Speaker 1: We'll start Toyota Presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn. Let's go, Let's grove from a championship
backfield to your morning drive.
Speaker 2: Hen's day, Hester and Hester got it your locks in
to off the Bench.
Speaker 3: Control the.
Speaker 1: Live from downtown Baton Rouge. Here's Jacob Hess and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 4: Yo Yo, Welcome in OTV, Jay Plan, Alandra Tata all
here with you on this Monday morning.
Speaker 5: How are we doing? How are we living?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 7: We are doing good. I'm feeling good and rested. We
had a great weekend watching a ton a ton of football.
Speaker 5: So that is it's just good for the soul, good
for the spirits.
Speaker 7: I know, you know, whether you're disappointed, whatever you're the
outcome is, which you know obviously wasn't super great this
past weekend. But to be able to sit there yesterday
all Sunday and watch multiple games at the same time,
flipping back and forth between like seven eight games, it
just was good for the soul. We felt back, baby,
we fell back. Waking up this morning almost felt like
you need a little sweater onto it?
Speaker 5: Did it? Did? I know?
Speaker 7: It'll probably heat up to about ninety five today, maybe
Oh yeah, I don't know what the weather is. I'm
sure it's gonna get hot, but just for a brief moment,
it felt nice, felt like football.
Speaker 8: It certainly did a launder House weekend.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean the weekend was great, instant classic last
night that I actually stayed up the entire time for
and I'm glad that I did. Yeah, so dragon ass
a little bit.
Speaker 2: This morning, I hit hit up the block. So I
feel great. Then Doorphins are pumping football. L SU won again.
It wasn't like.
Speaker 6: What I wanted to see from them exactly, but I
mean we still get a dub first home game of
the season.
Speaker 2: I feel great.
Speaker 5: Why man, that's it for the talk.
Speaker 8: Uh and look, and we'll certainly get there.
Speaker 3: But even like even the Saints in defeat gave you
at least some fight and some juice at the end.
Speaker 5: You know, it wasn't like all or not right.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know it's like no moral victories, but look,
we know what the Saints team is, so yeah, we'll
take this.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Spencer looked okay, he looked.
Speaker 3: Mid he did I thought better, he looked fair.
Speaker 2: I was like switching back and forth.
Speaker 5: And most why didn't they locked on that.
Speaker 6: One watching the Commander's game because I realized this yesterday,
Like half of my fantasy team is Commander Commanders.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's fair, that's completely fair. To get that, you
gotta get the quadbox going on YouTube TV.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's incredible.
Speaker 2: It's too much for me. I don't have like that
level of ADHD.
Speaker 3: Too much for me, and like three your own commercial
and like ones and then I'm like, I gotta get
the remote because I can't have three commercials in one game.
Speaker 7: But I like to rewind some like on a play,
like if something happened and I want to go back
and just yeah, just see make sure.
Speaker 8: Like I didn't think you're rewinding a commercial, not a commercial.
Speaker 7: But on the Quadbox it's hard to it's hard to
rewind the on the Quadbox. We had the Quadbox, but
then we have like our little we have a little
Worldly TV.
Speaker 5: So I had five scs going.
Speaker 6: So I can do I guess three because at the
LSU game, I had the double box. I had Virginia
Tech and Bandy and the Mississippi State on the other one.
So I was like watching l s U, watching State
and watching Bandy.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I still need commerce. If it's not a commercial.
Speaker 6: I'm not trying to mess with commercials.
Speaker 8: First are great, Yeah, they're great.
Speaker 3: Uh, your first Monday waking up and not having to
worry about another cowboy's defeat.
Speaker 5: It was nice. I'm not going a lot to you,
you know.
Speaker 9: I I turned on the TV yesterday morning looking at
Michael Parsons in a packer's uniform for him, and everyone's
talking about, oh well, Michael Parson's breaking in new team,
new number, and I'm watching it.
Speaker 5: I was like, you know, I don't care.
Speaker 9: I don't care anymore. Go ball out, dude, Go.
Speaker 5: Do whatever you want, be a boss, to be a baller.
Speaker 9: I don't care. Not my problem.
Speaker 7: So and he did. He's a ball with his first
sack of the Packers. One of the scariest clips you'll
see with limited snaps too, pretty much almost third down
or like pass place specific.
Speaker 9: It was nice, though.
Speaker 3: I bet you felt free this morning when you woke
up and not have anything about Jerry Jones.
Speaker 9: Well, so we had to fly home yesterday.
Speaker 5: Land house a trip.
Speaker 9: It was great, but we landed in bat Rude room
twelve thirty. So, like you know, on the plane, I'm
kind of just following the noon games, and I was like,
I worry about the Cokelboley.
Speaker 5: Well we talked about a Friday too.
Speaker 7: The after the Cowboys you know, played pretty good, uh,
pretty good against the Eagles, we were like, Taylor can't
go back, Like he's not allowed to go back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he definitely.
Speaker 5: I can't go back.
Speaker 2: You have to stand on business, even.
Speaker 9: If they would be I can't go back until Jerry
Jones is gone.
Speaker 5: Okay, what do you mean said? It's a full take?
Lund thinks it'll be.
Speaker 9: You can look within this season, you can define gone
however you want, but until Jerry Jones is gone.
Speaker 5: There's only one way that man is gone.
Speaker 3: Right, very true, and then he's going to have an
a I of himself run the team when he's gone.
Speaker 2: So he might be putting this into the universe a
little too much.
Speaker 5: Yeah that's true. True.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, but we put the whole Dabbo's gonna
trip down the hill and he didn't.
Speaker 5: True long season.
Speaker 8: Oh, I thought you meant just again stell a shoe No,
I said this year?
Speaker 5: Okay, all right now, it would have been better if
a shoe.
Speaker 3: Y'all's both takes for morbid So like I don't even
remember what mine was.
Speaker 5: Morbid is not. I didn't say he's gonna die down that.
Speaker 3: I mean you wanted to serious a c L like
who knows, like maybe maybe you get an infection.
Speaker 5: That's crazy.
Speaker 6: Do you know which take is starting to like maybe
maybe become a possibility?
Speaker 2: Is quhen you were starting for the Dolphins?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's very true. Yeah, they love that nickname.
Speaker 7: He gets a concussion, they're saying that he might have
got like the people fans reaction is I don't know.
Speaker 3: Zoom, but like, I'm not watching Daniel Jones versus two.
Speaker 5: No, I didn't watch that.
Speaker 6: That was like one of the I didn't watch it,
but I did see that Zach Wilson went into the game.
Speaker 9: So okay, speaking of Daniel Jones, let's give dude his flowers. Yeah,
every single drive yesterday ended with points. First time in
the modern era quarterbacks done that, Danny dis.
Speaker 8: Yeah, how about that? Turns out the Giants just suck.
Speaker 9: His first four drives, He's the first quarterbacks Paydon Manning
first four drives and then.
Speaker 5: Scores pretty good Danny dimes.
Speaker 9: And he was efficient too. I think he was like
three of thirty. I didn't watch that game. But every
time that they did show highlights of that game, Danny
was dropping a dime. He looked great, no doubt.
Speaker 3: I'm watching speaking of how bad the Giants suck. I'm
just watching some elite neighbors. And and you know, like
through his you know, in his mind, he's just sitting
there like y'all gave me Drew Locke last year for
a long portion of time, and now I got this
dude over here, mister unlimited, and I just need y'all
me somebody to throw the football in a good way.
Speaker 5: Just please, just.
Speaker 7: Got had You gave me like four different quarterbacks last year.
I think he almost got a thousand last or something
like that. He had he had a thousand yards. Okay, yeah,
well then he got it with that situation.
Speaker 2: Your boy looks pretty good, Karin.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that was that was incredible. Games to be
a great game. I did not have Steelers Jets on
the Bengo Steelers.
Speaker 5: I mean, whoa, I was lost.
Speaker 9: That's the best game of the the weekends.
Speaker 8: Pretty good. That counts a weekend.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I guess I was forgetting about that because it was.
Speaker 5: Because because it was in Brazil.
Speaker 9: No, I'm saying it was it was Friday didn't count
in Brazil.
Speaker 2: They tried Herbert went off.
Speaker 3: He did, he did he Uh, he did the old
hushmaker up to a lot of people.
Speaker 5: Uh. That was so.
Speaker 3: Thursday was a great game. Friday was a great game.
Last night was a great game like Monday night for
the primetime games. If it goes the way I think
it's gonna go like you're gonna have.
Speaker 5: Four fightings Divisional. I t I was texting y'all last night.
I don't know. Something about NFL football is just popping
right now. For me.
Speaker 9: It was good, I will say no, it was good.
I was kind of laid to the party on your
little yo's little debate on college versus prom I always
liked college better. Damn those pro football games this weekend.
Speaker 5: They were good.
Speaker 9: It was you can't beat them.
Speaker 5: Pro football was by far the better one.
Speaker 8: Again last night was the NFL.
Speaker 3: NFL definitely has more of what we're talking about. But
I'll be damned if I'm not like in the press
box and like I'm I'm Oaklah home in Michigan, and
you can just see like the face, you can feel
the fans through the TV. You can like feel how
big the moment is to the TV. So there's still
that in college football. There's just so there's so many
games in college football that you're going to. You're gonna
get some stinkers, and you're gonna get something that don't
really matter. We're in the NFL, I mean teams, and
it's the highest level obviously, but like Bengals brown sucked yesterday.
Speaker 7: But it's like it's a college football figure it out man,
Like it's week two, Like it's the beginning of the season,
and the best game we have to watch is Oklahoma
versus Michigan.
Speaker 5: I think that's dumb. That's the NFL.
Speaker 9: Great, great weekend. We needed that this weekend because college
football solely, I mean, even the teams that won against
the lower level competition slept walk through their games, like.
Speaker 5: Last time nobody played.
Speaker 9: I don't care about Bill's versus Ravens. I've never been
a fan of either of those teams.
Speaker 5: Dude, I'm going, uh.
Speaker 9: I'm shaving last night, Yes, guys, I shave. Very funny.
Speaker 5: What right.
Speaker 9: I was like, Oh, they're going to they're going to
commercial break. I got time. They don't go to commercial break.
There's a minute and a half left. I was like,
I'm running into my bedroom shaving cream on the face.
Watch the entire job, Like I don't want to miss
a snap.
Speaker 5: What I'm not going to happened? I don't just sitting here.
Speaker 9: It's happened a few times. It's happened a few times.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like, it's certainly not my fault.
Speaker 2: I didn't see So I don't know who to blame
on this one.
Speaker 9: There's two we all up there, and uh, Jake's pretty
adamant that he didn't do it. So, I mean, I
didn't see it, but it kind of leaves you not
denying it.
Speaker 2: So do you need help?
Speaker 5: It fair enough? Well that is that's like real broken.
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Speaker 5: We are gonna talk in more.
Speaker 7: Detail about all these games and we're gonna start breaking
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Speaker 5: Oh no, to you be off the bench.
Speaker 2: You got this whole people about, can you hear me?
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Speaker 3: All right, So the LSU Tigers are victorious in their
home opener twenty three to seven over Louisiana Tech. And look,
we all watched the game together. It was not the
most exciting game. Now, this is one of those games where,
you know, and we talked about it, what do you
call it? Purple jersey? There were white and you know,
and it's in and sometimes it can be clunky, and
sometimes it's just like an expiring stuff. And a lot
of times you look at the stats after the game
you're like, okay, well that tracks that's what I saw.
When you actually do a deep dive into the stats.
There was a lot of good for LSU. It was
just the final details for me that weren't great. Just
listen to these stats. First downs, Louisian Tech had twelve,
you had twenty seven. On third downs, Louisiana Tech was
three of thirteen. You were nine of sixteen. Total yards.
Louisian Tech one hundred and fifty four, and a bulk
of those came on their last drive. You had three
hundred and sixty five. Louisian Tech threw the ball for
ninety six yards. You threw it for two thirty seven
rushing the ball. You didn't have a great day, which
we'll get to, but you ran for one hundred and
twenty eight. They ran for fifty eight. They had twelve
penalties for one hundred and thirty yards. Now you had
nine for seventy seven, which is not great. You also
won the time of possession thirty six fifty two to twenty.
Speaker 8: Three oh eight.
Speaker 3: So you went out there and like, if I showed
you that stat line, Flynn, you'd have been like, Okay, well,
LSU won the game probably something like forty one to seven.
It was not It was twenty three to seven and defensively,
you're still right where you were after you left Clemson
South Carolina. That was that was a great effort. They
were flying around. They dominated Louisiana Tech in every way.
The one touchdown that Louisian Tech scored, LSU had a
backup end really one of his first plays of the game.
Speaker 5: And he just had a miss assignment. He left a
guy wide open, and let me.
Speaker 3: Tell you, he got met by Blake Baker, Brian Kelly,
and Corey Raymond like between the numbers and hatch like he.
Speaker 5: Got the three levels of what are you doing?
Speaker 3: So you had a bust of coverage and that's where
you know they were able to score points because if
it wasn't for that, I believe that was a third down,
like you were probably going to either shut them out
or they were probably gonna kick a field goal, so
they didn't end up getting blanked. But defensively, man, you're
flying around, you're aggressive. I mean I only really saw
one mistackle. I got to two weeks in a row.
You've done a really nice job of getting the guy
on the ground the first time.
Speaker 8: The defensive backs were in their hip pocket. Again, You'll
love to see it.
Speaker 3: So defensively, Yeah, we could set up here and it's
exactly what you thought it was gonna be. Now, on
the offensive side of the football, you know, not being
able to run the football effectively when you wanted to,
that's one, and then you were just off. You just
were off. Like there's seven plays, eight plays you could
pull up and you could say, okay, well if this
is a hair this way or that way, you're successful.
But they never really honed in Matt and hit the bullseye.
Speaker 7: Hmm man, how do you break this game down with words?
It was a bad game. I mean, let's just let's
just speak frankly here. It wasn't a good game. We
didn't play well the defense. Let's take the defense out
of this because in a game like this, defense is
the one spot that you're going to play well in.
You're more talented to them, You're bigger than you're stronger
than you're faster than them, you have a better scheme
than them. Like, all you got to do in this
game is go and play like a defense. There's no
like fine motor skill like execution is you go hit
the guy in front of you, You out physical them,
you out athlete them. On the perimeter, and they did
just that. They did everything that they were supposed to do,
and they were supposed to do that.
Speaker 5: So we can't give them praise.
Speaker 7: You say, good job, tip of the cap to you,
but like you did what you're supposed to do right. Offensively,
we did not do what we were supposed to do. Athletically,
we shined in some moments. Garrett Neussemeyer did not play well.
Offensive line did not play well. The receivers played pretty
well at times. Yeah, Aaron Anderson incredible. He's going to
be a top ten pick. Aaron Anderson might be the
highest drafted guy on this football team.
Speaker 3: He's that good. That is OTV Bowl chain worthy right there.
I mean, he's a dog.
Speaker 5: He's a dog.
Speaker 7: When I watch him, when I watch the way he plays,
he knows exactly what his role is. Like his football
IQ and his ability to make plays and his sure handedness.
It is going to be somebody that general managers in
the NFL or like licking their chops that somebody will
trade up to get him and he's gonna fit in
a perfect offense or somebody. I think he's going to
be a top ten pick. I don't know that I
have no idea what his draft grade is. I'm just
basing it while watching college football and watching other people.
He's the best receiver i've seen. Yeah, he's not, of course,
not the outside receivers the X like go up and
get it type guy. But what people want to do
on offense right now dangerous outside of him. Okay, it
just wasn't good. And when nobody consider and lie, we're
we are gonna be the most sunshine pumping radio show,
sports talk, whatever it is with LSU, and we will
still be that, but we're gonna call it what it is.
Nobody was excited for this game going forward. I'm gonna
blame it on the game on the schedule. In this game,
it was anti Tech's not good. They're just not good
and they and we couldn't run the ball against them.
Speaker 5: That's a mindset they were.
Speaker 3: So they played a three three five defense too, and
it looked like, yeah, it just looked like you never
you never made the adjustments to that, right and they
were being aggressive and let's let's call it also like
it is like those defenders brought the fight to you.
Speaker 5: M H. I'll texted y'all during that I was like
who who's this guy number Kolbe Fields?
Speaker 3: Well, they had two fields and one at linebacker used
to played LSU and they had another fields that was
wearing number eight in the defensive backfield and they brought.
Speaker 5: Those son of the guns were playing hard.
Speaker 7: They brought their their hard had to work that day.
And that's what you gotta be careful with some of
these games. It's like you're gonna have some some guys
go out there that are playing like it's the super Bowl.
So if you don't match that intensity, what happened on
Saturday happens.
Speaker 5: And yeah, you can go through the stats. Stats lie
in games.
Speaker 7: Like this, right because at the end of the day,
just top to bottom, your roster's better, you're more athletic,
and the stats will get there eventually. But the fact
of the matter that Garrett was playing in the fourth
quarter in this game was kind of reminis.
Speaker 5: A two score game.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's just off. I mean you look at it.
You can there's a lot of things you say. I mean,
he missed the deep ball early, they got picked. He
just a little it just seemed like he was a
little bit off his platform, didn't throw it with a pop,
then throw the zip, the accuracy, and look, everybody has
those games, everybody, And again I blame it on the scheduling,
sort I blame it on.
Speaker 5: But it wasn't pretty man, you like to schedule between
Clemson and Florida.
Speaker 7: Another a good team. Well, what did we get out
of this past week?
Speaker 5: Nothings.
Speaker 3: The the Russian game is concerning because I thought you
had success against Clemson.
Speaker 8: Now I am.
Speaker 3: Not in the belief like, oh, you had to do
the trickum plays with Xavion Thomas and you had to
like those are running plays like I don't I don't
care who it is. And by the way, like Xavian
Thomas might be might be the biggest Swiss army knife
in college football. Could so like you have to understand,
like that's not Trickham. When when you have a Xavion
Thomas who can run counter and outside zone from the
backfield as a receiver, that's no longer like Trickham. That
is like that's just what he's going to be and
he's going to have a ton of rushes this year.
Like he looked at like what I think he had
like fifty something Russian almost forty, and that like was
really good. On the edge blocking. That's just who he's
going to be, like, he is going to be a
part of your running game. So that's a part of it.
So there's no uh, you got your jet sweep situation. Like, no,
if you go back and you watch a tape, like
he's running actual running plays at running backs run from
the back.
Speaker 7: And it's a creative way to when they motion them
from wide receiver. It's a creative way to get the
numbers of a quarterback run a quarterback design, counter, quarterback design,
power zone, whatever it is, because you get an extra
blocker with the running back and when you when you
quick motion from the receiver position into the backfield, it
doesn't give them time to adjust as in like dropping
a safety down to to match those numbers. Basically, how
you're going to have is a corner on the outside
that is trying to fill fill the gap of what
a safety normally would be doing. So you're kind of
creating the numbers of a quarterback run by doing that
the quick motion all the way the back and then
running the counter. So it creates those numbers. That's why
you kind of see an explosive play. You see the
running back can get to the second level and create
that block and that is the goal. That's the benefit
of a quarterback that can run is you get an
extra blocker in there, so you're kind of creating that.
But man, what an athlete he is. And good vision too,
great vision. Yeah, he's got really good vision. Just natural football.
Speaker 8: That's what I said on the broadcast.
Speaker 3: You have him and Barrian Brown and you're getting them
the ball in space, and you can tell their returnability
on offense, right, because when you're a returner, like it
does get loud, there's always chaos around you. It's like
that one cut vision. And Aaron Anderson's got it too.
Like you got three guys that are elite returners on
your offense that are good offensive players as well, and
you can see it like Aaron Anderson had the one
where he had two defenders and he attacked the leverage
and then put his foot in the ground and split them. Ye,
Like that's stuff a returner as the ability to do.
Speaker 7: So the play of the game, to me, one of
the best players I've seen so far in football, was
like a three yard game.
Speaker 5: It was third. I believe he's third down. He could
have been fourth.
Speaker 7: I believe it was third day and Aaron Anderson ran
a little like flat route, two yard out route at
the first down marker, and he was a little bit
short of it. Garrett threw it to him and he
caught it and in the same motion as he's catching it,
catches it and reaches the other side of his body
and extends it out for the first down in like
the same motion. Yeah, the same movement, which probably like
the casual average football fan would look at that.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, he reached the first down. That's good.
Speaker 7: The people that no ball know how hard that actually
is to do to catch it and extend it all
in the same motion while your body is going full
speed the opposite direction, which is one of the most
incredible plays that I've seen so far up into this
and it'll never get talked about because it was like
a three yard gain for a first down, but it
was a big play at the moment.
Speaker 8: So still work to do, certainly for.
Speaker 5: Hey, you know what a list. We didn't lose to
South Florida.
Speaker 3: Oh well, you have the high of Clemson, then you
come back home against Louisiana Tech. And even though that
Florida did lose to South Florida, which like it's really
not that shocking. I mean South Florida, Like I think,
I don't remember if it was this show, that show,
whatever show. I was like seventeen and a half, like,
what do we it's a lot? What are we doing here?
South Florida beat up on Boise. I thought the game
would be incredibly close the entire game. I didn't think
South Florida would find a way to win.
Speaker 5: They do.
Speaker 3: And now you've got Florida coming into town and I
mean they're limping. But also like last year when you
played them, they just gotten beat by Texas a lot
too a little, So you can't allow that to come
into your mindset when you're getting ready for this one,
because they beat you last year coming off a very
ugly loss.
Speaker 7: Yep, And just this whole week, the fired napier trolls
gonna be coming out of their caves.
Speaker 3: Yeah they've been they've been out. They're out, they're out. Yeah,
pitch forks and signs.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can't lose the South Florida in the swamp. No, Yeah,
that's not good. All right, So how good or bad
South Florida is just can't do it.
Speaker 3: You did have a couple of injuries in this game
for LSU, and they piled up Brayler Moore. I mean
it was first play, first play, he's in there, he
gets caught in the pile. It looks like it's gonna
be a high ankle sprain for him, and so I
would assume gonna be out for a couple of weeks.
Although DJ Chester did come in, he was your highest
graded offensive lineman. That's a luxury to have when you
return one starter on the offensive line and he doesn't
start this year, he's a backup for you.
Speaker 5: He was able to come in.
Speaker 3: Now, he's always good for one pre snap penalty and
he got it in the game. But he did great
out as your highest offensive lineman and certainly an injury
though because Brayler Moore, I mean it's one of the
SEC players of the week from a week ago against Clemsons.
So you're gonna need him and you're not gonna have him.
I would be completely shocked if you have him for
this game. Just watching him try to warm up and
get back in this game against Louisian Tec. So he
goes down and then obviously trade as Green. We all
saw him on crutches. He same situation. He got caught
up in a pile run blocking knee kind of gets
fell on there. Uh, you know, it doesn't sound like
it's obviously gonna keep him out for the full year,
But that's gonna be somebody that's gonna be out. It
sounds like for an extended period of time as well.
So that's, uh, that's your starting center, and that's also
a huge red zone target. Now, I still would like
to see them be more creative with trade As Green
in the red zone, but that was a big red
zone target.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you had we got to get that oop to
you back in there. He's gonna get healthy, you know,
we gotta have some good plays to break down that
oop to you. It was good. It was a good one.
So if he like, it's like, it's the nightmare of
these games, right it. Starters are especially starters you're reliant on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So, I mean that's it's a big part obviously,
it's a huge part of what you do. I mean,
trade As Green was certainly somebody. Now Bawersharp played you know,
sixty six plays out of the eighty three in this game.
Speaker 5: He was always going to be in there.
Speaker 3: Trade As ended up playing thirty two plays in the game,
and Donovan Green, who played fourteen in this game, is
going to have to be counted on if they continue
on with the twelve personnel sets that they like to
do with trade as Green and Bower sharp.
Speaker 8: So still a lot to get to.
Speaker 3: Obviously, got to get to the New Orleans Saints is
they fall just short against the Arizona Cardinals. Football season
is back and we've got so much to break down.
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Speaker 3: Off all right, welcome back in oh t be here
on this Monday morning, Monday sucking all things football from
this past weekend. One more thing I definitely want to
get in about l s U before we move on
to the New Orleans Saints. Like we're talking about running
the football, like it's we're talking wholesale stuff. At least
for me when it comes to being consistent running the football.
I thought that against Clemson, you did a great job
of changing it up. I thought you were, you know, hey,
let's run some gap scheme, let's run some duo, let's
go outside zone. And in this game, it felt like
you did kind of revert back to what you did
a lot from a year ago. I watched the tape
and again, and we said this last year, like I
personally don't know where to tell the running back where
to go yep, like right now, And like you've got
some running backs that have some dynamic playmaking ability that
can make people miss and then create on their own,
which is great, but you also have some that are
like one cut running backs. Like when Caleb Jackson's gotten
the ball this year, I think He's gotten there what
three times, and all three times he's either been tackled
at the line or.
Speaker 5: Tackled for loss.
Speaker 3: So like that's a one cut back and so like
you got to create a crease for him, and so
that was that was troublesome this game to go back
and watch because you created some of those creases I
think because of the uncertainty in the run game. I
say uncertainty because like Clemson didn't know what you were
going to do. I felt like Louis Antech was certain
they knew exactly what you were going to do when
you lined up.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it makes you question or wonder at least, like
what the plan was going into the game. Was it, Hey,
let's be vanilla because we do have this. You know,
there's a pretty big difference in skill level talent level
on the roster. Do we stay fairly vanilla and just
execute on the things we know we need to improve on,
because that could be it, Like we all right, running game.
We know last year we weren't very good at zone
inside zone, outside zone. We know we need to get
better at that this year because it has to be.
Zone has to be a big part of your running game,
even if even if you it's not at every play,
but you have to have a zone. So maybe it
was just like, hey, we need to work on this,
let's wrap it repid rep it and it just didn't
wrap out very well. Maybe that maybe that was a
maybe that was it, or it was just like the
offense that was we didn't want to show many creative
things because we want to hold it.
Speaker 5: You don't really I doubt that any of that, but I'm.
Speaker 7: Trying to look at reasons why you kind of revert
back from a creativity standpoint in.
Speaker 5: The Running Game.
Speaker 7: But the disappointing thing was, like, early on in these games,
you get it, who's antext going to come in here,
It's like their super Bowl. They get to play in
Death Valley like it's a big deal for them. It's
and it's great for them. It's awesome that they get
to come into play and you know that they're gonna
have a lot of energy. So I get that early
in the game not having a lot of success on
your base runs.
Speaker 5: But as the game goes on, that adrenaline wears off.
Speaker 7: You just get into it's just it's it's just a
one on one game at that point. It's it's man,
I'm man. There's no like extra energy. It's nobody's super
Bowl at that point. That's the disappointed. As the game
went on, we still couldn't find the rhythm in the
Running Game. And then there was a little there's a
lot of teaching tape too. There was there was stuff
that they can learn from. There was past protection breakdowns,
mental errors. I think Cayden Durham had a couple of
mas on past protection. It was just it wasn't clean.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 7: It was not what we saw in week one, and
we kind of came in here and talked about how
like we were impressed how clean the game was for
a week one. Usually week ones are a little bit sloppy,
little bit messy, like clears here and there, and that
didn't happen week one, but it certainly happened this past week.
Speaker 5: So let's kind of like wash our hair of this game.
Speaker 7: Like take there's a lot of teaching tape out there,
Like Kan Durham you could tell, like when he missed
his assignment on the past, you could tell he knew
it after it happened. It's like, it's not a lot
he's going to get from that tape, but to be
able to go in there and teach it and see
it and be like, hey, got to improve on this,
you have to Like you got your eyes were wrong here,
you were looking at the wrong guy. This is why
he made the mic declaration here. You didn't see it.
Whatever it was, I mean, it could have been he
could have this could have pointed at the wrong guy.
He could have said Mike left and the guy in
the center pointed at right. You know, could have been
an accent. You know, you just never really know what happens.
But that's why you go to the tape. That's why teeth.
And it's like, like I said, like if let's we're
hands of. This game wasn't a good game. But week
one they played great, mistake free. Week two they didn't
play great. Garrett has to be better. He is the engine.
This offense is gonna go as he goes. He has
to play better, more consistent. Like I said, it's just
I think physically he was just a little bit of
a little bit off. His platform didn't have the power
to pop in his throas at all times.
Speaker 5: You could tell that.
Speaker 7: I could just tell his platform was a little offse tho,
his left shoulder wasn't quite his closed on a lot.
Speaker 5: Of his throws.
Speaker 7: He just wasn't as sure of himself like he can
kind of nerd out on that. But I expect that
to be a one off type game. Yeah, I'm not
worried about it. I don't think anybody else should be
worried about it. Of course we will, we will worry
about it, but I'm not worried. You got to beat
up Florida team coming in here. Now, maybe not like
physically beat up, but spiritually and emotionally they should be
beat up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I hope they're beat up.
Speaker 8: Yeah, And you could say, hope they're real sad.
Speaker 5: It's a mad Florida team. You should be mad to Florida. Well,
I don't know it now they embarrassed. I don't know.
They're probably real sad, and I hope they are. Hope
they cried.
Speaker 3: A couple of things inside the chat here. Look, I
don't think that the run game is gimmicky. No, for
what I said earlier, like it's not like your Matt
Canada jet sweeps, like when you go back and you
watch when the receivers are getting involved in the run game.
I don't think it's gimmicky because it's it's kind of
different ways to do it. And Xavion Thomas when he's
running it like he's running true running back plays, he's
just a receiver that's motioning into the backfield. And like
Flynn said, you're actually getting an extra blocker a lot
of times because of it, because you saw somebody assigned
to the quarterback in case like any kind of play
action rollout whatever.
Speaker 7: It's just it's that's as gimmicky as a quarterback run. Yeah,
it's the same thing. You're just getting to a different way.
Quarterback can't do those things. It's just a creative way
to get Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now, if you didn't have maybe if you look, if
you didn't have the receivers to do it, then yeah,
maybe it is a little gimmicky. But I actually think
that that's going to be a part of the run
game until somebody shows they can stop it, which the
first two games they have not. Rob says we should
have gotten a real running back in the portal. I'll
disagree with that. Well, if you're saying to replace Kayden Durham, Now,
if you're saying, like as a backup, like to have
a nice secondary piece, like maybe we can have like
a veteran piece, we can have that conversation, like Kaden
Durham's a really good running back. I mean, he's one
of the best in the SEC. You got to help
him out a little bit. Now, I do think that
you know that Jawan Johnson certainly has a role on
this team that is somebody that is not a natural
running back, although he has running ability. So if that's
the conversation, I can I can understand that. But Harlan Barry,
the true freshman, he had a hell of a run
and he's going to continue to get more carries and
more carries. What he ended up with he six carries
for fifty six yards and so it wasn't just the
one long run. And again like you can't take those away.
It's not how football works. We'll take away these three
runs here and they only had the way football works.
Speaker 8: Like he ran and actually broke a tackle. It was
a nice run. So it's a younger unit obviously, but
it's it's one.
Speaker 5: That's got a lot a lot of juice to it. Now.
Speaker 8: I still think Kayden Durham's one of the best in
the SEC, but.
Speaker 7: It looks defense. I will say this to his point
on the question, Yeah, you have to manufacture some different
running games and it's not gimmicky. But to the question,
probably the heart of the question is you would like
to be able to sit there and run what you
want and blow them off the ball and at least
have a respectable running game against Louisiana tach with base
stuff without having too Yeah, it's without having to create
creativity and try to create the numbers, like if it's but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but if it's a part of who you are,
then you do it against Louisiana tach too.
Speaker 5: We've had games.
Speaker 3: I think you actually missed this game, but like we
played against like Middle Tennessee State in No. Seven and
we didn't have a lot of running like rushing success.
Speaker 5: In that game. He just what good squad there.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what the record was, but there
wasn't a whole lot there. Like it was like one
of those games louis Antech. Outside of the I think
I had a couple of long runs in that one,
but like outside of that, it was tough yards. So
like sometimes you have these games and I get that
portion of it and the offense line's got to get
more push and I don't care that it's a three
three five, Like you got to adjust to that for sure,
But you know those games happened, And I'm not gonna
throw it on the running backs.
Speaker 5: No for this one.
Speaker 3: Just watching the tape again, like it's it's tough for
me to tell them where to go.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the only the only things that stuck out to
me on the running backs was a couple of miss protections.
Speaker 5: Yeah, misprotection protection assignments.
Speaker 7: But other than that, like you said, like you can
watch the tape, it's like, all right, well what do
you how do you coach the which hole were hitting
in here? Yeah, gotta be better not worried about it.
Speaker 3: We'll take a break more OTB when we come back
here on this Monday.
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sith By four chat, did we run any zone reads Saturday?
I do not believe I saw any, because I'm sure
you're going back to the one that nuts cha. Two
against Clemson would be my would be my guest. They're
super nervous, objected too because his mouth he'st was in
his face mask.
Speaker 5: He forgot. He forgot his mouth as it was real nervous.
It's like, oh my god, I'm doing it. I'm down.
Speaker 8: I'm from uh. From what I have charted here, you
had thirty four run plays.
Speaker 3: You ran outside zone twelve times, you ran inside zone,
five times, you ran duo or combination like a main
kind of combination. Fourteen times you ran one counter and
you ran one kind of trick play to Barry and Brown,
and that's that's about what I have. So you ran
five inside zones. I don't remember any of them being
his zone read there. I mean outside zone is kind
of the lead run for this team for the most part.
With duo, I would say outside zone and duo probably
the main run up where a year ago it certainly
was inside zone, so they've kind of gone away from that.
But also, like run games, not just like what you
actually ended up in, Like it's a lot of its
formations too, like how did you get there? And kind
of open some things up. So yeah, their lead run
was duo followed by outside zone. Only one counter, only
one counter interesting, only one gap scheme. Well, we played
real good defense linebackers flying around DB's.
Speaker 5: Covering them up.
Speaker 8: Those linebackers.
Speaker 3: I'm excited about her having bad intentions with every snap,
all of them. Don't matter who it is, thirty three,
forty seven, forty two, doesn't matter.
Speaker 7: I feel like they just they got like they give
off like Tiger Land energy vibes. I don't know why.
That's how I feel, run around like crazy people want
to fight. I don't know what that means neither just
came to my brain. Saints breakdown when we come back.
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to run around one looking for a fight, all right.
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