re: 2012 LSU is one of the strangest CFB teams I can remember

LSU slept through the Fresno State and Alabama games. They were lucky to get to overtime against Ole Miss.

No running game killed that team just like it hurt LSU this season.

NOTHING at all like the 2006 team.


I was almost about to go into the game at tailback in '06, until Les finally let Keiland Williams dress out and watch a game and learn instead of putting him wherever he was beforehand. Aside from that, Justin Vincent, Fats Broussard, and a dash of discovering Hester was all we had. Hester was nothing we were expecting at all yet. This team has 4-5 capable backs. Terrence Magee would have had 10 carries a game in '06.

I do not see any similarities in Met and JR really, other than they both can be headcases. As good as Met's arm and pocket presence can be, there's just no comparing them. Hopefully, Met makes me eat crow next year and I think he will. Also, Flynn on the bench vs. Rivers?

WR corp of '12 has come a LONG way and I am thinking next year could be special. We still need another one. Kadron Boone is not Dwayne Bowe. Odell Beckham is not Early Doucet and Craig Davis was better than Jarvis is right NOW. This is no contest.

OL of '12 looked like a Chinese Firedrill from Auburn to Bama. They look like a formidible group now. The 2006 team protected the hell out of JR. They didn't open up gaping holes, but our RB's didn't respond to when they did, either.

They are some comparisions defensively, but not many.

This team is more like 2004.

I agree (rarely) with SFP. This team DOMINATED bad to avg teams (ULL, Zona, UK, Fresno, Miss State -- might have been the best offensive first half of football I'd ever seen from an LSU team -- and had one close encounter with of course, Ole Miss). BLEW the Irish out much worse than '07 beat up Buckeyes.
Auburn was a poorly felt-out game and we didn't realize how much better we were than they were. Arkansas then beats the crappy pants out of them. Florida was just one of those games. We helped them get to BCS c'ship with fumbles, penalties, and kickoff blunders.

Team has '04 written all over it...I would say we are much better, however. '04 had a stable of tailbacks, green qb's/bad qb's, WR's that remind me of ours now, who became great, and a defense that was salty enough to keep us in games like Troy and Vandy.