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Speaker 2: With Jacob Hester and Terrifying Terrible.
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Speaker 3: All right, welcome man O TV. Monday Morning.
Speaker 2: You don't get a yo. Yo's for winners and nobody won.
Jake Flying Alandra Tayte here.
Speaker 4: With you should have done the nose.
Speaker 2: No, no, that's actually really good.
Speaker 3: That's really good.
Speaker 2: You had a lot of time to sit there and
think this weekend, so you came up with a lot
of different things, a.
Speaker 3: Lot of one liners, a lot of a lot of
players to break down.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, LSU goes down, the Saints go down.
Speaker 3: I'm sure the Saints have lost a lot of games,
but it's how.
Speaker 2: They went down, how LSU went down, or underdogs in
the game, but it's the things that happen in the game.
You're gonna see. You'll see a lot a lot of
clips today. Probably not, No, might it might be good,
it'd be real bad.
Speaker 4: Radio Tis. We might watch a lot of film.
Speaker 3: Yes, Theater of the Mind. We'll do our best to
set it up.
Speaker 2: But today's one of those days that if you could
get to your desk, if you can, you know, maybe
have a business call that you got to take. And
what it really means you go to your car and
pull up your phone and pull up YouTube. Maybe maybe
that's a good day to do that here today, gosh,
just well, look, we'll get there. We'll get there like
we always do. Though, I want to see how much
people are doing.
Speaker 3: How are you.
Speaker 4: I'm not great, Jake, not great at all, buddy.
Speaker 5: But you know what, when you walk through those doors today,
I think a little sunshine came in.
Speaker 4: You know why? Why is that you have a beautiful mustache?
Speaker 2: Oh thank you. It's the most exciting thing that happened
to me this weekend.
Speaker 4: You're trying to be like the young ones, the young baseball.
Speaker 2: Players out there. They win so maybe so why not? Yeah,
LSU baseball wins championships. But you know what to in
the last three years, maybe I can get some of
that energy.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well I also kept the soul patch though.
Speaker 4: I'm not uh yeah, I do see that.
Speaker 5: I think that's a little bit more than a lot
of the youths do. I think they're just strict, strict mustache.
I think, oh yeah, think it's a little bit so bad.
But yeah, I enjoyed a good soul. I was saying,
I don't I'm not doing great. It wasn't a good watch.
It didn't get a good feeling in the game. Certainly
a terrible feeling after the game. We LSU went out
there and they got beat by a better football team,
a better team, a team that's better at tackle football
than you're LSU Tigers. Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt better at football than LSU.
Not really a day that I thought i'd see coming.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 5: A lot of credit goes to Vanderbilt, So credit to them.
They've built a nice little program there. They're very well coached,
and they played good. Yeah, they knew they were good.
We knew they were good going into it.
Speaker 2: We're going diversity all over the place, and what they
do offensively and defensively.
Speaker 4: And they execute very well.
Speaker 5: Yeah hard those guys, and I got a good grit,
good attitude. I watched their offensive line on video. My god,
they they're just they're impressive. They got a lot of
draft they got a lot of future draft picks on
that offensive line, and they they looked like it certainly,
so anyway, well coached, So hats off to them. We're
gonna go ahead and get that out of the way.
Hats off to Vanderbilt right now. You played great. You
proved every single drive pretty much that you were the
better football team. You improved the like quarter one, quarter two,
quarter three, quarter four. There wasn't one quarter where LSU
was better than you, So kudos to you. Hats off
Clark Lee, You've done an amazing job. Diego Pavia. You
are a dude. I don't know how you're going to
be at the next level. I don't really care, because
at this level you're great. And what you did and
what you do and what you bring out of the
other ten guys on the team and the other eleven
guys on the other side of the ball, what you
bring out in your team is impressive. So I'm gonna
get it out of the way. Y'all beat LSU. Y'all
beat us soundly. Congratulations to y'all. The rest of this show,
we're gonna talk about LSU. So right now I want
to say congratulations because you did it.
Speaker 4: You deserve it. Give you your flowers.
Speaker 5: You made LSU and all the things we're going to
talk about about LSU in this show, y'all cause that so,
I just want to get that out of the way.
I don't want anybody to get it twisted that we
think that LSU just lost this game because y'all want
it and y'all made LSU, you know, look bad. A
lot of times, there are some positive things to take
away all. There always is, no matter win, lose, draw, whatever,
there's always positive takeaway. There's always negatives to take away.
This time there's a little bit more negative minus a
little bit minus a little bit. But what they've what
they're doing over at Vanderbilt is, uh, it's pretty impressive.
And the one thing that kind of pisses me off
more than anything is, and it's a hard pill to swallow,
is I texted somebody after the game and I was like,
you know what, how many games had it been since
Vanderbilt had beaten LSU? Yeah, and been up since nineteen ninety,
nineteen ninety, hadn't been favorited, been over a top ten team,
and since seventy seven or something. Yeah, you beat LSU
and you didn't rush the field. Yeah, that means the
fan base expected it. Oh yeah, the team expected it.
It was no surprise to anybody. And I was like, huh,
that's like a pretty historical monumental when when you like
the build up.
Speaker 4: To this game, I was like, they didn't even rust
the field. It tells you something. It tells you something
right there.
Speaker 2: I mean even they even said after the game, because
we're still doing postgame, they're like, all right, fans, the
clock is over, ya can now come on the field.
Yeah when I say, it was the most gingerly walk
you've ever seen, Yeah, like single file one at a time,
like okay.
Speaker 3: We'll come down there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we come in here all the time. Like, man,
why they rust the field? They didn't they they were
a favorite or they were blah blah blah blah blah.
This is one of those times where it's like, hey,
it's probably kind of warranted. I feel like Vanderbilt's just
been waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, and they've waited waited, waited,
waited for you know, forty years. They did it, and
they did it soundly, and it wasn't lucky. Yeah, oh no,
get out there, students.
Speaker 2: There was nothing, There was nothing less about them being
victorious over lsu. No, it was a it was a
feeling after and I'm not kidding you, I'd say ten
plays into the game, maybe fifteen maybe. I remember I
remember looking over Chris and me like we're in trouble.
I told her we got off if said, hey, we're
in trouble. Yep, because it had that after ten or
fifteen plays that had that that feel to it. H
broby fifteen, I guess because you had you have maybe
maybe you had a long drive.
Speaker 3: And then when they got the ball, it's like we're
in trouble.
Speaker 5: Even even in a lot of the scoring drives you saw,
it wasn't like we were just beating them to move
down the field a couple of plays here, in a
couple of plays there. But like the how Vanderbilt is
very methodical, like we we we kind of broke.
Speaker 4: It down last week leading up to the game.
Speaker 5: They do everything and they do everything well, Yeah, on offense,
they're gonna.
Speaker 4: Hit you his own, they're gonna hit you his own.
Speaker 5: Read jet, sweep, fake jet, sweep, screen past, dank, dunk, dink, dunk, scramble, scramble,
no slide, then a shot play. Yeah, they do everything.
On defense, they same thing. Cover one, Cover two, Cover three,
Cover four, zero. Take send some cover zero. Let's bluff
the cover zero after we've run it one or two
times because we think elis she's gonna overadjust for cover
zero and change into a seven man protection.
Speaker 2: Wait are you saying putting the tight end and running
back literally like in place like mannekins is a bad thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and not even not even sliding the offensive line.
We'll get to it. We'll get to it. Oh my god.
Speaker 3: They did that like three times and I was.
Speaker 2: Like, stop adjusting to it. Oh god, you can pick
up cover zero long enough. With six guys, you can,
and you should. Now there's plenty of times that the
tackle should squeeze to the B gap instead of let
the guy come out anyway. It's like we're gonna watch,
We're gonna do it. We're gonna do it, guys, we're
gonna get through this this three hours. We're gonna do
it together together. Yeah, because we're a team. We are,
We're in it with you, and we feel just like
everybody else that's listening, every other fan. And I'm sure
to look and I'm sure the team feels worse than
all of us do.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm, you hope.
Speaker 5: So I mean they feel worse about the loss. Like,
I don't know if they're quite as mad as the
L s U fan base. They're upset that they lost.
Of course, Hey look on the bright side, though, play
at home this week. Cant um, I'm not.
Speaker 6: I don't know, guys, I don't really feel like that's
gonna go.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Yeah, you were in Nashville. You had
a fun remote on Friday? Yea, Yeah, y'alls hotel was
like in the stadium.
Speaker 6: It was in the stadium basically for the game.
Speaker 3: And I was like, hold up.
Speaker 6: Why is she in pajamas?
Speaker 3: Is not dressed yet?
Speaker 2: I got ready for the game, I was like, and
then Gory's like, no, our Hotel's like, that's our hotel, Okay.
Speaker 6: I was not dressed.
Speaker 7: And that's what I was telling Matt this morning that
I hope I'm not in the background of any L
issue football video.
Speaker 6: I cannot be.
Speaker 7: I was in like a dev red Beans and Rice shirt, yeah,
and like, yeah, yeah, the remote was a really big
way off my I feel like I was stressed about
that for like two weeks because we had a bunch
of stuff, like Taylor knows, we needed like a new
com Rex because we only had one and.
Speaker 6: Y'all were on remote, so there's just like a lot
going on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we had some we had some stuff. But Cassie help.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Shadow Cassie figured it out.
Speaker 7: Yeah, she was a huge, huge help last week.
Speaker 6: But it went well. It was it was very overwhelming.
Speaker 7: There was a lot of people there, and there's a
band plane while Matt was on air, and like, there's
just a lot going on.
Speaker 6: So glad that got out the way. Saturday was horrible.
I I was.
Speaker 7: So mad and I felt like I had to I
stayed the whole time, but there were points where I
felt like I literally had to leave because I was
starting to get you can't do anything in the press box.
Some I'm sitting there like clenching my fists, just getting angry,
and I felt like I wanted to leave just so
that I could get angrier. But there were so many
Arthur fists I can't even begin to tell you. And
then in the middle of that, Ross TeX's the Louisiana
Sports Group chat that the Saints are having extension talks
with Chris Olave.
Speaker 6: Which he went off yesterday. He wants that extension real,
real bad.
Speaker 3: That fourth down call was so bad.
Speaker 7: Sorry, yeah, it was that game yesterday was also abysmal.
Speaker 6: But yeah, other than that, got back yesterday early. That's
that it was just like.
Speaker 2: Just not I mean, I know you were you were
in saying both me like if you were in Nashville,
you didn't have a good time.
Speaker 7: We were went to dinner after and we were just
like not even we didn't even.
Speaker 4: The dinner.
Speaker 3: Yeah, certainly after you get your butt kicked.
Speaker 7: Every once in a while one of us would be like, man,
I'm just so mad, Yeah, just so made.
Speaker 3: How about you did the Bucks play yet?
Speaker 8: No, they played a night well, I mean physically or mentally,
physically mentally.
Speaker 3: Coming back they did the Cardinal.
Speaker 8: It went from like anger on Saturday, and then I
woke up yesterday morning.
Speaker 6: I'm just like, you know, I'm also about to send out.
Speaker 8: Of it, just out of it.
Speaker 4: Mentally.
Speaker 8: It's like season's over. You haven't even got the November yet.
How many times are we going to continue to say
that like that's that's that's what.
Speaker 4: That's just where I'm at.
Speaker 8: It's just it's one of those things where, like, you know,
I've been a fan of my entire life, I don't
really enjoy watching this team because like, there's been teams
in the past that have went ten and two, nine
and three that have fought their ass off, and I've
enjoyed watching them.
Speaker 4: I don't enjoy watching this. Yeah, this is kind of
taking the joy out.
Speaker 8: No, it's not a fun watch.
Speaker 4: You put your finger on it.
Speaker 8: How much time we got?
Speaker 4: Three hours?
Speaker 8: We have three hours we got There's a lot, man,
like you got out physical. I'm okay with losing again.
You got out physically from the opening.
Speaker 6: Two clips y'all sent last night, and.
Speaker 8: They could probably send ten more.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, ten.
Speaker 6: LSU.
Speaker 7: I just sent in the group chat, Taylor, if you
want to try to pull it up. I need y'all
to look at this espresso martini. I got the hotel
you saw it. This is what LSU. This is what
Saturday LSU's game vibe gave me.
Speaker 6: Was this dumb espresso Martini that I got.
Speaker 4: And we out?
Speaker 5: Physical is an understatement? Yeah, it honestly is. People couldn't
get off. There was a early in the game they
had a tight end number sixteen. Is it Calvin Johnson
out there? Oh my god, Calvin Johnson? Was it George
Kittle blocking first drive of the game? He locks up
Harold Perkins and doesn't let him go for about ten seconds.
Speaker 3: Yeah. God, that's their backup tight end.
Speaker 5: By the way, number sixteen tight end was blocking the
hell out of LSU defenders and they could not get
off the block. Tight end wearing one with the six
after it all.
Speaker 3: Right, let's just go ahead and take a break.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be We'll just we're gonna dive straight into it.
There's no pleasant pleasant trees after a game like that.
It is what it is.
Speaker 4: We make it clear though, like kudos to Vanderbilt the way.
Speaker 3: But it's just like, look what we did.
Speaker 4: No, Vanderbilt with your won that game.
Speaker 8: There's a lot of times where it's like, oh, you
made a bone at a mistake at the end and
you lost the game. Vanderbilt won that game.
Speaker 3: Even old miss. I'm like, you know, gosh, you didn't
make that play. No, no, no, no, Vanderbilt brought the fight
to you and you put your gloves down.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Sometimes like you lose to a worse team who just
gets hot. Sometimes you get unlucky in games. This game
you lost to a better football team. Yeah, they beat you.
You play them ten times, they beat you seven or
eight times.
Speaker 2: In which there's a lot loaded in that statement, but
it's factual. And that's another one of the problems that
we're talking about. All right, let's go ahead, take a break,
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Speaker 2: All right, let's go ahead and dive straight into it. Matthew,
for you and for in this game, what was maybe
your biggest thing that went wrong? Like, what was the
one thing that you point to to say, like, this
is at a level where if it doesn't go up,
you're in trouble for the rest of your games outside
of Western Kentucky. Like, what was kind of the point
of emphasis for you here in this loss?
Speaker 5: There's there, I mean, there's a number of things you
can point at. Right, there's a lot of finger pointing,
I guess. And it's not our job here to, you know,
call out individuals. It's not our job to call out,
you know, to finger point and say it's this guy's fault,
we lost this US fah blah blah blah. What we're
going to do is we are going to kind of
talk about just results, just units. In general. Offensive line
play is poor, has been all year, has been all season.
It was a big question mark going into the season.
I feel like the technique is poor a lot. I
feel like the technique that is being taught to them
for different types of plays is incorrect. Mike declarations sometimes
struggle and past protection and run protection, running back play well.
Offensive line play has been poor. Quarterback play has been
below the standard. Yeah, and if those two things do
not get fixed and get fixed fast, then you're looking
at a couple more losses on the schedule.
Speaker 4: Now, can they be fixed? I don't know.
Speaker 5: I feel like the offensive line group that you know
was at one point young, I just haven't seen development
consistent develop now they have. There's good plays. Everybody's gonna
have good plays. Right, there's times whe you're like, all right,
that was good, that was nice. Locked him up there,
shot off there, fired off. They worked this double team up.
But we've seen it. At the beginning of the year,
we were kind of excusing it, excusing it because it
was like, all right, well he just it was a
mental air like he was looking at the wrong backer,
he was had his eyes in the wrong location. Well,
we just I'm not seeing the improvement. I'm not seeing
where that is getting better. Past protection is at at
times really bad. No I mean, getles walking right back then,
I know, I know you don't want it's it's really poor,
really poor. Right tackle not playing well, left tackle not
playing well, quarterback not playing well. That's that's a recipe
for not playing very well as as a team and
as an offense. I mean, you're getting some good play,
you're wide receivers. Harlan Berry was a I mean I
thought a really har right spot.
Speaker 2: Holland Berry looked great. I mean his patience and like
he's got some different juice to him. He chipped the
hell out of somebody one time, like he earns some
more playing time and a longer look. It was at
a point in the game, I'm like, twenty two that
need to come off the field, right, Like you can
tell sometimes when when guys have that that day.
Speaker 3: He had it that.
Speaker 2: Day, And every time I saw him leave the field,
I wanted to like buzz down, be like no, no,
I'll put him back out there.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean he's he's clearly got the best vision from
getting the running back room, the best feel, the best vision.
Kidding Durham, I think he still makes some really good
plays and and does, but he doesn't seem to have
just that natural instinctive vision. And then my I guess
my third thought on the offense outside of just the physicalness,
so offensive line play has to improve, quarterback play has
to improve.
Speaker 4: Schematically. I just sometimes I sit there.
Speaker 5: And when I'm watching the film and I'm watching the
game flow, and I just tilt my head like what
are we doing schematically?
Speaker 4: Like I don't know if there's you know, missed calls.
Speaker 5: Something not getting relayed down properly or relayed to the
players properly. But I see I see issues in play designs.
Not all the time, but sometimes, like we're running, there's
too many RPOs, flat off.
Speaker 4: I've said it all year, I've been I've harped on it.
Speaker 5: There's too many RPOs, too many RPOs, and it creates
issues for offensive linemen they can't fire off the ball.
Speaker 4: But then it also.
Speaker 5: Creates you don't get you don't get blocking on the
third level of the defense by your receivers, right, you're
running hitch routes with your receivers in the slot who
should be digging out of safety. And then multiple times
this game, you you break through the first two levels
of the defense and you're one on one with the
safety that's safety should.
Speaker 4: Be getting dug out by the receiver. Yep.
Speaker 5: In every single offense I've ever seen in my whole
life in football, and if you're going to run an RPO,
you don't run an RPO to the play side, right,
you run a backsack side.
Speaker 4: Yep. No, we do it on boath side.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because to your point, playside, you break a run
the third level, second level even Yeah, there's a defender
there because that defender is not worried about the hitch.
Speaker 5: Yep, And I just and I don't think that. I
don't know what's And again, everybody has different rules for
their RPOs, like what when are we going to run it?
Speaker 1: Here?
Speaker 4: Do we run it? Do we do we pass it? Taylor?
Speaker 5: Can you pull up my screen? This is just an example.
This is early in the game. This is this is
the first down. I think we had just gotten a
third down, and so this is our This is a
running play.
Speaker 4: It's an RP O.
Speaker 5: Look right, So we got stacked defenders up at the top,
receivers down to the bottom. We have a we have
an inside zone called to the right here and running
game is a numbers game. You have two high safeties
one two. We're gonna run the ball to the right. Okay,
you got three linemen to block, three defenders, hand the
ball off, stop throwing wide receiver screens. It is a
hard play to be successful. Yeah, a couple of times
it hits for six or seven, you're like, oh yeah,
it's an extension of the running game. More often times,
more often than not, you're gonna get a holding call
by the receipt she did, which.
Speaker 3: She did, and bower Sharp got one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then I can't stand seeing it to three
receivers stacked because even if they make their blocks, it's
not like the defenders disappear and they're not there anymore.
Speaker 4: They're still there. You have to navigate them.
Speaker 2: So we'll go to the back end and as a
running back if you like. If this isn't handed off,
I am pretty pissed.
Speaker 4: So this is a numbers game.
Speaker 5: You got one two three, one two three, you run
it one hundred percent of the times. If you run
that play one hundred times, you hand this ball off
a one hundred times. I don't know what's being taught.
I don't know what Garrett is seeing. Maybe he's doing
exactly what he's being taught. If you get a cloud corner,
you should never throw that against a cloud corner, for one.
But if he hands it off, who's stopping twenty nine? Yeah,
don't worry. We got two out of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Because I mean for Kadin Durham, there's multiple places
actually he could go.
Speaker 3: He could try to go inside of the tackle.
Speaker 5: I just don't know. I just don't understand. I don't
know the rules. And I mean, and I doubt that's
his rule. He has to hand that ball off because
there's multiple other times where there's things that happen that
I know he's not being taught, but maybe you know,
I don't know.
Speaker 4: We have to speculate.
Speaker 5: And all I can do is give you opinions and
thoughts on what I was coached to do. Yeah, and
not just by like one offense. I'm talking about like seven.
I don't think there's one. I don't think that's one.
LSU offense is like an outlier, yeah, like where they
just have different rules than everybody else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and like and to your point, like there's multiple
places like I said that Kanen, Like if he's given
the ball there, you can try to go inside of
the tackle, can arm tackle because there's nobody. Yeah, if
I didn't the ball your throat checking me in the HD, Yeah,
I'm pissed. Yeah mate, you should have. Yeah, he could
have dipped in the tackle, bounced it out. There was
nobody there. It had been him with an alley that
had nobody in there. So uh yeah, Look, it's gonna
be gonna be more of that. It's gonna be more
of watching some film and again.
Speaker 5: If you want to continue your punishment, yeah, like and
stick with us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny, like, uh I got help on Twitter, Like,
oh I gotta you gotta be like T Bobb and Booger,
you gotta call him out. It's like, well, we're.
Speaker 2: Gonna show you why they're getting called out. I'll show
you kind of facts and examples of why they're getting
called out, not just you know, saying it, because like
we have that ability, like this is our platform and
today that's what we're gonna use it for. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: Two thousand and seven, Champs Purple and Gold to the core.
This is off the Bench with Hester and Flynn Baton,
Rouge's go to for all things Louisiana sports.
Speaker 2: I know the music's gonna be sad today. It was
kind of my jams, but yeah, it's a vibe here
on O TV as we continue to break it down
Vanderbilt l.
Speaker 4: S U.
Speaker 2: One of the things we talked about as physicality, and
there's some plays that certainly stood out and they they've
got to get fixed, and I hope you can fix them.
The desiro is to fix them because again, like Matt said,
like these these aren't these aren't coaching points. You didn't
coach UH for this, Like at least you don't hope
that they got coached UH for this. There's a handful
of plays here and tity, you can go ahead and
and just pull them up that the physicality absolutely shows.
Watch Vanderbilt's left guard one two. You're gonna run that back.
Watch Vanderbilts left guard one two. It's not a good
look and.
Speaker 4: We're not okay, Like, let's in.
Speaker 5: L s U guys defense there that was a pretty
remarkable play that left guard.
Speaker 4: No, neither one of those guys he hit was his guy.
Speaker 3: That's that's my entire point of showing it.
Speaker 4: Okay, find work.
Speaker 2: Everybody's everybody's gotten big boy like that on a football field.
Speaker 3: I know I have before. But it's showing you the
aggression of the guard.
Speaker 2: It isn't what happened to the even the defensive players,
because look, they're rushing somebody else. That's finding work, right,
it's finding work. So it's not like, oh my god,
how can that happen? Those defensive players weren't looking at him.
That's not even the point. The point is the guard.
That's why I said left guard for Vanderbilt because pull up.
Speaker 4: That's a mindset and it's a coaching point.
Speaker 2: To your left tackle gets put on his back. Let's
kind of show you, like the different example of some
of the physicality stuff that we're talking about. And another
portion of this is like your backup center, who's also
the third guard, is a first in at left tackle.
Watch a left tackle here for LSU, right, So what
is your quarterback supposed to do?
Speaker 3: In this one? Your left tackle almost sacks your quarterback. Right.
Speaker 2: Those are some of the things we're talking about, like
there's losing and then there's that, hey, right tackle is
getting walked back to yep.
Speaker 3: Let's go. Let's go to the other let'smight as well.
Speaker 2: So it's just into the chamber here, all right. So
now we've got I believe this one's a running play.
If I'm not mistaken, the one that we sent you,
it's it's loading our internet. Imagine that the media company
is going slow. I mean, we could show multiple, honestly,
of plays like that. Here's all right, here's a running play.
Watch right here, go back. Watch there's a couple of
things actually in this one. Watch your tight end on
the right side of the screen. He ends up almost
taking out your right tackle. Go back one more time,
all right, Watch the combo block between your left guard
and left tackle. Your left guard ends up on the ground.
Free guy come and hit your running back tight end
on the back. So as a running back, he's actually
pressing where he needs to press it. And then when
he sees the free guy, because your left guard ends
up on the ground, he's thinking, okay, well I at
least have backside, because I have two tight ends cutting
off the back side. The problem is the tight end
on the line of scrimmage, the why ends up about
four yards on the ground from where he started.
Speaker 5: And that on the tight end that wasn't it got
his guy he was blocking, that knocked him down. That
got it was another example of their players finding work
making the other team's job difficult. Understanding that tight end
is working up to the linebacker. Well, I'm not going
to let him work up to the linebacker. I'm gonna
shove him. He's not looking at me. You just have
to be alert for those things. And that's that's that
comes with experience, and that comes with a mindset.
Speaker 2: And again, yeah, I mean that's a great point by Matt.
So that tight end is going up to the next level.
But you can't be passive in the fire zone right there.
You have to know when that player reads zone because
he sees trade as Green probably coming across to cut
him off. He's gonna put his hands on you. And
so you got to be firm with your outside shoulder
as you work, like you.
Speaker 4: You had a lean.
Speaker 5: He didn't lose a one on one battle here like that.
That's not like that. That would that's not the point
of showing this. Cliff it's like that he's working up,
he's going up to the second level. He is no alert,
he's not alert. He's not aware of the guy coming down.
It's the point of Vanderbilt was not passive in anything
they did.
Speaker 4: No, they took the fight.
Speaker 3: This is that's not his guy. His guy's trade as
Green coming across yep.
Speaker 2: But he's going to redirect Bower Sharp and so what
what happens there when he redirects him? Then he still
plays his play against trade as Green? And who's free
the guy that Bower Sharp was going for because their
player did more than the call said. He did more
than the playbook line that they draw in there said
he had to do.
Speaker 5: And as a left guard, never lunch, never lunch man,
never lunch, because they loop the lunch, you're dead.
Speaker 3: And we talked about that like on the broadcast.
Speaker 5: And that's not getting better, that's the thing. Yeah, it's
it's not improving weekend week out, stop luncheon. I can't
put that all in the kid. You gotta work that,
you gotta practice that, you got to improve that. You
have to you have to take it because because I
see it every week. You gotta go back on a Monday,
and what do you do? What's the what's the thing
everybody goes out and does corrections, corrections on a Monday.
What did we do wrong here? And it's not just
like we it was a missed assignment. You work creations
on technique things. Yeah, if we.
Speaker 4: Lunch, stop lunching, stop plunging. They're looping. They're looping. Yeah,
stay upright, an it's good a handoff, nailed it, perfect pocket.
Speaker 2: A lot of the chats talking about like was there
anybody like there are no dogs?
Speaker 3: There's some O.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like where these are?
Speaker 2: Ye? These are the clips that obviously we're picking out
to show a couple of things like what Vanderbilt did
that again the little playbook where you draw lines, that's
not what it's that's not what they had to do
in that play. But they went above and beyond because
they had the football IQ to go make those plays
and help out when like that left guard is looking
for help, that's what his job is. You got income,
they're rushing this amount, look for help. Well he helped
that edge defender. It's not his guy.
Speaker 5: And like there's no clips that stuff out on offense
for us. That was like like that like that's a
dog player right there. I means Avi on Thomas his touchdown. Yes,
that that like there's they're a dog I mean for sure.
And we just we were talking about it the break
like Halsey dog. Yeah, like thank god, Like our back
end for a defense played a really really good game.
He Halsey's shot out of a cannon. Ye, like when
he when he decides to go, he goes and he
flies and he's not afraid to put his his head
in there, his chest in there, show whatever body part is.
Speaker 4: He's not afraide to throw it in there. Marcus plays
played hard.
Speaker 5: Mansor Delaine for the most part played great and he
got he let Pave get out on the scramble a
little bit when he when he when he blitzed one time.
But like on that back end, what there's there's there's
some plays out there that were like man, that's I mean,
it's still really I mean, our defense is still really good.
Speaker 4: Made some mistakes.
Speaker 3: Actually couldn't get him off the field on third day, Like.
Speaker 5: Look, I mean you you you ran into a buzz
saw with the Diego Pavia.
Speaker 4: It's a well called game.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you if you if you noticed it
on tape because this is something I noticed live doing
the broadcast whenever diego, you know, and you knew he
was getting the ball. It was like a third down
or a fourth down whatever. Did it feel like to
you watching the tape that there was defenders that were
trying to do too much with him, like that's not
their assignment. But when he would like pull the ball,
you'd have three defenders freeze when in reality only one
defender who had the quarterback should have been the one.
Speaker 4: Ye like it felt like doing too much?
Speaker 2: Yes, and I said that, I said that calling the
guy said it feels like guys are trying to do
too much and not.
Speaker 5: Their job because he's had so much success with that
with that with a mobile type quarterback of being the guy.
Speaker 4: But he's he has that success.
Speaker 5: When when he's not playing coverage, like when he's roaming
around being a spy. But you you'll seem like he's
in a curl flat defender and it's moment he even
like Pavia even whispers with his body language that he's
scrambling Harrol Perks is leaving his coverage here you to
go to go chase. So yeah, there's a lot of
guys chasing, there's a lot of guys alert. And when
you have an offense that's running jet sweeps, fake jet sweeps,
counters like the window dressing, Like there's so much there's
so much eye candy out there that it makes it tough.
And you have so many people alert, and they're probably
being told like, hey, you cannot let Pavey get out.
You cannot let pave get out or get loose, and
so you have that in the back of your brain.
Speaker 4: So yeah, they were doing a lot, but mane, you
just you got again.
Speaker 5: You got to hats off to the game plan, the design,
the way that Fannerbilt can execute and take advantage of
their skill set and and Pavia having to be that dude.
But like the eye candy that they gave, eye candy
that the defense has to watch so much motion and
are they gonna hand it are they not?
Speaker 4: Are they gonna fake the jets sweep and hand to
a running back?
Speaker 5: They got to fake jet sweep and zone rate it,
fake jets sweep and then run an option route or
option play. Yeah, to the short side of the field.
There's just a lot to look at. So it's a
tall task. It's tough, and they didn't. They just they
got beat right at the end of the day, though,
you get two stops with a game on the line,
still within striking distance and the offense can't.
Speaker 4: Move the ball.
Speaker 2: Anybody want to guess before you take this break, anybody
want to guess once LSU got the ball back the
two times Lshu's defense gave it back to them with
a chance to go tie the game. Anybody want to
guess the total yards that Lshu's offense got the two
possessions LSU defense made them punt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, twelve, Alandre.
Speaker 6: That sounds like I'm just going to Taylor.
Speaker 4: Sounds super confidence right hand?
Speaker 3: Yeah, negative ten?
Speaker 8: My bad, guys, it's way too confident.
Speaker 4: Well, it was terrible, Taylor.
Speaker 2: Your defense, who's been trying to get off the field,
gets off the field twice and you go for negative
ten yards in two.
Speaker 4: Series, little tragic Cotton. See how it plays out?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you had some penalties and so like, Look
that that counts. It's just part of it. Part of
the count party. Tell the yards there in those drives?
Speaker 7: So on that note, Yes, were they both three and
outs both times that that happened?
Speaker 2: Yeah, one of them, uh, the one Weston Davis got
the holding call on. I don't even know how he
ended up in the position that he did. And he
held the back of the jersey like he saw the
entire nameplate on it.
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Speaker 4: When we come back off the bench.
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Speaker 1: Smiles blaightly back at you. Locked in on LSU football
twenty four to seven, you're listening to off the bench.
Speaker 2: One question I've really been waiting to ask, Matt Hey,
it's me all day, oh, yesterday, hell all Saturday as well.
The play where we thow across the field to a
five yard hit.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 3: Explain that one to me.
Speaker 4: I can't explain that one to you, Jake.
Speaker 3: Because it's not once, it's not twice. Yep, it's been
all year.
Speaker 5: There's a there is one defining play, if like from
a traditional like drop back play, that this offense this
year tends to all back into.
Speaker 4: It's a three by one set.
Speaker 5: It's a hitch on the outside, it's an inside fade
to number two, and it's like a stick route to
number three, which against like in zone, so five or
six yards up in zone, he's gonna break out, but
he'll like sit in a hole. Against man, it turns
into like a traditional five six yard out route. And
that is the play that we just fall into, fall into,
fall into, because I think the mindset is that, all right,
we're going to we got answers man to man. We
have our fade zone, we have our hitch rout and
our stick route, and there's you know, seemingly answers there.
Speaker 4: And I'm not saying it's not a good play, because
it is. It is good play.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's the play to use as your
crutch though, and call it a billion times a game.
And so that's what happens. You get quarters like that
and they d up the stick route, the slot fadees busted,
so you have to throw a hitch rout to the
wide side of the field.
Speaker 4: I think there was one play yesterday such.
Speaker 5: A hard throw for the juice isn't worth the squeeze, Yeah,
it's not like nuts is really like zinging it this year, right,
And I'll give you my like I'll give you a
little bit more of an hour two, A little bit
like from the passing game, from the dropback sam, A
lot of the issues that occurred. How much time we have?
Not very much, not very much. Sorry, because I was
in this last couple of minutes. I was going to
show you a really good clip, a dog clip from
L s U. But we'll show you that on the
back end or next hour.
Speaker 4: No, it was on offense.
Speaker 5: It was I got Harlem Berry knocking the defensive tackle
on his rear end.
Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty two deserves some more.
Speaker 5: Look, yeah, we're gonna we're gonna give him some flowers today.
Harlem Berry played your tail off, played your tail the
only off.
Speaker 3: Of the player.
Speaker 4: Will show you here.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll be back hour number two. O TB
off the bench.
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