re: Can't really figure y'all out ...

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We had the ball with a little over a minute with a chance to prolong the game with a TD and 2-pt conversion. Obviously we didn't get that, but I think that's a fair interpretation of "in it". We were a couple of inches, here or there (literally) from winning this one

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Nah, that's fair. I meant to communicate that y'all seemed to have let up on the throttle in the 2nd half.

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(Likewise, it's fair to say we were a couple of inches, here or there, from losing a couple down the stretch this year, too).

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I noticed that too. Reminds me of our 2006 9-win season with Fran, where his motto seemed to be "we only have to have 1 more point than the other team". That was one stressful season.

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I meant to communicate that y'all seemed to have let up on the throttle in the 2nd half.

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And that's fair.

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I noticed that too. Reminds me of our 2006 9-win season with Fran, where his motto seemed to be "we only have to have 1 more point than the other team". That was one stressful season.

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We've been there a lot lately. There is a certain amount of parity in big league ball. Also, the positive is - there doesn't seem to be a lot of quit in our team. They play to the last whistle.

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tannehill has not experienced an athletic defense like this and this is where his weaknesses will be exposed IMO

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I don't think you're giving the big 12 enough credit. Sometimes stats get skewed because of the prevalence of the hurry up in our conference. I don't know how many snaps teams in the SEC average per game, but I'd guess it's 60-70/game. In the big 12, teams frequently get over 90 and 100+ has happened several times. So when you see our scores, it's like playing 6-7 quarters of SEC football. Nebraska plays really freaking good defense and OU isn't bad either. They've got a lot of athletes.

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So when you see our scores, it's like playing 6-7 quarters of SEC football.

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WOW, just WOW...

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What would y'all say is the strength of y'all's defense? Most of the season I'd say it's y'all's run D. Is this a result of d-line or lb'er play, or both?

Looking at the stats it seems teams have been able to pass on y'all, not with ease for the most part, but fairly consistently.

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You seem confused.

Beyond any shadow of a doubt, LSU has a very good pass defense and a rather bad run defense.

Alabama foolishly tried to pass too much.

Mallett got 3 big plays that skewed the stats for that game (one of them a TD bomb on 4th and 3, and another a 80-yd TD with :06 left in the first half). LSU had a very good plan for defending Arkansas's passing attack, and did well for the most part, but just flat got burned with a couple of terrible plays by #37, in for an injured #15 at safety.

Schematically, Chavis's biggest problem at DC has been prepping for teams with dual-threat QBs like Auburn & Ole Miss. The 4th quarter letdown vs. UNC was just a matter of trying to clear out 10+ new players in the defensive backfield in the first game of the season. I wouldn't read too much into that.

On the offensive side, Gary Crowton is an absolute disaster as an OC, but LSU under Miles has always been excellent at devising schemes tailored for specific opponents when given enough time (hence the typically great bowl games performances, last year excepted).

Whenever LSU looks great on offense, it's a safe bet that it's because we're running a lot of rollouts and play action and having successful busted plays. When we try to do the things that Crowton actually wants to do, we're terrible. That said, LSU still managed to have the 2nd best running game in the SEC behind Auburn (although one could argue that Alabama or Miss. State was better depending on how you interpret the stats).

LSU definitely had the #1 pass defense in the SEC though, and is near the bottom of the league in passing offense and running defense.

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You seem confused.

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1st day on here and trying to figure y'all's team out, so yeah that's fair. haha

Thanks for the post.

Ok in any thread there will be fans that want the opposing fans out and its the same here on TD and TexAgs.

But im here to talk to football, so to answer your question I believe its a toss up on our D, it seems like we have commited to just one aspect for each game during the season. One game our run D is crazy good (Alabama Game) on another night our pass D is amazing (Miss St. & West Virginia game) fortunately when your D has played bad our offense has stepped up (Ole Miss game) and the two games lost our defense and special teams gave us plenty of opportunities our offense just would not capitalize, it seemed like our offense would only respond but never take the initiative (Arkansas game, int's blocked punt etc..) I have gone to every home game and the North Carolina game and our defense is full of playmakers, really atheltic kids that can run. Yes OU and nebraska obviously have these guys to but i believe where beat them is on our Dline and depth at the skill posistions on the Defense. Our Dlinemen r running on avg solid 4.7 40s across the whole Dline. Your young oline (especially the tackles) won't be able to keep up with this. I thnk we can get a lot of pressure on Tannehill and when he scrambles our LBs our to fast for him to out run. Just an opinion though, we will see on Jan 7, Geaux Tigers!

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UT - nice D again. Rushing game wins the game in a last second TD

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Well technically it was after the last second but who's counting?

Yea I wish we would give R. Sheppard more touches. He could be our version of "Percy Harvin" but even more dangerous bc he can pass the ball. He's definitely a threat when he has the ball in his hands, homerun hitter. I guess Crowton would rather stick to the useless pistol offense...