.

Has the following precedent not been set by Chavis?: A young defense struggles, and an experienced defense succeeds?

Are there not a lot of first-year starters who stand to perform a lot better in the coming years?

In 2008, Dan Mullen's Florida offense scored 30 against an inexperienced Chavis defense. Give Mullen some credit for being a great offensive coach who can exploit defensive inexperience. Last night was a similar situation. It happens.

in defense of the defense, the offense scored 10 points and couldn't sustain drives...

until the final 3 minutes of the game the offense was lifeless.

Other teams are not having problems getting quality play out of young players. The reason we aren't is because of coaching. People are blaming it on reloading. Looks like other teams are fully reloaded to me and not looking this bad. It's time we accept the real problem. Coaching!

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Chavis is not the problem. Yes, he had a bad game, but you reactionary morons seem to forget how consistently good he has been in his tenure at LSU. shite, last year we had an off-year for him and we finished with the #9 total defense in college football.

2 things are wrong with this defense, Welter and the lack of depth and size on the DL. Its time to plan for next year and get Beckwith and Garrett all the snaps they can and rotate all the freshmen DL with consistency.

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History has shown that Chavis is a good DC. That said, the thing that bothers me the most is that you had a big LB recruiting class a few years ago that was supposed to produce big results. However, outside of Alexander here and there, none of those LBs have done anything of note while at LSU

Same with the DL class two years ago. Last year's DL depth was thin. But other than Lacatoure, nobody else from that vaunted DL haul played significant snaps on a avg at best DL. This season the DL looks worse, and you've got guys from that DL class who STILL cannot get on the field. We can talk about scheme all we want, but right now (at least to me) it looks as if LSU has had some massive swings and misses on the recruiting trail which are starting to really show up.