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Speaker 1: Your Luck's in to Off the Bench Control from the
Live from downtown Baton Rouge. Here's Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Yo and welcome in to ot B.
Speaker 3: We are not live from downtown Beton Rouge, Big voice, lady,
We're actually live from Rouse's Market. Very excited to be
back here. It is another football Friday. The only difference
this football Friday, You're LSU Tigers.
Speaker 2: Are wanting to know. I want to know, just like
the shirt says.
Speaker 3: They weren't that last time that we were here, but
they are now. Yeah, we were hopeful. We knew it.
There was never a doubt. Of course we knew it.
We went five for five on our picks last week.
Speaker 2: No big deal. We sure did. We're about to go.
Speaker 3: Four, four for four well through the fifth in there.
Since we all picked LSU.
Speaker 4: That's fair, Yeah, that's fair. We'll pick them again this week.
Money Line, that's a hot take right.
Speaker 2: There, a very hot take.
Speaker 3: Louisiana Tech the Bulldogs coming to town, and so we'll
give you a little bit more of a preview of
that squad. Last week against Southeastern they were up three
to nothing and a half time ended up putting them
away in the fourth quarter. So we'll can give you
a game preview. One final look at the New Orleans
Saints as they get ready for the Arizona Cardinals. We
had action last night in the National Football League. It's
actually a much better game than I think we anticipated.
Did you get a little nervous considering you picked the
Eagles to be your survivor?
Speaker 4: No, it would have been actually pretty fitting if we
lost week one of our survivor just because I was
feeling pretty cocky about my pick.
Speaker 2: I was feeling pretty good about it.
Speaker 4: I thought the Cowboys were in absolute shambles. But I
guess that just goes to show you can't really believe
what you hear from the media. You can't really believe
what you hear leading up to a season, which gives
me hope for the Saints, right because this is still
NFL football, This is still NFL football players.
Speaker 2: But yeah, what a great game it was. Man.
Speaker 4: The Cowboys came out executing on every level. I mean
we we can get into a little bit more depth
about spitgate and the entire you know, hawk and loogies
on other people before games even start, before the first snap. Yeah,
but well, what a wild start to that game. But
the Cowboys, man, I don't know if Taylor's having sellers
remorse or not, but he can't go back.
Speaker 2: He can't go he can't go back now.
Speaker 4: He can't go even if they would have won, which
they they probably, you know, arguably could have should have
won a couple of misplays by Ceede Lamb, who played
a great game all the way up till they had
a couple of drops at the end. But man, Dak
Prescott actually played pretty darn good yesterday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and look, you had a delay in action and
what was at the end of the third quarter, so
you finally get back on the field, but you know,
a big fumble as we're watching it actually here, Yeah,
the fumble happened as we are talking about the fumble happened.
Speaker 2: In the third quarter.
Speaker 3: Uh, that was one of the big game changing moments
because the Cowboys are going to get points no matter
what if they hold them to.
Speaker 4: The football there. Yeah, that was that's unfortunate. It's always
it's always tough to because it was the it was
the second running back coming in kind of to spell
your starter a little bit, gets a big carry, makes
a funnel. I think he's a former Eagle to the
running back, so I'm sure that team. But uh yeah,
great game came down to the end. Had a couple
of drops there at the end too, But man, that.
Speaker 2: That played great.
Speaker 4: The Eagles are great. Jalen Hurts looked like he just
picked up right where he left off. But that defense
of theirs did not look immovable. They did not look
at unstoppable. Yeah, that game starts out. Wow, man, what
a wild start to the National Football League season twenty
twenty five season opening kickoff. You know they're lined up
five yards apart from each other. Yeah, a guy blows
his knee out. Yeah, and he's laying on the field.
Nobody's watching what's happening. But Jalen Carter for the Philadelphia Eagles,
their best player on defense and All Pro defensive lineman,
an absolute show stopper, a game change or somebody you
have to plan your entire offensive game plan at least
the running game around spits on Tag Prescott. Yeah, it
gets kicked out of the game. Yeah, and my god,
was just everybody poo pooing on that guy the entire zion,
which rightfully so.
Speaker 2: You don't spin on another man.
Speaker 4: That's probably one of the most disrespectful things you can
do to somebody. But in the second half, new footage
shows we had a second spinner. We had a second spinner.
He was actually the first spell on the grassy knoll.
We had a second spinner. Dak Prescott in a quote
after the game saying, defending his rookie offensive lineman, he
didn't know what Jalen car was doing on their side
of the football. Yeah, kind of getting in the head.
He defends him, and he said, I spit. Deck said,
I spit thousands of times in a game.
Speaker 2: I spit.
Speaker 4: I was just trying not to hit my lineman. I
spit right past their shoulders onto the ground. That's it, man,
I mean that man got caught. It was what seemed
to be seven hundred HD cameras. I was about to
say that Lugi was flying all day, like you saw
every angle that Lougi.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the shape of it, but trajectory, yeah, you are
not going to get away with stuff like that. Anywore game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you get kicked out and man, he was
like you could tell on his face he's like, oh man,
this stinks.
Speaker 2: I really kind of messed up.
Speaker 4: But like, uh, hate of the moment, but you might
as well be spitting on the chest of your team
right there at that point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it ended up being a really good game,
twenty four to twenty the Eagles. When we got another
game tonight, it is the Chargers in Chiefs.
Speaker 2: That's going to be at seven pm.
Speaker 3: We had high school football in a couple of places
last night, so football definitely not only in the air.
It is all over the place, and so a full
slate of games on Saturday. The New Orleans Saints play
on Sunday. And it is finally here where everything is
in action.
Speaker 2: So man's baby, we're back. It is. It's an exciting time.
It's a great time.
Speaker 3: I had the opportunity I was telling y'all yesterday, I
got a chance to go watch my oldest son playing
his first varsity game. Is like, you know, somebody that's
the starter and going out there that was a lot
of fun. They were victorious, the victorious, they're victorious. They
beat Woodlaw, but It was a good It was a
very cool feeling.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: You see him run out of the tunnel and go
out there on the field and get his name called
for the starters, and so that's very cool feeling. Man.
Speaker 2: There was something certainly I would would never want to
miss that.
Speaker 4: How how often did you find you having your cell
phone up video?
Speaker 2: Did you try to keep it down? No?
Speaker 3: See, yeah, yeah, I was down because I yeah, Katie
was doing the film and I was you know, I
was locked in.
Speaker 4: So how was how was he leading up like yesterday
the day before? He worked with a lot of nerves.
I remember being nervous in high school, especially like your
first time playing on varsity. You're like, wow, there has
never been more people in the world watching a football
game ever in the history. That's what I thought when
I was in high school.
Speaker 3: I don't know, like it didn't show it, but like
you know, maybe, like so like when when your son
Huck gets up to that age, I wonder what their
nerves are because you got to think about this, like
they've been inside Tiger Stadium, sure, and they've gone to
professional games as well.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: Now they weren't on the field, but I didn't really
have a ton of experience right like high school, even
like mid year, you know.
Speaker 4: I mean I'd gotten to like Baylor games. Yeah, that
that didn't really count.
Speaker 2: The old Floyd Ksey we talked about Oklahoma's game against them. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: So but even in high school, like we played West
mon Roe one time, we had like fifty thousand people
in there. Fifty thousand, fifty thousand people in West Monroe. No, No,
we played against West Monroe in the Super Viome.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 3: We played against a lot and we played against an
independent stadium in tree Ford where they played the Independence Bowl,
and it was like thirty five thousand.
Speaker 2: That's a lot, man.
Speaker 4: So I usually bragged the people about like our attendance
in high school in our schools, but that was nowhere
near thirty or fifty thousand. And maybe we had twenty
thousand in Texas Stadium like playoffs or something. But you get,
you get get like an alga like a combination of
six different teams fan base there. Because there was neither
three or four games throughout the day. That's pretty impressive,
Pretty impressive, sir.
Speaker 2: So you do did good? He did good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, A couple of tackles, you know, that's sending to
split the double.
Speaker 2: Hello, take his knees out, that's it, and say that
that's a great country accent. I hold you. Yeah, you
have to.
Speaker 3: It's the only way to do it. But I would
I would love to hear some of the scores. If
there was other teams in action across the state, let
us know, let us know how it went.
Speaker 2: Who was victorious.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no we can't because I was having the internet.
But yeah, I just I just hot spotted to my
cell phone. But we're working on it, working through some
technical difficulties. But we are excited again to be here
at Rouse's Market, right here on Burbank, right near LSU.
Speaker 2: Again. I'm impressed.
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Speaker 2: The slate this weekend.
Speaker 3: We have you know you've got a game tonight, certainly
got a full slate on Saturday and Sunday. We'll be
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Speaker 3: I did see something kind of newsy come across the
wire yesterday and want to get your thoughts on it.
There's some real momentum into only having one transfer portal,
and that portal would be a ten day window starting
in kind of at the beginning portion of January, so
they'd move it back. The December window would move back,
and they would get rid of these spring transfer portal windows,
so no longer would coaches lose their players after spring practice.
Speaker 2: Sure, I mean I actually I like it. I mean
I well, speed Daton.
Speaker 3: I know that LSU has benefited in the past from
getting somebody after spring. Everybody's benefited in you know, one
player here, one player there.
Speaker 2: It's just it's so tough, man.
Speaker 3: It's tough for the coaches that are trying to know
their rosters, tough for the teammates.
Speaker 2: So this is this rule has passed.
Speaker 3: No well talked about it's got Yeah, it's got until
I believe October. Right, so it's been proposed and it's
got until October if you want to in effect for
this year.
Speaker 2: Hmmm.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to think of like, you know, I could
there was a time not too long ago out of
old Man on the lawn thisk and been like, yeah,
for sure the less transfers or you know, time for
the transfer portal. But it's so prevalent in college for
it's such an important factor in building rosters now. And
of course I don't env coaches. They have such a
hard job in college football right now managing rosters because
it's still the more rules that get put on it.
There's still you know, there's still not it's still not
super clear. We're still learning as we go in this
new age, new era of college football. But LSU has
benefited so much, like it's hard to talk talk bad
about it at all. So I get what they're trying
to do because it's easier to manage that roster you
can't go after spring, but it does limit the opportunities
that the kid is going to have, and for that matter,
a school is going to have if something, if a
need does arise, Like what if there's you know, is
more than normal injuries that happen in spring and they
need to kind of fill in some spots. I don't know,
it's I'd like to kind of hear the pros and
cons of arguments for for and against either way. But
I guess the old school spirit of me says, yeah,
that's a good thing. But just because everybody is so
reliant on right now, both the both the players and
the coaches and the programs, I don't know how I
feel about it, really. I don't like to put limitations
on something that that is that is so important right
now in college football.
Speaker 3: So, oh, last year you had the December window be
open from December the ninth until the twenty eighth, and
the spring portal period was April sixteenth through the twenty fifth. Now,
the FBS coaches voted and it was a unanimous vote
in July or for this July portal proposal earlier this year.
So the coaches absolutely want it, and they said it
gives you more time to focus on finishing the season
while preserving the opportunity for players to transfer to the
new school for the spring semester. So this has been
something that has been talked about for a long time.
It's not I mean spring meetings, every SEC coach talked
about it on the record, off the record. So this
proposed loan transfer window would be ten day period that
opens up again on January the second, one day after
the college football playoff quarterfinals are completed, and the Division
One Administrative Committee must approve this change before it can
take effect.
Speaker 2: This year, vote again is October the first. All right, well, I.
Speaker 3: Think it's really just so you don't have a Nico
emai Aliava situation where you're starting quarterback after spring practice,
decides to go somewhere else and then you're kind of scrambling.
Now you end up making a trade. You know, we
found out the player Joey Are But I think that's
one of the things that coaches are trying to stay
away from.
Speaker 2: I get, and I get that completely.
Speaker 4: Due I guess on the flip side, if you're looking
for an argument a devil's advocate here, like, there's probably
also situations where it's helped both the player and the program,
both sides of the program.
Speaker 2: So I get it. Though you want your roster.
Speaker 4: I think the especially the coaches, the way that they
were raised up as coaches. It's it wasn't anywhere close
to the roster chaos that they have right now. Anytime
you can put a little bit more rules on it,
it's probably a good thing just from a just from
a mindset of the coaches, like.
Speaker 2: All right, this is what we got.
Speaker 4: Let's figure out how to make this team the best
we can. And there's no other options for people to leave.
So whether it's whether it's a good thing or a
bad thing, if you're in a situation where somebody gets
hurt at the end of spring and you don't have it,
like you don't have an answer behind it, then you're
in a rough.
Speaker 2: Rough spot. Then you're in a bad spot.
Speaker 4: Right, but at least you didn't know, so fear of
the unknown, that's what gets what makes it makes it
difficult to coach in college football right.
Speaker 2: Now, I will say.
Speaker 4: I just don't like it during the season, like why
why should people transfer before like the season's over?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 3: There the one thing that it's going to do if
it doesn't indeed pass, there was some guys and look
at I mean, you can love it, you can hate it.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't probably have done it, just just not kind
of the way I'll build.
Speaker 3: But there was some guys that would go through spring
practice would kind of hear the rumors and the chirps
of what some of these top ten programs needed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, defensive tackle. Oh, I'm a defensive tackle.
Speaker 3: That's me. I made a couple of plays last year.
I had three sacks.
Speaker 4: My bank accounts not quite as heavy as it could be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you had look and.
Speaker 2: What did they do?
Speaker 3: They got overpaid and they knew they were going to
get overpaid, and they did. Like Bear Alexander Right, the
guy that went from Georgia to usc usc to Oregon.
Like Bear knew what he was doing. Bear had made
many plays in costs football. He got a lot of money.
And you had a lot of players they would kind
of wait to see what the in vogue position was,
and you'd see a slew of that position. You know,
mid tier players get paid like primetime players.
Speaker 2: That's just called supplying demand. Let's our business.
Speaker 3: I know I'm saying it wouldn't have been my process,
but that's that's what was going on.
Speaker 4: I know, I get, but I guess you can't judge.
I guess you can't judge the kids and that, like
there's a certain point where it's like, man, it's uh,
you know, stick with like I'm so glad this guy's loyal.
Like there's not that many nuts meyers walking around Like,
but I don't think anybody this day and age can
sit and judge a kid for testing the market if
there is a position to need and they get fill
in need. That's they're doing in professional football all the time.
They test the market. They go see how much money
they can make to whether it's here, whether it's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the difference is it's every year for some of
these players.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the problem. Like NFL, you have an that's.
Speaker 4: Where I'm going to stick the flag in the grounds.
So I'm gonna draw a line in the sand and
I'm going to be the oldest man possible on that
lawn yelling at the fast cars because like, slow down
this neighborhood as a neighborhood, Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: There's a speed bump there.
Speaker 3: That little turtle didn't mean anything to you that said
slow down.
Speaker 4: Turtles don't walk on two legs. No, they're not n
ninjas either. I don't even know what we're talking about. Oh, yes,
the amount of times that they can transfer is the issue.
Speaker 2: To me get a walk card. Here's my walk card,
turning it in. I mean, what what college is t J.
Speaker 4: Finlely on right now? Six six and six years? Yeah,
like how long can we ride this? The COVID, Y're
I don't know. I'm not saying that. He is just saying, like,
I feel like people are still here, like getting eligibility
from COVID.
Speaker 2: Yeah that was wild. Six schools and six years, that's
a half decade ago. Yeah, that is not That is
not really that's why this was for.
Speaker 4: That's not the spirit of what all this is. Like,
I still like the old rule of like you know,
you get okay, not the old rule of like you
gotta transfer, you got to sit out, but like, yeah,
you get one transfer, one transfer. If you want to
transfer again, fine, there's a penalty for that. Yeah, if
you want to go and transfer to that and that
team is finally still paying you for having to set
out or you know, maybe it's not a whole season,
maybe it's a couple of games. I don't know what
it is, but like could be something the rule. There's
got to be some sort of rule, like even in
professional football. You can't just move every year. You can't.
No one's going to be signing one year contracts with
six different teams.
Speaker 2: You just to me, that is like what if you're signing.
Speaker 3: If you're signing, I mean for six teams and six years,
you're called a journeyman.
Speaker 2: You call a journeyman, you're called a hanging on by
a three.
Speaker 4: You're not making a quarter cent over minimum.
Speaker 3: They might they might try to negotiate something underneath minute.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like Kawhi Leonard got like paid from another company.
They might have like a separate LLC shell company that
takes money back out of your checking it out and
puts it back into the end of the company. All Right,
we were smart enough talking about the Kawhi Leonard situation
about that.
Speaker 2: We ain't doing that. We'll take a break. We'll get
into some l s U.
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Louisiana Tech beat Southeastern twenty four to nothing.
Speaker 2: It was three to nothing.
Speaker 3: At halftime, and Louisiana Tech pulls away there.
Speaker 2: In the second half.
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past that have been really competitive, going to you know,
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Speaker 2: Trying to get back to that point.
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they are, you know, a five touchdown plus favorite in
this game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you just really, when you go into a game
like this, it's a there's going to be some we've
kind of poopooed on like that, the juice, the energy
that you kind of.
Speaker 2: Have to manufacture energy.
Speaker 4: But I guess what we really haven't given enough credit
to is the first time being in Tiger Stadium this year,
So there is going to be some juice just pulled
straight from that. But outside of that, there is it's
hard to get the emotions up. It's hard to get
the intensity, the subconscious intensity that it is for because
you're coming off an emotional high.
Speaker 2: So a lot of that has to be manufactured.
Speaker 4: Like I said yesterday, like coaches talk, coaches speak, the
coaches like the stereotypical things they say. It is kind
of at a premium this week. But what I like
about this team is these are kind of like these
are these are kind of leadership games right here. Yeah,
so your leaders you can't accept anything but anybody's best.
Speaker 2: And I know it's going to be hard. It is
going to be hard a lot.
Speaker 4: But this is the first time in Tiger Stateum, you're
playing an in state school.
Speaker 3: First time you've been one to zero in Tiger Stadium
since minute.
Speaker 2: Let's get a little juice on that.
Speaker 4: But it's what I want to see from them is
just playing execution. It is going out there executing your assignment,
knowing what to do, being confident, and just I want
the game to look clean. I don't want preset penalties,
I don't want preset misalignments. I don't want twelve men
in the huddle. I don't want twelve men on the field.
I don't want all the silly things that make a
game just look sloppy and slow down a game. I
want to play on time. I want to play on schedule.
I want to be I don't want to have any
holding calls on first down and be first and twenty.
I want to be on schedule as the offense, and
I want to get my starters out of there midway
through the third quarter.
Speaker 2: I want to be that.
Speaker 4: Type of game where it's like, Okay, Garrett, great game.
You went twenty four of twenty eight. Yeah, for three
tuds and two hundred and forty yards.
Speaker 2: Whatever it is.
Speaker 4: You know, it doesn't have to be these crazy, crazy stats.
I don't care what. I don't care about beating a
team sixty to nothing. Now, it doesn't matter. That doesn't
matter to me. The fluff stats, the fluff score. Yeah,
it makes you, It makes fans feel good and gives
you the warm and fuzzies a little bit. But I
just want execution on the defensive side of the ball. Yes,
that is where it's hard to manufacture that energy and
that intensity. But play gap sound, play your play your
assignment correctly. Be part of that one of eleventh one
eleventh right, whatever that is, be that one eleventh right. Uh,
don't execute your job. Do your job. Do the assignment
you're supposed. Don't try to do anything outside of the
ordinary because you think you're better than a team or no,
you're better and you're trying to get an.
Speaker 2: Extra sack or get an extra tackle. Do your assignment.
Speaker 4: I just want to see clean I want low ims
missus simons.
Speaker 3: So, I mean, I'm pretty similar to that, Like I
don't really care what the score is. Like, you know,
we're gonna we'll give a score prediction on the website
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put the New Orleans Saints. I'll probably say something forty
five to ten. Like it'll probably be something I throw
out there. Okay, I don't care about that though. I
actually I want to see what the schematics are going
to look like for the defense, like they were pressure, pressure,
pressure last week. Now is that who they're going to be?
And I'm not saying about because of the quality of
the opponent. I'm talking about just the style of the offense.
Is that who they're going to be against that like
any offense? Or is that who they're going to because
they knew they could get k club Nick flustered. Are
they going to do that multiple weeks? Like is that
gonna be every week? Is it gonna be this week?
You know this quarterback shows that he can get off
his mark, or if we bring that much pressure?
Speaker 2: Now they're going to be aggressive. They're gonna bring pressure.
Speaker 3: But are they gonna bring it sixty something percent of
the time like they did against Clemson? Like that's going
take That's the most intriguing thing to me. Are they
gonna sit back yep? Are they gonna kind of you know,
figure it out a little bit?
Speaker 2: Ye?
Speaker 3: Are they going to say hey, no, no, no, no, this
is who we are right and we're gonna do it
to DJ lack Way in two weeks as well? I
want to see what the scheme of the defense looks like,
because if they bring pressure sixty percent of the time
again in this louisiantege game, that's who they are.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think I think foundationally Blake Baker and that defense
wants to be aggressive, and I learned that from Blake
Baker and Spring flag football coaching seven to ten that
son of a gun was bringing pressure all over the place.
Speaker 2: That's just who he is, who he wants to be,
so we saw it. But I do think that he's
a uh.
Speaker 4: He understands the game so well and understands defenses so well,
knows how to game plan so well that it will
change a little bit game back game. But I think
at the core of everything, he wants to create chaos.
Speaker 2: He wants to bring pressure.
Speaker 4: He wants to make them have to make the exceptional
play and play a little bit faster than they want
to play. You make the offense a little bit uncomfortable,
then you have a You have a chance to do
some really special things we did last week. Now, I
also believe that he's going to watch the quarterbacks and
see how they process information. You might blitz got one
guy a lot more than you blitz another guy, or
bring different types of pressures against them because one quarterback
might be really bad at deciphering pressures from his blindside.
Speaker 2: One person might be.
Speaker 4: A little bit more because he because one guy might
be a right hand or might pride. You might pressure
from the right side a little bit more because the
ninety eight percent of his scrambles he wants to go
scramble to the right instead of you know, flipping his
hips and rotating and scrambling to the left. He's uncomfortable
doing that. Like, there's all sorts of things that go
into I believe they pressured and brought so much chaos, even.
Speaker 2: Though they did leave some open people.
Speaker 4: They were exposed a little bit, but that's part of
being blitzed and pressure. I believe that they watched the
film from last year with k Clubney and they saw
weakness of his which is deciphering different types of defense,
reading the inside middle portion of the field, and he
has a weakness of having to get past his first
and I can read and staying on a platform and
having a good base at quarterback and reading and playing
that type of offense. I believe that that had a
lot to do with it. And I also believe you
go back and watch the eleven or eleven Harold Perkins
famously playing the star position Star is out there and
he has past responsibilities. He's got either curl flat or
monument or or he's got these responsibilities. And okay, oh
Willy nilly when we can't show the people are talking
about he has past responsibilities in his zone coverage. Okay,
you could tell that he was given the green light
by his coaches to abort that past responsibility and attack
the quarterback multiple times. Now, he created a lot of
pressure when it was supposed to be when it was
actually pressures and he's either spying or.
Speaker 2: A late ad to a blitz or a pressure.
Speaker 4: But he did it a lot when he was supposed
to be in the curl flat. Yeah, and you could
tell that he was given that green light. All right,
as soon as he goes, I don't care what you,
I don't care who's there. And I feel like that
comes a lot because kid struggles reading defenses.
Speaker 2: H and and he did, and they also did.
Speaker 3: I probably didn't want to get k Kleubnick on the
edge because you're turning your back because you're trying to
get to your coverage responsibility, and all of a sudden
you look up and he hit you for a twenty.
Speaker 4: Seven yard game. Certainly he didn't want to be with
his legs. With his legs, he can beat you with
his arm if he can find it and decide for it.
Speaker 2: But now With that being.
Speaker 4: Said, there was opportunities for kid to make plays. Yeah,
that happened certainly.
Speaker 3: Part of Yeah, it's part of the game plans to
be so chaotic, yep, that you get them off their game, but.
Speaker 4: You make him play fast, you bring chaos to him
and they just believe that he couldn't keep up with it,
so and it was right and they trusted it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's some quarterbacks at LSU my play that have
you know, a different football IQ. It's not to say
that Caid's got a bad one, but like that was
something that showed up in film that if you kind
of made a chaotic like that for him, he didn't
get to his second and third read like he gets
to the first one. Then he tried to make a
play and a lot of times he was so athletic
he could make them play. But there's just doesn't really
had to right, there's something, there's something. You've got a
player that are going to be different. I mean you
got you know, Diego Pavia, you got John Mattier, you
got DJ Lagway, you got Leonora Sellers all still coming
up on this schedule for LSU.
Speaker 4: I would probably look to for KDE Club, Nick I'm
gonna probably be taking the next couple of weeks the
over on all his stats, on his on his pass
yard stats, on his rushing stats, because I believe that
other teams are going to see what LSU did and
they're going to try to do it. Yeah, and they
just won't be the Jimmy's and Jo's. So what they're
gonna do is like, if that's not part of your
DNA of doing all those chaotic blitzes and bringing it
from both directions, different people, different levels of the field.
But you watch something on film, you're like, oh, we
can install that this week. Yeah, But if you don't
and it's not part of your found like you leave
so many things wide open if like you if your
safeties don't know how to fill in the gaps where
your linebackers leave, if they're just not real comfortable with
that's kind of like offensive line passing off pass protection,
like you have to like when you're a blitzing an
aggressive it's like ry Well Ryan Clark would make up.
Speaker 2: For Ti pal Malu right, like they just knew like.
Speaker 4: He created chaos, but you had to have some guy
that made up for that chaotic behavior. So I would
look for all the overs on the prop stat line
for k club and a passing yards, rushing yards touchdowns
there because I think he's probably going to go off
because people are just going to leave people wide open yea.
Speaker 3: And teams are going to try to replicate what LSU did.
Speaker 2: But good luck, Like, yeah, you don't.
Speaker 3: You don't have the personnel that LSU had, Like you,
you don't have Harold Perkins who on the fourth down
he's on the left side of your screen. You blink
and he's in the quarterback's face on the right.
Speaker 2: Hash just shot out of it. Can man, don't It
wasn't even really has It's kind of the numbers. What
a doll? Yeah, you like, good luck, good luck trying
to replicate that.
Speaker 3: And you can do that if, like Matt said, if
you have players that understand, hey, it's not gonna be me.
It's not gonna be me that makes the play I'm
not gonna get my jersey number called over the PA,
but I'm going to make up for our playmaker that's
going to do the wild and crazy things, the organized
chaotic things that he's.
Speaker 2: Going to go do.
Speaker 3: And it felt like Elish, you did a really nice job.
Of doing that in the game last week against Clemson.
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final stats for louisianatack and kind of break down one
more time like what they are, what they're all about
as we get you ready for kickoff LSU and Louisian
attack tomorrow night inside of the real Death Valley.
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This is Off the Bench with Hester and Flynn Baton,
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Speaker 2: All right, and welcome back in.
Speaker 3: It is OTB and we are here at Rouse's on
Burbank hanging out a little football Friday action.
Speaker 4: There go to the game this weekend. Good question, I
got tickets, That's why I asked it. He didn't know
if I had tickets or not. No, but he said,
a good question. We actually have not even discover us
the game. I know, Huck, my oldest really wants to
go to as many games as they can this year,
but we've been so focused. We have a birthday party.
He has his birthday party this afternoon, so he hasn't
been able to see past that situation.
Speaker 2: I got you.
Speaker 4: So he's doing all that, So I would assume we'll
probably go probably be like a first half situation.
Speaker 2: I'm that guy. Sorry. Wow, I know y'all. Some of
us stay committed and stay all four quarters. That's because
you have a job.
Speaker 3: You don't think they'd let me get up and walk out. Man,
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Speaker 2: All right, and this is out. All right, let's go, Gordy,
come up. I'm done, Geordy.
Speaker 4: I gotta beat the traffic bub get big fav of
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Speaker 2: I'll call it like i'll face something in. Yeah, yeah,
I'll call it from a car. I'll call it. I'll
call it all right. So yeah, man's going. I might
what I have to do. So I have tickets for
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Speaker 4: Oh my god, I don't think that that's applicable there.
Every yellow Shoe game feels like it. Oh yeah, I
don't go. I just sell them right. I don't have it.
So what I do have to do. I'll be out
there to take a tip.
Speaker 2: Got to got to to I got to figure out parking,
so I gotta get I gotta get if.
Speaker 4: I forgot to look in to get a parking pass
for the season. So I'm not into, you know, long
leisure walks.
Speaker 2: It's just not me. I'm just not into that. I
told you.
Speaker 4: I prefer in front of my TV, going like like
a tennis tennis match, going left to right, being so
close to it. But we'll see no where. My kids
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you know, we usually do at least one of maybe
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Speaker 2: Though last year I think we did. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: It's the same as the others. It always feels a
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Speaker 3: I guess typically, I guess because Tat would come back
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Speaker 3: So LSU Louisiantack, LSU big favorite, Louisiana TACK, you know,
struggled in a game last.
Speaker 2: Week against Southeastern.
Speaker 3: Southeastern had more first down Southeastern was nine of eighteen
on third downs and so very efficient there. They have
more total yards than Louisiana TACH. They had more passing
yards than Louisiana Tech.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, they just turned the football over. I think
they had three turnovers. Louisiana TACH didn't have any. That
was a story of the game. L's she's gonna have
every opportunity to go out there and be successful, looking
forward to seeing what that defensive game plan is, looking
forward to seeing what the offense does, as far as
maybe some.
Speaker 2: Of the rotations at running back and receiver.
Speaker 3: Probably the storyline for me as you get ready to
welcome in the Bulldogs of Louisiana Tech into Tiger Stadium.
Speaker 2: All Right, we'll take a break, but don't you worry.
Our two coming right back your way here on O
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