-- "Football is changing. We're paying players now: Name, Image and Likeness. So if you guys want to start paying our players, you finally can. Go ahead!"
-- 18 of 22 starters return this season. Orgeron said the Tigers went to Florida last year with 53 players. "To go down to the Swamp and have a freshman quarterback and 53 players to beat Florida as a 27-point underdog, I thought that started the climb back for our football team. And we beat a good Ole Miss football team and then had the No. 3 recruiting class in the country with a 5-5 team, AND, all through Zoom. Not one home visit. Not one bowl of gumbo. How about that?"
-- Orgeron said the No. 1 factor in hiring his 6 new assistant coaches (Jake Peetz, DJ Mangas, Brad Davis, Daronte Jones, Blake Baker and Andre Carter) is how well they can communicate with the LSU players and how well the players can run their offense and defense.
-- Orgeron said he believes the OL will be their strength. They have to develop depth, he said, adding to watch out for freshman Garrett Dellinger, who could play guard or tackle. Anthony Bradford needs to lose a little weight, but one of the most talented OL that the Tigers have, O said. Added that he believes both Bradford and Dellinger will likely get playing time behind the starting OL.
-- Credits Kevin Faulk for recruiting the Lafayette area and says Jack Bech will play at TE this fall and look out for walk-on TE Jack Mashburn, who O says will have a "great" career as a Tiger.
-- O believes the WR core, especially the freshmen, will be one of the strongest groups on the team. Mentions Kayshon Boutte, Trey Palmer, Jaray Jenkins, Koy Moore having a big year then lists all the freshmen: Deion Smith, Brian Thomas, Malik Nabers, Chris Hilton.
-- "I really believe we have two championship quarterbacks, three possibly with Garrett when he gets a little older. Max Johnson and Myles Brennan, it's a toss up. It's going to go all the way down to the wire, probably one week before we play UCLA," Orgeron said, adding that the offense will be geared toward the 2019 offense of spreading the ball out, getting it to play-makers and get them in space.
-- Andre Anthony, Ali Gaye and BJ Ojulari are guys that can rush the passer. Mentions Neil Farrell and Glen Logan returning, along with Joe Evans, who had one of the best springs of all the DT. O says to watch out for Maason Smith and Bryce Langston, both are expected to play with the rotating DL.
-- Derek Stingley Jr. and Elias Ricks are backed up by Dwight McGlothern and Raydarious Jones and credits Corey Raymond for getting his guys ready. Cordale Flott is the starting nickel backed up by Cam Lewis.
-- Safety was a question mark, but not now as the Tigers went out and signed Sage Ryan, Derrick Davis, Matthew Langlois and transfer Major Burns, who probably has the best chance to start, he said. "We have changed a weakness into a strong position and we also moved Jay Ward to free safety."
-- Expects a tremendous year from Damone Clark. Micah Baskerville is eligible and is back. Transfers Bugg Strong and Mike Jones are big parts of turning the LB group into a possible strength of the defense.
-- 18 of 22 starters return this season. Orgeron said the Tigers went to Florida last year with 53 players. "To go down to the Swamp and have a freshman quarterback and 53 players to beat Florida as a 27-point underdog, I thought that started the climb back for our football team. And we beat a good Ole Miss football team and then had the No. 3 recruiting class in the country with a 5-5 team, AND, all through Zoom. Not one home visit. Not one bowl of gumbo. How about that?"
-- Orgeron said the No. 1 factor in hiring his 6 new assistant coaches (Jake Peetz, DJ Mangas, Brad Davis, Daronte Jones, Blake Baker and Andre Carter) is how well they can communicate with the LSU players and how well the players can run their offense and defense.
-- Orgeron said he believes the OL will be their strength. They have to develop depth, he said, adding to watch out for freshman Garrett Dellinger, who could play guard or tackle. Anthony Bradford needs to lose a little weight, but one of the most talented OL that the Tigers have, O said. Added that he believes both Bradford and Dellinger will likely get playing time behind the starting OL.
-- Credits Kevin Faulk for recruiting the Lafayette area and says Jack Bech will play at TE this fall and look out for walk-on TE Jack Mashburn, who O says will have a "great" career as a Tiger.
-- O believes the WR core, especially the freshmen, will be one of the strongest groups on the team. Mentions Kayshon Boutte, Trey Palmer, Jaray Jenkins, Koy Moore having a big year then lists all the freshmen: Deion Smith, Brian Thomas, Malik Nabers, Chris Hilton.
-- "I really believe we have two championship quarterbacks, three possibly with Garrett when he gets a little older. Max Johnson and Myles Brennan, it's a toss up. It's going to go all the way down to the wire, probably one week before we play UCLA," Orgeron said, adding that the offense will be geared toward the 2019 offense of spreading the ball out, getting it to play-makers and get them in space.
-- Andre Anthony, Ali Gaye and BJ Ojulari are guys that can rush the passer. Mentions Neil Farrell and Glen Logan returning, along with Joe Evans, who had one of the best springs of all the DT. O says to watch out for Maason Smith and Bryce Langston, both are expected to play with the rotating DL.
-- Derek Stingley Jr. and Elias Ricks are backed up by Dwight McGlothern and Raydarious Jones and credits Corey Raymond for getting his guys ready. Cordale Flott is the starting nickel backed up by Cam Lewis.
-- Safety was a question mark, but not now as the Tigers went out and signed Sage Ryan, Derrick Davis, Matthew Langlois and transfer Major Burns, who probably has the best chance to start, he said. "We have changed a weakness into a strong position and we also moved Jay Ward to free safety."
-- Expects a tremendous year from Damone Clark. Micah Baskerville is eligible and is back. Transfers Bugg Strong and Mike Jones are big parts of turning the LB group into a possible strength of the defense.
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