It must suck to be you. You're whole identity is tied to a bunch of college football players. Judging from your posts and writing styles, you're entire existence is pessimistic and miserable. I know, I know. Here comes the response about how great your life is, great job, blah, blah, blah. Well, the old saying goes, 'if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck...'. You know the rest.
I would really blame the 2 losses more on the defense. LSU didn't have a defensive scheme that would work against UK and Arky. Other teams have done as such, why couldn't LSU do it with the same talent if not more? I say a lot of it was the game plan. Of course the Offense could've been better and scored more, but we shouldn't have had to get in an offensive score fest with UK or Arky.
I didn't get that at all from TC's post. He sounded like, "hey, we lost, but it is what it is. No sense worrying and carrying on about it".
Maybe not this post, but do a search on the 10,000 others he's posted. Admittedly, I just read the title and expected more of the same. My apologies, I guess.
Flynn has played fine this year. He is not letting on how much he is hurt. Anyone saying we would be better with RP starting needs to rethink it.
Wonder if the defense if too predictable and not having enough disguises and twists? Instead of letting the offense keeping the defense guessing, maybe it is better to have it the other way round.
Personally, I agree that Flynn is a pretty good first year starter, but a mediocre college QB. If he had another year, he might be able to dominate. That's a reversal for me - I was high on Flynn earlier in the year. But I don't think RP was even close to being ready to play, mostly mentally. And I'm worried about the off season. He has a history of losing focus DURING the season...I hope he's focused right now, because his debut may happen sooner rather than later. Would be AWESOME if he stepped up. Injuries likely helped Kentucky and Arkansas beat LSU. Coaching was an issue as well - I blame the penalty plague on coaching, especially the O-line penalties and the stupid personal fouls. Finally, I think LSU has as much "potential talent" as most of us thought, but it didn't completely materialize. As it turns out, we are NOT the most talented team in the nation in my opinion. The offense did fine, particularly the receivers in the later games. But Flynn has not been able to find his groove. I still think the RB by committee approach speaks more to the absence of a complete back on the roster (Hester is the closest, but not quite there is he?) rather than all the interesting theories offered here and elsewhere. And the defense was outed after the VT game and hasn't stopped anyone since Tulane. Injuries play a role here, but I would argue that the vaunted front four wasn't as good as it's billing. We had plenty sacks, but I give a lot of credit to the secondary for those sacks - few of them were outright domination of the o-line. Most were coverage sacks. All that said, c'mon! 2 losses, both in 3OT to respectable opponents in very high scoring games, where we were ranked #1 and therefore the biggest game of the year for our opponents. What a great year so far. Hopefully LSU will end on a positive note. :geauxtige
