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So with Jacob Hester and terrifying terrible Why from the
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Speaker 3: Yo, and welcome in to O TV.
Speaker 4: Here live from rols Is on Burbank and Lee, Jake
and Flynn here with you on a football Friday, laundre
tete back in studio. Another great Friday here at Rolsi's.
Speaker 5: What's up, Matthew, how you got I'm doing great, super excited,
can't wait to get on campus tomorrow to the stadium.
So we have hear my tail off.
Speaker 3: We have a plan.
Speaker 5: We got a plan. Not a big deal.
Speaker 3: That well, that is a big deal.
Speaker 4: It's like twenty four hours, sooner than you normally have
a plan.
Speaker 3: For Dame Damn. Proud of you.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Actually this market pass came through. Yeah, this is
a little out of character for me. I actually started
getting these tickets months ago because we got a couple
of family members coming up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a little pressure on you.
Speaker 5: I had a little pressure on me, and but we
got them. We're ready to roll. And I got a
parking pass it's not the best, but you know it's
the best that drool could do.
Speaker 3: The old drool old drool hurly.
Speaker 5: So we are we are ready to roll, we are locked,
we are stocked.
Speaker 3: I mean, I can't ready to rock.
Speaker 4: I can't think of the last time that you went
to a game in person that LSU lost.
Speaker 5: That is a that's a really fair point. I don't
know if i've no, I have, I've been. I would
love to BAMA game a while ago.
Speaker 3: A while ago, while ago, a while ago ago. Is
that I'll show you an animal.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, but that's pretty
good when you know, when the flint comes in, that's
usually pretty good luck.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. I don't remember you going to
too many games where else. She wasn't victorious, so maybe
just maybe you know, that's what the Tigers need.
Speaker 5: I'm excited. So you know, at the ending of this week,
a lot of a lot of negativity around town, around
around the program, because come off a loss, that's that's
what happens. That's the beauty of college sports. That's the
beauty of college football. That's the beauty about having a
passionate fan base. As you get upset when you lose.
That's okay, It's okay to get upset. But you know what,
you got to turn it around. You got to flip
the script. You got to get ready to roll and
get ready to cheer. And I'm excited. Flynn fam is
getting juiced up. We're gonna be loud tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I love it. We'll be in the number. Certainly,
you're gonna have something out there as well, and.
Speaker 4: Looking forward to the matchup, looking forward to the opportunity,
as coach Miles would say, to go out there and
be victorious. So we'll break down the game, continue talking
about it. Obviously Saints and Bucks as well. But it
is a big moment. It is going to be a
lot of fun. So we'll certainly get you the breakdown
of the game. Outside of that. Don't know if you
watched Thursday Night football last night.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, don't know if you did.
Speaker 4: But the old Bush League Bolts went out there, scored
a lot of points.
Speaker 5: They did. They look good. Okay, you know what I think.
I think Justin Herbert might have had a little chip
on his shoulder because of my quarterback rankings.
Speaker 4: Let me tell you, in the NFL let me tell
you something. First thing my oldest son said to me
when I saw him yesterday.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 4: The very first thing was, did you see coach match rankings?
Speaker 5: I said.
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, budd, he goes Herbert or ten?
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4: He's like he was three last week? And so you look,
you got one fan that's actually following along long your
power rankings there.
Speaker 5: But you know, it is the it's the quarterback Bible
for sure. I know rankings.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 5: And you know what you if you lay a stinker
in a in a gross looking uniform, you slide down
the rankings.
Speaker 3: He did throw for four hundred in that yellow uniform.
But I get it.
Speaker 5: They all said, you slide down the rankings, is what
I said.
Speaker 3: What about last night's uniform? That's pretty sharp.
Speaker 5: It looked pretty good. It looked pretty good. I don't
remember it had did the Navy uniforms always have the
number on the helmet?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: No, So the number is all right. So the whole
story of the number was the A F. L uniforms
that they wore when they initially had them. They had
the number on the side, and so that's why they
brought them back on all helmets.
Speaker 5: Sure, okay, but it did.
Speaker 3: It did remind me. It did remind me.
Speaker 4: It looked good, Okay, more than fine. When you tell
somebody they look fine, they don't.
Speaker 5: Okay, So it looked good. It's a classic. It's a
great classic uniform, and I loved seeing it. But it
did the last two weeks, I've made me really appreciate
the Baby Blues. Okay, well, yeah that's fair. I love
that's my favorite, of course. Yeah, it's a great uniform.
It's a great classic uniform.
Speaker 4: Remind you of like LT and Lorenzo O'Neil and yeah,
like that.
Speaker 5: But now it's like after are following the Savannah banana
uniform game, then go into the classic Navy, which is
a sharp looking uniform. It does make me realize that
the Baby Blues are elite.
Speaker 3: Yeah it's called powder blue whatever.
Speaker 5: I don't care, but good congratulations on beating Carson Wentz.
He was Dyson.
Speaker 3: Yeah, top five fixed Super Bowl champs are saying.
Speaker 5: I don't know how you knock him off top of
a mountain like that.
Speaker 3: Barely they did, barely.
Speaker 5: You got Joe alt back that helped.
Speaker 3: Oh god, thank god, thank god.
Speaker 5: So we'll see we'll see how those power rankings stack
up with the with the Navy uniforms.
Speaker 4: You are right though about the broadcast on Thursdays.
Speaker 3: It's good. It's good. It is it's good.
Speaker 4: I did watch the the alternate cast for a little bit. Yeah, yeah,
it is fun.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I don't know what their metrics is. They say
they have like millions of data and analytic points to
determine on you know, who's coming and who's like a
key player on a play. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: You always get it right. But it's still fun. It's
still fun.
Speaker 5: But yeah, like everything to build up to at the
Amazon's Donner a really top drill job. Anyway, Carson Wentz didn't.
He got beat up. He got beat up real bad.
Speaker 3: They did. Oh I kind of feel bad for that.
What was the deal though?
Speaker 5: So you know, JJ McCarthy first round pick last year,
has extraordinary amount of pressure on him because they haven't
They had a great They had a really good team
last year. Yeah, with a Sam Donald.
Speaker 4: They were they fourteen and two, they were lived there
fourteen and two, they were pretty fourteen and three.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they were good. I don't know if that's the
record or not, but they were good.
Speaker 3: You keep talking.
Speaker 5: But they they choose not to re sign Sam Darnald.
They could have franchised tagged him if I wanted to
for very I mean expensive. Obviously they could have franchised him.
They could have signed him back. They said no, we're
not going to And there's also rumors about that was
where Aaron Rodgers wanted to go. Yeah, and they said no,
we're good. So you talked about some pressure on a
kid and some belief in a former first round pick
or like.
Speaker 3: A but Matt, Matt. They had to see what they
had in JJ.
Speaker 5: Oh, they had to see what they had. That's right,
that's a good one. They had to see what they
had to see what you have? You drafted?
Speaker 3: Sure, it doesn't matter that Sam Donald's.
Speaker 4: Playing at an incredibly high level and he's continuing to
do so in Seattle.
Speaker 3: You had to see what you had.
Speaker 5: It's rights. Yeah, you know, so Sam Donald number six
on the rankings.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So they do that and then he comes out and
he gets hurt. But we have an ankle injury and
he's missed six games already and he's on the sideline
yesterday in a strange situation, dressed.
Speaker 3: Out emergency quarterback.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so if he can be the quarterback, can he play?
Speaker 5: I don't know, things like they were trying to protect him,
shelter him away from the big bad Chargers. I mean
he did hop he had he got out of the way.
Speaker 3: I don't know why. Yeah, I don't know what's going
on with that whole situation.
Speaker 4: But you're right, like you do have this, you know,
just huge pressure because of where you were last year.
You were fourteen and three, they draft you in the
first round. When you know when they drafted you, people
are like, oh really, okay, all right? And then he
doesn't play last year off of a meniscus tear, which
typically keeps you out. I mean if it's a full tear,
weeks for sure. But I mean I have meniscus surgery
and played in a Sugar Bowl sure nine days later. Yeah,
I think now I wasn't playing quarterback. I was, well,
I don't know if that matters. I was playing running back.
But yeah, it is a weird deal. I mean last
year it missed like that.
Speaker 5: In this ye some injuries that are taking a little
too long to get back on the field. He plays
for like part of the twenty twenty four Saints team
or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess so.
Speaker 4: I don't know if that's a weird deal there in Minnesota.
But look, I'm not mad that they started Carson Wentz
last night.
Speaker 5: Best player on the Chargers team.
Speaker 3: I can tell you that. I can tell you that.
Speaker 5: So anyway, Yeah, that's good. Good. It was a good
good uh good little kickoff. Get a little send off
into this football Friday and this football weekend. Follow it out.
We're looking for two underdog lens this weekend here in Louisiana.
L s U A and M Saints Bucks, both at home,
both home dogs. Yes, let's go, Yes, let's make it
a good Monday morning.
Speaker 4: We'll find a way, all right, we will find a
way to get you to a victory for both What
they have to.
Speaker 5: Do we oh, yeah, me and you. Yes, we're gonna
do it.
Speaker 4: Yes, and when we say it, we just hope somebody
bottles it up and then shares it with both teams.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, absolutely, let's do it.
Speaker 4: Like I mean, you did call Spencer Rattler Spence, so
feels like you are pretty close.
Speaker 5: To his face. First question out the case, Spence, what's
the Spence? So do you think people call that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 5: I think it probably feels yeah, it probably feels like
you would. Yeah, he didn't. He didn't seem like a Spence.
That's true.
Speaker 3: That seems kind of cooler than that Spence. But yeah,
for sure either way you caught.
Speaker 4: In Spence, they'll they get that. Maybe get inside the
locker room. I feel like you could maybe. So all right,
we will take our first break of the show.
Speaker 3: We've got a lot coming your way. We'll really dive into.
Speaker 4: Obviously the LSU and Texas A and M matchup, will
go over the injury report because Matthew, there is some
big news there for LSU, something honestly that we were
asking and we were wondering and it didn't make a
whole lot of sense to us, but now I think
it will. When we come back, we'll give you that
news here on OTB Live from Rouses on this football Friday.
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Speaker 4: All right, welcome back an OTV here live from raus
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Somebody came up here and said they like fifteen. It's
their favorite number.
Speaker 5: All right. We just had somebody come and say, hi,
take your hand, and that big enough.
Speaker 3: Already.
Speaker 5: They're coming in here to shop for their groceries or
tailgating fodder, whatever you want to call it, their groceries
right here, and they wanted to come stay hi, and
they wanted to say make sure that we knew that
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Speaker 4: I didn't hear that, but I didn't hear that, but
she's a big moth flaan I did.
Speaker 5: Matt. I got a question, man, I got a question
for you. I got to answer, well, this is I
don't want to go back. And we just we talked
about the night game. I got a question for you
just from a like a leadership a quarterback standpoint. Carson
wentz body language.
Speaker 3: Oh J Cutler levels.
Speaker 5: Okay, So it was so I'm not even gonna say
bad because I don't want like I think it's probably
an opinion situation here for a quarterback. You know, quarterback who,
whether you want it or not, is a leader of
a team, is crying on the sideline. Yeah, And there's
a lot of emotion that goes, Like you put a
lot of work, you put your heart and soul, and
I know his he's had a tumultuous career and a
lot of times like it's his last chance. Maybe so,
And like a lot of times on prime time, like
emotions build up like I had when I had come
back to the Packers after being at a Seattle situation
that did work out, went to Oakland that was awful,
and I came back. I was emotional after a game
that I had played in and we had won and
the game Cowboys, Yeah, Cowboys. I was emotional ato that,
and like just there's a lot of things that go
into it, but for the game is still going yeah right, yeah,
like midway through the Yeah, And like you see that
from anybody on the team, but especially like a quarterback
even so much like Kirk k Herbstreek brought it up. That's
the only reason I'm bring it because Kirk was talking
about it. He's like, as a quarterback, as a leader,
you can't cry on the sideline like during the game,
Yeah he got it. Got to save that for because
what does that say?
Speaker 4: Because everybody else is looking at you, right, you're the
only guy that has the entire era of the team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, nobody else does. It can be.
Speaker 4: It could be the most badass defensive player out there
and it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: Like he's got a lot of it, but it doesn't
have all of it.
Speaker 4: Right, So, like the quarterbacks, truly like the only guy
any team I've ever been a part of, if anybody
got in front of the entire team and not just
their unit, it was a quarterback.
Speaker 3: So to your point, when you see the quarterback.
Speaker 4: You're like, oh man, he's like he's really crying, Like
it looked like any emotion are he's slamming his helmet
or he's doing whatever.
Speaker 3: It's like, But we need you to real it in
like we're kind.
Speaker 4: Of following you right now, and it doesn't look like
you're ready for us to follow and you're not ready.
Speaker 5: The lead, right, Like quarterbacks s lines his helmet, then
you you might see about seven eight other guys start
slamming the helmets because they're like, oh, it's it's all right.
But you know, I just found it interesting, like the
psychology behind it, behind the player, behind a quarterback who's
a backup being thrust in there, a second year guy
who's injured has the C on his chest, the backup
whose experience who has been in an MVP talks, has
had this career of you know, albeit not great in
the last handful of years. He's the one that's in
the backup, but you're looked at as the leader because
you're starting, and you started for multiple games now. And
I just found it interesting how it was kind of
so obvious and clear that Kirk Kirbshert, who is the
most professional and professional game callers, yeah color guys and
one of the like, I think he's the best in college, NFL,
whatever it is. I enjoy listening to him most on
games that he I don't know, Jim, I don't know.
I don't know. I just found it interesting that he
thought so much of it that he brought it up. Yeah,
I an alarm on for some reason. I'm bad anyway,
So like, yeah, he saw that like showing as a
football player, showing emotions on the sideline while the game's
still going. Yeah, of course after the game is one
thing yeah.
Speaker 3: Right, for sure.
Speaker 4: So it's a little unfair to y'all as a quarterback.
But also y'all are the franchise players. Y'all do make
the most amount of money. Like Carson Wentz, even though
he's a backups probably making more than eighty five percent
of the starters per year salary. I would say, like
it might be a one year deal, but per year salary,
he's probably making more like eighty five percent.
Speaker 3: I know, like most teams I've been on that that
was the case.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So like that comes with it, and you have
to understand that he's been in the league long enough.
Speaker 3: He certainly led teams.
Speaker 4: I mean, he did like play at an MVP level.
The year they went to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: He just got hurt.
Speaker 4: Nick Foles comes in, so we know the rest of
the story there. But it is one of those deals
where if you were showing amotion like that, it's almost
for me if I was on that team, because he
started doing it early, it's like, oh, well we lost
this game. Oh we're done, he's out. We can't reel
that back in.
Speaker 3: Ye.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, you played by a different standard at that
position for sure. That's why that's why I never really
jobbed with with the way Cutler did things, and I
always kind of joke and bring it up is because
it's like, man, and when you throw an interception, could
you like, could you at least like look like you cared?
Speaker 5: I know, you know, I know, I know it was
a weird thing. So I was watching and like, I
didn't necessarily agree with Kirk when he was saying it,
but I understood what he was saying. And then it
kind of especially like after bad body language, after slamming
and slamming a helmet, after things going really really not
your way, right, Yeah, maybe if it's a tight game
close through. It was just it wasn't a good look
for him. And you know, I don't know if I
I didn't know if I agreed with Kirk at the time.
So that's what I'm I'm trying to say. I didn't.
I didn't really have an opinion. I never even thought
about it that way. I just know it's an emotional game,
and people show emotions in different ways. And I don't
think if somebody's shown emotion on the sideline it's always
just like equal, Like one guy shows motion in this game,
it might not be equal to somebody else showed emotion
in another game. It's all about game flows, about how
you presented your body language, presented and played throughout the game. Like,
I don't know it, just I just wanted to get
some feedback there. It's interesting thought from kirkt kirshrue what
I thought.
Speaker 3: And like, I'm not saying don't have him. I'm like,
I'm no, I want emotion.
Speaker 4: I want you to be but it's you know, use
that emotion towards your teammates to galvanize your teammates, to
get them fired up. You you could be firing and
you can call me out too. If you're the quarterback, right,
hey do your one eleven Like I put the ball
in your hands, like we.
Speaker 3: Got to make those plays.
Speaker 4: Hey, next time, I'm coming right back there. I'm gonna
put on your hands and you're gonna catch it.
Speaker 3: Like I like that.
Speaker 4: But yeah, if you're doing the other way, it's like, hey, hey,
my guy.
Speaker 3: We need you. Like if you're over here.
Speaker 4: Feeling sorry for yourself, that's not gonna help us right now.
Yepy No, I've not done well with that.
Speaker 5: No. Yeah, and we got a game next week. Yeah,
and we got we got like eleven or twelve more games.
Speaker 4: Yes, so our quarterback situation is not great. They got
we draft from the first rounds, the emergency third quarterback.
Speaker 3: Vertical on this Yeah, is he healthy? Is he not
flying rounds? Right there?
Speaker 5: Come on? Get here?
Speaker 4: So yeah, I definitely noticed that, and uh, that's not great.
Speaker 3: It's not what you want.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you're right. It might have been one of
those situations where he was like, my role, my road
has taken me, my path has led me this way.
I have this opportunity that's been gifted to me with
a really good team. We just I'm just not getting
it done. And it might be yeah, maybe not the
end of the road, but maybe he felt that way
like this is because JJ's coming back next week.
Speaker 3: My game Tam is kind of over potentially.
Speaker 4: But I got, like Carson Wentz, I get it is
probably his last shot, certainly, Like because you're if.
Speaker 5: You be an established starter, now he can play.
Speaker 4: Right if you had three weeks where you had some
real juice, it's like you were slinging it all over
the place.
Speaker 3: I mean, look look around the look at Sam Donald.
Speaker 5: Look at that same team with Sam Donald. Yeah, like
you're not going to find it better. Danny Dimes like
play caller offensive mind, I like Kevin o'connelly now, like
this is a this is a great situation. You're throwing
to Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 4: Account as your quarterback coach. Like you feel like you
got like the right combination.
Speaker 5: Like this was his chance to be Sam Darnold type
of Dandy Dimes.
Speaker 3: Whatever. Yeah, yeah, So.
Speaker 4: I mad that they had those emotions though it means
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Speaker 3: Herbert moving up to the.
Speaker 5: Top five, We're gonna see everybody else play. If the
nine people in front of him play well, then he's
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Speaker 4: Even as the leading passer in the NFL to take
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Speaker 5: Okay, all right, a lot of metrics. You know, one
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Speaker 4: Playing from behind against the Cardinals.
Speaker 5: They're, like I said yesterday, if the season ended today,
they'd be the number one seed in the NFC.
Speaker 4: All right, we are going to get to that injury
news for l s U and we'll get the show
started when we come back here on OTB Live from
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but we knew that already and it turns out he's
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Speaker 3: So not sure when he returns this season.
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Tua Toko Mailoa I had tightrope surgery. It's like I
felt like I knew everything about tightrope surgery. But we'll
see if Tyree's able to get back.
Speaker 5: But they like what Tua did. They were trying to
get him back in like two weeks. Right he did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but we thought dj Chester because that's what we heard.
It's what we said, right, He's going to start at
left tackle. It's not going to be the case. Carrie's
Kern's actually going to start at left tackle, a true freshman.
What's the old saying, by the time you get to
this point in season, ain't no.
Speaker 5: More true freshman, more freshmans.
Speaker 4: Right, So but dude, this is this is the way
I think it should be. This is a true tackle.
This is somebody that was a five star crew. This
is somebody that you know you recruited to play the position.
And look, that's not disrespectful to DJ Chester.
Speaker 3: He is a center slash guard.
Speaker 4: He started at center last year, not oftentimes does your
center like Ethan Post. It was like kind of the unicorn,
like he could he could truly play, but he had
a different body type and he found his way back
to center in the NFL. So it's nothing against him.
Like if I was out there playing, you know, safety,
We tried that. Kirby Smart saw me backpedal twice and said, no, sir,
go back over there to Jimbo. Right, everybody's built for
something different.
Speaker 3: We know that.
Speaker 4: So I know he's a true freshman. I know he
and have the sec starts that DJ Chester has. But
I think this is the way you had to go.
DJ did not play well. Last week in Nashville, we
showed the clips. We played the clips. You're on an
island out there. You have no protection. You're not at
center with guys on both sides. You're not a guard
with guys on both sides. It's a true island. It's
a skill set. This is why you brought this player in.
Let's see where he's at in his development. But I
think it's the right move.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's a I think people are a
little bit less alarmed. I guess less confused about him
being moved over there because I think with DJ Chester,
I think the news coming out about him starting at
left tackle going into this game because the top five
matchup was like why, Like why isn't anybody else? Why
isn't there like a true tackle that's prepared and ready
to step in, Like this couldn't have been. This couldn't
have been how you drew up the plan before the season,
Like if something happens to that this, this couldn't have
been the plan. So why are you having a default
to it? Is because he's not ready? Is it because
you know Dj Chester just all of a sudden got
really good at his kickstuff? Like what like what's the
like what happened here? Like why is this? Like it's
that kickstep. It didn't understand And I saw and I
saw your will spend in the last couple of days
on the show trying to figure out what is going on.
You were not like the most I guess confident in it.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I just I think it. You know, we
got to have somebody developed to be ready for that position.
Speaker 5: But a lot of the narrative in the media, certainly
coming from You've seen it from you, You've heard it
from us, You've heard it from you know, former players
on the socials, is like, we need to play start
playing with an attitude. Well, I think carry is current
and it's time that he has come in. He has
looked like a freshman sum but kind of that freshman
that has nothing really to lose, that is playing hard
and trying to hit people really hard and maybe trying
to create an attitude. So I think it's a really
good move. And i'm i'm I think it's a good
move if he's prepared to do this right, if it's
not gonna if the stage isn't gonna be too big
for him being on an island left tackle, right, you're
at home, that helps, Yeah, certainly.
Speaker 4: Obviously a crowd noise and getting your checks.
Speaker 5: And just wonder why my curiosity comes from. Why did
earlier in the week they think one thing, and then
all of a sudden on Thursday, you hear no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
this guy is gonna do it. Actually, maybe he had
a good practice, maybe like man, we're gonna we think
it's gonna be dj Chester. But like, let's see how
the first two practices go of the week, and let's
see how his Let's see how his steps look. Let's
see if he's getting the calls. Let's see how let's
poset some you know, period period twelve. Let's do let's
do one verse one blitz and see how I handles it.
And if he handles the blitz package, well, if he
gets all the calls and he didn't have like three
of three of like all right, let's do that, and
that that's a that's a really realistic situation that I've
seen happen. It's like, let's throw a guy in there
in a pressure situation during the week of a game,
because you're going to have that at least probably what
three or four periods throughout the week. You will go
one on ones. You'll do one on ones in a
two minute situation, usually once a week, in like a
third down passing situation. Will let's pick up something like
that so that they could have been like, let's just
see how it handles the week from a mental standpoint. Physically,
he's a freshman being thought of well enough physically that
he can go play in the sec. So physically, he's
got to have the tools. He has the tools, that's
what they're telling us. He has the tools, but it's
the mental situation. So you know, look, I think that
it's a positive thing because that had to be now
that we're like talking to suit, that had to be
how it played out. They wanted to see him how
he did in practice. That had to be mentally handle it.
So the fact that he is that's a positive thing.
And I think that he's shown in like some run
blocks and some different things, he showed a little bit
of attitude out there. Yeah, and God knows, we kind
of need.
Speaker 4: That, No, no question, I think you need that, And
so I think it's the right move. I'm actually excited
to hear that move because like that is somebody that
has played that position, knows that position, and you know,
you hope his development and has him ready to go.
But I mean, that's why you bring somebody like that here.
It's why you bring a five star in and you
want to get them on the field at their natural position,
not having to move people around on the only old
chess board.
Speaker 5: This might be this might be like a huge blessing
in disguise for the LSU Tigers for for not only
this season, but for seasons going forward, Like this is
one of those opportunities for him to go in there
and show flashes, show signs, play well enough to never
not play left tackle again.
Speaker 4: That's Wally pipp situation and it just gives you a
better opportunity I think on Saturday.
Speaker 3: So that is big news. He is going to.
Speaker 4: Get the start at left tackle, and you know, left
or right. We'll see what it looks like because you know,
Paul Mwbinga was out and he hadn't gotten back into
the lineup as far as having his starting position back.
So we'll see what five it's going to be on
Saturday against Texas A and M. But that is big,
big news. Now, of course we've talked about the injury report,
and you know, wit Weeks, it didn't look like I mean,
he's not playing right, I mean doubtful hasn't practiced all week,
So that one you don't get any good news on
and last week. This week feels like a pretty big
wit Weeks game, knowing what he does, knowing how athletic
he is right there in the middle. I mean, we're
watching twenty twenty three A and M tape yesterday and
there's freshman wit Weeks all over the place, flying around.
So there's Look, there's nothing that we're going to go
in here and say it's going to make you feel
better about wit Weeks missing this game, because again, like
when you have a quarterback that can playoff schedule like that,
you want to have your All American athletic, physical linebacker
in there. But LSU's gonna have to find a way
to improve on the things that you know got them
in trouble a bit. Because you go back and if
you chart last week's game when it was just an
on schedule play, LSU did really well, like just a
any run that Vanderbilt had, any pass that they had
on schedule plays, LSU won that battle. Vanderbilt won the
battle when it was off schedule, whenever Diego Pavia was
creating in the backfield, whenever Diego Pavia would buy extra
time and then get the ball to his backs, to
his tight ends. Like the receivers didn't do a whole lot.
But that's what you got to worry about this week.
That's what you want to clean up again. When you
had your play called and you look, I mean some
of the blitzes that we talked about, right, if you
just rush with outside leverage up the upfield shoulder, ye,
I'd like a little bit. I'd like to see what
the results would have been. So it's not like you
just got thrashed up and down the field.
Speaker 3: But you got to play in the chaos.
Speaker 4: Certainly against quarterbacks like you've played the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it wasn't one of those dominant offensive performance of it,
Like Vanderbilt didn't play like a dominant like textbook like
this is how you run offense. Watch watch Pavia get
through his third read and get to the checkdown. Now,
it was like it was chaos. It was controlled chaos
for them and chaos for our defense. Uh, And they
didn't always handle it well. But like you like you
may make a really good point, like when they were
on schedule, Like our defense was was really really good
and we have been all year. But I think and
it's really good tape to watch, especially going into this
this week with Marcel Reid, Like you have to take
really good angles and then Marcell's got a little bit more,
a little bit more like you got a little bit
more explosive. We talked about before the Vanderbilt game, like
Pavia is not going to be like this out running
to the edge like threat for a big explosive type
game with his feet, but he can make explosive games
because he's using your mind if you make little mistakes
kind of like his running up the middle for a touchdown,
Like like if you make little mistakes, he can get you.
Marcel can do it athletically, So you have to be
extremely disciplined. But you know, our our back end, our
secondary is so good that like it's tough for people
to just march down the field on time, on rhythm
in the passing game, especially if you can stop the
run and be competent there. So you have to get
better at the on sched and I don't know how
you do that. You know, there's you have to create
confusion and you have to your rush lanes have to
be extremely, extremely disciplined. When you rush as a defensive end,
you need to rush to his level, not past his level.
What do I mean by pass level? If he's on
if he's on his side of the field, if he's
on the Texas A and mside the field, and he's
on the thirty yard line, you don't rush past the
thirty yard line. You stop your rush at the thirty
yard line. Because what he wants to do the easiest
way for him to create chaos and use his feet
is a step up in the pocket. They ca him
go over and around the pocket. And then you got
to be disciplined with angles. And that's where we kind
of slept a little bit against Vanderbilt when he when
Pave had to rush outside of the pocket. Our angles
to keep him inside the pocket were bad. We rushed
inside shoulder not outside should right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean a couple of those corner cats.
Speaker 4: You go back and watch them all on tape, and
you've got a free shot. I know one time Perk
came off the edge from his star position and they
went inside and Diego. Pobby is a veteran quarterback. I
mean all jokes side hell, he's twenty four years old.
He's seen the lights wait six years of college football.
So he would wait and he saw the inside and
then he would spin out and he would go make
the play.
Speaker 5: Like.
Speaker 4: Those are the small, little minor details that you got
to make sure, like in this week and this quarterback,
in this offense, that you get done. So plays are there,
they're there to be made. We'll see if lsu oh,
they're gonna make and those plays this weekend.
Speaker 5: They're gonna make Marcel Reid's live hell, all right, he
got revenge to give to him from last year. Buddy.
They do rainge game.
Speaker 3: They certainly do. They certainly do. All right. We will
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Speaker 1: From the locker room to the airwaves, it's off the
bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 5: Are they sing it?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 5: What do you think the people here working at rouses
and shopping rouses, and they look over here and they see.
Speaker 3: Me like my head bobbing like full blown radio.
Speaker 5: Looks like a like this guy's are like a silent
disco over there or what because like we fall on
rock out of here.
Speaker 4: I don't know whatever, just wait till we bring back
the funk in the last segment.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, themselves. I always forget about that on Friday.
Then it makes me so happy when that's all.
Speaker 4: You're not going to know what to do with themselves
when that happens.
Speaker 3: So we'll bless them.
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five ib fan five.
Speaker 5: It's like me say, in NFL football, Oh all.
Speaker 4: Right, that's like a little bit of the slate coming
up in college football this weekend.
Speaker 3: You got old Miss Oklahoma.
Speaker 4: You got UCLA Indiana, which I keep bringing up, I
know every single day. I just think it's going to
be highly intriguing. Alabama South Carolina. South Carolina put up
any fight at home.
Speaker 5: No, Alabama munt win by forty.
Speaker 3: It's eleven and a half point line.
Speaker 5: I'll take it.
Speaker 4: Are you thinking about that one for the old Ponting.
Speaker 5: Yeah, now I am. You know, I don't. I don't
start diving into the numbers till the commercial break before.
Speaker 3: That's when I really start diving in. It's just what
the people want to hear.
Speaker 5: I think I have a winning record, though not a
big deal. I know Landra does. I think. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I have no idea.
Speaker 4: I do much better on our on the picks that
Marler sends out and we.
Speaker 5: Get back right before yep, right before the game starts.
Speaker 3: Do better on those. I do better on those.
Speaker 5: Uh So, yeah, I know that no chance, no chance
for South Carolina. And I'm I'm an apologist here, but yeah,
the Bama's good. Ty Simpson really good. And I saw
someone the other day actually say this is a little blasphemy,
I think, but somebody say that they hadn't seen quarterback
tape as this like this, this good. They were scouting
Burrow coming out, which is a pretty bold statement and
not true at all. But it just shows you that
someone even like making mention of that, trying to make comparison,
whether he's trying to make headlines or whatever, get some
clicks or whatever, it just makes mention of how good
he is playing, just to like even somebody can get
away with saying something like that, So, yeah, he's playing good.
So he's one of those guys that a lot of
people still haven't really sat down and watched, but you
need to take note.
Speaker 3: This guy loves Alabama this year.
Speaker 5: I don't love them. I just have to say how
I feel about their football team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, loves them. He is really good though, Yeah, he's
really good. He was the difference in the Missouri game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, those fourth down plays that he made, the throws
that he made on those downs. So I mean, if
you're Alabama, the thing that you know you got to
stay away from. You've had like all these ranked on
rank matchups four straight and you go to sleepy South
Carolinas where you're thinking, like Willy B He's still gonna
have people in there. It's not a night game, but
still it's gonna be a full stadium.
Speaker 3: It always is, So we'll see.
Speaker 4: I don't expect them to have any trouble either with
South Carolina. What about Texas and Mississippi State, this one
in Stardville, Texas. I mean certainly just been getting by
with just enough and some of their wins. This line
was at seven and a half, now down to six
and a half. It's in Startville. Like I said, Mississippi
State and Jeff Leby looking for their first sec win
of his tenure.
Speaker 3: This is they've been close too.
Speaker 5: This is certainly a winnable game for them, And that's
kind of wild to say if you would have said
that before the season started with Texas pretty much number
one on all the rankings. Yeah, but Mississippi State has
been may what a what a nice job Jeff Levy,
my guy has been doing over there in Starkville. They've
been extremely dangerous. They've been close. They've been close. They've
been close. They should have last week. Oh my god.
Well and look we got rivers here today. It's going up,
I think, going up to Starkville for the game, So
I'll be cheering for Mississippi State to get it done.
I think it's kind of fun when you see when
you see teams that were maybe a little overhyped, over ranked,
and make no apologies about it's kind of fun to
see Texas lose. So it'd be fun to get Mississippi
State to finally put one together. And they've been closed,
they've been closed, they've been closed to put it together,
get a big win.
Speaker 4: A game that is outside of the SEC that I
think a lot of people should pay attention to because
there's not a lot as far as the primetime slate,
there's just not a lot of juice.
Speaker 3: Every kind of big game is either early or right there.
Speaker 4: In midday it is six and one Houston traveling to
five and two ranked Arizona State. Arizona State seven and
a half point favor but Houston right now kind of undervalue.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 4: I love I think it's gonna be a really good
football game.
Speaker 3: I love the Big twelve. It's a great break.
Speaker 4: It's funny the Big twelve for so long was do
they even play defense? And now it's like three yards
and a cloud of dust in some of these big
marquee matchups, like twenty to seventeen final score lines. So yeah,
I think it's gonna be just that. And look, I
love love Willie Fritz. He is, I mean one of
my favorite all time coaches. Like I love interviewing that guy.
Speaker 3: I tell you, he.
Speaker 4: Talks like this and he's you know, I've been coaching
ball for thirty years and it's like that guy's been coaching.
He like his voice just left him and just left
him years ago and he's never gotten it back. And
that's one of my favorite guys. So yeah, I think
it's gonna be a heck of a game. And again,
what are you gonna watch Tennessee at Kentucky or Houston
and Airs.
Speaker 5: I'm staying the Houston. I think we all saw the
special on game Day a couple of weeks ago about
their strength coach Kurt Hester. Of course, Louisiana Tye. I've
been meant so much to that that world and the
battle with cancer that he's been dealing with and kicking
its butt. Yeah, and just great for him. Great, it's
a great story. That program is great, Storry. I hope
they continue to go and I hope they can pull
one out because yeah, like you said, the Big Twelve
is awesome.
Speaker 4: Well, it's one of the games certainly to watch, i
think on the late night slate because there's just not
a lot of games outside of that.
Speaker 3: They're going to have a lot.
Speaker 4: Of momentum, So looking forward to that one. The other
one in the Big Twelve is BYU at Iowa State.
Iowa State two and a half point favorite BYU probably
loving the fact that they are underdogs yet again, their
coaching staff loves that they can coach to it because
they won the Holy War last week.
Speaker 3: And hey, if you want to read your headlines. Go ahead.
Speaker 4: They think so much of you that they put you
as an underdog against.
Speaker 3: A team it's not even in top twenty five. Yeah,
oh they're good.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Coming off in like an emotional win like that,
it's like this is the prime position for an emotional
let down, A little trap game. He coming out off
the Holy War. Big win, but a good way for
a coach to easily motivate your team to say, hey man,
you're eleven in the country, but you're going on the
road and you're an underdog. They have no respect for you.
So that is motivation for every single person sitting in
those seats.
Speaker 3: More OTB when we come back live from Rouses
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