Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Southern D-line stresses effort‎

Jordan Miller doesn’t need people to remind him about last year’s Bayou Classic.

For 3 hours and 26 minutes on the ground floor of the Superdome, he lived it. Remember that game? Or, perhaps, trying to forget it? On play after play, archrival Grambling pounded Miller and his fellow defensive linemen, wearing down the Southern Jaguars with a slow, steady, brutal attack.

The final numbers — 308 rushing yards and 37 minutes of ball-control offense for the Tigers in a 31-13 wipeout — were indeed lopsided and convincing. But numbers told only part of the story. At this time last summer, Miller thought he and the Southern defensive line had worked hard enough to win in crunch time. He thought they were prepared for almost anything. They learned, in humiliating fashion, that they were wrong.

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