re: Why You Can't "Stack the Box" vs. Auburn (with graphics/pics)

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We didn't let him.

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Which was stupid. You're acting like Auburn completing 2 or 3 deep passes against LSU would have been the end of the world. You are basically saying that giving up 440 rushing yards is okay because you like to play scared because you're afraid of the deep pass.

This despite everybody having known from the start that rushing defense was LSU's weakness, and that we probably have the best passing defense in the whole country. Sheesh.

If you at least make Newton throw deep under pressure, then at least he has pressure on him to make a big play, and can't just have a leisurely time eating up 8 and 9 yards a run. And, guess what, in between those 2 or 3 bombs that he might hit, LSU might actually make him screw up and throw an INT.

Auburn does not have a great passing game. On a good day they complete maybe 12 of them.

LSU knew Auburn's strength was against the defense's biggest deficiency, and they did NOTHING--nothing at all--to compensate for it. It's indefensible.

And no team in the country is going to stop Auburn with this scheme that you are defending. Nobody. You would get the same result against anybody else. A 7-on-6 running setup with Newton at QB and only 2 LB's trying to cover the running game from sideline-to-sideline is going to blow up in your face no matter who you are. It's plain incompetent.