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LSU FOOTBALL 09/05 Brian Kelly Press Conference Notes

Head Coach Brian Kelly met with the media on Tuesday to discuss Sunday's loss and this Saturday's matchup against Grambling:
  • Injury update: Armoni Goodwin - questionable, Aaron Anderson - probable.
  • Said nobody is happy with Sunday's performance, but points out the amount of new faces that played. 11 true freshman and 14 new transfers traveled with the team this past weekend.
  • Says he knows who is team is physically, but mentally they just weren't where they needed to be. Says he needs to do a better job getting his players in the right mindset.
  • He and the team are excited to go out on Saturday and play the game the way it's intended to be played for four quarters, not just two.
  • There's a happy medium that they feel they can strike with Harold Perkins. Thinks he can be used both as a rusher and as an off ball linebacker, and they hope they can find that happy medium better in the future.
  • Says they needs to figure out a better rushing balance. Jayden can't be the teams leading rusher every week, and he knows that. No running back had more than four touches and that needs to change.
  • Teams very excited to get Maason Smith back this weekend - sounds like he could get a start this weekend.
  • Says Aaron Anderson will still stay back on punts even after the muff. Says he gets away from his fundamentals at time and that doesn't work in CFB. Also expects him to get more involved in the offense as the season goes on.

LSU FOOTBALL PFF Insights: An analytical look at LSU's offense vs Florida State

Our first PFF Insights feature. Taking a look at the PFF grades for the offense and a dive into some of the analytics and other numbers. Hope you enjoy it.

I'll be working on one for the defense tomorrow (Tuesday), just to clarify since it's so late and most probably won't see this one until it's already tomorrow (Tuesday).


Catch 10,000 balls

Joe Brady had our WRs catching 10,000 balls over the summer. I'd be making them catch 10,000 balls this week! When the ball is in the air and its coming your way, as a WR, you got one job. Being replaced is a great motivator. You drop a ball, you come out for the rest of the series. At this point we got nothing to lose by putting Hilton, Ibieta, Parker, Brown in if our starters can't catch clutch passes.

Too bad we don't have an OC on the bench waiting for his chance to call a game.

LSU FOOTBALL Physicality ….?????

This is not a physical offense . It’s a finesse offense
Take away that long run before halftime and the RB avg. yards per carry was abysmal

Fla. state dominated the second half, LSU was gassed …they were better conditioned and more physical


Florida state committed several unnecessary roughness penalties . LSU none
some were foolish but one came away with the impression that they were more aggressive that LSU

LSU FOOTBALL 3rd Down & 4th Down Difference

3rd down....
NOLES 9 for 14
LSU 3 for 10

4th Down
LSU 0 for 3.....
Noles 1 for 1

We knew the DB's were LSU's biggest flaw.

Lacy's crucial drop on 3rd down seemed to unravel the rest of the game
Then
JD wrong decision on 4th down keeping it for loss when J Williams had a 1st Down

The Noles 4th & 2...40 yards to the one yard line Perkins suplexed em

Otherwise stats astoundingly CLOSE!

AND 1st half not converting doomed them too . Kaleb Jackson takes it to the house on that early Bradford catch!
Some O-Line changes may need to be made. But FSU's D-Line very under rated..

4th straight OPENER LSU has lost!

Was Shell shocked at the 2nd half last night ! Woke up this morning still in disbelief

LSU has winnable games up ahead......

Blow up the depth chart

Against Grambling and these next few games gotta give some these other players good play time. I guarantee you find some playmakers that should be in the starting line up. If these players who are hungry are forced to sit behind scrubs who start...there's the portal. They will either prove that they are true 2nd and 3rd string or they will rise to starter. What we know for certain is that some who were labeled as starters out of spring ball were mislabeled.

No more depth chart.
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