Quick Breakdown of the Decision Making - Long Story Short: It was Erratic

Well said. Analytics claims another victim

This is exactly right.

I would even say kicking a 55 yard FG is too damn low percentage wise and they should have tried to draw Bama offside, take the delay of game if that doesn’t work, and try to pin bama in the 5.

Bama likely doesn’t score from there, it’s 3-3, you drive the field again, then kick another FG from the 5 on 4th and 4 to go up 6-3.

Then you don’t have to press for points going into half and hopefully come away with at least another FG instead of asking Leavitt to throw it a bunch and get picked. Go into half either up 6-3 or 9-3.

First possession out of half time you kick another FG to go up 9-3 or 12-3.

Then another stop and lsu scores here to make the game 16-3 or 19-3. Bama answered immediately after the TD and it’s now 16-10 or 19-10 LSU. That TD answer is not nearly as impactful if Bama doesn’t immediately take the lead back. LSU would still be in the lead and in control.

From here, the 3rd Qtr failed 4th and 3 from the Bama 31 down 4 becomes either a failed conversion up by 6 or 9, or we kick another FG to go up 19-10 or 22-10. Prefer trying to get the FG here in that situation. That’s within Starzyk’s range.

We can eat the big return by Bama up 19-10. They score. It’s 19-17. Not 24-13. We don’t do stupid shite like go for it on 4th and 10 from our own fricking 25 and give the game away.

We still might not win, but the basic shite coaching decisions win LSU the game.

In at least 2 games, Kiffin has cost us the win. That’s not a Jimmy and the joes, we have too many injuries, boohoo issue. That’s an “LSU paid how much for this decision making?”

Being aggressive is fine. Being stupid is not.

Kiffin appears to be a Stat Line Coach, not a Big Game Coach in his tenure so far.

I’m not saying LSU should fire him. That’s insane. I know it’s been less than one season.

I am saying LSU could right now, in Kiffin’s first season, be undefeated or have one loss if he coached better, with wins over a top 25 Kentucky and a top 10 Bama.

Since 2019 Bama has scored on their very next possession after an LSU TD 59% of the time.

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My man been doing the lord’s work trying to talk sense into this hell hole of a board (that should be discontinued Chicken, no good comes from this god forsaken place).


You’re right on everything, except maybe the 56 yarder early, pin them deep and let that freshman QB play pinned deep in his own end zone with the crowd fired up.


But yeah I said last night it’s crazy I love Lane but feel like he’s literally made the wrong decision on every 4th down attempt this season except for the Auburn one. Maybe I’m forgetting another but it’s just wild


I really feel like he’s having trouble distinguishing what he had to do at a place like OM vs what he thinks he has to do at a place like LSU. So instead of going by feel he just listens to the analytics and leaves no room for his own judgement.

Wish he could put himself back in his Alabama mindset, but of course he was always coaching massive talent advantages on the OL and at WR so it all came so much easier there.


He will figure it out with an offseason to settle in, I have no doubt about this.

I’ve said over and over that the scrutiny and pressure he’s been under since coming here in the way that he did is just unimaginable and now that all of that hysteria is dying down having a normal offseason is going to be like a completely fresh start and rebirth for this dude to just coach like the leader of LSU. No one talking about Ole Miss and fatass Golding and old sick arse Chambliss now that they are clearly lost without him (THAT was a fricking beat down by an elite team, not like the battle that just got away from us in a 10 minute stretch against another elite team, enjoy the future Rebs )


And speaking of, the other thing I said this week that few bothered to pay attention to was that it was clear three games ago that Bama and UGA were the two best teams in the country the same night that our OL was getting abused by fricking Kentucky.

Anyone that didn’t see Alabama’s front seven outmatching our OL, particularly in the red zone without the space to scheme around them, which we did to absolute perfection between the 10s, is either stupid or unrealistic.


And like you said, the success we had is what actually makes people so much more frustrated when the stalls happened. We dragged one of the best teams in the country up and down the field all fricking night but just don’t have the horses yet to finish on a defense like that. That even led to some desperation plays like going to the reverse pass again because he knew we had to try to punch one in from distance.


Yeah it sucks to feel like we had playoffs within grasp in year 1 and seems like we have pissed it away in multiple games but the bottom line in we are massively OVERACHIEVING in year 1, not underachieving.


The other thing I’ve said over and over is that rebuilding a shite roster two weeks before ESD with no staff and two months before NSD was ALWAYS going to give us the least talented, deep, and cohesive team we will ever see under Kiffin. It’s painfully obvious and just don’t understand how that isn’t the first thought in anyone’s mind when looking at this team.


Unfortunately, Texas and Tennessee present the exact same problem for our OL and offense that Bama did, and might have even better front sevens, so it’s going to be another ugly dogfight the next couple of weeks. Hopefully we learn and adjust and the QBs we will be facing get progressively worse. That fricking freshman is legit and propping up DeBoer so thank shite we don’t have him on the schedule next year lol.


Man that Alabama defensive coordinator is such a fricking chode btw, I fricking hate when TV broadcasts focus in on these fricking nerds, same way they did with Stein (RIP you twat). Makes a game like that so much worse


TLDR Score Board is a hell hole of bleeding vaginas and trolls and Sam Leavitt is easily the best player on this team and all of his haters should eat dicks and go cheer for UGA or Bama or any team that has an OL that wasn’t patched together in a few weeks.

Pretty good analysis. Go look at the first play after the LSU TD. We rush 3, there's a hole in the middle 10 feet wide where Bama QB has a clear view of the field, bam, 57-yard play. Give any SEC QB that view and time and they look like a Heisman QB. The 2 Bama losses he was harassed every play. That's on Baker. Then series in our Red zone after the 57-yard play. 3rd and 9, we lose contain, QB gets a first down. Where is the defensive end? In high school 60 years ago I was a defensive end, first responsibility is keep contain. Then TD. Both on Baker and his calls.

I remember when we lost to Auburn the year they won the National Championship. Miles says we underestimated #2, Cam Newton. The blueprint to beat Bama was in front of us, that's how they lost both games they lost, get the QB and we failed. Should have blitzed or had a spy on the QB every single play.

And who on the planet does not know we are running up the middle with the direct snap, Stop, stop, stop running that play or at least run outside. Paying our OC millions and he's running plays a high school coach knows not to run.

Final rant, 4th and 10 with 8 minutes left in our own red zone and now you go for it when 4th and 1 against Kentucky you don't??? Please move on. We have talent, we don't have smart coaches.

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Well said. Analytics claims another victim

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I think most of the mistakes were decisions that went against the analytics.