lsu football head coach brian kelly Tigers holder/punter Peyton Todd broke his NFSW while attacking. The junior was involved in an erroneous field goal attempt in the third quarter of the Tigers’ 38–23 loss at Texas A&M.
Aggies quickly take control of SEC matchup after change of momentum LSU football’s first loss hurts In the conference. going to a A must-win game against the Alabama Crimson Tide. on saturday, kelly Explained What went wrong with the special teams unit.
“There is a battery snapper, holder and kicker. We have to bring them together. It’s not one without the other, all three of those guys had to work together and they were out of sync. As they were working out a week ago, I don’t know what happened, but they were out of sync,” Kelly said, per On3 Sports reporter Dan Morrison.
This mistake wasn’t just LSU’s special teams fault
The third-year LSU football coach did not blame any specific players for the errors. Kelly’s anger at Todd reflected his disappointment in the entire unit’s performance that night.
Kelly started saying Regarding the kicking team, “It was a bad night, and you can’t have a night like that. To me, to have a night like that when they’ve been so good all year is really upsetting.”
Until LSU’s loss to the Aggies, the trio of placekicker Damien Ramos, long snapper Slade Roy and holder Peyton Todd were 12/14 on field goal attempts for the season. In the loss at College Station the Tigers failed to score on two field goal attempts between 40 and 49 yards, a distance by which time Ramos was 5/6.
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Kelly and his team now have no margin for error if they want to make the College Football Playoff. LSU football starts its season with a loss For USC. A necklace whose age is not decreasing Lincoln Riley and USC football are dealing with their own issuesThe Trojans are currently 4-4 and ranked 13th in the Big Ten.
Moving forward, the Tigers play three of their last four games at home against Alabama, Vanderbilt and Oklahoma and travel to Gainesville, Florida in between. Four games that are very winnable for Kelly and Co.
If the Tigers didn’t already have the motivation, Texas A&M head coach Mike Elko’s comments about LSU That should add even more fuel to the fire for a program that looks to return to the College Football Playoff for the first time since the 2019-2020 season.
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