re: Russell Shepard is in the NFL because of CLM

I think it was a mixture of poor timing for both LSU and RS

RS was/is a decent athlete, but he came to LSU at a time where there was already an infusion of talented skill position players. He did not compare favorably with any of the RBs or WRs we had on roster. That's why CLM could afford to try him out at QB. Too bad he sucked badly apparently.

Coaching staff tried to do right by him by converting him to a skill position but he didn't have the physical makeup to be a RB. He fit best as a WR but he didn't know how to play the position. We already had Randle and Toliver, who took away snaps in his early years, and Beckham was too good to bench as a true freshman so he took them away in his senior year. The team's trajectory during his tenure at LSU was headed towards a national championship caliber season. There were not a lot of snaps available for a WR apprentice. As a result his development suffered.

He still got to the league. He got as much accomplished as he possibly could given the circumstances, and for that he should be proud. He just wasn't good enough and there wasn't enough playing time at LSU for him to make up ground on those that were pure WRs. He should've been developed as a WR during high school.

I don't get the "we should've utlized him more" talk. Who was he better than?

Shepard finished the year ranked #9 in the NFL in Total Special Teams Tackles.

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4.47 hand timed.

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What's your point, lame alter? I said, "4.4 range."

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Yeah I'm sure he didnt practice to get ready for his pro day. Come on

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Not what I said. I said my guess is that he didn't practice a lot specifically for those drills. Implicit in that statement -- I'm saying my guess is that his main focus was improving in other areas. That's my guess for why he wasn't as good there as he was in other areas.

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this is fricking laughable. How often do the broad jump and vertical jump come into play during a football game? How often do players switch directions and have to accelerate again?

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Try keeping track of what was said and why. You said:

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He wasnt that explosive.

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The Broad and Vertical are better measures for explosion.

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I said in 20 years dumbass.

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Put the wine cooler down and show me where I said you didn't lightweight.

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Bcs title are subjective now.let alone when we have an actual 8 team playoff with all 5 p5 conf champs.

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Tell me smart guy. Where are the other 3 teams in this mythical scenario you're proposing coming from?

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Any title you get VOTED into is subjective.

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Oh really? I wasn't aware Alabama was voted the bcs national champions in 2011. I thought that didnt happen until after they dominated Lsu in such a manner that was never seen before or sense in the bcs national championship game.

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The bcs is a BOWL system. Lsu plays NCAA fbs football. Show me where any program has won or played in a ncaa national title game.its why you never see ncaa on any bcs shirts. Because ncaa wont put its name on a title you get VOTED into.

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Holy shite, you must be hitting the zimas extra hard today.

Show me one place in my post where I said anything about the NCAA.

After you don't do that, attempt to explain how any of what you posted above is relevant to the part of my post you are drunkenly responding to.

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Any title that has pre set criteria on making the play offs. Which ncaa basketball and baseball have.

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Oh really? What criteria did UCONN fulfill last year to get into the NCAA tournament?

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I dont care what the sheep care about.

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Of course you don't. You're a lightweight pumper. Why would you possibly care about what's really going on in the world?

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Lsu's 2011 sec title or amy other sec title will never be questioned. After the bcscg the analyst debate on whether or not the two teams deserved to be there. Its never once happened in the sec title game.

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Then this should be easygoing you to do. Go find an analyst that claimed Alabama didn't deserve to be in the bcs championship game on January 10, 2012.

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this is fricking laughable. How often do the broad jump and vertical jump come into play during a football game?

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What the hell???

Is it just me or is this another one of those Les Miles is greater than God post?

Just what i said. Aside from a wr jumping to catch when else to a vertical jump or broad jump come into play?
A shuttle run and 3 cone drill type running comes into play every single snap

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NFL players don't bench press during games either. Make sure to throw that one out as well

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And numerous people have criticized it. All im saying is in no way does a vertical and broad jump determine explosiveness and agility more than 3 cone drill and shuttle. In football games youre asked to acceleraten slow down, turn and accelerate again just like the 3 cone and shuttle.

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There aren't too many instances of them running in a straight line for 40 yards with no obstacles either. 

The pumpers have moved on from miles. Next they are going to revolutionize the nfl combine. 

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What are you talking about? Miles has nothing to do with it. We talk of the success the football program has had. It doesn't matter the coach.

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What are you talking about? Miles has nothing to do with it. We talk of the success the football program has had. It doesn't matter the coach.

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Miles has everything to do with it. And quit trying to ignore my last response to your retarded 'sec championship > national championship' pumper anthem