A couple of takeaways wouldn't hurt either.
So....if we give up a score after we have scored....this must be a pretty solid defense....no?
I see your point. Just my opinion: the offense is the biggest cause of this. If your offense consistently goes 3 and out and/or cannot sustain drives, and cannot put up points, by the time the 3rd-4th quarters roll around, you're dog crap. I have never seen our defense on the field longer or more often than I have this season. The only positive this season to me, has been how low scoring opposing offenses have been against us. Particularly considering we held the "great" Ohio State offense to 21, despite them being on the field the entire game due to ineptitude of the offense and coaching.
Agree! Where ihas #8 Liufau been??? Not in many tackles! Hasn't done a darn thing except get blocked! 1 solo tackle in 3 games. Get the Frosh #44 in there!!!
Guess you weren't around the Willingham year. The players are not gassed; that is a built-in fans excuse. We rotate defenders all game. And going into the season we all knew the offense would struggle. We have zero WRs who get downfield separation; zero. Our best receivers are Mayer and the backs, notably Tyree. We knew the front 7 was gonna be the strength. They are not playing that way. They had flashes against both OSU and Cal, but that's it. And they still let Cal go to the last play
Liufau and betrand each have 1 solo tackle through 3 games. Our LBs are terrible at shooting gaps to make a tackle, and get blocked by olinement too easy. We either make a wall and gang tackle for short to no gain, or we miss our gap and give up 5-10 yard run.
Fact is the defense is holding teams to low score. Hard to blame a defense that only lets Ohio State score 21. On top of that the offense has kept them on the field the entire game all season increasing the odds of OSU scoring. Tired or not is besides the point. The defense being on the field too much increases the odds the opponent scores. Common sense really. Not sure what else you want? No turnovers is a valid complaint. We can’t shut everyone out. Not even Bama can do that. Teams will score.
If our offense had a pulse, everyone would be talking about how amazing our defense is. Considering all they do is come back out on the field, they're doing pretty well. Remember, they're holding those teams to that low of a score and they're on the field 10x's longer than most teams.
One really good offense and the D played very good with all fall to prep. Then we've played two bad offenses and the D hasn't played that great consistently.
More? They have zero on the season so far, so yeah there's needs to be one, then a lot more.
I don't get why you and so many others are saying this. Our time of possession is pretty darn even, meaning our O and D are on the field the same amount of time. It's 29:45 on O and 30:15 on D. Our D isn't on the field all game or more than other teams. They just are playing good at times and really bad at times. To give up 3-4 over 80 yard TD drives with 2 being 95 yards is terrible. 3-4 80+ yard td drives in a season is bad for a good D, and we've played 3 games.
Seems hardly possible considering it was like 2009 the last time we didn't get a first down until late into the second quarter.
Yeah, that's for sure. Being -4 in turnovers on the season isn't good. And going -3 vs. Marshall had a huge impact on that game's outcome.
The flip side of that is that we have depth on defense that we aren't using early which leads to that wear down.
We've rotated 25 players, including freshman, over the first three games; the defense is not gassed, that is just a convenient excuse used by fans who haven't a clue. We've given up waaay to many long scoring drives because of poor tackling, poor physicality, and poor execution.
Yes and no...
This is actually awesome for you guys, in a way, us sucking so bad. Either way you were going to continue your insane persecution of BK. But the fact that we suck so bad, without BK, can indeed be framed, if you're nuts, in such a way as to blame it on BK. It's his fault, this is his program, so what's a coach like MF to do, right?
I don't give a shit what LSU does. Matter of fact i wouldn't even know they lost week 1 had soneone not made entire post about it.
Oh, really? So you put your fingers in your ears and shut your eyes when it comes to LSU football. Understandable. But you still bring it back to BK when it comes to ND's sudden collapse into incompetence and irrelevance. Of course you do....
