2019 FB G1: Louisiana 28, Miss. State 38

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Originally Posted by Kjun08

On another note, anyone hear reported attendance?

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I heard just under 23k

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Originally Posted by cajun4life

QB play cost the Cajuns the game. Can you deny that?

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Going up against an SEC oline lost us the game not QB play. We lost it in the trenches. Lewis actually may have kept it closer with his feet. Turned some sure sacks into positive plays and kept drives going. Drives that would have been killed last year.

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Originally Posted by cajun55

Going up against an SEC oline lost us the game not QB play.

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SEC Oline cost us the game? I’m pretty happy with the way our defense played against them, especially considering the situations they were put in and all of the turnovers. I see a lot of positives and am pretty happy with they way we played ... except at QB. Without a doubt, poor decision making, fumbles and int cost us the game. It is what it is

Lots of factors other than QB play contributed to the loss. Poor play calling a couple of times, critical officiating misses, getting burnt over the top early caused us to play back on defense opening up the middle . . . All of these can realistically improve going forward.

All in all, I saw plenty potential from this game, even at QB and believe we have a fighting chance to put up a W in every game remaining on our schedule. Will we do that, probably not. But with what I saw, we can't be counted out of any remaining games on our schedule.

That is a positive we did not see last year until much later in the season.

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Originally Posted by carnold983

SEC Oline cost us the game? I’m pretty happy with the way our defense played against them, especially considering the situations they were put in and all of the turnovers. I see a lot of positives and am pretty happy with they way we played ... except at QB. Without a doubt, poor decision making, fumbles and int cost us the game. It is what it is

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Their run game killed us and we couldnt get pressure on the qb. No real surprise
against that type of program. They controlled the t.o.p. early and ran at will. It’s really not a knock on our defense. I’m very happy with how we played as well. Just don’t see QB play as the main reason why we lost.

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We had 27 first downs today, Miss St. had 29

Last year they had 29 first downs and we had 13

We have a well coached team. I didn’t see many offsides, holds, miffed handoffs etc...thought we played a pretty clean game against a very tough opponent.

Each team had just 5 penalties.

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Originally Posted by cajun55

Interesting stat -

We had 27 first downs today, Miss St. had 29

Last year they had 29 first downs and we had 13

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You mean to tell us we got 27 first downs after 5 TO’s with that QB against an SEC defense and officiating crew?

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Originally Posted by CajunVic

You mean to tell us we got 27 first downs after 5 TO’s with that QB against an SEC defense and officiating crew?

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Crazy huh, Imagine if Jake Delhomme was playing! We would have won by 30 easy.

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Originally Posted by angeleast

And that's the operative word. We competed and now playing the what if game. Better QB play would have been a game changer but this game is done. On to Liberty.

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Don’t forget they had several starters out due to ncaa violations. We actually don’t know how much they might have changed things. Probably gotten that first missed field goal.

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Originally Posted by Kjun08

On another note, anyone hear reported attendance?

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22,440, if I remember correctly.