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BATON ROUGE, La. – Brian Kelly asked the question we all had on our brains.
The way the No. 13 Tigers played Saturday in a 42-13 tail-kicking by No. 11 Alabama, you might’ve thought LSU learned of its opponent 90 seconds before kickoff.
In fact, LSU had two weeks to prepare for Alabama.
Could’ve fooled me.
“If you’re watching the game, you’re like, ‘What did these guys do for two weeks?’” Kelly said after a loss that kneecapped LSU’s playoff chances.
“We have a scheme to stop the quarterback. We did not get it done. I take responsibility for it.”
LSU coach Brian Kelly looks on during the game against Alabama on Nov. 10, 2024, in Baton Rouge, La.
Alabama’s star quarterback Jalen Milroe galloped through LSU’s defense.
He completed his first seven passes. He repeatedly sprinted into the end zone with comfort in the knowledge that the Tigers had nobody who would lay a hand on him.
Milroe picked the Tigers clean and left them for bones, and it’s the same sad story for LSU’s defense, a yearslong wart.
“He’s got a superpower when it comes to running the football,” Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer said of his quarterback.
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Pair that superpower with an LSU defense that’s super pitiful at stopping running quarterbacks, and you get a blowout like this one.
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Kelly fired his defensive coordinator after last season, when LSU fielded the SEC’s worst defense this side of Vanderbilt.
In marched Blake Baker to run the defense, a hire that generated fanfare. Baker previously galvanized Missouri’s defense.
And yet, this loss presented as a near repeat of Alabama’s romp over LSU last season, when the…
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Publish date : 2024-11-10 15:38:47
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