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Hour Two | LSU vs. Texas A&M & Saints vs. Raiders · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Where the plays get broken down and science gets denied.
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  Speaker 2: Dude, they said I gotta come off the bench.
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  Speaker 1: Hour two of Off the Bench, live from the Raising
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  Speaker 1: Cane Studio.
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  Speaker 3: Yo welcome back here off the bench live from our
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  Speaker 3: houses here on burbank on a football friday uh getting
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  Speaker 3: you ready our number two i guess the kids are
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  Speaker 3: all dropped off now at school jacob's getting ready probably
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  Speaker 3: to say curse word who really knows Uh, but we
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  Speaker 3: are getting you ready right here. And we hadn't talked
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  Speaker 3: a lot about the game just because we wanted to
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  Speaker 3: save it for this hour. Number two, but we're getting
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  Speaker 3: you ready for the big, it's called analytics of radio.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. 8 AM is our biggest listening hour.
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  Speaker 4: So we saved it for eight Oh one to make
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  Speaker 4: sure we had peak viewers and listeners.
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  Speaker 2: Is that what we did?
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  Speaker 3: Or were you just like get a little ADD and
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  Speaker 3: saw some squirrels in the first hour?
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  Speaker 2: Completely ADD. Yeah. I know we're supposed to think like that,
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  Speaker 2: but we don't.
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  Speaker 4: Um, It's a big opportunity for LSU because it's a
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  Speaker 4: ranked opponent. You got beat last week in the game
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  Speaker 4: that everybody talked about for 10 months.
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  Speaker 2: Yada, yada, yada. Yeah, didn't feel great. I was there.
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  Speaker 2: Not fun.
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  Speaker 4: Not a fun drive back to Memphis, Tennessee to fly out.
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  Speaker 4: But you've got a team that's ranked, a team that's
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  Speaker 4: beaten you twice in a row, a team that beat
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  Speaker 4: you in your stadium, took over your stadium last year.
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  Speaker 2: Never want that to happen again. Okay?
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  Speaker 4: And if you go out there and you handle business–
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  Speaker 4: you'll be right back in the conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you didn't get out of it. You're number 10
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  Speaker 2: in the country.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm saying just, I think everybody will say, you
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  Speaker 4: know what, for whatever, the Ole Miss game was the
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  Speaker 4: Ole Miss game. You hit a little bit of a reset.
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  Speaker 4: You lost that game. Can you bounce back? Can you
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  Speaker 4: do it against a good football team? And you do
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  Speaker 4: all those things, then I think everything in front of
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  Speaker 4: you is still there, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: I think you get some real momentum from it.
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  Speaker 4: Winning this game, even though you're the favorite by eight
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  Speaker 4: and a half or seven and a half, whatever the
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  Speaker 4: line is, I don't even care. Like, that can do
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  Speaker 4: some heavy lifting for the next couple of weeks for you.
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  Speaker 2: You've got McNeese. You're going to win that one, okay?
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  Speaker 4: And then it gets interesting. Then you go on the
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  Speaker 4: road to Kentucky, who just beat Texas A & M.
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  Speaker 4: And then you welcome in Mississippi State and Camario Taylor,
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  Speaker 4: who that guy is electric.
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  Speaker 2: All right? So, you, like, The last thing that you
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  Speaker 2: want to do is lose this game.
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  Speaker 4: You use up all your mulligans, and then you've got
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  Speaker 4: those tricky games with teams that are good enough to
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  Speaker 4: compete and beat you. This one sets momentum back into place,
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  Speaker 4: I think, and excitement around the town for what this
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  Speaker 4: team can be.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you go out and take care of business.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing cures anything like winning does and success does. You
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  Speaker 3: go back, get a little bit of that momentum. The
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  Speaker 3: goal is to get the momentum you had after the
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  Speaker 3: Clemson game. You want to have a really good showing
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  Speaker 3: at home in front of your home crowd.
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  Speaker 2: You show improvement.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I want to see. I just want to
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  Speaker 3: see improvement on the offensive side of the ball. Defensively,
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  Speaker 3: of course, they're always going to work. The improvement that
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  Speaker 3: you can see on the defensive side of the ball
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  Speaker 3: for LSU is so much smaller.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to really be looking for it.
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  Speaker 3: On the offensive side of the ball, I think everybody
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  Speaker 3: is going to clearly see.
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  Speaker 2: If there is improvement.
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  Speaker 3: And it's going to start with the quarterback, always does.
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  Speaker 3: Everything starts with the quarterback. Then we're going to look
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  Speaker 3: at the line. Then we're going to look at receivers,
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  Speaker 3: how they're getting it open. But, honestly, if the improvement
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  Speaker 3: we can see, and I hope for with Sam Leavitt
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  Speaker 3: and how he plays the quarterback position, if it's there,
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be clear.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be clear.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to have a dominant performance, I believe, tomorrow
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  Speaker 3: in Tiger Stadium. And I think that's one of those, like,
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  Speaker 3: this game is so important, right? Just like you said,
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  Speaker 3: you've got two mulligans to give. And a 12-team playoff,
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  Speaker 3: you've got two mullets to give. And maybe if a
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  Speaker 3: crazy season plays out, maybe there's a third, depending on everything.
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  Speaker 2: You don't want to have to lean on that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, don't take that risk. And so, like you said,
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  Speaker 3: this schedule has turned to be real spicy. With old
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  Speaker 3: Kentucky and Mississippi State just kind of thrown in there.
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  Speaker 3: Because before the season, we're like, oh, man. It's going
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  Speaker 3: to go McNeese and Kentucky, Mississippi State. Can't wait to
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  Speaker 3: get to Auburn.
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  Speaker 4: Our conversation around Kentucky was it's going to be on
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  Speaker 4: the road.
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  Speaker 2: Can it be a sleepy game? Now that's changed. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Are they going to big boy us?
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  Speaker 4: They dominated the line of scrimmage against A & M
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  Speaker 4: last week. But certainly like the Mississippi State game, like
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  Speaker 4: you knew Kamario Taylor was talented. We saw him at
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  Speaker 4: the end of last year. But you didn't really know.
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  Speaker 4: And that game was at home.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good football team. It's a good football team.
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  Speaker 3: Top 25 for the first time since– Dak?
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  Speaker 2: It's been a long time. It's been a while.
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  Speaker 4: I think they might have jumped into it when they
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  Speaker 4: came here and threw for a bazillion yards in 2020.
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  Speaker 2: They might have. KJ Costello? 600 yards, something like that?
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  Speaker 2: Something crazy. It was the SEC record at the time.
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  Speaker 2: It was close to 600 yards. So. Oh, God. That
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  Speaker 2: was a terrible reminder, dude. Sorry. God. Had to cover
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  Speaker 2: that game. That was our guy, too. That was Bo.
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  Speaker 2: We were so excited for Bo to be back. I
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  Speaker 2: was so excited for Bo. My God, did we just
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  Speaker 2: get knocked to the mat early. Hmm. Sorry about that.
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  Speaker 2: That's on us, guys. Sorry I brought that one up.
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  Speaker 4: Anything I can do now to move past that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we can talk about LSU, how good they are,
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  Speaker 3: how much they're going to crush Texas A & M.
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  Speaker 3: This is a game where for Marcel Reed versus Blake
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  Speaker 3: Baker in that defense, it's going to be different this year.
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  Speaker 2: And I get it.
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  Speaker 3: I want it to be different, so I believe it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be different. But I think with the tools
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  Speaker 3: that they have, what they're able to do, how they've
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  Speaker 3: played so far in the season. And, like, look, yes,
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  Speaker 3: they made a couple of mistakes last week versus Trinidad-Chamberlain
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  Speaker 3: in that Ole Miss offense.
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  Speaker 2: Marcel Reed is not Trinidad-Chamberlain. Right. Okay, he's played his.
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  Speaker 3: Best games against LSU, but still his best games are
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  Speaker 3: nothing close to what Trinidad did last week.
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  Speaker 2: Right. In my opinion, just from the quarterback, like, when he.
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  Speaker 3: Pulled the trigger, how he pulled the trigger, the ball location,
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  Speaker 3: and how he was seeing the field, all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Now, don't get me wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Marcel has made electric plays and played his ass off
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  Speaker 3: against LSU in the past.
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  Speaker 2: I just think that what LSU's.
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  Speaker 3: Defense can present to him from a pre-snap look and
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  Speaker 3: then a post-snap reaction is more than he can handle. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: is he going to, is he a great athlete, and
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  Speaker 3: is he going to make some completions and Probably get
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  Speaker 3: outside the pocket and scramble a little bit more.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 3: I just think that what Blake Baker can present to
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  Speaker 3: them and what his guys can execute is at a
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  Speaker 3: very high level.
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  Speaker 2: Even last week it was at a high level. I
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  Speaker 2: was going to ask.
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  Speaker 4: That was going to be my question. Last week we
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  Speaker 4: watched the tape. We've done a deep dive into it.
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  Speaker 2: You can check it out. Eye in the sky. We'll
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  Speaker 2: plug there.
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  Speaker 4: If LSU played against any other quarterback, with how they
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  Speaker 4: played and what you saw on tape, Is there any
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  Speaker 4: other quarterback where it would have been the same result?
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  Speaker 2: And if so, that's fine.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, as of right now, from what I've seen,
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  Speaker 3: not in the SEC.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, because there's some of those throws that Trinidad
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  Speaker 4: should not have made.
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  Speaker 3: Now, if somebody like Camario made a different type of play,
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  Speaker 3: I can't say that. But LSU made some very small
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  Speaker 3: mistakes from their– At safety, throwing in a new safety
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  Speaker 3: in there, and he's got the free safety, and it's
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  Speaker 3: a three-by-one situation, and he doesn't read the third receiver,
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  Speaker 3: the number three receiver, who would be the inside most receiver.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't read his route and his aiming point good
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  Speaker 3: enough or fast enough to react to know, okay. That
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  Speaker 3: guy just crossed the face of a linebacker. Now I'm
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  Speaker 3: off of him, and I'm to number two. He was
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  Speaker 3: like a split second late on that recognition and reaction.
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  Speaker 3: And then by that point, Trinidad scrambled up and made
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  Speaker 3: a great throw for a touchdown right before the half.
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  Speaker 3: Those are the things that practice is going to help that.
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  Speaker 3: Reminders for six straight days from your coaches. Hey, when
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  Speaker 3: it's three by one and number three crosses the linebacker's face, boom,
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  Speaker 3: you're immediately to number two.
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  Speaker 2: Immediately, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So those are those things that they're little, and it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't much of a mistake, but it was a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: P.J.
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  Speaker 3: Woodland early on a third down conversion when he throws
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  Speaker 3: an outright. He should have been in a cloud corner. Well,
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  Speaker 3: he got his shoulders turned just a little bit, just enough.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if Trinidad doesn't pull the trigger if
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  Speaker 3: he plays it right. I don't think it's hard to
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  Speaker 3: see a bad technique on cover two by like.
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  Speaker 2: A yard or two.
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  Speaker 3: Like at a quarterback, if I'm reading cover two, I
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  Speaker 3: read cover two and I kind of assume that the
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  Speaker 3: corner is going to play it correctly.
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  Speaker 2: And I react to a bad play.
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  Speaker 3: If you're throwing a timing out route, that's not a
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  Speaker 3: react to a bad play by the corner route. Like
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  Speaker 3: he threw a timing out route into a cloud corner.
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  Speaker 3: Should have been at least a hospital ball or should
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  Speaker 3: have been an interception pick six. So you just played
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  Speaker 3: it wrong a little bit. And then he made a
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  Speaker 3: great throw. On top of it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And he consistently did that. He took advantage of it.
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  Speaker 3: But the plays were there to be made.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So can Marcel Reed consistently do that enough to beat you?
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  Speaker 2: No. Yeah. Can he do it a couple times?
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  Speaker 3: Probably.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Probably.
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  Speaker 4: But the thing with him is going to be containing
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  Speaker 4: him as a runner. It's not to say that Marcel
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  Speaker 4: Reed can't make throws.
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  Speaker 2: He can.
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  Speaker 4: He can make throws. He can't make Trinidad Chambliss throws.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's kind of what we're talking about here.
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  Speaker 4: So if that's being said, now he can take over
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  Speaker 4: a game as a runner.
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  Speaker 2: How do I know?
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  Speaker 4: I've seen it two years live in the second half
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  Speaker 4: of these games. So that's going to have to be.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to have to be your game plan. Like,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what you do, right? I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if it's, hey, we're going to have a spy or
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  Speaker 4: we're going to try to take away rush lanes with
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  Speaker 4: games up front.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what that looks like. Your defensive front's
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  Speaker 2: a lot better this year. Head and shoulders. Head and
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  Speaker 2: shoulders better.
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  Speaker 3: And defensive front last year was not good. They did
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  Speaker 3: not play together as well. So you left these giant
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  Speaker 3: voids in the middle of the field that he could
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  Speaker 3: run through. The defense, albeit good last year, It has
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  Speaker 3: some really good players that played.
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  Speaker 2: Their asses off.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't always see 11 guys straining to get to
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  Speaker 3: the ball.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And it really came to light in the A &
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  Speaker 3: M game, which got Brian Kelly fired.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: This is the game that got him fired. So we
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  Speaker 3: thank them. We thank A & M for their service.
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  Speaker 3: We thank you. But now those thanks are going to become...
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  Speaker 3: pretty much like war chance against you this weekend. But
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad they did. It wasn't fun at the time.
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  Speaker 3: But it got us a new coach.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: And that is kind of what we're looking for on defense.
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  Speaker 4: On offense, it's pretty simple.
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  Speaker 2: Run the ball. First down. Some. Slow your quarterback down.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Sam is, you know, we've talked about this every day,
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  Speaker 3: talked about it in depth from a film perspective on
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  Speaker 3: the film breakdown.
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  Speaker 2: Sam has got everything in front of him. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Everything he wants to do, everything this team wants to
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  Speaker 3: do is in front of you.
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  Speaker 2: But you're the one that's got to go do it. Right.
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  Speaker 3: It is easy to sit here and say, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's super easy to watch a game on TV and
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  Speaker 3: watch the film and critique and, like, nitpick like every
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  Speaker 3: little thing and it's easy to do you could do
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  Speaker 3: it for every quarterback who's ever played the game you
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  Speaker 3: could do it for Matthew Stafford right now you could
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  Speaker 3: do it for Patrick Brown Josh Allen I could watch
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  Speaker 3: a Josh Allen film and tell you probably 10 things
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  Speaker 3: he did wrong in a game yeah hey it happens
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  Speaker 3: the game is fast the game is violent the game
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  Speaker 3: has a lot of pressure they they got good players
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  Speaker 3: they're trying to fool you you get fooled you're not
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  Speaker 3: perfect nobody is But the overall thing that Sam has
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  Speaker 3: to do is just slow down. Slow down. Listen to
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  Speaker 3: some calm music before the game. Take a deep breath
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  Speaker 3: before you run out on the field. Take a deep breath,
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  Speaker 3: not in the huddle, I guess, but when you walk
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  Speaker 3: up to the line of scrimmage. Take a deep breath.
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  Speaker 3: Slow down. Your eyes are going too fast. Your internal
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  Speaker 3: clock is ticking a little too fast.
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  Speaker 2: And I get it. Maybe the protection hadn't been perfect
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  Speaker 2: all the time. So what? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think every quarterback that's ever played had a
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  Speaker 3: great offensive line? You're going to get hit in the
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  Speaker 3: mouth some. Stand in the pocket, deliver a throw. Hell,
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  Speaker 3: I saw Michael Penix do it yesterday, and he said
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  Speaker 3: 38 knee injuries.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, like you're going to get hit.
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  Speaker 4: That was kind of my biggest takeaway. I said it
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  Speaker 4: on the broadcast. You know, I was like, Sam, at
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  Speaker 4: some point, buddy, You're going to step up. You're going
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  Speaker 4: to rip a dig route over the middle, and you're
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  Speaker 4: going to take a shot.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: They're going to hit you right in the chest as
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  Speaker 4: the ball is leaving your hand.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. But you completed the pass. You're going to get
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  Speaker 2: slammed to the ground.
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  Speaker 3: Your head might whip back and slap the back, and
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  Speaker 3: you might be dizzy getting up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's all right. Dizzy, not concussed. That dizzy will
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  Speaker 2: wear off.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The dizzy will wear off.
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  Speaker 3: And by the time you get to your third or
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  Speaker 3: fourth fake clap, you'll be straight.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You'll be saying, throw it to the guy in
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  Speaker 2: the middle.
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  Speaker 3: Pick the guy right in the middle yeah um now
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  Speaker 3: he but in seriousness everything that we've seen like all
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  Speaker 3: the negative plays um like rpos we know not counting
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  Speaker 3: those are little things what's great is to be have
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  Speaker 3: to fix little things and not have to fix big
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  Speaker 3: things like he can make the throws he can be
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  Speaker 3: athletic he can make all the plays with his feet
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  Speaker 3: that you need and i get it there's a fine
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  Speaker 3: line between over coaching a guy like that and reigning
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  Speaker 3: him in right Do it with your arm first, and
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  Speaker 3: then it's gonna open up so many more things with
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  Speaker 3: your legs.
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  Speaker 2: So just calm down, go through your progressions.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't have to, you don't have to go through,
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  Speaker 3: Stop getting to your third progression by the time you're
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  Speaker 3: at the top of your three-step drop. Like, that's not
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  Speaker 3: the way it goes.
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  Speaker 2: That was first play of the game. First play of
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  Speaker 2: the game. Last week. And it was also multiple other times. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying, like, it.
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  Speaker 4: Wasn't like the game. He got nervous, and he was
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  Speaker 4: down 17. And it wasn't just the moment. It's how
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  Speaker 4: he's playing right now.
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  Speaker 3: Like, we weren't able, due to technical difficulties, to do
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: our Louisiana Tech film review on Eye in the Sky.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: But I had about 10 clips from that game that was, like,
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  Speaker 3: getting too fast. So it's not about, like– Him being
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  Speaker 3: a pressure cooker of a big moment situation. It's just
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  Speaker 3: how he's playing right now.
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  Speaker 2: It's his internal clock is too fast. Yeah. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if it's like that in practice. I got
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  Speaker 2: no clue.
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  Speaker 3: But they got to slow him down. And that's the thing.
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  Speaker 3: But if he doesn't, you're going to have some games
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  Speaker 4: From the locker room to the airwaves, it's Off the
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  Speaker 4: cut that off because I was about to just let
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  Speaker 2: People would be like shopping.
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  Speaker 3: They'd be getting their apples or something. They're looking at
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  Speaker 2: What's that? That sounded beautiful. Is there an actual angel
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  Speaker 2: mid-market radio over here. Award-winning mid-market radio. You said that
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  Speaker 4: One of the things I did want to point out
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  Speaker 4: real quick before we move on from Texas A &
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: M and LSU and we get to the NFL with
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: the Saints and the Raiders. The passing offense for Texas
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: A & M, because all week we've talked about make,
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: you know, Marcel Reed, make him a thrower and don't
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: allow him to run. They're 14th in the SEC in
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: passing yards per game.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Hmm. So it's not what they do well. Yeah.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: If I say that, okay, now you'll be able to
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: explain this way better than I do.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: It's really where you become Rain Man.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: If I have a team that the way they can
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: beat me is with Q runs, and I do think
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: that they have a back that's better than he's shown
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: so far, and I know that they're 14th out of
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: 16 teams in passing in the SEC.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: What defense or, you know, what coverages are you playing
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: to say, hey, you're beat up a little bit at DB.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: I get that.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: But you have your starting corners. You've got your starting
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: free safety. You've got your starting strong safety. You're just
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: kind of beat up in some of the nickel position,
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: some of the secondary pieces as far as guys that
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: would rotate in. Is there a, you know, do you say, hey,
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: we're going to play cover one. We're going to play
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: some cover one. And if our guys start getting beat,
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: then we'll adjust. Like, what do you do as a
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: defense coordinator?
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: I think when you look at this and you look at.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: The history of the last couple years, at least, against Marcel,
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: I think it's something you can overreact to a little
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: bit as we're trying to analyze the game.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Like, what are you going to do to stop him?
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: What are you going to do to stop him?
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: You got to look at it the other way a
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: little bit. This is a brand new team. What are
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: they going to do to stop LSU's defense?
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Right. That's how I want to look at this. Hell yeah, brother.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: How are they going to attack a defense that has
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: a really good defensive line, two of the best linebackers
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: in the country, the best tandem for sure. Yes, you
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: got some DBs that you're going to be going against
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: that are out. But still, they got a lot of
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: athletes out there. They got two locked down or really
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: good corners on the outside. They have a defensive coordinator
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: that literally there's nothing off the table with them.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: You see cover zero. You see cover one.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: You see blitzes and pressures out of double A gap
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: muggers where they're still dropping eight, seven or eight into
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: coverage and playing cover.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Two behind it. Yep. Right.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: You're seeing something that I promise you is a lot
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: harder for A & M and their offensive staff than it.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Is for LSU and their defensive staff.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: You got a team that's going in to this game
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: ranked 14th, A & M ranked 14th in the SEC
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: in passing yards.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You don't have to change a whole lot.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: So you allow your defense to be the defense.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: But I can tell you, like, they're stacking the box,
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: even against Ole Miss.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Yes. they had safeties at seven eight yards yeah true.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Not all the time and they stopped Ole Miss from
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: running the ball and that's the thing is like you
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: put a lot of safeties in there you play a
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: lot of your Blake's playing a lot of games because
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: he's got the personnel to do it on the defensive
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: line playing a lot of games and we've talked about
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: what those games are where you're looping a lot of
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: defensive linemen you're looping defensive line with backers so let's
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: just say a defensive both defensive tackles go right and
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: your defensive end loops around left that means you're And
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: that's what I expect to see this week, too, because
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: you're not just rushing up the field, right?
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Or you're not trying to just bull rush a guy.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: You're moving laterally, which moves offensive linemen left to right,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: which compresses and condenses holes and gaps that you can
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: run through.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: It makes it really challenging.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: If everybody's just rushing and vertical every single play, then
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: it's easy for linemen to get leverage on.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: You and push you. Because let's just think, like, if
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: you're trying to Set up a zone to the right.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Set up a zone right. Set up a zone right.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: All of a sudden, you got two defensive linemen just
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: crashing down left, disrupting your whole blocking scheme, and then
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: another guy looping around to the right.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: It's hard to run against that. I hated running against
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: stuff like that.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: LSU, people have done that to them. That's where they've
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: been the worst at pass blocking is when there's games,
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: when it's just like a big defensive end. is crashing
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: down on a tackle or a guard and, like, taking
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: two linemen with him because they're trying to block right,
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: and he's pushing against them, and you've.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Got guys looping around. So Blake Baker does that. Yeah.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: And he puts guys in the box, and then he
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: just makes it really difficult. So I'm more worried. I'd
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: be more worried if I was in College Station right
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: now getting ready than it is in Baton.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Rouge getting ready. To spy or not to spy? I mean,
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: spy comes in different ways.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: I think traditionally when people think of spy, you're like,
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: all right, number 42, you are on the quarterback all
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: day long. It's like a box-in-one type defense in basketball.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: I remember that from eighth grade basketball days. It's not
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: that big a deal. Not a huge deal.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: That's not necessarily it.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Sometimes it's a linebacker who's got the hook and cover three. Like, okay,
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: this week I want you to be your key. You're
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: allowed to go downhill once he crosses the hash. Or
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: you're allowed to go downhill if he takes three steps
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: or whatever. Like, there's different rules. There's also different rules
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: with droppers. Like, the dropper, you're technically the spy. Or
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: maybe it's not a spy. Maybe it's just two contained
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: guys on the outside.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Of course, when the pass rush, you're going to be
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: taught this week to not pass rush vertically.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Don't get past. If the quarterback's feet.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: LSU's done a really good job of so far this year.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: I've brought that up on the broadcast multiple times. They
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: have three sacks this year where they've gotten to the
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: level that we're talking about and then tracked back instead
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: of running past. And when the quarterback stepped up in
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: the pocket, they've got three sacks on that this year.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: You're not going to get them from, like, behind, right?
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: You're not going to make the big loop and get
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: Marcel down unless he's got some sort of crazy push
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: up the middle. So if the ball's on the 20-yard
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: line and his feet are at the 25, you rush
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: and you don't go to the 26. You don't get
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: past his plane where he's at on the field. So
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: you compress the middle. You compress the gaps. Don't give
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: him opportunities to scramble up the middle that way. If
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: he's going to scramble and beat you, make him do
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: it outside. Make him have to scramble around you and
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: go towards the sideline. He's going to gas you if
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: he gets up the middle.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: That's the game plan. But again, LSU on defense, you
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: are the hammer, not the nail. They are chasing you.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: They are the ones that should be worried about preparing
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: for you, not the other way around.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: I don't care what the last two seasons look like.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: All right. I love that attitude. We'll see if they
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: get that done on Saturday. All right. We will step away.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: And when we come back, let's start to get into
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: the Saints hosting the Raiders. Kind of one final look.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Saints actually. Have a primetime game after this one.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Shut up. It's not that big of a deal. Thursday.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Play against the Falcons. It's Monday. It's a big game. Well,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: now it could be. Well, now that game looks bigger.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: But this game's big.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: Momentum heading into, I believe, their only, unless something gets flexed,
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: national TV game of the year. A lot on the
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: line there down in the Superdome. We'll break it down
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  Speaker 2: Yo, welcome back here off the bench.
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  Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: Let's take a look at the New Orleans Saints hosting
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: the Las Vegas Raiders.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Hey, hold up real quick. Hold up real quick.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: I just did see some big news. Schefter reported. Jaden Daniels.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: He's not going to go on injured reserve. He is
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: going to be considered week to week going forward.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: So big news. I guess the scans came back. Probably
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: going to be a huge elbow brace. Probably a big one.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Probably a big boy.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: But, yeah, sources confirmed that after the scans and after
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: consulting multiple doctors, they all kind of agree that it
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: doesn't need to be a super long-term situation, of course.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: You do still worry about it. Second time it's happened.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: It kind of happened last year where it happened for
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: the first time, he came back, then it happened again. So, yeah,
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: I don't know what you can just do about that.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: I think you got to wear a brace. It's not
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: going to be comfortable. It's not going to make you
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: feel good. It's going to look terrible. Not going to
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: sell a lot of jerseys. You carry the ball.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: A lot, and it's going to be hard to tuck
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: that thing away with a big elbow brace on.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: I know. What a fluke, like, deal, too, that last one.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: I get it.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: Like, he runs a lot, and he makes himself vulnerable
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: in that way. And you can understand, like, if it
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: would have happened there, but that was a fluke situation there. So,
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: unfortunate but happy that he is going to be considered
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: week to week, and we hopefully get to see plenty
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: more jayden daniels play football this.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Year yeah marcus mariotta going to be the quarterback until jd5.
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah so yeah good what's wrong what i do now
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: i'm saying like if i say jd5 yeah that's who
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: he is that's what i'm saying Okay.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: It's been a situation. Yeah. Oh, the five thing? Yeah.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Are we power fast, then? Okay, good. Good. Can we
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: all just cheer for him?
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: I am.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, hell yeah. I'm not booing that guy. I hate
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: when they boo him in the stadium. I think that's dumb.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: I think that is dumb. The whole thing's dumb. Hey,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: guess what? Everything surrounding is dumb.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: If you go to the game tomorrow and they put
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Jaden Daniels, former Heisman winner here at LSU, if they
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: put his, like, a clip of him or, like, Tigers
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: and the.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Pros, hey, don't boo him. If you boo him, you're
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: a loser. There you go. Well said. Thank you. And
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: a nerd. The Saints right now, it's staying steady.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: Minus three against the Raiders this weekend. Back finally inside
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: the Louisiana Superdome. They were a three-point favorite when it opened.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: They're a three-point favorite now. Now it opened at minus 110.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: Now it's up to minus 122 for that minus three.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: So, Saints, the favorite.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: It's, you know, three points at home, whatever, call it
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: a pick them. But still, I think the Saints are
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: a favorite with that minus 122 attached to the minus three.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: The Raiders are playing better. I want to look, got
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: to give credit where credit's due. They're playing better. They've
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: been a better football team. You should absolutely win this
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: football game.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: I think if you.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: Stop the pass rush of the Las Vegas Raiders, you
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: win the game. That's the story of the game for me.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: I don't think Kirk Cousins is going to come in
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: and set the world on fire and beat you and
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: beat your defense.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: I don't think Ashton Gentry by himself can do that.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: I do think if Max Crosby and Pei coming off
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: the edge, sack, fumble, Tyler Shuck, the ball goes the
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: other way, they score a cheap touchdown, that's how you.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: Can lose this game. The rush for the Raiders is real.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: They went and signed a bunch of people when they
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: thought Max Crosby was a Baltimore Raven. Max Crosby's not
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: a Baltimore Raven. We all know that falls through. So
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: they got the people they signed, and they got Max
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: Crosby back. They've got some guys coming off the edge.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: That is going to be something you have to be
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: able to control. Now, like Quidipe is questionable but with
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: an illness.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Quidipe is playing in this game. Fully believe that. Brock
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Bowers is questionable in this game.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: That's one to probably pay attention to more than any
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: other injury on the injury report.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: For you?
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: Travis Achan's questionable with a hamstring. Makes you a little
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: nervous there. We know Kelvin Banks Jr. is going to
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: be out. He's on IR with the tightrope procedure. But
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: you haven't committed to the run, but you haven't been
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: good at running the football. It's been a lot of
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: Tyler Shuck and the receivers. You paid $ 53 million for
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: Travis Achan, and not to mention what you paid for
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: David Edwards to also solidify the offensive front and be
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: able to run the football. But if you don't do it,
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: how do you know? I mean, you got to see
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: what you got. HN had eight carries last week. Uh,
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: AK had nine carries. Like you didn't have a back
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: in double digit carries that, that, that can't be the
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: formula that you move forward with. And so I don't like,
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: I don't know what HN's availability is going to be
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: with a hamstring, but no matter who's back there running back,
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: you've got to give somebody a chance.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: To get into the flow of the game and give
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: them 15 carries.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: The, um, the Raiders are better than anybody thought to
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: this point in the season. This it's been two games.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: So there's a lot of overreaction happening a lot everywhere.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: Like with, with good teams, bad teams, you know, teams
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: are especially middle of the road. You know, there's a
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: lot of conclusions being drawn early. You can't argue with the,
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: how well the saints have played as a, from a
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: team as a whole, because you've played on the road
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: versus two top tier NFL teams.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: So like that, that is there.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: Like, There's some teams that have played and lost and
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: won games where you're like, yeah, but they're playing this.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: There's no argument with that with the Saints. Like, we
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: know who the Saints have played and gone toe-to-toe with
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: and come out 1-1 against.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: The Raiders are kind of in the opposite. Like, we
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: don't– they're better than we thought. They're 2-0.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: Like, who would have ever guessed that no matter who
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: they were playing? They could have played– they could have
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: played Purdue. And, like, you don't know how that game
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: was going to, like, end up. Purdue catching strays this morning.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. Not a big deal.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: So this is a game where you should beat them.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: You're the favorite for a reason. It's still early, so
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: we don't know what conclusions. We don't know how each
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: of these teams is going to end up by midyear.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: Are they going to be, you know, what's the Raider?
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: Are they for real? Are they still going to Raider?
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: I think they're still going to Raider at some point. Okay.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: They should not be in this game with you. This week,
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: like the dome should be absolutely rocking this week after
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: the performance they made. But I can tell you, if
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: you want to figure out a way to lose this game,
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: average three points, you know, score three points in the
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: first half. That's what you're averaging right now. You scored
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: zero in the first game. You scored six points in
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: the first half. In the second game. Fix the first
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: half and you win the game. And you don't even
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: have to go crazy. How about 10 points? How about 8?
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: How about have a lead after the first quarter for
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: the first time since 2024?
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: If you continue to play the way you're doing in
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: the first half, every game is going to be close.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: It might not be close. You might get blown out.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: Because Tyler Shutt can't do it for you. You can't
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: put the whole team on his back for 17 weeks.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: You can't expect that. You have to have a better
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: performance and whatever your philosophy has been to start the game,
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: your game plan has been do the.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Opposite of that. Just do that.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: Like if you are like, man, I've really, my, my
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: instinct is to call a play action here to hand
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: it off.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And not only that, hand it off to the
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: other direction. Yeah.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: Like that's it's do everything the opposite. It's kind of
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: like a guy that goes and bets. Like it's improbable
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: to hit parlays, right?
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: It's hard to hit five out of five. But for
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: whatever reason, I can go 0 for 5 real quick.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: Real quick on a 50-50, taking the line. It's really
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: easy to go 0 for. And so at one point,
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: you're just like, you know what? I'm going to just
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: do opposite of everything that I– if I feel good
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: about the Texas Tech this week, I'm going to go
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: the opposite just because I'm not hitting anything. That's how
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: I feel like Kellen Moore and his staff should be
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: in that first quarter.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: If I want to call this, just do the opposite
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: of that. Something's got to give. 23?
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: Is that the, I think, 23 straight games that you
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: have not had the lead at the end of.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: The first quarter? It's been since the 2004 season.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: I think it was December of 2004 against the New
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: York Giants when you were up 7-0.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: That's hard to do. That is.
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: More than a full season, and then some, of not
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: having a first quarter lead.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: That is... Get off the script. Get off of it.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: Like Matt said, when you think one thing, do the opposite.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: Switch it up. Some.
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: Because you're a good football team. You have a chance
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: to be maybe even great. You've got the hardest position
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: in sports figured out, the quarterback position. It's harder to
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: figure out quarterback than any point guard, starting pitcher, a center.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Mid in soccer. It doesn't matter.
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: You have the hardest position to figure out, and you've
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: got one that I think could be top eight in
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: the NFL by the end of this year.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: I really believe that about Tyler Shuck. Do something different.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Do something different.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Whether it is come out and 13 personnel and run
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: the ball six times in a row or come out
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: and run two minute in the first quarter.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Do something. I would love to see it. Why not?
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: The fact that more teams don't do that.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: That used to be 15 years ago. Teams did that.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: Well, because, like, a team can be doing absolutely nothing
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: in the first half. Then all of a sudden there's
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: a minute 40 left, and they drive right down the
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: field and score.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Like, we see it. How many times have you seen
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: that in a football game? A billion. Like, we can't
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: get anything going, anything going.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: And all of a sudden you run two minutes, and boom,
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: you march right down the field. I would love to
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: see it. Like, just do something a little bit different.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: Because your game plan is not working, trying to set
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: them up and trying to do play-action fakes and different things.
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: And all of a sudden you get to the second half,
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: And you're just calling your base plays. You're reacting to
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: the game flow. You're reacting to, okay, this works, that works.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: It's not pre-scheduled.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: I mean, one of my favorite plays of last week
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: was the reverse scissors they ran.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: That's a basic play. It's a very basic play.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: Now, their change-up to it was to reverse it, grab
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: the corner to go first, the post to come second.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: That's a bait. We run that in flag football. Not
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: a big deal. I mean, you do too.
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: Well, you used to when you coached. Like, everybody's got
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: a combination of a post and a corner together.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: That was one of the best plays of the weekend.
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: Talashek threw it before Olave was there. Olave didn't speed
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: the route up. It was an easy touchdown. That's what
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: Matt's talking about. Keep it simple, stupid.
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  Speaker 4: currently at. Go check them out at Ochsner.org. The NFL
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: did something that was really dumb.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: No. The last couple days. I don't believe it.
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: They fined fullback one, Kyle Juszczyk, for intimidating chugging a beer.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: I saw that.
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: Now, Kyle Juszczyk has done this many, many times in
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: his career. Kyle Juszczyk has a nickname of Juice. That's right, Juice.
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: And so that's been his juice celebration. And I've talked
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: with Kyle about this before. He's like, you know, it
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: could be so many different things, right? Juice, like, for juice.
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: And then, like, juice for we need some juice in
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: the locker room. He's like, drink the juice.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Even if he was intimidated, you know. Imitating drinking
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: a beer. Even if he was, okay? So what? Who
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: gives a damn? Like, if he was. Now, do you
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: know his intent?
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: You're telling me you know the intent of what this
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: man is fake drinking in a celebration. That's the dumbest
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: ish I've ever heard. But even if he was, even
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: if it.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Was like a cold Dos Equis. Delicious.
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: As soon as they go to commercial from Juszczyk celebrating,
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: it's probably a beer commercial, right? The stands behind him,
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: if you took a still photo of him chugging a beer,
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: it would probably have a beer advertisement on the back
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: of it. NFL, stop being dumb. You throw a commercial,
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: and you have DraftKings, and then you'll have Bud Light,
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: and then you'll have– But you're holding your players.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: Like, one, you don't know what he was acting like
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: he was drinking.
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: And even if it was, hell, even if he grabbed
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: a beer out of the crowd and started chugging it,
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: your first commercial after that would be a beer ad.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: What's the dumbest thing ever? $ 14, 926. This wasn't one of
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: those $ 2, 500 fines. $ 14, 926 for engaging in offensive demonstrations. It's
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: the stupidest stuff ever.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, chugging a beer constituted an offensive demonstration it could
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: reasonably construe as being in poor taste, the NFL wrote
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: in its fine letter. NFL makes, I think, nearly half
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: a billion dollars a year on beer advertisements. So, yeah,
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: and I actually believe someone timed it out. It was
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: less than 10 minutes after he did this that a.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: Bud, like a beer commercial came on.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: Hey, so, yeah, this is hypocritical and stupid and not
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: the first person to chug. And you're telling me that
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: you are just going to assume that he chugged a beer?
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: I think Kyle, the Juice, Juice Check.
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Juice Check has like a juice box diamond necklace.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: I think he actually quoted afterwards. He said, I don't
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: even drink beer. He did, yes.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: And I think him and his wife also released a
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: video of them making some juice at the home and
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: then chugging it.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: Pretty good. NFLPA, you're worthless.
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: But if you actually want to show that you're worth anything,
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: stand up for your guy here.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: This is dumb. This is the stupidest thing.
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: But again, again, he doesn't drink beer. He wasn't doing it.
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: He was doing the juice, juice box, whole deal. That
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: man is a grown adult. If you want to do
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: a beer chugging thing, you are stupid. In bed with
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: beer companies.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, find yourself. You sell beer. I don't get it.
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: You sell sports betting, and you used to not allow
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: players to be pictured and have events at casinos, but
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: you make tons of money off gambling. You don't let
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: them fake, apparently chug, maybe what can be construed.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: As a potential beer. Maybe it's a non-alcoholic beer. Yeah.
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: You're protecting the shield, but you're going to break away
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: and have... 48 beer commercials and liquor commercials.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: This is a... It's not even a bad look. It's
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: just a dumb look. Poor guy. Let him chug a beer.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: Don't come after fullback one. Don't come after Whit Weeks either.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: He did that against Arkansas. Shotgunned it. The fullback... I
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: think there was no question that was a beer. The
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: fullback group text? Yeah. Popping off yesterday. Oh, I bet.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: I bet. Had some war daddies in there.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: And juice is in there. Mm-hmm. Not very happy about
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: how that went down. I think we can agree that
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: Wood Weeks was definitely a beer. It wasn't construed as one.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: He shot good. That was definitely a beer. Oh, yeah. 100%.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: Maybe an old school Four Loko. Mad Dog. Ooh. Something spicy.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: We'll be back. Hour three. Off the bench. finding that
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: man $ 15, 000. Come on now. What are we doing? Come on, Ross.
• 46:44
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