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Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Knees Studio. Here's Jacob Hester and
Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: Yo and welcome in TB Here live from Rauss on
Burbank and Lee another football Friday. Here on the show
Here at Rous's Jake and Matt. Here, Alandra and Tata
back in the Raising Kine studio.
Speaker 2: How are we doing, sir? Now, We're doing great. Happy
to be back at Rawse's. Of course every single Friday
during the season we will be right here Ralse's Market
on Burbanks. So you know, just like always walking in early,
about thirty twenty five to thirty minutes earlier than you
normally to prep. But you know what I was about
the fiftieth person through these doors this morning, because everybody
working here at Ross's is getting ready they open up here.
I guess they just opened about two minutes ago. Doors open,
getting ready for all you tailgators having a stock up
on some food, some bevies, some bruskies, some hydration. This
man right here every day make a sushi may at
six am every single day. Practice bars already popping, popping.
See somebody up there right now? Good, ready to roll. Man.
Tiger's playing home tomorrow. I'm excited. Guess who's making an appearance?
You Team Flynn parking pass. Some people are saying, I
got a parking pass. Shout out to our guy, mister
Brandon Bull. Hurly, thank you sir. Here you go. Yep, yep.
We're going to actually just complaining every single day on air.
Finally somebody shows a pity, shows pity. Somebody stepped up
to the plate. So looking forward to it. We will
be there, all five of us, my two little girls.
Probably a little sleepy at halftime, but we'll see see
what happens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I hope I'm not sleepy at halftime. That
means the game's been boring that I'm calling so because
we'll be winning by so much, no doubt, no doubt.
A good good last night football, little Giants and Eagles.
I mean, the Saints are basically Super Bowl champs.
Speaker 2: Basically the Saints are better than the Eagles. File quite
a lot too.
Speaker 3: Look, we joke, the Giants beat at the time the
undefeated Chargers, and then they lost to the Saints, and
then they go and beat the four to one defending
Super Bowl champ Eagles.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they sandwiched the Saints loss with the two of
the better teams in the NFL. Yeah victories. So people
are talking, are the Saints coming? Have they not coming? Okay,
that's what we said. I'm an NFL so wild man,
I mean, you got. It's just anybody can win any
given Sunday. That's why they made a movie about it.
But everybody's talented, and it just depends on the It's
so much depends on emotion at the time, game plan,
a few plays here and there. But of course the Giants,
I mean they the game was so exciting last night
just because for one, tip of the cap to Amazon,
because they do like a really, really good job in
that broadcast. Like when when you move a broadcast to
a different station or a stream or an app or whatever,
that's never really done it. You don't know what to get.
Now they've been doing it for a couple of years now,
Like from day one, that coverage was great. I love
the back cover of The Alternate View as well. Have
you watched that? The Alternate View is really fun. I
don't like to watch the whole thing on that, but
I do like to kind of go and see it
from the above a go kind of get the birds
out of you. But did a great job, Jackson Dart, Wow,
bring in some energy, camp Scataboo, Wow, bring in some energy.
Crayons were deleted last night. My god, it's unbelievable. Crayons
were deleted last night. Camp Scataboo. You're a beautiful human.
You were a caveman? Yeah? What was his mom said?
He did?
Speaker 3: He used to dress up in his brother's pads and
run into telephone phone poles.
Speaker 2: That's right, tracks, Yeah, I think she said that you
like to take the short bus just because the windows
tasted better. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Okay, look, just because he's a little aggressive. Okay, my goodness.
So I didn't get a chance to he's a.
Speaker 2: Little aggressive exactly, that's a good way to put it.
Speaker 3: So I didn't get a chance to watch all the
NFL game last night. We had we had a a crazy,
crazy schedule in the Hester household, so Katie had to
work concessions last night, because if you are a middle
school parent, you have to work at high school game.
Speaker 2: High school. Well, you know, we got everything covered.
Speaker 3: We got we got high school, middle school, elementary, before school,
Mother's day out.
Speaker 2: We got them all covered, right, So she was doing that.
So I had Harlow.
Speaker 3: Well, so Jackson had a varsity game and it started
at six, and so I wanted to go see some
of that obviously, of course, So get Harlow, get get
get the boys packed up. We go see that. I'm
going to watch, you know, at least at least hopefully
until the second quarter. They were playing a team that
they were gonna be okay kids. They were twenty eighth
to nothing, I think, but in the second quarter before
I left.
Speaker 2: And so I'm going there.
Speaker 3: And then Memphis has his big game against our our buddies.
Like the baseball team's split in the half right, and
one football team here and one football there, and so
it's like, oh, I got to go see all of
our like all my boys, like not just Memphis and
his team, but you know, I coach baseball too, so
to watch them.
Speaker 2: And so I get there and.
Speaker 3: It's like I got Harlow with and so like I'm
I've met these football games. I'm like pushing the stroller,
like just because all you got to you gotta keep moving.
Speaker 2: You got to keep moving.
Speaker 3: You can't stop to stop if you're in trouble, right,
So exactly, And so I got my steps in last
night whatever, like the marker is, I got the steps in.
Speaker 2: So I'm trying to.
Speaker 3: Like kind of like just yeah, yeah, good job, good job,
like as I'm fading away, trying to make sure I walk.
Speaker 2: But crazy night, but fun night.
Speaker 3: Filled with football. Watching this a little bit as I
got home, so everywhere from me, did you watch?
Speaker 2: Uh well, did you walking up to work any He's
still pretty sore from the flag football game on Tuesday
night we played them. Yeah, you know, And I said,
say the third day, you know, yeah, I still got that.
Speaker 3: I just set up to the group, you know in
Leo and Wolf of Wall Street's trying to crawl back
to the car. I'm still kining there. He's still kind
of there, still kind of at that point, there's are
my enemy right now for sure. Yeah, it's just the
I don't know what, like these muscles like right above
your quads, like great blue hip flexers.
Speaker 2: Twelve they're not flexing. It ain't flexing. They the flexen
ain't flexing. Well, I don't really have a good comeback
for that. So they're just old. I guess. Sorry. I
don't think I'm that old. But I will say my
son wanted to throw the ball in the backyard yesterday
and the old right there with the peck connects to
the shoulder and then everything else around the shoulder kind
of tough to lift up a little bit. But you
know what, for one night, we were Kings. We were Kings.
I still had it for one night. But okay, so
let me just talk a little bit about the game.
So you saw all kind of the end of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw the end of it, and I saw
the highlights that kind of led to the score.
Speaker 2: Yah. Well, a lot of things came out of it.
First of all, the city of New York, and this
probably the state of football is a little bit in
love with the Jackson Dartists Camp Scataboo right now. The
player certainly are in love with those players.
Speaker 3: The yeah you want amazing Russell Wilson to Jackson Dart Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's amazing. What two players with that kind of like
young dumb energy yeah, can like bring the juice and
then on top of that play really well against veterans
and in the NFL. So like what took Brian dave
Ball so long to get Jackson Dart You know, I
say so long a couple of games, right, but like
the amount of juice that they bring, just playing being
able to make plays with his feet was really impressive.
He went out at one point during the game. I
think it might have been second quarter. You don't correct
me if I'm wrong. I think it was second quarter,
went into the tent and you couldn't really tell from
the hit, so it's like one of those hits you
couldn't really tell. I think it was something like that.
I think maybe something happened with his chain that he
was wearing and like that, like something happened like up
like above the neck area, but you couldn't really tell
what concussion type shot. He goes into the tent and like,
can I tell you? Everybody was trying to get in
that tent to see, like hurry up, yes, we're still
we still got the ball we got against the Eagle.
This might have been third We got the lead against
the Eagles. We got the ball. We're moving. We just
got a first down. You scrambled for it. So day
Balls like looking in the tent and so Russell Wilson's
out on the field and like the fans are booing
like no, get this guy out of here, blah blah blah.
And then Russe Wilson does an incomplete pass on third
down and day Ball goes to the tent and starts
like undressing the doctor, undressing him. The guy's like, what,
I'm doing my job right here. Yeah, Cam scattabooz like
poking his head and there, like, come on, bro, come
on brother. You see jack and Dart like looking above,
like the little meshed part of the tent, and I
saw some like I saw like he's in a pody.
So everybody's like, what get him out of there now,
we need him now this this fan, this fans are
about to turn on us. I saw some tweets. I
think it was b a PFT commentator that that tweeted
it out Jackson Jackson Dart has been then approved to
go back in the game by camp Scataboo, so it's
been released. So he goes back to the game. Man,
they just played great, and then I mean, come on,
I don't know if I can just like shout from
the mountain that I told you so so more than
I can do about the tush push. I don't know
if you heard about this. First half, the Eagles get
to like the five or six yard line something, it
might have been the four, and it's like third and short,
not in goal, right, they run four tush pushes in
a row and score a touchdown four in a row,
four in a row. And can I tell you nobody
was happy about it? Yeah, except for Eagles fans, like.
Speaker 3: The announcers even like Herbie.
Speaker 2: They were like, huh they did it. Yeah, it's four
in a row. There. You could tell. You could see A. J. Brown,
the receiver for the Eagles, like they call it again,
and he's like raising his hand like are you serious.
Everybody's like, everyone's like, is this really happen? It's real
right now. Twitter's lighting up about it. Everybody's you know, MICHAEH.
Parsons tweets out like this is not football. Yeah, no,
it's no, it's rugby. Rugby. It was. It was bring
the full back, dive back. It was embarrassing, man, it
really was. And so like, if you're the Eagles, and
you skirted by this offseason with on a vote to
keep it in the game, which you know, I think
everybody's going to be screaming out to get it out.
But you would think, if you want to keep it
in the game because that's what helps your team and
you can do it really well, maybe not do it
four times in a row on a primetime game. Yeah,
maybe just do it once. Yeah, maybe maybe do it
one time and flop like where, don't make it, don't
let it work one time. I don't know, you would
think that if you want to keep it in there,
not get it voted out in this offseason.
Speaker 3: Don't do it on primetime on Thursday night in front
of everybody four times.
Speaker 2: In a row. Four times in a row. Not a
great look, anyhoy. There's my old man on a front porch.
Take right there. But oh, I think that's another thing.
What's your front porch got to do with it? What
is it? Front front line? I don't know. Get off
my line, Get off on the line, Get off the line.
There we go, kids, or go off our front porch. Whatever.
Either one. Another really funny thing happened in the game. Uh,
let's see the giants were on the goal line. Camp
Scataboo is running like a madman on the goal line
and he reaches over and the ball you know, crosses
the goal line, but then he gets knocked backwards and
then the referee on the sideline, the line judge says
for forward progress was stopped. He didn't see him reach
it because it was like a really quickly jabbed it
over there. Yeah, he marks him down and so he's
got his hand up like marking the ball dead right here,
and Jackson darts like running. Jackson Dark runs over to him.
He's like raising his hands up like yeah, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown,
and he just keeps his hand up and Jackson Dart
like looks around and he gave into his like intuition,
He gave into that inner voice in his head and
he five the ref. Oh no, yep, high five the ref.
You get a penalty. Let me tell you, I was
laughing my butt off. Did he get a penalty? He didn't? Okay, good,
He played it off because it wasn't like I'm mad
at you.
Speaker 3: It was just like you know, sometimes like if you
picked up the flag and handed it back to him,
or if you did something like that, like, don't throw a.
Speaker 2: Fly, like yeah, I want you to just see. Yeah,
that's what That's the word I was looking for there.
It's intrusive thoughts. Uh. It wasn't like me and I'm
mad at you. It was like I'm just happy to
give someone a high five right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah, ye, all right, pretty genuine tough night for Philly
sports fans, for the Phillies and the way that they lost,
and for the Eagles to lose to the Giants, for
the Phillies.
Speaker 2: Happy. Oh I hate you, Phillies. I'm so happy that
Eagles lost. I hate you. Yeah. Sure, I don't care
about that as much, but Phillies, I like the Eagles.
Speaker 3: Bad night for Philly sports fans. So all right, let's
go ahead and take a break. We have a lot
to get to. We are live here at Ross's Burbank,
and you know, Lee, We've got a lot still coming
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All right, right, Well, speaking of the Tigers, they've got
South Carolina coming to town. It is a matchup where
LSU is a favorite. They are at nine and a
half point favorite.
Speaker 2: I believe that's.
Speaker 3: A line that I saw last time that I checked
in there. It's obviously a must win situation for the
Tigers boat teams coming off of a bye week, and
so I'm going to anticipate there's going to be something new.
These teams will have something new. For the other team,
there's going to be something that you haven't seen before. Now,
both these teams are bad at running the football. LSU
fifteenth in the SEC, South Carolina sixteenth in the SEC. Right,
so that's the point of emphasis probably for both teams.
For South Carolina, they're looking for weapons to help out
Lenora Sellers.
Speaker 2: He doesn't have a running game.
Speaker 3: He doesn't have a go to receiver right now, so
they're trying to find one, and it's been really troublesome
for them. Like when you watch that receiver corps, it
is not consistent. Even though they've got guys that look
great in their uniform. They're looking for somebody that can
step up and be their go to target. Like for LSU,
trying to find ways to run the football. Like, you've
got the receivers, you've got the weapons, that's not your issue,
but it's like consistently running the football, committing to the run,
making plays down field in the passing game. So these
offenses right now kind of limping into this matchup, but
they are both coming off of a bye.
Speaker 2: Week, Yeah, coming off of bye week, which is some
teams are probably better at bye weeks than others too. Like,
there's improvements that can always be made on every team,
whether you're undefeated, whether you're hitting on cylinders, or whether
you are struggling in different aspects of the game. There's
improvements to be made. And a lot of times it's
not like a huge like tear everything down to the studs.
We got to reinvent the wheel type situation. It's little things,
little things here and there that you got to just
realize that, you know, we're we're this far off on
some things, but we do have to philosophically make some
a couple of changes. So I think LSU is kind
of like somewhere in the middle there, Like they do
need to add some actual x's and ode type plays
to their offense, to their repertoire how they are calling
the game. But I think there's a lot of little
things that they can do to improvement. We've talked about
that a lot. We've talked about a lot about that
and run Like let's call a run play, and let's
run a run play. Let's not give him the option
to throw it. Let's not give him the option to
do anything else. Let's run a run play. Let's simplify
the calls on offense. From that, our offensive linemen are
making the communication between center to guard to guard to
tackle to tackle to tie it end. Let's let's minimize
that communication. Let's limit it. Let's give him some calls,
of course, cause we still want to get in a
good play. We want an advantageous play, but it doesn't
always have to be the perfect play. Let's just run
a play and then we'll see how the offense kind
of changes. Garrett Nsmeyer able to have a week of rest,
Like I know he got some much needed rest. We
don't know the severity of whatever was going on with him,
but we know something was there. Yeah, can he turn
it around? Can he get to the Garrett Nusmeyer that
we know and love that we've seen. And that's the
frustrating part that everybody's had. It's like it's not having
a success, not doing the things because we know he
can do it. Like if we had never seen him
do it, it's just all right, Well, we got work
around it. We got to figure it out. Like this
is this is what we are like. When you've seen
it time and time again, it makes it a lot
more frustrating. So I still have high hopes that Garrett
usmy we will start improving and getting better and better.
Hopefully this little this seven days of rest will kind
of be the catapult that that helps him go. What
do you think, in your heart of hearts?
Speaker 3: Do you think we'll see some differences in the run game?
You got to ask me that, Bud, my heart of hearts,
because this is the hard hitting journalism for I know.
Speaker 2: You got to ask the tough questions that people are
afraid to.
Speaker 3: Huh, and my heart of hearts, do you think that
you'll see something different? I'm not This isn't a success
rate question. I'm not talking about that. You're talking about
from a.
Speaker 2: Just like, will you see something that is different?
Speaker 3: So when I say different, you don't run all the
RPOs that we've talked about. Uh, maybe you you come
back and you have Jack Pybrin at fullback like you
had the one play that is your longest run of
the year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And to me like that to answer that question,
it's like, to see something different is not to see
it one time or not to see it in the
first fifteen yeah, or like once in the one, like
if they if they brought out a fullback one time
in a game. To me, that's not something different. It's
just like phone in a at that point. It's a
trick play, right, it's not. And it kind of hurt
when you said it like that. Well, if you but
anything you throw, you do something once a game to
throw somebody off. It's it's a trick play. Whether it's
a triple reverse pass or it's a throwing a fullback
in there that you've never done before. I don't know.
In my heart of heart. Since you're putting a gun
to my head here, I'm gonna say it's no gun.
I'm gonna say no gun here at rouses I've said
the metaphor football gun. Okay, I'm gonna say no. From
a philosophical stample, we'll do. I think that we'll have
more success. Are successful improve Yes, I do, But I
think it could be more of them looking at what
we've done as it's I don't know if they're going
to look at it and say what we're doing is
not working, or they're going to look at it and
say we just got to fix a few things. We're
really closed. And if they just like clean up calls
and make the lineman more aggressive, make the ability agreeability
to be aggressive and stop thinking so much and trying
to be perfect. I think that will improve. Now. Will
it make us a juggernaut? No, but we don't. You
don't need to be. I don't think if Nussmayer can
get to the level he's been, you don't need to.
You know, you listen this and listen.
Speaker 3: You don't have to be Missouri who is running for
two hundred and ninety two yards per game in the SEC.
Speaker 2: It's not what we're talking about.
Speaker 3: You don't have Like, that's not you, and that's fine,
Like you don't have to be that, all right, but
you can't be fifteenth in the SEC?
Speaker 2: Can you be? Can you be ninth? Can you be
ninth in rushing? And nice second ninth? You know what
I mean?
Speaker 3: Like if you're ninth, we're talking about a different football
team altogether, because it's complementary, okay, because you still are
going to be able to hit some stuff in the
passing game. You hope, like you said, nus Meyer's feeling better.
You don't have to be number one but can you
be ninth, because with the way your defense is playing, right,
that's your complementary offense where maybe you're fifth and passing
in ninth and rushing yep, and overall your sixth or
seventh in total offense. But you got a second ranked,
third ranked defense that is peering together to make a
pretty damn good football team.
Speaker 2: Yep. No, you're right, You're absolutely right. I mean, this
is a thank you. They've pretty said that for this
is a team that has an elite defense, and I
think this is a very gain and we can talk
about that matchup when we come back. But the defense
versus their offense. But this is a team that you
don't have to be the greatest offense in the country.
Although the pieces are there too, there's no there's nothing
stopping this offense from getting back to where it was
a year ago, right in the passing game. IMEE with
you except themselves? Right, Yeah, so I'd like to see it.
But man, if they can just make steady improvements on
the offense, that defense keeps playing like they have been playing,
this team still has everything they want out in front
of them. All Right, we'll take a break.
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Speaker 3: I was like trying to get out of the attention
because I know he's working on another thing. You know,
we got the Saints starting quarterback on since Rattler, So
I'm trying to he's trying to work on that, and
Laundre has done a great job working on that. So
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I had him play well, you know, but now here
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There's so there's a an extra set of challenges that
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They're on all major social media. So go ahead, pick
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get it done. All right, Let's take a look at
the defense for LSU against the South Carolina offense. Now,
LSU right now points per game in the SEC amongst
SEC teams, they are third there behind Texas. Yeah, Texas
at twelve, Oklahoma at seven. So LSU right now right
behind Texas only giving up twelve point two points per game.
This is a South Carolina offense that we talked about
is dead last and rushing less than one hundred yards
per game. All right, So you start to look at
some of the numbers the tail the tape, LSU right.
Speaker 2: Now only giving up eighty four point.
Speaker 3: Four yards per game on the ground, So you would
think that those two things competing against each other, LSU
is going to be victorious in that portion of it.
So it's going to be okay if South Carolina comes
out and they have a game plan to go through
Lenora Sellers put it on his arm. How's LSU's pass
defense right now? They are kind of in the middle
of the pack when it comes to the SEC rankings.
They give up two hundred and eight yards per game
through the air. A lot of that obviously old miss
added to it the last time out.
Speaker 2: So if you're LSU, You've got a couple decisions to
be made.
Speaker 3: How aggressive are we going to be against the quarterbacks
certainly that can pull the ball down and make plays
on his own.
Speaker 2: What kind of coverages are we going to play?
Speaker 3: How aggressive are we going to be in our coverage
selections as well? Because if I'm South Carolina, I know
LSU's great stole the run. If you can make any hay,
it's going to be through the air.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: I'll also say this South Carolina and their passing offense
is I believe I think it's fourteenth in the SEC.
They only throw for two hundred and eight yards per game.
So if your South Carolina's off its coordinator right now,
all right, your shoela, and you're trying to come up
with a game plan against this LSU defense. Do you
think it's going to be trying to have some Q
runs and on the ground or do you think it's
going to be through the air with the ability to
have Lenora Sellers kind of make a play with his
legs and maybe an organized chaos situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a tough situation because you're going into a
game against a defense that is proven to be really
really good, really talented, really fast, and they've also proven
to be really good to a complimentary a good comparable
to your quarterback and Kate club nick over at Clemson.
So how they the window dressing, the game plan, how
they're able to spy and keep him in the pocket,
because you know both these guys, both those guys, that's
good comparison between them two. They can both beat you
with their arm, but they can they like to beat
you with their legs. And that's that's a shocking number
to me, Sorry a staff that they're so low in
rushing yardage with Lenora Seller's ability to get outside the
pocket and turn pass plays that were turned pass plays
into rushing yards with with a scramble. Lenard Sellis has
not had the year that everybody thought that he could.
The talent is still there, his weapons are not really there,
but that isn't to say he's not dangerous. He looked
in one of their losses, he looked probably the best
of the best of the year. I think it was
against Missouri. He was throwing the ball all over the
yard and that was his best passing game. So it's
just like which which Lenori's is going to show up
or which offense is going to show up that's going
to provide him that opportunity. How they had a bye week,
so they had a week to work on this. Right,
if I was them, I would have spent the week
working tempo offense. Maybe not every drive, but we're gonna
put together a We're gonna put together a couple of
ten plays scripts that were really comfortable whether and it
could be the most basic plays. It could be our baseline,
you know, two minute drive type pass plays and a
couple of zone runs and a couple of zone reads
and an RPA. They could take some bass plays and
run a tempo offense, and they might like if I
was them, I would have spent three four days in
practice working on it, multiple drills during during this because
that's the been the only way to get this offense
on their or get this LSU defense on their heels
a little bit, and to stop them from doing all
their complicated pre snap looks where they got walk arounds.
You don't know who's come and where their disguises. It
prevents defenses from being able to do that. So if
I'm watching LSU and saying, all right, what was the
worst game they played, Well it was Old Miss. Okay,
well Old Miss do they went really fast and.
Speaker 3: Got you're able to replicate can't replicate it, but you
can your version. Yeah, and you can do a couple time.
You can do your version of it, like the thing
with Old Miss. It's so impressive and I've said it
multiple year, it's not just this year.
Speaker 2: Like when their.
Speaker 3: Receivers catch a ball, Let's say it's like a fifteen
yard out route. They catch the ball and they tumble
out of bounds and they're on the other team's bench.
They are doing everything they can to sprint back to
the line right, they're moving people out of the way,
they're giving the ball to the officials, not throwing the
ball the identic because they want to give the ball
to the official and they want to go. It's impressive
to me, like you can you can take the hardest
hit over the middle and it's like you're limping and
crawling and like trying.
Speaker 2: To still get the ball to the official.
Speaker 3: So you can't replicate that in two weeks in the
totality of what they do.
Speaker 2: But you can do a version of it. Yeah, And
you can't make that identity, but you can throw it
in there and make it a little change up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gosh that that offense and the tempo that
they play at it is highly impressive. I mean it's
not just them Tennessee does it. Mississippi State tries to
do a version of it at times. But I would
fully expect South Carolina to have something for LSU where
it is high, high tempo and we're talking about twelve
seconds from where the ball is down to the next snap. Yeah,
for sure, I think that's I think that's old. I
think that's the old. Miss I think it's twelve second.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And just like This is kind of like my
notes and my keys to victory for this LSU defense
versus leonor sounds like. Look, he is a big kid.
He is strong. He can break tackles, but you can
confuse them a little bit. You can get to him.
This is going to be a safety game for LSU.
Good safety play is key, and our safeties look pretty
darn good. So that was my key to victory against Clemson.
It's kind of the same. If we have a really
good game from the safeties, look out, I think we'll
have a good game.
Speaker 3: Safety's actually played well against Old Miss too. Just wasn't enough.
All right, we will take a break and when we
come back, are going to be joined by the starting
quarterback for your New Orleans Saints, Spencer Rattler right here
on OTV.
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the New Orleans Saints, Spencer Ratler, joins the show. Now, Spencer, Man,
we hope you're doing well. Truly appreciate the time.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 3: All right, So, look, we talk about it all the
time when you're in the NFL, Man, wins are hard,
and wins matter so much, and it doesn't matter if
you win two to nothing, three to two, it.
Speaker 2: Does not matter. A win is a win. So how
to feel to get the victory the other day?
Speaker 3: The locker room scenes were incredible, like what is that win?
Speaker 2: And what does that win kind of mean moving forward?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's great to get a win under
your belt.
Speaker 6: Took longer than expected, but like you said, it's tough
to come across him, and you know, you're happy to
get one down and you just want to keep stacking them.
Speaker 4: So I think the vibes are high.
Speaker 6: We want to keep this thing rolling and continue to
get better each week and come out with more wins.
Speaker 2: Spence the the we saw everyone saw the video in
the locker room after the game. Kellen Moore kind of
giving game balls, talking about different accomplishments during the game.
Then of course you got your guy, Alvin given Kellen
Moore the game ball for his first win as a
head coach. So just tell me, like, what what's it
mean for having him there, getting to win for him,
and how has been how has it been like adapting
to him as a head coach and just playing for him.
Speaker 4: It's been awesome. I mean ever since he got here.
Speaker 6: I think the culture he brought in, just how he
you know, goes about his business, how he how he
treats us, all that stuff. I mean, he's a player's
coach for sure, and you know, happy for him to
get his first win. You know, he's a great, great dude,
obviously a great play caller and can bring a locker
room together.
Speaker 3: Uh, Spencer, I had a chance to interview you on
NFL Radio down in training camp and we talked about,
you know, for you to have Scott Tolzen he was
a former teammate, actually both of ours as your quarterback coach.
You got Doug as the OC, you got Kellen as
your head coach, Like, what is that meant? Kind of
having all of these guys that have played the position
at the National Football League level to be able to
kind of bend their ear a little bit when you're
trying to get ready for a game and even in
game situations.
Speaker 4: It's been, it's been.
Speaker 6: It's been great, you know, having three guys that all
played the position at the highest level, just bouncing ideas
off them, uh, taking any advice. I mean, we all
don't see the game the same, but we all you know,
have our own feel for it, so we can, you know,
have conversations about looks, about this, about that. So it's
been very beneficial for me and everybody else in the room.
Speaker 2: Spence, my, some of my best memories of being in
the league was like in the quarterback room because you're
you're with those guys every single day, you know whatever
what is six, eight, ten, twelve hours a day, whatever
it is. So some of my best memories of those
relationships in every quarterback room every single year was a
little bit different, whether there's a new coach or whether
there's a new new practice squad. I got, whatever it was. So,
how was the quarterback room this year? With you, my guy,
Scott Tolzen, Tyler, Jake, everybody, How has that room been
this year?
Speaker 4: It's a fun room.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: Scotty Man, he's a great dude.
Speaker 6: Man, He's he's we like to mess with Kotty, but
he's awesome. Tyler, Jake Hunter and Nuts obviously, So we
got a good room and Taysom.
Speaker 4: Don't forget about Taysom. Yeah, so we got a we
got a great room. Man.
Speaker 6: We joke around a lot, but you know, obviously we
talked ball. But you got to be laid back in
those quarterback rooms.
Speaker 2: As you know. Hey, look as Scott, has he ever
shown you the video of his spin move against the Vikings?
Speaker 4: We showed it in the team meeting.
Speaker 2: I believe it.
Speaker 4: Was the sex. I don't know, kick.
Speaker 2: I think it's the best spin move of quarterbacks ever
put on somebody in the middle of the field.
Speaker 4: Yeah, other than Michael Vick's, he's probably.
Speaker 2: No doubt. Dude.
Speaker 3: Hey, you mentioned Taysom there. How good was it to
get a couple of guys back last week? You get
Taysom Hill back, you get our guy Foster Moro back,
and I know they've been working hard to get back,
but just to have those guys, veteran guys, guys that
certainly are going to help any offense that they can
kind of come in certainly at that point in the
season kind of give you a little bit of a jolt.
Speaker 4: One hundred percent.
Speaker 6: I mean, just having those guys back dressed out on
the field is possible for our team.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: I think we saw that last game with the energy
they brought. And then obviously when they're on the field,
their ability to make plays, you know, starts with Taysom
he could you know, do it all, as you guys know.
And then Foster is a true tight end, can block, run, catch,
do it all. So those are two reliable guys and
two of our best players.
Speaker 2: All right, Spencer, So big news here over here. So
of course there's a big game tomorrow here in Baton Rugs, Louisiana.
Right now you're kind of talking to Baton Ruge, You're
talking to almost everybody here in Louisiana. We're all excited,
and of course you're Alma Maters, South Carolina coming down
to take on the LSU Tigers. Man. So we wanted
to kind of just pick your brain a little bit about,
you know, not really the game, but your experiences what
it was like, because I know you had a ton
of success in South Carolina. You had played some really
big game. But your coach, coach Beember. He seems like
I've heard him talk. I was at SEC media days,
and he seems like a guy that players love to
play for. Tell me your experience about him, what he
brings as a head coach.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he was the main reason I went to South Carolina.
Definitely a players coach. You know, a guy that's fiery
and very emotional for his players, which you want to
see when you're on his team. And I mean he'll
go to battle with them, you know, with us till
the end. So great leader, great family man, and has
that program going in the right direction for sure.
Speaker 4: I think everybody he knows that, and he's awesome.
Speaker 3: See Spencer, I'm jealous for you because you get a
chance to play in the super Dome, which is very
college like atmosphere. So when you play your you know,
your games at Williams Brice one of the best atmospheres
in college football. Like, you get that experience I think
at the pro level as well. Look, I played in
San Diego and so you know, sometimes the other team
would have more fans than us.
Speaker 2: That's just kind of how it was.
Speaker 3: But you get like almost like a true college experience
there in the Superdome, and you know you're coming from Williams.
Speaker 2: Bryce, so not much of a drop off there for you, not.
Speaker 6: Much of a drop off at all, you know, pretty similar,
both very loud and sold out, it seems like every time.
So it's definitely definitely very cool.
Speaker 2: That's right. Hey, So this is year two for you
in New Orleans, and look, everybody gets it. It's a
culture shot because it's a long way from Arizona. For
it's a long way from Columbia, it's a long way
from Norman. Like, how has your experience, how have you
adapted to the Louisiana culture, the New Orleans culture?
Speaker 6: It's been great, you know. I think the people here
are awesome. You know, it's like a family vibe everywhere
you go, which is what I like. You know, I
feel like most of the places I've been it's been
like that. So but the people here are special, the
fan base obviously, the food's great, you know, and it's
a great city. Man, It's a different type of city
and I enjoy it a lot.
Speaker 2: Like the culture.
Speaker 3: Yeah, did you ever think, like one of the main
questions that you would get as a starting quarterback for
an NFL team, is what's your favorite restaurant? As much
as you've probably gotten it there for the Saints.
Speaker 4: No, I mean they they definitely asked that a lot.
A tough answer. There's so many, as you guys know,
to pick one.
Speaker 3: I'm not even gonna put you on the spot because
i know you've had to answer that so many times,
and you're right, it's a tough answer, and if you
say the wrong thing, it can go a lot of
different ways.
Speaker 2: And so that's a great answer if you say for sure,
that's right, all right, Spencer. So, like we want to
have a we want people to kind of get to
know you, get to know your personality a little bit.
It's the first time talking to our station. Uh, you
got a big fall in here, a lot of fans
loving what y'all are doing. And so we want to
kind of end this segment right now with a little
thing that we're gonna call rapid fire with rattler. Someone
ask you some questions, just pop off some answers. You
can go to detail if you want. But I'm actually
now that y'all said that, I'm gonna take off the
favorite restaurant take that off. No more of that, and
I'm not gonna lie I did. I did text tolls
in two days ago and ask a little inside scoop.
So you ready for this, let's go. All right, Spencer,
do you believe in ghosts to some degree? Some degree?
All right? If you were thrown into an NBA game,
how many points would you score?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: Probably like six?
Speaker 2: There you go. Scott told me you were like a
legitimate ball. Okay, that's why that's why we asked.
Speaker 4: Look it up on YouTube.
Speaker 2: All right, favorite Saints uniform combination.
Speaker 6: I would say that all whites were super shark this year,
but I liked all black two.
Speaker 2: Just there you go. Okay, all right. What's your go
to order at Taco Bell?
Speaker 4: Oh that's a good one.
Speaker 6: You gotta go with the I like the Crispy Cantina
Chicken tacos.
Speaker 2: All right, Okay, that's deep detail. I like that.
Speaker 6: That's my that's my go to there with the steak burrito.
I don't know, it's just.
Speaker 2: All yet, right all right. Number one used emoji on
your phone?
Speaker 4: Probably the one hundred emoji or the laughing emoji?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: The last one there, we're trying to come up with
the nickname. Do you have a favorite nickname so far
that you've heard about you? Rat Pack, rat Dad, rattlesnake.
Speaker 2: I like rat Dad.
Speaker 4: That's a good one.
Speaker 3: Hey, Spencer Man, can't thank you enough during the season.
We appreciate hopping on with us and best of luck
the rest of the way.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, thank you guys. You'll have a good one.
Speaker 2: All right, you as well.
Speaker 3: Spencer Raler, your starting quarterback for the New Orland Saint
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