re: The criticism LF7 is receiving from his performance against Bama is absurd.

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I congratulate you guys on stopping LF but lets be realistic here. Henry would have lost yards on those plays Fournette had to run. I have not gone back to look at the replay yet but the OL blocking was the worst I have ever seen in an LSU game when LF got the ball. He was hit behind the line on almost every play.

I want you Bama guys to tell me how many yards Henry would have racked up in those circumstances. Even with the bad stat game LF had he is still leading the NCAA in rushing against all comers with one less game played, is leading Henry by 25% more yards per carry, and has more TD's per game...

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Yeah, but the elephant (well, super-big tiger) in the room is whether Fournette would have gotten more yards using Bama's OL against Bama's DL. That is, hypothetically, who had the biggest/worst night? Did LSU OL have a bad night or were they just knocked on their asses? Did Henry's OL overwhelm LSU DL or was LSU's DL just not good enough to stop Henry? Lots of questions, and I know better to try to answer them here because everyone, and I do mean everyone here has very strong opinions and lots of rage about said opinions. Suffice to say, LSU biggest failure wasn't Fournette. It was Harris. He couldn't handle the box closing in on him, and wasn't very accurate when pressured by pursuing defenders. Which was almost always the situation.