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In case you forgot, LSU had one defensive tackle out for the game and another went down early in the game and didn't return. Two defensive players ejected from the game and young secondary and all you can do is point the finger. Offense wasn't productive as well, WR dropping passes, offensive lineman missing blocks when the man is lined up over them. Punter shank a kick. This is a team effort, they loss now lets get over it and move on and get better.

I don't know what the hell Pete Jenkins has to do with the loss. He is a nationally proven commodity. He is a fricking living legend, respected by the NCAA through the highest levels of the NFL. We are damn lucky to have him. He has a system that has put countless Dlineman into the NFL, and turned countless college and NFL Dlineman into beasts.

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The real riddle is why did the best defensive coordinator in the country get abused so badly.

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Not a riddle. Mullen is an excellent offensive mind. Very easy for him to confuse young players. Plus we were without our Rashard. Ed got hurt, but he's extremely soft. He's not the answer. Gilmore is average and Lac is average or worse. The Dline is bad, basically. Arden can get some pressure, but he's not a great run stopper.

Last year, Jim McElwain said he talked to Nick Saban to get his advice about playing LSU. He said Saban regretted not lining up and just running the ball right at LSU earlier in the game.

Florida had an atrocious offensive line, but there was one drive where they just lined up and ran the ball right down our throat and we absolutely could not stop them. It was shocking how easy it was.

It will be interesting to see if Bama, Florida, Auburn and Tennessee try the same approach this year, and what kind of success they have.

The defense started slowly last year as well. Sure, we didn't give us 37 points early in the year but the performances against Wisky and Auburn were average at best. Auburn could/should have scored more points than they did. They controlled the LOS and clock.

HOWEVER, sometime around the middle of the season the defense starting playing better. By the end of the year they were top 5. I fully expect (especially with the young kids) for this team to do the same. This is pretty typical for a well coached unit....improvement throughout the year and peaking in bowl season.

I would hope the offense would do the same but at this point what I'm seeing is not very encouraging.

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maybe because O hired an 80 year old man to coach the defensive line?

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Age has little to no correlation to coaching ability.

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you can say this but we had 3 DL starters not play due to injury and ejections

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We had 1 starter out and 2 guys that rotate in go down and we had no one else. Thats because we've missed on a ton of Dline recruits- Marvin Wilson, Ed Oliver, Phidarian Mathis, Isiah Buggs, Shavar Manuel, Kendell Jones and Raekwon Davis since O has been here. We're weak there because of O.