re: I'm fine if Baker leaves.

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but I didn't think they played well or looked prepared at all against Ole Miss, Vandy or A&M

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We had injuries that contributed to those games.

But, i can promise you that there's a significant chance that we end up in a worse spot than we were with Baker.

If we lose Baker, we need to make a great hire and load the D up with talent.

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Probably should've been 56-25 or 53-25 final score.

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Since we're making up what the score should have been, we should have continued shutting the down like we did in the first half and won 38-21

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Yeah we were clamping Oklahoma and could’ve won until the inevitable huge blown coverage struck AGAIN

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Baker definitely called for a blown coverage

I'm fine with Baker leaving, too. He was ok, and the defense was better than it had been, but wasn't great.

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Well you’re a dumbass. The defense does get tired when they’re constantly on the field

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Ole Miss had a 17 play drive on their 3rd or 4th possession. The defense wasn't tired then.

We absolutely could play a lot better. I think we need more modern linebackers, guys who are more safety in measurements. The line was good, the secondary was good. The linebackers were the weak link, zero contain or cleanup on mobile QBs.

And since Baker seems he IS leaving, we just need to move on now.

I think the big thing you’re missing here OP is that with the standard you’re holding them to, idk what defense would be good enough. In my opinion this is the best defense LSU has had since 2011. Yes I think they’re better than the 2019 defense. With the way you’re judging, you wouldn’t say our 2007 defense was that good. They gave up a lot of points in several games. I agree with you that the Vandy game was not great by them. But idk how you can say they weren’t good against ole Miss. They played tough as hell and got turnovers that allowed us to hang around and have a shot even with our offense being totally useless. The reality is that no matter how good your defense is, most likely you’ll have a game or two where the other team’s offense has a good game and you gotta out score them. You won’t find a single SEC team that didn’t have a game where they gave up a good amount of points this year.

And if we want to say our D wasn’t good against Vandy then that’s fine, but they were awesome against Ole Miss, Florida, Oklahoma, Bama, and I would even argue they were really good against A&M but ran out of gas in the 2nd half when our offense was doing their usual hanging the defense out to dry.

No, Baker is not perfect. But I think they may have been the best in the SEC this year and they single handedly kept us in almost every game.

A lot of you are getting caught on this whole “coaching/coordinator” thing. The players still have to make tackles and execute. It’s not on him.

went from 28ppg to 18ppg.

It also looked like the team totally quit in the 2nd half of the A&M game.

He's getting paid to make stops and not let the other team score touchdowns, right?????

Yeah, I think final score of 18-14 sounds good, and I'll take the LSU victory.

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You do realize that A&M had another drive in the 2nd quarter where they marched down the field and threw a pick at the 3 yard line, right?

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So the fact that LSU was #7 in interceptions (4th in P4) isn’t part of your evaluation of the strength of the defense?