REACTION: LSU RB John Emery Tears ACL! | Tigers Running Game BIGGEST Weakness On Offense?

hey what's going on y'all T-Bob here and Jake as well and you're about to watch the little OTB LSU we're going to give you all the latest greatest between LSU football baseball women's basketball softball and everything in between bottom line you want to talk Tigers he it lock subscribe like it some really odd news broke at uh the the in the middle of yesterday your phone probably went off if you're a big LSU fan and and you're watching this show um all of a sudden kind of out of nowhere because even rewatching the game I don't know that I saw the moment that this would have happened uh maybe I thought maybe this one tackle but then he was back in uh split out wide afterward believe it happened at practice okay it happened at practice okay um that makes sense then yeah the next week John Emer tears his ACL uh out for the season um tore his left ACL last year he tore his right one uh this is so sad in uh so many different ways because John Emer whether it's been you know having to overcome some like unfortunate academic situations fighting through all of that staying committed finally getting B getting hurt staying committed coming back and then being the best player on the field in the third quarter of that game and that is not not an exaggeration and actually looking like LSU's best running back by far the fact that he would have that game finally get some momentum going and then once again tear his ACL is near unfathomable it is uh representative of the worst part of sports with are which are injuries which are cruel and uncaring and unfair and I mean I you know all you all I could say is just that I hope that John Emery overcomes this and whether it's in football or anything else in life that that he finds a success that he has been working so hard for and chasing so hard for so many years yeah and this is incredibly incredibly sad it just is um having a a relationship with John I know how hard he's worked on and off the field to get back on there uh he doesn't hide from some of the academic stuff that he had I mean he admits where he was wrong he put his head down he went to work when you went over there for practice or just workouts kind of check in on the team uh the strength coaches would just talk glowingly about the work that John put in to come back from the torn ACL that he had a year ago and you know talked about him doing all the right things to be able to be what you saw in the third quarter against USC and unfortunately man a guy just cannot catch a break and you hate to see it and again trust me when I say like this is somebody that has attacked getting back on the football field with every force that he possibly could yeah and then you go out there and you play like that because let's not forget who he is as a player I mean he is explosive he is big play threat guy every time he touches the ball he's been that for a long time I mean you go back to 2020 against Alabama he takes a stretch and he goes 70 or whatever it was like he on the field was going to help you this season but more importantly off the field this is somebody that worked so hard to get back on the field it's just it's devastating well and even down to the the the camp report from at the beginning of camp where you know they're repping him and he's playing hard but he's still trying to overcome some of that some of that mental uh that that mental block that comes from coming off of a major injury where you have to learn to trust your body again and he had clearly learned to do so and again he was as much of a reason as anything else why that run game popped uh in the third quarter actually the main reason his vision his power um we'll get into elsu run blocking uh which leaves a lot to be desired but um yeah it's it's again it's it's unfathomable how cruel uh of a break this is for John Emy again I mean I mean I I think it looked like he was going to be rb1 so they blow to Emory um they blow to the team as well uh major blow to the team yeah yeah I mean again major blow to Emery too again like that's the part that I definitely want to focus on first because of knowing how he worked to get back to this point but when you look at the other side of it you're down now to three scholarship running backs that are available to you you have three scholarship tight ends that are available to you and it's a group but both those groups have to go way up could have used M marway and his blocking ability in this game uh for sure that's what I talked about yesterday T the offensive line yeah they got a run block better pass protection was incredible they got a run block better but it was a point of emphasis for me yesterday after my film review in the tight ends they were the poorest part of the Run block game yeah and if you're going to do the things that LS is doing they have to be not just okay they've got to be good because a lot of times they were the second puller and when you're the second puller like that you're the one that gives the back the vision the first puller kicks out and opens the hole the second one gives you the direction in which to go in and if you're in the running back's lap that's a no Direction yeah it's um and but even on I mean I agree with you the the the the tight end blocking was poor uh and has to get better otherwise you're going to see a lot of the same um kind of issues that you saw there but even on that final third and one yeah like pimpon got blown up and he holds the original sin I'm still not if he had a great block I'm still not 100% convinced that you get that um I mean we we'll get to it in a bit more detail here next segment but uh just very disappointed in the overall lack of push from an offensive line that as Jake said Elite pass protectors I mean nus has the cleanest of pockets he could he could cook dinner back there if he wanted to but this almost feels like a group that has spent their entire life learning to pass Pro it's like the inverse of our age of football where you spend your entire life learning how to run block and then you have to kind of come to pass Pro late well they've come to run blocking late and it clearly clearly shows wow Jake what incredible takes I mean those guys they're just the best uh I think so and if you think so again hit the like button subscribe ring the bell get notifications WE Post every single day here on OTB LSU