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Screw Seniority, Play The Best Talent
Posted on 9/4/24 at 8:39 pm
Posted on 9/4/24 at 8:39 pm
The bulk of LSU’s Junior and Senior Classes from an overall standpoint, are not up to LSU standards talent wise from what we have been accustomed to the last 25 seasons still. Sure we have guys like Campbell, Jones, and Perkins sprinkled in there, but overall we are still rebuilding the roster back up year by year. This is no slight on those players, it’s just what it boils down to because of what happened in 2020 and 2021.
LSU and the coaches are building LSU into being a consistent perineal powerhouse right now. It’s not a 1 year fix, or a Miami or Ole Miss situation where you just buy a bunch of portal guys to go all out for 1 season. It’s not this way because Kelly sees the big picture. Sunday sucked, but come down off the cliff and look at the big picture still. Look at the recruiting, look at the coaching staff assembled, and fully realize what it is Brian Kelly came here to do. He came here to win a National Championship, something I think is going to happen.
There needs to be an emphasis on putting the best talent back out on the field. Get the young talented guys out there now, so when our highly ranked recruiting classes arrive year after year, you’re just stacking them on top of each other one after the other. When you have those players, these types of coaches, and the resources LSU has, that’s when you win Titles.
Start Ashton Stamps and PJ Woodland. Clearly the most talented CB’s we had on roster for Game 1.
Start Weeks. Weeks was disruptive in just about every play he was in. Most talented ILB we have.
Give Caden Durham big time carries at RB. Out of Williams, Jackson, and Durham, I believe Durham is the most talented.
Give Dashawn Womack more snaps off the edge. Probably our best talent at this position. Although Savion Jones clearly has 1 side locked down.
Give Shelton Sampson some targets. If Lacy wants to run wild, and Hilton and Parker are dealing with injuries, give Sampson targets.
Give Dashawn Spears snaps at Safety. Hell start him for all I care with how the safeties were this past weekend.
LSU is a good Football team this season. We may not be there just yet, but there are reasons to be optimistic, and glimmers of light at the end of the tunnel.
Play the best talent, because the talent is starting to get there again.
LSU will win their next 4 games. That will set up a top 15 matchup in Death Valley, with LSU coming off a bye week and lots of momentum against Ole Miss. The Season sure isn’t over, and the program is still on the rise weather you want to believe it or not.
LSU and the coaches are building LSU into being a consistent perineal powerhouse right now. It’s not a 1 year fix, or a Miami or Ole Miss situation where you just buy a bunch of portal guys to go all out for 1 season. It’s not this way because Kelly sees the big picture. Sunday sucked, but come down off the cliff and look at the big picture still. Look at the recruiting, look at the coaching staff assembled, and fully realize what it is Brian Kelly came here to do. He came here to win a National Championship, something I think is going to happen.
There needs to be an emphasis on putting the best talent back out on the field. Get the young talented guys out there now, so when our highly ranked recruiting classes arrive year after year, you’re just stacking them on top of each other one after the other. When you have those players, these types of coaches, and the resources LSU has, that’s when you win Titles.
Start Ashton Stamps and PJ Woodland. Clearly the most talented CB’s we had on roster for Game 1.
Start Weeks. Weeks was disruptive in just about every play he was in. Most talented ILB we have.
Give Caden Durham big time carries at RB. Out of Williams, Jackson, and Durham, I believe Durham is the most talented.
Give Dashawn Womack more snaps off the edge. Probably our best talent at this position. Although Savion Jones clearly has 1 side locked down.
Give Shelton Sampson some targets. If Lacy wants to run wild, and Hilton and Parker are dealing with injuries, give Sampson targets.
Give Dashawn Spears snaps at Safety. Hell start him for all I care with how the safeties were this past weekend.
LSU is a good Football team this season. We may not be there just yet, but there are reasons to be optimistic, and glimmers of light at the end of the tunnel.
Play the best talent, because the talent is starting to get there again.
LSU will win their next 4 games. That will set up a top 15 matchup in Death Valley, with LSU coming off a bye week and lots of momentum against Ole Miss. The Season sure isn’t over, and the program is still on the rise weather you want to believe it or not.
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Posted on 9/4/24 at 8:40 pm to TigerLifer18
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Screw Seniority
Wife did this once. She’s not my wife anymore.
Posted on 9/4/24 at 8:41 pm to TigerLifer18
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There needs to be an emphasis on putting the best talent back out on the field.
Why do people like you and Jordy assume coaches aren't putting the best players on the field?
Posted on 9/4/24 at 8:44 pm to SidewalkTiger
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Why do people like you and Jordy assume coaches aren't putting the best players on the field?
Then explain Sage Ryan getting snaps over Woodland or Stamps.
Or Penn getting snaps over Weeks.
1 drive of football is all it would take you to tell who the better football players are.
Posted on 9/4/24 at 8:48 pm to TigerLifer18
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1 drive of football is all it would take you to tell who the better football players are.
Not really, you don't know how putting a player like Woodland in limits the defense schematically, a coach does.
You also don't know if a player like Woodland is capable of playing an entire college football game from a conditioning and physical standpoint, a coach does.
Besides the fact that you're throwing a three star true freshman out there in his first collegiate start vs a Lincoln Riley offense. This theory that coaches are just letting better players chill on the bench because reasons is laughable.
Posted on 9/4/24 at 8:49 pm to TigerLifer18
Bingo
Posted on 9/4/24 at 8:54 pm to SidewalkTiger
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Why do people like you and Jordy assume coaches aren't putting the best players on the field?
Because major burns and sage Ryan are still seeing playing time
Posted on 9/4/24 at 8:56 pm to Cd104
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Because major burns and sage Ryan are still seeing playing time
What does the coaching staff benefit from playing older, worse players?
Posted on 9/4/24 at 9:00 pm to SidewalkTiger
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What does the coaching staff benefit from playing older, worse players?
To help bridge the gap, and because they may not commit as many mistakes. But then again they probably won’t make as many plays.
And that 3* PJ Woodland you talk about was The Mississippi Gatorade Player of the Year last season and criminally underrated coming out of HS this past season.
Posted on 9/4/24 at 9:05 pm to TigerLifer18
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To help bridge the gap, and because they may not commit as many mistakes. But then again they probably won’t make as many plays.
Then those guys aren't actually better players right now, they just have a higher ceiling.
Posted on 9/4/24 at 9:29 pm to TigerLifer18
It’s a myth that BK starts upper classmen over better freshmen and sophomores
Will Campbell
Emory Jones
Maason Taylor
Harold Perkins
Maybe, just maybe the young guys we all want to see aren’t ready yet… no matter how much the Rant wants them to be
Will Campbell
Emory Jones
Maason Taylor
Harold Perkins
Maybe, just maybe the young guys we all want to see aren’t ready yet… no matter how much the Rant wants them to be
Posted on 9/4/24 at 11:26 pm to TigerLifer18
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the coaching staff knows the players better than you do. There is also zero upside for leaving better/best players on the bench. The idea of it is just foolish.
Posted on 9/5/24 at 4:50 am to TigerLifer18
Tigerlifer18, you are correct about many of your ideas of what the problem is so far with this LSU team. I believe the main three reasons for our loss to USC was clock mismanagement, lack of discipline, inability to execute plays especially on the offensive line. Things will get better as CBK builds more depth to the roster. Depth is needed for success.
Geaux fighting tigers
Geaux fighting tigers
Posted on 9/5/24 at 4:57 am to TigerLifer18
It has become a theme at this point. BK needs to put talent first.
Posted on 9/5/24 at 6:33 am to TigerLifer18
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Give Shelton some targets
You are about to see why they didn’t, and why they have been hiding him.
Another bad evaluation, star gazer issue.
Posted on 9/5/24 at 6:37 am to TigerLifer18
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Screw Seniority, Play The Best Talent
Generally speaking, people that say this will also say,”…why do they keep throwing that kid out there? He doesn’t know the assignments and gets burned all of the time.”
In other words, you will find something to complain about no matter what.
Posted on 9/5/24 at 6:48 am to TigerLifer18
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Give Caden Durham big time carries at RB
I mean, this is a given at this point.
Posted on 9/5/24 at 7:46 am to TigerLifer18
Although Savion Jones clearly has 1 side locked down.
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All of your points sound good, but we have to realize our coaches know more than we do about our personnel. Baker has had 1 game running our D. Savion is a good example. Last year, he stunk it up. Now he looks like the guy we thought we had. The coaches felt like he was our best choice at his spot. We may very well see Sage or Major Burns get passed up, but the coaches have way more info than we do to make these decisions.
If Nuss doesn't throw the ball into the ground on 2nd down around the 2 minute mark, we are likely talking about different things this week. Anderson appeared to not be looking back for the ball on the play, so maybe that is what caused it. Why did Anderson do that? Nuss forces the ball to a well covered Lacy on next play with Anderson again open in the flat. Poor decision from a guy that made good ones for most of the game.
The guys that played well for us Saturday failed at crunch time. Let's stop melting and hope we are a better team by the time we play Ole Miss.
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All of your points sound good, but we have to realize our coaches know more than we do about our personnel. Baker has had 1 game running our D. Savion is a good example. Last year, he stunk it up. Now he looks like the guy we thought we had. The coaches felt like he was our best choice at his spot. We may very well see Sage or Major Burns get passed up, but the coaches have way more info than we do to make these decisions.
If Nuss doesn't throw the ball into the ground on 2nd down around the 2 minute mark, we are likely talking about different things this week. Anderson appeared to not be looking back for the ball on the play, so maybe that is what caused it. Why did Anderson do that? Nuss forces the ball to a well covered Lacy on next play with Anderson again open in the flat. Poor decision from a guy that made good ones for most of the game.
The guys that played well for us Saturday failed at crunch time. Let's stop melting and hope we are a better team by the time we play Ole Miss.
Posted on 9/5/24 at 8:28 am to TigerLifer18
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Then explain Sage Ryan getting snaps over Woodland or Stamps.
He’s not getting snaps over Stamps, and what guys like you never understand is that freshmen often take half a season or more before they know the position well enough to play all the time.
If Woodland understands half the playbook then the DC is limited to that half when Woodland is in the game.
Posted on 9/5/24 at 9:01 am to TigerLifer18
Saw him in the playoffs and he’s definitely underrated. Kid will be a great one. The faster he learns the more he will play.
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