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Speaker 1: Plays get broken down and science gets denied to come
off the bench. Hour two of Off the Bench Live
from the Mercedes Benz Baton Rouge Studio starts now.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in number two oh TV Tuesday Morning,
Jake Flannelandre Taylor, Oh here with you. Two more hours
to go, and we're going to start off our number
two with the OTB Top twenty five. A quick recap
as we make our way down to number sixteen at
twenty five, the Boise State Broncos at twenty four, of
the Memphis Tigers at twenty three, the Baylor Bears at
twenty two, the Georgia Tech Yellowjackets at twenty one, the
Tennessee Balls at twenty, the Iowa State Cyclones at nineteen,
the Texas eight and four Aggies at number eighteen, the
Indiana Hoosiers at seventeen, the Old Miss Rebels, and at
number sixteen on the OTB Top twenty five, Taylor, we.
Speaker 4: Are going to keep it in the Southeastern Conference. We
are going with everyone's favorite, the Florida Gators at number sixteen,
So they're top ten in the country in terms of.
Speaker 5: You're just disappointed Matt so much?
Speaker 2: Who do you think I was going with?
Speaker 6: I don't know you want? Did you put Texas sexes?
Speaker 4: I foreboded this, as you said, and I we won
voted it. We already did this. Look, they're top ten
in the country in terms of returning production. Thirteen starters
from a year ago. Four starters returning on the offensive line.
That's big incl Jake's who like might be the best
center in all of college football. Hayden Hansen's back, of
course a DJ Lagway. Now, Lagway had an up and
down first season twelve touchdowns, nine picks, but you saw
the flashes of the ability. Everyone's super high on Lagway
coming into the year. Also, Eugene Wilson is back, and
he's not even considered a returning starter because he only
played four games because of injury. He had two sixty
six receiving in a touchdown. But two years ago, when
he played double digit games, he had almost.
Speaker 2: Six hundred yearge receiver.
Speaker 4: Eugene Wilson who plays some football, he'll be a good
weapon out wide. They got four starters returning in their secondary,
Devin Moore, Jordan Castle, Sharive Denson, and Bryce Thornton. Six
is returning starters on defense as a whole. But guys,
Jayden Ball is going to be a stud saw him
last year kinda is that number two back, but he
took over late in the year. Six hundred and seventy
three yards rushing, seven rushing touchdowns, but over five yards
per carry. He's going to be awesome in this Florida offense.
It's behind that really good offensive line. The only reason
I cannot rank the Florida Gators any higher, it's because
of that schedule. We talked about LSU playing seven ranked
teams in the top twenty five. Florida does as well.
It's Florida, LSU and Mississippi State Oklahoma. Those are the
teams that play kind of the toughest schedules in the country.
So Florida starts out Long Island in South Florida.
Speaker 2: They should be two to zero.
Speaker 4: This next stretch is brutal at LSU at Miami home
against Texas, on the road against Texas A and m
It is a brutal four game schedule early in the season.
Now they do have Mississippi State at home, but then
you go Georgia at Kentucky at Ole, Miss Tennessee, Florida
State to close it out.
Speaker 2: Not easy by any means.
Speaker 4: But look, we said that this was going to be
a five and seven team a year ago because they
had such a tough schedule back in twenty twenty four
and they were able to manage it. Billiy Napier was
able to kind of get things right with a returning quarterback.
I think Florida pretty good team overall, sixteenth in the country.
Speaker 5: Uh, yeah, you're right about Trey Wilson.
Speaker 3: Yes, government name is Eugene, but if your name's Eugene,
you'd go by Trey as well.
Speaker 5: He is Eugene Wilson, the third.
Speaker 3: He is somebody that he is somebody that is very,
very dynamic. He's been injury prone though the first two
years of his career. If you remember, he was the
guy that his freshman year against Utah they got called
for a penalty because they had two number threes on
the field.
Speaker 5: He was one of the number threes for Florida, Number three.
Speaker 2: He gets the other guys.
Speaker 3: Florida does have three starting quality running backs. I think
on this team is going to be a big part
of their identity. Defensively, edge rusher is going to be
something to pay attention to. Obviously, Jack Pyburn is here
at LSU who can step up at that position for.
Speaker 5: The Florida Gators.
Speaker 3: His schedule is brutal, but I mean, just like you said, hey,
we didn't think that they would win the games they
did down the stretch a year ago. This team is
going to go though as far as DJ Lagway can
take them. More than any team maybe in the country
outside of South Carolina. Quarterback is going to be everything
for them. If Harrison Bailey is leading the Florida Gators,
they are a five win maybe six win at best
team DJ Lagway is leading them, they got a chance
to maybe win nine games. So it is his health
is a concern, and not even like this, this latest
calf injury. I think it's just the overall him being
able to go out there all twelve regular season games.
Speaker 5: But what is it.
Speaker 4: He had to miss the game last year and Aiden
Warner played quarterback from Florida.
Speaker 2: He was awful.
Speaker 4: He missed all of spring with an arm injury. Now
he has a calf injury that developed us week Like,
that's why we were talking to begin the show.
Speaker 2: See a little injury, prune, We'll see.
Speaker 4: But look, if he's out there, he didn't even have
to be a world beater because I think he's got
a lot of talent around him. Trey Wilson Jayden Ball,
in my opinion, one of the best running backs in
the conference, or at least has the potential will be.
Speaker 2: So Florida's got all the pieces.
Speaker 6: He needs some milk.
Speaker 5: He don't get some calcium in.
Speaker 2: He needs a gallon a day. Did here too much?
Speaker 3: Did his dad not make him drink milk at every
dinner growing up like mine did? He wasn't drink milk,
hamburgers milk, gross tater tod casserole milk.
Speaker 5: I feel like this chili dog's milk.
Speaker 2: There's a war on milk right now.
Speaker 5: I need to buy a cow. We drink so much milk.
Speaker 7: I like, have never been a fan of milk, so
I didn't drink it recreation.
Speaker 6: There's been like.
Speaker 7: A perpetual war on milk on my end.
Speaker 2: But grown up drinking, I drink drink anymore. He and
Jay and milk. I'm good with. Here's the only thing
I'm drinking with. I grew up drinking milk. I drink
like a gallon a day in high school, I would
I would order it like we go to a Mexicano restaurant,
I don't order a glass of milk. It was just
that's what we.
Speaker 5: Did, saghetti.
Speaker 2: But I went through this period of time as a
grown up, like where I didn't drink any milk. Yeah,
and then when I tried to go back to it,
it mess my stomach up. And I think that you
have these enzymes in your stomach and then if you
don't use them, you lose them.
Speaker 4: Hey, let me tell you you were pretty healthy in
your career.
Speaker 3: Nothing nothing certifies milk being what you need to be drinking,
like Hunt Palmer saying milk is atrocious in the value.
Speaker 5: Four chat That lets me know exactly I need to
be doing.
Speaker 2: If that's not an drink.
Speaker 5: We go through like two gallons every day and a half.
Speaker 2: People always give me the argument about I talk about milk,
and they're like, well, you know, nobody drinks milk. It's
not actually that healthy. You know why, because like humans
are the only animal on earth that drink it past infancy.
And I'm like, yeah, we're also the only animals on
Earth that can like and make medicines and drive cars.
Speaker 5: Get out of here.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't have like.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't have an argument against milk other than
I just don't like.
Speaker 6: So that's stupid.
Speaker 5: Dev.
Speaker 3: I drink a glass of chocolate milk every night. Shout out, Dev.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 4: You were asking about this yesterday. Somebody in Chad just
reminded me saw this. We're talking about the Florida Gators
l s U Florida Week three bringing back the Gold Game.
Speaker 2: Next to the year.
Speaker 5: Did we speak that into existing so.
Speaker 4: Maybe it got announced yesterday and we were talking about
it on Friday.
Speaker 2: Did we say we wanted that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you said what happened to the Gold Yeah,
we were complaining credits speak three L s U Florida
and Tiger statement in the Gold Game.
Speaker 3: That well, with dads, it's always there anytime we get
that's a good question on off campus me or EJ
in the zoom.
Speaker 2: There too.
Speaker 5: And we started like ago, right about three years ago.
Speaker 7: I had a shirt that had Cam Newton dabbing on
it back in the day.
Speaker 3: Isn't that His logo for his podcast is Tim Dabbing.
I'm pretty sure telling y'all, I find like, I find
him to be highly entertaining, absolutely like electric. I love
when he's arguing with somebody because he doesn't like just
automatically like yell or like come out too strong. It
is very like thought out and the way he delivers
it it's really good.
Speaker 2: It's very thought out, very like subtle and subdued, but
also disrespectful at the same time. The logo.
Speaker 3: Logo, for some reason, I thought, like in my head,
I thought it was like the dab.
Speaker 5: It needs to be an alternate version of the logo.
Speaker 2: Can we get some OTV logo shirts that just say
good question on it? That's what I told you.
Speaker 5: We can get.
Speaker 3: We can get Marler hold his arm up yes, with
the good question.
Speaker 5: Question on there.
Speaker 6: That would actually be great because.
Speaker 5: Marla got a good question at media Day.
Speaker 3: Nobody else did several yesterday.
Speaker 6: You did the other.
Speaker 5: I thought you meant Moscone he.
Speaker 6: Got a good question yesterday from Blake.
Speaker 5: That's what I thought.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Blake, we all know, we all know, we all
know Scone slipped him at twenty before that.
Speaker 6: Make sure you say a good question.
Speaker 5: When I asked this question.
Speaker 2: To get on this leader board.
Speaker 6: No, I mean you're on.
Speaker 5: I mean you're you're at the top of the.
Speaker 2: Uh good stuff, good clean fun, good clean funds.
Speaker 6: Good clean fun.
Speaker 5: Carson says, I love that my high hat, which one.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 3: I'm actually I'm actually promoting the company because I keep
mine forwards. This one when he gets locked in, he's
like slash sloan and over the top. He turns it
round backwards.
Speaker 6: That's how you know he's locked Who is it in
the chat?
Speaker 2: That is like names all my every time I turned.
Speaker 3: My head in different ways, I think, Daniel Blant, I
think have you ever seen Over the Top with Sevester Stallone?
Speaker 2: Of course?
Speaker 5: Okay, you two.
Speaker 2: I am not seen a lot of slid movies, not
that one, so.
Speaker 5: You don't know.
Speaker 2: Hurley h.
Speaker 5: It's disappointing. Can I get y'all could late ladies.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'll watch it.
Speaker 4: I watched the three director's cut Lord of the Rings
because Bob asked me to.
Speaker 2: I'll watch the Selevester s alone. In the words of
Garrett Smayer, is it even my generation?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I was disrespectful about Varsity Blues.
Speaker 5: It did feel a little respectful, and you.
Speaker 2: Didn't have to come out with that question. A little hot. Garrett.
Speaker 4: So, Varsity Blues is on Netflix, and over the weekend
I was like, Victoria, I know we're doing tonight, We're
watching Varsity Blues.
Speaker 5: Was like Netflix right now. From my oldest son to
brought it on last week, go to West Canaan.
Speaker 6: Y'all aren't real Varsity Blues fans. I have it on DVD.
Speaker 5: I certainly had it on DVD as well.
Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna say the only person that had
at least seen Varsity Blues was Blake Shaping from Shreveport.
Speaker 5: Evangel through one great just saying.
Speaker 2: Had he seen it?
Speaker 5: He said he did?
Speaker 2: Or had he heard of it?
Speaker 3: No, No, he said I've seen it. He's like, I
don't know it well enough to know the characters anymore.
Speaker 5: But says he's in elementary school or I did.
Speaker 3: It's Prime Elementary, but I was fourteen, so I can
watch this, so Evangel, Yeah, elementary school fourteen?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: What's the name of this again? What's the name of video?
Speaker 6: Over the top? It's on Prime Video?
Speaker 5: It is. Yes, I wish, I wish, I wish I
would have had a camera.
Speaker 3: It was either Hunt or Marler. I think it was Hunt.
When I asked him that was right there. In the
dis appointment, Witt had to tell me that he had
not seen varcity blues.
Speaker 5: It hurt him.
Speaker 2: I know it hurt him bad, cut deep. So he
knew he messed up.
Speaker 5: If and of.
Speaker 3: Him and his brothers and all the other fellow meadtheads
sat down, they would love it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, if they're not, that should be a team bond.
Speaker 2: They have the ultimate qualifications for being a guy that
would have seen it.
Speaker 6: Yes, he's literally I R L. Tweeter.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, he was disappointed and sad, but still had
a smile on his face. Somehow love they, so does
Blake Baker.
Speaker 4: Baker said the Weeks boys, you'd let him, you'd let
him marry your daughter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he now that that can be a part of
a real conversation. He loves West Weeks too, Yeah, he does,
like he like. Anytime that you bring up with he
makes sure that he also talks about West Weeks.
Speaker 4: Look, man, you go out there fall practice. Wit ain't
the only one on the starting defense right now.
Speaker 7: So he mentioned west Like being back there probably starting.
Speaker 3: If anybody knows the Blake Baker audio from yesterday, it
is a laundra so during the break, we'll ask her
which one we need to go out here and play,
so we'll have that for you when we come back
here on OTV.
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Speaker 3: I'm s O t B one oh four five espn
bt rouge. You know what they say, we don't play
audio enough on the show. Every other show likes to
just say, hey, we got that audio of this coach
saying this, you know what, So we're gonna play some audio.
We are going to do it, probably for the first time.
Here is Blake Baker, LSU's defensive coordinator on the Week's Brothers.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 8: Those those three brothers are. They're fun to coach. Uh,
you know, Zach's Zach's like a lot of freshmen. He's
he's probably getting coached a lot meaner than the other two,
but that just comes with it with the territory. But
those three guys, especially the two older ones you know
that that have been in here. Man, great leaders, all
the stuff that they do. From a tangible standpoint, what's
more impressive is is how they carry themselves off the field.
They do everything the right way. They're the type of
guys you know, want you want your daughter to marry,
you know, And I don't I don't say that lightly.
I think those two guys, the three guys are phenomenal
young men. Obviously they're play on the field speaks for itself.
But what they do off the field, and how they
carry themselves, and and and the job that David n
Aaron have done raising them is is uh it's fun
to coach. There's not a lot of high maintenance with
those three.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, so look, we don't play a lot of audio,
but wanted to play that one.
Speaker 3: All jokes aside, because I think the Week's brothers are
exactly kind of what l s U they.
Speaker 5: Needed and they continue to need. I think you need.
Speaker 3: And I'm not like when I use this term, y'all know,
like this truly does mean something to me. Like they
needed some meatheads, they needed some guys that are like
all about the school they're playing for They're gonna do
literally whatever it takes. They're gonna put their body on
the line. They don't really care what happens to themselves
as long as it's good for the team. I think
about West Weeks last year. He could have helped this
football team, but he had some injuries and he wasn't
able to get on the field for a bulk of
the season. And once he got healthy, he had a
decision he had to make, and it was one that
he had to sit out some games because he knew
he could come back this year. He knew he could
use that year as a red shirt year and come
back and play with both of his brothers and give
Lsu everything he had. I'm sure that was difficult for him.
I'm sure he wanted to get out there for like,
you know, the two games that he probably could have.
And so this is somebody that is ready for this moment.
We know what with Weeks is all about. He's at
SEC media days, He's on every preseason All American list.
But look, you bring in uh Taylor's cousin Sharp to
play tight end. You bring in Piraten and edge Rusher,
and they are like, you know, the ultimate meatheads. And
you can't like the weight staff, you ask them about
them and they're like they light up and they just
start smiling them. I think that's good to have some
of those guys that are just like, hey, we're all
about ball, you know, we're all about being mean, nasty, tough,
the physicality of it. So you know, that's a group
of guys that I'm looking forward to seeing how it
all plays out for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're not a group of guys like they
walk into a room, they strike you as like, man,
those are big intimidating dudes right right, like physically talented,
but like not the not the baddest dude in the room,
like just from like a stature standpoint, but guys that
you have to have on a team. And I look
back at the defense last year, you know what would
be the like the unquestioned to me like emotional, spiritual
leader of a defense and a defense last year that
you know, by LSU's standards over the last twenty years,
not great, but with the talent they had what they
were working with, overachieved and played at times better than
what maybe the roster from top to bottom set because
they played hard, they played with their hair on fire.
That's what was so frustrating, frustrating in previous years. And
I know we keep we don't want to keep bringing
up the MH name a defensive coordinator, but like the
previous years was it was frustrating to watch because you
saw talent on the field, you saw this and that,
but schematically wasn't good and then it just looked like
the defense didn't play hard. Yeah, it would just like
they'd give up on tackles. They would you know, they
would give up on blocks when they if they got
blocked up, they would give up. They wouldn't like it.
It was just missing something. Well, the weeks brothers and
with last year being that leader, like you saw something different.
You saw like a switch happened. You saw, all right,
we are gonna play with our hair on fire. We're
gonna have fun, We're gonna play crazy where we are
going to play with effort and if we lose, it's
not gonna because it's not gonna be because we didn't
give everything that we had and played with our hair
on fire. And with everybody, I think we're all extremely
happy with the job that Baker has done, but you
got to have those guys man, the Weeks, the Week's Brothers,
like are the epitome of that that we are gonna play.
And now this year going into it, they have those pieces,
they've they did well in the transfer. You have all
those pieces, you brought them in, you got more talent,
so you put that on the field. With that with
that intensity, with that effort that we just talked about
that they showed last year. I think they have a
chance to. You know, I don't know how special or
not they can be as a unit, but I know
they're gonna be pretty damn good.
Speaker 3: I think they've got like you add, you know, Pybrin
to the defensive line, and you have the Weeks Brothers, Tatea.
You've been out to practice, you've kind of seen the
defensive back group. Probably the one that I've heard you
talk the most about, the one you've been most excited about.
Speaker 5: Who can be that guy back there?
Speaker 3: Because I think you need a guy like Flynn's describing
on all three levels, like Blake's defense, that's what it is.
Speaker 5: I get, it needs that aggressive nature to it. So
who can be that guy in the back end?
Speaker 2: The aggressive nature? For me, it's Aj Halsey.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's seasonally in the wood every practice mentor
delaying the same thing as far as a leader in
that room, though Ashton Stamps doesn't come off the field
a whole lot, and he's entering his third year pretty
much as a starter on this Team's like.
Speaker 2: I actually think there's options in the secondary.
Speaker 3: Then also you've got Harold Perkins who's playing the star
position that can kind of be described as a hybrid
safety linebacker position. And for him, I think it's about
striking the fear in offenses like he once did. Like
whatever his role ends up being, we talked about it
in link last week, he has to be the person
that when you're game playing, because he's been that in
his career.
Speaker 5: It's like, all right, where's number seven at? Where is
he lining up?
Speaker 3: And I think the best case scenario is you can't
pinpoint where he's gonna line up are every Everything's gonna
be a little bit different. Like if you just line
him up in the same spot every time, then I
think you're doing his skill set of disservice.
Speaker 5: And that's at any position.
Speaker 3: Like he has shown that he can play multiple things
and I'm excited to see how they utilize him in
every down situations, like what does it look like on
first and second down?
Speaker 5: On third down?
Speaker 3: Does he move to a true edge rusher position? Are
you still going to keep him at the star position?
And then you're gonna bring four from the weak side?
Like what's it going to look like from him?
Speaker 2: Because if you do it right, it's gonna be really good. Right.
If you do it wrong, it's just gonna be man like,
Like it's been the last couple of years. You're gonna
see the flashes, you're gonna see the sparks, but you're
not gonna get his full ability. Because if you find
the way to utilize his full ability, it's special, man,
it is so special. And so that's that's the job
that Blake Baker and the staff have to do. And
they but they got the pieces. They got more pieces
around him, right, so they have more pieces, so hopefully
they can get him isolated on some blockers this year.
But if they find that's the that's the puzzle piece
we're talking about. He is the ultimate puzzle piece, the
golden puzzle piece, whatever you want to call it. Like,
if you find a way to make it fit, it's
really really special.
Speaker 3: I think you're talking about potentially twenty to twenty five
spots on the total defense list.
Speaker 5: If Harold Perkins is a star.
Speaker 3: This year, and I want to talk about the star position,
I'm just talking about a star of college football. You
could be talking about the difference between a top fifteen
defense and a top forty defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Let me tell you like we talked about when
we talk about South Carolina, we say, if Leonora's Sellers
is in the Heisman running, that means they're having a
really good year. If Harold Perkins is on an All
American trajectory, yeah, if he's a special player that everybody's
talking about, LSU football team is in the it is
going to be a top five team at the end
of the season.
Speaker 3: I think you can make the argument that Harold Perkins
is the most important non quarterback in the country.
Speaker 5: In the country. You can go across.
Speaker 3: You can talk receivers, you can talk running backs, offense,
defensive line. There's some other people that certainly would be
up for this category. But just like Flynn said, if
Harold Perkins in November is being talked about as an
All American, LSU's in the playoff discussion in one of
the top ten teams in the country, and I don't
think it's close.
Speaker 2: I think if he's if he's in that talk like
we think he can be, if they figured out the
way to use him, because he's got an opportunity with
all of these quarterbacks that we're facing this season that
are mobile, able to run like, he's got a chance
to flash a lot this year. We're a top five,
top three team. At the end of the season, we
are in the SEC Championship. If he's doing those things.
Speaker 3: All right, we will take a break more OTB when
we come back. Actually, let's do this so we can
get some questions in when we come back. OTB mailbag.
Go ahead, inside the Bayou four Chat, get your questions in.
We'll spend the next segment answering as many as we can,
and we'll do it right here on one O four
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self confidence?
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Speaker 3: Go to be mail bag offensively with the l s U.
Tight ends have the ability to do what Mason Taylor
did for nuts.
Speaker 2: It's a different group.
Speaker 3: Bower Sharp's been somebody that they continue to brag over.
A Treda's Green is going to be somebody that certainly is.
Speaker 5: Identified as a tight end. But he's gonna line up
all over the place.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Mason Taylor was a second round pick for a reason.
Mason Taylor was the ultimate security blanket. I'm not going
to come up here in Pump Sunshine and say that
that's going to happen.
Speaker 5: I have to see it.
Speaker 3: But they went out, got two players out of the portal.
Another year of developing for trade as Green. They've got candidates,
but I'm not gonna come up here and say that
they for sure have a Mason Taylor.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, there, you're not going to replace a Mason Taylor.
Are you going to have weapons a tight end. Are
you going to find ways to use them? Yes, you
better or the offense if you're going to try to
get a running game established, play action game established, and
you have so much talented wide receiver. Yeah, but just
because we have eight nine good wide receivers doesn't mean
we're going to be the two thousand and eight Texas
Tech Red Raiders. We are going to run an offense
that's gonna highlight the running back, highlight blocking, So we
need a tight end. It's gonna be able to block.
We got to. We have the gamut. But of course
Mason Taylor's saying around pick you're not going to replace
that guy, but our tight ends will make big impacts
this ship.
Speaker 5: Uh Telandr you want to enter that one at all?
Speaker 9: Know that.
Speaker 6: I think so too. I think Bower sharp looks really
good out there. He also was like freak of the
week during.
Speaker 5: The week, like a weight room free of the week week,
I mean, crazy crazy Bower.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're good, we're tired.
Speaker 4: No, depth wise, this tight end room is better than
it was a year ago in my opinion.
Speaker 2: Just top the boy now, Like Mason Taylor was such
a good security blanket.
Speaker 4: But what made him so great was that no smart
had confidence and it had a connection with him, Like,
who's to say he.
Speaker 2: Can't do that with the Bower sharp, but the trading
has agreen.
Speaker 4: It's gonna look a little different, they're gonna line up
in a few different spots. But I mean I got
confidence in him because I think both those guys are
really really good.
Speaker 2: Who can step up to me and be that saying
like I don't think Mason Taylor has ever dropped the
pass in his life. So it was just it's such
a good safety blank to have that guy there. You
know you're gonna catch it, Like even if you don't
make a perfect throw, he's gonna reach down and catch
a blow his knees. Like it's just who can step
up and be a really good safety blanket for him?
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I mean, look, you had one here, you
had our guy dig Dixon. Like it's just like when
you have that tied end that you know you can
count on and just completely changes your outlooks.
Speaker 6: But Trade has looked really good in the bowl game. Yeah,
at the end of the season.
Speaker 5: Sure, and I think, like you know, he's playing basketball
as well. That's a lot, man.
Speaker 3: I don't know how anybody plays two sports, and he
was playing basketball, and I think now like honing in
year or two, focusing on football, he is going to be. Look,
there's a reason he's one of the best players in
the country when he came out of high school.
Speaker 4: Well, so many people want to ask, like, hey, who's
the three starting receivers? And I got there at eleven
or eleven most of the top, it's only two because
about we're showing up and trade has agreed around the
field at the same time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like both of those guys are a lot.
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remote plan? And we got a couple of things that
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so if Flynn's just got to pull his weight, are
very fun. I think Friday Football segment. We've talked about
doing some remotes. I'm always game to do whatever. There's
a remote we got I think the opening week and
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Speaker 3: How much of the playbook do you think teams like
the Saints have installed up to this point?
Speaker 2: The first page for the Saints, let's see we are
the whole offense has been installed at this point, yes,
oh for sure. Yeah, Like the whole offense gets installed
within the first two weeks, probably the first ten days.
There's usually like ten ten installed days. However, it's the
foundation of your entire offense, the entire foundation of your
entire defense. Now, when you start game planning, wrinkles get
added based on film and weaknesses you see in the
defense of the opponents, but it's all goes back and
the foundation is already put in. Now, when you go
into a week one of preseason, you might only say,
all right, coaches, your game plan for week one of
preseason is day one and two install only, okay, And
then you go into to week two, all right, coaches,
Installs one through four are open for your game planning,
and then it goes from there. So I think, clearly
on the offensive side of the ball, watching the Saints,
they stay they were really simple. Look, there's a lot
of shifts and motions, but they didn't run many different formations.
They ran probably ten different plays out of the same formation,
shift motion. You're not going to see that in a
normal game plan. It's just they're sticking to their day one,
day two, day three maybe installations for those game plans.
They're not game planning a defense. So when you get
into the season, you'll see different wrinkles, different plays. But
that foundation is already set and installed as of right now,
like it or.
Speaker 3: Not, and each week the game plan is going to change,
like based off the opponent. Now, will you add new
things per week, yes, but it's kind of based off
what Flinn's talking about. It's kind of based off your
principles of the install that you put in, Like it's
going to be the same bunch formation, but maybe it's
a different run or maybe these two guys are blocking
assignment switches.
Speaker 5: Because they like this matchup a little bit better. But
the offense is in.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna get too many again, like you'll every
week's gonna bring something a little bit different. But it's
not like if you're thinking they go in every week
and like, all right, wipe everything off that board. We
got the Panthers this week. Here's what it's going to be.
Speaker 5: It's not like that.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 3: Hey, here's what we like from what we do against
the Panthers this week. Yep, and you pull from that.
You can run the same play. Let's take a running play.
You can run the same running play twenty different times
and it never looks the same.
Speaker 2: Like. You can do different formations, different motions, different personnel. Like,
there's a lot of different ways. And like Jake said,
you're going to game plan based on the weaknesses you
see in the opponent, and you might install a completely
new play you've never run before. You might install that
because you saw a team two weeks ago versus the
opponent you're about to face score a touchdown on it
because they exploited a weakness. So you'll see that. But
when you and then and then in down, in distances
and in situations, you always go back, revert back to
your day one, day two, Base three install like two
minute drives, that stuff's installed day one. Everything you do
in two minute drives on defense and an offense, you're
not drawing up anything new. So it's all base principles.
If you're facing base defenses and you're running base offensive plays,
it's just who can execute.
Speaker 5: So I don't know if that made you feel better sad.
Speaker 2: We feel SATs fans, let's.
Speaker 5: Go adult know if that made you feel better or worse.
Speaker 2: Hey, I can guarantee you negative. Nick Underhills coming on
later on the show. We'll see what he says.
Speaker 5: Man, you just call him.
Speaker 2: I called him. It's not gossip. I called him to
his face last night. But he's I think he's very
He was real, sad last very truthful. He was sad,
but it hurt he was last year. It hurt him
to be truthful, which made him sad.
Speaker 7: I feel the same way that I've felt the past,
like a couple of seasons. I think we're about to
have the same season for the third season in a row,
Like we're just taking this perpetual well, we're just not
gonna be good but win enough to like not be
the first pick in the draft.
Speaker 6: So I know it's preseason, and it doesn't.
Speaker 2: Really feel like I've always been the first person to
step up and hate on them a little bit. Do
you know what. I think they're gonna do some positive
things this year. Okay, they're they're gonna every now and
then during the season, Saints fans are gonna nod their
head and just say some buildings not bad stuff to
build on for the future. It's bad Saints, all right.
Speaker 3: Uh, let's take a break because there's actually some more
questions that I want to get to inside the buy
you four chat. So we'll finish our number two getting
to your questions. Will have Nick Underhill New Orleans dot
football kickoff our number three.
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Hashtag go to be mail bag. Did you know Billy
Bob got up to five hundred and eight pounds and
sadly passed away in twenty sixteen at just forty five
years old?
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Reggie Ray. Yeah, true, very true.
Speaker 3: Hashtag go to be mail bag is the O line
air quotes here an actual thing with reguard to run
blocking or are they just getting beat by a better
interior defensive line.
Speaker 5: No, there's certainly something to that.
Speaker 3: It's just like I'll just I'll speak from a full
back perspective, and maybe Matt has something different, Like every
tackle blocks on the edge different, every guard pulls on
a power or a counter different. Like I knew like
Chris Dillman, when he pulled it was like a bad
out of Hell with the most aggression you could have.
And you know, like Dilman was an all Pro guy
for like I think two or three years. I knew
that about him. Like Mike Goff, who was our right guard,
he was a slow puller. He liked to kind of
figure it out a little bit, like he didn't like
to just go like a bad out of Hell, Like
he liked to read it a little bit more.
Speaker 5: So I had to take an extra step, like i'd
even on power.
Speaker 3: I would try to like fall step a little bit
because I knew he was going to be a little
bit different.
Speaker 5: And so you have to know that.
Speaker 3: You have to learn that tight ends for sure, like
if you're combo blocking with a in on like a
stretch lead. Well, Randy McMichael's gonna block it completely different
than Antonio Gates and I have to know that as
a fullback, and so I think for sure, like the
run game is you got to.
Speaker 5: Be in unison.
Speaker 3: We talked about it yesterday, like eleven people have to
be moving in the same direction. How many times you
seen a run where it's like, man, if that guy
would have cut the backside off, that's a home run,
hitting your head on a goalpost, but he doesn't, and
you get tackle in the backfield.
Speaker 2: That's why breaking down football is like the greatest sport
to break down because it is the ultimate team sport.
But at the end of the day, it's also a
series of one on one battles all over the field
and you never know which play you're gonna get which
one because let's take inside zone. Let's take a week zone.
If you get if you get an underfront, then the
guard has a one on one block. If you get
an overfront, then it's a Comba block with the center
leading up to the mic of Sam or whoever they
want to lead up to. So like, you have to
be able to do both, and you can't just be
great at one on one. You can't just be able
to maul your guide because that they will they will
just line up in a formation that doesn't allow you
to do that. You have to be both good one
on one. So just like because both parts of that
question are accurate, they have to be able to beat
the guy across from one on one, but they also
have to have such a great relationship with each other.
That's why those like half line drills, whether it's pass
protection or run blog and this runt like that is
where you formulate that you know, like you said, air
quote giant on how to read each other's body language,
wait distribution, how they take on a step on when
the guard is going to pass off that backside shade
to the center and take off. He can't leave him
too early, yeah, or he doesn't have good leverage on him.
So that's how that that relationship forms.
Speaker 3: I think I got to play maybe a little bit
later on if we have time today that I kind
of show you what we're talking about, and we'll have
Nick Underhill new Leman stop football, join us to kick
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