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Speaker 2: And Matt Flynn.
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Speaker 1: Your locks in to Off the Bench control the as
live from the Raising Kine Studio. Here's Jacob Hester and
Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: Wow, welcome in o t B here on this Monday morning.
Speaker 2: Victory Monday for the Let's go, let's go not so
much for the Saints, and we'll get to all of it.
Jake Flynn a lingre tte here with you. How we doing,
how we live in people? Man? I'm doing really good.
I woke up today. Easy driving to work, very easy drive.
Speaker 4: Going to school, Well, no one goes to school at yeah,
six oh five or six ten.
Speaker 2: When I'll leave my house anyway, I got.
Speaker 3: Three or four buses that's they're already picking up at
that time from my drive. And I swear I get
behind them every single time.
Speaker 2: Every time. Huh yeah.
Speaker 4: But now we're doing God, I have a little extra
spring in my step this morning. I don't know why.
Just uh, well, you didn't talk great last week. I
didn't feel great last week. Yeah, we're still getting over
some sof we're still fighting, you're fighting through injury. A
lot of people would be bedridden, not me. I had
to give the people what they wanted. I had to
give them those hot takes.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But uh, now we're good man.
Speaker 4: I'm excited for the week holiday weekend, got Thanksgiving, got
those turkeys getting ready to be cooked.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: Kids are off of school, so that energy is great
around the house. This weekend fantastic. So it's gonna be
a light week of work. We gonna do some radio.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do a little bit office work.
Speaker 4: But then we're we're gonna be let's see Wednesday, headed
to Florida, see some fam that's try. You're leaving early, right, Yeah,
I'm gonna leave. Uh, I gotta leave it like after
the second hour of Wednesday. So you know, O g
rusty old TRAPOD it's not real rusty, but it's really reliable. Yeah,
it's it's all reliable. That's right right Now's we're headed
to Florida Thanksgiving? About your family gonna hang out?
Speaker 2: How about you? I have no idea. I just know
we're gonna eat good food.
Speaker 3: But uh, since Jackson's in the playoffs still, and it's
always you know, you want to be practicing on Thanksgiving.
It's always like the Louisiana High School moniker there, and.
Speaker 2: So they'll be practicing on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3: Uh. They play against Madison Preps. So a district rive
in the playoffs that makes it even better, Madison preparatoire.
So yeah, we're not We're not gonna be able to
go anyway. Typically we go up to the Port City
and not gonna be able to do that this year.
So we'll yeah, we'll do it at the house. Wait,
they recently played them, right, Yeah, they played them in
week nine of the regular Okay, the district right, same district.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, because that I remember because a couple of
weeks ago scratched my nostalgia.
Speaker 2: It's a major pain in Madison Prep. I you saw
your wheels turning.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw the Military Games yep, with Tiger leading
the way.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, so what are we are? We high school
semi finals this week? No, this is the quarter quarter finals. Yeah,
so we're three weeks away from the Dome. Yes, that's
the goal. Yeah, mm hmm. That's a good little setup.
I went to the Dome. That was the first time
I've been to the Dome for the state championship stuff
that went last year.
Speaker 2: It was great.
Speaker 3: It doesn't make it last Yearyeah, okay, that's right, Okay, Yeah.
I so Gordy and I used to call those games
for years.
Speaker 2: He called all of.
Speaker 4: Them, right, Uh yeah, like it was week a couple
of days we.
Speaker 2: Were in there.
Speaker 3: Gosh, I guess we started doing that twenty sixteen or so,
and we did it for like four or five years.
And we we literally like we would do every game,
maybe get a break like here and there, like another
team that broadcast team.
Speaker 2: Would come in, but oh yeah, there was we would
do four or five games. But it was fun though.
In a day, No, it was. It was great. It
was great.
Speaker 3: We'd have like the conference call with the head coach
and you know, get to know the players a little bit.
And it was always like, you know, Marquee matchups as well,
like the Big five A matchups were always great. You know,
you get big fan bases and there'd be a lot
of guys that were going to LSU, you know, already
committed or whatever, and so I'm going to Alabama. I
remember Devonte Smith and covering his his senior year game
where he was obviously pretty good out there against high
school players.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you have a good call?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: Obviously getting his amateur hour drop back.
Speaker 4: Throw it to DeVonta Smith, caught touch, long pass, caught.
Speaker 2: Laundra. How are we doing?
Speaker 5: Doing good? I wanted to take us. I don't know
if y'all saw this yesterday, but Hunt had like this
swing this thing at swing easy, yeah, where he was
trying to make a hole in one and he was
going to keep swinging until he did. And it was
incredible content.
Speaker 3: I remember y'all talking about it in wednesday's meeting, but how.
Speaker 2: Did it go?
Speaker 5: So? I had no idea about this because I wasn't
in wednesday's meeting. But he came to me asking like
for some mikes or whatever, and I was like, what
are you? What's happening? And then I tuned in. He
did not get a hole in one. By the way,
he stopped at like six hundred swings like straight. This
man did not like, he did not take a break.
Speaker 2: There was like swing, drop another ball, swing again.
Speaker 5: Like the entire time. So I spent my Sunday yesterday
like tuning in and out of that. Yeah, because for
some reason, I was so invested in him getting the Yeah.
It was so good. He did for like three hours
of like non stop.
Speaker 4: So I think so what I heard was he swinging
and also answering questions.
Speaker 2: He was also say it was like during the Saints
game before.
Speaker 5: It was during nose before the Saints game, but there
were NFL games going on, but he was answering questions
and it was just like, I think it is hilarious,
Like he has this really dry humor that I find
really funny. So it was just cracking me up. And he,
for the life of him, could not get a hole
in one.
Speaker 2: Almost got it.
Speaker 5: Oh, he got so close so many times. I think
he got cheated out of one, like I think the
game hit the yeah. Oh he hit the pin four times.
Speaker 2: But it was pretty good.
Speaker 5: There was one where he was like pretty much he
I thought he got the hole in one, but he didn't.
So I just wanted to use that to give a
shout out. I thought it did, but they replayed it.
Speaker 2: Ah. Oh, they had video review. They did like that.
Speaker 4: They went to the booth of the ones are one
of those things that you don't really need video review.
Speaker 2: It's either in the hole or it's not right, you
would think so.
Speaker 5: I just feel like the game glitch, it's fair. You
try to do it at Pebble Beach.
Speaker 2: Yep, a whole seven. Maybe, all right, we'll shout out
to him.
Speaker 5: I don't have any Thanksgiving hundreds. I know he's not
going to be able to move today.
Speaker 2: Sore as hell. Today it was lower back, done over. Geez.
I don't know. I feel like Hen does swing a
golf club a lot. So the chat. The chat says
Hunt does love to swing. True, he does.
Speaker 5: He's a swinger.
Speaker 2: I've always swinging.
Speaker 1: Up.
Speaker 2: Loves a pineapple. All right, Well, shout out to Hunt.
Speaker 5: His glove that was a brand new glove was all
messed up at the end. Oh boy, he told me
to bring the remotement to his house.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I was like, you're gonna be like Hugh Freeze.
Speaker 3: Man, this man out here right and golf club too
much a lot of time.
Speaker 2: It is good.
Speaker 5: It was a great ideas.
Speaker 3: About choices and decisions. And he chose to do that.
So and then he didn't hit one.
Speaker 4: He said, I saw the stuff beforehand. He said he
was going to swing until he made it.
Speaker 2: He did. He should still, how are you doing. Yeah,
we're doing good, guys. I did it. I put up
the Christmas in late yesterday.
Speaker 6: I know that it's before Thanksgiving normally normally, I like,
I mean, like seriously, the day after Thanksgiving, I do it.
We're gonna be out of town, so kind of, you know,
mix it up a little bit. But uh, we're done
inside outside, done everything. I mean, I have a singular
strand to put up. Yeah, tree's done, singular strand to
put up outside like this evening when again, but outside
of that, weird done?
Speaker 2: Nice?
Speaker 5: Is it Dallas cowboy themed?
Speaker 2: It's not Dallas cowboy themed y, So we'll have to
get into that. Watching your old X yesterday Instagram seeking
her out?
Speaker 5: Just block her.
Speaker 6: It just kind of came out away because I'm watching
Saints Falcons. And then before like the evening window came
in one it said, okay, we're gonna join this game
in progress. Boom, it's Eagles Cowboys. It's tied in the
fourth quarter. I'm not gonna not watch it.
Speaker 5: If you don't block her, you'll never get over here.
Speaker 2: And you're gonna scroll. If you don't watch out, your
thumbs gonna acidentally hit that heart button. You're gonna like
to come back.
Speaker 4: I mean, even if you take that hard away, someone
might have screenshot at it.
Speaker 2: It was a good comeback.
Speaker 6: However, it's notation what do they what do they say?
I kind of think the Eagles have lost it, not
the Cowboys won it. I think it was three fourth
quarter turnovers by the Eagles, but got it done.
Speaker 2: I love seeing the Eagles lose. Do you I love it?
Huh the offices?
Speaker 6: Did you get to watch the fourth quarter matter? It
was a disaster Tae Kwan first fumble of the year.
They fumbled a punt, gave the ball to Dallas like
inside the twenty, did another turn it was?
Speaker 2: It was three fourth quarter turnovers. Yep.
Speaker 6: They scored twenty one points early in the second quarter
and nothing the rest.
Speaker 2: Of the game. Right, was it?
Speaker 4: Twenty one nothing? Nothing like early in the second quarter.
Props to the Cowboys. Don't don't say anything, Taylor. Everybody
else talking to you.
Speaker 2: I just said Eagles lost. Great job Cowboys. Cowboys didn't
win it.
Speaker 4: No, I'm just I'm telling you. I'm not talking to Taylor.
I don't want Taylor to you know, he's yeah, got issues.
Speaker 2: Yeah, kill in the wagon. I don't know. All right, Well,
congrats on getting the Christmas lights up. Yeah they look good.
Speaker 4: Hey, you don't have to apologize that. I love a
Christmas light. I love it early Christmas light.
Speaker 2: I had got lit come in my house in like
mid noved.
Speaker 4: I even like the lights in the trees. My trees
have been up. So we'll kind of do this thing.
Usually we'll do this thing where it's like we'll put
the tree down because we like the lights. I'm a
big light I don't know if you know this big
light guy. Just Christmas lights. Love a good lighting, hate
a floodlight, hate an overhead light. Really the can light now,
I like the lamplight. I like that nice glow light,
nice scance, nice under counter light. You know, it's a
good mood lighting. So that Christmas lights does it for him.
I don't like to see a light bulb, Like I
don't want to see a light bulb anywhere. Well, the
problem was so like I will love yesterday morning. Yeah,
there's a lot of light bulbs in here.
Speaker 2: We'll coup with a lot of energy. Yesterday morning.
Speaker 6: It was probably the electric lsu Western Kentucky game that
we'll get into.
Speaker 2: We'll get there but we'll coupe with a lot of energy.
Speaker 6: So it's like, hey, it's nine thirty two o'clock in
the morning, I'm gonna just go put up the lights now.
Speaker 2: That way I don't have to worry about it. Yep,
put them on.
Speaker 6: It's already turned on a strand. The whole strand was out,
and to run a Walmart grabbing now the one. But
I mean, we made it happen a little difficulties, but
it's easier to see if you put it up at night.
Speaker 2: That's what we're learning.
Speaker 6: But I just didn't want to do that stuff, you know,
like the Christmas light.
Speaker 4: Technology has come so far since we were a child,
but they're kind of expensive these days. Train of lights
used to it is like you have to check every
single bulb, kind of like Clark Griswold did check every
single bulb and if.
Speaker 2: They was that's why they give you that little those fuses.
Speaker 4: They give you some extra fuses in that little bag
that usually people rip off and throw away with a
couple of extra light bulbs, a couple of extra fuses.
So when I learned that as an adult, it was
a game changer. Usuld just throw those little packets away. Yeah,
they're in the way. Yeah they were.
Speaker 2: We have done this in the past.
Speaker 4: We've put the Christmas tree up with the lights on,
so we get the lighting in November. Waited for the ornament.
After the ornaments go after how you do? Oh we
got the ornaments up. Now we got everything.
Speaker 2: It is okay to be festive. It is okay to
be early on it as well. How do you feel
about tiny Christmas villages? We have one? Yeah, I wanted
one for a long time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have one that has different like uh, you
know movie theater with Graceland. Yeah, just one of a
little little village Christmas village.
Speaker 2: You know, we got the Grizzwold House. We got you
got the Grizzwold House. Yeah. Nice. You got cousin Eddie's
r V. I love that.
Speaker 4: Trying to convince to subscribe to the village life. Yeah,
it's a little snowy roads. It's a lanterns.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't have like hands where they're just gonna
like touch and throw it anymore.
Speaker 5: We're getting super into like Murphy, Sam and Jody territory
right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're probably off today, this whole week off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. Whole week and Thanksgiving. They don't want
this smoke. They do not want this smoke. No, they don't.
Speaker 4: They're probably running ads right now over our faces on YouTube.
Speaker 2: Probably.
Speaker 3: All right, let's go ahead, we'll take our first break.
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Speaker 2: All right, as we get the show started.
Speaker 3: LSU wins the game victorious and Tiger Stadium, thirteen to
ten over Western Kentucky. Now Western Kentucky was eight and
two coming into the game, and you look, you look
at their scores, and you knew they were going to
put up a fight.
Speaker 2: You knew they were going to be a team that
wasn't gonna roll over.
Speaker 3: You knew they weren't a team that was not an
FCS team where you're gonna win sixty to nothing. But
you also didn't think that you would struggle offensively like
you did. Even as bad as this offense has been
this year. Now, the defense, after the first drive, they
went out there, they did their thing.
Speaker 2: They don't allow a touchdown in the game.
Speaker 3: That actually hold them to one hundred and fifty two
total yards in the game. You were deep in the
fourth quarter and at one point before they completed a
twenty yard pass, they had four yards of total offense
in the second half.
Speaker 2: I mean the defense was dominant.
Speaker 3: They got after the quarterback, had a ton of sacks,
did really well stopping the run. They gave up twenty
two rushing yards in the game. All that's great. They
held in third down efficiency. Western Kentucky was one of
the best teams in the country and you held them
to four to fifteen on third down, zero of three
on fourth down. So defense another great performance. A defense
looked like a defense that had everything covered. The defense
looked like a defense that it didn't matter who was
coming in and out of the game, backups, rotational pieces.
Speaker 2: They stayed with the same thing and they dominated the game, and.
Speaker 4: They did get a little fortunate early in the game.
The quarterback on a trick play on the goal line
did drop like an inexplicable will pass for a touchdown,
which would have put us down ten ten nothing.
Speaker 2: You know what those count for. It's for zero dollars.
But ye.
Speaker 4: Still why he's playing quarterback. That's why he's playing well.
Usually quarterbacks got the best hands on the team.
Speaker 3: But sure, yeah, either way, the defense did their job
in a game like that.
Speaker 2: Defense said fantastic. Of course.
Speaker 4: I mean you expect them to do really good. They're
they're a really good defense against equal competition. When you
play not as good a competition, you expect them to
be good. They went out there and they did their job,
and they did as expected. Now, on the other side
of the ball, the offense set uh set offensive football
back about fifty years.
Speaker 2: I think in tackle football. That was the line that
I was about to use. The same exact one.
Speaker 4: Ford pass set That Ford pass back a while always
definitely set the running like, yeah, the running games bad,
passing games bad the whole.
Speaker 2: The rushers are great.
Speaker 3: The guy's actually like carrying the football, yeah, good, But
everything else and it's not just play design. Play design
is one thing, it's also the flow of the game
and when you call said run Matt Western Kentucky was
one hundred and eighth in rush defense in the country.
There was only one hundred and thirty something teams. They
were one hundred and eighth in the country. They were
ninth in CUSA, Conference USA, ninth rush defense in Conference USA.
I bring that up not because you didn't have great
success running the football.
Speaker 2: You didn't.
Speaker 3: I bring it up because you went twenty straight plays
in this game where a running back didn't get a carry.
Twenty You had I think two maybe in that same
time where Van Buren got a carry. But as far
as a running back touching the ball, you went twenty
plays against the one hundred and eighth ranked rush defense
in the country, the ninth ranked rush defense in Conference USA,
and your running back didn't touch the ball. That sequence
in any game where you go twenty straight can't happen.
But it's sure as hell can't happen when you're facing
off against an opponent that's one hundred and eighth in
the country in rush defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an embarrassing stat.
Speaker 4: You watch watched the game back, and we all felt it,
I mean, just lack of execution, the lack of being
able to you know, execute you know, basic concepts or
basic plays. Being able to convert play pitch and catch
on third downs certainly was not very good. But like
you said, just the ebbs and flows, and of course
we're dealing with a you know, first time play caller,
and you know, there's there's a rhythm to play calling.
It's a dance little bit you play with a partner
on the other side, and there's a you you give
and take. You know, at certain times there's times that
you there's times that you punch, and there's sometimes there's
times that you you hold back a little bit. There's
a there's a flow to play calling, and that rhythm
just wasn't found. Maybe, you know, maybe the expectation coming
to the game was we're just gonna you know, physically
outdominate these people, and you know, even if it's not
the perfect play call or the perfect scheme or whatever
it is. Like we got guys, we got trade is,
we got all these offensive line that we can block
and we'll knock them down. And we got Harlan Berry
and Kaden Durham and they can just make guys miss
and whatever. Well, when you got a team like this
that has a winning record, that is successful on CUSA
and they're playing in Tiger Stadium at night, like they're
gonna play with more energy than they've probably played with
the entire season. And then especially when they they they
they start smelling blood a little bit and you give
them an opportunity to to perform the unthinkable, the upset
and Tiger Stadium like, then they start playing even harder,
and all of a sudden, these guys that you know
in a recruiting world might be a two or three
star start playing like a four star just because of
the energy levels and the confidence. Like football is, any
sport is a confidence thing. It's a momentum thing. When
you get into the rhythm, you get into the zone.
But schematically, I'm just watching this, I'm watching I'll just
watched the first half briefly again before the show started,
and it's just like head scratching x's and o's head
scratching schemes, Like I just don't understand what we're doing schematically,
and when we do do things, they just seem the
guys seem not doing them well. Poorly coached and routes,
poorly coached and blocking techniques. The quarterbacks footworks never matches
up to the to the passing scheme, to the route combination.
The footwork's never there. So like all these things, when
you add them together, like you can overcome one of
these things, maybe even two of these things. But like
when they start stacking up, like there's multiple mistakes every play,
and they're stacking these mistakes at play.
Speaker 2: By play by play, you get what you get.
Speaker 4: And at this point, it's just like, I hope we
can make some off schedule enough off schedule plays and
out athlete and out six foot seven inches trade as you.
Speaker 2: I was really trying not to say six to seven
you are the got you though out he did get me.
Speaker 4: It's it's just unfortunate that that's the exact hype dimensions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's unavoidable.
Speaker 4: It is because I thank god you got him right,
even though he's not like the cleanest of purest route runner,
at least you can throw it up to him.
Speaker 2: At least he can make a contested catch.
Speaker 3: Like when you're calling offense and when you're designing everything,
like you wanted to look like very seamless, and you
want to look so smooth like a ballroom dance, right,
like everything's like in sync and every thing just has
a purpose and everything has This offense looks like you're
watching the reality TV show about dancing Dancing with the
Stars and it's the first time that we've ever actually
done it with a professional.
Speaker 4: That's about how smooth this offense look. This is like Temptation?
Was it Temptation Island?
Speaker 2: Which?
Speaker 4: Or is it Love Island? What was that one that
was most recent? This is like Love Island in what way?
It's madness, craziness, unscheduled, unscripted and that show.
Speaker 2: And I'm with you.
Speaker 3: Look, I know that the foundation of this offense is
what it is. It was put into place and it's
been in place for a you know, a year and
a half and this is what you did in camp
and all those things. But so you're not going to
have wholesale changes, but also you can and we saw
some of it against Arkansas. So the foundation itself is
it's crumbling. It's on its last leg. Like it's very
like a twig is holding up a building right now.
But like the running twenty straight plays where a running
back doesn't touch it.
Speaker 2: That has nothing to do with the foundation.
Speaker 3: So it's like it is, it's an amalgamation of everything together,
you know what I mean. It's not one thing here,
one thing there, like you talked about, and you can
see like individual efforts. You can see both running backs
making great cuts. You know, you can see receivers making
individual players. No, it's not an effort thing at all.
It's not an effort thing.
Speaker 4: It's offensive linemen with bad hat placement, it's linemen with
bad eyes, bad first or second steps. It's receivers not
running enough steps in the routes or not really finishing
their routes. And like one or two guys are running
the route and then the other guys are like running
something that's like out of the concept. It's a quarterback
that's footwork's not you know, it's it's we talked about
that three step timing or a five step timing, like
there's a rhythm to throw in. Like every three step
drop in a pass play is not created equal. A
three step drop can be done fifty different ways depending
on what the route concept is. And so like when
he's got his feet set in his eyes and the
guy's aren't ready, like he's getting off his first year,
like he's he hadn't played a lot this year.
Speaker 2: I got it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it seems like whichever quarterback has been in what
you're talking about, because it's like every route concept is
gonna have a one two three boom or one two
three four five boom whatever like whatever, So there is,
but it seems to be there's hopping as you throw
the ball.
Speaker 2: No matter who the quarterback is.
Speaker 4: Footwork is the most important thing for a quarterback to
work an offense, be able to work in a normal
passing game with normal concepts, normal normal progression from you know,
whether it's a pure progression, whether it's a pre snap read,
whether it's like a progression with an option like. It's
all about the footwork. And the great quarterbacks, even the
good quarter like, they all have very consistent and disciplined
footwork and that's coaching, man, Like, you got to coach
that you have to work that footwork every single day.
And if footwork's not one of the number one things
that you're doing in practice every single day as a quarterback,
you're missing the mark as a coach. I don't know
if they are or not. I'm just saying that's the
number one thing. I worked with the best quarterbacks to
play the game, Hall of famers, and that's the number
one thing we did. If it wasn't a team drill,
if it wasn't seven on seven, we're working footwork, footwork, footwork, footwork,
all right, this is the play. Here's our three step drop.
This is the footwork. All right, same amount of drops,
but a different play. Here's your footwork. Yeah, where your eyes?
Where your eyes when your back foot hits Now, your
crossover step on your second step wasn't good enough because
it was too fast. You're gonna get through your progressions
too fast, or it wasn't long enough, your first step
was too wide.
Speaker 2: Like, that's the.
Speaker 4: Number one thing. And Nousmyer's footwork's been sloppy this year.
Van Buren's footwork sloppy. It has to improve. Like, you
can't expect to have a good normal forward passing game
if a quarterback doesn't have good footwork and he makes
the plays. Like the guy plays hard and like there's
some things that it does that are very impressive, but
like a lot of the inaccuracies are due to footwork.
Right now, it's all I got. Sorry, I'm a big
footwork guy.
Speaker 2: I could tell.
Speaker 3: I could tell, but you should be And you're right,
and you can notice it like when you're watching the games,
like you can tell like you're you're throwing it sometimes
where it looks like both feet are off the ground
because of the hops right right, it's no, you got
like your back leg. I've never played quarterback in my life,
but I know how important it is. Well, it's off
your back leg. It's a lot of like half shuffles,
that's what it is. Instead of a three step drop.
Speaker 4: It's like it's like four to six half shuffles. But
just stuff that I get, Like maybe they're not working
on it, like it's playing early, But these are the
things you have to work on, Like that's something you
work on every single day. Nope, that's not good enough.
Do it again. Three step drop, all right, this is
a five step one hitch to that. This is a
three step on your back foot to the same one
hitch to the to the comeback of the pit, and
then two hitches to the.
Speaker 2: To the checkdown.
Speaker 4: Like there's it's a it's a progression and it has
to be disciplined.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean you can't help but think when
you watch, you know, Notre Dame play.
Speaker 3: Football, and Mike dem Brock's out there, top twenty five
offense in the country, top twenty rushing offense in the country,
has a running back that might end up in New
York as a Heisman finalist. They're also scoring forty one
point four points per game. And that was the offensive
coordinator that you let go to make Joe Sloan the
full time offense coordinator. And you didn't let him go
like it was like, you know, mutual parting ways, but
you did.
Speaker 2: And Notre Dame has.
Speaker 3: A top six scoring offense in the country.
Speaker 4: I really feel like if I had a guess, I
haven't been to a lot of practices, but like when
the quarterbacks have individuals and this goes back to.
Speaker 2: Like when Joe Slan was here. This is my prediction.
Speaker 4: I'm not like saying this is like instead of like
working drop back footwork, I feel like they probably worked
RPO footworked a lot. Yeah, because there's only so much
time you get like during like for individual periods, like
an RPO footwork is not easy. So I think a
lot of that because the offense kind of went around
that RPO. I feel like that was probably a lot
of what they did in individuals, but again I don't
really know. But foot RPO. Footwork is another thing. You
got to train, train, train and hit hit hit, hit hit,
because it's it's tough.
Speaker 2: You gotta get your feet square.
Speaker 4: You have to be able to pull, you know, put
the put the ball into a running backs belly, then
pull it out and have your feet and hips and
shoulders all aligned.
Speaker 2: So instead of working drop back.
Speaker 4: That's just kind of That's kind of my feeling based
on what I've seen from the footwork this season.
Speaker 3: All Right, still a lot to get to with LSU
football where they're at. Of course we'll get to the
Saints losing to the Falcons as well throughout the show.
A ton to get to here on a Monday edition
of ot B. More when we come back from the
Raisin Kine studio.
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Speaker 2: I felt like Hunt doing the dishes last night.
Speaker 3: I tell you all the time, like whenever you know,
you do pick the Google Dolls straight up.
Speaker 2: When Black Balloon, it was hitting too, didn't even go iris.
When Black Balloon and.
Speaker 5: Hunts stream, somebody said something about a bougotti and Hunt's like,
I don't know what a boo body is. Yeah, and
then they're like ask Birdman and He's like, I don't
know who Birdman is. If it's not country, I don't know.
And I'm like, if it's not Jordan Davis or the
Goo Goo Dolls, Hunt doesn't.
Speaker 2: Know what it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, shout to her boy, Jordan Daves. Jordan's but
you're right, that's that's about it. Yeah, Yeah, he knows
a little black backpack. Who sings that a little black backpack?
It you little black backpack?
Speaker 2: Hunt loves album. All right, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 4: Who's Jordan Davis, country singer from Street Born Streeport.
Speaker 5: I think him and Hunt went to high school together.
Speaker 2: Now he went to but they grew up playing.
Speaker 5: They grew together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, his uncle was my first football coach.
Speaker 5: Also found out that the record for most three shots
in a game at his high school until somebody else came.
Speaker 2: In, how many shot Domstream not the record you wont.
Speaker 5: He went for eighteen?
Speaker 2: I mean was not that. That's actually not.
Speaker 5: I think it's trying to help him out.
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The only school in America that's allowed to use Snoopy.
They got written permission. Yeah, it is on their fifty
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They're actually the two seed in U High's playoff bracket.
Speaker 6: They're a shot, little little cub Snoopy actions.
Speaker 2: Oh I hope so Hunt done a onth these problems.
Speaker 3: I will be unbearable that whole week if they do
play for no reason, All enjoy.
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Speaker 3: On or no doubt, because we've already taken care of
brain across the way. There, You High beat Saint Paul's
and evangel beat Saint Paul's so brain's down and out
with me. It was avoiding me in the hallway this morning.
Now they just gotta play cars. So that's going to
come to an end. But you can imagine what was
like before, right, Yeah, you can imagine.
Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 2: Here on OTB.
Speaker 5: Steals goof at the Hitters House today. Oh yeah, that's
doing a remote from there.
Speaker 3: Oh, I honestly get the word of God. I was like,
are you got the itch? You're gonna hit some softballs?
Guarantee you while you're there?
Speaker 2: You do?
Speaker 5: I might, I haven't swung about it.
Speaker 2: Every time I.
Speaker 3: Take Memphis and Hudson, I'm like, yeah, let me get
in there real quick. Let me take a couple of hacks.
Oh you would, but it's still fun. Kids, back off
real quick. Watch your dad jumping there happy Gilmore sto
Oh yeah, good clean fun.
Speaker 2: Well, you gotta have fun on Mondays. When was the
last time you did?
Speaker 4: Like, the last time I actually got a batting cage
was when me you.
Speaker 2: Baseball facility. We did. We're getting ready for that softball game.
Speaker 3: We're getting ready for Jock's celebrity sort of celebrity softball game.
And US three went over there. Bain and I were
actually on the same team. You were on the losing team,
but we still let you.
Speaker 2: Work out with us. Yep, not a big deal.
Speaker 3: We didn't want to embarrass ourselves. It's been a while
since we you know, taking some hacks, so.
Speaker 2: We still got it.
Speaker 3: Well, you learned real quick that like oh, Austin Baine
played in the SEC and a little bit different.
Speaker 2: Level than us, pretty much better than him.
Speaker 3: Shout out to the Bain train who used to co
host with us every now and again. Sweaty livery, I mean,
the master of LIVEI I mean, you've never seen a
man more nervous doing a livery. And also Oxford, he
does medical sales in Oxford. Elaine, who I had heard
about that.
Speaker 5: I've never heard of.
Speaker 2: A guy like him. What are you all talking about?
Speaker 5: A deep cut? I don't know.
Speaker 2: He's the only coach in America right now.
Speaker 5: Coaching multiple college football teams and an NFL team next season.
Speaker 2: And we'll take a break to play catch up.
Speaker 3: But the thing that honestly I don't like about this
entire deal, not just about the laying portion of it.
You have like three fan bases that just hating on
each other, and it's getting so old and stale.
Speaker 2: It's like three or just like that's all it is.
Speaker 3: My entire feed is old miss fans hating on LSU
in Florida, LSU fans hating on Old Miss, and then
Florida fans hating on Old Miss and LSU all that is.
Speaker 6: The winning fan base is just going to continue. Oh
my gosh, I'm like Ultimo season.
Speaker 3: I mean, I told y'all like I want to call
Mints and be like, hey, Ben, just put the phone down, Bud,
just just put it down, like you don't have to
tweet your thoughts, like he is going all in and
let me. I don't know how it plays out, but
if Lane does choose LSU over Old Miss.
Speaker 2: I don't you know.
Speaker 3: I don't know this to be a fact, but I'm
pretty sure it's going to happen. T Bob is going
to be so unbearable to Mints that Mints might quit Barstool.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to watch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm sure we'll talk about it for about
an hour.
Speaker 2: So all right, before this break to TV when we
come back off the bench.
Speaker 3: Hopefully you took our advice and the last tailgating weekend
of the football season, you went for dose.
Speaker 2: You grabbed your ice cold dose Sekis.
Speaker 3: It was hey, it was warm outside, so you actually
did probably have the ice chest out, you grab the
ice cold dose sekis and it probably was refreshing to
you or the weather that we had this weekend, because
it's always a great time to go for dose. So
you've got Thanksgiving coming up. I mean, can you imagine
going having your turkey, having your hand, all the great sides,
you kick your feet up, you relax, watch a little
Thanksgiving football.
Speaker 2: While going for dose. We called that utopia, Flynn. Yeah,
there's nothing better than Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4: You got the big meal, you sit down afterwards with
a full belly under the old belt buckle, sit down
in a nice chair or couch and watch some NFL
football on and no better way to relax and sitting
there drinking a little dough sey. So make sure you're
prepping for Thanksgiving. Give yourself a little twelve or maybe
a twenty four, I don't know what it is. Just
make make sure you're going four dose this Thanksgiving break.
Speaker 2: Go for dose.
Speaker 1: Locked in on LSU football twenty four to seven. You're
listening to Off the Bench, Same.
Speaker 2: All right, Welcome back in oh TB.
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Speaker 3: All right, we can come back to this in we'll
actually probably lead our two with this. But there's some
Pro Football Focus grades, fellas and ladies.
Speaker 2: That you have to last, so you don't cry were
talking about l SU.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we are, we have to, well we do, you
darn right, we do. We think Lane Giffen's Pro Football
Focus great. Is uh maybe one.
Speaker 3: An offensive play caller designer that is an out of
one hundred in the nineties. I think he's ever gone
twenty straight plays without a running back carrying the football.
I guess one hundred and eighth ranked rush defense probably
not probably no, probably not go for it twenty five.
Speaker 2: That's fine, and it's the running back at least.
Speaker 3: I got no issue with that. Stuff like that stuff
doesn't bother me. So what do you have an issue
with in life?
Speaker 4: But making bad coaching decisions game time coaching decisions doesn't
bother you.
Speaker 2: What does bother you? It makes it a bad one?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 2: What if you get it? Okay? All right, there's always
a chance, absolutely, right, man, never punt.
Speaker 4: Mmm, I'm really looking forward to these pro football focus grades.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say i'd look forward to them.
Speaker 2: I don't trust people grading them anyway. I do. I
know who it is.
Speaker 4: Okay, do you know who it is because I do
the grades. Every single person at every single game works hard.
Speaker 2: Doubt it off the bench. Don't be mad.
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