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Here's Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: Yo yo, yo, hey, guys, welcome man O TV. Monday Morning, Monday,
Monday Monday.
Speaker 2: Not the best sports weekend here or Off the Bench.
LSU Tigers go down, New Orleans Saints go down Team USA,
and the Ryder Cup goes down. And then just like
here on this show, like the Chargers lose, the Bucks lose,
the Packers tie.
Speaker 3: How'd the high schools do? Uh? You have one?
Speaker 4: I call Episcopal games every Friday.
Speaker 3: They lost.
Speaker 4: It was one of those weekends where just everything went.
Speaker 3: Not a great one, not a great weekend. Uh. Not
all losses are created the same. We'll say that.
Speaker 2: So we'll get to LSU's loss, we'll get to the
Saints loss, we'll get to the Ryder Cup loss.
Speaker 3: We'll get to all of it.
Speaker 2: But before we do all of that, we do want
to go around the room. Good little vibe check here
from everybody. Jake, Flynn, Elandra and Taty all here with you. Matt,
you're at first man.
Speaker 5: Vibe checks. Vibe checks are real low, energy levels, real
high right now. I woke up without an alarm this morning.
Alarms usually step for five point thirty, go forg You
up about five fifteen, All right, not a big deal.
Feet on the ground, Thank the Good Lord for another day.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Nothing's guaranteed out there in life. Nope, but we're here.
It's Monday.
Speaker 5: A lot of just brutalness over this past weekend. You know,
a couple of things. You just gotta shake your head.
Sometimes you gotta laugh life off. Okay, it's not live
laugh love. You just gotta what i'd say, laugh life
off whatever.
Speaker 3: It's de live. No, definitely not this weekend. So right now,
not left loving at all at all.
Speaker 2: No hobby lobby sign. Yeah, so it was you know,
you know me during this is a big watch.
Speaker 5: Exactly. It's a big watch weekend for me. I had
a lot of TV screens going. You know, it's one
of those times where things are happening not your way.
I don't know if I was the best parent, you know,
when the LSU's losing, America is getting throttled on Saturday
while America is losing, or why LSU's losing just wasn't great.
But that's not gonna change my energy levels. I'm not
gonna let it steal my joy for too long. We're
gonna refocus, We're gonna analyze or we're gonna talk about it,
and we're gonna try.
Speaker 3: Not to lose our tempers. Actually we're pretty levelheaded. We'll
be fine, all right, Landra, how you doing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I'm gonna go go ahead and get
off at the next stop. Get off the bus at
the next stop, the closest stop possible. But to get
the vibes back up. Okay, nobody is more excited about
Bad Bunny being the halftime performer than and raising canes,
sponsoring the studio.
Speaker 7: And I love that they brought us a bunch of
gear on Friday. Y'all weren't here.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's where the big dog came from. Your
petted this.
Speaker 6: Morning, hat, stucked animals, shirts, box combo cards. There might
be there might be some Tindis in the in the
works later on.
Speaker 3: Oh a second, that was that's a good vibe. Check right.
Speaker 7: I know I'm trying to I'm trying to bring the
vice back up. Oh did you know?
Speaker 6: Also, I don't know if a lot of people know
this or not. Canes has honey mustard and it's actually good.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not surprised thatlicious.
Speaker 6: Yeah, life hack Canes has honey mustard since this came,
I don't know since when, but Jimmy told me about it,
and so I went to go try it one day
and I thought he was trolling me.
Speaker 7: And I was going to go there and ask for
honeymuster and they'll.
Speaker 5: Be like, we got four things on the menu.
Speaker 7: We got so I thought they were.
Speaker 3: Yes for something we don't have.
Speaker 7: I thought was going to happen.
Speaker 6: Get the I thought that's what was going to happen
to me, and uh it did not. Thankfully they do
have good honeymuster though the trying it, like I said,
trying to get the vibes back up, because literally nothing
that went well this weekend, Like no parlays hit. No,
I mean I had side ones that weren't the Pontoon
parlay and like those got messed up by like one
Leg Fantasy not doing well. Yeah, all I can look
forward to is bad Bunny?
Speaker 3: You had a bad bad.
Speaker 6: I don't want to talk about your dobbs and his
dumb guardian cap.
Speaker 8: You were you were right to not play him though
because of the Guardian cap like that.
Speaker 4: That was the cryptment.
Speaker 7: No, he was playing against him.
Speaker 6: Uh and of course I think he was projected to
have like eleven points, ended up with twenty two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I gotta I'm gonna ask something here.
Speaker 7: Not having a good week, this.
Speaker 3: Is gonna make me feel.
Speaker 6: Like a real like old guy bad Bunny. Who's Bad
Bunny Puerto Rican Superstar?
Speaker 8: I googled him last night and was like, he was
the caddy, don't have to go more.
Speaker 3: It's a guy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I've played him on this show before,
but like he is a Puerto Rican.
Speaker 7: I mean I would say he's like Puerto Rican drake.
Speaker 4: I yeah, he's good enough.
Speaker 3: You don't feel like the old guy like I couldn't
tell you a bad Bunny's.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's the caddy, the funny one he winds up.
Speaker 3: Hitting the Yeah me neither. He actually he was.
Speaker 4: He was actually like good The movie was okay, he
actually did a good job.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, So that's what I get. I'm assuming
he's got like a rabbid fan base.
Speaker 7: I mean he's like the most streamed artist on Spotify.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, so it checked out. It wasn't like
twenty five artists said, no.
Speaker 2: Six, I would not like like Elandra said, Uh, the
most streamed artist last year was Bad Bunny.
Speaker 6: All right, he's I mean even people that don't listen
to Spanish or no Spanish like Bad Bunny.
Speaker 5: I feel like I've seen the name out there, don't
know who it was. I mean, I didn't even know
this guy. Yeah, we got there.
Speaker 2: I tried to make a good Rabbit joke last night
to my kids and Katie. They didn't like it. They
didn't like it. What was it, No Bad Bunny, good Rabbit?
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, they didn't like it. Oh yeah, Team Bob
was rubbing off on it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that didn't slap It's good Western branch.
Speaker 3: Yes. Oh. Jackson he made a.
Speaker 6: Joke about like, I don't remember who it was, but
he made a joke about that on one of the
shows he does now, and nobody laughed.
Speaker 7: At it, And I was like, you know, I would
have given you.
Speaker 3: A lad giving you a courtesy laugh, for sure.
Speaker 5: Wasn't there a female that was named something with a
bunny too? Maybe completely off?
Speaker 4: Probably, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know AnyWho, how bad Bunny was also on
the WWE full time, as we see inside the chat.
Speaker 3: I think I do actually know it from that more than.
Speaker 2: More than anything, because my sixteen year old, my thirteen
year old was wrestler, actor, singer, rapperat Triple Threat.
Speaker 4: Yeah, halftime show could be anything.
Speaker 5: It could be really, it could be anything. It could
just not even be music. Just go out there and
do whatever you want it. Could you just wrestle?
Speaker 6: It does feel like a weird decision for the NFL's audience, though.
Speaker 3: Oh for sure. So I mean it's kind of true.
Speaker 2: Like there hasn't been a country halftime show in thirty
two years, So.
Speaker 8: Y'all probaby seeing this? I saw it last year for
the first time. Jay Z picks the halftime show. It's
like they say, it's a halftime show presented by Rock Nation,
Like jay Z picks it. So like when I look
and I'm like, I don't know who this is, and
I'm like I get it. It's just it's not my style.
But like it's fine. People seem to love it. Sure, Yeah,
Like that's if it trends in that direction, we're gonna
have to say.
Speaker 3: One of the one of one of those songs today.
Speaker 7: Oh I got you.
Speaker 2: Uh before we uh you know, get the pledge and
trees out of the way, and it's been actually very nice,
therapeutic and dive in. We'll start we'll start obviously with
l s U. But uh, before we take a break
and get there, how are you doing?
Speaker 3: So? How is your weekend?
Speaker 2: The Bucks fall to the Eagles, but your old team
they looked good.
Speaker 4: Rats on the time, Matt, really cool.
Speaker 8: I stayed up to watch that game, and like, I
saw the kick and Victoria was probably expecting a reaction
with me.
Speaker 4: Out of the kick. It was just stoneface. She's like,
what happened? I was like, so they tied?
Speaker 8: She's like, they don't, they don't keep playing. I was like, no,
I stayed up to watch it tie. I could have
just went to bed and saw.
Speaker 3: That one morning I couldn't.
Speaker 8: All things considered them doing well, uh well, in a
relatively good mood this morning, doing better than the LSU offense.
But you know what, I woke up this morning realizing
I'm not on the team, and it's not my fault.
Speaker 5: So I'm gonna keep on chugging along. Oh so it's
we we we when we're winning. Yeah, wow, totally didn't
didn't see that coming. I take the loss on the chin.
I'm just saying the loss is not my fault. I
didn't contribute to the win against Clemson either, just I'm
the fan.
Speaker 4: I wasn't on the team.
Speaker 8: But uh no, man, the Bucks got punched in the
mouth before the game even started. I mean, fourteen nothing
like that, A block punt for a touchdown, then another
punt than the Eagles score. It's fourteen nothing in like
five minutes, and they just they couldn't claw back out
of it. They did a good jo trying to get back.
I mean they made it a eight point game. Baker
throws a pick of the goal line. If the balls called,
I mean THI game right there, potentially. Jalen Hurts did
not complete.
Speaker 4: A pass in the second half. That's a problem. Like
the Philly offense just really isn't that good.
Speaker 3: They keep winning though, they keep.
Speaker 4: Winning, sure, but remember.
Speaker 3: Last year on the national people that remember last year.
Speaker 5: They keep winning, No, they they can't stand it when
anyone says anything kind almost like alluding to something potentially
negative about jalends.
Speaker 8: Right, And I was me and you were talking before
the show Thursday. I was kind of defending Jalen Hurts.
But Saquan's not getting the yards he was last year.
It's sixty seven yards rushing yesterday and Jalen Hurts didn't
complete a pass in the second half. That's a problem
that teams so good though they're very good, they know
how to win games.
Speaker 2: All right, Yeah, that was a good part. We're gonna
take a break. When we come back, we'll give you
the other part. We'll start to break down LSU and
Old Miss. We'll start to give you the tail of
the tape, how it happened, what needs to happen throughout
the show, some of the analytics and some of the
things that have gone wrong for LSU, certainly on the
offensive side of the football. At some point, I know
Matt wants to watch some tape up on the screen
as well.
Speaker 3: So we've got a lot coming your way.
Speaker 2: Obviously, the New Orleans Saints go to Buffalo and they
fight like hell. They'll play here, play there. Certainly put
up a great fight. But you know in the NFL
no moral victories, so we'll break that down as well.
All that coming back your way here on OTV.
Speaker 1: Off the bench.
Speaker 3: Oh well, you know, let's get this morning started.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and go for dose in the morning. Well,
the weekend, you know, it was a rough one, so
you know, enjoy tonight's games with a couple of ice
cold dose sequis. Hopefully you had some ice cold do
sequis watching that that helps.
Speaker 3: It's always a great time to go for dose, uh nel.
Speaker 2: If you want to go tailgating, if you want to
have a good time, make sure you got that ice
chf full of ice cold dough sekis no better time
than right now, the current time, the fall time to
go for dose.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Look, it's it was a gloom and doom type weekend,
but guess what, it's Monday. It's a new week. That's
a good thing. The sun always rises again, and when
it does, let's go for dose. Let's have a couple
of pops this week. Let's get ready to face this
week with no wins under our belt, but we're gonna
go for dose. Get that Mexican logger, drink responsibly, go
for dose.
Speaker 3: M Yeah, yeah, Muan.
Speaker 1: No yeah, players, the legends, Hester and Flynn breakdown L
s U football like only champions can.
Speaker 7: Be.
Speaker 2: Patricia, Sorry, we back in o TV here on this
Monday morning. It was Old Miss twenty four l s
U nineteen. A little bit of tail of the tape
before we get into it. First downs, Ole Miss had
twenty eight. L s U only had sixteen. Probably the
biggest storyline in the game. Third down Ole Miss fifty
eight of sixteen, LSU two of eleven on third downs.
There was a point where you were deep in the
game and you had yet to convert a third down.
Both teams were two for two on fourth down. Shout
out to Kyle Parker, what a hell of an individual
effort to keep the game at least alive. Total yards
for eighty four for Old Miss, two point fifty six
for LSU, Passing yards three fourteen for ole Miss, one
hundred and ninety seven for LSU. Both quarterbacks throw an interception.
Yards per pass eight point one for ole Miss, five point.
Speaker 3: Eight for LSU.
Speaker 2: Time of possession thirty two to twenty two for Old Miss,
twenty seven thirty eight for LSU. Penalties they tried to
give it to you fourteen penalties for Old Miss for
one hundred and nine yards for LSU, seven penalties for
seventy eight yards. And here's where you want to throw
up rushing one hundred and seventy four Old Miss on
forty two ten four yards per rush for LSU. It
was fifty nine rushing yards on twenty one attempts two
point eight yards per attempt. Your leading rusher it was
Harlan Berry who had seven carries for twenty two yards.
Speaker 3: That was your leading rusher. Certainly, that's troublesome.
Speaker 2: We've talked about the the lack of the running game,
inability to run the football.
Speaker 3: Now this was an Old Miss defense coming in that.
Speaker 2: You know, we harped on time and time again was
sixteenth in the sec and they were sixteenth by thirty yards, right,
they were, you know, somewhere like one ninety five, fifteenth
was one sixty five, somewhere in that range. And you
still ran the ball twenty one times for fifty nine yards. Now,
you know, you could make the argument a lot of
the rushing yards Old Miss gave up was too dual
threat quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: I understand that, but also like you've got certain things.
Speaker 2: In your run package where you know, you motion Xavion
Thomas in there, you try to get an extra blocker
in the box, and you try to replicate some of
those things because you don't like.
Speaker 3: You have a pocket passer.
Speaker 2: Sure, I'll listen to it for a little bit, but
you still can't run the football right twenty one for
fifty nine to two point eight, you run five outside zones,
you run ten inside zones, you run two counters, and
you run three man concepts.
Speaker 3: It's you know, you never established the run, you never
committed to the run.
Speaker 2: It's what Ole Miss actually had the most trouble with
again coming into the game, and that was surprising. I'm
gonna be honest with you, and I know Lsu hasn't
run the football effectively this year, but I thought Matt
even down a back, even down Caden Durham, You've got
Harlan Berry, Juwan Johnson had played really well.
Speaker 3: Caleb Jackson only gets one carry in the game.
Speaker 2: Here, Xavion Thomas actually gets four carries in the game.
But when you motioned him in the backfield, you get
in the football every time.
Speaker 5: There's no looks off of that, right. So there's no
really no plays that I've seen that are off of that.
We've no, We've shown it every week. I think you
ran a reverse one time. I think to very un brown,
I think it was out of that formation. Well, we've
shown that formation and that play every single week now.
And Ole Miss obviously they watched film. They were ready
for it, and they just immediately ran another guy into
the box. But it wasn't the extra guy in the
box that was really making the plays. It was just
lineman getting beat at the line of scrimmage, getting be
at the point of contact. We are doing a really
poor job of blocking the defensive line games when they cross,
when a defensive end goes outside, when the when the
defensive line moves laterally, we can't block it. We just
can't get off that block. We can't pass it off.
That'd be great. This was trouble against Southeastern. It's been
trouble every single week. Yeah, and it's reared its head
again this past week. And yeah, I'm watching the game.
I'm like, all right, maybe just keep just keep going
to it.
Speaker 3: We got it. We have to establish the running game.
We have to establish the running game.
Speaker 5: And I think a lot more running running plays were called,
but I'm I'm really getting annoyed of watching so many
RPOs and so many options to throw little screen passes
behind the line of scrimmage. I believe we had thirty
eight pass passes this past weekend, eleven of them behind
the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it can be an extension of your running game.
It can be struggling football, Yeah, it can be. It
can be something where hey, we got to get some yards, yep,
some high and there were some of these that work.
There's a couple of I think one or two of
them got a first down. But it seems to be
the only answer that we have when you go to
the well too many times. You can't expect receivers to
hold up on blocks every single time. Like you said,
I see, I see different run pass options in the
NFL A ton yesterday.
Speaker 3: It was black. It was like backside one step slants.
Speaker 5: It wasn't I'm gonna throw a screen to my receiver
and rely on two receivers two other receivers to maintain
their blocks and not get holding calls. Holding calls happen
all the time.
Speaker 3: I don't I can't remember what happened in it, but
like it, it's gonna happen else.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be first and twenty because it was an RPO.
It's gonna be an RPO to the outside. I'm just
I'm tired of like, Okay, I've seen it. It's a
tool to use every now and then. It's not a
it's a it's not a complete offensive philosophy.
Speaker 3: So but.
Speaker 5: Still when you hand the ball off, you have to
be able to win one on one blocks. Our combination
blocking a combination blocking was with two linemen or working
through one defensive lineman to get to the second level
of the linebackers is not good. Yeah, it's not good.
They're worried too much about it. Your eyes in the
wrong spot. Early in the first quarter, left tackle, left
guard working up defensive tackle to the Mike linebacker. Left
tackle gets off him and his eyes go straight to
the corner who's close to the box. Yep, why are
your eyes at the corner? They shouldn't be right. Guess
what he's late to get to the Mike linebacker. Mike linebacker. MA,
it's just little things, and it's frustrated. It's like, okay, fine,
our running game it's not going to be a threat.
We didn't really know if it would be this year. Hey,
but at least we got our passing game to hang
our hat on.
Speaker 2: You do for four thousand yards plus last year, and
it's like, you got to run the football better if
you want to win a championship.
Speaker 3: And we talked about it, and you hope.
Speaker 2: There would be some diversity in the run game and
you would this hole, you would have more success in
the ground.
Speaker 5: But this ole miss secondary is not good. They're not good.
We have to call it like we see it. So
for LSU to not have success against that secondary, that
means we were also not very good. Yeah, and we weren't. No,
We're not going to sit here. We are the most
like card carrying LSUS Like yeah, I mean it's like
so we can't lie. We can't sit up here and
blow smoke. It was not good. It was objectively bad.
Garrett Mousmeyer played bad, not saying anything anybody nobody knows,
not saying anything that nus Meyer doesn't know.
Speaker 3: He played bad.
Speaker 5: Yeah, something is off, something is wrong. You can't tell
me he's not injured. You can't tell me there's something
not hurting him. I don't know what it is. I
don't know if it's an app I have no idea
what it is, but you can't tell me and we
can look at some later. You know, hey, hand in
the air coaching flag football yesterday. Didn't get a chance
to like go through the film five times he was.
Speaker 2: I can confirm I was. I was out there with him.
I can coaching my tail off out there.
Speaker 3: Guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we completed a couple of passes that
else you couldn't the other day. Not a big deal,
didn't you. But if you can't look at Nosmeyer and say, yep,
that guy's playing like normal, right, there's something off and
I don't know what it is, and it's a shame.
Speaker 2: Look, for as long as as he's been on campus,
we've known one thing about him.
Speaker 3: He can make everythrow correct, correct. I mean, you went
to four years, you went, you went.
Speaker 2: To practice the first year he got here, and it's
before Matt was doing the show. And Matt, look, Matt,
Matt didn't follow high schol recruiting. He didn't follow you know,
he just he knew ball. He didn't know names and numbers, right,
And it was one of those hey, who's this guy?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And you text me and I was like, let's scare
enough Smyer and you're like, okay, well this guy can
spend it. So look obvious. Right last year those who
o were four thousand yards. You go back, can you
look at the Oklahoma game, the Baylor game? Uh TA
brought up the u c l A game where he's
hitting deep shots. He won agains South Carolina. That crosser
that he hit to Lacey coming across, I think it
was the final drive to go take the lead.
Speaker 3: Incredible throw.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was the one that got him inside the ten.
Speaker 5: And pretty much every time he's put a helmet on
and they put him on the field and play tackle football,
he's made throws like wow.
Speaker 8: Well I've seen I've seen people say guys, he could
DoD d balls last year. Yeah, he was overthrowing guys
a year ago. You get it there.
Speaker 3: This year.
Speaker 2: It's an amalgamation really of a lot of things, y'all.
Like it truly is. Thank you Bobby listening, No, you're working.
Speaker 3: Okay, now spell it huf.
Speaker 1: You.
Speaker 3: Uh I couldn't do it for the lottery numbers. Right now.
It starts with.
Speaker 2: A joke clearly like selled it out. Uh we go yep,
So it's right now, like I don't know what I'm
gonna give you as a positive, Like it's it's that
right now, it's it's it's scheme, it's performance, it's execution,
it's everything right now.
Speaker 3: There's no positive there's no positive spin to it. No,
there's no there's no there's also there's no flow to it. Okay.
Speaker 2: And and we talk about this all the time, like
when you're in a flow offensively, like and you saw
Link Giffen do it in the game, like you make
play calls for the rest of the game, not just
in that moment, Like you can make a play call
in that moment that one, like I really like this play.
Speaker 3: Let's go down the chart. Sure, let's run that one.
Speaker 2: And you can make a play that's not gonna be
success down the road. Like as a play caller, you know,
you you call them and you're like, okay, well this
is hey, later on we're gonna call this, We're gonna
have some success, but when we call it, it's gonna
yeah and nail on the Coffin type call, right, And
you felt like Lane had that in this game, and
like right now it feels like you're just going and
looking and like I like that play let's run that
play m But it's not hey, let's run that to
run this, Let's run this to run that later on,
and every level of football, that's how you have to
be thinking. You have to be thinking about the totality
of the game and how you're calling them and like,
the first fifteen's one thing, and we'll get there. By
the way, the first fifteen's not been not been great
for LSU. But when you're a play caller, like that's
that's how it goes. Like you're running the plays to
be successful throughout the game, and you're setting things up
throughout the game as well.
Speaker 5: A well called game, well executed game plan is like storytelling.
Speaker 3: It's like writing a book. It's like writing a movie.
There's a there's a.
Speaker 5: Plot, there's a build up, there's there is twist, there's turn,
there's a climax, there's a conclusion. But it's all part
of one story. You're creating. You're telling right, so you are,
and it's all on purpose. There's reasons to do in things.
There's reason for play calls early because you want to
do something later.
Speaker 3: There is.
Speaker 5: But to be able to do that, to be able
to execute that as a play caller, like you have
to stay on schedule, Like you could have the greatest
game plan ever thought of, but you can't foresee every
time you run the ball, you get stuff to the
line of scrimmage. You can't foresee that. So there's a
lot of that with it. Yes, the play calling has
to be better, the game plan has to be better.
Speaker 3: Certainly the execution.
Speaker 5: There is not one person that you can look at
that was like, hey, nice word, good job. And that's
coaching staff, that's players, that's everybody, and there's not just
it's not just one person either. But so to be
able to just to go out there and put that performance,
no matter what the reason is. I know you're down
your best running back. I know obviously. I don't care
what you tell me. I don't care the words you
use to spin it. Your quarterback is not right. He's
not healthy. I don't know why he played last week.
You told me he was better. He's clearly not. You
can go clip after clip and watch him throw. You
can see him wincing after there. I mean, it's just
like and.
Speaker 2: We talked about it in length about him playing against Southeastern.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean something.
Speaker 5: So I hear the words coming out of your mouth,
But what is happening on the field is painting a
whole different picture. What's happening on the field statistically from
a game playing standpoint, and how many throws you're reliant
to make behind the line of scrimmage or within a
couple of yards of the line of scrimmage is telling
me like, your action speaks so loud. I don't care
what you're saying. And that is what we are seeing
right happening right now. So yeah, it's unfortunate. I wish
she was one hundred percent right right. The second is
not and it's affecting the outcome of a game. It hasn't,
It hadn't leading up to this game, we've gotten away
with it. We beat two teams that were supposed to
be good. I guess what, they're not very good. Yeah,
Florida Clemson, they're not good.
Speaker 3: We thought they were. They should have been.
Speaker 5: So we play a team that is on a that's
on a little bit of a role, a team that
I still believe is gonna lose three games.
Speaker 2: I think lose three games this year too. I think
that's a nine and three football team.
Speaker 5: So something's got to be fixed, Like Okay, you got
away with it the first couple of games and it
still didn't look good. These same concerns were there the
first four games, right, Yeah, but a W in the
win column, uh kind of overshadows everything.
Speaker 3: But you still have to take that deep dive.
Speaker 5: So we cannot continue to do the same things over
and over over and expect a different result. Something has
to happen. Something's got to change, Adjustments need to be made,
whatever they are. They can be big, they can be little,
but something's got to be tweaked here and there. Because
I haven't seen much different from a game plan and
certainly not an execution standpoint that I did this week
from Clemson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it hasn't been much, honestly, Like Clemson might have
might have been like the the best that it's looked like.
Think like if you think about like some of the
stuff and some of the you know, middle screens and
different things they did, seen it, right, It's like, okay, well,
like what's see encore to that?
Speaker 3: So when we come back and I.
Speaker 5: Don't like I've seen these people, I think Kiffen playing chess,
Kelly's playing. I think that's the case, Like did keffn
come off as a genius this past weekend, or do
we have a quarterbacks just good throw the ball because
he looks like he's hurt and couldn't run the ball. Yeah,
I don't know if that makes the other coach a
genius or not.
Speaker 2: I say the best thing that Lane did was a
couple of the fourth down calls and he made a
third down.
Speaker 3: It's a great offensive call. Yeah.
Speaker 2: To your point, as bad as you played, we could
point out four or five plays that if you execute,
not if you like you know, something goes didn't know
if the play that was there, If you execute the
play that was there that was available to you and
going to.
Speaker 3: Be successful, then the game's completely different.
Speaker 2: So uh, but when we come back, I like to
tell you that we're gonna pump some sunshine, but we're not.
Speaker 3: Guys never know.
Speaker 2: So I got to give you the opening drive so
far of every game, and we'll give you that when
we come back here on OTV.
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Speaker 1: Tigers turn Talkers. This is off the bench.
Speaker 3: Have you got cool or do you ever get that
feel that you've got shift the top that sticks around
like so much and you see.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in ot B here on this
Monday morning, continuing to break down LSU's loss to the
Old Miss Rebels on the road in Oxford.
Speaker 3: All Right, Matt, we haven't fun yet or what? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah? All right, so good. Here's what I want
to give you and c B and I talked about
on the broadcast. Here's your opening drives so far this year. Right,
so your scripted plays, the ones that you've got, it's
ten to fifteen, depending on who your coordinator is.
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know how LSU does it.
Speaker 2: I've always played with a coach you'd like to have
fifteen fifteen scripted plays. Those were the plays you felt
really good about before anybody made adjustments. These fifteen plays
should be your best place. Would you say, like that's
how it was for you and your.
Speaker 5: Career're usually the most well thought out plays. I would
never say that of the best, but they're most about ten.
Speaker 3: Hey, Mike McCarthy gets thrown this This isn't no like
this is this is every coach, every level. Most of
the coaches first fifteen are like you want to see
how smart I am? Watch this.
Speaker 5: Usually doesn't get roll into like after those fifteen. Now
watch this drive now watch his draft.
Speaker 2: All right, Against the Clemson Tigers, your first drive six
plays thirty six yards punt. Your first drive against Louisiana
Tech four plays eleven yards interception. Your first series against
the Florida Gators three plays six yards punt. Your first
series against Southeastern three plays five yards punt. Your first
series against the Old Miss Rebels three plays four yards punt.
So you've had four punts in one interception in your
opening drive of your five games so far this year.
Speaker 3: It's not that case. It is not that case last year.
Speaker 2: And also you're a team likes to be aggressive, and
you'd like to take the ball win or lose to
coin toss like you want the ball, sure, so that's
also something. And look, if I came here and you
know there wasn't a lot of touchdowns, are maybe you
get some field goals on these opening drives. You want
to get points, and points are great, right, certainly to
start off the game. But I think the most troublesome
thing is thirty six yards being your most right. And
remember that was I think. If I'm I could be
wrong here, correct me if I'm wrong, But I think
Cayden Durham breaking like a couple of tackles at the
line of scrimmage and then going the opposite way was
most of the yardage against Clemsons first play, right, I'm
pretty sure that was the opening drive. Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah,
So outside of that, outside of the Clemson game, we're
talking about twenty six yards on your opening drive in
the next four games. Twenty six yards four games opening drive.
That's again, like north Turner who I played for, like
opening drive was like his baby, Like he was so
adamant and so like, maybe it's me, maybe it's maybe
it's something that I take, you know.
Speaker 3: Too close to heart.
Speaker 2: Sure, but I know for sure twenty something yards in
four games, one against an FCS opponent, one against one
from KUSA, and then two SEC games that ain't that
dog will not hunt. No.
Speaker 5: I think a mot of most most coaches, at most
every single sport is always start fast, start fast. So, yes,
you're trying to work the best plays that you have,
You're trying to go you have a you have a
whole week of film. They're like, well, you have a
whole off season a film, but you have multiple games
to watch this of a defense that you're about to
go and your script and plays that you know are
going to well at least put you in the best
chance to stay on schedule. And I know we talk
about this. You might be tired of hearing to say
stay on schedule, stay on schedule, But it is the
most important thing in the game of football to do
as an offense and for a quarterback, and for confidence
of everybody and for rhythm and to get into that
quote unquote zone that everybody likes to get into. It's
because you stay on schedule as a quarterback, like and
a play caller. It's really easy to do sometimes. But
like we used to always say, man, don't get bored.
Don't get bored as a quarterback. Don't get bored.
Speaker 2: Every level of football, don't get bored. Yes I tried,
Oh my gosh, just don't get bored. That's what I
want you to They want you to get bored. They
want you to force something.
Speaker 5: They do, and as a play caller as a quarterback,
and it's uh. And I'm not saying that we are.
I'm just saying what we're doing is not really working.
So you have your first fifteen. This is kind of
how it works. You got your first fifteen based on
normal down and distance. And then let's just say you
run your first two plays out of your first fifteen.
You're not automatically going to run the third because it's
probably it might be third down. If it's third and
seven to eight. Then you go on your play calling sheet,
ye go to.
Speaker 3: This little column that is a third and seven to
ten or third and six to nine, or whatever however
you break it down.
Speaker 5: You go to that and you have six or seven
plays under that third and seven to seven to ten,
and you call that play, and then you get a
first down, you go back to play number three. On
your first fifteen, you might call three four, Okay, we
got a first down, let's go to five six. Oh
it's third down again, third and third and three to five.
Let me go to my third and three to five.
That's how that kind of works. So it's not like
we're calling fifteen straight plays blah blah blah. But this
is in a normal down and distance situation. That's not
a third and uncomfortable. This is the plays we're gonna call.
So I mean, it might take you halfway through the
second quarter to get through your first fifteen. And if
you're like, oh, miss it, might take you to like
four minutes into the game to get through your first
fifteen because they ran fifty plays in the first half.
But that's kind of how it goes. And for whatever reason,
we're just not executing. I don't know if people are nervous,
if people are pressing, if they're trying to make something happen.
So what happens a lot of times this psychology the
human being, Like when things aren't going your way, you
press harder sometimes, yeah, and you press and you try
to make things happen. And when in football that gets
you beat, that makes that puts what we're seeing on
the field. If you're pressing too much, you just gotta
let it come to you. Like I'm watching the first
play of the game right now, and maybe in the
second hour, maybe maybe we'll go through the first drive
of the offense and just kind of like I haven't
I don't have a detailed breakdown of it. I don't
have a lot of like teaching coaching points. But let's
talk through it. What plays they're running, what the read
should be on that play, and why.
Speaker 3: It didn't work. I think that might be a good
little exercise.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, honestly, like I don't even want to
be like all right.
Speaker 3: Hey, let's pull up play number forty seven, and like
I just want to like watch a play.
Speaker 2: I don't care if you tell me what play it is,
all right, like you said, and just like go through it, yep,
and like okay, like here's why this didn't work. Here's
what needs to happen. And I'd love to do that
at some point here today. But I know one thing.
You have got to be better on the opening drive
of these games. You got to put a drive together,
even if it ends in a punt. If you you know,
if you go six plays forty five five yards and
maybe you don't convert the third down, it's got to
be better than in the last four games eleven six,
five and four yards on your opening drive. All Right,
we'll take a break more OTB when we come back
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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in OTV Monday morning. There he
got Modest Mouse to play half time show.
Speaker 7: Name another Modest Mouse song besides this one.
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Speaker 2: Hey, I do want to one other thing that I
want to say. I mean, we got lots of I'm lying,
it ain't just one thing. Uh, And you're gonna be like, oh,
of course, of course, of course. Anybody want to tell
me the longest run that else she's had this year?
Speaker 8: I think it's the well they closed out Florida with
the long one right with Kaden Durham.
Speaker 4: That was like a seventy.
Speaker 3: Yarder fifty fifty one. I believe. Actually it's the longest run.
Speaker 4: That's gotta be it.
Speaker 3: See it is fifty one yards. That was the long one.
That was a long.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they had well, Harlan Berry had a long and against.
Speaker 3: I think tech great individual effort. Anybody want to tell
me what formation that was out of? Oh gosh, and
who was in that was?
Speaker 4: You had the two lead blockers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're an I formation. You actually like said yeah,
twenty two. Well yeah, because it might even been twenty three.
It might have been twenty three for like victory formation.
Speaker 4: You had bow Jack pieburn.
Speaker 2: And okay and all jokes aside, and you'll know, I'm
always fighting for the full back and being a meathead.
You ran it one time, and you ran it for
fifty one yards?
Speaker 3: When's that? When's the next time we saw it?
Speaker 4: You haven't seen it before or after?
Speaker 5: Yeah, but like remember that time we threw that that
pop past the receiver for a yard.
Speaker 3: I thought you were about to say, let's just that one,
and I mean that, like.
Speaker 2: You closed out the game against a good like Florida's
a bad team, but defense is good defense, and you
closed out the game and you got in twenty three person,
now I think it was twenty three and you got
an I formation and then you still had an offset fullback,
little all set eye and you're in football and you're
in fifty one yards.
Speaker 3: Hadn't seen it again.
Speaker 2: And Jack Pibron played fullback at Florida, so that's like
it's not new to him.
Speaker 3: Can I tell you that.
Speaker 5: A defense loves when offense is and shotgun every single
play because it vanilla is up the entire offense when
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that going to the center.
Speaker 3: Yeah, more of this when we come back our too.
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