This... I told my friend yesterday that I would have them on the juggs until their fucking hands start to bleed... 2 more TDs and countless first downs dropped yesterday because of lack of effort and focus...
I don't understand why the talking heads on TV are so wild about the Tigers. Too many have us in the top 4. I don't see it and think we are bottom of the top 10 at best. Too many questions on defense and special teams and disappointing production in the passing game. Can't blame the play calling to a large degree as if we complete those that are called it could be pretty complementary to the run game. As many have said the lack of concentration and fire is also disappointing.
I tend to agree. I don't think anybody is going to get out of the SEC West undefeated. LSU will take a loss or two, but so will everybody else and we will all be looking at tie-breaker scenarios. I realize that LSU has issues but so does every other team and we are not in bad position. LSU is in week five, undefeated and in the Top-10. We have winnable games going into murderers row in November. We have suffered relatively few injuries. We have the most-acclaimed feature back since Cannon. We have over a dozen future NFL players starting. And we are still a young team, which is both good and bad. Next year will be good, too. But freshman mistakes will be bad this year. Both the offense and the defense are being brought along slowly because the defense must develop depth and the offense must master a complex blend of power running, option, and pro-sets. Despite the hiccup of the McNeese game, I feel pretty good about where they are compared to my expectations. Cameron knows by now what his bread and butter plays are and has worked his offense hard at it. We haven't had to show much of our passing game but more of it will emerge whenever someone stops Fournette and that will surely happen, probably in Oxford or Tuscaloosa. It all depends on Harris improving his passing and making completions . . . and he could use some better help than his offensive line and receivers gave him yesterday.
Because like I said last night, look around college football, everyone has issues, all we see is LSU's issues.
Its pretty simple. Although other teams are not perfect either, LSU just isn't ready right now. Dropped balls, bad throws, missed tackles, pre-snap penalties, dumb penalties (playing without a helmet), still cant cover kickoffs, still cant reach the end zone on kickoffs, punter still looks like a jr. high school punter, struggle with the read option on defense and have no depth on defense. Harris has little to no chemistry with his receivers and has under thrown virtually every deep ball this year. LSU passing game skips levels 2 and 3 and jumps straight to 4 and 5. Its either throw the ball behind the line of scrimmage or try and stretch the field deep. This is a young QB who needs work on his underneath routes and short passes 1st. His ball to Jeter looked good. I don't know what to say. Maybe the hype caught up with them. Maybe they are just young and are struggling turning the corner in development. Maybe they just really are not that good. Maybe its coaching, playcalling, putting the right guys in the wrong situations, or the wrong guys in. Don't really know after 4 games. But, Florida looks like the real deal, Bama looked really good, A&M will be tough, Ole Miss is still good and Arkansas will always be playing for blood. We need improvement and need it quickly.
I know, and it is always hard for fans to understand how you can work so hard to get there and not get pumped up about it every play. But it is a real thing, this playing down to the competition and all top teams have to deal with it. So it is probably a complex risk/reward subconscious mental process or something like that which no one understands.
our lack of any decent linebackers past Beckwith and Jones is forcing LSU to play a lot of nickel too. Getting Jalen Mills back is really going to help because the Tigers can use Mills, Tolliver, Jefferson, Adams, and White instead of Dewayne Thomas, but it still leaves LSU exposed to a good running attack. Let's face it, Duke Riley, Lamar Louis, and Alexander aren't very good, so a 4-3 hurts just as much if not more than playing nickel does. Kwon Alexander is the biggest loss on defense from a year ago.
