Take aways from the scrimmage on Saturday.

I think the biggest take away is that our defense is going to be nasty and now has the depth to be the way for the entire 60minutes of the game. Obviously way early here but it looks like a top 5 defense in the country! The front seven, and it's depth, just looks dominant and extremely tough to move on. I feel by fall our secondary will come together and the pieces will fall into place as to who starts opposite of Greedy and should be a good unit.

Clyde HE looks like a legit SEC running back and a 3 down back to boot. Provens and Fournette look good also, the only disappointment was Brousette and the only reason I say that is because of very high hopes for him considering he waited his turn and was such a great back in HS which has not translated to the field yet.So our RB position should be fine, won't be what we have had for the last 3 years but then again we have had two 1st round RB's and another who will be on an NFL roster after the draft this year.

Receiving core will be fine and should excel there are so many talented receivers over there they will definitely find the right mix to put out there. And they better find a way to get Pettigrew on the field and balls thrown to him, after the game he actually looks like he could be the secret weapon in the passing game!

Oline didn't look good but with Charles and Austin D back in the fall we should be able to find the right mix there and become a more efficient unit in the fall - I hope if not it could be a long year because of the inexperience at QB. All in all I do think the O-line will be good as a unit once everyone is healthy, but after seeing what we saw in the spring game there is definitely some cause for concern but not to get freaked out over.

OB play, well there is no way to sugar coat it, it did not look pretty out there on Saturday and there is A LOT of progress that continues to need to be made from our QB's. And unfortunately, the play out of this position is going to be the difference in whether we are 6-6 as some predictions are, and 9-3 or 10-2. That being said I do believe we will find that QB and if it is JM there were some very positive takeaways from his play, he escaped the pocket extremely well and made a ton of positive plays with his feet. Now his inaccuracy should have cost us at least 2 picks and the first pass he threw should have been a pick 6, but I think he will correct this if he wins the job. LN just didn't look ready and Brennan has a cannon of an arm but damn that kid will be destroyed if he doesn't gain more weight.

All in all I think the LSU team is going to surprise people on the upside in 2018 because our defense looks like a defense that everyone will be talking about. It looks like a defense that will keep us in every game and if we can just get some consistently GOOD QB play "which I do think we have a QB that can do that" we will be a tough team to beat.

Flame away if you want but I am a lot more optimistic going into 2018 than I was a week ago because that defense looks really, really good and I feel our offense will surprise people to the upside.