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Nicely written and my thoughts exactly. If you think about it...bringing Burrow to LSU was the first case that revealed O’s poor judgment and decision making. To go after a QB that nobody wanted due to his limited athletic abilities and lackluster performances should have been a regrettable mistake. It not only demonstrated poor judgment, but also showcased O’s low standards and expectations for LSU as if they did not deserve anything more than a second-hand and second-rate QB. As irony would have it, this poor decision brought us the greatest college QB and greatest college football team of all time, but by all accounts, it was a bad decision at the time. I guess technically, we should be thanking Brennan for Burrow. After all, it was inability to mature and develop into a confident and capable starting QB that forced O and staff to go QB shopping.

I go to the Fiesta Bowl every year with my family and in my opinion this Fiesta Bowl was one of the worst I have seen. OSU started off looking fairly good, but fizzled out for much of the game. Clemson never looked good. They seemed completely and utterly unprepared for this game. Continuous errors, miscues, and blown plays. Lots of confusion on the sidelines (you didn’t see on TV). Clemson’s O-line couldn’t protect Lawrence. He was forced to run, throw away, or make forced throws much of the time. LSU’s secondary is only going to be better. Continuous penalties, overthrown and under thrown passes by both teams, it felt like I was watching a high school game. I was bored. And honestly, I don’t believe Clemson deserved that win. OSU was the better team. Clemson didn’t win the game…OSU lost the game. I couldn’t believe I was watching the #2 and #3 teams in the country. Sad. If Clemson plays the way they did in the Fiesta Bowl, LSU will destroy them. I am a football fan first, so I say this with all do respect, barring some miraculous improvements to Clemson or catastrophic changes to LSU, Clemson is going to suffer the same fate as Oklahoma, maybe worse. I realize that the NCAA good-ole-boy deep state club wants to punish LSU for replacing Alabama, Ohio State, and USC in "their" championship game by rooting for Clemson, touting how inferior LSU is to Clemson while showcasing the same 4 or 5 good plays that Clemson actually had in the Fiesta Bowl, but the truth is, Clemson is not that good this year on either side of the ball. For much of the Fiesta Bowl they couldn’t do anything against a team that didn't look that great either. Clemson's powder puff conference is going to betray them. There are other teams with 2-3 losses that are more potent than Clemson. This is going to be a fun game for us. Sorry for the word spew.

Agreed. If Auburn had a QB we would have mostly likely lost that game. Our defense is not the defense of old. We have gaps and weaknesses this season and they have been revealed at certain points in virtually every game we have played.

You mean an O line that actually drives their legs and moves bodies out of the way? You mean an O line that blocks left and right creating sealed running lanes instead of trying to block straight up clogging up running lanes and allowing D linemen to slide of the block and still make the tackle at the line of scrimmage? You mean an O line that doesn't get blown over or blown back right from the snap? Surely, you mean an O line with feet quick enough to stay with the defender giving the QB time to read and throw? Yah, I did notice that.

Are we really any better without Les Miles? I am not saying that Les Miles didn’t deserve to be fired when he refused to change his outdated and very predictable offensive scheme, but what have we really gained since his departure? From I-formation to 1980’s spread, we still have an offense that cannot find its way into the end zone. Let’s be honest with ourselves. Our offense is our field goal kicker. Without him, we would have lost several games this season and all of us would be complaining anyway. So I say either fire Ed Ogeron or demote him back to team mascot or whatever he was with Les Miles and definitely get rid of Steve Edsminger. I see no sophistication in his playbook or his play calling. While we are at it, fire Joe Alleva too. He is the weasel that put us in this predicament. What LSU needs is a real head coach and a real OC who understand modern-day X’s and O’s and take us away from the predictability of Cam Cameron, Matt Canada, and Steve Edsminger. Someone like Mike Norvell (Memphis) could do amazing things at LSU. Even the OC at ASU, Rob Likens, is doing some interesting things with offense. Inaction is only going to yield the same results, or worse, as teams around the entire league are only getting better and better. It’s sad and embarrassing that one of the most powerful and talent rich teams in all of college football cannot score points other than field goals. It’s been this way for quite a while. Soon young impressionable 4-5 star players won’t want to play for a team that has a reputation of impotency and failure. When we lose our ability to attract 4-5 star players you can forget about beating Alabama or winning a National Championship ever again. And finally, to the present or future LSU coaching staff, YOU MUST HAVE A DUAL THREAT QUARTERBACK to succeed in today’s college football. LSU’s history of recruiting one dimensional QB’s that can throw, but not run, or can run, but not throw is NEVER going to serve you well against top teams. You need a prolific QB who can win with his feet or arm. Other teams seem to find these players why can’t we???