re: AP- Daniels “That (targeting) still burn’s me…I felt like it would have been a different

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All the defense needed to get was one stop to make it a 7 point game.

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Sadly, I don't think the defense ever gets that stop. That's simply how incompetent House was this season. Alabama punted ONCE the entire game. The very first drive. Every other time they either scored a TD or made/missed a FG. So even if Daniels stays in a scores on that drive to make it 42-35, Alabama would have just scored again to extend the lead to 14.

Much like the FSU game, the game was lost with two critical errors. Mason Taylor drops a 2nd & 17 pass that would have set up LSU with 3rd & short in a 28-28 game. LSU was forced to punt and Alabama quickly scored to go up 35-28. If Taylor catches that pass LSU is likely able to hold serve and keep the back and forth going. The next possession a deflected pass is intercepted. Alabama scores again to make it 42-28. Alabama broke LSU's serve there and the game was effectively over even if Daniels wasn't taken out.

What JD really wants to say, but isn't, is "If our useless fricking DC could have done ANYTHING this year, we would have not only won 11 (maybe 12) games, but blown out most teams in the process. Instead, he put us in a position where the offense often had zero margin for error."

The irony is that the defense's complete incompetence is maybe THE reason Daniels is set to take home the Heisman. He had no choice but to be great every possession of every game.

Sadly, this will go down as one of the biggest "what if" years in LSU football history. And House should now join Tepper in infamy as one of the rare situations where a single coach destroyed what could have been a championship season.