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Texas did end up getting in. What's going on, guys,
how we feeling today?
Speaker 5: I'm doing good, enjoy covering the game last night or yesterday,
I guess bled into last night, and today's kind of
the last day of the unknown.
Speaker 3: Time, Like what day it is? What's the date?
Speaker 5: Yeah, this Friday before everybody like we've been working, you know,
either here or there somewhere. This building has been empty,
a lot of the lights not even turned on when
you walk in. You know, a couple of studios are open.
But this is the last day of that. So hopefully
everybody's enjoyed their time off, and when we come back
on Monday on the sixth, I think, you know, it'll
be kind of normal for the first time in a
long time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, I've started to regain some of
my normal life rhythm the last couple of days.
Speaker 3: I have not yet, but I'm looking forward to it.
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So girl, how are.
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when you have like no schedule or anything, and I
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Speaker 4: So that's the key to get back on it. It's
the key. Yeah, back in the gym.
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably sucks, probably hurt really bad. Yeah, I agree.
Last Weday has been really, really rough, But.
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Speaker 4: Guys. So here's where.
Speaker 2: I want to start todays show? Is is that my phone?
Who's Here's where I want to start today's show. It's impossible,
I think, especially because we do a show that talks
about Brian Kelly and l shoeconstly right, how do we feel.
Speaker 4: Watching Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: Do what they did did Georgia last night on that
stage to go to the Final four. With the context
of that first Brian Kelly press conference right, and why
Brian Kelly left Notre Dame to begin with, He thought
he had maxed out, he had a dominant program there,
but he thought he could not take the next step.
He makes the switch basically citing a ceiling and Notre
Dame and seeing lsu ceiling can be as high as
any in the entire country, comes down here to try
to find his fortune. Only now three years later in
year number three, Brian Kelly's okay, step back from a
win loss perspective, going from ten and three to ninety
four and Notre Dame has their best season yet ever,
first major bowlwin, And what thirty one years like for
even if it is how good they were in the
Kelly era, how good they were in like six Jake
with Brady Quinn and then I mean y'all held them
back from winning that Sugar Bowl.
Speaker 4: Otherwise that wouldn't that streak wand it be so.
Speaker 2: Long like Marcus Freeman has led them to the territory
that they have not been in three decades, to beat Georgia,
the SEC champion, to really just control the game kick
George's ass, and now they're a one lost team in
the final four, potentially favorites in their final four matchup,
could go to a national championship.
Speaker 4: How does that make you feel?
Speaker 2: As an LSU fan who took Brian who took Brian
Kelly from them?
Speaker 4: I guess I don't really look.
Speaker 3: At it in that same way. I don't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know a lot of LSU fans do, and
I understand you know why they would. A lot of
Notre Dame fans do. I guess, just covering the team
maybe have a different feel, Like I picked them to
win that game, just like you did. Yeah, Like I
wasn't surprised that they went out there and did exactly
what they did against Georgia or.
Speaker 4: That's never gonna be able to do anything.
Speaker 5: And Gunner had some plays to his credit, certainly more
offense than Notre Dame did. But you know, Notre Dame's
defense is legit. Yeah, it has as many Jimmy's and
Joe's as any defense in the country. So it didn't
surprise me. And look it is it's a new age too.
It's it's a twelve team playoff. If this was a
four team playoff. Does Notre Dame get in I don't know.
I mean they're right there on the edge, right, So
there's a lot of different factors that come into this.
But look, you got to give credit to Marcus Freeman. Yeah,
I think Marcus Freeman's a really good football coach. I think,
you know, they get Mike Denbrock, who was here last
year for the number one offense in the country, like
he was their offensive coordinator. They've got Al Golden as
their defensive coordinator. Somebody's been a head coach in multiple places,
and so I mean it's a really well put together
roster with a really good coaching staff.
Speaker 3: And it's not surprising to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean last night results not surprising. It is
surprising I would think to see the rise of Notre
Dame under Marcus Freeman given what some of the early
returns were. And that's why I thought last night was
such a victory lap for Freeman. I mean, you think
about year number one, what was it losing to maybe
was it Marshall Marshall at home, right, that wasn't you know?
Speaker 4: Yeah, losing to Marshall at.
Speaker 2: Home last year, having a high State beat, but making
the incredible gaff of only putting ten players on the
field in the game winning play and still nearly doing
it but getting beat because the player that was missing
they went right at that spot to go from that
to then the ultra big brain eleven players substitution.
Speaker 4: Last night to force.
Speaker 2: The the the fault, the off sides, and to get
a five additional minutes off the clock.
Speaker 4: Like what a great moment, even.
Speaker 2: Losing in Northern Illinois earlier this year and not allowing
that to break your team, but allowing that to be
the catalyst to make you better than you ever were,
Like what a job by Marcus Freeman with this Notre
Dame team. And so yesterday when we did the show,
you know, I was espousing a lot of praise, a
lot of excitement for the future of LSU football, and
I remember a couple of comments basically being like, you know,
what are you like?
Speaker 4: What are you talking about here? Notre Dame is good.
They're doing You're your nine and four or this that.
Speaker 7: And.
Speaker 4: I would say that.
Speaker 2: My expectations for this team are My excitement for this
team comes with meeting this team where it is currently
at right, And did I think they would have been
more championship relevant in the three years under Brian Kelly.
Speaker 4: Yes, I think I did.
Speaker 2: But if you look at this season, if you look
at the guys that you lost, it again, it continues
to blow my mind how good guys like Jaden Daniel's
elite neighbors Brian Thomas are, uh, we'd we don't engage
with the fact that, I mean, you you lost multiple
NFL defensive lineman last year. So when I look at
a season that was already be at this pointing last
year and the guys that you lost, and then I
look at how you finished nine to four, I see
a team that, Okay, yeah, it's maybe not where I
thought it was gonna be, but it's also not that bad.
And you're hovering right around making a move. And that's
how LSU always kind of has been, right. It's never
been year in and year out dominance. It's can you
be pretty good good enough ten game winners consist, and
then every now and then the stars align and you
go on to championship run.
Speaker 4: And when I look right now, the stars.
Speaker 2: Could be potentially coming into focus here, Jake, I mean,
you played a ton of Like we talk of the
guys you lost, you played a ton of young guys
this season.
Speaker 4: You played a first time starter quarterback.
Speaker 2: You have now adjusted and your strategy an approach to
the transfer portal, and with it you have put together
the number one.
Speaker 4: Transfer portal class. You will return a quarterback.
Speaker 2: You're adding weapons, like you have the coaching staff that
you now believe in because you did the very expensive
changes that needed to be made after blowing the Jade
and Daniels talent.
Speaker 4: Situation that you had.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, look, I understand that right now
Notre Dame Margustrom they are absolutely winning that battle. And
credit to them, and it was awesome, man, like I said, like,
I mean, they're they're a great team. But I'm just
talking purely from the LSU perspective here. I think there
is real potential that this team could make a move
next year. And even look at Notre Dame, what they
go nine and four, ten and three, and now this
in that same way LSU granted going ten and three
to nine and four, but still finishing winning the last
three games in the manner that you did, I think
there's real potential to make a move.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and look, it has to happen. There's no shining
away from that. You know, now is the time and
BK talked about year three at media day and it
didn't turn out like you wanted it too. And you know,
losing the opener again going back, we all know five
straight years now. VK's not been here for all of those.
But you got another strong opener again. You're gonna be
on the road little Death Valley. You're gonna be playing
against Clemson, Kate Club, Nick's coming back, and so you're
going to I mean, you're going to have a very
tough game yet again in game number one. And I
think that is the most important thing is just starting
fast for that team. And I know we'll get there.
We'll break it down a thousand different ways by the
time that we get there. But like that, when you
lose the first game like that, that handcuffs you. Then
you got to try to be perfect the rest of
the year. Just imagine how much better it would feel
in the confidence that you would get if you go
out there and you win the opener.
Speaker 3: And so they've done what they could do to this point.
Speaker 5: Top ten recruiting, class number one portal class quarterbacks coming back.
You've developed young players like this is you gotta go.
You gotta go, like you got to go have one
of those years that we're talking about. And I think
winning the last three games of this season is going
to be key in your all season and training. Like
you know, we've all kind of been a part of
disappointing ends the seasons and we've had to come back
to next year and try to change everything that went
wrong in the final whatever game, two games, three game stretch.
So them winning the last three games is going to
be key. They got a chance to play a lot
of young players, not only throughout the season, but certainly
at the end of the season and in the ball game.
Speaker 3: I mean the ball game.
Speaker 5: You're getting your flip card out, like wait a minute,
who's this Yeah, where's.
Speaker 3: This guy been?
Speaker 5: So you've got everything in place right now.
Speaker 3: I just got to go do it. Yeah, you gotta do.
Speaker 5: It from the very beginning of the season. It ain't
going to be easy. But nobody's gonna feel sorry for you.
Nobody's going to give you an excuse. The schedule is
the schedule. You've got Clemson, a college football playoff team,
in the first game at their place.
Speaker 3: But you gotta win well.
Speaker 2: And one thing that Notre Dame's done is They've maintained
a good roster foundation, but they have gone key impact transfers.
Speaker 4: Look at last night's games. The guy who's made plays.
Speaker 2: Is Leonard, their quarterback defense, n R j Obin, the
kick return Jayden Harrison.
Speaker 4: The mis jeter from South Carolinas.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying so like so LSU kind of shied
away from that first, they have learned that. Now they
are trying to do the same, and only time will
tell they can be able to be cescil. I just
see a lot of people Victor l having and I
understand completely why and the pressure is on for year
number four. But I actually see a lot of similar
elements between Notre Dame and the jump that it took
and what else you could potentially take. The biggest difference
would be just raw talent on defense, right, LSU's raw talent,
it's gonna be more on the offensive side of the
ball in the weapons department than his Notre Dames, whereas
Notre Dame is just an overwhelmingly good defense even with
all the injuries that they've suffered.
Speaker 5: And so so I actually was talking with Matt at
the game yesterday, was going down and was chatting with
him and Gordy was there and we were kind of
talking about Notre Dame having some, you know, some different
type of players and they had in the past, and
the ability to have a different type of a player
because it is a school that is a little bit
more difficult to get into than most and you know
where you got to be coming out of high school
to be able to get accepted. That's even you know,
in the athletic side of things. But when the portal
opens up, here's what you can do. Well, you can
go take a player that's proven himself to be a
great student in college, who's you know, an older guy
like Jordan Clark, Like Jordan's a perfect example, like he
graduated at Arizona State. Notre Dame can identify that player,
good player, smart player, and they can bring that type
of player into Notre Dame and so like they never
really had that opportunity before, but now you know, they
can go get a more mature guy. They can bring
that player in where Notre Dame's just never really been.
And we all know Indiana high school football, like I've
I've been to an Indiana high school state championship game.
Speaker 3: I'll just say it ain't Louisiana.
Speaker 4: It ain't test Louisiana on the field in East.
Speaker 5: Florida, right exact, So that they've done a nice job
of not only going into the portal, but getting you know,
the right player out of the portal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's it's a masterful job. By by.
Speaker 2: Now I want to talk about the actual game itself,
your little Sugar Bowl recap coming up next here on
Off the bench, Off.
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T bop.
Speaker 4: Yo, what's happening y'all.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to O T b uh talking a little
sugar belt.
Speaker 4: As we got some.
Speaker 2: Well it was like it was it was it was
a great game, or it was it was a great
performance last fight and last name Biden name pretty much
played out, uh exactly as we said it would you
add to elite defenses going against offenses that are a
bit limited, I guess is how you would say Notre
Dame an elite rushing offense based off of a lot
of QB run with Ryan Leonard and well, as we said,
that ended up being the difference offensively last night. So
I would say this Riley Leonard and Gunner Stockton. Ry
Leonard is not why Notre Dame one. Gunner Stockton is
not why Georgia loss. But I did think that you
could feel the difference between the two players in terms
of taking advantage of opportunities and in terms of I
mean to me, it felt like for a lot of
the night, George's playbook was a bit limited, a bit
more narrow in scope than it would have been otherwise.
Speaker 4: And it just goes back to what we say.
Speaker 2: I think there was a misconception with a lot of
SEC fans who maybe didn't watch Dame play this year,
that this was the same Notre Dame of the past,
of the Brian Kelly Hares, and that this wasn't a
defense just full of the NFL guys. And so there
was this idea that, well, yeah, I mean, it's a
quarterback starting for the first time, but George is gonna
have way more talent, which again, if you just look
at the starting twenty two is actually not that true.
Speaker 4: It's very close. Uh, but but George's gonna have way
more talent. It's not gonna matter in the end.
Speaker 2: There now to the push him around and Gunner's dock
to overc like you're asking a guy in Gunners and
again it's not his fault, right, but it is a
huge helem in the game. You're asking a guy making
his first ever start, a guy with a few dozen
plays to his name, to go against that defense. And
Ry Leonard, who has forty four starts up to this point,
and credit to him, gunners talk, did have quit himself
pretty well. But you could feel the difference. Look at
the sacks, look at the TFLs, the turnovers. Not all
his fault, but it was a it was just an
impossible situation that he was put into.
Speaker 5: And also you couldn't run the football exactly. So Gunner
Stockton look being there and seeing it happen like he
actually there's a couple times he got the ball out quick.
There's a couple of times that I feel like he
manipulated the pocket pretty well. Here's thirty thirty two passes completed,
twenty of them to thirty four to Riley Lanyer's ninety yards.
Speaker 3: He threw it.
Speaker 5: You couldn't run the football though, and then once the
Notre Dame realized that, it's like, okay, no disrespect to
Gunner Stockton. There's not a lot of quarterbacks in the
country could go win their game by the self again
against that Notre Dame.
Speaker 4: Well, so that's the thing.
Speaker 2: And this is kind of an argument I was getting
with some friends in this morning. Is a lot of
people want to point to the raw numbers, but I
think they're a bit misrepresentative of the game. Like it's
obvious that Notre Dame sold out to stop the run
and said, we will man up these Georgia weapons, and
you might beat us a couple of time drops too. Now, yeah,
I know they always do. It's been George all year long.
Speaker 5: For sure, touchdown dropped about a sixty five seventy yarder.
Speaker 4: It's been Georgia all years long.
Speaker 5: Just Gunner's play. I thought Unner read the coverage pretty
well for not being in there a lot. I mean,
he had a couple of intermediate passes over the middle
of the field. He certainly had moments where he held
onto the football a little too long. But Georgia fans
they can't go back and be like, well, if Carson
Beck would have played, I don't think that's the case.
I mean, I think Gunner made enough plays. You got
to look at the receivers and the drops. I mean
they were egregious drops. You couldn't run the football. And
then you got to blame Kirby for trying to throw
the football with thirty something seconds left, backed up with
the backup quarterback.
Speaker 4: Same way you got Carson hurt last game.
Speaker 3: That is on you that.
Speaker 5: That can't happen. I was about to say I talked
to someone that was pretty I'll tell you did in
the break. I don't want to put it out there,
but like that can't happen. You can't go out there.
You have to realize the situation. The game at that
point is six to three. Yeah, Now if the game
would have been twenty three to six, twenty four to ten, something, Okay,
maybe the games right there.
Speaker 4: And look they're gonna get the ball.
Speaker 3: I get that.
Speaker 5: You can't you can't put gunnerstocked in in that situation.
Junior came off the edge, stripsack, touchdown, Notre Dame like that.
You went from being down six to three going into halftime.
It all of a sudden, Now you're looking up and
it's what thirteen to three, and it's a completely different ballgame.
Speaker 3: The juice in that stadium.
Speaker 5: You got people barking at you uga uga and then
literally barking at you to the Notre Dame fans just
take it over and they never gave it back.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, I mean we talked about the middle eight
all the time, the final four minutes of the first
half and the first four minutes of the second half.
How do you manage those middle eight And for Notre Dame,
they didn't even middle eight. They got a middle one
seventeen points and fifty four seconds. And the tweeted at
the time right after kick return, that is too much
of a haymaker on this stage. It gets that quality
of a team to overcome. That was the game what
I don't love, though I do feel like there's people
are still trying to paint sometimes this Irish victory is
somehow fluky, Like you say, oh, it was a kick return, okay,
but it was a perfectly.
Speaker 4: Return like winning teams make winning plays and I.
Speaker 2: Think, but yeah, like with Gunner Stockton again, yes, play
played well like played well considered in the circumstances. Again,
he's putting an impossible situation. But Notre Dame news, look,
we are going to shut down the run first and foremost,
we're gonna take our chances going man up, might lose, some,
might get some penalties. I mean they had ten penalties,
so I think George is like four in this game.
But in the end, we're gonna make you do it
again and again and again, and you're not gonna be
able to hold up. And I thought that was a
perfect game plan from Marcus Freeman. They end up with
nine TFLs, four sacks, two massive force fumbles, U j
go's zero of three on fourth down. And everybody wants
say Ryland nine yeards passive right Lanard nine years pressing.
How about ry Leonard set over seven yards of carry
and nearly one hundred rushing. When you take away the sackyard,
even have to keep it in sackyard, keep it in
animal uh so and and and and again, make and
like And this is what note names office is again
not James office is not the reason why you won.
But what they were was very efficient with taking advantage
of their meager resources. Three scoring field goal drives that
you put together. And again, special teams, it's a three
phase win for Freeman and not Dame. That's a great
teams do three field goal scoring drives the field, goals
over forty yards plus.
Speaker 4: And then your.
Speaker 2: Defense, which is why you won the game, set you
up and on the first play you got the touchdout
perfectly executed rpo. Ry Leonard delivers a dot touchdown, So
you took it. So like, Yes, Note Name's offense was
not dominant, but.
Speaker 4: They were.
Speaker 2: Deadly efficient at maximizing the meager resources that they had
this game, and defense and special teams were overwhelmingly good
for Notre Dame, maybe except for when they tried to
jump in that punter who was punning for the first Like,
I felt like I was watching like a prison video
where the new guy shows up on the jail yard
and they get a couple of shots in at him
just because they know they can't. Yeah, because it's his
first time ever punting in a game, and he gets
lit up back to back plays.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was certain. I mean, just sitting there, I
was like, he did not do that again.
Speaker 5: That same man did that same thing again, and Kirby
he's over there losing his mind. He went to the
fifteen yards. Uh, it is so like going back at
you know, to the middle eight there. I talked to
Al Golden after the game, He's like, I was shocked
that they decided to do that. He's like, I wasn't
bringing like a pressure play because I thought they were
going to throw it. I was in a run defense. Yeah, Like,
I was surprised at the defense coordinator for name, and
then after that I talked with Mike den Brocken and Goes.
I was surprised, but I knew exactly what play I
wanted to run as soon as we got the ball.
Speaker 3: Do you know was that r PO?
Speaker 4: Or was that straight play action?
Speaker 2: Not that it really matters, but it's just a classical
skinny post behind so the way, the ways the linebacker
dive or not.
Speaker 5: So the way that that he made it sound to
me it was a play action, Okay, like a heavy
play action with the thought process from Georgia that it
was in r PO.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh again, perfectly executed touchdown, then you come back with
a beautiful kick return touchdown, and it's over, and it's over.
It was too much of a hill for Riley Lennard
or excoose me for gunnerstocked into.
Speaker 5: Certainly, certainly the way that defense was playing Shuler and Watson, Kay's,
I mean, they're just they're everywhere that and that to
me is the difference is the size and the physicality
of their defensive players compared to what it used to be.
Like I've played a great Notre Dame team in two
thousand and six. They didn't have those guys in the field.
They had they'd have one like Tomas Debkowski was a
great safety, big physical guy, but that was their one.
Speaker 4: They got like seven or eight of those guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it was, it was, it was, it
was very it was very validated, very impressive performance for
the Irish last night, and so now they find themselves in.
Speaker 4: The final four.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: The only thing that I'm be a bit worried about
if i was them, is they just keep getting injured.
Like I mean even last night, Howard Cross goes to
the tent David watch they go for a little bit
as well. I mean, you haven't even had Benjamin Morrison
since what the middle of the year. Yeah, maybe the
best cornerback in all of college Hall. Like that's the
craziest part is they keep getting hurt and this team,
this defense could be even better if they had more injury.
Speaker 4: Look, it'd be incredible. I mean what they they have,
their they they lost Riley Mills on uh in the
first round.
Speaker 2: So we'll see if they can manage to if they
can manage to stay healthy enough. But what a win
for Notre Dame here to beat Georgia and move on
in a bad day for the SEC crowd.
Speaker 5: Oh man, you and look, Joel Klatt, Dandy Canell, they're
already all over it good.
Speaker 4: I mean they should be.
Speaker 2: The SEC fans are trying to piss on everybody's good
time this entire time, and it blew up in their face.
Used a couple of games in the first round to
make a lot of broad declarative statements that.
Speaker 5: They now rall to focused on the argument even after
the fact, after it was settled that you weren't going
to get in the playoff, it felt like that was
the focus, that was the attention. Yeah, in South Carolina
goes and gets beat by Illinois, and Alabama gets manhandled
by a very down Michigan. Michigan didn't have any other dudes, no,
and they still handled Alabama. You got a usc didn't
have any of their guys.
Speaker 2: They beat A and M and it was up twenty
four to seven. It's a bad day to be an
sec fanboy. If only Cam, only airs in a state
could have finished it off, I mean final, it would
have been so good.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 4: When we are back here on OTV, I want to go.
Speaker 2: We have a wit week's injury update, and I don't
even think we really touched on it too much. Maybe
did on Monday, but Harold Perkins returning to the Tigers,
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Speaker 1: Off the bench. Welcome back to more sports talk. What's
some other stuff mixed in off the bench with Hester Antiva.
Speaker 2: What's up y'all? Welcome back to OTV. You're just talking
during the breaks. It's a bad day to be a Parker,
that's for sure. I feel like he kind of ended
up escaping a bit of some of maybe the hate
that he would have gotten had this game ended a
bit closer.
Speaker 4: Maybe from the outside, Yeah, definitely not in that locker room.
Definitely not from Kirby.
Speaker 5: You're up on the inside. We were saying he's a
walk on. Now he's got a walk off.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Last night on snaps. I was asking who is that guy?
I was like, well, I mean, who was that guy?
Is maybe the more appropriate way of framing it. Yeah,
for those who don't know what we're referencing, last night,
George has a massive play that set them up for
first and goal. As the ref is running after the
play a walk on, not even in pads, getting very excited,
you feel for the gig getting very excited, runs onto
the white and hits the referee, which you can wind
a complain it.
Speaker 4: You can't do that. You cannot do that. The ref
has to have that area with which run. Also, like
these refs are not young athletes, these are old men.
Speaker 2: You hit them out of nowhere, like in a hit
full sprint Like. That's like not a good situation. So
ends up being a flag. I don't know that they
would have scored a touchdown anyway, but it definitely killed
any who of a touchdown.
Speaker 4: And Kirby is I can't imagine what Kirby I do
not like I just like I said, it's a bad
day to be a Parker Jones, that's for damn sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there's.
Speaker 4: Sucks to because he probably works his butt off.
Speaker 5: Yeah, probably so you know, or maybe he doesn't. Maybe
his dad's you know, a donor. I don't know either way.
Speaker 4: We had a couple of those guys, but that was always.
Speaker 3: We had tea.
Speaker 4: I don't want to call out position.
Speaker 3: I felt.
Speaker 4: I felt that was more the exception than the rule.
When he came to walk off, we had like a kicker. Yes, yeah,
for sure.
Speaker 7: No, I remember, like, wait a minute, who's this guy?
There was his father's Oh there's so that happened. Maybe
that I mean, to be fair, the name Arker Jones
would speak to his father owning a dealership or something. Yeah,
maybe he owns a hellcat dealership.
Speaker 6: He needs to go to rush week now, like he's
going to be like.
Speaker 4: In a frat now. Yeah. Yeah, he had life changed.
Speaker 6: And Dave Portnoyd tweeted the video and they're like, oh,
he's gonna work out barstool now.
Speaker 3: Huh So.
Speaker 4: The other great or not the other? Because that was
just wild.
Speaker 2: But one of the great parts about last night's game
was into the game, Notre Dame entering a four minute
offense situation. They have fourth and very short, and they
pull one of the most big brain moves I've ever seen.
They have the punt team out there, they sub all
eleven from punt to offense.
Speaker 4: Georgia matches.
Speaker 2: Their subs actually pretty composed by Georgia up to this point.
Bit of a strategic error in that they could have
walked on the field and forced to delay a game
right kind of you like they didn't have to hurry
up and get set uga because like when you sub offensively,
the defense is allowed to match. You saw the rest
stand of the ball to Georgia. Everybody got on there like, uh,
that's what the Beamer Belima thing was the issue that
because they got a delay a game because they subbed
and Beilama took his time shubbing and they got the
delay a game exactly. So you could have handled it
better there. But here was Kirby after the game on
what he thought of the eleven man sub.
Speaker 8: Because they were they were gonna as they want. They
wanted us to burn the time out there and try
to do it, and then we sucked. So it's really
unfortunate because I've been told our head.
Speaker 4: Of officials in the SEC that you can't do that.
Speaker 8: You can't run eleven on eleven off We did it
in twenty seventeen against Tennessee. We've carried that, we've practiced
that and wrapped that because teams try to do it
and we were told by officials you could not do that,
and so we were trying to say you.
Speaker 4: Couldn't do it. We got our defense out there, we
were fine.
Speaker 8: I mean, I would have gone for it if I
was them, So I don't think they were planning on
going for it. They were going to hard count us,
and we prepare for that. We do it every week,
and we jumped all sides, you know, but we also
are told you you couldn't do that in earleague.
Speaker 2: So a ton to break down here. I love whatever
they're like. I would have gone for it if I was.
I don't think they were going like, what are you like?
Speaker 4: What's what of that? Anyway?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: First off, flawless execution by Notre Dame all the way
through to getting them off sides, snapping the ball so
they have the free play, taking the free play, damn
near catching it. Flawless, really funny, look for Kirby to
be there.
Speaker 4: You can't do that.
Speaker 2: You can't do that because look Twitter community notes to
the rescue here, the NCAA rulebook states you can't substitute
more than eleven players quote while the ball is in play. However,
replay shows the long snapper had not gotten set or
touched the ball before the mass substitution, making it a
dead ball.
Speaker 4: And a legal play. Do you know how hard it
is to get one over on Kirby? Smart?
Speaker 2: I mean, did you see how smoothly Georgia did match
their substitutions and whatnot, Like it is obvious that they
practice these kind of wild scenarios. So for Marcus Freeman
to understand, or especially teams coach whoever, to understand the
intricacies of the rule and how to execute it on
that moment with all that on the line, really flawless,
flawless stuff from the Irish there and a nice Twitter
community notes when there as it was legal, maybe just
a little bit of a technically legal.
Speaker 3: Kirby looks so mad in that video right there, But me.
Speaker 5: So, I would actually like to see the full replay
of this because I was on the I was on
field level, and it was kind of hard to see
exactly how it was executed, but it was definitely something
Notre Dame was ready for. Like, if that moment presents itself,
you're going to do this. And look, there was a
couple of times that you've got to give credit to
the Notre Dame coaching staff and their special teams. Coach especially,
I thought he had a really really nice day. I
don't know if your face was, but you know, sometimes
being in the press box or on the field, it's
kind of Notre Dame got a delay of game on defense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5: Did they call disconcerting signals? They didn't call the ref
they had refed in, but that's what I assumed. It
was disconcerting signals because he's kind of barkie.
Speaker 4: I kind of assumed the same.
Speaker 3: But he said delay of game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm sitting there like, but isn't disconcerting signals
a delay of game penalty?
Speaker 5: Yeah, but referees loves saying disconcerting signals so much that look,
I agree, hold on.
Speaker 4: Back it up, to back it up to the beginning. Uh,
you don't have to take it off the screen. You
can just raw dog the feed and just pack it up.
There is that look at the putter, baby, get out
of there, Get out of there, buddy.
Speaker 2: So nobody had touched the ball, so still technically dead
ball and see here the ref is stopping the play.
So Georgia could walk here, yea, and they could force
Notre Dame to take a time out. But they're reacting.
They shades of shades of the lesh Miles Tennessee. Only Georgia.
Credit to him eleven players on the field, not thirteen
players there. And look at that, like that's a big
balls moment by the center to snap that when he
crosses the line and trust that he's across that line. Yeah,
because if he's not, you might just you throw Georgia
back into the game.
Speaker 3: But he didn't.
Speaker 4: Flawless. That's what championships do, man, That's what championship teams do.
Speaker 2: Special teams executing creative, massive game winning plays and then
winning in the margins like this. That's why Notre Dame
is as championship relevant as they have ever been in
my lifetime this year.
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Speaker 4: Off the bench, we're having y'all welcome back. No table here,
so we have an update of went weeks.
Speaker 2: Guys, I should have stuck my original Don Juan taking
donje I was saying, I mean, I was like Okay,
he's grabbing his ankle high ankles in the cards, broken
fibula potentially, But then keep people, you know, we kept
hearing this case.
Speaker 4: You just kime there.
Speaker 2: I was getting a bit worried. Was that coming liquid damage? No,
it's a broken fibula in the end. No, look at
the damage.
Speaker 4: It's not bad at all.
Speaker 2: It's exactly Okay, I've got I've got a plate with
a few screws right here in a freaking sweet looking
scar from that same deal. It was the easiest at
a c L two labor that it's true. Actually, you
know what's cool When they put it in. They give
you one screw for immediately after surgery that stays in
for like a couple of weeks and then they take
it out. But it's like a very easy process to
take it out to your completely awake. So you want
to feel like a robot, have have a doctor just
like basically take a drill and unscrew a screw out
your ankle.
Speaker 3: So just make a little incisions.
Speaker 4: Yeah wow, And you're like, oh, look, did you get
to keep it? I did for a while. I lost
it somewhere, but yeah, you lost something.
Speaker 3: You should have just worn it on your neck like
Sam Hartman did his was bones though.
Speaker 4: You know I I don't.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, I would not say organization is my strong suit.
Therefore I do not struggle to lose things the same
same way that Taylor struggled to lose his VCO for
so long, Like it's never been a problem for me,
and so unfortunately I lost that screw. Taylor's still trying
to find the screw. Eventually you will stick with it, dude,
this morning, I don't know. I mean that was now,
to be fair, that was a very elaborate setup. I
just tried to pull off there like there was a lot.
Speaker 4: I enjoy it.
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 4: I had to get there a little like a four
out of ten. Yeah, I mean it was okay.
Speaker 2: So I was already committed once I started down the road,
so I had to But no, I lost the screw, but.
Speaker 4: It was that was a cool experience. The point of
all this is like, again, this was by far the
easiest surgery I ever had to recover from.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not very physically therapy intended awful pain, got awful pain,
dirt when it got hurt, but not very intensive physical therapy.
Speaker 4: Like the bone just kind of heals really no lingering issues.
Speaker 5: So he looked like he was obviously in pain initially,
but then he was just smiling and it was the
same old wit Weeks.
Speaker 4: Was that because he's just a good old country boy.
Well he had a little bit. I mean, no, you
have hit it. Well, I think a couple of things.
Speaker 2: So he had the game adrenaline, which hel Mine was
in a freaking goal line spring practice.
Speaker 4: So the initial injury was like just god, awful. It hurt.
Speaker 2: But then you know, whenever you catch a major injury
like that, I don't know if it's adrenaline or shock
that rushes your system, but like immediately afterwards you're kind
of okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I would say one of the worst pains I ever
had was after I did mine. I had to let
the swelling go down for a couple of days, so
I couldn't get it operated off for a couple of days.
Speaker 4: I'm just walking around. I'm just crutching around with a
broken leg. Can't But he waited on it.
Speaker 2: I was crouching through the hot tub room and I
missed the carpet and the crutch slipped and I caught
myself and it was a spiral fractures. This thing's like
not connected. And I caught myself on that leg and
true when I tell you that, Oh my god, that hurt.
But whatever, it was super easy to cover from, so
that this is good news. Also wit Weeks with this quote,
proving to be a man wise beyond his ears quote.
Speaker 4: Read it my Week's voices, do hold let me find it?
Oh man. I just love football. Okay.
Speaker 2: Football is without a doubt, the greatest sport in the world.
It has the highest highs and lowest lows. God has
a plan for us all and everything happens for a
reason those highs. Would it be so sweet if it
wasn't for lows hurting so bad?
Speaker 4: That's life. But you know, I mean, if you've listened
to do this.
Speaker 2: Job all enough, you know that that is something that
I so firmly believe in the whole idea. You can't
appreciate the light without the darkness. What a view for
a young man to be taking in a time of adversity.
Absolutely love it. Shout out with Week.
Speaker 4: That's big. That's truly bad. It's very big. It's big.
Speaker 5: You know obviously it to have him on the field,
But it's gonna be big to have him, you know, around,
He'll be able to go out to spring practice. He's
not gonna have this crazy rehab during the summer workout,
you know phase where you really come together as a team.
He's not gonna have to kind of ease into fall
camp if he'd had what we feared, maybe initially like
achilles or something like. It's like, oh man, you might
be back next year, but it ain't gonna be at
the beginning. So all of that, not only him on
the field, but him off the field, because he is
and we saw the whole team go over there.
Speaker 4: He is your leader next year on that soude of football.
Speaker 3: Yeah, dude.
Speaker 2: Now, one thing I will say, man, you saw how
red his face got immediately after it happened.
Speaker 4: I do remember that that just fiery, fiery pain when
that bone snaps.
Speaker 2: Shut out with weeks again. I think Rivers tweet nails it.
How did he manage to look so charismatic being carved
off after getting his leg snapped and still just looking
so cool and so chill.
Speaker 9: He just out there playing. Now, I an that hurt, boy,
I'm telling you what bull that and he that hurt
that urn pretty bad. Made me all good, better, all right,
our two coming up next.
Speaker 4: Keep locking in. Coach Jay Clark come up here about
thirty minutes off the bench.