The most positive statement from CLM yet

Our line always underperformed under brick. Glad O is here

Agreed. This season is going to be fun to watch.

Exactly. Plug the run and bring heat on passing downs. That's lsu football.

Whoever downvoted this is a giant vag and obviously not an LSU fan.

quote:

---

"Coach O has made a significant difference in pass rush,” Miles said. “We are a faster group. They recognize how to rush a pass.”

---

Been a long time since I've actually read a Les quote for obvious reasons, but again, he shows me why I was right to avoid his quotes.



ETA: Hope our secondary recognizes how to defend a pass.

He really does have his own personal dialect

This is what is so frustrating about Les Miles in that he takes years to get rid of under performing coaches. That should have been happening every year.

You guys crack me up. You think it's as simple as that? We're just adding pass rushing to our reperatoir?

Chavis had a defensive philosophy that worked very well for LSU for many years, including the best defense LSU assembled in the last half century. He believed in containing the QB and making him beat you with his arm. Now, we're apparantly going to pin our ears back. That's legitamate. But understand that it opens us up to attacks that we have gotten used to being invulnerable to. We'll see more draws, traps, screens, and QB scrambles than we're used to.

Whether this turns out to be a net positive remains to be seen. I'm optimistic, but we could easily be sitting here four months from now arguing about assigning spies to prevent our rush being gashed.

As usual, the right answer is to mix it up - sometimes pin your ears back, and sometimes contain. Keep the offense guessing and off balance. I think Chavis erred a little toward predictability. Hopefully Steele won't be predictable the other way.

quote:

---

Chavis had a defensive philosophy that worked very well for LSU for many years, including the best defense LSU assembled in the last half century. He believed in containing the QB and making him beat you with his arm. Now, we're apparantly going to pin our ears back. That's legitamate. But understand that it opens us up to attacks that we have gotten used to being invulnerable to. We'll see more draws, traps, and QB scrambles than we're used to.

---

Bro

LSU never, NEVER got pressure on the QB with a 4-man rush.

I think that's what most are looking forward to. Being able to create with just 4 and dropping 7. Don't care how good the offense is, the defense has the advantage if it can create pressure with just 4.

I see what you mean, wiseguy. But LSU has been almost invulnerable to screens (please don't post the Yeldon gif). Our linemen usually read it and effectively pursue. That, for example, could be a thing of the past.

I'm just saying that every strategy has strengths AND weaknesses. The key is to mix it up. Also, this myth that has developed that Chavis was a bad coach is BS. a bad recruiter? Hell yeah, but he was an excellent coach.