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Hour One | LSU Beats Louisiana Tech & Saints Fall to the Lions · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: With jacob hester and matt flynn let's go baby let's
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  Speaker 1: go from a championship backfield to your morning drive hands.
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  Speaker 2: To hester and hester got it five out of five.
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  Speaker 1: You're locked in to off the bench live from the
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  Speaker 1: raising cane studio here's jacob hester and matt.
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  Speaker 3: Flynn yo and welcome in to otb here on this
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  Speaker 3: monday morning we are live at u club for the
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  Speaker 3: lsu alumni golf tournament jake flynn and moose here we
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  Speaker 3: got alondra and tate back in studio.
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  Speaker 4: In the capital city in downtown baton rouge did you
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  Speaker 4: set this up so you could sleep a little bit
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  Speaker 4: extra I mean, that's seven to eight minutes. Didn't really help.
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  Speaker 4: It did not. It did not help. I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: but that's about a 25 minute difference for you. It is.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't the worst thing in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: I definitely remembered until Alondra, Texas that we're here today.
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  Speaker 4: A hundred percent. No doubt. She definitely reminded us the
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  Speaker 4: appropriate amount of times for us to remember. That's right.
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  Speaker 4: But we're idiots. Yes. All of that is factual. All
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  Speaker 4: that is real. And, um, Have no rebuttal.
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  Speaker 2: But before, because we had the, I want to say rare,
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  Speaker 2: but it happens far too often.
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  Speaker 4: We had the losing Sundays on OTB.
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  Speaker 2: How many times since we've been doing this show have
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  Speaker 2: the Chargers, the Packers, the Cowboys, and the Saints all lost?
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  Speaker 4: All four teams that we support. It happens a lot.
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  Speaker 4: More often than not. More often than not, sir. All
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  Speaker 4: four teams. I don't think they've ever won in the
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  Speaker 4: same weekend. I don't think they've ever. No. Or like
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  Speaker 4: you had sniffed a 4-0. Not once. Not once. So
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  Speaker 4: we'll get to that. Certainly we'll get to LSU. I
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  Speaker 4: did it. We got a me thinks into the broadcast. Yes.
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  Speaker 4: So I heard via the Twitterverse that you definitely got
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  Speaker 4: the me thinks. And it was early.
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  Speaker 5: It was early.
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  Speaker 4: Was it often? First segment.
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  Speaker 2: Not only got it once, but it was the first
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  Speaker 2: segment that I was on.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, do I do it? Do I do it? Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we're going to do it. Yeah. We're going to do it. Also,
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  Speaker 4: Chris Blair might have gotten into the action a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: We got everybody involved. Okay, good. We got everybody involved. Well,
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  Speaker 4: good work. Congratulations. Because me thinks Sam Levitt was going
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  Speaker 4: to be the starting quarterback. Me thinks Sam Levitt will
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  Speaker 4: start tonight. My lady. You just got to have fun sometimes.
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  Speaker 4: It's about the little things that get you through life.
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  Speaker 4: And if you can make yourself laugh, it doesn't really
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  Speaker 4: matter if you make anybody else laugh as long as
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  Speaker 4: you make yourself laugh. Hobby Lobby says that all the time. Live, laugh, love. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Dance like nobody's watching you. Scottish cow with bangs. That's right.
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  Speaker 4: That is very, very factual. Moose was like, what are
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  Speaker 4: you all talking about? OTB is. No, no, no. Moose
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  Speaker 4: was like, LSU played football.
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  Speaker 2: No, Moose was on OTB for a long time. Moose
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  Speaker 2: gets the vibe of the show. He understands it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: LSU did play football.
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  Speaker 4: LSU, you know, won 45-14. They pulled away late.
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  Speaker 2: And as Matt Flynn, and I did throw this out there, too.
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  Speaker 2: How you call those games Purple Jersey games. I said
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  Speaker 2: that on the broadcast. Put your name behind it, though.
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  Speaker 4: They're the absolute worst. That's why I... This weekend was
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  Speaker 4: just another example. We get this example pretty much every
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  Speaker 4: time we do it of the Purple Jersey game. It
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  Speaker 4: has nothing to do with the aesthetic. I get it.
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  Speaker 4: I tweeted it out this weekend. I was like, this
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  Speaker 4: is why I hate it. It was about mid-first quarter,
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  Speaker 4: maybe mid-second quarter. Everybody's like, this is ridiculous. This guy thinks...
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  Speaker 4: you know, they're losing because of their jersey scheme. I'm like, no, no,
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  Speaker 4: it's what it signifies. It signifies that we're playing a
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  Speaker 4: small school from Louisiana, pretty much, or a smaller school,
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  Speaker 4: excuse me. And credit to Louisiana Tech, they played really well,
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  Speaker 4: especially on defense. Like, on defense, they played very, very well.
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  Speaker 4: That linebacker core was flying around, safeties getting in the action,
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  Speaker 4: mixing it up, and making plays that were, you know,
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  Speaker 4: not all, you know, I think LSU fans probably think
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  Speaker 4: a lot of it is just on the offense playing poorly. Well,
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  Speaker 4: I watched what they were doing on defense, and they
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  Speaker 4: made LSU struggle in their mic declarations in that three
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  Speaker 4: down front. They made them struggle in declaring, and a
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  Speaker 4: lot of times when it looked sloppy on LSU's offense,
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  Speaker 4: it was because they were having communication problems on who
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  Speaker 4: to block, and so there was often a free person.
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  Speaker 4: They did a lot of They did a lot of
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  Speaker 4: run blitzes that they executed really well. But there are
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  Speaker 4: some plays from those backers that were like, oh, those
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  Speaker 4: are big-time defensive plays. Like we actually had that play
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  Speaker 4: set up pretty well and blocked decently well. He just
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  Speaker 4: read it and made a play on the ball. So
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  Speaker 4: you've got to give a lot of credit to them.
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  Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, it's all about LSU.
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  Speaker 4: And that's why I hate the purple jersey games. I
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  Speaker 4: do not ever want to see them come out in
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  Speaker 4: a purple jersey again because I don't want to watch
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  Speaker 4: those games anymore. And I say it every year, and
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  Speaker 4: I know I'm going to watch at least two every
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  Speaker 4: single season. I don't want to. And it's going to
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  Speaker 4: look like that pretty much every day. I'm sure you
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  Speaker 4: might have the one-off game where everything just clicks and
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  Speaker 4: goes perfectly, but it doesn't happen very often. I would
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  Speaker 4: say more often than not, the Purple Jersey games, we
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  Speaker 4: all feel like this on the Monday afterwards. It's going
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  Speaker 4: to be in.
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  Speaker 2: Look, LSU won the game 45-14, and certainly they pulled
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  Speaker 2: away in the second half, and Louisiana Tech is better than,
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  Speaker 2: like you said, I mean, you're not playing in FCS school,
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  Speaker 2: so You had an opponent that I think is going
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  Speaker 2: to do fairly well in the Sun Belt, but that's
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  Speaker 2: not really the story.
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  Speaker 4: It's not the narrative that we're going to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk more about LSU than we are
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  Speaker 2: Louisiana Tech. Defensively, what else can we say? I got
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  Speaker 2: some numbers. I was doing it yesterday. breaking it down,
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  Speaker 2: and the first-team defense and.
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  Speaker 4: What they've done.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll get to some of those incredible numbers through
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  Speaker 2: two games. I mean, the starting defense, just relentless effort,
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  Speaker 2: flying around. The strain that you talk about all the time,
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  Speaker 2: that was there yet again. They didn't care what color
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  Speaker 2: jersey they were in.
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  Speaker 4: I can tell you that.
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  Speaker 2: And so the defense will get to the good, but
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  Speaker 2: obviously offensively, the stats, it was just, I mean, Louisiana
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  Speaker 2: Tech didn't have any yards at halftime. And you still
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  Speaker 2: were up 10-7. Zero first down, zero yards. And you
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  Speaker 2: had a lot of yards.
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  Speaker 4: You had a ton of yards. You're moving the football.
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  Speaker 2: You could not finish it with points. And when you
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  Speaker 2: have turnovers, that's going to happen. And Being here today
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  Speaker 2: and not being in studio, we don't have the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to show you exactly why some of those interceptions happen
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  Speaker 2: and some of the different things.
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  Speaker 4: Don't worry. We'll do it when we get back in
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  Speaker 4: studio tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: And certainly we have another episode of Eye in the
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  Speaker 2: Sky coming your way, too, where we're going to break
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  Speaker 2: it down for a full hour from the garage.
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  Speaker 4: But you just.
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  Speaker 2: You can't be careless with the football down in the
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  Speaker 2: red area. You have to understand that you have almost
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  Speaker 2: guaranteed points in the red area.
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  Speaker 4: You don't have to force things sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: And so there's a lot of different things that kind
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  Speaker 2: of go into you being successful between the 20s.
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  Speaker 4: That's great. That's fun.
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  Speaker 2: But also, like, it means nothing if you don't finish
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  Speaker 2: it in the end zone or if you finish it
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  Speaker 2: through the uprights and get points.
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  Speaker 4: And because it's such a momentum killer, too.
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  Speaker 2: Offensively and then I can't speak to this you can
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  Speaker 2: only be the one to speak to this like when
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  Speaker 2: you throw that first interception it's like okay well let
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  Speaker 2: me come back but when you throw the second one
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  Speaker 2: I have to imagine that in your thought process you
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  Speaker 2: get a little gun shy you get a little it's
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  Speaker 2: either two things happen I feel I feel like when
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  Speaker 2: that happens it's like you either press too much and
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  Speaker 2: then you force something or something's there but you don't
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  Speaker 2: trust it because you've already thrown two interceptions.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'd like to sit here in this rocking chair
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  Speaker 4: and tell you, I don't know what it's like to
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  Speaker 4: have to bounce back from that second interception, but clearly, uh, face,
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  Speaker 4: you know, as everybody heard on the broadcast Saturday, um,
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  Speaker 4: I have had to do that because I think you
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  Speaker 4: said that same level as the first quarterback in LSU to, uh,
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  Speaker 4: throw three interceptions in the same quarter, same quarter since
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  Speaker 4: that little fella in 2007 did it. But you know what?
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  Speaker 4: I've been pretty proud of that moment. That was its
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  Speaker 4: second quarter. Um, You know, it was everybody else's fault, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: I told you. I got drafted off one of the interceptions. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so you're welcome for that.
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  Speaker 4: But we won, came back and won. Beat Saban. Anybody
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  Speaker 4: heard of Saban? Yeah, that guy's pretty good. He was
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  Speaker 4: pretty good. On the road. Beat him. So, yeah, so
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  Speaker 4: coming back from that second interception, I think most quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 4: if you're good at this level and beyond, you're pretty hard-headed, right?
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  Speaker 4: And you keep pressing. Um, sure. It can make you
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  Speaker 4: a little bit gun shy, but you don't want to
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  Speaker 4: get into the situation where you're starting to see ghosts.
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  Speaker 4: Like we've heard, Oh shoot. Who was that? Sam Donald.
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  Speaker 4: Sam Donald. There you go. Uh, you start seeing ghosts,
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  Speaker 4: you get the yips a little bit, you start pressing,
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  Speaker 4: you start, uh, trying to aim the ball instead of
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  Speaker 4: throw it. Um, that's never how you want to play
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  Speaker 4: the position. Never how you want to play any at
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  Speaker 4: a high level, any sport. Like we've, You see it
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  Speaker 4: with defense sometimes. They're thinking so much. They want to
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  Speaker 4: be in the right spot. They're not reacting. And you
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  Speaker 4: have to react. And my God, is our defense reacting.
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  Speaker 4: But I didn't see anything really change with Sam after
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  Speaker 4: that second. Like, it's changed in a negative way. Now,
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  Speaker 4: certainly the offense started playing a lot better. But, again,
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  Speaker 4: I do want to say how we talked about the
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  Speaker 4: 3-4 defense last week leading into the game. It created
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  Speaker 4: a lot of challenges for this. LSU.
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  Speaker 2: This is more of a 3-3-5, and so it's not
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  Speaker 2: a defense that you see in the SEC. Mississippi State
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  Speaker 2: with Arnett tried to do it because he came from
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  Speaker 2: San Diego State. He brought it to Mississippi State. That's
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  Speaker 2: the only time that I can remember, but you see
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  Speaker 2: it a little bit in you know, ULL, Louisiana Tech,
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  Speaker 2: San Diego State, a lot of group of six teams
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  Speaker 2: like to use it.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, 3-4, 3-3-5, like, it all looks very similar.
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  Speaker 4: It's just with a nickel.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It's just with a nickel and not a backer. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: who knows? They could call it Shining Star or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: They could call it, like, Rover Star. Who knows what
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  Speaker 4: they call it? They call it Bulldog up there. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know what they call it. I'm looking while you're talking.
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  Speaker 4: But it creates challenges. It's kind of like when coaches
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  Speaker 4: oftentimes don't want to schedule an option team in the
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  Speaker 4: middle of the year because you have to implement all
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  Speaker 4: new rules on defense. Well, with this, you have to
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  Speaker 4: implement a lot of different rules and a lot of
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  Speaker 4: different blocking schemes. And your pre-snap identification, we talk about
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  Speaker 4: all the time how you're identifying whether it's run block,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's pass block. You know, the lineman, when a
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  Speaker 4: regular four down front, you're blocking four down in Mike
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  Speaker 4: or four down in Will, four down in Sam. Like
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  Speaker 4: every play has a different type of scheme to it. Well,
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  Speaker 4: now you're identifying three down plus two more. So, basically,
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  Speaker 4: you have to declare two more people. You have to
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  Speaker 4: declare two backers. You have to declare, or are we
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  Speaker 4: going to more zone protection? Are we going to do
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  Speaker 4: a three-man slide, a four-man slide? Which way are they going?
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  Speaker 4: Who's going to be by himself? And then it just
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  Speaker 4: creates issues with the declaration. And I saw that in
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  Speaker 4: the running game a lot. them not understanding where to squeeze.
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  Speaker 4: And Louisiana Tech, to their credit, like you get on
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  Speaker 4: the goal line, you got on short yardage, and they
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  Speaker 4: were doing things to screw those declarations up. And then
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  Speaker 4: they were shifting their nose tackle and their backers. They
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  Speaker 4: were shifting around after we made declarations, and you saw
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  Speaker 4: some hesitation. And with offensive line, if you just hesitate
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  Speaker 4: for a split second, if you get a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of confusion, then that is the difference between, you know,
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  Speaker 4: making– two three four yards and making no yards and
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  Speaker 4: so it's um one of those things that i saw
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  Speaker 4: a lot of really good teaching tape come from this
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  Speaker 4: game not it doesn't help the fandom like it doesn't
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  Speaker 4: make anybody feel better thinking about the game but there
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  Speaker 4: was a lot of good teaching tape because it wasn't
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  Speaker 4: like lsu was getting manhandled obviously like they weren't getting
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  Speaker 4: just completely physically beat one-on-one it was a situation where
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  Speaker 4: there was a lot of i saw a lot of
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  Speaker 4: uncertainty in the blocking schemes. Yeah. And that was all
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  Speaker 4: brought in credit to Louisiana tech. It's, it's difficult, but
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  Speaker 4: I saw a lot of good things that LSU can
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  Speaker 4: teach from. So hopefully they'll have a little bit of
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  Speaker 4: better understanding. They'll have a little bit more comfortability with it.
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  Speaker 4: If they see that or run into that at different times,
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  Speaker 4: sporadically throughout the season.
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  Speaker 2: I will say like from a running back perspective, and
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  Speaker 2: I've told you this, we've talked about it already. When
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  Speaker 2: you face this kind of defense, too, you can't hop
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  Speaker 2: around and you can't search for it. You can't Le'Veon
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  Speaker 2: Bell it. You can't just wait, wait, wait, and then
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  Speaker 2: hit because you're going to have aggressive linebackers. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a little bit more of an aggressive defense,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that's where LSU got into some trouble
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  Speaker 2: in the run game. Again, we're not going to have
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  Speaker 2: the tape here today to kind of break it down
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  Speaker 2: and show you, but we're going to do plenty of
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  Speaker 2: that tomorrow in studio and on Eye in the Sky.
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  Speaker 2: So look forward to that because sometimes– When you face
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  Speaker 2: a defense like this and, you know, you have a
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  Speaker 2: running back and Dylan Jones is more of a Le'Veon Bell.
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  Speaker 2: He's like patient, patient hit. And his best runs came
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  Speaker 2: when it was just like stretch zone. He stretched it,
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  Speaker 2: put one foot into the ground, went north and south.
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  Speaker 2: He had two really good runs with that. Then that's
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  Speaker 2: when you hop around is when you get into the
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  Speaker 2: second level against that defense. But I thought Stacey Gage
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  Speaker 2: had a little bit more success because he was more
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  Speaker 2: interested in the six yard run and not the 60
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  Speaker 2: yard run.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so when Dylan Jones is at his best, like
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  Speaker 4: you said, it's when more of the zone where it
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  Speaker 4: is you're reading, you stick your foot in the ground,
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  Speaker 4: get north and south, where he does kind of what
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  Speaker 4: you're talking about. It's a lot more times when he's
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  Speaker 4: following a blocker, when they're either pulling a guard or tackle,
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  Speaker 4: or we saw with Trey Dez pulling into the A
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  Speaker 4: or B gap as well. So I think he's very patient,
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  Speaker 4: and I think there's going to be some There's going
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  Speaker 4: to be some clips this year where we're like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: that was awesome. We'll get the picture from there. He
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  Speaker 4: had some against Clemson. Yeah, but I think when he's following,
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  Speaker 4: he's waiting for those blocks to really present themselves a little,
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  Speaker 4: maybe just a split second too long instead of sticking
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  Speaker 4: that foot in the ground. But again, it's easy for
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  Speaker 4: us to see watching film, but you, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Because he had an awesome 40-something yard run where it
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  Speaker 2: was just stretch zone, and he stretched it all the way,
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  Speaker 2: foot in the ground, and then as soon as he
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  Speaker 2: got north and south, there was a defender, and he just,
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  Speaker 2: sidestepped him, and then went back north and south, and
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  Speaker 2: then another move, and then back north and south. And
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  Speaker 2: against a defense like that, it's going to be overly aggressive.
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  Speaker 2: That's typically going to be your best recipe for success.
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  Speaker 2: And so I thought that run, and he had two
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  Speaker 2: runs where he kind of got back to the way
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  Speaker 2: you'd like to see him go against a defense like that.
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  Speaker 4: So a ton to get to.
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  Speaker 2: That was just an initial breakdown of a Louisiana Tech game.
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  Speaker 2: The Saints, they lose in heartbreaking fashion, even though they
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  Speaker 2: had A great fight, a great comeback against a really
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  Speaker 2: good team on the road. I like the decision to
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  Speaker 2: go for two. I don't know how everybody feels about that.
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  Speaker 4: Do you want a tie?
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  Speaker 2: The play call probably want that one back a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Again, wish we could show you.
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  Speaker 2: We'll show you throughout the week on the play call
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  Speaker 2: kind of what we're talking about. But a good fight
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  Speaker 2: by the Saints. I know there's no moral victories. in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL, but you were down three touchdowns on the
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  Speaker 2: road to a team that I think is going to
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  Speaker 2: make the playoffs. And Tyler Shuck and the crew, they
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  Speaker 2: fought back. They had a chance to win the game
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  Speaker 2: at the end of regulation, and they had a chance
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  Speaker 2: to win it at the end of overtime.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll break that down as well.
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  Speaker 2: More OTB coming right back your way here live from
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  Speaker 5: Off the bench with Hester and Flynn, All right, welcome
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  Speaker 5: back in OTB here live on location at U Club
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  Speaker 5: Golf Course for the LSU Alumni Golf Tournament.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Breaking down a little LSU and Louisiana Tech. As I mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to get to the Saints and Lions here
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  Speaker 2: coming up as well.
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  Speaker 4: Hard fought. No moral victories, but God dog it. Want
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  Speaker 4: them to come back. Yeah, talk about the Saints. We'll
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  Speaker 4: get there. We'll get there. We will. get there. All right.
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  Speaker 2: So most of the talk this week is going to
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: be moving forward for LSU. It is LSU Ole Miss
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: this weekend in Oxford, Mississippi. So we'll get to the
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: point where we're breaking down that game, taking a look
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: at some of the things that LSU is going to
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  Speaker 2: have to make sure they're on top of, some things
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: offensively that we'd like to see. The defense in that matchup, though,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: is probably the thing that I'm most excited about because,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: yet again, this LSU defense, they go out there and
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: they are absolutely dominant. I mean, the first team defense
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  Speaker 2: has barely given up first downs. They haven't given up
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  Speaker 2: Yards at all.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Yards on the ground. Like, good luck. Yeah, yards are
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: really hard to come by against them. And it's because
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: of a lot of things. It's the perfect storm. I mean,
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: so far in the season, it's been the perfect storm
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: of athleticism, leadership, strength, play calling, play design, and a
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: buy-in and an understanding from all 11 players. They said
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: that you've heard this term during your 111th. Everybody is
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: doing their job and understanding their job. Like I'm not
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: watching defense and seeing a whole lot of MAs or
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: missed assignments. I'm seeing a lot of pressure being brought,
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: but it's a lot of simulated pressure. So they're very still,
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: they're very sound in coverage. They are just, they're confusing
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: them pre-snap and then overwhelming them post-snap. It's really fun
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  Speaker 4: to see. There's just not a lot of glaring weaknesses
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: or holes. You're sitting there watching film and you're watching
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: these route combinations versus, versus the LSU. And you're just
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: not seeing a lot of people with a lot of
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: grass around them. Right. They're just, everybody's covered up or
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: everybody's got somebody dropping from the box. So dropping from
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage or bluffing in the line of
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: scrimmage and dropping back into these passing lanes. And yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it takes great coaching to do that, but it's also
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: takes a great understanding and athleticism from these guys to
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  Speaker 4: be able to do it, understanding where passing lanes are
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  Speaker 4: in different type of formations. So, What I have seen
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  Speaker 4: from the defense, and, of course, it's showing itself and
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: everybody's talking about it, it's been extremely impressive just from
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: a skill standpoint, but more so just a football IQ
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: standpoint from the players. And that trickles down from the
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: coaching staff. I get it. But Blake Baker and his
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: staff doing one heck of a job. And, look, I
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: am fired up now that we've gotten past a bad
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: Clemson team, now that we've gotten past the Purple Jersey game.
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  Speaker 4: I am so fired up to see this defense– take
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  Speaker 4: on one of the top quarterbacks in the whole country
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  Speaker 4: this weekend. So fired up to see it. I know
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  Speaker 4: they're going to present problems. Certainly Ole Miss is going
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: to present problems to you that you have not faced.
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  Speaker 4: They got skill sets. They got guys. Do I expect
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: Ole Miss to not have a first down in the
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: first half? No, I don't expect that. But I expect
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: them to create problems, create issues, and be one heck
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: of a test for Trinidad and that Ole Miss offense.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just the numbers of LSU's defense, and this isn't
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: even just talking about the starters. If it was just
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: the starters, it would be completely different. But they've only
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: given up 285 total yards, 37 total rushing yards, 11 sacks,
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: 21 TFLs as well.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they have been remarkable.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: And the thing that I noticed the most about it,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: I think, is No matter the situation, no matter what
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: the score is, no matter how much time is on
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: the clock, I think it is the relentless effort to
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: make sure that they make the play and not have
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  Speaker 2: the play made on them. Think about all the moments
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  Speaker 2: in that Louisiana Tech game where the game was decided
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  Speaker 2: at the point in the fourth quarter, and you still
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  Speaker 2: got starters out there that are making plays.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: Like, Umami Ellen goes back in there.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Right on like a money down and they were like
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  Speaker 2: hey starters we we ain't giving that up again all
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: right y'all get back in there and you see all
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: the starters kind of put their helmets back on they
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: go out there there's some people that would take that
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: play and they'd be mad like you know they want
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: to be like in the preseason in the nfl it's
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: like as soon as you come out you put a
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: towel around your neck and a ball cap on because
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: you want everybody to know hey i'm not playing anymore
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: i'm out that's the other guys out there on the
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: field that's not the case for lsu Like, Mamielin puts
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  Speaker 2: his helmet on, goes out there, has a great rush,
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  Speaker 2: and up and under, sack, Tiger's ball.
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  Speaker 4: Yep. Like, that's what I'm talking about. He's a game-changing
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: type of player. And it might not show itself every
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: single play. And most edge rushers are kind of like this.
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  Speaker 4: It's not going to show up every single play with
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  Speaker 4: him dominating a run block or whatever. But he is
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: a game-changing talent. Explosive, powerful. When he... We saw last
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: week we highlighted him going up the field and swimming underneath. Well,
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: this week you do that a couple times, and then
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: he can also stick one hand in your chest and
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: grab your jersey and pull up into your throat a
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: little bit and bull rush you like that. I saw
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  Speaker 4: that this past weekend. He has got game-changing power from
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: the edge rusher, and I'll continue to say it. His
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: presence on the field, is going to make all the difference.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Blake Baker is going to go from great to super
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: great because of that presence that he has on the field.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: And then we're going to say it again. I think
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: this is going to be a common theme throughout the year,
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: but the best linebacker tandem that I've seen in the country.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: We know what Wood Weeks does. Relentless effort, always in
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: the right place, going to give up his body, be
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: a leader. But T.J. Dotter, he can't. like continues to
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: be that dude. It just wasn't a flash for one week,
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: like for two straight weeks. My God, that guy flies around.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: He is tough to block. His recognition of what the
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: offense is trying to do and how that fits within
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: the scheme that he's supposed to be performing is crazy impressive,
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: the skill set that those two linebackers have for our
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: LSU Tigers. Yeah, he forced multiple fumbles. in the game.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: LSU was able to jump on one of them and
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: you're right. I mean, it is just sideline to sideline
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: and it is seeing the play, recognizing the play and
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: then going downhill and going downhill fast. And when you
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: have two of those guys next to each other, it
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: allows Whit Weeks to be the player that he wants
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: to be as well. He doesn't feel like he has
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: to be the guy that makes every play or cover
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: up everything. He can kind of play a little bit
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: You know, with a little bit more freedom there in
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: the middle where I think that's like kind of his
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: best version.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think like Witt likes to take chances when
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: he's shooting the gaps, right? He likes to take chances
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: and fly downhill. And what does that mean, taking chances? Well,
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: he likes to pick a gap and hit it full speed.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: And sometimes when you're a running back, you try to
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: set linebackers up to do that. But he's got no
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: hesitation to do that now because he knows he's got
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: someone behind him. that is also going to be making
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: up for what he's doing as well. So it just
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: continues to fly. I'm expecting other people to do it,
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: other people to do it, but they're not even going
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: to get a chance because Doddery's there so fast. You
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: know what I mean? So it's just we got some playmakers,
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: and that is certainly, that defensive side of the ball
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: is LSU's identity right now, which is crazy to say
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: because it's the lane train and that offense is, It's
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: supposed to be great. Look, we've played two games. These
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: things take time. The receivers, it takes time. They've got
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: to get in better shape, I think. It'll come together,
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: and you will start seeing. You'll have these weeks where
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: you're like, oh, my God, that offense looks really good.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: But then you're going to have some stuff like that
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: happen this past week where it's like, man, we've got
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: to work on this. We've got to clean this up.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: It's the communication. But as of right now. That's a
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: defense that is feared, and that is kind of the
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: identity of this team currently as we speak. And you
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: know that's going to drive Lane crazy. So hopefully they
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: start catching up and catching up to the performance the
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: defense is doing.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Again, before we take a break, my stat of the
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: day on Saturday night. Last season in 13 games, LSU's
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: starting edge rushers combined for three sacks. This year through
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: two games, LSU's starting edge rushers have combined for six
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: and a half sacks.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Oof.
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  Speaker 4: So pretty good.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: A defense's best friend typically is when you can get
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: home with four.
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  Speaker 4: They could not do that a year.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Ago, so our good friend Blake Baker had to come
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: up with a lot of different ways to be creative
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: and bring people. And this year, if he wants to
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: do it, well, he can do it when he wants to,
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: not because he has to. And so the edge rushers
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: certainly have been a big part of the success so
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: far for LSU's defense. All right, we will step away.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: We've got more coming your way when we jump back here. Again,
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  Speaker 2: we are live at the LSU Alumni Golf Tournament here
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  Speaker 2: Moving right along here on OTB this morning, live from
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: U Club again, the LSU Alumni Golf Tournament. It's been
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: the first couple of segments talking about LSU and Louisiana Tech.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: We'll find our way back to the Tigers. We'll continue
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: to start that preview of LSU and Ole Miss as well,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: but Let's go to the national.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, dude.
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  Speaker 4: It's a beautiful day out here, by the way. Look
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: at this guy. Squirrel. I know. I was just looking
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: at the dew on the ground out here. This golf
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: course looking nice. Makes me want to get my clubs. Sorry.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: Go ahead. Talk about the Saints. Nobody cares about your
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: golf game. Bro, we're at a golf course for a
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: golf tournament. I'm going to talk about the golf course
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: a little bit. Nobody cares about your golf game. Well, no.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: We know. I don't care about it. You got a
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: championship match Semifinals. Semifinals. Sorry. We got rained out last week.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: The cart before the horse. My bad. Just raining champs.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: Not a big deal. It's really not.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: The New Orleans Saints go down 31 to 30 in
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: overtime in Detroit. And look, they were down Three touchdowns
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: to a good football team. A lot of teams would
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: have folded it in and just gone home and decided that, hey,
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: we'll give them another try next week.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: That is not the case with the Saints.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, Tyler Shuck, who had a bad first half,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: he throws multiple interceptions, comes back and ends up throwing
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: for a career high 410 yards.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: He throws for three touchdowns. Chris Alave was awesome, 182
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: yards receiving, made big play.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: After big play, and it really did have a feel of, okay,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: the Saints have made this comeback. They've put the ultimate
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: pressure on Detroit. I actually loved the decision to go
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: for two. Didn't love the play call. Did love the
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: decision to go for two, go win the game, get
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: out of there with a win.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: Again, no moral victories in the NFL. I get all
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: of that.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: But if you look at how this game played out,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: you look at the ridiculous call of Jared Goff and
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: fumbling that ending up in the end zone for the
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Saints and them saying that it wasn't. And then to
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: hear them explain that it's like, yeah, his hand initially
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: started forward. So therefore, no matter where the ball lands,
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: it's going.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: To be a forward pass. Like what?
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: You know how many times I've seen a quarterback throw
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: it and it's gone backwards and it's been a fumble
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: because that's the way that it's supposed to be?
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: That's the rules? That's the rules. Yeah.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: And so just because his hand started forward, I don't
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: care if his hand started forward. If your hand starts
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: forward and then you all of a sudden see somebody
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: at the last second.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: You try to pitch to them. Yeah. And it goes backwards.
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: It's a fumble.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: So if that is the rule, that's a dumb rule
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: and needs to change. But that's a fumble every day.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Ends up in the end zone for the Saints. But still,
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: even that, they don't allow that to be the reason
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: why they just go away and quit.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: They showed fight.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Again, they were one of the biggest dogs in the
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: weekend in the NFL. The biggest dog actually won the Cardinals,
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: beat the Chargers. But the Saints had an opportunity two
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: different times. End of regulation with a 62-yard kick. I'm
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: not going to hate on it, but they had a chance.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: And then in overtime, they go for the win.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: Love it. Again, Didn't love the play call, play design.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: I understand what you were trying to get done, but
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: when you do that and you're running kind of that
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: pick play, if Olave's not open, then you see what
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: your other option is, which not a whole lot.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: Now, you could have thrown it to the running back.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: He ran a swing, and nobody went out with him,
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: but your eyes as a quarterback, you're all on the
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: right side.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: You're not even thinking about the left side. Yeah, are
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: we talking about the two-point? Yes. Sorry, my internet stopped working.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: I got frustrated. Yeah, that was a bad call. I
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: hate that call. I really do. And, you know, the
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: only thing they didn't do that would have made it
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: even worse if it was a sprint out to the right,
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: and they did it. It's the same play they do.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: It's just a snag route. They motion into it to
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: try to create some confusion on who has who. And
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: then you're trying to hit the flat route. Then if
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: you don't have it, you've got a corner over the
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: top because it's usually going to be man. But most
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: every defensive back in the world is looking for a
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: corner route down there in the NFL at least. So
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: it's a pass route that doesn't give you a ton
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  Speaker 4: of options, and they had so much success driving down
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: the field in the second half and then towards the
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: end and in overtime. They had so much success attacking
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: the middle of the field. I would have liked to
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: see some sort of double route combination, some sort of
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: option on either side of you with somebody attacking the
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: middle of the field, getting a back out. You've got
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: to be alert for pressure and everything, but they had
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: done such a nice job. I would have loved to
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: see what play call– they had the play before that
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: because Detroit you know predictably they line up and they
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: show their formation and then Detroit calls a timeout they
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: come out and they don't trust it they switch it
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: to something else so you know how a play call
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: sheet works is you have your two-point plays yeah the
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: first one listed is the first one you're going to
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: call and why is it the first one because that
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: is what the quarterback has said in the offensive quarter
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: they they said that's the that's our best play that's
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: our best play yeah as a gotta have it situation
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: um And so they don't call that one. And you
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: don't know. Maybe that was the second call on their list.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: Maybe they had already burned one on a fourth down
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: or something at some point during the game. And so
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: they line up and they say, okay, look, I don't
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: want Kelvin Shepard to see what we're going to do here.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: We'll see what we're lined up. He's going to call
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: us some sort of defense. So we're going to switch
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: up the call. And now you've got to go down
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: to the next one. So let's just say it's the
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: second on the list. Well, that's the second favorite play
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: that you have for that situation. Or maybe it was
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: the third at that time. You don't. You don't really know,
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: but that's kind of how those play sheets are designed.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: The first play you call is higher ranked from the
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: quarterback standpoint, and there's a bigger emphasis on that play.
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: So I would have liked to see what that one was, but,
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: you know, credited Detroit. That's why you call a timeout.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: That's why you get that look and you see all
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: the good teams. They do that. They let them line up,
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: and they kind of get a glimpse of what the
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: other team's thinking. So, look, the– Tyler Shug played really bad.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: And if you run that play that we're talking about,
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: and again, we'll show it to you tomorrow when we
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: get back in the studio, and a lot of emotions,
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: and then he goes right back out. I always like,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: if you're going to run that motion in, at least
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: show me drag and then kick back out to the
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: front pylon because you have to have some kind of
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: momentum going to the left before you come back to
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: the right. If you don't, then the DB is going
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: to sit there and wait on you. So I don't mind.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: If you want to motion in, you want to run
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: that play, turn it into a whip route. Now, it
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: doesn't have to be as long as a normal whip,
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: but just show me that you're threatening me going on
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: a drag before you come back out.
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: So the problem with the way that play is designed,
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: at least at that level, at the NFL level, is
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: you are basically putting all your chips in. You're pushing
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: your chips to the middle of the table and betting–
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: that you confuse the defense because you're trying to get
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: that one person open. None of those route concepts are
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: really anything that you're just going to win a one-on-one
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: battle on. Like you said, there's a snag route, so
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: the outside guy comes and he just sits over the ball.
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: He's not running a whip route, so there's no chance
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: of you beating him on a route and beating him one-on-one.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: The corner, yeah, you could say he could, but down
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: that tight red zone, two-point conversion– It's hard to beat
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: a corner route in that look because everybody's– they know
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: what route combinations are. They know there's going to be
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: some sort of flat and some sort of back pylon situation.
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: So you're not setting your team up to where anybody
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: could win one-on-one. You were basically just betting that you
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: were going to confuse the defense and get someone scot-free
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: in the flat. And so, I don't know. But the
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: turnaround for me was awesome. Tyler Shuck played really bad
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: in the first half. Like really bad, right? He looked
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: like a quarterback.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: He looked like a quarterback. that had not taken a
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: snap in the preseason. And he had joint practices, which
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: I think that helps you out there. But I would
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: like to see just, hey, even if it's a series,
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: put your uniform on, go out there with a crowd
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: and take a snap.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: Because across the NFL.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: A lot of guys that we expected to have great games,
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: struggled in the first half, did not play in the
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: preseason at all.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, a bit like night and day difference, played like
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: an all-pro type of player. Yeah. 410 yards. Your guy
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: that you just paid a lot of money to, to
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: catch passes, he caught passes. He caught them. 10 for 182,
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: Chris Alave. I got really nervous, too, in one of
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: the plays, the one that he kind of got banged
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: up on. I thought his head snapped back when I
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: saw it from the first angle. And then they replayed
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: it from behind, and his head didn't hit the ground.
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: He's got the guardian helmet on there. He does? He said,
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: I know I look like a bobblehead, but. Hey, self-awareness. Like,
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: if you're going to do it, just be self-aware. Yeah.
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: Pretty good reason, he said. Yeah, he's had multiple concussions.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: And he's got children. So, yeah, wear that garden cap.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: That's what they make it. But, yeah, awesome second half.
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: A lot of fight. And probably on the other end,
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: Detroit's probably coming out and saying, we played really bad
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: in the second half.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: And we still found a way to win. Yeah, I
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: get all that, but. But it's the Saints, you know.
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: The entire NFC South lost. Dang. A gift that keeps
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: on giving. I actually didn't know if Kellen Moore was
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: going to go for two at the end of the game. Oh,
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: I felt like I did. I felt like I was like, yeah,
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: he's going to. I thought I did. But then the
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: way you were controlling the second half, I get not.
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: doing it. But in overtime, going for two with a
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: minute 30, minute 40 left, yeah, go for two every time.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: They've got a kicker that can make it from Auburn Hills, Michigan.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: They don't have to get far. They move the ball
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: with ease in their drive during overtime. You didn't really
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: even slow them down. You see that. You see how
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: your offense is going. You know they've got a really
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: good kicker. There was plenty of time For them, even
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: if you do try to tie it up, for them
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: to go right down the field and score.
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: And you went right down the field just as easy
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: as they did. And the whole second half, you had
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: them on their heels as well. So you had to
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: feel good about picking up three yards. But then you
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: called that play. That was terrible. Pooh-pooh. Just an absolute
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: poo play. Yeah, I didn't love it.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Watching this offensive line go against Aiden Hutchinson wasn't great.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: The right side of the line really struggled. Now, we
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: expect Cesar to struggle. Fuaga also struggled in this one, too. And, look,
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: you're going against Aiden Hutchinson.
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: I get it. One of the best in the league.
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: But he showed that there's levels to this.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: And you did, like, even though, like, you could talk
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: about how many sacks and whatever, but he affected the
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: pocket in the first half so many different times. And
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: Tyler Shuck probably felt that as well. I mean, that's
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: right there in his head.
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: Face. Yeah, he bucked. No notes. Can't add to that. Yeah, no.
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: Let's not even talk about that first half. It's the
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: second half. Oh, okay. We don't talk about that.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: I didn't realize until the show. If you don't get
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: your big... cankles off that cord.
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: When are we going wireless? When are we going wireless, Miz?
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: We need a little thing right here. A little pail pen? Yeah.
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: I didn't realize he threw for 400. He had a
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: career high. A lot of them had a career high.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: He fell just short there. Defensively, you're going against a
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: really good offense. I thought there was times that they
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: did play well. The drive and overtime, like I said,
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: that was too easy. There was not a lot of strain,
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: but I thought for the most part, I mean, they
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: had 369 total yards in a game that got extended.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: I get all that, but I thought you did a
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: pretty nice job. Third down, 5 of 13 for Detroit.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: That's a good third down team. Has a lot of
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: third down weapons with kind of receivers and backs and
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: tight ends that they have, so I thought the defense
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: actually held their own at times.
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: And we'll continue talking about the Saints.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Again, they go down 31-30 on the road in overtime
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: against the Detroit Lions.
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: All right, we will step away.
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  Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Hester and Flynn, presented by Bayou Automotive.
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  Speaker 4: What's a mob to a king? What's a king to
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  Speaker 4: a guy? What's a guy to.
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  Speaker 5: A non-believer who don't believe in anything?
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  Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in.
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  Speaker 2: OTB here live from the LSU Alumni Golf Tournament at
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  Speaker 2: in studio.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: How'd the old pontoon parlay go? I don't think it
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  Speaker 4: went great. My Navy got crushed. They got crushed.
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  Speaker 2: Mizzou won. Texas didn't. They won, but they didn't cover,
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: oddly enough, a one and a half point spread.
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: So Mizzou won. Texas didn't cover. Navy didn't cover. Oklahoma
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: didn't cover. Mississippi State did.
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: Mississippi State covered by a lot. Shout out to Dick Dixon.
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  Speaker 2: So Tay-Tay and Dick Dixon.
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  Speaker 4: So we're two for three. An epic... non-shout out to
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: myself for my oklahoma take we were all there they
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  Speaker 4: weren't very good we were all there with oklahoma yeah
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: no i know i had them we thought i think
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: i had them win the natty and mature winner the
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: heisman i think.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: Well more than that we thought michigan stunk they kind
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: of still do.
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: But but like not not just for that pick for
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: the pontoon parlay but just um you know how much
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: I backed them going into this game because of one
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  Speaker 4: conversation with Jim Nagy. Yeah, he sold us. He sold us.
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: He sold us a bill of goods. He did. He did.
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: Apparently not as good as we had hoped or thought. Yeah,
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: I didn't really hope.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: I didn't care, but I definitely thought they were going
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: to beat Michigan. I mean, Western Michigan is a good
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: football team.
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: Seriously, they are. They were last year. They're well coached.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: And Michigan did lose that game, but I allowed that
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: to cloud my judgment as well.
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I saw a great picture of John Mateer working
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: out this summer. It was posted. Posted Saturday night. Looking ripped.
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: The biceps huge. The abs popping. And he was dropping
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: back to throw. And it just had the caption, hold up,
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: let me overthrow this intermediate route by 15 yards real quick.
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: It was great. Yeah, he just couldn't hit it. His
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: biceps are too big. He worked out too much. And
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: that's why. I don't work out quite as often. I
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: want to be accurate. For what? Throwing in the backyard
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: with your child? Yes, exactly. Just in case, you know. Buddy,
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  Speaker 4: you're not Phillip Rivers. Ain't nobody calling you. Come on.
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: Why not? Okay? That's not happening. I only played four years.
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: But you redshirted, so you can't even come back to college.
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: That's true.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: I didn't redshirt. So, do you need me down there
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: on the kickoff? Would I be the last one down there?
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, dude, yes. You'd beat the kicker because he's playing safety. Yeah, true.
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: I'd beat the L1 and the R1 because they're playing safety, too.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean? I got to run past
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: them at some point. But, yes, okay, look, patting the
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  Speaker 4: chest on that one. I was wrong. I was wrong
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  Speaker 4: about Oklahoma, and I shouted it from the mountain. It's okay.
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  Speaker 4: It's okay. We'll do.
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  Speaker 2: We can do a little right, wrong, and indifferent a
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  Speaker 2: little bit later on.
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of stuff I was wrong about. A
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: lot of stuff we were right about, too. But, oof.
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: You know this show. Unlike most shows, we like to
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: admit when we were wrong. We want to get out
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  Speaker 2: in front of it and let you know that, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we have takes, and sometimes our takes aren't right. We
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  Speaker 4: Yep. Can't call us non-football guys because we actually are
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  Speaker 4: champion Oklahoma. I went ahead and seen them play a
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: snap of football. So, just really a guess. Can't go wrong.
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