LSU Coach Les Miles Speaks About the Alabama Game [VIDEO]

The following is part of the transcript of the weekly Monday press conference with Les Miles proivded by LSU sports information.

I first want to say that I felt that Tiger Stadium was a great environment to play in. I can't tell you how much we enjoyed the crowd. I certainly wished we could have finished for them. Our team surely gave great effort. I am awfully proud of that team. It is an interesting thing when you pick up the newspaper and you watch TV, and nobody gives you a chance.

Indiscriminately talk about how this team is going to get by you and etc. It was really just a forgone conclusion. How could you think any other way? There were 85 Tigers that felt that they needed to play, and play well. Frankly, you win every statistical category but the score. That is unfortunate. I promise you I told you team that I wish I would have played better. I wish I would have done some things differently. We were going after them. It was obvious. We played that way.

The offense had a very productive night versus a very capable defense. They maybe played their most complete game. Zach Mettenberger was 25-of-34 for just under 300 yards. I thought that he and the receivers had a great chemistry and a great anticipation of throw. All of the things that we needed to have to show improvement in that game was very evident. I felt that we rushed the football okay. I think we can rush the football better.

I just think that we can execute that part of our game a little bit better than we did in that game. I think that Jeremy Hill is a very capable back. I liked my young offensive line. We're playing a lot of young men that really stepped up, played hard and played with the style of play that we expect from LSU's offensive lines. Again, great effort. I think the receiving core, (Kadron) Book, (Jarvis) Landry and (Odell) Beckham, all three played well. There were some drops that we would like to have back, but then there were some great catches to. That is reflective of a quality evening.

I wish that if there was one thing that I could have an effect on as well is when we were first and goal on the 12 yard-line, and because of a personal foul, it is first down at the 27 in a drive that we did not get points. I think we made our point there, and we will continue to. That was a costly penalty.

Via [NOLA.com]