Couple of thoughts....

[DesotoCountyDawg]

LSU is more talented at every position than State is. Their talent and depth on the defensive side of the ball is just phenomenal.

I was delighted at halftime to be down 6-3 because I really thought that it would get ugly. People flipping out over this game and wanting Mullen fired are just being plain stupid or just trying to be cool on sixpack.

And as several have pointed out already, we were 1-2 this time last year with roughly the same results in the games we had played. Blowout of Memphis, close loss to Auburn, and getting manhandled by LSU.

Chad Bumphis has a new nickname. The Magician because that SOB disappears in big games.

 

[RonnyAtmosphere]

...the only play Mullen runs for Bumphis is the most ignorant play in all of football: The lateral pass.


It's amazing how a SEC coach thinks you can gain yardage with the lateral pass considering the closing speed of SEC defenses.

 

[bonedaddy401]

Your right - anyone who is losingtheirminds over this game is being unrealistic. LSU is anelitefootball team this year. Best team they have fielded since Miles's first year.<div>
</div><div>We may have been 1-2 last year with similar results but this year we have to go to Athens and South Carolina is a better football team this year than the Florida team we beat last year.</div><div>
</div><div>Chad Bumphis gets covered up in big games because opposing coaches know he is our only back breakingreceiver. We have some other serviceable guys but is our only home run hitter.</div>

 

[triton28]

Just would have loved to see what could have happened if we would have challenged the spot at Auburn, used two plays to tie the game with ten seconds left instead of one, not let our backup qb play the final 3 possessions vat LSU, use some timeouts, and not commit stupid penalty after stupid penalty. I dont think people are wanting him fired but those are some pretty large things. Its more a perplexing feeling.

 

[Xenomorph]

...but I'll chime in.

You're right. It was 9-6 in the 4th quarter against one of the best defenses I've ever seen and against a QB who looked like Tom Brady at times. Does anybody remember what it felt like for Saban to take a knee at half against us down there one year? ****... I do and last night was nowhere near an embarrassment as that.

They were better than us.. especially in the one area where it matters. Recruiting.

Everybody bitching needs to go back and look at the Ely's prediction thread. We all knew this was coming. What did some of you think an *** kicking was going to look like?

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

He throws him the lateral pass because its the only way he is open. He doesn't have break away speed to get himself open downfield.

 

[olemissbydamn]

The only problem I have seen with Bumphis is dropping the damn ball on critical plays. Play calling isn't the problem, as Ronny suggest.

 

[RonnyAtmosphere]

... at least according to his scout.com profile:


http://recruiting.scout.c...s=73&p=8&c=1&nid=2774262


If you are going to try to rationalize the way Mullen abuses Bumphis' talent by forcing him to do nothing but catch dumbass lateral passes, then at least don't go with the "he doesn't have breakaway speed" canard.


It makes you look foolish.

 

[Dawgzilla]

LSU's kickoff guy is certainly no better than MSU's. They might be equals, but he is certainly no better.

Oh, and I wouldn't trade Ballard for Ware. But that's about the only 2 positions where MSU might have a slight edge.

 

[aerodawg.sixpack]

high school practice or camp is a solid source for 4.4 speed is what is foolish. Find a clip of Chad Bumphis breaking away from a BCS team's defense and show it. Pegues really ran his 4.4 forty at the combine very well a few years ago.

 

[RonnyAtmosphere]

..since Mullen is in the process of ruining Bumphis's career by relegating him to doing nothing but catching ignorant-*** lateral passes, that proves Bumphis really runs a 5.2 forty instead of a 4.4 forty.


It's amazing the crap you people will come up with to justify your crazy theories.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Come on. He is either hung up in coverage (because he can't outrun them), doesn't make the catch, or makes a lateral catch. That's it. He's a good player but he's not elite like some people make him out to be.

 

[RonnyAtmosphere]

...I didn't realize scout.com trafficks in nothing but propaganda & should never be trusted to provide facts.


I'll keep that in mind next time this board begins comparing a Mullen verbal commitment to his offers as listed on scout.com.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Most of those players don't even come close to the speed listed.

 

[studentdawg87]

NT

 

[Mullenation]

He's just not that fast and quick at his position in the SEC. We want him to be our version of Percy Harvin so bad, but Chad wouldn't even hold his jockstrap. Like someone else said, please show me a video of him breaking away against a BCS caliber defense. I like Chad, I think he really really wants to win and plays and practices hard... but he's overrated.<div>
</div><div>And what's foolish is you using Scout.com's 40 times to argue that Chad is fast on the football field.</div>

 

[aerodawg.sixpack]

I haven't said anything about Mullen ruining Bumphis' career. I am saying that I very seriously doubt Bumphis runs a 4.4 forty, or if he does then he obviously does not run full speed during big games.

By what I have seen on the field of him, he is ruining his own career by dropping balls and not doing whatever he can to get open.

The only coaching problem I could see that might be detrimental to him is our calling of 5s setup play action passes that we call when the entire defensive line is in the backfield in 3s. But since Mullen does not call the plays, he is obviously not the cause of that. He could fix it to some extent, however by reevaluating our play calling.

We only see Bumphis on those ignorant-*** lateral passes because that is all he has shown that he gets open for and (sometimes) catches in big games. He is running plenty of other routes but not getting open, or catching the balls. And the few times he does a season he is usually overthrown.

 

[RonnyAtmosphere]

..who said Mullen is ruining Bumphis' career by making him run nothing but lateral pass routes./br>

I guess it has not occured to anybody that if Bumphis is really a slowpoke (as is the new general consensus here apparently) then it makes even less sense to make Bumphis catch the ball a yard behind the line of scrimmage.


If Bumphis has no speed, yet is forced to catch the ball a yard behind the line of scrimmage, any SEC defense is going to close on Bumphis & tackle his *** on the spot.


So if you are going to run with this new theory that Bumphis is about as fast as grandma on Quaaludes, then it makes even less sense to force Bumphis to catch lateral passes.

 

[aerodawg.sixpack]

lets get a heisman campaign going for him because he is so electrifyingly fast**. I am not saying he is terrible and super 17in slow, but he is getting his shots. You don't have to be the fastest guy in the world to be successful on a lateral pass. You have to be able to make 1 guy miss. Bumphis can do that. I like him with the ball in his hands. But saying that Mullen is ruining his career is ludicrous. Now maybe Chris Relf is ruining his career by not seeing him when he is open or going to be open would be a legitimate argument.

All I was saying is that the reason you have only seen him on those craptastic lateral passes are because they are the only ones called specifically to go directly to him pretty much no matter what. He runs tons of routes on other pass plays and simply does not get open, drops the ball, gets open and is overthrown, or rarely gets a nice catch.

 

[woozman]

The game last night was pretty much what I expected (except I thought the total score would have been higher). We kept up with them longer than I expected, but it was just a matter of time before the depth they have on both lines wore us down.