re: Fox analyst Joel klatt has LSU goin 7-1 in sec play and making the playoffs at 10-2

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I don't think a lot of people appreciate how bad this defense is from a talent standpoint. It's going to get really ugly in conference play.



That’s a bit harsh. Yes we’re lacking at safety for sure but we have solid depth every where else. At corner we got promising youngsters in Stamps and woodland, a steady vet in zy and and solid 4th in jk Johnson.Even more otw with the 2025 class

At DL we are very deep. Our young DT’s like breaux and mcckinley were highly recruited guys and look very talented, we have a lot of talented rushers in jones, Womack, swimson and young guys like reliford

At lb,the weeks brothers and penn are solid and we have some extmrely athletic young talented guys like Atkins and singleton. We aren’t devoid of talent like your making it out to be

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No, we don't. You're wish casting. There is no scenario in which LSU should be starting true freshmen at DT in Year 3, and that is entirely on Kelly. They have potential but they have been thrown into the fire before developing, and it is going to show up big time in conference play. I will just say that our DBs are limited without insulting them further. We are ok at DE. Our LBs play well in the box but are too slow to play on the edge. I think Kelly's current defensive hires are good coaches. They are recruiting well, but they are not miracle workers and this upcoming stretch of games is going to be difficult to watch.

I've said this about Kelly in other threads but I'll say it again. I've observed him for over two years now. He is not intimately involved in the day to day aspects of the team. He expects his assistants to follow a blue print of sorts that he has developed over the years and he expects it to run almost entirely independently of him. I've worked for his type and it couldn't be more obvious. He gets his memos and emails and sounds educated enough when he's giving his soundbites to the media but that's it. He's not rolling up his sleeves and really working hard. And then when things go bad he loses his mind and wants to blame everyone but himself. I hope I'm wrong but I think you're going to see it show up on game days from here on out.

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No, we don't. Your wish casting. There is no scenario in which LSU should be starting true freshmen at DT in Year 3, and that is entirely on Kelly. They have potential but they have been thrown into the fire before developing, and it is going to show up big time in conference play. I will just say that our DBs are limited without insulting them further. We are ok at DE. Our LBs play well in the box but are too slow to play on the edge. I think Kelly's current defensive hires are good coaches. They are recruiting well, but they are not miracle workers and this upcoming stretch of games is going to be difficult to watch.

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I mean true freshmen are starting cause guillory, our best and most experienced nose tackle, is out for the season so the young guys have to play more as a result. The Wisconsin DT also playing well bo Davis is coaching those guys up.


The lb room Penn is limited sideline to sideline but whit weeks absolutely is athletic sideline to sideline it’s simply controlling his aggressive csuse the South Carolina game is an example of where his aggressiveness can backfire. The freshmen lb’s def don’t lack sideline to sideline speed in Atkins and singleton their freak athletes.

I hope they get payback against Bama. Someone should "greenlight" Milroe like they did Daniels last year. Frick Bama..

I would trust this a lot more if the team he has at 4 didn’t get the dog shite beat out of them by BYU

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There is no scenario in which LSU should be starting true freshmen at DT in Year 3, and that is entirely on Kelly. 

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Man GTFOH with this bullshite! Coach O his clown show, washed up, no recruiting arse hire Bill Johnson left us with no talent nor depth on the defensive line. Same goes for the secondary.

If you want to fault Kelly for his initial defensive hires then go head but even had he made better hires in the beginning, we still would be lacking experience by having to start 1st & 2nd year players on the interior defensive line. And I don't want to hear shite about the transfer portal either. Too many dumbasses out here thinking that there are All Americans waiting to be grabbed out of there. That simply isn’t the case.

Kelly also made a mistake by not retaining Corey Raymond despite what many on here had to say about Raymond. Raymond got drug down in that shitshow under O & the rehiring of that clown of Bo Pelini. Then Raymond goes to Florida to another shitshow with Billy Napier. It's amazing what the right environment & surrounding staff personnel can do for a fellow coach. This place is often narrow minded & unable to see the bigger picture.

It sucks the program is where it's at currently at talent wise on the defensive side of the ball yet the program is in much better hands with the current staff. Players are being coached better which has lead to less mental breakdowns than a season ago. Recruiting is definitely up. Overall things aren't perfect but it's much better & the sky isn't falling like you claim it is.

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I mean true freshmen are starting cause guillory, our best and most experienced nose tackle, is out for the season so the young guys have to play more as a result. The Wisconsin DT also playing well bo Davis is coaching those guys up.

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Don't forget we also had Mason Smith leave to go in the draft when he had no business doing so. It would have been nice to see him come back under Bo Davis to improve both his game & draft stock.

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I would trust this a lot more if the team he has at 4 didn’t get the dog shite beat out of them by BYU ?

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The Big XII champion is getting the 4th seed no matter what being that the seed goes to their conference as the 4th P4 champ. When it's all said & done, it's very possible that the Big XII champion at the 4th seed, will have more losses as well as "worse" losses than seeds 5-12.

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I don't think a lot of people appreciate how bad this defense is from a talent standpoint

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The hope I have stems from something Kelly said at a press conference recently. He said something along the lines of we are done rotating so many people, now we have enough film to put our best out there.

Now, I think he was talking about safeties specifically. But this tells me that the position will get more consistent. Not suddenly turn into All Americans, but more consistent.

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The Big XII champion is getting the 4th seed no matter what being that the seed goes to their conference as the 4th P4 champ. When it's all said & done, it's very possible that the Big XII champion at the 4th seed, will have more losses as well as "worse" losses than seeds 5-12.

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The issue is the team that whooped their arse is also in the big 12, so kinda wild having them in the spot rather than BYU.

The schedule sets up nice with byes before ole miss and bama. The offense is elite defense should get a little better each week.