Coach [Thomas] Brown said it perfect, ‘If there was no one in the stadium and we were going against our scouts, every blitz that they brought, we should have picked up everything they did.’
NO! People who never played interior line or coached picking up blitzes might bite on that. But look at our guard's heads, hands, and body positions while people were running right smack by them. **** LSU had so much success, they just kept doing it more and more the 2nd half.
No hand checks to help, not even a slight turn of the head to see if inside help was needed it; instead our gurads had blinders on looking for someone on a loop stunt coming to their gap that seldom did. Too many blown assignments and unabated entry into the backfield for this not to be a unit wide issue.
Notice the difference when our D looped and LSU's interior O-linemen immediately ingaged ir went to the 2nd and 3rd levels creating a hole big enough for a 58-foot Hatteras to go through? You have to see the game and have spatial awareness as an O-lineman also.
And, Oh by the way! Miami's "scouts" aren't LSU's starting front 7 - who were recruited to survive in the SEC at positions LSU became known for, way back when Saban was still corching there. That worried me when I first saw them on the schedule.