GA blitzed, LSU didn't. OPinions, please.

Idk why our defense has slowly reduced out blitzing. It's been going on for some time. Not just the past year.

We are used to having corners and safetys that can lock down the backfield freeing up folks to send in to blitz...this year, our defensive backfield cannot cover one-on-one, so we have to use those extra folks to cover receivers instead of blitzing....

I think the difference was LSU didn't have the option to run the ball or use the middle of the field due to the clock and no time outs.

Chavis knows his team is slow. He does not trust their speed, so he is laying back in coverage and hoping that some of these guys remember their assignments in the heat of the battle. So far, it is going very poorly.

All good points. I can understand the corners needing help, but the blown coverages concerned me the most. Not much could be done about the time we got the ball.

Time outs have been a problem for a while. When we started using time outs in the early 2nd half, Danielson commented that we might regret it at the end of the game.

It could be that our personnel doesn't fit the blitz package. On second thought, our personnel doesn't fit the Mustang (prevent) defense either.

Only weakness Mettenberger has is that he is a statue in the pocket. Can't run at all. Once the pressure arrives he's pretty much sacked. Murray can run and did twice on the few times LSU got pressure on him. But Chavis does not blitz regularly even when he needs to. Likes to rely on the DLine way too much.

YO...LSU used the same prevent scheme on defense against Bama on their last drive a year ago....got the same result.

Sayin someone is a statue in the pocket is extreme nit pickin. That's why I hate talkin football on here because most of y'all have never played any organized football in your life. And you need glasses some of those blitzes were delayed like the LB that ran right pass Trai Turners big arse. But the point is if you have RB or whatever else you said back there if they send enough people you aren't gonna stop shite. That's normal football, my point was that Mettenberger just can't take and run off to the sidelines to buy more time to throw because he doesn't have the legs for that. It's no damn nitpickin clown just a fact that they will make sure at the next level he gets good pass protection.

Sorry I was saying I was nitpicking with my opinion they missed a couple of assignments when they still put up 41 points as an offensive unit. Didn't mean to say you were nitpicking his inability to escape pressure in the pocket.

From my viewing angle in the stadium they had several issues with letting pressure up the middle and it didn't appear delayed. It would be the RB or OL picking up outside pressure instead of the inside pressure. The inside guy needs to be priority obviously and it looked like they locked in and picked the wrong guy.

They had pressure come from the outside like you said I just thought it was made worse with the breakdowns with the pressure up the middle. There is no hope for any QB much less Mett to handle that.