re: When was the last time we had this much youth?

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I'm fully bought into the theory that O's offseason has made this team soft.

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I didn't say much or was sucked in after the first two weeks because they were shitty teams. I knew we had weaknesses but Saturday was eye opening for me. The team looked softer than ever, not physical really. No one was mentally there. Everyone went through the motion the motions, zero heart.

Les Miles teams were undisciplined but never can I remember it bein as bad as this years team.


One off season and now a lot of players seem to look live they regressed. Its scary

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Don't 4 of the starting olineman have letters? Isn't the qb 25 years old? Same excuse every year.

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The QB is a senior with a year starting here and a year and a half starting at another school.

The LT is a senior with a year starting, the RT is a junior with 2 years starting, the LG is a junior that's played snaps before the season, the center has started on the line the past 2 years.

The top 3 RBs are juniors and seniors, the FB is a senior

The starting WRs are 2 seniors and a junior, the TE is a senior

Many of these guys are redshirts so add another year.

This isn't youth that is giving us 7 points like these morons like to say. This is straight up on the coaching staff.

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But , in a way I owe Ed Orgeron for providing a time machine and taking me back to the 90's....anyone wanna hit up some flaming Dr Peppers at French Quarter Daquiris ? Maybe catch Alison Collins Thursday night at the Caterie?

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Thanks man, but I think I'm gonna stay in and watch MTV and Space Ghost. May run to Maison Blanche later.

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in which guards are playing tackle. none of these guys are NFL players except maybe the Freshmen

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Which offensive lineman are NFL players at Miss St? How about Louisiana Tech?

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Chark is a WR3 and Gage sucks

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The narrative was that Chark was a beast and was the best WR last year for LSU. The narrative was also that Gage was good enough to start for us. What happened to all the off-season narrative aboit being fine at WR and that people were going to be surprised in a good way about our WRs?

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RB's are useless with poor line play

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Lol, people shite on the OL play last year. The OL that had Guice and Fournette running free all over the place. Funny part was that when several of us talked about how weak the OL would be this year, people brushed us aside.

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QB is worthless with the worst WR corp at LSU the last 25 years

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Again, where was all this before the season? When media ranked us low here, people said they would regret that once we got to the season.

Honestly though, this is on Ed 0. I've seen many coaches deal with these problems. He decided everything was fine. Never thought Gage should be starting, and Anderson not being aloud to play is bull. A bad OL can be worked around (Pittsburgh 2016, Louisville 2016, Miss St 2015 for example). We should have gone through a real QB competition. From reports, Etling never separated himself from the others yet he starts because of experience. They didn't throw much during practice and it shows during the game. The offense is pretty much 4-5 plays ran through a bunch of different formations. Doesn't that shite sound like Crowton? Where is the actual passing diversity? Why wasn't there an early season competition for QB? Canada was a one year wonder. There were several better candidates for OC that would take LSU in a new direction.

In his first year Bob Stoops took an Oklahoma team that passed for 43% 1200 yards 9 TDs 16 int to 62 % 3500 yards 31 TDs 15 int.

This team reminds me of the 2010 season. We had a really young defense, but budding stars like Mathieu, Mingo, Brockers, Claiborne, Minter, and Montgomery, all of which were Freshmen or Soph. Young offense too, with terrible quarterback play. A younger mostly inexperienced offensive line. We had some ugly early games including the miracle against Tenn and a loss to Auburn, but beat Bama and torched A&M in the bowl game to ignite the fire of the really special 2011 team.

There are still a ton of seniors and juniors playing. I don't buy the young arguement.

We have 1 true freshman playing on offense and we scored 7 points against Mississippi state. We have a senior QB, a junior RB, a senior FB, and two senior WRs starting. There's no excuse for our poor offensive play.

Yes! Correct on all of this but once again...this is supposed to be Orgerons fault? We've all been so accustomed to blaming the coach the past 5 years that even when we get a new one, it's STILL the head coachs fault.

LSU played 14 Freshmen vs. State. I think 6 actually started.

I brought my concerns up about LSU's youth and lack of depth prior to the season but all these wizards on this board promptly told me how stupid I was. I think now just as I did then that the team is very young but very talented. Last weekend you saw the youth on display. Kids will learn and improve.