How did Miss St slow you guys down?

Had a honest question. How did Miss St slow you guys down? As I recall that was as close of a game as you had all year. I'm hoping for some insight that I can forward to Saban.lol

 

don't think mississippi state had anything to do with it. it was early, on the road, day game, the plan was to pound the ball on the ground, play good defense, put em to sleep in the 4th. plan worked.

 

By convincing the LSU coaching staff to play ultra, ultra, ultra conservative on offense.

 

It was a very, very conservative game plan offensively, but we broke it open when we needed to with little effort.

 

Didn't know if there were injuries or if suspensions had anything to do with it. Do you think it was more of JL finding himself as a qb and the staff starting to trust him?

 

Not sure why they went and stayed so conservative, but it hasn't happened again.

 

It was a Thursday game smack in between Oregon & WVU. Not much time to prepare and no reason to expose anything. It was a test of our physical type of play to go against a team the most like Bama in size and style with a power running game. Of course they aren't nearly as "wonderful" as your gumps but we stifieled them both on the ground and they never threatened to make it a game.
The Tigers took their win to the house "jus doin bidness".

 

It was also before the offense really started firing on all cylinders. It was the third game of the year, on the road, and on a Thursday night (short week of rest). The idea was to go in there and do only what we needed to do without getting too fancy or showing WVU too much.

In other words, I wouldn't look at that game as any sort of blueprint. The offense has gotten better and better every game since.

 

I just chalked it up to playing it safe before playing a tuff out of conference opponent at their place. It was just A LOT of running and keeping it simple with the pitch draw play etc.