re: Chavis thoughts on LSU offense

Offense had 7 three and outs that game. Terrible.

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I'm not going to go through each loss while I'm at work but its rather amusing to see the Clemson game get blamed on Chavis when if Miles had run the fricking ball in the preceding series Dabo and Co wouldn't have even gotten the ball back. Never mind that the vaunted LSU offense had all of 219 total yards and held the ball for just 23 minutes.

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The reason that the losses have been blamed on the defense is because of how the switch would suddenly flip and we would fall apart right at the end. LSU had one of the best 3rd down defenses in the nation this year, but gave up 2 game winning drives, managed to answer with an offensive drive and win after UF had what looked like one, and almost gave up 2 others against Ole Miss and A&M. That stark contrast stands out to the extreme. Each of these drives featured a 3rd or 4th and very long given up at some point.

So yeah, the offense could have done a LOT more this year. Everyone knows that. But it's still hard to dismiss shutting a team down for 9/10 of a game and then losing or coming close to it, not because of fatigue, but because of a drastic change in scheme that every opponent knows is coming.