Baker’s defense will do one of the following this weekend

What if Chris Kiffin was the DC? Bc that is your alternative

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Sheriff Brackett

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You’re just saying all this because it’s Halloween and you think everyone’s entitled to one good scare.

Kind of hard for any offense when your alleged top-10 defense and highly paid DC is allowing points off the bat and you’re constantly having to play from behind in hostile environments.

What’s the best defense to play against an average passer but dangerous runner ?

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Personally I'm not completely opposed to it for continuity sake

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I'm opposed to it. We have to have a DC that's fireable if he fails. Will Lane fire his brother if he needs to, or would he stick with him until they both dig their own grave?

Just makes me uneasy thinking of the head coach's brother as DC.

The key to stopping teams in 2 minute offense is pass rush from front 4 no matter what the secondary does or what scheme coaches call

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Kind of hard for any offense when your alleged top-10 defense and highly paid DC is allowing points off the bat and you’re constantly having to play from behind in hostile environments.

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Defense forced a 3 and out on OM first possession of the game.

LSU followed up with our own 3 and out.

Defense then held them to a FG, and LSU went 3 and out again.

That led to OM first TD. We followed up their first score with 28 yards and a punt, they scored another TD.

We then got our first TD to stave off disaster, but three straight punts to open a game on the road is very unlikely to ever lead to a win.


Second half, LSU goes three and out AGAIN. At that point we have one scoring drive out of five. Simply not good enough for a Lane Kiffin coached team imo.


And I’m as big a Kiffin fan as there is. I think that game was always going to be an uphill battle given the emotion, and having it in week 3 is damn near insurmountable.


Still the defense follows up our 3 and out in the second half with an interception, forces a missed FG, and a punt on their next three drives.

Seems to me that’s asking a whole lot of the defense without expecting much support from the offense, which just seems weird to me for those of us that finally got our offensive HC in Kiffin.


This isn’t to bash Kiffin, just saying the constant criticism of our “alleged top-10 defense and highly paid DC” is kind of overlooking our alleged top 10 offense and even higher paid HC and OC, no?



I’ve broken down the Kentucky game many times. Defense held them to 3 points on SIX second half possessions before the tying drive while the offense only got us 10 on those same six opportunities.

Thats just not good enough imo.

Especially when you consider that both OM and Kentucky are OFFENSIVE teams with not great defenses.

Why do we expect the defense to punch up while the offense isn’t getting the points we should expect against not great defenses?


We are a work in progress on both sides of the ball for sure. I’m mostly happy with what I’ve seen from both the offense and the defense given how these games have played out.

So I just don’t see the need to keep tearing down a defense that has gone toe to toe on the road until the last possession with two good offenses.

It’s not like we’re losing games 45-42. The defense is getting plenty of stops to give the offense a chance to close games out.

That’s all I hoped for when we brought in Kiffin and I think it will pay off as we move forward

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Allow points at the end of the half and/or a scoring opportunity for the opposing team within their first two possessions.

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I mean, it's pretty difficult to not allow these things to happen. For context, only one road team in the SEC accomplished this on Saturday, and that was Arkansas at Vandy (didn't give up points on first two possessions or before half).

MSU @ LSU- TD on first drive
Florida @ Texas- TD on first drive
Auburn @ UGA- TD on first drive
Bama @ Tenn- FG on first drive
Mizzou @ OM- TD on second drive
UK @ OU- FG on first drive

This is a very reasonable take. I do feel like I find myself not even knowing what a good defense should look like anymore.

I also think part of why we are giving Kiffin a pass here (I am also a big fan of his and think he is going to be great) is because it is his first season and outside of Braelin Moore, Weston Davis and Trey’Dez, it’s an entirely new offense with a new system with a QB coming off an injury that is trying to gel.

Not saying they get a pass either. I thought the play calling was bad first half against Ole Miss and Kiffin definitely should’ve gone for it on 4th.

Baker’s been here three years, so there’s continuity without as much turnover and we’ve kind of started to see some possible trends with him. A lot of the position coaches stayed the same from last year.

The way the game has changed it’s made it a lot harder to defend. Think my biggest gripe with Baker is a lot of the soft zone, playing 7-8 yards off the receiver, and sometimes he doesn’t adjust as quickly as he should IMO.

I also wasn’t in the camp where we had to up his contract to get him to stay when Tulane was in the mix. I don’t think he’s a bad coordinator but not worth an extra $1M or whatever it is he’s making per year IMO.

Really hope he gets this team comes together this weekend and rest of the season because I think this is as wide open of a race to the title as there has been. If we can get everyone to gel, we’re going to be tough to beat.

Lane needs to light a fire up Baker's Arse and tell him to be aggressive from the get go Sat