[NewsCopy]

The tight end room has been a major topic of conversation through August camp.

It was again in Saturday's season-opening 38-7 win over Lamar at Our Lady of Lourdes Stadium.

UL's offense knew the targets wouldn't be nearly as seasoned in this contest. Landon Strother is still out with a broken collar bone and Shelton Sampson didn't survive the opening drive after missing all of camp with a bruised knee.

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[PetroCajunRunner]

Both quarterbacks look careless throwing. Interceptions will make them more serious.

Lunch was very efficient passing completing 15/21 (71.4%) and 189 yards (9 yards per attempt), even with those two INTs. We know he's not a QB that can beat teams solely with his arm, like we saw with Gauthier and pre-injury Broadway, but if he can stay healthy for him to be able to use his legs and running ability all season, we absolutely have a shot in every single game, except probably next weekend.

Now...if he gets dinged up along the way, and he's limited to mostly his arm, or worse if we have to start Beale a couple games, our defense will need to play like the '85 Bears.

[Turbine]

Lunch was very efficient passing completing 15/21 (71.4%) ...

That is a mind boggling statistic when you consider he started the game 1 of 4 (25%) three incompletions and then went on to have only 1 incompletion the rest of the game.

Four incompletions total. Two interceptions, one was a fluke.

After the rough start Lunch was on fire 16 of 17 did not touch the ground.

[Fan of 71]

The Ragin Cajun Football Team of University of Louisiana at Lafayette just won their first home game of the season against Lamar University.

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Jeezus, wtf is the this story headline? "Ragin Cajun Football Team of University of Louisiana at Lafayette"

[Diehard1280]

Jeezus, wtf is the this story headline? "Ragin Cajun Football Team of University of Louisiana at Lafayette"

AI?

[campo118]

curious about the severity of 0’s injury. The freshman looked really good last night and would be a shame if he’s out an extended period of time.

[Turbine]

Jeezus, wtf is the this story headline? "Ragin Cajun Football Team of University of Louisiana at Lafayette"

AI and or new hires with zero training.

[Duckster]

Good week one tune up. Running game stands out. Hope Smith bounces back from injury.

[PetroCajunRunner]

I hate how Beale keeps blackmailing our coaches. What does he have on them? I thought we were done with this guy yet here he is no. 2 on the depth chart. It boggles the mind

In this day and age of the no-sit transfer portal, programs like ours are going to find it much more difficult to have a #2 QB that we feel comfortable with. You have a guy who is good sitting at #2 possibly having to wait more than a year to get into that #1 role, and another G6 program, or even FCS, offers him to transfer over and be their #1, he's likely to take that shot now. It's just the way it is.

[Fan of 71]

No, a real human with a degree from UL wrote that...AI ain't that stupid.

[NewsCopy]

UL coach Michael Desormeaux caught himself as he was making his initial comments after his Cajuns handled Lamar 38-7 in the season opener Saturday.

"I guess not a typical (opener)," he said referring to the 14-12 loss to Rice. "Last year, there wasn't much to be proud of you know."

Still, there wasn't one smile in the entire postgame press conference. Not because Desormeaux wasn't pleased with his team's performance.

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[SlickRick]

In this day and age of the no-sit transfer portal, programs like ours are going to find it much more difficult to have a #2 QB that we feel comfortable with. You have a guy who is good sitting at #2 possibly having to wait more than a year to get into that #1 role, and another G6 program, or even FCS, offers him to transfer over and be their #1, he's likely to take that shot now. It's just the way it is.

I like Carter as our no.2. He can run it and has better arm talent than Winfield. Beale has better arm talent than Winfield too, but not the wheels. Winfield struggled last night throwing the ball with the wet conditions, but at the end of the day he's more lethal running it than throwing it. We'll be in games where he'll be running the ball a lot and that's worrying to the staff.

[SlickRick]

No, a real human with a degree from UL wrote that...AI ain't that stupid.

A wokester no doubt!

[LaCajunsFan]

A wokester no doubt!

[zephyr]

Both quarterbacks look careless throwing. Interceptions will make them more serious.

I've been as critical as any on here about Beale but his throw was not necessarily careless. That was a set play, not a read. The DB just read it and jumped it perfectly.