re: Someone 'Splain to Me What I Just Saw (our D)

Moist field conditions negated Texas A&M's speed advantage on the outside. Their receivers' ability to make cuts and burn our vulnerable corners was negated. Johnny Football could still get up to straight-line speed, but he couldn't juke or maneuver as well without stumbling or slipping. This slight speed reduction enabled our linebackers (particularly the middle one) to be more capable of keeping up in coverage.

Their offensive line has never been dominant. Our defensive line played with passion and had their best game of the year. With less time to throw, a wet ball, and less ability to evade tacklers, Johnny Manziel made less accurate throws. This led to a reduced completion percentage and 3rd down conversion rate.

LSU's power run game was optimized by the conditions, allowing our larger offensive line to routinely push back their undersized defensive line. This led to more first downs, less pressure on the passing game, fewer incompletions, and more time of possession for LSU. Johnny Manziel can't produce points while his team is on defense.

Short version:
Defense was motivated, offensive game plan was perfect, weather gave LSU an advantage due to scheme.

one thing that has been overlooked and i think more important than scheme, is that the tackling was much MUCH better. Before Saturday it was abysmal. i really do think that as bad as the scheme was and as lost as our players were in both the UGA and Ole Miss games, if we'd tackled better we'd have still won both of them.

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3 ints and vanilla playcalling after that killed LSU in ole miss game. Offense couldn't stay on field in 2nd half and defense wore down. still only lost by FG.

Negatigers will say that Johnny Football was throwing against the wind (he was) in the fourth quarter when they were trying to come back. That is also the reason that Evans couldn't run his routes.

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There were also a lot of missed plays by A&M. Dropped balls, missing wide open guys, etc.

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I didn't think they dropped that many (only 1 I recall is Evans on the slant in the 1st qtr; others?). Regarding the rest don't you think our pressure, coverage, etc had something to do with it?

You don't have to sack the QB or int the ball, just offset the timing to be effective in pass D. I thought all-in-all we did great. Just bamboozled why it took so long and how we improved so much at one time. Our D was incredible for 4 qtrs Sat.

The two Defensive Ends pushed straight ahead and a little to the outside so Manziel could not run wild,run wide and break loose on his famous runs. He was forced inside and the linebackers were looking for him being forced inside. That's why Welter played his best game, Manziel ran right to him. This and shout-down corners made it happen.