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LSU vs Ole Miss: A SECRET Path To Winning For REBELS vs TIGERS? · College Football Addiction: A Show About All Things College Football

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Speaker 1: All right, LSU-Ole Miss, massive game in the Grove this weekend.
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Speaker 1: We've got your complete matchup guide to it. TJ Pittenger,
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Speaker 1: Graham Coffey, presented by PrizePix. Talk more about them in
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Speaker 1: a few minutes. But, Graham, the off-the-field drama is not
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Speaker 1: something we dive into much on this. This is kind
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Speaker 1: of the deep-dive analytical drama. you know, show, right? Like
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Speaker 1: what really sets these teams apart. But I don't think
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Speaker 1: you can do a matchup like this and not talk
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Speaker 1: about how those things operate.
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Speaker 2: Like.
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Speaker 1: Is there any precedent? And I think Ole Miss is
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Speaker 1: actually a great example of it, like blocking out the
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Speaker 1: noise just literally from the last playoffs that we just
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Speaker 1: had and going out and performing and doing what they
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Speaker 1: needed to do in the playoffs. I mean, they were
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Speaker 1: this close to beating Miami and going to the national
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Speaker 1: championship game. Now, I probably would have favored Indiana there,
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Speaker 1: but it would have been fun to see. Not that Miami,
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Speaker 1: Indiana wasn't good. but Ole Miss is really good precedent.
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Speaker 1: Can you think of any times, maybe I should have
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Speaker 1: prepared you a little better for this. Think of times
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Speaker 1: where like teams weren't able to block out the noise
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Speaker 1: or like as much as we like to dive into
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Speaker 1: the analytics, you cannot ignore what's happening on the sidelines
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Speaker 1: of this game. And I do wonder, cause I don't
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Speaker 1: buy into that much. I do wonder though, how much
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Speaker 1: it factors into this specific matchup.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean, look, I think last year coming into the playoffs,
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Speaker 2: there was sort of a, wide, widely held perception that,
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Speaker 2: that Ole Miss would not be able to block.
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Speaker 3: Out the noise. Right.
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Speaker 2: So, you know, we, we've seen now a couple of
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Speaker 2: times in a row in college football where teams have
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Speaker 2: had like Michigan in 2023 had a ton of outside
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Speaker 2: noise and handled it well. And, and, you know, really,
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Speaker 2: I think it rallied them together late in that season
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Speaker 2: and maybe helped propel them to a national title. So I, I,
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Speaker 2: I tend to think that maybe it's helping teams more
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Speaker 2: than guys like you and I would expect, right? I
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Speaker 2: think that it could be sort of a, a way
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Speaker 2: to rally the troops and get everyone to have that
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Speaker 2: internal focus when it comes to this particular matchup, more
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Speaker 2: so for the Ole Miss side. I don't know how
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Speaker 2: you can block out the noise with just the level
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Speaker 2: of personal relationships that exist, right? Like, Lane recruited a
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Speaker 2: lot of these guys and I think the challenge for Pete.
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Speaker 3: Golding and his staff this week is do.
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Speaker 2: You channel that properly to get your guys to play
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Speaker 2: really hard and they're giving you maximum effort on every
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Speaker 2: single play through the whistle instead of guys are going
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Speaker 2: past the whistle and committing dumb penalties or they're trying
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Speaker 2: to do too much too early and pressing.
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Speaker 3: That is going to be the storyline of this game
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Speaker 3: for me.
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Speaker 2: And I think it is particularly pressing just considering the
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Speaker 2: fact that this version of Ole Miss that we've known
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Speaker 2: over the last year and some change has been a really,
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Speaker 2: really good fourth quarter team, right? Like they've been excellent
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Speaker 2: in second halves. They were excellent in the second halves
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Speaker 2: of games in the playoffs last year. They were very
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Speaker 2: good in the second half against Louisville, especially offensively, I
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Speaker 2: guess the other, the other week and week one. So
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Speaker 2: I'm very curious about, how this all matches out, like
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Speaker 2: coming into the season at sec media days, I remember
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Speaker 2: telling people like, I am going to just, you know,
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Speaker 2: pick Ole Miss in this game, no matter what, based
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Speaker 2: on vibes alone. But now here we are that week.
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Speaker 2: And I'm not sure I feel that way.
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Speaker 1: Well, I want to go exactly from what you just
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Speaker 1: said on the Ole Miss Louisville game. They were really
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Speaker 1: good offensively in the second half. were they bad defensively
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Speaker 1: in the second half or is Lincoln kind holes, keen holes,
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Speaker 1: kind of a dude. And, you know, just like Trinidad
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Speaker 1: makes plays Louisville has Isaac Brown and keen holes and
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Speaker 1: some weapons too. And the other team is allowed to
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Speaker 1: make plays too, right? Like it's not all, you know,
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Speaker 1: very rarely does the team win 59, nothing. So takeaways
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Speaker 1: on Ole miss's defense, because I think that's where we
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Speaker 1: know what Trinidad is. We know what Lacey is. We
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Speaker 1: know offensively, not that we won't talk about those things,
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Speaker 1: but man, for them to win this game, yeah, the
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Speaker 1: defense has to play more like the first half defense
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Speaker 1: than the second half defense. And that was game one.
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Speaker 1: And you are trying to figure things out. Louisville was
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Speaker 1: trying to figure things out there too, but they certainly
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Speaker 1: can't play like they did in week one against Louisville
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Speaker 1: in the second half and expect that Sam Leavitt is
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Speaker 1: just going to forget how to throw the football and
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Speaker 1: Weiss and Lane are going to forget how to call games.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean, like, look, you know, there's the old adage
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Speaker 2: of teams never improve more in a season than they
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Speaker 2: do between week one and week two. I think that's
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Speaker 2: often true in college football, not always, but yeah, You know,
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Speaker 2: I mean, like Oregon did not improve dramatically between week
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Speaker 2: one and week two.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: Like, you know, the problems that existed against Boise State
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Speaker 2: defensively existed against Oklahoma State and they got beat because
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Speaker 2: of it. So to assume that that that's going to
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Speaker 2: happen for Ole Miss feels like a stretch to me.
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Speaker 3: I do think Keenan Holtz is kind of a dude. Right.
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Speaker 2: Like he had recruiting pedigree and we saw him do
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Speaker 2: things on the run that I didn't expect him to do,
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Speaker 2: especially in essentially the first real action of his college career.
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Speaker 3: So, yes, he was good, and Ole Miss' defense also
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Speaker 3: had issues.
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Speaker 2: I think one thing I'm fond of saying is good
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Speaker 2: offense always beats good defense, and this was a case
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Speaker 2: of good offense being on display and not bad defense,
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Speaker 2: but not great defense either. What concerns me if I
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Speaker 2: am Ole Miss looking at how that game came out
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Speaker 2: was the inability to keep Keane Holtz in the pocket,
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Speaker 2: the inability to really affect him consistently with your pass rush,
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Speaker 2: and then the problems that you had on scramble drill.
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Speaker 2: Because Sam Levitt likes to do a lot of those
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Speaker 2: things and likes to break pockets. And the good news
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Speaker 2: maybe is Trinidad is that kind of quarterback, so they
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Speaker 2: do see that a lot in practice. But The lack
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Speaker 2: of organization in that secondary really reminded me of the
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Speaker 2: Ole Miss defenses that it felt like we saw under
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Speaker 2: Pete Golding kind of before November of last year, like
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Speaker 2: the Ole Miss defense that got scored on in every
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Speaker 2: possession against Georgia last year. That was much more the
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Speaker 2: vibe I got against Louisville than the one that really
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Speaker 2: became good at creating havoc plays and pass rush and
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Speaker 2: kind of like Yes, it might give up some drives
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Speaker 2: in November, December, January of last year, but they would
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Speaker 2: come up with plays as the field shrunk to kind
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Speaker 2: of force field goals and really just sort of hold
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Speaker 2: serve for their offense.
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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to give them too hard of a
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Speaker 1: time over a game they won by 31 points, but
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a slow start for LSU in
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Speaker 1: that Louisiana Tech game. Coming off of an emotional win,
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Speaker 1: playing an opponent that's pretty inferior, these things happen, right? Like,
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Speaker 1: you know, Bama started slow against Kentucky, right. And then
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Speaker 1: beat their brains into, so that's, that happens.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: But like, did that surprise you a little bit? Was
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Speaker 1: there anything from that LSU Louisiana tech game that you
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Speaker 1: would say, man, wasn't really expecting this. I'll tell you,
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Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting three Sam Levitt rushing touchdowns. Um, but I, uh,
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Speaker 1: was thankful that they did happen. Cause I accident, I
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Speaker 1: thought that was passing touchdowns when I took the more
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Speaker 1: on one and a half. Uh, but anyway, all that said,
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Speaker 1: thoughts from that game and does it kind of give
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Speaker 1: you any pause going into this or is it kind
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Speaker 1: of like ah you just played around for a half
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Speaker 1: and then you kind of pulled it together.
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Speaker 2: Uh i mean there's there's some of that and some
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Speaker 2: of that sort of playing around for a half and
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Speaker 2: pulling it together is it's it's we've come to see
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Speaker 2: this a lot from kiffin teams in games against inferior
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Speaker 2: opponents right like at old miss he was good to
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Speaker 2: kind of either have like a real nail biter against
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Speaker 2: a washington state or to drop a game to like
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Speaker 2: a Kentucky every year that he shouldn't.
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Speaker 3: And that kept them from the playoff in 2024.
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Speaker 2: So I'm not stunned that they didn't come out and
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Speaker 2: look dominant at the same time. You know, when you
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Speaker 2: look at sort of what went on in that game,
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Speaker 2: the thing that would concern me if I'm an LSU fan.
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Speaker 3: Is I thought they struggled on the offensive line.
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Speaker 2: I think that their ability to, to kind of, you know,
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Speaker 2: create yards for their running backs was, was not there
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Speaker 2: after they had, done a really good job with, with
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Speaker 2: some of that against Clemson and created a lot of
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Speaker 2: cutback lanes and, and the rushing game just looked very,
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Speaker 2: very precise and extremely efficient. So which is the real
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Speaker 2: LSU offensive line run push situation?
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Speaker 3: I guess we will find out on Saturday night, but.
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Speaker 2: I, yeah, like I, I just think that it's really
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Speaker 2: hard to get a good read on what this team
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Speaker 2: is because they You know, I mean, Dabo and his
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Speaker 2: crew went out against Georgia Southern, and I think they
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Speaker 2: scored one offensive touchdown in that game. And, you know,
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Speaker 2: it was what, like 20-7 or something like that was
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Speaker 2: the final score of that game, or at least it
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Speaker 2: was 20-7 late into the fourth quarter when I was
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Speaker 2: watching it. So, I mean, I don't think Georgia Southern
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Speaker 2: is like the best G5 in the country or anything
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Speaker 2: like that. I feel like if you read the LSU-Clemson game,
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Speaker 2: and try to take that at face value and project
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Speaker 2: it forward, you're going to make a mistake. And I
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Speaker 2: feel the same way about doing, you know, LSU law tech.
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Speaker 2: So there, there is a little bit of a kind
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Speaker 2: of an interesting situation here where it feels like we
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Speaker 2: got to kind of try and draw this all together
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Speaker 2: and ask ourselves, what is it really going to look like,
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Speaker 2: especially in a first sec road matchup, which historically is
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Speaker 2: a spot where Lane Kiffin has had trouble. It's a
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Speaker 2: spot where everyone in the sec has trouble. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I was thinking about this in relation to Kirby Smart
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Speaker 2: last night, who has been probably the most consistent college
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Speaker 2: football coach. But, like, you go back the last four years,
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Speaker 2: they've either won by a field goal or had to
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Speaker 2: come from behind in their first SEC road games. And
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Speaker 2: some of those have been against Kentucky or Missouri.
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Speaker 1: Auburn or yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Auburn in 2023 with Bowers bailing them out. So like there,
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Speaker 2: there is certainly a factor here of not just going
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Speaker 2: on the SEC or going on the road in the
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Speaker 2: SEC for the first time, but, but doing that in
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Speaker 2: what I expect to be a very raucous environment, that's
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Speaker 2: going to have its own emotional charge.
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Speaker 3: It should be a huge advantage to Ole Miss in
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Speaker 3: this game.
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Speaker 1: back to Graham. What about, we talk about him every week,
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Speaker 1: and I know you've highlighted him there on Dog Central,
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Speaker 1: but is there an advantage? I was impressed with LSU's
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Speaker 1: offensive line week one. Their defense is super talented too,
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Speaker 1: so maybe both sides. Is there an advantage inside for
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Speaker 1: either of these teams on either side of the ball
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Speaker 1: or both?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it.
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Speaker 2: Kind of goes back a little bit to what we
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Speaker 2: were just talking about there as it relates to, you know,
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Speaker 2: LSU and Ole Miss.
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Speaker 3: On the run game.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's hard to get a great read because
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Speaker 2: Lacey was out for the second half and more of
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Speaker 2: that Louisville game, but they have not been favorable in
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Speaker 2: terms of creating yards before contact for their running backs.
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Speaker 2: They're 41st nationally at 1.55 per attempt.
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Speaker 3: And then.
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Speaker 2: If you look at LSU, they're even further down the list.
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Speaker 2: They're 58th at 1.13.
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Speaker 3: Certainly, the offensive lines in this game should struggle, I think,
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Speaker 3: in my opinion. That would be what the metrics.
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Speaker 2: Would predict, at least, is that if you're going to
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Speaker 2: see something hit big in the run game or hit
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Speaker 2: with consistency in the run game, it might be more
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Speaker 2: counter-type stuff or or things that are designed to get
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Speaker 2: outside and to the edges. And you know, the pass
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Speaker 2: rush situation obviously will be a little bit of a
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Speaker 2: different ball game than what either of these teams has
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Speaker 2: faced so far. Right. I just, I mean, I don't
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Speaker 2: think Clemson has great pass rushers. I don't think we
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Speaker 2: saw Louisville show a lot of great stuff pass rush wise,
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Speaker 2: but in terms of pressure rates and all of that,
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Speaker 2: I don't know that, that I would, call anything that
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Speaker 2: we've seen from either opponent in terms of the size
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Speaker 2: of the sample, just quite good enough yet to, to
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Speaker 2: make worthwhile of putting into a game projection.
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Speaker 1: We kind of know what Trinidad is and, you know,
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Speaker 1: certainly he has all the ability in the world and,
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Speaker 1: you know, some may rate him the top or top two,
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Speaker 1: top three quarterback in the league. Some may go higher
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Speaker 1: than that, you know, and start to look at the
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Speaker 1: nation and, How impressed have you been with Sam Levitt?
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Speaker 1: Because we all had the questions going in, but is
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Speaker 1: he about where you expected? Is he a little bit better,
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Speaker 1: a little bit worse? Where have you been on Sam
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Speaker 1: Levitt so far through two games?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I was not impressed with what I
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Speaker 2: saw from him going back and watching the all 22
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Speaker 2: of that Louisiana Tech game the other night. I thought
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Speaker 2: he missed some throws and left some pockets that he
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Speaker 2: shouldn't have and just kind of looked and like a
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Speaker 2: guy who wasn't seen in the field super well. So,
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Speaker 2: I mean, I've struggled for years with the basic question of, like,
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Speaker 2: is Sam Levitt good?
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Speaker 3: And I really have. And I don't know the answer.
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Speaker 2: Like, I don't– I feel like I'll be much closer
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Speaker 2: to knowing the answer to that question on Saturday night. But,
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Speaker 2: you know, when you look at his season last year
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Speaker 2: in the Big 12, it was not good. When you
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Speaker 2: look at his– season in 2024, a lot of it
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Speaker 2: came through one player and then it came through him
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Speaker 2: doing things with his legs that quite frankly, I don't
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Speaker 2: know that he can do in terms of breaking contain
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Speaker 2: and getting outside the tackles and creating first downs at
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Speaker 2: the same rate.
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Speaker 3: In the SEC as he did in the Big 12.
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Speaker 2: I just personally do not think that the pass rushers
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Speaker 2: and the front seven talent in the SEC are is
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Speaker 2: slow enough to let Sam Leavitt do that with consistency.
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying it won't happen at all, but, you know,
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Speaker 2: to this point in the season, I just think that
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Speaker 2: you would like to see him complete more deep balls.
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Speaker 2: He's 3-10 on 20-plus yards attempts this year with an
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Speaker 2: interception and a touchdown, right?
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Speaker 3: Like, that's not a terrible.
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Speaker 2: 30% is not bad, but when you move back even
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Speaker 2: to his 10- to 20-yard throws, he's a 55% passer.
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Speaker 2: And I don't know that any lane Kiffin offense is
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Speaker 2: built to survive and, and work at its highest level
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Speaker 2: without a guy who can hit some of those intermediate
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Speaker 2: and deep shots and, and, and make those explosive plays
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Speaker 2: to kind of build off of the run game.
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Speaker 1: Is there, I, you know, X factor gets thrown around
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Speaker 1: a lot. What, what do you really see the difference
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Speaker 1: in this game being.
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Speaker 3: Who can run the ball?
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Speaker 2: If someone can run the ball in this game, I
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Speaker 2: think that it's going to make a large difference, especially
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Speaker 2: if that someone is Ole Miss.
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Speaker 3: With the level that.
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Speaker 2: We saw Trinidad play at in the second half against Louisville.
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Speaker 3: Look, he's good, man.
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Speaker 2: His ability to throw deep crossers and to sit in
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Speaker 2: the pocket patiently and let things develop and really allow
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Speaker 2: the coverage to be influenced by the other route concepts
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Speaker 2: and hit guys 20 to 25 yards downfield with room
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Speaker 2: to run is better right now than anybody in college football.
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Speaker 2: And he makes some really, really high-level throws. If you
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Speaker 2: have to face that as a back seven while also
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Speaker 2: really being influenced by play action, I just– I've seen
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Speaker 2: that movie before, right? I saw it twice last year
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Speaker 2: in person covering Georgia. So, you know, I don't think
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Speaker 2: that LSU wants to get into a shootout with Trinidad Chambliss.
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Speaker 2: That would be a problem for them, in my opinion,
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Speaker 2: particularly some of those Sam Levitt stats we just cited.
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Speaker 2: Unless they know something about Ole Miss' front and how
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Speaker 2: to attack that in the run game and, you know,
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Speaker 2: they've got something special kind of drawn up, I just
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Speaker 2: don't see that scenario being one where Levitt is going
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Speaker 2: to trade throws with Trinidad.
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Speaker 1: Is there, we talk all the time, like who has
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Speaker 1: the biggest advantage where, and this might just be the
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Speaker 1: inverse of that. But is there a place in either
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Speaker 1: of these matchups, whether it's wide receivers, corners, offensive line,
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Speaker 1: defensive line, you know, running back front seven, any of
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Speaker 1: those things. Is there a biggest like disadvantage if one
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Speaker 1: of these two, again, I know you just mentioned run
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Speaker 1: the ball, so maybe not like the opposite of that. Well,
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Speaker 1: don't allow them to run, but like a disadvantage where
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Speaker 1: somebody has a deficiency they need to make up in
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Speaker 1: this game.
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Speaker 2: I mean, if you look at some of the line
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Speaker 2: yard stuff, like as far as run game stuff, the
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Speaker 2: LSU defense hasn't been quite as good as you might expect.
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Speaker 2: But I mean, as, as far as a, a true
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Speaker 2: disadvantage in this game, like I think it's Sam Leavitt
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Speaker 2: versus Trinidad Chambliss. I mean, I know that that sounds
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Speaker 2: kind of hot take-ish, but like, I don't think this
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Speaker 2: Ole Miss secondary is very good. I am not sure
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Speaker 2: what this LSU secondary is, but I feel like I
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Speaker 2: know what Trinidad is. I know he's, he's capable of
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Speaker 2: making some, some really tight window throws. So I'm going
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Speaker 2: to give him the benefit of the doubt that he's
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Speaker 2: going to do that at home with, in this environment
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Speaker 2: against his former coach.
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Speaker 3: I've seen him rise to the occasion a lot.
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Speaker 2: I don't think that Levitt can take advantage of the
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Speaker 2: issues that exist in that Ole Miss secondary.
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Speaker 3: If he does, then I think they win this game.
18:28
Speaker 2: I do think that if both quarterbacks are playing well
18:33
Speaker 2: and things are clicking for both sides offensively, I would
18:37
Speaker 2: give LSU the edge at still finding more stops defensively
18:42
Speaker 2: in that scenario. I just don't think Leavitt is going
18:45
Speaker 2: to kind of raise the bar enough to put them
18:48
Speaker 2: into like the type of game that we saw a
18:52
Speaker 2: gunner in Trinidad play in October of last year, where
18:56
Speaker 2: they were just trading drives for three and a half hours, essentially.
19:00
Speaker 3: Like I, I think that Leavitt will.
19:04
Speaker 2: Make a fatal error somewhere along the way or miss
19:07
Speaker 2: an open throw. And this is, will turn into a
19:11
Speaker 2: situation where Ole Miss just kind of makes them more
19:15
Speaker 2: out of their opportunities.
19:18
Speaker 1: LSU, a two-and-a-half, three-point favorite based on where you find it.
19:21
Speaker 1: Are you riding with the upset?
19:24
Speaker 3: I'm riding with the upset. Yeah, I am.
19:26
Speaker 2: And it wouldn't surprise me at all if LSU won
19:29
Speaker 2: this game. They may show us some stuff up front
19:34
Speaker 2: in terms of just being built like an LSU team
19:38
Speaker 2: is built. on the defensive line versus how an Ole
19:42
Speaker 2: Miss team has historically been built on the defensive line.
19:44
Speaker 2: I do worry about the matchup between Ole Miss' right tackle, Howes,
19:50
Speaker 2: and Uman Mialan.
19:51
Speaker 3: I would imagine Uman.
19:52
Speaker 2: Mialan has a lot of experience, you know, going up
19:55
Speaker 2: against him in practices and in different situations and just
19:58
Speaker 2: knows this offensive line and their pass block schemes and
20:03
Speaker 2: what they're going to like to do. That would scare
20:05
Speaker 2: me a little bit from a protection standpoint if I'm
20:08
Speaker 2: Ole Miss. Like, we have seen some good things obviously from,
20:13
Speaker 2: from LSU and pass rush in week one. But I, I,
20:19
Speaker 2: you know, that would be the spot where this could
20:22
Speaker 2: go wrong. I think in my opinion, if it, if
20:25
Speaker 2: it goes wrong, but again, like you've got Trinidad out
20:28
Speaker 2: there who is very comfortable on the run. And if
20:33
Speaker 2: you make one slight leverage mistake with your pass rush
20:37
Speaker 2: lanes against Trinidad Chambliss, he's going to break contain on
20:40
Speaker 2: you and he's going to pull some Houdini stuff. So
20:44
Speaker 2: I'm putting my money on that kid until I see
20:47
Speaker 2: a reason not to.
20:48
Speaker 3: That's kind of the place I've gotten to with Trinidad.
20:53
Speaker 1: It will be so much fun. I do wonder a
20:55
Speaker 1: little bit about not a coaching advantage, but just the
20:58
Speaker 1: coaching matchup because there's so much familiarity. Like I think we,
21:02
Speaker 1: I mean, even Ole Miss fans might say like, Hey,
21:05
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, Lane is probably a pound for pound,
21:09
Speaker 1: Maybe they wouldn't say it because we're too, we're.
21:11
Speaker 3: Too, we're too. Right now. But if you gave him
21:13
Speaker 3: true serum, maybe. Yeah.
21:14
Speaker 1: Yeah. Like the general public would say, yeah, I think
21:17
Speaker 1: Lane's a better coach than Golding. I don't think that's
21:20
Speaker 1: what this comes down to. And again, I, I'm more
21:23
Speaker 1: on the players, not the X's and O's anyway, but
21:27
Speaker 1: Lane does impact games. And you and I have talked
21:28
Speaker 1: about that several times. And, and why Sue, you know, like,
21:32
Speaker 1: I don't want to take anything away from him. But
21:34
Speaker 1: to me, it's not about who's the better coach. It's
21:36
Speaker 1: about who is prepared because they're so familiar with each other.
21:39
Speaker 1: And that is one of the most interesting aspects of
21:42
Speaker 1: this game is not who's better. It's who's better for
21:46
Speaker 1: three hours. Who can anticipate that move that's coming? Because
21:50
Speaker 1: we understand tendencies. We understand tendency breakers. We understand setups.
21:54
Speaker 1: And both these guys will be doing are all three,
21:56
Speaker 1: you know, Weiss and and Levitt are not Levitt and Lane.
22:00
Speaker 1: and Golding who can anticipate that the best on Saturday,
22:05
Speaker 1: because it, you know, there could be new wrinkles for
22:08
Speaker 1: sure with stuff that's done. These guys know each other
22:10
Speaker 1: and that's what makes this so fun to me.
22:13
Speaker 3: No, for sure.
22:14
Speaker 2: And I mean, I, you know, sometimes we think that
22:16
Speaker 2: that's going to lead to shootouts and it, it leads
22:19
Speaker 2: to defensive struggles instead.
22:21
Speaker 3: Right. And that, that wouldn't totally shock me in this game, but.
22:25
Speaker 2: I, I do think, That would concern me way more
22:29
Speaker 2: from an Ole Miss perspective than it would from an
22:30
Speaker 2: LSU perspective, just because you're talking about the architect and
22:34
Speaker 2: the guy who evaluated all these kids that are still
22:38
Speaker 2: left on the roster from his time and probably has
22:41
Speaker 2: a very good idea of their strengths and weaknesses, right?
22:44
Speaker 2: I do think that is an advantage for LSU, but
22:47
Speaker 2: I also would think that, man, if you're this Ole
22:51
Speaker 2: Miss regime and there's all of the narratives that have
22:55
Speaker 2: existed are out there and all the talk that has
22:57
Speaker 2: existed around this game and the hype for months and months.
23:02
Speaker 2: I would think that you spent some time in the
23:05
Speaker 2: off season, just kind of finding ways to obfuscate what
23:09
Speaker 2: you're going to do and changing certain things and, and
23:13
Speaker 2: switching up signals. And maybe you laid a trap for,
23:16
Speaker 2: for Lane and Weiss to fall into as well.
23:20
Speaker 3: Right?
23:20
Speaker 2: Like maybe you, you know, you want to make something
23:22
Speaker 2: look like it's the same when it really isn't. So
23:24
Speaker 2: I'm very fascinated to see that. We probably will never
23:26
Speaker 2: know the actual extent of those little chess matches that
23:30
Speaker 2: get played. But I certainly think that with the amount
23:35
Speaker 2: of attention that's been on this game, I would imagine
23:37
Speaker 2: that Ole.
23:38
Speaker 3: Miss certainly has had a plan for it.
23:39
Speaker 2: Like I, I would just think if you're Pete Golding, yes,
23:42
Speaker 2: you won those playoff games, but like, if you win
23:45
Speaker 2: this game, This is the ultimate proof of concept that
23:49
Speaker 2: you can give to everyone in America that thinks Ole
23:52
Speaker 2: Miss is going to take a step back now that Lane.
23:53
Speaker 3: Kiffin is gone.
23:55
Speaker 1: So I'm just going against you for the heck of it.
23:57
Speaker 1: I will take– I'll take LSU to cover. So you've
24:02
Speaker 1: got Ole Miss. I'll take LSU just so we can
24:04
Speaker 1: be opposite on this one. I'll take LSU. I'm trusting
24:09
Speaker 1: in– I drank too much Kool-Aid from– the Clemson game
24:14
Speaker 1: and I shouldn't have because of the Charleston Southern game
24:16
Speaker 1: that happened right after it or Georgia Southern game.
24:17
Speaker 3: Sorry.
24:18
Speaker 1: Then happened right after it, but I'm rolling with LSU.
24:21
Speaker 1: Graham's got Ole Miss. Well, that's, and that's the name
24:24
Speaker 1: of the show. Graham is the analytical guy and I'm
24:27
Speaker 1: just here for the vibes. So the vibes say LSU
24:29
Speaker 1: and that's where I'm going today.
24:30
Speaker 2: See, but this is like a vibes play for me.
24:33
Speaker 3: It is.
24:33
Speaker 1: It is vibes on both sides.
24:35
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
24:36
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, like, I just think that when it
24:39
Speaker 2: comes to football, uh, Sometimes hatred is a more powerful
24:42
Speaker 2: emotion than