Obervations of LSU vs Auburn

A lot of people here are having their usual emotional reactions but the truth is that Auburn is simply a better team. Auburn won this game in the trenches.

LSU may have more talent at skill positions, other than QB, but the Dline and Oline at Auburn were clearly too much. Dont get me wrong....I think that overall LSU has a better Dline talent-wise than Auburn . The difference was in how much worse our Oline is than theirs.

Chavis implemented a strategy to keep Newton in the middle of the field by putting mingo in at one of the DE spots. I get the strategy but Malzahn identified this and started running off-tackle to push our DEs back 5 yards on every play. It worked to perfection.

Tackling was horrid. This is something you wont see often from this group.

On offense:
Lee would have had more success if the WRs hadn't dropped so many passes. Two of his drives were killed by drops. Two of Jefferson's drives were also killed by drops. Two fumbled snaps by the QBs didnt help either.

The Oline is clearly not very good. They are avg at best. Not a lot of push from this group and they made Auburn Dline look better than they are.

WRs:
Disappointing play from Toliver. Most of the time receivers were open. They did a good job blocking on the perimeter as well.


I was mad at the end of the game but the more I thought about it the more I realized that AUburn should have won by three scores. Helton and Jasper kept LSU in the game for awhile but Auburn clearly dominated LSU in the trenches and is clearly the better TEAM.

People here bitching about Crowton and Miles have some legitimate reasons to gripe but the reality is that LSU's dline and oline were absolutely mandhandled, players were dropping passes and missing tackles...etc. Not much an OC can do when the opposing Dline is living in the backfield and open receivers are dropping passes.