Speaker 1: Let's I'll start to it you to presents. Off the
bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and Bob Aber.
Speaker 3: I gotta come off the bench.
Speaker 1: Now here's Jacob Hester and T. Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: I was helping a good people up there, and Lousian.
Speaker 4: It is Monday, December second, twenty twenty five. How about it, guys,
beautiful cold weather to kick off the Christmas season. What
an impeccably vibed day, especially because Saturday Night and Death
Valley in a game in which we asked, you know,
this team to play with pride, to play with toughness,
to play for something greater than expectations and results and playoffs,
and one not play because you give a damn and
because you have the competitive spirit of a champion and
who just wants to be their best every time they
get to go on that field. He said, we wanted
to enjoy Saturday's game for itself, right, LSU Oklahoma Saturday
Night and Deptha and it was an excellent game to
finish off the year for these LSU Tigers, and and
so on today's show, we'll obviously do our normal film review.
I'm sure we'll get in some seasons stuff as well.
Brian Kelled, it's very confident postgame comments, which we'll touch
on the New Orleans Saints unfortunately falling on Sunday. As
you know, I just it was it was soddly played
in many ways. Just couldn't you know, some missed opportunities
early on, couldn't quite finish, and then injuries again, you know,
injuries came back again. So we'll talk about what that
means with the rizzler or whatnot and everything else. But
I think it's gonna be a very fun show today.
Shout out to all the parents, trump the kids back
off at school this morning, and yeah, let's have ourselves
a great show.
Speaker 2: Jake, what's up man? How you feel?
Speaker 3: I feel okay.
Speaker 5: There's probably some people that are hurting after, you know,
not having to do the drop off, probably being off
work for a long extended.
Speaker 3: Period of time.
Speaker 5: But I'm glad to have you back in the cars
and listen in to OTV. Sure here, it was a
great weekend. I know we'll get into every single aspect
of the game, but as you mentioned, it was so
good to see how much pride they had. They didn't
care what uniform combination they were wearing. This went out
there and played hard, you know, and that was a
great way to finish your regular season.
Speaker 3: Is it what you want?
Speaker 5: No, and we'll get into that, but it's still to finish,
you know, strong, the last two games of the season.
That's all you could do at that point once your
record was what your record was.
Speaker 3: So it was nice to see them do that. And
now we wait to see which ball game they're going
to go to Alta. How are you doing?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 4: I mean you're probably pretty happy your Longhorns stamping their ticket.
Speaker 6: It was a pretty great weekend overall in football. That
Georgia Georgia Tech game was all.
Speaker 3: It was so good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the game was good. We won at versus Oklahoma. Yeah,
great weekend all around.
Speaker 2: Uh ty was subduct. What's going on? Guys? Came back
from Mobile yesterday?
Speaker 4: We went there, focks off the bottom. Tempted to mute
your mic uh anyway and continue.
Speaker 3: It's a mobile mobile.
Speaker 7: I was getting there. Yeah to Bob that mat after
one word. Yeah, we went to Mobile this weekend. There's
like a huge Christmas light to display my MoMA had
been one of my entire family to go for years now.
So my sister and her husband going, me and Victoria go.
We all met up there in Mobile and uh just
stayed the weekend out there at a good time and
came back yesterday.
Speaker 2: You should have told me I'm like a mobile expert. U.
Speaker 3: I mean, he really is. Didn't get lost in mobile,
but he can. He can find himself.
Speaker 7: In mobile. The Christmas light thing is in Mobile. We
stayed more towards like Gulf Shores full.
Speaker 3: Man ya don't you didn't want to go see the
lights and nakedish?
Speaker 2: I mean, we've just been a bunch of times. I've
never seen this before.
Speaker 4: All right, let's go ahead and dive into our film
review and get this thing started.
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Speaker 4: All right, LSU film review Again. Toughness is a word
that I keep coming back to here. Mental toughness in
terms of not listening to the outside noise, giving a
damn locking in to go finish this season strong in
front of the home crowd. Physical toughness in terms of
a defense that was that had a great tackling night,
made a lot of big hits and then obviously none
more on display. Then I still don't know what happened
to Garrett Nussmeier injury wise, but Nus looking like he's
knocked out the game going into the locker room, must
have gotten that space jam, secret juice and all of
a sudden coming back out there and and and having
the performance.
Speaker 2: That he did.
Speaker 4: This was a tough culture win for the LSU Tigers
on Saturday. And I mean, just to continue with the
enough point, uh Nus point, I mean, I can't say
enough about it.
Speaker 2: He helped change the entire narrative of the offseason when
he was down.
Speaker 4: And you know, I'm not trying to be a jerk
to aj Swan or anything. But you know, he had
a couple real opportunities. Swan did there and in his
possessions to uh to to try to make you feel
okay about the situation, and it made you feel way worse.
And at that time, and we'll get to Aaron Anders
kick returns in massive, but at that time, it was
very hard to see how are you were going to
be able to win this.
Speaker 2: Game without Nusmart.
Speaker 4: Maybe you could have because the defense selected maybe so,
but it was going to be an uphill battle. And
then he comes back throws that touchdown immediately again changes
the entire turn of the game and the entire tenor
of the offseason. And also Jake really I think should
have you very excited about his potential should he return
again next year, because like we said, this was his
first time experiencing the rhythm of a season. To go
through the slump that he did for a month and
then to finish with the final two games that he
did here speak very highly of a quarterback that has
a ton of us still untapped potential. So tough culture
win for this LSU Tiger football team.
Speaker 5: There's some like diabolically wild comments out there for people
that still don't believe that Gary Nessmeyer can be the
guy moving forward. But I think he showed you in
the last two games exactly who he can be. And
this is his first season starting. Yeah, And I realized
that the quarterback play here in Vaton Rouge as of
late has been elite. You've got Joe Burrow, You've got
Jaye Daniel, so I know what the standard is. But
still Garret Nussmeyer in his first year certainly looked different
than even those two guys in their first season in
the purple and goal. And also like, this is somebody
that this is his first time, You're right, like the
rhythm of the season, this is the first time that
he's been the starter, this is the first time that
he's gone through.
Speaker 3: The totality of a season.
Speaker 5: And you know, there was a two and a half
game stretch where he didn't play well, But you know,
also you could point to different things. The run game
was not there, it was completely absent, and everything fell
on his shoulders and he did go through a rough stretch.
But to see him finish like he did the last
two weeks, that's really encouraging. It's a guy that I
fully expect to be back in Purple and Gold next year.
Even though mel Kiper's got him as a top five
quarterback in this after I still think there's things that
he wants to continue to work on. But at the
end of the day, I mean those for thirty seven
hundred yards and twenty six touchdowns. Now he does have
the eleven interceptions, but he's top fifteen in the country
in QBR, right, So I mean there's a lot of
things to work on for garrettnsmiyer, but there's been a
lot of good as well. And the things to work on,
I think just come with having a season under your
belt and knowing what it looks like and knowing how
to prepare in the off season with that season under
your belt. Now, who comes back a receiver, those are
going to be different questions as well. But just the
way that he finished the season, you're exactly right, So
he gives you a completely different confidence going into the
all season then if it would have ended after the
Florida gain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, I mean.
Speaker 4: It's crazy that we've gotten to a point where thirty
seven hundred yards and twenty six touchdowns is so kind
of questionable. And yeah, you say the picks, but it's
a weird year. It's a weird year. It's a high
pick year. The defenses are winning in this year in
college football. Look at all the best teams. Look at Saturrey,
Ohio State, Michigan defenses. It's the same thing as the NFL.
The defensive meta is currently winning the game of football.
If I'd told you before the season, Uh, Jake, I
don't think many people would have expected.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 2: Here's here's the Uh.
Speaker 4: The three guys with the most interceptions in the SEC.
Carson beck leads away with twelve, Garret nuss Meyer second
with eleven, and Jalen Milroe third with titeh Like, So,
I mean, those are the guys who we thought would
be the best quarterbacks in the entire season.
Speaker 3: You can take it across the country.
Speaker 5: Cal McCory, who is the top passer in the country,
he's got twelve interceptions.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's just it's it's just it's it's it's
a year where picks her up for for whatever reason.
So no, I think this is a really great year
for for an US year one, starting the team as
a whole again. We'll continue to get to all right, Uh,
In terms of things that jumped out on this film. Uh,
I think the defense look locked in from the jump
here that first three and out Really I thought set
the tone.
Speaker 2: You came out hitting, and.
Speaker 4: I mean what you end up giving up what ten
points defensively for the entire game?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 4: I think this was their most dominant performance, even more
so than the Arkansas game. Like probably the first half
of A and M is the only time where I
saw an opposing quarterback and offense looks so helpless the
entire night. You know, Brian Kelly's talked a lot lately
about playing assignment, assignment sound, you know, discipline in terms
of responsibilities, but that at times this year maybe they've
had too much air in the defense. I thought this
is a very assignment sound performance where there was no air.
Guys were perfectly spilling plays into one another, creating like
like one little example at one point with Weeks, I
can't remember the exact time, but he gets a TfL
on Jackson Ard to set up a second and eleven.
Speaker 2: And the reason why.
Speaker 4: It works is because Ashton Stamps crashes down really hard,
strong arms the guy trying to block him, makes Arnold
have to bubble and spill and Weeks is there to
clean up with a really big hit, Like nobody's ever
gonna think about Ashton Stamps making that play, but he did.
And that was all over the field defensively night excellent
and coverage excellent, open field tackling really good on the
d line, which we'll get into young and old. But
like if Nuss's point one for me, then the defense
is point one B because this is a hell of
a performance to finish the season on.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I love the game plan and you mentioned a
couple of players there, I mean what Weeks. He certainly
burst right back onto the scene, had a fantastic game.
The edge defenders Swinson and Jones had another fantastic game
after last week really being a story as well, not
even in their stats, just by their assignment and how
they affect the game. I love the game plan on
Jack and Arnold. For a majority of the game, you know,
you'd have a linebacker and Weeks would kind of half contain,
but here would come Greg Penn. He'd come from the
inside out and he actually would have the quarterback and
kind of a spy look, but they were really it
was an off linebacker. So you thought Weeks was the spy.
But he wasn't he peels off with the running back.
Here comes Greg Penn because he's a spy on the
quarterback and he would clean it up. I thought it
was a nice game plan because they were giving different looks,
not just your typical hey forties. Right there in the middle,
he's spying the quarterback and that's a you know, it's
a dangerous Jackson Arnold. I mean we saw what he
did against Alabama, what they did and outside of the
last possession of the game, I mean, Oklahoma running backs
didn't factor into the contest at all.
Speaker 3: I mean they completely shut them down.
Speaker 5: And so you're right about it being dominant, and it's
because everybody was sound in their assignments.
Speaker 3: They were sound in their gap integrity, yep.
Speaker 5: And young players, old players you know, Swinson and Jones
on the edge. But even when Gaberellerford would come in
for a handful of plays, the true freshman was really
good as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was a fresh legs in fusion at the
end of the game where uh they started to play.
They played Domina McKinley, Gabrielford. I mean McKinley was unblockable
for a million there looked h had a couple of
nice rushes. I think he he He definitely doesn't have
the twitchiness right now of the two older guys, but
he looks very big and strong, and he does have
top like end speed, like when he redirected to go
chase down the ball, you could see these.
Speaker 2: The actual speed just maybe needs a more.
Speaker 4: Twitch I mean, look, you know, you know it's another
guy who there's a million plays that could go.
Speaker 2: But I'll just go here.
Speaker 4: What we're kind of talking about it, Javier Suggs probably
has the highest impact impact to play ratio on the
entire team.
Speaker 2: He never gets a ton of plays, but when he does,
he always flashes.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: And also I know he's undersized, but power for pound,
he looks like he might be the strongest on the
D line for me, like relative to his size, because
he came in there and immediately when he enters the
game has back to back blow up the backfield plays
that lead to back to back TFLs and hold ou
to a field goal to tie it at seventeen at
a time when you're still not sure whether GARRETTU. Smyer
is going to come back in that game felt like
a very big stop at the time, and it was
him taking the offensive lineman and really just pancaking him, Yeah,
getting lower than him, stalling the double team, and then
just blowing everything up by being disruptive like and then
he came back later in the game was disrupted as well.
Speaker 2: Javior Suggs a.
Speaker 4: Great unheralded member of this defensive front.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought he did a nice job in the
run game as well.
Speaker 5: Typically when we call his name is for getting after
the quarterback in the past rush. But I mean one
play he just completely blows everything up in the backfield
like you mentioned, and you know, kind of puts the
lineman in the running backs lap. And so that's certainly
a player that I think, let's see charted twelfth plays
to your point, Yeah, at twelve plays, but very impactful
those twelve plays.
Speaker 3: And the defense. Now you've got to replace some edge.
Speaker 5: Guys, and I know we'll get to that conversation later
of what you're going to lose and what you've.
Speaker 3: Got to replace.
Speaker 5: You're gonna lose some of those edge guys, and we
could talk about maybe who feels the void there, But
if you get a couple of safeties and probably at
least two corners, maybe one corner for sure. Like impact
I'm not talking about just a body. I'm talking about
like impactful people. You get two impactful safeties to pair
kind of with what you have. As far as young players,
I think we're talking about a completely different defense there,
because that's still a position that you can tell that
they need some dudes, not just some guys.
Speaker 2: No, look, I think I think I think.
Speaker 4: LSU has potentially be one of the best defenses in
the country next year, full stop, because I so firmly
believe in this coaching staff and the strides that I've
seen made this year, the young players, and the contributions
from said young players, the commitment to things like the
transfer portal and empowering these coaches that you feel very
confident and investing resources in them, right, I mean maybe
that's the best part.
Speaker 2: When you feel like you have the right.
Speaker 4: Staff, well, all of a sudden, then the decision makers,
the money people, they're going to be more comfortable in
giving over that investment. So, Okay, there's still a ton
to get to. We'll continue to break it down, keep
it locked right here on Off.
Speaker 1: The bench, Off the bench, Welcome back to more sports talk.
What's some other stuff mixed in off the bench with
Hester and t Bomb.
Speaker 2: What's happening, y'all.
Speaker 4: Welcome back to OTV, going to our LSU film review
as the Tigers take down oklahom at thirty seventeen.
Speaker 2: Really good game, really strong end to the season.
Speaker 4: Uh, let's continue to uh knock this out.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: I thought that the old line has a good push
this game.
Speaker 4: It was one of the things that I was most
concerned with coming into this matchup after what Oklahoma was
able to do to Alabama. That wasn't like, you know, dominant,
dominant push, but it was it was good enough.
Speaker 3: It was a push this game. Yeah, it was good enough.
Speaker 4: It was more than we've seen at times this year
and overall except for maybe one massive gaff the force
fumble touchdown where d D.
Speaker 3: Chester just got beat.
Speaker 4: Guy got on his edge, got on his hip and
uh he couldn't recover. Could have set square to maybe
get on a bit earlier. Guy got a field and
let us try to scramble ball gets poked away.
Speaker 2: So that's an outside of that.
Speaker 4: And then Will Campbell just getting beat where look think
us got hurt. Pass pro had a had a had
a had a good a good night. I mean, you
can see how dangerous nuts is when he has a
a a clean pocket. There were there were multiple plays
there where you could feel, way before the ball was
released that good things are going to happen, simply because
he was kind of unbothered back there.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I want to ask you about the Will Campbell one,
because you know, doing the broadcast and you have a
fourth down situation, you're trying to hurry up and kind
of set what happened, and then you get to the
line of scrimmage and they had a fourth in one
I believe, and so they got it. It was pretty
clear that they got it, but you never know, and
so they want there to be a review or whatever,
so they hurry up they get to the line of scrimmage.
Was he not ready for the play because it was
like he never really got to have a stance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say ten residue.
Speaker 4: You say, I mean what I what I in my opinion,
what I thought it looked like was just kind of
spaced out for a second, you know, and and and
and what it does to me is it reinforces how
high the stakes are at that position, right you have,
you have one mental lapse where you're not one hundred
percent locked in, and look at what can happen. Because
it wasn't like I mean, again, this is a credit
to Campbell. I can think about the times that he
got beat this year just off the top of my
mind and see them almost exactly, because that's how rare
it has happened. But this wasn't like Canard beating him
with a really great up and end move. This wasn't
Landed Jackson beating him with some elite hand fighting.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: Like you said, he just didn't really get out of
his tants. He was he was I think I wrote
that he did not set with his normal composure and
then he was kind of out over his toes and
it just looked like he spaced for a second and
he was just leaning over.
Speaker 2: Guy beats him, blows up nuts.
Speaker 4: Uh. But again it's it's it's more of to me
that it just shows you that, like kind of the
brutality of being an offensive tackle why those guys get
paid so much, Because on any given play, if you
you do end up having that mental lapse, that's what
could happen, can nearly lose you the game. Now credit
to Campbell. It's the only time I've ever seen that
in his entire career. Right, But but yeah, outside of
that play and the DJ Chester play, I thought the
offensive line had had a really good night. Really proud
of Paul Mabinga.
Speaker 3: His best in past protection.
Speaker 4: Yes, and still not perfect, but has gotten better every
single week he's been in action, and that was a
big ask of him. And again he had to deal
with the same thing I said about last week. He
had to deal with a ton of very vocal criticism
and a lot of it, and it deserved after that
the Alabama game. But he continues to get better every
single week that he's seen play, and it makes you
excited now for Okay, like as we figure out next
year's offensive line seeming more and more like the rumors
are Emery Jones gonna come back. You feel confident in
the binga. Now you got chess, right, Okay, You've developed
some guys here that you feel pretty comfy with coming
in next year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you take a look at if you can
get Emory Jones to come back, and you know it's
trending in the right direction, but certainly you never know
until it actually happens. But if you get him to
come back and you start talking about who you can
pair him with, now you certainly lose a lot. With
Frasier and Dellinger and Will Campbell, you probably still have
to do a dive into the portal. I think you
would feel comfortable going to get a you know, a
pretty badass tackle there in the portal. But now you've
kind of got your interior figured out. Yeah, and you're
gonna need other pieces and maybe there's a player, you know,
Tyree Adams, that they feel like can develop to be
a starter. You don't want to, you know, not have
your guys who you developed step in and have an
opportunity as well. But if you can get Emory Jones back,
I mean that gives you three returning offensive linemen from
a group that certainly can continue to get better. But
in the past blocking portion of it, you would feel comfortable.
It would still just be the running run, blocking and
the running game that you would still probably want to
see go up.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think again we've talked about you do kind of
what old missed it. They felt, you know, they kept
all their alignment. They brought another guys that had started
experience and then you you just the competition takeover, give
your you because you do need a bit more depth
there next season. I know everybody could use more depth
in the offensive line in the modern age because guy's
transferred the Oh okay another thing offensively.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: Mason Taylor not a huge volume stat game.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 4: But and this has been the case the entire year.
His ability to come up with the conversions when you
need them, it's it's it's just uncanny. Every time on
third down you need to move the chains, you find
Mason Taylor and and they're tough catches. A lot of
times sometimes it been a you know, easy, good play design,
but like the one that gets a sideline early on
tough tough catch easily comes down that I mean, Sneaky's
huge third and four, right before half us had just
come back in. You're on the verge of going three
and out. He gets the first down. Next thing you know,
it's a touchdown. So Mason Taylor with some kind of
hidden contributions this game. And then speaking of the touchdown,
Chris Hilton, there you go. It took longer than expected.
We've been waiting on the Hilton moment all year long.
But here it is you finally see the impact that
you can have when you have that guy.
Speaker 2: They can take off the top like like there should be.
Speaker 4: The bottom line is that no defense should ever feel
comfortable going to one on one with Hilton with no
safety help. It just frees up the defense way too much.
It gives him way too much latitude from a play
calling and design standpoint. And as soon as you make
them pay well, then the final element of this LSU
offense is unlocked because all of a sudden that that's
in the back of their head.
Speaker 2: They can't sit on things, squad on things as much.
Speaker 4: They can't make you, they can't lean in the fact
that you like to play a lot of east and
west like, they have to respect that shot.
Speaker 2: And if they don't, you make him pay again.
Speaker 4: And on that first touchdown, I mean for that to
be the drive that Nuss comes back in the game
on like the context of it tied right for half,
going a half with the lead, perfect throw, beautiful, super
high degree of difficulty.
Speaker 2: Catch, even jumped a little bit on that first one.
Just loved seeing.
Speaker 4: Love seeing those Hilton plays and and you know you,
while it does cause a tinge of sadness, that that
this wasn't you know that it didn't work out for
it to happen earlier in the year. Better late than
never from Hilton.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it is funny, like you started thinking about, man, gosh,
if he's healthy, and because we talked about Hilton offspring
off all camp, because he was doing those things that
you saw on Saturday consistently in the practice leading up
to the regular season. And then he gets injured. We
know that then he's rusty when he comes back. But
you just know, you're kind of wondering, man in the
A and M game, in the Florida game, if you
could have just converted one of those, you know, how
different does the game look? But still, you know here
in this game, he showed you exactly kind of what
we all saw leading into the regular season. And you know,
it's a player that has a specific skill and a
skill that not many have where he can just outrun
literally anybody that you put on top of the defense.
And it's something else you's been missing. They've got good receivers,
but no receiver could do that. And then when you
have that, it opens up so many different things. It
opens up obviously you know him himself, but also just
everything underneath, like you mentioned to you, just starts to
work a little bit better. Mason Taylor, Anderson, Lacy Daniels.
And so you know that's something that this offense with
a quarterback with that arm, it's almost a must now
that you've kind of seen exactly what it can do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, crazy high degree of difficulty on that first catch too. Yeah,
second beautiful play design Aaron Anderson clears out the safety,
kind of gets him to bite and Hilton's wide. Oh
but makes a good lay layout catch for sure. But
that first one kind of back shoulder twisting in the
bucket on the sideline not allow a room to operate
again right before half. What a high point moment that
was for this LSU offense.
Speaker 2: All Right, when we.
Speaker 4: Get back, let's empty out the tank on our game
notes because well, I mean, I guess we haven't even
talked about the kick return yet, So let's let's get
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sorta.
It's Off the Bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 2: What happening, y'all. Welcome back to OTB.
Speaker 4: All right, So shout out to Aaron Anderson because at
the time I know this game ended comfortably, but at
the time when Aaron Anderson returned that kick, it was
anything but comfortable in fact. And they say things are
darkest before the Dawn, Like that's where you were. Your
general had just been cut down in front of you,
with kind of his main stalwart, Night being the one
who allowed it to happen. You've at that point controlled
the game the entire time, outside a couple of plays, right,
like outside of the sack, force fumble, the deep pass,
you had really controlled that game. But all of a
sudden you look up and it's fourteen to ten, and
to make you more insecure, it's fourteen to ten because
of a deep pass and then a big QB run
Nus at this point feels like he's out, Like no question, right,
I thought broken collar, bone, separated shoulder, whatever, the way
that all that weight came down, the way that he
was laying there clearly not even thinking about getting up,
thought he was done, goes to the locker room injury
tent for a while. Again, Darkest before the Dawn and
at that point, you know, like Gandalf and two towers
look to the west. Aaron Anderson was that harbinger of light,
the herald of the sun. As he got his opportunity,
not normally his vision the backup right, David Thomas gets
nicked up a bit. They didn't feel comforted with him
kick returning and Harrison gets the opportunity and he said,
I'm returning this thing because remember he had one earlier
that went out to the twenty. He's like, if I
get my hands on it, I'm I'm, I'm I'm going,
And sure enough he did.
Speaker 2: He made an excellent look.
Speaker 4: So he hesitates right when he gets the ball, kind
of sees where everything is, makes that excellent read, hits
the Jets and finds a way and it's a team game.
Your Devon keys are the really I double block managed
to get involved on two different guys that return you.
Malachi Lane get a great kind of get your asked out.
Speaker 3: The club block.
Speaker 4: Javian Toviano had a nice block, which helps bringing to
sewn Spears had a nice block. And that's why special
teams matters so much. It's a way to contribute no
matter who you are. Even when you don't normally get
the opportunity to. And so the team came together there,
spearheaded by Aaron Anderson, comes up with that return touchdown
and kind of evens the scales.
Speaker 2: Okay, you got not off.
Speaker 4: It's such a we got not off at such to
take the lead back in the game, which you dominated
you didn't know nuss was coming back at the time,
but it was the exact salve that that team needed
to stop the spiral that was threatening to consume them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, without question, because at the time you don't know
what neuss Meyer's going to be when he comes back
in and you're like, oh man, uh, you know, I
saw the offense, you know, with the backup quarterback in
and it's.
Speaker 3: Just not going to hit. And so like, what do
you need? You need an explosive play?
Speaker 5: Only a second kickoff return for a touchdown in Tiger
Stadium since the late eighties. Yeah, yeah, Cray Palmer had
won and I believe twenty twenty and this is the
second one.
Speaker 3: Think about damn, that's trendon holiday.
Speaker 5: Eddie Kennison, Kevin fall Buster, Davis, Patrick Peterson, Tyron Matthew,
all these dynamic returners you've had, but at home you
haven't really had that opportunity. So this is rarefied air,
to say the least. And so this was at that
moment like literally exactly what you need. He gave Mesmyer
a little bit more time to get warmed up, also
make sure that he was ready to go. It gave
you a little bit of a cushion as well to
you know, take a deep burent and feel like you
were okay. So this play coming at that time. That's
why he got a game ball after the game because
of not only.
Speaker 3: What it was, but when it was.
Speaker 4: And the Aaron Anderson renaissance continues. Yeah, yeah, God just
says gotten better and better, better all year.
Speaker 2: By extension. Second special team's.
Speaker 4: Thought, shout out Aaron Burrell because right there you see
how dangerous a kick return can be. I mean, there's
nothing more upsetting the with Oklahoma experience. At the moment,
you've been battling back in batting, you just took the
lead back and it's it's evaporated in a snap of
a fingers, in an instant.
Speaker 2: It's such a demoralizing blow. You look right now.
Speaker 4: LSU third in the country in touchback percentage ninety percent
of the time it's been a touchback. More impressively, Jake
first and second or Arizona Louisiana Tech. Okay, they've had
fifty six kickoffs and fifty six kickoffs, you've had seventy four.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so a.
Speaker 4: Way higher chance of not executing and yet executing at
the best in the entire country level.
Speaker 2: So shout out Amborell.
Speaker 4: Who knows how much yardage, how many big plays, how
many drives that he's saved throughout the entire year with
his consistency.
Speaker 5: You know, I was watching, Yeah, you're right, I was
watching the Vanderbilt Tennessee game. You know, Vandy returns one
for a touchdown. I took a screenshot and sent it
out to the LSU broadcast because I'm like, hey, well
we talked about with Aaron Burrell.
Speaker 3: This is why. Yeah, because it is such a weapon.
Speaker 5: Because you're talking about, like in the SEC you've got
a dynamic guy back there. Yeah, he doesn't get many opportunities,
but it's why. Look, if you're LSU, you've got Zavion Thomas,
You've got Aaron Anderson, You've got guys back there finally
that you know are true threats what we complained about
for like three years because you didn't have a threat
back there. You're supposed to when you're in the SEC.
So yeah, Aaron Burrell having that weapon, that's something to remember.
He's only a freshman, so you got, you know, hopefully
three more years of that.
Speaker 4: Okay, let's just empty out of the tank here. On
game notes, I love seeing Kamoran Pimpting come online, get
a couple of big plays and to know the young
player could play a large piece season.
Speaker 2: And interestingly enough, Jake he seemed to be.
Speaker 4: Doing the trade Green role. My crazy Like, I feel
like they were lining him up like they've been lining
tradez up kind of out there at wide out a
little bit.
Speaker 5: I mean he was lining up in an F position
at times, not quite as much, but yeah, it was
definitely more f than it was why they like.
Speaker 4: The second big pass that he had was a really
nice play call that plays on Lshu's tendencies where we've
seen them screen up to Aaron Anderson about a trillion
times this year, right, so they line up like they're
gonna do that. They got pimped in their big guy.
You think, okay, pimp is more blocker. They don't throw
them a lot, and sure enough, like the the DB's
bit hard and then you run that little scissor. I
don't know what the actual combination should be called, but yeah,
pimped it ends up why open down there?
Speaker 3: Did you notice how they set it up? All right?
So what you mean so technically that was the third
time they ran that? Look?
Speaker 5: Yea, So it's basically it turned into a little bit
of a you have three options, so a little bit
of a triple option.
Speaker 3: You had the ability to hand the football off.
Speaker 5: To the running back coming across the formation, you can
throw the screen to Aaron Anderson, or you can do
what you did to Pimpton.
Speaker 4: So so it's not built in so so Pimpton just
they have to be watching to see if they throw
the screen.
Speaker 5: So you have the play call is going to have
three different calls that you can come you know, come from.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 5: So so the first time they run it, they throw it
to Aaron Anderson. It's a nice like eight to nine
yard pickup, all right. And so they come back and
they're about to run not like you know, the next play,
but later in the game they come back and so
the same formation, same motions, same everything, and they handed
they're about to hand it off to I believe it
was Williams coming across the formation, and then they called
a time out. I want if it was LSU Oklahoma,
but they called a time out. Well, Nusmyer gives the
ball to the running back. Yeah right, So it looks like, okay,
they're about to run out of the same look. Well
they come back out of the time out after they
stopped the play before it happened, same look. Oklahoma's thinking
running back or screen. It was a perfect setup by
Joe Sloan because they had just seen them before the
time out handed off to the running back. They're thinking, oh, well,
same play, same motion. They're either going to hand it
or they're going to throw the screen. They're not going
to do the fake block, tight end seam, you know,
down the side of life.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. But the but the fake block
seemed that is called before. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll yeah.
Exactly three different things you can do in that play.
Speaker 5: But it was set up because of them using a timeout,
them showing that they handed it to the running back,
and so everything in Oklahoma's mindset was that they were
gonna run the football or at least they're gonna throw
it at the line of scrimmage there. So the fact
that they called that in that moment was the perfect
time to use it.
Speaker 2: So a great call there.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: The Caden Durham long run maybe in the best plocked
play of the entire year. I would have loved to
see him final way to finish that one in the
end zone. Barely got tripped up. We mentioned bingam m
Mason Taylor third and seven catch right before and us
got hurt because of course it was a big third
down catch. Okay, on the defensive side of the ball,
Zye Alexander, what a great game he had, physical, excellent
and coverage machine, open field tackling, firing up so fast
and they would try to dump it, hitting hard, finishing
the tackles. Devon Keys, Devon Key's been playing great. Man
does not look like a freshman out there. Maybe the
only way that he does is like you could see,
he's still his body looks a bit youthful, but even
then he has the potential to be a bit of
a physical monster in terms of his speed and kind
of how dense he is. But love watching Devon Key's
out there. Brandon Swinton does what Braton Swinton does all
year long. Just continue to be so damn good. The motor,
the effort, the shovel pass TfL was awesome. You mentioned
it weeks earlier. Of course, Weeks is just so good
with his hands. Olon never you just can't stick on him.
He immediately sheds and andy and he's out.
Speaker 5: There his his closing speed once he sees that he's
got the quarterback.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I kind of.
Speaker 2: Very fun to watch him in the spiral.
Speaker 5: Yes, the analogy that I kind of used, did anybody
in here learn how to drive like on a stick
shift like a standard?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: I actually okay, no, Well, it's like he is the
guy that once you hit the clutch, you put it
in third and you're like, we're about to get this
thing going. It's why like all nascars and race cars
or standards, right, that's what he has.
Speaker 3: Like, he's just like you put it in third.
Speaker 5: Once he sees the quarterback and he knows, okay, I
can engage, he throws that thing into third and he
just goes forward. It's a different speed, it's a closing speed,
and it surprises the quarterback. Yeah, it surprised Jackson Dart.
It did here in Jackson Arnold as well. And there
was a couple of times where it looked like Arnold
was going to get loose and here comes forty with
the closing speed and then puts a shot on him,
and then you know, unfortunately, got a soft, soft call
against him right there on the sideline. Because the thing
about like these quarterbacks and they protect him. I get
why they protect them, that's the obvious statement here, But
you have to also be smart and you also have
to have football IQ when.
Speaker 3: You're a referee.
Speaker 5: Jackson Arnold was a guy that fought for every extra yard.
Speaker 3: He's also a guy that never slid.
Speaker 5: Every time that he gave himself up, he at least
dove forward, right, So like that's his mentality. And so
when I'm on the sideline with a quarterback who's still
at the time kind of trying to put a move
on somebody and he's finished forward every single time, well,
of course I'm going to be aggressive because the one
time that I stop, he's either going to make me
miss and make me look foolish, or he's gonna run
over me and make me look foolish. And so that's
why you saw this like wit Weeks didn't get like
pulled out of the game. You didn't see Blake Baker
really or anybody go after him. It was like, okay,
just a shove.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Like the referees also have to have a football like
you and realize how the quarterback's playing in his style
of play. And that's why if you're with Weeks, you
make sure that you know he finishes at a bounce.
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Speaker 1: How quickly will this segment leave the rails? It's off
the bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 2: Devian.
Speaker 4: Y'all, welcome back to TV team, hanging out with you
here closing eyes. We do every money your first hour
just getting all of our film review in and we
have a lot of conversations.
Speaker 2: Had we had second hour.
Speaker 4: About postgame comments, season, how to go, all that sort
of stuff. Oh the ou double pass one of the
worst players I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: That was so funny.
Speaker 4: Did you see where the offensive line did? I didn't
notice it at the time. I was celebrating the pick
too hard that I missed the replay. But the O
line all like they were doing an up down off
the snap. Every O lineman hits their belly, just flops
on the ground. And I was laughing so hard because
like if you want to run that, you almost can't
go to gimmicky because when they do that, Brandon Swinton
just stopped. He was like, hold up now, like you
want me to go chase the ball after y'all just
did that, Like he just stopped and just looked at
Jackson Arnold just stood by him, and then I don't
know why tenn tried.
Speaker 2: To throw that ball. That was he That was a
brain fart and a half dude.
Speaker 3: That was so funny to the word players in.
Speaker 8: Real life that that's a like a red shirt junior
also that threw that up in the air, Like that
wasn't like a freshman where it's like put this trick
play in, I'm going to throw this football regardless, Like
that's a red shirt junior that realized he was cooked and.
Speaker 4: It wasn't fourth down. No, you gotta take the sack
and you gotta take it. I mean they lost him
the game on the spot.
Speaker 5: Goly and I mean Brent Vinnables like literally like hawked
him down because he tried to go to the opposite side.
Speaker 4: Again, I'm not blaming Venibles. I think it's awful play
design if you're trying to sneak back a screen to
the quarterback, the worst thing you can do is something
so out of the normal that why would the defense Like,
if you want to influence Braden Swinton to rush do
a more traditional screen set, what they did was so
absurd that he just stopped because he knew something was
up immediately. Maybe we'll show it later this week. He's
it's like actually comedic looking and how uh they all
belly flop on the ground and then try to get
up here?
Speaker 3: It is, oh my gosh, what like.
Speaker 2: Look at Switzerland, go back, go back again. Switzer's like
looking at him like, are y'all dumb? What hell?
Speaker 3: What y'll doing here?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Man, play it again, Taylor, I gotta see that one
more time. And they're look so fat and slow getting
up too.
Speaker 7: Also, like if you go watch Bower Sharp when they
throwing the ball, like he's jogging like you could tell
it to snap. He's stowing that ball down field to
Jackson Arnold like you could stowing the Taylor.
Speaker 3: You need to get your cousin in line.
Speaker 7: Because they're like, oh, white dude out here, last name Sharp.
I was like that's me And they're like Southeastern transfer
and I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, that's no way.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know about I mean power Sharp one
catch four yards, jj Hester one catch fifty yards. Oh
so uh oh, I'm just saying, God, he yellowed that thing.
Speaker 4: Shout out to uh Gabriel relevant excuse me, he did
have he h had a nice pastor she did he.
Speaker 5: Just played seven plays, but his seventh plays it was
that was pretty impact.
Speaker 4: Again dominant McKinley came in though late and run stuff.
Sack on the first two plays, got another sack the
next drive. Love sing that Vcamley mentioned the lud cover there.
It is, guys, a hell of a win in the season.
Show toughness mentally, physically, show pride. Beat Oklahoma coming off
of dominating Alabama. Else she's better Alabama right beat Bandy
and Oklahoma. Yeah, I don't know what to.
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