Tigers OL and Coach Cregg

Not sure what game you watched but Miami lived in the LSU backfield. O-line play is the area of most concern going forward. They HAVE to get better, and I believe they will...but Auburn, Georgia, Miss St and Bama ALL have better D-lines than Miami. Buckle up.

agreed

The awesome win is putting a bit of shine on a very rough OL performance.

That coupled with low expectations have been saying some just crazy shite.

2 sacks. burrow was running for his life most of the game.

150 yards on 42 carries.

Averted under 4 yards a carry and it was even worse outside of 1 play for 50 yards.

Under 300 yards total offense.

It was fricking rough.

Cregg and the boys need to get it together and FAST.

brand new offense and players against a good Miami defense. overall not bad. it gives hope for the future of this unit. expect continued improvement.

I said Rough not hopeless.

I am still optimistic because it looked like a lot of mental errors.

It’s easier to learn your assignment than to learn to be talented enough to play D1

That is correct. The tackles for losses in the second half mostly were attributed to the fact Miami was blitzing knowing we were running the ball.

Kevin Steele's defense against LSU has been very effective and Auburn has a really strong DL.

Ensminger called several plays to move the pocket because our OL couldn't protect him. I don't think we have a strong unit and we're going to see some nasty DLs coming up with Auburn and Miss State.

Yes, I'm sure many realize we were protecting a lead. Some people just knee jerk and complain w/o any real assessment of the situation.

But there are some who recognize that fact and realize that O is in must win territory, and protecting leads with safe handoffs is nothing new. Won't help this QB or this team one bit the rest of the year, when we don't have 16-27 pt leads.

Twice in this game we had perfect opportunities to work on plays that will be difference makers versus our stiffer competition coming up, but instead chose to vanilla into the LOS for no gain and punt.

We had a 9 yd run and even an 8 yd pass on first downs, setting up 2nd and short with perfect field position near midfield. Play action/bootleg there would have been a great opportunity to take a one one shot downfield or let Burrow pick up yardage with his feet. What that does more than anything is stop all gaps getting shot on short yardage, and worse case scenario, you throw incomplete and still have 3rd and short.

We failed to take advantage of that situation both times it presented itself in the game. We got stuffed on 2nd and 3rd and punted.

I can help but get frustrated when I know there's only so many times you get these opportunities in live action big games, and when those moments come in our upcoming season changing matchups, we won't have that experience running those plays in a tightly contested game, when we could have had it during comfortable leads.

The offensive line was absolutely terrible vs. Miami. When they put the camera on Orgeron, you could see him screaming "Let's go!!!" several times. That was 100% directed at the offensive line getting whipped at the time. They have to step it up to protect Burrow and let the young RBs and WRs get comfortable.