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Hour One | Sam Leavitt Doubtful? LSU’s Defense vs. Ole Miss · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go, baby, let's go.
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  Speaker 1: From a championship backfield to your morning drive. Hands to Hester,
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  Speaker 1: and Hester, yep, got it, five out of five. You're
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  Speaker 1: locked in to Off the Bench.
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  Speaker 3: Flynn is back to throw for the end zone foul.
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  Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Cane Studio, here's Jacob Hester and
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  Speaker 1: Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome in otb here on this thursday morning live from
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  Speaker 3: the razor cane studio jake flan alondra taytay all here with.
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  Speaker 4: You we got a couple of things to get to here.
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  Speaker 2: On the show today but yeah right it's not our
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  Speaker 2: vibe it's not our style before we do any of
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  Speaker 2: that we go around the room A lot of times
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  Speaker 2: we go around the room, then it turns into 12
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  Speaker 2: minutes of seeing a lot of squirrels.
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  Speaker 4: So let's go ahead and get that out of the way.
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  Speaker 4: How we doing? How we living? We did. Congo Basin
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  Speaker 4: was 12 minutes yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: Man, we're okay. I, uh.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I don't like this.
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  Speaker 5: We just did a whole show.
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  Speaker 4: I got a little shoulder soreness. You doubtful?
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  Speaker 5: I was doubtful to make it this morning. Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, wait.
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  Speaker 5: But I made it. I thought you.
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  Speaker 4: Were about to have a full, like, Lance Harbor, like,
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  Speaker 4: I had a dream, and I woke up kind of sad.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I woke up a little sad.
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  Speaker 4: We're playing Baneborn.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. I know that I have some really
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  Speaker 5: good people. I've got a good family, good friends out there.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't realize I had that many.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 5: Than I did last night when the news dropped.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: My phone hadn't been that active in forever. Mine was.
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  Speaker 4: It was warm like a toaster.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And we were trying to... So we got shout out
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  Speaker 2: to KDC. We got KDC coming.
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  Speaker 4: To the house today. You know what I mean? That's
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  Speaker 4: what it was.
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  Speaker 2: And so we were cleaning off like our patio area,
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  Speaker 2: getting it all ready to go. And we're trying to
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  Speaker 2: do that. And I think my wife's getting pretty frustrated
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  Speaker 2: with me. She's like, I don't, at this point, like,
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  Speaker 2: is Sam Levin hurt?
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  Speaker 4: Is he not? We got to get this patio done.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: All these people are texting and calling me. I'm trying
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  Speaker 2: to put the phone down, but I.
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  Speaker 5: Mean, so.
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  Speaker 2: Burns and Dorn were doing a show live from Oxford
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  Speaker 2: last night. Like, they were there, like, 7 to 9 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was on SiriusXM. And, like, during the break,
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  Speaker 2: I got them two calling me. I'm like, guys, I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to hang this TV on this patio. Yeah, guys,
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  Speaker 2: come on. I've reached out to people. We'll get there.
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  Speaker 2: But I got nothing for you right now. And even
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  Speaker 2: if I didn't, I probably wouldn't tell you.
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  Speaker 5: That's so true.
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 7: So, like, all the star players just may or may
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  Speaker 7: not play?
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  Speaker 5: I don't think we're– do we need to forfeit? I
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  Speaker 5: mean– I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: The reaction from LSU fans last night?
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  Speaker 5: Yep. Don't even show up. How did anybody take that seriously?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not taking that seriously.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I guess I lived in a world of NFL
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  Speaker 5: injury reports for so long where everybody's on the injury report. Yeah. Always.
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  Speaker 5: And so it's not that big of a deal to
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  Speaker 5: me to be on the injury report. A doubtful is strong. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It's quite strong.
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  Speaker 2: Questionable is a lot of times where somebody like that lives. Right.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, you know, you miss some practice or you
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  Speaker 2: miss a period of practice. It doesn't have to be
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  Speaker 2: a whole practice, but technically to the letter of the law,
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  Speaker 2: like you can miss periods of practice and you can
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  Speaker 2: be put on the injury report because it's factual.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Delfo is Delfo strong.
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  Speaker 5: Delfo strong. I remember Aaron was on the injury report
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  Speaker 5: a lot when I was there. No one ever asked
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  Speaker 5: if I was playing that week, you know, he's on
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  Speaker 5: the injury report.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I don't, I've never really paid attention to an injury
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  Speaker 5: report because I know that if you're tired and your
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  Speaker 5: toe hurts, then you could technically be put on the
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  Speaker 5: injury report. And there's a lot of times. So I
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  Speaker 5: saw swirling around the interwebs yesterday. It's like, well, here's
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  Speaker 5: the fine. If you lie on your injury report, find
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  Speaker 5: out if you lie or not impossible. If your abs
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  Speaker 5: are sore, cause you did too many crunches. It's it hurts. Right.
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  Speaker 5: You're limited in practice. You literally could be put on
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  Speaker 5: the injury report. Now coaches in the NFL were always worried.
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  Speaker 5: Like you had to be put, they were quick to
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  Speaker 5: put you on an injury report because the fines came.
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  Speaker 5: If you didn't list somebody, right. Not because you listed
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  Speaker 5: too many people for an undisclosed reason. Like you don't
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  Speaker 5: have to get a second opinion from a doctor that
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  Speaker 5: he has actually really hurt to put him on the list.
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  Speaker 5: It's a precaution type situation. Now you, if somebody's hurt
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  Speaker 5: and the doctor said he's hurt, And you don't put him,
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  Speaker 5: that's when the, from my understanding, at the other level,
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  Speaker 5: that's when the issues occur.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, he would do this at Ole Miss. He's like,
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  Speaker 7: I don't know. I'm not taking it. I'm not putting
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  Speaker 7: a bunch of credence into the injury report that lists
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  Speaker 7: not only Sam Levitt, but Trey Desgreen, Whit Weeks, TJ Daughtery.
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  Speaker 4: Like, right, we saw that. So I, like, but what?
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  Speaker 4: So all the.
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  Speaker 7: People that have hype all around them, all of them.
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  Speaker 6: Are on the list.
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  Speaker 5: I was telling you before the show, Matt.
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  Speaker 4: TJ was the one I was kind of like, hold up.
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  Speaker 5: TJ needs to really be out there.
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  Speaker 8: There was a game at Ole Miss one time. It
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  Speaker 8: may have been when they were playing LSU. He had
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  Speaker 8: 26 people listed on the injury report going into a game.
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  Speaker 8: Not all 26 of those guys set out. Actually, very
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  Speaker 8: few of them actually did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. There's a lot of people that were the smartest
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  Speaker 2: guy in the room on social media last night.
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  Speaker 4: No doubt.
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  Speaker 2: And like you said, like how much it costs if you,
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  Speaker 2: you know, mess up an injury report. You know what
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  Speaker 2: was thrown out there a lot last night that's becoming
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  Speaker 2: a pet peeve of mine? A thousand percent. A thousand percent.
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  Speaker 2: He's put a thousand percent. I'm like, can we stop
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  Speaker 2: with a thousand percent, please?
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  Speaker 5: There's no such thing.
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  Speaker 4: There's no such thing. Let's just go a hundred percent.
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  Speaker 8: People want Lane to be fined so bad. Because you're
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  Speaker 8: never going to find out if somebody was hurt or not.
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  Speaker 5: What are you going to do? Show up a week later? Hey,
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  Speaker 5: let's check him out. Hey, he got healthy. You're never
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  Speaker 5: going to find that out.
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  Speaker 2: And again, Coach Miles used to keep me out of
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  Speaker 2: Monday practices almost every week. In 07, from about week
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  Speaker 2: three on, I didn't practice on Mondays. If we would
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  Speaker 2: have had an injury report, I would have had– and
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  Speaker 2: it was just literally because he's like, look, this is corrections.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to arrest you. Go in the training room.
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  Speaker 2: Technical and injury report, like, you can put whatever you
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  Speaker 2: want because I didn't practice. So there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: different ways this can be played out.
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  Speaker 5: And I don't think, like, I've never been a coach.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think it really, even if it is, like,
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  Speaker 5: gamesmanship on Lane's Park, like, I don't think that it
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  Speaker 5: even really works.
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  Speaker 2: What, fining someone?
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  Speaker 5: No, putting somebody out. Like, Ole Miss isn't going to
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  Speaker 5: prepare any differently.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, sorry. I thought we were still on fire. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: they're not going to prepare any differently.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: They're preparing for number 10. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I will say, funny enough, Landon Clark's kind of a
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  Speaker 4: clone of Sam Levitt.
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  Speaker 7: I was about to say, I feel like if you're
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  Speaker 7: preparing for Sam, you're also preparing for Landon Clark.
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  Speaker 4: They're the same guy with the same skills.
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  Speaker 5: You change nothing. You know what? If subconsciously you make
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  Speaker 5: their offensive line or running backs take five minutes off
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  Speaker 5: in a meeting mentally preparing because they don't think TJ
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  Speaker 5: Daugherty's playing or a chance, then maybe you think that's
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  Speaker 5: an advantage. Yeah. I think it's a little silly. I
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  Speaker 5: think injury reports.
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  Speaker 7: You should have put Prince Will on it.
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  Speaker 5: Injury reports are kind of dumb. They're really for the media. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It's not for the other team, I don't think. I
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  Speaker 5: never thought it to be for the other team. Injury
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  Speaker 5: reports are just for the people. And he's just trolling
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  Speaker 5: some people.
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  Speaker 6: Who cares?
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  Speaker 5: I'm like. I'm more doubtful to not take a pee
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  Speaker 5: today than they are to not play.
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  Speaker 2: You've got like a 97-year-old man bladder, too.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, occupational hazard. DrinkMyHigh.com.
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  Speaker 4: The most hydrated man in Baton Rouge.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, man. You're not going the whole show. Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 4: The whole show. He's not going hour one.
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  Speaker 5: There's a better chance that I don't take a piss
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  Speaker 5: today than those players are to not play in the game.
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  Speaker 2: That's so aggressive.
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  Speaker 5: That means they're going to play. And I base this
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  Speaker 5: on absolutely nothing. Just my feeling.
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  Speaker 2: The doubtful portion of it is the interesting part, I think,
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  Speaker 2: to a lot of people.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because doubtful is like. It's doubtful. Right. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it's what it is.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe there's, you know, maybe there is some smoke. Maybe there,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you don't pull maybe it all out of
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  Speaker 2: thin air. So that's something to pay attention to. A
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  Speaker 2: doubtful tag does, you know, make you think a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: But am I with you?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think.
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  Speaker 4: He's going to play like.
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  Speaker 2: A guy like that, it would be very, very hard
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  Speaker 2: for him not to play in this game.
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  Speaker 7: I just had something I was going to ask.
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  Speaker 5: I lost it.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, let me find it.
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  Speaker 5: 13 times an hour.
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  Speaker 2: I can't find it.
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  Speaker 8: The thing that I want people to be aware of
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  Speaker 8: is like, if for some reason he does not play,
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  Speaker 8: this is not a disaster scenario.
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  Speaker 5: Okay. I mean, there's so many people out there that are.
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  Speaker 8: Like, Oh, what's going to happen? Look, I know that
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  Speaker 8: I've talked about this guy. I know Jake sent a
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  Speaker 8: text last night. Man, Taylor's so excited right now. Obviously,
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  Speaker 8: you're a better team.
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  Speaker 5: That table just went up.
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  Speaker 8: You're obviously a better team with Sam Levitt, but this
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  Speaker 8: guy can play. He had 29 touchdowns last year, started
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  Speaker 8: a whole season, and let's not forget, I understand they're
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  Speaker 8: two completely different people and they'll react differently. But this
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  Speaker 8: precedent was set just last year in Lane Kiffin's offense
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  Speaker 8: when third game of the season, Trinidad Shambles stepped in,
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  Speaker 8: became the starter. He thrived in Lane Kiffin's system and
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  Speaker 8: the rest is history. Now, does that mean that's going
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  Speaker 8: to happen again? No, but Landon Clark has talent. We've
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  Speaker 8: seen it through the first four games or two games.
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  Speaker 8: You saw it last year at Elon.
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  Speaker 5: It's fine. Everybody relax.
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  Speaker 2: Whoa.
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  Speaker 5: Are you sweating? Whoa. You sweating over there?
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  Speaker 1: Me?
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  Speaker 5: You're absolutely right.
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  Speaker 2: If somebody is doubtful, by the way, there is a
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  Speaker 2: chance that he had an off day and did not practice.
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  Speaker 2: There's a realistic chance that that did happen. Like I said,
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  Speaker 2: there might be something that is out there. Now, it
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  Speaker 2: might not be truly doubtful, but there is a chance
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  Speaker 2: that he didn't practice.
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  Speaker 4: I was going to.
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  Speaker 5: Say that Scott, I think it was Scott Rabelais.
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  Speaker 7: He posted a video of him after the Louisiana tech
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  Speaker 7: game and he was walking a little gingerly.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, maybe he was sore.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe his foot that he had surgery on was a
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  Speaker 7: little sore and maybe missed Monday practice or something, but
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  Speaker 7: I don't know. Also, Taylor told us that he was
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  Speaker 7: not at player interviews.
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  Speaker 4: He was supposed to be. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Tuesday.
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  Speaker 8: Uh, we, we were there, we got wet, we got
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  Speaker 8: Prince will, and we were supposed to get Sam on.
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  Speaker 5: I told us before. We're waiting around like.
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  Speaker 8: Almost 30 minutes at this point.
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  Speaker 5: And Bonnet said, hey, he's probably running a little late.
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  Speaker 5: Let me go get it.
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  Speaker 8: Came back maybe five minutes later and said, guys, we
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  Speaker 8: can't find Sam. I guess nobody told him he was
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  Speaker 8: supposed to do this.
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  Speaker 5: Not available today. We'll see y'all.
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  Speaker 8: Thanks for coming out. And, you know, I made a joke.
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  Speaker 8: I even asked Bonnet, well, give us Landon Clark or something.
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  Speaker 8: And then, you know, he kind of chuckled. And it's like,
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  Speaker 8: it's not so funny now looking back on it. But
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  Speaker 8: at the time, you're like, oh, yeah, Sam's sneaking out.
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  Speaker 5: No big deal. Didn't want to talk to the media.
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  Speaker 5: But maybe there was some. I will say, if he
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  Speaker 5: is injured, he would have been in the building.
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  Speaker 4: Getting treatment.
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  Speaker 5: Getting treatment, yeah. He wouldn't have been at home.
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  Speaker 7: But also, I like how Bonette said nobody told him.
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  Speaker 2: Like, isn't that Bonette's job to tell him?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he was like, oh, I don't think he knew.
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  Speaker 8: Or maybe he just snuck out like Burrow used to do, ha-ha,
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  Speaker 8: and just kind of shrugged it off.
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  Speaker 4: We used to have notes in our locker.
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  Speaker 5: He's Burrow?
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  Speaker 4: Remember, we used to have the notes. People are comparing them.
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  Speaker 5: People are comparing them.
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  Speaker 2: And it would just be like, hey, you've been requested
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  Speaker 2: to stay after practice for media.
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  Speaker 4: You remember those?
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  Speaker 7: It's like getting summoned.
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  Speaker 4: I hadn't thought about that since the last time I
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  Speaker 4: got one.
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  Speaker 2: That's how you would know. So technically, nobody comes and
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  Speaker 2: gets you. You would just have a note.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't get a lot of those until last year.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't get any for being an all-SEC holder?
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  Speaker 5: That's a great point. It's kind of weird. People say
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  Speaker 5: I was the best to ever do it.
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  Speaker 4: Hear that blame fish?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I would dominate a blame, for sure. You
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  Speaker 5: were so good at it, you did it.
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  Speaker 8: Again, you did it as the starting quarterback, which you
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  Speaker 8: were the first person I ever saw do that.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, do what?
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  Speaker 5: He was the holder for the special teams as the starter.
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  Speaker 4: Which is.
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  Speaker 5: Well, because I had guys like Jake, who were my backup,
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  Speaker 5: and I saw those big hands holding practice, and I
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  Speaker 5: was like, I ain't working hard to put this team
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  Speaker 5: in the end zone. And then this guy's going to
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  Speaker 5: mess it up with those big hands. Jake's holding it.
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  Speaker 5: The kicker's like, Coach, I can't see the ball.
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  Speaker 4: You know what? It's actually a pretty fair point. It's
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  Speaker 4: probably pretty distracting.
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  Speaker 5: For the kicker. Like, which one's the ball?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, which one's the ball? What did I kick here?
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  Speaker 4: I was trying to protect you, buddy. I hated doing it.
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  Speaker 2: I'd try to sneak out of practice. Because it was
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  Speaker 2: always after practice. You'd get like 15 of them or so.
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  Speaker 2: And they'd be like, Hester, come get 10. I've already
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  Speaker 2: got my pads off, Coach.
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  Speaker 5: No. I just want to go in. So how many
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  Speaker 5: people can say that they were the greatest to do
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  Speaker 5: it in the history of their program?
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  Speaker 4: Can you say that?
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're a lot of heavy lifting over there.
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  Speaker 5: Not my main position. My other position. Greatest holder.
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  Speaker 2: I guess, and it will probably come back throughout the show,
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  Speaker 2: but a.
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  Speaker 4: Couple things.
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  Speaker 2: I would assume that Sam Levitt's playing in this game.
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  Speaker 2: I would be surprised if he doesn't. If he is
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  Speaker 2: truly doubtful, if he doesn't play in this game, you
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  Speaker 2: have a, I would say, a clone of the same quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: and you don't change anything in your offense. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: not trying to be funny when I say this.
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  Speaker 4: When I saw T.J. Dottery on the injury list, that.
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  Speaker 2: Was the one that I asked most people about.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I got a little heart flutter on that one.
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  Speaker 2: When it said questionable for him, I was like, this
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  Speaker 2: is not the one I want to see. And so
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  Speaker 2: then I saw that Moscona had done an interview with
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  Speaker 2: him earlier in the day, and I saw Matt say,
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  Speaker 2: kind of like joke around and say, I just did this.
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  Speaker 5: He's playing.
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  Speaker 4: That gave me a lot of peace of mind.
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: It did. I'm not going to lie. I was like,
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: I need that guy.
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: TJ and what he means in a game like this
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: with this quarterback you're facing and Trinidad Chambliss, you need
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: him on the field and you need him next.
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: To Whit Weeks.
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: And so that was something that certainly stood out to me. So,
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: all right, we'll take a break.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: Obviously, if we get any information or if we hear
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: anything about Sam Levitt during the show, we'll give that
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: to you. It's probably going to break at 10.01 like
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: it often does.
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: Let's see if we can get him in studio. Why not?
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: Let's call it. More OTB when we come back.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: Off the Bench. Tigers turn talkers. This is Off The Bench. Hmm.
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in O-T-B. Here live from the
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: Razor Canes studio.
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: Alondra, this is my love language right here.
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: This is a good song.
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: That whole album. You can play the whole album. I
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: think this was number two or three.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: President of the United States of America?
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Peaches. Little dune buggy.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Weird Al really liked covering some of their songs.
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: Little parodies.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: Big Gump.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: I think he also did a Peaches one, if I'm
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: not mistaken.
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  Speaker 5: Probably.
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: I think he did.
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: What would he say instead of peaches?
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: I really don't remember.
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: Leeches?
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: Beaches?
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: Maybe. Actually, that feels right.
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: These little beaches. What?
• 16:50
  Speaker 7: All the good songs aren't long enough, though. Like, this
• 16:53
  Speaker 7: song's only like two minutes long.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Short and sweet. Look, you get in, you get out.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: Get in and you get out.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: All right, so we talked about The injury report. By
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: the way, we didn't call Flynn out. Like, I said
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: we were going to be our normal selves for, like,
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: 12 to 15 minutes, and then we'd get into it.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: Matt went right into it. Big sports guy. Big J journalist,
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: Matt Flynn.
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: Well, I really want to take our show and turn
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: it a little bit more serious.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: No.
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: We might be top five, then, if we do that.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: We're just outside the top five right now.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: I'd rather be number six.
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'd rather be 60. I mean, you know, you know.
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: We got serious stuff after us, you know?
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean, I really wasn't serious. I jumped into
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: the conversation by making a joke. Something about doubtful. I
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: don't remember. It was funny.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Ah.
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: Something about taking a piss.
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: Something about taking a piss, yeah.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: You did say. You said a couple things. I'm like, buddy.
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: What?
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: It's carpool time.
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: What are you doing? It's not. It's not. It was
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: too early for carpool.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Again, just because your children's school is a little bit later,
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: my children were already in the car.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: They leave at 7. Well, don't live so far away.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: We don't.
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: Anyways.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: I wasn't kidding when I said, though, about, like, with
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: the injury report. Like, TJ Daughtery was my. And that
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: is not a slight at Sam Leavitt at all. I
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: think it's one, it's like faith in Landon Clark if
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: that did end up being a situation. I really do
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: think somebody like that and his mentality, just from what
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: you hear around the building, if he had to step in,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: he'd be ready to go.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: But I think T.J.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Dottery has unlocked so many things for this defense. I
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: think he unlocked so many things for Whit Weeks as
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: well because his athletic ability, his football IQ allows him
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: to be in the right spot at the right time
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: and be an uber-athletic linebacker that pairs that football IQ
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: to be like an all-conference type player. And then when
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: you have that, Whit Weeks next to him doesn't have
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: to be all those things. Like, Whit Weeks can be
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: the wild man. He can be the wild banshee. He
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: can do a lot of Whit Weeks things that we
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: saw him do two years ago when he was fully healthy.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: And if you don't have a T.J. Dottery that can
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: do those things, then, well, then, like, Whit has to
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: do those things.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: Now, T.J.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: 's going to make his own plays, make no mistake
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: about it, but you pointed this out in the first
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: film review that we did. Like, there was plays that
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: were made because T.J. Dottery set everybody else to make
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: those plays.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: And Whit made the play and I believe, I believe
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Benefield made one because T.J.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: Set it up. To me, he's like, he is the
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: most important piece right now. It could change. It could change.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: But, TJ daughter might be the most important piece to
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: this defense for what he does for everybody else around him.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah. It's a big statement to say because of a
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: defense that's been so good. The number one defense in
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: the country so far through two games, there's been a
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: lot of important and impressive pieces and, I think he's
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: certainly been the biggest surprise to me in watching film,
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: and he has flashed the most times, and he has
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: been the most impressive piece to me on this defense.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: I think, just like you said, when I saw him
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: on the injury, and I don't put a lot of
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: credence into injury list. Again, I guess I look at
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: injury list from an NFL standpoint. Everybody's always on it. Like,
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: if you're sore, if you're limited in any way and
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: it's a long season, like, I don't look at that.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: But I did see his name, and I'm like, man,
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: we really need that guy, especially this week because we
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: are facing Trinidad-Chambers. And I do believe the combination between T.J.
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: Daughtery and Whit Weeks is the best, has to be
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: the best linebacker. I hadn't studied every linebacker tandem, but
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: it has to be. There's nobody better in college football
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: than those two. The way they fly around, the way
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: they work with each other. T.J. Daugherty has been the
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: most impressive player to me on the defensive side of
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: the ball, not just because of he's making every play
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: and making every tackle. He is involved in every play.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: He's been the highest graded player for LSU on defense
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: with a 94.8 grade on pro football focus.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: It's two games. I get that. I understand that.
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: 94.8.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: And he's first by a lot. Like in terms of grades,
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: like Jordan Ross at 91.3 is number two. Right. So
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: like what we're saying is kind of getting backed up
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: by the film. And you've probably noticed it as well.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Talking to the listeners here. And if you haven't watched
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: that guy during this game on Saturday. Again, when we
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: talk about like setting everybody else up, it doesn't mean
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: that he doesn't make plays like he'll make tackles and
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I'll make TFLs and he'll rush the quarterback. But when
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: we talk about football IQ, it's like in the coverage
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: lanes and him knowing where to get to a spot,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: that's where I think he's probably been the best. And
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: it doesn't show up because he's in the right spot
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: so the quarterback doesn't go there. But he has a
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: purpose to get to his coverage lanes. And a lot
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: of times in college, you'll have even a good linebacker.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: He'll kind of get there, then he'll drift a little
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: bit and allow the quarterback's eyes to dictate kind of
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: where he goes and doesn't get to his spot and
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: is firm and confident in his spot. But with TJ
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Daugherty so far, He's been really good in coverage. I
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: think he's been really good slipping blocks as well. Like
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: we said, maybe not even for himself to make the play,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: but for somebody else to make the play. He's been
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: a lot of fun. I knew he was a good player.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: I talked about it the other day because I had
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Ole Miss. That was my team I was assigned to
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: during the playoff run for serious last year, and I
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: got a chance to watch him each and every week.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: But I'd be lying if I said that I thought
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: he would be this impactful this soon, but I do
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: think it's because you have number six and number seven
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: next to each other, and I think that unlocks something
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: for this LSU team.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: He has been the surprise of the year for me
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: so far in a positive way. And again, two games.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: And you can even make the argument that they were
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: both bad teams. You can make that argument.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: I get it.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: But what I'm seeing from a physical standpoint, he has
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: played so far like a first-round linebacker. And that is
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: not an overstatement. I would bet that most coaches, most
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: football people like looking at that tape. He flips a
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: sip like a DB. Yeah. He has pop. He can
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: run around the corner. He can rush. He has football.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: IQ is really good. And that's, what's really cool about
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: this defense. Not only are they good and tenacious and
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: they fly around and play like their hair's on fire,
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: they do it smartly. And that's a sign of kids.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: They get it. They have good heads on their shoulders,
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: but they're also coached really well. They understand not just
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: what they're doing, but why they're doing it. Why? Like, Okay, TJ,
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: you might not be making this play, but understand why
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: you're not making this play because you are taking two
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: blockers so your partner in crime can come around and
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: loop around the other side. They understand all that. But then, again,
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: we've seen it in coverage. He can flip his hips
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: like a DB and make a play down the field.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: Now he dropped the ball, hands like feet maybe.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: That's why he's over there not playing tight end.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: So I hate to give a lot of defensive people
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: credit for being high football IQ because, you know, defensive people. Dum-dums.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: cavemen over there. But you know what? Our guys, smarter.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: The smartest cavemen. Okay. You like that? Sure. See how
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: I spun that?
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: Still don't want to give defensive people too much love. Compliment-ish? Compliment-ish. Oh, man.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: I do feel like, and we'll probably come back and
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: talk about this a little bit. All the talk about
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: this game has been about what? The offense for LSU
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: and the offense for Ole Miss. Not enough conversation has
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: been about the defense in this game. Not enough conversation
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: even goes back to a year ago when LSU and
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Ole Miss played and some of the success relative to
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: what Ole Miss was doing offensively against literally everybody else
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: is talked about. So when I hear people talk about
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: this matchup and I heard somebody say, well, even Kirby
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Smart couldn't slow him down last year. Well, Blake Baker
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: and LSU did the best job on this offense, I think. Like,
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: when you go back in, look, Ole Miss still had success.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Ole Miss won the game with this coaching staff that's
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: now at LSU offensively. But I think this LSU defense,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: as good as they were last year, they were good.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: I think it's much better. Like, you add T.J. Dottery,
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: you add Jordan Ross, you add Deuce Gerald, you add
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Ty Benefield, Umami Ellen off the edge. Like, this defense
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: was a top 30 defense last year. I think it's
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: better this year. You've got a healthy Whit Weeks. It
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: wasn't healthy at all last year. So the job that
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: they did schematically, I think, against them last year, and
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: you pair that with the guys that they've added physically,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: and then, as you'll see later, we just did another
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Eye in the Sky episode. This offense is a little
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: bit different as far as the bells and whistles to it.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: And I'll show you, and to add on to what
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: you're saying, I actually, you know, if you're playing the
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: name game and the who's who of college football and
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: the star game, like, You're like, man, this Ole Miss
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: offense is going to be great. I watched the film.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: I actually like our matchup defensively versus their offense. And
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: I got a couple of reasons why. And I'll share
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: that with you after the break.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: Ooh, radio tease. What a pro.
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  Speaker 2: More OTB when we come back.
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  Speaker 4: Before the break.
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  Speaker 5: That's all I can think about. Because I forgot. That's
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  Speaker 5: all I can think about. All anybody's talking about is
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: Trinidad Chambliss. He's 40 years old. Playing in his 10th
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: year of college football. He's so good. Yeah, he's pretty good. But.
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: So is LSU's defense. I actually very much like the
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: matchup between LSU's defense and the Ole Miss offense. And yes,
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: Trinidad is good. I watched the Ole Miss-Louisville film, and
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: we all know that that was a closer game than
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: a lot of people expected. I know Louisville is a
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: good team. I think they had the third highest odds
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: before the season, third highest odds to win the ACC.
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: So they were a little bit of probably, they're a
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: good team. Are they a great team?
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: No.
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: But it was going to be a tough matchup first
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: game out. I'm watching the offense, and they do seem
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: a little bit bland. They seem a little bit boring.
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: Not a lot of creativity from Ole Miss on their offense.
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: The most creative stuff they do is before the snap.
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: They do a lot of motions and shifts. I don't
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: know the stats from the running game because we are
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: locked out of an account to find these stats. but
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: they looked like 75% of their runs were some sort
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: of counter. So it was, and I'm not going to
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: say that I broke down Lane's offense a ton last
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: year from Ole Miss, but it looked like a little
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: bit of a shadow itself. Now, of course, that was
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: game one, so I'm sure they're installing more things, but
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: here's one of the reasons, one of my takeaways from
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: that film and why I like this matchup. outside of
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: just the athleticism and the speed that LSU has on defense.
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: From a schematic standpoint, from an X's and O's standpoint,
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: what I saw from Ole Miss when they got pressure looks,
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: so let's just say they're in a two-by-two set, two
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: receivers to the left, two receivers to the right, or
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: an 11 personnel where they had to tie it in
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: off the line of scrimmage, or even a three-by-one. When
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: they got pressure looks, so either two linebackers in the A-gap,
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: or a cover zero type look, type shell. When they
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: got people lined up to the line of scrimmage, that
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: challenges their protection rules. Their protection adjustments or their calls
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: would be, let's go to a seven-man protection. And that's
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: different offensive coordinators have different philosophies. I think everybody has
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: a seven-man protection rule or an addition or an option
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: in their playbook. But they did it multiple times where
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: they blocked with seven people. Now, if you do the math,
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: you block with seven people. You got a quarterback that
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: leaves three people to run a route. So, yes, it
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: is more sound from a protection standpoint. But just because
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: you line up those linebackers and DBs in a lot
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: of scrimmage doesn't mean they necessarily come, right? What have
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: we seen LSU's defense and Blake Baker do time and
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: time and time again this season? Well, they bring simulated pressures.
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: Which means they show pressure. Heck, they even bring a nickel.
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: They even bring a linebacker. But it's simulated. So simulated
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: means they give you a pressure look. They actually bring
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: a second-level defender, but they drop people into coverage. Yeah.
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: So simulated means they're still going to rush four, and
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: sometimes they're even rushing three.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: I'm watching this, and I'm saying as much as Blake
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: Baker likes to bluff and show and disguise and do
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: all this eye candy and show pressure, if Ole Miss
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: keeps that in there, that tool, and uses that this week,
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: if they check to seven-man protections, the majority of the
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: time that they do that, they're still going to be
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: running three receiver routes against seven people in coverage and
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: sometimes even eight people in coverage. And that's not a
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: good matchup. Trinidad is not good enough. to be able
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: to sit there and hold the ball, go through reads. Now,
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: he's good enough to scramble and make plays, but with
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: the speed of LSU's safeties, the speed of their linebackers,
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: in fact, the speed of their defensive ends, he's just
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: not going to be able to make those plays. So
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: if you're just thinking about it, I mean, if you're
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: playing your backyard ball, if you're in recess and you've
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: got three guys running around and they have seven or
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: eight guys covering it, there's not a great chance unless
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: you're running around and doing a lot of things. So
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: that's one of the matchups that I like. I also
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: believe that this is going to be a huge safety
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: game for LSU. The safeties have not really had the
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: opportunity to flash and make a ton of plays. I
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: think we believe that Ty Benefield is going to be
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: a star player this season. He hasn't had to do
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: a lot to Marcus Cooley. Hasn't had a lot of
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: standing around because the front seven's making all the plays.
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: So I think Ty Benefield's got five tackles on the year.
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: I think he's going to double that count after this game. Okay.
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: I think he's going to be flying around. I said
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: this last year. We're going to have to get great
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: play from the safeties. Trinidad is going to make some plays.
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: They're going to do. They got the eye candy. They
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: got jet sweeps. They fake tosses. They fake options. They
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: pull guards. They pull tackles, tight ends. He's going to
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: get to the second level. But when our safeties have
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: made plays this season, they have been shot out of
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: a cannon. They come down so hard. And not just
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: Ty Benefield. Marcus Cooley made a couple of plays against
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: Louisiana Tech. I was like, oh, my God. Where did
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: he come from? Does he run a 4-1-40? And then
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: they go and they have the body control to go
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: there and make a tackle. And they're shooting for knees.
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: They're shooting for thighs. They're getting them down on the
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: ground quickly. I said that on the broadcast.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: I said, you know what I haven't noticed is it
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: taking a second guy to get somebody down so far
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: from LSU's defense. the sure tackling has been something that's
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: maybe been as impressive as anything to me. And I
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: mentioned that on the call on Saturday, I said, I
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: was talking to Chris and I was like, how many
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: times have we seen one guy go for the tackle?
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: He missed it.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: And then the guy get 11 extra yards and it
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: take a second guy.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: I was like, I really can't remember one.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: And in a game like this, as you know, like
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Ole Miss likes to throw, you know, they'll throw a
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: now screen and they'll do a bunch of different stuff
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: and they'll go three by one and they'll have a
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: trips formation and they'll throw it to the back guy
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: and the two guys in front of him block.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: And they'd like to get seven yards by doing that.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Like that's important in a matchup like this because you
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: don't want seven to turn into seven deep.
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah. And what's one thing. And to kind of like
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: tie this whole conversation together. If you are, if your
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: answer to a lot of pressure looks is a seven
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: man protection and you drop seven into coverage, what does
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: that allow you to do? It allows you to spy.
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: It allows you to understand what the offense is trying. What,
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: As a defense, if you understand the offense's answers and
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: what their playbook, what their answers are to different looks,
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: you know how to attack it. And if you spy
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: with Ty Benefit, if you spy with Marcus, whoever that is, yes,
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: Trinidad can hurt you with his speed. But not if
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: somebody else is just as fast as him out there
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: that is spying him from a safety position. And so
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: it's going to be a fascinating matchup. We'll see if
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: Ole Miss comes with some different answers again based on
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: a lot of this off just of one game tape,
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: but there's only really one game tape to really watch.
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: There's a diff different off, like the same offensive, like philosophy,
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: but a different offensive playbook. Certainly. No, there's going to
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: be similarities there. They've run some, they, they threw a
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: touchdown on a play that, that Joe Montana ran back
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: in the late eighties.
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: Like it was Joe Montana, Joe Montana.
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: And, uh, it's a play that shouldn't be open, but
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: it is, it's three man route concept. The guy gets
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: open in the same, the cornerback doesn't fold over.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Like, Oh, It's almost like you can see that if
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: you watch the eye in the sky we're dropping later.
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: Almost. Almost like you can see that. But I think
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: the team speed on defense is going to outshine. Again,
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: Trinidad's good. I don't know. I think that he's going to.
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: He's going to make a play in this game.
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: He's going to have to play.
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: He is.
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: He's going to have to play like he did against Miami. Yeah.
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: In the semifinals.
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: In the Fiesta Bowl, yeah.
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: Now, can LSU score points on the other side? I
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: think they can score more than last year. I don't
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: care who's doubtful.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: I'm going to take a break. Actually, let's do this
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: when we do come back, because obviously we're just going
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: to continue talking about this matchup. I did go back
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: and watch last year's game, and offensively, woof.
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: Woof, woof?
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: There were some situations you had a chance, and you
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: just kind of peed down your leg a little bit
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: in that game.
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: I feel that.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: That game had so many opportunities for LSU to take
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: advantage of that game.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: And they just did not do it like of any
• 37:51
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• 37:53
  Speaker 2: And outside of really Xavier on Thomas on offense, like
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: you just continue to shoot yourself in the foot, put
• 38:00
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• 38:03
  Speaker 2: so we can kind of talk about the differences that
• 38:05
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  Speaker 2: right i talked about last year's game and i don't
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  Speaker 2: know if you had a chance to go back and
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  Speaker 2: watch any of it there was a couple of things
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: that stood out to me um offensively lsu just continued
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: to shoot themselves in the foot. Anytime that they had
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: any positive momentum, anytime the defense gave them the ball back,
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: they would literally like make the one play you couldn't make, if.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: That makes sense.
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: And, you know, there's an interception. There was just, you know,
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: bad third down calls. There was third down plays that
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: didn't have a rhyme, didn't have a reason. And I guess,
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: you know, you kind of cut those games out like
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: as soon as you do them and you remember some
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: of the things. But when you go back and you
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: watch it like a year later and you're like, this
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: was a really bad game plan. for this game. Like
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: they did not have what they needed to be successful.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: So I'm not even blaming the players right now. Like, yeah, player, like,
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: you know, you make a, you throw an interception, you fumble, whatever,
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: but nothing set up the next play. Nothing set up
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: the end result. Like it felt like every play was
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: just like, you have the play sheet.
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: And you're like, Hmm, scan, scan, scan, scan. This one
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: looks good. It was like, no whammy, no whammy, no whammy. Boom.
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: And it's like, whatever it landed on, you just call it.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: It it was tough to watch there was no rhyme
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: there was no reason to set up everything and so
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: then you go to the other.
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: Side of it it's like making a cake with no
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: recipe it really was like and no measuring spins yeah and.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: You're just trying to go off vibes and defensively LSU
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: again I think they did a good job but you
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: can see Ole Miss was setting up plays Ole Miss
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: set up that fourth down conversion like all game long
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: and that's how it was so easy for them to
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: convert it and so like.
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: The differences in offensive philosophies in.
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: That one, it was shocking. Like, it really was. One
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: team had one?
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: I mean, yes.
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: Truly. I mean, that was the story of the year.
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: I mean, that's why Lincoln was our coach. My God, man.
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: It was tough.
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: That's why you pay all that money to get rid
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: of a kid. And I'll say this.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: Like, Xavion Thomas, a player that I would have loved,
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: absolutely loved to see in this offense, he was making plays,
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: but it was individual effort in the plays that he
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: was making. Like, he kept flashing, but it was because, like,
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: he would get in the backfield, make two guys miss,
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: cut upfield, make a cut, get north-south, and make three
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: more guys miss, and he'd gain 17 yards, it felt like.
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it'd be nice to run it back with a
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: couple of those players.
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Xavier on Thomas, Barry on Brown. That'd be fun.
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: That'd be a good time. Good, clean fun. Yeah.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: But that stood out to me. I mean, it just flashed.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: And then the other thing was, and I sent you
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: the three plays.
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: Like, LSU was. It was 24-19.
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: I know, and LSU was like a little bit away.
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: So P.J.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: Woodland got the interception, but before that, D.J. Pickett got one.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: It was a pick six, and it was a very soft.
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: Pass interference call. They called it, and a lot of
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: times they don't call that.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: It's kind of a 50-50 deal. They called it, but
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: Trinidad Chambliss in that game thought that he had the
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: advantage going back shoulder, back shoulder, back shoulder. LSU got
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: their hands on three footballs that day. You had a
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: pass breakup that could have been an interception. You had
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: a pick six. They got called back for a very
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: soft pass interference call. And then you did have an
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: interception by P.J.
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: Woodland. He thought he could test the DBs, and I
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: don't know that he'll do that again.
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: Now, to his defense, because I do like Trinidad as
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: a quarterback, to his defense, what was it, his second start?
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: And a little bit of me saying that is remembering
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: that as well.
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, he wasn't the Trinidad of later in
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: the season, certainly at that point. Now, he made his plays.
• 44:33
  Speaker 5: He threw for over 300 versus you, but our offense
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: has improved. Well, okay, our offense is completely different, so
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: I'm not even going to compare. The defense has improved,
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: even though they still were good and held them to
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: those 24 points last season.
• 44:46
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