Speaker 1: Two days gonna be the day that they're gonna throw
it back to you. By now you should have somehow
realize what you gotta do. I don't believe that anybody
feels the way I have to about you.
Speaker 2: Now, Tigers turn talkers. This is off the bench.
Speaker 1: Back be the wedd's on the street, that the fire.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in Off the Bench segment two,
Here an hour, one little oasis there. I think everybody
that's in college that wants to teach themselves guitars starts
with that song. I think I knew about six people
on the team that could pick up an acoustic guitar
in college and play that one. That was about it.
That's as far as they got. So congrats to them.
And if you ever got past that song, cogress see
you as well. That showed real determination. If you were
that guy that wanted to impress chicks by playing acoustic guitar,
what did you play? You were? You were in the
middle school band? Was yeah, so I so when I
was in elementary I did I did piano, Okay that's
what it was, and then I know, but then I
played cello in middle school. So sixth seventh eighth grade
cello player, all of the like. It was kind of
crazy because like all the the guys on the football team,
we decided to play cello, you had to do something
you had to do like home economics, you had to
do band, you had to do orchestra, something else. I
think it was shop. We were like, wait, we could
do shop, Like no, we're gonna do orchestra. And so
I was a cello player, not a big deal like
yo yo ma, and not a I don't want to brag,
but I was also first chair thought a big deal,
not every single year. Seventh grade that's when I was
really into it. First chair cello player cello.
Speaker 4: Okay, better better cello player or better middle school football player.
Speaker 3: Cello player. Really So seventh grade that was my first
year to play quarterback ever Hubbard Huskies. Shout out to
them in Tyler, Texas. Yeah, a lot of Huskies. I
got beat out seventh grade year, so I didn't even
play in seventh grade year. So I was the backup
quarterback seventh grade and then I beat that guy on
eighth grade and so I did, but I think only
through about three passes a game, So I wasn't that
dynamic in eighth grade. It wasn't like Treeport evangel where
I was like twenty years old in eighth grade and
I was playing on the varsity. I was actually young
for my grade. I went to got the LSU was seventeen.
So in eighth grade, I was I don't even know
a guy. I'm not gonna do the math real quick,
but yeah, I was. Yeah, the guy played with He
was a He was a quarterback. He was my best
bud growing up. We were always on every team together,
played every position, and so he let's see. And then
got to high school. I was a quarterback for JV.
He was a freshman quarterback. Then he beat me out
on varsity sophomore year. It was a bloodbath, back and forth,
back and forth. And he was a good player. He
played for the Cubs for a long time. He was
a hitting coach when they were when the World Series
got a World Series ring. So he's moderately successful. He
was not really played baseball at Oklahoma State. No Mullet though,
didn't have the gandhy. He didn't have the gandy look.
Did he last twenty years? And we've already laid Gundy
to rest this year. No he didn't last that. You
know what, the mullet probably would have prolonged his career. Yeah,
it checks out. So Taylor, you were at the press conference.
I say, a lot of news coming in. But before
we get to that news, I would like to get
this show started.
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at So there's a lot of news coming out right now.
Frank Wilson took the podium yesterday talked, of course we
got argus all tomorrow and now we're kind of hearing
a little bit about a nagging injury for our guy Garrett.
That's why. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So he said Garrett had a nagging injury that has reoccurred.
So it was, you know, one of the ones that
he had previously had. He said, Garrett's probable for the game,
but it is something that is concerning. I mean, he
says he's probable, but concerning. It's something we need to
watch and monitor as we head into the game. He
was later asked in the press conference, you said reoccurring injury.
Is it the knee or the pateller tendon or is
it the oblique? He confirmed, it's the oblique. It's it's
in that ab area. You would talked about how hard
it is to throw the football, and like, I get it,
Garrett had had the best year, but like I thought,
he was actually even worse to start the year than
he has been. I mean, just because I mean, you
mentioned the entire throwing motion is going to be off
with that oblique injury, and it.
Speaker 3: Apparently yeah, and I don't think we know, Yeah, it's
no blaques, it's the left side is of the right side,
because to me, I think the I'm trying to figure out,
like which side would be anyway for like a guy
that turns any anybody that's a swinger, So you're a
rotational type of athlete, so you're a kicker, you're a
baseball bat or a golf or a throw or anything
that's a rotational type of athlete. Anything in the abs
in the ribs is like really tough to deal with,
and it creates a lot of mechanical flaws and mechanical issues.
So everybody's been trying to pinpoint with Nuts, like, hey,
what's the difference this year between the nuts We've seen
and we've known and we've trusted. And he's absolutely electric
all over the field, making making every throw making every read.
And then the nust Meyer that has that we've seen
this year, who has not been as dynamic, has looked
a little bit like he's pressing a lot. His mechanics
have been the same, the throws haven't been the same,
And I think a lot of it goes back to
has to go back to this oblique injury. And because
there's if you're a golfer, you can kind of relate
to this, like if you play in the wind a lot,
you play in the wind, you have to change your
swing right, and you have to change your swing to
adapt to the wind. And then when it's not windy,
there's a period of time where you have to like
unlearn what you just did in the wind. So there
could be a situation where he had this injury and
he was, whether subconsciously or consciously overcompensating for something, or
his body was doing something different in his thumb motion
to ease the pain so he could make a throw. Well,
if you do that enough for a long and a
period of time, muscle memory starts to set in and
mechanics happened. So like I sometimes I wondered throughout the year,
was I did his mechanics change a little bit, and
like I could go like a slow motion and look
at it, but like I'm just talking about maybe not
from an arm standpoint, but from like a body weight standpoints.
Is right hip getting through, is his right hip going
to the target. A lot of time he's throwing falling
away from the ball, falling away from his target this year,
and I got to believe a lot of that goes
back to his abs or is oblique or whatever the
injury was of trying to take pressure off of that
that situation. So from all accounts we've heard, well, when
you know, Brian Kelly was talking before he got he
got relieved that he that that's why I was back.
He's not feeling it, he's it's not it's not an
issue anymore. But now we hear that the nagging injury
has popped up, has crept back up, which is not
a great situation because, like you said, he has struggled
this season, and I think that a lot of those
physical struggles have turned into mental struggles. He is not
reading the field like he did last year. Last year
he was reading all fifty three yards. This year he's
struggled with those reads. Now, the offensive game plan. The
bones of this offense has not helped him at all
because it has been flat out bad. I think they've
tried to do some good things in all game, but
at the end of the day, there's a foundation set
with this offense that is flawed. It's flawed from the foundation,
from the bones. There's only so much lipstick you can
put on it right this moment, at this point in
the season. But to hear that, we got a little
bit of an oblique situation what we believe was kind
of the start of his the decline of his production
is not a great situation. No, it's not.
Speaker 4: And like you've done a great job all year long
of breaking down the Joe Sloane offense. And you know
what had been the question all year? Why aren't they
throwing the ball deep? Why aren't they throwing the ball
across the middle? And I totally get that, But you
and I were talking about it about a week ago,
like we saw this offense do it a year ago,
Maybe nuts can't do it right now. And it's because
of this oblique and you mentioned like it's the mental struggles.
Now I see a quarterback just in MIFP. I mean,
you know you know a lot better than I do.
Maybe doesn't trust this offensive line and also knows that
he can't throw the ball downfield. So like, what do
you actually do if you're Garrett and Ollsemart I've seen
people today or last night say, oh, well, this is
just the secret of binging for no Smyer, this is
just you know, putting them on.
Speaker 3: I don't think people realize a soft bench in there.
Tyler Murray, I don't think that's.
Speaker 4: Right because people are gonna say, well, it doesn't matter
Arkansas's defense is bad. Sure, their defense might be bad,
but like, let's not forget the fact that their offense.
Speaker 3: Puts up a ton of points.
Speaker 4: Right that Texas A and M team you struggled with,
Arkansas put up forty two points against them. Those a
forty five forty two football game. You need all hens
on deck offensively, not because you can't move the ball
up with them against your backups, but you're gonna have
to match them score for score.
Speaker 3: Yeah you are. And like, even if an offense is
in the SEC or a defense in the SEC is
not good, like productionized people put points on them, there's
still a defense in the SEC. They are still eleven
good athletes that are trying everything that they can. They're
coaches on the other sideline, they're doing everything it can
to stop you. So you have to execute. And what
LSU has proven that they can't do consistently on offense
is execute. And it's not about necessarily about can you
win a one on one battle? Are you getting your
your tail whip by somebody that's just physically better than you.
It's not always about that. It's about scheme. You have
to get people open you're going against like Josh Hippel.
They put points against Arkisos. They barely beat Arkansas, but
Joshipel is getting guys open everywhere. Schematically, they were winning
that battle. And when I talk about the bones of
this offense that was developed by not by the people
that are leading the offense. Now, the bones of this
offense are very flawed just from a schematic x's and
no standpoints. So but they tried last game. They did
some things that I really liked. They just so much
you can do at this point of the season, there's
so much. There's only so much that you can add in.
So I mean, we'll see you do have to execute.
Their offense is gonna score points. But luckily, they are
going to be going against our best unit on this team,
which is the defense, which played really really well I
thought against Alabama, and they played really really well in
spurts throughout this season. I expect them to play well.
I expect Blake Baker to have a great game plan.
But there's more repercussions about this Nustmyer injury that we
will get into on the other side of this break
with Michael van Buren and what they gonna do about
his red shirt. I don't know. We'll talk about it
right here when we come back on off the bench.
Off the bench, all right, Well, feel a little bit
sad or a little bit excited about the game tomorrow.
There is no better time to grab a beer. And
when you do, make sure it's a dose Sexies, an
ice cold, delicious Mexican lagger in that tall cold bottle,
maybe it's a tall cold can, whatever it is, and
you can actually get it here. You can get it
here at Else's, you can get here any of your
local beer stores, wherever you want to go. So when
you open the cooler on game day, you want one
thing that's an ice cold refreshment and nobody delivers it
like dough setis. They can get cold delicious Mexican laggers.
Make sure you get you a little lime, slice it up.
Can you feel it, Taylor? I can Yeah. After that,
I can feel it. I can say it. Look, we
live in South Louisiana. Let's not let's not try to
lie to anybody. We love a cold pop and we
love a little bit of breakfast cold pop right before
a game at eleven forty five. Whatever it is. So
if you're gonna do it, make sure you do it responsibly. Tomorrow,
and if you see us walking around campus, make sure
you lift it up and give us a little do
sekies cheer. So drink responsibly. Get yourself some dough skies tomorrow,
get yourself a little koozy, keep it cold, keep that
hand warm, go for dose. Drink responsible.
Speaker 1: Two days gonna be the day that they're gonna throw
it back to you. And by now you should up
somehow realize what you gotta do. I don't believe that
anybody feels the way I have to about you.
Speaker 2: Now, Tigers, turn talkers, This is off the bench, back be.
Speaker 1: The word is on the street.
Speaker 3: That all right, welcome back in off the bench segment
two Here an hour, one little oasis there. I think
everybody that's in college that wants to teach themselves guitars
starts with that song. I think I knew about six
people on the team that could pick up an acoustic
guitar in college and play that one. That was about it.
That's as far as they got. So congrats to them.
And if you ever got past that song, Congress see
you as well. That showed real determination. If you were
that guy that wanted to impress chicks by playing acoustic guitar.
What did you play? You were? You were in the
middle school band? Yeah, so I so when I was
in elementary I did I did piano, Okay, that's what
it was. And then I know, but then I played
cello in middle school. So sixth seventh, eighth grade cello player.
All of Like it was kind of crazy because like
all the the guys on the football team, we decided
to play cello. You had to do so something you
had to do, like home economics, you had to do, band,
you had to do orchestra, something else. I think it
was a shop and we're like, wait, we could do shop.
Like now we're gonna do orchestra. And so I was
a cello player, not a big deal like yo yo
ma and not a I don't want to brag, but
I was also first chair, got a big deal, not
every single year. Seventh grade that's when I was really
into it. Uh, first chair cello player cello Okay.
Speaker 4: Better better cello player or better middle school football player.
Speaker 3: Cello player? Really so seventh grade that was my first
year to play quarterback ever Hubbard Huskies. Shout out to
them in Tyler, Texas. Yeah, a lot of Huskies. I
got beat out seventh grade year, so I didn't even
play in seventh grade year. So I was the backup
quarterback seventh grade. And then I beat that guy on
eighth grade and so I did, but I think only
about three passes a game. So I wasn't that dynamic
in eighth grade. I wasn't like Shreeport evangel where I
was like twenty years old in eighth grade and I
was playing on the varsity. I was actually young for
my grade. I went to got to LSU, was seventeen,
So in eighth grade I was I don't even know
a guy. I'm not gonna do the math real quick,
but yeah, I was. Yeah, the guy played with He
was a he was a quarterback. He was my best
bud growing up. We were always on every team together,
played every position, and so he let's see. And then
we got to high school. I was a quarterback for JV.
He was a freshman quarterback. Then he beat me out
on varsity sophomore year. It was a bloodbath, back and forth,
back and forth. And he was a good player. He
played for the Cubs for a long time. He was
a hitting coach when they were when the World Series
got a World Series ring. So he's moderately successful. He
was not really played baseball at Oklahoma State. No, mullet, though,
you didn't have the Gandy. He didn't have the gandy. Look.
Did he last twenty years? And we've already laid Gundy
to rest this year. No, it didn't last. That's you
know what. The Mullet probably would have prolonged his career. Yeah,
it checks out. So, Taylor, you were at the press conference.
I'll say a lot of news coming in. But before
we get to that news, I would like to get
this show started.
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where sickness is running around. It's going around all the schools.
We've heard I fear rumors about people all over the city.
Something's happened, whether it's a stomach, whether it's a little
sniffly knows. Well, make sure you arm yourself with a
strong immune system and go to go flow. You can
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All right, Taylor, so you were at so there's a
lot of news coming out right now. Frank Wilson took
the podium yesterday, talked, of course we got Argus all tomorrow,
and now we're kind of hearing a little bit about
a nagging injury for our guy, Garrett Nesmier.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So he said Garrett had a nagging injury that has reoccurred.
So it was, you know, one of the ones that
he had previously had. He said, Garrett's probable for the game,
but it is something that is concerning. I mean, he
says he's probable, but concerning. It's something we need to
watch and monitor as we head into the game. He
was later asked in the press conference, you said reoccurring injury.
Is it the knee or the pateller tendon or is
it the oblique? He confirmed it's the oblique. It's it's
in that ab area. You would talked about how hard
it is to throw the football, and like, I get it,
Garrett had did the best year, but like I thought,
he was actually even worse to start the year than
he has been. I mean, just because I mean you
mentioned the entire throwing motion is going to be off
with that oblique enginet it apparently back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't think we know, Yeah, it's an
obleaques it's the left side is of the right side,
because to me, I think the I'm trying to figure out,
like which side would be anyway for like a guy
that turns an anybody that's a swinger, So you're a
rotational type of athlete, So you're a kicker, you're a
baseball bat, or a golf or a throw or anything
that's a rotational type of athlete. Anything in the abs
and the ribs is like really tough to deal with,
and it creates a lot of mechanical flaws and mechanical issues.
So everybody's been trying to pinpoint with Nuts, like, hey,
what's the difference this year between the nuts we've seen
and we've known and we've trusted. And he's absolutely electric
all over the field, making making every throw, making every reed.
And then the nustmyre that that we've seen this year,
who has not been as dynamic, has looked a little
bit like he's pressing a lot. His mechanics have been
the same, the throws haven't been the same. And I
think a lot of it goes back to has to
go back to this oblique injury, and because there's if
you're a golfer, you can kind of relate to this,
Like if you play in the wind A lot you
play in the wind, you have to change your swing right,
and you have to change your swing to adapt to
the wind. And then when it's not windy, there's a
period of time where you have to like unlearn what
you just did in the wind. So there could be
a situation where he had this injury and he was,
whether subconsciously or consciously, overcompensating for something, or his body
was doing something different in his thumb motion to ease
the pain so he could make a throw. Well, if
you do that enough for along in a period of time,
muscle memory starts to set in and mechanics happened. So
like I I sometimes I wondered throughout the year, was
I did his mechanics change a little bit? And like
I could go like a slow motion and look at it.
But like I'm just talking about maybe not from an
arm standpoint, but from like a body weight standpoints. His
right hip getting through is right hip going to the target.
A lot of times he's throwing falling away from the ball,
falling away from his target this year, and I gotta
believe a lot of that goes back to his abs
or his oblique or whatever the injury was, of trying
to take pressure off of that that situation. So from
all accounts we've heard, well, when you know Brian Kelly
was talking before he got he got relieved. Uh that
he that that's why I was back. He's not feeling it.
He's it's not a it's not an issue anymore. But
now we hear that the nagging injury has popped up,
has crept back up, which is not a great situation because,
like you said, he has struggled this season, and I
think that a lot of those physical struggles have turned
into mental struggles. He is not reading the field like
he did last year. Last year he was reading all
fifty three yards. This year he's struggled with those reads. Now.
The offensive game plan, the bones of this offense has
not helped him at all because it has been flat
out bad. I think they've tried to do some good
things in the last game, but at the end of
the day, there's a foundation set with this offense that
is flawed. It's flawed from the foundation, from the bones.
There's only so much lipstick you can put on it
right this moment, at this point in the season. But
to hear that we got a little bit of an
oblique situation what we believe was kind of the start
of his the decline of his production. Is not a
great situation. No it's not.
Speaker 4: And like you've done a great job all year long
of bringing down the Joe Sloan offense. And you know
what had been the question all year? Why aren't they
throwing the ball deep? Why aren't they throwing the ball
across the middle? And I totally get that, but you
and I were talking about it about a week ago,
Like we saw this offense do what a year ago.
Maybe nuts can't do it right now, and it's because
of this oblique and you mentioned like it's it's the
mental struggles. Now I see a quarterback just in my openion.
You know, you know a lot better than I do,
that maybe doesn't trust this offensive line and also knows
that he can't throw the ball downfield.
Speaker 3: So like, what do you actually do if you're Garrett?
Speaker 4: And I'll smart, I've seen people today or last night say,
oh well, this is just the secret of benching for
no Smyer, this is just you know, putting them on.
Speaker 3: I don't think people realize that the tyler.
Speaker 4: I don't think that's right because people are gonna say, well,
it doesn't matter. Arkansas's defense is bad. Sure, their defense
might be bad, but like, let's not forget the fact
that their offense puts up a ton of points. Right
that Texas A and M team you struggled with, Arkansas
put up forty two points against them those at forty
five forty two football game. You need all hands on
deck offensively, not because you can't move the ball up
with them against your backups, but you're gonna have to
match them score for score.
Speaker 3: Yeah you are. And like, even if an offense is
in the SEC or a defense in the SEC is
not good, like productionalized people put pinings so on, there's
still a defense in the SEC. They are still eleven
good athletes that are trying everything that they can. They're
coaches on the other sideline, they're doing everything it can
to stop you. So you have to execute. And what
LSU has proven that they can't do consistently on offense
is execute. And it's not about necessarily about can you
win a one on one battle? Are you getting your
tail whipped by somebody that's just physically better than you.
It's not always about that. It's about scheme. You have
to get people open you're going against like Joshibel. They
put points against Arkansas. They barely beat Arkansas, but Josh
Hipel is getting guys open everywhere. Schematically, they were winning
that battle. And when I talk about the bones of
this offense, that was developed by not by the people
that are leading the offense. Now, the bones of this
offense are very flawed just from a schematic x's and
no standpoints. So but they tried last game. They did
some things that I really liked. They just so much
you can do at this point of the season, there's
so much. There's only so much that you can add in.
So I mean, we'll see you do have to execute.
Their offense is gonna score points. But luckily they are
going to be going against our best unit on this team,
which is the defense, which played really really well I
thought against Alabama and that played really really well in
spurts throughout this season. I expect them to play well.
I expect Blake Baker to have a great game plan.
But there's more repercussions about this. Nustmyer injury that we
will get into on the other side of this break
with Michael van Buren and what they're going to do
about his red shirt. I don't know. We'll talk about
it right here when we come back on off the bench.
Off the bench, all right, Well, feel a little bit
sad or a little bit excited about the game tomorrow.
There is no better time to grab a beer. And
when you do, make sure it's a dose SECI's an
ice cold delicious Mexican lagger in that tall cold bottle.
Maybe it's a tall cold can, whatever it is, and
you can actually get it here. You can get it
here at else as you can get here any of
your local beer stares wherever you want to go. So
when you open the cooler on game day, you want
one thing that's an ic cold refreshment, and nobody delivers
it like do Skis, the king of cold delicious Mexican loggers.
Make sure you get you a little lime. Slice it up.
Can you feel it, Taylor? I can, yeah, after that,
I can feel it. I can taste it. Look, we
live in South Louisiana. Let let's not try to lie
to anybody. We love a cold pop and we love
a little bit of breakfast cold pop right before a
game at eleven forty five. Whatever it is. So if
you're gonna do it, make sure you do it responsibly.
Tomorrow and if you see us walking around campus, make
sure you lift it up and give us a little
dough Sekies cheer. So drink responsibly. Get yourself some dough
schies tomorrow. Get yourself a little cooozy, keep it cold,
keep that hand warm, go for dose. Drink responsibly.
Speaker 2: Shut down ninety seven from the locker room to the airwaves,
gets off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in off the bench here our
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right now trying to tell Taylor to assert his dominance
at the table by getting other hydration products put on
the table. I don't know. I would. I wouldn't do it.
That's the way to get front kicked right there, your
roundhouse kicked to the face. While I'm wearing these pants.
You know what movie that's from? You know, as many
movies as I've seen. I don't go, are you serious?
The laundri you know what that's from?
Speaker 2: What did you say?
Speaker 3: What did you say? Do you want to get roundhouse
kicked to the face while I'm wearing these pants?
Speaker 5: Oh that's Napoleon dynamite.
Speaker 3: That's a Napoleon dynamite.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, So there was this whole thing. It's it's
an unpopular take on on my part. I don't like
Napoleon Dynamite at all. And actually you'll love this because
it involves the Green Bay Packers back when T Bob
was still on the show, uh two years ago. Remember
the Cowboys were like the number one or two seed
whatever it was, and I believe it or not, I'm
at they sucked in the playoff shocker okay, and they
were playing the upstar Green Bay Packers with Jordan Love
going on a tear and T Bob said, okay, well,
since you don't like Napoleon Dynamite, if the Cowboys lose
to the Packers, you have to dress like Napoleon Dynamite.
And I'll be damned. I showed up the word dressed
like Napoleon Dodnamite because the packers put a whooping.
Speaker 3: All right on the Dallas Cowboys. So was it like
Napoleon from like the dance scene.
Speaker 4: So I ordered the white vote for Pedro shirt, the
curly wig, and it came with like a cheap pair
of like glasses.
Speaker 3: All right, So you don't think that's Napoleon Dynamite's funny,
So you're more of like a fart joke, kind of
like far joke, only that situation on the far jo.
I don't know. It's just it's just not my vibe.
It's just one of those things that dry here and
explain it. It's just not my vibe. So you don't
like like the office, probably No, Victoria loves the office.
Lundra didn't like the office either. I don't think Jake does.
I think you're alone on the office.
Speaker 5: I don't dislike the office.
Speaker 3: You don't. It's not my favorite. It's not my favorite. Okay,
all right, Yeah, I didn't mean to put that evil
on you. I thought i'd heard you say that. That's
on me. Ribs says she likes the office. I get it,
though it's a little slower, it's a little dryer. You gotta,
you know, gotta have some wit. Taylor gotta have a
little whip. No fart jokes there, Okay, all right, So
we just got talking about you know, Taylor was at
there live at Frank Wilson's presser yesterday. We got the
news about Garrettnusmeyer with the nagging injury on the on
the oblique. But look, there's been a lot of talk.
We the plan was per Frank earlier in the week
that both quarterbacks gonna be planning for both quarterbacks to play. Now,
he didn't necessarily say, you know, dual quarterback system, but
he said there's going to be a planning place for
both quarterbacks to play. Now, does that speed that timeline up?
There's some repercussions though with Van Buren. If Van Buren
decided it's like if they're like, all right, nuts, you
know what, offense hadn't been great, you're hurting a little bit,
let's just give the keys over to Van Buren. But
there are some repercussions that aren't just gonna be up
to Frank. I gotta feel like it's going to be
up to Van and that's of course the red shirt. Yeah,
so take the Bowl game out of it. The Bowl
game does not count towards eligibility. He can play in
one more regular season game with three remainers, like one play, yeah,
so I mean one one regular season game that would
be his four games.
Speaker 4: That would burn his red shirt. So the question you
have to ask yourself is do you want Michael van
Buren to burn your red shirt?
Speaker 3: Like obviously you want LSU.
Speaker 4: To win every game, you want them to have the
best opportunity.
Speaker 3: But I mean, let's call it like it is. This
is a lost season.
Speaker 4: It is you don't have a quarterback currently in the
twenty twenty six recruiting class because you were all in
on Bryce Underwood last year. Remember you missed on him.
You actually had to scramble to go get a Michael
van Buren. I mean, you kind of paid a premium
price for Michael Van Buren to be your backup quarterback
in the transfer portal, but because you needed somebody, I mean,
you had a seventeen year old Colin Hurley and Garrett Nosmyer.
That's all you had, right and then you don't have
anybody committed in the upcoming classes of right now. So
I mean, do you want to preserve that red shirt
if you possibly could, I would think yes. However, this
throws a wrench in things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so when you bring a guy like Michael van
Buren in from another you bring him in in the
office and bring him through the portal, like, the conversation
has to be had at that point about the red shirt,
like and what like here is what's gonna happen. If
these things happen, We're going to burn your red shirt
and are you okay with that? And I'm assuming the
answer was probably yes, okay if but it was probably
yes with some conditions. Yeah, as long as it's not
for like a play, as long as it's not a
waste or like a you know, phone in and crap
time or whatever it is. I guarantee you that there
was never a conversation with him, is are you okay
burning it because our heisman hopeful quarterback isn't playing well
enough and at the end of the year we're gonna
have four and we're gonna see what you got. Yeah.
I don't think that was ever the situation.
Speaker 2: So the.
Speaker 3: Especially with the interim tag that Frank has, I don't
think it can be up to him. No, it has
to be up to van Berry. It has to be
up to Van Buren. And now, at the end of
the day, they can make him play, I would assume,
but I just don't see that happening. But it has
to be up to Michael van Buren and his family
deciding what the best course of action for his career is.
I mean because at some point, like these kids do,
at some point have to be selfish, a little bit
like team first, team first, team first, then team first,
but then a little bit of selfish on knowing what
your career is. And yes, it is a great opportunity.
If they just said Van Buren, you're gonna be the
start of the rest of the season, I think that's
absolutely yeah, let's burn that thing. Let's go yeah for sure.
Speaker 4: Or hey, we're gonna play you in one more game,
but you're gonna start the entire Western Kentucky game.
Speaker 3: We want to see what we have in you. We
hear that all the time with Tyler Shock.
Speaker 4: You gotta see what you got, But like with Van Buren, yeah,
it's actually a little bit more true because you need
to know is your starring quarterback in twenty twenty six
currently on the roster. Some people will say Yeah, a
lot of people will say no, but like you mentioned,
sometimes you do have to be selfish. People forget about this.
Garrett Nosmar was when his first year here, Brian Kelly
got the job. In that Texas Bowl, John Trey Kirkland
started a quarterback. It was because at that time he
doesn't anymore. But at that time that would have burned
dereckt Osmar's red shirt and he did not want to
do that. Now, you know, there was a little bit
of pushback on it, but I mean, now, Matt, at
the beginning of the season, everybody was really really happy
that Garrett Olsmar didn't burn that red shirt. And he
was out of eligibility a year ago. So like we've
we've seen that happen right here before.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: I don't think Van Buren does that because you do
have Yeah, but.
Speaker 3: It was also a de social left. Yeah, that was
also a decision that was based on the future bat
head coach and what they were doing. Like Frank Stong
could be that full time. I mean, let's not say never, never, whatever,
but we don't believe. We don't believe that Frank's so
he's not making a decision based on his future success
as the head coach. Right, So anyway, there's there's just
a lot going on with this decision. And I don't
dye anybody having to make this decision. I don't envy
Frank Kevin, do you know, try to make the decision
about Garrett Nesmeyer and about you know, the offense does
like you made a decision last game to pull him,
and it was the right decision at that time. Now
now you got to decide what's what's going to happen next.
And we've already heard and I think I think a
one hundred actually just texted us. He said on the
show last night. Frank said on the show, I said
that the decision of who is going to start will
be made in warm ups. Launder, can you jump on
here and kind of give us a little clarity on that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So they asked Frank during the show last night,
Well Chris did, and he said basically the same thing.
It's a nagging injury. They gave him a pitch count
during practice yesterday and I don't think they practiced today,
but they gave They've been giving him a pitch count
at practice and they're just going to see how he
feels during warm ups, and he didn't have like a
definitive answer over who was going to start, but they
did ask him about like a dual quarterback system, and
he says that that's not really what they're trying to
do because of what you said, because it's hard to
get a quarterback like into rhythm, especially if you're switching
them in and out and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: So it was basically that, yeah, that's interesting. It's a
I guess you're saying. That kind of tells me, just
like hearing this for the first time, really this kind
of tells me that the plan is to play Garrett
unless he can't unless he can and then at that point, that's.
Speaker 4: A drastic change from what he said on Monday. Now
I get this injury. I mean in the press coverage
yesterday he said this popped up two day so this
was a Thursday injury. On Monday, I mean a lot
of people were criticizing them, and he came out and said, yeah,
we're really not going to change anything. I mean, we
might play two quarterbacks, but Garrett's the starter. He's gonna
get all the first team reps in practice.
Speaker 3: I mean, that is a drastic change.
Speaker 4: Like last night, he was saying at the press conference
with saying, you know, he's probable, but it's concerning, I
mean not right there. What he said at the coaches
show sounds like this is questionable for the game time decision.
Speaker 3: Right, And it might be one of those situations where, hey,
there's a plan to play both these guys. We're assuming
Garrett's Garrett's healthy, right, this is probably the beginning of
the week, So plan to play Garrett and both guys.
But we're not playing the best defense in the SEC.
So Garrett's coming out and we're moving the ball. Let's
keep Michael Van Buren's sideline. Maybe play in the Western Kentucky.
There's so many scenarios that we could play out. In
all honesty, we don't know what's happened. All we can
try is read the tea leaves here, but we do
know there are big repercussions. There are big decisions to
be made because of this red shirt hanging over everybody's head,
and of course this nagging oblique injury and the poor
play of the LSU offense to this point with Garrett
and Mesmer, you know, taking the helm and leading. So
we'll see it'll be so fascinating to watch. We'll see,
I guess we'll all the way up to warm up tomorrow.
We'll see what's going to be, what's going on. So anyway,
I hope that I hope that Nuss is fine. I
hope that he goes out and plays great. But if not,
I hope that Van Buren steps in there and shows
that he was that that guy that we hope that
he is. A backup quarterback is always the most popular
guy in town. And it's never been more true than
it is right now. So we'll see. It'll be be
crazy to watch, it'll be fun to watch, and hopefully,
I don't care what happens. I hope we beat the
Brakes off Arkansas tomorrow. We beat him byt fifty. Yet
to meet him by fifty, we got to score more
than twenty five.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, ja, I think Jake said this yesterday,
it'll beat him up fifty up to score fifty.
Speaker 3: I don't see that happening.
Speaker 4: I think it would take you what y'all, y'all mapped
it out yesterday June a half games to get to fifties.
I don't think that's going to happen. But look, remember
the big kind of knock on Blake Baker. So far
since he's been here at LSU, people will say, okay, well,
he has troubles stopping dual threat quarterbacks. Tayling Green was
a little bit banged up coming into the game last year,
but they shut down Taylor Green in Fayetteville last year. So,
like I understand that he's kind of struggled with that
mobile quarterback. He figured out Taylor Green a year ago.
So this is another one of those games of your defense.
Speaker 3: Keep you in it. Yep, we'll see well, and Blake Baker,
we trust. All right, we're gonna go to break. We
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We basketball school. We're three and o Matt, not, no
big deal. Can't be any better than that. That must
be against pretty good teams too, not the cream of
the crowd. But I mean, look, they played Florida International
last night. You nobody's gonna say, Okay, yeah, it's Florida International.
You've played you at No you're hydrated team though, Okay,
Well there you go. You played Tarleton State.
Speaker 4: I always look at it though, when you're not at
your best, can you still find a way to pull
out a win. I think games like that make you
a better team. And that's what they did last night
because you know, they only gave up fifty five fifty
six points to uin O. They held Tarlton State to
sixty points, so their defense has been really good. Florida
International scored eighty one points against this team last night
and LSU really kind of had to pull away at
the end. It was kind of a kind of in
a dog fight with about you know, eight minutes seven
minutes to go in.
Speaker 3: That ball game, and they did just that.
Speaker 4: I think that makes you a better team because when
you get an SEC play, these are the type of
games you're gonna play. It's going to be tight down
the stretch. How can you respond? I mean, I think
Markel Sutton and Mike Nawoko, they're probably the two best
players on your team. You got a big in the middle,
you got a wing. But you know you'll learn this
name as the season goes along. DJ Thomas. Keep an
eye on that guy because he's gonna be your point
guard and he's a true point guard. Matt McMahon teams
at Murray State when they were the best, he had
a true dominant point guard. Now, last year Cam Carter
was great, but he was more of a two guard
than that pure one. I mean sold the Sweet sixteen
run with John Morant.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 4: John Morants don't grow on trees. But there were multiple
years when you know he had that dominant point guard
that conditioned out to the shooters and unless you ha
shooters and DJ Thomas is finding him right now, So
like there's there's a lot to like with this team
early on. Now we'll see how they do an sec play,
but the early returns looked pretty good.
Speaker 3: DJ Thomas, DJ Tom White Guard, d Don Thomas. Did
you remember that name? So? Were you in the house.
I was not in the house. I was in my house.
You're in your house. That is a type of house.
But was Pete Macrocken I would I would say no,
strong to quite strong week to quite week. We're talking
about attendance with a comma in it, or attendants not
with the comm There might be a comma. I can't
tell you how many numbers are behind that comma. Yeah,
but look, it's still wild to me. That basketball is
being played right now, Like I know, okay, basketball comes
third down here. People need to realize and you can
play yeah, basketball while football is being played. I still
feeling think it should be a December start time. It's
still wild to me. You know, I have not follow
I don't follow basketball. I don't know if I watched
you dribble last year until the tournament. And I hate
to say that because now I you know, co hosts
a sports radio got to kind of get into it.
You probably got to watch a few dribbles some more.
Maybe I'll be in the house and the PMAC a
few times this year. We'll see, but we'll be right back.
We're gonna finish up Hour one right here, Hour number
two coming up here and off the bench, off the bench, Hey,
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