re: Key to stopping Oregon's Offense?

Oregon's recruiting has spiked over recent years. The online will be a bunch of 4* guys in York, Cody, Weems, and Grasu/Amrstrong. The seniors that played last year were holdouts from another era at Oregon.

The middle of the dline will be stout. You don't get more elite talent than Ricky Heimuli. The kid had 21 offers, which included OU, Nebraska, USC, Michigan and Tennessee. However, more importantly the staff from Oregon, lots of multiple decade position coaches, are saying that Heimuli is as good as it gets. They've coached Haloti Ngata and Igor Olshansky, so they know elite. His partner in crime will be Wade Keliikipi and Urban Meyer started calling him "special K" during the spring game. So, I'll trust the coach's opinion of him.

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Oregon's recruiting has spiked over recent years.

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I agree with this....just watch them play and it is obvious.

Should be a good game. Sure hope LSU wins but also hoping for a good game.

Chip has done a great job at Oregon, both in recruiting and coaching. He is using the talent as well as anyone can. His style of running 1.5 billion plays per game has paid off in wins.

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bisonduck

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Good luck for the upcoming season.

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JROLLA, I am sure that is the case. My point is that our guys are not vastly inferior to LSU's. Oregon has averaged 16 and I am sure LSU is just right under 10 in rival's ranking the past 5 classes. Sure their is a talent game but that talent at the high of a level and can be bridged by coaching and scheme. However, in of itself the talent is not vastly different.

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Yes but the fact that you are neglecting is that you have a much more difficult blocking scheme that your new offensive line built of 4 stars might not have perfected come game 1

the guy who just broke the national high school sack record is training right now. He might even be on our kickoff team. The battle of the unprovens is coming.

1) Scheme includes timing
2) You lost 3 starters on the line never good
3) Who the frick new there was even a offensive line coach of the year


Yes those are the only two replacements on the front seven

The line was good but not great. You guys really deal in extremes like "vastly superior" and not good for a line that would more aptly be described as above average. I remember watching highlights of SEC quarterback getting injured by Fairley. The line was at least able to get 300+ throwing yards. I have said multiple times that I would bet money on LSU, so I am not as homer as it sounds but some of these comments are ridiculous.

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Key to stopping Oregon's Offense?

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Middle Pressure. (See BCS Title Game)

Edge pressure helps, but will get "ate up" by UO's draw game. (See USC)

If you can get consistent penetration up the middle, their offense is effectively neutralized.

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With Nevis gone and Sheppard gone, how much are you guys replacing in the front seven? Is it just those two guys. I've heard Montgomery at DE thrown around but he was injured all of last year too.

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Starting line will be

DE Sam Montgomery
DT Michael Brockers
DT Josh Downs
DE Ken Adams

Montgomery and Adams are returning starters. Lavar Edwards replaced Montgomery as starter when he went out last year, and he will rotate in on both sides of the line. Mingo is another DE we rotate in and he has 4.4 speed at 240 lbs. The freshman 5-star, Anthony "The Freak" Johnson will rotate in at DT.

LBers will be

OLB Baker (ret.)
MLB Minter
OLB Francois (ret.)

Key here is not talent but leadership. Shep was the leader.

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Key to stopping Oregon's Offense?

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Gap. Discipline. Rarely a strength of any LSU defense.

Bison Duck, the LSU defensive depth chart is as follows:

DE - Sam Montgomery, Lavar Edwards, Kendrick Adams, Barkevious Mingo, Chancey Aghayere, Justin Maclin, Jemuria Rasco (The first 6 will see playing time; Rasco will be redshirted)

DT - Michael Brockers, Josh Downs, Freak Johnson, Ego Ferguson, Bennie Logan, Quinton Thomas, and Mickey Johnson (The first 5 will see playing time; Thomas and/or Johnson may depending upon injuries or their ability)

WLB - Stefan Francois, Lamin Barrow, Karnell Hatcher (Francois is the starter; all 3 will see playing time)

MLB - Kevin Minter, Luke Muncie, and Trevon Randle (Minter should start; Muncie should see playing time; Randle will probably redshirt)

SLB - Ryan Baker, Tahj Jones, D.J. Welter (Baker will start; Jones will see the field at various points)

CB - Morris Claiborne, Tharold Simon, Tyrann Mathieu, Ron Brooks, Ronnie Vinson, Derrick Bryant, Ryan St. Julien, Jalen Collins, Micah Eugene (the first 4 will see the bulk of the playing time and are as good as any CB's in the country; the rest are lettermen with the exception of Collins and Eugene who are true freshman)

SS - Brandon Taylor, Eric Reid, Karnell Hatcher, Josh Johns, and Sam Gibson (Taylor is the starter but the first 3 will see the field a lot; Hatcher will shuffle between SS and WLB)

FS - Craig Loston, David Jenkins, Ronald Martin (Loston will probably start; the other two guys are true freshmen; expect Chavis to move one of the CB's with experience to this position for depth, someone like Ron Brooks)

With the exception of MLB and FS, LSU has a lot of depth and experience at every position. Some LSU fans are worried about defensive tackle. However, I think DT will be a strength on defense.