Yea, I'm aware of the talent in LSU and the fact that they don't have any real threat in state to compete for said talent(they do have to compete with us and we take our share but I get your point regardless) but that hasn't really made a difference recently. They have indeed fallen off on the LOS but their real issue is offense. Scoring enough points to make it a game vs Bama is their real problem and I'm going to have to see it to believe it that it will change.

I'm not so sure you can win a ring anymore with a McElroy at QB nowadays. Things have changed. LSU will always have enough talent to be a 10 win caliber team but as long as we continue to take their top talent then it will continue to take away from their ceiling.

Again...from what we've seen from them under coach O and what they lost on D this past year they just don't scare me. They can't run the ball on us and Burrow isn't good enough to beat us on his own. It will be another 2-3 TD beat down in T town this year.

Aggie does scare me a bit though.

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Posted by prevatt33

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Posted on 4/23/19 at 3:51 pm to CrimsonDynasty

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Aggie does scare me a bit though.

TexAM is on the come up, but they won like 6 games by 4 points or less last year, or some crazy stat like that. On a neutral field, I think LSU should be favored over TexAM if the game was played today. LSU is a good football team and is quickly righting their wrongs.

And I think part of this conversation is that I believe that defenses have caught up to the whole Spread-turned-HUNH-turned-RPO stuff that's revolutionized offensive football in the last decade. And a lot of the Xs and Os stuff that's catching the defenses up is coming out of the big 12, notably from Matt Campbell/Jon Heacock at Iowa State as well as the coaches at TCU. They are dong simple, but revolutionary, things with the Star position.

I also think that Clemson showed the blueprint for defending certain things in the pass game/RPO game, by really disguising coverage well into the development of the play post-snap. This is why in the spring game, Todd Blackledge kept talking about us going hard on disguising our own coverages. (Honestly, the most info from spring games comes form the announcers conveying what the coaches told them in practice only days before. Blackledge really gave out a TON of info, if you understand why he's saying it.) Granted, teams will continue to put up yards, but defenses are learning how to get stops and turnovers, and the balance if shifting back a little bit. Also, calling illegal man downfield as played a huge part.

My point is that LSU will have a defense as good as anybody's, and I think that still matters in bigtime CFB. I think it matters a lot.

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