🏈 Howard: RE: our text's on the line - Here's an interesting article on the "sharps" and the spread

[TerryP]

http://www.businessinsider.com/alabama-lsu-point-spread-2011-11#ixzz1cbHWYDry

 

[TerryP]

I started with saying I'd take the points...now, I'm willing to take Bama -double digits.

Why? Quotes like this one...

LSU TE DeAngelo Peterson: 'Bama's linebackers are slow and big. I should be able to handle them. They've never faced an offense like ours.

 

[Crimson&WhiteGecko]

I've been thinking double digits for a while, simply based on this premise... What is CNS record vs. John Chavis?

 

[Duder]

I started with saying I'd take the points...now, I'm willing to take Bama -double digits.

Why? Quotes like this one...

LSU TE DeAngelo Peterson: 'Bama's linebackers are slow and big. I should be able to handle them. They've never faced an offense like ours.

Big, slow LBs that contained a pissed off Cameron Newton for most of the IB last year. Apparently we should've just recruited LSU's tight end.

Please. He is saying that because of the reverse last year because Bama sold out on the fake up the gut and got caught out of position. Somehow I doubt Kirby Smart failed to coach his guys on over pursuit-this year. Breaking a long run on a misdirection play when conventional wisdom says it stays between the tackles is much different than crossing the middle on Hightower who is now 100% and probably gunning for you because of this quote.

Somehow I think if Upshaw and a shell of Hightower could run down Cam, a TE, especially one with a mouth, won't be an issue.

 

[Duder]

Just for fun I looked up some info on 40 times:

DeAngelo Peterson: 4.73
Courtney Upshaw: 4.76
Dont'a Hightower: 4.74

Slow, eh? Somehow I think .01 and .03 will be made up quicker than he thinks

 

[psychojoe]

The article makes sense. I think Bama -4.5 or 5 is a good value based on my own analysis. I am not sold on double digits yet, but I'd still like us at -7.

 

[shipley00]

I started with saying I'd take the points...now, I'm willing to take Bama -double digits.

Why? Quotes like this one...

"Offense like Ours"? Does he realize that LSU is ranked 81st in total offense, and 99th in passing offense?

 

[planomateo]

I'd expect nothing less from any player on the field, if they don't think they are better than the guy on the other side of them...well, then this wouldn't be the LSU vs Bama game now would it...

After a relatively quiet two-week buildup, the senior from New Orleans threw down the bulletin board gauntlet in interviews Tuesday night.

“I think I can play a big role because I feel like their linebackers can’t guard me one-on-one, and I don’t think their safeties can either,” Peterson said. “If the ball comes my way, I’ll make an opportunity with it.”

And Peterson kept going. Asked why he liked the matchup, he said simply, “They’re slow. They’re big. I don’t think they can run with me. I feel like I can get open against their linebackers.

Peterson made some similar comments in another interview with a television station.

Alabama (8-0, 5-0 Southeastern Conference as is LSU) is No. 1 in the nation in pass defense efficiency with an 83.7 rating based on four touchdowns allowed on the season and 135.6 yards allowed a game. The yards given up a game ranks second in the nation.Peterson (6-foot-4, 243 pounds) is third on LSU in receiving with 12 catches for 137 yards and a touchdown. He does have a receiver-like build and speed, and Alabama linebackers Don’t’a Hightower and Courtney Upshaw – considered two of the best in the country – are larger than most college linebackers at 260 and 265 pounds, respectively.

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/arti...tes-Tight-end-calls-Alabama-linebackers-slow-

 

[TerryP]

I started with saying I'd take the points...now, I'm willing to take Bama -double digits.

Why? Quotes like this one...

I'm taking minus six for a K...110 line...

 

[BamaDelta]

I'm taking minus six for a K...110 line...

Plain English please.:smile: