What Lincoln Riley, Ed Orgeron said in final Peach Bowl press conference
The talking is finally over. Here is what Lincoln Riley and Ed Orgeron said in final Peach Bowl press conference
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The talking is finally over. Here is what Lincoln Riley and Ed Orgeron said in final Peach Bowl press conference
On CeeDee Lamb:
EO: They’ve done a great job with him. He’s big and he’s strong. He’s one of the best receivers we’ve seen. We’ve faced some really good receivers. We see some really good receivers every day in practice. But he’s different.
Yards after the catch from this guy are phenomenal. You’re going to have to cover one-on-one. You just can’t put a safety over the top of him and stop Jalen Hurts all day. You have to mix it up. You can’t give them the same thing every time. This guy is too good of a play caller. You have to mix it up, take your shots.
The biggest key is to keep him in front of you and tackle him. The yards after the catch is where he’s really dangerous.
On being in the College Football Playoff before:
LR: I think it’s helpful for a lot of our staff and players that have been here. They understand the scope of it and all the attention and hype that comes around with this game.
I think personally, for me, probably the biggest help is having gone through this a few different times is within the scheduling. There’s so much — you’ve got a lot of different choices on how you can handle this amount of time. This year’s been different than the others, like we’ve said a thousand times now, because of being a week shorter.
But it has helped us in some trial-and-error before, some things that we did from a scheduling perspective when we practiced, how we practiced. I would say that’s evolved and now we feel like we’ve got a pretty good plan going forward and some of that’s based on what we have learned in the past.
On Derek Stingley:
LR: He’s a very good player. Impressive, the way he’s been able to play, some of the plays he’s been able to make in some important games. And certainly being able to do that as a young guy, it’s — he’s certainly one of the better young corners I can remember seeing in the last several years.
They’ve done a great job with him schematically and he’s kind of hung in there through the year, gotten better and better. It looks like he’s stayed pretty healthy, been able to be on the field, and take a large quantity of reps. Yeah, he’s an impressive kid.
On Jalen Hurts being a running quarterback, like Ole Miss’ quarterback:
EO: I think we were a little surprised by the Ole Miss quarterback. We knew he could run. They had a scheme that really got to us a little bit. We weren’t as prepared for that scheme as we thought we’d be. He was faster, and they were bigger.
I don’t think this is going to be the case. That doesn’t mean we’re going to stop him. We know this guy’s a great player. We know they have a great scheme. We know they’re going to make plays.
We’re just not going to shut down this offense, but we need to be in the right place at the right time. We need to play our blocks. We need to tackle in space and we need to keep coming after it.
This is going to be a war. This is going to be one of the hardest offenses we’ve tried to stop since I’ve been here at LSU, and Jalen is one of the best players. We know that. He’s beaten us twice already.
He has the ultimate respect of the head coach here and everybody on our staff.
Talking to team about suspensions:
LR: I didn’t address our team at all about it. Of all the years in Oklahoma, this has probably been the year we’ve had the most lineup changes, major injuries, guys out for games. We’ve dealt with that all season.
So, honestly, this is nothing new for us, other than probably a little bit easier in the fact that you had some time to plan for it. So, no, our guys know the deal. That’s our culture there. If somebody’s down for whatever reason, it’s next man up. I don’t think it’s fazed our team at all. We’re used to it and we have confidence in the guys that will step up in that place.
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