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Hour One | Football Friday at Rouses, Rams vs. 49ers & LSU vs. Louisiana Tech · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: The bench with jacob hester and matt flynn let's go
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  Speaker 1: baby let's go from a championship backfield to your morning
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  Speaker 1: drive hands.
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  Speaker 2: To hester and hester got it five out of five you're.
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  Speaker 1: Locked in to off the bench live from the raising
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  Speaker 1: cane studio here's jacob hester and matt.
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  Speaker 3: Flynn Yo, and welcome in to OTB here on a
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  Speaker 3: football Friday. Live from Rouse's on Burbank and Lee here in.
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  Speaker 2: The capital city. Yeah, it is. Jake Flynn. You nailed it.
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  Speaker 2: Cassie here with you at Rouse's.
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  Speaker 3: Alondra and Tay-Tay holding it down there in downtown Baton
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  Speaker 3: Rouge in the studio.
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  Speaker 2: It's finally catching on, huh? Told you. I told you.
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  Speaker 2: I said it on the LSU broadcast last weekend. We
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  Speaker 2: are going, it's like they tried to make Fetch a
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  Speaker 2: thing in Mean Girls. We're going to make the Capital
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  Speaker 2: City a.
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  Speaker 3: Thing here in the Capital City.
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  Speaker 2: Nailed it. Good morning, buddy. Excited to see you.
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  Speaker 4: I would like to say that you just brought a
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  Speaker 4: whole ball of energy in with you this morning, but
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  Speaker 4: you got locked out. Safety first here at Rouse's.
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  Speaker 2: It was about to be a substitute teacher situation. No,
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't going to let that happen. I sat out there.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody was answering the door. I knocked right here.
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  Speaker 3: Cassie didn't hear me, but the alarm would have gone
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  Speaker 3: off if she opened the door, so that would have
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  Speaker 3: been a whole mess. You went and got somebody. They
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  Speaker 3: were real helpful. They were not helpful. They weren't helpful
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  Speaker 3: at the door.
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  Speaker 2: It was about to be a substitute teacher situation. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you got it. It was about to be me and
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  Speaker 2: Cassie up here at the table. Cassie and Flynn, OTB. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it happened.
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  Speaker 4: Safety first here. Excited to be at Rouse's right here
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  Speaker 4: on Burbank again. Week number two, college football. Can you
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  Speaker 4: feel it? Can you feel the energy? Well, it's a
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  Speaker 4: Louisiana taxi. It's not quite as much energy in the air.
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  Speaker 2: It's sold out, though.
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  Speaker 4: It is sold out, which is fantastic. What a great
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  Speaker 4: response by the fans.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. By the people.
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  Speaker 4: But still, it's still one of those weeks, week two,
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  Speaker 4: that you're kind of getting ready. You are looking forward
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  Speaker 4: to getting to Tiger Stadium. You are looking forward to tailgating.
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  Speaker 4: You are looking forward to seeing your Tigers, led by
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  Speaker 4: Lane Kiffin, run out on the field.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully they play like they did this past week.
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  Speaker 4: But you kind of also have, like, one eye looking
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  Speaker 4: into the distance, looking into Oxford, Mississippi a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: We hope the team doesn't. And I don't think they do.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think they will. I think Louisiana Tech is
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  Speaker 4: about to feel the wrath of– The.
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  Speaker 2: Whole nation, basically.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody coming together to cheer against LSU. Well, I think
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  Speaker 4: it's galvanized the team. I think it's brought everybody together.
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  Speaker 4: So we're excited to see the Tigers take the field tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: Excited for the rest of the lineup in college football.
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  Speaker 4: Some great game this weekend that we will get into
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  Speaker 4: throughout the show today. And look, I'm excited for football Friday.
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  Speaker 4: Excited to be here. My sushi guy isn't here. which
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  Speaker 4: I'm a little bit concerned for his health because my guy.
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  Speaker 4: He probably can't get in the door.
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  Speaker 2: My guy is always here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they did a different safety protocol this morning with
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  Speaker 4: the doors.
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  Speaker 2: They did. We almost didn't get in. There was a
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  Speaker 2: walkie-talkie involved. Yeah, the walkie-talkie was involved last year a
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  Speaker 2: few times. Oh, was it? Okay. Now, you get here,
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  Speaker 2: you know. Yeah, why would I get here at like 630? Well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just to prep. What did you prep? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I got these my eyes off the shelf. Kind of
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  Speaker 2: stocked up a little bit over here now. That's not prep.
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  Speaker 2: That's advertising. I kind of got after. Kind of got
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  Speaker 2: after the distributor a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: We ain't doing this. We're not playing this game. My people,
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  Speaker 4: you better triple stock it around here.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. That's not prep. That's advertising.
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  Speaker 4: I also got my computer and my iPad out.
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  Speaker 2: All right. What else? I got my notebook out. You
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  Speaker 2: got it out. Okay. I got double pens. Yep.
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  Speaker 4: What'd you write with those pens? I said hi to Cassie.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't even say hi to Cassie this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did. I introduced her on the show.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but you didn't have niceties. You didn't talk to her. Say, hello,
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  Speaker 4: how's your day going?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Cassie. How's your day going? It's going good. If
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  Speaker 2: she's this close to Chick-fil-A, I know how her day's going.
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: You've got a lot more technology than you do. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you do. This little microphone is just droopy. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 2: the one I had last week. Oh, you switched it. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't switch it. You son of a gun. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's a little bit limpy. It's a challenge. It's a challenge.
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  Speaker 2: It is a limpy fellow.
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  Speaker 4: Somebody was like, can Matt speak closer to the microphone?
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  Speaker 4: And I was like, well, I'm trying, but the microphone's
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  Speaker 4: running away. It's connected to my head, but it's still
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  Speaker 4: trying to run away.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man. It's fine. We'll get one in a couple years.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get a new one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Just got to fight through it. Doesn't kill you, make
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  Speaker 2: you stronger. That's fair. It's a good outlook to have.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. It's a very good outlook to have. And
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  Speaker 2: you're right.
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  Speaker 3: We've got a lot to talk about. We'll preview LSU
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  Speaker 3: La Tech one last time. We'll give you a look
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  Speaker 3: at the Saints versus the Lions. We'll preview here. Because
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  Speaker 3: if last night taught us anything... It's the NFL is
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  Speaker 3: the greatest thing that we have.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And anybody can get got and anybody can beat anybody.
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  Speaker 3: And just when you think you have an idea of
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  Speaker 3: what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Twenty seven to seven happens. Forty niners over the Rams. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: In Australia.
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  Speaker 3: Turns out, turns out you should probably go to Australia
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  Speaker 3: for the week and.
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  Speaker 2: Not 28 hours before the game. And people were asking
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  Speaker 2: me that on my NFL show, and they were like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I like it. I go, you like it because you're
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  Speaker 2: a Rams fan. That's a big time difference. You're playing
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow when it's today back in the United States. You
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  Speaker 2: should probably get acclimated to that. Yeah, I think.
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  Speaker 4: Both those teams are going probably close to their 40th
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  Speaker 4: hour on Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: It being Friday to them, obviously they played on Friday
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  Speaker 4: in Australia yesterday, and still it's Friday here. I'm sure
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  Speaker 4: they're still on the flight back. I mean, they're still
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  Speaker 4: in air.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. For sure. Somebody just caught a cramp. Somebody
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  Speaker 2: just caught a cramp. They're hydrating.
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  Speaker 4: The Rams, you know, the Rams, they forgot about the
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  Speaker 4: loss before they even stepped on. They're right in the
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  Speaker 4: middle of some spades, lots of different, maybe some sheephead,
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  Speaker 4: lots of different card games are planned. But, yeah, that
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  Speaker 4: was a anything can happen in the NFL. And a
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  Speaker 4: lot of talk about the super team. Well, I guess
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  Speaker 4: everybody kind of forgot that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Kyle Shanahan can coach his ass off, especially when his
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  Speaker 4: team is like at.
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  Speaker 2: Least fairly healthy. I guess you could say they're fairly healthy.
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  Speaker 4: Last year they were the most unhealthy and they were
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  Speaker 4: still finding ways to win games. Kyle Shanahan is an
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  Speaker 4: absolute monster.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he is. My God.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, his first 15 plays, you know, you kind
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  Speaker 4: of diagram out. We've talked about it here. You diagram
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  Speaker 4: out your first 15 plays on how you think they're
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  Speaker 4: going to go as long as you stay in normal
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  Speaker 4: down the distance.
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  Speaker 2: This is the script that we're going to go. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's a beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 4: It is just, it is like, I'm not even, I
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  Speaker 4: wanted to say coaches 101, but it's not because nobody
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  Speaker 4: does it like him.
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  Speaker 2: And he can just build a fantastic script.
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  Speaker 4: His play calling is, um it looks so simple and
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  Speaker 4: it looks so basic and it's really hard to do
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  Speaker 4: things at that level that looks simple and they're well
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  Speaker 4: executed but then you're like man how are these guys
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  Speaker 4: how are they giving up an angle route in the
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  Speaker 4: inside the 10 yard line against the rams yeah it's
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  Speaker 4: like they're doing it against the best in the the
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  Speaker 4: best in the business the best who we thought was
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  Speaker 4: the best roster in the entire world so it's just
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  Speaker 4: incredible the things that they can get done and my
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  Speaker 4: god did they look good and my god did the
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  Speaker 4: Rams not look good you know it was the lowest
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  Speaker 4: scoring game the Rams have had in Matthew Stafford's tenure
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  Speaker 4: with the Rams and we talked.
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  Speaker 2: All all season long on every show that I do
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  Speaker 2: about the Rams their pass rush how they were going
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  Speaker 2: to get after the quarterback and because they probably still
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  Speaker 2: will but what a job by the.
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  Speaker 3: 49ers you know how many sacks the Rams had I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to guess zero.
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  Speaker 2: Zero. Yeah. You know how many TFLs they had? One.
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  Speaker 1: One.
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  Speaker 2: They only hit the quarterback twice. Trent Davis, is that
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  Speaker 2: who it is? Who's the left tackle? Trent Williams. Trent Williams.
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  Speaker 2: My God, I saw the clips of him afterwards. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: On Miles Garrett. Yeah. He was, I mean, didn't even
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  Speaker 2: sniff it. We had. I don't even think he had
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  Speaker 2: a pressure.
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  Speaker 3: No, we had a caller call in to move into
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  Speaker 3: chains yesterday, and he was like, So do you think, like,
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  Speaker 3: they're going to help with a tight end or a
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  Speaker 3: back or Miles Garrett? I go, that's Trent Williams out there.
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  Speaker 3: He's like, yeah, yeah, but, like, what do you think
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  Speaker 3: the plan is going to be to slow him down?
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  Speaker 3: I go, Trent Williams isn't going to ask for help.
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  Speaker 3: He's not going to ask for a back or a
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  Speaker 3: tight end. Like, he is going to go one-on-one all
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  Speaker 3: night long.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, is he excited?
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  Speaker 4: Did he throw a party when Miles Garrett– Went to
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  Speaker 4: the NFC West?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 4: But he wasn't scared of the opportunity. I remember those
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  Speaker 4: offensive linemen, like, when we were playing and we would go,
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  Speaker 4: we'd have, like, the Lions or somebody, and we would play,
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  Speaker 4: who was the big white dude in San Francisco at
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  Speaker 4: the time? Justin Smith. We would play these big dudes,
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  Speaker 4: these monsters, and, like, the linemen would just, like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: therapeutically complain for the first couple days. Like, oh, my God,
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  Speaker 4: I've got to play hard this week and blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 4: Because they'd play some games and they could just, like,
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  Speaker 4: kind of, because they were really good at the time.
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  Speaker 2: And they're like, oh, God, I got to play hard
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  Speaker 2: this week. Got this monster coming at me.
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  Speaker 4: But that's kind of what the linemen, they just do.
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  Speaker 4: They just complain a little bit. But that's all he did.
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  Speaker 4: He was like, oh, God, I'm not excited that Miles
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  Speaker 4: is here. And then I got to block him twice
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  Speaker 4: a year now. Um, but I'm not scared of the
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  Speaker 4: challenge and he, I'm not even gonna say stepped up
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  Speaker 4: because he's.
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  Speaker 2: A great left tackle, but he worked miles Garrett.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Miles Garrett said, I don't remember the exact quote he said,
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  Speaker 4: cause I did not stay up for the postgame presser.
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  Speaker 2: Um, but that's actually not like you. Well, I was
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  Speaker 2: too busy working with technology last night. You know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean? Oh, you were, it was not a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: Hashtag guy in the sky. Hashtag. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But I think Miles Garrett made some sort of comment
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  Speaker 4: that he played terribly or that was the worst he's
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  Speaker 4: played in a long time, something like that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that was because of Trent Williams. There's a reason. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's a reason. There is a fella out there, and
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  Speaker 2: that was the reason why.
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  Speaker 4: Trent Williams plus jet lag equals you don't get close
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  Speaker 4: to the quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So I was actually at the U-High Madison prep game,
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  Speaker 3: and so I didn't get a chance to see a
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  Speaker 3: lot of it.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm, like, watching highlights. I'm trying to watch, like,
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  Speaker 2: on my phone. A little bit there.
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  Speaker 3: So, I'm excited to go back and watch that tape
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  Speaker 3: today to kind of see exactly.
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  Speaker 2: What you're talking about. So, any updates? On what? No.
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  Speaker 2: On what? Oh, the game? J-Bones? No, Madison Prep beat
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  Speaker 2: us pretty good, though. Well, let's talk about J-Bones. 38-21.
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  Speaker 2: He plays zero nose in a three-man front. What do
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  Speaker 2: you think he saw all night long? A lot of
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  Speaker 2: double teams. A guard and a center every single play.
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  Speaker 2: Got to split them. No, there's like.
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  Speaker 3: Like the way they play it, it's like you pick
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  Speaker 3: a side, the linebacker fills the others.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: It's a garden of center every play.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah, odd man front. Good learning experiences at the
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  Speaker 2: beginning of the season. Yeah, I wish the odd man
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  Speaker 2: front would go the way of the white buffalo. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Hate it. I wish.
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  Speaker 4: I had so much fun watching that football game last
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  Speaker 4: night because of– it's just things that make sense and down,
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  Speaker 4: you know, all the love devil there's, there's things in college,
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  Speaker 4: high school, obviously that, you know, that, that don't make sense.
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  Speaker 2: But like that game.
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  Speaker 4: Last night was just both those coaches and offensive philosophies
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  Speaker 4: is just such a, like a tip of the cap
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  Speaker 4: nod to everybody that's ever played football because they do
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of everything.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: They're in the shotgun. They spread them out. They got
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  Speaker 4: these shifts. They got these motions. They do these things.
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  Speaker 4: That's the new age era football. But then I also
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  Speaker 4: saw Brock Purdy underneath the center. With a seven-step drop
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  Speaker 4: and throw a touchdown pass. Like, the drop-back pass from
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  Speaker 4: under center, the straight drop-back pass from under center is
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  Speaker 4: so back, baby, in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: And I hope that goes. I was about to say,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to tag this NFL? Yeah, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: tag this NFL for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we see a seven-step drop pass in college football
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  Speaker 3: this year.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 2: And the Rams, they played offensively. That was their worst
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  Speaker 2: game in years. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But it was still great to see the 13 personnel.
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  Speaker 4: We know how much success they had with that. A
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  Speaker 4: year ago in 13 personnel, but I saw a lot
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  Speaker 4: of that. I love seeing offensives under the center. I
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  Speaker 4: think hopefully, hopefully in the college football world and the
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  Speaker 4: high school football world, we start to see more and
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  Speaker 4: more of that at least creep its way back a
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  Speaker 4: little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I don't obviously never get to where it was.
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  Speaker 4: And it'll probably never get to the level where the
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  Speaker 4: NFL is right now from going back to underneath the
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  Speaker 4: center just because it's easier reads and the types of
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  Speaker 4: quarterbacks that you won in college versus you won in
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  Speaker 4: the NFL and the different types of offenses and people
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  Speaker 4: moving so much in college. It's easier to learn a
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  Speaker 4: short and more condensed type of playbook faster in the shotgun.
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  Speaker 4: So it's– I hope it does, but it's fun to
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  Speaker 4: watch when you can turn your back to the quarterback,
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  Speaker 4: when you can drop back like an old school quarterback
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  Speaker 4: from underneath the center. It's a beautiful thing, and it
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  Speaker 4: stresses the defenses a lot more. They have to have
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  Speaker 4: a lot more eye control. They hesitate a little bit more,
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  Speaker 4: and it's fun to watch.
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  Speaker 3: It was fun to watch Fred Warner be back healthy
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  Speaker 3: for the 49ers in the middle of the defense. I
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  Speaker 3: think it You know, I'll kind of tie it back
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  Speaker 3: to what we talked about all week with LSU and
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  Speaker 3: how good their middle linebackers played. And you mentioned T.J.
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  Speaker 3: Dottery a bunch of times when we did our film session.
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  Speaker 3: And when you've got a guy like that in the
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  Speaker 3: middle of your defense that just is roaming around, flying around,
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  Speaker 3: he's everywhere, he's dropping into coverage, he's stopping the run,
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  Speaker 3: he's getting after the quarterback when they ask him to.
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  Speaker 3: Those guys don't get valued for whatever reason, and I
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  Speaker 3: don't know why. They just don't. Like, they don't get
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  Speaker 3: paid like the other guys on the defense. They don't
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  Speaker 3: get paid like the edge rusher of the corner. But
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  Speaker 3: when you've got one of those guys in the middle
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  Speaker 3: of your defense, because he was hurt last year, the
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  Speaker 3: difference that it can do, the things that it can
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  Speaker 3: open up for you are endless.
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  Speaker 4: The versatility that a great linebacker has is– I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you saw it last night. Like we said, that defense
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  Speaker 4: played so well. And, you know, on the other end,
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  Speaker 4: the Rams played so poorly that, again, it's the lowest
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  Speaker 4: amount of points scored for the Rams since Matthew Stafford
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  Speaker 4: has been the quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Seven points.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that doesn't happen to them. They got Puka Nakua.
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: They got Devontae Adams. They got the reigning MVP. The
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: running backs actually looked pretty good yesterday. Corham ran really well.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But for whatever reason, the drives just kept stalling
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: because they got a lot of players in San Francisco.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: They got a lot of really good players. Fred Warner
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: is a difference maker.
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: The things that he can do, the amount of ground
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: that he can cover, line up on the line of scrimmage,
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: and then also make a play in the secondary. He's
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: just all over the place flying around. And if you
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: want to try to compare that to what LSU has
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: this year, LSU's got two of those.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: They got two of those guys. in the college football level.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: Now we're not going to compare it to like Fred Warner,
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: but like at the college level, they are on that level.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: Both of those guys. And we highlighted, of course, we
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: highlighted TJ Daugherty in our film.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Study this week. And, um, it was well deserved. And
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: of course we all know about wit, but we got
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: two of those.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: Roaming around and that can fly around being a lot
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: of scrimmage, dropping a coverage, stick your nose in them,
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: drive people backwards, uh, and extremely athletic. So we're in
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: a good place. We are in a good spot right now. Um,
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: As we head into this Louisiana Tech weekend.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: And we will preview the Saints, by the way, who've
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: got the Detroit Lions on the road.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: That game's going to be on noon on Sunday.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Now the rest of the NFL slate's going to be
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: on Sunday. And the Saints are going to be one
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: of those early window games, something we will certainly break
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: down here today. We've got LSU, Louisiana Tech to break down.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: Some of the other top games across the country. It's
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: Ohio State traveling to Texas to take on the Longhorns.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: What could that game mean for the SEC? Of course,
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: we've got all of our favorite Friday games that we
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: like to play. A little what's the ticket, a little
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: pontoon parlay.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Richard Dick Dixon is supposed to stop by as well. Yes,
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: we've got a lot coming your way. Stay locked in here.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: OTB live from Rouse's on Burbank and Lee. Off the bench.
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• 18:48
  Speaker 1: From the locker room to the airwaves, it's Off the
• 18:50
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• 18:58
  Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in. OTB here live from Rouse's.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: On Burbank and Lee. We will be here, obviously, all
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: show long. Come hang out, come see us. And what
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: are you getting frustrated about over there, sir?
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Technology. What about it? Chargers aren't working.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: I don't know what they're doing. Laptops freezing. Wi-Fi slow.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: Pet's heads are falling off.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Jeez. Oh, my God. Reminds me of
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: a song. Falling apart. Just barely breathing. I don't know
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: what song is that. I think it's Lifehouse, I think.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Early 2000s. I'll just let them sing it.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: No.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: You need to be sung, too, right now. Because you
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: are struggling. I know. That's all right. My guy, you
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: want to turn your microphone off? While I'm breathing heavy? Yeah,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: I don't think the people want to hear the grunts
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: in the air. Okay, we're good. This is a tripwire,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: but we're good. I thought they were listening to Big
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Fave Rush the Passer there.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Zzzz! Zzzz!
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Zzzz! Zzzz! All right, we are back here. It is
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Football Friday.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Louisiana Tech, LSU, going to be tomorrow night in a
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: sold-out Tiger Stadium. And I don't feel like it's one
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: of those, air quote, sold-out games. I actually believe that
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: it's sold out. I think people are very excited about
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: this matchup. And then probably, you know, excited about a
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: lot of the things that are on, you know, the
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: outside kind of being settled.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: That's kind of going away finally.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: It's not going to be on the news every single
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: time you turn it on, and it's not going to
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: be on our station three hours of shows talking about
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: that situation. Like, as of right now, I mean, that's
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: to the side.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: It's focused on football.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Now the football team has been focused on football this
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: entire time.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: How do I know? I watched last weekend's game. That's
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: how I know.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Being in the building, those guys aren't talking about what
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: everybody else is talking about. But to have that put
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: to rest, it can't be a bad thing.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, no, of course not. I think, you know,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: it's funny, too.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: It's like a double-edged sword because I feel like, you know,
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: sports is the greatest reality television of all time. So
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: I think it is. When it's just about the football,
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: it's awesome because you get to focus in. You get
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: to talk about the team. But with the other outside noise,
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: I mean.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: I don't know. People kind of enjoy yelling, too, right?
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: People enjoy getting upset and emotional and mad at something.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: Everyone coming together to be mad at one singular thing,
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: even though it is annoying and we were so ready
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: to get away from that.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, it is kind of fun from a reality
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: television standpoint just to get upset.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: Reality TV, let's just go to The Bachelor. It's fun
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: when there's drama, right? So it's kind of fun to
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: get galvanized as a fan base. Be Jon Snow. In
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: the Battle of the Bastards, you know, it's fun to
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: do that. No doubt that's who LSU is.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: And to your point, there is something about that that
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: when it is all against you, if you have the
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: right leader, which it certainly feels like LSU does as
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: their head coach, you can galvanize the fellows around that.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: But it has to be authentic. Yeah. Like it can't
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: be fake. Yeah. And so that's why like when the.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Halftime speech drops and a lot of people are like,
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: I didn't know Lane Kiffin had that in his bag.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Well, that felt authentic. Yeah.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: It felt like he had the ear of his entire team.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: We've never really heard a side of Lane.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Kiffin like that. We didn't see it. It was just
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: somebody's foot. Except for that one rat. We heard it.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: We didn't see it.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: That's what that team was. That team was galvanized around
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: the fact that nobody likes them. Nobody wants them to succeed.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: That part didn't go away. That part's going to be there.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: I think just the oh, they're going to get kicked
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: out of the SEC or they're going to get sanctions
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: and all those things.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: But that brought everybody together even more so. Like even
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: people that were on the fence that were, like people
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: like myself, they're like questioning, oh, should we be doing this?
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Like it's still not like I want to protect the
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: longevity of college football and like where does this lead to?
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Like what windows does this open up in the future?
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: Like I was probably like one of the biggest people like, hey,
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: we need to pump the brakes.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: We don't need to do this or that, blah, blah, blah. But, like,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: even people like me and myself.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: And even more so against it, that whole situation said,
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: all right, well, screw you guys.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Like, I'm all in. Now, like, it brought everybody together.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: Like, everybody is on the same page and behind Lane
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: and whatever and every decision.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: So, it's just like, whatever. They're going to try to
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: come after us. Whatever you do, Lane. Yeah, we're good. Yeah,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: we're good now.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: You know, let's move forward and brought everybody together in
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: that situation and probably even more so within that locker room.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: And it's such great motivation for Lane. It's so easy
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: to keep his team motivated in this. And it's hard.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: We've talked about this. This is a tough week to
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: get motivated for. This was like the biggest test for
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: me at the beginning of the season on how Lane
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: can handle his team. You come off your opener, it's
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: a week before the Ole Miss game, and it's sandwiched
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: in between those.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Is Louisiana Tech. How do you get your team ready
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: for that? And coaches always look for bulletin board material
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: to help motivate.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: There's only so many words a coach can say. There's
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: only so much a coach can push. At some point,
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: it takes some other outside.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Stuff to be like, all right, let's, you know, to
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: give you extra motivation. Because you can do this all. Usually,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: in these types of weeks, Louisiana Tech, like these directional schools,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: like these smaller schools, No disrespect. It just is what
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: it is. It's a different level of football played every
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: single week. Can they beat you? Yeah, of course. It
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: could happen. We see it happen once every couple of
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: years with different big teams. Could it happen? Yes. But
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: should it happen? No.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Because they're at different levels. So during the schedule of
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: the week, you could do the exact.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Same thing you did the week before. You could go
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: to the.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: Same amount of film work, eat the same food, work
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: out the same amount, do the same weight on bench
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: press this week that you did last week. You could
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: do everything the same, but you still don't get out
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: of it as much as you did the week before.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: Even though you're trying, you're trying, you're trying. Your brain
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: says yes. Your brain says yes.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Do this. Focus. Blah, blah, blah. But there's something. There's
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: a feeling. There's a something else that doesn't motivate you
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: a little bit more to keep that attention for that
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: extra five minutes, to keep that attention, to make you
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: push a little bit harder. It's subconscious. And that's a feeling.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: That's a motivational thing. We all feel it in life.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Sometimes you're motivated at work. Sometimes you're not.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: And we all feel that.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: So the coaches are always trying to motivate to get
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: that extra to where not only where your mind's telling
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: you to do something, but your heart's telling you as well.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: And that job has been made easy because of the
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: outside noise. And so we've got to thank Greg Sankey
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: for that.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Yeah, sure. And last year you played this team,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: and it was ugly.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: It was clunky. It was, I think, 23-7. It was
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: just not a great football game. And so you have
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: that as added motivation as well. But with what they
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: have coming down the line here, I mean, they should
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: know that keeping this positive momentum is going to be
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: something that would.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Obviously be very fruitful for the.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: LSU football team as you've got Ole Miss and you've
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: got Texas A & M right down the road.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: And so you don't want to lose what you had
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: a week ago.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: But to your point, you do try to do everything
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: that you did for the Clemson week, and sometimes you
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: think you are, but you're really– Really not, but all
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: the things going on right now with people having a
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: lot to say about LSU, I think you do those things.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: That was a defense that played pissed off last weekend,
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: and we talked about it. Coaches will find ways. Veteran
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: leader players can find ways to motivate the young guys.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: It is absolutely ludicrous that Coach Saban used what he
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: did with us against Florida in 2004. you should be
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: pissed off that they opened the gate to the stadium.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: That was his motivation that week.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: I can't believe it. We've talked about it three times
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: this week, but it's still like it was factual.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: He's like, I cannot believe it. If they open that
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: gate and you're not disrespected, why are you even here?
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, yeah, why'd they open the gate? They're
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: going to show up and play this game? I'm not
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: thinking that it's an SEC game. They have to open
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: the gate.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Coach, what do you mean? But he sold it. That'd
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: be a lot of money they'd have to refund back.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: It would be, but he sold it, and we all
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: believed it. He's like, you should be so disrespected. Ron
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Zook thinks his team's going to come in. Ron Zook.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: Why is this little guy so mad right now?
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: I feel like he should want to coach this game, right?
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: I don't know what Ron Zook did to him. He's like,
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Ron Zook. Yeah, coach. He opened the gate to the swamp.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Are you serious? But if you sell it.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: And your team has that belief in you, that trust
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: in you, then they're going to do it.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: And Lane's got that. Yeah. Like you saw that in
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: the locker room last weekend. It's all about strain, right?
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: I use that word with my kids a lot when
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: they're playing sports, and strain. You have to strain. Like,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: what does that mean?
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: That means you use every fiber in you to go
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: make a play, to go do something. So you saw
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: that from the defense. You saw Ty Benefield from the
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: secondary strain to make a play on the edge.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: You saw the defense alignment fighting. And what does that
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: strain like?
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: How do you explain strain? You use every fiber in you. Like,
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: when you're running and you're tackling, there's a muscle in
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: your pinky toe that you hadn't felt work in years, right?
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: Like you are straining every fiber of your being. And
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: that is the motivation part of it. Yeah, you're going
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: to fly around. And guess what it's like? You might
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: run as fast as you can. But there's something. Everybody
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: understands that strain word. Like what is that? Sometimes you do.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: Sometimes you don't. Sometimes that little extra that comes from
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: the subconscious that's not just like, all right, I had
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: to convince myself to run fast right there.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Because I had to, because it's a game, blah, blah, blah.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: So that motivation is going to show itself this week.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: And all this stuff going on, I know LSU fans
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: were ticked off about all this stuff happening with Sankey
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Are we going to
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: get kicked out? Is there going to be a vote?
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: But I can tell you Louisiana Tech probably wasn't any
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: happier than LSU fans were because they probably knew. I mean,
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: this is a little bit different.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: I think their coach went on with Matt, right? Yeah,
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: he's like, yeah, this looks a little different than last year. Well,
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: damn right it does because that defense looked amazing. Yeah,
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: and they ran a power. Six times. Seven. Seven? Seven. Whoa.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: I might have thanked our head coach for running one.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Thank you, coach. I really did. Did you kiss the
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: back of his hand? No, I didn't do that. But
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: I was like, thank you.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Because that's what LSU football does.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: We didn't go a series without running a power. It
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: was weird. They were like, there was this one time
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: they ran inside zone. And then, like, there was this
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: other time, outside zone. I know. And then another time
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: they pulled a guard and ran in the A gap?
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: I know. It's weird. It's weird. That's weird. And then
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: another time they had two double teams up to the linebacker.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Did you just invent those plays? No. No.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: There's somebody that was in the booth last year that
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: probably thinks they did.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No. Coach, we did that under Coach Atwood in
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: seventh grade Hubbard Middle School.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: We did that with Joey Hester in six-year-old Sunset Acre
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: Indian football.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, many Christmas. But we don't have the guards,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: we don't think, to do that.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: What?
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, okay. Don't tell me you don't have the
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: guards to run power at LSU. Those guards are a
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: lot different this year. Anyways, let's don't do that. Let's go.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: I don't want to get mad at what we had
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: to watch last year. All right, we will take a break.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: When we come back, we'll continue on down the road.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: A little football Friday here. Again, the New Orleans Saints
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: traveling up to the Motor City to take on the
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Detroit Lions, one of the bigger... in the NFL this week.
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  Speaker 3: Only two other games have a bigger line than Saints-Lions.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: How did the Saints win the game? How did they
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: pull off the upset? We'll tell you when we come
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  Speaker 3: back here on OTB.
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  Speaker 5: Now here you go again, you say you want your freedom. Well,
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  Speaker 5: who am I to keep you down?
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: From the locker room to the airwaves, it's Off the
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: It's Off the Bench.
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  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in OTV here live from Rouse's
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: on a football Friday. Jake Flynn and Cassie here at Rouse's.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: Alondra and Tay-Tay back in studio. New Orleans Saints traveling
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: to Detroit to take on the Lions. ESPN matchup predictor
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: gives the Lions a 73.6% chance to win said matchup.
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  Speaker 2: That's all right. The odds aren't great. Oh, that's all right.
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  Speaker 2: I've lost bets that I've placed that I had a
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: 99% chance of winning. That's fair. Plenty of them. All right.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: One very, very big one. No. Do tell. No, no.
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  Speaker 2: I don't need to. You don't need to? Don't need
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: to bring that back up. I'd comment it. Ooh. Mm-hmm.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Just one, though, right? Yeah, just one. Just one. Just one.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: All right, so right now, as we've told you all
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: week long, the Saints are one of the bigger underdogs
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: in the NFL.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: They still are a seven-point dog.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: The only teams that are bigger underdogs, the Browns against Jacksonville,
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: eight and a half is the line there, and then
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: the Cardinals against the Chargers where the line is nine
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: and a half. So there's not a lot of people
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: that give the New Orleans Saints an opportunity.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Now, some of that is because they.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: Don't believe in the Saints maybe a little bit, But
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: I think a lot of that has to do with
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: the belief they have in the Detroit Lions. The Lions
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: last year had a season that was disappointing to their standard.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: They only won nine games.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: Now they had a winning record, but that was a
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: team that was expected to make a run to the
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: Super Bowl. Now for the Detroit Lions, who are they?
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: What did they do in the all season? What's going
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: to be a little bit different for them? Because we
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: know like offensively they are really, really good. But I
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: will say that the backfield is going to look different.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: There's no Montgomery. Pacheco, who you signed, he's on the IR.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: So you have Jameer Gibbs. And the Lions have done
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: really well with a one-two punch. I don't think they
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: have a one-two punch here in this game since Pacheco
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: is on the IR. It's still going to have Laporta
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: at tight end. It's still going to have St. Brown
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: and Williams at receiver. Tesla as well. They've got, you know,
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: Panay Sewell's moving over to left tackle from right tackle.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: It's a very stacked offense. Where you can make your hay,
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: I feel like, against the Lions is going to be
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: on the other side of the football. They are beat
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: to all hell in the defensive backfield. They're missing their
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: starting safeties. Terry and Arnold's no longer on this team
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: after getting in trouble in the offseason. They've got some
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: spots where I think Tyler Shuck, Chris Alave, Vele, they
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: can take advantage of.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: It might be a little bit of a track meet.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: It really might.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: It might turn into a game like that. And so,
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: you know, take a look at the point spread. Take
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: a look at the total number in this game.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: It's 49 and a half. It's 49 and a half.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: It's a big number.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: It's a big number in the NFL. So that's what
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: I think Vegas is expecting as well. So you potentially
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: could see a chance for Tyler Shuck to go toe-to-toe
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: with a guy in Jared Goff, who over the last
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: three years has the most touchdowns, the most yards and
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: tied for the most wins in the NFL and second
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: in quarterback rating.
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: That's a big number over under number to still have
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: the spread at seven, right?
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: That's, that's a, I mean, that's a big number. Um,
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: the lions are going to be really good this year.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: They're going to be very, they're, they're going to be
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: improved from a year ago. Uh, the last year was
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: a very disappointing season for them, but offensively they were
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: still really good. Like we, like, We all believe in
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: the Wolfpack that Jared Goff is going to have.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: A hell of a year. I think, was it you
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: or Taylor that predicted him as an MVP pick? Yeah, Taylor.
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Taylor, MVP pick for this year. I mean, that's–
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: and it's a very realistic pick. Like, I kept trying
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: last year to keep him out of the top five
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: of my quarterback rankings every single year or.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Every single week. He did absolutely nothing.
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: He's just not the sexy pick when you pick up, like,
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: the top quarterbacks in the league. But you look at
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: the stats every single week, And he's at the top
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: of QBR completion percentage, touchdowns, yards, ink blank, everything. He's
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: always towards the top. You look at all the grades
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: from the quarterbacks, uh, this past year, he's at least
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: in the top seven or eight in every category. In
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: most categories, he's top three or four.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: Um, so what he does, he's a really good player
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: and a really good offense. Like, like I think last
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: year they missed Ben Johnson a little bit, but they
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: still were able to execute pretty frequently at a high
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: clip last year. Um, This is a game that is
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: going to show us pretty early in the season what
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: kind of leap Kellen Moore is going to take from
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: year one to two as a head coach, what kind
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: of leap Tyler Shuck's going to take from year one
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: to two as a quarterback, because as we've talked about
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: and as we know, that is the opportunity for the
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: biggest jump in a quarterback career, so year one to two.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: He has done everything right.
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: He played awesome towards the end of the season last
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: year with Uber drivers at wide receiver.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: And plumbers. Yes, and plumbers. Uber drivers and plumbers. Yes.
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: He's done everything right in the offseason. He's done everything
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: right with the fan base, within the community. He has
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: done everything the right way, and everybody is behind Tyler Sheck.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: This is going to be an opportunity. You're playing inside
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: against one of what we think is going to be
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: the top teams in the NFC.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But you're playing them without their starting two safeties.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: You're playing them with a little bit of injury concern.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: You're playing them inside on a fast track. We're going
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: to get a really good inside peek at to what
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: that improvement is. How was training camp really for that offense?
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: Because we saw you were at training camp for their
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: practice against the Jaguars where they dominated.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah. We haven't. seen Tyler Shuck play. Okay? Unless you
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: went to practice, unless you've seen clips, you haven't seen
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: Tyler Shuck play. No, you haven't seen him put a
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: shoulder pad on. Yes, he put one shoulder pad on.
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: So we are going to get an opportunity to see
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: what kind of jumps and what we can expect for
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: the rest of the season. What a great opportunity. playing
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: inside in an adverse environment, a fast field against a team,
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: really good team.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: It is a fast field.
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: Really good team that has their starting two safeties out.
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: So I hope we attack the middle of the field
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: early and attack the middle of the field often.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: And if you're listening to us saying, hey, I know
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: these guys have CTE. What do they mean? It's a
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: fast field. Every field is the same. It's not.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: Certainly when it comes to artificial turf like this, Some
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: are soft.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: Some are firm. Some are, you know, have the right
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: amount of rubber pellets in there. Some don't. Whatever it is.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: This one, every time I've played there and every time
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: I've covered a game there, it is a fast surface.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, just go around. Ford Field. Ford Field.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: That's at least what it used to be called. Ford Field.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: That sucks playing there. That place sucks. It is a–
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: it's a warehouse.
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: I started a game there on Thanksgiving Day. Started a
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: game there on Thanksgiving Day, and I got my butt whipped.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Good Lord. They were just– and then I was like, man,
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: I'm going to stink. And then, like, the next year,
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: like the year before that, I mean, we go there
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: and didn't do much better with Aaron at quarterback. So
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: it's like, all right, it's just a tough place for
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: us to play. Yeah, we got beat pretty good too.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: And when they weren't very good, Megatron just continued to catch, like,
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: And Dominick is always, like, stomping on our real offensive linemen. Yeah.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: You say Aaron? Has Aaron been in the news lately? No,
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: I don't think so. I haven't heard from him. No,
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: I hadn't heard from him. He does this speaking on
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: the field. Oh, okay. That was– I enjoyed it. That
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: was awesome. He's great. Like– He didn't hold back. He
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: didn't hold back, but, I mean, it's relatable, right? I mean,
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: he talks to people like a real– Like a real human.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: Like a real human. Yeah. So that was great. We
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: can talk about that a little bit more.
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: We'll take a break.
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  Speaker 3: We've got more OTB coming to you live from Rouse's
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  Speaker 1: Tigers turn talkers. This is Off the Bench.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in. OTB here. You know you
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: have to turn it off, right? Yep. Did you know
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: that that was the applause? No. You know what this
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: one is? Nope. This is my favorite one. That's only
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: during spooky season, though. Oh, yeah. We're... We're kind of
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: getting close. Okay.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: Or you can be like, hey, what's Louisiana Tech feeling
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: coming up here tomorrow when they see LSU take the field?
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Real spooky. Yep. Getting close to Robot Flynn season
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: for sure. We are. We are getting there. I mean,
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: we are just days away basically. I'm excited. You should be.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: That's like, that is late October, early November. That's the
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: sweet spot.
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: Oh, God.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: I can't wait. You can smell it. Has the weather
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: started to turn? Nope. Not yet. Nope. It probably won't
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: turn then either. But it's okay. Oh, wait a second.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: Happy birthday, Taylor.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: I was going to actually save that for like the
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: top of the next hour. It always feels weird when
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: you do it like, you know, in the middle of
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: a segment.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: I don't know. The back end. I didn't want Taylor
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: to think, hey, we're fitting Taylor in at 753.57, you
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: know what I mean? Yeah, but no, we fit him
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: in right for the sound effects, so it's more special.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: Happy birthday, Taylor. Happy 30th birthday, Taylor.
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: I was hoping that you guys were going to forget
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: because I could make you feel bad about it, but
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: thank you anyways.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Buddy, we're not forgetting your birthday. It's
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: September 11th. Well, we told you happy early birthday yesterday, too. Yeah,
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: we did. So we kind of saved ourselves a little bit.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: So that's right. Just us over here. Just remember it.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: It's tough to do for us. It is.
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: Jordan in the chat. Just started from the beginning of
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: the show. Jake's a big old grumpy gills, eh?
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: What are you grumpy for? He did walk in a
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: little grumpy. I couldn't get in. I couldn't get in.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: I had to watch my son's team get beat up
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: on last night. There was a referee down the sideline
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: who was horrible. He thought everybody was there to see him.
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: It's not the reason we lost. We got beat pretty good.
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: He was thinking everybody was there to see him. Nobody
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: was there to see him. He's trying to yell and argue.
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: Didn't make a single call all night until it was
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: like third and forever on a pass interference against us.
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: The only call the guy made all night. Guy thinks
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: he's real cool.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: He sucks. Yeah. Anyways. You know who you are.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: Older, polite gentleman on the sideline. You were on the
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: UI sideline in the first half. Let's be very specific
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: about this.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: Jeff. His name's no doubt Jim. My name's Jeff. He's
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: a Jeff or a Jim. Yeah. No doubt. Yeah. You
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: know who you are.
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: You should be ashamed of yourself. You should go to
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: referee school, pal. It's not about you.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: It's not. He was like a baseball umpire. Anyways. You
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: want to do this for a second ever? Maybe even
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: a third. More OTB live from Ross's. Off the Bench.
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: All right, go see our friends over at Ochsner. So
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  Speaker 3: many different things that, you know, that they can help
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  Speaker 3: of Elite Training Academy.
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  Speaker 2: It is right there to the left of the indoor.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: Walk-ins are welcome.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: So speaking of like high school football, you have a
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: game last night, you know, you get banged up, you
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: get nicked up, you got one tonight, whatever it might be,
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  Speaker 3: you can go see them, right? Full orthopedic clinic so
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  Speaker 3: they can treat those injuries. They can even treat an
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