re: Damn near forgot what we did to Bama last year.

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Once Daronte Jones decided to play an aggressive attacking D the defense actually played well last season.

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You mean once Oregron decided to abandon his dream of resurrecting the late 80's Miami defense and allowed his DC to actually adapt to football in 2021 did LSU play well.

LSU had a solid defense in 2019. It was terrible in 2020 and not all that much better in 2021...until Ole Miss blew out LSU and Kiffin essentially told O his defense sucked. There was only ONE common denominator...Ed Orgeron. Damone Clark didn't go from a guy who was constantly out of position for 1.5 years to suddenly one of the SEC's best LBs by accident. It was he, and the rest of the defense, being let free of Orgeron actually having any input in the defensive approach.

I'm not saying Jones was a great DC. But the reality is any DC would have failed under Orgeron because it was Orgeron dictating the overall approach. The moment he decided to stop letting coordinators fully control their sides of the ball is the moment his career at LSU went to shite.

Something similar to that defense was likely always there prior to the Bama game. It just took Orgeron being out of the way to find it

That is why I'm bullish on LSU this year. They no longer have that buffoon on the sideline thinking he knows more about the game than being a DL coach.