re: Kelly is about to waste the 2nd best QB season in LSU history with the worst D in history

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I think our defensive issues are 80% scheme related and 20% talent deficiency.

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It doesn't look that way to me. It looks to me like it's player discipline more than anything. Players coming off their assignments thinking they have to make a play leaving guys wide open. Guys over pursuing and getting out of position. Much of Perkins' apparent disappearance has some of this element as well. He tends to get too far upfield when he rushes, he gets hyper-focused on the QB at times to the exclusion of the RB, and has had guys run right by him while he heads for the QB, it happened last night on one of the long RB TDs, literally ran right by the guy with the ball to hit the QB.

That is probably on inexperience and coaching more than scheme and talent. I'm not absolving those, just saying they are only part of the issue and not necessarily the biggest part.