re: If Chavis is responsible for the Defense, then lay off Les!

And you are correct about laying off Les. It only becomes a Les problem if the coaches continue to fail at doing their jobs and Les doesn't make the corrections in the offseason

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That year spoiled a lot of fans. The bar has been set so high that nearly anything else will be a failure.

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this.

Plain and simple explanation for anyone trying to figure it out and place blame. We lost most of the defense to the NFL. The ones that are back aren't that good and the new ones aren't either. Some of this is a talent issue and most is inexperience. Chavis or Miles can't perform miracles. It feels better to try and arm chair coach but we just aren't good on defense this year for obvious reasons.

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then lay off Les!

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Not that I'm on Les, but he is the head coach and as such he is responsible for everything.

When he said he won't sacrifice speed for size I knew this defense would be in trouble upfront and lb wise too. If your dline can't get pressure on qb then you're in big trouble. Cant rush small weak dudes against big olinemen and expect results.

From wiki ref Chavis:
Chavis and other members of the staff have seen increased pressure after a slow start to the 2007 season, including double-digit losses to California and Florida.

Chavis's career at Tennessee came to an end in the middle of the 2008 season. Following a 3-6 start and a blowout loss to Steve Spurrier and South Carolina. Chavis's final three games would bring confidence but major disappointment to his final days with UT, starting with an embarrassing 13-7 loss to Wyoming which would keep UT from making a bowl for the second time in four years.

If you read the part before this, he started very well and was promoted and had many accolades.

Then it all went downhill...why I do not know..
maybe he gets lazy or his schemes get figured out.
Be he seems to get success and then go to failure.

There is no excuse for what is happening at LSU, it needs fixing and now.

Is history repeating itself ?


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I had a store in Knoxville TN and one of the criticisms from people I knew, was that he would go into this read/react or passive mode which would result in losses to any team w/ speed.

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I wonder whats going on with him. It's not like we have fielded a whole new defense at the start of the first game

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Even the defense after the Bama game last year sucked with a ton of NFL talent. I don't know what's going on but something has changed.

Pretty much sums it for me. I have never been sold on him and the fact that he continues game after game to play soft zone/prevent, or whatever in the hell you want to call it is complete horsecrap. And what we saw Saturday will continue until like others have said, miles steps in and cracks the whip.

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then lay off Les!


Not that I'm on Les, but he is the head coach and as such he is responsible for everything.

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. Even when I reach out to agree with you, you still find a way to disagree with me. Life on the Rant , no one is ever right about anything.

I get it that Les is responsible for the total team, my point is that Chavis is supposed to be this defensive guru, he needs to fix his scheme, I said earlier Les needs to crack the whip.

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Both Chavis and les are good, but the fact is that had the offense not been so inept for so many years, the defensive players the team lost last year probably wouldn't have been so compelled to leave.

Would you want to sacrifice your body for three quarters per game when you could just go to the draft? Bc that's basically how long they were on the field each game the last few years

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Pretty solid post.

Les was negligent for YEARS regarding the offense. Years where LSU had All American talent on both sides of the ball. Les finally came out of his stupor (or was forced) to hire Cameron to fix the pathetic offense that Les was responsible for. He is the Head Coach...remember?

Now...as the post above states, our defense is in a shambles because we no longer have All American talent on defense due mainly to the early departure of so many defenders.

I happen to agree that some of the early draft entries would not have happened if LSU had not been so miserable on offense for so long with no help in sight it seemed from Les.

I still think that Chavis is an under achiever when it comes to coaching up the talent. He gets paid way too much money to not be one of the best all around defensive coordinators in the country. That secondary looked like a Pee Wee team out there on Saturday. They didnt have a clue mentally or fundamentally. This can be placed on the coach.