re: Leonard Fournette Looked better last night

In truth you don't know whether he will live up to expectations. None of us do. What I have heard about Fournette seems to bode well for him, though. He actually IS humble and he works hard. He is not as good as he is going to be, barring some kind of injury.

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except for the 24 yard run for a TD (which was nice), LF had 9 rushes for 28 yards against a crappy opponent. Yes, I know you can't discount the long run, but you have to pay attention to the larger sample size of the rest of his carries.

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Did you even watch the last 3 runs? He got three runs. Gained 4 yards on the first, did the stupid arse stretch play where he lost yards or went for no gain, and was hit as soon as he got the ball on the last one.

Like i have repeatedly said, the fact of the matter is that for a #1 RB recruit, we use him like a scat back/change of pace/decoy player. He gets zero time to get into a groove, and then we switch him out for another one.

Should we rag on Williams for his 4.6 ypc against SHSU where he had 14 carries? Should we rag on his 37 yards rushing against ULM, where 22 came on one play? Outside of that, he had 6 carries for 15 yards. Fournette is used as a decoy on the line where he could already have 6 TDs.

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Peterson was also given enough carries and rhythm to get going early. We have a back come in for 3 plays, take him out, th3 another back for 3-4 plays, take him out, so on and so forth. It is insanely idiotic how we are using them. Make one guy the main back, the second his backup, and the 3rd/4th as relief/change of pace.

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No need to wear anybody out in September. We need fresh legs for the back half of the schedule.

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Lol u mad

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Nah. Just not a dick to a kid that's not even a year out of high school. But keep being an internet badass. I'm impressed.

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Forget next AP, I would be satisfied if he became the next Jeremy Hill or Steven Ridley. We'll see.

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ding ding.... we have a winner

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Magee or Hilliard goes in and gets 2 yards and he's "fat and slow", fournette gets 2 yards and he "needs to get into a groove" or we are "not using him the right way". It's like some people have a personal vested interest in whether he actually lives up to the hype or not.

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We are not "using him the right way", also, it seems like you are combining what I said with some crap somebody said about Magee. I think they should ride one guy for the most part like they have done since Miles has been here.

IMO, Fournette looks the best, and once he gets into SEC play, you'll see the big difference between him and the other guys on the roster.

it's the scheme. he's running into stacked boxes most of the time.

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Fact is through 3 football games he doesn't look any better or worse than 27,18 or 34.

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I honestly don't know what games you are watching. After watching the first 3 games if there was one back that you would want getting more touches it would be #7. Hilliard and Williams look like solid workhorse types...Fournette clearly looks like the better player.

As for the Peterson comparisons, anyone that believes they have determined Fournette's ceiling or floor based on 30 carries in 3 games is an absolute fool. Basically what it comes down to is Fournette didn't light up Wisconsin..therefor he is not Adrian Peterson. At this point I think some posters might need to go back and watch Petersons first 3 games of his frosh year...and they will come away with a few things....A)Peterson was playing alongside the reigning Heisman trophy winner in senior quarterback Jason White(who finished 3rd in Heisman voting in 2004). B)Not every Peterson run was an 80 yard td run. He actually had 2 and 3 yard runs mixed in as well. C)Peterson wasn't lighting up the 85 Chicago bears his first 3 games. His come out game was Oregon...a team known for offense, not bristling hard nosed defense.(This is in response to posters complaining Fourette didn't dominate "crap" defenses..even though Louisiana Monroes coach said it was the best defense he ever had...which might be mildly better than a crap defense). Wisconsin, despite replacing many players, is a program that has strong run D. Case in point they gave up only 4 runs of 20 or more yards for all of 2013. Wisconsin wasn't just beating up on LF..they were killing everyone...till that NT went down in the second half. The guy who reaped the benefit of better run blocking in the second half was Hilliard. LSU had no margin for error, they were down..wasnt Fournettes time, LSU had to lean on the senior.

The other factor to consider...Oklahoma was force feeding Peterson the ball. Peterson was averaging OVER 20 carries a game, through 3 games. Fournette has carried the ball more than 10 times once this year, yet he is the second leading rusher and will likely surpass Hilliard within the next two games.

So, when you are sitting on your couch patting yourself on the back for determining that Fournette is no Peterson, never will be, and that we'd be lucky to have him be the next Ridley..you might want to take a deep breath, realize you are actually reacting not to Fournettes play, but to your own wild expectations, and that maybe you have overlooked some other factors: Like how defenses might game plan a defending Heisman trophy winner coming off a 40 touchdown season and into his senior year, vs how they might defend a true sophomore qb coming into his second career start(after a first start that included 82 yards passing, and a 36.8 completion pct). Hint hint...there are more reasons for AP running for 400 yards in his first 3 games of 2004 and Travin Dural going for 370 yards in his first 3 games of 2014 than just AP being the next Jim Brown,and Dural being really fast...how the defenses game plan their respective teams has a lot to do with it.

Kid is improving with every game.