🏈 LSU DB “I really see us dominating this offense. I really see us dominating this team,”

[planomateo]

Dwayne Thomas is fired up with good reason.

The LSU defensive back is one of four players on the team who was a member of the squads in 2012 and 2014 that lost to rival Alabama at the last second at home – a pair of just misses in a five-game losing streak to coach Nick Saban’s crew.

Thomas is entering this year’s clash with the Crimson Tide with a burning desire to win, and he’s confident about it, too.


“I really see us dominating this offense. I really see us dominating this team,” Thomas said of the top-ranked and unbeaten Tide, a team that’s won seven of its eight games this year by double digits.

“This is the year,” he said. “We’ve been letting them off the hook for the last couple of years. This is my senior year. We’re going out with a bang. It’s time for us to bring that win back. We’re going to be at home. I feel like we have the edge to take it to them, and we’re going to take it to them. I feel like we’re going to dominate this game.”

During this off week, the streak is burning in Baton Rouge. The five-game skid is seared in the minds of a group of players who are now battling for an interim head coach. They’re brimming with confidence, too, in the midst of their “new season,” as they call it.

The 19th-ranked Tigers (5-2, 3-1 Southeastern) are 3-0 under Ed Orgeron heading into the Nov. 5 game against Alabama (8-0, 5-0). Ten days before the meeting in Tiger Stadium, Thomas, a fifth-year senior safety, handed the Tide motivational material to extend its longest winning streak over LSU since 1981.

Sure, Bama players might hang this in their lockers. He doesn't care.

“We put stuff up too. If that helps motivate them, so be it,” Thomas said. “We know what motivates us. We want that No. 1 next to their (name).”

 

[rick4bama]

Yes, this is almost like the other team doing those White, black out thing.

 

[ColoradoTide]

Dwayne Thomas? Never heard of her

 

[PurlJam]

From a previous post........Delusional part deux. :bman:

 

[TUSKtimes]

Sounds like symptoms of CTE.

 

[PurlJam]

Sounds like symptoms of CTE.

Possibly a dumbassaholic.

 

[ColAngus]

Makes sense. Alabama gets dominated so often.

This guy has a severe case of the dumbass. Hope Alabama has this plastered all over the locker room.

 

[TUSKtimes]

Possibly a dumbassaholic.

This is coming from a player that hasn't really distinguished himself in his long tenure on the bayou. When your HC is popping off constantly with all his sound bites, the players are now following along with theirs.

 

[Bamabww]

A sure sign he suffers from diarrhea of the mouth which always affects the brain.

 

[XXL TideFan]

Dang.....why did they hafta go and say that? Now I'm just plain skeered

 

[UAgrad93]

He is a back up safety!! Saban will have the guys laser focused and this poor boy will witness another L!!!

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

See, here's why I love our program. Our guys don't talk shit before a game. We just let our play do the talking.

But, why can't people learn that the most dominant program in the last 10 years FEASTS on bulletin board smack talk like this?

 

[bamaledge]

Uh, is he serious? All of the previous posts were spot on!
I hope the tide drowns the red baton and washes that corn dog stink away.

 

[bama alum]

And now Coach O is in on the act...Really? Wow! Is he setting every corndog up for a major fail next weekend!

Alabama-LSU: Can Tigers hang? Ed Orgeron says 'Hell, yeah'

Alabama-LSU: Can Tigers hang? Ed Orgeron says 'Hell, yeah'

LSU interim coach Ed Orgeron yells directions during the second half of the team's NCAA college football game against Missouri in Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016. LSU won 42-7. (Max Becherer)
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on October 26, 2016 at 10:59 AM, updated October 26, 2016 at 1:03 PM



LSU interim coach Ed Orgeron was asked by a fan earlier this week if he thought his Tigers had the depth to "could hang" with No. 1 Alabama on Nov. 5.

His answer was emphatic.

"Hell yeah," Orgeron said Tuesday at a New Orleans Quarterback Club meeting, per WWLTV.com.

The No. 19 Tigers (5-2, 3-1 SEC) host No. 1 Alabama (8-0, 5-0) at 7 p.m. Nov. 5 in Tiger Stadium.




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The Crimson Tide comes in with the No. 4-rated defense in the country and leads the nation with nine defensive touchdowns and 32 sacks.

Orgeron has pretty good reason to feel confident.

"Ole Miss put 43 on 'em," Orgeron said of Alabama's 48-43 win on Sept. 17. "So they're not invincible."

Meanwhile, he told those in attendance, "The truth is we kicked Ole Miss' butt."

Ole Miss rolled up 522 yards against Alabama, while LSU held the Rebels to 325 yards in a 38-21 victory.

"They're very efficient at what they do - well coached," Orgeron said, according to WWLTV. "They are a team that prides itself on blocking, tackling. They're well coached with big time athletes. They're big and physical up front."

"In order to beat a team like Alabama, we're going to have to be at our best," he said. "And I know they understand that."

Check out the full report at WWLTV.com.

 

[psychojoe]

I will have to see it to believe that they can move the ball on us on the ground with that anemic passing game of theirs not taking much heat off them.

 

[psychojoe]

I will have to see it to believe that they can move the ball on us on the ground with that anemic passing game of theirs not taking much heat off them.

 

[bamascw]

This poor kid probably has gotten an infection from a splinter in his ass from sitting on the bench so much. I feel sorry for him, he knows they need this sort of "talk" to convince themselves that they have a shot to win the game. Not to mention Orgeron, that cat can't hold a head coaching job and will be left as the bridesmaid yet again after the season ends. I suppose he figures he has nothing to loose by "talking" the talk. LSU has a case of the little brother syndrome here

 

[UAgrad93]

Series history, 50-25-5 in BAMA's favor. 9 of the Corndog victories came since 2000!! Tell me again how this is a rivalry!!!!

 

[rick4bama]

All I see is a player speaking his backside off. Then the coach doing the same thing. Just because he work with Kiffin doesn't mean he know what going on in Kiffin mind. If that so that every time Coach Saban with up again one of his old coaches than he would lose.

 

[TUSKtimes]

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