JiminyCricket

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it’s so infuriating when you realize that our biggest issue and unknown coming into the season was raved about by Kelly in the offseason as a bright spot. He said verbatim he knows what an offensive line is supposed to look like and this one was going to be really good.

He lied to us and reminds me of Les saying they’d make changes to the offense that never came which led to his demise too.

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It sucks too because he had good OL's at ND so we had reason to believe him when he said we would be good there. Little did we know.......

They aren’t running screens because they’re in love with them. They’re running screens because they don’t trust their offensive line to hold up for anything that takes longer to develop.

Honestly, this game felt like Florida and SCAR, just flipped. It felt like we never had the offensive ability to make the needed plays in the end and we would find ways to shoot ourselves in the foot. I'm as big an LSU fan as there is and I never felt watching that game that we would make the plays in the end. Just look at how it played out. We get rolling and then commit a penalty. We make some headway, then fumble. It reminded me so much of the SCAR game.

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I think the O line was the biggest downfall, which to give BK credit, he said was the biggest weakness going into the season when asked.
But I never imagined it would be that bad

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This is 100% it.

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Was is it his injury? I don’t buy that one as much

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I think it was part of it but not the big issue.

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Was it that he got lazy? I could see a 22 year old getting over 2 million and not working as hard

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By all acounts, people in fall camp said that he looked really good, accurate and decisive. I don't think he didn't work hard.

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But for all the bashing he gets that he’s the worst qb and worst tiger ever is a little much

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I could not agree more. It's honestly disgusting.

To me, this is just a case of shellshock. He has the happiest of happy feet right now because he clearly has no faith in this OL and neither does the staff. It's no coincidence that the play calls include so many screens, quick plays, misdirection plays, etc. This staff doesn't trust the OL at all either. Now look, Nuss has been far from perfect. I've been beating this drum all season, everything you hate about this offense is because of the offensive line. Garrett and the entire offense for that matter are playing with absolutely no confidence right now and no flow at all.

Pate wants LSU to be good. Just look at how he roasted Kelly for not taking the job seriously enough. We all hated him for picking against LSU vs Ole Miss and Vandy but he clearly knew more than we did.

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disagree.

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Yeah we know. We read your OP.

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LSU makes it much more complicated than it needs to be because they look at one metric......did they make the playoffs.

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Who said that was the only metric? They said they would wait for the right guy if he was in the playoffs, not that the right guy "must" be a playoff coach.

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And LSU is willing apparently to forego the Dec portal, even when LSU needs major help at lots of positions next year, so we can get a coach that had the best players this past year.

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They're willing to have a rougher 2026 if it means getting the right coach in place for a decade which I think it prudent.

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.just Hallman approach all over again.

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The Hallman era had NIL and portal windows?



You're oversimplifying a process that, by nature, is far from a sure thing. If hiring a coach is just as easy as "picking the most talented guy" why have major programs had so many misses? Is it. possibe that reality is not as easy as CFB 26 Dynasty mode?

Unfortunately it was a mistake from a young player. The call was correct that the player is considered “down” at the point where he slides and “gives himself up.”

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Nuss can’t change .If he doesn’t have it by now he never will.

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When did I say I expect him to change? I never said that at all. And I’m not defending Nuss either, I’m just objectively telling what my eyes show me. I’ve seen what’s happening with Garrett happen to QB’s before from the coaching side and it seems clear to me that he is 100% rattled mentally.

I’ve watched the tape on them quite a bit, the offensive line that is. They have atrocious technique. They can’t move people because they play with wide hands, loose punches and they stand up straight. The offensive line is awful and it’s why everything else is poor. I can’t stress enough to people how impossible it is to coordinate an offense and call plays when you can’t block at all.

The good news is that the right guy can get things going well pretty quickly these days. Maybe not “win a natty” good by next year but we can at least be competitive by next year.