SWC75
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- I referenced the 2002 game at Auburn and the LSU game in the Dome two years ago. We competed very well in each game and in each season, it didn’t matter. We were unable to maintain that level of play and finished 4-8. Last year we upset Virginia Tech and got some great publicity out of Dino’s speech. And then we lost our last four games. Good performances mean little if you don’t sustain that level of play.
- Two plays: the interception on the first play and the dropped pass in the end zone by Riley. Syracuse 33 LSU 28.
- Two more plays: The safety drifts toward the sideline for no apparent reason on the 43 yarder just before the half and watches the play go by him. The safety on the other side bites on the run on first play of the second half. The corner gets no inside help and chases the guy 87 yards to the goal line. We’re lucky they didn’t follow up with more deep plays.
- That first play interception was one of the most ill-conceived plays I’ve seen. Per Chris Gedney’s description after the game, Dontae Strickland was sent out of the backfield to line up at the wide receiver spot on the side where LSU’s best corner, “Greedy” Williams was playing. Williams knew that a back wasn’t going to much more than curl route so he jumped it. Strickland, not being trained as a wide receiver, just waited for the ball to come to him and it never got there. You’re going to open the game with that, not having done anything to set it up?
- Yes, Dino should have gone for two to get within a score. 10 points behind is two scores. 9 points behind is two scores. Simple math.
- Our passes continue to be almost exclusively along the sideline. The two that weren’t were both improvised on scandals and the play was wide-open for TDs, although one was dropped. Ravian Pierce caught 3 passes for 21 yards and one of those was a Dungey pop pass that was also an innovation. Make them play the whole field!
- Dontae Strickland has now carried the ball 44 times for 134 yards, 3.0 yards per carry. He’s on a pace for a 402 yard season. And this is with all those sideline passes supposedly stretching the defense horizontally.
- Hopefully Kendall Coleman will be back next week. He was having a great game.
- I don’t know where they got those refs but they knew who got them. They kept interrupting play, preventing SU from getting plays off, including one that would have prevented a review that resulted in a reversal. They got the call right but stopping the game to make sure it happened favored one team over the other. The official clock had to be constantly reset and wasn’t working at all through much of the third quarter and when Coleman was injured his removal to the locker room for x-rays and treatment was delayed because the LSU people “couldn’t find “ the injury cart.
- The Middle Tennessee game was “one that got away”. So was this one. We will likely find at the end of the season that we didn’t have any margin for error.
- Two plays: the interception on the first play and the dropped pass in the end zone by Riley. Syracuse 33 LSU 28.
- Two more plays: The safety drifts toward the sideline for no apparent reason on the 43 yarder just before the half and watches the play go by him. The safety on the other side bites on the run on first play of the second half. The corner gets no inside help and chases the guy 87 yards to the goal line. We’re lucky they didn’t follow up with more deep plays.
- That first play interception was one of the most ill-conceived plays I’ve seen. Per Chris Gedney’s description after the game, Dontae Strickland was sent out of the backfield to line up at the wide receiver spot on the side where LSU’s best corner, “Greedy” Williams was playing. Williams knew that a back wasn’t going to much more than curl route so he jumped it. Strickland, not being trained as a wide receiver, just waited for the ball to come to him and it never got there. You’re going to open the game with that, not having done anything to set it up?
- Yes, Dino should have gone for two to get within a score. 10 points behind is two scores. 9 points behind is two scores. Simple math.
- Our passes continue to be almost exclusively along the sideline. The two that weren’t were both improvised on scandals and the play was wide-open for TDs, although one was dropped. Ravian Pierce caught 3 passes for 21 yards and one of those was a Dungey pop pass that was also an innovation. Make them play the whole field!
- Dontae Strickland has now carried the ball 44 times for 134 yards, 3.0 yards per carry. He’s on a pace for a 402 yard season. And this is with all those sideline passes supposedly stretching the defense horizontally.
- Hopefully Kendall Coleman will be back next week. He was having a great game.
- I don’t know where they got those refs but they knew who got them. They kept interrupting play, preventing SU from getting plays off, including one that would have prevented a review that resulted in a reversal. They got the call right but stopping the game to make sure it happened favored one team over the other. The official clock had to be constantly reset and wasn’t working at all through much of the third quarter and when Coleman was injured his removal to the locker room for x-rays and treatment was delayed because the LSU people “couldn’t find “ the injury cart.
- The Middle Tennessee game was “one that got away”. So was this one. We will likely find at the end of the season that we didn’t have any margin for error.
