Speaker 1: Good morning at seven am here on Monday, November seventeenth.
Today in Betton Ruge, you could expect cloudy skies.
Speaker 2: With a Hiyava eighty.
Speaker 1: In our one of today's show, we'll recap LSU's twenty
three to twenty two victory over the Arkansas Razorbacks. We'll
dive into the Tigers QB situation going forward. You can
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to the Live from the Raising Knees Studio. Here's Jacob
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Speaker 4: Flynn, Yo, welcome back in oh TV on a Monday,
Monday Monday.
Speaker 2: It's called a victory Monday, Buddy.
Speaker 5: It is victory Monday, Monday Monday. Jake Flynn Moose, that's right,
we got Moose. Up, tada all here with you today.
Glad to be back. Your boy was down and out
on Friday. Hadn't been sick like that in a hot minute.
So I appreciate everybody that hell out shout out to
everybody that helped out, because it was, uh, it was
a group effort. I hear on Fridays on deck, So
I truly appreciate everybody that helped out.
Speaker 6: Yeah, knee jerk reaction was just like, yeah, just play
the national show. Yeah, I'm just gonna do that. I
don't know what's on, keep it rolling though, Yeah, but
I know I got a little pep in your voice today.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, excited, got a little caught up on some sleep.
You just wanted some sleep, Huh. I did get some
good sleep. Good I did.
Speaker 2: It's good.
Speaker 5: Katie held the entire house down for the entire weekend.
Y'all held the work portioned down for Friday.
Speaker 2: So who I was out?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was That's not a fun one. That is
not a fun sickness to get. And uh, you made
it through. When was the last time you actually got sick?
Oh dude, it's besides like just a little running nose.
It's probably been like six six years good six years
or so since Yeah, more than a decad after a decade, yeah,
uh well, I think I had three old him last
time I got.
Speaker 2: Sick almost you know, Memphis of the Baby. I could
have done that, like last year when bumps here, I
had to wait. I don't know.
Speaker 5: Let me tell you when I when I wrote that
message about four am going into Friday morning, I was like,
I'm gonna get you know occasionally, Hey, you got to
write them. You gotta let him know because there's gonna
be a lot of moving parts and you know how
Matt gets. And I'm like, yeah, you're right. So I
wrote you, I wrote the group. Then I wrote Dixon
Richard Dixon at the same time, because I'm like, it's
four am. If I know Dick Dixon, he's gonna be
up here pretty soon. Anyway, I gotta try. I gotta
try to put some pieces together here. Yeah, I was like,
I don't even I can't even do it from the
house today like normally, like if you know you, I
was sick and I just didn't want to be contagious
or something. Then I could fire it up and I
could still you could host, but I could be here
with you and but it was none of that.
Speaker 2: It was not gonna be any of that.
Speaker 6: No, not gonna happen. Waunders here she had like four arms. Yeah,
you got.
Speaker 2: It down though we did. We did our thing. We
did our thing.
Speaker 5: We even I heard you hit all the floaters. We
had nailed all the floaters a big deal. The all
the things we needed to do, we did. What's the ticket?
That's your thing always that didn't know what to do there,
but I did it, nailed it. Parlay was kind of
thrown together at the last second. That's on us. We
didn't really prep that one very good. We were an
impressive and four were we that stuff to do? We
went and defeated.
Speaker 6: If you think about it, that's stuff to do. That's
equally as impressive to go oh and four than it
is to go four and oh.
Speaker 2: Some say it couldn't be done. It's all right, is it? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I should have given my because on the other show
we did the meat had moneyline parlay where you have
to pick an underdog. It's at least a three point
dog to win out right, Okay, so that it's called
a meat head parlay. Sure, and I went with Virginia
over Duke and that one in Virginia crushed him because
Virginia was a four and a half point dog got it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's okay though, Like you, that one's pretty good.
Speaker 5: So three or above or so, you got to be
at least a three point dollar and we're picking you
to win, out right.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, meadhead money line parlay it hit one time this year,
and let me just say you, when that hits one time,
you're good for the rest of the year. Yeah, just paid,
You're good. Kind of like our our parlay are stid
hit one. We hit the first one. This is the
first week, the first week, the week that you're actually
supposed to not be great at it because you're not
supposed to know who the teams are.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, we hit that one and that sets set
us up for like twelve weeks. Yeah mm hmm. Sor right.
What about you? Do you like to dabble? You like
to sprinkle a few out there? Oh? Absolutely? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Well yeah, how you do it on the season, I
mean not like everybody else not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, lot the best I was four and three on Saturday.
Speaker 5: Okay, see, I feel like I feel like Moose is
sweet Spot would be either Major League baseball or college baseball.
Speaker 2: Man, baseball is tough. That's tough to specially college baseball.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because you'll have like a minus seven and a
half runline.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like I know, really it, which is ridiculous.
Speaker 5: I like to bet college baseball in the postseason when
they get to the tournament.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes more sense. It's tough in the regular season. Yeah.
Speaker 5: The only time I've ever consistently done well and sprinkling
a few out there was college basketball live betting. Yeah,
because especially like middle of the season, like if you're
a top five or ten team, you at some point
you go down by ten or fifteen points, you can
catch them even money against somebody they should beat and
they end up winning by like twenty points. Now my
sweet spot is mid major. It is college basketball. Yeah,
well sure it does. Why wouldn't it be.
Speaker 2: Don't let me get a West Coast Conference team.
Speaker 5: Are a Missouri Valley team, I'm gonna know everything about
him one because I've got to talk about them on
my afternoon show. But that's where you can find some value.
So I'm just saying, get ready for the Summit League.
I got you. So the Summit League, I've got the Horizon.
I've got you the conferences, the Summit, I've got you.
I got the sun Belt.
Speaker 2: The Utah Valley.
Speaker 5: I've heard of that, the Atlantic ten, eight tens, great Man,
Great Richmond, teams like that.
Speaker 2: I'll messing with me right now. Now.
Speaker 5: These are all conference Division one too, as a matter
of fact, and I'm going to give you the winners
coming up here.
Speaker 2: February. Probably love that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe late January, which football wraps up. We kind
of know who you know, who's who? I know? I
know if Iona's playing well since Patino left him. Generally
who wins in the cross conference matchups between the Summit
and the A ten, A ten, eighten aighten is almost
like a power league kind of h youre looking forward
to that. You would know some of the teams and
they really looking forward to that. A ten's like George Mason,
George Washington, Saint Louis, Saint Bonaventure, Oh yeah, Dayton, Richmond, St.
Speaker 2: Bonaventure from Nashville. Right, No, they're not in Nashville, I
don't think so.
Speaker 5: Loyela Chicago made a run out of they weren't in
the A ten, yet they got in the A ten
because of the run that they made Rhode Island.
Speaker 2: Where lamar Odin played.
Speaker 5: Yeah, obviously Latino Mobley played at Rhode Allen too.
Speaker 2: Just on the tip of my tongue.
Speaker 5: So anyway, we'll get you there. I don't know how
we I don't know if I really want to get there.
Oh you will, you will, m NOE, VCU.
Speaker 2: You know VC, they've made a run absolutely, Okay, Virginia
common Wealth. That's VC. Yep, am I introducing all new
teams to you. No, I've heard of them. Davidson where
Curry played that one?
Speaker 5: Okay, I t they're about Cincinnati. Are they hydrated? No,
we're trying. The problem is, like you can't. You can't
like spend too much time and funds trying to go
after just basketball teams because they're only like nine people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fifteen, But I get you.
Speaker 5: Go to the football guys because there's multy five scholarships.
Speaker 2: Yeah, more or mouse to feed. Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 5: I mean they also play football, most of these teams
at the lower level.
Speaker 2: But just a down though. What budget cuts? I bet
you guns got you?
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely had that on the Bingo card starting the show,
talking about a ten.
Speaker 2: Basketball How would you want to talk about LSU. They won.
Guess what between LSU and the Saints, no losses. I
thought about that last night.
Speaker 5: I was like, when's the last time we came in
where neither team lost.
Speaker 2: Now Saints didn't play yep, but they didn't lose. So
good week.
Speaker 5: It's a victory Monday, victory Monday. A lot, a lot happened,
A lot happened in the game LSU and Arkansas.
Speaker 2: It was a one point victory.
Speaker 5: We'll do this, we'll step away, we'll come back, we'll
get the show started. We'll lay out how it got there,
how it all played out, some great individual performances, and yeah,
LSU beats a two win Arkansas team, but still you
had to stop the bleeding. And you did that on Saturday.
And we'll do it when we come back here on OTV.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah I had the CD deck. I had to
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Speaker 5: Wow, I mean I had like one that you know,
it didn't flashing like lit up, it was different colors whatever,
and nothing like when Coach Saban's riding home with you
from your soccer game and you got the flashy radio
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Speaker 2: You're like, oh my gosh, kinda turn this off. Is
there any way to turn this off? The face off?
Just let it ride, Let it ride. Yeah, what a
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That wasn't awkward. I had like the one and a
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Speaker 5: Of closed the bench sheet though, because I didn't want
to thinking I was trying to get him sit next
to me.
Speaker 2: You know, I closed it on up the console, popped
it down. It's smart. Smart.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he might have said by maybe yeah, you get
a little sub I think out of it might have
been a twelve, But you had the amp in there
and then also had the at the time. I think
my parents got it for me when I was I
think it's like a graduation gift. It was a screen
that popped out.
Speaker 2: Oh oh yeah, oh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can play DVDs. Not a big deal. Why
you would want that, I don't know. I have no idea.
It's awful.
Speaker 6: And then like best by, they installed the secret switch
underneath by the parking break. I was like, you're not
supposed to be able to use it unless you're in park.
Yeah yeah, but they switch for me. Yeah, I got
switching on when I went to the park. Not a
huge deal.
Speaker 2: I'm sure Alvin loved hearing that.
Speaker 5: Your father, who's a lawyer, Hey, he bought it driving
with the DVD playing.
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LSU gets the victory twenty three to twenty two over
the Arkansas Razorbacks.
Speaker 2: It was not pretty. It probably never was going to
be pretty.
Speaker 5: In fact, there's some people at the station that thought
Arkansas was going to win the game.
Speaker 2: Ha jokes sold you. They did not win the game.
Speaker 5: The LSU Tigers found a way and they're probably feeling
pretty fat and cocky when it was fourteen to nothing.
Razorbacks there and it happened in a hurry. Arkansas blocks
a punt, and I believe this stat is seventy eight
percent of college football games, if you have a special
team's touchdown, you typically win the game seventy eight percent
of the time. It feels like pretty it seems high, no,
I mean, but think about it. Special team's touchdown is
usually like a complete game changer. When it happens, it
is like the ultimate moment swing. And so Arkansas gets
what It was like the most clean block punt you've
ever seen. Like it didn't even make a sound. Yeah,
typically here whenever they block, no sound. I was like,
where's the ball. I'm up in the boot trying to
find the ball. It was a clean block. Arkansas scores
on that, and they didn't block at the guy next
to him probably.
Speaker 2: Oh there was two guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a complete misqueue blocking a sign. It's like,
I don't even know that they thought that the ball
was snapped. I was like, wait, the ball snapped. What's
going on here? We went on one?
Speaker 2: So Arkansas gets a black punt, they add another.
Speaker 5: Score and you are down, Matt fourteen to nothing in
the blink of an eye, right, I mean, you're down
and things aren't going your way.
Speaker 2: And with the way the season's.
Speaker 5: Gone, it's like, man, this offense right now, can they
come back from fourteen points down? Because you know, after
they score that I mentioned it, they get the the
touchdown run there from Green their quarterback, and before you
know it, I mean, you're down. It's the first quarter
and you're going into the second quarter and you're sitting
there thinking, Okay, this is one of the best offenses
in the country. You're certainly not one of the best
offenses in the country. The defense is going to have
to help you out. The defense is going to have
to play superhuman, it feels like, to get you back
into this game. And the defense certainly made so many
plays and we get to that, but credit to LSU
for not just saying, well, fourteen points, so it takes
us three quarters to even think about scoring fourteen points.
Speaker 2: Ain't no way we can come back from that.
Speaker 5: And after that remember they put together a nine play,
seventy five yard drive, took a little bit over four
minutes off the clock to make it fourteen to seven.
That was one of, if not the best drive LSU's
had this year. Yeah, certainly, especially especially in the time
of the game, time of the season. It was, I
mean real easy for a team that things haven't gone
your way, lose your co coach, come back game after
after you lose your coach and lose a game. Now
you're playing at home at eleven forty five, you know,
certainly not near a sold out crowd by any stretch
of the imagination.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got better enough thought, Yeah it was better
than the thought.
Speaker 6: I mean, you're down down early like that, you give
away a silly touchdown on a block pund totally blown
assignment on the on the punt protection, uh, and didn't
have a drive like that is fantastic.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I would agree with you.
Speaker 6: I mean, just for the moment and just like impressive
drive on you know, just kind of putting everything to
the side, put everything way, focus on your job, focus
on the x's and nose. And I thought they did
a lot of really nice things. Vemburen struggled to get
into the game early. You know, it's first start, got
some nerves out there, accuracy problems early on, which is
kind of I think been the knock on him and
practice and everything. So it's certainly some some some accuracy
issues there early on, but settled into the game, made
enough plays to obviously win the game.
Speaker 2: But yeah, you know, early on in the d that
long drive.
Speaker 6: I thought the running game in the first half was
was pretty darn good too. From a lot of the
a lot of you know, a lot of talk about
the offensive line this year, you know, protection having issues
and the run game having some issues here and there.
But what it really their fault? Were they given the
opportunity to you know, get to the second level and
you know, with the whole RPO mess we've talked about
earlier in the season. I thought they did a really
really nice job this past game of playing with energy,
playing with a little mean streak, even the last week,
even in Alabama, I thought they were trying to bring
bring the pain a little bit. I thought they were
trying to be the hammer a lot of times in
the running game. Now they're missing a little bit their
footwork and their aiming points weren't great, but they had that.
You could see them trying to throw their head, throw
their shoulders strow like they were trying to bring a
little bit of pain and a little bit of thump
to the other team. And they did it again this week.
They were just their aiming points were a little bit better.
They they made contact a little bit more, They played
a lot. I saw improvement in the running game from
last week to this week. And you know, I get
it the the your opponent's not as good. I understand that,
but I watched like little things of how they're they're
double teaming up to the second level, how they're they're
aiming points, of their their hat placement, when they're when
they're coming around and leading up to the will linebacker,
whoever it is. So I thought a lot of that
was improved, and it certainly kind of showed up.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: Of course, I think King Durham has that big run early.
Speaker 5: In first touchdown rund what was it twenty seven twenty
seven yards?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was great and I got that. I have
that clip ready to roll. We'll show a little bit
of tape today a little bit later on in the show.
We'll just kind of see go through some big plays
throughout the game and really talk about why this is,
you know, who made some good blocks here, the scheme
and how that how that play kind of unfolded right there.
So but yeah, it was really impressive, I thought, and
you know, I you know, kudos to that offensive line
in the run game for kind of you know, the
season that they've kind of had up to this point
and really playing with a lot of energy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, there's so many key stats in this game,
and again, Arkansas's offense was one of the better ones
in the country, certainly one of the better ones in
the SEC. Now the defensively is really where they struggle.
But offensively, like that's something that they could count on,
bib with Petrino had really gotten Taylor Green playing at
a very high level.
Speaker 2: They're running the football really.
Speaker 5: Well, and you know, multiple pass catchers are stepping up
and making plays for them. Let's look at a tail
of the tape and here's why LSU wins the game.
Right first downs LSU twenty one only Arkansas accounts for
sixteen third down efficiency, which Arkansas was so good coming
into this game on third down.
Speaker 2: One of the better teams in the country and you
were not.
Speaker 5: You weren't even related to something good on third down
on offense, but you flipped the script on third downs
in this game. Arkansas was only two of eleven, two
of eleven. Now they did convert three fourth downs on
four chances, but on third down, where they had been
one of the best teams in the country, two of
eleven for LSU eight of seventeen. You're almost fifty percent
on third down. That was a big story in this game.
Total yards you outgain Arkansas three ninety to three forty.
You throw for more than they do. You were better
as far as your completion percentage yards per pass. You
were seven point one, they were eight point seven. They
throw two picks, You don't throw an interception. Running the football,
and here's probably where you won the game. Now they
ran for one seventy five, that say's true to who
they are. You ran for one fifty five. You ran
for over four yards to carry. You haven't done things
like that, and I know it's not setting the world
on fire, but again, you haven't lived in that world.
You haven't had success like that running the football. Three
turnovers for Arkansas, none for LSU. Time of possession thirty
four to forty five for LSU twenty five point fifteen
for Arkansas. How do you win the time of possession?
You convert on third down and you run the football.
That's how you have time of possession in a football game.
So I know Arkansas's defense is not the best by
any means, but it was so good to see LSU
do things, Matt they haven't done all season long.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, you said it great. I mean, it's
this is a game you we said it before. This
was to us.
Speaker 2: This was a must win game for LSU.
Speaker 6: I had not and it wasn't pretty, but it was
a must win game for a lot of different reasons,
for maintaining recruits, for maintaining a little energy with this team.
Speaker 5: Because it would have been the first time you lost
four games in a row since you know what year nineties,
nineteen ninety nine. It had been the first time you
lost four games in a row.
Speaker 2: Since nineteen ninety nine. But I'm glad that didn't happen. Yeah, Taylor,
how old were you in nineteen ninety nine? I was
three years old. Okay.
Speaker 5: It had been the first time since Taytay was three,
probably just going from diapers to pull ups. Maybe some
underwear situation, you know, I don't.
Speaker 1: Know, yeah when I was probably a late bloomer, so
who knows.
Speaker 6: Certainly not underwear at night. Yeah, definitely done. You know,
so it's a long time off the day. Yeah, Well,
I'm really glad that didn't happen. But we but we
thought this was an important game for a lot of
different reasons, because you want to you want the opportunity
to be able to take your time in the whole
coaching search. And I'm not saying losing would have sped
up the timeline, but I'm saying that conversation could have
been had because if things started to spiral, which we
don't even have to discuss too much, but if things
started a spiral, maybe that conversation had said, all right,
do we need to solidify this a little bit sooner
than we thought we could waiting to look, we thought
we could take our time, blah blah blah, but we
can we avoid that conversation. And you saw the energy
from the team afterwards, too, Like you saw what it
meant to them.
Speaker 2: You saw what it meant to that team.
Speaker 6: You know, you could clearly see like the message that
Frank had given them all week was like, Hey, we're
going to win this game, and we're going to as
a team. We're going to celebrate with our fans too.
And they you could tell that they wanted to do
that the postgame, celebrate with the fans, because like you said,
I wasn't in the stadium this weekend, but you said
the student section was there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they say the whole thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there were certainly more people in the stadium than
I thought there was going to be right, it was
by no means was it a sold out crowd, but
you know a little bit before kickoff on my oh boy, Yeah, no,
it just turns out that, you know, classic LSU football.
The traffic situation was just really poor and the fact
that they still don't have that figured out remotely blows
my mind because it was just people trying to get
into the stadium and actually filled up way way better
than I thought it was going to And so yeah,
they were celebrating victory. Again, you lost three games in
a row, you get down fourteen to nothing in this game.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of people that picked Arkansas to win
the game.
Speaker 5: They didn't think you would show fight. They didn't think
you'd find a way to win the game. And so
obviously it's not gonna be one that we talk about
for years to come, but it solidified like right now,
getting a win kind of allowing you to take a
step back, look at what you have coming down the road.
You got Western Kentucky, which obviously you're supposed to win
that game, and then you got an Oklahoma game where
if you go and win that on the road, then
that's something you can take. You can take something from
this season and a disappointing season and a season that
didn't go the way that anybody playing.
Speaker 2: You can at least take something from it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean this this is hopefully gets you a
little momentum. You got a Western Kentucky team, then you
get an opportunity to play really obviously really good.
Speaker 2: Sooner football team. So there's an opportunity ahead for you.
Speaker 6: Great start for Michael Van Buren's you know, career here,
I guess. I mean he had to start last year
Missippi State, but being able to go out his first
start and get a victory and a complete team victory,
it's not I don't think he he uh shocked the
world about how like amazing he played or anything. But
we'll kind of get into his performance, show some plays
from plays from that, and you know, I just you know,
there's we've talked about the bones of this and the
foundation of this offense isn't really set up right now
for quarterback to be ultra successful and to take over
a game now.
Speaker 2: And we'll show a little bit of that.
Speaker 6: So there's a lot of there's a lot of poor
plays that he made that you know, it's really not
on him. There's not a lot of plays to be
made out there. But he showed some fight, showed some
grit and able to use his legs a little bit,
things that we've been hoping to see all season.
Speaker 2: And that's kind of one of the reasons why.
Speaker 6: You know, of course he's not this like triple lots
and you know, zone read type dual threat quarterback, but
he gives you enough to escape the pocket, step up
in a pocket, and and and move around and move
the sticks like that and get some positive yards out
of what would be a negative play.
Speaker 2: And I gotta I gotta ask you.
Speaker 5: Is there anybody that hates the Arkansas Razorbacks more than
Harold Perkins. It's they hurt him somewhere along somewhere along
the way, like somebody in an Arkansas shirt when he
was young hurt him.
Speaker 2: He looked like Harold Perkins, and he is.
Speaker 5: He is certainly held that for his entire adult life.
Ye held something just clicks in. I thought Taylor Green
was supposed to be pretty good. He had been Yea,
and Gordy said this on the broadcast. I think like
Harold Perkins kind of got in his head pretty early too.
Speaker 2: Didn't look very good.
Speaker 5: And I've watched him in multiple games on film this
year and that they're making dynamic plays now.
Speaker 2: They weren't.
Speaker 6: He's not a consistent like no quarterback. But he made
off schedule plays all season, and they made big plays
all season. They just couldn't get the guys open like
I've seen them throughout the season. Yeah, the l at
the backfield, they played fantastic h and everybody and Harold
Perkins played.
Speaker 2: He made plays like we've.
Speaker 6: We've always we've wanted him to do every single week, weekend,
week out.
Speaker 2: Just hasn't happened for whatever reason. And he made those plays.
Speaker 6: A defense played hard man and made Taylor Green look like,
you know, a pretty subpar sec quarterback, which is nobody's
been able to do that to this point the season,
even though they were two and seven.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a couple of players and then we got
to take a break. There's a couple of players in
the defensive backfield that you know they might not get
remembered ten years from now.
Speaker 2: Maybe they do. I hope they do. That you turn
on the tape.
Speaker 5: I'm not saying it's always perfect, but if you want
to see like what it's supposed to look like as
far as your effort, your attention to detail and doing
the little things right, watch number zero to Marcus Cooley
and watch number thirteen aj hawseon those two players right there,
and they've only been here for months, right, they hadn't
been here very long, but it looks like that they've
been here like for four years. It looks like they
both like grew up in Louisiana always dreamed of play
for LSU and that's not the case, but man, it
looks like it when you turn on the tape. Zero
and thirteen are always involved some way, somehow and with
maximum effort.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they do.
Speaker 6: I texted you during the game after the first drive
because the first drive they were they were moving through
the LSU defense at a pretty high clip. They fumbled,
thank god.
Speaker 5: I was like, oh boy, yeah, I mean you know,
we did get three turnovers and and and I was like, yeah,
Halsee might have thirty five tackles this game. Like it's
that type of game for him, because he was making
every tackle and I mean it was seven, eight nine
yards down the field unforesshionably, that's not what you want
and it is.
Speaker 6: Not what you want. And that wasn't like a good
comment I was making to you, like this is gonna
this is a safety game for LSU, and not in
a good way.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Now it worked itself out after that drive.
Speaker 6: But my god, Paul season, I've loved watching that guy
every single game. That guy brings it. He gets it.
He's strong. Yeah, he's the hammer and he makes his
presence felt. And when he hits it, you feel it.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, like there's no pa, he's like out of position.
He's still he still got like a little six inch punch. Yeah,
is it a six inch one? You always change it
on me? You go three inches sometimes.
Speaker 2: I don't know. You get it though, I get it. Brucellism.
He does. Man, he is.
Speaker 5: He's been a lot of fun to watch. Yeah, and
again the effort, the effort. Yeah, we had those two
guys played for man it is I'm not the only ones.
But like I said, like they might not get talked
about like the others, they are there fun to watch
on tape because they do it the right way. All right,
we got to take a break more lsu Arkansas breakdown
when we come back here on OTV.
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All right, one more shout out I want to get
before you get to the tape there, because I mentioned
a couple of players on defense that maybe don't get
talked about a ton as much as the other guys,
but certainly flash on film with the total effort that
you want to see and kind of play the game
the right way. I'll give you one on offense, and
then's Xavion Thomas Man. I love watching Number zero play football,
being on special teams, being on offense, whether he has
the ball or he's blocking for one of his teammates
on the ninety seven receiver screens that they threw earlier
in the year. Like Number zero is giving you maximum
effort in this game. He has six catches eighty yards
and he takes shots sometimes man, but he knows it.
Speaker 2: He doesn't care.
Speaker 5: He catches the football, takes the hit and continues to
move forward. He is as tough as you'll see a
receiver out there, and uh, number zero not you know,
gonna get the love maybe that some other offensive players do,
but he certainly shows up every time you watch the tape.
Speaker 6: Yeah he does. And I want to shout out like
a lot of the receivers too. They've you know, I
hadn't been probably the sexiest year for our receiving corps
as far as they're you know what they want to do.
They want to catch for a lot of yards, they
want to score a lot of touchdo. They want to
be dynamic and effective in the passing game.
Speaker 2: That's what you want to do. But I want to
give them.
Speaker 6: That whole gang, that whole room over there, like a
big shout out because in the running game, once they
were asked to do it and they picked their they
have picked it up and really have given everything in
that in the run blocking and a good running game
does not happen without wide receivers blocking on the second
or third level, right, And they were asked to do
something that they weren't really asked to be to be
done earlier in the year because they were running so
many RPOs and they were never really you know, at
least consistently blocking on running plays. But once they were
asked to do that a couple of games ago, they
have done a really good job. And we're still running
wide receiver screens now they're just running them the correct
way with a little bit better blocking lineman pulling out
and lead blocking out in front. And I thought they've
that for that receiving cord. They had a lot of
high expectations for a lot of yards this year, of course,
because you know, we've thrown for a bazillion yards with
us far as our quarterback in the past. I'm sure
they had all these expectations of grandeur and lots of
yards and lots of touchdowns and everything. They're still playing
their tails off, and so just a big tip of
the cap. I think that that whole wide receiver room
has been one of the highlights of this season for
the team, and just with the way they go out
and played and handle their business when it doesn't look
when it hadn't looked like how they thought it was
before the season.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a good point because they very easily could
be frustrated and be like wait a minute, we didn't
sign up for this. We signed up for a quarterback
that they're for four thousand yards.
Speaker 6: They're playing like a team group right now. They're all
playing for the greater good, and it shows up and
it's it looks good for all of them on film,
even though they're not catching a ton of passes.
Speaker 2: All right, which play are you going to show here?
Speaker 6: We might just go through a couple I don't you know,
maybe not give like a super detailed breakdown, but you know,
I tend to like highlight a lot of negative things.
Speaker 2: And then when I.
Speaker 6: Watch film negative See that's what you do in film.
It's like, even when you're playing, you kind of skip
over the good side. Oh a good read, good read.
So I want to show you a couple of things.
Like I was talking about Van Buren and people are
asking me, how do he play? How do you do well?
It wasn't fantastic. It wasn't like he played this dynamic game.
He had some really good plays, hit a couple of
deep balls. There's a few things. Accuracy wise, I think
he can work some on some mechanics. Of course, his
accuracy was a little a little shaky, especially early on
I think his footwork needs a lot of work. His
footwork doesn't time up with a route concept. Ayah, it's
his first game, I get it.
Speaker 5: Whatever, But there are some things that they're trying to
do to help him that actually aren't helping him conceptually.
And every coach does this right, and it's okay to
have these in there, but I want to show you
like they're trying to help them in protection. But sometimes
when you try to help him protection, you actually hurt
the route concept, which a lot doesn't allow people to
get open, which and then does not help protection. Right,
So what we're gonna do, We're gonna take a look
ahead and throw it up. Taylor, Oh you got to
throw it up. He headed up, Just go all right.
Speaker 6: So what we're gonna do, You're gonna see here eleven
personnel were starting three boy one motion over to a
two bout two situation, and what we're gonna see here
is a thump.
Speaker 2: And a chip. So a thump by the tight end,
saying it's the same concept.
Speaker 6: They're gonna hit the defensive end on their way out
to the route concept the back that's a chip. He's
gonna thump his way out to the route concept, Well,
what does that do?
Speaker 2: You want these thumps and these.
Speaker 6: Chips to be really quick and then you get out
to your route concept because they're gonna be rushing four
you at when they're blocking. You only have three receivers
to go against seven defenders. So what happens is sometimes
they get a little too caught up into their chips
and the thumps and then you just can't get anybody open.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Right, So at this point, you have a Z receiver
down here that falls, you have a X receiver that
gets pushed out of bounds. You got three people covering
the slot receiver. You should have checkdowns, have you have?
Speaker 5: You should have some options open underneath at this point
because no one's here.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: But because we're thumping and chipping too much, it doesn't
create stress on these curl flight defenders. Doesn't create stress
on the zones. And this should be a one, two three.
He's not opened too much checkdown to a running back.
So sometimes when you're trying to help him protection, which
is the right thing to do because we've had protection issues.
But sometimes when you try to help, you actually hurt.
Because if you're Tom Brady, who you throwing this ball
to right. Now you're not doing really much. But here's
the positive thing about the way Van Buren is played.
He can make a positive play out of something like that.
He gets six yards on a play that normally either
ends in sack or a throwaway.
Speaker 2: So this should be I just on display.
Speaker 5: I just wanted to and this was kind of a
theme for me throughout the entire game.
Speaker 6: Here's another one. We're gonna let this play out. Good concept,
good result, but check this out. So if he didn't
have it, so we have a what we call a
stick route up here and just a three step, well
three step for the quarterback, but just a stick route.
Speaker 2: This year they love a stick route. Uh, so good.
Speaker 5: We got a complete, full filled, pure progression rates. You're
going to work left outside to end. So we have
a a snag route. Would I call this a basic
end down here, but if that outright, if they would
have pressed up top and he had to go through
this whole progression right, I want this back not to
be chipping on this play because his responsibilities to run
a wide route right here or a flat route and
create stress on this curl flat defender. So this is
just another example to me of trying to protect the quarterback,
but you're actually making the protection a little bit worse.
And now this linebacker, yeah, because he can get the
cover of two guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, really doing a whole lot.
Speaker 6: But like, look, and this is one of the things
I'm talking about here, with a little bit of accuracy issues.
Got to see the receiver make that catch. Vamburen's foot
works a little bit sloppy. He goes one two, three four.
It should just be a one two, plant the stick
that foot in the I.
Speaker 2: Go, yeah, you can give them a better ball, but
also catch the ball, all right?
Speaker 6: And then I believe this one is the touchdown run.
Let's send on a good note. What do you say
sounds good?
Speaker 2: Coach?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, so good to see him finished through two
broken tackles and yep.
Speaker 2: So I want I want you to watch the line.
Speaker 5: What else telling you a little bit about earlier you
saw them kind of using their head and their shoulders
as some weapons. Watch left left guard right here, Watch
some nice nice finish right there. It's fantastic. Let's go
to the end zone. It's gonna see Kayden finish that
as well. Yep, Bower, you know blocking in the end.
This double team. Fantastic double team. Right here, left guard,
left tackle working up, right guard does a nice job.
Speaker 2: Right guard really takes three right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, watch the right guard in this double team right here,
they're working their way up.
Speaker 2: Five pushes them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's about one of the combination blocks I've seen
from LSU's offensive line this entire year. And like I said,
good to see him finish that in the end zone.
And we'll come back. There's a couple of points on
that play. I know we're long for a break. Let's
take that break now. We'll continue LSU Arkansas when we
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Speaker 3: Lean from the locker room to the airwaves. Gets off
the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 5: All right, welcome back here in o t B here
live from the Raising Kines studio. We're gonna show more
Phil in the second hour of the show. I will
say one thing. The offensive staff did a nice job
of doing so. Arkansas put one of their you know,
Mike linebackers, one of the better ones, actually, sorry, in
the conference. They put them on the edge all game
long and understood why they did it. They were trying
to get a speed rush and you know, struggling tackles
and been successful. Yeah, it's been this year with other
teams and so they did it all game long, and
LSU once they kind of figured out that's where he
was going to live, they had a lot of their
run checks to him. And it's the reason why you
don't see Harold Perkins Junior play the edge, and because
that's what teams would do to him as well, Like
they're gonna check run, they want their tackle tight end
combo on a guy that's not used to playing on
the line of scrimmage, ends a little bit undersize to
play on the edge.
Speaker 2: And it was a nice job by l. S U
to see that and kind of make that adjustment.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's fantastic. I didn't notice that watching the game.
The TV copy, you know, I'm not great with the names.
Speaker 5: Was about say, well, I mean he was at SEC
media day, so he's pretty big name.
Speaker 2: Was that there?
Speaker 5: You were there this year? You were they were last day?
Weren't they probably is Arkansas. I don't.
Speaker 2: You think Golden Boot ours back in that closet for
a whole year. Maybe have you.
Speaker 5: Ever seen more LSU players go for that boot.
Speaker 2: Nope, they were excited about it. They're excited about it,
and I get it. Good for them. They needed a dub,
They needed a dub, and they got a dub. All right.
Speaker 5: So coming up in hour number two, we are going
to show a little bit more film, continue to break
it down, go around the college football landscape, kind of
look at what happened on Sunday as well in the
National Football League.
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