When you have the worst passing D in program history, does losing your starting DBs hurt?

Interesting point actually

I'm in the camp of people who believe the freshman have higher ceilings than the transfers did.

They're certainly capable of more blown plays with lack of experience, but they have the athleticism the other guys did not have.

I was thinking along same lines... Scary to put two freshmen out there but the starters sucked arse. Maybe it's forcing the staff to put different guys out there and perhaps lightning in a bottle herby do striketh.

Its mainly scheme. Need to put pressure on the QB to give the DBs some relief or a chance.

You need to rewatch the Ole Miss game.

I remember the 2001 SEC Championship. Sometimes losing players will bring in the right players who make the team better.
Obviously not something to count on, but it does happen.

I’d be fine with playing all freshman. That secondary is one of the worst I have ever seen

The more I think about this, the more I tend to agree. Our starting DB's can genuinely use some time to think about their place here. We've seen what they can do. Let's see if some players who are hungry to show what they got can show and prove. We already know we're gonna have to punch up in this one. So what do we really have to lose?

I don't think people realize that we aren't just throwing in some DBs that have been waiting in the wings. Behind the wings of some of the worst DB play we have ever seen at LSU, might I add.

These kids have seen the field. If they would have shown an ability to be better than who we had, they would have been playing more. They didn't. People can live in fantasy land, and convince themselves, that being down 100 CBs is a good thing, if they choose, but it's simply not true.

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Its mainly scheme. Need to put pressure on the QB to give the DBs some relief or a chance.

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This is the correct answer.

I've said this over and over:

I really and truly believe there are at least 50 other defensive coaching staffs that could take our current talent, and have them anywhere between 45-75 overall in the country. They would be an average to just below average defense, and we would likely be unbeaten or just one loss.

Until Matt House proves otherwise, he is robbing LSU of 2M a year. His "scheme" is garbage and if he doesn't change it, the younger guys won't fare any better.