re: Which past LSU team had best chance vs 2019

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Everyone acts like the 2011 offense was terrible because they got shut out vs Alabama in national championship and 9 points in regular season. But every other game they put up 30,40,50 points per game except for the miss st game(19)

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If you go back and categorize points scored in 2011 you will find that a disproportionately large percentage were scored by, or set up by, defense and special teams. That offense was very one dimensional and really not very good. I do think that defensively they would have presented the biggest challenge.

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Everyone acts like the 2011 offense was terrible because they got shut out vs Alabama in national championship and 9 points in regular season. But every other game they put up 30,40,50 points per game except for the miss st game(19)

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They beat UGA 42-10 while being outgained 296 to 237.
The offense went 3 in out on 7 of the 8 first half possessions, and the other drive was a 3 and fumble.
Tyrann returned a punt for a TD right before half.
Tyrann recovered a fumble early in the third to set up an 18 yard td drive.
Tyrann then returned another punt that might have won him the heisman if he got in, which led to a 17 yard TD drive.
Simon intercepts UGA on the next possession.

They looked equally terrible against Ar-Kansas and needed Tyrann to return a punt for a TD before the half to tie it up before running away with the game in the second half.

Any of Curly’s teams. Them suckas neva backed down from a good brawl.

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I think 2011 could keep the score in check the best. But I still think it'd start to balloon out of control towards the end of 3rd or 4th.

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No, Alabama showed that team could be picked apart, and nobody on that Alabama offense would have hit the 2 deep on that LSU offense.

Burrow would throw 5 touchdowns.

1958.
Sic the Chinese Bandits on Burrow.

You could let the 2003 defense get coached by Saban and that same staff with Kirby and Muschamp, it wouldn’t have any effect on that 2019 team. Burrow,Chase, Jefferson was unstoppable. Lol Matt Mauck led offense would never score enough to beat a team averaging +45pts

Saban has no idea how to stop modern offenses much less the greatest team of all time.

2006 would be interesting but still not good enough to beat Burrow

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2006 would be interesting but still not good enough to beat Burrow

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Bull shite. 2019 would t have gotten the ball enough…

And every NFL all pro CB and Safety on 2006-2011 dline and Oline would have dominated the LOS.

Y’all think that the Oline was good in 2019, but it was Joe and those CBs were far and above. Egged than ANY LSU faced in 2019. It isn’t even close.

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it doesn't take a great D to best them.

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Bama 2011 was the best they ever had and was the only team to beat them…

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Yeah that is a good point. I forgot how special teams scored lots of TDs. Plus they were able to run on almost everyone. The one time the running game got shut down they were screwed.

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It is almost as if you need all three units to play well… Truly great teams are great at all 3 and 2019 while great offensively, wasn’t great at all three. Defense sets up short fields as does ST. It is complimentary football. As I stated elsewhere at what part of the season do they play? 2019 didn’t come close to playing a team like 2”11 or 2006 defensively - NOT REMOTELY CLOSE. Hell, 2018 Clemson dline would have had Joe running for his life because the 2019 offensive line was not good. How many are in the pros?

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Burrow is tough to beat, but if there's a defense that could have done it, it would have been 2003's, and they had the guys in the trenches to make that game a lot more physical than the finesse of the 2019 team would want.

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Disagree. How could you make the game physical when Burrow is picking you apart before your blitzers/rushers get there?

"Wearing down" 2019 has basically zero chance; the only hope is fluky big plays that end drives and produce scores out of nowhere to try and keep up. That was the forte of the '11 defense. '03 would never be able to consistently get to Burrow before he found one of his 5 weapons (or just tucked and ran a la vs Clemson). '11 is more likely to get beat 50-0 and lose 95% of the games, but most everyone else is losing 99+% (even if they are keeping it "closer"). '06 is the closest thing we have to another team that could match '19 toe to toe, and they would be near-hopelessly outmatched.

Peak JaMarcus & Co. vs peak Joe B & Co. would be sooooooo fricking exciting, though!