Rewatched the South Carolina game after being there in person.

That’s a Geaux Tigers right there.

If you are going to acknowledge that having Durham makes LSU a completely different offense, you also have to acknowledge that LSU faced a completely different offense in the 2nd half when Sellers was out. But I don't necessarily disagree with your assessment.

Honestly, the most concerning stat that I heard was that Saturday was the 9th game under Brian Kelly in which we have started the game down by double digits. That's a major problem.

There was a ton of positives from the game on Saturday and people are right to think that we went into a hostile environment at 11am and won a road game in the SEC by a team that looks to be good this year.

Having said that, we were super fricking sloppy and undisciplined in a lot of areas. That shouldn't be ignored either.

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1. Defense is not as bad as we think and they showed signs of growth and effort which was lacking last year. Let Baker continue to coach these players up.

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This is what most casuals are missing. And to be the fair, the 30k foot view statistics aren't that pretty, but you can see it if you squint.

-DL is much better than last year and not nearly the liability we thought ( at least so far). DEs have been the biggest pleasent surprise on defense IMO.

-LBs are finally settling on correct positions and personnel. The flaws/breakdowns are cochable and fixable. What we saw out of HP7 this past week could be him turning the corner.

-Secondary shuffling is still sorting itself out. Zy at CB is the cornerstone we can build around.

-Virtually all of the position coaches and the DC are new, none of these groups are anywhere close to a finished product.

-Young bucks are flashing all over. Stamps, Allen, Spears, Woodland, Breaux, Jackson, Reliford, and Womack will be huge contrubutors to this defense for the forseeable future.


For me, it's just a question of WHEN not IF this defense becomes something the program can hang it's hat on again. Could be as early as mid October. We're staying home for the next month with two easy Ws and a bye leading up to Ole Miss. That's like a whole Fall camp!

But it could also take longer and we don't see real growth until 25, hard to say.......

I agree with your observations, but it concerns me that during the 6 or 7 month offseason, Kelly has hardly anything figured out with his team, and it takes putting his team in a difficult spot early on to be in consideration for the final 12 at the end of the regular season.

This is not the kind of path that elite teams take.

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If you are going to acknowledge that having Durham makes LSU a completely different offense, you also have to acknowledge that LSU faced a completely different offense in the 2nd half when Sellers was out. But I don't necessarily disagree with your assessment.

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This is the biggest default excuse and copout statement everyone outside of LSU wants to make without acknowledging that outside 3 bigs plays, we were figuring him out. We were getting to him more and more, hence his injury.

He's not injured if out defense wasn't getting to him and getting the 3 and outs we have been desperately missing. Out D stepped up.

What's clear is, Sage can't be counted out to make an open field tackle. If that is Spears or Allen, I feel better about our chances of not having that Sellers run go to the house. Sage never breaks down in front the runner.

Give our team more credit and theirs less when talking about the outcome and what could have beens. Sure, they could have been better after the injury, but so could we.

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Positivity post for a change, it’s frustrating reading all the posts from the negatigers after a game.

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It’s called the Tiger “Rant”. A forum for fans to express their opinions. LSU has not exactly looked very good, so far.
Some fans go overboard with their criticism, and others post their legit frustrations.

Maybe you need to back away from this forum if it bothers you.

I sit right in the middle of the "oh no LSU sucks" and the "we are perfectly fine" crowds. i realize BK wants to build LSU through recruiting, so therefore i will have patience in some regard. I also wont discredit the loss of the DL coach last year right before the season, so lack of leadership and development in that room, and no active recruiting at that time. but the coaching side of that issue has been fixed and now we are hopefully getting the big guys out of high school for bulk and depth.

i think if we show some patience, this staff, with the recruiting its doing, LSU will be top tier in the coming years, and sooner rather than later.

i don't like the season opening losses. i don't like the slow starts. but i do think the fact we never give up in games, or throw in the season, shows the leadership on the staff and in the locker room.... just hoping we can start showing improvement with consistency, but again, i also realize we are lacking in elite talent\depth in some areas.