Miles and Ensminger comments on Guice

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MILES:
Former LSU coach Les Miles remembered watching Guice earn MVP honors in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl after his senior season in high school. In that game, Guice asked to play receiver – and then caught two passes for touchdowns, covering 92 and then 61 yards.

“He went into the slot and just ran and shredded the secondary,” Miles said. “He has good ball skills, not great. He can catch the ball on any number of routes. I don’t know if he’ll be a spectacular receiver, but he’ll be a very good one. I like Derrius Guice. He’ll play a long time.”

As for his protection skills, Miles sounded as though he agreed with Redskins coach Jay Gruden, who called that an area to improve, something that would apply to most rookie backs. With Guice, it’s about learning the protections and reading the defense.

“He’s tougher than nails in protection,” Miles said. “Now, occasionally I’d see maybe he wasn’t as good by assignment as he was physically. He’s a physical beast. He can step in and take on a linebacker in a heartbeat, but I’ve seen him make mistakes.”

ENSMINGER:
“He’s big and strong enough to be good in blocking and he’s an outstanding route-runner,” said LSU offensive coordinator Steve Ensminger. “He has great ball skills and catches well. We just didn’t do it much [with the backs]. But he’ll adapt to that well. I’ve seen him do it in practice. Once a week in the season we went through pass protection and he was as good as there was in one-on-ones with the linebackers. He surprised us with his pass protection and route running.”

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Interesting to me that they say how great Guice was as a receiver, but admit to not using that in their gameplan. Also, seemed odd they only went over pass protection once a week considering the RBs are asked to block on most pass plays.