I think it's to be expected after the way LSU fell apart last night that only the bad will be discussed by a lot of folks. But since the bad has been covered, I'll discuss the good. After all, apparently I'm a pumper. - Jefferson's play was not as bad as has been discussed here. Everyone saying it looks the same as last year, I disagree. - First of all, one of the biggest complaints about JJ was that he isn't accurate with the long ball...and has limited arm strength. Sorry, but that pass to RR was a rope thrown 60+ yds and hit the man in the numbers. - Secondly, it seems JJ completed more passes to the tight end last night than all of last season. And that's with the second string tight end in the game. I'll be interested to see how DPeterson adds to the offense when he returns. - Not only PP, but RR seems to be a heck of a returner. Maybe in the future, we can split their opportunities. May help PP maintain his wind/legs. PP is a freak of nature. - Freshman playing was a nice change of pace. Matthieu with the big sack. Mingo rushing off the edge and picking up the fumble on Matthieu's sack. - OK, so I can't lay off the bad totally. They've got to get something figured out to stop the short passes. UNC just gave the remaining opponents a blueprint to beat us. Also, if I never see another fumble from an LSU RB, it'll be too soon. I'm used to being SURPRISED to see LSU fumble. I saw two of LSU's fumbles coming before they happened last night. Particularly Ridley's fumble at the end. That was to ice the game son. Hold on to the friggin' rock!! If not, let's see what Ford can do. - Everyone talking about the offense, consider this. Yes, obviously we played with a fairly short field in the first half. But there were some drives last night. Penalties and turnovers cut them short. We needed to run out the clock, and had it done until Ridley's fumble. Also, we needed to put them away and had it done until Hebert's holding brought Ridley's TD back. The DEFENSE is what let them back in the game. Not the offense. Most on here and other sites are running Miles and Crowton out of town, while sparing Chavis. Sorry, but my beef is with Chavis, and I don't see how I'm wrong here. TJ Yates passed for over 400 yds...400 yds!!
While part of me felt the same way at first, I think this is one of those deals where, if it works everyone loves it, and if it doesn't we think it was a bad call. We've all seen what a beast PP is... That's why I'm willing to bet that all opposing quarterbacks don't start 'licking their chops' when he lines up to blitz them. What I mean is, there's the downside of getting smacked in the mouth by PP too!
sorry, wasn't trying to be a d!ck. i don't think the double duty will be as big of a concern as people are making it out to be. i don't remember another game where we got some many perfectly returnable punts kicked our way. so i'm thinking that in the average game he won't have the opportunities to do what he did last night. then throw in that people will start really trying to avoid kicking to him, and his opportunities will shrink even more.
Yeah it's one of those cost-benefit analysis things. Hard to say you don't want him to average 250 yards a game, but one has to hope that's unsustainable if it means he misses time on defense. Hopefully they'll start giving him the Kevin Faulk treatment soon and kick it out of bounds. That will give us field position and save his legs.
:geaux: Thought maybe the CB's playing up closer to the LOS & jamming/harrassing the WR's would have cut way down on the success of those slants UNC was so efficient at. Thought our DB's were giving way too much cushion to their WR's. :LSU231:
I just watched the game again, Claiborne and Brandon Taylor had pretty rough times out there, to say the least. Eugene actually made a few key plays however.
I couldn't agree more. I have never been sold on Chavis, but after last night I'm more convinced of his lack of understanding of his job and of the game of football in general. I understand that about 43% of Yates 410 yards put up against the D last night came from just two plays, but even so, at the most critical point of the game Yates was tearing apart the secondary and Chavis could not adjust HIS defense to stop it. I'm not saying I could do a better job, but someone needs to be brought to Baton Rouge that can.
Now you're just being ignorant. You don't work for 30 years in college football without knowing what you're doing. The guy has forgotten more about calling defense than you've ever known. Go home troll.
I'm sorry, forgive me. Last night the defense looked spectacular and having 410 yards thrown against a very talented defense is what a 30 year veteran should be striving for.
