fixing to start a thread but tagging on to yours.

a great dline can make a secondary look great. vice-versa a great secondary can help a weaker dline look better. too many youngsters in the secondary and too many injuries on the dline. with any luck at all we'll have a better than average defense the second half of the season.

also, an offense that can make first downs can help the defense. if they are scoring and holding the ball helps even more.

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Posted by SammyTiger

Baton Rouge, LA

Member since Feb 2009

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Posted on 9/29/17 at 4:53 pm to stephendomalley

Right running the same 4 DLinemen the entire game is a great way of gassing them out fast.

This Defense would be instantly better with lawrence Alexander. And herron in the rotation.

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Posted by Nuts4LSU

Washington, DC

Member since Oct 2003

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Posted on 9/29/17 at 5:33 pm to stephendomalley

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a great dline can make a secondary look great.

Absolutely true.

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vice-versa a great secondary can help a weaker dline look better

Not so much.

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too many youngsters in the secondary and too many injuries on the dline

True.

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with any luck at all we'll have a better than average defense the second half of the season.

"Any luck at all"? I'd say we need a hell of a lot of luck.

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also, an offense that can make first downs can help the defense. if they are scoring and holding the ball helps even more.

Yes, but asking an offense whose line can't block any team, not even a FCS team, to do that is pretty unrealistic.

I agree we have serious problems on defense, but I think the offense is worse. Special teams, as bad as they have been, may actually be the strength of this team.

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