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Speaker 2: It's off the bench, all right, walk back.
Speaker 3: In our number three of OTV and hearing this hour.
We got a lot for you. We got chef Michael Johnson.
In fifteen minutes, we got he Willie Patrick willis NFL
Hall of Famer at nine thirty five. Here before Flynn
gets to the film breakdown, He's gonna go back to
the tape ape. I do want to remind you about
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Speaker 3: All right, So let's get back into the film room
with Matthew Clayton Flynn. He was watching tape and I
picked up on a little tendency there from the old
miss Land Sharks.
Speaker 5: So that's want to give of our viewers, our listeners
kind of like a like an inside look at the
things that I look for when I watch film. And
so we've talked about like in my tenure in the NFL,
this is stuff I didn't learn when I was in
college or look for in college and my tenure in
the NFL. You look for every advantage you can going
into a game. Most teams do it legally, some teams
do it illegally. Connor Stallions. Yeah, but one thing I
always look for is how is the defense communicating? How
are how do they understand what play that they're running
on defense? Because they have play calls just like they
do on offense. So I used to rip signals from
opponents during games. Used to look at defensive backs. I
used to look at the DB's the defensive backs coach,
how the linebackers are communicating out to the corner because
there's one guy that gets to play call in his
helmet with a speaker and that's the usually usually the
middle linebacker. But everybody else has to know what it
is too, So how are they getting that information? Some
teams are better at it than others, and believe it
or not, football is a very complicated score to sport
to play, but it's not rocket science. And a lot
of times there's very obvious things that you can pick
on and tells that you can get from an offensive perspective.
Some are easier than others. And by god, this week
they signal a lot. Yeah, they are a high signaling defense.
They do it and they communicate with hand signals, and
they're all not all very creative. So if LSU can
pick up on a little bit and I don't know
what they're doing, I don't know if they watch you know,
we used to watch TV copies and try to pick
up on verbal communication what words mean. Like if they
say all right, you might hear them say down left,
it means down left, safety's coming down left. They might
say laser. It means the safety's coming down left. They
might say rocket. Okay, safety done right.
Speaker 3: I got it.
Speaker 5: So we would look for all those things. We look
for signals. I'm gonna show you a couple of clips here,
and we always talking coverage. Where's cover zero, which means
there's no safety help, it's a zero blitz. There's one
on one coverage. Cover one means man. Cover two is
a type of zone two high zone. Cover three is
a one high zone. Cover four is a different type
of like there's one, two, three, and four. Well cover
one is man de mand So what I'm gonna show
you here is three clips out and there's multiple of these,
so I want you to see. The referee is just
spot of the ball, the linesman and so he's backing off.
So everybody's communicating at this point. I got it paused
because we just got to the line of scrimmage. Offense
knows the play, the defense has just got a call
in ye, and they're just signals, so they're all communicating
with each other. Up top, you're gonna see him communicate.
I want you to watch a little signal up here
at the top. The safety right here. You see what
he's doing. He's communicating with hand signals to his cornerback
and what did he just skip to him and gave
him the number one? He said, hey, we're running cover one. Yeah, oh,
how about this nickel down here? He just looks at
the corner and goes like this cover one. He just
shakes his wine. Hey, and Elandra, Yes, what cover do
you think they run on?
Speaker 6: This?
Speaker 3: Play?
Speaker 4: Cover one?
Speaker 5: Cover one? So right there, I watched film for ten minutes.
I'd already ripped the signal and it wasn't hard. Okay,
Oh sure, sure man, sure Jake. They're probably in a hurry.
That's not their normal signal for cover one, is it. Well,
let's go find out. Let's go to the third quarter
random play here, m let's watch he's guy signal a lot.
Oh look at this safety right up here? What finger
did he just communicate to?
Speaker 3: One? What about this guy out here?
Speaker 5: Look at this guy right here, he's counting, he's counting,
counting eight, looks at him and he goes, one, Oh,
look at this guy one. He's not just pointing the
sage Ryan.
Speaker 3: They're all going all going Cover one, doing it again,
wanting to the other safety holding out and oh my god, one,
look at look at number three right here.
Speaker 5: He backs up and he goes like this one one one,
Oh my god, what coverage are they running? Taylor Cover one,
Cover one that's called Man the Man. They didn't do
it real well either that Sage still gets beat. Play
the play where's he going? Yeah, where's the crossing?
Speaker 3: Completely misses him.
Speaker 5: Go back to that.
Speaker 3: Well, he's got the he's the only one that's in zone.
Speaker 5: So they do they run?
Speaker 3: You're talking about you, talking about him about look and
then he just then he just runs towards the opposite
side line like.
Speaker 5: No, he doesn't run. He yos soft jay, you're right, okay,
all right? Maybe one time, okay, could be a flag
two times.
Speaker 3: It's starting a little bit of a streak.
Speaker 5: Certainly there's not three clips in there in this game,
but they're just singing one. Oh, what's thirty two? He's
a corner, isn't he? What's this signal? He's given down here?
Speaker 7: One?
Speaker 3: One? Yep, that's where this plays out. I think they're
gonna run.
Speaker 5: Can I get a guess?
Speaker 3: Shove hands?
Speaker 5: If you think you're gonna run Cover one here, I'll
it up.
Speaker 3: You know what.
Speaker 5: I don't think they're gonna do it this time. There
you go, we'll see, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 4: It's looking pretty, oh boy, looking pretty Cover one to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's cover one.
Speaker 5: It is it?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 5: You see here they do what they do down here
is you got two tight receivers, so they in and
out this first person across the inside guy will take
him man and then the other guy you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's actually a tough play for safety. Safety
cuts him because you can hit that drag right there
and your guys got So there we go.
Speaker 5: I mean, genius, How did I How did I pick
that one up?
Speaker 6: Ye?
Speaker 3: They're covered three signals, not holding up three fingers, but
it's pretty easy to pick up. Yeah, they covered three s. Yeah,
so I don't know, I don't know, but the one
is truly wild.
Speaker 5: It pretty hey cap one and.
Speaker 3: So those look, those are the things you look for.
Those are the things that.
Speaker 5: Usually they're a little bit more complicent.
Speaker 3: About to say. I was just about to saying, so Matt,
it's really good at picking up signals, like he did
it for a long time legally, legally. But there's there's
some that are easier than others to pick up. And look,
it's always mind games. Like if this was directional school
you and not Arkansas and a dog fight that they
were in, I could say, well, maybe they were just
trying to put that on tape. You know what I'm saying,
like to try to down the road, throw up the
one and play something else.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you do that in college like
you would do like in the NFL, you do dummy
stuff you would do? Did you have many signals?
Speaker 3: Dummy can't be either a code word that everything I'd
do is dummy and it doesn't mean anything, or a
code signal like a third base coach in baseball, like
if I tap my helmet, then i'd I give a
signal like it's nothing. It doesn't mean any as soon
as I tap my helmet, whatever I do, whatever I
say until I say the turns it live doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 5: Oh, we'd legitimately just say hey, I'm going to signal
on this play ignore it. And so we'd have like
an all go hinge called and we'd signal something that
meant like the opposite of that, like double slants or something,
and they would just ignore it. So it was put
on tape. I don't think the cover one and one
finger does that. It's funny, it's not rocket science.
Speaker 3: People just like so, like when I was in Denver,
Omahall meant something completely different almost every other week, because
like they wanted you to think Omahall was a certain thing,
and then once you got an idea of what Oma
Hall was, and here we are were changing it. Like
you'd say, ice cream, ice cream, ice cream. Well, whatever
I say after ice it does not matter. There is
nothing that is live. So I'm gonna get out there, right,
I'm gonna do all that. But as soon as I
say oh in the hall, every the next is live. Yep,
Like whatever I said after that is live. So I mean,
it's it's mind games. But to your point holding up
to one for cover one that's not in the same
situation that we're talking about, Yeah, they do.
Speaker 5: So they signal a lot their linebackers, their defensive bags,
and it's something to watch for too. Like when you
see them signaling a lot, you see a lot of this.
You see a lot of the hands up like I
didn't get the call, like I saw it a ton
and watching two games, there's a lot of times where
there's one defensive back that's not getting the call. So
look for that, look for some sort of bust and
you have to take advantage of that as an offense.
If they're not getting the communication. They're usually like, well,
if a DV doesn't get a communication, he usually just
like tries to play some sort of zone and or
if everybody's in man, he picks up that everybody's in
man late and you get a step on him. Yeah,
I feel like that was an issue for him last
year too.
Speaker 3: And like everybody holds Pete Golding in such a high regard,
Like I'll give Pete his credit. He's a great defensive mind.
But sometimes there's things you just can't do at the
college level unless you have a full buy in from
everybody on that defense to buy into it. And so
sometimes in college which is not fair to the coach,
but you can have so much up that it does
get But I Pete's great, that doesn't always translate that.
You get to find a way to translate to your
players too, Like that's on him as well. But to
your point, there was a lot of busted things from
a year ago and you see some of that in
tape this year. All right, great breakdown there by it
that we do have chef Michael Johnson instead to join
us when we come back before we take this break.
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Speaker 5: Bench, Hey Matt, Hey, what's up?
Speaker 3: When you give the one signal yep fro mess, you
should probably give the two signal because you want to
go for dose.
Speaker 5: Give me two of them.
Speaker 3: You don't need just one. You need to I want
to be here as.
Speaker 5: Only one X on it? Who wants that?
Speaker 3: Nobody? You gotta have two x's on there, and that's
what you're gonna get with do sech So if you
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setting up shop and showing them how tailgating is done,
make sure that when you pack the tent, when you
pack the TV, when you pack the generator, you also
pack dough sechies. Because it is always a great time,
certainly in the fall, certainly to watch the Tigers play.
When you go for.
Speaker 5: Dose, gotta go for dose. And we uh and it's
a big we talked about it's a big weekend. We
got some games this weekend. So Saturday we're going to
be in the living room all day long watching Ryder Cup,
watching football on. When I'm doing it, I'm gonna go
for dose. So if you are gonna enjoy a couple
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Speaker 1: Seconties locked in on LSU football twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2: You're listening to off the Bench.
Speaker 5: You were the perfect things.
Speaker 3: When I ran my mind. Man, I can lost the liquor.
You're the only warm the landro We need you to
go ahead and send this playlist today. I haven't made
one of those in a while. I know, I know,
I got you. Yeah, us Apple Music people got to
stick together. All right, Let's get to our guys, Chef
Michael Johnson, it is now time for some munchies.
Speaker 1: Get ready to tantalyze your taste buds and leave this
segment hungry. This is Munchies with Executive Chef Michael Johnson.
Speaker 3: Chef, How we doing? How we living?
Speaker 7: Yeah? You good?
Speaker 3: Hey, we got you?
Speaker 5: There you go, There you go.
Speaker 7: That's that's my kind of music, right there, there we go.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah, we've been playing I say we it's been
a launder been playing the hits all day today. Chef,
I am, you know, going to be with the team
heading to the state of Mississippi. So I'm going to
start off with a Mississippi question. Your favorite food that
is tied to the state of Mississippi.
Speaker 7: Oh man, gosh, man, that's a tough one. Brother. I'm
not really sure to be honest with you, but.
Speaker 3: The first thing you think of, well, I.
Speaker 7: I deer hunting Mississippi a lot man, and I you know,
like you know, like Mississippi deer taste damn good because
they're all I'm actually in Mississippi as we speak. Uh,
I'm I'm traveling with the team as well. I'm ahead,
I'm up here already with the.
Speaker 3: Road this weekend.
Speaker 7: You have me on the road for the rest of
the year.
Speaker 3: Belo Mississippi.
Speaker 5: Huh.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so the country music is landing just right, that's right.
Speaker 5: All right? So, chef you, so I think you've talked
about this before the one of the road, probably before Clemson.
So when you when the team is on the road,
you know you're relying on you know, the staff, the uh,
the chefs there, whether it's the hotel or whether wherever.
It's feeding the team. So what kind of hand and
like what kind of role do you play within that
feeding the team on in a way and an uncomfortable
in a different environment.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so it's got to be an un threatening role, right,
Like I got to walk into somebody else's kitchen and
ask them to do stuff our way, right, And so
you don't do that in a commanding voice. You do
that with an ask, you know, you go in there
and you have to be humble and not arrogant. You
have to you know, build trust quickly without without wrinklinging
feathers or you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: And so.
Speaker 7: That's it. That's it in a nutshell. You just have
to go in there and you understand that that's it's
not your kitchen, and you're asking people to do things.
And unfortunately, you know, we've been doing this for long
enough that that rapport has been built with a lot
of places that we go to, specifically the SEC schools,
and then you know, when you go into the larger cities,
for instance, if we're going to Atlanta for a champion
you know, like an SEC championship. In New Orleans for
an SEC Championship, you have professional hotels there that had
you know, they do this all the time, and so
you're really there just to kind of guide them a
little bit and and and give them information that is necessary.
You know, for instance, this year's team eats very early
for breakfast, and that's a lot of them show up
for breakfast. We've had years where the team kind of
trickled in through breakfast and you don't need all the
food available right at doors and then like and then
when this team comes in, you know, you better have
seventy five percent of the food ready at doors because
they're all sitting outside waiting to eat. They're ambitious. So
knowing those little, those subtle, little details helps us prepare
for success on the road.
Speaker 3: Cheft, there's a lot of people wondering if you're going
to get chicken on the stick at the gas station
at Oxford.
Speaker 7: Uh. You know what I had already this morning was
uh was a hot link in the world's Worst Ash Brown.
I'm gonna avoid gas station from this point off. I
will tell you this though. My uncle called me. He's
he lives in Loranger and he's got a lot of
Mistippi friends, and he tells me I need to go
to Como's Steakhouse. So let mean to go and seek
you that tonight.
Speaker 3: Yeah all right, Jeff.
Speaker 5: When you want to treat your shelf yourself to like
just a good old fashioned restaurant breakfast, Yeah, what's your
like go to? Is it a waffle house, cracker, barrel,
eye hob? Like, what's chef's go to restaurant breakfast?
Speaker 7: Yeah it's waffle house. Man, I take my kid's waffle
house every every Sunday morning. It's it's, you know, like
absolute chaos, and I love it. I've actually it's actually
been in a waffle house. It was brand new and
super clean, and I turned around walked out. I was like,
I can't do this. Look, I don't trust this at
all of.
Speaker 3: What's going on.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we used to go to I Hop with my kids, man,
and there's always a line and you're waiting for thirty minutes.
And I'm just not that big a fan of pancakes, man,
Like I'm a Hash Browns guy and they just do
hash Browns, right, you know.
Speaker 3: Chef, we got a question which southern state has the
worst cuisine.
Speaker 7: That's a good one. Man. That's tough, you know, like
just just I mean I'm in Mississippi right now, so
I kind of want to poke at them, but I think, like,
I don't know, probably Florida, to be honest with you,
you know, like I've had some really good food in
Alabama and in and in Mississippi, some good old Southern
cooked foods. I'm gonna poke with Florida to Florida today.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 3: All right, hell, look this show, We'll poke at Florida
every day and all day.
Speaker 7: So that's right, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 5: Oh, I would think probably uh per capita, the South
has probably the best cuisine of anybody. Yeah, at least
we got good Southern like comfort biscuits. Yeah, you can
get that anywhere in the South.
Speaker 7: I mean, honestly, if you if you just said SEC,
I would probably poke at Missou because you know, like
even I even grew up in Missouri and they just
have land food. But uh, you know, if you're if
you're saying in the South, I'm gonna take a pokes.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, are you trying to tell me Missouri,
which is in the Southeastern Conference, isn't in the South?
Speaker 7: Well, the southern half of it is the northern miss
The Missouri River splits the state of Missouri in half.
A lot of people don't know this, but the Mason
Dixon line split Missouri in half and it was kind
of an invisible piece of it. And that's that's how
the Missouri Kansas border War started with quadrills razors. So
there's a lot of history in that. Actually, yeah, uh chift.
Speaker 5: So we not a ton of questions coming in uh here,
but I do have one that's intriguing a lot of comments,
not a lot of questions, but I do have one
here that's a little little intriguing to me. What's a
food conspiracy or conspiracy theory that turned out to potentially
be true. I know there's there's a lot of different
like food science things that happens. We've talked a little
bit about the gluten before Freestyle, But what's a food
conspiracy that you have found that's just you know, it
ain't true.
Speaker 7: I don't know. I don't get into food conspiracy theories
too much. I'm more into food history, you know, like
because I think conspiracy theories are built off of things
that have potential and not things that have been proven,
and so I don't really pay as much attention to it, right,
you know, like I think that every time they have
this this new superfood, that's kind of a conspiracy to
you know what I mean, Like food has been around
for so long that I really I really hesitate to
think that, you know, like the superfoods are still being found,
you know, Like I mean, we've discovered so much stuff
that it's difficult for me to accept that, you know,
there's a new superfood that's been found and it's the
save all you know, it's gonna make us all skinny
and we're gonna lose fat, and you know what I mean.
And so I think they're in in that wheelhouse there
something that's going to you know, improve the whole world
and make us all lose weight. You know, those are
the things I kind of question.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's from the rainforest. It's a very from the
rain forest.
Speaker 7: That's right, Yeah, right, exactly. Yeah, she had last.
Speaker 3: One before we let you go. We're about to tell
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Speaker 7: So I deal with I deal with a grain of rice.
It's actually it was it was made it's she's I've
been up since two thirty this morning. Guys a brain
it used to be uh, I don't know. I can't
remember the name of the name of the grain of rice.
Speaker 5: Right now, wondering.
Speaker 7: Yeah, right, Well, the grain of rice that we purchased
is a high protein, low glycemic index, and it's the
LSU helped construct it, you know, like they helped modify
this this rice drain so that it had of glycemic
index for people who are diabetic and still like rice,
and so in essence, you don't have to eat as
much rice to get a higher amount of protein, if
that makes sense. So it's it's pretty interesting in that
it used to be called prairie Acadian and now I
can't think of the name that it is. But Mike
Fruger runs business, and you know, he came to me
with the grain of rice and I looked at it
was and was skeptical of it. And after I did
my research in it, it just made a lot of sense.
So you know, we we we do serve brown rice
and jazz and rice and all other kinds, but when
it comes to Louisiana, that's that's the grain that I use.
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Speaker 1: Locked in on LSU football twenty four to seven. You're
listening to off the bench.
Speaker 6: Near the counter mine.
Speaker 8: The dawn stops jumping, the sun go down.
Speaker 2: They got whiskey women.
Speaker 3: Excuse all right, welcome back in it is OTV here
on this Thursday morning. Very excited for our next interview
somebody that I was never excited to play against because
he was better than me, and that is Patrick Willis
NFL Hall of Famer ole miss Legend there play his
entire career there for the San Francisco forty nine ers. Patrick,
what's going on? Man, glad to have.
Speaker 9: You on the show, Hester, buddy, thanks for having me, Man,
glad to be on. Always good to chop it up
with you, to talk up with me. So yeah, man,
excided for this weekend, all right?
Speaker 3: True or false? You have a club on your hand
right now?
Speaker 6: No what not at the moment. Not at the moment.
Speaker 9: But I'm sure I'm sure we could, uh we can
put one together though, real quick, dude.
Speaker 3: Hey, p really man, we were talking about it right
at the beginning of the show, and so like, I
feel like every time I played you, man, you had
a hand injury that you had to club up. But
do you remember y'all came and played us in San
Diego and you and TK both had clubs on your
right hands, and y'all right there in the middle of
the defense and as a fullback having to block both
of you guys. It wasn't very fun.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 9: I remember that like it was yesterday. I remember it
just the actually the game before I think we had
both we had played Arizona and we were just trying
to get to the playoffs to back then you know,
the NFC West, you could just you could be eight
and eight and get in and and so we had
to win.
Speaker 6: We had we needed to.
Speaker 9: Beat Arizona, then we needed to beat you guys, and so, man,
there was no way that we were not going to
play in that game. I remember I broke my hand
the first the first quarter of the game, and then
right I think it was like two serious ladies. Tal
came on and said both I think I just broke
my hand.
Speaker 6: I was like, man, put messing with me. Man.
Speaker 9: And you know when operating rooms on Monday and playing
you guys on on Thursday was cruising that hand in clubs.
Speaker 3: I know and didn't miss beat. It was always so impressive.
I do want to certainly get to the old Miss
Lsu stuff though, But man, congratulations, I know I sent
you a message, but I just want to tell you
here with words getting into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
And I tell people often, and I know you don't
like when I say it, Man, you're the best I
played against, and I played against some of the greats.
But you know, when you have a combination of being smarter, faster,
and stronger than somebody you're going against, it's a bad
combo for that guy. So, man, you played the right way.
You did everything the right way. You were always humble
in your approach as well. So congratulations on getting into
the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Speaker 9: Man, I really appreciate those, Jacob. I'm really really grateful.
I thank God for just the opportunity to pursue, you.
Speaker 6: Know, a dream and a reality.
Speaker 9: You know, I always say I dreamed with the reality
and to be able to, you know, go play at
that level and not just play at it. But you know,
leaving Mark, you know, I give all prison glory to God.
And I think my teammates, my coaches, family, friends, everyone, man,
So you know, I didn't get there alone. So I'm
very appreciative and it was awesome. It was awesome experience
and grateful to be in be in the Pro Football
of Fame.
Speaker 5: Amen to that for sure, Patrick, what's up man, It's
it's Mathlins. So I you know I spent.
Speaker 6: It's good good to your boy fellas.
Speaker 5: That's right. Yeah, I spent a lot of time having
to do scouter reports on you. As a backup quarterback
in Green Bay, I had to do scouter reports on
defenders all the time. So it's kind of that's one
of my jobs. So you know, being an n S
north Man, we had great linebackers areas Lance Spriggs, Brian
NeuRA Locker. There was great ones. But when we had
to play the Niners, we had to do a scout
report on Patrick Willis. It's just something a little bit
deep different about you and that whole linebacker cord during
that period of time. Like you talk about intimidation, you
talked to like about the black clubs. On the hand
you talked about just how y'all flow around and played together.
It was something else. And and to bring up the
you know what, we got what you're on here this
week for we got L s u O. Miss, it
was the same thing scouting you back in college. So
when you look back at your your battles at that time,
old miss L. S u Is there, do you have
a memory that sticks out from the L s U game.
Speaker 9: Oh man, I just got was thinking about L s
U when I when I got to l when I
got to old Miss, I remember, you know, my rookie year,
I mean freshman year. It was Eli's year, and I
just remember how big it was. I feel like every
game was big just because it was and we did
okay that year. We ended up sharing the NC I'm sorry,
not NFC, but the SEC West with you guys. And
I just remember.
Speaker 6: Just how massive the game was, and.
Speaker 9: So I remember them telling us when we want to
play you guys.
Speaker 6: I think this might be in my.
Speaker 9: Junior year, it was like, man, be comfort down the LSU.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 9: It's you know, man, it's dangers down there. You gotta
don't worry anything. That's old Miss, how you can get
in a fight, no thing that was in my head.
The only thing I remember telling my family.
Speaker 6: I was like, listen, whatever.
Speaker 9: Y'all do is just working neutral colors. I said, we're
gonna go in there, We're gonna try to play the besketball.
Speaker 6: We can play. But I remember going.
Speaker 9: Down there, man, and it was so freaking dag gonna loud.
It was almost like playing down there was like playing
in the NFL game every Sunday. But I do remember
going down there, man, and we never beat you guys,
but I do remember going I think it was to
Marcus Russell. The year we played Marcus Russell and them
guys down there. It could have been my sophomore year.
Speaker 6: It was one of them years.
Speaker 9: But I just feel like I had one of the
best SEC.
Speaker 6: Games I ever had, and that was.
Speaker 9: And a lot of they had to do with just man,
just want to go down to LSU, want to play well,
but then really go down there and get up out
of there.
Speaker 5: To your point, I think I just looked it up.
Eighteen tackles at the end of the day. Yeah, somebody
that said, we have a little chat with a lot
of our listeners will kind of tell us their thoughts
and they're like, yeah, I remember that game, and the
PA announcer the entire time said tackle made by number
forty nine Patrick Willis.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's an overtime game.
Speaker 3: If I'm not mistaken, I believe that was an over Yeah.
Speaker 9: We went, we went down to the wild with you guys.
And then another one one, another one real quick was
do you remember when we played you guys. I think
that was the last year that played you guys down there.
It could have been my senior year and Orge Roynd
was our head coach and we was a visiting teams obnestly,
and we were supposed to run out. I remember, I
remember coach Tins. I mean, I remember coach Ron Sam
for get those guys. We're gonna run out when they
run out, And I remember thinking about that.
Speaker 6: I was like, Coach, I don't think we can do that. Man.
You go, you're gonna make them mad. They already have,
like they already had all the top.
Speaker 9: Guys over there, and you're gonna you're gonna piss him
off me more probably on the type of people there. Man.
Don't make nobody, no, no more bad than they already
have to be to play.
Speaker 6: And we ran out. And so we waited.
Speaker 9: We waited, and I'm say, as soon as they called
you guys, we ran at the same time and the
crowd was like.
Speaker 7: Ooh yeah. I was like, oh.
Speaker 6: Man, so yeah it was.
Speaker 9: There's some great memories going to get la she in disaport.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I remember one enough told Patrick the story in person
before I knew he was different. When we were running
stretched to the left and Patrick was lined up outside
on the right side of the defense. And I remember
getting the stretch and I had a little bit of
a gap and I put my foot in the ground
and forty nine met me in the hole and I'm like,
wait a minute. He was on the complete opposite side
of where he was going. Where How what? Wait a minute,
I don't understand. And that's tonight. Patrick. You had a
team tackle, so you knew exactly what was going on.
Speaker 6: The ball go getball.
Speaker 3: And you also had to play on the goal line
against L. S U in Oxford that every time I
see a highlight tape of you is on there because
you you did body slam one of our guys on
the goal line there. I'm sure that's a player that
you get asked about a lot.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, shout out to I was was that was
that just an event?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 9: It was yeah, yeah, shout out to him.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 9: I know a lot of people are giving the you
know joke about you know that player when I would
talk about it, and you know, it's just football being played.
But I will say, man, Coach Orgern told me, Coach
Orgrun told me. My asked me the first day I
met him, he said, I want you to be the
general of my defense. And I remember looking at him like,
I think, I know what that means. But that means
like to be the man right that the top dog.
And but a lot of people don't know what comes
along with being the top dog, with being the captain,
of being that that man and that being that person.
And so that particular play, I remember calling the front
and that's the middle line back to me, and the
person's making a call and you got to make sure
everybody lined up and correct and get everybody straight. And
I remember making a call and I looked in front
of me and my gap wasn't what it was supposed
to be, and I was like, oh shit, she's like
I was like, oh crap, old crap.
Speaker 6: And the only thing in.
Speaker 9: My head was I could hear or dron if you
are the general in my defense. And I'm the type
of person too as a leader. Whatever happens, whatever goes
on that feel like good, bad or.
Speaker 6: Indifferent, it's on me.
Speaker 9: And so the only thing in my mind was I
got to make this right.
Speaker 6: I got to make this right. And I just remember
the ball snapped and I.
Speaker 9: Will say I think they might. I think you guys
might have got the first down. But it was the
play and attack and everything was so it was so like, man,
it was nice.
Speaker 6: It was nice of the kind of stuff that you
always wish you could do.
Speaker 9: You see, you saw people go on TV and stuff
growing up. But yeah, it was just a heck of play.
But I had to I had to make that play
right because we lined up wrong and it was on me.
Speaker 6: And so yeah, that's that.
Speaker 3: Was it now, Patrick, and we're catching up with Patrick
Willis here on ot B LSU Old Miss is this weekend.
I want to ask you just about the Old Miss
program and where they're at and what Lane Kiffin has
done for the program. I mean, it's double digit wins
now every single season, and he's getting them to win
totals that they've never seen before in program history and
every single year. Now y'all are in the conversation. You're
in the conversation to make a run and maybe get
into the college football playoffs, certainly since it's expanded to
twelve teams, like for you and for like when you
played at Old Miss, and you're right, like y'all had
some really good moments when you first got there and
Eli Manning and you're playing for the division. But like
to see them where they're at now, like as a
former old Miss rebel, like what does that mean to you?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Man, you know, it brings a smile to my face.
And like you said, there was a time when you know,
we I remember my time that we didn't win a
whole lot of games, you know, and so I just
remember saying them over the years. I remember, I remember
they had decimal clusters that year they had him, and
they was they started winning some games and and it
was cool because you know, you get around your teammates
and on Saturdays we have practice and everybody talking about
who Who's gonna be playing who, and you know, you
never really could just be proud to say, like, you know,
I mean, I'm proud because I went to Ole Miss.
But it wasn't he wasn't he didn't know if he
was gonna win those big games or the games you
should win. And so to see them now, man, being
considered like one of the top programs and in football
is truly amazing. And so shout out to Lane Kiffin
and his coaching staff and just the whole, the whole
ole Min's family. I know now when I when I
go back, I don't get to get back to a
whole lot of games. I try to get back to
at least one or two year if I can. But
now I'll tell you what the atmosphere is like like
no other I will say, I don't know if it's
the same kind of SEC feel like it used to
be back in the day because of the whole.
Speaker 6: N I L and everybody just you know, in and out.
Speaker 9: But I mean he's doing a tremendous job there and
just the sight and the seat.
Speaker 5: Patrick, So I know you'll have this great in state rivalry,
so that like it's it's everything that's great about college football.
But L s U Old Miss, I mean, this is
a historical rival Now in the SEC world, it's it's
a little bit different because there's so many good teams
you play every year, so there's there's everybody's got beef
with everybody, right, but there's something little bit different better
LSU so is is the L s U game? Does
it come close to the emotional feel to the UH,
to the fans, to the players and the coaches as
like the Old Miss Mississippi State game.
Speaker 6: Man that's a great question.
Speaker 9: You know, I don't know.
Speaker 6: If it's that's a heck of a question.
Speaker 9: You know, I'm not from Mississippi nor LSU, but I
know a lot of people come from those states and
go to school and Old Miss and have a lot
of family, whether it's players or just students. And I
don't know, Man, it's something about LSU, the program itself,
and for so many years, you know, LSU bands just
you know, I guess l s U and you know,
I would say talent wise, a lot of people, you know,
the top stars and stuff, they usually would pick LSU
over Old Miss. And so to every time we play,
it's almost like, man, we just we like the little brothers.
But now, but now I really feel like, man, I'm excited,
you know, I'm excited to steal them play because I'm
like which one.
Speaker 6: They always played. They always played, they.
Speaker 9: Always played tough against each other. But now it's almost like,
you know, I took my mad off to Old Miss
because they they want some big games over the years
against LSU. And so yeah, like I said, I'm excited
to see how this weekend is gonna go.
Speaker 6: I have heard that.
Speaker 9: LSU may not be the.
Speaker 6: L s U of of old.
Speaker 9: I guess I would say, I don't know how old
we go back, but yeah, I'm excited to steal.
Speaker 3: All right, So I'm gonna ask you this before we
let you go, and and Patrick can't think enough for
your time. Now, I know if I asked you who's
going to win the game, obviously you would pick old Mess.
I would hope you picked old Mess, And so I'm
not going to ask you that. I'm going to ask
you this question about the game. Is it going to
be like a couple of years ago in Oxford where
it was a shootout, it was the last team that
had the ball, it was like both teams scored in
the forties. Or is it going to be more of
an old school throwback SEC game. LSU's defense has been
really good this year and you can see it being
maybe like seventeen to fourteen. Which game do you think
we're going to see in Oxford?
Speaker 9: That's a great question. I guess then it would come
down to defenses, because I feel like man Lane his
offense to be putting up points. Somehow they get points
on the board, and so yeah, I think it's gonna
come down to coach Golden his defensive scheme. I know
they have a heck of a linebacker and start team,
but you know that's just one guy, you know, and
so like they come out and they have a good
defensive game, and the way that offense, you know, has
been clicking with you know, I like both quarterback.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm gonna go. I'm an era, man, it
is college football.
Speaker 9: I'm like, let's go, let's go fourteen, let's go one
of those.
Speaker 6: Let's go to low.
Speaker 3: Scoring Okay, the defensive running back on the defensive games.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know why. I just feel
like this ship man.
Speaker 9: The whole football world is a defensive is a defensive
game for some reason. So yeah, I'm gonna go with
the gonna be a low scoring game, old miss on
top of course.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, there he is Patrick Willis Man. Patrick,
we can't thank you enough. I mean, you're out there
on the West coast, so you woke up early with
us this morning, so we appreciate it. Was a pleasure
sharing the field with you every time. It's a pleasure
sharing the airwaves as well, so we appreciate it. We'll
have to do this again soon, hey.
Speaker 6: Man, Thank you guys, and thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely see you, brother. All right, there he is
Patrick Willer's former Old Miss linebacker, NFL Hall of Famer legend,
a true legend, and as you can tell they're in
the interview, just one of the the good guys of
the game as well. He had no business being as
good and as smart as he was a football field, like, yeah,
you're not supposed to have both of those.
Speaker 5: You're too nice to be so scary on the field.
Speaker 3: He would run over you and then help you out
me like good jobs, Like what did I do good
on that play?
Speaker 5: Tell me the things I accomplished on that play? You
destroyed me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we appreciate his time. And yeah they look
old Miss wasn't who they are now when he was there.
But I'll tell you what, they always played hard and
they always brought it every single time. And great competitor,
and so I'm glad we got a chance to catch
up with him here on the show. All Right, we'll
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listening to off the Bench.
Speaker 8: We calmed down at Marju bar Helene Stories. If we
had one someone five the whom the juke bomps up
the song and shoe blaw yeah, dear drop rolls.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a closer.
Speaker 5: I can't I can't. Anyone else can't wait. Philamara just
slam man and.
Speaker 4: Just slam dunk the funk. Oh, we already thought it
was Friday that just killed my I do love Thursday,
We do his truck.
Speaker 5: You gotta. It's gonna be a real short segment, everybody,
because we just talked to one hell of an American,
hell of a human being and a hell of a
football player, mister Patrick Willis.
Speaker 3: Uh, let's get to one assid bench at least. What
does QB one want to see from neuss Meyer this Saturday?
Speaker 5: Decisive us, push the ball down the field, make good reads,
because they're going to give you a lot of opportunities. Hey,
if you keep your eyes open, they might even tell
you when they're running Cover one.
Speaker 3: Our Cover three.
Speaker 5: All you really have to do is open your eyeballs
and they will tell you, because I'm sure they're tongue
in hand signals in that LSU in the QB meeting
rooms this week. So just keep your eyes open. They'll
give you some tails. Yeah, just good dominate.
Speaker 3: We need more role models like Patrick Willis. How do
we make that happen? See, there's not many like him though.
That's the thing. Like again, player thinks nobody should be smarter,
faster and stronger than you. But that's what Patrick Willis
was every single time. We appreciate him, and we appreciate you.
We love you.
Speaker 5: We'll see tomorrow
Speaker 2: Top the bench.