re: Defense that scares you the most this year???

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The LSU rush defense was strong last year. GA Tech played right into your co-def coordinators hands because they had no passing game. Tyson Jackson (although a meh pass rusher) was a good run-stuffing DE and now he's gone.

Balanced teams victimized your back seven in 08 - it remains a huge question mark w/ or w/o Chavis.

Chavis will help, but the progression of your CBs and safeties will be key to your 09 defense.

I'm not counting them out- I actually picked them as the 4th best defense in the SEC if someone in your secondary steps it up.

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Huh? LSU's secondary will be one of the best in the SEC this year. Talent wasn't the issue last year, it was the co-coordinators and their min-maxing, constant shuttling in and out of the players. The defense was never all on the same page and it showed. Our opponents won't be able to count on that this year.

As an aside, the untold story of LSU's blowout of Georgia Tech was that Les Miles hired Larry Lacewell as a defensive consultant on how to stop the wishbone offense.

The answer to stopping the wishbone was simple. Lacewell had the LSU scout team run the wishbone offense without the ball. LSU's defenders were taught to stay with their man no matter what.

The result was a team that had scored more points on Georgia less than a month earlier than LSU had managed to was held to three points.

I bring this up to illustrate what the same LSU defensive players that looked so bad all of the 2008 regular season are capable of with sound coaching.