re: Ali Gaye Make A Play

Haven’t read the thread, but agree with the premise that he doesn’t get home as much as we expected him to when he first got here. However, he’s big and strong as frick, and we are VERY thin on the interior line after losing Maason Smith. Thank God for Wingo. But Guillory’s only giving us about 15 plays a game, and according to Kelly, J Roy played his 1st game healthy last week against Auburn. So we have only 3 guys listed as interior DL giving us ANY snaps, and and Guillory’s not giving many. So House has been using Gaye’s size to lineup in the middle over guards where he’s very valuable to give different looks, eat blocks, and open lanes for BJ and Perkins to make plays. Hell, he’s played BJ over guards some. Gaye’s a strong-side 3-4 NFL DE that’s not gonna have a ton of sacks and TFLs there or at LSU, but he’s been extremely valuable—especially since Smith went down—but much more quietly than we probably expected him to be after he came out dominating I. His 1st game in 2020. That was probably never who he was gonna be. But he’s still extremely valuable and would be a big loss.

Speaking of, Wingo might be the biggest loss on on the entire DL were he to go down at this point. He has been incredible.