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Speaker 1: Hour two of Off the Bench Live from downtown Baton
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come listen to the show as well. And we're going
to continue talking about some of these games in the
Southeastern Conference. We talked about Georgia and Tennessee right before
we went to our last break.
Speaker 2: Also, we'll hit the New.
Speaker 3: Orleans Saints kind of a final preview of their game
against the San Francisco forty nine Ers. Are very banged up.
San Francisco forty nine Ers football team. Arkansas and Old
Miss play each other in Oxford, mississip Be coming up.
It's gonna be a primetime game seven pm Eastern Time,
six pm Central. I don't know why, but there's something
about Arkansas in this matchup that I like. It's on
the road I understand that Ole Miss right now is
six and a half point favorite. Austin Simmons hasn't been
sharp just yet. It's a new starting quarterback. He's thrown
for over five hundred something yards, but he's also got
more interceptions and touchdowns right now.
Speaker 2: Now, Lacy did run.
Speaker 3: The football extremely well a week ago, and they go
on the road. They beat Kentucky, which has certainly been
an issue for them in the past.
Speaker 4: That in disappointing fashion though, right, they didn't come out
because they didn't cover. So you were pretty mad. Well, yeah,
that's why I said disappointing. Yeah, I mean, Lane, how
do you feel about Lane apologizing to the betters?
Speaker 2: That's peak Laane.
Speaker 4: I mean it's like, right, I mean it's you know, yeah,
it tracks for Lane. But do we really want do
we really want to get in a situation where your
coaches are post game immediately like that, that's your your
post game on field presser. He knew the spread, you
know the spread there, but the me that's just first thought.
Speaker 2: Sorry to the betters out there, Yeah, thought we weren't
supposed to know the line.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know if we want to get into
the world where coaches are apologizing to betters for missing
on the spread. But you know what, great teams win
or good teams win, great teams cover. There we go,
they didn't do it. They're not great.
Speaker 2: You like them to cover in this one minus six
and a half.
Speaker 4: We don't know what Arkansas is. They've played trash.
Speaker 2: Arkansas State in Alabama. A and M.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's right, So we have no clue
what Arkansas is. But based on our ot B projections
pre season, we said that Arkansas was going to be
dog boe this year. So I'm gonna say, yeah, I
like all Miss the cover. Back at home after getting me,
I would say that Ole Miss would. Coaching wise, they
probably made a lot of mistakes. They didn't play the
game that they wanted to this past weekend. I would,
you know, I would hope that they would. That's how
they feel because they didn't execute ro well. It's kind
of a sloppy game, so I would look to them
to clean some things up. Coming back at home, I
liked I like them to cover that all.
Speaker 3: Right, Texas A and M travels to South Bend, Indiana.
Speaker 2: Take go on the Notre Dame.
Speaker 3: Fighting Irish Right now, Notre Dame a six and a
half point favorite.
Speaker 2: This is a top sixteen.
Speaker 3: Match up, texting him right there at sixteen, Notre Dame
at number eight. Last year, this was one of those
games where a lot of people started to respect Notre
Dame a little bit more because they went down to
College Station and beat the Aggies.
Speaker 2: Can they do it two years in a row? Is
going to be the question.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've been watching. I haven't watched the full game
of A and M yet, no real reason to up
to this point, but I feel that Marcel Reed has
been playing pretty good ye making some good throws. If
he can continue to elevate his his performance and his
production in the passing game standpoint, if he can learn
how to if he can work the offense like they
want him to. Like the lot of thet SEC media days,
a lot of the A and M people were real
hopeful based on what he had been doing in the
spring and the way he kind of looked towards the
end of the season last year.
Speaker 2: I think this is going to be a really good game.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I think Marci Marcel Reed does add a different element.
But of course Notre Dames quarterback has been playing pretty
well too, even in their loss against Miami, still played,
still played really well a new quarterback. So I look
at that game as probably being one of the top
games of the weekend this year or this week, so
we'll see. I had him last year, beating Notre Dame
at home last year on the old betting slip, and
it failed me. So I'm not gonna make that mistake.
You know, everybody, everybody has that team, right, everybody has
that team that they can't win, whether they bet against
them or for them. And I always bet against Notre Dame, okay,
because I don't like them. I don't respect them. I've
said it here. I think I think they're cowards, all
of them. Until they get into a conference, then I'll
respect them. But I bet against them every time, every time,
every time, and then I lose every time, or then
I'm like, all right, fine, they've been winning, all right,
I'll bet with them this time.
Speaker 2: So I just can't win.
Speaker 4: I can't win a bet with if Notre Dame is
involved in the matchup, I cannot win the bets. So
I'm gonna stay away from it. From a betting perspective,
I do see Notre Dame is that six and a
half is a lot of points.
Speaker 2: The total is fifty and a half two. That feels
like a lot. I'm gonna go.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna I would take if I had the gun
to my head, I would take I would take the point.
They ain't m the points. All right, Let's go to
vau nothing. Listen to the actual expert.
Speaker 3: Vanderbilt and South Carolina and Williams Bryce Stadium. This is
going to be primetime SEC Network seven five pm, Eastern
Times six forty five here locally. Right now, South Carolina
is a three and a half point favorite at home.
Speaker 2: Cannot wait to see how this one plays out.
Speaker 3: Diego Poby is one of those players that feels like
he wants to go into a loud stadium. He wants
to have everybody yelling at him. He wants to have
that moment where he can hear a pin drop because
he makes the play that quiets the crowd. So I
cannot wait for the electric environment and this one and
two quarterbacks that I got a lot of respect for.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we we've been talking about these quarterbacks, you know,
all summer leading up to the season, and they to
this point, they have not disappointed two electric guys, two
guys that can change a game. Two guys that are
nearly impossible to game plan for. But you know what
those defenses have done all bring, all summer, all training camp.
They've gone against a quarterback every single day in practice
that can live off schedule point. So I guess if
you look at it, if you want to be a
glass half full kind of guy, the defenses are as
prepared for a guy like they're about to face as
anybody would be because they see it every single day
in practice. So which one of this is going to
come down to? Which who's going to make a big
mistake type of type of deal. Who's going to make
a critical air Whether it's not a quarter it could
be a receiver, could be a running back, could be
a big time holding call or a late hit out
of bounds, something like that. I believe that this game
has the potential to come down to like one or
two plays, one or two calls right at the end
of the game. So I'll look, I kind of think
that this game is At the same time, this is
a game like you watch, Yeah, you want to watch
every single snap, you want to be into it. So, uh,
I don't know who you like in this game. I
think I must put your feet to the Okay, I
think I like Vanderbilt's cover. I think it's gonna be
a three point game either way.
Speaker 3: I just think Diego Pabia in moments like this, that's
when he thrives.
Speaker 2: Like you look at Lane Stadium last.
Speaker 3: Weekend, and you know, regardless of Virginia Tech's a good
football team or now, they've got one of the best
venues in college football and Blacksburg, Virginia was rocking and
they came out in second half, they were down twenty
to ten.
Speaker 2: He didn't blink and.
Speaker 3: You look up and I mean they're housing Virginia Tech.
Speaker 2: So we have a common opponent. Now. It was Week one,
but it was clunky, clunky.
Speaker 3: For South Carolina against Virginia Tech. I think Vanderbilt looked
better against Virginia Tech than South Carolina did. And I'm
not calling him to outright win the game right now,
but I do think Vanderbilt covers well.
Speaker 4: It's just in a short sample size of two games
for both of these they have a common appelment. You
really want to be careful, like you know, judging too
many people like on common opponents. Because every week's different, right,
every week is game plans are different, just situations that
every football is different. Right, So, but I would say
Erbilt has more impressive wins. They've looked more impressive than
South Carolina has. Vanderbilt beats Virginia Tech forty four to twenty.
South Carolina they beat them twenty four to eleven. South
Carolina plays South Carolina State beats them thirty eight to ten.
Vanderbilt goes and plays Charleston Southern. Yeah, so who it does?
So is that what that means? Yeah, that's a team
maybe then forty five to three. So I think they
you know, if you're looking at scores, you're looking at outcomes.
Vanderbilt has had the more impressive victories. But what's going
to happen when rubber it meets of the road. Second
time I said that.
Speaker 2: Is the second time you've said that? All Right?
Speaker 3: That is the games in the SEC, A lot of
good games, a lot of really good games coming up
this weekend last week that's really going to kind of
show us I think a path of maybe what it's
going to look like in the Southeastern Conference.
Speaker 2: The game that I'm go ahead, No, I.
Speaker 4: Was, you're probably about to bring this up, but like
a sneaky game that I am really gonna would like
to be locked into is Miami versus South Florida.
Speaker 2: Uh No, we'll certainly get to that.
Speaker 3: Is that the game though, like out of the conference,
you're probably looking forward to the most.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's a I mean, it's a top matchup.
It's a five verse eighteen. Who's going to hold the
crown to Florida football this drafting?
Speaker 2: Oh should hold it? Yeah?
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean after how can you not be excited?
Miami impressive so far up to this point, South Florida
extremely dangerous. How we're going to learn a lot this weekend?
How good really is the Florida Gators? And how good
is South Florida.
Speaker 3: So it's a big line too.
Speaker 2: Seventeen and a half. That's like it was from Florida
last week.
Speaker 4: Seventeen and a half for a five verse eighteen, which
is a it's a wild line.
Speaker 3: The game outside of the conference, I'm I'm definitely going
to be eye hustling. The entire game is Clemson and
Georgia Tech. That's a noon Eastern kicks. So eleven local
Georgia Tech two and oh we know Clemson one to one.
Now this line has really really moved. I mean I've
seen it kind of bounce all around a little bit.
It opened up I think it opened up at minus
six and a half for Clemson. I saw it get
all the way up to like eight and a half
nine for Clemson over the last couple of weeks, and
now it's all the way back down to minus two
and a half for Clemson on the road. In Bobby Dodd,
here's the thing about this game. Okay, Clemson so far
in two weeks has struggled with physicality. We were told
Clemson was a B and C as far as being physical,
and they aren't any of those things. The Clemson defensive
line that was highly talented in every draft that you
see has both those got Peter Woods I've seen as
the number one player in the draft, and I've still
yet to see that when I watch tape. They better
bring it if they want to win and not be
one and two against Georgia Tech. Because if there's one
thing that Georgia Tech does at an elite level, it's physicality.
It's at the quarterback position with Haynes King, It's at
the running back position, it's on the offensive front.
Speaker 2: It's on the front seven of the defense.
Speaker 3: Brent Key as an offensive lineman from Georgia Tech, that
that's where he played.
Speaker 2: And they have taken the DNA of their head coach,
their defensive coordinator, Blake Gideon, great friend of mine.
Speaker 3: I know what he's all about. He played safety at
Texas for four years.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: They got some gritty coaches that have taken their mentality
and they've integrated it into the locker room.
Speaker 2: And that's what those players believe in.
Speaker 3: If Clemson isn't careful, they will get punched in the
mouth against Georgia Tech and they'll be on the mat
and I'm not sure they can get back up.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: To to date, those defensive linemen for Clemson have proven
to be a little bit overrated. Yeah, I think you.
I think you talked about it before LSU played them.
I think you had a conversation with a one of
your capadres about If you.
Speaker 2: Go watch the tape, it's Jimbo.
Speaker 4: It was Jimbo telling them that their effort isn't always there.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: They're skilled and talented, of course, but that's the You
can't judge a guy by you know, the measuring tape.
So but it's the effort they give, it's a tenacity
they play with. It's that extra thing that we talked
about earlier in the game with that that Micah Parsons
springs the table. Just from effor level, we're not even
talking about a skill set. But for them, for a
defensive line going against Georgia Tech, this is a smelling
salt game. Yeah, this is a game that you go
to the locker room, you put your EyeBlack on, you
put your helmet.
Speaker 2: While you're staring at yourself in the mirror.
Speaker 4: You look at yourself and you get your mind right
before you go on that field.
Speaker 2: You hit the smelling.
Speaker 4: Salts, yep, because you got to get they are. This
is a blue collar team that you're playing with a
blue collar quarterback and a guy that was on your
meat all meat head team as a hub, and you're
in for a dog fight. Maybe you're more talented than them.
So what it's a mindset. This is a mindset game.
A smelling salt game for Clemson.
Speaker 3: Used to be a matchup predictor, actually gives Georgia Tech
a fifty five point nine percent chance to win this game.
Speaker 2: So if you're a Clemson.
Speaker 3: Like, you have no excuse, like you can't be like, ah,
we were underestimating them. If you turn on the tape
and you see what you know Georgia Tech, who did
not have their best day against Colorado on the road,
found a way to win and then they house Gardner
Web last week. But when you turn on the tape,
there's no chance that you should have step into this
because if you do again, I'm just telling you and
if our listeners don't understand, like Georgia Tech's one of
the most physical teams in the country. They will try
to knock you out early.
Speaker 4: And if you don't bring the fight to them, they
will bring the fight to you. It'll it doesn't matter
if you're looking for it or you're not. If you
put a helmet on against them, line up across the ball,
they're gonna bring the fight to you.
Speaker 2: Now, at the end of the day, the.
Speaker 4: Skill levels might set in and Club Dick might go
off and make a couple of incredible plays and you
still win the game. But if they don't have their
mind right, it's gonna be one of those games they're
walking off the field like, man, I don't I don't
want to play that team again, Like even maybe though
we got the W because club Nick like ran the
adr touchdown run or whatever, even though we got but
that I just don't. I don't feel like playing them again.
That type of team. That's why I like them.
Speaker 3: All Right, we will step away, take a break. We've
still got much more coming your way, including Little Saints
talk Little Saints forty nine ers, forty nine ers certainly
banged up and uh, you know, just limping into the
super Dome and we'll break it all down when we.
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let's talk about the New Orleans Saints and the sarm
Brenz just go forty nine ers. What an opportunity for
the Saints. This is a game that the line opened
up at minus seven and a half for the forty
nine ers. It is now all the way down to
minus three and a half for the forty nine ers.
So a lot of movement here in this line. Brock
Party out two to five weeks, which it's timetable I've
never heard, but that's what it is.
Speaker 2: No George Kittle either.
Speaker 3: This is a great opportunity for your New Orleans Saints
to go be victorious in the Superdome and get some confidence,
get some momentum against a team that we kind of
were saying, hey, there's no way you're gonna win this
game in the preseason, but now because of injuries, you
have an opportunity. And Spencer Rattler in week number one,
I thought there was a lot of things you can
build off of from what he did out there.
Speaker 2: Again, if you know that pass gets caught on third down.
Speaker 3: Who knows what we're talking about right now, But it's
a great opportunity for the Saints because you are dealing
with a team that is just a shell of itself
right now.
Speaker 2: Go take advantage of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you're looking at a team that don't.
Let's not downplay the impact that George Kittle has on
this team. I mean, this team no longer has George Kittle,
no longer has Deebo Samuels because he's out there catching
passes and making plays for the Commanders. They are down
their starting quarterback, and you have to play a Mac
Jones who's had a I guess you could say a
tumultuous career up to this point, but certainly has talent,
former first round pick.
Speaker 2: We know him well here at LSU.
Speaker 4: And then also the guy that's an incredible player, one
of the top fantasy guys in the world, but seems
recently to be put together with that tape and putty,
Christian McCaffrey. He's dealing with a little bit of a
calf injury right now as well, so I don't look
to him to be at one hundred percent but still
at eighty percent, he's pretty darn good.
Speaker 2: So but.
Speaker 4: I would expect that at Christ McCaffrey, not one hundred
percent that a guy flying around. If tomorrow Davis comes
out and plays like he was at the speed he
was in intensity was can match up pretty well against that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I think we said this yesterday Saints fans. If
not now, when no got him at home, got him
at home, you got them banged up, You're not going
to get their best shot. So this is a must
win situation for the Saints just from a moral So
it's from a field good standpoint. Yes, it's not a
must win because we're going to make a playoff run
or anything like that, but just for the sake of
a new head coach coming in, putting in a new system,
new coaches, new everything, new regime, except for Mickey limus
knew a lot. You have to come in and win
new a lot. You have to come in and win
these games. When a team is down to backups like this,
especially quarterback and their most dynamic player, game changer on offense,
you gotta win them. I don't care who your quarterback is,
I don't care how many games he started or not started.
Spencer Rattler has done enough to this point too for
us to be hopeful that he can be a competent
NFL quarterback. He takes care of the ball, he can
move around the pocket, He's accurate with his throws. Now
you have to take that next step and you have
to elevate everybody around you. You have to elevate the offense.
You have to put points on them. It doesn't matter
how efficient you are, what your completion percentage is. All
that really matters is how many points you got at
the end of the day. Yeah, I mean we saw that.
We talked about that with Lsue Florida last year. Stats
are great, we dominated, blah blah blah. Well, Spencer has
proven that he can operate this offense, be efficient, make
good decisions. We only got a one game sample size
this season. So how will it look in Week two?
Will the Niners come and kind of try to recreate
what the Cardinals did on defense versus the Saints, which
is play a big, over the top shell and try
to keep everything in front of you, bin don't break
kind of mentality. And if they do do that, what
are the answers at the Saints give them, got to
run the football, got to create big plays off play action,
and at the end of the day, you have to
be a threat and you have to have a good
third down conversion percentage.
Speaker 3: So when you look at the game flow from a
week ago against the Cardinals, you threw the football forty
six times. You only ran the football twenty two times,
and for those runs were Spencer Ratler. Now you had
some design quarterback runs. And I'm okay with that. That
number forty six and twenty two, I think it needs
to meet in the middle somewhere because you have Alvin Kamara.
He only had eleven carries in his contest. A week
ago he had two catches. Thirteen touches for Alvin Kamara.
For me, that's not enough right now. I know he's
a little bit older. When you get to thirty as
a running back, they pretty much call you ancient. But
he doesn't have the normal wear and tear of a
normal running back. That's been you know, one of the
best players in the franchise because he's you know, had
mark Ingram, He's had other backs that have taken some
of the workload off of his legs.
Speaker 2: There, you can't give.
Speaker 3: Him the ball thirteen times, It's got to be closer
to twenty in my opinion, So, like, how do you
find a way to get him the ball.
Speaker 2: I'm not even saying it has to be just a
direct handoff.
Speaker 3: If you want to throw him, a swing pass, if
you want to throw him, a running back screen, a
slip screen.
Speaker 2: Avin kamera can do it all. It just can't be
only thirteen times.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and a lot of that was based on mistakes
that were made. I mean, you had thirteen penalties in
the game. You had a lot of pretat penalties you
got off schedule, off timing that, you had a lot
of first lung second along third lines, like situations where
you kind of are forced to throw the ball maybe
a little bit more than you want. Like if you're
running screenplays and trying to run on normal down, like
you have to have a normal down in distance to
be able to do that. You're not going to call
a ton of screens on you know, on weird down
in distance. We have to pick up chunk plays because
defense is kind of expecting it at those points. There's
there's a lot of obvious situations where screens would be
a call. So you just gotta you gotta stay on schedule.
You gotta stay on schedule with the chains. They still
using chains nowadays. Yeah, they still got those. Yeah they're
doing like the virtual thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah we got that as well, but we got changsk.
Speaker 4: How's the So did they did they move the virtual
stuff to the regular season?
Speaker 2: I believe so did it? Yeah, because a.
Speaker 4: Lot of times they just test stuff in preseason. I
didn't see it last week. I watched a lot of games.
I didn't see one of them, and I said that
nobody really talked about it. But yeah, I easy, easy money,
easy money here Saints.
Speaker 3: I feel good about I really do feel feel good
about this one, and so for San Francisco.
Speaker 2: But that might not be a good sign.
Speaker 3: Jones is gonna be the quarterback there, but again like
no George Kittle, no safety blanket there. You know, Juwan
Jennings might not play in this game as well. So
your New Orleans Saints have a real opportunity. And I
know there's some Saints fans out there saying I don't
really know if I want that opportunity, because you know,
we want a good draft choice. But just like I
told you yesterday, in the history of the Saints, certainly recently.
There is no guarantee that even does the Saints get
a good draft choice, that they're going to make the
right decision. There's nothing that tells us that. So I
would not bank on that. I would not say, oh,
well they'll just they'll draft the next star. That's not
been the case a lot of times for the New
Orleans Saints.
Speaker 2: And so it's the NFL. You're playing on Sundays.
Speaker 3: Give it everything you've got, Go find a way to
win some games, and you'll figure out the.
Speaker 2: Rest of it later. Don't hope to tank for any quarterback. No,
A tank is dumb.
Speaker 4: It is absolutely dumb, unless like your like, oh and fifteen,
there's another team that's owned fIF fifteen and you're playing them,
you know, maybe maybe eat those them back up.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you're owing fifteen, I mean, yeah, you're
already to a point of no return.
Speaker 2: Yeah, your coach is already gone. Just open one here
for the No, you never tank with a first year coach.
Speaker 4: Come on, yes, uh, we can't even tak anyway.
Speaker 2: Well, who's going to say that.
Speaker 4: The owner is going to come down and to be like, hey,
I want you to lose this game, and you got
a bunch of competitive professional athletes and coaches that are
getting paid a lot of money. They're what are they
going to say? Okay, yeah, I'm definitely going to try
to lose this one. Now that ain't gonna happen. The
same basketball you know you're doing, they'll probably do that.
They're probably doing in soccer too.
Speaker 3: No, actually, the complete opposite in soccer, the complete opposite,
because if you tank in soccer, you go down to
another league. You go from the majors to the Triple A.
You go from Triple A to double A, Double A
to single A. So actually the completely opposite. If you
take it, you go down. You can lose millions of dollars.
You should be like the top dog, but you lose
millions upon millions of dollars if you go from like
the premier league to the champampionship. Sure see, Actually there's
incentive in soccer to do the complete opsip.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so if you want to win the games, that
means you got to fake more injuries.
Speaker 2: You can call fake injuries all you all, but they
still there's no tanking.
Speaker 4: If you're taking you don't fake injuries. If you want
to win you fake.
Speaker 3: Injuries, whatever you want to say, whatever shade you want
to throw. I'm just telling you there's twenty teams in
the Premier League. You don't want to be in the
bottom three. The bottom three go down to the Championship.
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Speaker 1: Two thousand and seven Champs Purple and Gold to the core.
This is Off the Bench with Hester and Flynn, Baton
Rougees go to for all things Louisiana sports.
Speaker 3: Welcome back here, oh tb Here at Rouse's on Burbank
and Lee hanging out talking about college football. And I
can promise you no other show maybe in the country,
but certainly here in Baton Rouge today on the pretty
much of the day, but the eve of LSU and Florida, two.
Speaker 2: Teams that don't like each other. In fact, they hate
each other.
Speaker 3: No other show is going to give you a breakdown
of the different owl mascots in college football. Now, how
many do we have? Because I know three?
Speaker 2: Four? I know four off the top of my head.
Speaker 3: All right, I think I know four? Temple who is really?
Speaker 2: This was start conversation?
Speaker 3: Yeah, for this conversation, you've got Rice. They're also the
Owls FAU if I'm not mistaken. They're also the Owls.
Speaker 4: Correct fau yep, and then Kennesaus State, Kennesau State, good
wows Owls.
Speaker 2: Okay, there we go? Is that is that it?
Speaker 4: There's a couple of Mississippi University for Women.
Speaker 3: Okay, whoa whoa, whoa whoa time out? Like, hold on,
give me thirty here. You didn't tell me we're doing that.
I thought, like FBS football programs. No, you didn't tell
me the Mississippi College for US Women.
Speaker 4: We are neighbors of Mississippi.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: And it popped up on the Google search, so I
decided to throw it in there.
Speaker 2: O my god. Okay, well sorry, I wasn't gonna get
that one. I'm gonna get there.
Speaker 4: So we uh, this conversation popped up an hour one
because the huge matchup Oklahoma traveling to face the owls
of Temple. And I'm just curious. I'm a big owl guy.
I would say owls probably my favorite bird of the
animal kingdom. Sure, please stop for talking birds. They're pretty sweet,
they're bad ass looking. So what type of owl got
us a little bit curious?
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 4: Most of these schools, so we have Temple, Rice Kennissaus
and of course missus b University for Women. They they're
all mascot is based on uh, drum roll, please buy me.
The great horned owl probably the most intimidating of all
the owl species because they have feathers on top of
their head that simulate and look like horns. Okay, maybe
not great horns, but horns.
Speaker 2: So that is what.
Speaker 4: And so Temple name is Stella, Rice is Sammy missis
By University for Women, Odie kennisas state is scrappy like
they could have done a lot of different things.
Speaker 2: I like to name the owls in my backyard.
Speaker 4: One of them named al Capone al Bundy female Allison, Yeah,
you're an.
Speaker 2: Idiot, welcome for sure, al Bundy.
Speaker 4: Uh Florida Atlantic University a little bit different. They didn't
go with the classic great horned now, that's too easy
for them. Florida Atlantic also very hydrated team as well.
They went with the classic burrowing now, which is indigenous
to the area which Florida Atlantic was built on.
Speaker 2: How about that. I didn't know you were an ol guy,
big ol guy. Man favorite birds now? Huh favorite? Adam
favorite bird? Favorite bird? He said, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Now, that's a great answer. I don't know, man, an eagle.
I'd rather have it, I don't know than the eagle.
I mean, guys, I'm patriotic and everything, but how easy.
Speaker 2: Iss would be? Like wow, take picking the chiefs or
something like. I mean, at least a pelican. Pelican be sweet.
Speaker 3: I mean pelican be cool. I mean I like watching
them like swoop in and yeah, I don't try to
don't try to church it up now, Adam Eagle game day?
Oh yeah, yeah, you can listen to it.
Speaker 4: By the way, shout out to al capone in my backyard.
Speaker 3: We're going to go with a cardinal. Cardinal. A cardinal.
They're really cool. I like seeing a cardinal.
Speaker 2: Some say that seeing a cardinal is actually good luck. Well,
there you go.
Speaker 4: Not a lot of people say that, but some do
say it is so I don't. I've never found it
to be the case al Pacino and something but.
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 4: So I've kind of gone through all the owls. I'm
kind of blanket because we got it. We got a
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So I go and I got a window towards the
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Speaker 2: I just go outside.
Speaker 3: And why would you do that when you have functioning toilets?
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Speaker 4: Sometimes it's preferred, actually, but sometimes I get out there
and I got the window stares out to the woods,
and you know, sometimes they al's talk to me.
Speaker 2: In the middle of the night, just suiting at me.
Is it too much of a reach for Ali Highsmith?
Speaker 4: Ali Heigtsmith, that's pretty good, pretty.
Speaker 3: Good bill, But I don't think so. I think it's relevant.
It's niche, you know it's here in this market. But
I think it's okay. Al Roker pretty good.
Speaker 4: Woodpeckers are sweet, a little repelliated woodpecker.
Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? They're sweet? Aren't they annoying? Why
a woodpecker is? Yeah? Make all of them.
Speaker 4: I mean, if there's one right right next to your house,
for sure, if ones takes a lik into your house
and you.
Speaker 2: Gotta get rid of it. So which of the the
OL mascots.
Speaker 4: Oh, Mohammed, al Lee nice, that's a good one.
Speaker 2: That's good. Albert Pouholz. Now we're getting sporty.
Speaker 3: Al Woods al Woods teammates this seven years in the league.
Who's who is the who is the champion of the
OL competition?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with Rice. You Texas people, I swear
y'all can't. Great horned owl.
Speaker 4: I mean they're super hydrated, Florida Atlantic super hydrated.
Speaker 2: I'm those are the most hydrated owls.
Speaker 4: But I would say, I mean, the great horned owl
is the chalk answer if you're gonna have an OL
mask guy, because it has the horns, it really feathers. Anyway,
it's a good talk here. This is good stuff. Are
you all ready for Florida?
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You're listening to Off the Bench.
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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back off the Bench here live from
Rouses on Burbank and Lea, and you can probably hear
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't wait to see the mentality of the
Tigers tomorrow. Uh just you know, certainly underwhelming performance against
Louisian Tech. Offensively, the still had the juice. Yeah, they
got the juice. They're just good like that tape was
was still fun to watch.
Speaker 2: They were flying around, flying around, in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3: It took a bus to coverage for Louisiana Tech to score.
I mean, they certainly they kept the momentum they had
in week number one to week number two. They didn't
allow the opponent and who they are to dictate their aggression.
So I'm going to imagine they're going to be turned
up two and eleven. This is going to be a
different defense for DJ Lagway than he.
Speaker 2: Saw a year ago. Now. Now, they didn't play awful
a year ago.
Speaker 3: You had a couple of big plays for Florida's offense,
but as far as like total yards and first downs
and third down percentage, Jelusy's defense certainly didn't play bad.
Speaker 2: But this is a different LSU. Different defense.
Speaker 3: They've got different EDG dressers, they've got Harrol Perkins junior back,
they've got different safeties, they certainly got different corners. I
mean it on every level, it's a different LSU defense.
And Dj Lagway, i think, is going to have a
long day because he's going to have somebody in his
face all night long.
Speaker 4: What we've seen up to this point in the season
in two games, is a defense that plays with relentless effort,
relentless energy is in really good shape. But you can
do all those things and still not be a great defense.
You have to be relentless effort, relentless pursuit of the football,
but you have to do it in a way that's
discipline that doesn't allow the offense to take advantage of
big plays. So we look at the chaos that Blake
Baker likes to bring with this defense. We look at
the speed in which they like to play, with the
confusion they like to make.
Speaker 2: You also have to know.
Speaker 4: You can't you people get free and you can rush
the quarterback if there's a numbers advantage, right if so,
if you have five people walking in your rush in six,
that creates an advantage. Yeah, six people blocking, you rush seven,
that creates an advantage. Sometimes you can rush five people
and they have five people block, but you create a
numbers advantage because you rush four from one side and
one from the other, so they have to adjust. But
when you do that, when you create numbers advantages somewhere,
that means you create a numbers disadvantage somewhere else, and
you have to have the players on the back end
that can make up for that disadvantages by middling to
receivers where they can potentially make a play on the
ball on either one or understanding concepts route wise, what
the offense is trying to do, and understanding the read
of the quarterback. If we're bringing pressure from this side,
I know he's probably going to be looking the other way.
So you have to you do create that and we
have to know that with this style of defense, a
big play might happen. Yeah, you know, whether it happens
by mistake, whether quarterback just mistakenly find somebody, or offense
is going to call the perfect play against.
Speaker 3: Your aggression and you get over aggressive, like last week
you had a guy that went rogue and he added
himself into the blitz exactly and there was a wide
open receiver and it's going to happen.
Speaker 4: But the bet that you make as a defensive coordinator,
because you're going to say, because we understand what I'm
trying to call on defense, because my defense understands where
their weaknesses are when we're trying to create strengths and
advantages at other places on the field, you're going to say,
we are going to win more than we lose. Yeah,
we might give up one every now and then Clemson
sure didn't find it. They didn't find that big play.
But I haven't seen anything watching DJ Lagway that's going
to say he is going to that he's going to
find that big play. Either screws are falling out of
the desk. No big deal that he's going to find
that big play. Now, he might accidentally get to it,
but from the way he plays with his feet, I
think he's a little bit clunky with his feet, kind
of like a baby draft back there playing a little bit.
Now when he decides to throw it, he's quick and
he spins his upper body and his torso and he
kind of WHI whips the ball around a little bit.
Speaker 2: But I don't think I think we're.
Speaker 4: Going to create some issues with him, some matchup issues,
some confusion issues, just like we did with Club Nick.
So I look to the LSU going to have a
big day again. LSU defense gonna have a big day
again tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing the defense perform. I
just love the aggressive nature. I love how it is
all gas and no breaks and it's still sound though
it's still sound defense.
Speaker 4: Yeah it is. It's disciplined. Oh gas, no breaks, It's disciplined.
Speaker 3: Chaos, organized chaos, control chaos.
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