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The Countdown to LSU…. · JustIN Time

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  Welcome back to another edition of the Justin Tom Podcast.
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  I'm your host, Justin. We got will, you know, as of
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  Tom, I'm recording, it'll be 3 weeks.
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  But as Tom, we drop this episode, it'll be two weeks
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  away. And like Ole Miss said, the
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  countdown to LSU was here. Man, they just, the obsession,
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  it's unhealthy. Yeah, it's unhealthy, you know.
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  I remember a couple weeks ago when we posted that Ole Miss
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  episode and I posted the title rent free.
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  Somebody commented on that video.
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  Are y'all serious with the laughing face emojis?
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  We're dead serious when y'all when Ole Miss post on their
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  official Twitter account. Ole Miss athletics.
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  The countdown to LSU is here. Hourglass emoji When your
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  athletic department is training this like a Super Bowl game and
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  the biggest game in your program's history, we are living
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  rent free in your head. But but, and that's the thing
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  like, you know, we always we always talk about like the SEC
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  hate and stuff like that. It's like, bro, it's you guys
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  are continuously bringing this stuff up.
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  You are you guys are in the comments section every time.
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  Like throughout the LSU baseball season, people favorite they
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  were steady in the comment section.
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  But y'all hate LSU. But it's like, and The thing is
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  like my thing is yeah, go ahead, go ahead.
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  They. Ole Miss baseball won a national
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  championship a couple years ago. They should've did.
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  And you know, that stadium was not packed for any of their
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  games after that. LSU comes to town after Lane
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  Kiffin leaves. Y'all to come to the brighter
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  and better, more purple and more definitely more gold.
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  He's about to make. He's about to get more gold.
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  He's about to get a couple championship rings, you know,
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  knock on wood and y'all all show up.
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  Like y'all been going to every single game and every single
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  event. Y'all hated the man so much for
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  leaving. Y'all couldn't even fill up the
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  people at his at the airport when he was leaving.
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  I'm like man, and it no, and I wanted to say real quick, it was
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  like, now, mind you, I'm looking on Ole misses Wikipedia page.
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  So they've claimed 3 national championships last year.
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  They just played in the college College Football Playoff
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  semifinals. So that mean they're A1 game shy
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  of the national championship appearance.
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  So yeah, but none of that apparently is not the Super Bowl
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  for the programs history or the school's history.
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  This is they played they played three.
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  They've claimed 3 national championships and they just were
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  game shy last year. But LSU has so much power and
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  weight over their lives. Apparently that's.
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  This is. The Super Bowl.
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  And what, you know what's sad about all of this and 100 years,
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  because that'll be the closest Ole Miss football ever sniffs to
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  a national championship game in football, as long as the
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  playoffs are around in 100 years, they're going to Ole Miss
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  fans are going to look at this, that 2025 team.
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  It's that was the best team we've had in history.
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  Who is that coach? Lane Kiffin and they could build
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  him a statue. That would.
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  That would be crazy and. They're going to pretend.
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  They're going to pretend like he didn't just leave and they're
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  going to build a man of statue 100 years from now.
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  But yeah, it's like I'm like, my God, I'm like bro.
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  And just like as he's going to show you like a couple days,
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  people really don't know their history like they should.
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  It's like people avoid of like the dollars of history.
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  I'm not saying you got to be like a geek about it or just
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  like a no no all tell all, but it's the fact that you are
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  claiming a early regular season game because what good does it
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  do if you go you beat LSU but go 1 and 11?
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  Yeah, you have a bragging right for one week, but I mean.
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  They keep forgetting they've got two games, including the neutral
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  site game against Louisville before this.
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  Like I would, I would, I would hope that this, I hope they be
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  focused. Yeah.
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  For their sake, but but I mean that's not going to be our
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  problem to. Yeah, we got all the problems.
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  But on the same coin of that, just following up the video that
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  CBS is official TikTok hosted of Brian Kelly doing predicted LSU
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  schedule. LSU is going 10 and two
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  according to that clown, losing to Texas and losing to Opus.
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  You know why he had us losing to Opus?
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  Because like the comments, like the comments said, there was
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  like interviewing Hitler after World War Two.
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  Another comments said it was like your ex-wife after the
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  divorce getting interviewed about her new man and you happen
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  to you having to conduct an interview.
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  About the performance it was. You know, Brian Kelly telling us
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  we could lose the Ole Miss was his way of saying that to you.
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  You know, oh, man, but you just look miserable.
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  And I enjoyed every bit of it. I know you.
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  Not thought about. Sitting with the coffee man.
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  Like, I mean, listen, like the like the thing about, you know,
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  being a World Athletics, like do you always you have a landed
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  spot more times than not even the coolest stuff worked out.
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  The playing stuff is over as a workout.
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  You got a landed spot. So he's going to be fine, but
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  just I don't know if he's going to coach again, or at least not
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  I think he wants to, but I don't know what the situation would be
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  like. I think it's a character thing.
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  He got exposed a lot in Louisiana because if you look at
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  it at oh, he never, Brian Kelly never had a 500 season.
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  Edo had a 500 season. And everybody's up on the Raptor
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  screaming and praise and joy that Ed Ocean was back in the
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  purple and gold at LSU. You know what you you called it
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  rehire you one time. Yeah, we enjoyed.
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  Listen, how are you? I don't know if Sconer said
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  that, but hey, listen. I mean, build your brand,
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  brother. Yeah, if it works for the staff,
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  it works for the staff. Yeah, you know, Speaking of
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  building up your brand, we've got a bunch of new faces on LSU
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  offensive side the ball. Yes, like this is like a a
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  season where I just really don't in the wild, first time in the
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  wild where I really don't know what to expect.
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  I mean, you you get a lot of good stuff.
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  I mean, but you know, offseason stuff only takes me so far
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  personally like this. And we've.
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  Been talking about it. This is the first time in a long
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  time where I can name two people that's returning, two players
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  that are returning to Alice's offense.
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  I was looking at the project, your roster, projected depth
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  chart. I only know who a handful of
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  these people are. You know, obviously I know who
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  Sam Levitt is because you've heard enough about him for
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  during transfer portal. Yeah.
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  So he's projected to be the starter.
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  He's going to be the starter. You know, Dylan Jones is
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  apparently I started running back, you know, pretty much.
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  I don't, you know, I have no idea who that is, what he's, you
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  know. Then you've got Harlan Berry and
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  K Durham, two of the guys that we wanted last year to have a
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  big season. You know, there is not one
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  single wide receiver that was on this team last year that I
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  recognize. You've got Winston Watkins,
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  Jackson Harris and Jase Brown started and that's Jase Brown,
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  not Chase Brown. Everybody.
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  That's two different people, you know, but start and receiver
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  was, I don't know any of those guys, you know.
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  So new makeup room, I will say with the running backs real
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  quick, you know, just, you know, when the was, I just forgot just
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  that quick, just Dylan Jones said thank you.
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  Dylan Jones, just if he if he fits like the traditional mode
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  of like Wisconsin football, because I'm to go back to Monty
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  Ball, who's the Heisman finalist.
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  You know, Melvin Gordon, you know who who played in the NFL,
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  you know, several years is really good for the charges.
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  They have a have a very respectable lineage in the
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  running back position. LSU we have our great history as
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  well. Just like that's been a long
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  identity on offense. So if you like we just I'm a
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  passing guy, but we really got to get back to just getting a
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  trustworthy A threating like a threatening running game.
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  We have not had that out outside like Jane Davis, he he mastered
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  deficiencies. But like in the last several
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  years, we just have not had that same yeah approach.
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  And one of the things is why. Here's why.
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  Our offense, in my opinion, was on the weaker side.
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  You have to run to set up the pass.
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  So they and. As well as you have to pass to
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  set up the run. Yeah, exactly.
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  You know, in our running backs, I don't know if it was coaching
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  the blocking, but we haven't had a strong running back.
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  Darius Dice might have been the last well known running back we
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  had. Yeah, I was.
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  I think that's fair to say as far as like running the tack you
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  got to go back to, you know. Before that was our last.
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  Premier level, yeah. That was our last give the guys
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  physical runner where he didn't care if you were in his way, he
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  was running you over. Yeah.
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  And then here's the thing though.
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  Like I don't eat. I don't even need it to be that
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  special. Like, I mean, because if you
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  have like a respectable passing game, that's not going to matter
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  that much to me. We have.
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  You got to be respectable. Yeah, if we have a respectable
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  passing game like we should, I think for you to be, for you to
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  get a passing grade from me as a run game, 4 to 5 yards per
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  carry, I'm bond with. Yeah.
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  Well, that's the target and that's the target of General.
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  Yeah, yeah. 4 to 5 yards per carry.
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  I'm fine with that. You know, you don't have to
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  break these big runs, although I love to see it, but four to five
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  yards in a short yardage situation, there's no reason to
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  me on 1/4 and two, we should be doing a play action pass if
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  we're going, if we're going for it or three and two, you know,
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  you should be able to get the short yard two or three yards in
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  a push. Yeah.
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  You know. And historical we've been able
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  to do that. I just know like, you know,
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  again, like I'm an explosive offensive guy, but I mean, you
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  just have to have some type of respectable threat.
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  I mean, like say we we don't like and I'm not asking like my
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  court. I don't need just to be the
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  Wildcat. I don't need just to be triple
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  option. No spread out like zone read
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  stuff all the time. But you got to have something
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  like that's what they, that's what we've severely lacked in
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  last three years. Here's what I need you to do.
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  I don't need you to do everything really well, but I
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  need you to do everything at least good.
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  Yes, that's it. And if you can run the ball at
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  least decently, then Sam Leavitt will be able to get it to our
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  guys like trade as Green, who's our starting tight end.
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  Yeah. You know.
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  That's especially important when you have a quarterback.
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  You know, I know he's feeling good right now.
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  I'm just who's who's had injury battles, You know, just like any
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  anything to take the pressure off a got especially your most
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  important position. I'm I'm trying to limit
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  alleviate pressure off of him. We just all last year with like,
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  excuse me, how it derails an offense.
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  A lot of that wasn't the sole reason.
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  Like everything, like I always say, like the 2025 offense, it
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  was the same as the 2023 defense.
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  I think you did nothing well but put on the uniform.
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  What do you do consistently, right?
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  And one thing that I love about what Lane Kiffin did in the
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  portal in his approach, he looked at LSU last year and
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  said, OK, other than the top guy, they struggled at the
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  quarterback position. So what did he do?
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  He went out in a QB 2 and QB 3. Two well known, not well known,
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  but two very good elite quarterbacks.
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  So listen somebody to fit his approach.
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  Yeah, we got Hussein Long Street, or Who's on Long St. and
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  Landon Clark, two guys that lit it up during spring practice
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  when Sam Levitt wasn't there. Made me confident in them to say
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  if Levitt goes down, next guy up.
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  But you know, like I said, tight end trade as green.
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  I love that. Yes, big time.
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  And here's where we get to our ifs, our bigot, my biggest if
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  and what if and what you know, left tackle start a Jordan
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  Seaton. It's it's on.
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  I don't know. Left guard Bo Board along
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  Braylon Moore is the only recognizable name I see on this
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  list for starting offensive lineman.
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  He's our starting center. Right guard.
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  I don't, I'm not even going to try to pronounce that.
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  But he's a Maryland transfer. Yeah.
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  And then Weston Davis, I think it was a freshman last year.
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  He's back. You know, other than that,
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  defensive wise, you know who we got?
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  You know who we got? Back I'm just I'm looking at
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  right now Deuce to your coach Richard Lamar Brown.
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  They have lit up Fall Campbell, according to reports.
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  Yeah, we're going to be good, you know, now.
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  This is like, and this is a a open quote, like from the center
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  of Braylon Morrison. I played in the ACC, played
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  against good Clemson teams, played in the ACC.
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  Those freshmen are more developed than some of the
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  players I played in their fourth year.
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  That's yeah. It's like high praise from like
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  a very a veteran experience offensive lineman.
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  I mean, my God. I mean, you can't even get a
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  high praise in that. Yeah, I like this defensive line
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  is set for years. Yes, you can't.
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  You can't do nothing. And it's all to me.
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  Edo Jones would come in there and bring that physicality back.
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  Yeah. And she hopefully bring us back
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  to those days like that man said at that Florida game when we
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  were in college, I think it was our sophomore year or junior
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  year one or less. Miles is last year's and he said
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  this is the first time he's been to LSU Florida game where the
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  blind man didn't know what was going on.
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  Because the past, you could hear it.
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  You could hear the hits. I remember like Les got fired in
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  the during the 26 season, the Sony, I'm sorry, the 16 season,
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  sorry, 16 season right after the Auburn loss.
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  But the last time he played it was a 2015 game.
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  Was the last time LSU played Florida at home during his
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  tenure. That which was a sleeper.
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  That was a sleeper game in that series.
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  I always think about it, they right about the 2019 O 7/1 with
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  the five O 5 four time, but that was that. 2015 was a sleeper but
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  we won by 7 with another top 10 battle.
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  Yeah, but I think we're going to be good this year.
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  I'll give you, I'll tell you what, after the Clemson game,
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  after I see him actually play against somebody else.
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  Go ahead, I'll. Come in here and give you my
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  predictions for the season. That sounds like a good idea to
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  me. But as of right now, there's too
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  many unknowns. Like, sure, you see where they
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  come from, but I've also seen players on that enter the
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  transfer portal from other schools who have great success
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  against these other conferences, but come to the FCC and look
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  like they're playing their middle school player playing
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  against a bunch of high school kids.
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  Yeah, it's like people don't fully grasp that.
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  A lot of them don't really grasp that.
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  You saw like we saw it with, unfortunately, we saw it with
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  the baseball team. I know it's like it's not the
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  same sport, but like I was saying about college, man, it's
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  not equal. It's people want to call it this
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  pro like it was, just like it's it would never be pro sports
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  because it's not equal. No.
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  So it's it's just, it's just not.
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  It's just not equal, you know, And our ways you to say pro
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  sports aren't equal. Yeah, to an extent, yeah, just
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  because like you still got tears and stuff like that because
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  what's pro sports you at the mercy of ownership a lot most of
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  the time. But but it's it'll always be
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  more equal in comparison because even your most dominant teams
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  don't go undefeated. Even like you, you're poor
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  teams, they lose and close games.
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  So it's still but like I said, people need to stop.
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  This is it's not equal cause is not equal.
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  Nothing about it. It doesn't affect us as we are
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  high profile university, high profile division, but so it
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  doesn't affect us as much. But even in every, even with
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  that, like we're not great in every sport and I miss
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  basketball, but. Yeah, we've got to be better.
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  I think we'll get there, you know, but our biggest question
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  mark is offensive line this year in my.
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  Opinion without question. Because that's what it's all
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  going to come down to it. Lane Kiffin's offense is you
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  need a physical offensive lineman, you need a wall, you
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  know, But we've got time to get into all of this.
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  For sure. Like we said, you know, as of
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  recording, they had three weeks to get their stuff together.
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  Yes. As the when this episode drops,
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  they'll have two weeks and the countdown is officially begun.
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  But I'm good with what we're left, what we got today.
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  Same episode, yeah. Any closing thoughts?
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  Listen three weeks, baby. Count them down. 3 weeks.
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  Countdown to LSU is on. Especially that's that's what
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  they will miss people saying like they just can't wait.
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  That's the most important day of their life.
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  They. Can't wait.
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  It's the Super Bowl, they're going to get rings.
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  You're getting ready. Throw it again in the parade
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  where I say God bless you. Good.
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  Give me call Jim Bonefish. 'S ring guy.
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  And the but hey, I just, I mean, listen, they have been talking a
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  whole lot this offseat and we usually don't see.
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  Didn't Jim Bell Fisher also have a mural?
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  Guy painted a mural of that game, that overtime game.
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  They won two for him. I hear he's looking for Jim Bell
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  Fisher is looking for work. He'll give you a Commission if
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  you call an Ole Miss. Hey bro, hey this Commission, my
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