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LSU Football:Offensive Woes and Defensive Strengths · JustIN Time

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  Welcome back to another edition of the Justin Time Podcast.
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  I'm your host, Justin. But let's get into this LSU
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  Louisiana Tech game, shall we? Was not the prettiest of games.
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  We did come off with a win. There was a lot of positives,
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  but there were also a ton of negatives.
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  And your team should be getting better in Week 2 as you move
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  along. But Brian Kelly missed the memo
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  and our offense. Digress, digress.
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  No, it's not digress. Regressed.
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  They just had no flow. I get it that we had key
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  offensive lineman on our already young offensive line go down
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  early. We lost our tight end, our star
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  tight end, but your weapons are on the outside and you didn't
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  use them for two games now you've yet to use our receivers.
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  We need to be using our receivers.
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  Our run game. With the way our offensive line
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  is our run game, is it going to be anything spectacular?
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  Our offensive line is hot and cold.
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  They can't block. If we don't have a misdirection
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  in or or two in thrown in. Our guys are getting overpowered
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  by Louisiana Tech. They should never happened.
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  Part of that is to me is coaching.
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  Offensive line coach has been really good when he's had really
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  good offensive lineman and really terrible when he needs to
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  develop his offensive lineman. I don't know what to say.
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  Nuss had 237 yards passing, 1 touchdown pass, was 26 to 41 and
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  had one interception. Now the interception, it's not
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  like he's threw it directly to in double triple coverage like
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  he did past years. That one just took a bad bounce
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  and landed right and the defender was in the right place
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  at the right on the right time. We need to get more of our
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  receiving game into the game plan.
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  We need to give. We need to protect Nuss and give
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  him more time to make a decision.
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  But also Nuss needs to figure out he's got legs.
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  He needs to move with the play breaks down.
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  He needs to not give up on a play and take what they give him
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  and run. There was at least three times
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  where he could have got a first down with his legs and he just
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  didn't, didn't move. He had -27 rushing yards and
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  some of that was from sex. Offensive line was pathetic.
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  They could not block. The interior of the offensive
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  line was pathetic at half time going in the half.
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  We had the ball with two minutes left and they literally,
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  Louisiana Tech literally went straight through the middle.
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  Our offensive line didn't block a soul.
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  Sometimes when we ran, our offensive line didn't block a
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  soul. Offensive line play needs to be
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  better. You can't do anything with an
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  offense that has the old line that can't block.
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  We need to be better. We'll get better.
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  Hopefully by the we will get better.
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  It's early in the season. We have a young offensive line.
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  We'll get there. Would I like us to get there
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  faster? Yeah, absolutely.
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  But we will get there and it will be fine.
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  Hopefully everything will be fine.
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  Let's get into some statistics. Harlan Berry had 6 carries for
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  56 yards. He was responsible for 50.
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  Sorry, a 43 yard long run. Xavion Thomas got involved. 6
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  carries for 54 yards for 4848 was his longest yard, longest
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  run. What really surprised me here is
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  Kaden Durham 13 carries, 29 yards, one TD.
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  His longest carry was 5 yards. And then really nobody else
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  really contributed more than a yard our receiving Berrien.
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  Berrien Brown LED with eight receptions for 94 yards and 19
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  yard long, and Anderson 8 receptions, 73 yards, 23 yard,
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  23 yard long. Davian Thomas had four for 35.
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  His longest reception, his longest run after the catch, was
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  15. Nick Anderson had three for 17
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  yards and a touchdown. His longest was 7 yards.
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  Caden Durham 2 receptions for 10 yards.
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  His longest was 7 and sharp one reception for 8 yards and his
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  longest was 8 yards for a total of 237.
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  Now here's where it gets good because the defense was
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  outstanding once again. I've been really impressed by
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  the defense. I think in the coming games we
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  win the game solely because of the defense.
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  W Week's 10 total tackles Devon Devon Keys 9 total tackles,
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  Cooley 5 tackles, Highburn 4 tackles, Policy 30, Witweeks 3.
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  And it just goes on and on for three.
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  One that I need, I need to see him get more into these games
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  and make an impact is Harold Perkins.
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  He only had two tackles, but he was all over the field.
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  He's going to be between him and the Weeks brothers.
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  That's our leadership on defense.
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  Our defense solely depends on Wit Weeks, W Weeks and Harold
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  Perkins. There's no other person.
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  That's just our just how it goes special teams.
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  I give AB, we have one kick return for 42 yards.
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  That's nice. We had two punt returns for 24
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  yards total. I mean, punting most of that.
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  That punter for Tech was really good.
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  He punted 9 times for 346 yards and most of them had to be a
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  fair catch. Damian Ramos needs to be better.
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  Part of that is he missed one, but part of that is our genius
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  head coach decided to ice his own kicker and call a time out
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  before he kicked the first one. The only one he missed of the
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  night. So he was 3 for four.
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  But after he came up limping on that first, a second field goal
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  to Clemson, he'd been having me worried.
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  He's a little shaky now. From where I sit, it totally
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  look like he made the first one. It's just angles.
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  Every time he misses one on that side, I'm always like, unless it
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  rolls in, I'm always like, he made that.
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  It's just angles. I can't, I don't have a good
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  angle on that on that goal post from where I sit, I just don't
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  have a good angle. Overall, I guess team averages
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  AB, we need to get on more on our offense.
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  We need to offensive coordinator needs to Joe Sloan needs to get
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  our receivers, our receivers in start taking more shots down the
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  field. That's our strength.
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  Running back is not our strength.
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  Half of these guys that got reset, that got big yardage in
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  the and contributed in the run game or receivers, we need to
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  get those guys more out on the outside and let them do they
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  think Louisiana Tech's defense was better than I expected, but
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  still nothing to write home about.
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  I mean, we just have to be better.
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  We just really have to be better.
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  We have to get more of our receivers involved.
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  We need to throw the ball down the field more, protect the
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  quarterback more. When we do run, a little
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  blocking from the offensive line would be nice.
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  I know they're young guys and they're trying their best, but
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  at least take up space and don't get pushed back.
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  Stop standing straight up on your first.
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  Your first move shouldn't be up, it should be out.
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  And even in pass blocking, it should just be low and back.
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  We need to do a better job. Like I said, the defense had a
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  nearly perfect game. I'm really pleased with the way
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  that Blake Baker has got this team, this defense going now.
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  It's made leaps and bounds from you from year to year with him.
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  I get last year they were talking about it during the
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  first game. Last year they said he just
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  didn't have the death that he wanted to run the kind of
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  defense that he wanted to. But this year he's got it and it
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  shows and the defense looks spectacular.
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  But that game is over with and we're moving on to the Florida
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  Gators, who lost a tough one in at home against the South
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  Florida team who's always been, who's always in the last couple
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  years given SEC teams to run for their money.
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  So let's just get into this. I mean, offensively for Florida,
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  it was nothing. It was kind of like LSU was
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  nothing special. There was only one touchdown
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  scored in this game. South Florida beat them off of
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  field goals. Brown for South Florida's
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  yardage was 263 yards. Take that back, they did have a
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  they 2 touchdowns scored in this game.
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  Look at that, I was looking at it wrong.
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  Yep, they had two touchdown passes thrown in this game.
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  Other than that it was straight off of field goals each
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  quarterback had. Wolf Brown didn't have an
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  interception. What else do we have?
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  That rushing was really strong for Florida.
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  Again, 133 yards. South Florida's rushing was 128.
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  Receiving for Florida was 222 with 1 touchdown for South
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  Florida, receiving looks like 263 yards.
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  So looks like defensive backfield is going to be where
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  LSU can get the edge on Florida. Florida's defense.
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  But we have to be able to protect the quarterback.
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  You know, we have to be able to protect the quarterback.
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  If we can protect us even just a little bit and give him time to
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  let a play develop and hit a receiver down the field, we can
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  get this ball going. We can get this game going and
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  we can get it going. Because I really think this is
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  going to come down to a defensive battle.
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  It's going to be whose defense is on the field for less of the
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  time and who gets more. 3 and outs causes turnovers.
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  And I can see LSU winning this game.
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  Honestly. I can see LSU getting it winning
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  this game pretty big. But I can also see this game
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  coming down to a field goal at the end of the game.
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  It's all going to be who's offense shows up more.
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  Both offenses didn't look like any.
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  They look like trash compared to their first weeks.
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  You know, both offenses didn't look good.
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  They didn't have good games. They're both of these teams
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  Offenses are going to be looked to bounce back.
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  Florida's defense played well enough to keep them to give them
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  to have them have a lead at the end of that game, but they gave
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  up a field goal. You know, looks to me like the
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  weakness is through the air, so if we can get the ball up
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  instead of trying to run it every 5 minutes, we'll be fine.
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  I do think this is going to be a deep, purely defensive game.
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  So if you like high-powered offenses, this a game probably
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  ain't going to be any for you. I don't think there's going to
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  be a lot of points scored and I just I really think this is
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  going to be a defensive game. I think it's going to come down
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  and I think LSU is going to win it by a touchdown or three
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  points. We're going to win it by
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  touchdown or field goal. It's going to be a close one.
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  It's going to be a hard fought when it's going to be a fun one,
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  but not if you're into if you're in the offense, you're not going
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  to like this game. Now the Next up on LSU schedule
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  because why not just keep going is Southeastern.
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  Southeastern played Murray State, they got blown out but
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  shut out by Tech in the first the opener down in Ruston 24 to
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  nothing, but they got it. They bounced back and got a huge
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  win against Murray State 45 to 24.
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  Was it anything special or was it just Murray State not being a
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  tough team? They still had one pick.
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  They threw one touchdown pass between the two quarterbacks.
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  They went 24 for 33 between the two with 218 yards.
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  Nothing too special rushing wise.
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  I mean, they did rush for 262 yards.
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  But Murray State's defense probably is not all that, you
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  know, receiving. They had 218.
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  I think our guys can lock that down.
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  It should be another 7 point game when we get there or
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  another shot out. Yeah, that's all I'm going to
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  say about Southeastern. I mean there's that.
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  It's not like they have played anybody.
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  I can't see anything special coming from them.
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  So we're going to move on because Ole Miss in Kentucky,
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  that was a close game and I feel like it was a good game.
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  So we will talk about Ole Miss, LSUA little bit.
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  Well, we'll talk about Ole Miss in Kentucky, not LSU and Ole
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  Miss because I'm hoping that we will be, you know, undefeated
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  when we get there. We have the potential to be
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  undefeated when we get there. We just have one big obstacle in
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  Florida. Florida's always a hard fought
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  game because anytime you walk a dead cat skeleton after a team's
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  mascot dies, that's just peer hatred for that other team.
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  And that's how it was. But let's see Ole Miss Ole Miss
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  has Arkansas this weekend, so we'll see what they do.
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  But this Kentucky game at Kentucky, they won Ole Miss.
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  At Kentucky game, Ole Miss won 30 to 23.
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  Yeah, 30 to 23. There was a lot of back and
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  forth, you know, a lot of back and forth.
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  My iPad isn't giving me anything at the moment, so give me one
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  second. But just looking in when I watch
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  this game, it just the few parts that I watched was, you know, it
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  was hard fought. They each took blows, They came
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  back and forth, back and forth. You know, Kentucky had a few
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  good plays, made a few good plays.
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  Ole Miss made a few good plays. Ole Miss made one, made a couple
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  more good plays than Kentucky did, especially through the air.
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  They had two touchdowns, 235 yards for 22 interceptions.
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  So never mind. They didn't, I read that wrong.
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  They didn't have a great game through the air.
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  They had two picks 3rd to 24 with 235 yards.
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  They rushed for 2/20 though which is a big thing.
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  They had three touchdowns on the ground.
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  This game was just back and forth.
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  Both teams played clean ish football except for Ole misses 2
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  picks. You know Ole misses in the same
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  point as us with kicking wise. There were three for four field
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  goal. Honestly, I think the biggest
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  thing for LSU is going on the road at Ole Miss.
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  It's always been good games in the last couple of years.
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  I think if Brian Kelly can get this team going, you know it'll
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  be great. I think it's a good thing when
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  we get into October, we take a break before South Carolina
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  comes to us. You know, I just think it's
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  going to be one of those games when we get to Ole Miss, let's
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  not look too far ahead. But when we get to Ole Miss, I
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  think it's just going to be one of those hard fought games like
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  it always is. I have a feeling we can come out
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  of it because our defense is a lot, lot better than it used to
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  be in the years, past years. Alabama made a state comeback
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  statement beating ULM 66 to nothing but UL.
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  Ms. Hunter made an amazing quote, had an Oklahoma come out
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  and beat Michigan. Not surprised there at all
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  because it was at Oklahoma and I think Michigan's a joke.
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  I take that back. Michigan's a good football team.
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  I think Oklahoma is just showing out.
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  And especially what worries me is even when Oklahoma was
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  terrible last year, they beat the brakes off Alabama at the
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  end of the season. So they progressively got
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  better. They had the potential to get
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  progressively better this year. We'll just have to wait and see
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  where it goes. But let's end this with, you
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  know, LSU was undefeated still. So they had to work hard for
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  they had to work for that because offense, it just wasn't
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  clicking, you know, just didn't click for him on Saturday.
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  They had to work for it. But All in all, a wins a win.
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  When we look at back at this later on, we're not going to be
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  saying, oh, well, we didn't score too much.
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  You know, if we win a national championship and they play like
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  they are capable of doing and our offense, bottom line is
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  offensive coordinator needs to get a little more creative with
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  his play calling. Not don't let me take a breath.
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  Offensive coordinator needs to be more creative with the play
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  calling. He doesn't have to light the
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  world on fire, but just make it to where everybody in the
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  stadium doesn't know exactly what you're doing.
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  And that's the part where my Airpods go in and out and
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  connect to a different thing. So with that being said, this
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  has been another edition of the Just in Time podcast.
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