Kirk Herbstreit Comments On LSU's Early Struggles This Season

ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit talked about LSU's early-season struggles on this week's episode of the CFB Podcast with Herbie, Pollack & Neghandi.

Herbstreit talked about all the former players and coaches that are no longer on the team and how it could be impacting the current players. Per 247Sports:

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"I think it's a combination of that, along with that they lost so much," Herbstreit said. "Joe Brady, Dave Aranda, (former quarterback) Joe Burrow, all the skill other than (junior wide receiver Terrace) Marshall. It's been widely publicized everything they lost on the defensive side of the ball. (Junior wide receiver) Ja'Marr Chase opts out in the midst of this pandemic. It almost feels like the body language of the players remaining playing are looking over a fence at all the guys that left, like, 'Wow, you guys got to leave?'

"And that's what it feels like. It just feels like they're like, 'You expect us to stay here when everyone left?' It doesn't feel like, 'We've been backed into a corner and we'll show them.' They just look like, beyond Xs and Os, it just seems like there's more going on behind the scenes — behind closed doors — than maybe we realize."

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Herbstreit also talked about LSU's issues on defense, calling out Derek Stingley Jr. who played through injured ankle last week at Missouri. Per SDS:

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“They just don’t look like it’s 11 guys that want to run to the ball and hold up their end of the bargain,” Herbstreit said on on Monday’s episode of the CFB Podcast with Herbie, Pollack & Neghandi. “And when I watched some of these SEC defenses, I just look at guys like Stingley right now — who’s a great talent — he has zero interest in tackling, zero interest for being accountable in that regard. And if your best players are doing that, that’s going to filter down.

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