Saturday, October 20, 2012

Tigers beat Texas Aggies, 24-19



It wasn't pretty, but it was sweet.
The LSU defense bailed out the offense again, this time against the Aggies and the 12th Man as the Tigers won 24-19.
The Tigers defense forced five turnovers and scored 21 points off those, none bigger than a 47-yard scamper by true freshman Jeremy Hill, who finished with a career-high 127 yards in his first start.

Johnny Manziel aka Johnny Football torched the Tigers in the first half with a series of throws and runs that semeed to befudded the Tigers early.

A&M raced to a 12-0 lead in the first quarter and had several chances to add to it as the Aggies' defense forced punts on all of LSU's first-quarter drives. But then Manziel started to make mistakes, due to LSU making slight adjustments on the defensive end.

LSU quarterback Zach Mettenberger, who played decent, said they had it all under control the whole while.

"There's really no reason to panic when you get down," Mettenberger said. "You just have to keep grinding away, keep focusing and keep believing. We did that and right before the half we got two quick possessions and two quick touchdowns."

"Defense just had to get their feet set and understand what was going on," LSU coach Les Miles said, "get the comfort of the scheme and the habit of throw and how to chase that quarterback. He's a gutsy, tough guy."

LSU goes into the bye week at 7-1 while the Aggies fell to 5-2.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Saints activate Vilma. Oh, yeah!

Jonathan Vilma, the New Orleans Saints' linebacker who has come to symbolize BountyGate, has been activated from the Physically Unable to Perform list for Sunday's game against the Tampa Bay Bucs. OH, YEAH!!! And get this, Vilma is expected to play. The Saints had to cut reserve wide receiver Greg Camarillo, the big, lanky target breeze went to early in the San Diego game when Jimmy Graham was banged up, to make room.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

LSU runs over South Carolina, 23-21


The Ol' Ball Coach came into Death Valley (that Death Valley) with a vaunted defense, star running back and national title hopes. He left with a new perspective.


"Tonight I realized why LSU was preseason No. 1 (in USA Today)," Steve Spurrier said moments after the No. 3 ranked South Carolina Gamecocks were beaten by the Tigers. "They're a big, strong team," he said. "They can run the ball and stop the run. That was the biggest difference in the game probably. I don't know how many rushing yards they had, but I know we didn't have many at all. I give those guys credit. They were running much better than we thought they would."


The Gamecocks got ran over in a 23-21 loss to LSU that shouldn't have been as close as it was. The Tigers nearly doubled South Carolina's yardage, but a Zach Mettenberger interception gave the Gamecocks the ball at the LSU 1 and they punched it in.

Tiger freshman running back Jeremy Hill had a breakout game, finishing with 124 yards on 17 carries, including touchdowns of 7 yards and 50. It was just what the Tigers needed after a bitter loss last week, losing by eight points to a good but one-dimensional Florida team that uses a lot of misdirection and trickery to move the ball.


''At the beginning of the season, it was about the national championship. But at the end of the day, it's all about family. I think we got back to that,'' Sam Montgomery said. ''Last year, we never would have talked about a national championship. We took it week by week by week by week, getting closer and closer.''
LSU (6-1, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) had the appearance of a team in a slide for the previous several weeks, which included several unimpressive victories over heavy underdogs, followed by a loss at Florida on Oct. 6 in which first-year starting quarterback Zach Mettenberger and the Tigers' offense were unable to get into the end zone once.

Check out the box score

''Maybe we needed a loss to be humbled, to get that hunger back, to get adversity knowing that everything doesn't comes so easily,'' said Montgomery, a defensive end, who had two sacks of South Carolina quarterback Connor Shaw. ''It was something we needed to wake us back (up), to get us playing tough, hard-nosed football.''

For South Carolina, the loss was simple.
'Our front seven didn't come to play,'' said South Carolina star defensive end Jadeveon Clowney, who was in on six tackles but did not have a sack. ''We gave up way too many yards and too many third down conversions. We can't win like that.''
LSU plays at BCS No. 18 Texas A&M (5-1, 3-1 SEC) at 11 a.m. Saturday on ESPN. 

LSU 6, Florida 14: Watch the second half (VIDEO)




In the Gators' 14-6 shocker on Saturday, Florida coach Will Muschamp knew he had to do to LSU what the Tigers did to everyone else: Pound the ball and control the clock.

But it was more than that to the Gator players.

"We wanted to hurt them," Florida defensive end Dominique Easley said. "We wanted them to feel the pain that we felt last year. We had hurt in our heart, so we wanted them to feel that same thing."

"They beat us down last year," Elam said. "We had to come back. We had something to prove. We had a plan to hit them in their mouth, and we executed."

Mike Gillislee ran rampant on the Tigers, finishing with a career-high 146 yards.

"I'll take Gilly over anybody," Muschamp said. "I tell him that all the time and I mean that. I felt that way in spring and going into fall camp. ... He's a Will Muschamp guy. He don't ever say anything, he just does his job, lines up, runs the ball. If you ask him to block, he's going to block. If you ask him to catch the ball, he's going to catch the ball. He just is a really, really, really good football player."

Saturday, October 06, 2012

Hang this one on the hat: LSU 6 - Florida 14


Les Miles got outcoached by former LSU defensive coordinator Will Muschamp in a listless 14-6 loss to the rejuvenated Florida Gators in the Swamp on the first Saturday of October.
Tigers quarterback Zach Mettenberger has teased LSU fans with great throws and seasoned poise, but the cat's out of the bag -- dude can't get it done. Let me rephrase that, he needs ALOT of help to get it done, and Odell Beckham Jr. had the worse game of his career with at least two drops and a terrible fumble in the third quarter.
The game was won in the trenches as the Gators took advantage of an apparently fragile LSU linebacking corps and when two starters went down the Gators started chomping with misdirection plays, all runs. In fact, after teeing off on Gators quarterback Driskell, the LSU defense seemed dumbfounded at Florida's second half adjustments.
Miles had that befuddled look on the his, the same one hehd in the BCS title game against Bama. LSU's defense did what it was supposed to do, even handing Mettenberger and the offense a first and goal to close the first half. LSU's coaches didn't know what to do with it, though. Bottom line, Miles was outcoached.
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