I noticed something real interesting towards the end of the season.

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I've noticed how many opponents,including Alabama, who were physically punished by LSU

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Yep. We punished Bama so badly, their QB was falling to his knees on their last possession!

We didn’t

In all honesty, the missed sack on Bama’s first drive, and two catchable drops by our wrs were the difference. I watched it and felt that we’d out played them, especially physically. So I watched watched about 45 mins worth of lsu/Bama games over the past 3 years to compare, and there was an obvious difference.

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the missed sack on Bama’s first drive, and two catchable drops by our wrs were the difference.

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And the fact that Danny Etling is trash on a deep ball

Stats are deceiving. The Gump's offensive play calling was very vanilla because they were in control of the game the entire time and didnt want to make any unnecessary errors. They were just as vanilla with their defensive calls. Other than Williams huge wildcat run, they kept the game in front of them and were in complete control.

LSU played well down the stretch and as soft as they were early in the year, they were just as tough in the latter. They completely shut down people in the 2nd half of games down the stretch. This isnt get enough attention.

But, unfortunately, you have to play the entire year and being soft as cotton against Miss St and Troy counts.

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I didn't get to see the Bama game. If we physically abused them how did we lose by 14 points? I'm asking this with serious intent

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A few costly mistakes, and Etling couldn’t hit open targets.

We outgained them for the first time in forever. Held the running game in check (RBs) and controlled the LOS for the most part

Last time we outgained them and controlled the LOS was 2012, a game we should have won. They outgained, outrushed, and controlled the LOS for the last 4 years so even though we lost it was a step in a direction

You don’t think we played Bama more physical this year than previous years? Please tell me the last time we matched them physically

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Do you think Bama could point to any bounces that could have gone their way to make it even worse?

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Sure, but I think we did play tough and am simply explaining how that doesn’t always translate on the scoreboard.

Several Bama players were knocked out of the game.

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Yep. We punished Bama so badly, their QB was falling to his knees on their last possession!

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Smart move considering how many of their players we knocked out of the game and that we were still grabbing that QB's face mask 2 plays earlier. Go be a dick somewhere else.