Only LSU weakness I have seen...

You lose a def coord, you lose two cb with a lot of game experience, and you lose a safety in Steltz last year that lined the whole secondary up. LSU has also been without Beckwith for two SEC games and you miss that leadership.

It is a concern, and will be exploited the next 3 weeks.

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so far this year is in the secondary and that surprises me.

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The whole secondary is new. It was my worry coming into the season(even more so than the QBs believe it or not). They've actually done OK.

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It looks like LSU is not very good at defending the pass.

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Send a RB on a wheel route and it's almost a sure thing. I bang my head every time some no-name RB gets 20+ yards a reception. Our LBs just can't cover a RB. It was obvious since last year's USC game. Hopefully Beckwith's return can change this or we can adjust the D scheme to get better coverage.

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The whole secondary is new. It was my worry coming into the season(even more so than the QBs believe it or not). They've actually done OK.

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For what it's worth,I think the QB's look great.

In my opinion the corners are fine. It's the LBs and the safties I've seen out of position. On State's last TD, Jones should have been on the RB, and Hawkins couldn't get over fast enough to help.

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...so far this year is in the secondary and that surprises me. I am curious as what y'all think about this observation.

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Scoop, I think it's amazing what a year makes. I think last year we had the CB's and Safeties to utilize the Blitz more often, yet we were content with sending four down linemen.

This year we have blitzed probably more than we did all last year combined and we've put some young CB's on an island too often which is usually when we've given up the big plays.

LSU's defensive backfield scares me. I would have thought any flaws would have been corrected by now, I know missing the Troy game hurt but I am having Lou Tepper flashbacks, when no lead was sacred. Too many big plays. Even RB's of Moo U avgd. 3.5 yards a carry. We gave Moo U hope their lee could be special and made Todd look all SEC. It's not just the inexperience, something isn't right with the system. When you give up big plays, one person doesn't mess up, two are out of place.

Am a bit worried. Sure by seasons end it will be fixed, but every week I think it's going to be fixed......

the ability is there, there's just a lot of mental mistakes happening with blown coverages. luckily it has not cost us yet, but against bama, uga, or uf it might bite us in the arse. we really need beckwith back though, he is the glue that keeps that defense together.

Exactly, it is solely mental mistakes. Well maybe not solely in the case of McCray, he just gets burned.

LSU is giving up 2/3 big plays a game, but overall the pass yards they are giving up are all on short routes. LSU allows other teams to hit the receivers in the flats, or short underneath routes.

The problem is when LSU goes into Nickel and Dime packages they do not know who has what assignment. Opposing players are streaking wide open down the field becuase the secondary has a mis-communication.

The LB'ers need to step up on the RB wheel routes, but outside of that it is all mental between the Dime/Nickel and their belief in Safety help over the top.

Bringing pressure is something the coaching staff just does not do, for some strange reason. I guess LSU believes that their D-line alone can collapse a pocket.

If they don't bring pressure Florida will eat them up.

Our cornerbacks are pretty solid and I'm happy with their play but our safeties and our nickel/dime package is a different story.

I think we avoided the blown coverages this week but we did a really poor job with picking up RBs out of the back field. It was Sabanisque.

Thankfully, MSU exposed that problem well. But it will be difficult to go with our dime on 3rd and 5 against Bama because their running games looks good. However, we should be able to get away with it at UF.