Thoughts on the team after 2 games

[ronpolk]

1) Making the switch to Fitz gives us the best chance to win any game.

2) Holloway certainly has a place in this offense but it's not 15 carries. We have to make the switch to Aries.

3) The OL looks better but I have to say that Fitz makes them look better. He's tough to sack and appears to have pretty good pocket awareness.

4) The DL is legit but I'm not sure if it's lack of depth or conditioning but they seem to be tired in the 4th. This happened last week too.

5) I like the LB play, with the exception of JT. I'm just not seeing him play all that well.

6) I thought the secondary played much better. However, with that said, we need Graham off the field. He's the biggest liability on our team and he will cost us big this year. At this point, our starting corners need to be Peters and Durr.

I think because of our D, we will hang in there with most teams. I am nervous about playing someone like OM or A&M because of our secondary. I think we will hang with LSU next week. I think the key will be if we can run the ball on them and if our DL stays fresh. My gut feeling is that LSU will pull out a win late due to LF eventually wearing us down.

 

[Dawg1976]

Much better this week. Play like that the rest of the year we can win some games. Going to be a struggle getting 6 wins but hope we can.

 

[thatsbaseball]

LSU may have found a QB last night in spite of Miles trying to screw up another season. That game just got a lot tougher.

 

[ronpolk]

I didn't see the game but I know they played much better when they took Harris out.

 

[The Peeper]

Correct, Jamoral Graham is just as bad at corner as he was at returning punts. I should say fielding punts because you have to catch them before you return them and he's the worst I've ever seen at that. Hes a big liability at corner

 

[57stratdawg]

I don't think depth is a problem with the DL. We should be able to basically roll damn near three complete units between:

Jefferson
James
Simmons
Dale
Adams
Thomas

Then guys Hoyette, F Adams, and Spencer and Calvin playing off the edge.

 

[msstate7]

LSU may have found a QB last night in spite of Miles trying to screw up another season. That game just got a lot tougher.

Etling...
6-14 100 yds 1 td 1 int

In the 2nd half, he was 0-6 1 int

Not ready to say he's lsu's savior

 

[thatsbaseball]

The crowd sounded like the old Tiger Stadium when they pulled Harris and the team reacted the same. We could be stepping into a buzz saw.

 

[Digging dog]

Most important was Mullen's fired up ***. It was an obvious direct trancendent through the team and coaching staff.

 

[Bulldogg31]

Etling...
6-14 100 yds 1 td 1 int

In the 2nd half, he was 0-6 1 int

Not ready to say he's lsu's savior

Thank you. If our QB had that stat line we'd be not so happy. He threw one good ball that I saw.

 

[patdog]

The crowd sounded like the old Tiger Stadium when they pulled Harris and the team reacted the same.

Same thing happened when they pulled Jordan Jefferson and put Harris in as the starter. The new guy is a Les Miles QB. He won't be that good.

 

[FlotownDawg]

LSU got a emotional bump when Etling came in and scored 27 points in the second quarter (7 of those on an amazing punt return TD). The second half they went back to being trash on offense. Just one TD and Etling didn't complete a pass. I'm not scared.

 

[KeyserSoze1999]

Absolutely +1.

He was grinning and un-bothered by the South Alabama game---I was glad to see him fired up.

Mullen needs to understand #1. If he wants to stay at MSU he can not lose to 28 point underdogs at home---#2. If he wants to leave MSU for another job, no one will hire a coach who loses to 28 point underdogs at home.