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Speaker 3: Uh, The New Orleans Saints take on the San Francisco
forty nine ers coming up this week, and the Saints
will be facing off against a backup quarterback. Brock Party
is going to miss. Uh, you know, timetable like two
to five weeks. I'm like that's good, that's big window there,
but that's what we pay you a lot of money.
Dot can you just give us like maybe a two
week window. So if these Saints do face off against
a backup quarterback, it's going to be.
Speaker 2: Mcquirkle Oh boy, mac.
Speaker 3: Jones is going to be the quarterback there for the
forty nine ers. So look, if you're the Saints, I'm
not saying you're sitting over here hoping for injuries, but
if you could pick two guys for San Francisco to
be out Brock Perdy, George Kittle, probably probably two that yeah,
probably the two that you would hope would miss the competition.
So it's a great opportunity. And again, like I don't
think the Saints are in a position to be like
we want your best shot, We really want your starters
in now, if you can get the starting quarterback to
miss one and your absolute best tight end in the league,
game changing guy that is single handedly one games before,
yeah you take that, You take that.
Speaker 4: We don't need their best shot. Yeah, we'll just take
their mediocre shot.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So this was about fifteen minutes ago. Brock Party will
miss two to five weeks with a form of turf toe.
So like I believe, I believe yesterday the messaging was
it was going to be a long shot that brock
Party could play, and it felt like he wasn't going
to play. But yeah, two to five weeks with turftoe,
a form of turf toe is what we're seeing there.
So you're preparing for mag Jones and again, like if
you were the Saints, like for two people to be
out for the forty nine ers. I mean, those are
two people obviously major, major players, and you know, Kittle's
a mismatch no matter who you are. So we'll see
if you know, Juwan Jennings can get back on the field.
He's questionable for this game. Obviously a very talented receiver,
but it's the quarterback, man, it's the quarterback position that
we're going to talk about here. The line went from
seven and a half to three and a half with.
Speaker 2: This news today.
Speaker 3: Let's go so we got actually, look, it's a great
opportunity for the Saints.
Speaker 2: You got to get get some wins, you.
Speaker 4: Got, yeah, and an opportunity presents this at home.
Speaker 3: Their quarterbacks hurt. I think, I know you could say
Christian McCaffrey. I still think George Kittle is the best
player and he's just an animal.
Speaker 2: I would agree with you.
Speaker 3: So they're down quarterback and their best player, you have
them at home. You're searching for a victory any way
you can. This year, this is a great opportunity for you.
Speaker 4: Not only is Kittle, I think their best player, but
the guy that brings a lot of juice and energy
and just that.
Speaker 2: Crazy meat pisson vinegar, pisson vinegar. Would you call it?
Speaker 4: One time, crazy white boy energy, Just he just brings
that to the table. So if you've missed that, it's
missing a big piece of you, not only not only physically,
but emotionally out there as well. So if the Saints,
like any good teams, and we're not claiming that right
now for the Saints, but it's the NFL when when
an opportunity presents.
Speaker 2: Itself, you have to take advantage.
Speaker 4: So when you're starting quarterback and your best players not playing,
and you're playing at the Dome, it kind of becomes
a must win situation.
Speaker 2: You got you gotta pick this one off. So we'll
see what happens.
Speaker 4: And you got mac Jones coming in of course, A
I guess what would be considered a first round bus
right now. Even though we talked about at the break
that he had a pretty decent rookie campaign, and I
was looking at his numbers. So I looked up his
numbers expecting them to be atrocious. I expected him to
be like, you know, fifty touchdowns and eighty interceptions or something,
but they're actually not terrible. Career completion percentage is over
four seasons is sixty five point nine percent, so almost
sixty six percent completion ten five and ninety total yards,
fifty four touchdowns to forty four interceptions.
Speaker 2: I really expected that to be a little bit closer.
Speaker 4: To even so, like in an ESPN like rating of
eighty quarterback rating of eighty four point nine, which is
not like terrible statistics. It's not elite or really good
or anything, but I expected it because of I mean,
he's a first round pick in twenty twenty one and
this is a third team. Like that's pretty wild to
like not have such bass, but you know, clearly they
trust in him enough to be a backup to a
in a backup to a highly paid quarterback as an
important position. So we'll see what kind of juicy's got left.
I mean, if there's motivation, if there's motivation to be
had out there for a guy, it's being a first
round pick, people saying you're a bust and get an
opportunity to go play in a dome, which is a
quarterback's dream. Playing in a dome like this is an
opportunity that you're gonna get a kid's best shot, who
is obviously was clearly more talented enough to be a
first rounder. So again, like looking at I was expecting
to come on here and be able to talk all
segment about how bad he's been, but really it hasn't
been that.
Speaker 2: Like, I'm sure there's been some games where it's just
been hideous.
Speaker 4: Oh and and that that baby that used diaper face
that he had.
Speaker 2: After he got when he sprained his ankle.
Speaker 4: Was it a torn achilles norained his ankle? There was
a clip recently I saw on on on Twitter X
or whatever that came across and he's like, here's the difference,
And it showed Aaron Rodgers face when he tore his
a c L and he like he limped off the
field and he was just like stone cold. Yeah, he
was Mac Jones's face after he sprained his ankle.
Speaker 2: And he was like crying, two people carrying them off.
People was crying and screaming in the tunnel. Did see that?
Come on, what are we doing on? Be tough?
Speaker 4: But you do have more touchdowns interceptions in your career,
so I'll give you.
Speaker 3: A little bit of credit for that. Yeah, Adam Fields,
I hear you. He's like, do we really want the
Saints winning a lot of games?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 3: I understand, like you want a great draft choice. But Adam,
I'll tell you this, and I'll ask you this question.
What have the Saints done in the draft that makes
you feel like they'd make the right decision?
Speaker 2: That's a great question.
Speaker 3: What have they done that may Oh, yeah, for sure,
they'd crush the top pick. Who are we taking for
right now? I don't have that belief that they would
do that. Like now, Banks this, you know, number nine
overall pick. It looks pretty good. It looks solid for sure,
But do we really need to revisit the draft history?
Like you just had to cut a second round pick.
They couldn't find a tackle with the search warrant in
his time in New Orleans and Isaiah Foski and we
could go down the long list, and Trevor Pinning and
Caesar UIs like, we could go down the list if
you want to, But you know it. You already know it.
So like I hear you, I hear what you're saying about, like,
let's get a good draft choice, let's get a quarterback.
But do you really, right now trust them to make
the right pick. And here's my here's my opinion.
Speaker 4: A thought on this is the Saints are not threatening
to fall outside of the top ten in the draft.
Speaker 2: That's just the roster's not there, the depth is not there.
Speaker 4: They're not going to go on this run where they're like, okay,
we're you know, we won enough games to where we're
picking fifteenth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're gonna have a top ten pick.
Speaker 4: So it's like the difference between you know, three and ten,
I mean it's it's, you know, fairly significant.
Speaker 2: But what I would rather do with a.
Speaker 4: First year head coach and two young quarterbacks is show
some life, show some progress, and show other vets across
the league who might be become free agents that we're
a destination place that is an up and coming, Like.
Speaker 2: Look at we did this year with our first year
head coach.
Speaker 4: It's kind of a sexy place to look at the
offense we did, we had success.
Speaker 2: Guess what would happen if.
Speaker 4: We had you in a Saints helmet, Like, that's the
pitch to free agents. So I'd rather that then tank
and get a shot at a hopefully a number one overall,
because just because you're number one or two overall doesn't
mean you're going to be good. You got bet are
shot at it. There's more. But and we do think
there's certain teams.
Speaker 3: That if they were drafting number one overall, like yeah,
look at the draft, look at the Eagles have drafted,
and look at Green Bay's draft or whoever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but if you have a free agent, if you
have some free agents in in the NFL that in
mid March of twenty twenty six are completely free agents
and trying to decide where to go, where do I fit?
Are you really going to look at a place that
went two and fifteen and has to take a young
quarterback and start over, like, I mean, we get it,
it is a rebuild year. Yeah, but I would rather
show some positivity. We won these games. We won the games,
and this is the depth we had.
Speaker 3: Just think if we had you right, what we could
do instead of with the fourth overall pig, the New
Orleans Saints select Edge Rusher from Houston Christian exactly intername
or maybe it's Houston Baptist.
Speaker 2: Now they change names.
Speaker 3: I don't remember if they changed two Christian or two Baptists,
but either way, you get the point.
Speaker 2: Oh, you know, Mickey's gonna do that there. But his
real athletics score was through the roof.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so was Peyton Turner's and Marcus Davenports.
Speaker 4: So maybe we just like celebrate the wins and like
so celebrate competitive competitive.
Speaker 2: Be competitive, like the Pelicans are competitive and.
Speaker 4: It sucks, the love of God, Saints fans, don't be
mad if we win.
Speaker 3: I know, like, come on, man, the Pelicans is like
you poke them with a stick, Like do something, Come on,
give me something like Matt Jones, George Yes, you're facing
McCorkle Jones with no George Kittle and a Christian McCaffrey
that is probably going to have bandages on because my
man's put together right now with duck tape and super
Gluehan That's that's kind of where he's at right now.
I wish he was healthy and love watching c Mac,
but he's not all right. Dwan Jennings is same situation.
He's not healthy. Go be competitive, Go win a game,
Just go do it.
Speaker 2: Go do it.
Speaker 3: You're at home, you're facing a backup quarterback without their
best player.
Speaker 4: Go win a game. So we're in a grants, this
is a must win. It is I don't find a
way to win this one. I think we could safely
say we're eliminated from playoff contention.
Speaker 2: I'm with you mathematically.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And look like if you if if you don't
like Spencer Rattler, if he's if he's your issue. I
do think there's gonna be four quarterbacks in this in
this draft at are good day one starter quarterbacks. So
you can go get one in the draft. Even if
you win six games, you'll be fine. Just go win.
Just gonna be competitive. That's why you spot the ball,
is to go play and win. I hope you draft
somebody that you hope ends up being good.
Speaker 4: If there was a camp Ward in this draft, I
would maybe say Tank I like him a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, yeah, look, Cam's great.
Speaker 2: What if you're like, well, Cam is gonna be.
Speaker 3: But okay, it's a great example though, but like he
was the clear number one in that draft. Like if
you go back to yeah, okay, if you go back
to the you know Jaden Daniels, Caleb Williams, Bo Nigs,
Michael Pennock, Junior, JJ mccara like, yeah, Drake may right.
I mean it's a different draft than what you had,
you know, last year, where it's like, okay, well Cam's
the guy, let's try to figure out if there's anybody
else that can, you know, be a first round pick
at the quarterback position. So it's a different conversation, completely
different conversation. I don't think that this draft is what
we saw in twenty four, but it's certainly more than
we saw last year.
Speaker 4: So I guess we were safe to say we're taking
the Saints plus three and a half all day, every.
Speaker 2: Day, every lets go. And I actually feel pretty good
about it. I feel real good about it. I feel
like I'm having a lot to you.
Speaker 4: I think based on the show that I mean, because
we have listeners all over the world, tens and tens
of listeners. I think there is what tens of listeners
all over the world.
Speaker 2: I think the line's gonna move.
Speaker 4: Saints will probably be minus three and a half at
by ten o five.
Speaker 2: I beget.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 3: Probably it goes down. You don't think this show's affecting
maybe the line. Maybe maybe I think there's a shot.
I bet buy a kickoff it goes down to two
and a half, though, I bet you're right. Yeah, if
you can get at three and a half, get it, go.
Speaker 2: Ahead and get it right today.
Speaker 3: And if you got it at what was it? What
I say it opened up? Yep, like eight and a half. Yeah, yeah,
I think you said that. Yeah, okay, sounds right.
Speaker 2: If you got it at that, congratulations.
Speaker 3: All right, we will step away, but yeah, big opportunity
for your New Orleans Saints to go win a game
when they're without their quarterback, without their best offensive flair.
Speaker 2: We'll be back more.
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Speaker 2: Spit on it.
Speaker 3: I'm about to just take my thumb and rip this
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Speaker 2: God, well he didn't even have a good autograph. I mean,
what does that does not say Tim Tebow? And it's
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Speaker 3: No, I mean I see the fifteen there, but what
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Speaker 2: What do I those? Oh, it's just come. That's ugly
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each side of your helmet, Florida? What are we doing?
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Speaker 4: What is that that white helmet with like flex SPECSA
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Speaker 2: It does look if.
Speaker 3: You're into Florida helmet son by Tim Tebow, which who
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Speaker 2: Who would be?
Speaker 3: But if you are a pro destrooms, you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, burn it. You know what I think about Florida's
helmet perfect, You're think about l Shue's helmet. You know
what Florida should be thinking about coming into Death Out
this Saturday.
Speaker 4: Scary, terrified, scary because I think that LSU fan heard
Brian Kels, Brian Kelly's plea, his demand, his command. Well
they did, I hope they did. If you, we probably
need to play it. I don't know if we can
being on remote, but we probably need to play it
just so you can hear from the.
Speaker 2: Coach light up Death Valley this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we played it on Monday, but yeah,
it's a good reminder. So Tata, whenever you had that ready,
just kind of shoot me a text and we got
a little bit of a delay, but we'll get that
played again. And there's nothing better then when a big
game is in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, because it's Thursday, and
you start to feel the buzz, you start to feel
it in the air, you start to feel it in
your fingertips, and your spidy senses start going off a
little bit like, oh, something's a little something's a little
bit different here in the town.
Speaker 2: This week.
Speaker 3: You start to see the r vs getting ready on
Thursday instead of Friday night. You know, the businesses are
jumping a little bit. You start to see more movement
across town here and there. You know, it's just it's
a different feel whenever you have a big game in town.
And so like when your head coach challenges you as
a fan base, because when these lists come out, and
when EA Sports has a video game and it's like,
what's the number one place to play, Well, it's Death Valley.
It's Death Valley at night, It's Death Valley against the
Florida Gators.
Speaker 2: All of that is here. All of that is an
opportunity this week.
Speaker 4: So the players have an opportunity, but the fans have
an opportunity to sure provide and make it like we
all everybody, everybody has that responsibility, that ability themselves to
go and make it an unforgettable night and death value.
Speaker 3: You only get so many of these every year. And
think about it when we're sitting there now, we're lucky,
we have LSU baseball to be excited about, talk about, celebrate,
But still, like when you're sitting there and it's the
springtime and you're jonesing for some football.
Speaker 2: Well, remember, you only get so many of these per year.
Speaker 3: Like that big ass stadium behind me, it's beautiful, we
love it.
Speaker 2: It's incredible. It's the best in the country.
Speaker 3: It only gets used like eight times a year, and
this year even less because you went to Clemson that
normally would have been a home game for you. And
I know you've had some neutral site games over the
last couple of years, but normally that's a home game
for you. So you lost one of those opportunities. You
only get so many, So why not celebrate the hell
out of the ones that you get, certainly when you
play against a team that you hate so and.
Speaker 2: You even get even less at night, Like this is true, like.
Speaker 4: The stars, you don't get to dictate that any Yeah,
the stars are aligned, guys, the stars are aligned. So
like this, you never know a night game in LSU,
win the opportunity to go which game it's gonna be
where you can look back in like fifteen twenty years
and be like, I remember where I was sitting for
that one. I remember the atmosphere is allowed. It's like
people still come to us and talk about games that
we were at LSU for them, we're lucky enough to
play them, and they talk about where they were sitting,
like what they were always has an opportunity like this,
This game has an opportunity to do that. You just
never know when that's gonna happen. So go uh shout out,
don't forget to wear gold.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's a gold game. It's a cold game.
Difict does a gold baseball jersey?
Speaker 2: Is that play? Is it gold? Yeah? Yep? And it's
championship gold. You know, so like you that you win.
Speaker 3: No one else you wins championships or championship gold gold
baseball jersey stitch yep, I got it. It's kind of like,
uh so we're gold, kind of like victory red for tiger.
Speaker 4: And if like you, you know you don't have a
gold LSU shirt, just find a generic yellow shirt.
Speaker 3: If you say yellow one more time this week, I'm
gonna punch you in your tar.
Speaker 4: I say gold Las Sue shirt, so that color is
gold when it's specific to l s U.
Speaker 2: If you see yellow again, we're gonna fight. I didn't
say yellow. I said yellow.
Speaker 3: Well, yellow wood is a big alburam booster. So okay,
which tigers you for here? Flynn as a reach the company.
That's a big it sounds like it as well, say
war Eagle here, wow, all right, here is your head
coach Brian Kelly talking about what he wants to see
this Saturday in Death Valley.
Speaker 2: We need to be Death Valley.
Speaker 5: We need to live up to our resume as the
most difficult place to play in the country.
Speaker 2: Because it's SEC time.
Speaker 5: So you had your warm up tailgates, you know, you
got your recipes down, you got how much you need
for drinking.
Speaker 2: Now let's go get it.
Speaker 5: Let's make Tiger Stadium what what it is been built
on and that is an incredibly difficult place to play.
And so that's my my first shout out to our
fan base.
Speaker 2: We need you this weekend.
Speaker 3: All right, the challenge has been set, a gauntlet has
been thrown.
Speaker 4: I like how he so politely told us the recipes.
You know what you need for drinking, basically said have
some pops. Yeah, get lively when you're driving your car
to Death Valley. Put on uh little Phil Collins in
the air tonight, because I want Florida to be feeling
what's in the air when they step in there.
Speaker 3: I would say, obviiously shut out of the sun. I'd
say that either way though. Both very good, great song.
I can't wait. I can't wait to feel it. I
can't wait to feel it. I mean we're sitting here
talking all this noise. You're gonna be there, right? Oh yeah,
I'll be there. Okay, it's the Florida game. Yeah, I'll
be there every year? All right, just make sure.
Speaker 2: No, I can't say that for every game. You don't
want to go to Gaines though. That's true.
Speaker 4: But Brian Kelly just called me out as well, alongside
everybody else, without question, without question.
Speaker 3: Everybody, everyone listening to this show, you got called out.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: My kids, if they're not if they're not yelling loud enough,
they're gonna they're gonna lose some gold stars at home,
some gold stars.
Speaker 2: You're gonna take Huck's car collection. OI.
Speaker 3: Maybe all right, we will step away here and will
we come back.
Speaker 2: Let's continue breaking down all the games.
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Speaker 3: H I think my I think my Back to the
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wardrobe choices here today.
Speaker 2: Very inspirational, Jacob. Well, thank you well, Jacob.
Speaker 6: I just wanted to show that here at Pro Dreams,
we don't just sell your helmets. We don't just sell
Tim Tebow stuff. We kind of have a little bit
of it all.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So this is a sign guitar by Michael J. Fox
from the movie Yep. And he's Saang what song while
playing it Johnny be good, good good little questionnaire like it,
like it. And then I have the glasses signed by
Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. Yeah, those are awesome
little mix of all.
Speaker 7: Yeah, y'all got a lot Like y'all got a lot
of movie stuff here, Like I know in the in
the old shop you had some, but like now that
you've got all this space, like yeah, sure it's.
Speaker 3: Incredible sports memorabilia LSU Saints and like any team, like
you know, you gonna have your Bengal stuff because a Burrow.
Speaker 2: But I mean y'all got some movie stuff here.
Speaker 3: I mean you got kind of your own little room
dedicated to it for sure.
Speaker 6: We've got a sixteen by twenty signed by the entire
cast of sand Lot, which is one of my personal favorites.
We've got the original ari Lehman, who was the first
uh what's his name, ari Lehman, the guy from Face Off,
I mean from the Boy in the.
Speaker 3: Lake Jason Jason, Yeah, I thought, okay, Jason Vorhes, Yeah
that's right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there we go, so a little bit of everything. Tery.
Speaker 4: When y'all set up a if you go to a fundraiser,
some sort of event that they're where they're raising money,
like what is do you kind of ask them like, Hey,
what is your kind of the clientele that you're gonna have?
Do you do you find that sports is the main
thing that people like. Do they like some of the
like the pop cultures that fifty to fifty spilitters. It
kind of depends on the spot. It depends on the
spot and the vibe of the event, right. We want
to make sure we have a little bit of it all,
so we have art to Becky Foss is our number
one artist that we use.
Speaker 6: She has some beautiful stuff. But it really just depends
on the event. And I always tell people that we
don't just sell memorability. We sell like a moment or
we sell a memory, we sell a dream, pro dreams
to teaze them.
Speaker 2: We sell a dream out there.
Speaker 6: That's but everybody remembers that one moment in sports where
like I was at that game when Jacob went for it,
I was at that game when he threw that touchdown,
or whatever the case is. But everybody remembers that one
moment in sports where like I can go back to
where nothing else in the world matters, and especially like
what happened this past week and current events that I
think sports is always going to be that go to
of like I can disassociate with what's going on in
the world and be right back in sports.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean we actually, like the twenty year anniversary of
our dame against Arizona State just happened the other day,
and it was like, it was such a devastating time
in Louisiana going through Hurricane Katrina, and it's like, you know, initially,
you're like, does anybody care about like a football game?
Like is anybody like we got so much devastation back home,
But I can't tell you the amount of people like
that year and still to this day will come up
to all of us and be like, hey, that three
hour escape that we had, Like we had a lot
of things going on and we barely can find a
place to watch the game.
Speaker 2: But for three hours we were able.
Speaker 3: To escape a little bit and just go watch y'all
play Arizona State. It's like sometimes you forget about that, right,
that what sports can do for you and you.
Speaker 4: Can offer that little time capsule memory that can take
you back to those moments too, and with the with
the memorabilia, like you said, there's a helmet or.
Speaker 2: A picture or a ticket stuff or whatever.
Speaker 4: It is just to like take you back a little
bit and bring a little joy back to.
Speaker 6: Where we can all find a common ground of like
that's my team and that's my moment.
Speaker 3: Even this ugly ass Florida helmet you've got in front
of us, Tim t Bows signed Florida helmet.
Speaker 6: But we have one of your helmets signed with some
unique inscriptions.
Speaker 2: What is s T T D B B H. Yeah,
I'm not sure. I don't know. I don't know. It
says gator hater as well, though I like the Gator hater.
Hey just play it, yeah, they just play it's play it.
Let's see what it stands for. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there
you go. It's like a little puzzle. Uh yeah. My
son came in the other day.
Speaker 4: It's like, hey, Dad, she's got some pretty they got
some chance dad, that are kind of dirty.
Speaker 2: And I was like, what are you talking about. Never
heard of that before. I never heard And he was like, yeah,
the one you know, you know, the one that they
say you suck.
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, yeah, that's you're right.
Speaker 2: But I'll write a letter.
Speaker 3: Uh So on game days you are set up throughout
like the surrounding areas of Tiger Stadium.
Speaker 2: How many locations you'll have on game day?
Speaker 6: We have Location one. That's our biggest locations about Mike
the Tiger, right, so come out and check us out.
We have some inside outside the corridors we have like
Gate twenty three is another big location. But here in
our brand new retail store. It's open for business. And
this Saturday, we have a very very special, unique guest
coming yeah to sign some autographs. From ten to eleven thirty,
mister Jacob Hester will be here signing autographs.
Speaker 2: Do we have like an applause button on the wait?
Speaker 3: I thought you wanted I thought you wanted people to
come yes to the store.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, yes, jeez, tough crowd around here. No, but
Jaco will be signing autographs.
Speaker 2: Everybody.
Speaker 6: Y'all come in, take some pictures, as he says, drink
some coffee.
Speaker 2: And watch some game day.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Man, I'm like I'm gonna be posted up. I might
be in the same exact seat watching game day. Answering
any questions about the Florida game, how much we hate
Florida any other game across the country this week because
we all love waking up and watching college game day.
Why not go ahead and do it in a place
like this, And yeah, okay, if you feel, you know, lead.
Speaker 2: Go ahead and just pick up some L.
Speaker 3: Shue merch or Lshue memorabilia like this great or or
if you want to buy this so you can burn
it at your tailgate, you can do.
Speaker 6: That statement or buy it and put it on and
do like a little head button.
Speaker 3: So oh yeah, well, bigcat, bigcat drill. Yeah all right, Flynn,
I'll put on the LSU helmet.
Speaker 2: You put it on a Florida helmet. Nope, no bull
noose on that helmet. I forgot. Yeah you had the
old bullhorn in the on the Burrow helmet there.
Speaker 6: So, but not only do we just do memorabilia here,
this is also a great event space for tailgating. You
can rent this space out. But y'all come check us
out at thirty nine to thirty Burbank Drive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I would encourage all of our listeners y'all
come hang out with us again. You're gonna be on
campus anyways. It's big game day, So you don't get
to campus at like four pm, like you're gonna be
here all day, so come hang out with us as well.
Again the website pro dash Dreams dot com you can
check out all the great stuff they have. But I
would encourage you come boots on the ground because I mean,
like I said, it's LSU, it's Saints, it's movie memorabilia.
You've got your burrow bingals, uh you got, you got
a little bit of every It's not just LSU. Of
course they have all the l Shue, but it's not
just l s U. So Trey, we appreciate as always, sir,
Thank you, buddy. Absolutely play all tune as we go. Yeah,
please do, please go ahead, all right, more OTV when
we come back here live from pro Dreams.
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I've talked myself into it. No brock Purdy, no George
Kittle sat.
Speaker 2: There in Yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh, they're gonna win this week.
Speaker 2: We said that last week too.
Speaker 4: But I think what the feeling I was getting, I
think it was a week premature. So it's this week
fest show one hundred percent what it's going to be.
Speaker 2: I like it. You had an opportunity last week.
Speaker 4: It's going to be a good weekend for elish for
Louisiana football fans.
Speaker 2: It would be some good vibes.
Speaker 3: If LSU was able to take down one of their
rivals and then the Saints get a victory, ask you
this positive, What do you.
Speaker 4: Expect from the Florida Gators coming into town?
Speaker 2: Like, I know.
Speaker 4: They had the loss this past week, South Florida, a
team that they're not supposed to ever lose to a
team that they're certainly more talented to. Now I know
a team that is talented. They were coming off of
a good win versus a ranked Boise State team. But still,
I don't care how good you are, You're still not
supposed to be Florida if you're South Florida. So how
do you think? What do you think the messaging was?
I mean they know, I mean they all these kids
have access to social media. They know the messaging that's
out there about Billy Napier for sure, and they know
what happened last year. They know that they saved at
the team, saved his job last year.
Speaker 2: And now they.
Speaker 4: Hear the rumblings, they hear people for calling people calling
for him to be fired. Now they get it. They
see that you can't shelter them from that. So as
a head coach, you kind of have to dress it right,
you have to address the elephant.
Speaker 2: In the room, you all.
Speaker 4: I mean you have to tell them, you know, this
is why we lost, Like y'all did not play well enough,
the effort wasn't there.
Speaker 2: But then you also got to say we need to
talk about this.
Speaker 3: So so if I am a Florida fan, like, at
least I can kind of say, you know what.
Speaker 2: We went through this last year.
Speaker 3: Now you don't love where you're at as a program,
because Florida wants to play for championships, right, I mean
they you know that's what they've they've done. I mean,
what six in two thousand and eight, Like you, you know,
you win multiple national championships. I know that wasn't just
yesterday or anything, but it's Florida. Come on, we know
what the deal is. But at least you can say,
you know what, last year wasn't going great. You lost
to Georgia and in Jacksonville you got absolutely housed by Texas.
Now you rested some of your players that you know,
maybe they could have gone, but you said, hey, we're
gonna make sure we're ready for Lshue at home. So
you lose to Georgia, you lose on the road, to
Texas and you come back and you beat LSHU. You
keep them out of Atlanta, you keep Ole Miss out
of Atlanta. You beat them. You go beat a rival
in Florida State. They weren't good last year, but you
still beat them. And then you went Bowl game against
two Lane. So you won four games in a row
after losing too in a row, and everybody thought, oh,
if you lose to LSU, Billy's just going to go
pack his office and he's done. And I truly believe that,
like if he lost that game, he probably was done.
They win that game, they won multiple games, They win
four games in a row, and look, you open the
season with Long Island. I'm not gonna take anything of that,
but you won. So you win five games in a row,
and it's like everything's going in the right direction. DJ
Lagway's back healthy, he's going we got LSU on the
road early in the season. We're feeling good about where
we're at right now. And then you lose to South Florida.
Now you had that as a win in the off season.
Every time you're playing the schedule game, you're like South
Florida win to and zero head and LSU gonna be
a top ten matchup maybe, and now it's not. And
now the same conversations are happening again. It's like, Okay,
you did it once, and that was highly impressive to
be able to change your season, change your fortune that
late into the season. I gave Billy a lot of
credit for that, But how many times can you do that?
Did you empty the tank?
Speaker 2: Right? All the equity that you built up.
Speaker 3: And had to use there in that moment, Like do
you have any more left over? So like that would
be the question, like what's the vibe going to be?
Is the team still together?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Because like DJ Lagway was hurt this off season as well,
So that's a young quarterback who's played, but still a
young quarterback. He didn't have that full off season as
because remember Graham Mertz was the starter last off season,
so DJ.
Speaker 2: Didn't have that.
Speaker 3: I'm in the thick of it, I'm in the fourth
quarter program, I'm in the summer workouts, I'm in the
spring football.
Speaker 2: I'm your guy, I'm your leader.
Speaker 3: This is the voice, Like he didn't have that, and
those things are very important in the off season.
Speaker 2: So it's like, what are you leaning on? Who are
you leaning on.
Speaker 3: Who are you counting on to make sure that you're
ready to go in this moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's certainly a good point. I know that.
Speaker 4: The thank you, I know, yeah, whatever, I know that.
I guess the argument can be made like, oh, well, Billy,
if there's any guy, if there's a coach that's already
been in this situation, he's proven that he can bring
the team back in a season after he's already kind
of on the hot seat.
Speaker 2: But like at a certain point, it's like, quit getting
on the hot seat. I know, I feel you don't
lose it, don't lose to South Florida. And I get it.
Speaker 4: DJ Lagway is dealing with some has dealt with some
offs's injuries.
Speaker 2: And and he is.
Speaker 4: I believe the messaging coming off is like he's getting better,
he's a little rusty.
Speaker 2: He's knocking the rust off. That don't matter.
Speaker 4: In the win lost calin it doesn't matter, like you're
still playing South Florida. You can't make that an excuse
of why you lost to South Florida in the swamp. Yeah,
there's no excuse for that. If your starter is not
ready or healthy enough or there enough to win a
game against South Florida.
Speaker 2: He doesn't need to be playing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well least like I remember Jimbo Fisher told me, like,
you can't play hurt because our backup's better than you hurt,
Like you know what I mean, Like you at fifty
percent is not as good as a backup, yeah at
one hundred percent. Right, So, but I'm not saying that
he's heard. But that's that's the messaging that I'm here,
and it's like, yeah, he's still knocking the rest off,
He's doing this, he's doing that. Well, there's no really
excuses in the win lost Cal. It's not going to
save a job because your quarterback's rusty because he had
a pulled hammy right in the off season. That's not
an excuse. And I am I'm sitting here. I've been
I have been watching trying to break down the offensive tapor,
the Florida offensive tape against South Florida last week.
Speaker 2: And granted, I.
Speaker 4: Will admit hand hand in the air, I haven't I
didn't watch a lot of outside of the LSU game.
Didn't watch a lot of DJ Lagway last year enough
to where like I was trying to grade him and
what And I've watched watching a little bit of this
tape from this past week, and not very impressed with
what I'm seeing from a mobility standpoint deciphering defenses.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: Sure, talented, big guy can make can make a lot
of throws. But I'm seeing a guy that's a little
bit inaccurate and he's gonna he makes accurate throws, but
he's got some mechanical flaws and some issues that I see.
Maybe that's the rust they're talking about. He plays a
little quick. His feet are a little bit slow, but
his upper body is very fast. Yeah, So like he's
slow in a drop back and then he makes a
decision last minute to throw it, and then he's like
really fast he gets it out and a lot of
times it looks pretty and you're like, oh, what a
quick delivery. But he's kind of like a slasher like
he he's a guy I call it a spinner, like
he spins his upper body to create His upper body
creates a lot of his power, not his lower body.
And I don't like that that that leads for over
the period of an entire game or a season, it
leads to inaccuracies. Now, he might make three, four, five,
six good throws in a row, but eventually it's going
to catch up to him. And I saw a lot
of throws early on that were not very accurate. And
I also saw South Florida defense flying around make him
play playing with more energy. Now, Yeah, Florida looks like
they got some talented guys on the offensive lineman. Their
their guards looked like they played pretty aggressive, but I
saw no movement, no movement forward. A lot of their
runs are RPOs, So what the what does the lineman
have to do on an RPO? They just have to
block and maintain their position. They can't drive people backwards
because then you get offensive linemen down the field.
Speaker 2: A lot of that.
Speaker 4: A lot of their run game is based off RPOs.
And RPOs are great. I love them. They're great to
sprinkle into the game, but that can't be your base
runs because your offensive linean cannot drive drive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I saw that a lot.
Speaker 4: Then, and so they just stand up and the holes
get clog and there's no where nowhere really to run.
So they got out energy. South Florida beat them. They
wanted it more. They wanted to get the ball. They
wanted to get the ball carrier down. So we'll see LSU.
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