Brian Kelly on LSU putting everything together: 'The clock's ticking'

The LSU Tigers got their first win on Saturday night in a 44-21 win over Nicholls. For head coach Brian Kelly, this was a step in the right direction but he still feels the Tigers have work to do.

In Week 3, LSU will begin its SEC slate with a road trip to South Carolina. Ahead of that game, Kelly knows that the clock is ticking to put everything together.

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“I think you have to look at the bits and pieces of it,” Brian Kelly said. “Putting a consistent performance together is what we’re looking for and we haven’t done that yet, but it’s early in the season. Look, you’ve got to go on the road against a South Carolina team that’s going to have a lot of momentum coming off a great win against Kentucky. So, the clock’s ticking, right?”

The win over Nicholls was a step in the right direction after losing the opener to USC. However, Kelly is still looking at his team with the feeling that they need to string a full game together and play more complementary football moving forward.

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“You’ve got to be able to put these things together now for four quarters. We had some nice momentum there offensively but we’ve got to get balance running the ball,” Kelly said. “Then, defensively, I thought we had some really good series in the second half after we cut the quarterback loose on the long run they really never threatened again.”

In the game against Nicholls, LSU started relatively slow and let the game stay relatively close going into halftime. They then followed that up with an explosive third quarter to pull away. Still, there were plenty of issues to clean up before the more challenging stretches on the schedule start up.

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“It’s kind of what I talked about last week. We never really complemented our defense at any time. When they started to play well, we went three-and-out three times in a row and actually went backwards. So, we’ve got to get to complementary football and we’ve got to be more physical on both lines,” Kelly said.

“If that doesn’t happen soon, then we will be talking about things that we don’t want to talk about.”

LSU is playing a conference game against South Carolina this week before playing two more non-conference games in the following weeks. After that, the Tigers will need to deal with the SEC the rest of the way.