Injuries to three defensive linemen are “short-term,” and senior tight end Richard Dickson will be back at practice and likely play at Mississippi State after experiencing dizziness following a hit Saturday, LSU coach Les Miles said Monday.Miles said junior defensive lineman Akiem Hicks is “coming off the flu.”  Junior defensive end Lazarius Levingston missed LSU’s games against Vanderbilt and Louisiana-Lafayette with an ankle injury, and freshman defensive lineman Josh Downs left the game against ULL with an undisclosed injury.”I’m not really certain the specifics of those guys. It will be day-to-day,” Miles said. “If Dickson is unable to go [Saturday], that would be a loss for us. He probably could have finished [the ULL game] if we needed him to. We don’t expect him not to practice or not to play.”Miles said he was happy with LSU’s dominant play in its 31-3 victory against ULL, but he had one main message about LSU’s performance through three games — the team wants to be “better than good.””No matter what, you couldn’t be any better than 3-0,” Miles said. “We’re certainly happy with how we’ve started by record. But nobody is happy. I congratulated them with victory, but certainly we want to do better.”One area Miles referred to was the offensive line. He said the offensive staff is still looking for “the best offensive recipe” for success.”I’m not disappointed,” Miles said. “I expected them at this point to be playing at a much higher level. They want to be a dominant group, but they’re not there yet.” The running game also needs to be utilized earlier in games, Miles said.”I didn’t think we rushed the football well enough,” he said. “We rushed for 175 yards, and I’m sitting there going, ‘Wow, when did we do that? Was I there?'”An offensive bright spot Miles mentioned was sophomore quarterback Jarrett Lee, who entered the ULL game for one play and threw a 1-yard touchdown pass to senior running back Charles Scott when Jordan Jefferson left the game briefly. “Lee wants to help his football team,” Miles said. “It’s not really important whose decision it was to throw the football. It was best for the time, and the quarterback responded with the right execution.”On the defensive side, the Tigers have not allowed a touchdown in six quarters. Senior safety Chad Jones led the unit with four tackles and two interceptions. Miles said the defensive MVP award went to Jones.LSU rose from No. 11 to No. 7 in the Associated Press Top 25 poll this week, but Miles said those numbers don’t matter this early in the season.”In the back end, I may start caring. But in the front end, I really don’t care what we’re ranked,” Miles said. “I just want to be better than the team I’m about to play … I have no idea what the No. 7 team is supposed to play like. I hope we can play better than that.”- – – -Contact Rachel Whittaker at [email protected]