i don't neccessarily agree with everything you said but the john mark karr reference made it for me. i don't care who you are, that was funny.
Remember when Dinardo was using Nall and some walkon quarterback at WR while Josh Reed was sitting on the bench? Does the decision by Miles to use Doucet at quarterback while Flynn and RP sit the bench rank as highly on the stupidity scale? Surely a quarterback that could both run and throw would give more problems to the dense than a WR.
i think lining up doucet and running him twice was just used in order to try a big play with doucet throwing later on. getting behind 23-7 didn't allow for doucet to line up at QB again. but hey, i'm with ya, why not just put RP in, eh?
The spread linemen offer some advantages in getting downfield to tackle the return man, but against a fast defense like Auburn, Florida or LSU it offers a route to the ball. Like the TV announcer said, that's why you don't see it in the NFL. It's his second muffed punt this short season, so he isn't really a sure-handed guy. I think we may see more of young Mr. Holliday. Yes he mufed one in his first college game, but he has speed and deserves another chance. He has his head in the game, he saved us five points by jumping on that muffed kickoff. Well, if we don't have a standout rusher, what else can we do until one emerges? Hester is effective at what he does and scored a receiving TD and damn near scored another one rushing. It was a beautiful run. Bowe and Davis are both big, fast receivers who will play on Sundays. They just were covered by a very good defense yesterday. We won't see that every game. Russell wasnt playing all that badly. Two of his interceptions were knocked into the air by a hit on his receiver, not his fault. The fumble on the goal line was the centers fault. You could see that he was blocking before he got the ball back to Russell. Well this started out as a pretty good analysis,but now you're being a crybaby. We lost to two top-10 teams on the road, just as everybody expected in the preseason. Bullchit. You are getting carried away. We have the best corps of receivers in the SEC. Now, this is something that the coaches need to work on. Everybody has seen it. This can be said about most of the quarterbacks in the league. Landry is an All-American and most teams would kill to get him. You cherry-pick a couple of bad plays and ignore a most excellent four-year career as a starter. Wise up. Covering his man. It was Jesse Daniels who blew the coverage on Murphy. It was also Daniels, the Strong Safety, who was supposed to be on the Florida tight end who caught the floater from Tebow. Landry was at fault on neither TD Oh, its Tiger Stadium's fault now. Did you ever consider that Florida just may be a damn good team? Have you looked at next year's schedule? VT at home in Tiger stadium Sure, you don't care if we lose. You just ranted for ten minutes about a loss to a top-5 team! We've lost only to highly-ranked teams in the Miles era, even Tennessee was highly ranked when they beat us. We've beaten our share, too. We have four tough road games this year, plus a PAc-10 team and you think we should have scheduled Notre Dame, Ohio State, and Texas? You understand little about scheduling, amigo. LSU plays in a tough league and we need some OOC teams that are beatable to insure a winnig record and to assure LSU of eight home games in a 12-game season. Big-name teams insist on home-and-home arrangemnets which would leave LSu with a 6-home-game schedule and a loss of 5 million very important dollars The division II teams were last-minute additions when VT and Marshall backed out of Tiger Stadium games at the last minute. No one else was available. What would you have done? Skip a game?
Red55, -I had already mentioned that Jackson’s hands aren’t that great. -As far as the rushing attack goes, you play everyone until you find a couple that produce something. Hester is doing pretty good and we need someone to go with him. Scott looked good, but he didn’t play. Maybe he was injured, I don’t know. Keep plugging in guys until someone does something. Broussard and Vincent have had enough chances for now. And as far as Hester goes, I’m very thankful for his good running and toughness. -Our receivers may play on Sunday, but other than Doucet, I’m having trouble seeing where they are really fast players. They’re not slow that’s for sure, but they’re not going to burn too many people. That’s all. -If you think Russell wasn’t playing all that bad, you weren’t watching the same game as me and many others. We can agree to disagree there. Even if you think two of the interceptions weren’t his fault (even though one of them was a poor pass), he should have had two additional ones. I know you saw those because the announcers and everyone else surely did. His passes were bad all day long. The screens were bad, etc. Our receivers made some great catches out there on poor, slow passes. Of course, they dropped some easy ones too, so that’s why I say they’re inconsistent. Were you on the line when the ball was snapped for the fumble? -You can call me a cry baby all you want. My real point is that the passing game isn’t lighting it on fire like everyone likes to think. Is the passing game pathetic, probably not, but I thought it was yesterday. Three interceptions basically backs that assertion up for a game. And maybe you have a losing mentality, but I didn’t EXPECT to lose these games before the year started. I thought it was possible, but I didn’t expect it. -So our receivers aren’t inconsistent? I guess D. Bowe didn’t drop that beautiful long pass right in his hands during the Auburn game, huh? I guess he had eye surgery for no reason then over the summer. He said he was disappointed in himself and that’s why he had the surgery. He makes a lot of great catches, but he is inconsistent. And you said that two of the interceptions were not JR’s fault. Well, both of those involved Bowe touching the ball at some point. So, one way or the other, you’re contradicting yourself. It was somebody’s fault. We might have the best receiving core in the SEC, but I’d go with Tennessee’s bunch and probably Florida’s as well first. Other than that, most teams have new QBs and receivers. There’s not that much competition. I think our receivers are pretty good, but their routes are usually safe and don’t allow for huge gains. -As for Landry, I stand by my statement and you can check that other thread where I mentioned him. It’s not so much of a mistake that he made, more of a choice. He didn’t really miss the tackle, he chose to go for the hit. And yes, he is still a safety, and is partly responsible for getting burned. I’ve never ignored his great career here. When someone acts like an ass on the field, I say it. It doesn’t matter if he’s in an LSU jersey or not. Sorry if I have higher standards than you. - Did I ever blame anything on the schedule? I said it is something that makes no sense to me. Yes, I looked at next year’s schedule, but I’m talking about this year’s when we need a big game the most. I am happy though about playing VT next year. I don’t want to hear all this BS about how we need this many home games to make X$$$. That ‘s garbage. Hell, if we make it to the SECCG and the BCS, we make serious $$. Florida plays five road games this year including Florida State. Auburn had two games scheduled with USC in years when they thought they might make a run for the title and they play in our division. So there you go. One a year won’t kill anyone. We’ve already got our requirement for next year, but App. State should be off the schedule. You shouldn’t have to assure a winning season, you should earn it. That goes for all teams in college football. And yes, we scheduled Arizona, but they’re not that good. If we didn’t schedule 20 years in advance, maybe it would have been different. And yes, Florida is a damn good team. Who said otherwise? -Also, please don’t twist my words. I obviously care if we lose, but I wouldn’t be afraid to schedule teams because we might lose. That’s the context of that statement. -Finally, it’s LSU’s fault for not making team’s pay seriously if they try to back out of a scheduled game. That’s why there’s a problem in the first place.
Funny, I thought Florida had something to do with it. They were good hard hits on the ball. You are very impressed with yourself and you know nothing about me. I made no comments about Landry's trash talking. I was talking about his fine All-American career here. You just don't understand. Money is everything to a top football program. No money and we wouldn't have been able to sign Nick or build top facilities. If LSU doesn't have at least seven home games, we can't pay the very high bills that a top program incurs. On this we can agree and LSU has taken steps to insure a higher penalty for backing out of a game at that late a date. On the other hand, LSU has also backed out of games in the past and may have an important need to do so again, so we have to remain reasonable. Don't take my responses as criticism of your post. I like to hear what people think and when I disagree I will say so. But it ain't personal. You spell out why you think the way you do which is far better than the "LSU sucks" posts that abound after big losses. I compliment you by responding, I usually just ignore the dumbasses who just bitch for no reson.
Not to nitpick, but on the int in the endzone, nobody touched Bowe until after the tip / int. It was a poorly thrown ball, high and behind Bowe. If he leads him, it's a touchdown. Only one of JR's picks was completely void of blame for JR.
Red, you keep goin back to "florida is good" man that's the biggest cop out I ever saw. So you don't ever want to beat a top five team? why do we even play them? get a grip man the dude is saying WE could have beat them. You act like there is no way we could have won. EXCUSES are just EXCUSES. they don't win nothing zilch. It's fine to say we lost agaisnt a tough team, granted. Id rather lose agaisnt a tough team, but to RISE ABOVE mediocricy you have to BEAT a tough team every now and then. the guy posting has allot of good points.
Red, It’s all good. We just disagree here and there. As for Landry, I never said you made comments about his trash talking. You did put my quote there about how I didn’t like Landry’s talking and his efforts to spear people rather than tackle them. You said I was cherry-picking. Well, that’s cherry-picking to you. I just saw it as having higher standards. It was a deliberate move on his part and it hurt us dearly. We just see those things different. And no, I don’t impress myself. I just don’t want to beat around the bush too much. Landry’s been doing it enough lately that it’s starting to kind of overshadow all the good stuff he does. Just my opinion…
Landry's trash talking is getting old, particularly when you're behind on the scoreboard. Act like the All American you're supposed to be.
