3rd down and Red Zone

It basically boils down to being able to run the ball. We can’t run the ball and are complete crap at it. If they can fix that, then I’ll bet 3rd down completion will get better. It should also help the defense. Give them time to breathe and go over things on the sidelines.

I’m as pissed as any fan right now but if we can get better at running the ball, everything else will START to fall in place. It will not make this defense top half in the country but if we can get close to average, it’ll be good enough. We need to show improvement and carry these improvements in to 2021.

On a side note, there is no reason that Gilbert and Marshall shouldn’t be on the field every single offensive play. That’s ridiculous and falls on Ensminger.

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find a new DC simple as that

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it's not that simple. Pelini costs too much to fire at this point as far as the top brass are concerned.

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Pelini costs too much to fire at this point as far as the top brass are concerned.

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So if we hire a bust we need to sit on him and let the program suffer because of it?? You can't do that if you want to run a good program

They were 3-3 in the red zone vs. MSU; 3-4 vs. Vandy and 3-4 vs. Missouri.

The one missed RZ scoring opportunity vs. Vandy was at the end of the game when LSU was just running out the clock. Then, obviously the big one vs. Mizzou. Take away the Vandy one where LSU didn't try to score and you're looking at 91% in red zone scoring.

3rd downs haven't been good...at all. But it hurts when you are constantly facing 3rd and long. LSU's average yards to gain on 3rd Down vs. Mizzou was 9. Certainly, you would expect to do better than zero. But it's hard to be great on 3rd down when you are facing long yardage. Mizzou was 5-10, but their avg. yards to gain was 6. Mizzou only converted two third downs where the yards to gain was 6 or greater. Outside of the goal line stand, LSU only faced three 3rd downs 5 yards or less.

LSU is 4th in the nation in % of pass to run (61% passes). More concerning is the fact they are 4th to last in % of yards gained on the ground. The running game is virtually non existent, which is forcing Brennan into a log of 3rd and long situations

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Our RB's are averaging 4.6YPC. Last year it was 4.9YPC.

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That number is heavily skewed by the Vandy game, where the RB’s averaged 5.3 YPC. They averaged 3.2 YPC against Mizzou and 4.3 YPC against Miss State.

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That number is heavily skewed by the Vandy game, where the RB’s averaged 5.3 YPC. They averaged 3.2 YPC against Mizzou and 4.3 YPC against Miss State.

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It's also skewed by the -36 total yards that Brennan has "run" for.
Take that out and see what you get. He had -2 against Mizzou, 3 against Vandy, -37 against MSU.

Notice i said our RB's, not our running game, when i said we are averaging 4.6ypc.

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it's not that simple. Pelini costs too much to fire at this point as far as the top brass are concerned.

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yes, pretty simple.....
after this year his buy-out can be negotiated.

Lack of ticket sales will be more expensive.

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our defense looks lost out on the field and when the players don't know where to be on the field then that is the coach's fault.

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Players have blame also. When an offensive player doesn't know where to line up it's his fault.

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why can't we just let Ensminger call the entire game??

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good question. not impressed with Linehan

Right but don’t you existed a national championship winning SEC head coach to be astute enough to recognize that?