O Line will be fine

It was a situational scrimmage of course on the 3rd down portion the defense is pinning its ears back and rushing knowing the offense is passing. The offense isn’t gunna run a draw or a screen to counter that. They want the QB’s to go through their progression with pressure in their face. Everyone relax it’s the first scrimmage

Who started on the Oline during the scrimmage ? And are there any freshman or sophomores on the team that could leap ahead of these 5th and 6th yr guys who aren’t that good?

LT is going to be an issue all year. LSU doesn’t really have one. Scheme around it. Hope the other 4 raise their level.

Isn’t Bradford seeing time at LT?

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LT is going to be an issue all year. LSU doesn’t really have one. Scheme around it. Hope the other 4 raise their level.

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Y’all do realize Max is left handed right? It makes our weakness at LT not as large

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It was a situational scrimmage of course on the 3rd down portion the defense is pinning its ears back and rushing knowing the offense is passing. The offense isn’t gunna run a draw or a screen to counter that. They want the QB’s to go through their progression with pressure in their face. Everyone relax it’s the first scrimmage

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Yep, not exactly scripted but situational conditions with no offensive adjustments play-to-play. Not a huge disadvantage for the offense but some. It's realistic because those are game situations- but the goal was to see how the skill positions were handling those very critical game situations (such as 3rd med-long).

The OL did not play well as a group. I'd say most of it was a scheme/assignment problem. OL were winning battles, and losing battles against a very tough DL. Individual play needs to get better. Squad play was bad.

It was worse than one might expect in a first scrimmage, but not overly so.

Because it was a scheme/assignment problem, mostly, me personally I think judgement should be witheld for the most part until next scrimmage. Now if overall play, especially assignments/gap control, isn't much better in the next scrimmage some alarm bells need to go off.

DL were eating lunches on 5-man slides going backside of the slide. 7-man slides same thing. QBs weren't managing pocket very well based on where protection was shading (e.g. don't bounce to the side where sliding from allowing those defeated backsides were pressure was most likely to come firstest/fastest). Some technique issues where OL are losing form/leverage when they are slow getting to a gap (i.e. not squaring up and getting flanked).

Yeah there's plenty of individual and sqad things to work on. But it looks like mostly those individual failures play to play were causing the scheme to be busted and DL wasn't having any of it. They attacked every failure with regularity.

Finally, someone who has common sense and who knows football.

You hear anything else about scrimmage etc.?

I agree and people flip out here for anything that happens. The way I see it is the more they struggle in scrimmages, the more they will learn and it’s not like we know all the situations either. Coach Ed O specifically said that they worked a lot on 3rd down long yardage where the defense could just come at the QB at full speed.

He said they were put in lots of positions where they could just pin their ears back. That’s tough on an Oline for the first scrimmage, which is a good thing. People need to chill out but the more people get on this OL, the more they will want to prove them wrong so I’m good with it. Just wish our fans were slightly more forward thinking but they aren’t at all.