🏈 LSWho & DaBarn

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The game has historically been a close one if I remember correctly. Not sure Auburn playing hard means anything. LSU's OL looks suspect.

Maybe in the past but LSU blew em out last year...

Mettenberger wasnt bad really but he def. didnt look like the world beater I had heard from the LSU folks out there... Frazier is just amazingly terrible tho. Good lord, hes getting the comparison to Jason Campbell (because of the bad start) but I dont know that I've seen a QB look this bad in a long time.
 
A few thoughts:

If these two teams lined up again, LSU walks.

Miles and his staff played this close to the vest. It was a game they put on their defense more so than their offense.

I'm not surprised by they play of Auburn's defensive ends. Both are good ball players. The loss of Hurst, as suggested before the Washington game, was evident this week. However, if any team lost their starting LT they would be struggling against those two DE's.

There isn't much I take away from this game and use it to look at ours. I like our chances in November, but we're comparing apples to oranges if we try to take last night and use it as a basis for what happens in November.

Auburn won't lose next weekend. :icon_twisted:
 
LSU is definitely not a bad team. Auburn actually played a pretty good game. I think they'd have a pretty good team if they had a QB that could hit the broad side of a barn. Their DE's were getting after Mettenberger and his mustache all night.

Both teams were VERY undisciplined, especially LSU, which is nothing new. Lester squeezed out another tight win by the hair of his chinny chin chin.
 
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I don't do moral victories. We lost.

Our defense played better tonight than they have all year. If we could have gotten any form of production out of the QB we win the game. As has been the norm, mistakes cost us on offense. Bray's fumble, sketchy playcalling putting us in 3rd and long, etc. We aren't good enough on offense to survive miscues like that, especially against a team like LSU.

I was happier with the D tonight than I've been since 2008. The offense continues to spin its wheels.

That said, LSU made the most of their opportunities and we pissed ours away. Nothing makes the loss go down easier in my world.
 
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I really want to say how poor play calling has been this season. Speed sweeps, for example, were horribly predictable. We then started using McCalebb as a decoy but then continually ran the same pitch play. If I saw that I'm pretty sure LSU did.

I also feel the QB play deserves another comment. It's just awful. We have receivers open and he's either not seeing him or just missing badly on his throws. We should've been first and ten around the LSU 40 or 35 or so on the last possession but Kiehl held the ball too damn long and then BADLY missed an open Emory Blake. It is a bit nauseating.
 
LSU played sloppy football and relied on their D and Auburn's lack of an offense to win the game. Auburns D played better than I thought they would.

Penalties and turnovers along with some questionable play calls is what I got outta LSU last night.
 
Im sure LSU was a bit overconfident going into this game giving the fact that the cow college had almost lost 3 games in a row. On the other hand the barn must have been tired of getting embarrassed every outing so they decided to actually show up for once.
 
I really feel that Auburn's defense fed off of the crowd, that place was electric...If you look at the stat sheet, LSU owned them...but their mistakes kept AU in the game.

What LSU is missing is a dominant WR, Rueben Randle was their guy last year that gave them the big threat down field that defenses has to double cover him..this year..they can just stack the box and play man-on-man...I still think LSU is a very dangerous team, but this game makes me more comfortable going into Death Valley
 
Don't know details but read that Auburn coaching grad assistant, Joe Bagwell of Huntsville, died unexpectedly before the game. Could be one of the reasons for Auburn's "inspired" play last night, if the team was aware of what had transpired.

Did notice one critical thing concerning Mettenberger's play besides the fact that he looked very inexperienced in a hostile environment . . . ZM does not appear to be very skilled when it comes to throwing on the run--referring to designed roll outs.

Also, a couple of those LSU receivers seemed mighty soft when it comes to catching the ball in traffic.

LSU's secondary is very beatable.

Trying to not look ahead but getting a little anxious for Nov. 3. I would love to see Tiger Stadium cleared out by the end of the third quarter with only crimson-clad fans remaining . . .


 
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