re: Rewatch the game........

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Any time you have the same RB fumble twice in one game, unless he's Darren McFadden or something, it's not good personnel use. There used to be a time when LSU running backs just flat did not fumble. If one did, he got a long time on the bench (more than 1 game) to figure out that it's not acceptable to fumble. Ridley should ride the bench until he figures that out.

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That's another good point. I was talking mainly about the coaches working hard to get the ball to our playmakers, but the point about RBs is valid.

The main reason I was pleased with the RB carries was that I was terrified that Miles was going to try to turn #18 into this team's Hester. Clearly, that would be foolish, and I was just glad that Murphy does not look like he's going to be the focus of this backfield.

Ridley ran great, and after his 2nd fumble on the first drive on the 2nd half, Murphy took the next drive and was horrible.

So they went back to Ridley. Why Ford, Ware, or Blue wasn't called on is the biggest complaint I have. But Ridley really was running well, so maybe they just wanted to stay with the hot hand.

Up 30 though, with a back that's coughed it up twice, there is no reason not to play a young back.

...Better to be lucky, than unlucky ?

Excellent Post!!

I felt much better about the direction of the team after watching the replay last night....

Things could be a LOT worse..... We could be posting thoughts about our team's loss to Jacksonville State!!

Sure wouldn't wanna be a rebel fan today!!


I'll take the win... let's move on... get better... and get ready for Vandy

This is a good site for re-watching SEC games. I am not sure if they will put up the non-conference games but as the season goes on, most games will be on here.

SEC Digital Network

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I can't disagree too much with the rest of your post, but this I do. Any time you have the same RB fumble twice in one game, unless he's Darren McFadden or something, it's not good personnel use. There used to be a time when LSU running backs just flat did not fumble.

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I don't disagree. But let's keep in mind that Ridley's 2nd fumble was our last offensive play of the game. And I think we went to Murphy the series after the fumble Ridley had in the actual flow of the game. It's not a huge distinction, but it's an important note nonetheless, IMO.

I'd be curious to see if he'd have come back out if we'd had another offensive series after his 2nd fumble. And I don't know that I wouldn't pull him after the first fumble. But it's not like the coaching staff ignored his second fumble, gave Ridley a cookie, and let him go back out there.

I think the knee jerk reaction is to blame Mile for this ugly win. But really, Miles did not miss the FG. Miles did not fumble. Miles did not get beat in the secondary. And Miles did not allow UNC to keep the illegal onside kick.

Jefferson was better--I saw him make some reads to second and third options on pass plays. And his INT was a poor attempt at getting the ball out of bounds. Of course JJ is still not and probably never will be what I consider "good", but he is better and played well enough to blow UNC away.

Miles deserves blame for many things. The OL is still not good, and that might be a matter of personnel and recruiting--legitimate criticism of Miles.

Everyone loves Miles' hiring of Chavis, Gonzales, and Wilson, but I didn't see any great improvement in their respective areas. Is that Miles' fault?

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OL was VERY solid. And no, those were not scrubs they were playing against. They aren't scrubs anymore than Brockers or Downs, our 2nd string DTs are, and they got pushed off the ball all night in the run game, and didn't get a sack. And T-Bob, who I wanted cut after watching the game, played really well and DID NOT hold on that TD. He absolutely pancaked his man. HORRIBLE CALL. Improvement here was VERY obvious.

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I've been wanting TBob benched too, but in all honesty I dont really watch him during games very closely. The OL did look much better than last year, but still not that great IMO. But damn, last year was a low bar to improve on.

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Why would you take out a 50 yard touchdown pass when evaluating a QBs performance? Do you take out Yates' 97 and 75 yarder to evaluate our D?

You do realize that's it's tough to rack up a lot of yards on offense when you have over 300 yards of returns right? Please tell me you understand how that works.

As for the number of completions, we only threw the ball 7 times in the 2nd half because we were up by 3 TDs. JJ was 5/7 in the second half after going 10/14 in the 1st half.

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cause aside from the 51 yard TD pass and the 21 yard pass to Mitch Joseph, his longest pass was for a 7 yard gain. 13 completions for 79 yards is why your passing game struggled. if you didn't notice that then you surely didn't rewatch the game. you can take out Yates' long passes to evaluate the D, but the problem is that they consistently give up a 10 yard cushion and can't get of the field on 3rd downs. Yates also had 13 completed passes of over 10 yards 9 of which went for 15 or more. Jefferson had 2. then you'll want to count the drops, well UNC dropped 3 TDs. 2 that would have given them leads, the last one winning the game.

i definitely understand that gaining yards on returns makes it hard to rack up yardage, but do you understand that we had 250 + return yards before halftime. there is no excuse to why we didn't gain yardage in the 2nd half by throwing the ball.

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Keep us in games??? We were up 3 TDs with 10 minutes to go. And I noticed you didn't mention Nevis, Montgomery, Jai, Matthieu, Barksdale, Dworcyzk, Lonergan, TBob, Hurst, Ridley, or JJ who played VERY WELL in the game too.

Those guys don't matter?

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well considering the only reason we got the lead in the first half was on great plays by Sheppard, Randle and Peterson and the best throw of JJs career, i'd say they are gonna have to carry LSU most of the season. and in no way to JJ have a good game, unless you call not reading your progessions and not throwing to open WR down the field. his reads go as this: lock onto #1 WR, if he's not open, throw dump off or run. that just doesn't cut it for me.

I watched it twice as well. If Ford doesn't know the play book after a red shirt year and a spring and a fall then that's is on the coaching staff.

RR not getting more opportunities is on coaching
RS getting very limited opportunities after his second touchdown is coaching
Not picking up the slant in the second half is coaching.
They gave up 400 yards to an offense without its 2 best players. Coaching