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Hour One | LSU-Clemson is Almost Here! Players to Watch & Game Day Buzz · Off The Bench

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
• 0:03
  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
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: locked in to Off the Bench.
• 0:13
  Speaker 3: Flynn is back to throw for the end zone.
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: Ball.
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Cane Studio, here's Jacob Hester and
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: Matt Flynn. Off the bench.
• 0:37
  Speaker 4: Oh, you've been coughing I've been drinking life Oh, you've
• 0:53
  Speaker 4: been nauseous And so I drink to health Oh, you're
• 0:56
  Speaker 4: kidding yourself Yo!
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: Yo! Yo!
• 0:58
  Speaker 5: Welcome to O-T-V.
• 1:00
  Speaker 6: I'm with Jeff.
• 1:01
  Speaker 5: Here on this Thursday morning. Only a couple of sleeps away.
• 1:08
  Speaker 7: Two sleeps. That's a couple. Unless you take a nap.
• 1:12
  Speaker 7: Then you're three.
• 1:12
  Speaker 5: I don't trust people to take naps.
• 1:15
  Speaker 7: I do.
• 1:16
  Speaker 2: Here you go.
• 1:17
  Speaker 8: I told you. We're going to poke the bear.
• 1:19
  Speaker 7: Here we go. Naps are great. Yeah, for children. Or
• 1:28
  Speaker 7: as you say, kids. A lot of people say kids.
• 1:32
  Speaker 9: I used to love a nap. I'm not a big
• 1:34
  Speaker 9: nap person anymore. I feel like I wake up and
• 1:36
  Speaker 9: I'm like, ugh.
• 1:38
  Speaker 7: You can't be too long.
• 1:39
  Speaker 8: While you're napping, the whole world's moving. You can't go
• 1:41
  Speaker 8: into REMs. While you're sleeping, the whole world's moving too, bud.
• 1:46
  Speaker 7: Wow.
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 7: Not the whole world.
• 1:48
  Speaker 9: Maybe like the other side of the world is.
• 1:52
  Speaker 7: Literally, the world's moving. Yeah.
• 1:54
  Speaker 10: True. It do always be moving.
• 1:55
  Speaker 7: It do always be moving. You want to get literal
• 1:57
  Speaker 7: for sure.
• 1:58
  Speaker 8: The Bible does tell you to rest.
• 2:04
  Speaker 5: It doesn't say nap. He's going to rest in a chair. Anyways.
• 2:13
  Speaker 10: I found all 78 people on staff.
• 2:15
  Speaker 7: You did? Okay, good.
• 2:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 9: And they also actually have three interns, so it actually
• 2:22
  Speaker 9: gets to 81 total people.
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  Speaker 10: On the staff.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, okay. That'll get us past Christmas.
• 2:30
  Speaker 10: We're doing a staff profile?
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  Speaker 7: I think we were going to. I mean, they deserve
• 2:34
  Speaker 7: a little moment. Right?
• 2:35
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 7: I think everybody. They work hard. Very hard. I think
• 2:41
  Speaker 7: they deserve a little time. A little spotlight.
• 2:45
  Speaker 6: We probably skip one of them. One guy on the
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  Speaker 6: staff is definitely at his moment in the sun here already.
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  Speaker 10: Who?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 7: We're going to talk about him. Full profile. Full bio.
• 3:01
  Speaker 8: We haven't completely flushed that out yet, but we're going
• 3:04
  Speaker 8: to do a coach's spotlight. You're on the show. We're
• 3:06
  Speaker 8: going to do it every day. Highlight one coach. That's
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  Speaker 8: going to take us through Christmas.
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  Speaker 10: Past Christmas, apparently.
• 3:15
  Speaker 7: Past Christmas. Well, they're the interns.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Jake.
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  Speaker 7: What's up, buddy?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, what's going on? How we doing?
• 3:20
  Speaker 7: Man. There's actually just... There's bad energy over here.
• 3:23
  Speaker 5: I tried to... I was pulling up the show, and
• 3:26
  Speaker 5: I kind of always forget that Moscona does a show
• 3:29
  Speaker 5: during our show.
• 3:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 3:31
  Speaker 5: It pulled up. Like, I was trying to get to
• 3:32
  Speaker 5: our show, and I guess ESPN and.
• 3:36
  Speaker 10: It'd be your own people.
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  Speaker 7: You know, the algorithm.
• 3:38
  Speaker 5: It'd be your own people.
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  Speaker 6: He locked us out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 3:40
  Speaker 7: It's just pretty funny, actually.
• 3:43
  Speaker 5: He does this shit during the show.
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  Speaker 10: We're only in competition with ourselves.
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  Speaker 7: It's okay.
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  Speaker 10: We're just trying to be better than the last version
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  Speaker 10: of ourselves.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. Be better today than you were yesterday.
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  Speaker 10: And guess what?
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  Speaker 9: We have good mics in the first segment.
• 4:01
  Speaker 5: I'm choosing violence all day today. Just the way that
• 4:04
  Speaker 5: I woke up. I'm about to get our link. and
• 4:06
  Speaker 5: go to his show, and put our link in this show.
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  Speaker 7: In the comments.
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  Speaker 5: In the comments. I'm doing it right.
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  Speaker 7: I'm doing it right now.
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  Speaker 10: I respect it.
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  Speaker 7: Boom.
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  Speaker 5: Jacob Pester 1822.
• 4:17
  Speaker 7: Copy. Paste.
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  Speaker 5: In the Moscona with the YouTube slash watch.
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  Speaker 7: I respect it.
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  Speaker 5: It's my mood all day. I don't know what it is.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if we're getting close to the game day,
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  Speaker 5: but I woke up pissed off.
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  Speaker 10: I like that we're choosing violence.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. Let's see how it goes. Is there anything that
• 4:35
  Speaker 7: we can do? no it's not bad.
• 4:37
  Speaker 10: It's not you don't rage bait.
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  Speaker 7: Him oh he's been doing that for 20.
• 4:41
  Speaker 10: Years like you're asking and you're the number one offender.
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  Speaker 6: Right like are you the reason he woke up mad
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  Speaker 6: no but you're not gonna help no but you're not
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  Speaker 6: gonna help.
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  Speaker 8: The situation I do I do like to stir a
• 4:52
  Speaker 8: pot I do like to stir a pot from a.
• 4:55
  Speaker 7: Distance too real nice subtleties well he started out hot
• 5:01
  Speaker 7: with that nap situation though I think he he.
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  Speaker 10: Might need a nap He said, you ought to be literal.
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  Speaker 5: Whoa, I posted it in there, and I think it
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  Speaker 5: went away.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 10: He deleted it?
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  Speaker 5: I think he deleted it.
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 6: Hang on, I'm not going to go look.
• 5:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not there.
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  Speaker 7: I definitely posted it, too, because I saw it pop up.
• 5:21
  Speaker 9: Hey, but somebody just said no audio, so we're sabotaging
• 5:24
  Speaker 9: him somehow.
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  Speaker 5: Man.
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  Speaker 2: I did.
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  Speaker 5: I posted the link in there.
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  Speaker 6: I'm dead. Let's see.
• 5:32
  Speaker 7: That's good clean fun, everybody.
• 5:33
  Speaker 10: It is good clean fun.
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  Speaker 5: That's crazy that he did that. Anyways.
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  Speaker 6: I don't see it. Get them out of here.
• 5:44
  Speaker 7: Hey, now go do it to MSJ.
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  Speaker 5: They don't have one, do they?
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  Speaker 6: Probably not.
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  Speaker 10: They're not cool enough to do that. They're losers.
• 5:51
  Speaker 7: Yeah. Dial up.
• 5:53
  Speaker 10: We like always lose to them. They're losers.
• 5:55
  Speaker 6: When you're as renowned, Matt, in the radio world as
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  Speaker 6: MSJ is, do you need another source?
• 6:03
  Speaker 7: That's a great point. Now, they do advertise on our
• 6:05
  Speaker 7: YouTube streams.
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  Speaker 2: Do they?
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  Speaker 7: The law firm does? Remember that one time their ad
• 6:10
  Speaker 7: popped up?
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  Speaker 5: I think they did. There was one time I did
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  Speaker 5: see them.
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  Speaker 7: It's very pointed.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, hell no.
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  Speaker 7: I've only seen it once, though.
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  Speaker 5: I've only seen it once.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I did really enjoy, though, even though
• 6:24
  Speaker 5: today's going to be violent? What? I did love seeing
• 6:28
  Speaker 5: all of the stuff for game day being put up.
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  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 6:31
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean? Not college game day, but
• 6:33
  Speaker 5: actually just a football game in Baton Rouge game day.
• 6:37
  Speaker 5: All the signage and the things that you see during
• 6:40
  Speaker 5: football season. People pointing to different directions like they're doing
• 6:45
  Speaker 5: something out there. Like this goes here.
• 6:47
  Speaker 6: Matt moving furniture.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: It's okay.
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  Speaker 7: Take it. Look, I would assume the.
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  Speaker 5: They were doing more than that.
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  Speaker 7: I would assume the RVs are starting to roll in
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  Speaker 7: as well.
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  Speaker 5: A couple.
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  Speaker 7: There was a couple.
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  Speaker 6: Today will be the big RV day.
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  Speaker 7: Big move in. It's exciting. It is upon us, everybody.
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  Speaker 7: It is upon us.
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  Speaker 2: How fun.
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  Speaker 7: Like we said, three sleeps.
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  Speaker 6: I hate that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, what?
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  Speaker 10: Three sleeps. It's very, like... Remember?
• 7:14
  Speaker 7: The nap.
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  Speaker 6: The nap, because I was like, I'm not a math whiz,
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  Speaker 6: but it's two sleeps.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, he's taking a nap.
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  Speaker 7: He was just trying. He was really reaching. I was
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  Speaker 7: just recalling. I said it earlier.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, pretty mad.
• 7:28
  Speaker 9: Mackie in the chat just said, just posted there's breaking
• 7:31
  Speaker 9: news on Off The Bench.
• 7:35
  Speaker 10: Yes, we are breaking news right now. Breaking news.
• 7:38
  Speaker 5: Yes, well done, Matt.
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  Speaker 10: That Dylan Raiola.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, what?
• 7:43
  Speaker 10: Going to Oregon.
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  Speaker 5: Going to Oregon.
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  Speaker 2: Are you serious? Crazy.
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  Speaker 7: Breaking news.
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  Speaker 2: Breaking.
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  Speaker 7: I love that. It's like days later.
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  Speaker 6: Was it days or was it an hour later? No,
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  Speaker 6: but it was a good hour 45.
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  Speaker 10: We had definitely already mentioned it.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, you definitely did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Also, you did that to me with like Bryson Martinez too,
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  Speaker 9: I'm pretty sure.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah. Sometimes I'm so locked into my studies of sports
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  Speaker 8: that I don't hear what anybody else says. Hey, today
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  Speaker 8: I'm very excited because finally, it's bold prediction Thursday.
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  Speaker 6: I'm so excited.
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  Speaker 5: How many do you have?
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  Speaker 7: I'm working on a few. You're working on them?
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  Speaker 8: So we were going to do it last Friday, and
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  Speaker 8: then Dev came in, started drinking some beers, and we
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  Speaker 8: just didn't do it.
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  Speaker 10: Respect your body.
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  Speaker 8: Respect your body. Shout out. Then it got pushed to Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
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  Speaker 8: now Thursday. So we're going to do it today.
• 8:49
  Speaker 10: It got pushed Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
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  Speaker 9: Wait, so how are you doing research if we were
• 8:54
  Speaker 9: supposed to have a Friday?
• 8:55
  Speaker 10: I already have mine.
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  Speaker 8: I already had some Friday, but, you know, I was
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  Speaker 8: going to fly by the seat of my pants a
• 8:59
  Speaker 8: little bit. There was two I had last week that
• 9:01
  Speaker 8: I'm not sure if I'm going to stick with.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: Still trying to decide.
• 9:08
  Speaker 6: Is it the?
• 9:10
  Speaker 7: I think I'm going to stick with that one.
• 9:11
  Speaker 6: I was about to say, if you ain't sticking with it,
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  Speaker 6: I'll take it.
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  Speaker 10: Just stick with that one.
• 9:14
  Speaker 8: Yeah, so Taylor and I, last Friday we came in,
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  Speaker 8: and randomly we had the same bold prediction as each other.
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  Speaker 7: And so we paper, rock, scissors for it. And obviously
• 9:25
  Speaker 7: I won't.
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  Speaker 6: And that gets it.
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  Speaker 7: I had a shot rock. Like, who goes scissors? First one.
• 9:34
  Speaker 7: Somebody that's not very experienced. Yeah, you think I was
• 9:37
  Speaker 7: going to go paper?
• 9:38
  Speaker 10: Do you even rock, paper, scissors?
• 9:39
  Speaker 7: You think I was going to go paper first rule?
• 9:41
  Speaker 7: I don't think so. Beta move. Sorry.
• 9:45
  Speaker 6: I was like, you know, I got a one in
• 9:48
  Speaker 6: three shot at this.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, no.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't think too far ahead.
• 9:51
  Speaker 7: Always go rock. Okay.
• 9:52
  Speaker 6: I'll write that down.
• 9:59
  Speaker 7: Thabo goes paper.
• 10:01
  Speaker 10: Oh, yeah.
• 10:01
  Speaker 7: First. Out of the gate.
• 10:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 10:03
  Speaker 7: He always goes paper.
• 10:08
  Speaker 6: But he would have a long explanation as to, like,
• 10:10
  Speaker 6: why he went paper.
• 10:12
  Speaker 7: Paper, I don't know.
• 10:14
  Speaker 10: Wait, so you say always go rock?
• 10:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 10:16
  Speaker 10: Okay, I think that's what I naturally always go.
• 10:19
  Speaker 7: Right, because it's the strongest.
• 10:22
  Speaker 10: Obviously.
• 10:22
  Speaker 6: When your hand's always in the rock, too.
• 10:24
  Speaker 2: True.
• 10:24
  Speaker 6: If you actually do nothing. It's the laziest.
• 10:28
  Speaker 10: Dang.
• 10:29
  Speaker 7: It's not fair.
• 10:31
  Speaker 10: Keep calling you lazy.
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 7: Anyway, I win most times. Oh, rock, paper, scissors you're
• 10:44
  Speaker 7: talking about. Yeah, Russian bow.
• 10:50
  Speaker 10: They said, Scone's talking bald. They talking rock, paper, scissors.
• 10:55
  Speaker 10: Fair enough. Can't even argue with that.
• 10:57
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's fair.
• 11:02
  Speaker 5: Said all the OTB posts in Scone's chat are gone.
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  Speaker 7: That is crazy, like, thinking about him going through it.
• 11:08
  Speaker 6: In real time.
• 11:10
  Speaker 8: Let me tell y'all something. I can feel feelings right now.
• 11:15
  Speaker 8: The feeling over here is pretty intense. We're just going
• 11:23
  Speaker 8: to smile through it.
• 11:24
  Speaker 5: I guess y'all didn't get to drive in and see
• 11:27
  Speaker 5: kind of everything get set up.
• 11:29
  Speaker 7: Like, it's my favorite part.
• 11:30
  Speaker 10: I saw it yesterday. Yeah, it gets me.
• 11:32
  Speaker 7: It's like my favorite part.
• 11:33
  Speaker 10: I'm like, it's here.
• 11:33
  Speaker 7: Of pregame.
• 11:34
  Speaker 9: It's like when people start putting Christmas decorations out and
• 11:37
  Speaker 9: you're like, ooh, Christmas is here.
• 11:38
  Speaker 6: You just feel colder.
• 11:39
  Speaker 8: You're like, oh, yeah.
• 11:40
  Speaker 9: I started seeing, like, the sports properties, like, barrier up.
• 11:44
  Speaker 10: And I was like, ooh, we here.
• 11:46
  Speaker 9: Because I had to go to court to table yesterday.
• 11:48
  Speaker 9: So I had to drive through there. And I did
• 11:51
  Speaker 9: see everything starting to get set up. I saw they
• 11:53
  Speaker 9: were starting to set up college game day a little
• 11:55
  Speaker 9: bit too. So it's going to be exciting.
• 11:58
  Speaker 8: I feel like I drove on campus maybe five times
• 12:06
  Speaker 8: in the last 12 months. It's just not like, cause you're,
• 12:09
  Speaker 8: you go there all the time cause of school, but
• 12:11
  Speaker 8: it's like opposite side of town for me.
• 12:12
  Speaker 7: I don't really ever go there.
• 12:13
  Speaker 8: Except for games or like we went there for one
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  Speaker 8: of the shows, but it's never like, I just don't
• 12:19
  Speaker 8: ever go.
• 12:20
  Speaker 7: Drive over there to go through campus.
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 12:24
  Speaker 7: Which every time I go over there, I'm like, man,
• 12:26
  Speaker 7: this is great. I love it here.
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 12:28
  Speaker 7: I know.
• 12:28
  Speaker 10: All the trees.
• 12:29
  Speaker 7: I get to see it every morning. I know. It's
• 12:33
  Speaker 7: a good thing.
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 12:34
  Speaker 10: I'm going tonight. Lane Kiffin show tonight.
• 12:38
  Speaker 5: Oh, it's going to be on Court to Table.
• 12:40
  Speaker 10: It's at Court to Table.
• 12:41
  Speaker 7: That's right.
• 12:41
  Speaker 10: But I do the show from the stadium.
• 12:45
  Speaker 7: Oh, that's right.
• 12:45
  Speaker 5: You do it from the stadium.
• 12:47
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 12:47
  Speaker 10: The studio in there.
• 12:48
  Speaker 5: 900 credentialed people for this game.
• 12:58
  Speaker 6: Now, those are the ones that got approved?
• 13:01
  Speaker 7: I think so.
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  Speaker 6: Because that seems like a lot to be approved.
• 13:03
  Speaker 5: Now, that's including College Game Day and the TV trucks.
• 13:08
  Speaker 6: And I think SEC Network's coming out too.
• 13:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but still.
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  Speaker 7: What's a standard for amount for LSU?
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  Speaker 2: Not 900.
• 13:14
  Speaker 10: 900 is a lot of media members.
• 13:16
  Speaker 5: That's almost 1,000. When do you stop?
• 13:23
  Speaker 2: A thousand?
• 13:24
  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 9: But my thing is I feel like the sidelines at
• 13:28
  Speaker 9: LSU games are already mega crowded to the point where
• 13:33
  Speaker 9: people that are trying to do their job can't do
• 13:35
  Speaker 9: their job, which I get it.
• 13:37
  Speaker 10: You want recruits out there. You want the brand. I
• 13:39
  Speaker 10: understand that.
• 13:40
  Speaker 9: But 900 people out there, you're not going to be
• 13:43
  Speaker 9: able to move.
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  Speaker 7: That's credentialed.
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  Speaker 10: That's what I'm saying.
• 13:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, like, so technically they, I mean, there's different levels
• 13:50
  Speaker 5: to where you can go, where you can stand, all
• 13:52
  Speaker 5: that different stuff. But you've been on the field pregame
• 13:55
  Speaker 5: before a big game. Like, that compared to directional school U, like,
• 13:59
  Speaker 5: it's completely different. And it can get chaotic down there
• 14:02
  Speaker 5: in a big game.
• 14:02
  Speaker 8: So we'll have people, you know, that'll call Lacey or
• 14:06
  Speaker 8: I and be like, hey, we're coming for this game.
• 14:08
  Speaker 8: You know, is there any way we can get on
• 14:10
  Speaker 8: the sideline for the game? And I'm like, you don't
• 14:13
  Speaker 8: want to do that.
• 14:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 14:15
  Speaker 8: Because, like, now it's an awesome experience, especially for people
• 14:17
  Speaker 8: that haven't done it or touched the grass in Tiger Stadium.
• 14:20
  Speaker 7: And I get that.
• 14:21
  Speaker 8: But it's also, like, worse than going to Reggie's in 2004.
• 14:28
  Speaker 7: Pretty much. Like, it's very packed. You can't really see
• 14:32
  Speaker 7: anything either.
• 14:35
  Speaker 5: But, but, you say all that and I agree with you,
• 14:40
  Speaker 5: but if you could bottle up the energy down there
• 14:42
  Speaker 5: and sell it.
• 14:42
  Speaker 7: Oh, it's electric. Name your price. Yeah.
• 14:46
  Speaker 10: For real.
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: I don't want to, like, over-speak on what I think
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: it's going to be.
• 14:54
  Speaker 8: You have a little bit more free walking than most
• 14:58
  Speaker 8: people because you can walk anywhere. Like, usually the credentials
• 15:02
  Speaker 8: that you get, like, if you've got people coming in,
• 15:04
  Speaker 8: it's like you've got to stay in one section. And
• 15:06
  Speaker 8: you're about tenth back from the sideline.
• 15:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 15:10
  Speaker 11: Mm-hmm.
• 15:10
  Speaker 7: Yeah, fair.
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
• 15:11
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you get to walk like where other people are.
• 15:14
  Speaker 7: You get to spread your wings a little bit.
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: Well, I just like to walk because I like to
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: talk to the coaches before I go to the broadcast booth.
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: I want to get a feel of how they're feeling,
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: try to pick their brain on give me a guy
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: to kind of circle that maybe we haven't circled. I
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: like to go speak to the opposing coach, which I
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: don't know that I'll be able to really. Eventually, now
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: that I'm not on college radio, eventually those relationships might
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: go away. But I'd like to go talk to the
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: other coach and kind of see where they're at.
• 15:43
  Speaker 10: Oh, you know who we talked to yesterday?
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: Who?
• 15:45
  Speaker 10: Eric McLean.
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: Oh, EMAC?
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 15:48
  Speaker 10: And then I was like, oh, we should have him on.
• 15:49
  Speaker 10: But then I didn't want to have him on AFR
• 15:51
  Speaker 10: and then have him on here again.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: Actually, it's funny you say that. I was going to
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: have EMAC on tomorrow, but now I'm not.
• 15:59
  Speaker 10: You can have him on tomorrow.
• 15:59
  Speaker 7: Nope. Classic EMAC.
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: Matt, you definitely know.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: Who that is, I can tell.
• 16:08
  Speaker 10: He's been on this show, Matt.
• 16:09
  Speaker 7: Coach, former coach.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Nope.
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: What'd you say?
• 16:14
  Speaker 10: Coach, former coach.
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: No, he's actually younger than us.
• 16:18
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: Blake Clemson, yeah.
• 16:24
  Speaker 7: Wide receiver. Offensive lineman.
• 16:27
  Speaker 10: He a big guy.
• 16:29
  Speaker 7: Started tight end, then moved to O-line. See, I told you.
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: I told you.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: No, you didn't.
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: You're like, ah, receiver adjacent.
• 16:38
  Speaker 7: The Mac.
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: Eric McLean, yep.
• 16:42
  Speaker 10: Good dude.
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: Right? McLean or McLean?
• 16:48
  Speaker 10: It's spelled like McLean.
• 16:50
  Speaker 7: M-A-C. That's a more rare version.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: True.
• 16:54
  Speaker 9: Who do y'all think is going to be the biggest
• 16:58
  Speaker 9: celebrity here on Saturday?
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: Plain.
• 17:02
  Speaker 10: Since they have 900 people credentialed. Shaq?
• 17:06
  Speaker 9: No.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: I mean, Shaq's literal biggest. Shaq's so famous. Boosie's famous.
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: But those people have LSU ties.
• 17:14
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: But I think it feels like there's going to be
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: somebody that doesn't have LSU ties.
• 17:19
  Speaker 10: Like who?
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: You never know sometimes. When LSU's good, you never know
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: who's going to show up. I'll never forget in 2019,
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: walking into a locker room and chatting it up, and
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: I look over and Vince Vaughn. He's like just sitting
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: over there.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. He was like.
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: Then he came to the Peach Bowl. Then he came
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: to the Natty.
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: He's a little bit of an adopted LSU fan.
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: I've heard him talk about it a little bit.
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: I was in the suite with him at the Natty Championship.
• 17:48
  Speaker 8: For a little bit. He was there for a little bit.
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: So, like, sometimes.
• 17:51
  Speaker 10: Did you meet the president?
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: Like LSU. Huh?
• 17:53
  Speaker 10: Did you meet the president?
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Uh-uh.
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: He was a couple down from us.
• 17:57
  Speaker 10: Oh, because I saw that Vince was in the suite
• 18:00
  Speaker 10: with him.
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: Did he just walk in and say hey?
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: I think he kind of just like went to wherever
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: he wanted to and he was in that one for
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: a little bit.
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 18:09
  Speaker 10: Very tall.
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: Very tall. Who? Vince. Yeah, he's tall. He's a tall fellow.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: We got to take a break.
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: We'll see. Maybe Elon will be there.
• 18:22
  Speaker 10: There is a star base.
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: Star base. That might be a good pool. What if
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: he's the guest? What if he's a guest picker?
• 18:29
  Speaker 10: You think Elon knows ball?
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: No, not at all. He knows how to read a note.
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: He knows Mars.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: In front of him.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: True.
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: Pick this game.
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: That would be cool. All right. No LSU ties.
• 18:42
  Speaker 10: I'm sold on Elon Musk.
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: But Louisiana ties now. Yep. All right, we got to
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: take a break.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: More OTB when we come back here live from the
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: Raising Cane Studios.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Off the bench.
• 18:53
  Speaker 10: Cannonball.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: RussellPools.com. Russell Pool Company. Been in the game since the
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: 1960s here in South Louisiana. And look, we have harsh conditions.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: We have a little bit of heat. I don't know
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: if you know that here. A little bit of humidity
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: here in South Louisiana. And a lot of times that can, well,
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: it can lean on your pool a little bit. And
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: if it's not built right, it can crumble said pool.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: But when you work with Russell Pool Company, they've been
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: doing it so long in this area, they know exactly
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: how to build your pool to make sure that it
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: stands the test of time. And also, you're going to
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: get an incredible pool. You're going to get a custom pool.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: You're going to get something that nobody else has. And again,
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: they've been doing it since the 1960s. You'll find your
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: pool at RussellPools.com. Go to RussellPools.com.
• 19:33
  Speaker 8: That's right, Russell Pools. So my kids are at that
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: funny age. My son, fifth grade, that they're all liking
• 19:39
  Speaker 8: to do just belly flops. You won't do a belly flop.
• 19:41
  Speaker 8: You won't do a belly flop. They're doing that. Well,
• 19:43
  Speaker 8: you're going to be doing belly flops at the Flynn
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: House in a handful of months, next spring, next summer.
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: So go check them out, Russell Pools. They can get
• 19:51
  Speaker 8: your project going, two landscape architects on staff.
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: They're the best. RussellPools.com.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: 2007 champs.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Purple and gold to the core. This is Off the
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Bench with Hester and Flynn. Baton Rouge's go-to for all
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: things Louisiana sports.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: Oh, what's the theme today?
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Oldies.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Oldies.
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: Little temptations.
• 20:43
  Speaker 9: This is like the second time you asked for it,
• 20:44
  Speaker 9: so I'm like, I'm going to, we'll do oldies today.
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: This one starts out a little instrumental, but that's a banger.
• 20:49
  Speaker 10: And that's how I fast forwarded like two minutes in.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: We have Motown Wednesdays on NFL, so.
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: Ooh, I like that.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Ooh.
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: I like that.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: That's good. Well, I grew up. When I was a kid, man,
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: I loved.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: You're lucky you got it in, because I was going
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: to ask for a little dad rock, a little Three
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: Doors Down today.
• 21:07
  Speaker 10: We can do that tomorrow.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: Well, I won't hear it tomorrow.
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: You can hear some of it. You could just play
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: any Three Doors Down song.
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: Fangers. In Livingston Parish.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: No, in Caddo Parish, too, then.
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: Not that different.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: How much time have you spent in Caddo Parish?
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: I know a lot.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: A night and a half?
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: I know a lot of peeps. similarities are eerie. Are they?
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: You're not even from a parish because you're not from here. No,
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: it's a county.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: I'm from a parish now.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: You're not from there. You live there. You rent space.
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: Saturday night in Baton Rouge, LSU and Clemson. Coming up.
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: Legally.
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: A few different layers that are going to make this
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: game intriguing. The obvious one, debut of Lane Kiffin here
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: at LSU. They didn't bring Lane Kiffin in here to
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: obviously just win games. The expectation is to compete for championships,
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: and this first impression is going to be big. Last
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: year you beat Clemson 17-10 on the road in Clemson,
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: South Carolina, and now you have got college game day,
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: a huge national scene. Now the game might not be
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: talked about like the actual game portion of it as
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: much as it was last year. There's so many things
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: on the outside being talked about. about this game, but
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: it still doesn't change the fact that it's going to
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: do a massive, massive number on TV. So I can't
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: imagine a bigger opening night than LSU and Clemson and
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: what that's going to be. Let's go around because like
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: in the last couple of weeks, we've kind of gone around.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: We've tried to like maybe give him a name that
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: isn't on the marquee, like a name that's not going
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: to be the first one that a lot of people mentioned.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: We're trying to go into the roster and hey, look
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: out for this guy. Look out for that guy. But
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: what about the first guy that you're watching? Be it
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: the best player on the team or the 105th player
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: on the team. Where are your eyes going to go first?
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: Quarterback. Quarterback.
• 23:09
  Speaker 11: 100%.
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: I mean, it's where your eyes go first on every
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: football game that you watch. I mean, besides the center,
• 23:16
  Speaker 8: it's the only position that.
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: Touches the ball.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: Unless you're watching, like, the Trent Dilfer-led Baltimore Ravens in
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: that Super Bowl.
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: Yeah, but then you're just making sure he doesn't trip
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: at that point. But it's the only position besides the center.
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: That touches the ball every single play. That's why it's
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: always Revere. That's why it's overpaid. That's why it's most
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: important position in the game that in the most popular
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: sport in our country. So yeah, all eyes have to
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: be there and he's brand new and we know what
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: Lane Kiffin does with quarterbacks in his offense. They thrive
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: in his offense.
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: That's what I was going to say. So you bring
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: in Sam Levitt and This is a completely rebuilt LSU offense.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: I think we all know that, but you combine Levitt
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: with Lane Kiffin and then.
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: Is this the most highly touted quarterback that he's ever
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: had as a transfer at any program?
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: Coming in, yeah.
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: Coming in, yeah.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: I would think so. And Lane's always been really good
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: at creating quarterback-friendly throws, getting playmakers into space. It's a
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: very quarterback-friendly offense if you play within the offense and
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: you don't.
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: Try to do too much. But I would agree. I
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: think this is probably.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: the biggest that he's had, at least as far as
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: like preseason expectation, nobody knew who Trinidad Chambliss was last year.
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: Nobody really knew what Ferris state was.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: No friends and family knew that was about it. And
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: then he turns into a household name by the end
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: of it. And he's had good quarterbacks. So I don't
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: want it to sound like he hasn't had good quarterbacks,
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: but he hasn't had one that's been to a college
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: football playoff like Sam Levitt. So like, I don't necessarily
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: think Levitt's going to throw for 400 yards on Saturday,
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: but at, Is it, can he command the offense?
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: Can LSU get in the right play? Can he avoid
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: negative plays?
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: And when Clemson does bring some pressure, because they will
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: bring pressure, can he use that athletic ability that we've
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: seen in his past to make a play, to make
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: them pay when they bring pressure so they don't bring
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: it all night long because he's going to show you
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: what he can do with his legs as well.
• 25:11
  Speaker 8: It's about, for Sam on Saturday night, it's about controlling emotions.
• 25:16
  Speaker 8: You're in a new, you're the number one. player ranked
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: in the portal. You had an injury that you're overcoming,
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: so you really haven't played a ton of football the
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: last 12 months. You're very highly touted. You understand the
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: noise that's around the program. You understand the noise. You
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: can't shelter these kids anymore like you used to from
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: that outside noise. We used to have to get our
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: information of watching college game day, like the morning of
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: while we're eating eggs before our game. When we're finding
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: out Coach Miles is going to Michigan. Watching watching herb street,
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: announce it. Like you can't shelter them with social media
• 25:51
  Speaker 8: and everything. So he's going to understand that he is
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: going to feel an energy Saturday night that even with
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: the playoffs, he might've never felt before.
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: That's how different that's how different that Valley is.
• 26:06
  Speaker 8: And it's going to be the opening game. So it's
• 26:08
  Speaker 8: about controlling his emotions. Cause if he can do that,
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: he has been identified by Lane and his staff as
• 26:15
  Speaker 8: having the the mental capabilities, the physical capabilities, and his
• 26:21
  Speaker 8: skill set fitting into their system. So I trust their
• 26:25
  Speaker 8: evaluation because they have earned that trust through the history of.
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: Their coaching tenures. So I trust that.
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: Now, can he control his emotions, play within the system,
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: not try to do too much? A mistake is going
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: to happen. It's the first game. There's going to be
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: dumb things that happen on both sides of the ball.
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: Really dumb things. It's college football. They're all brand new
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: coaching staff. It is brand new players playing with each other.
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: There's going to be stupid mistakes made Saturday. Everybody is,
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: all over the country. You just got to make less
• 26:59
  Speaker 8: than the other. And you have to be able to
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: bounce back. And as a quarterback, you cannot press. When
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: things go bad, you can't press. When things get too
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: hyped up, you can't just try to throw it deep
• 27:11
  Speaker 8: because I want to make a play in front of
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: this crowd, blah, blah, blah. Control your emotions. You got
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: the skill set. You have the play caller. You have
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: the offense. You got the talent around you. Let it
• 27:20
  Speaker 8: come naturally. Let it come to you. Plays will present themselves,
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: and when they do, take advantage of them, but don't
• 27:26
  Speaker 8: try to force it.
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: Alondra and Tay-Tay, would y'all maybe have a different answer,
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: or is it Sam Leavitt? Because a lot of times
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: we try to find four different guys. I'm not trying
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: to do that here because I want to be authentic
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: in my answer, and it is Sam Leavitt.
• 27:39
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think it's Sam, but if I'm going different,
• 27:43
  Speaker 9: I'm really, really excited to see Trey Desgreen. like trade
• 27:46
  Speaker 9: as green in that seven, an.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: Actual offense in an actual, I don't even mean that
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: like throwing shade, just, but.
• 27:52
  Speaker 10: There's so much more.
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: There's like so much more that you're going to be
• 27:57
  Speaker 9: able to do with trade as with Lane Kiffin and
• 28:00
  Speaker 9: Charlie Weiss, Jr. Leading the offense, but in a quarterback,
• 28:04
  Speaker 9: that's not injured. Um, but I'm just very excited to
• 28:07
  Speaker 9: see trade as like, he is said to have a
• 28:10
  Speaker 9: great season. That seven just looks and feels so right
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: on him. Like, I feel like that seven made him
• 28:15
  Speaker 9: flip a switch here. He had a switch, but that seven,
• 28:18
  Speaker 9: it just looks so good. So I'm excited to go
• 28:21
  Speaker 9: different from Sam Leavitt. Cause obviously like that's where your
• 28:24
  Speaker 9: eyes are going to go, but I'm very excited for
• 28:26
  Speaker 9: trade as green this season.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: I like it.
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: Dylan Jones.
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: I want to see what all this hype is about.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: Cause like we've seen him at practice, but like when
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: media is out there, it's, It's touch and go. It's 7-on-7.
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: I also, and I'm sorry to cut you off, but
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: you've been on that train, the Dylan Jones, for the
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: entire time. But I think when Tay-Tay says hype, I
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: don't want it to sound like it's like people are
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: hyping him up and he hasn't earned it because a
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: lot of times that's what hype is.
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: Coaching staff has hyped this guy up.
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: Because of him earning it. Because let's be honest with
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: our audience. There was no way that he was supposed
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: to be the starting running back to start the season.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: No way, no how. You had two guys that you
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: fought to bring back in NIL situations, and he was
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: just kind of a, oh, we got a running back
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: from Wisconsin type guy. So the hype has been earned
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: at least.
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: When he came in, it was like, oh, you got him.
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: You got Stacey Gage. You got Ray St.
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: Guillory.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Great.
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: You got a bunch of depth pieces to go behind
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: these two. And immediately in spring, he was starting. Kiffin's
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: raved about him. Charlie Weiss has raved about him. The
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: guys on defense have raved about him. I'm excited to
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: see what all this is about.
• 29:30
  Speaker 8: Immediately starting. Spring is crazy to me, right? I think
• 29:34
  Speaker 8: it was the second week of spring he was taking
• 29:36
  Speaker 8: one rep.
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: It's got to be, right? One of two things happens.
• 29:42
  Speaker 8: You're either special, special, or the other guys are so
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: far from special.
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: It could be a.
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: Combination of both. Yeah, but we've seen the other two.
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: We've seen the other two.
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: And we have.
• 29:53
  Speaker 8: So we know that's not the case. So it must
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: be in the positive direction. He must be special, special.
• 29:59
  Speaker 9: I was going to say, and you got to think
• 30:00
  Speaker 9: about the fact that he was going up against Caden Durham.
• 30:04
  Speaker 10: Yeah, that's true. It's faster.
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: It demands more of you in the run game.
• 30:11
  Speaker 10: Yeah, true.
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: Because you have to be able to show that you
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: can run zone schemes inside and out.
• 30:17
  Speaker 10: Get back.
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: Gap schemes.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: You can do all of those things. You can pass protect.
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: You can catch the football. where last year you just
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: had to be able to run inside zone. Now, I
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: give those two backs a lot of credit because there
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: wasn't a lot in front of them, and they still
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: both averaged over four yards to carry. But to me,
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: because you fought hard for Harlan Berry and Caden Durham
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: to be back on this roster, and they're going to play.
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: They're going to be sitting on the sidelines.
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: They're going to play.
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: But he showed you something early, very early on in spring,
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: and then continued on through fall camp, that makes you
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: feel like within your offense, he does more special things
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: than anybody else on the roster.
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: He came and talked to us last week. It was
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: last Thursday for player interviews, and he said, running the
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: ball is the easiest part of my job. He's like,
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: it's everything else that I want to separate myself. Pass catching, blocking,
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: helping out the quarterback in any way. So he's obviously
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: just a smart guy that can do a little bit
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: of everything.
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: I also think, and Matt might disagree with this because
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: I played running back, but when you have a new
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: quarterback back there, and you have a circus that's going
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: to be going on within the stadium, a lot of
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: times the quarterback and the running back, there's a communication
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: portion of it where the quarterback, if he tells the
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: running back something and you two are on the same page,
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: it can help a bad situation out. It can be
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: something small like, hey, watch out for the backside, free safety. Hey,
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: I want you to get out on this one. Just go.
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: Free release.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: Run a Texas route. Whatever that might be. And then
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: they're on the same page. And the quarterback knows, okay,
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: there's craziness around me, but me and this guy, we're
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: working together. And I feel good about, hey, him picking
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: up that backside free safety because I told him, I
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: alerted him, he understood, and here he goes.
• 32:03
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a very settling thing for a quarterback to
• 32:09
  Speaker 8: have a, just how short, how small it is, have
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: some sort of conversation with your running back every play.
• 32:18
  Speaker 8: especially this day and age where you're in shotgun every play,
• 32:20
  Speaker 8: it's easy because he's right next to you normally. We
• 32:23
  Speaker 8: always made it a point in Green Bay, and I
• 32:26
  Speaker 8: was taught this from Aaron, on every single pass play,
• 32:31
  Speaker 8: remind your running back what he has. Whether he's blocking,
• 32:35
  Speaker 8: whether he's got some sort of check down, or what
• 32:38
  Speaker 8: route he has. It's not necessarily, you might have the
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: smartest running back in the world. It's not necessarily tell
• 32:43
  Speaker 8: him what to do. It's settling in a In a
• 32:47
  Speaker 8: stadium where you've got 90,000 people yelling at you, it's
• 32:50
  Speaker 8: settling to have someone there that you're having a conversation with.
• 32:53
  Speaker 8: It makes you feel a little bit less isolated. But
• 32:55
  Speaker 8: more importantly, it's the last thing on your mind as
• 32:58
  Speaker 8: a quarterback, what the running back has. So you're either
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: telling yourself, it reminds you that you are protected on
• 33:05
  Speaker 8: the left or the right or whoever he's got if
• 33:07
  Speaker 8: you have a blitz coming, or it's the last thing
• 33:09
  Speaker 8: you think of. The check down is the last thing
• 33:11
  Speaker 8: on my mind. So I'm always reminded where an outlet is.
• 33:15
  Speaker 8: So don't push something that you don't have to. It
• 33:17
  Speaker 8: always reminds you to get to your check down faster
• 33:20
  Speaker 8: because it's the last thing on your mind. So it's
• 33:22
  Speaker 8: from a, like a, just from a settling your nerve situation,
• 33:25
  Speaker 8: you're having a conversation with your teammate right there in
• 33:27
  Speaker 8: the middle of every, in the middle of all the chaos,
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: while the, while the clock is running right before the snap. And,
• 33:32
  Speaker 8: but then you're also reminding yourself where you're protected or
• 33:35
  Speaker 8: where your check done is.
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: And sometimes I know we gotta take a break. Sometimes
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: the route that you had called, he sees it differently.
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: And he tells you to run a different one because
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: he feels like he knows where the hole in the
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: defense is going to be, and you just do it.
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: Quarterback's got the last say on that, and some of
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: the biggest plays I had in Denver were Peyton just
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: telling him, hey, go here, run this, do that. And
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: then the running back coach would yell at you, and
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: you'd say, Peyton told me to do it, and he'd say,
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: good job.
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: Yep. So you fake clap, and then you're like, okay,
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: run an angle. Then you real clap. All right, we've
• 34:13
  Speaker 7: got to take a break.
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: But we'll keep talking LSU Clemson because– We've got to
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: get into some of the other things in this game,
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: including some Clemson players to look out for.
• 34:22
  Speaker 7: We'll do that when we come back here on OTB.
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• 35:36
  Speaker 1: From the locker room to the airwaves, it's Off the
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  Speaker 1: Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 2: Letters about to fall.
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  Speaker 4: Broke the looking glass.
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  Speaker 5: All right, welcome back in OTB. Taking a look at
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: LSU versus Clemson coming up on Saturday. Will help. For
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: the Clemson Tigers, probably the guy that LSU needs to
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: know where he's at the most. He is a true
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: pro edge rusher. He will be an NFL player. Probably
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: not going to wait too long to hear his name called.
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: And he can be a game changer. Now, LSU faced
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: him a year ago. LSU had a pretty good plan
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: against him. But he's a player that can change a game.
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: You've got to know where he's at, where he's coming from.
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: And you've got to make sure that you have a
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: game plan to stop him. In one of those situations,
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: I feel like that guy is not going to be
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: the reason that I lose, right? If somebody else steps
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: up and they make the play, then I tip my
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: cap to them, but it can't be Will Helt that
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: does it. So he's like the one guy. Now, it's
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: not the only player that they have. I mean, they're
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: pretty good at linebacker as well. But as we all know,
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: like an edge rusher can disrupt a game. LSU's offensive
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: line certainly has a tackle position, feels more solidified than
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: it did a year ago.
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: So it's going to be good on good.
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: If he lines up on Seton, it's going to be
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: two guys that are going to play on Sundays. But
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: that's the guy that I think, looking at Clemson, looking
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: at their personnel, that you have to make sure that
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: you handle up front.
• 37:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and I find it hard to believe that any
• 37:47
  Speaker 8: one defensive end is going to consistently have a big
• 37:54
  Speaker 8: impact against a Lane Kiffin run offense. Now, I think
• 37:59
  Speaker 8: that scheme and one-on-one battles and matchups and good linebacker
• 38:03
  Speaker 8: and safety play can have a really big impact on it,
• 38:06
  Speaker 8: but a defensive end or a pass rush position, just
• 38:09
  Speaker 8: because of the speed of which.
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: You go, it's.
• 38:13
  Speaker 8: Going to wear defensive ends out with the pass rush,
• 38:17
  Speaker 8: and that's what it's designed to do.
• 38:19
  Speaker 7: It takes away a lot of the threat of the
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: pass rush.
• 38:21
  Speaker 8: Now, are we going to have no sacks? No, that's
• 38:24
  Speaker 8: not the case. But is any one defensive end going
• 38:27
  Speaker 8: to be able to disrupt an entire game? It's hard
• 38:31
  Speaker 8: to do versus an offense that goes that fast, and
• 38:34
  Speaker 8: I think LSU fans will see that throughout the duration
• 38:37
  Speaker 8: of the season.
• 38:38
  Speaker 7: I think it starts this weekend.
• 38:40
  Speaker 8: Yeah, defensive ends get paid a lot of money at
• 38:42
  Speaker 8: the next level because they can disrupt the game. But
• 38:47
  Speaker 8: there's really no team in the NFL that goes fast
• 38:49
  Speaker 8: like this. It's not the type of offense that is
• 38:51
  Speaker 8: run in the NFL. So at the collegiate level, You
• 38:55
  Speaker 8: go this fast, it's hard to be disruptive in that way.
• 39:00
  Speaker 8: So I think a good player, got to know, he
• 39:03
  Speaker 8: might get a sack. He might have his plays. But
• 39:07
  Speaker 8: for LSU to have to worry about that one guy
• 39:10
  Speaker 8: the entirety of the game, I just don't think really
• 39:13
  Speaker 8: lives in the college level when you run this type
• 39:16
  Speaker 8: of fast-paced offense.
• 39:20
  Speaker 7: He graded out it.
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: 85 last year on Pro Football Focus.
• 39:24
  Speaker 7: I mean, so we're talking about, like, a really good player.
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: Like, to Matt's point, like, it's on you to make
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: sure that he doesn't affect the game that much. Like,
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: the thing that you do worry about with an edge
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: rusher is the game's close, he comes off the edge,
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: sack fumbled, big turnover. Like, that's how an edge rusher
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: can affect a game and affect it in a very
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: big way.
• 39:43
  Speaker 8: It is that, but it's also, like, A really good
• 39:46
  Speaker 8: defensive end is always hitting the quarterback every single play.
• 39:50
  Speaker 7: The quarterback's always rushing. He's always in his lap.
• 39:52
  Speaker 8: Yeah, he gets the sacks, and he creates maybe that
• 39:54
  Speaker 8: game-changing sack-fumble play. But one sack-sack-fumble doesn't mean to me
• 39:59
  Speaker 8: he is disrupting the entire game, right? And good defensive
• 40:03
  Speaker 8: ends do that. Every time you have third down, the
• 40:06
  Speaker 8: offense goes into the huddle. The defense goes into the huddle.
• 40:09
  Speaker 8: They're sitting there. They're cracking their neck in the huddle.
• 40:12
  Speaker 8: They're rolling their shoulders. They're getting ready for that. explosion
• 40:16
  Speaker 8: off the line of scrimmage. On this offense, you can't
• 40:18
  Speaker 8: do that. The second down, it doesn't matter if it's
• 40:20
  Speaker 8: third and eight. After second down, you're getting back and
• 40:23
  Speaker 8: putting your hand in the dirt and getting ready to go.
• 40:24
  Speaker 8: You don't have time to think about the explosiveness. You
• 40:29
  Speaker 8: just have to kind of react in this offense. It's
• 40:31
  Speaker 8: hard to affect the game for four quarters at a
• 40:33
  Speaker 8: defensive end.
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: All right, so three people to watch on Clemson's defense
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: when you're in Tiger Stadium or watching on TV on
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: Saturday night will help. Edge rusher, number 13. Let's go
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: to the next level. Sammy Brown, linebacker, wearing number 47.
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: Limited athletically, but certainly is a thumper right there in
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: the middle of their defense. Then you go to the
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: back end. Corey Myrick coming over from Southern Miss. Now,
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: he was a really good player at Southern Miss. That's
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: a completely different conference. Is the Sunbelt a good conference?
• 41:02
  Speaker 7: It is.
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: Very competitive. It's a step up. It's a different level.
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: But you're talking about somebody that graded out with an 87.3 grade.
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: Last year, he was one of the big gets in
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: the portal for the Clemson Tigers. So in the back end,
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: that's who I'm watching for from Clemson. All right, we
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: will step away. More OTB when we come back your
• 41:20
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  Speaker 11: Then I'll watch them roll away again.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just sitting on the dock of a bay.
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  Speaker 5: All right, welcome back in, OTB. Here live on this
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: Thursday morning. One of the things that we haven't spent
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: any time on is the specialists for LSU. Kicker, punter, returner.
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: You had the same kicker for a long time. You
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: knew who the returner was going to be going into
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: the season. Now Chadwick's going to be coming back, and
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: he had a good year last year. You're going to
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: have a new kicker, though. So that's another part, you know,
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: when you're playing a big game like this to pay
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: attention to, watch out for. I know you've got multiple
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: on the roster, but that's all going to be a
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: new process. And, again, when you have– Did Ramos end
• 44:03
  Speaker 5: up like as the all-time leading scorer?
• 44:06
  Speaker 6: I believe he did, yeah.
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: He beat Colt David, right? So that's some production that
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: you're going to be.
• 44:12
  Speaker 7: Losing out on.
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: So another thing to pay attention to on Saturday is
• 44:16
  Speaker 5: that entire process.
• 44:19
  Speaker 6: Well, and Clemson on the flip side, their kicker's back
• 44:21
  Speaker 6: for his third year.
• 44:22
  Speaker 7: And they got Rich Passaccia coaching their special teams. Yeah,
• 44:26
  Speaker 7: that's pretty good.
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: Long-time NFL coach.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 5: Special teams coordinator in a lot of different places. Was
• 44:32
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• 44:34
  Speaker 8: I'd say pretty much unanimously respected from every NFL player
• 44:38
  Speaker 8: in the last 30 years.
• 44:40
  Speaker 7: Yep.
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  Speaker 5: One of my all-time favorites. A lot of the sayings
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: I have are from that man.
• 44:45
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 44:46
  Speaker 8: She can't win the Kentucky Derby with a jackass. Clemson
• 44:51
  Speaker 8: just ain't as talented as LSU.
• 44:54
  Speaker 10: And Dabo's a jackass.
• 44:56
  Speaker 7: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Got him.
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  Speaker 7: Got him. Watch out, Knees.
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  Speaker 5: You want him to do it at home, though, not away.
• 45:04
  Speaker 7: I do. I do. I do. I want to do
• 45:06
  Speaker 7: it on that hill. And then he rolls a couple
• 45:07
  Speaker 7: more times.
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  Speaker 5: So, Scott Starzik's going to be, I'm assuming, your kicker.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, he's going to get the first opportunity at it.
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  Speaker 5: We're at number 80.
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  Speaker 7: What's the last name? Starzik.
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  Speaker 5: Arkansas. AR Kansas.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: As Les would say.
• 45:31
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: They can.
• 45:38
  Speaker 6: They got a lot of options.
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: Trey Wilson's done it in the past.
• 45:43
  Speaker 6: Wilson's done it. They've had Watkins back there. They've had
• 45:45
  Speaker 6: Dylan Jones back there at times. I mean, there's four
• 45:49
  Speaker 6: or five guys they could run out there.
• 45:53
  Speaker 7: Right, Matt? Oh, yeah, for sure. A lot of them.
• 45:56
  Speaker 7: More OTB.
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  Speaker 1: Off the bench.
• 46:00
  Speaker 7: You want to give any examples, Matt? Yeah. Of returners?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 46:05
  Speaker 7: Devin Hester.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, they've been in the game for over 50 years.
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  Speaker 5: You know what they're all about here in the Gulf South.
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  Speaker 5: And we always talk about not letting your capital dollars
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  Speaker 5: go unused because you're short on manpower. Palla has experienced
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  Speaker 5: maintenance crews and supplemental staffing ready now for outages and
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  Speaker 5: capital projects, routine maintenance, and emergency work. So again, more
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  Speaker 5: than 50 years, clients have trusted Pala for safe, dependable solutions.
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  Speaker 5: Put your remaining budget to work. Call Pala today or
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  Speaker 5: go to their website. That is palagroup.com.
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  Speaker 7: That's right.
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  Speaker 8: Remember, Pala's much more than that maintenance. They also provide
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  Speaker 8: mechanical construction, API storage tanks, ASME pressure vessel fabrication, a
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  Speaker 8: full range of specialty service. Pala, employee-owned, relationship-driven, building together.