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Closing the book on Brian Kelly’s first year at LSU

Brian Kelly’s first year is in the books. Here are some final thoughts as LSU prepares for 2023.

LSU’s season is over.

The Tigers ended on a high note in Orlando, scoring 63 points and allowing just seven in the Citrus Bowl win over Purdue. It’s what you wanted to see from a team that dropped its previous two games.

The last year or so has been a tumultuous one with several changes. The 2022 LSU team looked a lot different from what we saw last year.

Brian Kelly reached 10 wins in Year 1. That’s an achievement many didn’t think was possible for this group. Kelly’s inaugural campaign will be defined by LSU’s win over Alabama which shot it back into playoff contention.

It wasn’t all pretty. The Florida State and Texas A&M losses both stung in their own way. It’ll be a long time before LSU takes the field again — right back in Orlando for a rematch with FSU.

It’s time to close the book on Kelly’s first year as the prep for 2023 begins.

This is what the world was like the last time Tom Brady wasn’t in the NFL

22 years is a long time.

Much has been made about the longevity of Tom Brady’s career. Certainly, there are few souls in the nation unaware of the 44-year-old quarterback’s exploits. But with the legendary passer calling it a career after 22 years, we’re left to wonder what the NFL will look like without the player who has been its public face for the last two-plus decades.

It’s especially hard for me to imagine a league without Brady in it. I was just a one-year-old on April 15, 2000, the last day he wasn’t part of the league, and he’s been a dominant player as far back as my football memory extends.

It was a very different world the last time Brady wasn’t playing professional football, and in the wake of his impending retirement, let’s travel back in time to see just how different things were the day before he was drafted.

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