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LSU Source REVEALS Major Concern Before Tigers vs Auburn Tigers · College Football Addiction: A Show About All Things College Football

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  Speaker 1: LSU and Auburn. I don't know that we would have
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  Speaker 1: circled this one a few weeks ago, but it certainly
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  Speaker 1: is more intriguing now. Auburn coming off of a big
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  Speaker 1: win in Athens. LSU, after taking down Mississippi State without
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  Speaker 1: their best two players, will look to keep their season alive.
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  Speaker 1: And Auburn only has the two losses, right? Like Auburn...
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  Speaker 1: theoretically is just as alive as anybody else with two
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  Speaker 1: losses in the SEC.
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  Speaker 2: Why not?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, at this point, right? Why not?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Florida's back alive. Auburn's back alive. LSU. Um, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: just an absolute must win for them with Texas, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: Alabama still left on the schedule. Um, uh, uh, a
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  Speaker 1: game against A & M. Oh no, they already beat
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  Speaker 1: A & M. I take that back. Uh, but those
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  Speaker 1: three that I mentioned are big. Um, I, I, In
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  Speaker 1: this one, presented by PrizePix real quick, but in this one,
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  Speaker 1: I just kind of feel like Auburn's running into that
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  Speaker 1: same death trap that I talked about with Ole Miss.
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  Speaker 1: You won a big game last week. Can you keep
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  Speaker 1: it going against a very different team in LSU? But
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  Speaker 1: the SEC has told you you're not allowed to do that.
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  Speaker 1: You're not allowed to have back-to-back good weeks. So thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on Auburn here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean, you could say the same. I mean, LSU,
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  Speaker 2: I know that.
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  Speaker 3: Playing Mississippi state without Camario and Bothwell is not the
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  Speaker 3: marquee kind of experience, but this is a sneaky, like
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  Speaker 3: a low key sneaky rivalry, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Like I, I think people forget that there was a
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  Speaker 3: period of time in the sec where this game was
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  Speaker 3: kind of deciding the sec West in a lot of years.
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  Speaker 3: And then Nick Saban came around and, Obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 3: kind of changed it.
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  Speaker 2: But, like, whoever lost this game for a long.
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  Speaker 3: Time was sort of the coach on the hot seat
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  Speaker 3: a little bit, right? Whether that was Gus or Les
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  Speaker 3: or whoever, Tubbs. I do think this is a game
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  Speaker 3: where things get weird. Auburn is a place where things
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  Speaker 3: get weird, as we know. Playing this game at 11
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  Speaker 3: o'clock in the morning, a little bit of an advantage
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  Speaker 3: to LSU, in my opinion. I personally got a good
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  Speaker 3: up-close look at this Auburn team last weekend. Look, Georgia,
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  Speaker 3: they kind of controlled that game from a down-to-down standpoint.
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  Speaker 3: They outgained Auburn by 1.8 yards of play. Normally that
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  Speaker 3: equates to a fairly comfortable win in most scenarios, but
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  Speaker 3: Auburn made some spectacular catches.
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  Speaker 2: Georgia turned the ball over, right?
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  Speaker 3: And I do think we've seen The reason I bring
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  Speaker 3: that up is not to turn this into a Georgia show,
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  Speaker 3: but like we've seen Sam Levitt turn the ball over
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  Speaker 3: this year.
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  Speaker 2: And we, we've seen this, you know, like, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how Auburn scores in this game a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Like I think LSU's defense is, is the thing I
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  Speaker 3: know about in this game, but I do see a
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  Speaker 3: world after watching Auburn's defense last weekend where I think
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  Speaker 3: Auburn's defense could can handle some of the mobile threat
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  Speaker 3: of Levitt, you know, got some, some good pieces in
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  Speaker 3: the secondary. I think they can keep this game close
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  Speaker 3: and at home, you know, can you get a break?
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  Speaker 3: Can you get plus two in the turnover column and
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  Speaker 3: go to the fourth quarter in a.
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  Speaker 2: Seven point game?
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  Speaker 3: Cause like I do, I do wonder where LSU's headspace is.
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  Speaker 3: If you get them into the fourth quarter in a
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  Speaker 3: one possession game, the two times that's happened to them
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  Speaker 3: this year, they've lost. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The, the, I mean, I thought immediately about the Kentucky game,
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  Speaker 1: but then obviously Ole Miss too. Now, certainly a little
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  Speaker 1: bit different there because of what Trinidad does late in games.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, that Kentucky one, they just kind of looked
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  Speaker 1: a little, a little wide eyed, you know, a little like,
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  Speaker 1: and again, Kentucky's good. I'm certainly not trying to crap
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  Speaker 1: on them. They've had a great story and a great
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  Speaker 1: season so far this year. And Will Stein, I think it's,
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  Speaker 1: Would you call him so far the best hire in
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  Speaker 1: the SEC? I mean, hard to argue with that.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe the best hire in the country, honestly.
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  Speaker 1: Him or Bob Chesney. I will say, shout out to
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  Speaker 1: Jim Knowles, though. If we're talking hires, to go from
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  Speaker 1: worst to first. But head coaches, certainly Stein Chesney, way
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  Speaker 1: out there. But they did. They blinked in that fourth
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  Speaker 1: quarter against Kentucky. I do wonder from the Auburn perspective,
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  Speaker 1: If not for the Georgia mistakes, is LSU going to
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  Speaker 1: give you those same opportunities? And that's, that's the big
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  Speaker 1: question because if they don't lining up, I think I
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  Speaker 1: lean LSU here. So six and a half on the
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  Speaker 1: road in the sec right now, seven and a half
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  Speaker 1: right now. Yeah. It feels like a lot, but can
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  Speaker 1: your offense do enough if they're not getting the, those
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  Speaker 1: extra possessions? Um, and that would be my question for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And let's use defense. Sorry to throw six things at
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  Speaker 1: you at once. And let's use defense also home and away.
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  Speaker 1: Very different animal. Right.
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  Speaker 2: So that's interesting. Yeah. That's a good point.
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  Speaker 1: That's something else I think about. So yeah. Answer those
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  Speaker 1: 18 questions at once.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I do think that Kentucky kind of put a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of a recipe on, on tape for, for
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  Speaker 3: Auburn in terms of this LSU defense.
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 3: Like, cause I, I think Kenny Menchie has been good.
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  Speaker 3: but it's not like they've been this big explosive passing game.
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  Speaker 3: It's not like they're hitting 70 yard pass plays and,
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  Speaker 3: and really like dynamic in that way. What Auburn does
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  Speaker 3: is very much like they live on crossers and eight
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  Speaker 3: to 12 yard curl routes and like little tight end
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  Speaker 3: leak outs and things. And, I was skeptical of that
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  Speaker 3: as they came into the Georgia game last weekend. But
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  Speaker 3: when you can get that working with as physical as
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  Speaker 3: Byron Brown is, it does have the effect of being
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  Speaker 3: able to pull defenders and linebackers out of the middle
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  Speaker 3: of the field and kind of create that conflict where
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  Speaker 3: Brown can step up. And that guy's very hard to tackle.
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  Speaker 3: He's very hard to sack. I mean, Georgia sacked him.
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  Speaker 3: five times in terms of tackling them behind the line
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  Speaker 3: of scrimmage, there was probably another five times where like,
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  Speaker 3: they should have sacked him or they, they hit him
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  Speaker 3: in some way and forced him out. But like, he
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  Speaker 3: gets back to a one yard loss every time instead
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  Speaker 3: of it being second and 18. So I do think
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  Speaker 3: that Auburn is really hard to throw off schedule. And
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  Speaker 3: I think that they're an offense that's designed to stay
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  Speaker 3: on schedule. I, I look at LSU defensively, um, They've
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  Speaker 3: been really good against the pass, but I don't know
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  Speaker 3: how much of that is a product of who they've faced. Like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Clemson's not a good passing team. Mississippi State
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  Speaker 3: without Camario, not a good passing team. McNeese and whoever
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  Speaker 3: they've played out of conference, not a good passing team.
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  Speaker 3: And then Kentucky did have success on them through the air, right?
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  Speaker 3: And so– and obviously Trinidad did. I– I don't think
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  Speaker 3: that LSU is going to give up the big bombs
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  Speaker 3: in this game, but I don't think that's how Auburn
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  Speaker 3: wants to play anyways. And I do think that Auburn,
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  Speaker 3: you look at LSU's defense, sixth nationally in pass success
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  Speaker 3: rate allowed, but they're 67th in rush success rate allowed.
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  Speaker 3: And they actually, when you kind of look at them
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  Speaker 3: as a defense statistically, They're very, very great to elite
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  Speaker 3: in a lot of areas, but one of the areas
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  Speaker 3: that they're not.
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  Speaker 2: Is rush explosiveness percentage.
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  Speaker 3: So I do think Auburn really, this game, if they
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  Speaker 3: can keep this game within the range of like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: here we are within four, or here we are within seven,
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  Speaker 3: or here we are within 10, and not turn it
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  Speaker 3: into a spot of here we are down 17, And
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  Speaker 3: now we're going to try and pass and we're going
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  Speaker 3: to try and get tempo. And like, that's not going
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  Speaker 3: to work for them, but if they can lean on
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  Speaker 3: Byron Brown's legs, like, I don't think people are talking
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  Speaker 3: enough about how good he's played.
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  Speaker 2: In like, we all knew what he did at you
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  Speaker 2: USF and all that.
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  Speaker 3: But I think within the framework of this offense, he's
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  Speaker 3: truly had to, you know, carry a load and he's
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  Speaker 3: done it in the sec, right? Like he, he had, uh,
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  Speaker 3: like five plus yards after contact per rush attempt a
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  Speaker 3: couple different times in SEC play this year. He broke
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  Speaker 3: seven different tackles against Vandy. He broke, I think six
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  Speaker 3: tackles against Georgia. Like this, this guy is not just
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  Speaker 3: doing it against bad teams. I mean, like he's, he's
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  Speaker 3: going and breaking tackles against first round Georgia linebackers and
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  Speaker 3: stuff right so I I think he has an element
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  Speaker 3: to him where if Auburn can keep this game in
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  Speaker 3: a range where they can.
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  Speaker 2: Ride his legs and keep those legs as a threat.
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  Speaker 3: Then they have a shot to shorten it they have
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  Speaker 3: a shot to run the ball They have a shot
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  Speaker 3: to do some things off of that, and maybe they
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  Speaker 3: can get lucky.
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  Speaker 1: What is the matchup, and then we'll predict it, what
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  Speaker 1: is the matchup for Auburn that worries you the most?
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  Speaker 1: So what does LSU do that scares you the most
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  Speaker 1: if you're Auburn?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think you're probably a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Concerned if you're Auburn about the the way that LSU
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  Speaker 3: has stayed on schedule offensively, right?
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  Speaker 1: Like, I mean, they've been– Typical Lane and Charlie, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Right. They've been pretty efficient passing the ball. Maybe– and then, honestly.
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  Speaker 3: There's been all this talk lately around– like I saw
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  Speaker 3: some talk again today at Lane's press conference of someone
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  Speaker 3: asking him about, like, oh, well, why don't you go
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  Speaker 3: for fourth downs as much anymore?
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  Speaker 2: Or– Which, of course, in typical Lane fashion, he'll go
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  Speaker 2: drop nuts on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Go for it five times.
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  Speaker 2: Three, fourth, and fourth.
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  Speaker 1: Once in his own territory. And probably get them all.
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  Speaker 2: So I would not like that if I was Auburn.
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  Speaker 3: But I do think that, man, I mean, you look
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  Speaker 3: at LSU situationally, and they've been pretty balanced offensively. Honestly,
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  Speaker 3: they can pass the ball efficiently. They can run the
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  Speaker 3: ball pretty efficiently at times. I don't know that it's
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  Speaker 3: the LSU offense against the Auburn defense that worries you
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  Speaker 3: as much.
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  Speaker 2: I am curious. What I thought when I previewed.
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  Speaker 3: Auburn ahead of the Georgia game was that this is
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  Speaker 3: an Auburn defense that gets a decent amount of stuffed runs.
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  Speaker 3: but as the game goes on, they're pretty thin in
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  Speaker 3: the front seven. They don't have a bunch of bodies
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  Speaker 3: to rotate in. And like, if you can get to
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  Speaker 3: about 35 carries on them, they start to bust some
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  Speaker 3: explosive runs. You saw Tennessee do that against them.
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  Speaker 2: Right. And Georgia got scripted out of that, right?
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  Speaker 3: Like Georgia only gave the ball to their running backs
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  Speaker 3: 19 times last Saturday, which was great for Auburn. So
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  Speaker 3: I I'm interested to see you do lane and Charlie
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  Speaker 3: stay committed to the run. Cause I, I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to sit here and act like I think that LSU
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  Speaker 3: is going to slice and dice them for four quarters
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  Speaker 3: because they're not. But if they can just land enough
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  Speaker 3: body blows and keep possession of the football and run
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  Speaker 3: the ball and get to the fourth quarter and be at,
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  Speaker 3: you know, 30, 32 carries, especially with what Levitt's legs
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  Speaker 3: do in terms of just making you chase him to
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  Speaker 3: the sidelines and the kind of cumulative exhaustive effect of that,
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  Speaker 3: then I like LSU's chances to get to the fourth
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  Speaker 3: quarter and bust the you know, maybe they bust that 30,
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  Speaker 3: 40 yard run after they've struggled at times in the
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  Speaker 3: red zone or something in this game.
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  Speaker 2: And that's kind of what cracks it up.
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  Speaker 1: I would not be surprised with anything in this one. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I shouldn't even have said that. Like I won't be
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  Speaker 1: surprised by anything that happens in college football this weekend
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  Speaker 1: or any weekend for the rest.
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  Speaker 2: Of the year.
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  Speaker 1: But I do think LSU probably comes out and plays
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  Speaker 1: a little hungrier, plays a little bit more desperate. And
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  Speaker 1: I wonder how much that Lane coaching this for the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to continue to be in playoff discussions. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that they can make it at 9-3 with all
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  Speaker 1: the other teams that are up here and have better
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  Speaker 1: records than we were expecting at this point. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to say never, but because if they beat Texas
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  Speaker 1: and Tennessee on the road and Bama, then yeah, they'll
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  Speaker 1: be considered. But I'll take Auburn to cover. Give me
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  Speaker 1: the LSU money line. I like LSU to win. Give
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  Speaker 1: me Auburn to cover in this one.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in the same boat. I think that, especially at
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  Speaker 2: plus seven and.
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  Speaker 1: A half, if it's six and a half, I might
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  Speaker 1: go the other way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels like a touchdown game in a lot
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  Speaker 2: of ways. I also, I do lean under in this game.
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  Speaker 3: Fifty and a half feels like a lot of points
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  Speaker 3: with this Auburn offense. You know, maybe there's turnovers and
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  Speaker 3: different things that can happen, but Yeah, I do feel
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  Speaker 3: like they're an offense that.
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  Speaker 2: Against this LSU.
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  Speaker 3: Defense is probably going to kick a lot of field
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  Speaker 3: goals and maybe go for a fourth down in the
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  Speaker 3: red zone or somewhere inside the LSU 30 that they
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  Speaker 3: don't get that ends in no points.
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  Speaker 2: And that swings you under, in my opinion.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll make the under an official play, too. So
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  Speaker 1: we were in complete agreement on everything this week.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely fade us if you're watching this, then.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was going to say, we're going to game
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  Speaker 1: day it real quick. Last time we were out here,
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  Speaker 1: we both took the UGA money line on the road
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  Speaker 1: in Tuscaloosa. We hit on that. We both took Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 1: You took them on the money line. I took them
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  Speaker 1: to cover. So you, we both won, but you were
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more accurate there. I think you took Indiana.
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  Speaker 1: You took Nebraska and I took Indiana.
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  Speaker 2: So Nebraska to cover.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, correct. Correct.
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  Speaker 2: Did they cover? They did.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So that was seven and a half. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they led the whole. they lost.
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  Speaker 2: I remember they led.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I just, what was it?
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  Speaker 1: I forget the seven and a half. So yeah, we've
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  Speaker 1: been pretty good. Um, Indiana, if you were going to win,
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  Speaker 1: cover the spread, please. Um, so we'll see how this
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  Speaker 1: week goes again.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: If you're watching this on replay, fade us for sure.