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Let's head down to the bayou.

Wilson Alexander joins us from the advocate down there in Baton Rouge.

We're going to talk about LSU and what a weird team a season ago.

Offensively good enough to win a national title.

Defensively, probably not good enough to win the Birmingham Bowl.

Can they have a little bit of

success on both sides of the ball? That's the hope. You know, certainly you have to

expect some level of regression on the offensive side when Jaid and Daniel's

Heisman Trophy winner, Malik Neighbors,

a Bolitnikov's finalist,

and Brian Thomas a Bolitnikov's semi-finalist,

I'll head on for the NFL.

It would be unreasonable not to think that that is going to happen to some degree.

So as that comes back to the mean, perhaps, or at least in LSU's hopes, you know, maybe still a top 20 defense or

excuse me, top 20 offense or something like that, that the defense improves on the other

side to make this a little bit more of an even team. LSU's gone about that

really by just hiring a completely new coaching staff. It's not really at

this point a whole lot of new players. Many of the same faces from that

defense a year ago were back. A few additions here and there there will probably be

some that defensive tackle in a second portal window which is a necessity but really for

them it's been about adding to the coaching staff and overhauling that group

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