Desmond Howard Calls Out LSU DC Blake Baker For Week 1 Loss To USC

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“Well guys, when I watch a game of this magnitude, I think about the storylines. One of the biggest storylines coming into this season was how LSU, they went out and got Blake Baker from Missouri as their defensive coordinator. They made him the highest-paid assistant coach in the FBS. … Because their defense was trash last year,” Desmond Howard said.

“I’m saying, ‘OK, this is the moment.’ There’s always the moment. Either it’s the Heisman moment or a moment as a coach, where you can separate yourself from the other coaches. And when USC had the ball with less than two minutes left, I said ‘This it the Blake Baker moment. Is he going to live up to the hype, to the amount of money they paid for him to come to Baton Rouge?’”

“They failed miserably,” Howard said. “So I’m looking at this Blake Baker experience right now thinking, ‘You know, they played well. Don’t get it twisted. The defense played better than they did a year ago.’

“But when you’re the highest-paid assistant then this is the moment where you start to separate yourself from the rest of the DCs, because you make a big stop in a big game against the USC Trojans, and they weren’t able to do that. They came up short.”

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