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LSU couldn't best Bama with a 18yo freshman QB at home. Their chance on the road next year looks grim.

Until LSU puts together an offensive line that can hold up against the Bama pass rush and can generate some push in the run game it will be hard for them to win.

That's really where they have lost the game at the last few years.

When you run a zone run blocking scheme and can't complete a pass, its easy to blame the OL.

Defenses would put 8 in the box and run downhill on them every play without fear of a downfield pass being completed.

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Landry said the scout told him that based on film breakdown, Fournette faced 8-man-plus defenders in the box on 67 percent of his 616 college running attempts. That included 22 percent against 9-plus defenders in the box. "The average for this many (8-plus) defenders is 31 percent, so the attention placed on Fournette by defenses is unusually strong and reflective of LSU's unimaginative and poor passing attack," Landry wrote. "In essence, due to the offense he played in, Fournette was game planned for twice as much as any other back in the college game, making his productivity that much more impressive."

"I always liked playing LSU because you could just lineup and play them," Alabama defensive end Jonathan Allen told me last December at the ESPN College Football Awards in Atlanta. "They never changed anything."

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We have to spread it out to the sidelines and be able to complete passes in all 3 levels. We have lived on a two-option system: run up the middle OR play action and throw it 50 yards downfield.

This post was edited on 3/16/17 at 8:47 am