Final G6: Louisiana 23, Marshall 13

[CajunT]

Disagree BWK. If the OL Coach was truly awful, we would have seen zero improvement with the group over the season, which is not the case.

The same OL coach from last year's 13-1 team and Top 25 team. He's working with less talent at this point.

[Bandwagon King]

Dude may or may not know OL play, but to say that group is awful is an over reach...Hard to tell watching straight line scrimmage TV to see what's going on...the secret to good OLine play is that all 5 (or 6 with TE) have to be in sync. Learning combo blocks is not as easy as it looks, and when you're up upgainst a stingy run defense...If you noticed, we rushed 30 yards (I think I'm right) above the average they've been giving up. Chris Smith would have eaten them alive bouncing to the outside...

If that is the narrative you want to sell yourself then have a nice time believing it. I'm telling you this scheme is pure dog crap. It is making these linemen look worse than they are as individuals & as a unit. And if I can see that. There is no freaking way, a decent coach who has a film room at his disposal can't see it. But hey, if you love the guy whoever he is then love the guy. We're just never gonna be able to run the ball doing what we're doing.

[Bandwagon King]

The same OL coach from last year's 13-1 team and Top 25 team. He's working with less talent at this point.

Mmmmm? Reckon why Billy didn't steal him & take him with him if he was that great. I mean Billy robbed the kitchen blind didn't he? And I seem to remember people complaining about our under performing with all the talent we had on the line & at RB last season.

You know what. You've shown me the light. Let's just keep everything the same exact way running the same exact garbage. Then we can all go get beer together & laugh about the 2.2 YPC average of the team.

[Million$Mullet]

Mmmmm? Reckon why Billy didn't steal him & take him with him if he was that great. I mean Billy robbed the kitchen blind didn't he? And I seem to remember people complaining about our under performing with all the talent we had on the line & at RB last season.

You know what. You've shown me the light. Let's just keep everything the same exact way running the same exact garbage. Then we can all go get beer together & laugh about the 2.2 YPC average of the team.

Well maybe cause Rob Sale was available. Just a wild guess.

[CajunNation]

The same OL coach from last year's 13-1 team and Top 25 team. He's working with less talent at this point.

Yeah, we lost a couple of good ones, but there are still some very strong men on that OL. It's not like we have a bunch of slobs or sloths. They should have found a couple of plays they can rely on by now.

[Turbine]

Well maybe cause Rob Sale was available. Just a wild guess.

Sale? I'm sold.

Seriously, I do have distinct memories of NFL coaches (whose personel changed) stating they were going to have to simplify their scheme if they ever hoped to get any better.

[CajunT]

Yeah, we lost a couple of good ones, but there are still some very strong men on that OL. It's not like we have a bunch of slobs or sloths. They should have found a couple of plays they can rely on by now.

This group is not going to get much better together. I'm not suggesting that they cannot improve on what they have been asked to execute. There is simply more upside in Gillie, Thomas and Harrington going forward. The other two starters are simply as good as they are going to get at this point as seniors.

[CajunT]

Well maybe cause Rob Sale was available. Just a wild guess.

I don't think facts matter to some people, as much as opinions.

[Bandwagon King]

I don't think facts matter to some people, as much as opinions.

Billy getting a guy who couldn't hack it at the next level over his last coach is supposed to impress me & make me warm & fuzzy about the guy? My opinion of the sucksess of this offensive line is based on the facts that this offensive line is being asked to do things they simply cannot do. And instead of finding other things they can do & attempting those things, they are going to choose to beat the wall with the old cranium until they learn how to do the impossible. Now, isn't that special church lady?

So you say the ingredients are the reason the recipe sucks. Well, who was responsible for shopping for the groceries? Either way you defend your buddy, he is still responsible for the most obvious worst part of this football team's performance.

[Bandwagon King]

When the field goal kicker is shaking his head at the offensive line & you can read a big puffy cloud over his head that reads,"Man, I wish these guys would pick up the pace. they are killing us." Then you know. I know. We all know. And if the only solution is to shoot the mules pulling the plough. Then you just as soon shoot whoever's riding the plough & bought the mules, because it's at least as much his fault as it is there's.