re: Why isn't the coaching staff getting credit?

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You realize that A&M's defense has given up yards on the ground in nearly every SEC game this season.

Arkansas - 285
MSU - 280
Ole Miss - 160
Alabama - 298
Auburn - 363
Mizzou - 335
LSU - 384

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Point taken, but LSU has the highest total on that list.

It's also the highest total and highest YPC (6.74) of the season for LSU vs. any opponent.

There's still a lot of room for improvement in the passing game, but that's the type of running game that you can lean on while you iron things out through the air.

Also, that type of running game can be very successful vs. Alabama. In the 2013 Iron Bowl, Auburn rushed for 296 Yards in their Victory -- running many of the same types of plays LSU ran last night.

Travin Dural averaged 12.2 yards running the jet sweep. The jet sweep is a great play because it gives your speed guys an opportunity to make big plays, then it also works as a setup play in both the running game and the passing game because you can run plays off of the jet sweep action. That worked on the first play of the game -- #42 Otaro Alaka took himself out of the play because he followed Dural on the fake, that set up an easy block for Evan Washington, and Fournette ran right to the area that was vacated by Alaka for a 5-yard gain. That sort of thing happened throughout the night.