Stress level stayed at 6 Coors Banquet beers for this one.
Ole Miss is not a good football team.
I was never really sure why people were concerned about this one, thus I don’t have any major takeaways from it either.
Danny Etling hasn’t done enough to make me think he can challenge the Alabama defense in any way at all.
Guice is back looking more Guice-ish, but he’s still not 100%, no matter how much Blackledge wanted to say it.
LSU’s run defense against Alabama’s offense looks like the stuff nightmares are made of.
We’re not Ole Miss level bad, but we’re 9th in the conference and allowing over 4 YPC. Gonna need a special effort.
This LSU team will benefit wildly from the SEC having such a porous season. Two teams remaining on the schedule rank in the 90s in S&P+. Another ranks 60. They are good, not great.
In the future, people will look back and wonder how this team didn’t win 11 or 12 games. Different verse, same as the first.
No matter, it’s fun to see LSU playing decent football again. They dominated Ole Miss as they should have.
Canada’s offense is starting to spread its wings a bit and it’s nice to see LSU hitting a variety of targets every week.
It should be much more fun next season with a more capable QB and knocks on every piece of wood imaginable an OL with a truckload of experience.
Guice didn’t get the record this week, but he’ll have another shot against Tennessee, who has a similarly wretched run defense and could be without a head coach by then.
Darrell Williams being the first player in LSU history to hit 100 yards rushing and receiving in a game seems remarkable and impossible, but good for him.
Derrius Guice ranks 23rd nationally in rushing. He’s played in roughly 5 games.
Billy hit on it a couple weeks ago, but Delpit seems to have really turned a corner, his bust vs. Auburn notwithstanding. He played the best game of his career Saturday.
His safety-mate, John Battle, on the other hand, leaves something to be desired. Not sure why Monroe hasn’t taken that role yet.
Arden Key is obviously getting into shape. Looking much more like the player we’ve come to expect.
No major injuries again this week. Nice to be healthy.
LSU’s secondary put the Ole Miss WRs completely on lock. They only lost a couple times to the TE.
For example, the quartet of Brown, Jefferson, Lodge and Metcalf hauled 9 catches for only 91 yards. Against Alabama the same 4 snagged 9 for 141.
LSU ranks 3rd nationally and 2nd in the SEC in sacks, but only 60th nationally and 6th in conference in TFL.
This illustrates how few plays are being made in the run game.
A quiet game for Devin White this week. He got mauled on one run play, in particular.
3 weeks ago people wondered if we’d even make a bowl. Heading into the bye, we are bowl eligible and control our own destiny.
10 wins looks remarkably achievable for this team, which would be a quality opening salvo for Orgeron even if nobody would have drawn it up this way.
This team is believing in themselves and sometimes big things can happen when people believe.
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