I did, guess you missed it. Like I said we don't have anyone to replace Ego and Freak, LaCouture is ok, but still learning the position. Gilmore was thought to be the guy after his play in the Under Armour Game, being unblockable. I know what your saying about Allen, but I don't see anyone else stepping up and to only have Ego and Freak getting into SEC play? I did watch Allen going against Auburns best OT Robinson, giving him fits when in playing. Robinson is listed 320#'s and I know what Allen is listed at, an I need to check this. I know Mingo would have liked to have been playing at more than in the 230's at LSU and the Honey Badger would like to be 6' 1" or better, the list is endless. There were times where Allen looks like he can hang with anyone. He moves well, has upper and lower body strength. I did like to see the move of K. Beckwith, looks like DE maybe his spot. I've been calling for the move of Beck to DE since he got here, after seeing him play a few times in high school. The guys a talent, so we are two deep at the DE's but lacking at DT, not a good way to start SEC play. But Brick does know what hes doing. As for uga, they were playing hell running up the gut against NTx.
If Hill had been able to find a seam on those running plays, Cameron would look like a genius. It's an old football victory formula . . . be aggressive and pass to get up by several scores in the second half. Then start grinding out long 8-minute running drives to eat clock and deny the opponent any opportunity to come back. Nothing is as frustrating to a rival offense as to be standing on the sidelines without a chance to get the ball back and watch the clock tick away. In this game, LSU just wasn't able to open the holes for the running backs. But Cameron needed to find out if we could grind it out against stacked opposition before we face Georgia or Alabama. Clearly we still need work, but it didn't lose us the game. And we should remember the "Interception Game" at Auburn in 1994. With a 23-9 lead entering the 4th quarter Jamie Howard threw five interceptions . . . three returned for touchdowns . . . and we lost the game. Then people were screaming for Curley Hallman's and Lynn Amedee's heads for NOT playing it conservatively by running the football.
Some seem to forget much of this, glad you and I remember. The guy before Les would tell Jimbo to run fricken clock, thats what Jimbo did. Many forget this. But "that" guy never lost a game at LSU.
3&out is a hell of a way to drain the fricken clock. I'm all for draining the clock, but running into a wall twice and then passing against for significant yardage isn't sufficient.
Guess barn was doing the same thing? Punt, Int, downs, punt, punt. Thats where their drives ended in the second quarter. Oh, they had 3&outs.
Dudes, it was wet, I don't care how many times you dip a ball in water you can't simulate a wet field game. You can try but it's very unpredictable. Your footing is one thing you just can't ever tell about and it effects alot. Jeremy Hill had almost 200 and 3 TD's, Landry had over 100 yards and a TD, Mett had a 64 completion pct, 229 yards a TD and a pick. We all would have killed for this last year. Magee fumbled, the ball and field was wet and the staff probably agreed up 21, lets kill clock and pound em. Only prob was our D had trouble stopping Auburn in the 2nd half. I'm not sure we completely take the foot off the gas if the field isn't wet.
Gee, thanks Red. I really needed to relive that. I wish I never had to hear the names Curley Hallman and Jamie Howard again.
It was after that game when I learned how insane and vicious LSU fans can be. People were calling in talking about meeting Jaime Howard in a parking lot and kicking his ass on the post game.
Yep, there were even death threats. I love me some LSU football but that's taking it just a bit too far.
Wow we beat an undefeated Auburn team and we still have people who know nothing except to complain about the win. I guess sometimes winning comfortably isn't good enough anymore. Our offense did a lot of great things last night. 450 yards of offense and 35 points against an SEC team. I'll take that any day of the week, especially against Bama. Look at the big picture, we may not have capitalized on the lead but we won comfortably. We answered every auburn score and handled adversity well. Definitely not worried about the offense or the play-calling because I believe it will step up when needed to. I can't say the same for the defense now though....
