Kirk Herbstreit absolutely hammered LSU’s defense on College GameDay’s broadcast Saturday morning.
The Tigers, of course, were beat convincingly by UCLA last Saturday 38-27, and alarm bells are sounding for Ed Orgeron’s Bayou Bengals ahead of SEC play.
Herbstreit took that a step further, mentioning the word “effort” multiple times while talking about the historically great program. It wasn’t that the Tigers lost; it was the way in which they lost.
According to Herbstreit, he “can’t watch” the Tigers play right now because of the lack of effort on defense.
“Last year, they’re a 5-5 football team, gave up 35 points a game, one of the worst defenses we’ve seen at LSU,” Herbstreit said on ESPN College Gameday on Saturday. “And then they’re going to come out, here we go 2021, and they’re going to try to get off to a quick start and you kind of see the same stuff.
“New defensive coordinator. The missed tackles,” Herbstreit said. “I mean, there were 13 missed tackles (against UCLA), and I think that’s being generous. When you watch it, it’s not just missed tackles. It’s effort. It’s effort. You cannot believe that’s the LSU uniform when you watch this game, and I like UCLA. I liked them all year.”
Herbstreit mentioned that historically great LSU players such as Patrick Peterson, Tyrann Mathieu and Booger McFarland, among others, probably can’t believe what they’re seeing from this Tigers’ defense.
The Tigers return Saturday to face Orgeron’s son, Cody, in the LSU vs. McNeese game.
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