Delusional Optimism Is Taking Names

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LSU took a step back as seemingly every underclassman on the roster declared for the NFL draft the past few seasons. And into the gap surged.... well, no one. OK, Auburn had one amazing year wedged in between an average and a terrible one. Other than that? Ole Miss is getting belly rubs for finally finishing above 500 in SEC play for the first time since expansion with a dominant 5-3 record. State's four-year plan mostly paid off but now practically the whole team graduated.

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For the first time since 2011, LSU did not experience near catastrophic offseason personnel losses. Les Miles can, for the first time in four years, actually build off of the previous season. LSU was an extremely young team last season, and those growing pains should pay dividends this year.

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The complacency which has hovered over this program since that Day We Must Not Speak Of has been washed away this summer. The passive, contain defensive system of Chavis, while successful for a long time, had run its course. It's now being replaced by the insane, go and kill and everything attitude of Ed Orgeron and Kevin Steele. We've been reading and reacting for too long, it's time to make teams react to us.

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Everyone falls down. But it's the whiners and malcontents who stay down. It's too hard and the challengers are too many. We're Tigers. We get back up. We don't stay still. We hunt. We kill.

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