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re: Everybody is banging on the O and Leavit.

Posted on 9/20/26 at 10:08 am to
Posted by deuceiswild
South La
Member since Nov 2007
5267 posts
Posted on 9/20/26 at 10:08 am to
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I fail to see how LSU's offense let OM's offense go 7-9 on 3rd down in the first half.


Giving up nine plays (I think) for 20+ yds didn't help us either.
Posted by Nate711
Mississippi
Member since Oct 2017
316 posts
Posted on 9/20/26 at 10:08 am to
Baker and the D are getting a lot of heat and they should but we can’t ignore the reality that a lot of those first half points came as a result of our offense not being able to get first downs and keep the ball away from Ole Miss.. That is a fact. You can’t play a high level offense and just keep kicking it back to them
Posted by Marrero
Member since Dec 2021
1249 posts
Posted on 9/20/26 at 10:09 am to
Ole miss is not better Leavitt is just that bad. LA tech proved that already.
Posted by doubleb
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2006
43209 posts
Posted on 9/20/26 at 10:10 am to
[quote]I thought the defense would travel and keep LSU in the game to override the emotion. It didn’t. It was a very big part of the problem. Yes, you can say the defense played better in the second half. But it’s true that the offense had to come alive to overcome the defense’s poor first half performance. It has been clear since game one to anyone who wanted to pay attention that the offense had some deficiencies at a lot of spots. The thought was the defense was good enough to allow the offense time to figure those out as the season went along. That is not the case. The defense was a huge disappointment last night.[/quote

Yes, I agree. We knee Leavit wasn’t Jayden. We knew the OL wasn’t going to win the OL award. We lacked a Chse or a Jefferson or a Guice. But we thought our D was in the 2011 class. It isn’t.
Posted by Yeti_Chaser
Member since Nov 2017
13662 posts
Posted on 9/20/26 at 10:11 am to
It's bc the D was facing Trinidad Chambliss and the O was facing an OM defense that isn't very good
Posted by WylieTiger
Member since Nov 2006
14878 posts
Posted on 9/20/26 at 10:17 am to
Giving up that TD to Ole Miss before halftime was criminal. We had the most success with pressure looks and pressure. Showing a 3-man front presnap without anything for Chambliss to process was just dumb. Bad scheme. If we go into the half 20-7 or 17-7, that is a much different 2nd half.
Posted by Tiger Voodoo
Champs 03 07 09 11(fack) 19!!!
Member since Mar 2007
22290 posts
Posted on 9/20/26 at 10:27 am to
They got every penny worth of their TRO.

Chambliss isn’t getting a seventh year.
Posted by FireGoodell
Member since Mar 2019
9023 posts
Posted on 9/20/26 at 10:29 am to
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Habitual 3 and outs will do that to a defense...


So what about the TD before half? LSU offense just had an 8 MINUTE TD drive. The defense was on the sideline for fricking 8 game minutes. We scored and made it 7-17

And then Bakers sorry arse allows a TD before half when Ole Miss only had a minute and no timeouts to work with. And that TD was a huge play in the game. Pitiful

Posted by doubleb
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2006
43209 posts
Posted on 9/20/26 at 10:31 am to
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Giving up that TD to Ole Miss before halftime was criminal. We had the most success with pressure looks and pressure. Showing a 3-man front presnap without anything for Chambliss to process was just dumb. Bad scheme. If we go into the half 20-7 or 17-7, that is a much different 2nd half.


Yes, that’s when we needed them the most. Instead of 17-7 and LSU getting the ball it was 24-7.

The same thing happened late in the 4th quarter. Tied at 24 we let Ole Miss drive the ball for a TD. We were rested and had the momentum.

The fact is at crunch time our D failed to hold the rope.

Now our O didn’t come through either, but most thought our D was special and we knew our O had warts.
Posted by FLObserver
Jacksonville
Member since Nov 2005
16387 posts
Posted on 9/20/26 at 10:32 am to
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No push from our front four on defense...Chambliss had all day to throw...contrast that with Leavitt who was scrambling all night

The reason we couldnt take advantage of Ole miss weakness at DB because we cant get guys open down field because Sam can hit them, he is not looking and OL is bad. Take your pick.Louisville torched them because a new QB could hit Wr's. This needs to get fixed but just lost our best deep threat.
This post was edited on 9/20/26 at 10:33 am
Posted by Bring Da Wood
Texas
Member since Dec 2006
2292 posts
Posted on 9/20/26 at 10:33 am to
The scheme on defense was terrible and that’s on Baker and LK. Leavitt looked bad but nobody expected our defense to go out there and look like a Matt House defense. Baker adjusted at halftime but you can’t tell me all these coaches we pay for couldn’t make an adjustment after the first OM TD.
Posted by MOT
Member since Jul 2006
31375 posts
Posted on 9/20/26 at 10:35 am to
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7-9? So ole Miss had at least 9 offensive drives in the first half? And you don’t see how our shitty offense going 3 and out over and over could impact that?
They had 5 drives in the first half

The last two of which were TD drives following 8 play and 17 play drives by LSU.

It’s okay to say both the offense and defense were shite in the first half. Part of the defense’s job is to get themselves off the field on 3rd down and it was a total failure in that regard.
Posted by MRTigerFan
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2008
7482 posts
Posted on 9/20/26 at 10:37 am to
Other than the last drive of the first half, I don't have a problem with how the defense played. Kiffin said that the game plan going in was to play soft cover and keep Chambliss in front of them. Obviously that didn't work and they made the necessary adjustments at halftime. But that last drive in the first half was awful. That's the one that cost us the game in my opinion. Things are much different if we go into halftime down 17-7 with some momentum after a defensive stop instead of 24-7 after getting your shite pushed in.
Posted by kajunman
Member since Dec 2015
9348 posts
Posted on 9/20/26 at 10:38 am to
Because Baker sucks and he always has.

quote:

We were made to look bad on D
Posted by MrVoodoo
Mississippi
Member since Nov 2015
343 posts
Posted on 9/20/26 at 10:41 am to
Sam was too anxious to try to run the ball early in the game. Later in the game the Offensive Line looked the same but he was actually trying to get it to a receiver. There were several times that I could see a receiver coming open and he was already running to get away from pressure that hadn't gotten to him yet. The one that the announcers mentioned looked like a QB draw - had a receiver open down field with his arm up... I don't think the receiver is looking to get a pass if the call is QB draw.
Posted by GetmorewithLes
UK Basketball Fan
Member since Jan 2011
23657 posts
Posted on 9/20/26 at 10:45 am to
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Changing QBs isn’t going to help our D. We need to quit reading out headlines. What we saw last not wasn’t close to good much less elite.


The offense was a huge problem simply for keeping the ball away from OM more in the half and limiting points.

The defense #1 issue was letting Chambliss go 8 for 8 on 3rd down many of which were 3rd and long (>8yds). This killed us and seemed to be from playing too soft in coverage. Chambliss was releasing the ball in 2 sec or less to wide open shallow receivers and not many pass rushes are going to affect that. You have to delay the QB with coverage.
Posted by St Augustine
The Pauper of the Surf
Member since Mar 2006
72845 posts
Posted on 9/20/26 at 10:46 am to
How do you feel about multiple sub 1 minute possessions in a row impacting a defense facing a fast paced offense with Chambliss and lacy?
This post was edited on 9/20/26 at 10:52 am
Posted by texastigerr
Texas
Member since Jan 2005
9394 posts
Posted on 9/20/26 at 10:48 am to
Yea maybe but we know what Leavitt is. 1 read take off running
Posted by doubleb
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2006
43209 posts
Posted on 9/20/26 at 10:49 am to
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Other than the last drive of the first half, I don't have a problem with how the defense played. Kiffin said that the game plan going in was to play soft cover and keep Chambliss in front of them. Obviously that didn't work and


And therein lies the biggest problem.
We had a bad game plan and it took us a half to get it corrected.
Posted by BigBrod81
Houma
Member since Sep 2010
23083 posts
Posted on 9/20/26 at 10:51 am to
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No push from our front four on defense


It seemed like the plan was to not have the edges get up field too far & leave massive running lanes for Chambliss to take off in. With doing so, you lose some of your aggression & ability to pressure from the outside.
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