re: What has happened to LSU's Physical MO?

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Are LSU fans really still using this in Kelly's third year?

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Yeah, it’s actually a real problem. Counting probably difficult for you, but that’s a 50 player hole to fill with whatever you can get and you add talent as you can.

Bama is dealing with similar issues or are all of your issues coaching?

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Yeah, it’s actually a real problem. Counting probably difficult for you, but that’s a 50 player hole to fill with whatever you can get and you add talent as you can.

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That's still a pathetic excuse in a coach's third season in the era of the transfer portal. I'd suggest tossing that one in the garbage bin and finding a new reason why Kelly shits his Dockers in the majority of big games he coaches.

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Bama is dealing with similar issues or are all of your issues coaching?

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Bama has a laundry list of issues, most of which revolve around the cement head playing QB. Luckily LSU rush D will be there to make him look good in a couple of weeks.

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You don't finish a game with only 24 yards of rushing without your OL getting beat.

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They struggle in run blocking, there's no doubt about that.

But now we're back to the fact that A&M was supposedly whipping LSU on the line of scrimmage but had barely even touched Nuss up until LSU was in obvious passing downs.

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But now we're back to the fact that A&M was supposedly whipping LSU on the line of scrimmage but had barely even touched Nuss up until LSU was in obvious passing downs.

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Right. We took away the run first, then came for the pass and got 3 takeaways due to the pressure.

Now we're being mocked by A&M. Who's next, Vanderbilt?

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2nd pick - CB shows man and switches to zone.. Great D. Impressive play.

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We run this play a lot and I worry about it for this very reason. If you looking for a descriptive cliche it would be “went to the well too many times…”

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Now we're being mocked by A&M. Who's next, Vanderbilt?

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I wouldn't say mocked. Just pointing out a massive shift in how LSU plays. The all finesse and no run game is a strange site for LSU.

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Has Kelly changed your recruiting approach? I'm honestly asking. Because seeing LSU so soft in the trenches is a weird sight.

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What you are missing is a great coaching move by Elko at halftime. He told Holly Rowe that they needed to do something more extravagant to get pressure on Nuss and get him off schedule. I saw on a pregame show somewhere that aTms DL was very effective this yr getting QB pressure w/o blitzing. In fact they were last in the conf in blitzes but near the top in sacks.

Then look at the offense side. Your offense was sooo bad the QB got pulled. The result was LSU could not find their arse with either hand when it came to stopping the Reed offense.

So I give Elko the credit for two major chess moves that completely flipped the game.

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This zone read with a slow qb. To me we need to go under center. Or at least a pistol

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LSU rarely runs any zone read, those are RPOs

I think this is misunderstood.

The A&M D Line pushed the pocket around the entire game. LSU had a great blocking scheme and timing of plays that prevented Nuss from being sacked in the first half.

Elko always makes brilliant half-time adjustments. In the second half, the D line provided the same effort, but came from different angles.

At this point, the run game was non existent and the game was placed in Nuss. Once we figured that out, it was easy to bait him into ints.