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Ed Orgeron Comments On Nick Brossette Sliding Instead Of Scoring Late TD vs. Arkansas

by Staff Reporter

November 12, 201835 Comments

Nelson Chenault-USA TODAY Sports

LSU head coach Ed Orgeron met with the media on Monday and was asked about Nick Brossette's decision to slide late in the 4th quarter to end the game instead of scoring to put the Tigers up 31-17 with time left on the clock.

Q. On the Nick Brossette slide was it kind of hard to get everyone on the same page there late in the game and is there more pressure to win a game by two touchdowns?

ED ORGERON: No, he did the right thing. We call it the winning edge, Nick did it, and then we had a huddle and I said, man, I think we can score. And Steve said, it's up to you coach. So I'm the one, I'm the one who said, you know what, let's put seven more points on the board, let's see if we can score. We couldn't and it worked out. But Nick did the right thing as the winning edge. We sit on the ball, we win the game. That's what we taught him to do, he did what he was taught to do.

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BLUEBEARD•70 months

"You play to win the game" ! He should have put it in the end zone.

Srobi14•70 months

Brossette obviously took things into his own hands but O doesn't want to start a big thing over it and potentially divide the team so late in the season.

lynxcat•70 months

O is an idiot.

km•70 months

No, the people who bet on college football are idiots.

LockTheGates•70 months

In the pros... slide, get the win. In college where a panel of humans are VOTING on how you are, SCORE MORE POINTS. We’re favored by 44 vs. Rice. If I was a betting man, I’d def pick Rice. We only scored 31 on SLU! And 24 vs. Arkansas. Seems to me our coaches lost confidence in the O line and retracted the offense like a sphincter. Looked like the most conservative 1955 les miles O

GumboPot•70 months

The only people mad are the people that bet on the over.

tigerpawl•70 months

"We call it the winning edge...". Ahwww... how sweet...

thotpocket•70 months

After Nick slid, you 10000% kneel the ball with 1:30 left on the clock. There is no excuse to risk injury/fumble with no way for Arkansas to stop the clock.

rob62•70 months

I am glad he fricked all your bets up. All you nitwits are mad about is losing money based on a betting line. Hell, the bets that took the points are happy so all you bitchers must have given the points. Lol.

TigerSpray•70 months

Gamblers own the Tigers again.

rob62•70 months

Like you. Did you lose? Lol.

TexasSinger•70 months

That decision to not take a knee was flat out dumb. That’s the kind of decision you get when the HC lets the DLine coach make it. That and not kicking the FG when only up by 7. That game tells a lot about the competency of our HC. Embarrassing.

TexasSinger•70 months

Or the HC just grabbed the drunkest fan out of the stands to make those calls.

DVinBR•70 months

nick brosette just wanted to frick all of your bets up

Mid Iowa Tiger•70 months

Winning edge at LSU slide and don’t score. Winning edge at Alabama make the other guy quit. I think o see where our program is lagging.

rbdallas•70 months

I support Coach O however we did not have such a great lead. Let the players play and score. There are some exceptions but VERY RARE. If we are up by 21 and very little time, no need to humiliate others. What goes 'round comes 'round.

tigersbb•70 months

Far too much angst and hand wringing over this. Tigers won, that is all that counts.

Genestealer55•70 months

It bothers me that a RB makes that decision on his own. I mean...if he scores and the coaches didn’t tell him not to score..what is he worried about? It’s a very weird situation..but we won.

gillian•70 months

Coach O has done a very nice job with the team this season, but his rationale in this instance is crazy. A touchdown would have put LSU up by two scores and made it impossible for Arkansas to win. I know that it is a longshot, but what if LSU had fumbled and Arkansas recovered and, heaven forbid, run the fumble back for a touchdown. I get it that we don't want to run up the score, but securing the victory was important, and LSU did not do all that it could do to secure the victory in this case. Of course it turned out well, but there was a small chance that something disastrous could have happened.

CanebreakCajun•70 months

This is style points season. A 31 to 17 win sure looks better than 24 to 17. Most of those probably just look at the final score and not the game itself when voting.

LSU fan 246•70 months

Impossible to win? There's always a possibility when you give the opposing team the ball. You victory formation and win the game. You go for the score and you risk losing the ball and/or injury

Double Down•70 months

So the coach said let’s put a td on the board and the player slides a second time?!? Coach you are full if shite!

TigerCard•70 months

I never thought Brossette slid on the second play. It looks like he was dragged down from behind and his feet went out from under him. (I'm a litle hazy on the details but, in any case, it doesn't look like he went down intentionally.

BayouBengal99•70 months

He's talking about the 3rd try when we were at the GL. You could see them asking if they should score there or not. O talked about and coached them in this type of situation all year, he didn't have to tell him bc it's been taught all year that if the seconds are ticking off and we have the lead to just let the clock run down. Why not just take a knee? That's another deal altogether but they planned for these situations on game week not during the game. He's not full of shite, you're looking for shite to call him out on which is pathetic since he's one of the best coaches in the SEC the last 2 years. No ones better but Saban. Man you idiots suck arse.

Mr.Perfect•70 months

Who cares? I'd rather win the game than please one side of the Vegas line over another.

biglego•70 months

Yes we know. The point is, the initial slide then a kneel seals the win. Running plays opens the chance for injury/fumble. Running a play then seeing the RB aspire again...well that’s just plain weird.

LSUfanNkaty•70 months

Weird flex, but OK

KennabraTiger•70 months

What a fricking jOke