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HOUR TWO | LSU Baseball Roster News | Lane Kiffin Gets Big Time Commitment · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 2: What you said.
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  Speaker 3: We're sports ish, we're sports adjacent, Yeah, which is what
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  Speaker 3: the morning show should be. Because there's somebody, there's some
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  Speaker 3: young whipper snapper in his car right now, it's headed
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  Speaker 3: to work. Maybe it's an older whipper snapper and uh,
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  Speaker 3: he's probably not very excited about work today, long.
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  Speaker 1: Weekend, fourth of July.
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  Speaker 3: It's fun, fun food, it's Monday, and we just want
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  Speaker 3: that person to smile before they get a out of their.
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  Speaker 1: Car and go to work.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about you. Just one time, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Just one smile before you go to work.
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  Speaker 3: And maybe you're Monday, maybe just maybe it feels a
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  Speaker 3: little bit better.
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  Speaker 2: If we can make it just one little bit better.
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  Speaker 2: We've done our jobs. So I said, it's in our for.
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  Speaker 3: Him if you before you get out of the car.
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  Speaker 3: For that one's an idiot. Yeah, that's right, he is.
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  Speaker 2: So say we'll probably never gonna win anything because we
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  Speaker 2: are at times huge idiots.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, it's true.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, but we're also businessmen and fathers, so.
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  Speaker 1: That we are that we are Derek that we are
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  Speaker 1: also we are sports ish of sports reporting.
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  Speaker 3: We throw it to our very sportsy video producer, Heta
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  Speaker 3: because we all know about Greedy Williams, but there's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be a new Greedy potentially in Baton Rouge.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, Carnell Greedy, James, Greedy James. This is
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  Speaker 4: I mean that that's he may be a four star
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  Speaker 4: in the rankings, and that's a five star name. Let's
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  Speaker 4: call it like it is. Four star safety from Manfold, Texas.
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  Speaker 4: I would say, out there in Matt's and neck.
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  Speaker 2: Of the woods.
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  Speaker 4: But believe it or not, I have no idea where
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  Speaker 4: Manvill is in m A.
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  Speaker 2: N V E. L.
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  Speaker 4: Manvil.
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  Speaker 2: Never heard of it. We're gonna look it up.
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  Speaker 4: So he committed on Thursday about four pm. Of course
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  Speaker 4: he did, which you know allows us to report on
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  Speaker 4: it four days after, which seems like it always happens.
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  Speaker 4: Six one, one hundred and seventy five pounds. He is
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  Speaker 4: listed as a safety in the recruiting rankings, but there's
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people that believe he's going to make
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  Speaker 4: that transition to corner at LSU. We'll see if that
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  Speaker 4: ultimately does happen. Fifteenth member of Lang Kiffin's twenty twenty
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  Speaker 4: seven class, which now ranks eleventh nationally. I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: think back to the last two weeks, it seems like
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  Speaker 4: ten of those fifteen members have all committed within the
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  Speaker 4: last two weeks. He's the second dB commit, joining three
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  Speaker 4: star cornerback Marquez Davis.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it looks like Manville's just south of Houston there
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  Speaker 2: you go near Parland, near Alvin Shuttle Devin.
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  Speaker 3: I am very excited about this group of coaches and
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  Speaker 3: what they're doing in high school recruiting because, like, defensively, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: it's a lot of the same coaches that you had,
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  Speaker 3: and we know Blake Baker and that staff over there
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  Speaker 3: and what they've done. But for the coaches that come
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  Speaker 3: over from Old Miss, they were so good in the
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  Speaker 3: portal over the last couple of years and that's how
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  Speaker 3: they built their team. And you're gonna be able to
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  Speaker 3: do it at a place like Old Miss. I think
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  Speaker 3: better through the portal than high school recruiting. Louisiana has
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  Speaker 3: incredible advantages for LSU. We've said it, We've talked about it.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody out there knows that you have a lot of
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  Speaker 3: talent per capita the most of the National Football League,
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  Speaker 3: and you are the biggest dog in the state. It's
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  Speaker 3: not closed, there's no question. So you get to pick,
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  Speaker 3: for the most part, any of that talent that you want. Sure,
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna have guys that go to Texas every now
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  Speaker 3: and again, go to A and M. Maybe they go
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  Speaker 3: to Georgia. You're gonna lose some, you can't have them all,
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  Speaker 3: but you're gonna get most. And this staff is embracing
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  Speaker 3: high school recruiting, and I wasn't sure how that was
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  Speaker 3: going to go. It was really the only kind of
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  Speaker 3: question that had about this staff was you've done it
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  Speaker 3: so successfully for so long one way, are you gonna
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  Speaker 3: be able to do both? And they have And I
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  Speaker 3: think that is a great sign for LSU and the
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  Speaker 3: fact that Lane Kiffin and his staff that came over
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  Speaker 3: from Ole Miss, they were embracing the advantages that you
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  Speaker 3: have at LSU through high school while also having the
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  Speaker 3: number one transfer portal class YEP.
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  Speaker 1: That is a good blend of two really good things.
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  Speaker 3: And if this continues, this is the LSU that we
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  Speaker 3: thought could be possible with somebody like Lane Kiffin at
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  Speaker 3: the helm.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, what's Lane's nickname the portal King. He's the
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  Speaker 2: portal king. He wasn't known as the high school recruiting king,
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  Speaker 2: but you certainly bring in somebody that has that reputation
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  Speaker 2: with coach o Jeron, So they are they're really doing
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  Speaker 2: everything that you expect Lane and his staff to do.
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  Speaker 2: When you're paying what you are and you make the
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  Speaker 2: moves that you've done and you've made the commitment to
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  Speaker 2: football that LSU certainly has done, these are the moves
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  Speaker 2: you expect because not only is he swinging for the
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  Speaker 2: fences year, but they're also setting themselves up to be
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  Speaker 2: really good in the future two, three, four years down
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  Speaker 2: the road. We're looking at you know, we talked a
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago about offensive line commitments for like
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight. Yeah, they're not gonna play till twenty thirty,
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  Speaker 2: twenty thirty one. Oh, this sounds so weird saying that
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  Speaker 2: twenty thirty. Give me a second, but you just turned
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  Speaker 2: forty one. Yeah, just turned forty one, I know. So
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  Speaker 2: it's just one of those things that blank Kevin and
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  Speaker 2: his staff keep just doing the right things, doing the
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  Speaker 2: right things, setting themselves up for this year to be successful. Immediately,
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  Speaker 2: but to also have that long term stability on their
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  Speaker 2: roster management, so you know, maybe in three four years
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  Speaker 2: they're not having to hit the portal so hard. So
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  Speaker 2: certainly good to see. We all knew that he was
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  Speaker 2: going to do awesome in the portal. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: we expected them to do this well this early in
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  Speaker 2: the high school recruit Maybe we should have expected it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's LSU, it is, but when you're adjusting
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  Speaker 3: to a style in a way that you haven't had
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  Speaker 3: to do because you had to do it another way,
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  Speaker 3: you're wondering what that time period is going to be
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  Speaker 3: and they hit the ground running ever since they've been
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  Speaker 3: in batter uge, which is to me it is an
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  Speaker 3: impressive feet that they can dominate high school recruiting like
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  Speaker 3: they have.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, like another thing before you get to that,
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  Speaker 2: it's like with the court of public opinion, the national
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  Speaker 2: talking heads, like the how they everybody talked about Lane
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  Speaker 2: Kiffin making this move, like LSU is painted as the villain, right,
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of negative press towards Lane and making
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  Speaker 2: them move jumping ship to come to l Shoe. Well,
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  Speaker 2: we didn't really feel like it would affect LSU recruiting
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  Speaker 2: in the portal because money talks, right, people can overlook
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  Speaker 2: bad pub If there's money involved, you get paid more
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  Speaker 2: to go here than there, whatever where it would affect.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody is coming out of high school, right and they
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  Speaker 2: just haven't let that happen. Like all that has died down.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think there's any like that was a classic
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  Speaker 2: situation of once the dust settles, like no one's gonna
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  Speaker 2: care anymore. Right now, they're gonna care one week this
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  Speaker 2: football season. It's gonna all kick back up for one
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  Speaker 2: week and it's gonna be glorious and we're gonna beat
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  Speaker 2: the brakes off oh miss Aka or Canada that week.
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  Speaker 2: But like if the whole if like the negative, the
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  Speaker 2: negative messaging about lame the villain, the air quote villain
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  Speaker 2: role that LSU is gonna play, I think we're kind
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  Speaker 2: of past that because these high school kids, like there's
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  Speaker 2: money involved with that, but it's not like transfer portal money,
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  Speaker 2: so it's not like the money's talking and bringing them
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  Speaker 2: here to overlook that. I just think that messaging has
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  Speaker 2: kind of died down, So it feels like at least.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and one of the points that you made is correct.
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  Speaker 3: If you continue to build through high school recruiting, then
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  Speaker 3: you won't have to do as deep of a dive,
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  Speaker 3: but then you still are in the portal, so you
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  Speaker 3: can do an elite dive into the portal.
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  Speaker 1: You right, you have, Hey, we're.
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  Speaker 3: Gonna go get these fifteen players, and all fifteen of
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  Speaker 3: these players are going to be potential NFL guys.
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  Speaker 1: Or now, if you look, if you go.
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  Speaker 3: Get forty forty five players, there's gonna be some that
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  Speaker 3: don't work out. There's gonna be some that aren't as good. Right,
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  Speaker 3: there's gonna be some that can't catch up to this level.
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  Speaker 3: But if you build it through high school and then
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  Speaker 3: you chase those fifteen elite guys that you get every year,
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  Speaker 3: which again they have shown that they can be elite
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  Speaker 3: in the portal, you don't get the Portal King tag
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  Speaker 3: unless you're really good in there. That's the best case
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  Speaker 3: scenario for LSU football moving forward. Yeah, it's to have
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  Speaker 3: it built through Louisiana, built through high school, and you
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  Speaker 3: supplement your roster with fifteen elite new players every year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not having to do what you know basketball
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  Speaker 2: did right and fill a roster. So we can make
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  Speaker 2: sure like you don't want to have to be going
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  Speaker 2: and finding offensive linemen, so you had to back up
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  Speaker 2: left guard, Like you want to be going and finding
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  Speaker 2: guys that are going to replace current guys on the
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  Speaker 2: roster that are good, So you want to replace good
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  Speaker 2: with great in the portal. You just don't want to
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  Speaker 2: fill a gap and a fill a void, which is
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  Speaker 2: exactly what they're Yeah, sometimes you got to do it.
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  Speaker 2: You mean, look, you're recruiting guys right now, of course
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  Speaker 2: out of high school that are going to play somewhere else. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: all right, like, and that's going to happen. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't even know what the percentage. I don't even know
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  Speaker 2: what percentage this day and age like this year as
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  Speaker 2: we sit here in twenty twenty six, twenty six, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, Like what the percentage of your high
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  Speaker 2: school signees every year actually only play for you in college.
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  Speaker 2: I would say it's less than fifty. Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just throwing that number out there, So you know,
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  Speaker 2: you got to get it. You have to have a
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  Speaker 2: little luck with it. But they're preparing themselves for a
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  Speaker 2: long term run here, and that's exact exactly what we
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  Speaker 2: hoped and expected lane and is staff to do. And
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  Speaker 2: I would say I use the word expected because there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of expectations with coming with the moves that
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  Speaker 2: were made by the LSU, by the LSU.
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  Speaker 3: By LSU, I'm kind of sitting here and like realizing
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  Speaker 3: that most teams that I root for are kind of
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  Speaker 3: now villains. I kind of don't hate it.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm. I would say LSU is LSU football. Like
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  Speaker 2: I said, I think the dust that's settled. Yeah, really,
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  Speaker 2: don't pig back up like you said, Oh, it'll pick
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  Speaker 2: up for a week, but everybody's gonna forget that whole situation.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be it'll be three weeks because there's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: for the week of the game, the week after.
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  Speaker 2: Like there's gonna be some college football, you know, there's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be another like gambling scheme that pops out, and
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  Speaker 2: there's gonna be thinks like I think that there's things
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  Speaker 2: that have happened since land move that are way worse
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  Speaker 2: to relax everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, somebody on.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody on X Twitter, whatever you wanna call it, they
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  Speaker 3: were like, wait a minute, you were talking about Britain
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  Speaker 3: Soresby not accepting his fate and just wanting to sue everybody, Like,
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  Speaker 3: what's what's the difference between that and what's going on
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  Speaker 3: with Baligan.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, look, dumb, dumb, do you hate America one?
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  Speaker 1: I think it was a Canadian.
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  Speaker 2: One makes sense, It makes sense.
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  Speaker 3: Source be bet and did a wrong like and so like,
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  Speaker 3: and that wrong was way worse than like getting a
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  Speaker 3: red card that should not have been a red card.
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  Speaker 3: And Baligan wasn't suing anyone. He had an appeal to
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  Speaker 3: an appeal process within the game. So like, if you're
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  Speaker 3: trying to compare those two, ISS's just not gonna meet
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  Speaker 3: in the middle.
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  Speaker 4: Also, I like America and I don't like Texas Tech,
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  Speaker 4: So I'm gonna be biased through there's my other answer.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the thing about life is it's not fair.
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  Speaker 2: Like we're gonna fuck for what we want.
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  Speaker 1: We can't.
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  Speaker 3: But I mean, like Baligan didn't bet on the match. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you didn't gamble, you got a red card. That again,
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  Speaker 3: like at minimum ninety percent of the people disagreed.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't gamble on his own teams under yes, so that.
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  Speaker 4: You're also here, you gotta be unbiased. You have to
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  Speaker 4: treat it the same whatever I want. Yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 4: really have to be this benefits of America, so okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I can be very biased.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely want Belgium has appealed the appeal, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: so no appilled.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I say, well, let's gets through before tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Good luck to you. I say, we go and get
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  Speaker 2: ahead of it and appeal that appeal from the appeal.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know that. I don't even know
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  Speaker 3: what the US lineup is gonna be. Like they did,
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, they did work. You know, a couple
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  Speaker 3: of days that I'm sure Peppy was starter, and that
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  Speaker 3: changes a little bit of your you know, the formation
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  Speaker 3: that you're going to be in.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe they don't start a bat again. Maybe they just
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  Speaker 3: bring him into Super SOB.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see. I don't care. We don't even need them.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna dominate them. Okay, so the flow down and
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  Speaker 2: play to nil fair enough, ain't no guests, that's what
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be.
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  Speaker 3: dot com. All right, last segment, we were talking about
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  Speaker 3: LSU and high school recruiting, and look, those players might
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  Speaker 3: be here, they might not end up here. What we
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  Speaker 3: do know is the players that are currently on the roster,
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  Speaker 3: the guys that are going to very soon during a
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  Speaker 3: couple of weeks reconvene on the Ponderosa for a little
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  Speaker 3: training camp. As we look at the roster, as we
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  Speaker 3: look at the team, starting to look at maybe some
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  Speaker 3: areas that you're going to be focusing on the most.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna be, you know, the quarterbacks is going to be,
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  Speaker 3: the running backs, the offensive line, the secondary like whatever
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  Speaker 3: it might be, the linebackers. Tatay, you obviously know this
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  Speaker 3: roster very well. And I'm going to give Matt some
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  Speaker 3: time to think about it.
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  Speaker 2: Here.
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: If you were to go out to a training camp
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: practice for the Fighting Tigers, where would you watch maybe
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: a little bit closer of an eye and why.
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: Offensive line because it was so poor a year ago.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: I mean, I think that's your answer. I think getting
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: Braylan Moore back is huge. I know that he didn't
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: perform up to what we thought he was going to,
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: but the scheme was really bad. I think the coach
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: ad was really bad. I think getting your center back
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: is awesome. Jordan Seton number one left tackle on the portal.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: I think Aliu Bo is the most underrated player you
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: got in the portal just because he has almost thirty
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: starts at a power forward program in Maryland. I think
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: that's big for you. We talked about bo Bortolan on Thursday,
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: like what he could mean to this team as a
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: fifth year guy. I like the way they've revamped it.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: I think that's the spot. And it's honestly both lines
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: of scrimmage. It's the O line and the D line,
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: because I mean, look the D line.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: I thought they did as.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: Good of a job as they could. I thought Baker
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: put him in a good position, but that was a
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: group that left a little bit to be desired a
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: year ago as well a lot of big time freshmen
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: that you got coming in. So really, both lines of scrimmage.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Let me just for everybody listening out there, like, because
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: we are going to get into training camp and it's
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: going to be monotonous for the football team and the coaches,
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: and it will be monotonous for reporters as well, because
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: you're gonna go out there and it's you know, Nick
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Underill talked about it a couple couple of weeks ago,
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: like the inner squad practices when they practice with different teams.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: When the Saints do, like it breaks up the monotony
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: a little bit. So there's people gonna be looking for
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: things to write about. Like when you when you read
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: and you hear reports on offensive line, let me tell you,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: like from a just somebody watching offensive line and defensive
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: line performance in training camp, it is impossible to tell
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: if they're doing bad or good. You are going to
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: have to rely on what the coaches say, like everybody's
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: gonna win a one on one rep and look good
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: doing it. Like defensive line, offensive line, you don't you
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: just don't know. So it's just a little bit of
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: like just a heads up, Like you can get an
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: idea of like who's physically looking dominant and like who's
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: not going up sacks and stuff like that, but like
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: you can't really tell about who is out performing who
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: really on an offensive line battle Quarterbacks, you know, it's
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: pretty cut and dry. Receivers, cut and dry, defensive backs,
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: linebackers like all these other positions where they get to
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: move in space and you can like literally see a
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: lot of these one on one battles and how they're
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: you know, is a safety down as the coach yelling
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: at them, like you can see and kind of get
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: a feel for how people are performing offensive line. It
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: is so hard because you don't really know what you're
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: looking at. You don't know who's screwed up the mic call,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: you don't know who's screwed up. Like if a tackle
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: gets beat to the inside, he looks bad, but you
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: don't know if the guard was supposed to push out
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: to help him on the inside shoulder. They You don't
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: know a lot of these things, so it's really hard
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: to tell. The best the best reporting that you can
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: get is reporting on one on one drills, right, That's
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: pretty much the only thing you can tell. But like
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: you have to trust the coaches that they're going to
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: give you some you know, give you the real messaging.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: And you know most coaches don't really give you the
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: real messaging. But you'll be able to tell. And you
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: can also tell when coaches start yelling at people too.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: That's when you can tell if someone screwed up. But
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: like I'm just giving you warning, Like if you if
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: you see reports like this guy's doing really bad, he
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: might not be.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: You just don't really the way, right, it's like tearing
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: up training, that's the thing, right, Like maybe he's not
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: because they just don't have they got pads on.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: But it's not like live bullets.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: It's like this guy's working on his rush move, so
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: he's not doing a bull rush and you know, things
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: like that.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: And it's good to get that information. I want that information, but.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: You gotta certain positions.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: That's that those positions specifically interior lineman, defensive lineman, and
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: offensive line really hard to like tell just from a
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: bystander and practice without knowing the play call, like if
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: they're actually doing well or not.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: I trust the staff to at least tell us what's
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: going on, because like, okay, last year, like and to
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: your point, yes, guard tackle like individual signments, but we're
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: watching it. Last year inside run runn backs, ain't got
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: nowhere to go. It didn't matter left right up the
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: middle of nowhere, and then Brian Kelly would come into
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: the press conference and be like, oh, yeah, they look
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: the offensive line like they're where we want them to be.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: I'm like, no, they're not. Like they're not.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: You can go out there, you can see inside run.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Last year, Oh yeah, they.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: Did little and they did like goal line period, goal
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: line period. They're from the five yard line. Couldn't do anything,
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: and it was because their line was bad. And Kelly
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: would come in and say, oh, well, you know it's
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: it's fine, like we're progressing. It's like, dude, you're two
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: weeks before the first game and you can't score from
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: the five yard line. I get your defensive practice.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Like, no, they're not good. They couldn't do it to
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: the game either. It did translate over like second and
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: one was a bad down and distance for us. Don't
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: get nine yards on first down, please, I don't want
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: to be a yard away from this first down two.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Well, a reminder, the defense had to walk through run
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: fits last year before Clemson because they didn't get that
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: action in training camp against the offense.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: That's kind of all we need to say about that.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: If I'm so, you're not a certain position group, I
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: mean just more like skill guys.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I guess because of what you just.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: For people, it's easier for people that aren't a part
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: under that roof for meetings and another game plan, it's
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: easier for people to tell who's looking good and performing well. Right,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: It's hard to tell if somebody is performing good or
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: bad on the meble.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: I agree with you wholeheartedly. For me, it's what are
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: the reps. Who's getting the breakdown of the reps?
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: That's what I.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Pay attention to because that means throughout training camp they've
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: done the things that the coach is believing. As you
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: get closer to game time, if you see the reps change,
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: that means this guy's done better. They believe in this
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: guy more so, like I would want to go to camp,
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: you know, sometime in the middle of August, and I'd
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: want to see the running back rotation. Now I'm biased
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: towards the position obviously, and your eyes going to take
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: you to the position that you know best, just like
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: you'd probably be watching the quarterbacks because I want to
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: see what the rotation. Harlan Berry, Caden Durham, Dylan Jones.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: What does that look like? There's a lot of people
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: in that building that believe Dylan Jones is going to
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: be a force on this offense and he's coming over.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: He doesn't have a lot of stats.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: They got him out of the portal and he, I
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: think surprised a lot of people, certainly guys on the
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: defense during spring practice. Now spring practice is spring practice?
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Does that move on to training camp? Does what he
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: does in training camp move on to the first game
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: of the year against Clemson.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: I don't think they've been trying to hide that either.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: No, no, they have not.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: But again, when you have conversations with guys on the
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: other side of the football, when you say, hey, give
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: me some guys on offense that are you know, showing
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: out a little bit, I would say seventy five percent
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: of them were telling me Dylan Jones during the spring Now,
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: spring's one thing. Training camps another ten days out of
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: the first game is another thing. Like that's a new
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: kind of phase of getting ready for the season. I
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: think Harlan Barry and Caden Durham are incredibly talented. Harlan
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Barry was the number one back in the country coming out.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: He certainly had flashes last year. Cayden Durham was top
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: freshman in the SEC A couple of years ago. I
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: thought he had some good moments last year, even if
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: people didn't want to talk about him. They're good backs.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: But Jones is now part of that conversation, and it's okay.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: It's okay to have three running backs. When you look
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: at LSU throughout its history, the most successful seasons outside
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: of one, they have had a running back by committee
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: in three right, at different times. It was Ali, it
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: was a die, it was chirone, and it finished with
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Justin and seven we had me Keelan Chuck, Trendon Honday
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: was even part of that backfield, right. I mean Trendon
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: did big things in the backfield.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: We had two.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Fullbacks, that's right, fullbacks. I'll explain what that is later.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: In eleven they didn't finish it. They're a damn good
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: football team, and they had a running back room that
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: had like three to four guys that rotated. Nineteen's the
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: only one that didn't, and that was the Clyde played
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: more than any running back in D one. I believe
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: that year he's like ninety three percent of the snaps.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Remember your two backups refreshmen on that team, So you
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: had Clyde out there and he was going to be
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: the guy that got a bulk of the carries, and
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: he did like more than any back in the country
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: that year as far as playing time, not carries.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: So it's okay, Like.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Three of LSU's four most successful seasons in the last
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: twenty six years, you had a running back by committee.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: That is a position you don't have to have the
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: bell cow. You can have a guy that's the leader,
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: like he's RB one, but you can have RB one,
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: B C and sometimes even DP.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: It'll be exciting to see how Lane Kiffin utilizes such
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: depth at the running back position. Obviously, he's had great offenses.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: That's why he's here. That's why he's Lame Kiffin that
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: we know today. But last year is Kyrien Lacy on
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: his offense? Right, it wasn't who's the backup for all Miss?
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Do you know?
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: For what?
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: For Ole Miss last year? Running back? That matter? It
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter because.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: He had one.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. It's gonna be really interesting to
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: see how they utilize depth. He's got three really good
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: running backs. How are you going to utilize that? And
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be really fun to dive into Lane Kiffin's
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: offense in the mechanics behind it, Like, of course we
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: know they go fast. We watched them for one week
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: last year. Well, we're gonna get to watch Lane Kiffins's
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: offense a lot and get really familiarized with it, and
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: we're gonna break down film here. We're gonna tell you
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: kind of like what they're doing, what their goals are.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: But it's gonna be fun to see, like the what
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: the rotation's gonna be like, because they go fast. When
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: you go fast, that means you don't rotate a lot
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: during a drive unless you get stalled. You get as
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: like something happens in a special situation. So what's that
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: rotation going to be like for receivers? What's that rotation
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: going to be like for running back? So it's going
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: to be fun to figure out kind of how Lane
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: is going to use such a plethora. It's a big
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: word right there, A plethora. Really this is a short word,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: but a fancy word.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: I knew so I knew Digs got some carries at
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Ole Miss last year. You know Logan from Louisiana he
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: played here. I knew he had some. I thought it
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: was way more he only had thirty three last year.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: So that's that's a bellcal right there. Show you had
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: a bell cow.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Lazy had three hundred and six the running back times.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Now Trinidad Chambers ran two, but still Lacey had three
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: hundred and six carries Digs had thirty three.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: That's ten times more from your starting running back whoa
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: to your backup running back. So to my point, it's
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: gonna be real interesting to see, how I mean, when
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: you were talking about three to seven teams like championship
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: teams that had you know, running back back committee, it
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: was you wrote the hot hand a lot, Yeah, right,
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: and you don't know who is gonna catch it. So
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: if somebody's running their ass off, like do you stick
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: with them for the next drive? Because, like I said,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: like these drives, there's not gonna be a lot of
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: substitutions mid drive. If a play goes if a play
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: goes thirteen, or if a drive goes thirteen or fourteen plays,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: you might have the same running back and receivers in
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: there the entire time because you're going so fast staying
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: on schedule. H So, like, if somebody's riding a hot hand,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: do you put him in the next drive or do
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: you stick with a three man rotation? Is it going
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: drive by drive by drive?
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: I like staying with the hot hand. I do too, and.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Then keeping fresh legs. So it but it's going to
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: be super fun to just kind of like see how
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: that'll that that rotation plays out.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: I say that because, like, you know what it is
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: like as a running back if you get in a
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: flow of things and you're like you're seven carries deep
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: and you got like for this drive and you're starting
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: to see the defense say, I don't really know if
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: I'm interested in tackling that guy anymore. Yeah, because a
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: running back, you feel that and you're like that linebacker
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: he took me. You know at first it started with
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: his face mask. Now how much with his shoulder. He's
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: about to olay this thing like he is a matador
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: and I'm about to run through him. You can feel
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: that as a running back. So I do like getting
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: in that flow, but you do have to learn the
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: flow of a game. Like I knew there was gonna
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: be certain plays that Charles Scott was going to come in,
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: because Charles was really good at those. I knew there's
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: gonna be certain plays that Keeling came in because Keiling
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: was really good at those Trendon was gonna have his package,
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: like part of the running back rotation that you're talking about.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: And I love it when you have a hot hand.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: But then that hand changes in a game, it can change.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: In a half, but everybody has to be bought into
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: that for that to work. If you go back and
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: you watch in O seven, if Keeling scored me and
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: Charles met him at the hash, if I scored Keeling,
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Charles met me at the hash, same thing.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: With Chuck Righte.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: So like that worked because we were actually rooting for
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: each other.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: I've been at running back rooms somebody else shoot that.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: It was not the case and it doesn't work out.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: But in O seven, like, if you're doing it because
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: you understand why you're doing it, that's half the battle.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Well, everybody's gonna get the chance to shine. Let's just
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: say you're riding the hot hand early and Harlan Berry
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: goes for the first two quarters, then somebody else of it.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: But in the fourth quarter you get a fresh leg
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Caden Durham like throw him in there. They get a
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: chance to because this is what Lane Kiffn's offense does.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: It wears you out on no doubt. And so if
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: you're taking a if you got three in depth and
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Lankiffin make no mistake, Lan Kiffon wants to run the
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: football as many stats as they have. The quarterbacks looking great.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: He built around the running game. Whether you choose to
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: believe that or not, it is and so you throw
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: a fresh running back they could go start at any
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: other SEC team in the fourth quarter, then it's gonna
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: be fun.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: Just to give you an idea of the breakdown. Last year,
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: some I was asking if Lacey had three hundred, what
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: was LSU? Kaden Durham had one eleven, and Harlan Berry
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: had one oh four, So one eleven one O four
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: that and then Juwan Johnson actually had forty one. So
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: your third back had more carries, will miss his second.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Back, And neither one of LSU's backs had as many
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: carries as Kiren Lacy.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: Now you could combine him and then you combine him,
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: and they didn't have not even really not even remotely close.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Still like one hundred, like a hundred out. Yeah, So
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: that's how much Lane wants to run the football.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Can I admit this? And I'm not trying to throw
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: shade at this young man. I swear I'm not. It's just,
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: oh boy, I forgot Michael Van Buren played for LSU
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: kind of. I mean, I kind of forgot that that
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: happened just a year ago, three games span at the
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: end of the year. Everybody was so chicked out. I
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: don't unnecessarily like I called the games and I was there, yep,
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: and like now it's like, oh, yeah, you're physical there.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: But like when I saw his name on the rushing chart,
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, yeah, he played a lot last year
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: after Garrett you know, obviously went down.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: M Buren boys, whoa eighth president?
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Got about that?
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: Anyways, there's your breakdown of what we're looking for in
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: training camp. All Right, we'll take a break more OTV
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: when we come back here live from the last segment
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  Speaker 3: for l s U football. One of the things that
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  Speaker 3: is not going to look like it did a year ago,
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  Speaker 3: Trade as Green. Last year, Trade has had thirty three
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  Speaker 3: catches for four hundred and thirty three yards, thirteen yards
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  Speaker 3: per catch, and seven touchdowns. That is a good year
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  Speaker 3: for a college tight end, no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 1: But man, oh man, do.
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  Speaker 3: I expect those numbers to look completely different this year.
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  Speaker 3: I cannot wait to see how they utilize trade as
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  Speaker 3: Green Now. Of the things that the offense did poorly
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  Speaker 3: last year, I would say the lone bright spot was
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  Speaker 3: probably trade as Green and how they utilized him at times.
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  Speaker 3: But to be honest, it's not that hard. He's a
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  Speaker 3: true unicorn. Nobody's really built like that. With the strong
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  Speaker 3: hands that he has. He's probably the player that I'm
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  Speaker 3: most excited to see in an offense that is so
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  Speaker 3: diverse in its run game, It's diverse in the tempos
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  Speaker 3: that it uses, it's diverse in.
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  Speaker 1: The concepts that they have.
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  Speaker 3: Where he did those things that I just laid out there,
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  Speaker 3: thirty three catches, four hundred and thirty three yards, seven
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  Speaker 3: touchdowns in an offense that was as predictable as any
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  Speaker 3: in the country. If anybody's gonna benefit from this offense,
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  Speaker 3: it's probably going to be tradeeds Green because.
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  Speaker 1: You can't just now key in on him in.
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  Speaker 3: The red area on third downs, and if he's put
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  Speaker 3: in the right positions, which I think he will be,
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  Speaker 3: he is going to be. Was it the Mackie Taylor
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  Speaker 3: the Mackie Awards for the nation's best tight end.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. I was just thinking about that the award.
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  Speaker 2: If he has fifteen hundred yards receiving, like I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: eighteen touchdowns and he plays seventy eight percent of his
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  Speaker 2: snaps split out, does he win the Mackie or the
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  Speaker 2: Koff the MACI just because of what it says in
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  Speaker 2: the program.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of like when Jimmy Graham was trying to get
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  Speaker 3: the franchise tag for a receiver and had a tight end.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, Jimmy says, T.
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  Speaker 3: Next to your name, right, you know, hey, we wish
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  Speaker 3: we could, but you know, and hands tat a little
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  Speaker 3: bit the numbers a little bit different, so you be.
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  Speaker 2: Back, Oh yeah, well, trudeaus he's going to he is
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  Speaker 2: going to have a special season. I think that when
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  Speaker 2: talent meets preparation, when talent meets a great scheme, it
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  Speaker 2: makes for the potential to have a special, special season.
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  Speaker 2: And so we'll see. It is a big responsibility, like
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  Speaker 2: having that talent is is certainly a gift and a
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  Speaker 2: luxury for Lane Kiffin and his staff, but it's a
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  Speaker 2: big responsibility as well. Like it's say, you have to
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  Speaker 2: figure out how to utilize that talent and you can't
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  Speaker 2: do it by just saying all right, we're gonna split
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  Speaker 2: him out. We're going to run oop to you and
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  Speaker 2: put them one on one backside. Like you can't just
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  Speaker 2: do that, you have to well mean it.
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  Speaker 1: My work portrayed in Missippi Valley stated.
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  Speaker 2: Dude, true, you have to utilize them in ways that
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  Speaker 2: don't that keep it unpredictable, that line them up in
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  Speaker 2: different situations, create good matchups, create great situations where it
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  Speaker 2: is not the risk is not worth the reward for
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  Speaker 2: defenses to tee off on him, to double him, make
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  Speaker 2: it not advantageous for them. Now sometimes you know you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna split them out. Why and they are gonna double,
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna roll with safety over the top of them.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna cloud his side, they're gonna invert his side,
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna do different things to where they're gonna take
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  Speaker 2: them away. And that's when you have to make pay.
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  Speaker 2: You have to make them pay. And so it's it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be fun to watch. And certainly, uh, he's
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  Speaker 2: got the talent to do it. But I mean, like
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  Speaker 2: barn injury, like he's gonna have a special season. That's
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  Speaker 2: I think that is unquestionable.
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  Speaker 3: And if you don't believe us Daikwon Wright last year
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  Speaker 3: for Old Miss, they're tied end. Oh okay, he had
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  Speaker 3: thirty nine catches for six thirty five, five touchdowns, sixteen
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  Speaker 3: yards per catch. Now, I think, right, it's a good player.
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  Speaker 3: I really do. He was the player that you'll probably
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  Speaker 3: remember kind of the the final nail in the coffin
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  Speaker 3: lsu Ole Miss last year. Was a great play design
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  Speaker 3: on that fourth down. He's not with the Philadelphia Eagles.
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  Speaker 3: He's not there anymore. But in look six three, two
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  Speaker 3: point fifty good looking tight end. He's not trade as Green,
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  Speaker 3: and that's not to besmirch him. Good player. He's gonna
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  Speaker 3: have a chance in the NFL. Now he's not trade
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  Speaker 3: as Green. Trade as Green's a better football player with
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  Speaker 3: those numbers, right, that tells you how they can utilize
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  Speaker 3: a tight end. I'm trying to see exactly where he
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  Speaker 3: fit in.
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  Speaker 1: He was God. They had a lot of players with
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  Speaker 1: a lot of catches last year, so I mean kyd
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  Speaker 1: and Lee who was a solid receiver. I mean Kateen
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  Speaker 1: Lee was at media days for Old Miss last year.
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  Speaker 3: They had the same exact receiving yards, the same exact
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  Speaker 3: They're going to utilize the tight end. It is going
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  Speaker 3: to be And by the way, Right had less catch
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  Speaker 3: and Katon Lee so he had more yards per catch.
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  Speaker 3: They know how to utilize a tight end in this
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  Speaker 3: offense when you arguably your best offensive player overall, and
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  Speaker 3: the argument probably woudn't last very long. That is a
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  Speaker 3: player that you have to make sure that he gets
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  Speaker 3: the football. But also what Matt's talking about, and I agree,
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  Speaker 3: even when he's not getting the football, he needs to
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  Speaker 3: affect every single play because of how you've utilized him.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what I think is going to be most
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  Speaker 3: exciting as well. The opportunities is going to open up
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  Speaker 3: for everyone else because you have this star player that
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  Speaker 3: Monday morning meetings, whenever the defensive coordinator gets in there,
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  Speaker 3: he's going to say, all right, guys, how do we
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  Speaker 3: stop number fourteen. That's going to start the conversation every
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  Speaker 3: Monday morning, And if it's not, then you're probably not
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  Speaker 3: utilizing him the way he should be.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Tredez is going to be the ultimate meeting starter
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  Speaker 2: this year for defensive coordinators. He's going to lead every
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  Speaker 2: single Monday morning meeting when teams get together. Play elesh.
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  Speaker 3: That is the most respect that we can give a
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  Speaker 3: player and you're a Monday morning meeting starter. That means
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  Speaker 3: you are a dude. And that's what trade as Green
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  Speaker 3: is going to be.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, we will step way more OTV.
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  Speaker 2: Moths getting clean the past pretty popular. He was, he's
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  Speaker 2: around forty and played his absolute ass off. Yeah, like
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  Speaker 2: he did even even against Argentina and Messi and played incredible.
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  Speaker 2: So Landre told us, like before the first game, I
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  Speaker 2: believe in pool play went from like forty thousand followers
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  Speaker 2: to like one and a half. Yeah, well, now do
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  Speaker 2: you know how men followers? Followers is good now almost
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  Speaker 2: twenty million.
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  Speaker 1: Forty.
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  Speaker 2: This comes on because in June twenty twenty six he
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  Speaker 2: was that one and a half. In July twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: six is nineteen point.
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  Speaker 1: One And just like to give you an like that's
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  Speaker 1: changed his life.
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  Speaker 3: If you're like, wait a minute, what do you mean
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  Speaker 3: when you have that many followers on social media? The
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  Speaker 3: amount of money that you'll get paid for things is
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  Speaker 3: life changing. He'll make more with that than he probably
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  Speaker 3: ever made in a soccer career combined.
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  Speaker 1: You might think I'm crazy.
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  Speaker 2: This was This was this past weekend when I did it.
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  Speaker 2: This Google's telling me over twenty five million views. Now
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  Speaker 2: that's life changing.
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  Speaker 3: Life changing. Now he deserved it. He was incredible this
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  Speaker 3: entire World Cup. Kate Verde, what a story that was.
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  Speaker 3: You might hear about them because when we come back
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  Speaker 3: in our number three, we're going to start off our
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  Speaker 3: number three with some weekend winners and some weekend losers
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  Speaker 3: because there were some losers out there.
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  Speaker 1: It is. What does that mean?
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  Speaker 2: Wait?
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  Speaker 1: What weekend winners?
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  Speaker 2: Okay,