re: Plays that still haunt you

I'm going to go a little off the script and talk about two plays. They are back-to-back plays in the Mulligan Bowl. They are the first two offensive plays of the second half.

In the first, we throw a hitch and go to Beckham, who had beaten his man. The safety came over but took a bad angle, ending up behind Beckham when the ball get there. If Beckham had taken just a slightly more angled route, he catches the ball and runs for a touchdown.

The very next freaking play, we run the same routes, this time with D'Anglelo Peterson running a seam route up the middle. Bama doesn't cover him at all. AT ALL. [QB REDACTED] throws to Beckham, though, and while it was a catch and the biggest gain of the night, it was a real missed opportunity.

If Beckham catches the first OR JJ throws to Peterson in the second, the game is 12-7, LSU scores the first TD of either team against the other, and perhaps the momentum shift causes the "spurtability" the 2011 team relied on all year. Give us that TD, and we have a whole different ball game.

GEAUX TIGERS