re: LSU fans, fill me in on Desean Smith

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Look again. There are posters comparing him OJ Howard and Evan Engram.

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I went back and looked and noone compared him to those two

the only mention of Engram is when a poster says "i am NOT comparing him to Evan engram or anything athletically"

and all the OJ howard comments were saying he is NOT as good as howard.

I'll probably get down voted but I'm more in agreement with Goldenboy than with anything else I've read in this thread. I was excited about Smith coming out of HS like everyone else was, but what are we basing some of these comments on besides how good he was in HS?

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Huge potential, great receiving skills,Very athletic.

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Huh? I'll give you he's a skilled receiver. But where is this huge potential? When did he show he was very athletic at LSU? I saw him score once his entire career on a play he wasn't covered. Hell he barely even played. His athletic testing for the draft was way below average. How is he very athletic?

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He's more of a jumbo WR, although he didn't test out great athletically.

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OK so name me a jumbo WR as slow as him with his college productivity that had an NFL career...

I saw about a dozen comments on the first page blaming his career on Les... But if we are purely blaming his career on Les' awful system, why couldn't he improve enough as a blocker to beat out a true freshman in Foster M and a guy no-one had really heard of in Jeter? Wasn't Smith in the program before those guys? You'd think if his receiving threat was that much better he would have gotten more reps over those guys, since we had basically OL playing that blocking TE role during the majority of his career (Gordon / Roddy). It's not like Jeter was a stud blocking TE... and he got way more reps.

I almost feel bad typing this because it feels like I'm shitting on the guy, but I'm just trying to reflect some reality here. I'd be shocked if he ever makes a 53. NFL teams typically keep 2, maybe 3 TEs on the active roster? How many TEs have been 3rd string in college and then were 2nd string in the NFL? I get that he can run routes and catch... but so can a bunch of other guys none of us have heard of, who are on average more athletic, better blockers (we have to assume), and can offer more value on special teams. a TE who only offers value as a receiver but isn't athletic enough to separate from NFL defenders is gonna have a pretty tough path. I still wish the guy luck.

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too would have loved to see Smith play in Canada's offense because he would have had the ball thrown to him a whole lot more than 10 to 12 times like someone posted earlier. lol That's ridiculous to be used that minimal.

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He was hurt, and tes caught a pass in every single game in 2015, a season he missed the majority of. I haven't looked up last season because we had a diff coach, but the tes were thrown to plenty compared to how much they threw it. Harris just had a pention of getting dudes destroyed by throwing high.

O and ensminger decided not to throw to him. Go figure.

I know most of you have never played any organized football in your lives, and so it's hard for you to understand. I'll make this simple, if you're coming out of HS and you have really good potential as a pass catching TE, and you can go and look at his hudl film to see the potential. Anyways, as a recruit you are gonna go to a college at the next level to further that development like any other football position. He chose LSU because I'm sure he thought he was doing just that and Miles and co. sold him on that, that he would be featured in an offense that passes the ball, only that didn't happen. He got caught up in a run dominating type of offense that is better off using TE's that block mostly and catch secondly.

So, you go and ask Miles why he lied to the kid because he certainly wasn't used the way I'm sure they promised him he would be. And I'm sure if you asked DeSean Smith would he go to LSU coming out of HS all over again, I'm sure the answer would be -No. The same thing was happening with Jacory Washington as of then, but hopefully this season he will finally get some PT. Miles shouldn't have never recruited these type of TE's because he certainly had no use for them with the 3 yards and a cloud of dust shite he ran at LSU. D Smith would have had a better career going to a Texas A&M or Ole Miss even Auburn.

And you're missing the point you stupid bitch, whether it was 3 or 4 years, he got developed at Bama. He grew each year because he was passed the ball more and more on a regular basis. No, he wasn't playing like that when he first arrived so tell that fricking lie to some arse that will buy it. Something he would never have gotten at LSU if he had come there. But your too damn stoopid to see this instead you wanna argue about how many years he was dumb.

And you're right, please go because I've wasted enough brain cells on you.

"Dude, Amari Cooper came to Bama a stud, I know cause he fricked me in my arse". Yeah, I'm sure you're right on that one! Dumb, bitch, go watch the highlights and see if he played like he did in his final season at Alabama. Man, you're stoopid! lol

And I thought you were gone?? GTFO

Don't start shite, man! Your boyfriend brought up Cooper.

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GoldenBoy

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Look again. There are posters comparing him OJ Howard and Evan Engram.'

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What's so damn entertaining about this is that he himself brought OJ Howard into the conversation on page 1, then 4 pages later is saying other posters were making the comparison.

You motherfrickers are retarded! This is how bullshite starts with you clowns saying shite that a person never said, but this is the rant.