Everything Brian Kelly said after LSU football's first fall practice

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They’re all anxious to show what they can do. They want that opportunity, so they’ve all prepared really hard. They’re all in great shape. Their mental preparation is so much further a long now that they know the playbook. They’re all anxious to get out there and showcase what they can do. Today was much more of the basic tenants of footwork, across the field progressions, those kind of things and you can see they’re past that and ready to move to the next level.”

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“Total preparation is based on physical preparation and we know what that means with the weight room and our nutritionists, but total preparation is what we’re here for. The technical and tactical are important when building a team, but the mental preparation is absolutely crucial as well. Having a mental performance coach, the brain is similar to a muscle in that you have to train it as well. Mental performance is an important piece in our preparation and we laid down the principles for this football team in helping them understand how important that is in their preparation. Now they have the tools to help them through things like confidence, things like emotional control, how they think on a day to day basis really matters and the mental performance coach that we have can be a great asset for us.”

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“You’re not going to see much separation in the first seven days. That will take form as we get into down and distance situations. For example, these first two days are P and 10, meaning youre just dialing up every play that’s not even a down and distance play. The third day we start to get into some second down stuff, practice four and five you’ll see a bit more third down situations and when you get into that sixth day you’ll get into third down and long, which is where we can start to see some play calling that is going to be situated for the quarterbacks. It’s not going to be until the second week when we start to see some plays by the quarterback.”

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