re: Breaking down the defense by position , Defensive grade is an F

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Well i guess lsu is gonna live and die by coach o sticking with aranda....we having a great year overall since 2011...but defensively the output has been crippled since aranda has been at lsu...you cannot run that scheme and play good much less great on defense in the sec and it's been proven every year he has been here that he cant...

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I don't know about that. We've been ranked lower in terms of scoring defense each year he's been here, but the Texas AM game raised our scoring defense by four points, as we had given up 177 points in the 11 previous games, which led to a scoring defense of 16.09 points/per game, good enough for the top ten. Our opposition passer rating was in the top ten, though we had trouble pressuring the QB last year too.

I think he's good enough to be a top DC, but there is a cautiousness about his approach this year, where we are in the base scheme quite a bit of the time.

Fundamentally, the issue is that we aren't getting enough pressure from the front 7, as we only have 21 sacks. The opposition passer rating has gone from 106.1 last year to 122.6 this year. We have to be better in our base scheme too, as the bad angles and poor tackling isn't related to scheme, though it can be attributed to coaching.