LSU Vs Oklahoma December 28th, Atlanta, Ga

[Eq4bits]

 

 

[Fishhead]

Damn that building is UGLY!

[Herb]

12 hours ago, Fishhead said:

Damn that building is UGLY!

And someone probably made more money for that design than I'll ever earn.

 

[Hatchertiger]

Looks like the Death Star ... after it blew up!

[LSUDad]

Ok, anyone making the trip to ATL for the game? 

[Hatchertiger]

I'm hosting my side of the family's Christmas gathering on the 28th.  We will have a house full of rabid LSU fans on hand. Will be bittersweet as my father passed away early Saturday morning LSU1959.  He had  Billy Cannon in his ROTC platoon. Worked his cadets so hard that Billy finagled a transfer to another platoon.

[Herb]

4 hours ago, Hatchertiger said:

Looks like the Death Star ... after it blew up!

looks like a roof turbine to me.

 

[watson]

More rumors outa Oklahoma, a safety has a broken collar bone.  No further word on who or if it is a starter or not.  

Also, a quick recap on the suspended players: Perkins is the real loss, obviously the sack leader and a starter on the d line; Bridges plays special teams and Stevenson is the backup RB, plenty others to fill in there.

[LSUDad]

I fly to ATL on Christmas Eve, make the game, fly back to Tx. On the 5th of January. We have a group of folks crossing the Border into Mexico, around the 6th or 7th. Then sometimes around the weekend, I’ll head back to Cypress, spend the night, then drive the next day to New Orleans for the NCG. Then I’m gonna need another vacation, to which we have another border crossing around MLK day. 

[LSUDad]

Enjoy...

 

 

[LSUDad]

9 hours ago, watson said:

More rumors outa Oklahoma, a safety has a broken collar bone.  No further word on who or if it is a starter or not.  

Also, a quick recap on the suspended players: Perkins is the real loss, obviously the sack leader and a starter on the d line; Bridges plays special teams and Stevenson is the backup RB, plenty others to fill in there.

Starting Oklahoma Safety Delarrin Turner-Yell will miss the Peach Bowl against LSU. Turner-Yell reportedly broke his collarbone.

[houtiger]

The piece below is from Mike Detellier interview on DandyDon.com where he talks about our running backs if CEH does not play against OK.  We don't see much on Chris Curry, so I thought it was interesting.

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Listen, it hurts, but you’ve got to piece it together by committee now. Tyron Davis Price, if you listen to Coach O, will get the nod and he is a power runner between the tackles. He has lost weight and he’s nifty in space and he is hard to knock off his pegs. I like his body lean and his ability to find the open seam running inside.

Watch for Chris Curry. Coach O has spoken highly about his improvement throughout the season and Curry is a very strong inside runner. He is a powerful in the lower body and has improved his pass catching and pass protection skills. He will not go down without a major tussle and he runs with eyes up. In the past, a few times he was running with his eyes down, but that has changed.

John Emery is the big-play element runner. He has size, speed, the ability to make people miss and in high school he was a very good receiver. Reports are he has struggled a bit with that in practice, but he is a big play guy and he gives you home run ability as a runner and receiver. Now, he needs to upgrade his pass blocking skills and that he can work on. We sent a man to the moon so we can teach someone how to protect his quarterback better.

 

 

[Nutriaitch]

question:

how dow Detellier get listed as an “expert” and have anyone actually listen to him?

 

i have never once heard him give any info that can even be remotely considered “insider info”. 

and he has never once given a breakdown on a player that couldn’t have been given by you typical 13 year old that watched a couple games. 

yet he’s constantly on Radio or TV as some genius scouting person. 

[LSUDad]

2 hours ago, Nutriaitch said:

question:

how dow Detellier get listed as an “expert” and have anyone actually listen to him?

 

i have never once heard him give any info that can even be remotely considered “insider info”. 

and he has never once given a breakdown on a player that couldn’t have been given by you typical 13 year old that watched a couple games. 

yet he’s constantly on Radio or TV as some genius scouting person. 

Much could be said about Mel Kiper, Mike Mayock, Todd McShay, Lance Zierlein. All these guys have jobs doing this. Detiller is as or more accurate than these guys. But I enjoy reading where they stand on a player. Mel started in the late 80’s, early 90’s.  
 

A good friend of mine saw a Dallas Cowboys Draft guy at the airport years back. Asked who they were looking at in the first round. The Dallas guy rattled off 4 names, the last name he said, my buddy said that if they drafted that one, they deserved failure. The Dallas guy got real defensive, they drafted that guy, he lasted a couple years in the NFL. 
The player my friend told Dallas to look at, played 13 years in the NFL, Pro Bowl, All-Pro player. 
 

All the Draft guys like Joe, going in the  first pick. From a Tiger to a Bengal, looks like it’s going to happen.    
 

The guy that’s overpaid? 
 

 

 

Edited December 23, 2019 by LSUDad

[Nutriaitch]

13 minutes ago, LSUDad said:

Much could be said about Mel Kiper, Mike Mayock, Todd McShay, Lance Zierlein. All these guys have jobs doing this. Detiller is as or more accurate than these guys. But I enjoy reading where they stand on a player. Mel started in the late 80’s, early 90’s.  
 

A good friend of mine saw a Dallas Cowboys Draft guy at the airport years back. Asked who they were looking at in the first round. The Dallas guy rattled off 4 names, the last name he said, my buddy said that if they drafted that one, they deserved failure. The Dallas guy got real defensive, they drafted that guy, he lasted a couple years in the NFL. 
The player my friend told Dallas to look at, played 13 years in the NFL, Pro Bowl, All-Pro player. 
 

All the Draft guys like Joe, going in the  first pick. From a Tiger to a Bengal, looks like it’s going to happen.    
 

The guy that’s overpaid? 
 

 

 

 

Steven A. admittedly doesn’t even watch college football. 

[LSUDad]

2 minutes ago, Nutriaitch said:

 

Steven A. admittedly doesn’t even watch college football. 

That one I’ll give you. 
 

Lance at least gets some info from his Dad, Larry Zierlein. Larry coached OL at LSU for a couple years. Spent a number of years in the NFL. 

[watson]

Music for your tailgate party.  

 

 

[Fishhead]

IMO Detillier is great with NFL stuff. 

Why anyone listens to him regarding LSU stuff is beyond me

[LSUDad]

2 hours ago, Fishhead said:

IMO Detillier is great with NFL stuff. 

Why anyone listens to him regarding LSU stuff is beyond me

Much of the NFL guys, much like the guys at Rivals, 24/7, USA Today, etc. All have their opinions. Hit and misses. Somewhat like us on these boards, I enjoy and welcome different views, opinions, etc. 

But then you got ESPN, and the other networks paying folks for their views. 
 

Tons of money in this. 

[LSUDad]

So LSU has turned the Marriott Marquis ballroom into the “Pain Cave” for the week. GEAUX TIGERS 

 

 

 

 

[LSUDad]

Good write up...

LSU Football Players Stress Staying Focused Ahead of Peach Bowl Date With Oklahoma

 

Glen West2 hours ago

LSU junior center Lloyd Cushenberry and senior defensive end Rashard Lawrence sat catercorner from one another, media members splayed in between the two Tigers' booths as they answered questions ranging from Oklahoma to blocking out Christmas distractions. But one question caught Lawrence off guard a bit.

"Why did this season happen," a reporter asked Lawrence.

"The quarterback starts it and the head coach starts it, and we go as they go," Lawrence said. "It's a process and everything, but things have to go your way. And I look at all the things that kind of went our way with all the different hirings, guys coming back to school, and, I mean, ultimately Joe just taking over this program."

This time a year ago, LSU was preparing for a Fiesta Bowl game against UCF that while demanding a ton of focus, also allowed for some freedom to have fun and enjoy the bowl experience. Long gone are the days where Garrett Brumfield and Joe Burrow stood around debating which super-hero was better, Iron Man or Batman.

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This year you'll get no such reaction from the Tiger players, who are laser-focused on punching a ticket to the national championship game in New Orleans.

"We got to understand what the end goal is, and that's the National Championship," Cushenberry said. "If you're not focused and locked in on that, I don't know what to tell you. I feel like the whole team is just pretty much focused. Coach O and the staff does a great job of letting us know that it's not a bowl game. It's a playoff game. It's different."

For Lawrence and the LSU defense, finding a way to hinder the explosiveness of an Oklahoma offense that statistically is neck and neck with the Tigers in 2019 is a tall task. Since taking a punch to the mouth with poor outings against Alabama and Ole Piss, the Tiger defense has held its last three opponents (Arkansas, A&M, Georgia) to 37 total points.

"The good thing about football is that you want to ascend as the season goes on," Lawrence said. "I think this defense has done that. We struggled. We had different injuries. We weren't playing well at all. But now, with this time of the season coming around, with postseason ball, we're going in the right direction."

This isn't the first time Lawrence and a few veteran leaders on the Tigers have gone up against Hurts, losing to the former Alabama quarterback in the 2016 and 2017 seasons. Lawrence has seen a ton of growth in Hurts as a player, noting his increased accuracy and the leader he's grown to be for the Sooners.

"I think the biggest thing is he can sit back there and throw it," Lawrence said. "They've got a lot of different designed runs for him, but he'll sit back there and throw it. He can throw it, he can run it and he's also the heart and soul of that team."

On the offensive side, the status of running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire is a hot topic but there are three running backs behind the junior who could all see an increased workload on Saturday.

Cushenberry, aside from Burrow, the offense’s unquestioned leader, said it doesn't matter who's in the backfield if the o-line can't find a way to create holes for the running back.

"Whoever gets carries, it's on us up front to do our job so they can make plays," Cushenberry said. "It doesn't change anything for us."

Freshmen running back Tyrion Davis-Price and John Emery figure to be the likely candidates to receive carries against a Sooner defense that Cushenberry describes as smaller than SEC defensive lines but faster.

"All those guys, they play hard and a lot of speed," Cushenberry said. "And not really, you know, bigger guys that we've seen just throughout the season, but they play fast and they play hard."

Oklahoma comes in with 35 sacks on the season, top-30 in the country while holding opposing rush units to 132 yards per game, ranked No. 33 in the country. The Sooner defensive line will be without leading man Ronnie Perkins, who will be serving a suspension Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley confirmed on Monday.

Perkins had combined for a team-leading six sacks and 13.5 tackles for a loss in 2019 but Cushenberry says they aren't a one-man horse by any stretch of the imagination.

"They move a lot up front and play with a lot of speed," Cushenberry said. "So they're probably the fastest team we've played all year. We have to get ready for that. They have great players. I feel like they're much faster than a lot of SEC teams. That's what they do. They play fast, they play hard."

 

If LSU does what its players preach and "do their job" there's no reason the team shouldn't be playing in the national championship in New Orleans for the fourth time in the 2000's. 

"I think just trusting our process, how we do things. We keep things simple here," Lawrence said. "We don't make things bigger than they are. That's a testament to Coach O and how we do things. We've been practicing hard. Not long, but hard. When we hit, we hit. When we lay off, we lay off. When we're in the film room, that's where we do most things right now, especially during this season."

[LSUDad]

Report: ACC officiating crew assigned to LSU-Oklahoma game

• December 22, 2019
• By Lenny Vangilder 
• Category: College Football, LSU

For bowl games, officiating crews are typically not announced until shortly before kickoff, but according to a report from the officiating blog Football Zebras, an Atlantic Coast Conference crew will work the College Football Playoff semifinal between LSU and Oklahoma in the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl Saturday in Atlanta.

The interesting quirk of the assignment is that the referee for the Peach Bowl is Stuart Mullins – who also served as the referee for LSU’s game with UCF in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 1. Mullins also was the referee for the Tigers’ 2017 neutral-site season opener against BYU, which was moved days before kickoff from hurricane-ravaged Houston to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.

The rest of the crew assigned to the Peach Bowl, according to Football Zebras, includes umpire Jim Hyson, head linesman Art Hardin, line judge Hugh Campbell, field judge Milton Britton, side judge George Liotus, back judge Rob Luklan and center judge Larry Hayes.

Mullins’ crew called a tight game in the Fiesta Bowl last year, with 26 combined penalties for 249 yards. Of the officials reportedly assigned to Atlanta, only Luklan was also part of Mullins’ crew at the Fiesta Bowl.

[Eq4bits]

And this is the same guy whose crew didn’t throw a flag for that blindside defenseless player targeting that UCF put on Joey.....

[LSUDad]

Just landed in ATL, let’s get this Party started. 

[houtiger]

One thing that bothers me about this game is how confident us fans are of a win.  The OK defense is not known to be a great unit, and we've moved the ball against some very good units, like Fla., Auburn, Alabama, and Ga.  I'm pretty confident of a win.  I hope our players are ready to play the #4 team in the nation.  Maybe O posts some locker room quotes, but he's got to get the team focused and ready.  I know he's been trying, but over-confidence can creep in and be hard to judge.