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Hour One | LSU Beats Auburn! Are the Tigers Finally Turning a Corner? · Off The Bench

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: Welcome into Off The Bench.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh, you're scary.
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  Speaker 3: We're bringing you the spookiest sports talk in town.
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  Speaker 2: With Jacob Hester.
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  Speaker 4: And Matt Lynn. Terrifying and terrible. Live from the haunted
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  Speaker 4: Raising Cane Studios.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Jacob Hester.
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  Speaker 4: And Matt Lynn.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome in OTB here live from the Raising Cane studio
• 0:59
  Speaker 5: on this Monday morning.
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: Jake Flynn, Alondra, Tay-Tay all here with you. How we
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  Speaker 1: doing over there, Matthew?
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing great. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 6: Blessed and highly favored. Are you?
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Good. That's what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 6: Mustache is looking good.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Well done.
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  Speaker 4: I know. I know. Cut it myself.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Humble as always. Alondra, how you doing?
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  Speaker 7: Good.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 8: Great.
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  Speaker 6: Dynamic.
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  Speaker 1: Tay-Tay.
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  Speaker 9: The vibes this morning threw me off and I'm over
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  Speaker 9: it now. Like two minutes into the show.
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  Speaker 4: It's not even two minutes.
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  Speaker 7: It's two minutes and 22 seconds.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Whatever.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Whatever, people. Got that big clock right there.
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  Speaker 8: I feel like my vibes are a bit immaculate today.
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate you're here. Thank you.
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  Speaker 9: I don't not appreciate that you're here, but, like, I
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  Speaker 9: at least have good vibes.
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  Speaker 4: I have great vibes.
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  Speaker 7: Because you had the option to stay home.
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  Speaker 8: I coughed one time. They wanted to throw a scarlet
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  Speaker 8: letter on me over here.
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  Speaker 6: You seem to stay over there today.
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  Speaker 4: Bro, I haven't moved from out of my chair.
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  Speaker 6: Just saying.
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  Speaker 4: It was in my chair.
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  Speaker 6: Stay over there today, sickling. Karma.
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  Speaker 4: Y'all had the option.
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  Speaker 7: No, we put it up to you, so don't even. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: we really did.
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  Speaker 11: You actually threw out three different options last night, and
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  Speaker 11: Jake said, up to you. We didn't hear anything, and
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  Speaker 11: then I texted you at 6.30. I was like, hey,
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  Speaker 11: where you at? You're like, bro, I'm here. I'm like,
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  Speaker 11: you ain't in the building.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: If somebody says.
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  Speaker 8: Look, dealing with something, you want me in or not,
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  Speaker 8: and you say it's up to you, that means you
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  Speaker 8: want him in.
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  Speaker 9: Well, because before you said, I feel better, I can
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  Speaker 9: come in.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I do.
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  Speaker 7: So we were like, okay.
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  Speaker 4: I feel great.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, good.
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  Speaker 4: A little cough. A little substance to it. It's fine.
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  Speaker 6: I'm feeling.
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  Speaker 7: A little something.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about how you're feeling, okay? You said you're feeling
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  Speaker 1: a little bit better. Literally said me. I'm good either way.
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  Speaker 1: It's up to you. Alondra said same.
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  Speaker 4: That's good. So, you made that decision, sir. Okay, great.
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  Speaker 4: I did. I told you I did. But if you
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  Speaker 4: didn't want me to come, you would have said, nah,
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  Speaker 4: stay home. If y'all felt uncomfortable. We don't.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 6: You didn't want me there?
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  Speaker 4: I felt like I needed to vibe check y'all.
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  Speaker 6: I said bless and highly favored, sir.
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing great. Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 6: It was a good sports weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 7: It was a great sports weekend.
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  Speaker 1: It was.
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  Speaker 4: It was feeling really good.
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  Speaker 1: Mine started out Friday, listening to Tay-Tay on the U-High call, U-58,
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  Speaker 1: Westville 30.
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  Speaker 6: I enjoyed that.
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  Speaker 4: Was it a dynamic call?
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  Speaker 6: It was a great call. He didn't like it.
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  Speaker 5: It was good.
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  Speaker 4: He didn't feel good about himself.
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  Speaker 1: I was at the Board of Supervisors dinner in Montgomery,
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  Speaker 1: had one AirPod in, watching it.
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  Speaker 6: Now, everybody was very cool. Because they understood.
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  Speaker 1: They were like, you know, we understand your son's playing,
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  Speaker 1: and I was watching. So they would come, and they
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  Speaker 1: would kind of check in with the game. Because, you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously there's people in there that, you know, they either
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  Speaker 1: went to U-High or their kids go to U-High or something.
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  Speaker 1: So that was actually pretty fun. It was a tight
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  Speaker 1: game for a little bit. You got pulled away late.
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  Speaker 1: But first game, Jackson got to play in a couple weeks.
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  Speaker 6: He had a high ankle sprain.
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  Speaker 4: How'd it go? We played well, too.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, J-Bones played pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: We braced up.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Have they changed that technology?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I went.
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  Speaker 1: To the old internet and found this special brace that's
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  Speaker 1: just for high... Like, it's not just for, but it's
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  Speaker 1: supposed to help with high ankles.
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  Speaker 4: Yep. And so I got that. I know that brace well.
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  Speaker 6: Dude, it looks.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. Has the technology changed? No.
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  Speaker 1: It looks so similar to the one that you had
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  Speaker 1: laced up. It's got the cross straps on it. Had
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  Speaker 1: to wear all kinds of line shoes for half the year.
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: I was just about to say... Shout out to Lou,
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  Speaker 1: our guy Lou, who got him some really nice offensive
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  Speaker 1: lineman cleats.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I'm talking about. Got to.
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  Speaker 6: These things were silky smooth.
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  Speaker 4: Got to.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so he was ready to go. It was fun
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  Speaker 1: to see him back out there. Because when you miss
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  Speaker 1: a game like in high school football.
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  Speaker 4: That's not fun. Golly.
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  Speaker 6: You feel like you missed 10.
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  Speaker 4: What's the worst?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you only get so many.
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  Speaker 4: At all levels.
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  Speaker 6: I know. But NFL, you don't know.
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  Speaker 4: It's true.
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  Speaker 6: In college, you can play 17 years now.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good point. Anyways, good sports weekend. Tigers took
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  Speaker 1: care of business. God, it was so much fun to
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: just celebrate a victory on the plains.
• 5:43
  Speaker 9: It was so great because I was, as you all know,
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  Speaker 9: our friend Marler got married this weekend.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 7: Congratulations. Shout out to Chris Marler and Ali. Now Ali Marler.
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  Speaker 1: The Marlers.
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  Speaker 4: Nice job.
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  Speaker 7: Beautiful wedding. Beautiful bride. Chris was Chris.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, my God, y'all.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, so I was going to say it was great
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  Speaker 9: for me because I was sitting at a tailgate with
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  Speaker 9: a bunch of Auburn fans, so I loved that we
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  Speaker 9: won in front of all of them. But at his wedding,
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  Speaker 9: he was at the altar, and, like, all the bridesmaids
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  Speaker 9: are coming in, whatever, and then, like, waiting for the
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  Speaker 9: bride to come in at the altar.
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  Speaker 7: I look at him. We make eye contact. At the altar,
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  Speaker 7: this man hits me with the, hey, mama.
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  Speaker 4: I was just about to say, hey, mama.
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  Speaker 9: I swear he went like this to me, and I
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  Speaker 9: was like, I couldn't stop laughing.
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  Speaker 7: I was like, what am I supposed to do?
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  Speaker 4: I knew this coming.
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  Speaker 7: Can't even take his wedding seriously.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to Chris for getting married. Looked great.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it looked like a nice, beautiful event.
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  Speaker 7: It was great.
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  Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 7: Very nicely done.
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  Speaker 1: The tailgate the next day probably didn't go well, as
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned. A lot of Auburn fans.
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  Speaker 7: There's a lot of Auburn fans there. The vibes were
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  Speaker 7: killed very early.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and we'll break down the game next segment, but
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  Speaker 1: I can just tell you from a vibe standpoint, we
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  Speaker 1: got there, sat down, the place was packed, because it
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  Speaker 1: always is, and they showed up. But from the very get-go,
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  Speaker 1: even though LSU didn't end in the end zone, their
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  Speaker 1: first drive, it was like, oh, man, it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a long day for this defense. They don't really
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: have a lot of answers for LSU, and you can
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  Speaker 1: kind of see it pretty quickly. And then once you
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  Speaker 1: kind of figured out LSU had the quarterback run stopped,
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  Speaker 1: you're like, man, this guy's not going to beat you
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  Speaker 1: throwing the football. I mean, he really only had one run. So, look,
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  Speaker 1: it's at Auburn. It's an SEC game.
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  Speaker 6: We get all that.
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  Speaker 1: But just the feeling that we had in the broadcast
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  Speaker 1: booth after a handful of plays, it's like it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a pretty good day for LSU.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, it was just one of those games where you
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  Speaker 8: started watching it, and you were like, yeah, these game
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  Speaker 8: plans aren't matching up.
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  Speaker 4: These two game plans that each team went in with.
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  Speaker 8: Are different from each other, and it's not going to
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  Speaker 8: get any better. There's no halftime adjustment that's going to
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  Speaker 8: fix the entirety of the problem for Auburn. Blake Baker
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  Speaker 8: was in his bag, and his front seven played really well, executed,
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  Speaker 8: and were very, very sound and disciplined in what they
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  Speaker 8: were doing from a pass rush standpoint. And just like
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  Speaker 8: a body presence standpoint, a gap presence standpoint, there was
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  Speaker 8: just nowhere to go. And you take that part away
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  Speaker 8: from him, he's not going to be able to beat you. Now,
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  Speaker 8: he can do it. I'm not saying he can't throw.
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  Speaker 8: It's just like he's good all around. That's why he's
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  Speaker 8: one of the top throwers and runners of the ball
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  Speaker 8: because they work in tandem with each other. You take
• 8:36
  Speaker 8: one of them away, that's probably the more comfort zone
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  Speaker 8: for him. uh it's it's going to be a long
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  Speaker 8: day and sure i mean he's gonna he's gonna get
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  Speaker 8: off you know a scramble here and there but there
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  Speaker 8: really wasn't like a like it but it was a
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  Speaker 8: scramble yeah there wasn't like a called we're gonna line
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  Speaker 8: up and get an extra blocker out on you and
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  Speaker 8: and it was just really gap sound.
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  Speaker 1: That was the only time they really got out of
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  Speaker 1: their gap so tj i believe it was tj daughter
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: he kind of got He got a little nosy and
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: got up there because he was responsible for the quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: and he kind of got up in the line a
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  Speaker 1: little too much.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: But, like, he was in his feels. We were kicking
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  Speaker 8: their ass, and he was just like, I'm just going
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  Speaker 8: to go make this play. I mean, just in his
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  Speaker 8: feels a little bit. But, like, it was really, really–
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  Speaker 8: it was very impressive. But that front seven and the
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  Speaker 8: defensive line, LSU's defensive line continues to improve. It's easy
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  Speaker 8: to see improvement on the offensive side of the ball.
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  Speaker 8: It's really easy to see improvement from the offensive line, quarterback, receivers, what.
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  Speaker 4: Jackson Harris is doing.
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  Speaker 8: But it's harder to see improvement from those interior defensive positions.
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  Speaker 8: But I'm telling you, that defensive line is coming strong,
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  Speaker 8: and they are getting better and better every single week.
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  Speaker 8: The arrows are pointed up for LSU. And again, every
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  Speaker 8: single week, you're a week away from being humbled.
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  Speaker 4: In the SEC. But, like, the trajectory that.
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  Speaker 8: this team is on with the people stepping up, maybe
• 10:02
  Speaker 8: getting some people back healthy, obviously trade us getting back healthy,
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  Speaker 8: but like the team is improving and the individual players
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  Speaker 8: are improving within the scheme.
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  Speaker 4: And it's very exciting.
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  Speaker 8: And like, we all kind of saw that come together
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  Speaker 8: this past weekend and, And the game plans, yes, were
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  Speaker 8: good against a game plan that wasn't as good.
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  Speaker 4: But the individual effort.
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  Speaker 8: And play and the way they're playing as a team
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  Speaker 8: on both sides of the ball is very encouraging. I
• 10:28
  Speaker 8: don't have any predictions about what's going to happen the
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  Speaker 8: rest of the season.
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  Speaker 4: I don't.
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  Speaker 8: But I just know that the arrow is certainly pointed
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  Speaker 8: upwards for this team.
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: It's almost like you don't want to have a bye week.
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: Me and my father-in-law were talking about that yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a fair point.
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  Speaker 6: And you need one.
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  Speaker 1: You got to get Jackson Harris healthy. You want to
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: get traded as another week. I don't know that Witt's
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: going to be able to come back after a bye week. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: we'll pay attention to that one. And, look, at this
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: point in the season, Sam Levitt could use one, his hamstring.
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  Speaker 6: You need one.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, no. Oh, man.
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  Speaker 8: Sam needs to do sprints every day. He needs to
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  Speaker 8: keep that hamstring lit and just not. Not like all
• 11:13
  Speaker 8: the way hurt, but not all the way healthy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, just a little hurt.
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  Speaker 6: Just a little hurt.
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  Speaker 4: A little bit hurt. I got you.
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  Speaker 6: I got you.
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  Speaker 1: But, you know, when you're on a heater like that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's tough. Like you already know, I just
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  Speaker 1: want to keep going. I just want to keep going.
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  Speaker 1: But it could behoove LSU as well to get a
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  Speaker 1: little healthier, get some guys a little bit of rest.
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  Speaker 1: And so you got a big game coming up, but
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  Speaker 1: we will step away. And when we come back, we
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  Speaker 1: will kind of break down the game in its totality,
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  Speaker 1: kind of what it looked like, what worked for LSU,
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  Speaker 1: who stood out for LSU. to go on the planes
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  Speaker 1: and to beat them up like you did after they
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  Speaker 1: beat the number one team in the country on the road.
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  Speaker 1: Very impressive victory for LSU. We'll break it all down
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  Speaker 1: when we come back here on OTB. Off the bench.
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  Speaker 1: All right, it was LSU 38-17 over the Auburn Tigers.
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  Speaker 1: They're on the plains. It was early and often for LSU.
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  Speaker 1: 31-10 was the score as both teams went into the
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: locker room.
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  Speaker 6: And again, ends 38-17.
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  Speaker 1: First downs, LSU 29-16. Total yards, LSU 552-271. Running the football, 165-67.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: Through the air, LSU, 387. Auburn, 204.
• 15:28
  Speaker 6: Turnovers, none. Zero. That's a big number for LSU.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: Time of possession, 33-41 to 26-19 in favor of LSU.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: LSU dominates on the field. They dominate on the team stats.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: They dominate on the individual stats. Sam Levitt, 387 yards passing.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: a new career-high three touchdowns. Dylan Jones, 92 rushing yards
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: with a touchdown. Jackson Harris breaks his career best that
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: he set a couple of weeks ago, 178 yards receiving
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: and two more touchdowns. Jordan Ross adds two more sacks
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: to his tally. So a big day for the LSU
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: Tigers on the Plains. And as we were talking about
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: in the first segment, you kind of knew from the
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: very beginning of the game it was going to be
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: a long day for Auburn.
• 16:18
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, hearing you bring off the box score there,
• 16:21
  Speaker 8: I think that all equals out to an ass-whipping.
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: My God. It did.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: It did.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it looked like it.
• 16:30
  Speaker 8: I think the score, even being 38-17, it wasn't even, like,
• 16:34
  Speaker 8: the game wasn't.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: Even that close at all.
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: Auburn actually scored, like, the last play, basically.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: Of the game. Yeah.
• 16:40
  Speaker 8: And there's so many flowers to give out for this
• 16:43
  Speaker 8: game because there were so many individual performances that stood out.
• 16:46
  Speaker 8: I mean, I think the one that's going to stick
• 16:48
  Speaker 8: out to everybody is certainly Jackson Harris.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: My God. I mean, we, he's been good. He's been good.
• 16:54
  Speaker 8: Like he's been, he's, you could tell since the beginning,
• 16:57
  Speaker 8: he's kind of been your number one receiver, your number
• 16:59
  Speaker 8: one target on, on big plays. That's kind of who the,
• 17:03
  Speaker 8: the play is a lot of times designed to go to, um,
• 17:09
  Speaker 8: But I didn't realize he was that good. I didn't
• 17:12
  Speaker 8: realize he was Saturday good. And when I say that,
• 17:16
  Speaker 8: I mean.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: Body control, sure hands, awareness of the field.
• 17:29
  Speaker 8: He caught a back shoulder pass, same level through back
• 17:31
  Speaker 8: shoulder pass, standing in.
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: His own end zone.
• 17:33
  Speaker 8: I can't remember. I think it was early in the game.
• 17:36
  Speaker 8: certainly the first half, but coming out of his own
• 17:38
  Speaker 8: end zone, which takes some cojones to make that throw, right?
• 17:44
  Speaker 8: Back shoulder throw, standing out of your own end zone,
• 17:46
  Speaker 8: which shows a lot of confidence in your receiver. But
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: then it wasn't a very good back shoulder throw, and
• 17:53
  Speaker 8: he had to kind of go to the ground and
• 17:55
  Speaker 8: keep his hands underneath. That's a big-time play. Having to
• 17:59
  Speaker 8: stop from running a fade or a go route and
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: come back and catch a back shoulder throw ball. Like
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: it takes, it takes a lot of practice just to
• 18:06
  Speaker 8: be able to get comfortable catching like a good back
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: shoulder ball, but when it's not a very well thrown
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: one and it's low, he's got to go to the ground,
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: keep his hands and fingers underneath the ball. So it
• 18:15
  Speaker 8: doesn't hit it, pull it to his chest and then
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: kind of roll to make sure it doesn't ever hit
• 18:19
  Speaker 8: the ground. That was a big time catch, but just the,
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: the sure handedness, um, his, when he runs routes over
• 18:28
  Speaker 8: the middle, his angles to the ball are really good.
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: They don't let DBs cut them off. He doesn't drift
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: away from the ball. So, like, when he throws it,
• 18:37
  Speaker 8: the quarterback feels safe and protected. That at least, like,
• 18:42
  Speaker 8: for whatever reason, if my guy doesn't catch it, I
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: know the other team is not going to catch it.
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: And he's got that. And then, I mean, who knew
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: he had the speed? The breakaways didn't even look like
• 18:50
  Speaker 8: he was running hard. That was the part to me
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: that stood out. Because I wasn't sure if he had that. Yeah,
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: I kept watching him make all these different plays. And more, like,
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: time and time again, I'm watching it.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: I'm like, whoa. Okay, I didn't know he– like, I
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: knew he was good. I didn't know he was that, though. Right. Like,
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: I didn't know he was– man.
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: I could be a top two or three round wide
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: receiver in the draft type good.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: Like, I didn't know that.
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: Now I do, and I'm even more impressed with just
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: kind of the body of work that he's put together
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: this season. But, like, that was, to me, above all else.
• 19:25
  Speaker 8: And I get it, 178 yards, it's easy to say, man,
• 19:27
  Speaker 8: that's the performance of the game. But just the intangible things,
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: the little things that he was able to do, the
• 19:32
  Speaker 8: comfortability that he gives his quarterback and the play callers
• 19:35
  Speaker 8: and everything around him.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: It was it was wildly impressive. Yeah.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: And look, you needed someone to be able to help
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: you out while trade as green was out. And we'll
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: get to trade as here coming up in a little bit.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: So he goes out in that Ole Miss.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: Game.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: And at that time, Jackson Harris was not really a
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: part of the game plan. He had some big plays
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: against Louisiana Tech, and he had a catch against Clemson.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: But against Ole Miss, he had one for five. Well,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Tradez goes out, and I remember being on the broadcast saying, okay, well, hey,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: something's got to happen.
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: Somebody's got to do something here.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Well, this is the stat line for the last SEC
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: games that Jackson Harris has played since that Ole Miss game.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Against Texas A & M, he has six catches, 163 yards,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: two touchdowns. Against Kentucky, he has six catches, 54 yards,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: and a touchdown. Against Mississippi State, he has six catches,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: 85 yards, two touchdowns. Against the Auburn Tigers, he has
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: nine catches, 178 yards, two touchdowns.
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: So now, on the year.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: He's got 36 catches, 634 yards, seven touchdowns, and really
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: they're all coming in the last five games. He is
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: no doubt your number one target. He's your number one receiver.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: And now you get Trey Des Green back, which Trey
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Des had, look, he had a good game, certainly coming
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: off injury.
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: He had a touchdown. He had 50 yards receiving.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: He blocked his butt off yet again, which we'll get
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: to that when we get to the film. But now
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: you've got Jackson Harris and you've got Trey Des. And
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: I know you know this better than any of us.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Now your quarterback has two guys that he can trust.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: He has two guys on money downs that he knows
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: he can throw the football to. And you had to
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: have that. And look, Winnie Watkins has made some plays,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: but over the last couple weeks, you can tell. Some
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: of that trust factor has gone a little bit away.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Sometimes that happens during a season. I think Trey Wilson,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: you might know him as Eugene, but he goes by Trey. He's,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: you know, he's been better. He's been better. But it's
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: no doubt it's Jackson Harris, then it's Trey Desgreen. That's
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: who Sam Levitt trusts. And then Dylan Jones out of
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: the backfield.
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and I've been trying to put my finger on
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: my Jackson Harris comp. I know we've talked about Michael
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: Wilson in Arizona. The more I watched him after this game,
• 21:52
  Speaker 8: I was like, man. And I get a body type
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: might be a little bit different, but he reminds me of, like,
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: Mike Evans out there, how he plays the game. Um,
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: very sure handedness play strong. It looks like every time
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: he's lined up with a corner, he's the alpha. Um,
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: not going to just like, wow. You with anything that
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: he does from a, I don't even want to like
• 22:14
  Speaker 8: from like an athletic, like a visit standpoint. Like he's
• 22:16
  Speaker 8: not going to like, wow. You in any of that,
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: but always seems to be open. Always knows how to
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: use his body. Knows how to use his levers. And like,
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: like he's got long levers. He's a big, he's a
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: big kid. Like knows how to use all those things to,
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: position himself in the right spot to catch the ball
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: and to shield the defender. And, uh, man, it's, and
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: I think that's a pretty good comp. I mean, I
• 22:37
  Speaker 8: think just sure handed this man and, uh, the ability
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: to strong hands and the ability to fall forward when
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: he's getting tackled. And, and I, and you, you list
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: those numbers out and it's like, yeah, I've seen him
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: make plays this year and I seen him getting better
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: and better.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: I forgot that he had such an impact in the
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: A & M game. Yeah.
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: Um, And, but like this, to me, this was, this
• 23:02
  Speaker 8: was like, not like a, here I am. Like, this isn't,
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: this was different to me.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: This was for everybody else that didn't know.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: This was like, like, if you don't know now, you know,
• 23:15
  Speaker 8: and I'm here. And then like that, then his ability
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: to run away from everybody. That was kind of the
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: stamp of approval. Like now I got everything. Like, I
• 23:24
  Speaker 8: don't have just a couple things. I got everything.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: And I'm not leaving here.
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: And my quarterback, he's got a half-hurt hamstring, and he's
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: going to be dealing the ball to me all season long.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and look, this is somebody that was really good
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: at Hawaii a year ago. So I sat next to
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: my guy, Luke Dudley, shout out to Maui, on the
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: bus on away trips. And he's from Hawaii, so we
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: used to sit there. We'd watch the Rainbow Warriors sometimes
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: and He'd flash and show up all the time on
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: tape there. He had 49 catches, 963, almost 20 yards
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: per catch, and 12 tuds at Hawaii. So, like, he
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: had a pretty good resume coming in. But, like, okay,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: you're like Mountain West, SEC, how's that going to translate?
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: But it's good to see, like, this wasn't a flash
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: in the pan. Like, he found the end zone 12
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: times last year.
• 24:09
  Speaker 11: He did it in 11 games, by the way. Matt,
• 24:12
  Speaker 11: we talked about it when Lane was signing these receivers.
• 24:15
  Speaker 11: We're like, he went and got a lot of big
• 24:17
  Speaker 11: play guys. Jackson Harris was first. Jackson Harris averaged 19.7
• 24:21
  Speaker 11: per catch a year ago.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: He's at 17.6 this year. That's what he does. He's
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: falling off.
• 24:27
  Speaker 10: I'm telling you.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: Pick it up, Jackson.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: You know, but kind of going back to it, like
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: he had a 78-yarder last year. He's got a 70-yarder now. Again,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: I knew he was a good player, and I did
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: see him flash when he was there. I did not
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: know that he would be able to leave an SEC
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: DB and and then also outrun an angle from an
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: SEC DB.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: And like you said, effortlessly. It didn't look like he
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: was straining. It looked like he was gliding a little bit.
• 24:55
  Speaker 8: I've known, like, I think we've all known he's been
• 24:59
  Speaker 8: good all season long. Yeah, even in the A &
• 25:02
  Speaker 8: M game, he had, what, 163? Is that what we said?
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: Around that. Like, okay, that's great. But I thought that
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: this season it was going to be, there's going to be,
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: four or five receivers, maybe three, four or five receivers
• 25:16
  Speaker 8: that are going to have a hundred plus games. It's
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: going to be like the Winnie Watkins game. It's going
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: to be the Jackson Harris game. It's going to be,
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: you know, whatever. And so I think, I guess I
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: might've just written that off the Texas A & M
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: game to that. Just like that was, that was Jackson
• 25:30
  Speaker 8: Harris's game. Like he just got the, got the right coverages,
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: got the right.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: This and that.
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: Nope.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: Nope. I was wrong, man.
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: Cause like that was, that was a, this past game proved,
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: me proved to me that this guy is the number
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: one receiver in college football and you know i i
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: hadn't watched all of them but i haven't watched many
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: that i would trust much more now i know.
• 25:55
  Speaker 10: There's yeah i said like jeremiah smith there's there's the
• 25:58
  Speaker 10: top dogs yeah out there that have been there been
• 26:00
  Speaker 10: on the scene for a long time but this good
• 26:02
  Speaker 10: jackson harris man he is a trustworthy dude and i
• 26:07
  Speaker 10: he's the type of receiver that as a quarterback i
• 26:09
  Speaker 10: would love to throw to Just from his body control,
• 26:13
  Speaker 10: how you can read his leverage, how you can read
• 26:16
  Speaker 10: him in and out of.
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: Breaks, the way he protects the quarterback, it's very impressive.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I am right there with you. He has been
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun to watch, and you've needed him.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: You had to have him. After Tredez Green goes down
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: that Ole Miss game, you had to have somebody in
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: that relationship now that he has with Sam Levitt. And look,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Jackson Harris is dealing with some injuries because, I mean,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: he's just been He's been out there.
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: He's been beat up. He's got a shoulder.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: He's got an ankle.
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: He's got a little bit of everything, but he's giving
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: you everything he's got.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: And the catch that he made that was almost like
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: about an inch from a catch was maybe the most
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: impressive play that he made. Is that where he got hurt?
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: He hurt his hip or something? His shoulder, I think
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: he landed on it.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: It looked like he landed on it.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: It might have been, but when he caught it, I
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, man, almost. And then we went back
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: and watched the replay.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, man, that thing– If.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: It would have got called a catch on the field,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: it would have stayed a catch. Yeah, it would have.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: One of those situations. A remarkable effort. So, all right.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: That right there, that's a bad man.
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: It is, man.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: I did not know we were going to spend that
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: whole segment talking about Jackson Harris. But, look, he deserved
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: it with the way that he played on Saturday. We'll
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: come back. We'll talk about some other big performances from
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: LSU individually, what they did on defense, certainly, as well.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: A lot of guys to point out on that side
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: of the football. We'll do it right here on OTB.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Off the bench. Off the Bench with Hester and Flynn,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: presented by Bayou Automotive.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: OTB here live from the Raising Cane Studio. Continuing to
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: break down LSU and Auburn. LSU 38-17 victory on the road.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: First road victory in the SEC since October of 2024.
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: So it had been a minute.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: And let me tell you, as somebody that travels with
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: the team, those plane rides when you lose, well, there's
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: no talking. There's no smiling. There's no laughing. And that's
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: at any level of football when you lose. You know that, Matt.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: And so this one was fun. This one was a
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: very victorious plane. You could tell victory was had. And
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: it was fun watching all the different other different games
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: that were going on because it was like UCF, BYU, Tennessee,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: South Carolina. They were all going. And so, you know,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: there's TVs on the plane. everybody's kind of living and
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: dying with every play it's like oh man this is
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: what this feels like this is what a plane ride
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: after a big dub it was funny so byu central
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: florida great game great college football game we'll get to
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: the craziness of the weekend a little bit later on
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: but everybody's like invested and that's after like south carolina
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: made the field goal everybody's like you know kind of
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: having some fun with that game and ucf's going to
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: throw the a two-point conversion right And the quarterback drops back.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: He goes back, pulls his arm back, and the TVs
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: go off.
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: Oh, no. And everybody's like, what? And they're like, fuck.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: seconds later, they come on, and they saw that they scored,
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: and it was like, what?
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: Oh, my God. It was fun.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: It was fun to be on a plane where you
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: were victorious on the road in the SEC because it
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: had been literally two years since you had that feeling.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: And one of the big reasons you had that feeling
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: was the defense.
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: From LSU. A couple of performances.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I thought Devon Keys played one of his best games
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: in a long time.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: T.J. Dottery does T.J. Dottery things.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Umami Allen had another big game.
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: They couldn't block him. Unless they held him, they couldn't
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: really block him.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: And then they, every time that it was like a
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: passing down for Auburn, they chipped, they doubled, they were like,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: we can't block number one. So we're not even really
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: going to try to do it singled up. He had
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: another big day. Jordan Ross has another big day.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: He has.
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: two sacks, two and a half TFLs.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: He also broke up a pass, which was a big play, right?
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: You get out there in the flats and a lot
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: of times those edge defenders jump up or whatever. He
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: stayed calm, waited, kind of almost like pump fake the
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: quarterback and then stuck his paw up there, knocked the
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: ball down. Ty Benefield had another big day. Lamar Brown
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: got his first career sack. So a little bit of
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: everybody getting involved. Seven sacks, 12 TFLs, four passes broken
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: up for this LSU defense.
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: And P.J.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Woodland, had nine tackles out there. He was very physical
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: at the corner position. They tried to get to the
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: edge a couple of different times, and he shut that down.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: And then even a guy like DJ Pickett, you kind
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: of forget DJ's there because they never test him. And
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: then when they do, he sits there, he's calm, he
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: lets the pass go in the air, doesn't panic, just
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: knocks it down.
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: He continues to do that over and over again.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: So very, very strong performance from your LSU defense on
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: the road, against a team that just had success against
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the Georgia defense.
• 31:30
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and Blake Baker was, like I said earlier, he
• 31:33
  Speaker 8: was absolutely in his bag in this game. They drew
• 31:36
  Speaker 8: up a great game plan, and they executed it. And
• 31:38
  Speaker 8: this is the front seven. The defensive line is a
• 31:43
  Speaker 8: position group that keeps getting better and better and better
• 31:47
  Speaker 8: and better. Of course, you just said they couldn't block
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: Princewell unless they held him, and they held him quite
• 31:52
  Speaker 8: a bit. And but they it was get three called
• 31:56
  Speaker 8: against him. Yeah, I think it had to have been
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: close to that if it wasn't more than that. They
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: could have called him a decent amount more as well.
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: But yeah, he was an animal. They couldn't block him.
• 32:06
  Speaker 8: You could tell that he he was he was on
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: one the other day. He was he wanted to prove
• 32:11
  Speaker 8: a point. And, you know, the fear always at 11
• 32:15
  Speaker 8: o'clock games is like, how are you going to start?
• 32:16
  Speaker 8: How's your defense going to play? What kind of energy
• 32:18
  Speaker 8: are you going to bring? Well, I think everybody kind
• 32:20
  Speaker 8: of answered the bell. Like, even the crowd. I thought
• 32:22
  Speaker 8: the crowd was really good at 11 a.m.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: It was rocking. It was packed.
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: It was not an empty seat in the house.
• 32:28
  Speaker 8: And I think that's good for the players, too. Like,
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: if you're kind of in a dead stadium, then you
• 32:33
  Speaker 8: kind of feel that a little bit. But LSU defense
• 32:38
  Speaker 8: answered the call early in the morning. And, man, they
• 32:42
  Speaker 8: came out and they played fast. They played hard. And
• 32:44
  Speaker 8: they played disciplined. And I kept talking about. the gap soundness,
• 32:48
  Speaker 8: the gap integrity that you have to have on the
• 32:51
  Speaker 8: defensive front and your linebackers when you play a quarterback
• 32:54
  Speaker 8: like that that has had that much success at multiple
• 32:57
  Speaker 8: different stops every single place, running the ball, throwing the ball,
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: and for them to handcuff him and tie him into
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: the pocket like they did and not let him get out. Yeah,
• 33:08
  Speaker 8: he got a scramble here and there, but guess what?
• 33:11
  Speaker 8: The game was really already... It was really determined at
• 33:15
  Speaker 8: that point by the time he got out and had
• 33:16
  Speaker 8: that one scramble. It was just very, very impressive what
• 33:22
  Speaker 8: they did. And I'm telling you, the way Blake Baker's
• 33:27
  Speaker 8: coaching right now, and I get it. Like, you lose
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: a game, everybody hates everybody. And they say, well, I'm
• 33:34
  Speaker 8: so tired of watching who Steve is, blah, blah, blah.
• 33:38
  Speaker 8: I'm telling you, it's going to take an incredible quarterback
• 33:42
  Speaker 8: performance to beat LSU this year. Now, are there incredible
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: quarterback performances to be had out there?
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: Absolutely.
• 33:50
  Speaker 8: Trinidad played a great game. Kenny Minchie in Kentucky played
• 33:56
  Speaker 8: a really, really, really, and even like a great fourth quarter. Like,
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: I don't think he had a touchdown pass, but man,
• 34:03
  Speaker 8: the way he was able to maneuver and make some
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: really good plays. Like I, It's going to take those
• 34:10
  Speaker 8: types of performance to be able to beat you this season.
• 34:13
  Speaker 8: And I'm looking at the regular season.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 34:17
  Speaker 8: I don't know what quarterback I'm fearing in the regular
• 34:23
  Speaker 8: season right now, left in the regular season. I'm not
• 34:27
  Speaker 8: fearing Arch Manning. I don't fear him at home. Keelan Russell, maybe.
• 34:34
  Speaker 8: But I don't know if he's got the clutch gene yet.
• 34:39
  Speaker 8: I don't fear him because of his legs, because of
• 34:41
  Speaker 8: what I just saw this past weekend.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and with LSU, now it would have been a
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: great atmosphere, but with LSU winning like they did against
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Auburn for two weeks of buildup, he's about to get
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: the full force of Tiger Stadium as a young player.
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: For sure.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: And he's a very talented player, no doubt about it.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: But to the point that you're trying to make, that's
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: going to be an environment for him that he's going
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: to have to deal with.
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: As a young football player.
• 35:03
  Speaker 8: And let me say, it's better for my pocket if
• 35:06
  Speaker 8: I build him up. Cause I got a really good
• 35:08
  Speaker 8: sports card of him and I want to sell it high.
• 35:10
  Speaker 8: I want him to have all the success in the world,
• 35:12
  Speaker 8: but I don't think he is. I don't think he's
• 35:14
  Speaker 8: set up again. Like this defense throws so much at
• 35:17
  Speaker 8: you at a quarterback from a pre-snap from a pre-snap look,
• 35:21
  Speaker 8: what you got to recognize. And then what you have
• 35:23
  Speaker 8: to react to after the snap, it just throws so
• 35:26
  Speaker 8: much at you at the college level. It is hard
• 35:30
  Speaker 8: for college kids to have success unless you get a
• 35:33
  Speaker 8: heroic performance by a quarterback.
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: I'll take Trinidad.
• 35:39
  Speaker 8: And maybe even Kenny Minchie over Arch and Keelan right
• 35:43
  Speaker 8: now against the Blake Baker defense.
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: Okay? Just because of what I've seen. I don't know.
• 35:48
  Speaker 8: Again, Arch, I'm not fearful of him. Now, maybe he
• 35:52
  Speaker 8: proves me wrong. I don't know. But I just think
• 35:56
  Speaker 8: against Blake Baker, how he's dialing things up and the
• 35:59
  Speaker 8: buy-in that he has from all 11, how they understand,
• 36:04
  Speaker 8: okay– all right, our defensive coordinator wants to show a
• 36:07
  Speaker 8: pressure here and he wants to drop these guys and
• 36:10
  Speaker 8: he wants.
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: To fill the voids with these other guys.
• 36:12
  Speaker 8: Like they all understand not only what they're doing, but
• 36:17
  Speaker 8: why they're doing it. They understand the why and it's
• 36:19
  Speaker 8: getting better every single week. And again, I don't, I'm
• 36:24
  Speaker 8: just looking at the quarterbacks and like, I hadn't been
• 36:27
  Speaker 8: able to say that in the past because LSU really
• 36:30
  Speaker 8: hadn't had an offense with Blake to back it up. Like,
• 36:33
  Speaker 8: And I can say that now, unless there's a heroic
• 36:36
  Speaker 8: performance by a quarterback, I don't think LSU can get
• 36:40
  Speaker 8: beat by just like a mediocre quarterback play because of
• 36:44
  Speaker 8: what their offense can do on the other side. They're
• 36:46
  Speaker 8: not going to be able to consistently sustain success against
• 36:50
  Speaker 8: Blake Baker. Now, can they get a lucky play here
• 36:52
  Speaker 8: or there? Yeah, sure, they can. But they can't sustain
• 36:56
  Speaker 8: success throughout the entirety of the game Against what they're doing,
• 37:01
  Speaker 8: unless it's a really great quarterback performance.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and throughout the show, we can maybe find our
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: way to a couple plays. Even if it's a TV copy,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: that's fine, just because I kind of want to show
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: you what we're talking about and kind of some of
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: the scheme that you came up with that's confusing some
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: of the quarterbacks. Because right now, LSU's defense, and I'm
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: with you, Matt. If you want to say whatever you
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: want to say after a loss, sure, go ahead. But
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: even people here on this station, I was like, okay, well,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: you've got to show me why. If you're going to
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: say what you're going to say, you've got to show
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: me the why. Because LSU's defense right now, in the country,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: this is not in the SEC, fourth in yards allowed
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: in the country on defense, second in the country in sacks,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: 17th in points per game in the country, sixth right
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: now in rushing yards given up per game, and 18th
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: in passing yards per game. So right now, of some
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: of the major stats, I would say those are probably
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: the five that you look at. The worst that you
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: are in the country is 18th. The worst you are
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: in the country. That's 18th in passing yards per game.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: They're doing what they have to do. And to Matt's point,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: the times they've gotten beat, it's been by elite quarterback play.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: And look, that's something you got to, you're going to
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: play some more elite quarterbacks if you want to get
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: to where you're going. And that is something that, They've
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: got to figure out. It's got to be one play.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Because when you're playing an elite quarterback, it doesn't have
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: to be the totality of the game because, look, you're
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: going to go back and forth a bit.
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: It's can you make the one play? Can you turn
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: him over one time? Can you sack, strip one time?
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:37
  Speaker 8: And that's why I'm looking ahead. Can Keelan Russell make
• 38:41
  Speaker 8: a couple of plays?
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I think he can. I don't know if he can.
• 38:45
  Speaker 8: Sustain four quarters of good, solid quarterback play, which is
• 38:49
  Speaker 8: what is going to be necessary with how your offense
• 38:52
  Speaker 8: is playing on the other side of the ball. So,
• 38:54
  Speaker 8: Blake Baker with an offense behind him, like an engine
• 38:57
  Speaker 8: that keeps this team running, and then you got Blake
• 39:00
  Speaker 8: Baker calling these plays, giving those quarterbacks those pre-snap looks,
• 39:05
  Speaker 8: and all that, like the difficulty navigating mic declarations and
• 39:09
  Speaker 8: how they're going to sort out these pass projections. Like,
• 39:11
  Speaker 8: it's going to be a– LSU is– the way they
• 39:15
  Speaker 8: are coming along, and like, of course, we're homers. I
• 39:18
  Speaker 8: got it. But the way that every position group is
• 39:21
  Speaker 8: starting to get better– better and play with any like
• 39:24
  Speaker 8: play play with each other and the improvement that I'm
• 39:27
  Speaker 8: seeing and I've seen they're they're gonna be a tough
• 39:30
  Speaker 8: out at any point.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Last thing we'll say last stat I'll give you before
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: we take this break. If you just go to the
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: sec yards per game, cause I said, you know, fourth
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: in the country in yards per game. But if you
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: go just in the sec and this is actually with
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: one more game played, then the, number two, number three,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: and number four. You give up 258 yards per game,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: which is number one in the SEC. The second place
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: behind you is Oklahoma at 273. So we're talking about
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: 15 yards per game difference, which if you're talking about stats,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: that's a big, big.
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: Number, the difference between number one And number two.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, Blake Baker and that defense continues to do
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: their part to say the least.
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: All right, we will take a break. We'll be back.
• 40:17
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• 42:07
  Speaker 1: OTB here live from the Raising Cane studio. Continuing to
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: break down LSU 38, the Auburn Tigers 17. Now, we've
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: talked about a lot of different players, a lot of
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: individual effort. Sam Leavitt also, 387 yards, three touchdowns.
• 42:25
  Speaker 6: That's a career high for Sam.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: This is as good as I've ever seen him, even
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: when he led Arizona State to a playoff run.
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: Let me ask you this. You think Sam's been really
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: good all season long?
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: Really good all season long? I think he's been good.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: The answer's no. He hasn't been really good. He's been good.
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: He's gotten progressively better and better.
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: Really good since A & M?
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: When we hired Lane Kiffin last year, what did we
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: hope would happen? Offense. The SEC leader in passing. Sam Leavitt.
• 43:04
  Speaker 8: In yards and touchdowns. 2,158 yards and 17 touchdown passes.
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  Speaker 8: Sam Leavitt leading the SEC in yards. And he's actually
• 43:14
  Speaker 8: tied for touchdown pass with Camario. It's 17. That is
• 43:18
  Speaker 8: what we signed up for. And guess what? We haven't
• 43:20
  Speaker 8: even gotten consistently the best Sam Leavitt we can this season.
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: Since the A & M game. It started out good.
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: But it hadn't been... really, really good. It's been like splotchy.
• 43:32
  Speaker 8: Like we talked about, and I talked about how, you know,
• 43:36
  Speaker 8: hoppy was. And we talked about how he's just looking
• 43:39
  Speaker 8: to run a little too much. Well, like, and we
• 43:41
  Speaker 8: joke about the hamstring hamstring, but we, we get it.
• 43:44
  Speaker 8: We it's, it's kind of a joke, but it's kind
• 43:46
  Speaker 8: of not a joke. It helped him slow down a lot,
• 43:49
  Speaker 8: but now he's just getting better and better and better.
• 43:53
  Speaker 8: And when we like, think about how bad the offense was,
• 43:56
  Speaker 8: we signed, we hired Lane Kiffin with an expectation. Well,
• 44:00
  Speaker 8: that expectation has been met in the form of offense.
• 44:04
  Speaker 8: I know we got two losses, and I get it.
• 44:06
  Speaker 8: That's disappointing how they came. Circumstances and all of a sudden,
• 44:10
  Speaker 8: teams played well against us. We were in tough environments.
• 44:14
  Speaker 8: My God, to say your quarterback, who hasn't even played
• 44:17
  Speaker 8: consistently his best football, he's starting to play his best
• 44:19
  Speaker 8: football now, is leading the SEC in yards and touchdown passes.
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: Pretty good. I would say so for sure.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: And again, since that A & M game, you've seen it.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: completely different quarterback, one that's taking care of the football. And, look,
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: I know he had a wild throw on Saturday. It
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: ends up hitting the ground, and he just continued on.
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: Cry me a river, McElroy.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: It didn't even count, bud. You never had a game
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: like that against the Auburn Tigers, and you played them
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: four times. More OTB when we come back.
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