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Stewart Mandel's "Five Things We Learned This Weekend" about LSU. Listen up Tigers!

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This sums up what the entire country feels about LSU. Our Talented Tigers have their Championship goal right in front of them. They can choose to embrace it and focus on beating the snot out of each team one game and one play at a time or lose focus and live the rest of their lives wishing they had a 2nd chance. It's up to the players and no one else. The coaches have already demonstrated they will run any play and risk it all to win a game. Now our players need to step up and play like Champions.

From Stewart Mandel:

3) That LSU could be pretty darn good ... if it ever gets its act together. Early in the season, the Tigers amazed me with their seemingly endless wealth of talented athletes; now, they amaze me more for the fact that they keep winning. Let’s face it, Les Miles' 8-1 team could just as easily be 5-4 right now. In each of the Tigers last three wins (Florida, Auburn and Alabama), they trailed in the late stages of the game, and all three comebacks required ridiculously clutch plays by the guys on the field and absurdly huge strategic risks by Miles. The latest came Saturday in Tuscaloosa, when Miles’ latest gamble -- down by seven, facing a fourth and 4 at the Tide 32 with about three minutes remaining -- turned into an Early Doucet catch-and-go touchdown to tie the game. They won by forcing a John Parker Wilson fumble four plays later.

Afterward, Miles made no bones about the fact that while his team may have pulled out the win -– and is now back up to No. 2 in the BCS standings -- the Tigers aren’t playing anywhere near their best football. The fact is, all these last-minute heroics probably would not have been necessary if the Tigers could ever put together a complete game (or field their complete team). The last time they did, as you may recall, they blew a pretty darn good Virginia Tech team right out of the stadium. Since then, however, there’s always been at least one thing missing, whether it was top receiver Doucet missing five games with a groin injury, their highly touted defense letting them down during key spurts against Kentucky and Auburn or QB Matt Flynn struggling like he did for most of Saturday’s game (throwing three interceptions), one in which change-of-pace QB Ryan Perrilloux surely could have come in handy were he not being disciplined for his part in a late-night bar altercation.

In the end, however, all that truly matters is that even with all those blemishes, LSU survived one of the nation’s toughest schedules with just a sole defeat and put themselves back on solid footing to get to New Orleans. If and when we ever see the complete Tigers, there’s little doubt in my mind we’ll be seeing the nation’s scariest team (hence why I've kept them atop my ballot). Keep shooting themselves in the foot, however, and their luck will almost certainly run out.
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si...7/11/five-things-we-learned-this-weekend.html

TenTexLA, Nov 5, 2007

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Re: Stewart Mandel's "Five Things We Learned This Weekend" about LSU. Listen up Tiger

New England had 10 penalties for 146 yards yesterday and squeaked out a win in a game they should have lost, yet, despite 2 hours of ESPN's analysis of the game I have yet to hear anyone say the Patriots are poorly coached.

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Re: Stewart Mandel's "Five Things We Learned This Weekend" about LSU. Listen up Tiger

Mandel: "If and when we ever see the complete Tigers, there’s little doubt in my mind we’ll be seeing the nation’s scariest team (hence why I've kept them atop my ballot). Keep shooting themselves in the foot, however, and their luck will almost certainly run out. "

'ZACTLY! I think (for sanity's sake if nothing else) that we're about to make a scary, dominating run. I'm very excited!

:wave: :wave: :wave:

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Re: Stewart Mandel's "Five Things We Learned This Weekend" about LSU. Listen up Tiger

Whomever faces LSU in a bowl game should be afraid,very afraid. This team will get act together starting with LA Tech. Ideally I would like to see us be able to put LA tech away early and rest some players for the stretch run.:geaux: :milesmic: :lsup: :helmet:

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Re: Stewart Mandel's "Five Things We Learned This Weekend" about LSU. Listen up Tiger

and absurdly huge strategic risks by Miles. The latest came Saturday in Tuscaloosa, when Miles’ latest gamble -- down by seven, facing a fourth and 4 at the Tide 32 with about three minutes remaining -- turned into an Early Doucet catch-and-go touchdown to tie the game.
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how is this a gamble?? a gamble seems when you do something risky when you have a chance to play it safe.

there was no choice in going for it on 4th on that play. but whatever.:miles:

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Re: Stewart Mandel's "Five Things We Learned This Weekend" about LSU. Listen up Tiger

3mins left, all Bama has to do is make a couple of 1st downs and they win. What good is a FG at this point?

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Re: Stewart Mandel's "Five Things We Learned This Weekend" about LSU. Listen up Tiger

SabanFan said: ↑

New England had 10 penalties for 146 yards yesterday and squeaked out a win in a game they should have lost, yet, despite 2 hours of ESPN's analysis of the game I have yet to hear anyone say the Patriots are poorly coached.
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I didn't read the article as if it was a referendum on the coaches... maybe I missed something...

You could have edged out Kentucky, be undefeated, and still have some media guy wondering why you can't play to the hype he, himself, created.
Oregon's overrated, tOSU isn't really that good, Kansas is a fraud team, LSU should be better.

.... best to just keep winning... as I'm sure Maisel is gonna just keep writing.

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Re: Stewart Mandel's "Five Things We Learned This Weekend" about LSU. Listen up Tiger
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One game is an anomaly. Many games is a pattern and indicative of something larger.
Code:
PENALTIES                G   No  Yds Avg/G
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1. Vanderbilt..........  9   44  344  38.2
2. Alabama.............  9   46  373  41.4
3. Ole Miss............ 10   63  455  45.5
4. South Carolina...... 10   59  456  45.6
5. Tennessee...........  9   52  429  47.7
6. Mississippi State...  9   52  449  49.9
7. Georgia.............  9   59  457  50.8
8. Auburn.............. 10   65  515  51.5
9. Kentucky............  9   51  473  52.6
10.Arkansas............  9   49  475  52.8
11.Florida.............  9   69  526  58.4
12.LSU.................  9   83  639  71.0
Is this really something I should have to explain to you at your age?
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I do find it rather ironic that the 2 best teams in the conference have the most penalties... :hihi:

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Re: Stewart Mandel's "Five Things We Learned This Weekend" about LSU. Listen up Tiger

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New England had 10 penalties for 146 yards yesterday and squeaked out a win in a game they should have lost, yet, despite 2 hours of ESPN's analysis of the game I have yet to hear anyone say the Patriots are poorly coached.
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I hear your point, but let's face it, New England has 3 Super Bowl titles and are blowing opponents out left and right.

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Re: Stewart Mandel's "Five Things We Learned This Weekend" about LSU. Listen up Tiger

You can argue the penalties till the Cows come home. One argument is that Florida and LSU play a lot of Freshman and Sophomores. Heck, I bet no team in the SEC plays more players then we do. Is there any stats guy out there that can back me up on this? The bottom line about this thread is if you take the penalties and turnovers away from the Bama game its probably a blowout game. We can't continue to live on the edge like this. The "Talking Media Heads" love this LSU team and want to see it play flawless football to see what it can do. I personally think we are going through another growth stage. In 2003 we came out of nowhere to win the NC. Remember how pissed many of the media was when we edged out USC? This year our team has been favored by many to win it all the entire season. It's much harder to play with a bullseye on your head then to play as the underdog. If we are going to have a dominant program winning multiple championships then we have to take this next step to play consistent error free football every week. I love our team. This team has accomplished more then I've ever seen any time accomplish. They have risen above more key injuries and distractions then I've ever seen. If we can play out the rest of our games focused, disciplined and error free it will be a huge example for our freshmen, sophomores, juniors and new recruits on how to continue winning championships at LSU. :crystal::helmet:

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