re: Is Alabama's defense overrated?

Grats on the passing numbers for Mett. But how about team scoring offense? Points per game?

Either way I think it's splitting hairs. I'd give the overall edge to LSU if I were nitpicking, but it's pretty damn even. But if you want to get excited over being marginally better at one thing then go right ahead.

looking at all these offensive stats, I now realize that:
LSU has played 1 more game.
Only throws the ball to ODB and Landry (69% of the teams receptions)
Looks like they run the ball better, but averages 10 less yards a game.

I see a total of 18 yards a game difference in the 2 teams. A massive difference.

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I see a total of 18 yards a game difference in the 2 teams. A massive difference.

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But surely they must score at a much higher clip than Bama, right?

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Bama doesn't have 1 wr in the top 15 in yards, rec or tds.

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LSU passes more. So... duh? Alabama uses more receivers.
106 of 153 LSU's completions go to just two guys. Landry accounts for more than 1/3 of LSU's completions. Despite LSU throwing nearly as many passes (more per game, but played 1 less game than Bama so far).

LSU has only two players with double digit receptions to Alabama's 7; Alabama also has 8 players in triple digits of receiving yards to LSU's 4.

Alabama just appears to spread the ball around more.

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Lsu has 3 rbs in the top 15 in tds

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... What?

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By the way, LSU has played one more game than Bama has, not the other way around.

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You are absolutely correct sir. That gives even less justification to so few of their receivers having less than 10 receptions.

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Rickdaddy4188

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Hey, I just want to make an observation and you can take it as such...not being belligerent, just wanting to talk football with you. It seems you are putting WAY too much stock into raw stats and not looking at some other mitigating circumstances in the assessments you are making. I understand you are passionate in your feelings about what you are saying too, which is fine but don't let it get in the way of your reasoning abilities either.

Let's look at the stats on Bama. Simply put they are not as impressive offensively as they might be for a reason. Alabama is not a run of the mill team this year so you have to adjust your view of their stats to get the big picture. Bama has come in to most all their games and thrown what amounts to a 1st Round KO on most of these teams they have played so far. So while the stats might be front end loaded, the rest of the game the sense of urgency is gone and/or the back ups are in the game performing mop up duty VERY early relatively speaking. So even if the starters are in the game still, the KO has already happened and the playbook goes vanilla. Now, I understand if you haven't watched each Bama game from front to back to see the dynamics of how their games have been but sometimes simply analyzing the raw numbers isn't the best method to go by.

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It isn't hard to understand. Lsu has 3 rbs in the top 15 in tds.

Bama's offense is good. But lsu hasn't been held to 330 yards by a Colorado st. Or 200 yards by va tech. UF's defense is as good as va tech's and lsu ran it at will against them.

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Colorado st.

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Saban was NEVER going to run over McElwain, they are pretty tight. That's one thing to keep in mind...this is one of those "Inside Baseball" things that have to be factored into the equation.

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First game for Bama against a very good Defense...they were pretty flat but they have improved by leaps and bounds on the OL and as a whole. That can't be overlooked in your analysis.