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It's easy to see who is clueless with this comment. Peveto is Aranda's most important assistant this year. O is a great DL coach and will have that group ready, but Aranda will rely upon on Peveto to keep the LB's steady as Arranda ensures the DB's are on schedule as the defense is being installed.

Agreed on the Freshmen and Sophomores not playing, but developing while backing up excellent juniors and seniors, getting practice reps with the 2's and 3's, and getting stronger through Moffitt's program. However, Mett did play all five years (first at UGA, 2nd at Juco, last three at LSU), and was amazing his 5th year. If we could recruit more like him, and develop them on the same timeline (like Flynn, Mauck, etc.), we'd be much stronger at QB. The NFL CBA changes in '12 changed the college game.

This is such garbage from the scrub Advocate wanna be writer. Word is that the ex players spoke to Dellenrook and he promised he would protect them as his sources. Then he makes it known his sources are a former fullback and tight end who played last year and have graduated. Just outed his sources! Let's see which active players will even talk to this loser this season. Message to Advocate: get rid of the attention whore crap writer and get a real sportswriter to complement Rabalais!

Clapp is going to be a good one. Leadership, by all reports works hard and is respected by the other players. I'm looking forward to seeing him play this year.

Dellenger has to be the most unprofessional hack writer in the state (including Guilblow, who actually has a shred of professionalism). Miles talks to a community service organization, touches on the legal situation of Jennings and other LSU players, and asks the writers present to please not write about that issue. Dellendoosh then immediately tweets it. This guy is such a hack who cares zero about being a professional writer. Needs to move on back to Mississippi and open up a spot for someone who can actually write, and who will have a level of credibility with the coaching staff and players.

Dellendoosh's tweet immediately after Miles' comment:

Miles: "Please don't write that in the paper. PLEASE." #LSU
12:47 PM - 29 Jul 2015

Quinn is a very good wr, who runs great routes, has good speed, and somehow got open a lot last year. He was a very good HS player, in a system set up for him to shine. He had Jared Foster throwing to him, and other great talent on that Barbe team so opponents could not focus solely on him. However, TQ started at WR last year for LSU as a true freshman. There's a reason why, in the past, players at LSU sat and watched their true freshman year. LSU had experienced, more mature players who were just better than the freshmen. With the junior NFL draft departures of so many players since 2012, opportunities have opened up that door for great fundamentally sound players like Quinn. Unfortunately, we saw that when an 18 year old is playing in a huge game (such as vs Bama) in front of 102,000, oftentimes the maturity is not there to allow them to perform at the same high level as vs NM State or ULM. And then when the young players drop a catchable and important pass, it affects the game. For example, the pass to a very inexperienced FB vs Bama on the first OT play for LSU. He was just not ready for that kind of pressure, and the pressure was so big after his dropped pass that he disappeared from the LSU team and the program altogether. Quinn had two drops vs Bama that could have altered the outcome, but he's still on the team, competing against great young talent, and is apparently performing well in that respect. So he is still out there, competing, making LSU a stronger team. He may get passed up by Chark or Diarse or some young star, but the result will be that LSU will be putting the best guys on the field vs a very tough SEC schedule this year. Which is how it should be. So let's not jump to throw a young player overboard if he makes a mistake or two, let's watch to see how he handles that adversity and responds this year. Because he just may be the difference vs Bama this year, or it may be a guy he pushed to make better, like Chark or Diarse, who is the difference maker and helps us win a big game.

D line is not easy to coach, is highly technical and the successful d line coach has to have sufficient numbers of mature and motivated players to have success in the SECw. I feel confident O will have his players motivated to play each week, but not so confident that he will have 10-12 guys ready to rotate in and keep guys fresh to dominate in the 4th quarter. Hopeful, but we will see by November.

I'm happy Saban left Mich St to come to BR, and he improved a lot of things involving LSU football, but he was not the savior people say he was. Remember UAB - how would that go over now if we lost to W Ky? People forget the losses and remember the NC in '03. I'm very satisfied with our present staff- Saban can go wherever he wants to and I don't care.

Just getting back to this conversation, as our dog got into it with a bobcat in the woods behind our house, and I needed to see how that was going.

To those in the hollow who continue to try to pick a bad game someone played to re- write history and make their case that JJ was a horrible QB, I remember some good things he did for LSU football over his time in BR. I like to think that if he had only one OC in his career, instead of 3 or 4, he may have picked up the game plans and may not have played as badly at some times. Other times, such as against Bama in the '11 regular season game, he came in when JL was having a rough time and gave us exactly what his coaches asked of him. And we won. He was not as horrible as many like to say- but his last LSU game happened to be the NC game, and Saban had 6 weeks (yeah, Bama got to sit at home the first week of December, with no opponent to game plan for other than LSU, while we were in Atlanta fighting it out with Georgia) to prepare for him. Saban is very good when given the prep time like that, not as good when faced with surprises ( like Les playing JJ in the reg season game after JL had played virtually all year). '11 was possibly the best LSU team in history, and only happened because we had a seasoned and effective JL ready to play after the Shady's fiasco. And 10-12 DL rolling in and dominating opponents in the 2nd half. The lines determine how far a team can go.

Very impressed with him. And came through under a lot of pressure. Barbaree is going to be a good one at LSU.