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Speaker 2: What's having everybody? What's going on? Bat Ruge?
Speaker 3: Hope you are having a wonderful Thanksgiving week Monday morning.
A victorious week for your l s U football Tigers.
They get it done Saturday night against Vanderbilt, break the
losing streak and.
Speaker 2: And uh you know, and in in a.
Speaker 3: So in a weekend that may mean more even for
other reasons, as some of your hated rivals also suffered
heartbreaking losses. Yeah, you got four losses because we have
a lot of teams now got three as well well.
So we'll get to everything on today's show. We'll do
our film review here in our number one. The Vanderbilt game.
Speaker 2: A very.
Speaker 3: Very interesting game, a game in which very solidly played
kind of on both sides. The interval saw to shorten
the game, get to the fourth quarter and try to
take their shots, and uh, maybe there was a present
part of the game. You did a really good job
of kind of shutting the door there at the end
and not allowing the thing to get a bit more
exciting than it or to get exciting.
Speaker 2: You you, you just put an end to it. But
we'll get to all of that.
Speaker 3: Of course, we'll get to the NFL weekend as well,
Taylor's Cowboys barely escaping an epic collapse, and now the
comedies in trouble. But yeah, we'll talk all things in
l We got weekend winners coming up.
Speaker 2: There's some LSU basketball news to get to as well.
Speaker 3: Speaking of Victorious, we get a crazy game there. So
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Jetty YouTube of ACCOMPSOS one four five, ESPN Jake, what's up, brother?
Speaker 2: Doing well?
Speaker 4: Bush League Bolts played tonight against the Ravens. Hell yeah,
they're a pretty good game. Enjoyed what I saw over
the weekend. It was a game in which the box
score might not even tell the story. I felt like
of the game. I thought LSU did exactly what they
had to do. Come out, didn't matter what was going
on around them, You just got to play, And I
thought they did that for the most part, I know
you probably enjoyed the offensive line finishing like they did
on every single play. That was certainly something that was
coached to them all week. You can always tell. So
there's a lot to get into, but it does make
it a lot better to come here on a Monday,
it's been a while and talk about an LSU victory.
Speaker 3: It felt so good on Saturday, it felt it felt
felt fantastic. I tally went to the game as well,
so I get to take you some thoughts. There was
some interesting moments a laundra what's up?
Speaker 2: What's going on girl? How you doing? I'm doing good.
I'm very excited that it is a short week this week.
That's getting me through today. But I feel fine. I'm
really happy that. I'm really happy that I ended up
getting in Diego Papa's head and yeah, good jobursurs. Yeah Towers.
He also he also didn't have a great game. Also, Hubbard,
I don't know about him, but he was there too.
That's the starting guard, I believe.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So, I mean, maybe if they were a little less
worried about partying at the simas and a little more
locked in having players only meetings like lsu.
Speaker 2: Uh, they could have won this game.
Speaker 5: Not saying I had anything to do with it, but.
Speaker 3: Good job, Launder using your feminine wiles to distract them
and keep them from playing their best football. I'm proud
of you to Tail as old as time it is. Uh, Taylor,
what's up man? You gotta be feeling pretty good. Huh Yeah,
Tigers win, Cowboys win.
Speaker 2: Also a lot of teams that I don't like.
Speaker 6: Three of the SEC lost over this weekend, so it
was uh, kind of kind of a.
Speaker 2: Really good sports, good football. Okay, But first off, like
an elsy basketball, we.
Speaker 6: Got to hear those we got to hear the beginning
of Separate Ways before the show started.
Speaker 2: So I feel like I've really got the vibes going high.
Speaker 6: I kind of wish we would have we could have
let the song play through somehow, but.
Speaker 2: Uh no, good, good vibes. Busy weekend, but a good weekend,
all right.
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Speaker 2: Five A M all right, so lsu Vandy a film review.
General thoughts here.
Speaker 3: Obviously awful start, like could not have been a worst start.
Speaker 2: Okay, you've come.
Speaker 3: Out, You fumble on the kickoff, you go three and
out in part because of a pre snap penalty that
changes a third and short into a third and long,
and then you give up a one play, seventy yard
touchdown to Vanderbilt, who, as we said, and as we'll
look at the the rest of the game, their strategy
is not really you know, big plays are looking for chunks.
They want to control, control, control, shorten the game and
then hope to be you know, in a fight in
the fourth in which they can come out on top
and it's a strategy they've done very well this year
and they've used it's a great effect.
Speaker 2: And remember coming in, we said, and I still believe this.
Speaker 3: On the other side of the film, these are two
pretty like damn evenly matched teams. It's not massive advantages,
uh for for either one. But uh so the start
was unreal bad and Jake, I was in the stadium
and I gotta say, the crowd is actually nice, Like
the energy was kind of whatever, but like it was full,
like it was there was not there were not like
a bunch of empty sets.
Speaker 4: And it happened kind of quickly because at first I
got the campus and I'm like, oh boy, uh.
Speaker 2: Everybody just came in like ride at game.
Speaker 4: Time, I think I think the weather was so nice.
Everybody was tailgating a little bit longer. Yeah, they were
not their sweating and.
Speaker 2: So yeah, the crowd it surprised me actually.
Speaker 3: So I thought I was. I was kind of like, okay, wow,
this is this is crazy. The stadium's fall, even if
the energy made a bit down, But at that moment
fire Brian Kelly champ uh broke out. Yeah, because those
help you a lot.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, look.
Speaker 3: Man again at the time and at that exact moment,
and I think it's important to highlight because it strengthens
what was so good about this game. But at that moment,
you've had a month of god awful football, right, He's
seen all your hopes and dreams and everything collapse.
Speaker 2: Since that A and M.
Speaker 3: Halftime you open up this Vanderbilt game, like we said,
FuMB on the or the kickoff three and out with
a penalty one place seventy yard touchdown, it felt god
awful and mentally for the players, that's a very low
point as well. So why I'm trying to reinforce all
of that is because that is the context in which
this sela Shoe team basically said no more and they
completely put a stop to it. And from that moment on,
maybe save for a couple of gaffs, the punt allowing
them the punt fake at the end, the biggest one
in my opinion, but say for a couple of gas
was really clean, really solid, really strong in the trenches
and just came back and controlled that game for the
next fifty five minutes, fifty eight minutes, whatever it.
Speaker 2: Was at the time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So that's why I said like, you know, calling
the game and going back and watching it. The box
score to me doesn't tell the full story of the game.
And I know it ended up being a one score
game twenty four to seventeen, and the fake punt led
to them scoring, but you go back and you watch
the tape, and it felt like it did calling the game,
like they dominated the game in a lot of aspects.
I thought the offensive line finishing every single block that
had and it wasn't just your two tackles best.
Speaker 2: Game, not even close.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they were coached this week without question about finishing
and about me nasty, tough, all these things we always
talk about.
Speaker 2: And I saw it.
Speaker 4: You saw like every time it was like to the
echo of the whistle plus and it's actually a really
fun tape to go back and watch.
Speaker 2: I thought the running backs played well. I thought the
running backs had great individual effort.
Speaker 4: Josh Williams this was a game in which he was
not going to be denied. He takes over I mean,
how many tackles did he break?
Speaker 2: A lot?
Speaker 4: You go back to the edge rushers, like, okay, so
if you're just box score watching or if you're just
you know, kind of casually watching maybe you didn't pick
this up. The edge rushers in this game, it's not
going to be their stats, but how they affected the
game was the story of the game for me because
for me, yeah, and he had.
Speaker 3: One to anybody else, Savian Jones was incredible this game.
He was all over the field.
Speaker 4: Okay, and I agree with you wholeheardly, but if you
look at his box score, one tackle, yeah, that doesn't
tell the story of the game. Him and Braden Swinson
both they had an assignment to keep Diego Pavia uncomfortable
because he's comfortable. He's really really good, and he's confident.
He's really really good, and he does his best work
on the run. Every time he tried to get out
of the pocket, they had disciplined pass rush and did
not allow him to break, contain or try to do
things that he's done all season long against anybody. And
so I thought, like that to me, that that was
the reason Vanderbilt Dophense can never really get started because
everything they wanted to do it was halted by the
edge rushers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they did.
Speaker 3: They did an excellent job of when Vanderbilt would pass
uh maintaining disciplined rush lanes where they were still winning
enough to make Pavia feel them. I mean, they got
quite a few hits off Pavia this game, but they
also weren't just rushing with their hair on fire and
leaving him scramble lanes wide open. They did an excellent
job at the mesh point. In fact, right the one
tackle that Savan Jones did have was him perfectly reading
that Pavia kept it and coming up with the big TfL.
But there were other ones as well where they perfectly
ready and strung it out and other guys make the tackle. Yeah,
they they're, they're and especially I think because Bray I
guess I want to highlight Saving two because Braden's had
like so many great games this year. But but Saving
Jones was just i mean again, all over the So
it's interesting he only had one tackle.
Speaker 2: I didn't even realize that, but he was affecting the game. No, no,
you know the whole time.
Speaker 3: That I'm saying, yeah, defensive MVP and it wasn't even
particularly close.
Speaker 4: Yes, I mean you had the combination of both the
edge rushers doing exactly what they had to do, and
then you you had what Weeks kind of in a
spy position where he wasn't going to allow Diego Pavia
to kind of take over the game and play backyard
football and do what he does. And what Weeks got
a couple of really nice hits on Diego Pavi as well,
So the game plan certainly worked. Like outside of the
first play where you got double moved, like everything else defensively,
I thought was executed at an extremely high level.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. I also think that you played very
strong situationally in this game. Again, maybe save for the punt,
but like the high leverage moments right the drive to
in the first half getting that ball back, I mean,
that's so you you.
Speaker 3: You you have a really strong open field tackle from
Sae Ryan, sets up a fourth down a tip from Vanderbilt.
Speaker 2: They go for it.
Speaker 3: You come up with a big stop again chaos caused
by a Savian Jones pass rush that immediately has Pavia
kind of scrambling and play breaks down, so you force
turnover and downs. Then you have an eighty yard drive
that starts with four to twenty two on the clock.
You eventually finish that in the end zone to take
a seven point lead with just fifty seconds left. Then,
despite the fact that Mandy got a couple of early
gains there early on look like maybe they were gonna
steal three before half. You manage to put a stop
to that, and you go in up seven. And then obviously,
what is more high leverage than getting the ball back
with five minutes and forty seven seconds left up one
score and not allowing Vanderbilt to touch the ball again.
I mean Nuskins had started in a very strong way.
That drive five forty something, He's standing tall in the pocket,
steps up oline, gives a ton of time. He finds
Kyron on a deep out the long developing route. Again,
great night for the O line. First down game of twenty.
Then you go three runs in a row first down.
Speaker 2: Then you have a.
Speaker 3: High percentage bubble to air to Aaron Anderson in which
he makes a couple of amazing cuts, basically breaks back
to back sets of ankles. Another first down. Later on,
you're at a third and four, You get a little
disconcerted signals hell yeaw hell yeah, how about it? And then,
knowing one more first down ends the game, you run
it twice.
Speaker 2: First down victory formation.
Speaker 3: That is that is dominant I I that is without
it with a bullet, not even close. That is my
favorite sequence of this entire game is them getting the
ball back up seven and not allowing any Shenanigans to
go down. We are just going to go out and
come out of here with a win.
Speaker 4: I wholeheartedly agree. I said it on the broadcast. Is
the best feeling in football when you get the ball back.
Speaker 2: They need it.
Speaker 4: Back and they can't get it and you possess it
and you finished the game with the football, and like
you said, so many great plays on that drive to
be able to do it, and like offensively in that drive,
like things that you've been kind of waiting to see, like, hey,
let's just go a now to Aaron Anderson. Yeah, he's
really good in space. He's you know, a former returner.
Let's just get him in space. He makes two guys miss.
Josh Williams had one where he caught it and made
a guy miss. Like the checkdowns in this.
Speaker 2: Game, Yeah, we're great. We're huge.
Speaker 4: Like I can't remember a game team where they actually
utilize the checkdowns. I mean, I know Nuts is always
looking downfield. I know Josh caught six.
Speaker 2: I feel like.
Speaker 3: They definitely did it more this game. But then also
and Josh led the way here as well. The playmakers
made play they did in space, like they made the
first guy miss consistently. It goes back to Kelly's quote
from earlier in the year. Those guys are on scholarship too.
I mean, go look at the end zone copy of
the first touchdown run from Josh Williams. It is a
thing of beauty. He bounces off the linebacker, he's like
kind of disappears in the wash. Yeah, it looks like
he's floating about a foot off the ground, his chest
is and then all of a sudden he done squirts
out and and he's in the end zone. But even
the play before that, the swing pass where these two
guys have him dead to rights and no, he makes
both guys miss. Get your ball, play face, and then
he sets himself up to go score the touchdown the
next play.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, the checkdown's very effective in this game for sure.
Speaker 4: And those things like things like that. And they ran
the ball really well this game. But like things like
that are kind of an extension of the run game
because they're high percentage pass completions and so for like
Garrett Neuschmeier, for him, that just continues to gain his
confidence as he hits those because their first downs are
easy throws, and then he knows he can look downfield
and come back down to that, and so he knows
he has both levels kind of available to him. And
so ness Meyer had a fantastic game, and we'll get
to some of the stuff pregame with Gartnsmeyer a little
bit later on. Definitely want to hit that, but I
thought he had a really nice game and it opened
up something he hasn't really had because the backs, like
in protection, sometimes they've been patrolling the area a little
bit too long, haven't really got out into their routes
and that Look, when you're an offense that wants to
take shots, you can only do that if you have
your checkdowns in place, and then if you don't, then
it's the recipe for a disaster.
Speaker 3: Well, and you know, I like, if Saving Jones is
my defensive VP, Josh Williams is my offensive MVP.
Speaker 2: But it goes beyond just his play.
Speaker 3: It's the context of him having this level of game
the same week that he spearheaded a leader's players Only
meeting in which he said, look, we have not been
living up to the standard that we set for ourselves here.
Speaker 2: We have to go do it. And then he did not.
Speaker 3: Just lead with his voice, but his actions, which is
always the most important. So for Williams to call the
team in to say this is what we're gonna do
and then be the one to do it on Saturday,
shout out to the senior. This is not a game
that is gonna be remembered for all time. This is
not a game that I don't think is anybody's gonna
be celebrating here in a couple of years. But it
is a game that means a ton right now. And Williams,
as your leader, is the was was the guy both
on and off the field, so I think helped create
this result, break the losing streak, and go into look
a senior day in what you were going to face
a very tough Oklahoma Sooner football team like we learned
this weekend. All right, when we get back here, let's
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Speaker 1: Let's get back to breaking down the film on Off
the Bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to Off the Bench, Te Bob, Jake, Lodger, Taylor,
hanging out with you this morning we do the LSU
film review. Hope everybody's having a fine Monday morning. So
Garrett Nelsmyer looked much better this weekend. Obviously, he looked
as if he trusted himself, trusted his receivers, trusted his protection,
and he was able to make some of the throws
again that really defined his year up to up to
this point. Uh, Jake, and and and I look, I mean,
for me, it just it all starts on that side
of the ball with the offensive line this week, Like, yeah,
if the offense looked way better overall, it's because the
offensive line just played way better overall, whether it was
running the ball, pass pro I mean, think about arguably
one of the biggest plays in the entire game, the
fourth and five on the drive in which you're going
to make it twenty one to ten, right, the drive
that make you feel like, Okay, you're in control of
this game, You're probably gonna win this game. They had
to hold those blocks for what two and a half
three seconds? I mean we felt like forever Nuss is
able to step up in the pocket, not fade back,
because the interior pocket was really solid.
Speaker 2: He's able to step up.
Speaker 3: And then it's I mean, if you're gonna play man coverage,
you cannot win against these lsue receivers for that amount
of time, Like the passers has to get home or
you're going to lose.
Speaker 2: Sure enough, first down ends up with a touchdown.
Speaker 3: But I mean, in talking about the interior, I really
want to highlight and give some credit to Paul mcbin
it because he's a young kid who was thrown into
a very tough spot last week or you know, last
couple of weeks, replacing somebody who's experiencing good as Garret Dellinger,
and it did not go well.
Speaker 2: In fact, it went really bad. But I'm a big
believer in, you know.
Speaker 3: Critiquing with criticisms, do praise and praises do And Mabinga
was really solid this week. He was much better. I
thought he had some real nice moments run blocking, pass bogging.
He has some nice wins as well, and nothing else.
He plays very hard. He's always looking to come up
with a big hit. So shout out to the entire
offensive line. But for me, especially given what this last
week had to be like for him, shout out to
Paul Mabinga for finding a way to play just a
much better game here on Saturday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was much better.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I mean when you go back and you
watch it, I mean there was a lot of things
that when you look at when the offense s buttered,
it was coming from the interior of the offense and
the offense of line, and it was a real issue
and something you had to get fixed. And it didn't
matter who you were playing, you were going to struggle.
And so it was nice to see them, I thought.
Miles Frasier really not at a one hundred percent, played really well. Yeah,
in the interior as well, and it had it had
to go up. You know, there's still some things from
DJ Chester that I would like to see, But it
doesn't matter how good you are a tackle if you
can't stop anything from the interior. And certainly, you know,
immediate pressure was something that I think, to me, over
the last two weeks three weeks really started to show itself.
And it doesn't matter who's playing quarterback. When you get
pressure that quick from that spot, it's going to be
very difficult. So we saw Garrettnsmeyer try to do too much,
but you understand why he's trying to.
Speaker 2: Roll out all the way to his left.
Speaker 4: You can you can have pressure from the edges and
find windows to get a you know, any kind of
a throw off. You can't do it when it's interior.
So it had to start there and it did and
it was better.
Speaker 2: Can it go up?
Speaker 3: Absolutely, But I'm not saying it's perfect, but I mean
it was again, it was an abject it was a disaster.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So, and of course it's not perfect. I mean, he's
a young player that's going to have to continue to learn,
get bigger.
Speaker 2: I mean, he still.
Speaker 3: Looks like like youthful out there. And I don't mean
in terms of how I mean like physical body type.
You can tell that he's young. He's got a little
bit of that like baby deer look to his body.
Speaker 2: It's kind of the same thing with the tight end
group as well.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, for sure, that's a group that you have
outside of Mason Taylor and we get we like we'll
get into the conversation probably and maybe it starts today,
but I know over the next couple of weeks of
like who you've got to make sure comes back and
doesn't test the NFL waters. Mason Taylor is as important
as almost anybody. Yeah, because behind him right now you've
got a lot of growing up to do. Yeah, certainly
like Trade as Green, you've kind of moved him a
little bit to receiver.
Speaker 2: You've got to go get some why ass tight ends,
like not fs. You'll need the FS.
Speaker 4: You need some why's Like Morian Pimpson's somebody that he
a giant, but he is blocking, like you can tell.
It's drawn up on the card, do this, and he's
doing that. Yeah, and the instinct right now is not
there again, very young player, first time he's really playing,
and maybe that you know, later in his career he
develops that. But right now, like he's your blocking tight
end because of everything you have to get Mason to do,
and because Trade has Green's out there playing kind of
a receiver role. He's not even really an F. I mean,
he's playing a true receiver. I do like though, yeah, Worth,
but that's he's not tight end anymore. No, No, he's
not so like you know, Pimpton's somebody that if you
think he can do it, that's great, but it's you know,
it's got to continue to develop. And look, we've all
been young players. I mean when I say he's reading
the card, I've done that. Hey you know you're supposed
to kick this guy out while you go there, and
you kind of do it looks robotic a little bit.
I think that's a position that they've got to continue
to develop. And it just kind of heightens what Mason
Taylor means to this team as well.
Speaker 3: Defensively, I thought that it was really really solid football overall,
Like it even did a great job of discipline, gap integrity,
everybody playing the correct assignment, good assignment football, trusting your
teammates that if you do your job, it will get
spilled to the other guy who was doing their job.
As we said earlier, a pass rush that was effective
enough to make Pavia feel in I mean he got
hit quite a bit right after he would release balls. Uh,
but not a just insane pass rush that's leaving gaps
open all over the field or the bubbles or the
air like Brian Kelly always wants to talk about. And
let's dig go Pavia lose his legs, Like.
Speaker 2: Did you even get a sack? Maybe one? I think one?
Speaker 4: You got one, Washington and Swinston.
Speaker 2: I believe you got credit for it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
you got you got one sack.
Speaker 3: But again, the pass rush was more effective than what
the stats would tell you there. I thought there were
a lot of really good open field tackles this game. Yep,
none bigger than saye Ryan's on the third and two,
which looked like it was maybe going to go for
a score if he misses that, and the third to
two that set up a fourth to two which they
don't get, and then you end up going the next
driving scoring. So it really kicks off a nice chain
of events there. And I thought, God, of the perfect
example Jake to me of the defense playing good assignment
football was that shovel pass they went for like two yard? Yes,
because that's a play that Alabama. No, they diced up Alabama.
Theydiced of a lot of teams with that shovel pass
this year, but everybody perfectly played their assignment and it
went for nothing.
Speaker 4: And that play is something that not only Vadaviille but
a lot of teams are using. But certainly sotours a
very very good tight end runs that play really really well,
and they had not shown it before. You gotta be
so like in a play life that it's basically it's
defending the triple I mean that's what it is, ye right,
I mean, you got a guy coming across the formation,
You've got a guy kind of in motion, has a
pitch man, and then you've got your tied end. That's
the you know, that's the third option in there. So
they did a really nice job and there was a
lot of times actually that Vanderbilt got to a version
of triple and you did what you had to do.
And it's not a Service Academy triple option, but they
had enough of that in there that it was nice
to see them play discipline football. Like, really, when you
go back defensively, what would you say to you four
maybe five plays that were you know, you know, negative plays,
But outside of that, it was pretty discipline and you
executed your game playing pretty well. Like you know, there's
some situations we got to get to the safety play.
There's still some safety play that makes you a little concern.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've written down here. Safety has remained the biggest
weakness of this defense, Like Gilbert like one of the
plays would be the big pass on the final Vanderbilt
touchdown drive in which seven yard are Yeah, I mean
that should be a pick, and it was very close
to being a pick.
Speaker 2: There was two there was two pick it at least
knock it down.
Speaker 4: There's two plays in the game where Gilbert got stuck
in no man's land. Do I go try to intercept
it or do I just try to make a play
at the ball, and he did neither both times. Yeah,
that's where you've like, you're a veteran player. Your instincts
had to take over. Do you want to go see
if you can pick six it? If you can, all right,
go try that. Can you go knock the ball out
of the receiver's hands. If you can go, try that.
What you don't do is get stuck in the middle
and watch it completed and then you look up it's
a thirty seven yard game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because that's what kind of opened the door. That
and the punt return obviously, I mean that that's the
other play. To me, Jake, if we're talking about things
and critique, I didn't think I mean kickoff return was
bad this game for whatever reason, not sure, why But
on that final punt from Vanderbilt, I mean, they're down fourteen,
there's seven minutes left. Why in the world is anybody
even blocking for the return, just just playing for a
fair catch. Don't catch it at all? Like it does
not matter at that point. You've got to keep the
defense in. You've got to be in punt safe there.
And and if if you know, if they actually punt it,
great good, You're you're a static.
Speaker 2: That's what you want.
Speaker 3: So letting them letting them convert that was definitely and
again not just convert it, but to look so clearly
unaware that they may fake it seems crazy given the
context of where that game was at at that moment.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it was so slow developing as well. Yeah,
you saw it like you saw a count in your legs.
He might be going to go out there and try
to make a play on it. And then I thought, oh, maybe,
you know, maybe it's knee hit. Maybe he didn't get it,
and they reviewed it and he did get it. But
I'm with you there, it's like you're not going to
gain anything anything from that return. Just go ahead, you
play defensive safe. A couple of different times already in
that situation. Yeah, just keep defense out there. Look, you
can even run safe with your punt return the defense
if you don't want to.
Speaker 3: But it should have but it just again, everybody should
not have been taking off to go try to block
for the return when that that should not have been
priority number one at h at that point. But but yeah, overall, look, overall,
a really good game. All right, when we get back
that attempting to take and then we'll move on more
off the bench.
Speaker 1: Off the bench, welcome back to more sports talk. What's
some other stuff mixed in off the bench with Hester
Anti Bob all right.
Speaker 2: So, I mean, I think I think I'm about it.
Speaker 3: It's a weird game because it was so not as
many plays, a little bit short, a little more contained
of a game. Like I said, solid is kind of
the word I keep coming back to. I don't know
that I have a ton more notes here, Jake, in
terms of in terms of what I saw on film. Oh, okay,
Aaron Anderson touchdown that wasn't a touchdown was a thing
of beauty. Yeah, that was dropped in the bucket and
it was a hell of a catch.
Speaker 2: Just you know, the bobble at the end ends up
making it not.
Speaker 3: So there was a bit of an issue that drops
this game, none bigger than the Kyraen Lacy touchdown drop
because again, in a game where LSU did not miss
many opportunities at that point, you make it twenty eight
to ten.
Speaker 2: So here you would have outscored.
Speaker 3: Them twenty eight to three after that initial flurry, and
there's just nothing left in the game. There's no excitement whatsoever.
The Vanderbilt touchdownder the end never happens or doesn't matter
at all.
Speaker 2: Even though I loved it.
Speaker 3: You don't have to close out the game with a
beautiful six minute drive to not give them the ball back.
So that drop that did leave the door wide open,
and that would be one of my quibbles with the
game for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's you know, unfortunately, that issue is kind of
popped back up from you know, the last couple of years,
and you know, Kiren felt like, certainly at the beginning
of the year, like that was something that he had fixed. Yeah,
still just right there at the point he gets open.
His routes have been really good. He's made plays, not
saying he is not, but you see a difference like
when CJ. Daniels and Mason Taylor catch the football. It's
like clamps on the ball, and it's like it's an
aggressive nature towards the football. You can almost hear it
from up in the broadcast booth when they catch a football.
And I'm not saying they don't have soft hands, but
it's so aggressive and they lock it so tight that
you can almost you feel like you hear their hands hitting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the pop the.
Speaker 4: Ball for the pictures to make him sound strong and yeah,
and Kyen just does not have that. And so yeah,
that was that was a disappointing drop. And you had
a couple of different opportunities at it as well.
Speaker 2: Good calling CJ.
Speaker 3: Daniels because I don't think I missed him, and that's
an oversight. I haven't mentioned him yet because I had
a couple of had a few massive third down conversions.
Speaker 2: He had two in the first.
Speaker 3: Half, maybe in the second corpor Is that the drive
you didn't up scoring on, or no, that to drive
you didn't up scored on, but none bigger than, in
my opinion, the drive that would eventually make it twenty
one to ten, The most important offensive drive of the game,
the one where you later got the fourth down, you
immediately faced a third and nine, and the how you
got it was just get the ball to CJ. Daniels
in space and then him having to make a play
and find a way to move the chains, and after
that offense gets rolling, you end up scoring twenty one ten.
So he's kind of the first domino in that sequence.
Speaker 2: So CJ.
Speaker 3: Daniels continues to be that guy just so so so like.
And it's funny because in the day and age of
the portal, where there's gonna be a ton of high
priced assets, guys like CJ. Daniels, Man, you find a
few of those. I mean, easier said than done. Yeah,
but like those are the guys that's how you make
up a very good championship level team overall.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am right there with you.
Speaker 4: And I know sometimes people only stargays and they don't
take a look at a player like a CJ.
Speaker 2: Daniels.
Speaker 4: But that's somebody that was very successful in a really
good team last year at Liberty, and man, him getting
hurt this year and missing some of those key games
is something that probably won't get pointed out because maybe
if you don't do a deep dive into the film,
you don't know how he affects it, not only through
the air but on the ground. I mean, he is
one of your best blockers out there, regardless of position.
And you missed him for a couple of weeks, but
still right now, thirty nine catches on the year, a
little bit over four hundred and fifty yards and he
has been key and he is somebody that I think
he'll find his way onto an NFL roster and he'll
stick around for a very long time as a third receiver,
possession receiver that's.
Speaker 2: Going to you know, make plays in the moment.
Speaker 3: Again, Joshualliams can subbody him enough so the first big
touchdown run was a thing of beauty from him in
terms of breaking tackles, fighting a way to keep his feet,
squirting out, fighting the end zone. The second one was
probably the best gap scheme blocking that the offensive line
has had the entire year. It was some clinic tape
level of blocking that made you feel really good that
it finally hit. I think that's I think that's pretty
much it for my notes, Jake, do you have anything
else left?
Speaker 2: I mean, that pretty much hits it all.
Speaker 4: I mean, the main things for me were like you said,
Josh Williams on offense, even though a lot of people
want to put somebody else in a lot of times, I.
Speaker 2: Think him and Durham are a great one to two points.
Speaker 4: I think they compliment each other in what they do,
and this was a perfect example of that because I
thought both actually played well and certainly had their moments,
and Josh had the hot hand this game, so he
got more you know, run as far as attention in
the passing game and things like that. Although they both
ended up with fourteen eyeries, Durham had some.
Speaker 2: Durham had some nice some nice moments as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that was certainly a part of it. You
mentioned the interior offensive line. But again, like I want
to go back in point one more time, the job
the defense did with attention to detail in this game
plan was high level, something we haven't seen in a
in a you know, you go back to last years,
they never had a game where it was high level
execution as far as what the game plan was. Again,
outside of probably two three plays by your safeties, I
thought it was as well of the as they've played,
like just being disciplined and stopping.
Speaker 2: A pretty good offense.
Speaker 4: You know, a quarterback that had over six hundred rushing
yards coming in, a quarterback that can make plays, a
quarterback in a tied end that had a you know,
a great relationship and a great four like where they
kind of just knew each other that never materialized because
you shut all of that down. So I thought it
was a really nice game plan from everybody on the
defense doing their individual job for a collective team effort.
Speaker 3: There it is, guys. Those are your OTV game notes. Okay,
we've watched the film and we've told you everything that.
Speaker 2: You need to know.
Speaker 3: We can talk about what it means like going forward
because it is a short week, so we're gonna have
to dive into Oklahoma prebo most immediately, YouTube Ac there,
Landra and Taylor, any any anything then the game that
you want to add that we even touched on.
Speaker 6: For me, the big thing would be, you know, so
many times this year Garrett Nosemayra and you know, sometimes
it was warranted, sometimes it wasn't about people wanting him
to step up in the pocket. I thought he was
phenomenal on that. Yeah, on Saturday night, he did a lot.
Now he did it a lot against Florida. The problem
is your offensive line was dominated. He would step right
into another sack.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I thought this was his best game in the pocket
by far this week.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, the four. Go watch the four and
five play, guys. You see it very very very clearly.
All right, when we get back, let's let's close out
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sorta.
It's off the bench with Hester and Ta Bob.
Speaker 3: What's having y'all? Welcome back in to ogb Okay. One thing, actually,
I know i'd tease the basshole game.
Speaker 2: We'll get there. We'll get to the whole college of
all weekend. It's a whole two though. But one thing
I did want to highlight is that.
Speaker 3: Players only meeting last week because we talked about it, right,
Josh Williams, Will Campbell, the other leaders of this team
basically getting up and saying that, look, we have not
this is not the standard in terms of how we're playing,
in terms of how we're just kind of operating.
Speaker 2: Day to day.
Speaker 3: And we now know why Braden Swinton didn't get to
play in the first quarter last week, It's because he
was late for a meal check in the day after Alabama. Now,
some maybe saying, wait what that?
Speaker 2: Like? What is it doesn't matter that much?
Speaker 3: Like I mean, they made a lot of big plays
in that first quarter, Like what like why what was
that really worth?
Speaker 4: I am someone who Florida game. No, no, no, no,
I'm just laying back out.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, Florida game was the next week. Well,
I came across this quote from Swinton that I absolutely love.
He says, quote, I've got to take full accountability for
my actions that hurt my team. I'm still stuck with that.
I missed the first quarter. A lot of big plays
are made in that first quarter. I've got to be
more accountable. And I've been showing up early this whole week.
Uh So, first off, when it comes to team discipline,
I think it is a snowball sort of management thing
where if you let little things go, uh, they tend
to momentum into big things. Right, Like I I believe
even running a very tight ship and and you know,
maybe every now and then there's something you leg go.
But but again, like so yes, it's something as dumb
as maybe you're late for meal check in. Does that
really worth missing a quarter? We'll look at Swinton's response, right, Yeah,
he basically tells you that, yeah, it is.
Speaker 2: It's on me. It's not on the rule being too strict,
it's not anything else. It's on me.
Speaker 3: I knew my job, I did not do it, and
they're going to be consequences. I think that's very good
for a team to have such clear lines of how
they're expected to operate. I also think it's a very
good sign of leadership from Brandon Swinson to not say, ah,
this is BS or you know, this is crazy, like
screw you, but say, no, you're right, this is on
me and I'm going to be better. And he was better,
and well the entire team was better this last week.
So I really liked that, uh anecdotally about about about
how you knowing what it was that he missed and
knowing his big of a deal and then also that
that he took it though very very seriously.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's part of their their process that they
talk about. It's part of what they you know, did
daily habits that they talk about.
Speaker 2: And you're right, like Florida game.
Speaker 4: I mean as soon as he came in, like I
think he made a play, like the first play he
came in, like it was very impactful, Like you could
notice it. You know, it was not only him, it
was him and say Dryan and so like you had
two players that were missing the first quarter there, and
a couple of times they got away from you. But
that is good to kind of hear him talk about
that and not try to point fingers and say no,
it was on me. And then he comes back and
responds like he does this week, and he mentioned it
early for everything, and then he was very impactful in
the game.
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into this college football weekend as a whole.
Speaker 2: As you saw not one, not two, but.
Speaker 3: Three different SEC road favorites fall in games that you
would never have really expected them to, and all games
playing out a bit differently. Some of them utter domination,
some of them very close back and forth affairs. But
I'm excited to upbreak it all down. Which loss gave
you the most happiness?
Speaker 4: Taylor, you've been I'll let you answer this because you've
been waiting to talk about this.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 6: The Texas A and M agis, guys, no question.
Speaker 2: One thing.
Speaker 6: The one thing that I love about Texas A and
M is that they were a model of consistency. They
pour billions of dollars into their roster, They hire a
new coach, they do all this, they give you a
little bit of promise, and guys, there is still a
good possibility that this team could once again finish eight
and four. So I want to thank them for their consistency.
Speaker 2: I mean, it ain't good possibility. They're staring eight and
for the face.
Speaker 3: But as we know, Elco's been focused on Texas for
two weeks now, so.
Speaker 2: Maybe they get a little problem. Uh no, I know.
Speaker 3: Yes, for those that don't know the the the Elco clip,
we played last week and we'll play again next segment
to remind you.
Speaker 2: But man, that is it is not aged. Well all right,
that's interesting.
Speaker 3: A and M not would to be my answer, but
we'll get to your answers next here on.
Speaker 2: Off the bench.
Speaker 1: Off the bench,