Brian Kelly Comments On The Special Teams Issues & Decision To Stick With Malik Nabers

LSU head coach Brian Kelly held his weekly game-week press conference on Tuesday and was asked about the issues at special teams in the season opener.

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Q. Were you alarmed by the problems on special teams, and what changes do you have to make, do you think, if any, to remedy what you saw?

BRIAN KELLY: Well, we made in-game changes on a PAT field goal and we thought we had them remedied; didn't prove to be that way.

And the punt, you know, we had the first muffed punt and it was my decision to stick with Malik. You know, we always are benefited by hindsight, right? But I felt like he's an elite athlete, he's confident. I wanted to show that confidence in him.

That's my call in that situation. So, you know, one of them is on him; other was Coach Kelly sticking with him I guess you could say.

As it relates to the field goal extra point situation, we made a change, flipped personnel over from the left side and moved somebody over there that we felt would shore that side up. We kicked the extra point with success and had the look we wanted.

And then on the final PAT, we didn't execute the way we needed to.

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