re: Time to eat some crow for our loss(long) from a Duck

How bout the fact that our STARTING QUARTERBACK didn't play! How bout the fact that one of our major Offensive playmakers didn't play either. And we had a fumble deep in our end too but Oregon didn't do anything to cause it. I hate when an opposing fan says "we gift wraped" those turnovers for you. What?! We RIPPED the ball out, dude. It's not like the ball fell out of there hands. Also, why say repeatedly that you don't want to try to take anything away from LSU but our guys were hurt, we gave you the ball, we had freshmen in there, blah, blah, blah.

All you need to do it to come here and say you got beat down by a far better team. Don't say your not gonna make excuses and then write a 1500 word essay of excuses!!!

Thanks for showing up to take your medicine.
It was a good game and Oregon looks to me like a 10-2 team that will destroy lesser competition and maybe get a BCS berth. It was really fun to play Oregon, it's another in a really long list of skins on the wall for LSU in the last decade. I think the whole country pulls for Oregon, and it's a program that will stay near the top for many years to come. It's not a "team" that's having a run, it's a legitimate dominant PROGRAM.

That said, permit me a few obvious points.
The CONSTANT refrain of the stats-obsessed Oregon fan is "Even though we had more yards than you". I will know Oregon has reached the mountaintop when I stop reading that ludicrous statement. It reeks of Noveau riche football everytime we hear it.

As for your turnovers, we CAUSED them. Not only by forcing the ball out, but by knocking your two previous starters out of the game. We win not only because of our awesome starting 22, but because of our battle-tested and vastly superior second 22. Oregon is nowhere close yet. Maybe that changes with three/four more recruiting classes.

I'd like to also point out that when we snapped the ball to nobody, gift-wrapping one to Oregon, which you failed to capitalize on with a touchdown, getting only a field goal. And that we lost THREE critical multi-season starters on Offense in the week before the game, and still rallied.

I'll pull for you down the stretch, as will the vast majority of LSU fans. We respect your program, but this year you are just not ready for primetime.In fairness, this early in the season, it remains to be seen if LSU is either.

Talking about those injuries and how they hurt yall really is telling. That is why people say that PAC12 teams couldnt hang in the SEC. Not that your 1st team couldnt handle SEC 1st team, but that we play so hard in the South that injuries happen every game. And you have to deal with that injury and not complain. Your backup better be a good replacement cause they are gonna see the field if you play an 8 game SEC schedule.

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Man, I already knew he was very good watching the film on him but if he does not make 1st team all American this year it should be a crime.

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If Honey Badger wants All-American, he'll just take it.

I posed the question a while back before the game:

"who's the 2nd string RB?"

And that is what it came down to with his fumbles that were caused by the lsu defense

#24 is the #2 RB...and he went out with cramps also

So the #3 RB was the freshman...

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I am not going to make any excuses to losing

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Even though we had many more yards vs you

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we turned the ball over 4 times and 3 of those times we fumbled the ball near the end zone, making it easy to get those points against us.

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that does not necessarily mean we lost the game ourselves

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you would of not beaten us if we did not gift wrap those 20 points

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our best Linebacker/hardest hitter was not playing for that game.

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And our All American CB/nations best Punt returner (didn’t play in the game).

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LMJ was injured during the whole game. Plus, he …. was not up to speed …

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Our #2 RB, Barner, who is so critical for our Offense, was injured during most of the game

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nice collection of backhanded compliments and excuses, sir!

Thanks for manning up and please stick around. We're all hoping the Ducks win out.

This is also true however:

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FWIW, LSU was without 3 offensive starters.
Your team got it's collective arse spanked.
Deal with it.

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Nice post! I honestly think that your team is still very good and will win the rest of their games. With our schedule, your team has a better chance of winning on out so we may both have a hard time reaching the championship game. But I for one would love a rematch.