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Speaker 4: Work man o TV here on this Monday, Monday Monday,
Jake Flynn alone, are Aday Day all here with you
for the next three hours. And Tat had a couple
of fumbles there in the open.
Speaker 3: But you can't blame him.
Speaker 4: You have to say he finally switched to a team
that wins games on Sundays, and maybe he doesn't know
what to do with himself.
Speaker 3: His Buccaneers won.
Speaker 2: I know, in dramatic fashion in the situation that normally
when you go down, his team normally goes down. They
can't find their way back to win. Sure, but I'll
be darned Baker Mayfield and crew. They found a way
to win it. So good job would have switched by Taylor. Yeah,
his team won, I don't know, but like he my
team won.
Speaker 3: And do not great. They got quote unquote embarrassed by
the Seahawks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it depends on who you're asking, you know, Yeah,
what about your team map? The best thing that could
have happened to him? They might be the greatest team
ever assembled. They just need a little slice of humble
pie packers. They lose to the Brownies. A mistake by
the Lake and a pretty wild one. Some embarrassing stuff
from him though, Jordan Love makes some crucial mistakes. What
are we doing? Yeah, we lost Taylor. I'm just wondering
if was there like a power surge that came through
the building. Knock those three TVs up?
Speaker 3: Now, Okay, just off, They're just all off.
Speaker 2: It's Monday. It's Monday. We're figuring it out. We hadn't
been in studio in like four days, no true, longer
than that. In a minute, and I feel like it.
Speaker 3: I mean it feels like two weeks. Glad to be back.
Speaker 4: Though, look I am not going to It's already Monday.
Speaker 3: People are already trying to get back into.
Speaker 4: The workflow, the flow of going back to school, a
case of the Mondays.
Speaker 3: I am in no way.
Speaker 4: Three minutes into the show, you're gonna start talking about
the New Orleans Saints that I am not bringing the
vibe down that quickly. Will we talk about it, of
course we will, but I ain't doing it three minutes
into the show.
Speaker 3: It might be one of them situations. We just cropped
ust a little bit. Today. We're gonna maybe touch on
a little bit, sprinkle some water on there. Yeah, I
don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't even really want to talk about LSU either.
That game is born noo. I'm fired up.
Speaker 4: Actually talked about that game because I wanted to see
certain things, and I think I saw most of them.
Speaker 3: I really got a lot of takeaways from it.
Speaker 4: I think you do. I think you really do. From
the first team and the second team. I love a
game like that where you get the second team in
there and hey, don't raise your eyebrows, sir. You and
I have both been a part of the bomb squad
going in there and getting some valuable reps.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, but I never really liked going in there at
the end of the game. What else were you going
to get in there?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm sitting there out you know, I'm playing fullback,
and then it's like, hey, bomb squad, you get to
go play tailback.
Speaker 3: Let's go yep, carry the rocky Man to teach their own.
You know, we all have different opinions.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you didn't get in, then like when
we're going to get in young in your career.
Speaker 3: I know, it's just one of those sisuess.
Speaker 2: I'd never like going in at the end of the
game because like there's no juice to the game. You've
been standing there for like three hours. You go in,
run razor rub, You run razor rub, you get like
base base calls. It's like a no win situation. You
get a little bit of experience, but that experience doesn't
really do anything for you. That experience didn't really counts.
Maybe for me, it doesn't make you better.
Speaker 4: From my perspective, Like I was actually playing a different position,
so like that was the only real experience I was
going to get.
Speaker 3: Sure, so like maybe that experience was different for me
than it was for you. Yeah, it was probably good
to hit the hole, get some contact a little bit.
Speaker 2: But I mean you played, you played as a freshman,
like yeah, yeah, but mostly fullback, right yeah, But but
when you go in there, you do have to do
well because you're supposed to do well. You're going against
the backup for Southeastern at that point. Anyway, it just
one of it was one of those things that I
never really as a quarterback. It's like, all right, I
gotta go in there. I better look good because we're
blowing this team out. You have to do it. It's
a no lose situation because if you like, if you
look bad, then it's like.
Speaker 3: Oh, this guy really the pick for us? Is he
really the backup? Is? Uh? Do we need to start rethinking.
Speaker 2: It's like when I'd go in the when I'd go
in the game in the NFL or something, I'd be like, oh, gosh,
my job's on the line if I go in, If
I go in and mop up duty, I think.
Speaker 3: I feel like my job's on the line.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because this is the one situation you get to
go do it in a game.
Speaker 3: Didn't feel that way in college.
Speaker 2: I mean I did a little bit. You still feel
like your backup jobs on the line, and again in
a situation that's got no juice to it. No in
sich Well, anyway.
Speaker 4: LSU did take care of business fifty six to ten.
Garret Nesmayer twenty five of thirty one, two seventy three
eight point eight yards per attempt three touchdowns, no turnovers,
and I think more importantly, the air yards went up.
Some of the throws that he made he hadn't been
making over the last couple of weeks, some spreating to
his left, across his body. Am I saying that it's
fully back to normal. Maybe not, but we did see
them do some things they haven't done in the first
three games of the season that they did here in
this fourth game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they did. And he threw the ball really well.
Early in the game. He did not look like he
was throwing it very well. I noticed, like pushing the
ball to the sidelines is when when you're putting a
lot of stress on the core and your abs and
your and the twisting made some very some what it
looked like pretty weak throws. Now, it could have just
come out of his hand wrong. I mean, it could
have been early in the game, ball was sweaty something
like that. It might not have had anything to do
with the potential of that pain or whatever it is.
Speaker 3: But most of his.
Speaker 2: Air yards that were over, Like we talked about, the
easiest throws.
Speaker 3: On your body are over the middle.
Speaker 2: Because everything's lined up perfect, You're not having to like
twist and turn, and I think a lot of those
throws were of the middle dimes, like spinning it really well.
So answered a lot of questions there as far as
is he better is he healthy?
Speaker 3: Now? The question I think that I.
Speaker 2: Would still have is like was it still that necessary
to do all that and to risk all that?
Speaker 3: I don't know, is he one ndred percent?
Speaker 2: I don't know, Like you saw some you saw some
throws toward the sideline that were that were not Nussmeyer
esque as far as like arm strength. But every other throw,
of course there air yards on attempts, they went up
something just we haven't seen which was which was good
to see. But I think it's easy to get a
little too overly confident, overly excited about, you know, when
when you come out of these games, it's just people
are open that normally aren't gonna be open, right yeah,
And still you know they're they're the other teams trying
and the effort there, and the windows are you know,
they're not like wide open, but the windows are, and
the windows and the gaps that you're thrown to are
just unrealistic for going forward.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: But it's good to see him let it loose. He
still has arm talent. I'll be Doinged can still spin it. Yeah,
and that that was gonna be my biggest takeaway. That
was gonna be the thing that I was watching.
Speaker 4: I mentioned on the broadcast like ten times, like Okay,
I want to see what he does. I want to
see how he looks, and I, like you said, I
mean some of those dos to the sideline. But I
did feel like as he got into the game flow,
as he got stretched, as he got warmed, as he
got juiced up, like it did continue to go up
a little bit, and we did see things that we
haven't seen in the first three weeks. And they spread
the ball to a lot of receivers. That was another
good thing in this game. Bower Sharp has five catches,
Baryon Brown has five catches, Kyle Parker had for Aaron
Anderson had three. And then I mean you got a
host of tigers that had multiple underneath that as well.
Speaker 3: So passing game the receivers your core.
Speaker 4: I mean, Michael Van Buren comes into the game, He's
ten of twelve, one hundred and twenty two yards ten
point two yards per attempt, had a touchdown on the
ground and through the air. Nest Meyer also had one
on the ground. Another sign I think you know of
maybe him continuing to get healthy. He had his career
long run. Wow, twenty six yards.
Speaker 3: He let the people know too, he did his previous
career long.
Speaker 5: I won't take guess thirteen, all right, Landra won't take
guests ten Taylor like currently or before tonight, before dust
Meyer's twenty six yard run, his career high before that,
fourteen yards.
Speaker 4: It was fourteen yards, Taylor, listen, nerd alert. So he
almost doubled that you were close if he wouldn't have
said fourteen.
Speaker 3: He knew it. Yeah, he knew min was just a guess. Yeah,
it was a guess on my part.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he said that too confidently. So, I mean
he almost doubled his career long run. Those are good things,
and he was very excited. He was letting people know,
you're twenty six yards. He's very excited. What do if
he got would have gotten in the end zone? Would
he have stepped over like Arc Manning did? But he
stepped over over as Sam Houston player or a same
Houston player up Probably not pathetic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's just going to give him a weekend loser
for that that was pathetic. He didn't even run over
the guy. The guy came in late and like kind
of like touching on the hip a little bit. Big boy.
In Texas social media.
Speaker 2: What if he would have done that, he would have
put the short guy, yeah, too little.
Speaker 6: I saw that the Texas social media probably worse though,
because first off I saw one that said arch Manning
back to his old self?
Speaker 3: What's his old self? Which is another dumbine, And then they're.
Speaker 2: Like playing playing inferior opponents like a nice gools.
Speaker 6: True, he did, he did, really did it once last
year too, Like you're standing over a Sam Houston player.
They don't even spell bearcats correctly.
Speaker 3: Sure, what the hell are we doing here? Yeah, that's
your people.
Speaker 2: That yels people like, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna
blame Mark on like the adrenalines pumping. You got a
lot of all this, you know, all this stuff like
whatever I mean, But to put it out there like that,
that's pretty rough.
Speaker 3: Luck. Yeah, multiple angles, multiple times. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Look, what if Garrett would have tried to big boy something,
I'd have been like, you can run cool, cool, But.
Speaker 3: He dean it was good.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm not going to like, get too excited about
him running for twenty yards against Southeastern. I'm not going
to get too excited about him completing some good passes.
Speaker 4: Well see, but I hear, yeah, I hear. I do
hear what you say. And we've been through those games
aka the purple Jersey games. But I do think you
can get excited the fact that you know, he showed
he can run.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about health wise. He has a quarterback sneak.
Speaker 4: They don't call that if they you know, I feel
like they're putting him in harm's way. And he did
make some throws that we haven't seen him make yet.
So I don't care about the result. I really don't.
I just care about, Okay, he's progressing and doing things
we haven't yet. You don't think so, well, yeah, I'm
I'm I mean, it looks really good.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to consider he get too excited and
trying to like wax poetic about like our offense is back.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say that either, but I would say that
at least we saw things physically from him.
Speaker 2: Tell like the competition difference there is like in high
school terms, it's five A versus two A. The competition different. Now,
like would you get like how much do you look
into this? Yes, you can, like we can knit like
with a like a magnifying glass and be like, but
he's made good throws this year over the middle, he's
made he's done this or that. Yes, And the game
plan was a lot different. So the woes before this
weren't necessarily the throws he could or couldn't make. It
was having a game plan around yeah, what they thought
the throws that he couldn't make. So it was like
clear and obvious that they were trying to like prove
a point this past weekend and push it and do
a quarterback sink and like do all those do a
couple of different things. What game plan's got to open
up against real opponents. So, oh, and you got one
this week and you got one in five days, you got.
Speaker 3: Well, we got an opportunity, big opportunity. It is. We'll
get to the rushing attack.
Speaker 4: Now, the total numbers because in college I still just
hate that we do this, but would take sack yards
away from the rushing total, but still it is what
it is. So you had thirty five carries, one hundred
and thirty five yards, three point nine yards per attempt
four touchdowns on the ground again though they take that
Gary Nesmyer sack yardage away, so his stat line is
five carries for ten yards, even though he did have
you know, twenty six yard run alone. He had the
longest run by the way of the night. There's still
some things there that's for sure, that need to continue
to get cleaned up, continue to work on. I did
think Juwan Johnson was a bright spot. I didn't think
he created on his own a couple of different times.
He ended up having two scores eight for forty three.
But there's still.
Speaker 2: Knt Durham the way he continues to not be like
he's I don't think he the the outside zone stuff.
I don't think he does real well at this point.
Is he didn't see it right now, doesn't see it
right now. I think we pointed out there lip was
the last week was the last week?
Speaker 3: Who is it against Florida? Yeah, it was against.
Speaker 2: Part where it was corner, a little bit stretch and
didn't push it. And he did it again this week
a couple of times where he just didn't couldn't push
it enough.
Speaker 3: And he had some big openings too.
Speaker 2: If he just kept he keeps wanting to cut back,
which he's He's like an inside He's an inside zone guy.
That's where he's comfortable. He's running. He's comfortable in the
A and B gaps, and he'll get there. That's just that,
that's a repetition thing. He's got to see it, got
to continue to see it on film and see what
he's doing wrong and learn his learn his amy points,
how to press it, where to press it, so he'll
get there. He's just not seeing that outside zone real
well yet.
Speaker 4: All right, we'll be back more OTB here on one
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some ice cold do Sechis during the tailgate this weekend.
It is always a great time to go for dose.
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the essentials. What are the essentials, Well, you gotta have
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They are now on team do seqis, you should be
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Speaker 3: Go for dose.
Speaker 2: How about you, Javien dose seconds? Did you delete a
couple of beers this week? See I had to work
on Saturday. I leave all of that to you, sir.
Well we didn't have to. Uh we didn't go to
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guess what. I was at home watching some college football
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Speaker 3: That's what I do.
Speaker 2: That's how I enjoyed myself. So if you're gonna drink
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Speaker 3: Sure day.
Speaker 1: From players to Legends, Hester and Flynn breakdown l s
U football like only champions can.
Speaker 3: Oh you.
Speaker 1: Mean the boy.
Speaker 3: Is broken? Wednesday from down the joke?
Speaker 7: All right, welcome back you know TV Monday morning taking
looking at LSU.
Speaker 3: We'll get to the Saints again. I am not this
too early.
Speaker 2: Imil early for all that I want to apologize or
if I really feel like I brought that first segment down,
I wasn't really trying to be that negative.
Speaker 3: You're a negat tiger.
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to pump the brakes on everything a
little bit. I just don't get as excited as other
people do about winning a game about forty six. I mean,
I don't think I've been bashful about not liking those
types of games. I don't think you'd get better at all.
But anyway, I regrets. I'm so happy we won. Nobody
fires back. Nobody asked you to do that.
Speaker 3: What what you just did. If you didn't like it,
you didn't like it, That's true. It was kind of
a sarcastic apology.
Speaker 2: I just didn't want to bring the interview down in
the room because I felt like everybody was just kind
of like snarling at me a little bit.
Speaker 3: Actually, never matter. I don't really care what you'll think.
I mean, I'm kind of with you, so I'm not
snarling over here.
Speaker 4: Some of the tail of the tape, LSU had thirty
two first down, Southeastern had ten. On third down, LSU
was nine of fourteen, Southeastern was one of ten on
fourth down, LSU was three of three.
Speaker 3: Southeastern was oh four one total yards.
Speaker 4: LSU five thirty Southeastern two O five, rushing one thirty
five to eighty nine in favor of LSU. You did
have seven penalties, they only had five, and you did
control the clock thirty four forty four.
Speaker 3: To twenty five sixteen.
Speaker 4: What about the defense, mat You're going to interest you
in the defense again?
Speaker 2: Being dominant, it looked like the better defense out there.
They were great, They look great, they all, I mean,
but they've looked amazing every week. They gotta be best
defense I've seen obviously in a while, a long while here.
It's just the energy that they play with that we
were watching like wit Week's playing And how does a
man go out there play that hard every single play,
no matter what the opponent is. It's impressive to watch,
it's inspiring to watch, and they just feed off each other.
Speaker 3: Man. So from the top down we keep saying it.
Speaker 2: I mean, how many times can we wax poetic about
Blake Baker and the leadership there. But man, they just
they are a full and complete defense, and you know,
I watch it and very impressed with it. But I'm
impressed we can weak out. So it really doesn't matter
the type of opponent they're playing, how good the opponent is,
they play with the same energy, which.
Speaker 3: Is really really hard to do.
Speaker 2: It is hard to go into those games right there
and play with that much energy every single play.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can.
Speaker 2: Do it like usually you see it, like on a
third down passing the situations, guys will get at it
because they know it's time to eat a little bit.
They know they can get some sacks and get some stats,
get a pick, whatever it is. But every single play
really great to see. So that's that DNA that the
foundation of that defense is going to continue to get
better because they have proven now for four weeks that
they are going to play with that tenacity, that energy.
But the more weeks they have to play together in
gel a little.
Speaker 4: Bit more and get more and more chemist weeks they
already got three of them.
Speaker 3: Sorry, that was good. That was great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the more they get to play with each other,
the more the better this defense is going to get
so excited to see how they continue to grow in
their progression. You know, knock on wood that they continue
to stay healthy. But from the energy standpoint and how
they play, man, I love it, absolutely love it.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: So and no, the star is not my favorite position, Scott,
you love it. It's not a position it is, it's
a mindset. We've talked about this.
Speaker 4: You know, I get the starting lineups from the broadcast,
and it's like every week, starting to see that star
position pop up. Okay, starting to see it at star
you know, whatever number in the player's name. But I
say it a lot.
Speaker 2: After the Clemson game, I told you I admitted that
the star was real. It's not a real position, but
it's a real mindset. Okay, all right, So I want
to do this.
Speaker 4: I want to take a break and when we come back,
maybe pick your brain a little bit on how you
think lane Kiffin might try to attack this defense. This
defense that has been really good. They have not given
up more than ten points to any opponent this year.
One of the best defenses in the country. Obviously, little
miss lane Kiffin score a lot of points. They house
a good two lane team over the weekend. And we'll
do all of that. When we jump back here. It
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You tell me that your need Evin, you go and
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Speaker 3: Tell me that you're sorry. Didn't you think a turn around?
Speaker 6: Sh child?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Matt, it's too late to apologize for that weak juice.
Speaker 2: You brought this more I didn't bring the week. You
know about the weak juice. Whoever scheduled LUs shoot in
Southeast take that weak.
Speaker 3: Stuff out of here. Would you like the schedule? I
don't know.
Speaker 2: I'd like everybody to schedule real football. Not okay, I
am throwing shade, but not to throw a shade. Just
everyone play at the level that they that they're supposed
to play at, play at your level. I'm with him, Sorry,
but it looks great, Garrett. That about Wow, he looks
healthy and percent. I like that you went for one
hundred and twenty. Then you're like, that's too much, too much.
I didn't want to be I didn't want to come
up too sarcastic. I'm just excited. I'm excited that he played,
decided that we risked it for the biscuit.
Speaker 3: We're back.
Speaker 2: That chemistry we got from this past game is going
to lead us to the national championship.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 4: Is there anything we can change about your mood here
or is it just our face?
Speaker 3: It's just yeah, okay, all right your face? Can you
do that job? Everybody's having fun, so much fun. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Look, it's gonna be so much positivity on this on
this station all day long. It's gonna be positive, positive, positive.
So somebody's got to counter punch a little bit.
Speaker 3: Right, I mean, I don't know. I say you the
Saints will.
Speaker 2: Come up about l s U positivity. Yeah, that's a
good point. Saints do have to be talked about at
some point.
Speaker 4: To your point earlier though, like on the strength of
schedule Clemson, Oh my god, good.
Speaker 6: Ye Florida, we all we all need to be cheering,
not good like they win.
Speaker 3: Lose?
Speaker 2: Do we have the weakest strength of schedule so far
this year of any team in the country.
Speaker 6: Still break Like I know, somebody, all the two fans
are like Clemson lost again, Like you should want Clemson
to win every game?
Speaker 3: Right, why do you want? I do hear what you
are saying.
Speaker 4: But also LSU's gonna have five opportunities to have a
resume builder coming up. All of it doesn't matter you're
number four in the it doesn't matter you're in the SEC.
So like, I get what we're saying about Crimson, but
that's gonna take care of itself.
Speaker 3: If you win your games, you're in. I feel like
laughing at Dabo in the demise of Clemson. I do.
It's it's funny to me, he says.
Speaker 6: Seeing this week that he said last week like almost
of Herbatam, did you all hear his press conference?
Speaker 3: No, I mean it was.
Speaker 6: He basically could have just replayed the one from last
week and win again.
Speaker 2: And he's gonna melt again this week at some point, right,
he'll melt in a press conference. And so like, I
agree with you. I always want to cheer for the
people that LSU beats, or cheer for people at LSU's schedule,
just for that, because the optics. I want us to
be better, and I want to play good opponents, and
the people we beat, I want them to be good.
But I was cheering against them this week, just because
the meltdowns of Dabo are pretty funny. Coming out a
couple of days before. It's like he's telling everybody, well,
if they want to stop winning, then they can get
rid of me. No, they just want to stop losing,
so stop losing. But I'll tell you what. That man
it's got knees of steel. I've watched him run down
that hill purposefully because I wanted to witness if he
was going down that man attacks that hill and respect
to him and his knees.
Speaker 6: I could see on the Clemson game watching the runout.
You're like, all right, he didn't do it, change handle.
Speaker 2: I did, Oh yeah, well okay, So I have I
have my I have a TV, and then I roll
in another TV. Right, so I have like and so
my big TV I'll put it like on like four boxes,
and then my other rolling TV I'll have it on
a big one game. So my one game is the
one I like watch intently a lot, and so I
had it on the main TV, my main TV. And
so after he ran down the hill, I did change
it from the main TV to just kind of the
background TV screens of you have I got two, but
I got the got the four box in the I
got the four box on my big TV.
Speaker 3: And then I have a roll in TV that I
put just one game on.
Speaker 6: You watch games like your Tony Stark.
Speaker 3: It's right, this is my job now, guys in hands
in hands in hands.
Speaker 2: So five games I got five games going at once,
regardless if Clemson continues to win or not.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 4: For LSU, you just have to go out there and
continue to take care of business. Like you've got everything
on your schedule that's going to be like resume builders.
So for you, you just had to win an opening game,
which you did. You had to beat a rival in Florida,
which you did. Like, I don't know what those teams
are going to look like at the end of the season,
but you got to control the controllables. You got to
control what is on your schedule, and that's what you've
done so far. Well, now here it comes, it's going
to start to heat up, and this is a great
opponent coming up this week.
Speaker 3: You have a team that certainly is high offense.
Speaker 4: They losto a lot of their defense, and we saw
Arkansas have a lot of success against them on the
on their defense and offensively for Arkansas like they had
a big game. Now you've got South Carolina after this one,
and we'll see where South Carolina is a couple of
weeks from now. But the focus being on Old Miss
and this one it's on the road. The last two
games you've had against this team have been crazy games.
I mean we remember Jayden and Malik and BTJ and
that offense going to Oxford, and I mean they did
every possible thing that they could to try to win
that game. The defense just could not come up with
a stop. Couldn't come up with the stop, and you
still had a chance. They're in the end zone. You
had a receiver with the ball hit his hands, and
you almost won that game even though you couldn't come
up with a defensive stop. And then you have last year,
Kyron Lacy catches the pass and overtime and lsu wins.
When it looked like Old Miss had controlled that game
through out, you come back in the fourth quarter, Garrett
Nosemeyer makes one of the best throws all year to
Aaron Anderson to tie it up, and we all know
you win in overtime. Like I said, they've been crazy games,
They've been great games. You might get something now. I'm
not saying the score line is going to look the
same as those games, but you're probably gonna get something
very similar to that. Right now, the ESPN matchup predictor
has Ole Miss with a seventy three point three percent
chance to win this game. Wow, seventy three point three
percent chance. Old Miss right now, they're the favorite. This
game opened up LSU minus one and a half, it's
now Ole Miss minus two and a half.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm I was, I'm looking at that and
I'm trying to figure out.
Speaker 3: Why that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean both teams are four and zero, and
Taylor you'd mentioned it too, like LS you got jumped
in the rankings by some of they didn't play, And
it has to do with the computer strength to schedule, right,
the strength to schedule of our win verse is forwarda.
Clemson doesn't look very good anymore so, and the way
we want them, it wasn't like a blowout or anything
like that. So that strength the scedule has got to
be the reason for a lot of this stuff, the
reason for us being an underdog right now at Ole
Miss and getting jumped by somebody that didn't even play
after having a blowout victory. So yeah, the strength of
schedules probably adjusting a lot of this. But like this
is LSU Ole Miss, this is a rivalry game. You
never really know what's going to happen. Lane Kiffin. I mean,
they go out there and they beat a really good
two lane team with a backup quarterback.
Speaker 3: So they have a team they got.
Speaker 2: I mean, we all know that they lost a lot
of talent ft from last year's team, but they've reloaded
and I'll be durned to flank of it in a
good head coach and can field a good team. So
this is going to be a test for both teams
to see how good each of these teams really is.
I think there's a lot of question marks I guess
that we have where the public has on the like
how good good is LSU really after the two big
opponents we lost have turned out to start out one
and three.
Speaker 3: So we'll see.
Speaker 2: So if I'm the big the big tail of the
tape is going to be Lane Kiffin on what he
is going to do, how he is going to attack
this dynamic and this just brutal LSU defense that they're
going to be facing.
Speaker 3: So how is he going to attack?
Speaker 2: And now he's got four weeks of film? Now yeah,
now I understand Clemson had no answers. They didn't know
what they were going to get Florida. You know, they
had a couple of weeks of film. But now Lane Kiffin,
a good offensive mind, has a couple of a couple
of weeks of tape to go off of, and so
how is he going to attack it? So that kind
of remains me seen And can you actually honestly think
that you can devise a game plan that will consistently
move the ball or do you have to just rely
on hitting a couple of really good big plays. So
I think that might be what this LSU team is,
this LSU defense is. If you're an offense going against it,
they are so good and so dynamic, and you got
so much talent and so aggressive that you might have
to rely on taking advantage of hitting a couple of
big plays and then holding, you know, then holding LSU's offense.
But if I'm Lane Kiffin, what I'm trying to do,
If I'm attacking this LSU defense, you have to be
a counterpuncher. So LSU's a big, big heavyweight. They want
to come out swinging, They want to put the pressure
on you, make you make decisions quick. So as an offense,
you got to be a counterpuncher. You have to adjust
to the pressures. You have to make mike adjustments, you
have to make hot route adjustments. You have to throw
into the blitz, you have to throw into the pressure.
You have to take what they're gonna do because they're
gonna LSU is gonna have haymakers. Yeah, you have to
be able to CounterPunch that with quick shots. So it's
like if we always were taught with the teams at
pressure a lot you throw right into the teeth pressure
because where they come from, they lead voice, they.
Speaker 3: Lead voids LSU.
Speaker 2: The safeties are doing a really good job of filling
the gap or filling that void when linebackers leave it,
but they fill it from pretty high up. So you know,
in a college you don't get it a lot. But
in the NFL, we wasn't really hot routes we would run.
It was just called peaking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so like it doesn't matter what rout but you
peak to see if the quarterback throws it, yeah you peek.
Speaker 2: If so, if someone comes off your face or they
blitz from the slot and you're the slot receiver, you
you peak, You peak your first.
Speaker 3: Couple of steps.
Speaker 2: And so that was like the most dynamic thing that
we could ever do against the pressure thrown into it.
So I have to believe that Lane Kiffin watching this
film is figuring out how to design an offense and
calls and audibles and check with mes and things like
that that will be completely counterpunching. Not necessarily hard play
action fake throwing it over the top, But how can
we get how can can we get quick throws over
the middle, How can we throw into pressure? How can
we throw screens into pressure? Whether it's a number three
receiver running a flat route in the outside two blocking,
or the number one running a one step slant and
the inside two receivers blocking, those are all ways the CounterPunch.
Speaker 4: So one of the things that I think LSU does
really really well speaking of like bringing the pressure and
different things. And I was watching it closely this weekend.
You know, it's a different game flow, and so you
get a chance to maybe hone in on a couple
of different things, and they do a really nice job
of disguising who's coming. And you might be like, wait
a minute, I see them inching up all the time.
If you go back and you watch the tape, like,
let's just say that we're the offense, we're looking at
the defense. Well, the lineback on the right side, he'll
keep inch and inchine, And oftentimes in college you're like, okay,
well this guy's coming, but he'll do it and then
he'll drop into coverage, and then all of a sudden,
here it comes from the left, and they do a
really nice job and then you know, both guys kind
of walk up and back up and walk up and
back up, and then here it comes from the place
that you're not expecting. You get that a lot in
the National Football League. You don't get that a ton
in college. A lot of times in college, it's like
if a corner's coming on a corner cat, he is
stiff as a board, he's press coverage, his head's not moving,
his arms aren't moving.
Speaker 3: It's like, Okay, that guy's coming.
Speaker 4: He's It's kind of like in college you can tell
when a running back's about to get the football too,
because it's the same situation. Elisha does a really nice
job of disguising where they're coming, and they also do
a nice job of disguising to simulate that they're going
to come like that.
Speaker 3: That's very difficult to get at the college level.
Speaker 4: So like, that's what I'm intrigued by that chess match
from Lane Kiffen Blake Baker and where Lane thinks the
pressure is going to come from Kim Blake Baker confuse
him and maybe trick them enough one time to turn
into an interception.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And one of the ways that they disguise really well
is something that the quarterback looks for is rotating safeties. Ye,
so you know, if the safety's coming down, he's either
coming down to fill a gap in coverage or he's
coming to place somebody that has left to go blitz
the quarterback. Our safeties have done a really nice job
of staying in like a two shell look and dropping
at the snap of the ball kind of like I said,
like when you try to CounterPunch, like we're dropping, but
it's like the old school, like how like Cam Chancellor
used to drop. He used to drop and it was
like a three high or one that shell, but he
was still like ten yards deep. Like, so they they're
not like dropping down into the box to where it's
like clear and obvious to the quarterback, but it is
a single high safety look. So sometimes even at the snap,
we're dropping so slowly and like for a purpose slowly
because they're trying to disguise it. So they're dropping so
slowly that it still looks like cover two or a
two shell, but in reality and the theory we're playing
at cover one and our safeties are good enough to
be able to react up. So like if normally a safety,
if he drops down, he's got either a hook or
he plays a curl to flat, well, he's We're able
to play the hook or the curl flat from a
depth because they're able to react up so well.
Speaker 3: So it's just they are.
Speaker 2: And you don't see disguised like that a lot in
the college in college because it takes eleven guys that
kind of understand the goal of everything and where the
weaknesses are and where you can disguise. Because some people
like the disguise way too much and it leaves them
very very vulnerable, right, so they can't get to where
they want to get to exactly.
Speaker 4: So now fully expect ole miss to try to use
LSU's aggression against them. Like anytime that teams have had
any success against this LSU defense, that's what they've tried
to do.
Speaker 3: They try to attack the aggression.
Speaker 4: Now, it doesn't always turn into a big play for you,
but I'm saying, like, run a screen into the pressure,
run a running back screen or our tunnel screen, or
somebody try to use their aggression against them.
Speaker 3: That's what I think Lane's going to try to do.
Speaker 4: He's going to try to see the pressure, and it's
going to You'll see a ton of screens out, some
quick throw, some of the stuff that Matt was talking about,
which basically turns into a screen when you throw a
slant kind of behind the pressure.
Speaker 2: And that's why I say, like having four weeks of
tape for an offense going against US is it's invaluable
because when you do that, it's a lot of check
with Me's right, a lot of offenses the college are
check with me. They get up there, they do the
fake collapse or whatever, and they look to the sideline
to see what the new call is right, or the
coach will now, I guess he can he can tell
the quarterback now then they'll change the play. Well, when
they do that, the defense can also change. So we've
seen the LSU defense. If the offense is trying to
change a play, the LSU defense change the play and
they go like hands coverage or they hand signal and
they change they change everything up. So now you've got
four weeks of tape, there can see kind of like
what hand signals mean. They can see what dummy calls
means Like it's just a little chess game right there.
So ken Lane given dial up the right play versus
and a lot of it's a lot of it's calculated risk.
Speaker 3: A lot of it's like I.
Speaker 2: Believe, based on this look on film that when they
do this, or when the safety lines up here, when
they're in an overfront instead of an underfront, when the
linebacker is shaded a little bit to the back, they're
looking for all those different things. I need to call
this tunnel screen. Yeah, I believe the strong doc's coming,
so I want to run a tunnel screen right into
that pressure.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: He might call it two or three times during the
game and they don't do it, but they're looking for
just one time, one time to hit a big play.
Speaker 3: And I've seen it watching the.
Speaker 2: Film with Elishi's defense, we are so aggressive in an
awesome way, but it does leave yourself vulnerable like anything.
But it's calculated risk on Blake Baker's part. He's saying,
I'm creating so much chaos. I know I'm vulnerable here,
but I think we can get to that quarterback and
confuse him before he can dissect it, decipher it.
Speaker 3: And make a decision, get the ball out of his
hand yep.
Speaker 4: And just like Lane's got that four weeks of film,
Blake's got that four weeks of film on old mess
And I'm looking forward to the chess match between those
two are certainly going to be the storyline for me
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Speaker 3: Throw the football, throw the football, throw the football. No, no, no,
they're just up tempo.
Speaker 4: Don't use up tempo with wanting to just throw the
ball forty five times a game.
Speaker 3: That is not who they are.
Speaker 4: They are a team that wants to run the football.
He told me, let's see, it was that mediaday of springing.
It doesn't really matter. So we're having a conversation and
he talked about their running game. He said, we lost
two games, one to Kentucky one to LSU because we
couldn't close out the game in four minutes. We gave
a good offensive ball back against LSU. They made us pay.
They are at their best when they can run the football,
and they've done so so far.
Speaker 3: This year.
Speaker 4: They've got a couple of nice running backs. Their quarterback
has been really good in the run game as well,
and that's who they are. They ran the ball forty
two times against Tulane. They threw at twenty seven. So
it is going to be the matchup. It's those running backs,
the running quarterback, you know, ability versus LSU's linebackers.
Speaker 3: And look, if you're LSU, you're.
Speaker 4: Like, I'll take that. I'll take that matchup. It's your
best group. You've got multiple players. You got three really
good ones and some young guys that have gotten some
action over the last week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the yeah, And I know Lane Kiffin's big thing
always has been running. Now he looks like this big,
aired out guy I want to and that's the misconception
part you're talking about. But he knows just as well
as most good offensive coordinator that you cannot rely, you
cannot throw it sixty times a game and expect to
consistently win. Being able to run the football opens up
your past game tremendously. Like some most good quarterbacks that
throw for a lot of yards have a very good,
or at least a very manageable, a scary running game.
It doesn't have to be the best in the world
or best in the conference, but they have something that
can they can consistently rely on keeping them in good
down and distances.
Speaker 4: So yeah, something we'll talk about throughout the week is
that rushing attag versus your strength, your linebacking corp.
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