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re: Who is the best safety to play for LSU?

Posted on 12/15/20 at 7:16 pm to
Posted by S
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Posted on 12/15/20 at 7:16 pm to
Jerqwinick Sandolph
Posted by ChanceOfRainIsNever
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Posted on 12/15/20 at 7:16 pm to
I wasn’t around for Tommy Casanova but for the guys I’ve seen:

1. Adams
2. Reid
3. Landry

Craig Steltz honorable mention
Posted by supatigah
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Posted on 12/15/20 at 7:17 pm to
Casanova by far
Posted by memphis tiger
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Posted on 12/15/20 at 7:17 pm to
We’ve had some good ones but damn some of you have really short memories

Laron Landry was an absolute monster from his freshman year until the day he left.

Cassanova was before my team but he’s either 1 or 2

Reid and Adam’s aren’t even close. Delpit’s sophomore season might be the best single season, but recent bias might be affecting my memeory.
This post was edited on 12/15/20 at 7:21 pm
Posted by Tiger1988
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Posted on 12/15/20 at 7:18 pm to
There was a pic several years ago of DBU when Adams and Co were there. Tommy Casanova day a legit 6’2” was as big or bigger than all of them. He was the best pure football player I ever saw in an LSU uniform.

With that for all those people that say he was a safety, he played corner at LSU and IMO was the best ever and that includes better than Peterson.

At 200 he was also physical which is why the NFL made him a safety.
Of course I’m a little biased as I graduated from LSU in ‘72.

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Posted by hall59tiger
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Posted on 12/15/20 at 7:19 pm to
Chad Jones has my vote (I did not get to see Cassanova play). He was so good for his time. WR's were legitimately afraid of catching passes over the middle.
Posted by ChanceOfRainIsNever
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Posted on 12/15/20 at 7:19 pm to
What about the Honey Badger
Posted by DBG
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Posted on 12/15/20 at 7:21 pm to
Laron Landry was better as a freshman than a senior. He got entirely too big and was completely a 1 trick pony.

Freshman Landry was an athletic freak that could literally do everything on a football field.
Posted by Tiger1988
Houston
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Posted on 12/15/20 at 7:32 pm to
Casanova was a CORNER BACK WHILE AT LSU. If you said including NFL, then he would be a great but there is a guy that just got into the NFL HOF was GREAT!!

Go look up Candy Man...
Posted by jbird7
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Posted on 12/15/20 at 7:33 pm to
Jack hunt
Posted by Cronkytonk
Minneapolis
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Posted on 12/15/20 at 7:34 pm to
Agreed. He is the only 3 time All-American to play at LSU
Posted by Tiger1988
Houston
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Posted on 12/15/20 at 7:35 pm to
quote:

Cassanova and it’s not close.
if only he was a safety dumbass that would be true. He played corner at LSU. If you count him then HANDS DOWN Johnny Robinson is HANDS DOWN the best safety to ever come out of LSU who happened to be a tail back or flanker.
Posted by AlwysATgr
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Posted on 12/15/20 at 7:38 pm to
Liffort Hobley should get some mention. Also had a nice NFL career with the Dolphins.

Greg Jackson
Chris Carrier

All very good safeties.

Hokie Gajan played safety as a Tr Fr in '77.
Posted by DBG
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Posted on 12/15/20 at 7:40 pm to
The Walter Camp Foundation put him on the all century team as a safety
Posted by CajunRocks
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Posted on 12/15/20 at 7:45 pm to
Liffort Hobley
Posted by Nutriaitch
Montegut
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Posted on 12/15/20 at 7:45 pm to
Brandon Taylor

he won’t have the stats, but Honey Badger and Peterson will both tell you they could be as aggressive as they were because Taylor was absolutely going to be where he needed to be behind them.
Posted by Alatgr
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Posted on 12/15/20 at 7:46 pm to
Delpit is the most overrated safety to play for LSU.
This post was edited on 12/15/20 at 7:48 pm
Posted by nicholastiger
Member since Jan 2004
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Posted on 12/15/20 at 7:51 pm to
Adams on his way to being the best

Remember when saban tried to steal him and instead got hootie Jones who he tried to process or show fake interest in LSU
Posted by VeryReauxna_ish
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Posted on 12/15/20 at 7:53 pm to
Jamal Adams
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Posted on 12/15/20 at 7:54 pm to
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