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Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 5: Yo, go, let's go, welcome man OTB. Not any Monday morning,
but game week, Game week finally, my god. Now we
did have Week zero, actually had a really good game.
We'll get there, but it is game week.
Speaker 2: For your LSU Tigers.
Speaker 4: They get ready to take on the Clemson Tigers in
Memorial Stadium coming up this Saturday. Cannot wait, but we'll
get to all of that. We got Flynn, Moose and
Tata Oh here with you today this Monday morning.
Speaker 2: Fellas how we live and how we doing? Oh man,
we are doing great. I'm excited.
Speaker 6: Like I woke up five minutes before my alarm was
scheduled to go off, so you know it's.
Speaker 2: Gonna be a good day. I got the internal clock going.
Speaker 7: It's Dame week, and usually I felt like if you
wake up a little bit before wake up, and I'm like,
you know, set the alarm, you set it for five
thirty and you wake up and it's five twenty six.
Speaker 2: Could have used that extra four? Could he use that
four minutes? Yeah? I don't know.
Speaker 6: I just felt I felt good this morning. Put on
my LSU shirt signify that it's game week. I had
to let people know with.
Speaker 2: My otherwise there's no way they would have known his
game week. That's right. I've been counting that down.
Speaker 6: Nope, not at all. They needed my shirt to remind them.
I walked out to my car this morning. It wasn't humid,
which is nice. I don't know if that's just a
sign of the times, that's a sign of fall coming.
Taylor gave me a weather report for Wednesday, got a
high of eighty nine. Sixty nine is feeling good. I
know that's gonna change though. I know it's just a
little couple of days snap there. But look, I'm excited
we had some good football this weekend. Looking forward to
the build up.
Speaker 2: Moose, how we doing?
Speaker 4: Uh, you know, nothing like starting your week getting up
and uh, you know, god knows what time.
Speaker 2: That's what I said.
Speaker 8: Man, you know, I came to the group chat like
we need somebody to do OTV on money is like,
I'm your guy.
Speaker 2: It's game week, let's go. I mean, we're here. It
took forever.
Speaker 8: We can actually talk about the game now and not
sure you know, Oh man, how's the defense gonna look?
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was that one week where Nuts had his
leg amputato.
Speaker 8: Oh yes, And I mean I heard maybe a few
fingers and everything else as well.
Speaker 2: So we're here game. We actually have a little bit
of energy. We'll see we'll see that last see that
milligrams of caffeine? Are you ready? Zero? Are you serious?
I don't drink coffee. He didn't drink I don't drink coffee.
I don't have kids yet. I don't like to take you.
Speaker 6: You don't have to have kids to drink coffe. Yeah,
when you have them, you better find some beans. Good
for you though, Feeling.
Speaker 4: Good though, Man, did this show for a long time?
Long time, well, at least a year, all in told,
at least when I started. You were the producer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. You loved every morning, your energy. We
had fun. Moose is not a morning person. I'm not.
That's like you. I'm not a morning That's what I said. Job.
We'll see, we'll see how long this lasts. We will
probably come about eight thirty. I'd be like, all right,
that's okay. Hey, if you give us eight thirty, everything else,
anything else after that? Lane.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Sometimes you got to just push your body to
do things you don't I'm like, I'm kind of like
David Goggins, you know, said that. Yeah, I know you
have you just gotta push you gotta do things you
don't like to do to make yourself tougher. So that's
what Moose and I are doing tonight today.
Speaker 2: How bad do you want it? And what are you
willing to give up? To get there. Yeah, basically, now
I equal David Gaga exactly.
Speaker 4: Now, somebody that never ever ever has of energy. How
you doing, Yeah, we're doing good. Uh, busy but fun weekend.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 1: We completed the fantasy draft yesterday. Said nobody worry. Very good,
but I do have a bit of bad news. Eric
Eric Dickerson was right before the fantasy draft started. I
got an email from the commissioners and it said, you
can't draft Door Sanders. Guy went undrafted. Eric Dickerson actually
nailed it. So he went undrafted and you probably catch
him on the waiver waiver wire week three coming.
Speaker 2: Who is starting for the Browns? He was announcing a
week ago last week. Say Joe, hey, Joe boy, classic class.
Is he the only one left a draft? He has
to be. I feel like Josh Johnson's out there. Oh yeah, true,
he's out there somewhere. Yeah. There was a guy that
was in green What here's a guy I don't know?
Uh No, we had a guy in Green Bay my
rookie year. His name was j. J.
Speaker 6: Jansen and he was a deep snapper and he was
a pretty good deep snapper. But anyway, he was in
in training camp and he like tours a cl in Trenting.
He's our our year, this is our year.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 6: So he was a rookie in two thousand and eight,
and so he's sitting there and he's like one of
these guys that we all knew he was on.
Speaker 2: He got cut because he hurt himself.
Speaker 6: He got paid for it, and then he got picked
up later in the year some the Panthers picked him up.
Sitting there watching the Panthers preseason game and on punt team.
I see the last time Jade Janssen guy still playing
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for the Carolina Panthers. And I think he's been with
the Carolina Panthers since two thousand and eight after he
got released. All Right, So if you if you're looking
to get in the NFL, no kid deep snap? How
does one learn that skill? I think you're just born
with it.
Speaker 2: Do you have to be able to throw the ball
to do it?
Speaker 6: You have to be a pretty good throwing Yeah, you
gotta be like talent. You gotta have to get a
good hand talent out. I can't make it comeback deep
snaps a little bit in high school. Well, you gotta
do something. Actually, when your honorable mention all District in
the four team district, first team, second team honorable mention,
I'm the only one of all those people that has
any honor.
Speaker 4: If you think about it. Yeah, that's that's a great point. Actually,
everybody else no honor. It's really the one you want,
really the one do you want? Think about how bad
that fourth got felt?
Speaker 2: Now that is the real question. What's he doing?
Speaker 6: So everybody got something but me's going on here?
Speaker 2: Well all right, uh, some of the big news coming
out of l U.
Speaker 4: But let's go ahead as we prepare to give you
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Speaker 4: All right, So you know, look, we're gonna break down
the game and we'll continue to look at position battles
and we'll take a look at the Clemson Tigers throughout
the week. But some of the big news coming out
of LSU, Garrett Nussmeyer is going to wear number eighteen.
It is the first time that a quarterback will wear
number eighteen since Flenn's teammate Matt Mack in two thousand
and three. Actually, Matt Mack is going to join us
today at nine thirty, so looking forward to catching up
with Mack and a cool video LS you put out
there with Matt Mack and Nussmeyer facetiming each other. It
is wild to think it's been that long since the
quarterback has won it, but it kind of tells you
exactly you know who Garrett Neusmeyer is, and and he was,
you know, an obvious choice, but you know, you never
you're never quite sure, like numbers are a big deal,
so you never quite sure, like is someone going to
change their number? Look, he wore thirteen. Now, I wore
five when he first got here, but thirteen it's his number.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 4: Look I wore thirteen my whole life before I got
the LSU, so I understand it, right. I wore it
for Dan, the man Marino. I don't think he probably
wore it different generation.
Speaker 2: I don't think he.
Speaker 4: He let us know how old we are, but you
know he look, he accepted the number. Uh that is
not taken lightly, and so added him to the group.
Chat last night, and uh, you know, everybody was fired
up for him, sending him messages last night and uh,
nuss had a great response as nobody's surprised by that,
but very excited for him to be in the number.
It is something that all of us are very prideful about.
I know, it means the world to us, means the
world to our families. To be able to be a
part of that brotherhood and to have nuf Smyer wearing it,
it's great, it's incredible, it's it's somebody that certainly deserves it.
The guy sitting to my left kind of has a
very similar story of could have gone a lot of
different places, could have played for a lot of football
teams while he was waiting for his turn, didn't do that,
stayed worked hard.
Speaker 2: And when it was his turn, certainly made the most
of it.
Speaker 4: And so I can appreciate the way he goes about
his business, the kind of his story, his path, the
entire deal. He gets his opportunity, goes out, throws for
four thousand plus yards, second most in LSU history, and
now he's going to wear number eighteen as obviously a
permanent team captain for this team.
Speaker 2: So fired it from us.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, obviously nuss has been a big storyline
all last year, all through the offseason, the lead up
to build up to this season, and we are going
to talk a lot about him each and every day,
each and every week about his play on the field.
But I think this, I mean this day and kind
of coming on the heels of that announcement, we get
to talk about like him as a person and as
a leader of a team. And he is when I
when I when I see people throughout the country who
are fans of different teams and like, tell me about
the Tigers, tell me about the LSU football team leading up.
You know, I always lead with him and I tell
them people that don't know a lot about the LSU
team this year, I tell them, like, look, if you
if you just love college football, if you love the
spirit of college football, Garrett Nusmeyer is one of those
guys like anywhere in the country, any fan base you are,
is a guy that you can cheer for because in
a world that we live in now of college football,
where people take the payday, people transfer, they want instant gratification.
Speaker 2: Uh, people are not patient.
Speaker 6: People don't always like to do the right thing like that,
sometimes going to a different place is the right thing
to do for that situation. Like in that world, you
have a guy that had an old school mindset, Yeah,
had a patient mindset, did things you know, for him
the exact right way, even though he did not get
that in gratification, He's sitting there probably thinking that he
has a chance to be a starter. And okay, they
bring in to Jayden Daniels. All right, that's what's the
easy button at that point. Let's go play somewhere exactly.
I could go play at Auburn, I could go play anywhere,
but no, I'm gonna sit here and I maybe I
don't think I'm ready. Maybe I do think I'm ready,
but this is the place for me. I just love
the purple and goal like like I look back on
mind like I couldn't when I was here. I couldn't
envision myself putting on another uniform. I didn't want to
do it. Like I made a commitment. I loved it,
I bled it, and I couldn't envision myself with anything
with another helmet on. And maybe that's and I know
Garrett has that in him. But like in a world
I said, man if nothing else. You don't have to
cheer for the team. I know you're a you know,
Texas fan or a you know, a Wisconsin fan, whatever,
it is cheer for the person because that is what
embodies what is good about college football, and a person
that is like it's a little bit of a unicorn
right now because it doesn't happen, like this doesn't happen.
A guy waits around, waits turned. So that is embodied
with this decision. And of course I like to give
Jacob a hard time about the eighteen. It doesn't mean
blah blah blah like I kind of like you, I
like to make fun of the eighteen whatever, But I
mean it does embody, character, personality, what you mean to
a team. And of course they did that with a
permanent team captain, which is a huge deal. Yeah, and
just proud of who nes Meyer is for this team,
Proud of what he's done the patients has shown, proud
of the team and looking forward and excited to see
how his leadership is gonna The only question I have
on this whole situation there is which number are they
going to retire after a That's the real question. Thirteen
thirteen they go back to it. I don't know, it's
actually funny. Like as soon as like my next point
was going, what if Burrow would have worn eighteen, what
do they do?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Can they just go in and retire at nine?
Just do it?
Speaker 4: It's funny like so like my next point was going
to be, like eighteen will never be up at the
top of the stadium, and a lot of players that
where look, you know, we we contribute to our teams,
and you know there's certainly guys like Tredevius White that
were all American caliber players, and there's been there's been
really really really good.
Speaker 2: Players about like the always the best exactly. Yeah, like
this is.
Speaker 4: This is maybe I mean truly honestly for being honest
to ourselves the first time that the best player on
the team has ever more number eighteen. But I only
I only say that to bring up the point of
everything that Flynn just said, Like you've got everything that
you're supposed to have to worry number eighteen, right, a
guy that on and off the field, you don't have
to worry about him. You know he's going to do
the right things. You know he's going to be a leader.
When there's a situation when you should go right way
or wrong way. He's always going to go the right way.
So oftentimes you get a player that obviously contributes to
the team that's not the best player on the team.
This might be the first time that it's the best
player on the team because he is both these things.
He is the guy that's going to do the right
things on and off the field. You don't have to
worry about NFL scouts come in. They know you worry
a team. Okay, cool, check Mark, we don't have to
worry about it. But he's also the best player on
the team. So just tells you step on your throat
in the fourth quarter exactly, so he tells you kind
of his DNA and who we're talking about here, So
like that's what fires me up.
Speaker 2: It's very very cool that it's on a quarterback.
Speaker 4: I mean literally, like kind of the first time ever,
Like Matt gave it to me and that was the
first time, and the quarterbacks never warn it again. So
the fact that a quarterback the best player on the
team but also the guy that embodies everything that means
to wear a team at LSU, I think that speaks
so highly and speaks so loudly for Garrett Nusmeyer, it.
Speaker 6: Absolutely does, like we and we know it, and we
can sit here and just kind of talking circles about
like what he means and what he's done. But the
fact of the matter is he's done something that not
many people do right now, that is wait his turn
and then take advantage of that turn. So like and
so in all the preseason accolades, he deserved it all.
He gets it off. Now it is game week time,
and now it's time to go and face face off
with mister kid club then with it, wearing the rock
and the number eighteen.
Speaker 2: On his chest. This might be the last time we
ever thought of school was fifteen still, but it's all right.
Speaker 4: I knew you had to get that in. Hey, look,
fifteen is not that much different than eighteen. It's just
two lines that's better looking. It looks you just close it,
you just close the road, but objectively looks better.
Speaker 2: Sexy.
Speaker 4: Again, it's kind of the same number. Thirteen, fifteen and
eighteen very very similar.
Speaker 6: So is there any good uh, like any good hot
goss in the group text in the eighteen group chat.
Speaker 2: Like, wouldn't you like to know Bud? I would wouldn't
you like to.
Speaker 6: Know, and I'd like to make fun of y'all. That's
the only reason I want to know. I can only
imagine how, just like cringe that group text, man, welcome
to the club.
Speaker 2: You really deserve it, and he's like, oh, thanks man,
I'm gonna try to live up to it. Blah blah blah.
I being proud of you. How the fifteen group text
pop off last night was pop It's like three of us.
Speaker 6: It was you, Miles Brennan. I was like, who else?
I'm so proud of you, dude, It's awesome. There's probably
nothing cool said.
Speaker 2: You don't know, you never know.
Speaker 6: Nothing funny, nothing creative, nothing cool said. It was just
all like cheesy and gushy. There's no doubt in my mind.
The best part, though, is you'll never know. I keep
saying it, but I'm right, No, there's nothing good said.
What'd y'all talk about last night? You there anything that
was n sfw.
Speaker 2: Uh No eighteen's gonna do that? Flynn, Yeah, that's right,
wouldn't I do that? So? Never been a curse word
said in that group text.
Speaker 4: Congratulations too great Nesmar are all Flenninism's aside truly, though,
super proud of him, glad to invite him into the
group text last night that Flynn Bridge is he's a
part of truly though, truly, truly, truly, very excited for him.
Speaker 2: And again, I know numbers are important.
Speaker 4: I know that it's something that certainly when you are
an All American candidate and you are you know, somebody
that's potentially you know, Heisman front runner, to change your number,
that is not.
Speaker 2: Taken lightly by anybody.
Speaker 4: So glad that he accepted the challenge, and glad to
see those three permanent team captains with Nuss, Perk and Witt.
I think that's three really good guys that are going
to lead LSU.
Speaker 2: To a big season. Yeah, I'm excited.
Speaker 6: And they all need to watch Varsity Blues because we
know they haven't. There's none of them have seen it.
Do you think do you think Wit followed up on
this promise to watch it?
Speaker 2: No? No, I didn't, liar, Maybe you did, maybe you did,
probably not take it back.
Speaker 4: All right, we'll take a break more OTB. Like we said,
Matt Mack is going to join us at nine thirty.
Of course, devn snow we're gonna move him up from
nine to fifteen.
Speaker 2: To nine.
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Speaker 2: Twenty five We're at six.
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off the Bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 4: Stealing see I can still see myself on a bus
right now, pulling up to Victory Hill. Me and Brett
Haim sharing an earphone. Okay, because we didn't have a splitter.
We were balling on a budget, so we each shared
a little earbud listening to this song.
Speaker 2: Getting ready to walk down the hill, Ye and beat
up on somebody.
Speaker 6: I told you from my entire since I think my
software press for a software year of college. This was
the last song I listened to before every single game.
Speaker 2: I played it until I retired to get like hyped,
but I couldn't get two hyped. It's a good it's
a good slow build up to get in your mind.
Speaker 6: Right yeah, I told you, like I couldn't listen to
the hardcore stuff like the defensive people would do, because
like I did that in high school one time, and
I overthrew like my first five passes of the game.
Speaker 2: It was a little too hyped. So this one was perfect. Man.
Right now, it's a stirn up all sorts of emotions
for me.
Speaker 4: All right, So I want to ask you as a
defense right as I said, as a quarterback, So like
I am a a known meathead, I used to love
going on the road and playing against a big time
of puny.
Speaker 2: Now you look, you love home games.
Speaker 4: But for for an offensive player like here, when we're
on the field, the fans know, hey, we don't cheer, right.
Offense has got to be out there and communicate. Now,
on the road, it's like you can't hear yourself think
a little bit. And when you're a young player, it's awful.
It's terrible. It's like, oh my god, I barely know
the plays. I really don't even know. I'm just kind
of memorizing the plays right now. And if you check
to something and I don't hear it, I don't know
based off the look what you're checking to later on
in my life, I will. I don't right now, but
then once you get to that point and you do
become a veteran player, there is nothing better to me.
Then when you go to someone else's stadium and then
you make the play that puts the game away. Sometimes
that can be in the beginning of the fourth quarter.
Sometimes it can be in the third quarter. Sometimes it's
the very last play that you get and then when
it's so loud, and then you make the play and.
Speaker 2: Then you can hear a pin drop in their stadium.
Speaker 4: Like that is so hard to replicate that feeling because
everybody's just screaming everything they possibly can to get you
off your game, and then you make the play and
then it's just dead silence.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 6: That's one of the best feelings in the entire world,
is shutting up one hundred thousand people in their stadium.
And I was thinking about, like as a quarterback, like
you're you and the center, the only person that like
touches the ball every play, so like you're the most
impactful person on the field. It's like I'm sitting here
and I am controlling one hundred thousand people in the
palm of my hand right now. They basically no doubt
they either are gonna cheer against me, they're cheering cheer
for me, they're gonna shut up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and uh it was. Yeah, one of the best
feelings in the world when you could shut up that many.
Speaker 4: People two thousand and five at Alabama, two thousand and six,
at Tennessee two thousand and seven. I'm trying to think
of our road games. Alabama. Yeah, Alabama, that one that
was the probably that was probably the rowdy, that was
the rowdiest away game. Yeah, Tennessee. Tennessee's crowds a little bit,
a little bit different. It's a lot of people. Yeah,
it's a different feel two thousand and seven. Yeah, Chad
Jones when he made that play, Uh, it definitely went
quiet and then we scored a touchdown game over.
Speaker 2: That's what else. Who's gonna be looking to do? Coming
up this Saturday?
Speaker 4: It is going to it's whatever Memorial Stadium's peak is,
whatever it's always been, it is going to go up
another notch. Like I guarantee you that it's the most
fans that ever go to a game. You know that
is like it's like, wait a minute, how can you
beat that?
Speaker 2: You have a capacity.
Speaker 4: They're gonna standing room only. They'll bring in some bleachers,
they'll do like something will happen. It will be the
biggest crowd in that stadium's history. You are going to
be going against a crowd, first game of the year,
all the energy you can possibly imagine. They look they
remember you beat them in twenty nineteen for a national championship.
There's the whole Death Valley debate.
Speaker 6: There's gonna there's I can imagine how much Death Valley
propaganda is going on in Clemson, South Carolina this week,
how much they're talking to their fans like, let's show
them up, show them, Like, sure, this is gonna be
the loudest. Probably I would say that's probably gonna be
our loudest Clemson Stadium is ever.
Speaker 2: I agree, And it probably is not even gonna be close.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Like, because you got the preseason build up to it,
everybody's just ready to pop right now, and then you
got the whole Death Valley situation, Like you got everything
that you just laid out so lsu From a mental standpoint,
when you go into a situation like that, you gotta
go in there with a mindset of CounterPunch. You gotta
be a counter puncher here, like I can't, Like there
is going to be this moment on every big game
as an offense where you have to withstand a blow
from the defense because they're gonna come out. They're gonna
come out swinging, like defense is the is the side
of the ball where you can just let your hair down,
light it on fire, and like play as fast as
you can and you don't need like there's positions out
there like defensive end, defensive ta Like they can just
play as fast as they can and they're gonna have
so much adrenaline. So you have to withstand that blow
and you have to kind of like a heavyweight fight,
like fighting somebody like.
Speaker 2: That's bigger than you. Got to use their momentum against you.
Speaker 6: But like on offense, we always would talk about with
stand the blow, CounterPunch, like we're not going to go
out there on the first drive and try to punch
them right because you just it's it's the way like
you have to you have to know on offense, and
that's what gets like the key of a really good
play caller is no one when to punch right, no
one when to punch, no one to block block, block, block.
Speaker 2: And then no one wanted to throw a haymaker.
Speaker 6: And usually in those types of games, you're kind of
you're hitting your screens, you're hitting your quick passes, your
middle little misdirection, try to try to pop off a
good a nice little three four yard run early on, Like,
those are the things. Get get the ball out of
your quarterback's hand, get a ball into playmakers hands, get
some get somebody out in space a little bit, and
then once play four, five six of that first drive,
then things starting to start to settle down a little bit, right,
But you have to withstand you got to be a counterpuncher.
Speaker 4: I agree wholeheartedly with that. That's really honestly at every
level of football. But certainly when you're going on the
road like that and you are facing your crowd, that's
going to be again, whatever its peak is, it is
going to be exceeded. As a quarterback, though, do you
do anything different it? Like, like, what is different when
you're going into a situation like that, when everybody in
that stadium wants you to do poorly and they're gonna
be as loud as they can.
Speaker 2: What are some of the biggest challenges for you?
Speaker 4: Now, new offensive line right, you're going to have it
might be five new right at times if Chester's not
in there, but it's certainly going to be four new
offensive lineman first time that they'll be like they'll work
on crowd noise this week. That like if you drive
by the facility today and you're on Nicholson, you'll hear
the crowd noise, like it's going to be that loud.
But that's only in practice, that's only that's as best
as you can simulate it, obviously, But as a quarterback,
what are some of the things that you know are
going to be a challenge that you try to handle
this situation.
Speaker 6: The communication is the number one thing, so especially with
the new offensive line, making sure you over communicate the cause.
So there's sometimes when you get in a situation where
it's so loud and you have to if you have
to make an adjustment to either the snap count, protection adjustment,
a mic adjustment, whatever it is. Like, there's situations there's
sometimes where you'd be in a game or a practice
where a lot of crowd noise and you have to
tell each one individually, like you got to walk up
and down the line. It's uh, walking down the line
and tell like left guard, center, right guard, right down.
Speaker 2: You gotta tell everybody.
Speaker 6: And it's that it's you have to learn how to
over communicate because a lot of times, like a young quarterback,
you get into a new situation with that much energy,
things are really fast for you. You're a little bit
like you got a journaline pumping. Things are a little
bit panicky. You got to be able to slow everything down.
And sometimes it's like, all right, I'm gonna I'm making
a call and I'm telling I tell the right side. Yeah,
And I'm like, okay, well i gotta get back and
I gotta say the snapcount. Oh, there's only seven seconds
on the play clock, like there's time ran like a breath.
Speaker 2: Relax.
Speaker 6: You gotta tell everybody because that happens a lot, like
when there's crowd noise. Half the line gets the call,
half does it. So you have to make sure that
everybody's on the same page. That's a big thing. It's
just communication. How do we communicate in that time a
crowd noise because the play, like the game play is
not you're gonna have a first fifteen. Yeah, you're gonna
wrap those first fifteen A billion times this week you're
gonna know the play, you're gonna know your read, you're
gonna know how to execute it. Now you got to
Now you just got to look for things that you're
not prepared for. Like, all right, we we think based
on their tendencies last year that week one they're gonna
be in this defense. This is the percentage they're gonna
do there, we're gonna be cover one, you know, single
hot safety sixty three percent.
Speaker 2: Whatever that is.
Speaker 6: You have to look for change ups to that because
week week one you don't really know, Like you think
you got an idea, but they could be they can
work and you're not ready to pack every so really
it's a communication. Then as a quarterback in a big game,
I always like to get hit early. Yeah I don't
even know get sacked, but like I wanted to like
take some contact because like as soon as that happens,
it's like, all right, I'm in a football game. Now,
this is eleven on eleven. And once you get into
the game, once you get a little completion, once you
get hit a little bit. As a quarterback, it doesn't
matter who's in the crowd, Like you forget all that stuff,
like what like the build up to the game is
the worst part at the beginning of the game is
the part where you're thinking about everything else around you.
But once the game starts and you get in the
start getting the rhythm with like a little completion with
getting it, It's like, man, all I see is inside these.
Speaker 2: White lines right now. The crowd noise stinks, But like
I'm not I don't look at the crowd.
Speaker 4: No, no, no. I always say, you put up like
these blackout curtains. If you're doing it right, you like
you hear it, not gonna act like you don't. But
as far as like seeing it and even like you know,
feeling it, like the noise is the one thing you
can't get rid of. But if you're doing your right,
you do create these blackout curtain It is only going
to be the field, like the sidelines, Like I'm not
even paying attention to that right now.
Speaker 6: But you do something, you get that done something, And
it's not like you're not like cognitively doing that. You're
not focusing right walking up, walking up, No, you're just
you're mad at the other team. Yeah, just trying to
beat them.
Speaker 2: Yep, all right, we'll continue to break it down.
Speaker 4: How's else you're going to beat the Clemson Tigers, and
it might be the last matchup we see for a
very long time, a top ten matchup that features two
quarterbacks that signed with said school out of high school.
Thinking about that, thinking about the last time we've actually
had one of those, it has been a long time.
Speaker 2: It probably will be.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, as far as like not freshman young players,
two veteran players, two guys that have been there for
four years that are going to be.
Speaker 2: The TV tier.
Speaker 4: I know that a lot grainier most of the time
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, well, I mean that was a second to
last song I would always listen to. You had an order? Huh?
I had an order? Sure do.
Speaker 4: I like to go through a wave of emotions like
slow build up, the build up and then kind of
a little WUSA moment before I went out.
Speaker 2: I like it. I mean, did you have a list?
Did you have an order?
Speaker 4: The song in the middle changed, but shadow of the
Sun to started and then something very slow that's still
pointing to you, so.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, still had it pulled up just not playing. Yeah,
I get it.
Speaker 6: It's a remake it's a limp biscuit. It's fine, don't
worry about I'm gonna say anything. It's a little bit
like you had to get a little bit more juice
to it for a pre game walking into Alabama playing Florida,
you had to couldn't listen to the who got be
an olympiscuit? I feel that, y'all feel that? Anybody else
feel it?
Speaker 2: I feel it, you're feeling it. I feel something ready
to hit somebody in the face. Oh wait, now was
a quarterback? I was ready.
Speaker 6: I was ready to throw a pass, read a defense. Well, hey,
check with me. Alert, alert, y'all hit people in the face.
Speaker 4: All right, now watch it's mister quarterback, sir, Now watch
this fan. All right, You're facing a Clemson defensive line.
It's got two All Americans. Pretty good. They've got two
first team All Conference type players, a linebacker and corner.
But more importantly, the defensive line, two All Americans, one inside,
one outside. If you have a new offensive line, you're
on the road playing against again, two guys that are
going to be first round picks in Pittsburgh next year
for the NFL Draft, What is your game plan looking
like that first fifteen that we talk about the first fifteen.
All right, So I'm gonna get my I'm gonna get
the ball in the hands by playmakers fast, We're gonna
get a gun. We are probably gonna do a little
play action fake, a little quick play action fake with
an RPO like a slot receiver into the flat route,
get the ball out, quick block them with the outside receiver.
Speaker 6: Something like that. I don't want to do many outside
zones or outside runs. I want to probably keep it
inside the tackle box because it's game one with new
offensive linemen. You want to stay on schedule. Yeah, and
early in seasons there's so many holding penalties, especially when
you start getting outside the box.
Speaker 2: So stay inside the tackle.
Speaker 6: Box because the what you can't do, like when you
when you what you said, the start of emotions of
a game, got two All American defensive tackles, good linebackers.
You want to stay on schedule. You don't want to
be in a second and seventeen situation. You don't want
to be on a first and twenty situation. Like you
want to stay on schedule because when you're on schedule,
they have to think. Those guys have to think. They
can't just go straight line, right, they have to be
able to al right, is it gonna be run, it's
gonna be passing, gonna be play action, Is it gonna
be a screen?
Speaker 2: Is it going to be a you know, a two
count screen? Is it like?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 6: There's so many options. They can't just play straight line
line up with their head down and go. So you
gotta be on schedule. So I'm avoiding those types of deals.
I'm avoiding a big loss on a sack early line.
So if I am gonna take a shot, it's going
to be a run, run, play action, fake type situation
on a normal down and distance. And then of course,
if you're getting a third and long situation, then that
kind of takes all the that takes all the skill
in preparation off the play calling. At that point then
it's just like all right, we got to go execute.
We know it's gonna be some sort of exotic front,
exotic pressure. Now we just gotta rely on Garrett. It's
myrins experience in our good receiving cores, but on our
normal D.
Speaker 2: And D I look for quick passes.
Speaker 6: I would look for probably some sort of quick screens,
play action, fake with a safe with a safe outlet
throw something like that, but death. Like my my initial
thing would be, let's not do any exotic sort of
get on the edge and beat them to the edge
type of runs because we saw it this past week
and so many holding calls and reps are gonna have
a quick demand. It's their first week too, Yeah, so
they're gonna have a little bit fun trigger Farmageddon game
for sure. So like as far as the run game, right,
just be diverse in your run game.
Speaker 4: And then like for me, in the way that I
always kind of view it when you're you know, if
I'm going against Glen Dorsey, right, I'm not gonna run
right at Glen Dorsey. Now I can run to his side.
That's why I love like we talked about the other day,
like hey, let's get in pistol a little bit. Like
if we're gonna run zone, we can run inside and
outside zone, but let's get everybody. Let's get a movie
because like you said, I don't want them going north
and south. I want those first round defensive linemen going
east and west. So like, if I have a zone,
let me open, step, crossover, get the ball, stretch, stretch, stretch,
and then boom because they over pursue because look, when
you are a first round NFL defensive lineman, you want
to splash, you want to make plays. So when you
see the ball going there, you want to say, hey,
I'm fast, I'm quick. I want to get to that point,
and then you over pursue. And that's why I love
a good zone run out of pistol, out of the
old eye formation, which look, I know they're not gonna
run a ton of but because that backside was always there.
Because early in the game, early in the season, when
you're a marquee player, you over pursue. You're trying to
make the play, and then if you've got a running
back that can read it, boom, that backside cut is
right there. It's seventeen yards right, And so like I
want to see some diversity in the ring game where
you give the running back the option, because if you're.
Speaker 2: Running inside zone out of gun we showed it the
other day, you don't have as many options.
Speaker 4: You don't get going either, So like you're not stretching
the defense like we're talking about, because it is so tight,
it's so compact right there, because you don't have that
ability to bounce it inside and outside like you do.
So that's for me. Just get some diversity in the
run game. Get that really talented defensive line going eastern way,
and the looks that you give them too.
Speaker 6: I mean, we're going to assume that the majority of
our offense is probably going to be eleven personnel some
sort some yeah, some form some uh form of three wide.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then it could be like technically twelve personnel,
but you're really running eleven plays with trids in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And I want to see I want to see some
different formations. I want to see some shifts. I want
to see some motions. Make them think a little bit
before the snap, because defense, I mean's defensive guys they
can't think. So make them do something they're uncomfortable with,
which is thinking using their brains, and then then throw
them some different looks to the run where linebackers they
can't just te off. Wall those some different looks with
your tight end, let them lead block, get up into
the second level on the play side. Then let them
go cut back side, end off and let a tackle
go up to the to the second level. Get some
different looks to where those linebackers they have to read
through the quarterback and kind of read through the tight
end to the running back at that point. So the
more movement we can have, the more it kind of
gets their eyes moving left to right, gets their bodies
moving left to right. Yeah, you just want to avoid
them being able to go north south the entire time.
That is the last thing that you want to do
against a dominant defensive line. All right, we'll take a break,
continue breaking down LSU and Clemson. Of course, we got
New Orleans Saints Starr coming your way as well. Stay
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Speaker 2: O TB one, O four or five, ESPN Baton Rouge Taylor.
Do you know the song? No, sorry to be fair,
to be fair to it was not very old when
this song was released? You were how old were you
when Elvis was doing this? It's very fair. Actually a
great counterpoint, thank you, it's a great counter I told you,
I'm a counterpuncher who sings this. Oh now that's a
step too far. Like I know a lot of Elvis songs.
I don't know who sings this. Maybe maybe that has
something to do with it.
Speaker 6: Maybe they need to get on Elvis's Lovely Punk Teenagers
Do and November First.
Speaker 2: Smash It. I got it there, I know what you mean.
Nailed it? Yeah, punks? What you meant there? What we
need to find out? What's on? Clemson plays as they
run down their hill? Probably the fight song. Had to guess.
Speaker 8: They're kind of aim the storm the field after every game.
Oh man, we just beat South Carolina Upstate, let's roll
on the field.
Speaker 2: Is gonna fall this year? Forget?
Speaker 6: That was one of my going to like really fall.
That was one of my I think that might be
one of my hot takes. You know, we gotta do
like a big bold prediction for the year. The debo
gets hurt one day one of these games. Running downhill?
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