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Speaker 1: You're locked in to Off the Bench Control live from
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and Matt Flynn.
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Speaker 3: Here on this Thursday morning, we have actual college football games,
not Week zero, you know, not the Pharmageddon, the one
kind of singular game we were looking forward to, although
a couple end up being pretty decent games. We've got
a slate tonight, We've got games tomorrow night. We've got
games all day Saturday, We've got games on Sunday, and
we even have of Bill Belichick game on Monday.
Speaker 4: Stop talking dirty right now.
Speaker 3: So it is the start, the true start of college football,
starting tonight. Jake Flynn, Elandra Tata all here with you,
and we will certainly get there.
Speaker 2: We'll break down all the games coming up.
Speaker 3: A couple of teams finally naming their starting quarterback in
college football.
Speaker 4: I'm happy I got a game this week.
Speaker 2: We have one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have one that is a little bit surprising
that has somewhat of an LSU tie that will give
you so a lot to get to. But as we
always do, go around the room, get a little vive check.
How are we doing?
Speaker 4: Doing great? Thursday? Woke up today with a little bit
extra pepping my step just because of the things you
just laid out. It is college football season. We are
fired up, we are excited. We are one of you
out there that is listening right now. We are just
excited to get our fandom going. And it's not just
excited about the L. S U game. It's excited about
waking up Saturday morning, hearing that intro music to College
Game Day, watching Lee Corso in the game, go back
out there for one more time, one last dance. See
which head he puts on. It's obviously it's it's.
Speaker 2: The first one he did. Yeah, it's gonna be the We're.
Speaker 4: Gonna book end it. That's what people are thinking though,
and does not so fast, my friend, so fast, my
fridif puts ahead of himself on, I don't think you
do that because he's not playing in the game. Oh
that's a good point. Yeah, m Anyway, did you see
the little video they released about Lee Corso? He has
been released him at the College Football Hall of Fame
kind of watching the video of everybody talking to him,
And Wow, did I get some dust in my eye
watching that? Sure did? Was it was very well done. Honestly,
I'm excited to watch that show. I'm excited to kind
of see the farewell they give, but just the noises,
the sounds of college football. I'm excited to have that
back in the old household. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I'm not gonna sit here and I'm not gonna
lie to you and act like I watch College Game
Day from start to finish every single week. But it's
it's background fodder. I'm going to watch it at some
portion of the show. Yep, right, I'm gonna sit down
and watch a little bit of it. And right now,
it's like the sights, the sounds, the star the feel
of having College Game Day. I mean, almost everybody here
listening to this show has grown up with College Game
Day in their living room, in their room every single
Saturday in the fall. And you know, Herbie's still on there,
and Herbie's been a large part of course. So this
is gonna be a final time like he's been on there,
So yeah, for sure, no matter. That's one of the
cool things about college game day. You can be you know,
you can be my son who's fifteen, you can be
me who's forty. You can be a Launder and Tata
in their twenties, and like, we all have college game
day memories and we all look forward to it.
Speaker 2: Hey, and y'all know this.
Speaker 3: There's not many things that fifteen, a twenty seven, a
forty a forty seven all can like sit and agree
and say, yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 4: Sports is definitely one of those things that it's a
started college football. And yeah, just like you said, man,
you're gonna have it on and you're gonna have the
noises and you're gonna see the commentary. You're gonna listen
when coach Sabans on there and he's talking, and then
you're gonna you're gonna drift in and out and you're
gonna come in and lock in when you get that
one segment of the heartfelt story by what's that journalist's name, well.
Speaker 2: A long time now it's Pete Damil, right and Pete
Dmill do it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, man, anytime there was a bad story.
Speaker 4: Tom's like, yeah, get im, I'm getting out of here.
Speaker 5: Tom ever knocks on my door. I'm like, no, you're
not allowed in.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, relaxed, Tom, It stop making me cry. It's Saturday,
nine fifteen, trying to get fired up.
Speaker 2: Here, trying to get ready for Northwestern Iowa right after this.
Speaker 4: Trying to slam a Saturday pregame. Do sekis Relax anyway,
That's all I'm doing.
Speaker 2: This point All right?
Speaker 4: Good?
Speaker 2: Uh a, Landra, how are we doing this morning?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: A lot Like Flann, I'm very excited it's here. It's
not week zero, week one, and it was a short
week for me because I had Monday off in today's Thursday.
Speaker 6: So I feel good.
Speaker 7: I feel ready for the weekend, ready for the chaos
of football season to ensue.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think we should at least once a
year be able to take off a Monday and they
not count you know against.
Speaker 2: Us, right, no vacation, Well I to a vacation day.
Speaker 3: But well, I mean it's a holiday, you know what
I'm saying, Like working, we shouldn't have Like, hey, I'm
not gonna take this vacation day. You know what, I
got a lotle case of the Mondays. It's the fall,
it's football season. I think I'm gonna take this one.
Speaker 7: You know how in school they give you extra days
or like a day off if you Yeah, we skip
labor day off, so we should get an extra day
that everybody else doesn't have off.
Speaker 6: We should get it off.
Speaker 3: That's fair and that's where the big ideas come from.
Here on OTB from Milandro. That's well done.
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Speaker 2: High fashion that looks like showed me your move move.
Speaker 7: It's not that, but it does look like but it's
matt looks like sitting down.
Speaker 2: Company, stand up short.
Speaker 5: It's shorts.
Speaker 6: It's not a or me outfit. Shorts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fine.
Speaker 8: If it was, if it was a meal, that little
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3: Get out of here, Get out of here. That's a
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me Your Moomoo t Bob's sister.
Speaker 2: It's her company.
Speaker 3: It's very very popular and it has a lot of
prints like that and it's very expensive because it's well.
Speaker 6: It's like it is not mine or this is not.
Speaker 2: And maybe if you know T Bob got you the
promo code.
Speaker 3: Although although I love our guy Tea Bob, that's one
thing he is not gonna donna.
Speaker 4: But to his at all, to his credit, he doesn't
look for it either. He never once asked me for
like because he would buy my eye all the time.
He never once asked me for one single package.
Speaker 2: Can I tell you? Can I can? I? Mm?
Speaker 3: Oh, boy, you know what, I'm not going to because
it's not Foxhole. And even though he's not here anymore,
we were once in the Foxhole together and once you're
in there together, you're always in there.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: So not gonna do it.
Speaker 4: It's big of you. Thank you?
Speaker 2: How you doing?
Speaker 5: Doing good?
Speaker 8: Joyed reading these comments, unfortunately at a laundro's expense. Mitchell
Nap said, that's mumu adjason, which I think is pretty funny.
Speaker 2: I like this one looks comfy.
Speaker 5: Alf, Yeah, it does look comfy.
Speaker 4: What's alf?
Speaker 2: That's frick like the letter A and the letter Oh
what does it stiffer?
Speaker 5: I don't know, but I mean it's two.
Speaker 8: Letters what the kids are saying. Yeah, no, guys, we are.
We are fired up obviously for football season. We got
the jamboree tonight, Matt's favorite game of the year.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, we got to call one at five.
Speaker 2: Yeah we got you high done them.
Speaker 4: Oh it's right, that's that's to make it all over school.
Speaker 5: I got a Piscopal river Side.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is a big this is a big
Hester versus Flod week. I mean we've already scrimmaged each
other in flag football. Now our kids schools are going
against each other. That I'm saying, we're rivals now, we
absolutely are. I might have to step out there a
little bit today. I kind of forgot it was today.
I was thinking it was tomorrow three times this week.
Well I don't I drift in and out of that
when you speak to me.
Speaker 4: That's good.
Speaker 2: Three hours of that every day.
Speaker 4: I catch about forty percent of what you say. That's
tired enough. Yeah, I'll take it. Whre's a Piscopal play.
Speaker 2: Sorry Riverside.
Speaker 3: Okay, they're actually be in New Orleans, right, Yeah, they're
pretty good this year, So we'll all be a high
school jambure is landra You going to a high school jamboree.
Speaker 7: I wasn't planning on it, but yeah, well I can
make it out to one.
Speaker 8: Yeah, found out great news about that jamburey last night.
I got the early game. The thing starts at five o'clock.
I'll be home by seven. That's true, it's only half
a game.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I actually had the.
Speaker 7: Brian Kelly Show and I can't Is it always on Thursdays?
Speaker 3: Thursday's new for him though, Like he used to be
like I'm saying with like other.
Speaker 7: Coaches, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, so Jay's Jay Johnson's is
on Monday.
Speaker 2: The coach. Oh used to be like, I don't remember.
Speaker 8: I think I think mcmayll's on Monday too, and then
Molki's Tuesday.
Speaker 4: It has Monday Tuesday vibes. Yeah, I don't think it
was always on Thursday, because.
Speaker 6: Usually Johnson's is on Mondays.
Speaker 4: Is nothing like usually like to review some sort of
like play from the week before.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he does it like these because he has the
Monday press conference.
Speaker 5: So I mean that's kind of his yeap.
Speaker 4: All right, where do we go for that? Where is
it looking?
Speaker 3: It's always I know, I know less than do it
on Thursdays unless I'm crazy because we used to have
Unity Council meetings on Thursdays, and that man would keep
us way longer than we probably should have had to
be there. Well, we did have we did have some Uh,
some guys got put in front of the room. Hey,
this guy missed these classes. He was late for this judged.
Oh great, this same guy again.
Speaker 4: You're talking about the Unity Council meetings where it was
all the leaders. Yeah, one leader of every position group
would come together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, once a week on Thursdays, and we would give our.
Speaker 4: Opinions of what we think should happen with the team
and how we think things should be governed and managed.
And then you guys would say, I hear you. Oh true,
We're not going to do that. And here's why.
Speaker 3: Yeah, great feedback. Guys, say, y'all been here. I bought
y'all pizza, but here coach is gonna bring that pizza
in here. Don't forget about the pizza, but everything y'all
just said.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 4: We're gonna note it down. Okay, we're gonna write this down.
They just gonna file it. We might we might circle
back to it, thank y'all. Here's some pizza Peperoni. We
went for two toppings this time. Though.
Speaker 8: That sounds like it's like, tell me what you want
to do, because I want to tell you no.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: I mean those those unity Council meetings, like sometimes when
when guys really messed up and we had a very
tight knit team and we were like, we we can't
have that in here.
Speaker 2: It's gonna mess up the mojo. They did get pretty intense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you'd have some guys have to get dragged in there.
It like felt like they were dragged in there, like
with chains on their ankles and then their their wrists.
They were in front of a jury like this is
what he did, Like this is how many cist minute?
How many points he had he had at that? What
should we do?
Speaker 3: This is Yet he was late for these three workouts.
He missed these seven classes.
Speaker 4: Every now and then you'd hear Herman Johnson say, oh.
Speaker 2: Big, Herb, that's great. Herb still a policeman.
Speaker 4: I think, some sort of law enforcement, I believe.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine getting pulled over and before you know
how nice of a human being Herman is?
Speaker 2: You see him walking towards your car.
Speaker 4: Registration.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yes.
Speaker 4: Sir, Yes, sorry when they when they say there's always
somebody bigger and badder out there, herman wouldn't maybe maybe
he wouldn't fall into the like the batter term, just
because he was so nice. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: That's why I said, until you knew how nice he was,
like kind of intimidated as he's walking to your car.
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Speaker 2: But I understand why.
Speaker 5: She's burning me to hold on to this.
Speaker 1: I know this is something I gotta from players to legends,
Hester and Flynn breakdown LSU football like only champions can.
Speaker 9: I'm trying to say, his dad, I love you. Lets
I feel like this it's coming to an end and
it's better for me to let it go now and
hold on to her. I gotta let it burn.
Speaker 6: He's come burn for me to say this.
Speaker 5: He's coming from Aha.
Speaker 9: It's been a long time coming, but we didn't band
better apart we They want to work this.
Speaker 4: Up and they don't think you're going to change.
Speaker 9: I don't think it's best week, go our every way.
Speaker 6: This version.
Speaker 3: Getting you started right on RMB Thursday. Here shout out
a Landra on the ones and twos. Welcome back in OTB.
Speaker 2: Tatay.
Speaker 3: Inside the document, you put a computer model the SMP
plus has LSU losing thirty to twenty eight. Now, I
really don't care what a computer says. I don't care
about SMP plus right now here in the opening week
of the season. But I'm glad you put it in there,
because what if LSU's up twenty eight to twenty seven,
Clemson drives kicks a game winning field goal, and LSU
loses a heartbreaker thirty to twenty eight on the road
for a team that could be potentially the best team
in the country right at home.
Speaker 2: You know, when you're at home, you get a little
bit more juice. We all know that.
Speaker 3: And Taylor asked a question, what would the fan reaction be.
It's a great question because of everything I just laid
out about Clemson, and then being really good and k
Klebnik Heisman Trophy type guy, and you know they made
the playoff last year. But I just don't know if
it matters how you lose, like unless you get blown out.
And that's the obvious statement, but I think LSU fans
want to win so bad because being zero and five
and the last five season openers, I really truly don't
know what the reaction would be because if you had
not lost your last five openers, let's say you've even
you know, if you've been three and two in those
and you lose a game like this, then you're like, okay,
you know what, Okay, okay, all right, you still can
go ten and two. She's like, maybe playoff and then
you're trying to find ways to make it. But I
just think because you've lost the last five, it's like,
I don't know that any score is going to make
any LSU fan have any warm and fuzzy feeling.
Speaker 4: No. I think five opening game losses in a row
kind of takes all the excuses away, like there's no
there's no moral victory coming out of this weekend, except
the only moral victory is, like, you know, we season's
not over se see play starts in a couple of weeks,
blah blah blah. But from a fan base, no, I
think everybody's gonna be pretty pissed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think so. There. I honestly like, I
get it. I do. I get it.
Speaker 3: And if this was another team, maybe it have a
different feel, but I would understand the frustration.
Speaker 4: And again, if you were like this season two an
opening games last five, yeah you have a little bit
different conversation. But it's own five like that, this is
a this has become a thing like monkey in your bag,
like it's a it's a big thing. And now you're
playing the best team that you've played in any of
these these six opening games in the last six years.
So yeah, there is no middle ground in this one.
It's either win or lose. People are happy or very upset. Yeah,
there's no like if like I said, if there we
were three and two, even like two and three in
the last five games, like maybe there is man, we
played really well. That's a really good team and we're
gonna see them later. We will see them in the playoffs. Again.
I can't wait to see that team. There's not going
to be any of that if we lose, like a
close one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it goes south. Brings up a great point.
Speaker 3: Every SEC school has a winning record in the last
five openers outside of LSU. Even Vandy has gone three
and two. I mean, Bandy kind of turn the ship
around last year obviously, And look a lot of times
we're playing, you know, Marshall, like Georgia is this year,
they're playing directional school. You you know, Missouri's got a
game tonight, same situation.
Speaker 2: You have not done that to your credit, which I
still love. You've you know, Mississippis.
Speaker 3: State, Florida State twice, USC now UCLA. But still you're
going out there and that's one of their better teams.
Not gonna call them a great team by any means.
I mean they were an okay team. But it doesn't matter.
Like that's the thing, Like it just it doesn't matter
who you're playing. It doesn't matter the circumstance, it doesn't
matter who they have on their sideline. Like LSU fans
are going to be incredibly upset if you don't win
this game.
Speaker 4: That's why. Then it's such a beautiful thing. Now the
only if they did, if it happens, if some crazy happens.
We're gonna come here Monday and tell you outside how
you start, it's how you finish.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna break down how it happened.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 3: The good thing is if you do lose this game,
it's not like in the year's past where you don't
have a chance to get a massive win a couple
of weeks after that, like the last couple of years,
Like you look at schedules like, oh man, this thing's
going to be on like just neutral until you get
to this game that's in week five or whatever. It's
just gonna feel boring. You do have Florida on September
the thirteenth, and that's win our lose. I can't be
too high, it can't be too low. So the schedule
is completely different this year and how it's kind of
formatted than in years past as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah it was. And I don't even really really want
to dive into this too much because I don't want
to like even put this, put these words into the air.
I don't want to talk about that situation of having
to have that bounce back game or that get right.
Speaker 2: This is based off the S and P plus prediction.
This is not us predicting.
Speaker 4: That it's true, like the these robot predictions. Man, I've
I'm listening to a lot of sports radio right now,
well the sports talk. I haven't heard one person pick
LSU in the entire yeah country of the United States
of America. Not one person.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it all depends on who who you're listening to.
Speaker 3: I was listening. I saw a clip. I wasn't listening
to it. Uh my guy Danny Canell and Bud Elliott.
I forget what their podcast. I think Cover three might be.
Speaker 4: They do a great job, but they're both acc leans
and they made it sound like it was this incredible
heel too high for LSU to climb, And that was
surprising to me.
Speaker 3: Like, and I'm with you. Like most people you talk to,
they're picking the home team. They're picking clumps and clumps.
Speaker 4: They made the.
Speaker 3: Playoff last year. They're going off the trend of LSU
being oh for their last five.
Speaker 4: And not only are they picking them, most people I
hear talking are taking them to cover minus four, which
is wild to me as well. They must not know.
They must not have never heard of the nuts bus.
They must not have never ever heard of the star position.
It's gonna dominate Clubnick's face. I don't know. I don't
like these robots.
Speaker 3: So Greg and said the bodyfore chat was talking about
the radio he was listening to, and I guess it
was a Clemson lean I was talking about the game
plan was to spread it out and pick on Harold Perkins.
I also heard the same thing from that the Canal
and I Forget podcast that I was listening to, like,
spread it out, pick on Perkinson coverage. But as Greg
points out, like back in twenty twenty three, he was
the highest graded coverage linebacker in the SEC. So they're like,
there's look, there's a reason why he's playing the position
that he's playing.
Speaker 4: And you can do that. But like based on their film,
they they spread it out and most of their deeper
throws deeper shots that I've seen, at least from their
film from a year ago. Now, things could have changed.
Most of their deeper shots are outside towards the sideline,
maybe some seam throws towards the middle of the field,
but there wasn't a ton of like deeper shots over
the middle of the field. Uh you know. In fact,
I saw Club miss multiple reads where he had people
open down the middle of the field, which is normally
your traditional place to like take take advantage of linebackers.
Now when he's in the slot playing you know, whatever
whatever position you want to call it out there, and
you're playing curl flat, you're playing monument defenders, you're playing
in zone coverage, Like, there's only so much you can
do to pick on somebody like that because you're just
trying to when when when you got those guys in
zone coverage, you're trying to high load them. You're trying
to make them make a decision. You're trying to make
them play the curl flat, go one direction, throw the
other directions. So it's really not really based on like
personnel at that point. Of course, there's people are better
at playing it than others, but they don't do a
whole lot of that of trying to affect the I
call it the nickel. Usually the guy over a slot
in an eleven personnel, they don't do they take quick
hitters like they have the slot guy run a little
five step stop route, hitch r out, whatever you want
to call it. They do do a lot of that,
But man Clemson wants to run the ball. Like I
was watching film with them. They run the ball a lot. Yeah,
they run run pass a decent amount of times. It's
heavy play action. They run it with clubning. But they
pulled those guards. I think I told you the other
day the game I was watching, they ran power probably
eight nine times in the first quarter, none and then
they ran all zone in the second and third quarter,
and then back to like eight nine powers in the
fourth quarter. Yeah, Like it was weird how it was like,
all right, there's no powers in the second or third quarter.
Speaker 3: And to give an example, how many powers that is?
That's probably that No, it is, that's more than LSU
ran all last season, right, I think they ran Yeah,
I think they ran twelve powers total last year.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So you look at these high powered offenses across
the country, like you you you talked about Ole miss
a couple of weeks ago. So it's the same with Clemson.
They want to run the ball. They are going to
try to run the ball, and then of course they're
gonna spread out, but they rely on those receivers that
are all returning, by the way, to make really big
time one on one, fifty to fifty catches, and they
did it a decent amount last year. So our dbs.
They just have to be really good at the point
of contact, high point of the ball and making plays
on the ball. But you know, as far as they
trying to isolate Harold Perkins, I mean, I don't see
him being lined up man demand coverage versus a receiver
of a lot. It might happen where they confuse us
on a formation and they do some shifts and motions
where it ends up being like that, but it's not
going to happen a lot. The goal cannot be if
you're gonna put Harld Perkins out in the slot to
get him manned up on a wide receiver running down
the field. Yeah, not to say he can't do that
and be successful a couple of times, but eventually if
you do it at too many times, it'll bite you. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to come back from this break.
Speaker 3: And because I know how much you love the star position, Sure,
I'm going to give you the names of the starting
eleven for Alabama's defense, and I can't wait to get
your reaction on some of the names.
Speaker 2: We'll do that when we come back here on HOTV
off the bench.
Speaker 4: Really look forward to that.
Speaker 3: You might have to go for dose after you hear
these here in studio. You should always be ready to
go for dose. It is the perfect time. I don't
want to. I don't want to get too cocky, but
the weather feels like it's changing just a little bit,
like maybe we get full.
Speaker 2: Maybe we do. But when you're.
Speaker 3: Tailgating and you're outside, you're packing a ten up, you're
packing the TV, the generator, do not forget about that
ice chest full of those ice cold dose sekis. Because
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up going for dose.
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So it ready.
Speaker 2: It is the fall. It is a football season, Gopher dose.
Speaker 4: That is right. It is time. It is Thursday. We
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Come on, people, it is time to go to the
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Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in O TV one, O four
five ESPN bet rouge Before I tell you about this
Alabama lineup and the positions.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and get this thing started.
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Speaker 2: All right, so real quick before we dive back into
the matchup. We're all going to be watching.
Speaker 3: I know you do not love how they identify the
star position, correct, I mean I think we all know that.
Speaker 4: Had you did? I say that a couple times? Got it?
Speaker 3: How do you feel about the starting eleven for Alabamason?
Speaker 4: I don't like them. I don't like any one of them.
Speaker 3: Okay, you ready for the positions. They've got something that
are normal, all right. We got defensive end nos tackle
better be creative names, at least defensive tackle. We've got
Mike linebacker. You've got your corners, your safeties, you're free
and strong, and you got another corner. All right, So
those are all normal. We've also got Wolf, Sting and Husky.
Speaker 4: Sure you do. Why wouldn't you so? Husky? For he's
at Washington? Where was he? What was the mascot before? Yeah?
Speaker 2: But this is this is Kane Wolmoc.
Speaker 3: He was the head coach of South Alabama as a
defensive coordinator. So we have a Wolf, a Sting, and
a Husky. That's in the official depth chart.
Speaker 4: They are officially based on that. Based on the limited
knowledge I have on Alabama's defense at this point in
the season, they will one d be the worst defense
in the SEC. I don't think they're pretty weak. It
will this year. Their sting is a transfer. He hadn't played.
What's the other one, Husky elephant the husky. Ah, that's
a walk on guy.
Speaker 3: They still were Husky jeans growing up. He's a little husky,
little baby fat. I actually think so husky. So what
are those positions? Do you think are those ends in
a quote unquote star? Yeah, I think Husky's a dB.
DeShawn Jones is the starting Husky six foot ninety pound dB.
Speaker 4: Just like, just take a step back and just like,
look at how stupid that sounded. Starting Husky. Yeah he
started sting this week? Oh dad, wont to starting sting position?
What we sent you there to play football?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: Reporting the news? I want to get your thoughts on it.
Speaker 4: Wow, how about the you high team? What positions they got?
You're playing sting? Husky?
Speaker 3: You know, I don't even know cub my some plays
nose tackle. That's all I know. Runs in the family.
I was a nose guard for a while. Yeah you are, Yeah,
m that don't wore Husky jeans.
Speaker 4: I know what what was the year you stopped playing
after your junior year.
Speaker 3: We're Week one, We're playing at Longview, Texas team in
your district. Uh, it was hotter than hot. We had
like multiple guys cramp up. And I was playing nose
guard that game. And then they were like, we need
you to come on over. We're just gonna direct snap
it to you and run zone.
Speaker 4: And that ran for over like two hundred that game,
and then never played nose guard again. There you go,
what could have been? They would have never switched. You
could have been you could have been our well, you
could have been right next right next to GLENDORSEA.
Speaker 2: I am pretty sure.
Speaker 4: I'm a pretty confident person, but I'm pretty sure that
if I was playing nose guard, I would have probably
been at a group of six school. I don't know, man,
I don't you. You didn't have a lot of stars
to begin with. I should have been the same.
Speaker 3: It's very fair. Yeah, but still i'd have been a
mean sun belt. No, you were a really good glue guy. Yeah,
a good defensive tackle glue guy. Maybe a wolf position.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: And uh, before anybody corrects me, it is a group
of six now that is the official term change this year.
Speaker 2: Now the PAC twelve is considered to be in the
group of six.
Speaker 3: Things used to be used to be the Power five
and the group of five, the PAC twelve dropped off,
and so now the PAC twelve is with the group,
so it's a group of six and the power.
Speaker 4: For O'Brian in the chat here said there's only a
thirty chance of rain on Saturday. I'm assuming he's talking
about in Clemson, South Carolina. So we haven't even discussed
the potential of how we feel this game plays out.
If it's wet. Who would that favor I think's got
a running back. I don't think that's I don't think
that's up for debate. Based on last year alone, it
favors Clemson because their running game was weird.
Speaker 3: I was about to ask what their Q run. Yeah,
but that running film off is not there. So their
running back has four career carries convert out.
Speaker 4: I'm just talking about straight like I know.
Speaker 3: That laid the schematic side's going to ls.
Speaker 4: She is going to be more dynamic in the running
game this year. But I'm just saying, this is an
opening game, so we have to base this on what
we saw last year, and we were not dynamic in
the running game Clemson was they have an extra element.
Of course, with if club Nicks back, he does have
that element. Garrett doesn't necessarily have that element. I know
we'll probably see a little bit more eagerness out of
him this year, but it's it's not who he is.
It's not his strength. That's certainly that is one of
the reasons why Klebnik is good. He would not be
as good of a passer if he didn't have that.
I mean, he's not as good of a passer as
Garrett us myayer. He doesn't have the arm talent at
he has got great arm talent, and he's a good
accurate He's a very accurate passer. He's just not a
seer of the field, read everything out like. He's more
of like a one two type guy. His feet get
a little happy if he's going one two, three, four,
checkdown like. He's just that he doesn't he hadn't developed
that part of his game enough yet. Now when he
decides and he's very confident where he's going with the ball,
he's extremely accurate and throws the ball. Well, he's just
not that guy yet. Now he could maybe this year,
Like he makes the jump makes that jump as a passer.
But yeah, if it does rain, I think certainly that
favors cleansing, all right, I mean the Q run stuff. Yeah,
I mean that's it's a good point. I mean that's
not something you have. So they have more diversity in
the run game. Now we've we've been told that LSU
is going to have more.
Speaker 3: Yeah now, and I might even try and be funny,
like you you have to you can't do what you
did a year ago.
Speaker 2: I think they learned that well.
Speaker 4: And based on the l s U like like LSU
is more of a NFL type throw like timing or
throwing seam routes because there's bad leverage by the linebacker
when he went in transitioned from his back pedal to
running running straightforward when he's flipping his hips like Clemson's
more of like play action ARPI a quick hitter here there,
and then my third option is to run the ball.
So it's it's not as much of a quote unquote
pro type offense that relies on just a quarterback being
really good at reading coverages and leverageing and going through
different progressions. So oh see, well we will see. I
know it does help coming out of training camp because
basically the entire training camp quarterbacks do throw wet balls. Yeah,
because it's so hot down here, and like you don't
think about that, but like just from the mechanics of
a practice, like the center's wet, the ref who's spot
in the balls soaking wet, Like everybody's like, so it
is you do get work every day throwing a wet ball. Yeah, yeah,
but it does make a difference.
Speaker 3: Yeah, since it's seven forty five and not quite eight,
we call that swamp base swamp booty.
Speaker 4: Yeah you don't. I mean it's a it's a billion
degrees outside.
Speaker 2: You've dealt with that a lot. I mean, the top
of your hand knows all about it.
Speaker 4: Oh gosh, I have like a Brillo pad described the
back of your hand. After practice, just sit there watching
it about seventeen times within an hour. Yeah, shout out
to Brett Helms.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll give you the slate of games coming
up here on Thursday night, multiple games that certainly could
be very impactful at the end of the college football season,
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Speaker 4: But I guess.
Speaker 5: Does the Storm maybe win.
Speaker 2: That game? I'm showing you that.
Speaker 4: I'm reading.
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Ben Rouge.
Speaker 4: This song was popping on one of two seven to
plays back in Tyland, Texas.
Speaker 3: Boy, this was on ninety four five the big dog
in Shreveport, Louisiana skating ring.
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Speaker 2: That's that might have to be played now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, let's look at the slate coming up tonight.
I'm gonna quickly roll through these games, and I want
everybody to pick the game that they're going to be
eye hustling the most. All Right, we got Boise State
at South Florida, You've got Ohio at Rutgers. You've got
East Carolina at North Carolina State, Jacksonville State at UCF.
You've got Wyoming at Akron. Don't think you might have
spick in that one, Saint Francis at Louisiana, Monroe, Central
Arkansas at MISSOI, You've got Elon at Duke, Buffalo at Minnesota,
Nebraska and Cincinnati in Arrowhead, Miami of Ohio at Wisconsin.
Speaker 4: Talking about Mahomes Junior, I.
Speaker 2: Actually think Nebraska Cincinnati might be the play here.
Speaker 8: I was just wondering why it's being played in Narrowhead.
It's god of a random spot.
Speaker 2: Huh Well, Travis Kelce Cincinnati tie.
Speaker 8: Yeah, because I was just saying a lot of I
feel like a lot of college games aren't played there.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Ken just had a place in James there last year
because their stadium was being renovated.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. It's a Narrowhead though.
Speaker 8: Dylan Rayola, though, said that he cannot control that he
looks like Patrick.
Speaker 2: He was born with his face.
Speaker 4: I can't control that he was born with the exact
same haircut, and.
Speaker 6: The number.
Speaker 2: Those are out of his control.
Speaker 7: Tibo had a really funny tweet about that. He was like,
this is gonna be what I say every time I
get caught doing something that I'm doing on purpose, like
I can't do I can't control it.
Speaker 2: I'm going.
Speaker 6: God made me this way.
Speaker 2: Frankenstein like, no, bro.
Speaker 6: You want to be Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Also, you gotta play better if you're gonna dress like
you got you gotta.
Speaker 3: Actually, he played pretty well last year for being a
true freshman. So I went to I might go East
Carolina n C State East year line to beat in
C State last year. N C State needs to really
have a strong season. They are the team that always
is like right there, then they never get over the hump.
They've never really gotten over it, like whatever their expectation is.
And I always here. So I deal with a lot
of ACC people over on off campus and they tell
me how great Carter Finley Stadium is.
Speaker 2: You can't lose to East Carolina two years in a row.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was, actually I was thinking about going with
that one. Let's say at four thirty, the only team
that is on the OTB Top twenty five, tease it
up number twenty five Boise State traveling playing in South
Florida always interesting when when you have those Western teams, Northwest,
Northern teams. Yeah, Northeast teams come early in August or
early September and playing the South always kind of interesting
to see how they're going to handle it, because you
can practice for it, you can mentally prepare for it,
but we all know, like once, you can't praice it
until you just gotta feel it because you get punched
in the ft. They're gonna walk off that plane and
get punched in the face with humidity, yeah, and heat,
and it's gonna make a big difference. It's gonna you know,
it can be a game changer.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be in the oven.
Speaker 4: They're still gonna win because they are gonna finish twenty
fifth ranked team in the country when it's back in February.
Speaker 2: All right, a Landra, which.
Speaker 7: Game am I watching or are they any No?
Speaker 2: No, just watching any of those? Do anything for you?
Speaker 7: Nebraska, Cincinnati, Yeah, that's brilliant. I mean we all go
to Texas Steven Steven f Austin, Houston.
Speaker 2: Oh, there you go, there you go.
Speaker 6: Houston always has like a little something to it.
Speaker 3: But all right, well, juice, also watch Saint Francis Uel
Monroe three on eight through on great, let's go see Warhawks.
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