Tinker:
11 talented experience LSU football players are gone from last years LSU football team. So common
sense tell us that this years LSU 2013 football team is loaded with raw
talent, that we can see with our own eyes that they are indeed very
talented football players. So what then does that tell us about winning
the SEC future championship?
That the college football programs has a built in turnover fact of
life that no one can deny, or do much about. That the NFL has encroached
on not just the seniors, but also any of the talented college football
players as well.
That the college football teams playing college football today are in the same raw talented boat as everyone else.
Is LSU 2013 college football players raw talent good enough to win next year SEC championship?
I would say that the answer to that question is yes, because the LSU
raw talent can win each and every college football game that LSU plays
next football season, if LSU has the right man playing.
So we
come to the same problem that most people have in college football, is
the 2013 LSU football players going to play the coming LSU college
football games like men, or boys.
Well are you tigers. are you the man?
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Reveille
Young defense shows potential, aims to remove doubt
Welter, Barrow compete for middle linebacker
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Photo by Connor Tarter
4/20/13 Spring Game
LSU junior running back Terrence Magee (14) braces
himself against a tackle from purple squad junior defensive back Tre'
Sullivan (21) Saturday, April 20, 2013 in the National L Club Spring
Game in Tiger Stadium.
- Craig Loston
- “With the guys we have in the front, no
matter what quarterback we are playing, you have about three seconds to
get the ball out, and that is what we try to accomplish.”
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Updated: 9:21 pm, Sun Apr 21, 2013.
Tyler Nunez
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The LSU football team’s defense showed signs of promise
Saturday at the annual Spring Game as the White team, comprised
primarily of projected starters, prevented the Purple squad from getting
on the scoreboard.
The Tigers are faced with the lofty task of replacing seven
defensive starters from last season. Junior defensive tackle Ego
Ferguson said he and his teammates wanted to remove any doubts LSU fans
had about their relatively green team.
“A lot of people said that we couldn’t do
it and that we were a lot thinner of a defensive line since we lost a
few people,” Ferguson said. “I had the mindset that I wanted to prove a
lot today.”
The White squad held the opposing offense
to eight first downs, a 31 percent completion percentage and 208 total
yards. It also tallied three sacks, four quarterback hurries and an
interception.
LSU’s defensive line showed it may be able to be productive despite not having the depth of previous lines.
Sophomore lineman Danielle Hunter showed
prowess at defensive end, leading the Tigers with eight tackles and two
sacks. Ferguson and fellow junior defensive tackle Anthony Johnson also had
impressive outings, combining for 12 tackles.
Junior defensive end Jordan Allen contributed with four tackles and an assisted sack.
“With the guys we have in the front, no
matter what quarterback we are playing, you have about three seconds to
get the ball out, and that is what we try to accomplish,” said senior
safety Craig Loston.
Junior Jermauria Rasco is expected to start
at defensive end but did not participate in the Spring Game due to a
shoulder injury.
LSU coach Les Miles confirmed the middle
linebacker position will be filled by either junior D.J. Welter or
senior Lamin Barrow.
Welter got the start at the position Saturday, but stayed relatively quiet throughout the scrimmage, tallying just two tackles compared to Barrow’s seven.
Barrow has only played at outside
linebacker, but he said he is willing to play in whatever position Miles
feels he will be most productive.
“Of course I’m used to the outside, but
when I came in as a freshman I was an inside linebacker, so I’m ready
wherever,” Barrow said. “... The main thing is getting the best three
guys on the field. All our guys are ready. Whoever gets that third spot
is going to be fine.”
Sophomore linebacker Kwon Alexander also
had a promising showing, leading the Purple squad with seven tackles,
one for loss, and breaking up two passes.
Loston stood out in the backfield at free
safety earning six tackles, breaking up a pass and grabbing the sole
interception of the scrimmage.
Miles said he was happy with the defense’s
performance as a whole, and said the addition of incoming freshmen this
summer can only help.
“There’s a lot to build on,” Miles said. “Certainly a great challenge to start a summer season.”
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Zach Mettenberger, LSU offense solid in spring game
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By MATTHEW HARRIS
Advocate sportswriter
April 21, 2013
Professing a goal to keep its newly renovated offense vanilla, LSU
saved a lone and critical wrinkle for a late unveiling in Cam Cameron’s
debut inside the Tiger Stadium coaches box.
Rather than serve as
dictator, Cameron took the title of consultant, while the Tigers
quarterbacks saw the keys to a more vertical attack entrusted to their
hands and judgment during the LSU Spring Game.
Slow to start and
fumbling with the clutch early, quarterback Zach Mettenberger at least
kept the unit pointed in the proper lane. The senior piloted the White
team to 525 yards on offense, while its defense pitched a shutout and
ceded only 208 to the Purple team during a 37-0 shellacking in front of
28,000 fans Saturday.
“It was tough out there,” said Mettenberger,
who threw for 236 yards and two touchdowns on 12-of-19 passing before
being lifted at the half. “It was the first time I’ve ever done that. It
was kind of a slow start, but we turned it around and had a pretty good
day.”
Yet LSU coach Les Miles characterized the control more in the vein of handing his signal-callers learner’s
permits.
“It’s
not the complete keys and the controls as much as it is an exercise
that allows you to see what the quarterback thinks,” Miles said. “How he
sees the game plan, what he would call and how he would operate
things.”
If anything, the first series showed quickly dissipating
tremors. Mettenberger guided the offense 72 yards in 11 plays before
settling on a 29-yard field goal from Colby Delahoussaye to take a 3-0
lead with 8:01 left in the first quarter.
On his first throw,
Mettenberger missed Odell Beckham Jr. on a quick slant before finding
him two plays later for a 24-yard pickup to the Purple’s 44-yard line.
Yet
Mettenberger misfired to running back Jeremy Hill on a checkdown in the
face of pressure, then oscillated back to find Beckham for 12 yards to
the 18.
After Hill, who quietly rushed for 102 yards on 13
carries, picked up 6 yards to the 12, Mettenberger tossed back-to-back
incompletions, including a slant to redshirt freshman Travin Dural that
was broken up in the end zone.
Two consecutive series with
three-and-outs cemented a first quarter with just a 3-0 lead. It also
brought a consultation between Mettenberger and his pass-catchers.
“We
needed a big play to happen for everything to get going,” said Beckham,
who rolled up 202 yards and two touchdowns on six catches. “We did
start off slow, but Zach, Jarvis and I just kind of got together and we
told the offense we need to get going, we need to pick it up.”
Yet,
the fifth series proved vital, with Mettenberger connecting on all four
throws — five, if you count a 14-yard touchdown pass wiped out by an
ineligible receiver penalty — highlighted by a 50-yard completion to the
Purple 9 after he dropped a perfect throw to Beckham on a post route.
“It’s
certainly something we want to do anyway,” Miles said of pushing the
ball vertically. “To continue that philosophy in the regular season is
going to be key.”
Three players later, he slotted a perfect throw
to tight end Dillon Gordon for a 15-yard touchdown pass and a 9-0 lead
after Delahoussaye thumped the PAT off the upright with 6:05 until
halftime.
And on the first play of the ensuing series,
Mettenberger set his feet and lofted a 79-yard scoring throw to Beckham,
who dashed past cornerback Matthew Gibson, for a 16-0 lead with 4:11
left that they carried into half.
“Zach still had the confidence
and trust in us to attack deep,” said Landry, who added 132 yards on six
catches. “That’s what he did, and you could see Odell excels in the
area with his speed.”
For a defense facing the task of replacing
seven starters, Saturday proved a boost to morale, even with starters in
end Jermauria Rasco, cornerback Jalen Mills and free safety Ronald
Martin sidelined with injuries.
“We’re just trying prove a lot of
doubters wrong,” junior defensive tackle Ego Ferguson said. “They say we
couldn’t handle it, say we’re not good enough. I’m just trying to shock
the world this year.”
While freshman Anthony Jennings, who
started and passed for 98 yards on 8-for-21 passing, showed poise, the
Purple team only drive into the red zone once. Yet, it wasn’t Jennings
or Hayden Rettig that led a foray to White’s 6. No, it was back-up Brad
Kragthorpe, whose pass into the end zone was picked off by Craig Loston
with 13:53 left in the fourth quarter.
Junior Terrance Magee
rushed for 61 yards on 12 carries, while Jennings chipped in 26 yards on
seven carries, including a 15-yard carry on a broken play after a roll
out where he shimmied by oncoming linebackers.
But even with a
depleted stock at defensive end, tackles Ferguson and Anthony Johnson
were able to spearhead a group that notched three sacks, including two
from freshman Danielle Hunter in Rasco’s stead, and four tackles for
loss.
“Those are my big babies,” Loston said. “I’m the older one,
and those guys do a good job of clogging up the middle. As long as we
hold everybody accountable (and) they do their jobs, we should be fine.”
Hunter
paced the White team with eight tackles, while Ferguson and Barrow
added seven apiece. Aside from his interception, Loston wrapped up six
tackles, too. Meanwhile, sophomore Kwon Alexander proved he should see
plenty of time in the linebacker rotation with seven tackles for the
Purple team.
Might it also be a sign the disruptive force of John Chavis’ defense might be inside at the point of attack?
“We’re
going to be really good inside, and we’ll get back Jermauria Rasco and
then four defensive ends from the freshman class,” Miles said. “What’s
going to happen to us is we’re going to improve dramatically in that
spot.”
And in the evaluation process to back up Mettenberger,
sophomore Stephen Rivers offered up a solid test score, coming on in
relief to pile up of 185 yards and two touchdowns on 7 of 10 passing
with the first team. It was a far cry from three scrimmages where he
completed just 40 percent of his passes.
Only three plays into his
first drive at the helm, Rivers found Dural for a 45-yard touchdown and
a 23-0 lead with 11:00 left in the third quarter and a running clock
ticking away.
A series later, Rivers and the White marched 78
yards in 10 plays to extend the lead to 30-0 on J.C. Copeland’s 6-yard
scoring run. And after Loston’s interception, went 97 yards in 14 plays
to cap the scoring on Rivers’ 21-yard touchdown pass to Beckham.
Working
the rail signing autographs and posing for pictures with fans, the
choking start appeared only a shoulder to pull away from, too.
“That’s
just spring,” Rivers said. ‘Its going to look a bit rusty at times. At
the end, we started clicking better and staying more loose. It’s only
going to get better from here.”
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