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Hour Two | Lane Kiffin’s Perception, Stanford Steve & Marcus Freeman’s Hairline · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: Dude, they said I gotta come off the bench.
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  Speaker 3: Hour two of Off the Bench, live from the Raising
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  Speaker 1: All right, welcome back in OTV. Let's start this hour.
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  Speaker 6: They're selling quickly right now. Shelves are a little barren
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  Speaker 6: over there in the my eye section.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Whatever you got to tell yourself for having the
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  Speaker 1: orange and blue my eye out there. They're delicious. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but those two colors together without anything to break it up. Yeah, okay. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's all that was there. I hate Florida. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I was looking for. One of the common
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  Speaker 1: themes as we get back into the LSU discussion is
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  Speaker 1: obviously LSU embracing being the villain. And we talked about it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm here for it. We were all fine with it.
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  Speaker 1: And it just continues on down the road. Whether LSU
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  Speaker 1: fans like it or not, Lane walking through that door
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  Speaker 1: changed the way the rest of college football looks at
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  Speaker 1: this program. We all know that. He has never been,
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  Speaker 1: I think, neutral, which I love about him. You know
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  Speaker 1: where you stand. People either love Lane Kiffin or they
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  Speaker 1: want to hate him. And so now you've been paired
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  Speaker 1: with that personality with LSU, a program that doesn't exactly
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  Speaker 1: get a lot of sympathy, I think, outside the state
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  Speaker 1: of Louisiana anyways. And so fully lean into it, which
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  Speaker 1: is what LSU, I think, has fully done from everyone
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  Speaker 1: involved in the program. You've got a coach who isn't
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  Speaker 1: afraid of expectations, isn't afraid of the spotlight, certainly isn't
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  Speaker 1: afraid of Irritating the other sideline, right? Came to LSU
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  Speaker 1: because he wanted the biggest stage and the pressure that
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  Speaker 1: kind of comes with it. He's mentioned that multiple times.
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  Speaker 1: He mentioned it after the game against Clemson. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: after you beat a team like Clemson 51 to 10,
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  Speaker 1: I think that attention, probably that dislike of LSU is
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  Speaker 1: only going to get louder, you know? But everybody doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have to like you. If everybody likes you, You're doing
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  Speaker 1: it the wrong way. I truly believe that. And you
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  Speaker 1: might have a different opinion, but if everybody likes you,
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  Speaker 1: are you doing stuff for yourself? Are you doing stuff
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  Speaker 1: that needs to be done? Or are you just doing
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  Speaker 1: stuff to please people? I see what you say.
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  Speaker 6: And so there's a couple of ways to be the villain.
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  Speaker 6: There's being the villain because you beat everybody's ass and
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  Speaker 6: no one has a chance against you.
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  Speaker 1: That's the kind of villain we want to be.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 6: And it's not all, you're either doing something right because
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  Speaker 6: nobody likes you in that more former fashion or debatably
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  Speaker 6: you're doing something that people don't like for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 6: they either don't understand or don't respect makes you also
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  Speaker 6: the makes you also a villain. So like, I'm all
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  Speaker 6: about being a villain because of, of winning. But there
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  Speaker 6: is a, um, The reason why a lot of people
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  Speaker 6: weren't liking him recently didn't even have, like, anything to do.
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  Speaker 6: It didn't even come to fruition. Like, the two guys
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  Speaker 6: that people were saying, or NFL players, they weren't on
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  Speaker 6: the roster. So, like, that reasoning, if that's the reason
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  Speaker 6: why you, some of the public or whatever, is hating Lane,
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  Speaker 6: then that's not a reason right now because they didn't
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  Speaker 6: get Rod. There's all this court case and all this stuff.
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  Speaker 6: But I think people just outside of that, let's put
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  Speaker 6: the NFL stuff, like the NFL players and the whole
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  Speaker 6: litigation and all that stuff and them, you know, Lane
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  Speaker 6: choosing not to roster them, even though he was told,
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  Speaker 6: you know, at least in the short.
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  Speaker 1: Term that he could. Let's take that. Let's take before.
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  Speaker 6: I think it's just the whole situation of Lane getting
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  Speaker 6: put in a really tough spot because of the college
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  Speaker 6: football schedule, the calendar year. Um, he had to make
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  Speaker 6: decisions that people didn't respect. And then of course they
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  Speaker 6: start looking in your past and man, I don't think
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  Speaker 6: anybody here or anybody listening wants people to dive too
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  Speaker 6: far into the past.
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  Speaker 1: Right. I mean, this is, there's, there's things that we
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  Speaker 1: would all wish that we could go back and change.
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  Speaker 6: Um, so I'm all about being a villain because, uh,
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  Speaker 6: and I'm all about people not liking you because of winning.
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  Speaker 6: And I think that's probably been my hesitation and, you know,
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  Speaker 6: there's gotta be some sort of like, I, I think
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  Speaker 6: we try to, We call it like we see it
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  Speaker 6: around here on this show, whether we like it, don't
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  Speaker 6: like it, whether it's LSU, whether it's pro-LSU.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever it is.
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  Speaker 6: And that's been my hesitation a lot of times is because,
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  Speaker 6: you know, there's ways that you do things, ways that
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  Speaker 6: you don't things. I always want LSU to be respected,
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  Speaker 6: maybe feared, maybe disliked, but still respected, and I hope
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  Speaker 6: we continue to do that. And winning solves a lot
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  Speaker 6: of things. Winning makes people forget about a lot of things.
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  Speaker 6: You can see the product that's put on the field
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  Speaker 6: this past weekend. A lot of people have made a
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  Speaker 6: lot of people forget about other things. So my hope
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  Speaker 6: for LSU is that we are disliked because we are winning,
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  Speaker 6: but we are respected.
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  Speaker 1: From everybody. That's the hope. And I hear that too.
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  Speaker 1: I do. Would you say 2019 LSU was like that? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: for sure. Respected by.
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  Speaker 6: The masses, but not, you know, not really life. Because
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  Speaker 6: they're like, I can't beat you. I mean, just look
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  Speaker 6: at the most recent example. It's Alabama and Georgia for
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  Speaker 6: a short amount of time. Nobody liked them. We hated them.
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  Speaker 6: We hated Saban.
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  Speaker 1: And Alabama, right? We hated them. Because we couldn't beat them.
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  Speaker 1: But by God, did we respect them? That's my hope.
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  Speaker 1: That's my hope.
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  Speaker 6: And it's off to a good start from an on-the-field standpoint.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think there's any doubt about the on-the-field.
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  Speaker 1: I was looking at this a little bit last night,
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  Speaker 1: and I just feel like it's going to be all
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  Speaker 1: season long. I mean, there's people– I'll give you an example.
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  Speaker 1: Like our friend Alyssa Lange. She went to South Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina's biggest rival is who? Clemson.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say North Carolina. This guy. Jeez,
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  Speaker 1: I'm thieves. And she's like, South Carolina fans, because this
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  Speaker 1: is right after everything happened. Like, who are you rooting for?
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  Speaker 1: Clemson or LSU? Like, it got to that point. Like,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute. Like, Clemson's your biggest rival. What do
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  Speaker 1: you mean? But that's just how LSU is going to
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  Speaker 1: be viewed this year. Maybe I'm going too far to that.
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  Speaker 1: And Alondra Tatey, I'd love to invite y'all to this conversation.
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  Speaker 1: But like my feeling is just make sure when they
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  Speaker 1: get there, they've got a reason to hate you even
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  Speaker 1: more when they leave. Again, I see where you're coming
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  Speaker 1: from and I get it. But I started to really
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  Speaker 1: think about it. I was like, what do I care about?
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  Speaker 1: What do I care about? Oh, I care about LSU.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care about anybody else. And there's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a lot of things that come with it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the players didn't end up even being rostered. Maybe they
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  Speaker 1: are later. I don't know. But, like, all of that,
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  Speaker 1: I think that just kind of comes with how it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be playing out here. Like, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: have stuff like that pop up. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 6: And, like, look, there's things that not everybody has to
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  Speaker 6: always agree.
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  Speaker 1: On or say, oh, well. you know i would have
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  Speaker 1: done it this way blah blah blah like.
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  Speaker 6: You know at the end of the day it looks
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  Speaker 6: like that on this past saturday choo-choo mother you know
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  Speaker 6: what choo-choo.
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  Speaker 1: Uh alondra tay-tay How do y'all feel about that? Because
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  Speaker 1: I guess, and I'm not saying I'm right. Please don't.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't care. I just don't. I care about respect.
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  Speaker 1: You do. I very much highly care. I know. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm not telling you at all that you're wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just like, I want what's best for those three letters,
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  Speaker 1: those two colors. And if it has to happen because
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  Speaker 1: it just comes with some lanyard, I just don't care.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think I was thinking about this a little bit yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I was too. I thought about it a lot yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: The 30 for 30, the Miami one, whenever I watched that,
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  Speaker 4: I was like, man, that looks like so much fun.
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  Speaker 4: I wish that, like, because we had Brian Kelly at
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  Speaker 4: the time whenever I was doing my rewatch of it,
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  Speaker 4: and I was like, this is so fun. Like, I
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  Speaker 4: kind of want to be this team that has swagger.
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  Speaker 4: People don't like them because they're winning and they're good,
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  Speaker 4: and that's what I like. And I think it's going
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  Speaker 4: to be fun and we're going to have a lot
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  Speaker 4: more swag this season than we had with Brian Kelly
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  Speaker 4: as the head coach. And I love that part of it.
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  Speaker 4: Do I think Lane Kiffin can be a little irritating?
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  Speaker 4: And do I understand why other people don't really like
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  Speaker 4: him right now?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I get it.
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  Speaker 4: But just win and I don't really care.
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  Speaker 1: In a perfect world, I'm with you, Matt.
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  Speaker 7: Like in a perfect world, but I am someone like,
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  Speaker 7: Y'all know, y'all pick on me about Tom Brady, right?
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  Speaker 7: Because I love Tom Brady. I hated Tom Brady for
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  Speaker 7: 23 years. Never respected him. And I should have, but
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  Speaker 7: I didn't because he won. Same thing with Nick Saban.
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  Speaker 7: I love Nick Saban now, man. I think he's the
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  Speaker 7: best one up there on game day. Love his commercials.
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  Speaker 7: Hated that guy for 15 years because you couldn't win.
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  Speaker 7: And like, did I respect him in the back of
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  Speaker 7: my mind?
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: But it didn't matter.
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  Speaker 7: I was going to hate him anyway. So that's how
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  Speaker 7: I look at it, man. Like they're going to hate
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  Speaker 7: you regardless.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care. You just do you like that. That's,
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  Speaker 1: that's what you get when you hire Lane Kiffin.
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  Speaker 7: Like I'm someone that actually always liked Lane, even when
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  Speaker 7: he was at Ole Miss, but like nowadays yours, I
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  Speaker 7: kind of admire it a little bit more like the,
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  Speaker 7: the little bit of a don't care attitude. Like it was,
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  Speaker 7: it was funny when he was at another team, but
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  Speaker 7: now he's at your team. You're like, Oh man, this
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  Speaker 7: is great. This, this could be something special. So I'm
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  Speaker 7: all for it, man. Look, just go out there. As
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  Speaker 7: long as you're having fun, as long as the vibes
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  Speaker 7: are high in your locker room, forget about everybody else.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, I'm all about the Tojo. Choo-choo. You know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 6: For me, I'd rather be hated because of what I
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  Speaker 6: did during the season, not hated because of what I
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  Speaker 6: do on the offseason.
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  Speaker 1: It's in a perfect world. I don't really care. We win.
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  Speaker 1: Tigers win, baby.
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  Speaker 7: And that's it. At the end of the day, just win.
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  Speaker 7: What did Al Davis say? Just win, baby.
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  Speaker 1: Also in comparison to the Raiders. They won then. They
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  Speaker 1: were good then. You're looking at two Raider haters up here.
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  Speaker 6: Again, we are on a very great start for people
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  Speaker 6: hating us because of what we do during the season,
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  Speaker 6: which is what I want.
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  Speaker 1: Please, bring it on. Us against the world mentality. Awesome, but.
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  Speaker 6: The reason why I said so many things in the
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  Speaker 6: offseason is just because I want the season to be
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  Speaker 6: the reason they hate us, not any other reason.
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  Speaker 1: I am with Elanja, too, about the fun aspect of it, too.
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  Speaker 1: Think about Saturday compared to what it was before. Think
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  Speaker 1: about the vibe. And if you compare, and it's very
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  Speaker 1: hard to do, it's damn near impossible. But if you
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  Speaker 1: compare what we're talking about, that fun, that swag, that
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  Speaker 1: when you walk into a stadium, everybody loves you in
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  Speaker 1: your home stadium, and you walk into an opposing stadium,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody wants the worst possible thing ever for you,
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  Speaker 1: you pair that with being how prepared they were as
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  Speaker 1: a football team, players, coaches, support staff, whatever. That was
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  Speaker 1: a focused football team, way more focused than Clemson was.
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  Speaker 1: If you can pair those two things together, which, again,
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  Speaker 1: it is almost impossible to do. It's almost impossible to
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  Speaker 1: be the fun team, the team that has all the
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  Speaker 1: swag and all this. A lot of times they play
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  Speaker 1: a team that's supposed to be the most prepared, and
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  Speaker 1: the prepared team beats the swaggy team. Clemson's supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be the prepared team. They're the boring one. They're the
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  Speaker 1: one with Dabo. That team wasn't even remotely close to you.
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  Speaker 1: But we were in court two days beforehand. Yeah. That
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  Speaker 1: ish didn't matter. Lane said it yesterday.
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  Speaker 7: Somebody asked him the question about like, oh, the light show,
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  Speaker 7: walking out with Theo Vaughn and all that. And Lane said,
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  Speaker 7: I was fortunate enough to work with two coaching legends.
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  Speaker 7: He goes, I want to bring the discipline that Saban
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  Speaker 7: had on the field with the fun and the swag
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  Speaker 7: that we had out in LA when I was there
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  Speaker 7: with Pete Carroll. He's like, I thought it would be
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  Speaker 7: cool to mix both.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it is. We talked about it before Kelly
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  Speaker 1: got fired.
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  Speaker 7: It's like that team last year, even when they won games,
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  Speaker 7: it still wasn't fun to watch. Did anybody care that
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  Speaker 7: you beat Arkansas? The Clemson game was ugly. We laughed
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  Speaker 7: at DJ Lagway for throwing five interceptions. They still only
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  Speaker 7: scored 20 points with five turnovers. This team is fun.
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  Speaker 7: Regardless of how many wins or losses they have, it's
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  Speaker 7: going to be fun.
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  Speaker 6: And I didn't even put that together. Him and Pete Carroll.
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  Speaker 6: Because in Seattle, we had a basketball goal in our
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  Speaker 6: team room. And we shot basketballs. And every practice had
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  Speaker 6: a theme. It was like a theme day.
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  Speaker 1: Competition days. Turnover Wednesdays. But if you do, if you
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  Speaker 1: pair that, like you said, Pete took a jet ski
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  Speaker 1: to work. At least he did when I went on
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  Speaker 1: my visit. He shows up in a jet ski. Pete's
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  Speaker 1: teams were prepared, I think. I mean, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all were pretty good. We know. We know what you
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  Speaker 1: want to say. Say what you need to say.
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  Speaker 6: Look, okay, so I also want to acknowledge the fact
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  Speaker 6: that it's been one game, right?
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  Speaker 1: It's one game.
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  Speaker 6: There's so much overreaction that comes in at the beginning
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  Speaker 6: of the season. There's so much overreaction that can be like, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: Clemson might end up being really bad this year.
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  Speaker 1: We don't really know. They might end up being good.
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  Speaker 1: Of course we don't know.
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  Speaker 6: So I do want to acknowledge the fact that, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: a lot of this is a knee-jerk reaction because of
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  Speaker 6: where we have been as Tiger fans in a whole offseason.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, I've watched a lot of film.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I've watched a lot of college film. Okay?
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  Speaker 6: That is probably the best film I've ever seen early
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  Speaker 6: in a season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: From a complete.
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  Speaker 6: And again, I don't know. Clemson might not win a game.
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  Speaker 6: But they also. I mean, we beat. You know what
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  Speaker 6: I'm saying? We beat Virginia Tech.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: A billion to whatever. 45-7? Might as well be 100
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  Speaker 1: to nothing. Could have been.
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  Speaker 6: And they finished top 10. And what's the Orange Bowl
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  Speaker 6: that year? It could be a. We just don't know
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  Speaker 6: what Clemson is. Because LSU dominated him so, so much.
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  Speaker 6: So I do want to acknowledge the fact that this
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  Speaker 6: is an overreaction a little bit, but it's also, I'm
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  Speaker 6: looking at the way they're prepared, the effort of which
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  Speaker 6: they played, how they executed, the way they executed.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't lucky.
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  Speaker 6: Like if I'm watching, if I'm SMU and I'm watching
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  Speaker 6: my game back yesterday, I'm like, yeah, we won the game,
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  Speaker 6: but like, I don't feel great about it.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And we didn't execute very well. It was sloppy. We
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  Speaker 1: played a lot of lucky plays. A couple of guys
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  Speaker 1: were wide open.
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  Speaker 6: If I'm LSU watching this film, yeah, you are going
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  Speaker 6: to have to coach your ass off to make your
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  Speaker 6: team feel bad about that performance. And that's what you
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  Speaker 6: try to do as a coach. You try to break
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  Speaker 6: them down in game film and talk about the bad
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  Speaker 6: plays to build them up, to keep them motivated.
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  Speaker 1: So they got a job on their hands.
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  Speaker 6: But what I saw from the team is the right
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  Speaker 1: And you're right. It's now on this coaching staff, which
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  Speaker 1: they've tried already with signs in the building and different things,
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• 18:50
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• 18:56
  Speaker 1: missed assignments, and we'll see if they can continue that
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  Speaker 1: i'm gonna have our guy stanford steve join us here
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  Speaker 1: coming up in the next segment looking forward to that
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  Speaker 1: conversation as we said he is um On game day,
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  Speaker 1: he was here this weekend, so looking forward to some
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  Speaker 1: of that insight from our guys. Stand for Steve Coughlin.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: This weekend, as we've talked about, you've got to get back.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: You've got to refocus if you're the LSU Tigers. You
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: are a 35.5 point favorite against the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: The total in that game, 55.5. Now, this Louisiana Tech team, again,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: they did score 80 points against Northwestern State. Northwestern State,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: one of the worst teams, maybe the worst team in
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: the FCS, but still 80 points is going to be
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: 80 points. And remember, this game was not pretty last year.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: It was, in fact, it was ugly. These are the
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: kind of games that I want to see LSU go
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: full throttle and just take care of business. And I'm
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: not sitting here saying like, oh, we've got to cover
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the spread. I really don't care about the spread. But
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Go out there and do what you're supposed to do
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: against a team that you're a 35.5 point favorite against.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: And look, Louisiana Tech, it looks like they're going to
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: be a good team in the Sun Belt this year,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: so it's not throwing shade at the dogs. But you're LSU, right?
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: You're supposed to go handle business early and often in
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: a game like this. You're supposed to go out there,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: impose your will on an inferior opponent, and leave no doubt.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: That's what LSU is. has to do in this game.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: If they do that, if they go out there and
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: it's the same execution, it's the same focus, it's the
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: same mentality, because you're going to have a lively Tiger Stadium.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: It might not be the pregame festivities that it was
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: against Clemson, but when LSU wins, Tiger fans show up.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: They're going to be there. It's not going to be
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: a situation where the upper decks are completely empty. Now,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: will people leave early? Maybe so if you get up.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: We know. We saw that against Clemson. But to start
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the game, to get the energy that you need, I
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: expect it to be a full stadium. People are fired
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: up to go. They've been waiting for this moment. And
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: all I want to see is LSU in this game
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: act like LSU, play like LSU, and execute like LSU,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: which this staff, I feel like, already has done more
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: by making it a point of emphasis to say, you
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: haven't done anything. Go be about your business.
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, these games are, okay, so from a player perspective,
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: these games aren't fun. These are games that you don't
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: want to play.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: I'm with you. Because there's no stakes. The in-state used
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: to help a little bit. When we played against Louisiana Tech,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: my best friend played for Louisiana Tech. Katie's first cousin
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: played for Louisiana Tech. Her dad played for Louisiana Tech.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Her uncle played for Louisiana Tech. My mom, her mom.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Everybody went to Louisiana Tech. So for me, there was
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: some added intrigue in the matchup, if you will. But
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I know that's not for everybody. And I understand what
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: you're saying because when we played ULL in college, it's
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: like you think in your mind that you're doing all
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the things to prepare for the game like you're playing
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: against Florida.
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: There's a subconscious that takes over. You can spend the
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: same amount of hours. You can do the same routines.
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: And you wake up, put your feet on the ground,
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: do your ninja get up every single morning, and you
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: convince yourself to go do it. But it's one of
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: those things where it's human nature, right? It's hard to mentally, spiritually,
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: get yourself as prepared for games that don't really have
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: the stakes involved.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: And look, this is... Football's Football is football.
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: The guys are going to prepare and have the energy,
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: and that's the job. This week really shows you what
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: a coaching staff is made of right here, how prepared
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: you can get your team for these games, especially coming
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: off of a butt whipping, and a week before, you're
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: going to go up to Oxford. This is a coach's
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: game this week. How well prepared, how mentally ready, and
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: from all accounts from what I'm hearing, it sounds like
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: they're doing everything The right way, but certainly from a
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: player standpoint, it's a can't win, it's a no-win situation, right?
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: This is, you do have to go and execute, and
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: that's all it's about. You got to execute your plays,
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: you got to execute your X's and O's, because, you know,
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: this is, and it's no disrespect. Again, it's just like,
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: it's not a game that is going to carry stakes
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: for you down the road, right? So that turns it into,
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: by definition, it turns it into a no-win situation, right?
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: You can only lose in this game.
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: Because if you beat them by 50 or 60, it's, oh,
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  Speaker 6: that's what you should have done.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Beat them by 20, that was a bad game.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: You stink.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: So it's like you've got to go and execute, and
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: you've got to get yourself mentally right. You've got to
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: get yourself mentally ready.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: And it's tough to do. It's not easy.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: And we certainly didn't do great in 07. We didn't
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: do great in these types of games.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Speak for yourself. I had an 87-yard touchdown. Against Louisiana Tech, sir.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: You were exhausted. You're still tired. Still breathing hard. The
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: most tired. Remember Larry Porter coming up to me and
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: being like, hey, you got 100. You're done. I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: thank God. I'll take Antolin. We didn't do very good. Antolin,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: we played horrible. You just got sacked again. Right now.
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  Speaker 2: Cool.
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  Speaker 1: I got my eye gouged out. Golly. That wasn't bad.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Don't do that. Never had the back of my eyeball touched.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Don't do that. Don't play like we did in the
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Superdome in 2007. Sleepy, to say the least. All right.
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  Speaker 1: All right, welcome back in. OTB here on this Tuesday morning,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: live from the Raising Cane studio. Going to go now
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: to our guy, Stanford Steve Coughlin, who joins us. Fresh
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  Speaker 1: off a appearance in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, of course. Stanford
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  Speaker 1: single weekend. A man that's got more jobs than I do. Steve,
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  Speaker 1: what's up, brother? How we doing?
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  Speaker 2: What's up, fellas?
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  Speaker 3: Feels like yesterday being down there. A couple naps the
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  Speaker 3: last couple days to get back and recover. With all
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  Speaker 3: the boys treating you like royalty down there, as only
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  Speaker 3: you guys could do. So, yeah, head off to Austin tomorrow,
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  Speaker 3: and we're cranked up and right in the middle of
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: this whole deal.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: How many times did you eat Phil's while you were here, Steve?
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  Speaker 2: Too many. Too many.
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  Speaker 3: And then you add on it for dinner, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a walk-on supper club collabo.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: As Booger McFarlane texted me when he saw me on
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: game day Saturday with a golf towel around my neck,
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: he said, you just have butter and spices and garlic.
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  Speaker 3: inside you running all through you. You're doing all right.
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  Speaker 3: And that was 100% true as Booger would only know.
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  Speaker 1: No doubt about it. So, Steve, you've been to a
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: ton of games in Tiger Stadium. You've seen this team
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: at some of its biggest moments. But I wanted to
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: have you on just to maybe describe what you saw
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: on Saturday. The build-up, not only on Saturday, but obviously
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: y'all get here earlier in the week, like you mentioned,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: and you kind of see the build-up to what Saturday is.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: You see the game there in Tiger Stadium. Just for you,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: somebody that's been to so many big moments in that stadium,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: how did Saturday compare?
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Well, I think it starts prior, Jacob.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: You know, like with Lane and this idea and talking
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: to people around him and and seeing where he's come from. Like,
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: I go back to the old Pete Carroll days at USC, right?
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: When Pete had Snoop coming to practice and Will Ferrell,
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: and then they started the competition Wednesdays. And to hear
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Pete talk about it, he wanted it to just be
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: as chaotic and distracting. Like, no coach ever wants to
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: hear the word distraction, right? But Lane has adopted this
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: thing of we want it all leading up to it.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: So then the game– is just normal. We get in
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: our lane, we get behind the car, and we're just
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: going because we've overcome and seen everything in the days
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: leading up to it. And I think it's a new
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: school approach. It's different for people that are buttoned up. And,
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: you know, in high school, I didn't, you know, our
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: coach didn't even let us have music in the locker
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: room before, right? It was dead silent. And boy, is
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: this the opposite case with seeing what music is like
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: at practice and all that. So I think it's exactly
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: what Lane wants. I think, you know, when you go
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: back to hear him talk about why he wanted this
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: job and what comes with it, it doesn't get bigger
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: than anything in Baton Rouge. There's no parameters. Everyone's going
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: to be there to help you out to go that
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: extra mile. So I thought it was a huge success
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: when you.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Look at what it was.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: You know, now we have the postgame sound about what
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: the pregame was like. And during that and knowing that
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: the engine was revved up and ready to go.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: So that's the way Lane's going.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: To do it.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: It's a huge success.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: I think everybody's on board for it because it's a
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: huge change to what they had in the previous era.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: And there's no argument arguing with it right now.
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Steve, so we saw the clip from halftime or pregame.
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: It leaked, and so you saw it. I think it
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: was a little different side of Lane than anybody kind
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: of expected. And there's been so much noise leading up.
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: I mean, all the noise. It's off-season talk. So much
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: is happening. College football is changing, and certainly Lane's been
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: the tip of the spear on that. But we've gone
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: back and watched this game film, and it's one of
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: the more impressive week ones of a college football, like execution-wise.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: And, of course, it showed itself on the college scoreboard.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: It got us arguing yesterday. Is LSU that good? Is
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Clemson that bad?
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: But from an execution standpoint, man, they were as prepared
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: as any team that I've seen to start out a season.
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: Is that a feel and kind of you watching it
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: back and thinking about the game? What was your, what
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: did you take away from the actual gameplay on the field?
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's some cleaning up to do on
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: the offensive line for sure with Sam, but that's why
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: you got Sam Leavitt, right?
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: To get you out of those instances.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: And when you break it down, like being at practice Thursday,
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: it's like, Yeah, they're ready.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, Lane was as calm as there was.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: Charlie's running everything on one side, you know, with the offense,
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: and Blake's doing everything on the other side with the defense,
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: and Lane's checking in on both sides, and then he
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: sets up his havoc deals, you know, whether it's two-minute
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: or field goals at the end. Like, it was exactly
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: what they wanted. I thought there was a real, you know, everybody,
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, you guys know what the LSU run game
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: was the last two years. I thought that was a
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: mindset that was going to be you know, take it
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: to the woodshed Saturday night.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: And, you know, there was so much creativity.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: I think that's another thing you got to see where
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: guys don't know where they're going on split zone. And
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: then that sets up the play action. But you also
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: have that ultimate weapon at Sam Levin at quarterback. The
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: one thing I will say, and it's, you know, it's eerie.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: Like last year we were at Oklahoma, Michigan, and it
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: was like the first, you know, the coming out party
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: for John Mateer.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: And Desmond Howard on our show, he was like, I
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: don't know if this is sustainable. You know, with your
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: quarterback running around there, because now you're getting in the
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: SEC play. And we know what the physicality is every
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: week in that conference. So you saw what ended up
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: happening with Levin on a freak thing with a helmet,
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: but that affected.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: The whole year.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: But I keep saying, Oklahoma still went to the playoff
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: with one good thumb. So I would be confident in
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: knowing that Lane has coached in this league, He knows
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: what you need to do to succeed. He knows when to,
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: you know, put the foot on the gas and then pull,
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: you know, your rest guys. And that was the thing
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: that was eye-opening. I wasn't sure how he was going
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: to go with the pace. At Ole Miss, he sort
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: of slowed down, you know, this new green dot era.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: Coaches are different about how they go about, you know,
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: going play to play or after, you know, a first down.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: Do we want to go fast or slow? So I thought, again,
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: they were in total control. The O-line was on the
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: same page. There weren't a lot of hiccups. The first turnover,
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: it's a tip ball.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: What are you going to do?
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: And they just played the next play, and they're up
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: two scores, you know, the next two possessions. So as
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: effective as you could see, and it was funny on
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: the field, you know, after they go up, was it
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: 7-3 or 10-3, and that first third down where Ross
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: gets to pick six, Joey Galloway's right next to me,
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: I'm like, Joey, this Vazina kid, this is the loudest
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: third down he's going to ever have in his life.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: And sure enough, Blake dials it up, and it's a
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: pick six, and it's off and running from there. So, again,
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: your idea, Matt, saying they had them ready to go,
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: I mean, you just saw it with execution, to your point.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: It was a beautiful thing because, again, it's week one.
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: You don't know how you're going to come out. We
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: saw the difference in Florida State and SMU last night. But, yeah,
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: a huge, huge success, and that's a tribute to that
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: coaching staff.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Catching up with our guy Stanford Steve here on OTB. Now,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: I do want to go quickly to the other sideline
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: because as good as LSU looked, Clemson looked that bad.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: And for a long time, Clemson, look, they were one
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: of the standards of college football. And college football changed,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: and you either adapt or you retire, like Coach Saban did.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: He's like, all right, I've had enough of this. I'm
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: going to retire. And there's been coaches that have adapted,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: and Kirby's adapted, and all these coaches have. And Dabo's
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: been reluctant to do so. And it's really, as you know,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: starting to show up over the last couple of years.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: What is Clemson? Can Clemson fix it? Is Clemson over? Like,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: where do you think that program is right now?
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of places to go. First off,
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: I'll go, you know, so I flew home through Atlanta.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: So my whole flight home was Clemson people.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: So they're just coming up, you know, wounded warrior face. Like,
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: what are we doing now?
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: And it was really interesting to hear multiple.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: Clemson fans say, this feels and looks a lot like
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: Bobby Bowden at the end of Florida State, where the
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: evaluation process wasn't as thorough as it has been. They
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: were just looking maybe for stars on recruits and not
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: doing the homework. And then you get there Saturday night,
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: and then in person, the difference in team speed was.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Night and day. And then you look at the plan.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: I think for LSU, when you play against Blake, you
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: have to have multiple ways to go about things with pressure.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: You know he's going to bring them from all over.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: You saw the drop by Ross on the pick six.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: You have to have multiple answers for different pressures and
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: seeing how dialed up Those were, and I even look
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: at that stuff on defense. When you've got multiple blitzers,
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: are they running into each other? Do they know exactly
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: where they go? Witt's just throwing his body all over
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: the place and just doing it for the team. He
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: doesn't want the numbers. If his job is to pick
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: an offensive guard, he's going to go do that. And
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: I saw guys give up TFLs in order for sacrifice
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: for their teammates to do the defense the right way.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: But getting back to Clemson, you have two NFL receivers,
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: and there was not a plan to get those guys involved.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: Use the pressure against them, right? Screens, whatever it is, misdirection,
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: and you just didn't have that.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: And to see.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: Dabble go back to Chad Morris, who had success at Clemson, what,
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: 10 years ago?
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: And then you look at where he went since then. Um,
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: that was an eyeopening hire. Uh, Tom Allen, you know,
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: had all those NFL guys, you know, on a team
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: last year that I thought was going to be in
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: the college football playoff. And, you know, there wasn't, there
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: weren't many answers for the misdirection in the, in the
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: tempo LSU. So yeah, it's, I mean, it's one game.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: You're not playing in the sec. I don't think the
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: ACC is close to the sec this year.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: I think it's Miami and everybody else. Yeah.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Uh, so, you know, Clemson could get back to winning games,
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: but they got to tighten it up that, I mean,
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: the lack of playmaking ability at the quarterback position has really,
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: really hurt them since Trevor's gone.
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: Steve, headed down to Austin, Texas this weekend for the
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: huge matchup. Steve, you've seen literally the best there is
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: to give when it comes to college football, the atmosphere.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: You were in the middle of the best there is
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: to offer.
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: I want to know a little bit like first part
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: of the question, like how does LSU in this game
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: to experience compared to some of the best around the
• 39:13
  Speaker 6: country from an atmosphere standpoint? And then kind of what
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: you're looking for with a huge matchup down in Austin, Texas.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: I met, I mentioned the Miami football team and the ACC,
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: and I think that's the largest gap from any team
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: to the next team in the power Four. LSU as
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: a hosting city is just about that good.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: There's no doubt they're the one seed. They're the one seed.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: The overall number one seed, if you want to talk
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: March Madness, that style, it doesn't compare because it's a
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: lead-up and everybody wants.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: You to experience it. It's the people that's there.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: With Brandon and his conglomerate at walk-ons and supper club
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: and Piazza and his back room at, at Phil's like,
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: there's no better hospitality than there is with LSU. And
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: now we go to Austin where, you know, Austin likes
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: to show you what they have on the table too.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: So it's, it's good. The issue is it's going to
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: be hotter.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Than it was in VR.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: So I don't know, man.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: Like you got to eliminate layers of clothes, but you
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: also got to have stuff that not showing up on TV.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: It was funny hearing Herbie tell Pat that he made
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: a rookie move going with a light blue blazer on
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: game day Saturday.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: It looks like he got bombarded with water balloons.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: On his back sitting in the chair.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: So we're going back.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: Like, is there extra fans or those AC units or
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: those mist machines that Lewis and the LSU equipment guys got?
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: Maybe we can steal one of those. But I'm sure
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: they'll take care of us in Austin. But really, really
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: fired up for that matchup to see– You know, watching
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: Texas back a little bit, it looks like Sark's got
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: all his tricks up his sleeve again with all his
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: shifts and motions, whereas it looked like he had to
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: break it all down last year for Arch to try
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: and simplify things. And being on the field in Columbus
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: last year for this game, I'll never forget the first
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: play of the season. You know, they were, you know,
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: sprint right option to get Arch a quick completion, get
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: his feet on the ground, and he dirtied it.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: You know, six yard out. And then that just set
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: the tone for the whole day with what Matt Patricia does.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: So really excited to see the matchups in Texas is
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: definitely better with the weapons that they acquired in the
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: off season too. So it sets up for an awesome matchup.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Steve, you're the man. We always appreciate the time. I've
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: got a feeling we're going to be seeing you maybe
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: a time or two, not only on game day, because
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: obviously coming up week three Ole Miss LSU, but in
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Baton Rouge as well. with the way the season looks
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: like it's shaping up with the home schedule LSU has.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: So we appreciate it and look forward to our next conversation, brother.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: Is Mr. Flynn going to make an appearance in Oxford?
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: That's a good question. This dude doesn't even go to
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: home games, Steve. He's not going to Oxford.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: I was looking for him, man.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: No, I'll be there. I'll be there.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: I know you will.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: I'll be there. All right. Appreciate it, brother.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: I appreciate you guys.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: All right, there he is, Stanford Steve. Good enough to
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: join us here on OTB. You just got called out.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Are you going?
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: I did get called out. Are you going? To Oxford?
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: I don't have a ticket. I think Matt Flynn can
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: get a ticket to an LSU football game. Ticket to
• 42:18
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• 42:25
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• 44:01
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• 44:07
  Speaker 1: You really don't want to go to the game? I mean, I,
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: you know. You scared? I mean, whoa, I can go
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: by myself.
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: I pack up the whole fam, go find a hotel, and,
• 44:21
  Speaker 6: you know, an hour and a half away from the stadium.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: What about Alondra and Tay-Tay? OTV trip. I'll be there. That,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, is... Is that on the table? I don't know.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: What do you think? Not everybody at once. I mean,
• 44:38
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• 44:49
  Speaker 6: I think the Chances of that happening are about as
• 44:53
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• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Whoa! Dang, Marcus Freeman catches shows. Low chance is what
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: you're saying. What? Low chance is what you're saying. Did
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: y'all see that? Oh, he's so committed to it. Another
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: one from the game. I respect it. They're not even close.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: I really like Marcus, and Marcus is just all put together, smart, intelligent,
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: handsome guy. So handsome. Like, man, just put on a, like,
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: just shave it. Shave it or put on a hat.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: He would look okay with his hair shaved. It's not
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: that bad either. No, his hairline is not that bad.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Like he's adding the extra two inches. I'm ready for
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: a rain game. It's not even two inches. It's like
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: barely anything. Yeah, he doesn't need it.
• 45:34
  Speaker 7: I'm ready for a rain game where it like runs down.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it looks like Sharpie.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: It does.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: And it's bad. Maybe it is. And it doesn't look good.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: And look, I get it.
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: In a normal setting with warm lighting in a living room,
• 45:47
  Speaker 6: you probably can't tell. But in stadium lights, yeah, you're
• 45:51
  Speaker 6: going to tell. It's kind of like sitting here under
• 45:53
  Speaker 6: these lights.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: He should change.
• 45:56
  Speaker 6: He got fixed that. You're a handsome fella. No, I
• 45:59
  Speaker 6: don't respect how you blamed your team for not playing
• 46:02
  Speaker 6: in the bowl game. Don't respect that. I don't respect
• 46:03
  Speaker 6: Notre Dame at all, but I respect you. But not
• 46:06
  Speaker 6: your hairline. Look, this is coming from me. Look at this.
• 46:10
  Speaker 6: My girl's called these bunny ears the other day.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she did. On air. Hour three, coming up.
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: Oh, wait, my bad.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: My bad, my bad. I was like, what? I don't
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: know what I'm doing.
• 46:19
  Speaker 6: I thought I had a little bit more time for
• 46:22
  Speaker 6: this bunny hair story.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: I was like, you were trying to cut because of
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Flynn's hairline?
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: No, that's on me.
• 46:26
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• 46:27
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