BATON ROUGE — LSU turned up the intensity on Tuesday as the Tigers put on shoulder pads for the first time in fall camp.
The Tigers again went through two sessions on Tuesday with the veterans working out during the morning session and the freshman and selected others going in the afternoon.
“Well, honestly it was a whole lot more fun today because they had pads on,” LSU coach Les Miles said following the afternoon workout. “You could bump into somebody and not feel like you’re getting hurt. The morning practice just had a lot more intensity and attention to detail. The young guys are working hard and doing the right thing. They might not understand necessarily exactly what we want from them, but they’re trying hard.”
Miles said that Tuesday’s workout was much different than LSU’s first two days of practice, which had the Tigers practicing in shorts and T-shirts.
“The first two days were different,” Miles said. “Any time you show up in shorts and a T-shirt, it’s not football. So today was the first day that we had some fun. I liked what I saw today.”
Miles passed out praise to the quarterbacks saying all three, “are throwing the ball extremely well.”
In addition, Miles complimented the LSU special teams saying, “I’m seeing our kicking getting better. All of our kickers are performing and competing at a much higher level, so I’m excited about that.
“I think that probably the most rapid improvement is being made in the (special) teams unit because of the carry over from the spring. It appears to me that we’re operating quicker in teams than we have prior to this having had a spring and then showing up here. You can see there’s continuity. So that looked good today.”
The Tigers will have split-squad practices again on Wednesday with the first full-squad practice coming on Thursday as the Tigers will workout in full pads for the first time.