re: 2nd Viewing Observations of the Game

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Just a slow start, we'll be fine!

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Agree it doesn't look as bad in the light of day as it did last night, but the performance was still below LSU standards.

I watched it again (sober this time)...

-JJ was great. However he is the leader of LSU and needs to better protect himself.
-I was disppointed in the o-line
-Our playcalling was awful
-Defensively, we were agressive early, got burned twice, and backed off and went very conservative
-Peterson is a beast. Enjoy him for the next two years
-I expected more out of Chad Jones. He was out of position and missed a few tackles
-Where the frick was Shep? Were we that vanilla that we didn't even want him on the field?

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Yes, he did you are correct. But he blew the play by getting the penalty, because that got them a first down, just like his boneheaded move of kicking the ball against ARKY that later cost us the game.

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Despite all that being true, he was by far the best player we had on defense in the Arky game. We all know he had a temper problem in the past, I'm just not going to hold it against him anymore. Tremaine Johnson's penalty in that game I consider worse considering he wasn't half the player Alem is.

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It's not just the QB pressure, he overruns the RB coming out of the backfield. This is what is allowing most of the first down runs that come to his side of the field. I must have counted 5 times that he did this.

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Actually, he maintained his gap the entire night. People don't realize that a DL is only responsible for his gap. On the play where he went outside the TE for example, the fault was of both Coleman and McCray considering neither of them were blocked and they both missed the tackle. Alem did his job on that play, Coleman wasn't aggressive enough as a LB.

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Maybe if we are way ahead like with GT, there's no risk. But against SEC teams I do not see us having a big downfield passing game (more than 20 yards).

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What risk? It's either caught or it's going to be incomplete. What CB in the county is going to outjump TT or Lafell?

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If not for the Trindon run play, we don't get the perfect set on the PA to him followed by the swing pass to Toliver for the TD.

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Agree you can look at the Trindon plays as "setups", however i am sure they were not set up to actually lose yardage. They were set up to make Trindon a wild card so that they defense would have to respect him...that worked, but the actual play where Trindon got the ball (twice) did not.

Shep will be unleashed onto the college football scene in front of his home crowd this saturday against vandy

# 3 for Washington was holding Hawkins on the big screen. No call.
on first td, Hawkins was again held by #1 this time from washington.

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-JJ is one tough QB and a real player. He sacrificed his body several times for 1st downs.

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This should never have to happen w/ the talent we have at running back. I don't like the qb running.

I agree that Chris Hawkins is a liability on defense. As previously stated, he cannot shed a block to save his life. And if he is unblocked, he seems very reluctant to lower his head and make a tackle. You cannot have a dominant defense with players who are afraid of contact.

However, Hawkins inability to play tough does not shock me considering his slight stature. The guy who really concerns me the most on the LSU defense at this point is Chad Jones. As the old saying goes, he looks like Tarzan but plays like Jane. For a guy with his size and speed, he plays very soft.