in his closing comments on inside tiger football he had this to say: this team takes a lot of heat for finishing second to two top-ten nationally ranked teams on the road and this is the same team! no difference, it's the same team! that's a nice jab at all his critics and all the ps2 fans. we were clearly the better team at auburn, without the 5 turnovers at florida we win, and we win with 4 turnovers at tenn. this is a damn good team with an absolutely horrible road schedule, i hope we all realize this now.
Everyone realized that before. Like has been posted a million times before, had LSU lost to better teams that would be one thing but LSU played poorly and lost to teams they should have beat. Both AU and FL are great teams no doubt but had LSU played up to it's potential they would have won both. No one is saying that LSU isn't a very good team and you can't win them all but you should be able to play up to your potential consistantly, that's what championship teams normally do.
i don't know what you're saying "play up to their potential." auburn - we had twice as many yards as them. we took them to the woodshed as is obvious from all the games they've played since. we lost because of poor officiating period. you can argue that as much as you'd like, but the calls were calls that didn't just effect field position, but momentum and scoring chances. florida - five turn overs. maybe this is what you mean by not playing up to potential, but the stats minus turnovers still show that we were even. give us back those five balls and we decimate them. tennessee - we destroyed them with what, 15 penalties to one? Four turnovers and two lucky touchdown passes by tennessee? once again we had just about twice as many yards as them even with four turnovers. so i don't really know what potential we aren't reaching. tipped ball interceptions and fluke fumbles don't really look to me like potential for moving the ball and stopping the opposing offense hasn't been met.
INO, the major reason we won the Tenn game and lost the FLA and AUB games was converting in the red zone. During the AUB game we sputtered with penalties and bad calls and couldnt get the game to swing our way. Against FLA the major turning point was the fumble on the one yard line and then allowing FLA to drive the length of the field. TENN game, we had a little of the same but were able to get in the endzone at critical moments in the game. Tenn is last in the SEC in red zone defense, allowing 95%. It all boils down to mistakes during crital drives IMO.
Says who? How often do top-10 teams lose at home? Damn seldom. That is a classic unrealistic expectation, it makes you sound like a Bammer, amigo.
I agree w/ BHELM.....We have to do a better job of protecting the football from turnovers. If we did a better job of protecting the football, we are lumped in with the other 1-Loss teams for BCS consideration..... (and it pains me to have to say that, but I still love my Tigers)!!! :geauxtige :geauxtige :geauxtige :geauxtige
Destroyed? Maybe you should look up the meaning of this word in the dictionary, because beating a team lead by a freshmen QB (who played pretty well) with 8 seconds left in the fourth quarter is far from destroyed.
when you control the clock for 40+ minutes, have twice as many yards as them, four times as many first downs etc. etc. etc. you have destroyed a team. take away the four turnovers and we destroy them on the scoreboard. take away the two lucky passes (how often does landry and daniels eff up on coverage like that?) and we obliterate them. you might be right, maybe destory isn't the right word... but dominate certainly is. we controlled every aspect of that game except for really odd turnovers.
