1. Got to spend the morning watching my 10 year play. They put their 12 game winning streak on the line and rolled to a 33-6 victory. In talks with my son Friday evening I realized that he is in his 4th season playing football and he has never lost. Not once. It's to the point it doesnt even occur to him they could lose. Will be interesting to see his reaction when that day comes. The irony of it all is I have to sit there and watch them run the Wing-T- the only football offense more boring than the Mike Leach Air Raid

2. All week I got to read about how awful Orgeron is as a coach, LSU has new coordinators so advantage to us, their offense sux so our D should shut them down, we had the QB advantage because their QB has less starts than ours, their best defensive player was out- plus another starter, and that LSU was a dumpsterfire. And we were at home. Complete and total advantage to us for the game. Even most of the betting money was on us

3. I'm sorry- but this game was never in doubt after the Heath fumble. 4 didnt have the ball high and tight and the DB put his helmet right on it. That was ballgame. From that point on I never felt like we were going to win the game. Nothing I was seeing made me feel like we would get ahead in the game. We were down 18 in the 4th Q- 3 scores. We werent really in the game. Our offense is why we now have been down to La Tech, Memphis, and LSU by double digits in the 4th Q.

4. "We had alot of total offense". Of course we did. They played a Prevent D play after play after play after play after play after play after play after play after play. They didnt even hardly run any stunts or twists with the DL. All they did for the most part was slide the DE's to wide 9's or slide them inside to a 404 front. 85% of the game we faced the absolute most basic defense a team can run. What did we do with it? First 8 drives we scored 3 points. Lots of plays run by our Wishbone 2020 offense but no return.

We will always get stats against a Prevent D. They are giving us yards. They are letting the Wishbone 2020 do its thing. They are betting Wishbone 2020 will make a mistake, commit penalties, turn the ball over on a 10-12 play drive before it can score. And they would be correct most of the time. Few explosive plays. 10th in the SEC in 10+ and 20+ plays. 13th in the SEC in 30+ plays. Wishbone 2020

5. We did run the ball a little more. That's progress I guess. It was somewhat effective and help build the stats for us. But there is still no imagination in the run game. It's Jr High level at best except most Jr High teams have a more varied run package than we do.

6. Our 2nd drive of the game was a perfect snapshot of why Leach is not ever going to work:

Marks 5 yard run
Marks 6 yards run- 1st down
Pass incomplete
Rogers pass to Marks for 2 yards
Rogers checkdown pass to Johnson for 5 yards
Punt

7. LSU and others are mixing things up some when we get to the Red Zone. Which is not surprising. It would help if we had some type of plan for that.

8. Not sure why LSU went away from the 2 high some in the 4th Q. Boredom most likely. Big lead so try some other coverage to see how your D does. Whatever it was it helped us. Rogers- who threw the pick after being baited by the sagging CB on the corner route against the 2 high- got a 1 high look and hit Polk for the TD. You could see the solo safety trying to get there from the middle of the field and just couldnt. Good read and throw by Rogers.

9. Defense gave up some big plays like aggressive defenses do. We are aggressive and are programmed to stop the run. LSU came out of halftime with their go to play for a big one and they hit it. We are going to bite on play action and they got the LB's to come up- giving him a great window for the TD pass. LSU has some pretty good WR's also so they were going to make some plays. I'm not as worried about that one or the one where our guys tried to kill each other on the rub route as I am where they had the guy running free in the Secondary. That cant happen no matter how good their playcall was. We play a helluva lot of man coverage and teams are going to hit some big plays against it. SEC teams have playmakers at WR.

10. We go on the road to play a night game against a better defense than the one we just played. A&M's licking their wounds from a very physical UPig team. We are getting them having to play their back-up QB so that even it up a little. Very likely is another low-scoring game heading into the 4th Q. I expect more offensive penalties and some sacks due to the crowd noise.

11. Almost forgot- got to give a shout to our RB's- Marks and Johnson. You have got to be a tough SOB to play RB in this Wishbone 2020 offense. Getting blown up on some of these dump downs, having people diving at your legs the very second you turn around after receiving the dump down, etc. I really appreciate the job these 2 guys are doing in this Wishbone 2020 offense. A big bark to you two.

HailState