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Speaker 5: How are we doing so doing fantastic? Excited for another
Thursday here at Pro Dreams. We are locked and loaded,
ready to talk some uh game day. We are you
talk about A and M? Actually to be looking at this,
I don't know what is. It's one hundred and twenty
inch TV right here. It's a gigantic. This is the
twenty twenty three LSU A and M game we're watching
right here as we talk to you guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they just threw up a stat that said LSU's
defense at the beginning of this game had scored on touchdowns,
not just field goals, on thirteen straight drives.
Speaker 5: That was two offense. Yes, where you going? We know
the defense didn't score on Thirteenthtraight Drives.
Speaker 2: Well, they got probably scored on in that year, yes,
but thirteenth Street drives they had a touchdown. So if
you know where one of those is at, let me know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we just see one of those offenses this weekend.
Speaker 2: That's it. And I'm gonna blame Jordan because Jordan turned
us on and now it's his fault. And also who
made me watch the Pelicans last night? And they fell
apart in the third quarter, got outscored, they got doubled
up in the third quarter, then really got outscored the
entire second half and they lose by six if I
remember right. Yeah, thanks Jordan.
Speaker 5: I thought you were joking about starting the show with
Pelicans talk.
Speaker 2: No, no, what do you mean. It's the local sports
team right down the street.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but y'all told me yesterday that I didn't really
have to start focusing on basketball until Christmas.
Speaker 2: I want to just flock up all the way.
Speaker 5: No, I can't do that. Like, look, I've made a
lot of a lot of steps this year. I would
now a Saints fan. You don't have to be you know,
baby steps. Yeah, you don't have to be a fan
of the team. That you cover either like it helps.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to ask you to go buy a
Pelicans jersey.
Speaker 3: Yeah now, I'm not covering humntil.
Speaker 2: Christmas, all right, give me two Pelicans.
Speaker 5: Tan and uh Yeeves. Oh you tried. I tried, you tried. No,
I couldn't even tell you. The coach bud Willie Green
for easy name. All right, we'll get you there Christmas.
Christmas is when I'll start, so you won't have a
down background.
Speaker 2: You'll start hm. President's Day. It's like usually you know
when is that one on February twenty twenty second?
Speaker 3: Have it down much? President's Day? You have it?
Speaker 2: Sure? Okay, all right, fair enough, Well that's all you
can ask for.
Speaker 3: It down as good as the head LSU baseball down.
Speaker 2: I stitchead stitch. By the end of it, I tried,
you did, I thought you did pretty well. So you
did pretty well. Uh. We are here. We enjoy hanging
out Thursday's home games cuz LSU is back in Tiger Stadium.
So when you see us here, that means the Tigers
are at home. What a great opportunity they have at home.
And again we are watching the twenty twenty three LSU
A and M game, and I know LSU is going
to be victorious because you know what, since AM joined
the SEC, they have not won in Tiger Stadium. How
much of that, Matthew, how much of that plays a
factor in Saturday's game?
Speaker 5: Oh well, I think it plays a huge factor for sure.
I mean, but well, the reason why these the stats
are like that in the last handful of years or
however many years, is because both stadiums are really tough
places to play. They're both very like whatever you think
about the A and M and the yell leaders and
all that stuff, like, it's a really tough place to
go in and play.
Speaker 3: The atmosphere is really good there.
Speaker 5: So for LSU to come in and to their home
field and play an A and M team that is
top five, they are certainly going to need the home
field advantage. We're going to need all the fans to
show out, show up, be loud, do your thing throughout
the day that makes you loud and crazy at night. Yeah,
so just keep doing that. Yeah. It is a hard sellout,
like not one of those fake ones. You know, I
sold out.
Speaker 2: Hold on, wait a minute, I see a lot of
EMCI seats in here. This is like a hard sellout.
It's supposed to be the environment that we're talking about,
and you are going to need it, and you're going
to need some things that you haven't had, Like you're
going to need to on the opening drive, right, you
scored a field goals the first time, the first points
you've gotten on an opening drive this year. Last week,
I mean before that, it was five punts in an interception.
All right, So okay, you got a field goal, that's great.
What else can you do? Can you put the ball
in the end zone? Because you've got to do things
that you haven't done this year if you want to
be victorious. That's just the way it is. You're the
underdog in your stadium. Yep, you're twentieth in the country.
They're going to be number three in the country. So
you got to do things that you haven't done before,
like otherwise you're not going to win this game. And
that's going that has to be the challenge this week.
Across the street.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you look at the game and you look at
the opponent, and this opponent is being propped up and
rightfully so I don't think there's any glaring weaknesses on
this team. They got a quarterback that is playing really well,
very dynamic, but it's certainly not the first mobile quarterback
we've had to face, so they've we are pretty seasoned
in that aspect. I think this is going to be
the fifth one so far, fourth or fifth one. But
your team as an LS team as a whole, like
you're gonna have to play, you know, not only your
best game of the season, but like your best game
of the season by far. You especially offensively, like the
defenses has showed showed up and showed out.
Speaker 3: Plenty of times.
Speaker 5: They need to play a little bit more discipline this
week than they did last week, take a little bit
better angles.
Speaker 3: But from an offensive standpoint, you have to be a.
Speaker 5: You've been like a shadow of yourself that you have
in the past couple of years. Yeah, you have to
be much much better.
Speaker 3: And we've talked about this. We've earlier in this week.
Speaker 5: We've done all the breakdowns, We've shown you different things
that need to improve, people that need to play better,
and we all know who it is is and who
all those people are on offense and everything, everything, just
everything has to come together. And if it doesn't come together,
you're going to be looking at an opportunity to lose
another game. But if it does come together, you have
an opportunity here in your home field, with the crowd
at your back, with a good defense, if that offense
can come together, execute, come off the ball, play with
play with a little nastiness, play with a little anger
on the offensive lineman, read the defenses, make the play.
Speaker 3: When you get the ball in.
Speaker 5: Your hand, then you got an opportunity to upset in
on your home field a top five team.
Speaker 2: What can you do within like a week to change
some of the things that you didn't do a week ago,
is like kind of gonna be my question. Like you
don't have a bye week. You come back home, right,
it's a normal week. Yeah, you don't have to travel,
which that does help. I mean you get you know,
some extra time in your own building. But like that's
gonna be my question, what can you do? And we've
broken down the film multiple times, you've written about it,
like we've we've seen some of the issues, and sure,
like it's in performance and it's in scheme, and it's
in the totality of everything that we're talking about. Like
that's gonna be my question of what can you do?
Have you done anything, because if you rolled the same
thing out there, you're going to see a very similar result.
Speaker 3: Well, there's not a lot you can do from a
changing It's got.
Speaker 5: To already be in the philosophy. It's already got to
be in there. I mean, you had opportunities in on
the bye week. There's obviously more opportunities on the bye
week to come and to do something like that, and
we saw them make the effort and go under center,
throw a full.
Speaker 3: Back in there and do some things.
Speaker 5: What I see is you have to as from a
starting with the coaching staff and.
Speaker 3: Players on offense.
Speaker 5: It's you need one of those situations where you look
in the mirror and you need like a like a
Rocky movie type montage situation where you just get in
your car and drive to some eighties music and like
you got to.
Speaker 2: Refocus the distance a little bit.
Speaker 5: You gotta understand as a coaching staff, like what you're
what you're teaching, what you're training, isn't always working like
you wanted to. Maybe it's not they're they're not doing
what you're coaching. Maybe you are coaching and it's just
it's not working like you don't like, So as a
coach staff, you have to figure out, Okay, how can
I communicate with these guys better? How can we improve
what we are telling them to do, how can we
simplify some of the calls that they are making. And
then and we all know that Nuss is not playing
up to the standard that he has shown us. So
it's one of those situations where he's got to get
some confidence. He's got to look in And then you
know a lot of the game, especially at the quarterback position,
but every single position out there, I mean, it's it's
between the ears.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: You have to go out there and you've got to
get your mind right and you have to play. You
can't play scared. Just let it rip.
Speaker 2: He's got to be How do you how do you
do that? I've never played quarterback. You are sleeping on
my arm talent the entire time. Y'all didn't let me
throw any balls when we were here at LSU. No
halfback passes. Okay, how do you do that? Because there's obviously,
like there's a quarterback has to be the most mental position.
I can't even imagine you're dealing with a thousand things.
If it's not going right, and you get the yips whatever, whatever. Okay,
if you were a coach and you have a quarterback dead,
it's strown for four thousand yards and you can tell
like it's just it's a hair here or hair there,
whatever it might be. Is it come out of the gates?
Get him an easy throw? Is it like? What is
it like? What would you do to try to make
sure he gets in the flow of the game.
Speaker 3: I would have.
Speaker 5: Easy throw hasn't been the answer because of the numerous
and nauseating, the amount of nauseating amount of wide receiver
screens we've done. I would there's no better way to
get an offense into rhythm, in my opinion, than to
go to a no huddle, hide tempo type drive type series.
So you see it all the time, and we've seen
it for It's frustrated for fans to watch a bunch
because you'll watch your favorite team play and they struggle
on offense, They struggling. We saw all the Saints this
past weekend in Chicago. They're struggling on an offense, like man,
they can't move the ball.
Speaker 3: Then all of a.
Speaker 5: Sudden, it's two minutes before the half and they're like
completion completion, completion, working their way down the field. Why
is that why people are always like, why is they
doing why are they doing that? Why can't they move
the ball until they go two minute at the end
of the end of the half or end of the game. Well,
because when you go two minute, you're working your most
base plays that you install day one of training camp,
day one of OTA's or spring training, and maybe a
little bit from day two.
Speaker 3: But it's these plays.
Speaker 5: That you're running that you've run thousands and thousands of
time from pro level to college, Like you've run these
basic plays and these basic plays that are basic that
everybody does because they got answers for everything, and you
don't have to think about it. Like when when you
come out in the first half of a game, especially
we talked to like the first fifteen.
Speaker 3: These are all scripted plays.
Speaker 5: These are plays that coaches think about based on film
review of the opponent you're playing. That's like, all right,
based on this, this team's more of a three four
than a four to three. This team's an overfront stead
of an underfront. This time, like these guys like to
do even with the state end up in blah blah blah,
they're more of a nickel team. So they you draw
up these plays and now they are the foundation of
all these plays is set. But there's little nuances and
they're like, all right, well this team, we saw Alabama
do this against this team, so we're gonna do this
play right because it worked. And every let me tell you,
every team is like that. This is not an ls US.
Every team, every league, every offensive coordinator, everybody, every coach
ever is like that.
Speaker 3: And and it works a lot.
Speaker 5: But when your offense is struggling and you're struggling to
get into that rhythm, struggling to get your quarterback in
that rhythm. I was always the proponent of, like, man,
let's just go two minutes. Let's run our base plays.
You have answers, get the check down. And that was
always like the most important thing too in two minutes,
just get a completion. Yeah, not a screen pass completion.
Get it complete. I don't care if you stick. I
don't care if it's one place. So like we would
cover two man, I think this is open.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna pump fake and hit my check down.
Speaker 5: For two yards. Okay, we're in it now, all right,
we're going let's roll. So I always thought that was
the best way, and again we saw it with Proof
of the Saints this past weekend. They had like four
yards in the first half, then all of a sudden
two minute drive boom boom, boom boom.
Speaker 2: Yep. So that's what I would do they got them going,
I wouldn't run got back in the game.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't run wide receiver screen off of a potential run.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 2: Well, it's gonna go check out the article if you
want to see what Luisa Sports dot Net. Check out
the film review and you'll see why. It's probably not
a recipe for success. All right. That is obviously just
a one look of many looks for the LSU Texas
A and M game that we're going to have. We'll
have a New Orleans Saints, Tampa Bay Bucks Tampa Bay
Tays as we like to call them here on this show.
A lot to get into. Stay locked in, and we
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LSU will likely be shorthanded again on defense. The first
injury report that we have seen this week, so what
weeks is listed as doubtful. Look, I mean wotand practice
whittenn't play last week. It's if wit was certainly available,
you would see him out there. We all know what weeks,
We know his mentality, so him not practicing at that
signifies yet he's probably not playing in this game. So
probably senior defensive tackle Binar Gooden also remains questionable. That
is another big blow to this LSU defense. He's got
the Bruce collarbom and you know, not really sure when
he's going to be back and when he's going to
be available. It's tough. Butler, your edge rusher, he's probable
he's had an ankle sprain. So that's good news to
try to get one of more of your edge rushers back.
Certainly you were down numbers at that position group last
week in Nashville. On the offensive side of the football,
Tyree Adams is out, your starting left tackle, so Brian
Kelly said on Monday that red shirt sophomore DJ Chester
would likely man that spot in his absence. And you
know Texas A and m Moss the running back, Bray
talents runningack who actually we just saw score touchdown score
twenty twenty three. Defense obviously batan Rugs native, he is
listed as out as well. Now they've got I mean,
Ruben Owens is the stud running back as well. But
look most the game changers. So that's not nothing for
Texas A and m Yrie Adams being out because look,
I very much assumed Wit Weeks was out, Bernard Gooden
was out, like you know, questionable, but I'm just going
to assume he doesn't play. We'll see, mm hmm. But
for Tyree Adams, though, your left tackle to be out,
and again your backup center, backup guard is kicking out
to left tackle, it's a little surprising that there's not
somebody ready to go. I know you're young at the position,
but look, dj Chester really struggled at left tackle against Vanbilt.
We showed a couple of clips where we thought maybe,
as you said, he was going to get the roughing
the passer on the quarterback, you know what I mean.
And so like that's just that's it's surprising. It's surprised,
to say the least. And I understand, like he's got
a ton of starts in the SEC. It's going to
be a big loud you know, ranked on ranked environment.
I get all of that, but you know, not a
natural position for DJ Chester.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and.
Speaker 5: I mean you you're talking abo, but you're starting left
tackle dan at you know that it's not like they
just made this plan up recently though that was This
has to have been a plan that was practice talked
about a lot, because coaches and coaches staffs they have
a plan in place for every scenario of injury on
the offensive line, because injuries on the offensive line happen
a lot. They happened every single game. Whether it's an
injury that takes you out for the game or an
injury that takes you out for a couple of plays
or a series. There's always they have a situation, they
have a scenario.
Speaker 3: So I mean, at some.
Speaker 5: Point we do have to sit there and trust what
the coaches, the plan that the coaches have developed.
Speaker 2: Now, can I say that DJ Chester was.
Speaker 5: Practicing left tackle reps last week in practice? No, he
probably wasn't, because, like I said, backups, I going to
play another different positions. But at some point he was
taking reps as a left tackle or right tackle, and
they're like, okay, I see something. They're right, I see
what's happen now when you're playing left tackle like playing tackles.
I mean, obviously this is probably a dumb statement, but
I'm just gonna say it because I have to write
playing left tackle is completely different than playing guard or center.
From a footwork standpoint, from a stance, it's a completely
different position.
Speaker 2: From a being protected by others around you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like you are out there, so like if you're
not working on that that kickstep, that left foot back
stance in practice leading up, it's tough to just go
out there and do it when the game's on the line,
do it in mid game when you got a defense
that is like literally eating and feeling themselves, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's tough to do that.
Speaker 5: So with the week of practice, you have to trust
the scenario of what the coaches have seen in the spring,
what they've seen last year, what they've seen in training camp, practice,
whatever it is, that they're putting the best guy out
there now. They haven't once said that he's an incredible
left tackle to us. They're telling us he's the best
one they got to play that position. They're saying he's
might not be the best one we got it left tackle,
but he's but he's almost the best one we got.
But he gives us the best five across with him
being at that spot, is what they're trying to tell us.
Speaker 2: Yes, for sure, they're not just throwing him out there
because he's a nice guy, which maybe is maybe I
don't know, but I think more of my concern is
is somebody else isn't ready to go at that position,
somebody in And this isn't two thousand and five where
almost every freshman red shirts, right, like freshmen have to
be ready to play, like as soon as they almost
get to campus now, which.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean at that point it becomes like an
indictment on the recruiting on what you brought in and
what you didn't bring in, or our development or maybe
goes out there and absolutely crushes.
Speaker 3: It, locks it down and we're like, whoa, well, yeah,
they knew.
Speaker 2: He just needed a week of practice.
Speaker 5: Needed a week of practice, Bud, you gotta work on
a kickstep, Okay, ooh, fair.
Speaker 2: Enough that that that's that's a calls for concern for me.
It's going to be the position I probably I hustled.
Speaker 5: So you're it calls for concern from you just because
because you're I got it.
Speaker 3: I get that.
Speaker 5: But the point you're trying to make is your concern
is there's not enough talent in the room.
Speaker 2: Well, it's not even like I don't know the talent
because it's it's your backup center having to go like
is it talent? Is it development? Like? What is it? Like?
That's my question is because you obviously have other tackles
on this team. You've I mean even some of your
guards have played tackle in college football, right. I just
it's got to go way up, Like the production has
to go way up at that position.
Speaker 5: I think to say we got to recruit better or
we have to coach better.
Speaker 2: I don't know, that's what I'm saying, because we don't
know because we're you're kicking your center out there, yep.
So like that's that's the thing that we don't know.
We don't know where those players are at. And I
saw the way it went last week with DJ Chester
at left tackle, right.
Speaker 5: I thought it was very polarizing. The comment that Brian
Kelly made this week when we were I think he
was asked about like former players coming out in public
and things saying like that we're not physical enough, physical enough,
specifically offensive line.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 5: I can't put that all all on the offensive line.
It's the tibbnness in which they're having to play with
a lot of the RPO stuff.
Speaker 2: M that's certainly part of it.
Speaker 5: Now they have to step up and when it's time
to go, they got to go right. They got to
stick their nose in there on the goal line. They
got to be better in that aspect. But polarizing kind
of a comment saying when he said, like we got
that's the best, the best fave we got out there,
so it's got to be better. So basically saying like
there might be some sort of either developmental or talent
you know, deficiency.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, when we come back, I want to have
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talked about the left tackle situation for LSU. We've look,
I've been on teams, You've been on teams I'm about
at the highest level professional football where you've had a
guy that's maybe playing out of position a little bit.
Maybe you were, and Matt said it yesterday. I think
it was maybe your swing guard has to play tackle
because you're all your beat the hell and you signed somebody,
but you can't get ready in a week, and so
like you're trying to protect that player. Now that does
not mean seven man protection. What would you do if
you had somebody? And we're talking passing game more than
anything right now, because I think the run game, actually
the run blocking it wasn't bad, like for certainly for
what it's been this year to what it was, I
would say without even looking at it, it's probably the
highest graded run blocking game you've had. I mean pretty close.
I'll look it up during during some of the commercials here.
But passing game, what would you do if you had
somebody you were trying to I hate saying hide, but
you're trying to help out in the game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, so there's a lot of things that you
can do from a protection standpoint, There's there's tons of
things you can do, from from chipping to thumping to
not chipping. Is like a chip with a running back
of thump as a chip with a tied end.
Speaker 3: You can slide protection.
Speaker 5: But at the end of the day, like you can't
hide a person like an entire game, but you can
certainly take different pass adjustments, pass protection calls. Uh, you
can take those out of the game plan. Like if
you have a left tackle, you can take out the
game plan a four man slide right with four man
slide would be guard center, guard tackle, slide and right,
and you're leaving your left tackle isolated.
Speaker 3: You can take that out of the playbook.
Speaker 5: You can take You can do as many things as
you can to slide left. You can do a lot
of dual protections.
Speaker 3: Down the shout exactly.
Speaker 5: But the thing you have to do is you can't
what's the word I'm looking for here, You can't. You
can't do the same thing. You can't do the same
thing over and over. You have to be very versatile. So, yeah,
you want, you want to go out there, and if
you're gonna get in a situation, like I said, you
can't hide him forever. So it's at multiple points in
the game. Left tackle's got to go in there and
win a one on one block. Yeah, you have to.
Now you don't have to stone him, you don't have
to pancake him, but you have to get him moving
in a direction that lets the quarterback be able to
slide either over the top of them or underneath them.
And as a quarterback, you do also have to be
hyper aware of situations and hyper aware of where your
back is at different times.
Speaker 3: So you can't do the same thing over and over.
Speaker 5: So if you have let's just say eleven personnel and
you lined up in a two by two or a
three by one situation, sometimes we're going to release our back, free,
release them, scat him, even if it's not really a
scab protection. We're just gonna get out. So I got
I have a answer really fast. If something happens. Sometimes
same formation, that back is gonna come over and chip,
and he's gonna he's gonna thump the hell out of
that defensive ends, ribcage and or armpit or wherever it is.
You look for something weak and you hit it. You
hit as hard as you can, and you slow them down.
Sometimes we are going to act like we're gonna chip
with a back, and then after we've chipped them, and
then Betty free releases around them and we come in
hit you with the on in the other ribcage with
a guard Like there's different, Like you want to give
them different looks.
Speaker 3: We run a quick game or a quick screen.
Speaker 5: I'd love to see a screen that if we call
a screen and just run a screen, a seven RPO
type screen, just throw at them, throw at their kneecaps.
Speaker 3: Let's do it. Let's do a five mankind.
Speaker 5: I love, I always love games where we had at
least one or two early in the game calls we're
all five linemen through at the defense line of the kneecaps.
Speaker 2: Everybody's gonn protect their kneecaps. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 5: As soon as you have a three hundred pound throw
his entire three hundred pound body add a kneecap.
Speaker 3: It slows you down.
Speaker 5: Whether you believe it or not, whether you think it
does a divinse event, it subconsciously slows you down. Right,
give them different looks, make them have to think. Don't
let them pin their ears back and be like, all right,
I got this guy one on one whole time, one
on one the whole time. Hey, how about we line
up a tight end near the sideline and let that
guy think he is one on one, motion the tight
end in and clean his clock.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you can do that. I mean you can
do that in the head, but you can do that.
And then let's say you still want to get out
the tight end into the route. You can you just
absolutely you can run through them and you can just
continue on. And you're going over the middle of the field, right,
I mean you're running a drag. You're just doing it
after you try to stone the dresher for sure.
Speaker 5: And how about you run a traditional screenplay to the
running back where he lines up and acts like he's
in past protection and slides out to the left.
Speaker 2: How about that?
Speaker 3: We know we hadn't seen that.
Speaker 5: I don't think, bro, if it's not going to the
wide receiver right now, we ain't run a screen or
if it's not that one where they goes out and
then goes right out of the middle, you.
Speaker 2: Know what a hitch route across the entire field.
Speaker 3: Though, kind of interest you in that that? So I.
Speaker 5: Also I just want to bag the offense. Attack the
middle of the field. Yeah, attack the middle of the field.
I was watching. That's why we had so much success
last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it felt like last week there was police tape
around the middle of the football field. You couldn't cross
the line.
Speaker 5: Let's take the let's take the touchdown pass out of
out of the out of what I'm going tight end
delay because that's like a it's not a trick play,
but it's a design play to go to that tight end.
I'm not going to consider that it over the middle
pass because it wasn't like a normally hitting your back foot.
There was one pass that Aaron Anderson, Oh, I think
a seame route, and then I think that was the
only pass completed and that I looked at the passing
chart from the game. I think it is the only
pass completed over the middle besides like a like a
checkdown or something. I looked at his passing chart from
last year. Of course, it's like too many passes to
like go and number it. There's more passes and touchdowns
completed over the middle of the field, intermediate and deep
part of the middle of the field.
Speaker 2: Last year.
Speaker 5: That's why you were more successful in the passing game,
because you attacked the middle of a field. I always say,
this is what I learned in the NFL, this is
what I learned in Green Bay when we had like
one of the best offenses in the world. Fastest way
to the end zone is over the middle of the field. Yeah,
sexy to go run inside fades and those work, but
they can't be your bass play play. We keep going
back to all the time, hitch her out from number
one slot, fade from number two, and a stick route
from number three. It seems to be our answer for everything,
and it hasn't worked very many times. So I want
to see a more dynamic passing game. I want to say,
the attack in the middle of the field, that's where
and Aaron Anderson eats.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where he is so good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's where he is so dynamic. You're not taking
advantage of his skill set, his football IQ, what he
can do with the ball overs and how he can
find holes in windows and get open. He is a special,
special player and for him not to have an impact
last week it is criminal. It looks like on the
passing chart there was nineteen throws that were five yards
or less, so five yards are less, and some of
them were certainly behind the line of scrimmage, so five
yards or less. There was nineteen and there was only
thirteen that went over five yards on the passing chart.
I mean that's pretty to par for the ck and
in the hashes. So between the hashes of passes that
traveled more than five yards.
Speaker 3: On one to Aaron Anderson was completed for a big.
Speaker 2: Play, single one single pass because you had one two, three, four, five, six,
five yards or less in between the hashes, only one
beyond five yards between the hashes. I mean, link, coach,
you can look at it.
Speaker 3: I don't want to. I don't want it.
Speaker 5: So when you okay, when you think about quarterback play
like the okay, so when we are running it seems
like our go to pass routes when we look at
standard just drop back passing concepts, which we didn't There
wasn't a lot of those against Vanderbilt. Just a standard
drop back. I'm gonna read, I got, you know, single
high safety. I'm going to go to my right, two
high safety. I'm going to work to my left. Okay,
this is the cover, this is my number, this is
my alert, this is my one two back to checkdown. Like,
there wasn't a lot of that, And every time we
did do a standard type pass play, it seemed like
everything was outside the hash. Yeah, like I said, a
hitch rute, outside a slot fade, a stick route. Yeah,
that's a decent play. That's a can be a good play,
but it's not your A go to type play doesn't
have answers. Your go to type plays. You always want
answers over the middle of the field. I know you
could say, yeah, checkdowns over the middle of the field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got you.
Speaker 5: It technically is, but like you want to get your
receivers attacking, stressing the linebacker, stressing the safeties, stressing their
assignments on defense.
Speaker 3: And when you have a guy like.
Speaker 5: Aaron Anderson that understands where he is in a progression,
understands how to get open, and like, I'm not just
making that up. We saw it all last year.
Speaker 2: How many I mean, to your point, how many big plays,
how many game changing plays did you have over the
middle of the field last year? I mean, you go
back to the old Miss game and how you won
that game. There was chances you took, like good, high
percentage chances that you took over the middle of the field,
and that's what won you the game. You forced overtime
and you win the game there.
Speaker 5: And if you if you have a quarterback that's looking
for his footing, you're not going to get him in
a rhythm. You're not gonna get him confidence by throwing
a one on one fifty to fifty slot fade a
couple of times a game. Yeah, throwing a hitcher out
into quarters to the far far side of the field.
In the NFL, that might work because the hashes are tighter.
It's not as far of a throw. Yeah, it's a
lot college.
Speaker 3: It's a long throw.
Speaker 2: It's in the air for a long time.
Speaker 5: And so like he's making all these catches like okay,
I get a completion. But man, he's got to be
a saying, well that was almost picked. Yeah, that's not
giving you a lot of confidence. Throwing over the middle
of the field is easier throws for the quarterback. Yep,
it's not as far of a throw. You see it
really well, get the ball, stress the middle of the field.
Speaker 2: Attack it. You have to do it with A and M.
Speaker 5: You have to attack the linebackers assignments, make their safeties,
and linebackers make a play, cover a lot of windows,
and attack the middle field.
Speaker 3: That's how you're gonna get Garrett. That's my indoor rhythm.
Speaker 2: All right. So we will step away more ot B
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coming up in our number two, we'll start to get
into some of the Saints bucks. I know that Tampa
Bay Tay has got some bucks stuff that he wants
to get out here, get off his chest a little bit. Yeah,
he does, for sure, Saints fans. This week, Flynn watched
the entire Pelicans game, so he's definitely going to be
on that one.
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