[FONT="]This won't be pretty. I'm not like some guys around here who catch the stench of a turd and say they smell potpourri. These same guys also say, "What did you expect? We can't win a national championship every year!"
Here's the deal (will be long)...
Defense:
- None of us expected another NC this year. Most (if not all) of us picked LSU to go 9-3, or, at worst, 8-4. I know I did, however, I expected to see LSU football, not the mess we see on the field this season. There is no tenacity on defense. LSU's storied tradition is a fierce defense, and as a whole, we have nothing this year. No fierceness. No tenacity. This is NOT LSU football.
- The tackling is poor. What happened to wrap-up tackling? I expected 9-3 but was confident that we would have a solid D. What's with all the arm tackling and all the flying elbow crap? Hit somebody! Put #22, Ryan Baker, somewhere on defense...
- Why is it that the defense gets their @$$ handed to them 3 out of 4 plays, but they are sure to celebrate and jump around just before and after a big play? That is a reflection of cockiness and bad coaching.
- For having a so-called vaunted defensive line, there was no pressure on Stafford except for maybe 2 or 3 plays. A lot of us got cocky after last week's win when LSU closed out the second half of that game with a strong, pursuing defense that totaled 6 sacks - against South Carolina, who is a national leader in sacks allowed. Obviously, that was a decent team beating a lesser team.
- We are solid against the run, and then we let these huge, gashing runs kill us. It should be obvious that, this season, when we play good, fast/shifty teams, we lose. Demps and Harvin killed us 2 weeks ago and Moreno torched us this week.
- At the beginning of the season, no one expected the pass defense to be that great, but the space they were giving the WRs allowed Stafford to pick 'em apart, not to mention all that soft zone mess. When they were caught out of position, they were torched.
- Jai Eugene. Wow. He blows a coverage last week, and they replace him with Peterson, who, in turn, has played well. This week, Jai steps in for a play or two, trips over himself and gets torched for a TD. What happened to him being the stud that was trying to decide between Michigan and LSU? Pfffft...
- I do, however, think Patrick Peterson, Darry Beckwith and Perry Riley played great tonight. Coleman got burned a few times, but would still celebrate and jump around after a decent tackle. I liked him at first, but I'm slowly losing respect. Shut up and play.
Offense:
- Jarrett Lee's new name should be Jarrett "Pick Six" Lee. Jamie Howard and Josh Booty must have had a son together when we weren't looking. Now, before you chumps start defending him, "Pick Six" has inflated stats due to the large number of screens, solid receivers, and teams (especially UGA) giving up in the second half. Will opposing teams give this guy a plaque for all the TDs he gives to the defense?
- Yeah, yeah... he's a redshirt freshman. Big deal. I'd rather give Hatch (or even Jefferson) an opportunity to win the game with his legs, than have Lee lose a game with his arm. He locks onto all of his receivers, and shows extremely poor judgment. There was one play where he dropped back, two UGA defenders came in on him, and he threw a screen right into their hands, and thankfully they dropped it. That could have been a 3rd pick six.
- I have hope that Lee will be a solid QB in a couple of years, but the more I watch the guy and the more consistently below average he performs, the more excited I get about Jefferon and Sheppard, who is coming in next year. Lee is just too erratic to win against a good team.
- Keiland Williams has a fire lit under his butt, and it's very refreshing to see, especially taking into consideration how terrible our QB has been. He's running harder and making the cuts he made as a freshman.
- Charles Scott. I just feel sorry for him. He plays his heart out every game, and the rest of the team blows it. At this point, he IS the team. When you have a guy getting 5-6 yards a carry, why waste plays on throwing with an inexperienced QB? I know it's bad to be one-dimensional, but when you have a head case at QB, it's almost a must, especially when you have such a good stable of running backs. The only time they really stopped Scott was when they would audible to that stupid shotgun draw that worked every now and then.
- O-line seemed to play decent. LSU was able to run the ball effectively, and other than a few times when Lee was rushed, I thought they protected him fairly well. "Fairly" is the key word.
- WRs played as good as always. I wish they would involve Richard Dickson and Terrrence Tolliver in the game more often.
Refs:
- SEC refs suck so bad. There were so many calls (facemasks, tipped pass, holding, pass interference, etc.) that were blown. Absolutely terrible. BUT you can't always play so bad that the refs determine the game.
In coclusion:
- There's still next week, it's not the end of the world, and I still bleed purple and gold.
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