I understand this team is young and inexperienced. A loss to UF on the road is not the end of the world. What does concern me is Our team speed. I watched the game on a panasonic 42 in plasma tv in HD. Im telling you UF was much faster at every position. Their water boy was faster than ours. The LSU youth has nothing to do with their speed. CLM had better do some serious recruiting this season, cause if UF and Bama keep getting these 4 and 5 star kids LSU will slowly fade.:tigereye:
we have more speed this year than last year IMO our corners were 4.5 ers steltz was pretty slow ali highsmith ran a horrible combine time sanders wasnt as fast as riley or shep our d line is pretty much the same its about effort and scheme and being in the right place at the right time we won last years game i think everyones forgetting
Florida has more team speed than anyone in the country. Usually when you hear reports about how a team has a handful of guys that run a sub 4.4 your first reaction is that if they were at a combine they might have one guy run that low. Florida legitimately has more than a handful. Nothing to be ashamed of if you come in second to them in the speed department. Holliday wouldn't even be the fastest on their team.
UF is very fast - it is what their team is built around. LSU is recruiting just fine & is fast enough.
Even though I posted differently earlier, now that I think about it - I think the comparison is not whether LSU or Florida is faster, but rather how much faster Florida is than the other teams LSU has played. I noticed right away how their team speed and agility made our defense miss a lot. Our tackling wasn't up to the test, either.
I don't think anyone is ever fast enough. I also though we were slow but maybe it was that Fla is just that fast..
That's one of the reasons I think it's more about the team not being ready for the speed and talent level. Florida is the only team LSU had faced this year who matches the Tigers for talent and speed at each position. I'm not sure the Tigers were able to adjust to that.
IMO, being fast enough isn't the most important aspect of team or individual speed - it's quickness. For the first 40 yards Holliday is probably fastest in SEC (that includes Harvin, Demps, etc). When you examine last night's game and look closely at the decisive moment of each play it was the quickness and anticipation of at least two opposing players on the field. The half-step not taken on a known running play coupled with drive-by tackling by some Tiger defenders kept our D on the field too long until Tebow (masterfully I will compliment him) took his team down the field to score NINE TIMES! It's amazing how a half-step makes such a difference among all twelve of the SEC teams. That's why Arkansas can beat Auburn after looking miserable in most of its prior games. Florida's young defensive line (3 Soph, 1 Jr) overcame a sizeable weight disadvantage by leveraging their relative inexperience through quickness over a seasoned and very experienced LSU offensive line. Our Tiger DBs are still very young and most times in the SEC learning is a painful and humbling period in a 20+/- young man's life. Just ask Patrick Peterson if he liked being on the turf in Gainesville - he got his introduction up close and personal this past Saturday night. But they'll get better, the faster the better for all concerned. :geaux:
