Time to talk about next week and the rest of the season. And, not that anyone cares but I am not reading any more threads about the Auburn game, the officiating or the quarterback "controversy". It's all been said and rehashed and said again. Movin on. Well well well look who wants to talk about AU! :lol:
I think you're under the assumption that we have the same exact team as last year. Are you one of those fans that thought we would have an undefeated season and win the SEC and national title again. You're are totally delusional if you think we weren't gonna have a drop off from last season. What do you mean when you say we should have beat Auburn by 10 and we shouldn't have squeaked by OSU. WE LOST KEY PLAYERS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BALL. On defense we lost Lavalais which always hurried quartebacks and in turn made them rush throws which in turn helped the DB make interceptions. Hill used his height to knock passes down. We don't have these two studs anymore, there is gonna be a drop off in defense from last season. On offense we lost our qb which set a school record of TDs in a season. We also lost our two top receivers. You don't honestly think our offense isn't gonna take a hit? Those players are the reason we had such a drop off from last season and I just don't understand fans like you who say we should have done this and we should havd done that this year. How do you know what this team should do. We're breaking in a lot of new players. You're setting unrealistic goals for this team based on a championship team that is no longer fully intact.
exactamundo GCT, I believe that's as good a post as I've seen on the entire subject. To say that Auburn's D has exceeded expectations is putting it about as frankly as your admission of "we all knew it." I admire you for stating it because very few were willing to admit that a QB controversey could exist under Saban's form of discipline. And while that's historically true in the majority of cases under Saban, I'm not certain this is one of them. While it's my opinion that you can't fault a coach for wanting to get the LSU-QB-of-the-future in for some valuable experience, I question whether the timing of the move had more to do with the outcome than the fact that two good (and rapidly improving) QB's were employed. Randall had it rolling and had fire in his eyes - it was clear to me that he was highly motivated to win, perhaps from his previous experience at J-H, perhaps for other reasons. And he's clearly had some experience in dealing with windy conditions, shortening his throwing motion for the occasion. As an "outsider looking in" to this QB controversey, it appears to me that Randall has played more consistently and has good leadership ability. FWIW, I'm not convinced that the QB is the sole problem. Saban should've left MR in for the entire first quarter, or at least until the offense stalled. I'm confident in stating that Chizik and the Auburn D were pleased to see Russell enter the game after being on their heels the entire first drive. IMO, if Randall stays in, LSU wins the game by taking a decisive lead, going up early - same formula as last season ..... but against a much less experienced and less mature Auburn defense. This game was decided long before the controversey involving the penalty, JMO.
dude for an auburn fan u know your stuff i want to thank u for letting some of these lsu guys know how it really is mainly i of the tigger talk about clueless hey i take a chapter from this here auburn fan someone like i of the tigger must read that over and over and over and
i of the tigger auburn fan on the outside looking in stating that iho if randal stays in the game after the first series we probably take a decisive lead which was one more score u are lost i of the tigger totally confused u are
I am not under any assumption, I know exactly who we lost. And no, I didn't think we would go undefeated this year. That's a retarded assumption to accuse me of making. I was the guy saying that we could lose @ least 3 games this year. I knew we were in for a roller coaster ride when Saban couldn't make his mind up in the off-season on who to play @ QB. And like little kids being told it was time to do homework not to many people here wanted to accept that. I say we should have beat AU by ten b/c the experts ranked us at #4, even know we lost every leader on the team. For a #4 team to lose to a #14 team is pathetic. We should have beaten them by 10. I don't know if you saw the very first game of the year but we squeaked by Oregon. So you need to stop :bncry: , and except that we need a turn around.
