Orgeron on Burrow’s large sport: ‘Child is a baller’
AUSTIN, Texas — With No. 6 LSU holding a six-point lead at No. 9 Texas with about 4 minutes to go on Saturday evening, LSU coach Ed Orgeron requested offensive coordinator Steve Ensminger if he wished to enter four-minute offense to attempt to run out the clock.
“No,” Ensminger informed him. “We’ll cross the ball, go down there and rating.”
“Go forward,” Orgeron informed him.
With the way in which LSU quarterback Joe Burrow was taking part in, it is exhausting responsible them.
Burrow, a senior who transferred to LSU from Ohio State earlier than the 2018 season, had the very best sport of his profession in LSU’s 45-38 victory at Darrell Okay Royal Stadium, finishing 31 of 39 passes for 471 yards with 4 touchdowns and one interception.
Burrow is the primary LSU quarterback to throw for greater than 400 yards towards an AP-ranked opponent since Rohan Davey towards Illinois within the 2002 Sugar Bowl.
Burrow is barely the third participant to throw for 400 yards in a sport in LSU historical past. His 471 passing yards are second most at school historical past to Davey’s 528 towards Alabama in 2001.
“That was superior,” Orgeron mentioned. “Man, he was fired up. The child is a baller. He lives for that second, and I am going to let you know what, these had been some powerful performs. It was loud on the market, and he acquired it carried out.”
Burrow’s greatest throw was his final one. On third-and-17 from the LSU 39, he threw down the left sideline for Justin Jefferson, who hauled within the catch and broke free for a 61-yard landing. Burrow’s two-point conversion cross to Ja’Marr Chase gave LSU a 45-31 lead with 2:27 to go.
“[Texas] was taking part in so properly on offense, we knew we had been going to have to attain once more to win,” Burrow mentioned. “I stored telling the blokes, ‘Forty and we’ll win.’ We needed to keep aggressive.”
LSU’s new strategy on offense — Orgeron employed former New Orleans Saints assistant Joe Brady as his group’s passing sport coordinator/huge receivers coach after the 2018 season — is kind of a change from the Tigers’ philosophy prior to now, which historically was to depend on working backs reminiscent of Leonard Fournette and throw the ball solely once they needed to.
The Tigers had 573 yards of offense towards Texas and handed the ball 39 occasions in comparison with 29 runs. For the primary time at school historical past, the Tigers had three 100-yard receivers (Jefferson had 9 catches for 163 yards, Chase had eight for 147 and Terrace Marshall Jr. had six for 123).
“There’s nonetheless quite a lot of room for enchancment,” Burrow mentioned. “We had over 500 yards, however we might have had 600 or 700. We’ll get higher.”