re: I know it’s hard, but stay patient

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Boom.

ELITE offense that could win a championship this year if we even had a semi-competent defense.

You don’t just go “aww shucks, oh well.”

It’s okay to be frustrated right now. If we didn’t have one of the worst defenses in our programs history, we’d possibly be the most dangerous team in cfb.

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EXACTLY

That is the frustrating part because it is very likely the offense will take a step back next year due to personnel losses. When it does, we will have the same "oh well, be patient" post as the OP.

With this offense ALL the defense had to be is average. If that is the case, LSU is sitting at 4-1 with the CFP. Instead, it is one of the 4 WORST defenses among ALL major conf. opponents, and seemingly getting WORSE as the weeks go on.

It's akin to the same pathetic posts we had during basketball season when LSU was crapping all over themselves to a 2-16 SEC record (last place). "The program was in bad shape. Be patient!" No one thought the football program, just like the basketball program, was in great shape when the new coaching staff took over. Thus, no one expected them to be completely dominant right away. But that is a far cry from being absolutely inept...which is what is going on now (at least with LSU's defense).

In 2019 LSU had a dominant offense. The defense, for the majority of the season was, at best, average. That was enough. And once the defense caught up at the end LSU became dominant.

This is not the 2019 offense. However, it is on pace to be second only to that group. This defense though is not even coming close to average

I agree. We’re still LSU. We can make fixes faster than most programs. Always sucks having high expectations and not meeting them though…

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LSU has top ten talent, now.

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on offense

but I do think we should be better than this on defense.

coaches need to do what they can to figure this out.
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LSU's historically all time worse defense

Lazy coaching-never prepared and zero in game adjustments. No coaching of fundamentals

Disastrous personnel decisions- i.e. Harold Perkins

Lazy recruiting and relying on portal to compensate

Feeling the need to tell everybody he slept at his office last night

Linear decline since the Bama game last year

Woodward stepping in to force a move to get help on the D-line

Sounds more like a train wreck instead of building a program

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is a pivotal game

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So was FSU and Ole Miss.

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Incredibly frustrated at the moment

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Yeah totally okay. Me too. But some fans act like they’ve never seen a program be built. And in some cases I actually think they’ve NEVER seen a program be built. It doesn’t happen overnight. There are gonna be speed-bumps and necessary corrections. BK’s national title staff and players will look different than it does today.

I know it was different times, but When Saban took over, there were some pretty big lows leading up to 2003. UAB, OleMiss, @VaTech, @Georgia, @Arky, Florida… it happens, and could be argued those moments are necessary to get better as a program. (I could list more, but those are the ones that stand out in my mind,)

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I agree but 95% other of are about to go nuclear on you

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About 62% upvotes, so no.

In for the long haul

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if Greg Brooks can make a full recovery

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We are hoping Greg Brooks can live a normal life. I’d dial back your expectations for him playing football ever again, much less next year.