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Speaker 2: Flynn, Yo, and welcome in.
Speaker 3: It is ot B here live on location at Rouse's
on Burbank.
Speaker 2: It is a football Friday and we're.
Speaker 3: Gonna be here with you for the next three hours.
Jake and Flynn here of course, Laandr and Tata back
in studio. We've got a lot to get to. We've
got to give you our Pontoon parlay. We've got to
give you what's the highest ticket and what's the lowest
ticket across the country. And then we might give you
a little party barge. We might give you some NFL
picks yep today as well. So we've got a lot
to get to. Mister Matthew, how you doing, sir?
Speaker 2: Doing great? Doing great.
Speaker 4: Happy to be back here at Ralse's Market right here
off Burbank. I don't know what happened, but seems like
a little different scenery for us today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Adam set the set up backwards. Yeah,
come on, Adam, let's go out of here. Come on,
it's reversed. But now we're here at Rouses. We're excited.
Speaker 4: We're here, excited to be here every single Friday during
the football season, and again, just super impressed.
Speaker 2: Every time I walk in here, there's like fifty.
Speaker 4: Employees getting set up, getting getting set up and getting
everything ready for you guys to come in.
Speaker 2: So come join us this morning, Come say hi to us.
Speaker 4: Come get a little breakfast here at the at the
breakfast bar right here at Rals's. And if you're not
near us, just go to your own Rouses and get
a little breakfast bar because there's a lot of them. Yes, sir,
get your groceries. That is well, but no, I'm doing
good man. Everything is a kosher. Watching a good football
last night, How about the Dolphins turned out.
Speaker 2: Being a good game. Thought it was going to be
a blowout and it wasn't.
Speaker 4: People left them for dead and they said, not too fast.
We're actually professional football players as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you said that yesterday.
Speaker 3: You mentioned that they were professional football players until the
last interception that was kind of a middle school interception,
but before then professional and everything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a little aggressive on a little punt
block attempt at high for play. I mean, those are
the ones you hate to see as a coach, but
you kind of got to live with sometimes because you
want your guys to play with intensity. You want your
guys to play with that for but a guy rushes
up the middle, tries to block the punt, almost has it,
runs into the kicker, runs into the punter. So give
gives the Josh Allen and come. You can't give Josh
Allen too many opportunities. But a team that was left
for dead coming into this game. Everybody was talking about
how many weeks Mike mcganiel still had and you know
the question. The jury will still be out on that.
But I think they bought themselves some time. At least,
they gave themselves a little bit.
Speaker 2: Of yeah maybe, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3: I mean, gosh, it's just the first two games they
looked awful, and they looked much much better.
Speaker 2: I can say, a really good team on the road.
Speaker 4: So I feel like maybe, But I've watched two of
play and he makes some great plays, and I don't
want to sit here and judge. Judge like mechanically what
he does, because he's always been a little bit mechanically different.
He hadn't been like a real like a whippy arm
guy kind of a shoulder though his shoulder looks a
little stiffer than it usually does.
Speaker 2: I don't know what.
Speaker 4: I don't know if that's age, I don't know if
that's the brain bruises.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is, but I don't know.
Speaker 4: His mechanics just look a little bit more phone, a
little bit more shouldery than he usually does.
Speaker 2: I don't know, just a uh no, he does Solder
Josh Allen, No, not shouldery at all. No, that's a
I like that. I like it. I do like it. Yeah.
Speaker 3: For the punt block situation, that's tough. And I've been
in that situation and your eyes just get huge because
you're like, I've got a free path to the punter,
I'm gonna block this football, and.
Speaker 2: You try everything you can.
Speaker 3: And I'll be honest, there's probably in my career two
punts that I didn't block because I was so worried
about running into the punter that you you know, you
slow down just a hair and if you slow down
at all like you're not, Like everything has to be
perfect for you to block a punt and if you
slow down at all, it's just not gonna happen. So gosh,
I feel bad because you know, the Special teams coach
is just firing them up, the guys, this is going
to hit, this is going to go when we run
this rush, it is going to block a punt, and
you get so excited and it happens and unfortunately you give,
like you said, an MVP caliber quarterback another possession.
Speaker 2: He's gonna make you pay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Actually, that's a that's a great topic to ask
you about because.
Speaker 2: You were a war daddy on special teams.
Speaker 4: You blocked your fair here three block not a big deal,
but like when you train for punt block, So I
know I've seen the special teams, but like special teams
was always a blind spot for me because we never
quarterbacks never sat in Special teams meetings.
Speaker 2: We were always doing our you know, real football stuff, soul.
Speaker 4: But I would watch the drills and y'all would practice
punt block with like the pad there and the angle
you don't angle towards like you angle away from the
quarter or the punter right you block it.
Speaker 2: But when you're coming head on like that.
Speaker 4: And you're engaged with someone blocking you and you're giving,
like Micah Parson's type effort to like get past that blocker,
and you're like, I think I can do it. Like
is the thought process or the coaching points from a
special teams coach, like if you think you if you
if you think you might be.
Speaker 2: Able to block it, don't go for it.
Speaker 4: Or it's like you got one hundred percent know that
you can do it before you give it everything you got.
Because that guy knew, like he got the one hand
out there. I'm know the punt block technique that people
work on a price is a double hand.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, so like he's like.
Speaker 4: If you can only get one hand, don't do it.
Like what's the what's the technique? Like what do you
coach right there in that situation?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So in a perfect world, like if you are
free in the A gap, then you're going to the
punt leg side and you're you know, like you said,
your two hands and then you go to the same
side as his leg and that way you don't have
a collision there. But with last night, it's that's not
that situation. That's not a perfect picture. Right, that's you
having maybe a chance. And it's kind of an.
Speaker 2: A bit you do.
Speaker 3: You have to become an athlete, you have to become
a player, and they typically would tell you, hey, if
you think you have the opportunity, if you have the chance,
do whatever you've got to do, but be right, but
be right. Yeah, one of those situations. If you do it, it's.
Speaker 2: Fine, but you better read.
Speaker 3: It's like it's like anything in sport, like, hey, I'm
giving you the green life to steal bases.
Speaker 2: Right, you can do that, you better be right. Yeah,
you get you can swing on three and n right,
but you better be right. Yeah.
Speaker 4: You can throw it back across your body if you want,
or running backs you're kind of slow, you can bounce
it outside on this run.
Speaker 2: I don't know why'd you look at me when you
said that, I do. I was looking at Adham. I
looked at him. Tight yep, you say tight? Tight? Hell? Yeah?
I was bringing back yes. Yes.
Speaker 3: So unfortunately for the Dolphins, yeah, they fall again thirty
one twenty one to the Buffalo Bills. But like Flint said,
at least he gave us some football to watch because
I didn't have any expectation for that game.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: Let me So, I'm watching this game last night and
I'm watching I'm thinking, like, Okay, is this the Bills
just having it off night? Is that the Dolphins playing
really well? It's probably a combination of kind of both. Yeah,
but I'm watching this, I'm like, man, these Bills who
look unflappable.
Speaker 2: The first two weeks.
Speaker 4: They don't look like Superman right now. Their run defense
is not great. Yeah, they showed that against the Ravens.
They showed that last night. I mean a chain was
going off last night.
Speaker 3: They were gashing number one past defense in the NFL. Right,
But yes, if you want to make your hay, it's
on the ground.
Speaker 4: And that's if you think about if they continue to
win these games but their running defense is not great,
Guess where they're gonna if they keep winning. Guess where
they get to play in late January? Where is that
they get to play in their home field where it's
really cold and there's gonna be people are gonna be
running the ball at them, and it's not gonna be advantageous.
So after watching last night, I'm sitting there there are
some good, good teams in the AFC do not let
your head get too big. But I think the Chargers
might be number one on my power lift in the AFC.
So right now I got a Chargers Packers super Bowl
at this second.
Speaker 2: Don't let that happen. Don't let it happens.
Speaker 3: If that happens, we're gonna be. If you already think
we're unbearable, just wait till that happened.
Speaker 4: That's this isn't even pandering. This is just like how
I how I'm viewing.
Speaker 3: I've never heard you since I got drafted in two
thousand and eight say a nice word about the Chargers
until literally just then.
Speaker 2: Sure, so the first time. So if it's not Chargers Saints,
it'll be Shargersbackers. We'll see. We'll see what happens in January.
Do you have to do that? I have to have that?
Cabat is trying to be funny. I guess who knows.
Speaker 1: M.
Speaker 4: On a more down note, Oh great, I was texting
you last night.
Speaker 2: I got a little sad.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you you had a rough one last night.
Speaker 4: I took a tough beat on the end the sports
card game you did. I had a really nice card.
It was a Jadon Daniels card. Yeah, I bought it,
purchased it raw.
Speaker 2: I degraded it up to a ten, which typically in
the sports card world doubles it. Yeah, I mean if
you to ten, and I didn't buy it, especially on
an expensive car, and.
Speaker 4: I didn't buy it wrong either that market value, Yeah,
I graded it up. The value was much higher. And
you know, you lived by the bid, you die by
the bid. And I had it on an auction and
apparently there was only one person that wanted it and
it went for low.
Speaker 2: I tried to get it too, so it was I
graded it up to ten.
Speaker 3: And I honestly like if I wouldn't have been if
I didn't have a double header flag football, and I
would have known, like I could have bought that card.
Speaker 2: I would have definitely bought that card.
Speaker 4: If you would have bought it for the price it
went for, you would have gotten it. Sorry, bud, wait,
cancel that order. You wouldn't have given it to Sorry?
Oh wow, sorry, it's just so Yeah. So graded up
to ten, and I ended up losing a couple of
bucks on it, so you know, a little heartbroken right now,
kind of lost a.
Speaker 2: Took some wind out of my sales last night.
Speaker 4: So I just wanted to air that grievance out there
about it.
Speaker 2: He was down bad. I was down bad. I'll do
so bad. So next time, just buy his card please.
It was a nice card. I think you should.
Speaker 3: You should, like when you have a big Jaden Daniels, Malik,
BTJ Jamar Joe, you should probably announce it to you know,
the thousands of listeners we have that are also fans
of those same players.
Speaker 2: That's true. Yeah, I probably should.
Speaker 4: I probably should do a little advertising. Yeah, but I
mean it's on eBay. I mean there's millions of people
on eBay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but there's thousands listening to this show, hundreds.
Speaker 4: Tens, tens and tens people. Uh so, yeah, there we go.
It's not all just sunshine and rainbows in the card game.
Every now and then, you live by the bid, you
die by the bid. So we're trying to figure out
over here, just spitballing. Oh why what happened?
Speaker 2: Just Tim? Why? Just Tim? Tim? Why JaMarcus? Come on?
You know Jimbo still says that, by the way, Oh
my god, Yeah, that's that's his thing. Yeah. If he
didn't say it, I'd be really disappointed.
Speaker 4: Actually, in the in my travels and selling it my
high I was at a diet like a collegiate dietitians
conference and I was taught speaking with the dietitian for
Texas A and M. And she was there when Jimbo
was there, and sorry, I said, hey, I was talking
to her like, yeah, I played for Jimbo. And then
she looked at me and she said tell me why.
So she did the Jimbo impression as well, and did
it pretty good too. So we shared a couple of
Jimbo quotes Jimbo.
Speaker 2: Stories, and I got some giggles out of it. Oh.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, And that's pretty much why they're hydrated.
Speaker 2: Oh nice, nice because Jimbo story. Yeah, that's right. I
can't tell you this.
Speaker 3: Like so Jimbo all jokes aside, Jimbo Fisher coached to US.
Y'all know him National Championship a whole deal.
Speaker 2: He when he.
Speaker 3: Said that, like he's like, okay, Well, he used to always,
well tell me why why did you?
Speaker 2: It could be a good or a bad play, Like
I could remember we were playing Gosh.
Speaker 3: I think it was the game that he talked to
you about Kentucky in two thousand and six, and it
was like a third and one and I cut it
backside for the first.
Speaker 2: Down, blah blah blah, and I just remember halftime, Hey,
whytch you cut that backside? Like, well, I'll He's like,
I'll just trying to make a plage of yeah. He's like, well,
well then told you to cut it back, said, I
watch cut a backside. Tell me why, But like I
appreciate it because I'm like, okay, well, you got to
have a rhyme and a reason why you're doing things.
And honestly, like in this profession, I try to take
that with me too. Well, they can't run the ball,
can't do it, I can't pass protect, I can't run
good routes. Okay, why we'll tell me why they can't ye,
If they can't run, why are they not being able
to run? If they can't pass protect, why can't they
pass protect? Because if you're going.
Speaker 3: To say it and you're gonna believe it, we got
to know the reason why they can't do it. And
it's one of the things like when we're watching tape
and when we're back in the studio, it's like, okay, well,
if you say they can't do something, or you say
they're doing something really well, Well, tell me why?
Speaker 2: Why? Why is it working for him? Why is it?
Why is it not working for them?
Speaker 3: And so like, even in this profession I get, I
still like challenge myself. Okay, man, they can't run the
ball gimbos in the background ball.
Speaker 2: Tell me why? Tell me why?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a hey like him saying that also kind
of has been in the back of my brain always, right,
tell me why, you know, why is this play good
against this coverage? That's what makes That's kind of like
why I get I'm so high on Aaron Anderson because
he understands the why of past concepts. Right, That's what
makes like when when I talk about football IQ, it's
it's speaking.
Speaker 2: To that exact question.
Speaker 4: It is people that play the game and can look
at a playbook and understand why they're doing something. Okay,
I have a backside end route or a dig rout.
Why do I have this backside dig route? What's what's
the quarterbacks progression? What window do I need to get
in versus cover three? Versus a cover two?
Speaker 2: Look? Why do I need to warn this route a
little bit different versus man to man.
Speaker 4: It's it's understanding the why of a concept like why
did this offensive coordinator create this play? And then why
is he telling me to do this? And so that's
what makes somebody a really good and a valuable asset
for an NFL franchise when they're looking at college players.
Speaker 2: Is does that guy get it? Or is he just
a really good athlete?
Speaker 4: Does he run the same route the same way versus
every coverage? Is he running so he runs a four
three five? Does he run every route at a four
three five? Because that's not what we need? Run past
the whole You have to understand what your what your
role is in this eleven man play that.
Speaker 2: We're trying to do to beat this defense.
Speaker 3: And it's a My nine year old flag football team
doesn't understand that.
Speaker 2: Yours doesn't? Does yours? Oh yeah, for sure, we'll call
this rock concept. Do you do? You know? Why is
this coverage?
Speaker 4: I know currently we're we're working for coaching. I told
you coaches on the hot seat on the flag football team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me, you, me and the coach.
Speaker 4: We're I'm kind of like Mike McDaniels. I'm drawing to
you know, these maybe two intricate of plays. I went
three and I looked at my coaches the other day.
I said, maybe I'm really good at drawing football plays.
Maybe I'm not so good at drawing flag football players.
So we might be diving hot seat.
Speaker 2: Watch hot seat watcha it's flaming all right? Oh sorry
about that. I don't know where to go from here.
Speaker 3: But to your point though about like Aaron Anderson, he
is a receiver. Like when you, okay, you you have
a route concept and it's not good against the coverage
they're playing, and you know it, there's still things that
you can do within your route to try to get
the defender to not be disciplined and still find a
way to catch a football too.
Speaker 2: And I think he does that really well.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, He's just where he needs to be at the
right time, within the footwork of Garrett and then within
the progression.
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Speaker 3: Us at this breakfast bar, and the breakfast bar looks incredible.
Speaker 2: I think it. I think you stole my joke. I
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Speaker 3: I think it it does, say Flynn, sir, sir in
the Green Bay Packers Jersey.
Speaker 2: Green Bay Packers man locked in him.
Speaker 3: He's locked into the breakfast bart tray to turn around.
Speaker 2: If that says Flynn, you want me one hundred dollars?
Why dollars? Because it says Flyinn. All right, that's gonna
uh be the first segment, so don't you worry.
Speaker 3: When we come back in the second segment, we'll start
to break down some of the games. The Saints traveling
out to Seattle. Obviously LSU with a home game against Southeastern.
You've got some good games in the Southeastern conferences that
are going to be potentially college football playoff conversation games
down the road. If it keeps trending the way it is,
we've got a lot to get to stay locked in here.
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Speaker 2: This is off the bench, all right, welcome back in.
Speaker 3: It is OTB here live from rouses On Burbank.
Speaker 2: It is Football Friday.
Speaker 3: We'll be here every single Friday during the football season.
And that includes LSU Southeastern over across kind of the street.
Speaker 2: Basically, yeah, basically Tiger Stadium.
Speaker 4: Almost the shadows been on where.
Speaker 2: The sun's at. Well, it's gotta be a long, long
shadow Purple Jersey game. Although I don't know if we're
wearing purple. That's purple jersey game. Super excited about it.
You going? Did you get your parking pass?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: I didn't get a parking pass. So you're going, Huck
is Huck's asking about it though, Uh so we might
be there, we'll see. It's gonna be a photo finished.
Speaker 3: What are you bribing Huck with to make sure you?
Speaker 2: Oh? Good question? Yep.
Speaker 4: I'm a probably owner a new Derek Stingley card, so
my bridhem with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's from that's from me to him. That's
not from you. That's true. He didn't know that. That's true.
Speaker 4: Oh man, No, I we will probably be going, But
we were for sure going this past week and we
didn't didn't go, so.
Speaker 2: It's kind of a wild card, you ever know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we were excited about going this past weekend, and
I'm so kind of I'm a little bit upset we
missed the opportunity, We missed the vibes because I know
Death Valley was a rocking and it'll be a little
bit different tomorrow. We get it, I get it. But
we hadn't been to a game yet. So Huck's done
to get there. Get some dippin' dots some popcorn.
Speaker 3: Well, we'll see as far as the injury report for
the game. And this is by our guy Hunt Palmer
over on louisianasports dot Net. You can check that output
it out there yesterday afternoon. So trede As Green is
somebody that is progressing towards playing.
Speaker 2: Now. When he went down, it looked bad.
Speaker 3: Ye man, just I've seen that injury a thousand times, unfortunately,
but it was, you know, a good report that it
was just the spring. I missed the Florida game, but
chances are he could come back for this Southeastern game.
But I'll kind of keep throwing it back out there now.
This is a quote from Brian Kelly. Trade As was
out at practice moving around on Thursday.
Speaker 2: We threw the ball to him a little bit.
Speaker 3: I would say that he is for Saturday. We're going
to put him as questionable. I'm all about respecting your opponent.
I'm also a meathead. I hated missing any game. I
didn't miss one until the NFL. I'm pretty sure, like
truly miss a game because of injury. And it was
a week seventeen game We're playing against Denver. Both of
us were already eliminated from the playoffs, I think, and
I hated it, like.
Speaker 2: I hated it. It was awful.
Speaker 3: But there's no Southeast in louisianas in the NFL, so
like it's a it's a different situation. I think, Yep,
this is a game that they don't need trade as Green.
Now again, if you want to get him, you know,
a handful of plays, maybe it's five for whatever that
number is, okay, but like, how careful, Matt do you
have to be with a trade as Green? We've talked
about Garrett Nssmeyer playing in this game, like, look, you're
here to play. I get that, and I'll I love
the fact that everybody wants to play. I do, but
there's gonna be a lot of questions about why.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've brought up that question. You gotta tell me why.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can rush him back and maybe the respect
in your opponent. Part is the process of listing him
as questionable without the intent of playing, because there is
no reason to play him.
Speaker 2: There is no for what reason would you put him
out there?
Speaker 4: Whether you're trying, are you trying to give him some stats,
you're trying to get him back into shape, you're trying
to get his confidence up play. What possible reason could
you have or make to put him out there besides
just having the ultimate like coaches outlook of players play games.
We have a game. If you're able to play a game,
you play a game. Yeah, and that is kind of
the reason we're talking about Nussmeyer playing this week if
he's If the Torso injury truly has it has been
affecting game planning and play calling and how we're operating
as an offense, what is the reason for not resting
him and not getting him back to as close to
one hundred percent healthy as he can, if it's even
possible within the season. Besides just saying players are here
to play football. We are playing football this weekend, So
if they can go play football.
Speaker 2: They're going to play football. Yeah.
Speaker 4: That's the only kind of attitude. And I'm not saying
that's the wrong attitude to have. But hopefully we're a
little bit more got a wider vision of what this
team's goals are, what the season holds. It's a long season,
so you want to have a pass catcher that is dynamic,
that is big, that creates unfair advantages to even the
best athletes in the SEC. Yeah, you want to have
him pretty healthy when SEC played with a road.
Speaker 2: Game against Soule Miss. Yeah, next week, so he's.
Speaker 3: Listened his question when you're right, like, it might be
respecting your opponent and just putting that and you're practicing
him because he is good enough to go, but obviously
you still want to be cautious with him there. So
I honestly, I would not expect to see him like
he might even go through pregame warm ups. He might
be dressed, but I don't know that you'll see him
in the game. That's just my guess on this situation.
Speaker 4: Now, I wouldn't think you would, I mean honestly. Yeah,
And actually I don't know the rules. Is there a
rule like if you are listed as out, can you practice?
Speaker 2: Are you something? Because now you have to have it? Yeah,
I'm pretty sure you can't.
Speaker 3: Now you have to have official, you know, injury report
now in the SEC.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I don't know if I know this.
Speaker 3: If you have an injury but you're full participant in practice,
you don't have to list that on the injury report.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we learned that with so Angry. Okay, right,
all right.
Speaker 3: So if you're practicing your a full go. You don't
have to list it, but I don't know the flip.
Speaker 4: For sure, the reverse of that, like if you were
listed as out in the game, can you suit up
and good practice?
Speaker 3: So all right, trede as Green gonna be questionable for
this game. Wes Weeks is doubtful for this game with
the cash strain that he had. Again, another player you're
absolutely going to need against Ole Miss Todd McShay had
a great clip about talking about Harold Perkins and the
star position and him creating nightmares and he's.
Speaker 2: Like in the Weeks brothers like Mike, you.
Speaker 3: Know, just kind of goes like in the physicality and
now the defense is playing. So I'm glad Wes Weeks
is getting the love that he deserves because last week
before he got hurt man he stepped up when his
brother went out of the game because he hit somebody
too hard in tackle football, he played incredibly well. And
that is a player that has continued to develop in
that linebacker room. And Devine Key stepped up and he
was a good player last year. I remember having so
many conversations with Blake about him in the offseason.
Speaker 2: They love him as well.
Speaker 3: That is such a deep room like that one makes like, yeah,
you're doubt for you.
Speaker 2: You're not going out there.
Speaker 3: We got plenty of it and we're gonna need you against
Ole miss there. So that one makes all the sense
in the world not to try to rush back. And like,
I've never had a cash strain. I don't know how,
you know, annoying that one can be. Like I've had
plenty of knee in different springs and stuff, So I'm
gonna be doubtful for this one.
Speaker 2: But again, another player that when he went down.
Speaker 3: And you're sitting there and you're looking through your binoculars
on the broadcast and you see him holding they're like,
oh boy, the parents came down on the field. Oh gosh,
So good news for that one too.
Speaker 2: Look takes only to be a couple of weeks. Yeah,
great news.
Speaker 4: But I mean, going thinking back of the game, it
just last week the amount of people that had to
step up and play over their skis, had to play
in a position they didn't expect when they put their
head on the pillow Friday night, did not expect to
have to contribute against the Florida Gators in that type
of atmosphere To the extent that they did. Guys that
just stepped up, and like Brian Kelly said after the game,
I don't know if.
Speaker 2: They really knew what they were doing, but they did it.
Speaker 4: They did it, they did it fast, and they did
it with bad intentions. So that's why we love this defense.
And I actually randomly I just watched the first half
of our defense play on I watched the All twenty
two yesterday, just our defense yes day against Florida.
Speaker 2: And man they are.
Speaker 4: I came away very impressed with the IQ of our
linebackers when they're pressuring. I came away very impressed with
the aggressiveness even more so of the Blake Baker mindset
and philosophy and the teachings that they have. And they
it seems like every time they are at least bringing
five guys which turned into six, usually because it was
some sort of green dog. I did come away a
little bit wary of if I was game planning against this.
There are there are holes and exploitations to take advantage
of if you can catch them in the right defense.
Speaker 3: That's yeah, I mean, it's any that's the aggressive absolutely
defense for Shure. I mean, I remember playing you know
you play against the Ravens and the Steelers around the
time that we were in the NFL, and I remember
being in those meetings and being like.
Speaker 2: Hey, guys, there's place to be made. It's like, yeah,
there's place to be made.
Speaker 3: But also Hellodianada and Terrell Suggs or hitting Philip in
the face before he can you know, Ed Reid's coming
off the edge, or Ray Lewis is coming through the
a gap.
Speaker 2: Same thing.
Speaker 3: Like, it's like, yeah, there's place to be made. But
see Troy Paulamalos jumping over the center. And so for sure,
like that's when you're aggressive. Obviously there's got to be
like and so like that's the thing for them is
can they continue to be as aggressive and play to
that level and have as much success because eventually there's
gonna be like at least one play in the year
where there aggressive nature a team takes advantage of it
because you know, for whatever reason, maybe the blitzer slips
down or maybe the running back has a really good pass.
Speaker 2: Protection on him, it's gonna be a big play. But
that's that's what you know when you play that style,
and Blake knows that su some of those things are
going to happen, and you live with that risk, and
you live.
Speaker 3: My God, please keep living with it. Don't play quarters coverage. No,
you sit back there and be passing it is.
Speaker 2: You would much rather be the hammer and not the nail.
Speaker 4: And they did it, and I'm watching this and I'm like,
you are allowed to do this because of people like
Manslor Delane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, early in the game, maybe he might be the
team MVP. So he is a.
Speaker 4: Guy that can understand route concepts and diagnose what they're
trying to do very quickly, like where is it. There
was a play early on in the game and they
run a little wheel route, little little pick play wheel
route with the inside receiver and they were man coverage. Yeah,
we were in man coverage. And his guy goes down
to pick the wheel route. Comes the linebacker covering the
wheel route goes underneath the pick.
Speaker 2: And once you go underneath the pick, you're dead. You're dead, yeah, right,
because the guy hits it over.
Speaker 4: He realizes that bails on the guy that he was
covering to cover the wheel route. And I can't remember
if he knocked it down, hear, except I can't, honestly,
I can't remember. But he makes the play on it
dead play L s U ball right and left his
guy wide open because he diagnosed it and read the
eyes of the DJ Lagway. Who DJ Lagway. It's got
to get back that diagnosing things. He just does not
diagnose the defense very well, very quickly.
Speaker 3: And again I'll be like, right, and but that's like,
that's part of it. These are college quarterbacks and you're
you're kind of playing an NFL style of defense right now.
As far as as multiple as you are, you don't
see that in college football.
Speaker 2: Like I watch a lot of tape and you don't
see the.
Speaker 3: Multiple defenses, the multiple things that they're doing on tape
that I'm watching.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you have to get really creative when you're if
you're trying to take a look and break down this
film without being in it within the walls of the
L s U football facility, without understanding their actual calls
and what I'm sitting there. If I'm trying to like
chart over one, two, three, four or four dog zone
or you know, three strong dog or whatever it is, right,
I have to write a long ways like okay, this
is cover four, but you know they're they're man on
one their trail on three, Like there's they're very complicated
defense that are hard just for the standard person just
go said, oh, yeah, they're playing the quarters coverage. Well
they are, but there's got a lot of other principals.
Speaker 2: To it too, soylaws, and.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of communication with that defense, which speaks
to that leadership in the the guys, the veteran presence
out there in the in the secondary and on that
defense because they're communicating and changing coverages throughout the play,
like midway through the cadence. They're doing it and they're
catching it and everybody's on the same page. There was
one time where one safety didn't get a call and.
Speaker 2: This was after what weeks was out. Yeah, so they're.
Speaker 4: Communicating, so the linebacker is telling everybody what to do.
One safety didn't get it. Logway SCRAMs out to the left.
There's a touchdown down the sideline. Yeah, wide open.
Speaker 2: That was the only time I saw somebody miss an assignment.
And they say he got a holding call.
Speaker 4: It was a cloud coverage. It was cover too, and
the safety didn't give to the top of things. Man, yep, And.
Speaker 2: That's the one they got the holden call and got
called back there. But yeah, you're right about that.
Speaker 3: As far as Gary Nelsmyer, before we take this break,
Brian Kelly said, he's feeling good. We had to limit
a lot of things we did over the first three
or four weeks. He's finally coming to practice feeling good
and getting into a good rhythm. He's had his best
week of practice. So we want him to play and
go through the game at the level where he's comfortable.
To hold him back really at this point would not
be the right thing for him. He's excited to play
because he feels so much better.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 4: I know he had his best week in practice. This
week felt the best. But guess what, he didn't play
this week, he would feel even better. Maybe next week,
maybe he'd be a little mad.
Speaker 2: I'd be mad. Maybe the Torso injuries one of the ones.
You know, you don't want it to get too stiff.
You don't want to sit there and have to stretch
you back out. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Look, I don't know Torso injuries and DOT came in
the other days like, yeah, it could be anywhere from
basically your neck to your pelvis.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, that's a small area. So I don't know.
Like we don't know exactly.
Speaker 3: Like what it is, but all right, if the head
coach feels good, if the player feels good, if he
feels like he needs to get him in a rhythm
before you travel, old miss, all right, who am I
to say that?
Speaker 2: That's not factual, that's not what needs to be done.
But tell me why I think he told you? Why?
So he's gonna play in this game.
Speaker 3: West Week's gonna be out for this game and trade
as Green's questionable, but I would be I'd be surprised
if you.
Speaker 2: See him out there. So that is the injury report again.
Speaker 3: Louisiansports dot Net hump Palmer did a great write up.
Speaker 2: You can check it out there.
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Speaker 3: All right, Hey, the New Orleans Saints injury report and
the one injury that I've been watching, You've been watching.
We've all been wondering when Trevor Pinning was going to
get back onto the field. Well again another report by
Ross Jackson and louisianasports dot Net. He is trending in
the right direction and potentially could play this week.
Speaker 2: Well, why is that important?
Speaker 3: You know, Trevor Pinning certainly had some ups and downs,
but you need somebody at guard. Somebody knew somebody what
do you mean, somebody that plays better.
Speaker 2: Than We don't say his name loud anymore.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, we just whisper it because it's bad juju.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: By the way, Caesar Ruiz is eighty six out of
eighty eight graded guards in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Who are the other two fouls?
Speaker 3: Who are those? I want to know who those guys are.
So you need help at guard. You need Trevor Pinning back.
So if he's trending in the right direction, maybe, just
maybe you can get him back at left guard. You're
already you know, you're down multiple players at that position already.
Speaker 2: The player you have right now again.
Speaker 3: Is eighty six out of eighty eight graded guards in
the NFL this year. You need so much help at
the position. So even if Trevor Pinning it is not
the best guard in the world, you need somebody that is.
He's a former first round pick, he's making the move
from tackle guard feels like it is a better situation
for him.
Speaker 2: You need him to play, You need him to play.
Speaker 3: He's had the turf toe situation for multiple weeks.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Your interior of your offensive line is horrendous. It's horrendous
right now, and you're trying to help out a young
quarterback who's out there kind of balling a little bit.
Just imagine if you gave him the peace of mind
of having, you know, the interior of the offense solidified.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's uh, Caesar, Yeah, it's one of the things
if if you're practicing, so see it looks like he
was out there in a limited role on Wednesday, practicing
starting starting out on Wednesday this week, so you start to.
Speaker 2: Practice to playing the game. So at least get him.
Speaker 4: Out there, start getting his legs back under him, getting
this condition in into him.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe you see him a little bit in the game.
I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's you know, to the extent of which he did practice,
I'd like to kind of figure that out. But yeah,
you got to get him back in there. You have
to help that help that offensive line. You got to
help Spencer Rattler, even though he has proven to be
able to work in chaos pretty well, to create and
move his feed and be twitchy back there in the pocket.
Speaker 2: We need a lot of help. We need a lot
of help.
Speaker 4: So we all the help you can get, Saints, I'm
all here for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. It's troublesome whenever you have.
Speaker 3: That many deficiencies in the middle of your offensive line.
Speaker 2: And look in Aaron McCoy, who's a really.
Speaker 3: Damn good football player, didn't have his best week, like
when he's not perfect, which is completely unfair to him,
but when he's not perfect, I mean, it is a
complete you know what show. So they just they have
to have help up there. We'll see if Trevor Pinning
can give them that help, because they're certainly not going
to get it from the right side. All right, We'll
take a break also continue talking about the matchup Seattle
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the Saints.
Speaker 2: It opened up at eight and a half, So you're
telling me there's a chance, a chance, there's a.
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