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Here on this Wednesday morning of Game week week number
one in college football. We move right along.
Speaker 5: Jake Is, Blake Space, and tay Te all here with you.
Speaker 2: Blake Space actually plays today. Yeah, oh said we wouldn't
do it. Leading the show, Taylor Swift, Travis Kelsey engage.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you were wrong, got sports baby.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's the biggest story in sports ESPN dot com.
Who cares that Spencer Ralighs is a QB.
Speaker 4: We already knew that. We tried to tell you for months,
really did, though nobody saw the big engagement. True, that's true.
Speaker 5: So you know, I just want to.
Speaker 4: Lead the show Taylor graduation. Taylor was mad about it,
but we just said, Taylor, what do you do? You
not love love. It's a weird thing. Buddy was in
the air.
Speaker 5: I hate to be this guy, but let me be
this guy. Though. I'm a big football fan, and yesterday.
Speaker 3: Was roster because you're a Cowboys fan and I'm looking, well,
I didn't say it like women, and I sall fan. Okay,
uh yeah, no, I don't care about winning. Yeah, football fan,
yesterday's roster cut day. I'm looking up on ESPN dot
com and I'm like, where's the where's the roster track?
Or it's always the lead story. Nope, gotta scroll a
little bit further down the page because the lead story
is an engagement that no one should care about. And
if that's not bad enough, I get on Facebook, Instagram,
whatever you want to call it. Look at all the stories.
There are people from my high school, people that used
to be teachers, everything, posting the screenshot or the you know,
a little photo that they put out of their engagement,
and some of the comments are OMG, I'm crying, and guys,
I hate to tell you, but if you're crying over
the engagement of two people you've never met, then unfortunately
you have no life. It's it's it's gone too far.
It's like this Taylor Swift fan base is now a cult.
It's like the people that worship the Royal family and
they're like both right under Texas A and M. It's
like Texas A and M Swift, these royal fans. That's
a big stig stake. I saw a tweet the Winds
find me another fan base that is like this, find
me one as far as the musician.
Speaker 2: But yeah, if you were at media day, you would
know Beyonce whoa my gosh.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: She's been through so much heartbreak she finally found true love.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you should care about it. I saw a tweet
that went viral yesterday. It said Travis Kelcey only took
two years to propose to Taylor Swift. That means my
boyfriend has until December to buy me the ring that
I picked out back in May.
Speaker 5: Guys, what are we doing here? What are we doing it?
Speaker 3: Don't don't tweet that out. Don't do this to yourself.
Think about Okay, whatever day, your boyfriend probably follows you.
Speaker 5: Right right, I guarantee that's probably an issue as well.
Speaker 3: Whatever date they decide to get married, that date will
be booked for the next five years because all these
swifties are gonna want to have to get married on
that date. The poor dad that wants to pay for
the wedding, well, dad, Taylor Swift had a four million
dollar wedding, and I want mind to look exactly the
same after every single detail. Like, come on, guys, it's
two people you've never met. Let's move on. Let's let's
worry about things that actually affect us.
Speaker 4: I feel like, if you're gonna, if you care enough
to get married on the same day as I promise you,
that's why happen. I think you probably care enough that
you don't want to get married. You just want to
follow it on Twitter. You just follow the updates even
though it's not gonna be like televised. Maybe it should be.
I don't know, Oh it will No, there will be
some ro.
Speaker 5: Oh yes there.
Speaker 2: So I love I love how passionate Tate is. And
as soon as he told us that this upset him,
he should have known that this is Yeah, so you
did this to yourself? Yea, I went like, honestly, I
forgot about it. I was locked in on the Elite
Flag Football jamboree last night. You know I didn't even
really you know, get a chance to see the news
until later.
Speaker 3: So I'm I'm at Rouse's with Landon Foster when the
snooze breaks right. The NFL tweeted it, Adam Schefter tweeted it.
Ben shop Hero tweeted it, yep, like okay, we don't
have anything better to do. And I was like, land
and turn your phone off for the next two hours.
And he was like, did they break up? I was like,
way worse, way worse.
Speaker 4: I get, like, you know, I just it's a weird,
weird hill to die on to like hate it that bad,
I think. I mean, it's just it's not too like
cringey people. I don't think. I think it's too likable
people that are very good at what they do in
their profession. They're not like they're not trying to be
in your face. They are in our face. I don't
think they're absolutely trying. I don't think they've made like
been together and public like that much. They did a
podcast together recently which broke the internet. Broke the Internet,
but like they're not out there trying to reb it
in people's faces. I feel like they're doing it the
right way. I don't think there should be any hate.
We should just love that. We could have let we
could have like we could have led with like talking
about Michael Parsons going to the Packers probably, but no,
we wanted to. That wouldn't have pissed you off enough.
It needed to be Taylor Swift.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So that's your breakdown. That is your breakdown of the
biggest news in sports. Here all O TV. How's everybody
doing though? Everybody good? I mean Wednesday, little hum day morning.
Speaker 5: Yeah, good energy.
Speaker 6: I know, I don't even know how to follow that up.
Speaker 5: I don't know that we can No, we can't.
Speaker 6: Sorry, I I love it.
Speaker 5: We we smelled blood this morning before the show. We attacked.
Speaker 6: I knew was gonna be oh man, yell. I got
about that.
Speaker 5: Well, it was it was my fault because I asked Matt.
It's like, hey, pick what we lead with.
Speaker 3: I was like, we leave with Spencer Ratler or that
crap with Taylor Swift, that Travis Kelsey we're laughing about
it should.
Speaker 5: Hit the chest on me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nobody to blame but yourself. You know, It's like
I used to come back to the huddle with my
father in law was our offensive coordinator. You know, you
hit the chest and the player be like, hey, that's
my back coat, and you let him know she was
hella in my bad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm glad you're admitted because I didn't mess that
one up.
Speaker 5: You did, buddy, Okay.
Speaker 2: You know, obviously, whenever we come back, we'll break down
Spencer Ratler. That is the biggest news thing that bothers
you the most on a football field, wing around the
room here. For me, it's either when somebody does pat
their chest that's my bad, like no crap, we all
saw it, saw it played out, or what we were
talking about before the show. Whenever the defense stops the
offense on fourth down and then throws up the fourth
down signal when it's in fact first down for your team,
that's probably number one for me because you got to
know the situation. Sure, well, you know, defensive people they're
they're they're big dumb dumbs.
Speaker 5: Which which gap do I feel? Coacha? Yeah, we all know.
Speaker 4: If you smart people play on offense, no doubt, dumb
dumbs play on defense.
Speaker 5: Always.
Speaker 4: It's a good question because there's a lot of things
that bother me when they happen. Sometimes the fourth down
thing is definitely one of them. I don't like when
receivers look for flags. It's not a great one, it's
not a great look. I just don't like it because
they look for it all the time, like every time.
Speaker 6: I don't like when oh sorry, I didn't have anything else.
I don't like when somebody very obviously fouls and they
throw their hands up like what, yeah, I hate that?
Speaker 2: Do anything like bro, yeah you had half his jersey
in your palm. Yeah yeah, okay, that's a going too.
Speaker 3: My least favorite is uh, when like a DB's burned
by a good ten yards and the receiver happens to
drop it in the the dB pulls one of these,
it's again complain.
Speaker 5: I'm like, Buddy dropped the wide up and or a
bad throw.
Speaker 2: He'll do the seat belt when he got beat by
seven yards up?
Speaker 5: What is the ebs?
Speaker 2: I love you, we need you, but man, you are
extra yeah, I mean all when they do get beat.
Speaker 5: What does the seatbelt mean?
Speaker 2: Well, it's just straps, Like you're like, you're yep, yeah,
what does that mean?
Speaker 5: You're putting them in straps? You're locking them up, locking
them up? Yeah, clicking or ticket.
Speaker 4: I guess to me, yeah, I'm blocking them up.
Speaker 5: I'm putting a seat belt on. That's just safe. Bud yeah,
mm hmmm.
Speaker 6: Why don't you do like locking then a key? Why
don't you do that instead? If you're locking them up?
Speaker 5: I like that. I mean it's better handcuffs, yeah, prison,
I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, at first, like whenever it first happened, I was like,
are they they're putting like a sword into like.
Speaker 5: It's holster Kelly said that on Monday he.
Speaker 2: Thought it was a sword. I didn't even hear that,
and that's what I kind of thought, like years ago.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Huh, that's what Trevor Bower did.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a sword, Oh yeah he did. Actually though, Okay.
Speaker 4: Well you can't do anything like gun related, so you
gotta find swords.
Speaker 5: Or I'll get you have vibes. I'll get your penalty
nun chucks. That'd be sweet, that'd be Greatlash.
Speaker 4: It's a classic though, Slash Yeah, I mean I don't
I don't have a problem though.
Speaker 6: I don't either.
Speaker 4: That might be my favorite, unless you like, do it
too slow and you get them to graphic with it.
Speaker 5: That's pretty good though, like if you.
Speaker 6: Just started doing like I don't think so.
Speaker 5: The joker, Yeah, yeah, yeah, don't act like you're carving
a pumpkin.
Speaker 2: No, I'm thinking like you could like do like a
dirty bird situation and just be like at the end.
I don't know, uh, but what I do know is
the New Orleans Saints starting quarterback, which we're gonna break
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Speaker 2: All right, the New Orleans Saints have named their starting
quarterback and it is.
Speaker 5: Spencer Rally. No real, no surprise.
Speaker 2: And we would be more surprised when we'd have people
that cover the Saints every single day that would come
on the show and say, no, it's gonna be Shuck,
And I'm like, I just don't see that. And you
look at the signs, and you look at who started
the first game, you look at who started the third game,
and you kind of look at their situation. This isn't
even a negative for Shuck. I thought there was some
good things that Shuck did. It wasn't like he went
out there and lost the job. I just think with
what you currently have, the situation you have in front
of the quarterback with an offensive line in the interior
that right now is struggling to say the least, All right,
which quarterback skill set gives us the best chance to
thrive with that going on?
Speaker 5: And it is Spencer Rattler. And look, I went to
training camp.
Speaker 4: Practice was that was that the second week maybe.
Speaker 5: Like early second week of camp.
Speaker 2: And then I came back and I told y'all, because
the team always tells you before the coaches do.
Speaker 5: I said, and right now, it's Spencer's team.
Speaker 2: He would make a play, seven or eight guys would
go and they'd dap him up and they'd hoot and
they'd holler. He had an RPO run down the sideline.
You had seven guys putting their finger up in the air,
you know, calling his name.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: That's what we mean when we say the team's going
to tell you before the coach does. If you go
to a practice, it's not that they like this guy
better or they don't like this guy. You like everybody,
but it's who do they think is going to be
QB one, the leader of the team. And that day
I came back and I said, well the team, right now,
it's Spencer. And I thought throughout training camp they both
had some good moments. You go back and you actually
watch the tape and don't just you know, all this
guy through an.
Speaker 5: Interception or this guy took a sack.
Speaker 2: But if you actually break down the x's and o's
of it, they got in and out of the huddle,
they got lined up, they you know, were assertive in
making the calls. I thought they did a nice job
delivering the football where it should go most times. So
I think it came down to and correct me if
I'm wrong here, and my assessment it came down to,
it's going to be an off schedule offense because of
some of the issues that they have, and Spencer Ratler
is a better all schedule quarterback than Tyler Shuck.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't know if the off scheduledness of like what's
going to be needed is really a deciding factor when
you're starting, when you're when you're trying to decide on
who's going to start game one week one. I just
think it was probably the overall body of work from
the offseason through the training camp. Like we as fans,
we get to see the games and we get to
see exactly where they put on the field, And yes,
it's kind of like a test over a quiz like it.
It equals more in the overall grade. Yeah, but it's
not the only part of the grade. It's not the
only thing that the coaches are looking at. So you're
taking you take in all the scrimmages you've had, you
take in the inner squad practices you had, when you
when you practice against another team, you take every single
every single situation. You take that and it's all part
of the equation. And in what we saw were the games,
and that's the biggest part of the grade, but it
was always a pretty equal battle. Two guys that went
out there and executed an offense, went through their progressions
were for the most part accurate. Of course, we lacked
the explosive plays in the first half, which is we've
been trying to tell, like, the first half is what's
important in a preseason game. When you're deciding starters. If
you're deciding the fifty three man, it's the whole game,
but when you're deciding starters, it's the first half that's important.
And the Saints told us all what they were thinking
when they started Spencer in the third preseason game. It's
just the way it is, and we're not saying and
Jake you kind of led with saying, you know, it
was you know, it surprised us that people would think
that Chuck would be the kind of the shoe and starter.
Speaker 5: When people would come on.
Speaker 4: The show and be like, yeah, I think they're the
organization's leaning, it's like, you know, I don't understand why
people would think that, and it's not based on how
he played. I think he played well, and I think
he got probably got a lot better. I think he
kind of played the same in all the games, like
in which was playing pretty well. We're not consider and
say that any quarterback played great because of the lack
of production the entire offense at But you're not going
to know who the long term starter for the Saints
is going to be until you get into the fire
of a regular season, until that first fourth quarter hits
in game one, or the game.
Speaker 5: Is tight and you have to win a game.
Speaker 4: Like quarterbacks in the preseason for the most part, especially
the way we ran an offense, like we didn't try
to take shots downfield. Yeah, we weren't doing a lot
of play action trying to score fast. It was trying
to work an offense, trying to install a brand new
offense and work different plays and situations in games. So
you're really not going to know until one of these
quarterbacks or both these quarterbacks get their feet put to
the fire in a regular season game and they have
to go out and win a game. Quarterbacks have to
win a handful of games, yeah, in the during the season,
and it's how the outcome of those situations the outcome
of those games is how we judge quarterbacks at the
end of the day, at the end of the season,
at the end of their career, that's how they're going
to be judged. So it's all a best guess by
these coaches. This coach is stuff about who's ready to
step in Week one. I think Tyler Schuck has the
potential to be a really good quarterback in the NFL,
and it might be for the Saints. I don't know.
I would assume it is. It is for the for
the next couple of years. Ed Ratler might be the
guy for the long term where he might not be.
But as of right now, going into Week one, we're
sitting here on August twenty seven, Kellen Moore and the
staff decided he was the best fit for this team
right now, just from where he is as a quarterback
and hole from all the things you said. Physically on
the field, he can make all the throws I think
he does. He plays off schedule probably a little bit
better right now that we saw in the preseason games,
and then from the getting in it out of the huddle,
running the operation, being that guy heat like you said,
the team, it was just different when he was on
the field and made a play with a team celebrating
that that means the team's got your back.
Speaker 5: The team's going to gravitate towards the.
Speaker 4: Guy who they feel right gives you the best opportunity
to win, because if you win, everybody gets paid better,
everybody has a chance to make to make different incentives,
you know, different all these different things. At the end
of the day, it's a business for these players, and
they're going to gravitate to that guy.
Speaker 2: So if you're still not sold on Spencer Rattler because
of where he got drafted, I do think you got
to get that out of your mind.
Speaker 5: And Matt broke it down perfectly yesterday.
Speaker 2: This Matt of how he was a seventh round choice
and he'd beat out a second round choice because like
I always appreciated that the Packers like allows you to
have a competition, And I talked about it. When I
was in Denver, we had moneyball second round draft choice
c J. Anderson, undrafted free agent CJ. Al played moneyball
in camp. CJ won that job. Once you get there,
you're there, and you'll hold on to a draft choice
like Isaiah Foski, all right, Like probably shouldn't have made
the team last year, but he was a second round choice,
so they held on to him.
Speaker 5: This year he gets cut, you'll hold on to that guy.
Speaker 2: But the good organizations they don't allow that to affect
how they make their decisions. And you select a quarterback
fortieth overall, and maybe he can still give you something.
Speaker 5: Right, this isn't permanent.
Speaker 2: But let's also not forget just because Spencer Ratler was
a fifth round draft choice, there was a time when
we talked about him being a lock to be a
first round draft choice.
Speaker 5: Things happen at least a second.
Speaker 2: Caleb Williams comes in, turns out he was pretty good,
beats out Spencer Rattler at Oklahoma. But before that, like
Spencer Ratler was okay, well, this guy's gonna be a
first round pick, let's move on next guy. He's got
the skill set and the talent to be in that conversation,
and so don't allow that to be the deciding factor
for you in which way the New Orleans Saints went.
And don't just think that it's a wasted pick for
the Saints either right now, just because one, I don't
we don't know how it's.
Speaker 5: Going to end up.
Speaker 2: And two when you bring in somebody that is the
afforded overall pick, like you you told Spencer Rattler, Hey,
we see some flashes, but it's got to be more
consistent and we need you if you want to be
in this competition, if you want to win this job,
you've got to raise your level of play as well,
or he'll take your job.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Since when did draft in somebody in the second round
mean that it's like a top five pick, Like that
doesn't guarantee you a spot. Let's just put it this way,
like the organization is committed to a second round pick
and those dollars to a quarterback, right, it doesn't matter
who the quarterback ends up being. So if I spend
ten dollars on one person and one hundred dollars on
another person, how many total dollars it has been?
Speaker 5: Hundred and ten total dollars?
Speaker 4: Yeah, what if the ten dollars guy starts over one
hundred dollar guy?
Speaker 5: How many dollars it does?
Speaker 4: Spend one hundred and ten dollars? What if it's the
other way, how many dollars?
Speaker 5: Hundred?
Speaker 4: It's the same amount, It's like, so it's a it's
a business, and like we're in a rebuilt situation with
a brand new coach. Nothing is permanent, so we don't know.
We've said it multiple times here. Both quarterbacks are going
to need to play this year. You hope probably, you hope.
Let's hope that Spencer goes out.
Speaker 2: So we've seen some of the Bomb Squad, We've seen
some of the actions.
Speaker 5: That mister Ruiz gave us, the old lookout, the old
Lookout Black.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's a long, long season, man, I think
we're going to see both these guys. Let's hope not
Let's hope that, you know, Ratler becomes the next Drew Breeze.
Here start as we go seventeen and oh do you
think Taylor, I don't think seventeen and O's table. I
don't think so.
Speaker 5: Well, actually it's still on the table. It's on the table.
Played a game yet. Everyone's going out right now, But
I don't think it's realistic. Okay, there you go, there
you go. I'll be down there.
Speaker 2: I actually getting to know Spencer a little bit.
Speaker 5: I am.
Speaker 2: I'm rooting like hell for him and Tyler Shuck's a
great dude as well, but just for Spencer to have
all of us create exactly what narrative we thought he
was when he was seventeen years old on the reality
TV show, when you got producers saying, ham it up,
do this?
Speaker 5: Do that? You're seventeen, your own TV, You're on Netflix.
Speaker 2: You're like, absolutely, none of us would want a camera
on us when we were seventeen years old, none of us. Right,
you were at LSU, I was probably a freshman in
high school.
Speaker 5: None of us would want that, right, none of us
would want that.
Speaker 2: Okay, So like for him to go there, to go
to Oklahoma to still have some of that ending and
then probably got humbled by when Caleb Williams came in
and they made that decision. And then you go to
South Carolina, you have some success. You talk with Shane
Beemer off the record, he can't stop talking about Spencer
Ratler and what he meant to that program. And so
you know, from where he was to where he's at now.
I do think it's a cool story and I think
he's easy to root for.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I do too. And he's been through the fire
for sure.
Speaker 4: South Carolina, he had to play with a lot of
lookout blocks. It'll play with a team that didn't have
the talent around him, and they still won big games.
He was still very productive. So look, I mean, let's
cheer for both these quarterbacks. Let's get behind Rattler as
the starting quarterback for however long that is, whether it's
I don't know, five six games, whether it's seventeen, whether
it's ten years, I think we should cheerpoint.
Speaker 5: All right, we'll take another break. We've got a lot
to break down.
Speaker 2: It is game week, so you know we'll certainly get
to LSU and Clemson continue breaking down that matchup. We
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but they still did it the first ones. Yeah, yeah,
really good. Ah there man, these club d had club
club Dread doesn't underrated the comedy.
Speaker 2: Bill Paxson's character and so good beer fast, You're fast,
very quotable.
Speaker 5: They're all great.
Speaker 4: Some you can say on air, some you can't. Yeah
there they had a show to a Fireman show. Oh yeah,
ta coma d Yeah, and it's pretty funny for like
for like comedy sake com that like I had never
heard of it until I just like scrolled on it
one time, like you don't hear about.
Speaker 5: It, and it was pretty good.
Speaker 2: What has not been good is l s U football
and season openers since uh twenty, they've lost every single
one of those.
Speaker 5: They have gone zero for five, and it is well documented.
Speaker 2: It has talked about a lot, and it is something
that well, it needs a change if LSU wants to
get back to playing for championships because you lose the
first game, then you're just swimming upstream for the rest
of the season. Our guy, Hump Palmer, did a great
job breaking it down. Check out article on Louisiana Sports
dot Net. He's got his three things that have played
LSU and opening losses. But I'm going to give you
some of the ones here for this show. Starting slow
for sure is one of them. Not capitalizing on opportunities
is one of them. Like you'll go back in some
of these games and like let's go to Florida State
in Orlando. Well, I mean you hit the ball and
you're going right down the field. I mean you hit
a big play. I think it was Trey Bradford hits
a big play and you're marching and you're driving, and
then you don't put the ball in the end zone.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: Those like when you're opening a game and you were
having success like that and you got all the momentum
and then the defense Bowson neck and they keep you
out of the end zone and you got to settle
for a field goal. Man, that the momentum and the
shift in that and it's like if you would have
scored a touchdown because you had this great drive going
and then you just stall out. Like those are the
things that just halt all the momentum that we're talking about.
The Florida State game in New Orleans, like you like
in the first half, didn't You didn't look like you
had a walk through for that game, and you just
look lost and they jump out in front. And then
when you figured out, then it's too little, too late,
and you make this great comeback, but you fall short
against UCLA. It's almost like you didn't know they were
going to run counter over and over again. And like
I've talked to some of the coaches that were on
that staff, right they were like, well, we got told
all week they're.
Speaker 5: Not going to do that. They're not going to do that.
Speaker 2: It's like, no, they got zach Scharbona and two really
good tight ends. They're going to run counter.
Speaker 5: What they do?
Speaker 2: They ran it eighteen times and they ran it right
through you. So I mean there's there's a lot of
Bo Polini. I love BO, love Bo.
Speaker 5: You can't play man when you're playing Mike Leach.
Speaker 2: Like Mike Leach was always going to expose man coverage,
like he is going to run shallow crossers pick rubs like,
that's just what he's going to do. And he picked
and he rubbed you to death and set an SEC
record for their quarterback.
Speaker 4: They got bench two weeks after that, it was a
five hundred and five in a lot like, hey, they
almost had a comma in that stat line for yards thrown.
Speaker 2: They're gonna run, They're gonna run, Chris Cross. It's kind
of what I call it. Everybody's just gonna go like this.
If you're playing man and they're gonna laugh that, you
you know, continue to do so. So I mean Hunt
breaks it down against a great article. Three things. There's
more than three things. I think there's there's things in
each game, but there's a lot of those that we
always talk about the controllables what can we control? Well,
there was things they could control that they just didn't
adjust to. And I'm I'm talking about multiple players, multiple
coaching staffs, multiple like it has been a theme for
LSU in these opening season losses.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you have to be prepared. I mean that's about
training camp so important. That's why you work on everything
in training camp. Uh, you're kind of breaking down a
couple of years here in a couple of opening games
and you don't know what the what a team's gonna do.
They could have the same head coach, they could have
the same defensive coordinator or offensive coordinator, but come out
the next year and not look anything like they did
the year before, or it runs something new that they
never showed the year before.
Speaker 5: That's why you have to be ultra prepared.
Speaker 4: So like, man, I remember this, I hadn't thought about
this all the time, but the calendar situation, like to
not be able to be prepared and know how to
defend a calendar is inexcusable. Excusable. Yep, running man to
man against Mike Leach inexcusable. You just don't do it.
You don't do it. So like what it leads to.
Of course, players have to make plays when they're presented
the opportunity to make a play, but it's the coaches
that present them that opportunity and put them in the
place to do that. So it's it's a little bit
of both. It's a little bit of a guessing game
on an open opening game on what they're gonna do,
Like you know, personnel wise, who they are because they're
returning so many people Clemsons are turning to so many
people you personal personnel wise, you know the skill set,
you know what they can do, you know what dangers
they present to your offense or your defense. But you
don't know where they're going to be lined up necessarily,
you don't know which direction they're gonna go once the
once down set hut. Yeah, so you have to be
prepared for everybody. Oh, I'm sorry, Yeah I did see Uh.
I was watching the Clemson South Carolina game film. Big
clap team, big fake clap team. I was shocked no
one jumped off sides when they fake clapped yesterday. They
did take a snap from under center on short yard.
It's so funny watching gun teams go underneath center like
once a game. Yeah, cuh because snap got stepped on,
fell down fumble in the backfield South Carolina ball. It
was good, just good, clean fun. So you gotta practice
that every now and then. You gotta practice it in
live situations too. Anyway, I think the moral of the
story is is that the drought ends here. This is
the biggest underdog we've been in one of these games.
It's the best team you've played, the.
Speaker 5: Best team we've played on Florida State.
Speaker 2: Istate went undefeated that year, and that that's a good team.
Speaker 5: I'm just talking about from top to bottom.
Speaker 2: Like as far as the players, I think Clemson has
more Sunday players. That was a great Florida State team,
So I won't take anything away from them. But I
mean this this high end NFL draft choices on both
sides of the football. That Florida State team did as well.
But I'll take Kate club Nick over Jordan Travis every time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, and we don't need to like compare
team every team, but like we're playing a team everybody knows.
I mean, ranked number five. I believe they're ranked for
it's a correct ranking for them, and like the preseason,
and it's fine, they'll get knocked down to about ten
after Week one. It's fine. You can rank it wherever
you want to. I just think LSU matches up all.
I look back at that the USC game last year
and like, offensively we executed pretty well. There was things
we like we didn't executing some situations and some big
plays that we didn't make, but like we came out
fire and executed. The defense certainly did not just didn't
make the plays. That they need to in the open
field one on one coverage. But all those as we know,
we did a great job in the in the transfer portal.
We shired up a lot of the positions. I just
expect us.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: And there's great tape to watch against.
Speaker 4: Clemson on kind of the figuring out the puzzle of
k club Nick and figuring out good ways to defend him. Yeah,
gotta have great cornerback play. South Carolina did it great.
They locked their receivers down. Now they made some plays
downfield on one on one coverage. And I'll get into
this later on the show, a little bit of the
film review. What I saw in the film. Like I said,
you get good defense, good defensive tackle play, you get
good safety play. Of course your linebackers are going to
be good. There are there's film out there from a
schematic standpoint that'd show you how to beat this team.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 2: And we'll continue to break it down, look at it
from every single angle. As I mean, we are fast
approaching Saturday night in Clemson South Carolina Memorial Stadium, not
calling it Death Valley or OTB when we come back here.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, like literally literally Yeah to a game they canceled,
which speaking of did y'all see Sorry?
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was just so much of it. I was at that too,
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Also, I meant to say this. Did you already mention
that the start time for the Clinson LSU game was
flex They moved it.
Speaker 5: To six fifty two Central Time?
Speaker 6: Central Time?
Speaker 5: Yes? Sorry? Time is it?
Speaker 6: So six fifty two?
Speaker 2: So in my brain I've already committed to the Eastern
time zone because I got to be there and show
up and everything.
Speaker 5: So yes, yeah, what time was it at? Thirty thirty?
Speaker 3: One of them were seven thirty Easter it was moved.
Speaker 4: Yes, it got moved in six fifty time twenty minutes.
Speaker 6: So breaking a lot of news here, Yeah, pushback. I
guess I'm not breaking it, but I'm reporting is here.
Speaker 5: Like you said, I don't know if y'all mentioned.
Speaker 6: It already, Yeah I could. I don't remember if y'all
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Speaker 5: But y'allre going down in a couple of weeks. We'll
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Speaker 2: Yes for sure. So that's that's a big job. That's
a fun job. That's more iconic jobs in LSU. Gotta
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Speaker 5: Are you trying to say that you couldn't do it?
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gonna grade you. We're gonna grade it's not incredible. I
like every time I hear myself on TV or like
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