Summing It Up The problems on offense are likely transient provided one of Jennings or Harris grows a lot over the coming offseason. LSU has just so much youth everywhere, it cant help but get better with time. Ive seen enough from Dupre and Dural to think that they will be a pretty awesome tandem next year. Fournette seems to be getting better as the season goes along and will be an absolute beast next year, if not by November. The decline on defense is a little more troubling, particularly because the line wasnt exactly monstrous last year either. Were all used to just assuming that LSU will have a bunch of skilled big men up front, and thats not true to the normal degree. The defense is still plenty fast, as both MSU and Auburn had problems with stretch plays and plays to the perimeter. The poor angles and tackling are fixable too, though theyre probably not going to get worlds better until after an offseason of focusing on them. Sometimes John Chavis just doesnt have an elite defense—take 2007 at Tennessee, for instance—but he recovers well. In short, this feels more like a blip than a sign of long term decline. Thats an encouraging assessment for 2015, but theres a lot of 2014 still left to go. LSU is not going to outscore anyone left on its schedule other than maybe Florida, which allows almost as many big plays per game as the Tigers do. But at this point, even beating Kentucky is going to be more thanks to defense than offense. LSU had a down year in 2008, and its having a down year right now too. The Tigers are just going to have to hold on and ride it out. teamspeedkills/2014/10/7/6938067/lsu-tigers-football-2014-analysis-auburn-mississippi-state
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 05:02:31 +0000
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