Speaker 1: We welcome into Off the Bench, presented by All Star Toyota.
Speaker 2: You're scary.
Speaker 3: We're bringing in the school.
Speaker 1: You're used sports talking, so.
Speaker 4: You're Jacob Hester and Matt.
Speaker 5: Flynn terrifying, terrible live from the Haunted Raising Gaines Studio.
Here's Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 4: Yo, yo yo, that was too professional.
Speaker 3: What is happening?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I looked at Flynn. He shrugged his shoulders, like.
Speaker 2: Miss his cue. I'm like, you missed your cue.
Speaker 3: We can do it.
Speaker 2: But no, the injured robot voice.
Speaker 3: No, oh no, yesterday, I don't like it. You know what,
he did have it yesterday. It was one day where
it didn't. It was just this because I remember playing
the piano voice is elite all right day, and I
like the robot voice better than I like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not even close.
Speaker 3: I don't like it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, hello, yeah, hey, sorry, really thrown off right there?
Speaker 3: Okay they yo threw me off because it was a questionable.
Yeah it was. I was ron burgandy. I didn't know
what he was drugging.
Speaker 4: I needed to get my displeasure out quick about the
no robot voice.
Speaker 2: Okay, sorry, all.
Speaker 3: Right, that's all good. Hello, what's going on flyinglandt here
with you on a Wednesday morning. Yeah, we're victorious last
night in the flat football game. You can stop asking
we were. We won thirty nine twenty four. If you're
keeping scored at home, I don't something like that.
Speaker 2: It's not even like.
Speaker 4: The real victory wasn't in the scoreboard either. The real
victory was in we could walk up the steps this morning. True,
it wasn't fast, it was not a fast pace.
Speaker 3: But yeah, we won. Deal meet Tutter's how was the
Flinda Hester connection?
Speaker 2: We had won the back of the in zone, We
won the back of the end zone.
Speaker 4: We had a couple more I wouldn't say check downs
over the middle of them.
Speaker 2: Change.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you all the time. I'll tell you about
the end.
Speaker 4: When I watched this film with these people playing football,
a little tackle football, fastest way to the end zones
over the middle, people stop throwing it to the sideline.
Just pick them apart over the middle. They can't take
they can't handle it. Oh yeah, so we had this
flag football game last night's coaches, so we had a
little elite flag football yesterday.
Speaker 3: There was a it was like the bye week Pro Bowl,
for all the kids.
Speaker 4: So the kids had all these fun competitions, tug war,
relay races, dodgeball pass competitions, and then at the end
it was topped off a little coaches game, a lot
of people dusting off the old cleats. I didn't have cleats,
but there were some dirty cleats out there, for sure, Jake,
you had the dirtiest of the cleats.
Speaker 3: I did. So I went over to my boys in
the equipment room. I was like, hey, I got this event.
I don't own any cleans because I'm a forty year old,
washed up man. Okay, I don't have cleats anymore, I said,
but I don't need new clean Yeah. I said, if
you give me new cleats, I'm gonna have blisters, which
is going to be worse than anything I pulled tomorrow.
So do you have any old cleats? And you're right,
they might have found the dirtiest pair that were in there,
but they found some and they were twelves.
Speaker 2: Uh. Yes, we got there.
Speaker 4: We play a little flag football and so we there's
a great like cast of characters as coaches and some
people that you see around town you see a different job.
Speaker 3: You know, these people you'd never seen them.
Speaker 4: In an athletic situation, right, and so we're we're we
got it.
Speaker 2: We're putting our jersey.
Speaker 3: He's on.
Speaker 4: We're looking at that team, looking at our team. I'm like,
all right, I got no idea what we got. You know,
you only got like thirty five seconds after the last
like kids competition to get warmed up. I got like
three passes before. I think we jogged about four yards
to warm up. That was about it. So you don't
really know what you got. But then all of a sudden,
lights come on. You say down, said hut, and these guys,
unbeknownst to anybody, looked like Team USA, y oh, thank you.
Both sides of the ball, just fast making play. Hester
his stubby little bow legs can still move. But not
just him, not even not just the former pro athlete.
Speaker 3: It's like we're just talking about pro dad's pro businessman.
Our team out there, Dustin pe Cook, My god, their ball.
I was like kind of fast, like what's going on here?
Cecil Collins still has it? And Ca she were wondering
if you got it? Yep, sure still got it. That's fun.
Speaker 4: It was at the end of the day, he was like, hey,
why aren't you throwing it to my son? And I'm like,
well you're too, Like you're good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like it's called matchups, Bud.
Speaker 2: It's a compliment.
Speaker 3: I was. The thing that was most surprising is how
well everyone called the ball from you.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 3: It was amazing because you could still spin it. I'll
give you, like your first passion. I'm like, okay, all right,
that old bastard still got it all right. And the
fact that they were catching it, that was the most
impressive thing. And no broken fingers, no broken fingers. Maybe
a few a couple of Bruce chests, the chests that
are Bruce today, but yeah they were. They were like
running seam routes and dig routes over the middle.
Speaker 4: Post routes and uh yeah, son of a gun, zero
drops for the team.
Speaker 2: Zero.
Speaker 3: That's true. That was that was That's very true.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: Are we paying for it this morning? Maybe so? But
you know what, that's just the price of victory.
Speaker 4: Did I leave the game yesterday with a certainly a
competitive high that I haven't felt in a while.
Speaker 3: I hadn't sprinted and for a bet of years, I
bet you didn't think you were going to yesterday you bet.
Speaker 2: I didn't. I did not. I did not think I
was gonna sprint.
Speaker 4: But when we started talking to like, you start competing
a little bit, and you know, you get a little
pitch back from you know, I hit a spin move yesterday,
you did.
Speaker 2: I tried to beat somebody to the edge. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we had someone on our team who had, you know,
certainly played like ancient athletes and have been in the
game before. It's like, hey, you know, like laterals are
kind of the name of the game. And I'm like, oh,
you can do that. Later you can do that, and uh,
I'm glad you did. Like first pass I call it.
I'm like, sure, let me latterl it back to somebody.
But then Flynn got one, and I could tell that
you weren't quite ready to go full speed. But you
went full speed.
Speaker 2: That's usually when things go pop. But they didn't.
Speaker 3: They didn't.
Speaker 4: But yeah, but I was driving home and I I
gotta say I had thoughts of grandeur at that point.
It was like, hmm, who what do I need to
call him? A former agent? And uh, given called the
team USA, oh not even the NFL like flag football. Yeah, fight,
I actually got the Olympic.
Speaker 2: Why not.
Speaker 3: We've always talked about the one sport that we played
is the only sport you can't really represent your country
because if you do, it's not really fair because Team
USA going all the way, all the way. So flag
football Olympics. I think you still got it. I know
that Mahomes and Lamar Jackson were interested in maybe taking
part in the Olympics, but that's not what we need. Lamar.
We need we need fled.
Speaker 4: If the if the like pitchbacks in the name of
the game, Lamar is probably the best choice.
Speaker 2: Uh not my Homes though.
Speaker 3: Brian Bird just wants to know, can we put a
mask on Flint aka Chad Powers and have him walk
on at LSU.
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Sure, you haven't seen in a new TV show.
Speaker 4: Well, like, there's a lot of kids out there, you know,
playing six, seven, eight years like that kid. Look at
that kid in Kentucky. I was I was here on
Earth and during COVID. Yeah that's true. I bet you
did red shirt though, so that's.
Speaker 2: Only five years.
Speaker 3: It's fair.
Speaker 2: I at least get two more.
Speaker 3: I wonder if I could go to the n C
Double A And since I didn't red shirt, like God
didn't give me. I still have a year to play with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you want.
Speaker 3: To fix the running game at LSU, but a forty
one year old at that time walk on full back,
play full back.
Speaker 4: We got the answer. People, that's fun, just saying that's fun. AnyWho,
I think the only thing hurting today is my right foot, right,
it hurts a little bit. Well, hey, but you know what,
we'll be all right by November. The thing that doesn't hurt,
that's the most important, your ego.
Speaker 2: It's true.
Speaker 3: Sure that Victorious made some plays, felt a little bit
of a competitive high, and then we could walk up
the stairs and talk about it today.
Speaker 2: I don't say though both teams. Both teams are winners.
Speaker 4: I was impressed by, honestly, honestly it was legit. Yeah,
the fact that we are here today and I'm not
quite a sore that we got up the stairs.
Speaker 2: Good job.
Speaker 3: Credit to ourselves and anybody that plays ancient athletes and
you do that every single week. I tipped my cap,
and I also ask you the question, how how do
you do that?
Speaker 2: Maybe they run like more than once.
Speaker 3: A year, And Pee Cook said it perfectly, He said,
you know what you know? You quickly learned in a
setting like this, Jogging and running are.
Speaker 4: Different, Yeah, no doubt I do. I hit the treadmill
up about three four times a week. I even like
do what I call sprints on the treadmill. It's like,
I don't know, they're like intervals at like twelve or
something like that, which isn't like crazy.
Speaker 2: It's different.
Speaker 4: It's different when you're not on a treadmill and you're
on grass and you have to project your body forward
with your own legs going full speed with a grown
man chasing you.
Speaker 3: No matter how stubby or bow legged, they are still
the same. Oh, it's fun though it was last heyte Laudra.
If y'all want to take part next year, we can.
You know, I can pull some strings over any elite.
Get you all in the game.
Speaker 2: I don't want Matt to ride the bench. No, I'm
totally kidding. Uh yeah, be fun.
Speaker 3: Why see here you go? Like this year?
Speaker 4: Uh well, I'm gonna need about four months may spring.
Speaker 2: Uh I was it was during the game? Was that
halftime yesterday?
Speaker 3: And my two little girls both yall my tissues? Yeah
soft tissues? Yeah right there.
Speaker 4: Well, two little girls go up to me at halftime,
like I was exhausted, you know, borderline about the puke
and looks so concerned like daddy, what are you doing? Yeah, Mike,
they're just playing this game. I thought you said you
were never gonna play football again. Like this is a
little different.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, So shout out. That was a lot of
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Proll Bowl. You had every team out there with their
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Speaker 3: Let's get married remixed, I'll say, if we can find
that out, let's get married trap person. I mean every
song's got a trap song. We found out Disney Frozen
has a trap song.
Speaker 2: I mean that's the obvious one trap.
Speaker 3: According to whom?
Speaker 2: Uh too? Is that an anyway? One?
Speaker 3: For sure? Okay? Do you do you make them listen
to the trap versions and.
Speaker 2: The Actually no, I don't. I should. That's a good thought.
Thank you. Thanks for the reminder.
Speaker 3: Did Jagged Edge find its way to Tyler, Texas?
Speaker 2: Jack is? Yeah? Okay? Good? Not this remix though?
Speaker 3: Really? Okay? Introducing you to uh we stuck to the
classics radio station, didn't have the B side, couldn't flip it?
Speaker 2: I got you.
Speaker 4: I mean this had to come out fifteen years after
the original this remix?
Speaker 3: Nah b this is the dance remix in high school?
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Speaker 3: All right, LSUS South Carolina coming up this weekend and
side of Tiger Stadium alis you a nine and a
half point favorite in this game. ESPM Matchup Predictor gives
him a seventy three percent chance to win. South Carolina
is a team that's been up and down. There's been
some good, there's been some bad, there's been some ugly okay,
But we know that they're coming off of a bye
week as well. We know that, you know, Leonora Seller's
not as polished as maybe a lot of people thought
in the preseason, but still can go out there. It
can make plays, can make chaotic plays right when there's
chaos around him. But more than any of that, I
think we're all looking forward to seeing what else you
do there in the bye week. What did they get
done during the bye week? What's the health of some
of their best players after the bye week. But like
the health part obviously very important to the field, But
once you get on said field, what is it going
to look like? I think there is pressure, which there
should be on the LSU run game. There has to
be things that you know, hey, we hadn't seen that,
or we haven't seen enough of that, or whatever the
case might be. And you're not a team I think
we all know this. It's going to be able to
line up and do the things that you've done to
this point and be effective now. Also like calling the
runs and when you call the runs, and how many
runs you call it. That's a part of it as well.
You had some success late in the game with Harlan
Berry running it against Ole Miss. But for me, more
than anything that's going to be taking place this weekend,
more than who's on the field, more than anything on
the defense, I want to see what you did to
improve the run game with the extra time.
Speaker 2: If you are a.
Speaker 4: High school football player, maybe a former high school coach,
a current coach, if you were just a lover of
old school zone running plays, can I tell you this
is the game for you?
Speaker 2: Because I thought LSU ran the.
Speaker 4: Demos standard inside zone a lot until I watched the
last three games of South Carolina, and my god, there
might be there might be a combination of sixty running
plays this week an LSU versus South Carolina, and I
think fifty eight of them might be inside zone because
they ran at every single run play now and it
wasn't even just zone read with the North Sellers. Now
they run zone read a little bit here and there,
but my god, it's a lot of inside zone inside zone.
I don't know if I saw them. They pulled a
center in a guard one time on one of the plays,
but most everything they do is looks a lot like LSU,
which is inside. So now they have less RPO on
top of it. I don't know if I saw any
RPO really. They hit a couple behind the line of
scrim at screens, but I don't even think it was
an RPO. I think it was just a called screen.
But man, this is this is the game for you.
But just like you said, like, what what have they done?
What did they spend that extra time doing? Now there's
is when you have that extra week, you you self evaluate.
So you go and you self value, Okay, what have
we done good? What have we done bad? What is
realistic for us to change at this point because we
can't make like a full full scale change of everything.
We can't tear anything down to the studs and you
don't need to. But what can we realistically tweak? What
can we realistically coach a little different? How as a player,
can I realistically change my footwork or change my hand placement,
change my reads.
Speaker 2: Whatever it is? What can you realistically get done?
Speaker 4: Because in reality it's just it's a week seems like
a long time, but after you get it, like an
extra day off, you get a treatment day. I mean
it's you're looking at four or five days of extra work, right,
so yeah, what can you get done? That's gonna be
the key point philosophically. Is anything going to change or
be adjusted in the Running Game, which I'm super intrigued
on of course watching it live, but more so than that,
just going back and watching the film afterwards, they kind
of give an actual breakdown of kind of what we
did philosophically. But man, this is a South Carolina team
that they're three and two. So let's see. They started
out the year, they opened up with Virginia Tech. They
get a winy clunky yeah, clunky yeah. Then they stay
at home, they play South Carolina State, they get a
win thirty eight ten. Then they play Vanderbilt. They lose
to Vanderbilt thirty one seven in a game which Leonor
Seller's in the second quarter gets knocked out with a concussion,
gets a little concused, little brain bruise. So they lose
that game thirty one to seven. Vanderbilt did a lot
of some pretty decent things defensively. I got a couple
of clips from the Vanderbilt defense that I'll show a
little bit later in the show that is. It reminded
me of some things that LSU has done to different quarterbacks,
not Ole Miss. Because Ole Miss went so fast, we
couldn't get into a lot of creative looks. But when
you go back and like, look at the Clemson Tate,
what did we do to Kate club me? So I
look at that, I look at that defensive philosophy that
Blake Baker brought to that game as kind of a
blueprint to what we will see this weekend, just because
of similar play styles from those quarterbacks and similar types
of offenses. Right, So I will show some clips from
Vanderbilt where they confused the protection. They confused Leonora Sellers
a little bit and got home and so of course,
and that was before he got knocked out.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so they lose that game thirty one seven.
Speaker 4: Then they come back at Missouri their first road test
on September twenty Missouri, they lose twenty nine to twenty
which was actually this was actually Leonora Seller's best game. Yeah,
he was actually real. He played well, made some good
throws through and rhythm. Now there's some there's some bad
plays that he made. I was actually charting the good plays.
Let's say I charted really good plays in the passing
game that he made. I counted twelve really good plays.
Bad plays. I counted seven. So he's got He still
has to clean up a decent amount of things, but
he made some. He made some, actually some some very
nice throws. Kentucky. They win this game thirty five to thirteen.
This was their last game before their bye week, thirty
five thirteen. I wasn't impressed with this game. Kentucky had
a backup quarterback play in that game. I mean, I'm
not trying to be funny.
Speaker 3: They're starting quarterbacks a backup quarterback, right, so and he's
a back up to the backup.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's about a year younger than me and
maybe two yeah, maybe maybe two. So well, I got
some clips of that game as well. I didn't think
played that great in this game. His foot well, I'm
talking about Leonora Sellers here. His footwork was off. He
was real, he had happy feet. Nothing was like no,
none of his route his reads and his routes like
timed up with his footwork. So what happens, Like why
does that happen? So like normally in a three step drop,
You're like, all right, I'm let's just take a I'm
three steps and I hit my back foot. I got
my first read. I'm gonna throw that in rhythm. If
he's not open, I'll take a hitch and I'm out
to my first read. And if I have to go
to a second or third hitch, I'm bet my second read,
third read. He was just like pitter patter, pitter patter,
pitter patter, like nothing timed up with his footwork. And
so that's what that's when I look at a quarterback,
I'm like, all right, you're not You're not either comfortable
with a game plan, you're not comfortable with the looks
you're seeing, or you're hoping to see an open guy
and really looking for a lane to run. Yeah, that's
really what else. So I was not really impressed with
his game playing. Now he made the plays like he is.
He is big boy strong, Like if you get your
mits on him, you better get him down because he's
gonna fight.
Speaker 2: And he makes plays like that.
Speaker 4: He makes he can turn a bad quarterback play into
a positive offensive play because he's just so darn strong.
So when you get your mits on him, you better
get him down, and you can you can get him down,
but he'll make some plays and he'll do it Saturday.
Speaker 3: Like you're just gonna have He's gonna have plays.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're just gonna shake your head and be like, yeah,
well he got us on that one. But South Carolina
as a whole, I get while we were nine and
a half points. When I first saw that line, after
l s U Versus Old miss game and all that,
we didn't think Ole Missus defense was very good the
run game, run defense wasn't very good, but they stopped U.
I saw that nine and a half points, and I
was like, that's kind of big, right, yeah. Uh, But
now after watching the film, I get it.
Speaker 2: I see it.
Speaker 4: I don't think from top to bottom, I don't think
they have the playmakers. I don't think they have the
route runners to benefit a quarterback Lenora's cell they don't
have on the back end. They play aggressively. On the
defensive side of the ball, they like to play aggressive.
I don't think they got the talent everywhere. Now they
got some good players their defensive line, yeah, they can
go get it. They play with high energy offensively. Offensively,
I just don't think they got enough pieces. And after
I saw that that game, against Vanderbilt. How they got
confused by a lot of non standard looks that I
know that Blake Baker's got in his back pocket. I
feel I feel pretty decent about this one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a great point there at the very end
about the weapons. They don't have those right now. And
Lenora Sellers can make a lot of ooh and ah plays,
But with the lack of help that he gets from
some of the weapons around him, the inconsistency start to
show up because he probably feels like he needs to
press Yeah, you know, he probably feels like he's having
to do everything because at times it does look like
that we just.
Speaker 4: Got you got some like receivers running routes for South Carolina,
and I'm like, I don't know what that route really
is supposed to be hard, and like they get to
the top of the route and they just kind of
like turn around. They don't get their head around their
back pedal. They drift into routes, they drift into other
route runners lanes. It just looks a little sloppy, right
and the reads aren't real clean always for Leonori's.
Speaker 3: And they're rushing attack right now. They have one hundred
and seventy two rushes on the year, four hundred and
ninety nine yards. Don't get your calculator out, I got you.
That's two point nine yards per carry. As a team,
they're leading rushers are both ones right at four yards
of Carrie their second leading rusher at three point seven.
Now Lenoris Stellar is a sack yardage. You know, he's
two point zero. But even like go down to the
third running back, he's two point seven per carry. So
they have had no juice at the running back position.
Nobody that has been a game changer for them. This
should be a really, really nice matchup for the LSU defense.
So what happens when you run inside? I know I'd
like to get their percentages on that.
Speaker 4: And maybe they ran some stip earlier in the year,
but from the games I saw, it was all inside zone,
inside zone, and then they do like an inside with
the split zone with the tight end goes and cuts
off backside.
Speaker 3: Hey, you know what, let's tease that. Oh you want
who runs more zone? We'll look at who runs more
zone between these two teams, and we'll do it right
here on OTB off the bench.
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Speaker 1: Tigers Turn talkers. This is off the bench.
Speaker 3: Because all right, welcome back in oh TV here on
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Speaker 3: All right. Uh, let's take a look at it the
tail of the tape. All right. So run plays for
LSU one hundred and forty two for South Carolina one
hundred and thirty nine outside zones for LSU fifty two,
which is thirty seven percent for South Carolina ten outside zones,
seven percent of their run plays inside zone. For LSU,
it's thirty two, which is twenty three percent of their
run plays. For South Carolina it is forty two, which
is thirty percent of their run plays. Some sort of
a man scheme. You've got thirty two runs for LSU
twenty three percent, eighteen for South Carolina, which is thirteen percent.
Speaker 4: What is a man's scheme run mean? I don't know
if I've ever heard of a man's scheme run.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking that they're talking duo, is what I think
that they're classifying that because you got two on two
and they're going to certain that's what I'm going to guess. Yep,
you go to power zero not is this still zero
after the bye week? Dang one for LSU, seventeen for
South Carolina, which is twelve percent of their run plays counters,
ten for LSU just seven percent of the run place,
thirty one for South Carolina, which is twenty two percent
of their run plays Q counters. I'm assuming one of
the North sellers maybe is where they probably would get
that number. Uh, then you got like a lot of
like draws. LSU's run one, South Carolina's run two. Let's
see pull leads else. You hasn't run any of those either.
Ten for South Carolina traps. LSU hasn't run any of
those yet either. South Carolina's got a couple.
Speaker 4: So I wonder what they consider zone reads. I wonder
if that's what they call man man principles.
Speaker 3: I can get some more clarification on it, I'll text
the PFF guy, see if you can get I'm betting
they throw a duo in there as well. Just my
guess just watching l Shu's tape and knowing that that's
certainly if it's not inside or outside zone, that's what
they've run. The duo is just zone in the A gaps, right, Yeah,
so you're you're you got two double teams.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, So is it like zone is basically inside
zones basically like a.
Speaker 3: B B gap maybe bounce the C.
Speaker 4: Yeah, outside zone is C D like out depends if
like a stretch and an outside zone is a little
bit different, right, a little bit, not a lot, but
a little bit.
Speaker 3: That's a little bit different. For the back duo is
zone in the A gap, right, Yeah, you're reading off
the two double teams. Yeah, yeah, all times it cuts
one of the double.
Speaker 4: Was it was do ever like zero a zero hole
like you're aiming point was a center or is it
like off the cheek of a center?
Speaker 3: I mean you still you still have like zone principal steps. Yeah,
you know, you're not like it's not a drop step
like a power power is a drop step because you're
going an A gap to expand.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, just your landmark though, like you're aiming
play you're you're I would.
Speaker 3: Say you're I would say it's a little bit wider
than you think you're thinking.
Speaker 4: I'm just really trying to figure out the difference when
doing his own Oh, I can show you.
Speaker 3: Pull it up during one of the breaks. We'll break
it down. But the more troublesome thing I think when
I when I see this is there's some run plays
that you have zero zero zero. My thought in the
run game has always been if you if you don't
do something incredibly well, you continue to do things until
you find something you do well. Because if you continue
to run the same thing and you're not hitting, hey,
well you got to move on from it. Like everybody
jokes about how much we used to run Power and
Toss Dive. Now, Toss Dive wasn't really a thing when
we were here. It's more horn bass it was. It
was a toss play that was not going to be
a full like toss get to the edge. You were
going to read it in a lot of times. Now
we had Power nine Toss.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it wasn't like it wasn't it was the
offense like it would have been years later.
Speaker 3: So we did that really well. So that's why we
did it a lot. We ran Zone Extra. Zone Extra
was a run where it was an I formation and
you had a fullback in front of you, and the
fullback his coaching point was read it like you've got
the ball. And we had Quinn Johnson and Sewn Jordan
did a really nice job of running that play both
you know, high school running backs, and they could read it.
Now Sean I thought was that was like really where
he excelled, Like that was his best play, and so
he would read it like he had the ball. If
there was a cutback, he'd cut it back and then
the running back would follow him. That was he's the
extra in the zone extra. So we ran that a
ton why because we were good at it. If there
was something we weren't good at, we didn't do a
whole lot of it, we moved on to the next one.
Speaker 4: So but you, but you didn't have to do the
other things because you were You had an identity in
the running game that you were really good at. If
there's no identity, what you're what Jake's trying to say is,
if you got no identity, you might as well try
some other things and try to figure out what you're
good at.
Speaker 2: You probably have an idea.
Speaker 4: You have to have an idea that you don't think
your strength in the run game is power based on
spring practice, based on training camp.
Speaker 3: You're like, we're just not great at running power.
Speaker 4: It doesn't fit with what we're trying to do offensively
with the RPO game. Blah blah Blahas like a power
it's hard to run power a little bit more in
the RPO game because it's not this most sound pass protection.
Of course, especially if you're trying to run three step
timings behind it and empower you have to like so
the point of power is why we think that a
play like that should be implemented into the game is
because LSU is getting beat on a lot of a
lot of stunts and games by the defensive lineman. So
when you're tied, you defend zone well, you cross your
defensive tackles and your defensive ends. You try to get
the tackle defensive tackles to engage the guard and loop
a defensive end behind it. You do a lot of stuff.
It's like it's almost like the same philosophies as like.
Speaker 2: A pass rush.
Speaker 4: You're trying to fill the gas, fill the boys, and
you have your defensive line play. Laterally, they don't get
up the field, they play laterally and play big boy ball,
and they it just makes it hard for the you know,
you don't have a lot of daylight in between each
offensive linemen. So what does a power type play do.
It eliminates the good part of defensive doing that, so
it takes that out. So you get your tackle and
you're tied in and basically they just wash down a side.
They just push everybody down and then you have a
guard that's pulling around. So it doesn't matter if they
do the the ets and the stunts and the crosses
from the defensive linemen defensive ends, because all you're all
instead of trying to like work up the field like
in a zone, like instead of the linemen having to
work up at the second level, all their job is
is to kick some butt and wash people down and
let your pullers come around and go to the sound down.
Speaker 2: And so it doesn't matter what kind of games.
Speaker 4: So that's why you need to throw those in because
if you throw those into the game and like all
of a sudden, defensive coordinator sees four or five powers,
they're like, okay, well we can't run those defensive end
defensive tackle games right now to defend the zone because
we could get powered and just get washed down.
Speaker 2: So you have to be versatile.
Speaker 4: You have to throw different looks so you make it
tough on the defensive coordinator.
Speaker 3: And it doesn't have to be perfect when you're doing that,
I mean, because it's like you just get like a
shoulder and you just barely knock the defensive guy off
his track and it's like it's all.
Speaker 4: And that's the big issue that I that I've seen
on the running game this year is everything is trying
to get to the perfect, exact perfect play, the exact
perfect call from the offensive lineman. Like they're they're communicating,
and you have to communicate as an offensive it's not
just like well is a lot of like brute and
meathead stuff, but there's a lot of communication. There's a
lot of rules to every single play. The same the
same run play might not look the same five different
plays in the road because different defensive looks. They're always
communicating on their assignments. I think they're a bit over communicating.
I think they need to decomplicate it a little bit,
make it a little bit more simple, and let those
guys just go put their head in somebody's chest.
Speaker 3: Yeah, real quick, last point. I know we are up
against the clock, and like even like let's go back
to duo real quick. I know it's so it looks
like inside zone. It does, it's got a lot of
the same look to it, but it's actually like it's
a man gap rule. And so like in theory, right,
it's supposed to be a vertical power style run and
you don't have pullers obviously in it, and so like
you know, zones a little bit more side to side,
where duo is supposed to be vertical. That's supposed to
be it. But with that being said, when you go vertical,
you got to go vertical with authority. Yeah, like that's
that's another part of it. Yep, Like duo can't be passive.
Like again, it's like man gap, but it looks like zone.
I get that running back does a lot of the
same steps and stuff, but it's supposed to be like
an interior gap run scheme. But like if you're still
like just kind of holding point a little bit, holding
point over here, it's like you're not cleaning it up
for the running back. So like even that, I'd rather
you go fast and even if you're not perfect, if
you're wrong let's say the defensive player tries to go
outside of the double team. That's fine, that's that's now
my guy. I've got to get to where I need
to get too faster than he can get to me,
because you're going like a bad out of hell with
bad intentions vertical. And then that's what I'm reading, and
so like even that play technically, you know the man
scheme part of you, like, well, you got your man
not not no, no, just just clean it up for me.
Just go fast and clean up for me. I'm not
saying that's gonna work every time, but it's gonna get
me four yards. And right now, four.
Speaker 2: Yards is good. It's a mindset.
Speaker 3: So right, we'll take a break. More OTB when we
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This is Off the Bench with Hester and Flynn, Baton
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Speaker 3: Some Fun Dot Given. All Right, welcome back here in
OTB Wednesday morning. At some point today, certainly want to
go across the football start to break down some of
the coverages and different things at South Carolina does. They
will throw cover zero at you. Now I'm not saying
it's thirty percent of the time, but they will do
it a handful of times. Matt told you earlier in
the week. They love to be aggressive, play zero, play
cover one. Now, it's funny like they're a team that
it's either very conservative or very aggressive. Like it's like
you're getting quarters or you're getting zero or one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, they're real advantageous. It seems like their
defense Corter is real advantageous guy. He's gonna he is
going to develop a game plan around what the offenses
is giving them.
Speaker 2: And so they ran zero.
Speaker 4: And when they played Kentucky a lot, Kentucky had a
backup quarterback, they were running the ball probably at the
first half, probably eighty percent of the plays Kentucky was
running the ball. They just loaded the box. So everything
looked like cover zero. So that probably exkews the stats
for the year. But like you could tell, if if
there's a weakness that he believes in offense has, he's
going to go try to exploit it. So what has
a weakness been for Lsu? I mean of course, Garrett
getting the ball down the field. Yeah, the running game,
so you okay. So I would say that they're gonna
come out and play some shell and dare I say
too high safety? Probably look against I had to predict it.
That's how I would come out against LSU. Two high safeties,
maybe run cover three. If you're gonna throw that single
high I wouldn't throw them. I wouldn't throw that safety
directly in the box. You can kind of play that area.
Speaker 3: Yeah, cover three to twenty three point five percent of
the time of quarters twenty six point like one, like that.
Speaker 4: Coordinator if he feels you can't throw it, like they would,
they would play quarters sometimes, but their safeties were like
six seven yards, so it looked like zero like it was.
It was very disrespectful. They were just daring. They gutta
throw it, and he just couldn't do it.
Speaker 3: I would assume they're gonna come out and they're gonna
play shell, and they're gonna be like, I dare.
Speaker 4: You to run, show show me me you've done it,
Show me you've done it, Show me what you did
this past week.
Speaker 3: I would fully expect that to be the plan for them.
And again, like Matt's right, like they are going to
kind of base off what what do you do well?
What do you not do well? And that's what we're
going to play. And that's what you see because like
the Kentucky game doesn't look anything like the Missouri game.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: And I know he does like to play press man
on the outside. He likes to let his corners get
freed up. I watched when when I was watching Clemson
earlier this year, the Clemson game last year, I was
super impressed with South Carolina's defense, and they were like
they were like, you know what, I don't care how
good you are. We're going to play man to man
and we're gonna d your guys up. And I'll be
darned if they didn't do it. Oh, Clemson made some
good plays, but I could tell that that was their philosophy.
They were going to play man. They were going to press,
but that's what they felt was advantageous. They had to
stop the run, so they were they were putting people
in that box. With LSU, it's a little bit different. Yeah,
I don't think you got to worry about it at
least to start with Dah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they definitely would have to prove to me that
you've done some changes and short up some things in
the run game for me to pay respect to it.
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