re: I just want to say one thing. Herman is for real.

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Everyone is freaking out about the lack of pressure, but I think they were just trying to keep containment on Ehlinger. The biggest concern was the lack of conditioning, missed tackles and weak tackling attempts.

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All of the areas you mentioned were factors. I've mentioned the poor tackling, myself, and I don't think anyone would disagree with those points.

But Ehlinger is not Michael Vick or Kyler Murray. I wouldn't worry near so much about containing his running ability. He runs when there is an opening, and because there was no pressure, he was able to either complete wide open intermediate passes, or run for first downs. So if the game plan was to contain Ehlinger in the pocket, it failed miserably.

I thought that the style of defense LSU deployed actually indicated that they were overly concerned about Ehlinger beating them with his arm if they left the secondary vulnerable by blitzing. And I can understand that thought process coming INTO the game. But when it became clear that this strategy was failing, and that when Ehlinger WAS blitzed, our guys broke through and he was not able handle it, it should have been obvious that our best bet was to keep coming after him.

But the game plan never changed, and the result was zero stops in the second half... Zero. That's a problem.