Joseph Addai (left) and Kyle Williams (right) stand with former Tiger All-American Jimmy Taylor. Addai and Williams both
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BATON ROUGE — First-year coach Les Miles put the Tigers through a two and a half hour workout on Saturday as the Tigers wrapped up spring drills with a 125-play scripted scrimmage before 8,233 fans in Tiger Stadium.
Opting to go with a scripted scrimmage rather than splitting the team up for a spring game, LSU spent most of the day with the first offense going as the first defense and the No. 2 offense facing the No. 2 defense. Saturday’s scrimmage saw the Tigers work in all phases of the game, including first-and-10 situations, third-and-short situations as well as third-and-long opportunities.
The Tigers also worked on the redzone offense, the two-minute drill and goal line situations.
“This was a good way to wrap up the spring,” Miles said after the workout. “We’ve had a good spring. We got what we needed to out of our 15 practices. Now we’re ready to go from here.”
Sophomore quarterbacks JaMarcus Russell and Matt Flynn, who each shared time running with the No. 1 offense, combined to connect on 34 of 59 passes for 457 yards and four scores. Russell connected 17 of 30 passes for 223 yards and four scores, while Flynn was 17 of 29 for 234 yards. Flynn threw a pair of interceptions.
Russell threw TD passes of 20 yards to Dwayne Bowe, 8-yards and 7-yards to Justin Vincent, and 8-yards to Amp Hill.
“I thought the quarterbacks were good,” Miles said of the performance of Russell and Flynn on Saturday. “I think there was a definite advantage to going with the first team and we tried to equal it out as best as we could. The only thing that I