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Hour Three | Patriots Kicker Tricks, NFL-to-SEC Moves & LSU-Clemson · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: The bench with jacob hester and matt flynn hands.
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  Speaker 2: To hester and hester got it five out of five.
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  Speaker 1: From carrying each other to a natty to carrying each
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  Speaker 1: other on the air live from the raising cane studio
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  Speaker 1: it's off the bench i.
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  Speaker 2: Can't stand it.
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  Speaker 3: Hello.
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  Speaker 2: Hey. Hey, bud.
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  Speaker 3: What's happening?
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  Speaker 2: Not much. Just put a mint in. I had that
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  Speaker 2: after coffee breath, and it just wasn't feeling great.
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  Speaker 3: God, I'm so glad. I was going to tell you something.
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  Speaker 2: Just put a mint in, though. I mean, you're sitting
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  Speaker 2: far enough away.
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  Speaker 3: You think so?
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  Speaker 2: You're out of the splash zone.
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  Speaker 3: Contaminated. Coming up later, Cassie's going to join us to
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  Speaker 3: talk Chick-fil-A points. Looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she is. She's very fired up.
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  Speaker 3: Yep. And we're going to talk about her first step,
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  Speaker 3: her first 10.
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  Speaker 2: It was impressive, honestly. Yep.
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  Speaker 3: She's going to break down the point system, how to
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  Speaker 3: use them, when to use them, how to get them.
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  Speaker 4: If you want to see Cassie move full speed, just
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  Speaker 4: tell her someone's mic's off.
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  Speaker 2: My God.
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  Speaker 3: I do appreciate the, it wasn't like a, sometimes when
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  Speaker 3: you tell somebody something like that, they kind of think
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  Speaker 3: about it, they ponder, they, hmm.
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  Speaker 2: What do you say? There was no really. Is he
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  Speaker 2: speaking loud enough? Boom.
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  Speaker 3: She gone.
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  Speaker 2: She gone. Anyways. Any news?
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  Speaker 3: So we're not going to the game this weekend, by
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  Speaker 3: the way.
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  Speaker 2: Who are you talking about? You. Oh, no. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to go to this game. This guy.
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  Speaker 4: We will be going to multiple games this year, which
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  Speaker 4: is different for us. But since the schedule is so awesome,
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  Speaker 4: I think that this is going to end up being
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  Speaker 4: a blowout.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not going to go. Okay. Wait for the
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  Speaker 2: good games. Yeah. Clemson's going to stink. Going to the
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  Speaker 2: La Tech game? La Tech. Go Dawgs. Yeah, no, Clemson stinks. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're not going to go to this.
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  Speaker 3: One.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Actually, we do have a couple things happening, but it's
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  Speaker 4: also going to be hot.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like heat. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: There's like seven cameras. I don't know which one to
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  Speaker 3: look at for dramatic effect. There's a lot of cameras.
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  Speaker 3: You don't like the heat.
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  Speaker 2: No, I hate the heat. It's Louisiana. I know. You
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  Speaker 2: live in Louisiana. I got it.
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  Speaker 3: It's part of, like, your callus to it at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no. Uh-uh. Every year it gets worse for me.
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  Speaker 3: That's why you wear that very breathable poncho shirt, Brett.
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  Speaker 2: These shirts are the best.
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  Speaker 3: PonchoOutdoors.com slash offthebench.
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  Speaker 2: They are the best shirts. And I'm not just saying.
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  Speaker 3: That, like, You got to understand, he's not just some guy.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not just some guy. I know I got it.
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  Speaker 4: You see the face. You're like male model, clearly. I
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  Speaker 4: know I have invaded a lot of people's social feeds
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  Speaker 4: with the poncho shirt.
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  Speaker 2: I got it. I hear it.
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  Speaker 4: But these shirts are awesome. And I hear about it
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  Speaker 4: all the time. Every time I go somewhere, like, they're
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  Speaker 4: sold out of this one. I'm like, yeah, because they
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  Speaker 4: go fast.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, there's only been two college shirts... four poncho to
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  Speaker 3: like sell out yep and they've both been lsu not
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  Speaker 3: a big deal 2025 and 2026 that's.
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  Speaker 4: Why lsu is the best that's why the fans are
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  Speaker 4: the best and they got a lot of licenses though.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why the male models are the best for.
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  Speaker 4: Lsu i mean that's us some would say too sexy.
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  Speaker 3: And they say it sells trying to whisper there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people in this.
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  Speaker 4: Room right now you're right i should have worn the
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  Speaker 4: short shorts Well, actually, no.
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  Speaker 3: That was kind of uncomfortable for me last time.
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  Speaker 2: MSJ didn't stand a chance when I had the short
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  Speaker 2: shorts on.
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  Speaker 4: No, Murphy, Sam, and Jody. They didn't have it. They
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  Speaker 4: don't know how to sell it. They don't know how
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  Speaker 4: to sell it.
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  Speaker 2: They were crying in the corner.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you heard right. We talk about Murphy, Sam, and Jody,
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  Speaker 3: the law firm. Second place.
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  Speaker 2: Get out of here. Sure, they win every year. They
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  Speaker 2: win the award.
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  Speaker 3: That's not what matters.
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  Speaker 2: It's about the vibes. Jessie's new to this. She's uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 3: We talk about Murphy, Sam, and Jody like every day.
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  Speaker 3: They're competition. That's what we're going against.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. Crushing. We talk ish about them.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of funny that people are new to this conversation.
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  Speaker 3: We do it all the time.
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  Speaker 2: We do it every day. They get astray. Okay. All
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  Speaker 2: three of them. Murphy, Sam, and also Jody. Individually.
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  Speaker 3: And collectively.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Mainly collectively. Mainly collectively.
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  Speaker 4: All right, I'm going to focus this in on something
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  Speaker 4: sporty I saw yesterday that was very interesting to me.
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  Speaker 4: I saw Pat McAfee on socials responded to this. Well,
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  Speaker 4: there was some guy that did some research about the
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  Speaker 4: New England Patriots in the Bill Belichick era.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Gillette, is it still called Gillette Stadium? Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Gillette Stadium is very unique. There is, when you're
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  Speaker 4: at field level, The jumbotron on either side of the
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  Speaker 4: field is right behind the uprights. So kind of like
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  Speaker 4: the upper half. So someone did some research. And I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to kind of read you. It's kind of a
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  Speaker 4: long post here that he did on Twitter. I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to kind of read you kind of what he did
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  Speaker 4: the research on. So this guy, his name is Ryan Paganetti.
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  Speaker 4: He went through more than a decade of TV broadcasts.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, God.
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  Speaker 4: And he uncovered what he calls a diabolically clever piece
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  Speaker 4: of Patriots gamesmanship. Now, Patriots, famous for their gamesmanship. That's
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  Speaker 4: what you want to call it.
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  Speaker 2: They've been known to dabble.
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  Speaker 4: So when opposing kickers lined up at Gillette Stadium, the
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  Speaker 4: video board, so the jumbotron that is right behind the upright,
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  Speaker 4: displayed a reverse view of of the kick. So just
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  Speaker 4: like the end zone view of the kick that's behind
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  Speaker 4: the uprights placing a second offset of the yellow uprights
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  Speaker 4: directly behind the real ones. So there's a second set
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  Speaker 4: of on the jumbotron, just picture this in real time,
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  Speaker 4: the kicker's view.
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  Speaker 2: He sees the real uprights.
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  Speaker 4: The jumbotron is directly behind them with a reverse angle
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  Speaker 4: of looking at them and there's uprights and they offset
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  Speaker 4: it by like a couple of yards.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So he's looking at the real uprights and then offset
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  Speaker 4: to the left is another set of uprights on the Jumbotron.
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  Speaker 4: Now where the reverse angle comes into play is because
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  Speaker 4: if the wind's blowing from east to west, the orange
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  Speaker 4: streamers are blown one way on the reverse angle.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: You see visually another set of uprights that are offset
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  Speaker 4: from the real ones.
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  Speaker 2: And the orange thing's blown the other way. Right. And
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  Speaker 2: it's pretty clear.
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  Speaker 4: In windy conditions, even the orange streamers on the video
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  Speaker 4: board appeared to point in the opposite direction from those
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  Speaker 4: atop the physical uprights, making the illusion more disorienting. They
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  Speaker 4: found dozens of examples of this. In the same games,
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  Speaker 4: he reviewed 52 Patriot field goal attempts, and the illusion
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  Speaker 4: appeared zero times when the Patriots kicked field goals, and
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  Speaker 4: every time when the opponent So it was a in there.
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  Speaker 3: Some real Tom foolery going on there.
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  Speaker 2: Real Tom fool.
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  Speaker 4: So he quotes that it's a perfect encapsulation of the
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  Speaker 4: Patriots dynasty. No detail was too small. No possible edge
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  Speaker 4: was left unexplored. You look at this tactic and you
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  Speaker 4: see like and I'll show you.
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  Speaker 2: This is kind of what it looks like right there.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. I mean, clear as day.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't know if Luke can get a picture
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  Speaker 4: of it on there, but it's one of these deals
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  Speaker 4: where I was like, man, this.
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  Speaker 2: Is not even.
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  Speaker 2: An illusion.
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  Speaker 4: They are actually painting uprights that are, they're, they're, they're offset.
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  Speaker 3: So, and it looks real enough where it looks like
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  Speaker 3: it's the actual camera, especially.
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  Speaker 4: Like in a big situation, a lot of pressure on
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  Speaker 4: a kick. Like you're looking down at the whole, you're
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  Speaker 4: looking at, you're doing like your routine where they like
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  Speaker 4: stretch and they, whatever. And then like, you look up,
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  Speaker 4: look down, like even if a door disorients you for
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  Speaker 4: like a split second, you're like, no, no, that's not it.
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  Speaker 2: You got to go back to this one. It takes
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  Speaker 2: your focus off at least a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Um, He did not follow up with any stats about, like,
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  Speaker 4: opponents' percentages in Gillette compared to other away stadiums or
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  Speaker 4: anything like that. But it just was fascinating because it
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  Speaker 4: goes to show you that zero attempts for New England
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  Speaker 4: kickers every time with opposing kickers, obviously it was for
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  Speaker 4: a reason.
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  Speaker 3: They just always do too much.
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  Speaker 2: Always. Or just the right amount.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's too much. I think it's too much.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's too much.
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  Speaker 3: Like for me, do I care if somebody steals signals?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: If they do it in the way that you used
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  Speaker 3: to do it in real time, I don't care that
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  Speaker 3: you should be better at your signals, right? We've got
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  Speaker 3: a friend that we both share that I was at
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  Speaker 3: a middle school football game last year. and he was
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  Speaker 3: playing against my son, and he was giving signals out,
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  Speaker 3: and I had his signals by the third one. He
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  Speaker 3: didn't like that I had his signals once I texted him.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't use them, but I said, hey, bud, I
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  Speaker 3: got your signals.
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  Speaker 2: Everything's fair.
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  Speaker 4: Anything that shows up on television, anything that's clear on
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  Speaker 4: a sideline that you can see in film review, anything
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  Speaker 4: you can pick up in real-time.
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  Speaker 2: Action, fair game. You can't hide somebody.
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  Speaker 4: You can't disguise somebody in dark glasses and their color
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  Speaker 4: jersey and put them on their sideline.
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  Speaker 2: You can't sneak and film someone's practice.
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  Speaker 3: Film signals, yeah. You can't do that. That's a step
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  Speaker 3: too far. That's egregious. And people are paranoid about it.
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  Speaker 3: I've told this story a thousand times.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, college is the worst.
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  Speaker 3: When we were playing, when I was with Peyton in
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  Speaker 3: Denver in 12, we were playing the Ravens in the
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  Speaker 3: regular season. We played them in the playoffs later, but
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  Speaker 3: He's like, hey, you know, we played them on Sunday
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  Speaker 3: night football. And, you know, those mics are a little
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  Speaker 3: bit hotter on national broadcasts. And we used these three
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  Speaker 3: code words during that broadcast in 02. And I know
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  Speaker 3: it was a long time ago. It was about a
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  Speaker 3: decade ago. But a lot of the same people are
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  Speaker 3: still there. And so we need to switch those code
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  Speaker 3: words up because that hot mic in 02 caught those
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  Speaker 3: code words.
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  Speaker 2: That's a real story. I was like, all right. From
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  Speaker 2: a decade ago from the Sunday night football. I know.
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  Speaker 2: We would do that.
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  Speaker 4: We would– Our third-string quarterback in Green Bay, he would
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  Speaker 4: be in charge of watching the TV copy. And did
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  Speaker 4: any signal, did any verbal alerts or code words get
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  Speaker 4: caught by us?
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  Speaker 2: So self-scouted. You can catch a lot, certainly on a
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  Speaker 2: bigger TV broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: So if it is Thursday Night Football, Sunday night football,
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  Speaker 3: Monday night football, there's going to be even more mics,
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  Speaker 3: even more technology. Now, like in real time, like I
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  Speaker 3: can hear a code word and know the situation, and
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  Speaker 3: nine times out of ten I'm going to guess it anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Based off of it, the R, the L, the city,
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  Speaker 3: the direct, all those different things.
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  Speaker 2: But if you already kind of go in knowing that.
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  Speaker 4: And that's where experience at quarterback and like the offensive
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  Speaker 4: line experience there helps too because when you get to
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  Speaker 4: that next level– You also start doing a lot of
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  Speaker 4: dummy codes. We would go into a primetime game, and
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  Speaker 4: Aaron would just scream gibberish at the line. And they
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  Speaker 4: knew that it was gibberish. And they would do that
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  Speaker 4: so it would get caught on camera. And they would
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  Speaker 4: do fake hand signals to his veteran receivers. You can
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  Speaker 4: do little things like that when you're more experienced.
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  Speaker 3: We would do some gibberish stuff, and then whatever the
• 12:04
  Speaker 3: word was, if we ever said that word, then anything
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  Speaker 3: after that word became live.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, you're just spouting stuff.
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  Speaker 4: We went one year that was, like, anything I said
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  Speaker 4: that involved, like, a snake. So it was, like, a
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  Speaker 4: snake in the grass. Anything, like, if you said cobra,
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  Speaker 4: if you said rattle, if you said, like, anything with
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  Speaker 4: a cobra, slither or whatever, anything after that was gibberish.
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  Speaker 2: Right. It was nonsense.
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  Speaker 3: Did you please tell me, like, one time you got
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  Speaker 3: up there and went, just did the sound.
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  Speaker 4: No, but I think that was, I think he would, like.
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to remember the hand signals. He would do
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  Speaker 4: some hand signals. It was like he would do this
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  Speaker 4: or like this or something. That was like a snake's
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  Speaker 4: hand signal, and then it was like fake after that.
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  Speaker 3: Then everything after that's just dead, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Until it's not. Yeah. Anyway.
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  Speaker 3: We would have dummy stuff sometimes, and then we had
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  Speaker 3: some stuff that meant like no play no matter what
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  Speaker 3: I say, no matter what I do, no matter how.
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  Speaker 2: Many times I say HUD.
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  Speaker 3: If I've said this, it does not matter.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: And so a play wouldn't be called. And, of course,
• 13:04
  Speaker 3: somebody would jump off sides. And Peyton would ask them, hey,
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  Speaker 3: what play were you going to run in that situation
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  Speaker 3: with nothing called?
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  Speaker 2: It was so fun.
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  Speaker 4: So that was my job in the games as Aaron's
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  Speaker 4: backup for many years was to steal signals. And I
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  Speaker 4: got good enough at it to where they gave me
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  Speaker 4: a live headset where I could talk to the coaches.
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  Speaker 4: And so there were certain teams that. I had a
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  Speaker 4: book of signals on them. So I would learn it,
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  Speaker 4: and I would remember it. I'd write it down in
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  Speaker 4: a notebook. There were certain teams that were good at it.
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  Speaker 4: And even with the green dot, even with the defensive
• 13:38
  Speaker 4: coordinator speaking to the middle linebacker, if you go fast enough,
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  Speaker 4: sometimes the linebacker would speak to the line and the linebackers.
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  Speaker 4: But the DB coach, the corners aren't coming into huddle.
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  Speaker 4: Safeties usually aren't. So the DB coach was the one
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  Speaker 4: that would do a lot of signaling. So I would
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  Speaker 4: watch him. The Detroit Lions, they had the same defensive
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  Speaker 4: back coach for years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And I had his signals.
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  Speaker 4: I bet he hated you. And he didn't know it
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  Speaker 4: for a couple of years. But it was like I'd
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  Speaker 4: see a signal, and I'd be like, Mike, cover three.
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  Speaker 4: I'd see a signal, hey, Mike, cover four. And then
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  Speaker 4: sometimes it would be like, hey, Mike, cover four. And
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  Speaker 4: then he had already called the play, and then I'd
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  Speaker 4: say cover four. And he'd be like, Aaron, scratch that,
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  Speaker 4: scratch that. We're going to do this play instead. Jordy Nelson,
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: 70-yard touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: Or I was like, hey, Mike. Hold up. Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 4: Mike, strong pressure, strong pressure. Mike, weak pressure, corner coming,
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  Speaker 4: whatever it was. And no, it wasn't like that for
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  Speaker 4: all the teams.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but if you had a book of them.
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  Speaker 4: I remember we played the Falcons one time, and they
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  Speaker 4: were late. The DBs, the corners and the safeties would
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  Speaker 4: signal the coverage.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And it was too late to tell Mike, so I would, like,
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: stand by the first down marker. And if Aaron was curious,
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  Speaker 4: he would look at the first down marker, and I
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: would be there, and I would signal to him what
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  Speaker 4: the coverage could be.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe he doesn't want to know in a certain place.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because sometimes you get got. So you have to
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  Speaker 4: be really sure. And if you tell him the wrong
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  Speaker 4: coverage and it ends up not being the coverage, it's
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  Speaker 4: a bad situation.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you know this. There's a difference
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  Speaker 3: in coverages.
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  Speaker 2: There is a difference in coverages. That is smart.
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  Speaker 4: But we play, when I was in Seattle my first year,
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  Speaker 4: after I'd lost a starting battle, Russell Wilson was playing.
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  Speaker 4: We were playing in Detroit, and I go to the sidelines,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm sitting there on the sideline, and I'm watching.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, man, I wonder if they got the same signals.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. First drive.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not recognizing the signals, and I'm like, this is different.
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  Speaker 4: Same DB coach.
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  Speaker 2: Right. I'm not recognizing the signals.
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  Speaker 4: And he's doing different ones, and it's like, He signaled
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: something that I thought might have been cover four.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: It was cover three. Right. And then he comes out.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: He does that. And he looks at me at the
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: end of the drive. Yeah.
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: And, like, the play callers are on one side of
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: the field. I'm on the other because I'm watching.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: He looks at me, finds me, and he points at me.
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: And he goes like this. He goes, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: He wags his finger. Does the Mutombo like the, uh-uh, no, no, no,
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: not today.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: You're not going to get my signals today. So they
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: had changed them for one drive. The next drive.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: Same signals.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: They went right back to it?
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: They went back to it. And do you think I
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: told Russell? No, not at all. You're on your own there, Russ.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: Be dangerous.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: Let Russ cook. Get the experience. Let Russ cook. Mr. Unlimited. No,
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: they wouldn't have let me signal. They wouldn't have let
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: me chime in. No, he didn't need that info. He
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: didn't need that. Didn't need it.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: Didn't need it.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Anyhow. Russ. No, no, no. That's so good. That was good.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: We will step away and take a break here. Continue
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: breaking down a little Clemson LSU. Again, the slate's not
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: the sexiest of slates, but there is other games, including
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: that Ole Miss and Louisville game that I do want
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: to spend just a couple minutes So we'll have that
• 17:06
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• 18:54
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• 18:56
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• 18:59
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• 19:01
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  Speaker 2: I know it doesn't for y'all, but for us, it
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• 19:20
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• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Lunch bar.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: We mentioned the breakfast bar, if it's still available after
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  Speaker 3: we crash it.
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• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Salad bar.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Hot bar. Yeah, hot bar. Sometimes they got that seafood,
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: that boiled seafood. Oh, they do.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, last year, people kept bringing us cards. If you
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• 20:10
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• 20:13
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• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know Rouses holds a special place in my heart.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: They gave us our first opportunity in the retail space
• 20:19
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• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, was it?
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• 20:34
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• 20:35
  Speaker 3: There's no surprise here on this report. But, you know,
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: we haven't, for our show, like we're trying to get
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: to Saturday night, Death Valley. And today we started the
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: show talking about the actual individual matchups, the offense, defense, whatever,
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: about Clemson LSU. But, you know, there is a big, obviously,
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: decision coming down tomorrow. But it was just reported by ON3,
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: which we already know this, but people seem to forget
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: it because it's just LSU.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: In everybody's mind.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: On3 reports several SEC programs are looking at adding former
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: NFL players to their rosters before games this week. But wait.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: What? Hold up. No way.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: I was told that this was only LSU and only Lane.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: Wasn't it 15 of the 16 SEC schools?
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Unanimous. Unanimous voted. That's unbelievable. We decided not to vote. Yeah.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: I guess everybody should have abstained.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: So if multiple teams go down this road, what does
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: that mean for the SEC's battle with our fighting Tigers?
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: I think they're going to kick everybody out of the SEC.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: And the one thing that I don't like. The SEC
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: and Vandy. I want, like, full disclosure here. Y'all know
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: how I feel about pros coming back. The thing that
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: I was, honestly, number one on my sheet was that
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: anybody gets cut from a program, I was not about
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: that life because working to get to the season is
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: one of the hardest things that you'll do in life
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: in college football. More than anything I've done, that nine-month grind,
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: incredibly difficult. But, like, even Steve Sarkeesian came out yesterday
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: and basically called it despicable, right? I mean, and just
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: threw so much shade at somebody that's a friend of his,
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: like him and Lane Kiffin. They've worked together multiple times.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: And they have somebody that's been in NFL camps. Now,
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: he's like, yeah, but he was at Texas last year.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: That part doesn't matter to me. That part means nothing
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: to me. He was in two camps. He's like, well,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: his minicamp's not training camp. Just because he wasn't good
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: enough to get to training camp doesn't mean he wasn't
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: a pro. He had on a pro uniform.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Everybody trying to make all these fine line distinctions between minicamp.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Training camp. Give me a break. Give it a rest, dude.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: You're a pro. Yeah. I mean, in my eyes, there's.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: To at least come out so against it when you
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: have somebody on your roster... that had on a Dallas
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Cowboy helmet in May. Right.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: For sure.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: Call it despicable. You think Sarkeesian texted Lane afterwards, he's like, hey, gotcha.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: Wait till you see what I called you, dummy.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Maybe. Oh, yeah.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: They still got the group text has been hot. The
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: SEC head coach's group text has been, On fire.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: I bet my man Eli Drinkwich, too, is just stirring.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: Do you think Eli, if you had to, I don't
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: know if I posed this question before. On the SEC
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: head coaches group chat, which coach is more likely to
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: have an Android?
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Turn the chat green. Ooh, of all the coaches? Yeah.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Maybe Kirby. I would have said Sam Pittman last year.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Is Kirby the longest tenured? Yes, not even close. Maybe. Yeah,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: it's not even close, right? It might be. It might
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: be Kirby just because of the unk situation.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: That's a good question.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Thank you. I don't want to just give this any
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: kind of answer either. Yeah, we can breathe on it
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: a little bit. We can breathe on it really.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: Drink, to me, was an easy answer because he's kind
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: of the nerdy a little bit. And I think a
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: lot of the nerdy people go to Androids who's like,
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: it's a better software. The software's better. The camera's a
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: little bit better.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: I think you're right, though.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And y'all know me. Y'all know I love my.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Guy, Drink.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Microsoft is an elite product for the office and doing
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: nerd stuff. Yeah, people with Androids do say stuff like that.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: They do say.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: All I know is you just effed up the group chat.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: I don't really care about the software, the processing stuff.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: Maybe a pixel here on the camera or two or whatever.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: I don't care about that. I care about my life
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: and how it functions. And you are ruining it.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: You are ruining this group text. Yep. I'm with you.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: So drink. Probably because of the nerd stuff. Yeah. Final answer.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: And if you're sitting there at home and be like, oh,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: androids are better. Well, sorry to say it. Nerd alert.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: There is somebody screaming.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Right at you right now.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: It is. It's a better processor. There's no doubt.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: So we'll see if other SEC teams that unanimously voted
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: against this and talked about it a lot for the
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: last two weeks, if they do, in fact, add these players.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: It wouldn't shock me at all if half the league
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: adds a former NFL player.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: No. Wouldn't shock me one bit.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: And then they're going to use the excuse, well, I mean,
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: LSU was doing it, so if they were going to
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: do it, we don't agree with it, but we've got
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: to keep up with them because if they're adding those
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: two players, we feel like we've got to add some.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: There's no doubt in my mind that's how it's going
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: to be portrayed.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: And again, Lane doesn't care.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Not one bit.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: And when all these conferences came out and made their
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: statement like, you know, we've all agreed that no professional
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: players on our teams, whatever. You going to tell me
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: not one of these dudes is going to play in
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: the Big Ten?
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Well, the Big Ten's trying to, like, use the minicamp
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: training camp argument.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: That's what they're trying to do?
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: That's a dumb argument.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: For a rookie player, I think it is. You know
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: what I mean?
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Like, sure, like, if we're talking about a veteran player,
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: like a veteran doesn't get, like, an accredited season for, like,
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: just going to minicamp or whatever. Sure. A lot of
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: times you'll go and you'll just sign a waiver. But, like,
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: if you're a rookie, like you've been in these training
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: camps and you've been in multiple, then I'm still putting
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: you in the same category as me.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: He didn't get three and a half games in.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: He didn't get credited season. What's that next?
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: Our whole argument has been there were things that we
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: learned being around a program for a mini camp, an
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: OT or whatever, that we wish we could use in a.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: College football game.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: And I think the whole underlying issue, and, you know,
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: while maybe we or maybe– I don't even want to
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: put you into the category that I've been in on
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: my opinions, kind of against all this, and maybe not
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: as the most popular opinion in the LSU circles. I'm
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: more hesitant just because I don't see where any of
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: this ends.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: We've talked about that. Where does it stop?
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: It's easy to say now that it does stop with
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: the 2022 class.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Easy to say that. Right now.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: But next year, there's going to be a special circumstance
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: that you try to go push the legal limit for
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: as well. And I just hope that it's not always like,
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: I just hope in the public eye, and not that
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: I care that much, but I want LSU to be
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: respected and revered. That's my hope for my alma mater,
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: is that we are respected, we are feared, and revered.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Like, people.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: Respect the way we do. And that's my hope. But
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: I don't really care if we play the villain. That's
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: fine with me as well. Just like.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Don't always have to be the first.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, I do somewhat hear what you're saying now.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: I care about LSU over everything.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: It's like if we're the villain and that's what it's
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: got to be, then I'll step in line. Let's be
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: the villain. I don't care about that. I literally only
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: care about the three letters that say LSU and not
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: even the SEC. And I love Commissioner Sankey. I've had
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: great conversations with him. I love the league office.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: They've been great to me.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, I love LSU
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: and I don't really care. But I do understand what
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: you're saying.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. About, like, you wanted to be. Oh, I care
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: about it. I mean, obviously I care.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Deeply.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: And I think you can do both. I think you
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: can do both.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: Get you somebody that can do both?
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: Exactly. So we'll look once this happens tomorrow, and let's
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: just say that you see a bunch of guys popping
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: up on rosters. Also, don't think they just got there
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: that day. Don't believe that. Don't believe that the court
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: situation goes in the way of the players. Oh, man,
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden this guy, he called us right after,
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: and we flew him here. He got here like in
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: three minutes. Don't believe that. There's guys on campuses right
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: now that are waiting, and as soon as they get
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: the green light, They're going to be in that uniform
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: with that helmet on. So we'll see. Tomorrow's a big day. Honestly,
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: it's not even a big day because I don't know
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: that LSU is going to use the two players in
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: the game on Saturday against Clemson.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Actually, I don't think they're going to, right?
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: I say a big day because then the rosters will
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: add those players. Those players will be on campus. Well,
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: they're already on campus, but they'll be in the facility
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: at practice going through the whole deal, and that's going
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: to be interesting to see who, after a week of
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: hating on LSU, who adds players through this process. And again,
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: they're going to blame LSU for doing it.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Well, we've got to do it.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: That's going to be the narrative, whatever, sure, if.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: We're going to be the first.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: Hey, credit to On3 for tweeting that out, posting that message,
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: because it is factual that LSU's not the only one.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: Now it's somebody outside of LSU people saying that finally.
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: And hopefully more comes out on this. Louisiana had, what,
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: the third most plaintiffs of any state out there?
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, California was one, right? California, Texas, and LSU. Or Louisiana.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: You said it right. I mean, not a big deal.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: We are. We are. LSU. Just different. You did. One
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: point I want to make before we take a break here.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: A lot of, like, friends of mine, colleagues in this
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: space have kind of said.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Don't freak out. Don't worry.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: It's only for this year. It's only for this year.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: It's only for this year. Just keep going back to it.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: It's only this class. It's only this handful of players.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: That sounds great right now as we sit here on
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: September the 2nd.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Sounds great to try to smooth this over. But here's
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: the deal.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: I think you're being close-minded to the fact that we've
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: said that about 97 different things. And it's been opened
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: up with 97 different court cases. And that's the issue
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: because there's going to be some group. There's going to
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: be somebody that says we were wronged. We weren't given
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: the opportunity. And instead of us saying, Hey, sorry, you
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: got bad luck. Like us not being able to have NIL,
• 31:11
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  Speaker 3: And again, There's somebody that's like, nope, can't do it, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 3: we should have been in that class too because I
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  Speaker 3: a majority of the season. We've just seen this too
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  Speaker 3: many times. For me to believe right now on September
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  Speaker 2: Be the only one. College sports is not done.
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  Speaker 4: No. We are in the middle of an industrial revolution
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And it's a, you don't know where it ends and
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  Speaker 4: we'll see, but you know what? I'm going to have
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  Speaker 4: have these joggers. I'm going to have my LSU poncho
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  Speaker 4: And I'm going to tell the children to earmuffs a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. Because daddy's going to be watching football.
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  Speaker 3: I think I might call the game in this poncho.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Should I go purple or white?
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  Speaker 2: Purple, I think. Team's white. Team's white. Okay. I'll go purple.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: W-H-I-T. I feel like that will bring... You got the spirit? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: you do. I got the spirit. How about you? Nailed it.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Off the Bench. Wednesday's show is brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Poncho. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. Edge. Yep. Well done, Laundra. Playing hits today. Doing
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: a great job. We appreciate you.
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  Speaker 3: Um, we've talked about LSU Clemson, obviously throughout the week
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: and certainly tomorrow, Friday, we'll dive more and more into
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: the matchup.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: It is the only ranked on rank game.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: Now Clemson's not even ranked in both polls, just one
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: poll outside of Louisville and Ole Miss. Now that is
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: a game that I am highly intrigued with and not
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: just because the Ole Miss and the Lane Kiffin, sure
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: that plays into it, but I think the Brahms are
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: really good football coaches. I think Jeff Braum is a
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: heck of a coach and I, I think Ole Miss
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: has got to be ready for that game. Ole Miss
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: is going to have– you know, Pete's been there as
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: a defense coordinator.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Now he's in a new role. But they've got a
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: lot of new there.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: Are they talented? Absolutely. Do they have maybe the best
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: quarterback in the country?
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: But that's going to be, in my opinion, that's going
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: to be a four-quarter game, and it is not going
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: to be one where either team just pulls away.
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: And look, in all the outside noise that LSU's had
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: this offseason and leading up to the season, there's probably
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: more internal noise at Ole Miss just because– That's the
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: team that Lane came from.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of questions. There's a lot of new there.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: There's probably a lot of, a lot more, there's a
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: lot more emotions probably there than there is at LSU.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: Just internally within that building. So, you know, I think
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: it's easy for, easier for, that's been.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: A big thing.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: Like everybody's got to focus. Everyone's wanting to get to
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: week three because that's LSU Ole Miss. Can they focus
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: on the task at hand? It's easier for LSU to
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: focus on Clemson because nobody was, like, emotional about that
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: move or that decision. Ole Miss, they are emotional about
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: it because that's who he broke up with.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: That's who he left. Right?
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: So have they been able to– how good is Pete
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: Golden and his staff? We like Pete Golden. He's great
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: to listen to. I'm sure you said he's a great interviewer.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: He seems like an awesome guy to go have a
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: beer with.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: Ice cold Dos Equis would be great with. And so
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: I think we really like him. But how good of
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: a job. It's his first test as a full-time head coach.
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: So we'll see if they've been able to silence the
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: noise because, man, they do. They got a good team
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: that they are about to play. And they got a
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: team that preseason ranked in the ACC ahead of Clemson.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Isn't that right? Didn't they say they were ranked to
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: finish third in the ACC?
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: They were either second or third.
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: And Clemson was picked to finish fourth. So technically, if
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: you're basing just off that, they are going to have
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: a tougher opponent than LSU does this Saturday.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: It's going to be a neutral site game, too.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: There's no home field advantage. So I would say they
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: are going to, on paper at least, leading up. And again,
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: this is preseason. We don't know any of these teams.
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: We think LSU is going to be good because of
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: the change. But there's a lot of change at LSU, too.
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: It wouldn't surprise me if we were really, really good.
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: But it wouldn't surprise me if there's some hiccups. You
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: know what I mean? But based on all that, it
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: does look like, based on the ACC.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: Preseason rankings for the ACC. It does feel like Louisville
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: might be a little tougher task.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm trying to.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: I hope they beat Ole Miss. That'd be fun.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, their offense, I'm talking about Louisville here,
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's all brand new. Like, every piece of it. Like,
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: on defense, they have five transfers that are going to
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: be starters now. On offense, they've got eight. They've got
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: eight guys that are going to be starting. But veteran guys,
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: guys that have been forged in the fire of college football,
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: but the player to watch, if you're watching that game
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: on Sunday night, Isaac Brown, the running back for Louisville,
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: is a dog. He is a stud. Watch him play.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: He's going to be very intriguing there for the Cardinals
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: in that game.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: It's going to be a good game.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: If Ole Miss wins, nobody should be surprised. They are
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: a good team. They've got a great quarterback. We all
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: know that, but I do expect that to be a
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: battle with both teams having a chance and an opportunity
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: to in the fourth quarter look LSU's game could be
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: like that they're like we don't know it's a 10
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: point spread this is a seven point spread but there's
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: a lot to find out about these teams but do
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: not if you're an Ole Miss fan and you hate
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  Speaker 4: Up actually you know what I hope that Louisville doesn't
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  Speaker 2: I would like for us to break your heart a
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, game day is going to be that one already.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want your heart to be kind of broken
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Off the Bench. Wednesday's show is brought
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  Speaker 3: All right, a little ask the bench. Do you think
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  Speaker 3: Will there be a My High tailgate?
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  Speaker 2: Have not seen it. Have not seen it. No. Look
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to do it when I'm up in the
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