re: 5 sacks allowed by OL -- are they that bad or is the D that good?

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Watched scrimmage and it was very concerning. Oline really struggled in pass protection.

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Not worried. Super Bowl Cregg is on the case.

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Our perennial weakness reared it's ugly head again yesterday. Should we be concerned? I'll hang up and listen...

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Perennial my arse. There's a stat that shows the last time LSU allowed that many negative plays by their OL before 2018 was the 2009 season (that year was hell). In 2014 the OL started bad because of the new OL coach teaching a new blocking scheme. They finished that year pretty good.

2010-2013 was really good ('11 and '13 especially)

2015 and 2016 were excellent

2017 it started to taper off, but it wasn't bad, just average

People look at Bama dominating us as an indicator that the OL was bad, when you can go back to damn near every other game and see us blocking decent enough on pass plays and creating huge lanes on runs.

TL;DR the 2018 season was literally 10 years later to the last time we had a really horrendous OL (2009).

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For a while there LSU didn't have one OL drafted he recruited and developed. Choosing to play football in a telephone booth and racking up big rushing numbers doesn't mean you have a dominant or well coached OL.

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From 2011 to 2017 drafts

Joe Barksdale
Trai Turner
Vadal Alexander
Ethan Pocic

Will Clapp was his recruit and was drafted the very next year he was fired. La'el Collins was his recruit and wasn't drafted because of "reporters" leaking legal matters that they shouldn't have. Chris Caulk didn't get drafted because of a serious knee injury his year before he declared. Had he not been injured, he was a projected top 2 round draft pick. Herman Johnson wasn't a Les recruit, but spent 4 years on the team with him, and got drafted.

That's 8 players from the 2009-2018 draft classes that were, or should have been drafted but weren't do to circumstances out of their control. Very few schools, hell, very few coaches can claim that in a decade no matter if they were at 1, 2, or 3 schools.

I don't remember anybody screaming OL problems from 06-08 nor do I remember much from 2010-2016. Bama pushing out shite in because we ran a bad scheme and played right into their hands is a completely different story.

This revisionist history on the OL is about as bad people thinking WR drops and play has only been bad the past 1-2 years (when it has been since Adam Henry left).

I remember that game against SELA too. All of Ensminger's pass plays were slow-developing, deep balls in max protection formation. That's the worst thing you can do with a struggling o-line. Old school guys like Ensminger just "don't get it." It's a different offensive line and a different score that night IF you go 4 and 5-wide, quick strikes with RPO.

Should be 2 hand touch, not pillow fight

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Watched scrimmage and it was very concerning. Oline really struggled in pass protection.

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Not judging the OP as such, but a "glass half empty" person would conclude:

1. If the O excels, it is because the D is bad
2. If the D excels, it is because the O is bad
If both have success, it is because they are equally bad.