Defensive backfield should get some help

And that help will be from Maason Smith, Mekhi Wingo and Harold Perkins. Interceptions, overthrows and underthrows start, more often than not, with pressure on the quarterback.

Most quarterbacks will tell you that the pressure they hate the most is inside pressure. They cant step up in the pocket, which Drew Brees was the master at. They cant step into their throws with their center and guards pushed back into them. They can go further back, but it makes them more susceptible to the outside rush and throws off the rhythm of the routes.

We know Wingo is a disruptor. With Maason Smith, we just have to hope the preseason hype is real. But it’s not just hype from the LSU side. Incredibly with all the talent on the d-line in the SEC, Smith is on most all SEC preseason teams having hardly played a down. Wow, somebody must know something.

Double teaming Mingo or Smith might not be the answer if they move Perkins around and keep him inside. That is three very disruptive players coming at the qb on the very shortest route to get there.

I hope some of the transfers at cornerback from LSU turn out to be DBU caliber. It’s kind of odd for defensive back to be the question mark on an LSU defense.

But nothing makes a defensive backfield better than a pass rush. And there is nothing quarterbacks hate more than inside pressure. That will be one thing to look at against FSU. Florida State has a very good qb in Jordan Travis, although humility might not be his strong suit. He is already comparing himself to Jalen Hurts. Lol. Our db’s could get a nice Boost if Smith Wingo and Perkins can get after Travis early and often.