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BostonBengal · Sep 12, 2005

Swerved said:

Do you think it's possible that LSU played the defensive game according to how those PAC-10 teams are used to seeing it played, on purpose? Maybe so as not to let the rest of the country see exactly what it is we're doing on Defense. I mean, every team on our schedule is thinking "LSU has no defense this year, this will be somewhat easier than we expected."...

It seems rather silly but on the other hand.... Imagine Tennessee's suprise when they come to Tiger Stadium expecting that soft defense, and get the real deal instead...

Granted, I know this probably isn't the case. Az. State was too good of a team to risk a loss with, just to throw off future opponents. That would be like... comparable to faking a punt out of our own endzone or something.... :hihi: Who would ever do that? It's those types of insane stunts that completely break teams..... or make them legends.

I dunno... just a thought... It will be really interesting to me to see how Az. State scores on USC's defense. I'm just thinkin it's way too early to be so sure that our defense is weak this year. It certainly was weaker than I like to see it in that game, but that my not be indicitave of how we play the whole season.
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I hope this isn't a sign of what our defense will be that's for damn sure.... I hope this was a case of Pellini's plan to stop ASU was just sorely off.

But the only way we'll know for sure is in two weeks.

tiger fan 2001 · Sep 12, 2005

I don't know what defense we were running. But to think we were trying to stay under the radar I don't buy. Except for not one but two freak special teams plays we have an L not a W.

Swerved · Sep 12, 2005

tiger fan 2001 said:

I don't know what defense we were running. But to think we were trying to stay under the radar I don't buy. Except for not one but two freak special teams plays we have an L not a W.
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Understandable, but if not for however many dropped passes and the special teams wouldn't have had to do that. We'd have easily been looking at a 50+ point game..... right?

But yes, I agree... Again, I doubt that they were trying to hustle anyone. I tend to think that it was just an off night. Too early to tell...

TwistedTiger · Sep 12, 2005

tiger fan 2001 said:

I don't know what defense we were running. But to think we were trying to stay under the radar I don't buy. Except for not one but two freak special teams plays we have an L not a W.
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I agree except I don't think it was freak special teams play, I think it was better special teams coaching and a greater emphasis on special teams in the spring and fall. VT makes a living off of special teams play and although I don't see us blocking two a game I expect to see a noticable difference. PS How many FG's or PT's did we miss in the ASU game?