re: Turn around the mistakes and this team can still go 8-4

Can, but unlikely.

FSU was the "swing game" between 8-4 and 7-5 IMO. To go 8-4 now means LSU will have to go 5-3 in the SEC. That is a tough ask for this particular team. I think we, myself included, underestimated just how talent depleted the team is as a whole. Yes, there is talent. It is just concentrated in a few areas. Namely DL and WR. The OL is going to be a year long work-in-progress. The LBs were almost completely unnoticed, and the secondary is not at the level we have seen for two decades at LSU.

The encouraging news is but for the reverse flea-flicker LSU didn't seem to blow too many coverages in the secondary. That certainly wasn't the case for the last 2 years.