BATON ROUGE, La. -- If LSU's secondary is to live up to its self-anointed “Defensive Back University” legacy, junior Dwayne Thomas said a requirement is that “guys don’t bust coverages.”
If that’s the standard, the No. 4 Tigers (7-0, 4-0 SEC) realize they didn’t live up to it in the first half of the season. There were simply too many uncovered receivers running free for LSU to play its trademark brand of suffocating pass defense.
“We have given up a lot of just giveaway touchdowns,” Thomas said. “We’re correcting that because we know this November stretch is about to be huge for us and we can’t afford to give opponents points like that, easy points.