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Posted on 9/3/18 at 4:32 pm
Posted on 9/3/18 at 4:32 pm
Watch out O, you're officially on the hot seat now 
Looking at some of these posts, and talking to people...
We just played a favored opponent, ranked 17 spots higher than us, with a head coach more respected than ours.
With an elite defense, which we challenged with a new offensive scheme designed by our reluctant Tight End coach, relying on a transfer QB, a career backup RB, and a whole squad of inexperienced receivers. Vs the Turnover Chain.
In contrast, we presented our own elite defense, which was faced with containing a dynamic QB who owns lots of Miami records (and remember, he took those records from a Heisman winner).
We play... and win in all phases. Our dumbass shrimp boat captain outcoached Richt throughout the game. He doesn't just do that, but he takes control of the Tigers- who start out sloppy and unprepared, can't even call a play, who burn through all the timeouts on their first couple series of the season... he regroups them, and they then play a composed, relatively mistake-free game against a strong opponent.
Our coaches win the chess matches all night, blowing tight game wide open. We didn't just win, we won convincingly. We made the most of every chance, setting a school record in FG distance (54 yds) with a div 2 transfer kicking it. We flipped the script on Miami, getting 2 INTs including a pick 6, and not turning it over ourselves. Our scrub backup RB, a guy lots of people chuckled about even seeing the field, got 124 yds and 2 TDs, and converted a 4th down where he was hit in the backfield. Our TE coach set up a gameplan where our transfer QB (who turns out to not be very impressive physically) outfoxed Miami's defense, sucking them into a blitz that opened up a huge 50 yd score.
Our special teams look not just competent, but strong. Deep kickoffs for touchbacks, punts that were long and high and not a single return. And as stated, looks like we now have a kicker.
And we did this with some 1st game jitters, where our star transfer WR (the one transfer most people felt the best about) was a non-factor, with 1 catch for 9 yds.
And so now...
WE DIDN'T WIN GOOD ENOUGH 
Yep, the honeymoon is over, LSU is back to normal.
Looking at some of these posts, and talking to people...
We just played a favored opponent, ranked 17 spots higher than us, with a head coach more respected than ours.
With an elite defense, which we challenged with a new offensive scheme designed by our reluctant Tight End coach, relying on a transfer QB, a career backup RB, and a whole squad of inexperienced receivers. Vs the Turnover Chain.
In contrast, we presented our own elite defense, which was faced with containing a dynamic QB who owns lots of Miami records (and remember, he took those records from a Heisman winner).
We play... and win in all phases. Our dumbass shrimp boat captain outcoached Richt throughout the game. He doesn't just do that, but he takes control of the Tigers- who start out sloppy and unprepared, can't even call a play, who burn through all the timeouts on their first couple series of the season... he regroups them, and they then play a composed, relatively mistake-free game against a strong opponent.
Our coaches win the chess matches all night, blowing tight game wide open. We didn't just win, we won convincingly. We made the most of every chance, setting a school record in FG distance (54 yds) with a div 2 transfer kicking it. We flipped the script on Miami, getting 2 INTs including a pick 6, and not turning it over ourselves. Our scrub backup RB, a guy lots of people chuckled about even seeing the field, got 124 yds and 2 TDs, and converted a 4th down where he was hit in the backfield. Our TE coach set up a gameplan where our transfer QB (who turns out to not be very impressive physically) outfoxed Miami's defense, sucking them into a blitz that opened up a huge 50 yd score.
Our special teams look not just competent, but strong. Deep kickoffs for touchbacks, punts that were long and high and not a single return. And as stated, looks like we now have a kicker.
And we did this with some 1st game jitters, where our star transfer WR (the one transfer most people felt the best about) was a non-factor, with 1 catch for 9 yds.
And so now...
WE DIDN'T WIN GOOD ENOUGH
Yep, the honeymoon is over, LSU is back to normal.
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Posted on 9/3/18 at 4:33 pm to Scoob
cliff notes please
Posted on 9/3/18 at 4:35 pm to Scoob
Well said! Upvote for you, sir!
Posted on 9/3/18 at 4:36 pm to Andy Bernard
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cliff notes please
Negas can STTDB!
Posted on 9/3/18 at 4:38 pm to Scoob
This kind of post is more predictable than anything else.
Posted on 9/3/18 at 4:38 pm to Scoob
Upvoted you b/c I share a lot of the same sentiments, but I'm not dancing in the streets just yet.....I am just relieved and I feel a LOT better about the chemistry of this coaching staff. Coach O is NOT the incompetent boob so many folks had hoped he would be.
Posted on 9/3/18 at 4:38 pm to Scoob
We played a bad game. We did not dominate in all phases. In fact, we were terrible offensively. Less than 300 yards. 3-16 on 3rd downs. We have issues that the final score is masking.
Posted on 9/3/18 at 4:39 pm to Scoob
Upvoted
Spot on post
Spot on post
Posted on 9/3/18 at 4:40 pm to Scoob
So basically the rant is acting the same as it always had over the past 15 years
Gotcha
But yes it was a great win
A lot of season to go, hopefully we can build on this. I am not the type to give out raises or call out people to be fired over one weekend.
Gotcha
But yes it was a great win
A lot of season to go, hopefully we can build on this. I am not the type to give out raises or call out people to be fired over one weekend.
This post was edited on 9/3/18 at 4:44 pm
Posted on 9/3/18 at 4:41 pm to Scoob
The word elite is used waaayyy to much on here. Miami defense is not elite but that still doesn't take anything away from this win.
Posted on 9/3/18 at 4:44 pm to Surv1vor1st
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we were terrible offensively. Less than 300 yards
Kinda hard to get a whole lot of offensive yardage when your average starting field position is at your own 43. LSU didn't need huge offensive yardage because of this thing called "field position" which didn't require us to go the length of the field for every score.
Fake news, friend.
Posted on 9/3/18 at 4:46 pm to Surv1vor1st
quote:
In fact, we were terrible offensively
We weren't great on ofense but you need some perspective as to what "terrible" is. Go watch a replay of 1-9-12.
Posted on 9/3/18 at 4:47 pm to Surv1vor1st
quote:
We played a bad game. We did not dominate in all phases. In fact, we were terrible offensively. Less than 300 yards. 3-16 on 3rd downs. We have issues that the final score is masking.
We did not play a bad game
The offense wasn't exactly special but it did what it needed to do to put up points, we really never had to drive the ball the entire field really the whole night. We essentially started at midfield almost every time. If anything the special teams was the LSU offense last night. Tracy accounted for 15 points and the defense accounted for another td
I agree there is a lot of work to be done on offense but I wouldn't call it terrible IMO
This post was edited on 9/3/18 at 4:49 pm
Posted on 9/3/18 at 4:49 pm to Surv1vor1st
if you score from a short field, you do not rack up as many yards. Maths...look into them.
Posted on 9/3/18 at 4:51 pm to TigerCoon
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if you score from a short field, you do not rack up as many yards. Maths...look into them.
So we scored touchdowns on those short fields? No
Posted on 9/3/18 at 4:51 pm to Scoob
Pump the breaks; LSU beat a grossly overrated team. It's not like this performance makes LSU deserving of a top 10 ranking. It was a satisfying win for sure, and had the final score been 33-3 things would be different.
But it ended 33-17 and could have been even closer had an obvious face-mask penalty been called and kept Miami's late drive alive, and if there had been a review and a reversal on a pass reception at the pylon.
So you'll excuse those of us who aren't swayed one way or the other from our original predictions following this win, as fun as it was.
But it ended 33-17 and could have been even closer had an obvious face-mask penalty been called and kept Miami's late drive alive, and if there had been a review and a reversal on a pass reception at the pylon.
So you'll excuse those of us who aren't swayed one way or the other from our original predictions following this win, as fun as it was.
Posted on 9/3/18 at 4:54 pm to Surv1vor1st
and that is a problem. I don't care about huge yardage numbers.
Posted on 9/3/18 at 4:54 pm to Surv1vor1st
quote:
We played a bad game
Posted on 9/3/18 at 4:59 pm to TigerCoon
quote:
Maths...look into them.
Here's some math for you. 3-16 on 3rd downs. That equals 18 percent. 11-24 passing. That equals 45 percent. That's terrible on any level of football, regardless of the opponent.
Posted on 9/3/18 at 5:01 pm to LSU82BILL
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We weren't great on ofense but you need some perspective as to what "terrible" is. Go watch a replay of 1-9-12.
No argument there.
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