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re: Who was the more electric player to watch: Mathieu or Daniels?

Posted on 12/28/25 at 9:49 pm to
Posted by Cannon
Shreveport
Member since May 2015
1904 posts
Posted on 12/28/25 at 9:49 pm to
The Honey Badger is a once in a lifetime player. Should have been LSU's 2nd Heisman Trophy winner. shite, they should probably sculpt Mathieu here on out for the trophy. If that wasn't a Heisman season, I don't know what to tell you. The epitome of the honor. RGIII should have gave it up the moment he was announced. You'll never see another Mathieu.
Posted by Demonbengal
Ruston
Member since May 2015
4995 posts
Posted on 12/28/25 at 10:04 pm to
Tyrann Mathieu. I will never watch a defensive player as good as he was at the collegiate level. He will forever be my favorite defensive player in LSU history.
Posted by LSBoosie
Member since Jun 2020
17268 posts
Posted on 12/28/25 at 10:07 pm to
Mathieu’s highlight tape is up there with Tavon Austin’s as the goat
Posted by NPComb
Member since Jan 2019
28042 posts
Posted on 12/28/25 at 10:17 pm to
HB7 in a route
Posted by YeauxTigers
Sugar Land, TX
Member since Dec 2007
1095 posts
Posted on 12/28/25 at 10:20 pm to
Both were unbelievably awesome!

Geaux Tigers!
Posted by rmnldr
Member since Oct 2013
39867 posts
Posted on 12/28/25 at 10:42 pm to
Honey Badger had amazing instinct and it felt like whenever the team needed a lift he could get it done.

Daniels was putting the team on his back with Nabers and BTJ every single game. If there was any semblance of a defense in 2023 everyone would pick JD5 easily but because you couldn’t celebrate offensive scores knowing the defense would get ran through, it lessened the impact of his biggest plays.
Posted by LSUbasketballfan
Member since Jan 2021
484 posts
Posted on 12/28/25 at 10:46 pm to
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If the play went away from HB7 he wasn't involved in it.


That’s just wrong. If a play went away from Mathieu he’d make himself involved, cause a fumble, then somehow recover it.
Posted by Ironhead985
Member since Jun 2013
10009 posts
Posted on 12/28/25 at 11:42 pm to
The only people I've seen play in a defensive backfield as electric as Honey Badger is Ed Reed and Deion Sanders. That's it. It's hard to go against a Heisman winning quarterback, but it's far more rare to see players like those on the defensive side of the ball.
Posted by SnoopChizzle
Right here
Member since Sep 2009
827 posts
Posted on 12/28/25 at 11:42 pm to


There was nobody like Mathieu.
Posted by lsudave1
Baton Metairie
Member since Jan 2005
11658 posts
Posted on 12/29/25 at 12:07 am to
quote:

Mathieu’s highlight tape is up there with Tavon Austin’s as the goat


Mathieu absolutely owned Tavon Austin’s WVU teams twice.
Posted by uptowntiger84
uptown
Member since Jul 2011
5151 posts
Posted on 12/29/25 at 12:36 am to
Honey badger takes what he wants!
Posted by Smokedawg
Finding Lennay Kekua
Member since Dec 2008
5620 posts
Posted on 12/29/25 at 12:52 am to
TM, no one did or has done what he did in 2011.
Posted by Lsutigerturner
Member since Dec 2016
7180 posts
Posted on 12/29/25 at 1:04 am to
Mathieu best player iv ever seen, he literally changed the outcome of games from positions that are not supposed to dictate outcomes
Posted by Fisherchefjeff
Member since Mar 2021
418 posts
Posted on 12/29/25 at 1:20 am to
Honey Badger, the ball gravitated into his hands!
Posted by la_birdman
Northern GA via Lake Charles
Member since Feb 2005
32002 posts
Posted on 12/29/25 at 1:53 am to
Jayden was awesome but I've never seen anyone before or since Mathieu play like he did.


It seemed like he was everywhere.


Even before he got the number 7. When he was wearing 14. It was just instinctual. "See ball, take ball."


Posted by Basura Blanco
Member since Dec 2011
11476 posts
Posted on 12/29/25 at 2:06 am to
I am biased, but in my 45 years of watching college football, Mathieu was the most dynamic defensive player I have ever seen. He is also the most instinctual player I have ever seen across all of football.

His ability to be around ball so often was so elite, it resembled a scripted Hollywood movie.
Posted by Goalpost
Member since Jan 2023
1123 posts
Posted on 12/29/25 at 3:56 am to
Daniels. He we turn on video game mode and was unstoppable.
Posted by Turnblad85
Member since Sep 2022
4680 posts
Posted on 12/29/25 at 5:13 am to
Mathew because we were winning.


I wish I wouldve appreciated daniels more. It was tough to see the good when our defense was so trash.
Posted by Excalibur33
Member since Nov 2025
89 posts
Posted on 12/29/25 at 5:35 am to
HB
Posted by idoubleu
Member since Jul 2014
293 posts
Posted on 12/29/25 at 5:40 am to
We could live 1000 years and still not get to see a defensive player get their hands on the ball as much as Mathieu.

Dude was legit a defensive super hero.
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