Best line from O's Presser yesterday!

Yes, I watched the whole thing, I agree with him! When he said it, I laughed and said "yeah! that would be a great start!"

I bet he chewed so much arse this past week. Goddamn I bet he went up one side of bo and down the other

O still had the audacity to take a shot at Aranda yesterday. Despite defense is horrendous.

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I bet he chewed so much arse this past week. Goddamn I bet he went up one side of bo and down the other

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bullshite. Bo is the EXACT guy to run the EXACT defense Ed wanted. He ain’t chewing shite on that side of the ball. Except the players who they’ve put under the bus in an impossible situation.

Ding, ding. We have a winner! Couldn't agree more.

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bullshite. Bo is the EXACT guy to run the EXACT defense Ed wanted. He ain’t chewing shite on that side of the ball. Except the players who they’ve put under the bus in an impossible situation.

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Yeah I'm sure he's sitting in his office thrilled.

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He was calling out his team

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That shouldn’t be necessary! Youth, inexperience, learning a new system are perfectly reasonable reasons for assignment busts, etc. These factors should matter less with each game. There is no excuse for lack of effort, laying down, giving up or not having pride.

It certainly could indicate that there’s more going on beyond the X’s and O’s.

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Did you hear the presser? He was calling out his team

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Good. He should. The season is cooked so the message to the guys playing is that you step up your game or we invest in our future and play a bunch of true freshman to give them experience.

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Yeah I'm sure he's sitting in his office thrilled.

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Of course he’s not thrilled. He’s just lost to 2 of the worst teams in the SEC and didn’t look great defensively in our lone win against THE worst team in the SEC. But the guy he should be most pissed at—Pelini—is the one guy he has no right to be pissed at.

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bullshite. Bo is the EXACT guy to run the EXACT defense Ed wanted. He ain’t chewing shite on that side of the ball. Except the players who they’ve put under the bus in an impossible situation.

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This was my post, and it’s currently got like 13 downvotes to 4 up. I don’t care at all about downvotes relative to my self-worth, but I am genuinely curious about the discrepancies.

Is it the tone or are there that many of you who don’t think Ed got EXACTLY what he wanted with Bo. He wanted a 4-3 because he’s a defensive line coach, and that’s what he’s been teaching for 35 years and wants to be more involved. He wanted a 4-3 because it’s more aggressive, and that’s his nature—he wants to dictate to the offense instead of the other way around. And he very successfully did it with the change in offensive philosophy last year—we are gonna be aggressive on offense and dictate to the defense what we are going to do.

And I think one thing that is much more important to Ed that hasn’t really been discussed is that he’s a recruiter at heart, and he wanted a 4-3 because he thinks it will help him recruit elite defensive linemen that specialize in getting penetration and making big plays behind the line of scrimmage. I think Ed felt Aranda’s 3-4 made it harder for him to land those elite DLinemen. And he was probably right. It was my biggest concern when we hired Aranda, and I do think it came to fruition to a certain extent, though our linebacker recruiting improved (and will likely become harder with the move to the 4-3).

And Ed hand-picked Pelini to install, teach, and call the 4-3. This wasn’t like the Canada hire, which was kinda thrust upon him without proper time to vete Matt. Bo’s been around forever—Ed knew EXACTLY what he was getting with him. So I don’t think he has any business being pissed at Bo. This is what he wanted.

Now, after 2019, I think he earned the right to do just about anything he wanted. And with the unprecedented losses to the NFL and opt outs combined with the overall craziness of this whole year, we could wind up finishing 1-9, and I’d still give Ed a pass. That’s how amazing 2019 was. He’s earned a longer leash than maybe any other coach in LSU history not named Skip Bertman. Still, regarding LSU football in the post Curly Hallman era, that leash won’t ever be THAT long, and he’s gonna have to get some shite figured out real quick before ‘21. And his being pissed at anybody but himself is unproductive and misplaced.