re: moral equivalency? hunh vs flopping

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Your team is one of the most complained about teams for flopping, and also oddly the team that hunh guys point to say how to stop it.

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that's a misleading statement. LSU was successful against A&M for reasons that had nothing to do with tempo. they just had the right type of athletes (fast DEs esp) play disciplined stay in their lane defense against JFF and avoided giving up a lot of the loosey goosey plays against him that a lot of people did.

Oregon put up a lot of yards on LSU but Chavis' bend but don't break defense with big and athletic players in the secondary shut them down more when the field shrunk - that combined with big plays for turnovers made the game less than close.

Ole Miss plays a very different offense from Auburn or A&M or Oregon but it is also HUNH. They just flat out played better than LSU that day and there's really no reason other than their team played like men that day and LSU as a whole played at a much lower level than they should have any excuse for ever playing. Similarly LSU just executed better than Auburn last year and just flat out beat them for reasons that had really nothing much to do with how soon their offense lined up at the line of scrimmage.

RE: the injuries? As it turns out several of the players who were booed by teams for "faking" were gone for the rest of the game - but setting that aside I'm all in favor of enforcing a rule that would fairly penalize LSU in cases where there were players who were faking. Having them stay out of the game for a number of minutes after they were too injured to continue seems reasonable no matter who you are.