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Hour One | Football Friday! LSU vs. Ole Miss & the Top 25 Slate · Off The Bench

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go, baby, let's go.
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: From a championship backfield to your morning drive. Hands to Hester,
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: and Hester, yep, got it, five out of five. You're
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: locked in to Off the Bench.
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: Flynn is back to throw for the end zone ball.
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  Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Cane Studio, here's Jacob Hester and
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  Speaker 1: Matt Flynn. Off the bench.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome in to OTB here on a football Friday. We
• 0:36
  Speaker 3: are live from Rouse's own Burbank and Lee here in
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  Speaker 3: the capital city. Jake and Flint and Moose here at Rouse's.
• 0:45
  Speaker 3: Alondra and Tay-Tay back in studio in downtown Baton Rouge.
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  Speaker 2: A lot to get to today. A lot of food
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  Speaker 2: to smell. Ooh, the smell's going to be good. A
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  Speaker 2: little sushi being cooked.
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  Speaker 3: Prepared right now i.
• 1:00
  Speaker 4: Think my guy might have had a i'm gonna have
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  Speaker 4: a long night i had another night on a thursday
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  Speaker 4: not here yet maybe he was at some sort of
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  Speaker 4: thursday high school football game.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe he was because my goodness i was.
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  Speaker 2: And sleepy boy a little sleepy boy a little.
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  Speaker 3: Sleepy boy uh you were at the college eight game
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  Speaker 3: college you didn't feel like they ate very much though.
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  Speaker 4: Well i was like i was watching the game i
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  Speaker 4: was like you know not the best college team i've
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  Speaker 4: seen you know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. It was a great game.
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  Speaker 4: We had a great time last night. They had some
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  Speaker 4: really nice uniforms. I was very impressed. I was very impressed.
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  Speaker 4: They brought the drum line. The collegiate prep. I do
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  Speaker 4: know how to say it now. I practiced it. I
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  Speaker 4: was in the mirror last night before going to bed
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  Speaker 4: just practicing.
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  Speaker 2: They did. They fought hard. They had a great band
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  Speaker 2: and drum line that came to the game.
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  Speaker 4: And it was really fun. We had a good little,
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  Speaker 4: nice little evening. But I did leave after the first-ish quarter.
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: Good for you. Hemi had a great performance.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, star of the show, clearly. Yeah. Working those cheers.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody was there to see Elijah Haven.
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  Speaker 2: They were there to see Hemi. The Kitty Cup Cheer Camp. So.
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  Speaker 2: We're good.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad you got. I know some people don't really
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  Speaker 3: hit or miss with a Thursday night football game.
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  Speaker 2: And look. Stuff.
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  Speaker 3: You get home late. You try to eat dinner. You
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  Speaker 3: try to talk to. your son about the game or
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  Speaker 3: your daughter if she was, you know, part of the cheer,
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  Speaker 3: the band, whatever.
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  Speaker 2: It's late. Why do they do it again? I know.
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  Speaker 3: So we did it in Shreveport as well because there
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  Speaker 3: was two stadiums. There was Lee Hedges Stadium and Independence
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  Speaker 3: Stadium that everybody kind of shared. And so you had
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  Speaker 3: to because, obviously, you all can't play on Fridays. I
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  Speaker 3: think a little bit of it is like that here
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  Speaker 3: with Memorial and Olympia and so many teams share, I think.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that's one of the reasons for them.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. But it's everybody else's excuse.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't know because, like, we played at Plaquemine
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  Speaker 3: last night, and they have a nice stadium. Like, they
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  Speaker 3: have their own stadium. So I'm not really sure. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if it's, you know, kind of like Thursday
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  Speaker 3: night football in the NFL, like a standalone situation where
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  Speaker 3: maybe you get more people.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you're looking for the ratings or not,
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  Speaker 2: the TV audience.
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  Speaker 3: No, but, like, U High Plaquemine was on, like, the
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  Speaker 3: LHSAA network or whatever that they have.
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  Speaker 2: And so, like, it was all in streaming. What about Dunham? Dunham.
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  Speaker 2: Collegiate Prep. That one probably not. Probably not streaming.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I don't really know. I'm not really sure.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I just think we should probably just
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  Speaker 2: keep them on Fridays.
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  Speaker 6: Technical difficulties during the Ole Miss week. Alondra, hopefully that
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  Speaker 6: is not a bad omen for how the game goes.
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  Speaker 2: We might have them back. We'll see.
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  Speaker 6: They're back on camera. So we'll check and see if
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  Speaker 6: we have.
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  Speaker 2: Them on audio.
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  Speaker 6: But look, guys, it's just one of those things. We're
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  Speaker 6: going to roll whenever we're on location. Things like that
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  Speaker 6: kind of happen. So we do have them back. We
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  Speaker 6: will throw it back if we have them on audio.
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  Speaker 6: But look, guys, it's just one of those things.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to roll. Hello. Do we have you? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you're on. Sure. I think we do. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I don't really know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know where you lost us.
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  Speaker 2: We're just over here rolling. We're just rolling about Thursday
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  Speaker 2: night football.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we were just talking about Thursday night football. Why
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  Speaker 3: do you do it? We don't really know.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about high school.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, there's a lot of LSU coaches that have children,
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  Speaker 3: support staff that have children that play for U-High. So
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  Speaker 3: it works out perfect for us.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for telling T-High for me. I love T. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Great guy.
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  Speaker 3: I definitely let him know you said what's up.
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  Speaker 2: Great player. Got nothing, you know, love him. He's crushing it.
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  Speaker 3: J-Bones played both ways last night.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. A lot of fun. They had this train horn, though,
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  Speaker 2: in the end zone. And they were pretty liberal with
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  Speaker 2: pressing the button. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: It was almost like you were on the button and
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  Speaker 3: you can't help yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Right, like every two-yard gain they got.
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  Speaker 3: And when we were on offense on third down, right
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  Speaker 3: before we snapped it, they would hit it once to
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  Speaker 3: try to, like, make us jump off sides. And I
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  Speaker 3: felt like that was a little bush.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Like that was a little bush league. Okay. That's
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of respect for you.
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  Speaker 3: It's like I didn't really know that you could have,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that situation, paraphernalia, if you will.
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  Speaker 2: You're not supposed to.
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  Speaker 3: On the sideline like that as a noisemaker.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, if I hear that train horn one
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  Speaker 3: more time.
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  Speaker 2: What are you going to do?
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  Speaker 3: Me and the guy over there, we just might have
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  Speaker 3: to fight on principle.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Man, we're fighting everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Like, on third down, just like. We're fighting everybody recently.
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  Speaker 3: To try to get us to jump off sides. I
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  Speaker 3: was like, if J-Bones jumps off sides because of this
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  Speaker 3: train horn.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: I'm his dad.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: What am I going to do?
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Fight the guy.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously. Duh. Might affect his scholarship to Florida State.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I wouldn't even let Jay Bowers go.
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  Speaker 2: To Florida State. No way.
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  Speaker 3: Like, buddy, we're just going to use tops and go
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  Speaker 3: to LSU.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just work on the degree. We're not going to
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  Speaker 2: that train wreck. No way, no how.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, a lot of fun. Shout out.
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  Speaker 2: Congrats to Hemi for putting it on.
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  Speaker 3: The performance probably of the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously. Even though we haven't even got to the weekend yet,
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  Speaker 2: you're not going to beat it. Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Can she be maybe the Louisiana high school? player of
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  Speaker 2: the week. Could be. Probably because of that cheer. Could be.
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  Speaker 2: I want candy. That was when her dance was too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I figured.
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  Speaker 2: I figured.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it probably was from a scone that tried to
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  Speaker 3: sabotage the show. He wants more people watching the show
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  Speaker 3: that he's currently doing right now. I believe they call
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  Speaker 3: that morning tea.
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, scone. Morning scone.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: They pulled the plug on the remote back in.
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  Speaker 3: The studio, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really know. You see all these colors in
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  Speaker 2: front of me?
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  Speaker 4: We're stocked up over here, buddy. Ross is stocked up
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  Speaker 4: on my high. Got all the zeros. That's a regular. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: you got the zeros.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people typically come up to you, and
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  Speaker 3: they're like, we need some more zeros.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we made some adjustments. Told the distributor, I said, hey, look.
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  Speaker 2: Ross is on Burbank. My God, do they go through.
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  Speaker 3: And if he didn't deliver, you were going to treat
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  Speaker 3: him like the guy pressing the button on the train
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  Speaker 3: horn last night.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt. No doubt. Probably just more of like a
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  Speaker 2: strongly worded conversation. Probably like an email.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Per our last conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Per our last. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to need more. Hope all is well. Per
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  Speaker 4: our last conversation. I'd like to follow up. on my
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  Speaker 4: request for more product. Everyone else is on Burbank. Didn't
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  Speaker 4: have to send that email, though, because they're stocked up.
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  Speaker 4: So come on over and get them. When I walk
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  Speaker 4: back after the show and I put these back on
• 8:24
  Speaker 4: the shelves, I want there to be about half what there.
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  Speaker 2: Was this morning.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, we got some breakfast bar goers up here.
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  Speaker 3: He is right inside the chat here. I'm trying to see.
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  Speaker 3: River Teddy said... You heard that train horn a lot
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  Speaker 3: at Evandro.
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  Speaker 2: I think we did have one of those, and I
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  Speaker 2: hated it. Okay, so you all were the problem, too.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't think we did it, like, during the play.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, if we jump off sides because of
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  Speaker 2: this train horn, I swear.
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  Speaker 3: But it was a fun game last night, fun games
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  Speaker 3: across the city, a little high school football on a
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  Speaker 3: Thursday night. We'll have a lot of action on Friday night,
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  Speaker 3: and we all know what's coming down the tracks on Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: And the slate is bad.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, like, the anticipation to get to LSU Ole Miss
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  Speaker 3: at night. Now, there will be good games because, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: two bad teams can have a good game. But the
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  Speaker 3: slate's not the who's who. Right? Texas Tech and Houston's
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  Speaker 3: a ranked matchup. Louisville SMU's a ranked matchup.
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  Speaker 2: And that's it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Then it is LSU Ole Miss.
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  Speaker 2: Houston, Texas Tech tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is Friday because Big 12 does– Because high
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  Speaker 3: schools don't play on Friday. Well, Big 12, I think,
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  Speaker 3: is doing what we're talking about. They want kind of
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  Speaker 3: a stand, not a standalone because there's other games, but
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  Speaker 3: they want a window in which they know everybody's going
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  Speaker 3: to kind of be at home and want to watch
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  Speaker 3: a game. And on Saturday, maybe you don't turn on
• 9:53
  Speaker 3: the fighting Willie Fritz against Texas Tech.
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  Speaker 2: But on Friday, absolutely. They must not have looked at
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  Speaker 2: the slate, though.
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  Speaker 3: They could have played very easily on Saturday. Hell, they
• 10:06
  Speaker 3: could have been Saturday at noon and been just fine.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to be so intrigued to see how many
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  Speaker 4: eyeballs watch the game. Those stats will come out, like, what,
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  Speaker 4: Monday or something like that?
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  Speaker 3: Like, how many people watch the game?
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  Speaker 2: Typically.
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  Speaker 3: Typically, like a big game like this, I think Texas
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  Speaker 3: and Ohio State got $ 14 million.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So usually like around like, you know, 11 to 11, 12,
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  Speaker 3: somewhere like in that range. But then Texas and Ohio
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  Speaker 3: State is going to get $ 14 million. It's going to
• 10:36
  Speaker 3: get more.
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  Speaker 2: Than $ 14 million. Yeah. I would think so.
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  Speaker 4: Because it's the only thing all day, really.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And just the buildup, the anticipation. There's going to be
• 10:45
  Speaker 3: people hate watching. There's going to be people that are
• 10:47
  Speaker 3: tuning in to see if something crazy happens. Bless you, Musso. So, like,
• 10:52
  Speaker 3: you're going to get an audience that doesn't really care
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  Speaker 3: about the outcome of the game or they're just, again, like,
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  Speaker 3: hate watching it to see if LSU is going to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, get beat because we are the team that
• 11:03
  Speaker 3: everybody's going to be rooting for or rooting against, I
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  Speaker 3: should say. So, I don't know. Like, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: what the common era number is for, I mean, is
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  Speaker 3: 18 million ridiculous?
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  Speaker 2: It'd be south of 20. Yeah. Yeah. Which goes to
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  Speaker 2: show you, like, that it's so crazy.
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  Speaker 4: You know, college football is so awesome.
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  Speaker 2: In the South, in Louisiana, it's like, it's the top dog.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It is so crazy, though, looking at the top college
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  Speaker 4: games compared to the top games on Sunday.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Cowboys-Giants this past week, I'm at, like, 26 million, and
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  Speaker 4: I think that's a pretty standard just Sunday night.
• 11:40
  Speaker 3: Sunday night football.
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  Speaker 4: Remember, I played a game in Dallas in 2013 when
• 11:44
  Speaker 4: I came back to Green Bay, and Aaron was hurt,
• 11:47
  Speaker 4: and it was like, It was like a 3-30 game
• 11:50
  Speaker 4: in Dallas, and it was like 23 or 24. And
• 11:52
  Speaker 4: I was like, that was a really random game. So
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  Speaker 4: that's why the Cowboys play a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot in primetime. The Packers and the Cowboys. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 2: there was a backup quarterback playing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a slappy, but you're the Packers. They're the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 3: So those numbers are going to be big.
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  Speaker 2: I know. This is like the game that everybody's talked
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  Speaker 2: about all offseason.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be intrigued. It'll definitely be the highest of the
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  Speaker 4: season so far. I would assume the highest this season
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  Speaker 4: until playoff time. I can't imagine that at this microphone.
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  Speaker 3: I can't imagine that any regular season game touches what
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  Speaker 3: we're going to see on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm going to be in attendance.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, for a while, then LSU is going to
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  Speaker 2: be ahead by so much. People will start stopping. Fair enough.
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: Fair enough. Because we're going to beat them. I got that.
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  Speaker 2: I gathered that. Okay. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm looking forward to this morning. I'm looking forward
• 12:45
  Speaker 4: to it. It is a hustle and a bustle around here.
• 12:47
  Speaker 4: Rouse's is now open. We've got the breakfast bar. It
• 12:50
  Speaker 4: looks like they've got something I've never seen on the
• 12:52
  Speaker 4: breakfast bar before. I've got to go check out to
• 12:54
  Speaker 4: see what that is. You know you're going to get guarded.
• 12:58
  Speaker 4: Last time you tried to do that, you almost got tackled. Remember,
• 13:03
  Speaker 4: she came over there and was like, what are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. And then she brought hot wings at 7.05.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. We haven't gotten that yet this year. No,
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  Speaker 2: we haven't. Hot wings and egg rolls. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And bacon-wrapped shrimp at 715.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously. Who doesn't? Who among us, you know? Uh-huh. All right.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to take a break. We'll get into the matchups.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get into Ole Miss, LSU. We'll get into Saints
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: and Ravens. We'll go over the full slate of games,
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: not only in college in the top 25, but but
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: also in the National Football League. Of course, we've got
• 13:42
  Speaker 3: all your favorite Friday segments, what's the ticket, pontoon parlay,
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: and all the things that we do every single Friday.
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: And we'll do it when we come back here on OTB.
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  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in. OTB here. We're live from
• 15:40
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• 15:44
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• 15:47
  Speaker 3: with us. Also found another U-High fan. Said the train
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: horn last night kept him up at night. It's all
• 15:55
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  Speaker 3: All right. So, obviously, all week we're going to break
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: down a matchup like Ole Miss and LSU. And you
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: get to Friday. I know in the building, and this
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: is in both buildings, in LSU and over in Oxford,
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: you're like, okay, have we done enough? Have we covered
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: everything that we think could possibly show itself on Saturday?
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: So you have that feeling, but then you hear Matt
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: and I talk about not chasing ghosts. What does that mean?
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: It means that you over maybe analyze and over prepare,
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: and maybe you spend time on something that doesn't need
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: as much time because you're trying to cover everything every
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: single thing that possibly could show up and look college
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: is different than when we played like the old 20
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: hour rule i'm not really sure even if it is
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: in place that that.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Does not matter at all no way and.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: You don't have to go to class anymore you just
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: kind of do some online stuff and so it is
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: a little bit different but you don't have the time
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: that you have if you're playing at the next level
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: so this is like friday to me was always a
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: big hey let's don't chase ghosts we know who they
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: are they you know they know us we know them
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: that type of situation let's make sure we hone in
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: on the main thing. Let's make the main thing the
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: main thing. And then we know they have some, you know, A, B,
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: and C off this. A, B, and C off of that.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: And we'll cover those things. But Friday to me was
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: always like, hey, let's know who we are. Let's know
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: what we want to do. And let's go out there.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Let's execute our game plan in this kind of final tune-up,
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: this final practice of for LSU before we get on
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: a plane and head over to, well, Memphis, Tennessee, but
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: later on Oxford, Mississippi.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, this is part of the week where
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: the hay is in the barn, certainly. You're definitely not
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: installing anything. You're going to do your fast Friday or
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: your kind of jog through, walk through, maybe it's a
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: run through type situation. And basically you're going to go over,
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: you'll go over your first 15 plays in practice today.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: And then you will go over your new install plays.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: And this is that day where if somebody messes up
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: in practice or somebody goes the wrong direction or is
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: not comfortable with a play, it just gets tossed.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: It's all right.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: Crumble it up. We don't have time. We're not going
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: to take a chance. This isn't about teaching today. Today
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: is about reviewing and and showing us that you are
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: comfortable with what we're doing.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: And if somebody is not comfortable.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Especially the quarterback, if they're comfortable, if a receiver messes
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: up a route, if somebody just doesn't really know what
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: they're doing and it's not perfect, today's about being perfect
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: on everything. It gets tossed out, and you just go
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: on to the next play because you've got plenty of plays,
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: and you're just kind of reviewing today. It's not a
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: teaching day. It's about walking through, and you're not hitting anything.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: you're probably not even going against each other. You're basically
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: doing a jog through. We used to do a jog
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: through in the indoor. Different teams I've been on did
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: it different ways. But you'll get a little sweat going,
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: and that's about it. But make sure you know your play.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: This is a mental day for sure. He is in
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: the barn. Get a little sweat going. Get the body
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: moving a little bit, especially because you've got to go
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: get on a plane, got to get out of your
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: comfort zone for a little bit.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: But, yeah, if there were any mess-ups yesterday, there's a
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: chance that they got tossed, like the last real practice.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: But if there's a play that you really like or
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: somebody messed it up, but the quarterback really likes it
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: or the OC really likes it, you'll try to– you'll
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: teach it, and you might come back today and try
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: it again. And if it gets messed up again, then
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: it gets tossed.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: The example I always use is, and I was a
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: rookie and I'll never forget it because, you know, Coach
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Miles was.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Big, repeat it.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Like he just, he would repeat a play and repeat
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: it until he got it right. And it was a
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Friday practice. We were about to play the then Oakland
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Raiders in North Turner. And we kept trying this play
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: that we were trying to install. And it wasn't working
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: for the first couple of days of the week. And
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: then on Friday we run it and it doesn't work again.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: And Our offensive coordinator at the time was like.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Guys, repeat the play again.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Norris was like, we ain't repeating that one. It ain't
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: worked all week. It's Friday. And I promise you.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: It ain't happening.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: The Oakland Raiders aren't going to say, hey, you know what?
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Let them repeat that one again. Get it out of here.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Funny enough, you know who the head coach of the
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Raiders was at the time?
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Dennis Allen. Lane Kiffin. Oh, okay. All right. He was
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: a coach at the Raiders.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: How did he do good?
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: He did okay? He's a Raiders.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Has anybody since John Madden done good? Gruden had some time,
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: but no, it's the Raiders. You can't have success with
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: the Raiders. No, no, nobody can. No. It's a dumpster
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: fire of an organization.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Not even with Fernando.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: He's not even playing.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: No. He will at some point. And they'll be okay.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Maybe.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Did beat the Dolphins, but. So, yeah, if you don't
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: have it down by now, it's out. And, look, good coaches,
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: the best coaches, they realize that. Some coaches fall in
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: love with a play. I'm talking offense and defense. They
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: fall in love with it, and they try to force
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: the issue. They try to make it work. And, look,
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: if it's not working, if it's not ready to go,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: if your guy doesn't understand the concept, you've got to
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: get rid of it. You've got to get it out.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: And I feel like this offense, more than any, probably
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: does that because– They want to do what? They want
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: to go fast.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: And you can't go fast if you don't understand exactly
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: what you're trying to get done. And so, like, I
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: don't know personally, like, what the play sheet looks like. Like,
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: I don't know if it's, you know, a movie poster
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: or a note card or somewhere in between. But I
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: know that this team and the way they go fast,
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't think you can have chapters to the playbook.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: So it's probably like a pretty– I don't want to
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: say small, but it's probably– set number of plays that
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: they feel good about each and every week. And you
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: got to make sure that you have your best foot forward.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: We know all that, but in a matchup like this, Matt,
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: with somebody that knows some of your personnel, I guess, like,
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: do you like for you, like, do you worry that
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: you try to maybe change? And this is really for
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: both teams. Cause we've talked about how many people are
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: there that are, you know, here, there, wherever, but, But
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: in a situation like this, do you worry, man, I
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: know they know our tendencies or I know they know
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: we like to do this on third down on offense
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: or defense and maybe spend a lot of time trying
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: to change things up? Or do you go with, you know,
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: the thing they got you here for both teams and
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: you say we're just going to execute better than they do?
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: I think it's going to be a little bit of both.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: There's going to be. There's only so many receivers you
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: can have in a play. There's only so many routes
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: they can run. There's only so many directions you can
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: go on a pass play. Nobody's creating that many new
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: plays anymore. Now, you might create different looks to run
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: the same play, but this comes down to something like
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: your tendencies. Your tendencies might be a little bit different.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: Let's say defensively. you've run strong dog, strong dog, strong
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: dog for, you know, multiple times, 70% of the time
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: for the first two weeks. Well, maybe the change-up is
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: we go weak dog this time, or we do some
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: different type of pressure. Now, these are all things we
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: worked on in training camp. It was just a higher,
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: there was a higher percentage of them the first couple
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: of weeks.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Take example for Ole Miss.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: We talked about this yesterday, and we looked over it
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: on the Eye of the Sky podcast as well.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: It was.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: Ole Miss's answer to pressure has been check to a
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: seven-man protection.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Maybe this week it's check to scat protection.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Maybe it's just an adjustment change because what is Blake
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Baker and his defense doing? They see that. They see
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: that their adjustment is the seven-man protection. So let's bluff,
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: let's bluff, bluff, bluff, and then back out everybody because
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: they're going to go to seven-man protection. And they're only
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: going to have three guys in the route. So let's
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: drop seven guys, but show like we're going to blitz. Now, maybe,
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: maybe the answer, cause you can also answer protection or
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: you can also answer a high pressure and people showing
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: like bluffing that they're going to blitz. You can answer
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: that with five man protection and put five out there.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: Then it stresses the defense in a different way. So,
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: you know, maybe the answers are a little bit different
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: this week for some, for both teams than they have
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: been the last two, but, all in all like the
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: scheme is going to be the scheme i think that
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: you're going there's going to be some adjustment changes.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: But you got to beat a man to man.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Like on third down right charlie weiss jr is going
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: to be like well i know what pete's going to
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: do on third down and pete's over there well i
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: know what charlie's going to do on third down at
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: least in their mind because you practice against each other
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: for an you know for multiple seasons and as a
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: staff like you talk about it like pete golding has
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: probably said how man this this really stresses our defense
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: just like charlie weiss jr's probably like this really stresses
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: our offense right and so like when we're talking about
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: all the things like chasing ghosts and making sure you
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: have the right game plan you got to decide are
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: we going to just go with our stuff and say
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: we're better than you one-on-one you know play by play
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: whatever it might be or hey we need some wrinkles
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: we need three or four things it's going to be
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: a change up and It might not be the best
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: thing that we do, but we feel like we've got
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: to do it to change it up because they know
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: our tendencies or whatever it might be. This is a game,
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: and my whole point in bringing it up is where
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: you can drive yourself crazy trying to cover everything that
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: you think might happen or trying to cover up, and
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: you have to be careful. I actually think, and people
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: are going to roll their eyes at this, I think
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: the road team in a situation like this has the advantage.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Because you've got to get on a plane. You've got
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: to go travel.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Like, that takes time, where if you're the home team.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: You are. You're sitting there, and you're, like, over and
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: over again. Today, when LSU travels from, you know, I
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: don't know, 2 to 630, however long it takes us
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: to get there, right, you're in your facility.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: I don't know. You kind of got everybody, like, encapsulated
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: in a metal tube. Yeah.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: And they can just all they have to do for, like,
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: an hour and a half is talk ball. And I've
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: seen some funny things happen on a plane with coaches
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: creating a play or two.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Truly drawing it up in the air. What a spin, though.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: The away team has the advantage.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Somebody has told me that. Our coach has told me
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: that before.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Well, that coach was dumb. Well. That's not true at all.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: I think it is. Of course the home team has
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: the advantage.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no. Home team has the advantage.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: You don't have to go on a plane. You could
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: just go. You could go top golf if you're the
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: home team.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: I'm talking about just in the specific part of trying
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: to continue to add to your game plan. And Chase goes, absolutely,
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: the home team has the advantage in the game.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Coaches love to overthink.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: We always had this running joke in Green Bay that
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: what the hell do the.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Coaches do this offseason?
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: What new protection and running scheme did they create in
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: their offices for the last four months?
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: All these assistants.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: You've got to justify your job every now and then.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: They create so many different things. And by the end
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: of the first week of training camp, all those things
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: would be thrown out, and you're.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Back to the basics. So, yeah, you can overprepare.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Is that where the keep it simple, stupid?
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, because, look, if you do over-prepare, like, as
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: a quarterback, you've got to watch film.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: You've got to, like, you have to watch a ton
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: of film. You've got to be very familiar.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: But, like, if you focus on the wrong thing, okay,
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: on this play.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: When he has his right foot back six inches on
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: this particular down and distance.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: If you look at those things, you can overdo that
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: way too much to where all you're doing is thinking
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: about the preparation and you're not reacting. At the end
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: of the day, it's still a sport where you've got
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: to be really athletic. You have to be very athletic.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: You've got to be very good at your job. There's
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: fine motor skills involved. You have to react. And if
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: you think too much, that gets you a problem. And
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: so to your point, Like bigger games do have a
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: tendency to bring out people creating different types of schemes, different,
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: like creating things that they think might be solutions, but end.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Up creating problems.
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: So you have to treat it as, as, as much
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: like any other game as you possibly like it was
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: a humanly can, because the human nature takes over.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: There's a big game.
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: You want to do things you want to make, but there,
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: there's an element and an, It's hard to get to
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: that at college football, I think, for players, but that
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: you can over-mentally prepare for a game to where it
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: takes away just the reacting part of it.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like we've had games before, and you're right,
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: more at the next level than the college level, but
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: we felt like we did over-prepare, and we were a
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: step slower because of that. Look, I'm not saying you
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: can't pick up tendencies. If you were playing against the
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Ravens and Ed Reed, had his toe pointed sideways, he
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: was coming. No doubt about it.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: If it was forward, he was dropping.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: It was a tail he had. Now, it didn't really
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: matter because you couldn't really do anything even if the
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: toe was pointed and you knew it.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Oh, God. Which way do I want that toe pointed?
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: I don't even know. They're both bad.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Like, if he lined up and his... he was on
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: the left side and his left foot was up and
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: his toe was pointed towards the offensive line, he was coming.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: If it was pointed towards the end zone, he was dropping.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: Didn't really matter. Hall of Famer. But those are things
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: you can pick up. But to your point, if you
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: try to do all of that and sometimes you try
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: to have all those tips and reminders, you're going to
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: play slow.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: And then you're going to get punched.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: And then inevitably you're going to get hit in the mouth.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: And the next play you're going to be trying to prepare.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Then you're like, wait. Then you're going to get your
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: cues all crossed. And it comes into all preparation.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: I mean, if you're playing a team that has some
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: versatile edge rushers, like when we used to play the Packers,
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: like we used to have a meeting about, okay, how
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: are we going to treat Clay Matthews? What's Clay Matthews
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: this week? Is Clay Matthews going to be down no
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: matter where he's at? Because Clay, like, used to walk
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: around a little bit. And you have those meetings. And
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: so you treat certain people differently. But you've got to
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: come up with a game plan that has, like, these
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: are the rules. We're not going to bend off these rules.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: 52 is going to be down all game long. And
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: then we're going to base something else off something else.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: But we're not worrying about where he's walking. He can
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: be walking back there with the safeties.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: He's down. And he's a down lineman.
• 30:48
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  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in. OTB here live from Rouse's.
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  Speaker 2: Rouse's, Rouse's, Rouse's.
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  Speaker 3: Go see them. Of course, we talked about the lack
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: of top 25 matchups this week in college football. And again,
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: just going down what it looks like.
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  Speaker 2: Oof.
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  Speaker 3: Tonight, you've got number five Miami traveling to Wake Forest.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: You've also got number 22, Houston, and number 13, Texas Tech.
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  Speaker 3: So that is one of the three ranked-on-ranked matchups this week.
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  Speaker 3: You've got Portland State, 0-3 Portland State, traveling to Oregon
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: to take on the 21st-ranked Oregon Ducks. And then on Saturday,
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: it's number 2, Georgia, traveling to Arkansas. It is Kent
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  Speaker 3: State traveling to number 6, Ohio State. Buffalo traveling to
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: number 14, Penn State. Kentucky traveling to number 9, Texas
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  Speaker 3: A & M. Florida State traveling to number 10, Alabama.
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  Speaker 3: Number 12, USC traveling to Rutgers. The other ranked on
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: ranked matchup, number 16, SMU traveling to number 23, Louisville.
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  Speaker 3: You've got Utah State traveling to number 17, Utah. UTEP
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  Speaker 3: traveling to number 19, Michigan. Western Kentucky traveling to number 4, Indiana.
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  Speaker 3: My God, Big Ten, what are you doing? Northern Iowa
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  Speaker 3: traveling to number 18, Iowa. Troy traveling to number 20, Missouri.
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  Speaker 3: Michigan State traveling to number three, Notre Dame. Number 11,
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  Speaker 3: BYU traveling to Colorado State. New Mexico traveling to number 24, Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 3: West Virginia traveling to number 25, Virginia.
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  Speaker 2: Kennesaw State traveling to number 15, Tennessee.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: And UTSA traveling to number one, Texas. And, of course,
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: number seven, LSU traveling to number eight, Ole Miss. And, yes,
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  Speaker 3: those are actual games. That is the slate that we
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: have coming up. this weekend in college football. And if
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: you were listening right, you heard right. The Big Ten
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: opponents this week, Portland State, Kent State, Buffalo, Akron, Eastern Michigan,
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  Speaker 3: Southern Illinois, UTEP, Western Kentucky, Northern Iowa, North Dakota, Eastern Washington, Colorado,
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  Speaker 3: Virginia Tech.
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  Speaker 2: And you do have a Notre Dame in there with
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Michigan State. Adjust means less.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it means directional.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty weak. So Notre Dame's playing somebody?
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: Michigan State.
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  Speaker 4: Good for them, you know. Good for them. That's a
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: real big game for them. Is that the game of
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  Speaker 4: the year for them? They're 29-and-a-half point favorites. Okay, that's
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  Speaker 4: probably their tightest odds.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: They had Rice last week. They got Purdue next week
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  Speaker 3: on the road. Nobody walks into Boilermaker country and lives
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: to tell the story.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good point. Really good point. Mascot's super intimidating. Yeah,
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame's schedule.
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  Speaker 3: They have three ranked games, so we'll see how that
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: ends up going for the old fighting Irish. And so, yeah,
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: that brings us back to the point of LSU Ole
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: Miss certainly going to be all eyeballs on that game.
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  Speaker 3: Because even in I was trying to look at the
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: actual TV window of that. Because the other rain games,
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: like you mentioned, you've got one that's going to be
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: played tonight. And then you've got the, let's see.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: SMU.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the SMU-Louisville game. I was trying to get a
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: time on that game. Oh, that's 2.30 Eastern. Sorry, 2.30
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  Speaker 3: Central on ESPN.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I'm calling it now. 16 million people. Minimum for LSU
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: Ole Miss.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to go 18.5 million people watching LSU Ole Miss.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: You're going to go like you're trying to get the number?
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  Speaker 3: I'll go 20. I'll go 20.
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  Speaker 2: No chance. I'll go 20. No chance.
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  Speaker 3: 20 million people. There's people, I think, that in the
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: Northeast that couldn't care less about college football are going
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: to watch a little bit of that game.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: Just a little hate watch. Intrigue.
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  Speaker 3: I don't really think they care about LSU Ole Miss.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: And what they've done in the Northeast.
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: No, but I think most people will, like, if they
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: have no opinion on it, they'll just take the opinion
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: of the people talking.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: True. Oh, yeah, okay. I'll hate them, too. That sounds right.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that Feinbaum guy on one of the morning shows
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: that has a different name but it's the same thing,
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: he said that we shouldn't like them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going 20 million. All right. I'm going 18 and
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: a half.
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: But will they be watching Sam Levitt?
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: He did get upgraded to questionable. There we go. That's
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: a big deal. Yeah. What does that mean?
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: It means he's questionable. It means he's probably going to
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: go warm up and see if he can give it
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: a go. I mean, you saw the reports yesterday. He
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: didn't practice this week.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: He practiced yesterday. But he practiced yesterday.
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: That means he warmed up and gave it a go yesterday.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: And he went from doubtful to questionable.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Must have been positive. Must have been. What's hurting
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: on them? Things. Body parts.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: I think back spasms.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Back spasms. Okay. Yeah. I get it. Hey, trust me.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Oh, Joey B's got a little back situation too, but the,
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: the people online just, it's almost like, can we just
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: kick off so we can get like, there's some people
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: that can't put their phone down right now. Like trying
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: to talk about, you know, Sam Levitt being on the
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: injury list and just this matchup and, trying to have
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: all the conspiracy theories that you possibly can have out
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: there and why LSU is doing it. Look, if he
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: didn't practice, which that was the report that we saw,
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: all right, if he didn't practice, then he's on the
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: injury report. If you don't practice a day, you could
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: be down for it.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: And, look, it's week three, so nobody's just giving him–
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: nobody's swiping the seniority card week three in the Ole
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: Miss game. There was something happening. He's just not taking
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: off practice because, you know, he's a senior.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: No. And, like, he just didn't.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: Want to practice that day. You would take off on
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: Monday if you did that.
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you took off for a reason. So there is
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: something hurting you. Now, the good part, if he ends
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: up not being able to go or if he tries
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: to give it a go and he can't, like, Landon
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: Clark is taking all of the number one reps.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: Tuesday and Wednesday.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, that is a good situation to be in.
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: Sam's taking all the one reps for all of training
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: camp and he's been the number one guy.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: So, And all of summer.
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: So, like, I feel better about that because Landon has
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: come in, and he does look like a little clone
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: of Sam. And, like, he looks the part. And he's
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: gotten the one rep. So he is familiar with the
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: game plan. And if he goes in, you never want
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: your backup to have to go play. But as one
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: that was a backup, it can absolutely work. So we'll
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: see what happens. We'll see what doubtful to questionable really means. But,
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: I mean, hey, look, it's a step in the right direction.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: No, it is.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: And, again, I told you, and this is no slander
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: towards Sam Levitt, like you want your starting quarterback to play,
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: but I was eye-hustling the T.J. Dottery portion of it.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, still am.
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: A guy like that in this matchup, and we can
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: take a break and talk about it on the other side,
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: a guy like that in this matchup, knowing what Ole
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: Miss wants to do with Lacey and Trinidad Chambliss in
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: the run game, I mean, he is critical because six
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: opens up things for seven, seven opens up things for six.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: And that pairing together in the middle has been dynamic.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Best in the country.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: All right, we will take a break. We've got more
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  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in. OTB here live from Rouse's
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  Speaker 3: on Burbank and Lee continuing to talk LSU and Ole Miss.
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  Speaker 3: We've talked about it throughout the week, but certainly one
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: of the matchups that we think is going to be
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: critical in this one is the LSU linebackers, TJ Daugherty,
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  Speaker 3: Whit Weeks going against Ke'Juan Lacy in the backfield and
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  Speaker 3: Trinidad Chambliss, too, in the run game and how you
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  Speaker 3: can contain him as a runner. Now, a lot of
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  Speaker 3: that falls on the edge rushers, making sure that they
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  Speaker 3: rush the right way and they don't just run the
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  Speaker 3: rail and, you know, they got to keep containing all
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: those things. But Ole Miss is going to have some
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: design quarterback runs. And we broke down one of the
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: cue counters that they had on Eye in the Sky.
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  Speaker 3: And again, we just dropped the latest episode. Nice job
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  Speaker 3: Eye in the Sky. And it's taking a look at
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: Ole Miss offensively and kind of some of the things
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: they've done well, some of the things that they struggle
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: with in their game against Louisville, and what we think
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: Blake Baker is going to try to do to slow
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: down that Ole Miss offense. But for me, that's the matchup.
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: I think it's the LSU linebackers against this Ole Miss offense.
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: I think you have a different level of athlete next
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: to Whit Weeks. And look, a guy like Devon Keyes
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: is going to play in this game. Devon Keyes played
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: a lot of football, and he's certainly going to have
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: a role in this game. The tandem that you've had
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: so far with T.J. Dottery and Wood Weeks, you said it,
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: it's one of, if not the best in the nation,
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: just athletically, physically, mentally, they've been really good. That is
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: where I think LSU can win this game with those
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: two guys in the middle.
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they play the position the way it's meant to
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: be played. They play it instinctually. They play it fast.
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: They play downhill. They play smart, athletic. They've got really
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: good hips. They can make the turn really quick. Changed
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: direction very good. But what's going to really make the
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: difference this week against this offense is how instinctual they are.
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: They are very high football IQ guys, and when they
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: see something, they spot it, and they go full speed
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: like they're shot out of a cannon. And they're going
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: to get a lot of eye candy thrown at them
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: this week. We saw, like Jake said, we broke it down.
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: There is a quarterback counter. There is an element to this.
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: We know how good Trinidad Chambliss is and can be
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: with his arm, with his feet, and with an offense
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: designed to try to make the most out of those things.
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: So they're going to give you a lot. They're going
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: to fake a jet sweep, and then they're going to
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: fake a pitch to the running back, and then they're
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: going to run him up behind a tight end and
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: a tackle that are pulling.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: So there's a lot to look at left to right.
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: The linebackers have to look at a lot to make
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: sure to find the ball before they can react. Well,
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: Ole Miss hasn't played a pair of linebackers that are
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: this instinctual and this smart. And, again, the safeties as well.
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: they are going to Marcus Cooley, Ty Benefield. They are
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: going to have to have a game, and I think
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: they are going to be some of those guys that
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: show out, and you're like, oh, my God, those are players.
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: After this week, because they hadn't really had to do
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: much so far.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: True. After this week, you're going to be like, those
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: guys are players. All right.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: Obviously, we'll continue breaking down the biggest game of the week,
• 45:47
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• 45:50
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