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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in Off the Bench our three
from right here in the Raising King Studio. And yeah
you heard it. That's not Jake's voice, it's my voice
because there's a tripod. What once was four war is
now stronger with three?
Speaker 2: Is that true? Taylor laundrybody?
Speaker 4: I think, I mean, I think we're doing pretty good.
Speaker 5: The Gordon mccurtin live read was really good. Yeah, and
we had theming to our would you Rather Wednesday? Which
was really fun.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I think we nailed it. The Halloween things pretty good.
I think we got at least one more week of it,
maybe two, two more weeks.
Speaker 5: It is Halloween on a Friday Friday.
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 3: You know what? The thirty first backwards is thirteen?
Speaker 4: Whoa Friday thirteenth? Wow backwards?
Speaker 2: I just got chills.
Speaker 4: Might be even more cursed.
Speaker 3: All right, guys, are you all ready to Let's take
a look around the country, not just in our little bubble.
Let's not just look at LSU. Let's not just look
at the Saints. Let's expand our horizons a little bit,
just a little crop dusting sports. What do you say
to my my favorite song? Mmmm? All right, I guess
right now, it's kind of baseball season. It's October. October
baseball season is underway.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: I haven't been as locked in as i'd kind of
like to be during the week's kind of busy with
you know, dance, gymnastics, uh, coaching, flight football, watching football,
breaking down film.
Speaker 2: Last night, the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Take Game two in Milwaukee and they lead the NLCS
two to nothing. Now heading back out to LA for
Game three. Their pitcher, I'm gonna try to say his name.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 4: Brewers pitcher Nope, Dodgers Oh oh okay.
Speaker 3: Yoshinobu yama Matto nailed nailed it. Yoshinobu Yamamato a complete game,
one hundred and eleven pitches in a complete game, seven strikeouts,
three hits, given only one run, and retired the final
fourteen batters of the game. So you know what, I
was looking up what people were talking about. One of
the best pitching performances, and like Major League baseball history,
playoff history. Yeah, pretty decent. This comes off of Blake
Snell when eight innings in game one and then Yamamato
goes a complete game in game two. So you know
what I think they're they got. I guess they got
a pretty good pitching over there. So anyway, the Dodgers
leading the Brewers, and nobody can be happier about this
than Palmer just laughing over their grave right now.
Speaker 4: Is he wants evil to win in this situation?
Speaker 2: He does.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And apparently Brewers not cheating. They still are.
Speaker 4: You have to wait for them to play at home,
is what.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like Hunt things that they're cheating at home because
they were they win at home?
Speaker 3: Were they don't know as they're going for game three,
they're going back out to La. Okay, Yeah, so I'm
not looking.
Speaker 2: Good for the brute.
Speaker 5: I don't get that that theory. Hunt's like, well, they're winning,
they don't have good players. I'm like, no, no, no, no
no no. If you're winning, if you have one of
the best records in baseball, you have good players. They
may not be mainstream. Actually, yeah, you have good players.
Here we all just agree on like he's a hater.
Speaker 3: No, that we don't like the Dodgers, right, No, I
don't like doesnody like Dodgers except for Dodgers.
Speaker 5: I don't like any LA team, any sport.
Speaker 4: I mean, they just really do feel like the evil
in the league to me, the.
Speaker 3: Evil Empire, is it. Do you think people think of
the Kansas City Chiefs in the same light?
Speaker 2: I mean maybe, but okay, before the.
Speaker 4: Super Bowl last year, maybe yeah.
Speaker 3: Because because I really didn't know people hated the Chiefs
like they did, because I was always a fan of
the Chiefs because I like, I like good quarterback play,
I like kind of dominance.
Speaker 2: But I don't know, the way the Dodgers seems a
little slimy thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe not slimmy, maybe that's not the word.
Speaker 6: Just I mean, they just have so much money and
they spend it on like pitchers from Japan that do
really well.
Speaker 2: Is this true?
Speaker 3: Somebody in the chat said the Dodgers payrolls two hundred
million dollars more than the Brewers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure it's more.
Speaker 6: I don't know if that that sounds about right. Yeah,
million spend a lot of money.
Speaker 5: I mean, think about how much show hey alone, mates.
Speaker 2: Wish I wish I'll play for Dodters.
Speaker 4: Them and like the Mets, spend a lot of money too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of state state taxes though a lot
of a lot of taxes going back to California.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Other side though, the Alcs, the Mariners, the Blue Jays.
One of the fan favorites, the Big Dumper. He does
have a home run in Game one, so the Mariners
to me, okay, this feels like the Cinderella for me.
So I'm rooting for the Mariners in this situation.
Speaker 4: Like the Brewers, I would like for them to win,
just to p his hunt off. But I am rooting
for the.
Speaker 6: Mariners because of America, because of America.
Speaker 5: Well, not forget their team, like half the time, like
they should never do anything true like.
Speaker 6: Recently in recent history, they really haven't. But yeah, they
lead the Blue Jays to zero in the series so far.
They played today in Seattle, so they could take a.
Speaker 4: Three to zero lead.
Speaker 2: Was their first game?
Speaker 3: Was it extra innings or was that the last game
with the last series they were at. Was there a
I think there was one that was extra big stitch
out over here.
Speaker 6: There was a really cool double play the other night. Uh,
but I think that was the Brewers game. Yeah, it
was the Brewers game. They had a double play where
there's a pop out in center field. Well it wasn't
a pop out. They thought it was a pop out.
It bounced off the wall straight into the outfielders glove,
so they thought it was a pop out, and they
all tagged, like, they all went back to tag their
base because they thought it was out, so they went
to go tag, but they didn't have to, so they
get the out at home. And then the other guy
had went back to second base to tag, but obviously
he had to go to third base, so the catcher
just touched third and he got him out. So pretty
cool double play. But yes, game, it wasn't in the ALCS.
It was in the Divisional series that the Mariners went
into fifteen innings versus the Detroit Tigers.
Speaker 3: Right quick baseball quiz on the defense side of the ball,
who is the four position?
Speaker 5: Six? Four?
Speaker 4: Three is second base?
Speaker 2: Nailed it?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Who's six Taylor?
Speaker 5: Six? That would be shortstop credit, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Nailed it.
Speaker 3: Look at us stitchheads.
Speaker 5: Hey did you read my mind as you were talking
about the Kansas City Chiefs Evil Empire utap earlier this week?
Why they're involved in it. I don't know, but U
TAP they did research on like penalties and playoff runs
and everything, and they have come to the conclusion from
twenty fifteen to twenty twenty three, a significant slant towards
the Kansas City Chiefs has occurred. Now not total number
of penalties, but like average yards per penalty against the
opposing team has heavily favored the Chiefs. Patrick Mahomes was
thirty percent more likely to get a roughing the passer
call in the postseason. And then they looked at like, okay,
let's go look at the Patriots, the old Buffalo Bills
and Dynasty, like all all these teams that have made
these runs, none of them had the same slanted penalty yardage.
So this came out literally two days ago that uh,
you know, people's complaints. UTEP says they're validated. So there's
a research.
Speaker 2: Nerds.
Speaker 5: They said, the Chiefs are more than.
Speaker 3: Okay, so thirty more likely to get a rough in
the passer call in the playoffs versus his opponent or
every other.
Speaker 5: Every other quarterback, like the average of the quarterback in
the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Mahomes interesting a lot of that. Yeah, it's pretty damning.
Now where there smoke, there's fires certainly. Now, do I
think there's a conspiracy theory, No, do. I think most
of it's probably kind of like style of play, and
NFL says protect these certain quarterbacks little bit more. But
style of play certainly, like he plays tough, he plays around,
and he holds onto it at the last moment, like
that's that's an asset. That's a good thing when you
have a quarterback that can do that. I don't know
if that accounts for thirty percent more though, but I
kind of his antics earlier this year on the sideline
were a little bit.
Speaker 6: He's never annoyed me.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I mean maybe because he's from like right outside
where I'm from, and I just like dominant players, and
so I like seeing people be dominant in.
Speaker 2: A sport that's really hard to even be the right.
Speaker 3: So for them to do what they did, I get
the hate because, like I kind of hate the Dodgers
for the same reason. But it's not like the Chiefs
are spending so much more money than there. It's an
equal plane field from a dollars and cent standpoint.
Speaker 4: More so, there's caps and yeah, right, yeah.
Speaker 3: So I like that a lot better. So if you're
on an equal plane field and just dominant.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 5: They didn't they didn't give the exact number like percentages,
but they were saying it just says a significantly higher clip.
They called it judgment call play okay, catch you no
catch all those significantly went in the chiefs favor, like
instead of it being a fifty to fifty call. Like
they didn't give a number, but let's say like seventy
percent of them winning their favorite like something like that,
they were saying, significantly higher they get the fifty to
fifty goals.
Speaker 6: So, as someone who was in the NFL, can you
confirm that there are script writers?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's script for you.
Speaker 5: It's actually a wrestling Yeah, you think about it.
Speaker 4: You were part of the script at one point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was like a there's a ready every game
we went to a meeting, went to the table kind everything.
Speaker 4: That's right, you're gonna go down, that's right, it's gonna
come in and just mm hmm.
Speaker 2: You know how I can wrestling.
Speaker 3: It's like when someone's on top of you and like
you like they say they pinched their leg or something
when they're about to run out, like that's what that's
where all the signals are. But we talked about it's
like signaling coverage, just that you.
Speaker 5: Signaling the other team what to do.
Speaker 3: It's all three rehearsal. Yeah, they're not even live games.
It's actually pre.
Speaker 4: Right and they're flipping the script on the Chiefs this season.
Speaker 2: What do they call it? What did John Cena do
when they turned bad?
Speaker 5: Turn?
Speaker 4: He hel turn hill, He'll turn They've been the heel
from me.
Speaker 3: I do have another one uh here. I kind of
contemplated doing this because it is like the Saint's rival,
but I kind of want to just like tip a
cap to b Jhon Robinson right now, who I thinks
might be the best football player in the NFL right now.
Like we kind of go back every week, it's gonna
be a little bit different earlier a couple of weeks ago.
Is Josh Allen uh B. John Robinson's kind of on
a historical start to the season. The dude is on
pace right now, And I know pace is kind of
a weird thing, but it just kind of tells you
how good he's playing right now. He's on pace for
nearly thirteen hundred and fifty rushing yards and eleven hundred
and fifty receiving yards.
Speaker 2: If he was.
Speaker 3: Able to accomplish that, he would be I think the
fourth all time person to have one thousand yards rushing
and receiving in the same year we got Roger Craig Marshall,
Fought and Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 2: Are a part of that list.
Speaker 4: That's crazy.
Speaker 3: So like what he is doing, the like the guy
is incredile. You hear more and more coaches talking about him. No,
like there's good running backs in the NFL. This guy's different.
I don't care who you talk about. I don't know
if it's h James Cooks, if it's Sakwon Barkley, if
it's Dereck Henry, all of those coaches they would trade
one for one, any guy for b John Robbinson, he's
a good. Week one eighteen touches one hundred and twenty
four yards. Week two twenty five touches one hundred and
sixty eight yards. Week three eighteen touches one hundred and
eleven yards. Week four twenty one touches one hundred and
eighty one yards In this past week. Week five twenty
five touches two hundred and thirty eight yards total.
Speaker 2: The guy is a mont stuff.
Speaker 4: He's playing his house off.
Speaker 5: To me, there's a clear top three as far as
like running backs go, like it's jon it's Jamier Gibbs,
and it's Jonathan Taylor as far as this year goes. Yeah,
those guys are face off. It's like a lot of
people have talked about, Oh, you know the Eagles offense
takeaway touches yards per Carrie for starting running backs Saquon
Barkley lowest in the league.
Speaker 3: I'm so fed up with the Eagles. I'm glad. Yeah,
I like I like Saquon too. He's like one of
the spots on the Eagles team that I actually like
everything else.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love Saquon.
Speaker 6: He's making me very angry because he's on my fantasy
team and like, I am getting nothing.
Speaker 2: You're taking a personally, I am.
Speaker 5: I have aj Brown. I'm right there with you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's so funny. I know it getting personal when
it comes to fantasy.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, separate your emotionals. Separate your emotions.
Speaker 4: Not a good season for me. It's making me very angry.
Speaker 5: One more quick one if you guys want it. Five
LSU baseball team or head to the White House upcoming
this coming Monday. They're gonna be there to well celebrate
their national championship season.
Speaker 2: Excited.
Speaker 5: I would have thought they would have already done this,
but they They're going to be at the White House
on Monday.
Speaker 6: The most stitchhead show on here, that's away. I mean,
we were pumping hell a baseball propaganda.
Speaker 2: I mean we did send Jay Johnson a steak.
Speaker 4: We did, just Sam, I did make the trip up there.
Speaker 3: I heard that when we heard, we all heard he
was just eating like Taco Bell. He didn't have time
right now. He said, Nope, can't do it. We can't
let this happen.
Speaker 4: No, he needs a stake.
Speaker 3: I mean solely, we're pretty much to show that helped
him win. They win it all.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we fed and fueled him.
Speaker 5: Like Jay is not in as good of a mood
with Taco Bill as he is with a a state.
Right like that.
Speaker 3: That that changed everything in the locker room, really did,
and they went on the run. When I started doing
the show, Yeah, when I had to start educating Louisiana
on LSU baseball. Hello, welcome for that, Richard.
Speaker 5: You got to have a good LSU baseball win loss,
record you started here in June. I mean your your
win loss record. It's probably eighty percent.
Speaker 2: It's up there. It's pretty elite, all right. Jall rule
the goat, all right.
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Speaker 5: All right, welcome back in.
Speaker 2: What is this?
Speaker 1: It is?
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm crushing.
Speaker 6: It creep Yeah.
Speaker 3: Of course this reminds me. You have the other guys
movie Gotta Creep? Yeahta, who's the actor? Michael Keaton just
keeps quoting TLC lines throughout. He's like, I don't know
what you're talking about. I don't understand the rest. Don't
go chasing waterfalls. Don't go chasing waterfalls So what I'm saying,
do you do you realize that you're quoting TLC songs?
Speaker 2: All right, here we go. So we haven't done this.
Speaker 3: I'd like to kind of do this, maybe not, maybe
not on a weekly situation in the NFL. I also
like to get to it in college a little bit.
There's just so many quarterbacks in the landscape of college football.
Is kind of trust to give an accurate representation, an
accurate list, But I want to get into a little
Flynn's NFL post Week seven QB Power rankings. Now, what
I'm gonna do here is give you kind of my
list of a top ten quarterbacks that I feel are
playing the best in the NFL. And I'm calculating a
little bit of everything. I'm calculating team record, I'm calculating
a little bit of your history, what you've done in
the past, kind of how you're playing recently, and of
course things that have happened recently. If you lose some games,
those are gonna play a big impact in it. But
I want to give you kind of my list of
who I think are playing the best quarterback in the
NFL right now.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to start.
Speaker 3: So I got a top ten list, but I do
I'll give you honorable mention after this is all done.
All right, We're gonna start with number ten, a second
year quarterback. He just came down this past week to
the super Dome and beat our New Orleans Saints. Mister
Drake May. I really do feel like this kid is
playing well. He is coming on and he's playing better
and better. I talk all the time about the week
the year one to two jump for all players, but
specifically quarterbacks that jump from year one to two can
make a huge difference, and he had sparks moments last
year where he was playing really well. So I feel
like he's kind of put it all together. Josh McDaniel's
a huge benefit for him. Like I know first hand,
Josh Daniels is a really, really, really good offensive coordinator
and can get the best out of guys. I watched
him coaching a rookie Jimmy Garoppolo, Yeah, Garoppolo early on
when I was there.
Speaker 2: I was there for a.
Speaker 3: Couple of coffee, sure, but I got to be coached
by him, be on the field with him in the
meeting room and his messaging, the way he teaches, the
way he gets that message out is really impressive. So
for a young quarterback, Josh McDaniels is absolutely his best
friend and just playing well. He's big, he's tall, he strong,
he's fast, he's got a big arm, he's accurate, he
has kind of that whole package, and he's got the ability.
He keeps on this path to be one of those
top five guys in the next you know, in the
years to come.
Speaker 2: All right. Number nine, a.
Speaker 3: Guy that has been slapped on, a guy that people
had written off for a long time. And I think
this is going to be a common theme on this
top ten list. A guy that had been written off,
a guy who's a high draft pick. People thought he
was washed, people thought he was a bust. What does
he do last year? He just plays amazing for the
Minnesota Vikings and then didn't get signed back.
Speaker 2: But now he's with the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 3: Mister Sam Donald has that team humming and Seattle Seahawks,
look out. They are a really good football team.
Speaker 5: They are they're dangerous. We saw them.
Speaker 3: That's the worst outing performance the Saints have had. So
we saw first and of course we shut ourselves in
the foot a lot. But Sam Darnald, I think think
Seattle's sitting at four and two right now. He's got
i think just over fifteen hundred yards passing currently, eleven touchdowns,
three interceptions.
Speaker 5: So a guy that the Vikings. I was kind of.
Speaker 3: Surprised the way he played last year with the weapons
that he has, that Minnesota was just okay with riding
JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 5: I think it was just because of the season ended, like
unfortunately for Donald last year. Yeah, his worst game was
his last one. But what do you have four thousand
yards last year, thirty five touchdowns.
Speaker 2: I mean, yes, he's.
Speaker 5: No longer a one year wonder like he did this
a year ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's playing well, and so they that's kind
of Seattle's been a kind of place where people have
gone to rehab a litle bit. Gino Smith did it,
but Sam he rehabbed in Minnesota and now he's just
continued to keep playing well well. So Sam Darnald comes
at number nine, Number eight. Jared Goff another guy that
was cast away by the Rams. He goes over to
we know what he's done with the Lions, but just
playing well. He's just a very good complete quarterback, plays
within the system, really well, accurate arm great leader, the
city loves him. Four and two the Lions, and they're
going to be they are going to be a force
being the playoffs. And Jared Goff just a really good player.
He's I think he is going to be a perennial
just top ten guy. I don't know if he's ever
going to creep into that top five situation, but he
is a guy that they love and you can trust.
Number seven, Holy moly, is this a guy that has
come out of nowhere this year and with the coolest
nickname around Danny Dimes. Sorry Giants, you suck Danny Dimes.
Saquon Barkley. They just have a gone to greener pastures
and done really well. The Colts the surprise team of
the league this year. They're like, oh, they're gonna start
Danny Dimes, They're gonna start Anthony Richardson. Well, I think
they made a pretty decent choice. The Colts are five
and one right now. Danny Dimes fifteen hundred two yards,
eight tutters, three picks, not a crazy amount of touchdown passes,
but just operating exactly what they do, doing exactly what
they need to do to win. And this week they
got the charges number six, our guy, Jaden Daniels. I'm
just gonna throw him in there. I know they lost,
I know he had a couple of picks, a little
fumble action. I'm not going to judge him too critically
right now because of just the bad weather that they
did play. I'm not going to say he's got outdueled
by anybody. It's just the team that made the least
out of mistakes, and Washington just had some timely mistakes
right there at the end. They could have iced the game.
Little grip problems from Jayden. But Jayden, I mean, you're
not going to put him out of the top ten
quarterback list. He's dangerous, he's deadly, he's throwing the ball great,
he's seeing the ball great. Uh, seeing the defense great.
So he's always going to be up there. And I
don't I mean barning like some crazy drop off. I
don't see him dropping much further than that. He's only
he's a potential top five, top three guy in the NFL.
All right, Number five, I'm putting him in there because
they started out slow. I chose this team not to
be in the playoffs this year. Patrick Mahomes of course,
Number five and that's I know, I know, and it's
kind of low for him, right this is this is
five is a low ranking for him. He's always thought
of to be top one, top two, top three. They
started out slow, but I guess the Chiefs is still
the Chiefs. Unfortunately, what a great win they had this
past week, and of course they're forcing them on prime
time all the time. Get ready, we're going to see
more of them, more and more prime time. But Patrick
Mahomes I don't really need to explain his stats. I
don't really need to explain who he is or why
he is. It seems like the Chiefs have fined their footing,
They've got their receivers back, they got weapons, Kareem Hunt,
the Chaco they are helping him out as well. So look, it's, uh,
you know, as much if y'all hate the Chiefs, I'm sorry,
but he's really good and he's probably just going to
continue to I move up that list. I got Matthew
Stafford at four. Matthew Stafford is Matthew Stafford the best
arm talent, or one of the best arm talents in
the League's played football at a very very incredibly high
level at a top five at a top ten high
level for you know, about fifty years now, and it's
a guy that just won't go away. Battled injuries in
the offseason, but he is just a dude. He read
you've seen the no look passes, but the guy just
has seen every defense. You can't throw anything at this
guy that he hadn't seen. At number three, I kind
of I was back and forth between Stafford and my
number three pick here justin Herbert, but I gave our guy,
Jacob past the nod on this justin Herbert, and just
basically because of the play he made at the end
of the game this past week, to you know, shaking
off two or three defenders and making a play to
get a first down, get him into a field goal
range and win it. Yeah, they've kind of looked a
little shake in the past couple of weeks, but they
have probably seven eight key guys out with injury.
Speaker 2: So the fact that they're.
Speaker 3: Still winning game, still relevant and still competing with all
those injuries. He's just impressive man. All make all the
throws in the world. And number two. If I would
have done the rankings last week, he would have been
at number one, but today number two. Josh Allen. Josh
Allen also needs no introduction. The reigning NFL MVP. An
absolute dog, an absolute competitor, and he's pretty much doing
everything by himself. The little help from James Cook's a
little help from kin kid. Maybe you know he got
Kean on Coleman, you got Shakiir making some plays out there.
They got enough weapons to let him kind of take
over a game. But watching him, he's just a guy.
He's just a dude. And early in his career he
always seemed to make like one or two bad plays
to lose games. We didn't know if he could ever
take that next jump to like be the guy to
consistently go and use your talent.
Speaker 2: We see the good, but we also see a little
bit of the bad.
Speaker 3: He is eliminated, not eliminated, but he has taken most
of that bad out of there. It can absolutely take
over a game and super strong too. Lord, he just
runs over people and he jumps over people. Really fun
to watch. He's kind of like he's playing backyard ball
out there. And number one on my quarterback power list,
Taylor take it easier there, don't go to goat, don't
go to Goodwood.
Speaker 5: Baker Mayfield Yeah, he's not.
Speaker 2: Gonna need to go to Goodwood?
Speaker 3: Does Baker Mayfield the number one the best quarterback in
the NFL as of right now? That has room to change.
But my god, when you get hit after you make
a throw, when you get hit in the pocket and
you stand up talking trash, when you scramble, when you
break fifty five tackles on one play and scramble for
a first down and reach it out? Man, is there
a quarterback in football? I don't care what league that
has the loyalty, has the passion from his teammates and
coaches stufthan Baker Mayfield right now. The most likable guy
in the league. Two people that like offense. Maybe not defense.
I'm sure defenders hate him. But making everything, he makes
the plays when That's the key thing about Baker mayfel
He makes the plays when they matter and when he's
supposed to, when the play has to be made in
a crucial part of the game. He's making every single one.
So can he keep it up? We'll see. But Buccaneers,
they were riding the coatails of Baker Mayfield, number one
quarterback in the NFL as of Week seven.
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Okay, I think it's a correct list. I'm glad
you love Josh Allen too, Yeah, because like you know,
it'd be easy to drop him after that. Falcons were
coming off of a bye, they were healthy. Josh Allen
did not have Dalton kN kaid. Like to me, that
looked like a game where everybody said, oh, we're the
Falcons for real. Maybe, but to me that looked like
a beat up Bills team going against the squad. It
was real west rested. It had two weeks to prepare
like that. I appreciate that you keep him at two
because he's he's been great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been I'm not going to take him off
of one. One loss and honorable mentions real quick, Dak Prescott,
Aaron Rodgers, Jalen Hurts are my honorable mentions right there?
All right, that wraps up my QB power rankings. So
we'll go to break and we come back. We'll do
a little film study right here on off the bench.
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Speaker 3: It's nineteen seventy three, all right, were gonna do a
little film study here. So I've been watching a little
bit of Vanderbilt trying to and I gave you a
little bit of breakdown earlier about this Vanderbilt team.
Speaker 2: Very well coached.
Speaker 3: Okay, so Clark Lee has done an incredible job at
taking a program that is historically just not been event
for an entire season, certainly not multiple season. They had
flashes here and there, but this is this is a
team that's very well coached. They're gonna do everything they're
not gonna give you, just like they're not gonna be
very blitz heavy, very pass heavy. They are very balanced
on everything defensive side of the ball. Their balance. They're
gonna run, man, They're gonna run zone. They're won two three,
four coverages. They're gonna do everything on offense. It's death
by a thousand cuts with this offense. They're gonna hand
it off, they're gonna quarterback run, they're gonna do jet sweeps,
they're gonna screen you. They're gonna do the zone read
with a quarterback. They'll do RPOs, quick routs, they'll take
play action and take a deep shot. Quarterbacks gonna scramble
and certainly no sliding.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: And they're very disciplined in what they do and not
to mention they got an absolute caveman of a quarterback
that just plays the game full out.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna go to the clip here.
Speaker 3: I just want to show you a little bit of
a little bit of what we're dealing with with this
Diego Pavia.
Speaker 2: Guy.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm on full screen here, bud. See all right,
old one second, technical difficulties you're rehearsed as at break.
All right, you try it now, all right, we're just
gonna play it.
Speaker 5: There we go.
Speaker 3: All right, so watch this, watch this play. This play
actually just kind of made me laugh when I was
watching it. So a little scramble to the right, it's nothing,
nothing's playing. Sorry, guys, technical difficulties an here, we're not
gonna be able to watch the film.
Speaker 2: Just reconnect it real quick, should I?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Hey, this is the first blemish since Jason got bet.
He's just laughing right now, laughing at this is said anybody?
This isn't knowing anybody. Mm hmmmm, all right, good luck
to us, Scott Speed.
Speaker 5: What was this the pitch play?
Speaker 2: This is not the pitch play.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: This is a play where Diego Pavia scrambles out to
the or does a sprint out to the right.
Speaker 5: He hits a short, little pass and we've all.
Speaker 3: Seen the play where you know, there's a big pile up,
there's a scrum running back, the ball carriers fighting for
extra yardage, and linemen will come in. Offense line will
come and try to clean up the pile. Look for
work people standing around the pile defenders. They're gonna try
to send a little bit of a message and clean
it up. Well, Diego Pavia takes it upon himself to
be that workhorse. He sprints out, throws a pass, the
guy catches it, takes a couple of yards, piles up,
and Diego Pavia comes in and tries to light people up.
He's an absolute cave man, an absolute animal. And uh, Taylor,
how are we doing, Bud? Now it's done.
Speaker 2: We're toast.
Speaker 5: So sorry guys, Sorry out there. I know I was
kind of looking for this, Mike.
Speaker 3: One of my favorite parts of doing this is kind
of watching the film and kind of kt a little
bit but laundred.
Speaker 5: Guess what what Matt broke the surface? He did?
Speaker 2: No, it's not a service.
Speaker 4: What's going on?
Speaker 5: Like he's he's full screen and like that's what it
looks like on my end, do you try unplugging it
and play.
Speaker 2: Just hot trouble on it? It didn't work?
Speaker 5: Oh no, I know.
Speaker 3: All right, Well let's go around the room and see
what y'all's what y'all are looking at for the end.
Speaker 2: So we've I've just kind of talked.
Speaker 3: About how their offense is like death by a thousand cuts.
They are not gonna hit a ton of like explosive plays.
They're gonna try yeah, and he's they're gonna try to
hit it. They're gonna play action you. But really it's
they give you so many different looks on offense. They
give you so many different things to as a defense,
to have to game plan for. They run a ton
of screens, they run the jet motions, zone inside, outside zone,
they encounters and then oh yeah they can have this
this meat out of a quarterback do quarterback powers, quarterback runs,
then zone reads, then quick motions, and then to a
zone read and then they love little quick passes, sprint out,
move the pocket a little bit. They just keep they
They they don't settle on one thing like so many
offenses do as an identity. Their identity really is is
Diego Pavia and the energy that he brings. So it's
not one thing that you can game plan. It is
a completely balanced offense. And I'm not just talking about
like what the run pass percentages. You remember Mike Mike
Leach's old saying about oh it's balanced, because yeah, we
throw it sixty times a game, but we got nine
people with over twenty thirty yards receiving, So that's pretty
balanced to me. So what they do is, yeah, their
runs might be a lot more, but they're running it
with receivers, they're running back with quarterbacks, they're running with
different different running backs, and they are It makes it
really hard for defensive coordinators. So it's it's one of
the things that I'm looking at is what kind of
confusion that we can bring out. They were in Like
the game that I really watched, this Alabama game and
this was at half done fourteen fourteen with.
Speaker 6: Time thought they might have came back until that last
fumble that they had in that game, like they what was.
Speaker 4: The score in the fourth quarter where they had that
last drive Andandy did it was close. I think they
just needed a touch.
Speaker 5: They were down.
Speaker 4: Seventeen maybe I don't remember.
Speaker 5: They were down eight. They lost by sixteen, so they
were down whatever the touchdown was, was Obama scored lates
they were probably down seven.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so they had the chance. But I think Diego fumbled.
Speaker 5: It fumbled in the second and.
Speaker 6: It But to your point about their offense though, and
our defense, I think I know, like Blake Baker is
also a psycho, like if you in the best possible
ye the.
Speaker 4: Best way we say it with love.
Speaker 6: So I think the defense is like he can handle it.
The question is can your offense stay on the field
long enough to give your defense a little break, because
that didn't happen during all miss and that's why you
had some of those situations where the defense was tired,
maybe out there ninety four percent of the game.
Speaker 5: Maybe I'm crazy. I'm not worried about Diego pave in
this game, not at all. I wish you handled him
a year ago. Now, Look, each team is different. I
understand that you were awful against running quarterbacks this year.
Last year, for the most part, you've been pretty good
at it. You held that Vanderbilt offense who scored a
lot of year ago to twenty one. I'm watching Cedric Alexander.
I don't know if you've watched him at Tony's number
twenty eight on Vanderbilt. He's there running back. He's only
he only has fifty carries. These five touchdowns and fifty carries.
That's a good number. And he's averaging six and a
half yards per carry. Last year he averaged three and
a half. He's the one that broke the long run.
I think it was on Vandy's opening drive against Alabama.
The seventy yarder that was part of it was the
I want to watch this happened. Screw up Taylor. This
happened last week.
Speaker 2: Wow, Taylor.
Speaker 5: Remember Fuller, the South Carolina running back, he broke the
seventy He already had some trouble with him in the
second half because you were keying in on Sellars. Yeah,
Cedric Alexander is the guy I'm watching because keyan on
Pavia he could bring it.
Speaker 3: And I agree with you, like I'm not worried about
Diego Pavia changing the game by himself, Like it's not
that's not what he does. How he changes the game
is he gives. He brings an extra element to everything
that you do. So he hands it off. You just
can't like forget the quarterback when you're the defense. You
have your eyes always have to be in two to
three places at one time. You have to be reading
through the quarterback, through the line, through the you have
to You just can't take the bait first hand because
what Diego Pavia can do, and he does it well,
he takes what they give you and he just like
I said, I said, like three times death by a
thousand cuts, He's just gonna come. He's gonna gonna keep coming,
keep coming, keep coming. Now, he's not gonna He's not
this four to three guy that's gonna break off an
eighty yard run or break fifty tackles like Lenora Sellers
can do. But he's just a guy that is perfect
for what they are trying to do on offense.
Speaker 2: And we got a tripod vote here.
Speaker 3: Do we think on the way out, do you think
Jake unplugged something sabotages.
Speaker 5: Probably I'll say now, I'll so yes he did, because
like I kind of know what's going on and.
Speaker 3: It just can't be fixed. I just can't be fixed. Well,
maybe maybe next year we'll get it. All right, We're
gonna come back with a little ass the bench on
our last segment here by yourself as a tripod right here,
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Speaker 1: Closeism, don't try to fize shum blocked in on ULSU
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Speaker 2: All right, are good to go? All right?
Speaker 3: I like brought us back in from first rady like
twice right there and the Microsoft we're good.
Speaker 2: No, that's on me.
Speaker 3: Wow, uh my first technical difficulties without Jake here with
that video, total panic that set man, I think we
think we we we saved ish it. Talking about Andy,
I thought you were great, good under pressure, good under pressure.
I was like, Okay, what're you talking about now? I
can't just like talk about film.
Speaker 5: Oh all right, we're gonna go to ask the bench.
Speaker 3: We got a couple coming in the chat here, so
if you got something and we only got a couple
of minutes, they're to ask this one says ask QB one.
Will Vandy be trying to keep the LSU defense on
the field and wear them down like Ole missed it
to us? Yeah, that'd be a good game plan. It's
kind of hard to implement that because that's what Ole
miss does. That's like they're a fastball type of offense,
like get to line of scrimmage, get as many plays
as you can go as fast as you can, like
they could try to do that maybe for a series
or two, but if it's not like already in their
offensive DNA, it's tough to just go ahead and like
put that fat. And that's what was effective against LSU's
defense was being so fast to the line of scrimmage,
you getting the play call in so fast that they
didn't have that opportunity to get some complicated schemes dialed up.
Speaker 6: I was gonna say, it doesn't really seem like Vandy
plays a lot of tempo if.
Speaker 5: Any No, they're they're they're picking poppy down the field.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, uh see ask the bench. Did Flynn just
confirm he'll be on radio next year? So we get
at least two years a full time flush string like
I signed a lot of time contract I don't know
there's contracts.
Speaker 6: And in Blood in the Bloody, him and Gordy both
cut themselves and shook hands.
Speaker 2: That was the that was in college.
Speaker 3: We were dumb, like uh there was uh we would
be you burn brothers with your buddy. Oh no, it
was like you were you know, you're you're having a
couple of diecis and you would sit there and you
put your arms together. Now you were dumb college kid
put your arms together, and if somebody, not me, somebody
was ripping a dark you just like drop it in
the middle of your arms and smash it so you
had matching burn scars. Wow, that was terrible. How dumb
is that? Hey, how are you going to take in
the game this weekend? You're going You're going to Nashville
the show Friday and then so you're going to the
game credentials, So you're gonna it's like credentials to go
on the field.
Speaker 6: Yeah, beforehand, beforehand, and then I'll go up to the
press box and then we'll see how long I was,
We'll see how all is she's doing.
Speaker 4: It's because you can't cheerlead. You can't do anything in
the press box.
Speaker 6: So if I'm getting angry, like I have to leave,
I love Saturday.
Speaker 2: Night, you just done with it.
Speaker 4: I just I can't move on.
Speaker 2: Yeah I left too, but I had children falling asleep.
Speaker 4: Well, I just can't be emotional in there.
Speaker 5: So yeah, Tay, how are you taking in the game?
Buddy on the couch, dude, same sports watching spot as every.
Speaker 2: Week, Me too.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you. What do we even need Jake? Oh
thanks so oh dead Wade a little bit summer saying hey,
we appreciate the time, We appreciate you joining us today.
Speaker 2: We love you.
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