Speaker 1: All Star, so Yoda presents Off the Bench with Jacob
Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive.
Speaker 2: Ham'sday, Hester and Hester got it?
Speaker 1: Ba ba LAA your locks in to off the Bench.
Speaker 2: We's Bright Control the.
Speaker 1: Live from downtown Baton Rouge. Here's Jacob Hess and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: Yo, and welcome in to O TB. Here on a
Friday morning. We are not live from downtown Baton Rouge.
We are live from Rous's on Burbank. It is a
football Friday and we'll be here all morning long. Jake
and Flynn here, Elandra and Tate back in studio. Well,
I say Flynn's here, but I'm not really sure he
is going to be with us today because they've got
two TVs and one of the TV's in front of
us is on the Ryder Cup. So what we get
from Flynn today, if it's actually towards this show will
be lend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what yep? What'd you say? Exactly? Now?
Speaker 4: I'm super fired up to be here at Rals's.
Speaker 2: But yes, you are right right here. We got I don't.
Speaker 4: Know, I'm gonna guess forty eight inch TV right in
front of us.
Speaker 2: We got the Ryder Cup.
Speaker 4: Action on patriotism at an all time high.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 4: I feel like I'm watching Rocky four, a montage of
Rocky Bubba running up the mountains right now, all the energy,
all the fields. Ryder Cup started this morning, So I
really hope you have a great show today, Jake Football Friday,
and it just might be a watch party for me
just sitting here. But yeah, I just started this morning,
and man, I was watching driving in, not driving in,
I was parked. Wasn't doing this While I was driving.
I was watching some clips from Bethpage Black up there
in New York and just getting the energy flowing. There
was a crowd of thousands of people there in the
Pitch Black.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: It was probably four thirty five in the morning their time.
They were chanting USA. They're playing all this loud music
and they are going nuts. It was probably ninety minutes
at least before the first tea time. And of what
does what happens on the first tea time? Bryson D.
Chambeau for a team USA steps up, nearly drives the
green on the first hole, Birdie's the first hole. America
went up won nothing right there first, haul all the energy.
I don't have any jealousy at all. It's just my
bucket list sport, sporting.
Speaker 3: Event in the world anyway. Yeah, the fans, but yeah,
the fans have been great. Roy was trying to button
on know if you saw this club, was trying to
button like one of his buttons on his shirt or whatever.
Speaker 2: One of the fans like, you don't need a top
button to choke. It's so good. Roy. Laddy's like, as
it going, it's pretty good, pretty good.
Speaker 4: So you know they're in New York, so you know
that hecklers are going to be destroying. Okay, we can
like these golfers, we can like Victor Hovelin, we can
like Roy.
Speaker 2: Macero, who's your guy, Tommy Fleet, Tommy Fleet.
Speaker 4: Well, we can like all these guys every single week,
but this week they're the enemy.
Speaker 2: We hate them.
Speaker 3: So as you can tell, Flinn's gonna be giving you updates.
And if he just starts making noises and chanting and
hooping and hollering, that's just him watching the Ryder Cup.
Speaker 4: So yeah, like, don't be startled, Yes, don't be startled.
Jake throws a question over to me, and all you
hear is crickets in the background. Well, you know what,
Scottie Scheffler might be having a long putt for Birdie.
Who knows.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll keep you updated, don't you worry. Guys.
Speaker 3: I think like most people that even you know, very
rarely watch golf, we'll watch this, right. It's one of
those Yeah, this is one of those events. I so
you know, golf, can you know, sometimes gets the stigma
of being quiet and a little stuffy blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: But not this event. It's not all those things because
there is a lot of fanfare of golf. Is got
a lot of youths up there, a lot of energy.
But for this event, this is the one event where
you're going to see the players asking for crowd noise.
You're gonna see them running up and down the field.
You're gonna see hecklers, You're gonna see it. Just it's
not one of those events. It is an event that
everybody's fighting for their country. Well, the europe are fighting
for a cold continent, but we're fighting for a country.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Still, yesterday asked the question, I'm like, wait a minute,
So they get all of Europe and against us, Okay, they.
Speaker 2: Gotta make it fair, you know. Cool.
Speaker 3: So, but it's one of those Canadians are sitting over
there like, hey, we lay golf too.
Speaker 2: Hey exactly exactly.
Speaker 4: So uh yeah, and I think that even sometimes the
players will get out, So there's always a couple of
players that aren't playing at a certain time. So like
there's gonna be matches this morning, there'll be matches this
afternoon then and then it's up to the captains that
decide who those matches are.
Speaker 2: So there's gonna be golfers that have like off times.
Speaker 4: Okay, we're off this morning, and so they'll go up
and pump the crowd up.
Speaker 2: They might even get a couple.
Speaker 4: Of beers and chug him right there in front of
the crowd, just to get the crowd pumped up. But it's, uh,
they feed on it, man, They feed on the crowd.
And it's one of those it's like a it's like
going to a normal like college football sporting event with
the with the crowd, noise, the energy that brings, not
like a normal golf event.
Speaker 3: All right, So look, you got me excited, way more
excited than I ever would be for Yeah, I mean,
if it's Team USA, just like the Mighty.
Speaker 2: Ducks too taught us. Yeah, I don't I don't care
Team USA and we can go all the way.
Speaker 4: And we can go all the way, and I don't
care if USA is playing Europe and pencil breaks. Yep,
your word, cheering for him. Yeah, we're gonna watch it
and there's gonna be a lot of juice.
Speaker 3: All right, So we'll update you throughout the show, no
question about it, as we get you ready.
Speaker 2: For the football weekend.
Speaker 3: It is the LSU Tigers traveling to Oxford, Mississippi, as
we know, to take on Old miss. You've got the
Saints traveling to Buffalo to take on the Buffalo Bills
to an upheel battle to say the least. But we'll
continue to break it all down. LSU did get some
unfortunate injury news. Gabe Reliford going to be out torn
rotator cuff. Somebody that know very well. Played the same
high school as Rele for there and he was really
really starting to come into his own and he had
a good freshman year.
Speaker 2: So don't get me wrong, he played well as a freshman,
but you.
Speaker 3: Could see he was somebody that was about to kind.
Speaker 2: Of turn that corner.
Speaker 3: But again for LSU, the job that they did building
to depth on this roster. You got some you know,
some guys over there on the edge, right, You've got
a lot of players. Now he was one of them,
There's no.
Speaker 2: Doubt about that. So you'll have to have somebody step up.
Speaker 3: But you know, in years past when the roster wasn't
built as well, when it wasn't as solid of a foundation,
like an injury like this would certainly hurt a little
bit more now.
Speaker 2: About one year ago, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: Now, Look, he's a good player, but he had to
play as a freshman because like you didn't have the
bodies at that position. So we'll see what that does
for LSU. Again, Gabe Reeler for not a starter at
the edge position, but certainly contributed and he's going to
be out there. I think one of the injuries Matt
that we're going to pay attention to, at least for me,
like in pregame when I'm down there on the field,
is going to be Caden Durham. He's got an ankle issue.
We were told it's not a high ankle, so he
does have a slight chance chance to make a shot
at it. Yeah, to play in the game, and so
they're going to go. I think through pregame warm ups
with him, and he'll be a game time decision.
Speaker 2: And again ole.
Speaker 3: Mess the last dead last rush defense in the sec
by thirty yards.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: Uh. So the ankles are So we have doctor Stephen
et Thers every week and we've we're learning a lot
about different injuries, but more so I feel like we're
wanting to We're learning a lot more about the management
of injuries and how they rush. And every every single
case is so personalized, like one ankle injury isn't the same.
Speaker 2: There's no ankle injury created equals.
Speaker 4: So it's all about managing load management, pain management and
can we pay, can we play with the pain? Can
we do something, whether it's oral medication, whether it's a local,
local something maybe involving a needle. Can we do something
that's not gonna harm the student athlete for next week
or his future or whatever it is.
Speaker 2: So it's everything's great.
Speaker 4: So we'll be really interesting to see in pregame if
he's got the pads on, he's strapped up, if he's
warming up and he's getting ready to play. So yeah,
all eyes kind of on that says we have a
we got to get the running game going, And I
think that is the that's gonna be the theme of
this LSU team as we go forward in the weeks.
Every single week, we're gonna be talking about that running
game because we know what we can do. We know
the potential of what we can do when the ball
we have the forward pass going, But if there's no
threat of the running game, it's gonna be a lot
harder to make those forward passes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So Juwan Johnson obviously would be your lead back.
If Katan Droves not able to go in this game,
and you'd have Harlan Barry, we wou'd have Caleb Jack
And that's the rotation that those are the three guys
that would be available.
Speaker 2: Now. Xavion Thomas, we've seen him.
Speaker 3: He'll motion into the backfield, he'll run counter, he'll run zone,
he'll run anything. You've seen him. Use berryon Brown, They've
they've used Anderson. So they'll try to create some type
of a run game, not just from the running backs.
But it is a major injury whenever you want to
try to attack an old miss rush defense that has
just not been good at all and if you're down
your lead back, so certainly in the pregame we'll be
seeing what Caden Durham looks like. Although Juwan Johnson did
look sudden. I think last week against Southeastern broke a
couple tackles, had a couple of nice touchdown.
Speaker 4: He looked really good, his vision looked really good, and
he you know, when you get a young running back
in there, you never really know how they're going to
You know, they could go in there and run like
a bat out of hell and they look great, or
they could be.
Speaker 2: Hesitant, and so it's really good to see him hit
the whole bit.
Speaker 4: I would expect this week no matter no matter how
if Kan Durham ends up playing a little bit, maybe
he gets ten to twelve or something like that, I
think that would be a I think that'd be a win,
right if he could get if we could get him
to that point.
Speaker 2: But either way, whether he gets that.
Speaker 4: Or he doesn't, I think we see an expanded role
for Xavion as well in the In the running Game.
Speaker 3: All right, we will take our first break of the show.
We've got a lot coming back your way. We got
a pontoo parlay to put together. We got with a
lot of energy today. Yeah, what's the ticket to play
where we just make fun.
Speaker 2: Of Matt for getting them all wrong?
Speaker 3: A lot still coming your way here, stay locked in
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Speaker 3: All right, as we continue talking, a little old miss
n LSU Trenda at Chambliss is going to be one
of the major storylines. He is going to be the
starting quarterback in this game, and so far he has
been successful in this season. He has thrown for seven
hundred and nineteen yards. He's completing sixty eight percent of
his passes. He has four touchdowns to no interceptions. He's
also eleven point six yards per attempt, so big plays.
Speaker 2: Let's see what he's.
Speaker 3: Done so far this year and who he's done it against.
Against Georgia State, came in mob of duty four to
six fifty nine yards in a score.
Speaker 2: He did not play against Kentucky, Okay.
Speaker 3: Against Arkansas, he comes in twenty one of twenty nine
three hundred and fifty three yards seven seventy two percent
completion percentage over twelve yards per attempt, had to score
no interceptions against two Lane. A week he goes seventeen
of twenty seven three h seven through the air, sixty
three percent completion percentage, two scores, no interceptions. Running the football,
he had eight yards against Georgia State. Against Kentucky, he
didn't throw a pass, but he did have a couple
of runs. He had three carries for thirteen yards against Arkansas,
fifteen carries for sixty two yards and two scores, and
then last week against two Lane it was fourteen for
one to twelve eight yards per Carrie had a long
forty one. So he has been dynamic. I'll give him
credit when he's been in there. Do I think he's
faced a defense that he's about to face an LSU
not even close. Arkansas is almost dead last in every
single sec category. I don't think Kentucky has any game
changers on that defense. And again he just ran the
football in that game, no pass attempts for him.
Speaker 2: The two lane defense isn't bad. They're okay.
Speaker 3: They're in the middle of the pack as far as
the American and the American standings and where they're at there.
But he's not facing LSU defense right now. Is it
a challenge for LSU's defense. Yeah, it is good offense,
but Lshue so far on defense has been smothering.
Speaker 2: L show on defense so far has gotten after.
Speaker 3: Every quarterback they've Kay Klubnik and DJ Lagway, right, the
guys we hyped up in the preseason. They played really
well against them, right, and look, those quarterbacks have not
played like we thought they would. But Lshu's been up
for the challenge whenever they've been challenged by anybody. Louisiana
Tag in the fourth quarter, you're scratching and clawing and
fighting because you're like, you don't want them to score
against Southeastern. When they scored finally last week, you saw
how upset the starting defense was, right they wanted.
Speaker 2: To shut out.
Speaker 3: It's a different LSU defense than we've had here in
a very very long time. Trindad Chamblis has been great,
but he's about to face something that he hasn't seen
yet and I cannot wait to see how it plays out.
Speaker 4: So two starts for Trinidad last two weeks and has
played really well statistically, really really impressive watching the tape,
watching going back I Arkansas is one of the worst
SEC defenses I've I remember watching. I don't know statistically
how they really are. I'm just talking about from a
personnel standpoint, From an adjustment standpoint, not very good. Trinidad Chambliss,
he does very He's very fast, and Elane Kiffin is
a master of trying to get his playmakers in an
advantageous position from a numbers perspective to be able to
make plays and to use their skill set, and that
is exactly what he's doing with Trinidad. He is using
a lot of zone reads, not just like your traditional
zone read with your running back, where they're they're letting
the end go and they're zoning up to the wheel
linebacker and the mic and he's reading the defense dead.
But they're doing it out of shifts, motions, jet sweep
read options, jet sweet read options, pitch it to the
back or run the ball, a lot of creative ways
to let Trinidad, read what the defense is doing, and
then give them multiple options. It's just like a defense
training and practicing for an old school triple option. You
have to be very disciplined on defense. You have to
know your assignment, stick to your assignment, and no matter
what kind of eye candy they're showing you, no matter
how how amazing of a play, you think, you can
go hit Trinidad right now. If he's not the person
you're supposed to hit, you have to stay on your assignment.
So you have to avoid the temptation to leave your
responsibility in an attempt to try to make a play,
because that's exactly what Lane Kiffen wants you to do.
He wants you to get out of position because those
are the kind of.
Speaker 2: Plays he's drawn up. Now.
Speaker 4: It is surprising to me that he has had so
many passing yards in all these games, because I don't
think he is the best passer.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I.
Speaker 4: Don't think he is. Now he has known for a
lot of yards. I just don't think he's a very
accurate accurate passer.
Speaker 2: Now he's he has.
Speaker 4: He's excelled recently in the passing game because of that
threat to run the ball. Defenses really haven't had the
personnel against Ole Miss to just be able to line
up with a normal with a normal box, the normal
amount of people in the box and stop their attack.
So they've had to load the box with extra people,
which has given them very easy pickings in the past
in the past game. So I don't think Trinidad Chambliss
is good enough to beat this LSU defense.
Speaker 2: There are issues.
Speaker 4: LSU has to play well, but if they continue to
play like we've seen each and every week, I mean,
we have guys playing last week against Southeastern harder than
anybody's ever played a directional cool. You like the effort
that they're giving, so we know it's gonna be there.
We know we have the talent, we know we have
the speed to match up with with Trinidad's legs. Yeah,
I think they're going to stop that. And he has
not shown me that he can really like read a.
Speaker 3: Fool, even though what you want him to have to
do absolutely make him beat him, make you if you
lose to Old Miss and Chamblis like it has to
be because he beats you going to his progressions, making
throws that you didn't believe.
Speaker 2: Maybe he can make right it like that has to be.
Speaker 4: He's not going to beat you with his legs, right,
LSU like Blake Baker is too good.
Speaker 2: So Lane Kiffin, what does he like to do?
Speaker 4: He likes to set up, set up, set up, set up,
and then try to hit you with that setup and
hit you with a haymaker.
Speaker 2: Right. So Blake Baker.
Speaker 4: Knows that, right, We we trust and Blake Baker we trust, right,
And he's got the personnel and the and the speed.
Speaker 2: So make Trinidad beat you with his arm.
Speaker 4: Make him have to go through first, second, third check
down because I don't think he can do it. And
when he does do it, I don't. I think he's
very accurate. Now, if guys are if a team's loading
the box and there's a corner route running ride open.
Speaker 2: Yeah he can hit that. He can hit it all day.
But that is not he has not faced an LSU defense.
Speaker 4: So I actually really like this matchup for LSU's defense.
I really do. And I know the success. I know
he's thrown for over three hundred yards on both of
his starts. I know he's run for like one hundred plus.
Speaker 2: I get it. I don't really care.
Speaker 4: Yeah, LSU's defense is a nightmare matchup for him.
Speaker 3: We always talk about the Old Miss offense, and let's
take the last two games out, because they are a
team that does want to run.
Speaker 2: The football first.
Speaker 3: And that's why we're so adamant about, Hey, you got
to stop the run. If you stop the run and
you make him become a true passer, that is going
to behoove you. And so when you look at the
Old Miss running game and it look it's very diverse.
And that's one thing I give him a lot of
credit for a lot of people just assume a lot
with the Old Miss offense. In the last two games, Matt,
they've had seventy seven runs and it's been a combination.
You've had three percent outside zone, you've had twenty seven
percent inside zone. You've had a man scheme thirty nine
percent of the time, you've had power twelve percent of
the time, you've had counter nine percent of the time,
and you've had pull lead six percent of the time.
So my point in bringing that up is it is
a very diverse run game. It is not your Hey,
we're just gonna run zone read and that's really going
to be our only run that we have up and look,
you know at times LSU is falling into that over
the last couple of years now when you had Jay
and Daniels, the match changes and it's like, Okay, I
get it. I get why you only run inside zone
because he can pull it and go eighty five like
he did against Florida. But this old Miss offense, like
they're going to try to get the running game going
however they can. They're going to try different runs until
they feel like they found something that can be.
Speaker 2: A weakness for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and and a lot of it's quarterback runs with
Trinida Chambliss like and you watch the.
Speaker 3: Films those Powers encounters are Q Power, Q Town.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I saw them run out of ye. I saw
them running zone read, which I've never seen this before.
Speaker 4: A zone read and a five no tight ends in
the box, so it's just a five down line and
there's no like there's no tight end on the left
or right. They ran a zone read off the end,
but the tackle was pulling to this side like as
a as a like a power lead guy as a tackle.
Speaker 2: That's interesting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't see many pullers on zone run.
Speaker 4: A huge shocker. It didn't work but so it was weird.
It's like kind of a kind of like a look
how smart I am type of play by the offensive
line price probably, but they.
Speaker 2: Do and they run.
Speaker 4: They'll run a lot of quarterback leads sweeps outside and
then they'll hit you with a fake lead sweep counter
to the other side. So they do a lot of
creative things. I mean, for all, like this reputation that
Lane Kiffin has. We know that he wants to run
the ball and he's a creative run game designer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's not afraid to try something. Yeah for
the first time, right, I've never seen that either film.
He's not afraid to try anything.
Speaker 4: But you know he's uh, we've all seen the clip
of Lane Kiffin when he was the O seed Alabama
of the I think it was two or maybe it
was Jalen Hurts, I can't remember. Like the play action
in the post and he's walking down the field with
his hands up like he he loves the setup and
he knows the exactly.
Speaker 2: He's got his arms up like he knows.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's his favorite part of it.
Speaker 4: That's his fl like I can only imagine, like that's
his favorite part as a coach. Is setting somebody up
and then running something off of that setup. He gets
the satisfaction from that. So look for that throughout the game.
And it could be subtle something that we're running this
jet sweep, jets sweep, and all of a sudden it's
a jet sweet reverse counter throat, Like it's just he
wants to do a setup, and you're gonna look for.
Speaker 2: What you don't want to.
Speaker 4: See this week is let's use events, get undisciplined and
you see lane Kiffin's arms go up before the past
has even been thrown. So but I'm excited about it.
I think, you know, the game could come down to
the chess match between Blake Baker, lane Kiffin's trickery, the setup.
What kind of trick play can he because that's the
only way that I think that they'll be able to
be explosive.
Speaker 2: Have been score on this defense.
Speaker 4: Now, Okay, they could have a good drive, they could
have a little they could it could be a mistackle
and Trendyd makes a good run. But from a big
explosive play, I think the only way they're gonna do
it is that set up trick play. So look for
that chess match between Blake Baker, Lane Kiffin, and can
he keep them our defense just one enough to not
get hit, not get CounterPunch with one of those trick plays.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll be interested to see who they try to
do that too as well, because when you look at
the defensive backfield and Delayane and Halsey and Cooley, those
guys play a lot of football, right they've kind of.
Speaker 2: Seen all the things that we're talking around right now. PJ.
Speaker 3: Williams playing a lot of football, but he's only a
sophomore all right now.
Speaker 2: DJ Pickett is an alien.
Speaker 3: That guy like he's gonna play football for as long
as he wants to play football. Like when you see
him walking around and like, yeah, you're not from this
earth because nobody looks like you has the speed and
size and the smarts that he has as a freshman.
So he's a very very big time player for LSU
and the counting on him as a freshman. But I
wonder if he gets in if Lane Kibbin's like, all right,
I got to test this freshman, right, I gotta try
to double move this freshman. Like, I wonder how intricate
they're going to get with some of those shots that
they take because they're going to take them and they're
going to set it up, like I wonder if they're like, Okay,
let's try one of the young guys, because we don't
feel like we can get Delane. Like, Delane's been really
good this year. He's played as well as any corner
in America so far this year. Let's see even though
DJ Pickett is, I truly believe he's gonna be like
an all SEC all American type guy.
Speaker 2: Let's see if we can get him. Let's see if
we can get PJ.
Speaker 3: Woodland maybe to bite on the slugo that we talked
about yesterday.
Speaker 2: And it might be one of those situations. Let's play
some chess, not checkers.
Speaker 4: Blake Baker's like, all right, I'm gonna put DJ Pickett
in and I'm going to sell him up because I
think Lank Kippen might try to attack him, and I
kind of want that, Yeause, like you said, yeah, the
dudes an alien and he can make a place. So hey,
let's let's try to make Lane react to us, right
of us react to them. Let's give him. Let's like
dangle a little fruit in front of him. Let's dangle
a freshman out there and see what he wants to do.
See if you want to said tack them.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be the matchup.
Speaker 3: It is the matchup that we can't wait to watch,
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Speaker 1: Tigers turn talkers. This is off the bench, all.
Speaker 2: Right, welcome back in. It is OTB.
Speaker 3: We are live here from Rouses on this football Friday,
Football Friday.
Speaker 2: But let me tell you something.
Speaker 3: The guy to my left is really going through it
on this golf action we've got on the TV right
in front of us. He's talking to the TV. He's
trying to wield the putt into the bottom of the
cup there. It hasn't worked so far, for him yet,
but we'll see if.
Speaker 2: We can get that done here today.
Speaker 4: All right, So we got we got four matches going
off right now. It's a four ball and America leads
two of the matches, up one and then but Europe
they lead to as well, and they kind of started
out pretty hot on those two one of the matches,
Europe set by three already through six. Another match with
Macro and Fluid, they're up two through four. Every time
I'm watching, Europe is making puts right now.
Speaker 2: Usa not making a lot of puts right now.
Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, it doesn't matter
how many strokes you lose by, it still just counts
as one point. Okay, okay, So again, so it's kind
of tied right now. USA is leading to the four matches,
Europe leading to the four matches.
Speaker 2: But by what.
Speaker 4: I'm seeing here, everything is going right for Europe right now,
everything is going wrong for USA. So you got to
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weather the storm. You gotta we you gotta.
Speaker 2: If you're missing and they're hot, you just.
Speaker 4: Gotta bend, don't break, then boom, CounterPunch.
Speaker 2: We got this.
Speaker 3: I do have some good news for LSU football fans.
Paul Finbaum, who right now is on get Up, he
picked Old Miss to beat LSU.
Speaker 2: So that is a good sign for your tigers. That's
a great sign. Good. Yeah for him, Yeah, good for him.
Speaker 4: I just don't see it. I know what is the
what's the line right now? Ole Miss is favorite?
Speaker 2: Correct? Yeah?
Speaker 3: It was one and a half the last time I
looked at it. And right now, if LSU wins this game,
they've got a fifty four percent chance to make it
to the.
Speaker 2: College Football Playoff.
Speaker 3: If they lose this game, that percentage goes down to
twenty two percent. So obviously a massive game for LSU.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this.
Speaker 4: Is we're now, I'm trying to I'm gonna ask you
to try to jump in the Vegas odds makers jumping
their brain for a little bit. Do you think that
LSU would be an underdog if Clemson and Florida were
two and two?
Speaker 2: No, I don't think they would.
Speaker 3: If if Florida would have beaten Miami last week, no,
if Clemson would have beaten Syracuse last week, maybe that
one's a bigger maybe.
Speaker 2: I think LSU right now they are getting.
Speaker 3: They are getting punished because of the teams that they've
played in what those records I am showing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of a shame too, because you know,
if you were sitting here in July before the season
he said LSU's gonna be four and oh, we'd be like, awesome,
we're probably two one. Whatever our strength of schedules the
roof right now surely not one of the weakest strength
to schedules so far in the SEC. You wouldn't have
had that on the bingo card so pretty well. But
the odds, it's funny how the odds makers how that
kind of reflects. And now I get like from a
pole perspective of like a voting for the top and
with I think we we went down, we won a
game and we went down a spot in the poles whatever.
Get that because of like the strength to schedule and
how that all plays the perception public perception. But from
you know, we all know that nothing really matters except
for those Vegas odds when people are laying down money.
How big of an impact did that strength to schedule
actually have?
Speaker 3: Yeah, And look, I am a card carring member of
meathead Nation, and I think in meathead terms, a lot
and so like for me, I also played the game
long enough to understand, like when you play a team
that also matters, Like, sure, what did that Texas.
Speaker 2: Team end up?
Speaker 3: Seven and five and twenty nineteen or seven and five
that game in twenty nineteen. I was on the sideline
that entire game. It was actually a lot of fun.
Katie now watching it from the sideline. I don't even
remember how we both got down there.
Speaker 2: It's me, Katie and Lee.
Speaker 3: Corso watching the watching the game LSU Texas from the sideline.
It was an incredible memory. But like that game was
everything at that time. That was a good football team
at that time, and we're good. They were really good
and the best college team that we've ever seen had
to convert on a third and forever to go and
close that game out.
Speaker 2: So it's like when you play these games matter as well.
Speaker 3: It's not an excuse for LSU, but that's facts. Like
opening game on the road, he gets Clemson, Okay, well
what that loss do to Clemson?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: Like for Florida, was Florida looking ahead to LSU. They
lose to South Florida and then LSU handles them.
Speaker 2: I understand. I think and they've played They've played three
ranked teams Florida has that they've lost to. Right South,
Florida's been ranked in this season. LSU and Miami certainly
have been.
Speaker 3: So it's not making excuses for those teams, but like
when you play those teams that matters, and so like
you're not going to get credit for but still like
you as a coach, you as a player, like you
understand in that moment in that game what it was like.
LSU Florida is a rivalry situation. Now the SEC is
done and took it away from us. Couldn't believe that.
Every year where you go, I know, I know something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got we got an amazing slate of college
football games. Tomorrow, we got the Saints, gotta beat the
Bills on Sunday, we got the Ryder Cup. USA is
going to actually absolutely stop Team Europe. I want good vibes, Okay,
I don't want to talk about this Florida situation, right,
all right, sure, don't piss me off.
Speaker 2: Okay, Oh, carpool my bed.
Speaker 3: So there are you on the verge if you're if
you're still in the car a little late?
Speaker 2: I think no, no, no, some started eight our our carpool
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Speaker 3: Ah okay, see you read the last We're you're starting
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, class starts at seven forty. Got it?
Speaker 3: So sorry, sorry, sorry to the Flynn kids that you
just said that dollar dollar.
Speaker 2: In the train on me. I didn't say it. It
was on the edge too. Yeah. Yeah, I say fifty
cents in the jar. Yeah, I'll say it for the dollar. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So going back to some of the scheduling stuff into
your original question, Yes, I do think that LSU right
now in their resume is being frowned upon because of
what those teams have done. And I don't think right
now people are respecting what else she's done in those games.
And I think they're right now they're making up narratives
in their own mind and why LSU's not gonna win
this game.
Speaker 2: Like it's not just Paul Finebaum.
Speaker 3: Which I mean he picks Againstell Show all the time, whatever,
Josh Pate, like some people that cover it nationally like
they are heavy old missing this game. It ain't I
mean multiple people are like I think ole Mis is
gonna win this game and cover easily. I don't see that, right, now,
now this isn't the Homer take. I've seen plenty of
situations where I'm like, I don't know how else she's
gonna find a way.
Speaker 2: To win the game today.
Speaker 3: But when I look at the individual matchups and I
know it's in Oxford, like that's that that part of it,
I think, else you's able to handle that. But I
look at the matchups and I look at a backup
quarterback who's played really really well. But I look at
where Lshu's really good defensively, I look at where LSU
struggles on offense. Well, that's where Old Miss struggles the
most on defense. So can you have enough success for you?
Maybe you're not going to have that one hundred and
ninety yard total that they're giving up every game, but
can you get one thirty on the ground because you
know garrettus Meyer is going to make plays through the air.
So the matchup for me looks better for LSU than
Old Miss.
Speaker 4: The matchup for me, and this isn't a Homer take.
The matchup for me looks really advantageous for LSU. I
think that a lot of these national takes are giving
Lane Kiffen way too much credit.
Speaker 2: Great coach.
Speaker 4: I want to have a beer with him. I think
he does a lot of really good things. He wants
to run the football first, then throw the football. He's
had good quarterbacks. Jackson dark awesome job. But like I
believe if he's getting way too much credit for being
like an X factor against this this LSU defense, This
LSU defense is really darn good. Yeah, And I don't
see where Old Miss is going to get their points from.
And when I say get their points, I'm not saying
we're gonna they're gonna lay a goose egg, Okay, I'm
just saying how they're going to keep up and be
able to easily cover, Like a lot of these people
are saying. I understand from a strength to schedule standpoint,
the line being where it is and it being a.
Speaker 2: Really close matchup at Old Miss.
Speaker 1: I just.
Speaker 2: There's really easy.
Speaker 4: Like the new the new, pretty little shiny thing that
everybody is excited about.
Speaker 2: With this backup quarterback.
Speaker 4: Having all these big stats and big yards. He has
not faced anybody that even plays in the same league
as this LSU defense, Right, he is going to have issues.
I don't see where they they're gonna get their points from.
And LSU's offense. That is the other optics thing that
has not been very good. So that's probably plays into
a lot of these other people kind of leaving the
bandwagon of LSU because lack of running game, a lack
of explosive plays on offense. And Okay, I get what
we did last week against Southeastern. I'm not really worried
about that. I kind of throw that film out the window.
LSU's got to show up on offense. They have to
be able to run the football and get back to
that explosive nature that we have seen these individual players
do in the past. But on a defensive standpoint, man,
I don't see Returnidda Chambliss and that I think Lane
Kiffin's getting too much credit for being able to do
anything with anybody against any any defense. I just don't
see it happening. All right, So I was wrong once,
but I don't think this week.
Speaker 2: Where are you wrong? I think I was wrong one time.
I thought I was wrong one time, but I was mistaken.
So you're wrong twice then overthink this?
Speaker 4: Okay, well, just basically spinning facts over here.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll take a break.
Speaker 3: Hey, when we come back, I want to give you
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out some of the stats of the total defenses. That'll
miss his face as far as where they're at in
the NCAA rankings. Okay, Arkansas eighty third in total defense,
the Green Wave one hundred and thirteenth, sure in total defense.
I saw that the Kentucky Wildcats one hundred and fourteenth
in total defense. So eighty third, one hundred and thirteenth,
one hundred and fourteenth, LSU seventeenth. Be it's a it's
a different it's it's a different equation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, then they've had and you know what, maybe they
surprise even themselves and they step up the competition and.
Speaker 2: Their game steps up.
Speaker 4: But the lack of experience they have versus the speed
that they're about to see the overall talent, the energy,
the tenacity that this defense plays with. I challenge anybody
to go go watch film of anybody you know. You said,
we're seventeenth total in the country and defense. I challenge
you to go watch those other sixteen teams that are
allegedly ranked in front of us. I'll tell you, and
you go watch and see if anybody can match the
energy and the effort and the flying to the ball
and the amount of LSU jerseys around the ball carrier
each and every play.
Speaker 2: I challenge you to do that, because you're not gonna
find it.
Speaker 3: Teams ahead of them are teams at Penn State who
hasn't played a powerful opponent yet. Right, there's some teams
and James Madison's ahead of them.
Speaker 2: And say they're still playing at home.
Speaker 3: They got a whiteout situation at home this weekend, you know,
So some of the teams that are ahead of them
haven't played a powerful opponent yet. But still like seventeenth
in the country compared to eighty third for Arkansas, one
hundred and thirteenth or two lane and one hundred and
fourteenth for Kentucky, it's gonna be a different it's gonna
be a different animal for this Old Miss team. Now,
you could also argue, and it would be factual, this
Old Miss offense is going to be the best one
that Elsu's defense has faced off against as well.
Speaker 4: Okay, I could listen to that argument, but we will
see that we will get a real good look at
who Old Miss is, what Old Miss's offense really is
this this week, I'll.
Speaker 3: Miss offensively in the country is ninth overall.
Speaker 2: Wow, Okay, all right.
Speaker 4: I would hope they would be based on the defenses I.
Speaker 2: Watched on field.
Speaker 4: No, for sure, it's That's what I'm saying is this
is a rubber meets the Road game for them, and
I get it. The optics going into this is the
reason why they're favored. I'm just telling it's going to
be a different game. So I don't want to like
be too disparaging versus a kid or an offense or
whatever it is. I just like the matchup for al
issues defense very much, very much.
Speaker 3: So, sir, how would you play this if you are
if you are Blake Baker, Like, would you stay with
the same style, the same things that have gotten you
to this point? Absolutely trusting your dbs, being aggressive And
we talked about it in the no huddle, hurry up
tempo of ale Miss. You still think that you can
get those things done?
Speaker 2: That wasn't hetorical, by the way.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, you can get it done because like we said,
they are up tempo, hurry up to the line of scrimmage,
but not necessarily to snap the ball every time. So
it's a hurry up and way hurry up to get
the line of scrimmer to see see where they're lined up.
And you know, maybe it's a lot better this day
because they do have the speaker in their helmet. That's
a game changer, so they are able to talk and
communicate that play instead of having to signal everything from
the sideline.
Speaker 2: So they're still signaling a little bit.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I absolutely do because there's gonna be timehouse
on the field, there's gonna be a lot of situations,
but you definitely keep the same game plan going in.
Maybe it's trimmed up a little bit, but you have
created issues with who was thought of what was thought
of the best, some of the best quarterbacks in the country.
You've created confusion, You've created chaos to them. So you
got a guy that was a start of the years
of backup transferred in from a small.
Speaker 2: School Asian to Fair State, Fair State. That's right.
Speaker 4: We had a buddy just Texas and said, you know,
he's playing teams.
Speaker 2: Like slippery Rock last year.
Speaker 4: Well, it's a long way from slippery rock to a
blake Baker led witweeks running around biting knee caps lsu
defense so create the confusion. He cannot read past first
second read and if people aren't open, he's gonna have issues.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
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