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Ed Orgeron Talks About Bo Pelini's Response To The Mississippi State Loss

by Staff Reporter

September 30, 202046 Comments

Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports

The return to Tiger Stadium as LSU's defensive coordinator didn't exactly go the way Bo Pelini wanted on Saturday vs. Mississippi State. The Tigers defensive gave up 623 passing yards and six touchdowns in the 44-34 opening loss to the Bulldogs.

On Monday, head coach Ed Orgeron said that Pelini was the first one to come up to him after the game to take blame for the loss.

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"He's the first guy to come see me in my dressing room. First guy. He said, Coach, I should have done a better job. And he was hurting just like everybody else. And we went over the film, and he saw the things that he did well, saw the things that we must and will improve. He's been fantastic today. He's eager. He's an outstanding coach. He's hurting just like everybody else."

"Bo gave great speeches on Friday night. He handles the defense. He's very emotional. You know, he's been a head coach. He knows how to talk to the football team. He had the guys motivated. He's been very, I want to say not apologetic, not humble, but just, hey, you know what, I could have done better, Coach. Very loyal, hurt, you know, hurting that he didn't do better, hurting that the defense didn't do better, just like we all are. But I told him, hey, put it on me, we're going to get it fixed."

The Tigers look to get back on track this Saturday at Vanderbilt. Kickoff is set for 6:30 p.m. CT on the SEC Network.

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Mike da Tigah•65 months

Some of you LSU fans seriously crack me up how incredibly fast you go straight to scuttling the ship. LSU lost a ton of rock star athletes and coaches from last year all of the field. This is by any team’s definition a huge rebuilding year, but even then, this team will drastically improve. They will work this out.

lsualum96•65 months

I'm with you. Been down this road before as an LSU fan. The team is too talented not to improve. We'll see a totally different effort on Saturday.

brewdrees•65 months

Facts, same with Saints fans.

Un_withable•65 months

Excuse me.....is this the bandwagon fan site. Shut the frick up. Be happy for last year and now support the rebuild....17 starters gone...

Nix to Twillie•65 months

Stop mistaking disappointment for lack of support. Everyone’s still gonna be cheering for LSU this Saturday, dummy.

TommyDaTiger•65 months

Look Twill you better work on that poor excuse of a man cave you got baw

Nix to Twillie•65 months

Tommy, you need to back into exile where I sent you in the first place lest you top your reigning best melt of all time. Keep those half decade old “jokes” alive, drunky.

MaHittaMaHitta•65 months

None of this matters until we see him implement these changes and fixes.

tigerfoot•65 months

O and P going to get it fixed

jdk426•65 months

Disappointed of course you should be they did not play comparable to last year whatsoever. But truthfully that is expected when you lose almost your entire team. These kids have not had the offseason learning and reps that they would normally have. They will get better but we likely have one of if not the youngest least experienced team at this point in college. Covid-19 didnt do them any favors in the offseason either.

WhiskeyPlease•65 months

Ed O won't be so kind with the Flowery words next game you can just tell. Pellini welcome back to the SEC we have high and higher standards here.

geauxtigahs87•65 months

What response?

coachw•65 months

Can't you make some changes DURING the game? You have to stay in the same scheme most of the game looking for different results as they light your arse up?

slicc3333•65 months

can't make changes during a game --if you have not trained your guys where to be or how to react.

tigerMike•65 months

the team is "trained" on zone defense. they should have tried something different.

Hot Carl•65 months

This is my biggest concern with Pelini moving forward. I don’t trust him to match wits in-game with some of the creative offensive minds in the conference. I mean, change SOMETHING for Christ sakes. Even if it’s just line up all 11 guys side by side like a kick off 20 yards off the line of scrimmage and say whatever you do, don’t let them get past this line. Lol

Aligater•65 months

Well, Lou Tepper was our DC from 1997-1999 and maybe the world's worst DC...He was followed by Bo Pellini and Bo's first game as DC was so bad the NO writers referred to it as the Tepperllini defense...After that first game, Bo's teams got much better including holding Oklahoma and its Heisman QB to 14 points in the National Championship game...let's give him a chance.

Roovelroe•65 months

Weak

atltiger6487•65 months

that's just coachspeak. Fix the defense.

idlewatcher•65 months

blah blah blah

brett408•65 months

I think he should forfeit his salary for the first week. Maybe he should donate it to the needy. He certainly did not earn it.

Old Money•65 months

Don’t care, fix the defense

JohnnyU•65 months

All that coach speech doesn’t mean squat. Hell, he should be hurting and feeling guilty for not earning the roughly $200,000 per game salary. We won’t learn anything vs Vandy or Mizzou. Florida should be interesting.

CanebreakCajun•65 months

Check out the Florida defensive stats vs. the lane train.

FlyingTiger69•65 months

I think the defense will be turnaround to and put together a respectable defense for the rest of the year. Poor O-line and QB play is what worries me the most...

MONROE•65 months

And not the 600 yards?

FlyingTiger69•65 months

I said I thought they would turn it around. Was I not clear that I believe they will overcome their poor performance? dumb@$$

Jrv2damac•65 months

Washed up tard

lsufan79•65 months

Just like your mother.

EZE Tiger Fan•65 months

We've seen this song and dance before.

Big EZ Tiger•65 months

We'll, we sucked in the start of 2017, improved dramatically and then went on to have the best season of all time in 2019. So as pathetic as that performance was, he has shown an ability to improve things.

EZE Tiger Fan•65 months

Oh, I'm not talking about Ed O. Talking about BP. O will fire BP if the doesn't shape up.

5Wide•65 months

5 losses incoming

CanebreakCajun•65 months

Where is your sister?

pbro62•65 months

bullshite response. Like great speeches and excuses make a difference. The amount of talent on the field was still superior to moo st and he shot the bed period

ShadowTigerTX•65 months

Not so sure the talent we actually had on the field in the secondary WAS in fact superior to Moo State's receivers.

Chalkywhite84•65 months

To the guy the below. We all know that the secondary is young, so sometimes run a zone or a 3 man rush. Pelini rushed 4 every play and played man On top of that he kept running that stupid stunt play where ali would have to loop inside and got no pressure. He was our best pass rusher and you're going to keep taking him out the play on 3rd

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