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LSU... It's Time We Had A SERIOUS Conversation About the Tigers After Ole Miss · College Football Addiction: A Show About All Things College Football

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  Speaker 1: Let's move to the LSU side for a few minutes again,
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  Speaker 1: presented by PrizePix here. Cole, what did, I mean, other
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  Speaker 1: than just the unfortunate life that was having to go
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  Speaker 1: up against Trinidad Chambliss, what did LSU struggle with here?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, and he fell offline.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, not right in that moment, Cole.
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  Speaker 2: I'll dive in since he's getting it figured out. It
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  Speaker 2: was ironic in that Ole Miss was at home. There
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  Speaker 2: were certainly the butterflies. Lane Kiffin's coming back. There's the adrenaline.
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  Speaker 2: It was a hostile environment. And who was the most nervous?
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  Speaker 2: Sam Leavitt. Sam Leavitt was clearly not comfortable for the
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  Speaker 2: first half of this game. And by the end of it,
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  Speaker 2: we realized that on a bad day, he's a poor
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  Speaker 2: man's Johnny Manziel. He had some bright spots. He seemed
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  Speaker 2: like he was one read and take off. And even
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  Speaker 2: if it wasn't one read, just kind of deciding, like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm taking off, it didn't seem like he trusted his
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  Speaker 2: offensive line. That was the biggest thing I took away
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  Speaker 2: from this, is that Sam Levitt is a solid quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: but there's levels to this. Trinidad Chambliss being the final
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  Speaker 2: boss of quarterbacks within college football right now. Sam Levitt
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  Speaker 2: is solid. Sam Levitt's going to win some games for
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  Speaker 2: LSU for the remainder of this season. Sam Levitt and
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  Speaker 2: LSU will still be in contention to make the college
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  Speaker 2: football playoff. So it's not all doom and gloom. But
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  Speaker 2: you could feel the frustration from Lane Kiffin with his quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: with his offense in general. And we were talking about
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  Speaker 2: it moments ago. We were discussing what's going on with
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  Speaker 2: Ole Miss secondary, the way they played against LSU's passing game.
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  Speaker 2: There aren't that many real threats within this passing game.
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  Speaker 2: It needs to be a dink and dunk offense. And
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of what they were able to do weeks
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  Speaker 2: ago against Clemson. Clemson just gave up a ton of
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  Speaker 2: explosives because it's just a bad team. Trades Green banged
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  Speaker 2: up a little bit. His own mother apparently has reported
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  Speaker 2: he seems to be okay going on.
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  Speaker 3: No torn ligaments, but there's not a date when.
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  Speaker 4: He can return.
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  Speaker 2: Right. But even Trades Green, he is a physical freak,
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  Speaker 2: but I wouldn't describe him as a game breaker, that
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  Speaker 2: sort of player. They have a bunch of twos and threes,
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  Speaker 2: a wide receiver. And this is a team that literally
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  Speaker 2: got thrown together in the portal 10 months ago. So
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  Speaker 2: I didn't have... top end expectations that it was going
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  Speaker 2: to be a bunch of Jeremiah Smith's and Malachi Tony's
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  Speaker 2: out there and murderers row. They have to figure things out.
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  Speaker 2: And the running game seemed to be working at times,
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  Speaker 2: but they just, they seemed half pregnant with the running
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  Speaker 2: game to me. I don't know what you saw Cole.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So the first thing that I saw was very conservative
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  Speaker 3: on both sides of the football. When it came to
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  Speaker 3: the play designs by Charlie Weiss jr. And by Blake Baker,
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  Speaker 3: they did not send a lot of blitzes, which allowed,
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  Speaker 3: I think trade had to get into a rhythm. And
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  Speaker 3: once you did that, you were able to realize that,
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  Speaker 3: We're going to play off-ball? Okay, he can still beat us.
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  Speaker 3: We have to pressure him into making mistakes. And I
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  Speaker 3: thought that that opened up an avenue. The other thing
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  Speaker 3: is that I thought the play calling from Charlie Wise Jr.
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  Speaker 4: Was very lackluster in the first quarter.
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  Speaker 3: And really, it took about 18 minutes for them to
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  Speaker 3: get into a motion before they were able to really
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  Speaker 3: get anything going.
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  Speaker 4: Now, partially, the play calling was an issue.
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  Speaker 3: The part that I don't think is getting talked about enough, guys,
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  Speaker 3: Ole Miss whooped them in the trenches on both.
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  Speaker 4: Sides for literally a three and a half quarters.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there were moments where you saw Sam Levin
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  Speaker 3: and the offensive line hold their own. But you also
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  Speaker 3: saw Sam Levin have to take off and run and
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  Speaker 3: play like a chicken with his head cut off. And
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  Speaker 3: when he's out of structure, he's one of the most
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  Speaker 3: fun quarterbacks to see play. Kind of like Johnny Mansell,
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  Speaker 3: as Tom pointed out. But they bullied them in the trenches.
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  Speaker 3: That really took away a lot of the elements of...
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  Speaker 3: We want to establish the run with Dylan Jones. Well,
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  Speaker 3: we can't establish the run with Dylan Jones. So now
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  Speaker 3: we've got to throw downfield. Or their secondary is making
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  Speaker 3: plays and they're putting pressure on Sam Leavitt.
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  Speaker 4: The base is going to have to go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: And throw one up and pray that it lands in
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  Speaker 3: the hand of a non-defender or at least an incompletion.
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  Speaker 4: That way we can go ahead and reassess.
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  Speaker 3: So credit on both sides here of the conservative play calling,
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  Speaker 3: I think from LSU in the early stages and Ole
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  Speaker 3: Miss getting after them and kind of sending a message.
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  Speaker 3: I thought that when you got to the third quarter,
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  Speaker 3: you started to get a run game going. Dylan Jones
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  Speaker 3: started to kind of feel himself. And they were kind
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  Speaker 3: of breaking on through that second and third level.
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  Speaker 4: Some missed tackles.
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  Speaker 3: Some very crucial missed tackles by Ole Miss that allowed
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  Speaker 3: them to get on in.
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  Speaker 4: I thought that Ole Miss had.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of really, really good play designs. But Sam
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  Speaker 3: Levitt showed you what were the flashes at Arizona State.
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  Speaker 3: That one touchdown pass to Winston Watkins. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 3: a highlight play. That's one where you say to yourself,
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  Speaker 3: Tip of the cap, you were able to outdo me.
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  Speaker 3: Good on good and the better one on that situation.
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  Speaker 3: But again, they were also able to create opportunities defensively
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  Speaker 3: because they started sending blitzes. They started sending design packages
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  Speaker 3: of making Trey.Chambers kind of play with more speed. And
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  Speaker 3: so they were late to the process in a lot
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  Speaker 3: of those areas. But when they finally got going, it
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  Speaker 3: was good. It just also was too little too late.
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  Speaker 3: And then when you had an opportunity to kind of
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  Speaker 3: put the nail in the coffin, Ole Miss gets a
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  Speaker 3: stop and they get a big step up and then
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  Speaker 3: they drive down the field.
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  Speaker 4: And then you get an opportunity on fourth down and
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  Speaker 4: you do convert.
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  Speaker 3: And you get into the red zone, and you get
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  Speaker 3: four chances, and ultimately, because of Cam Franklin's helmet, is
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  Speaker 3: just in the right place at the right time, ball
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  Speaker 3: ricochets up at the top, and it's a pick, and
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  Speaker 3: it ends the game. Like, that's what this came on
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  Speaker 3: down to. I do think the loss to Trey Des
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  Speaker 3: Green is big, though. And I say that because Trey
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  Speaker 3: Des Green, in that situation inside the red zone, you can,
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  Speaker 3: it's their version of Trey Des Chambers where you just
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  Speaker 3: need a quarterback to be able to deliver.
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  Speaker 4: You don't have an answer for that in the red zone.
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  Speaker 3: There's not a defensive back or a linebacker that can
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  Speaker 3: do both things of covering him with the speed or
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  Speaker 3: the size to be able to win those battles.
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  Speaker 4: And when he got taken out of the game, you
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  Speaker 4: lose that.
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  Speaker 3: Elemental access of what's so important for you to be
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  Speaker 3: able to win in those short field positions, especially for
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  Speaker 3: when it is that close of a matchup.
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  Speaker 4: So I thought that was a really big deal. I
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  Speaker 4: will agree with Tom on one thing.
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  Speaker 3: This is a wide receiver room that reminds me so
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  Speaker 3: much right now of the Green Bay Packers. And honestly,
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  Speaker 3: maybe even what we could say with Notre Dame. You
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  Speaker 3: have a lot of good wide receivers. Do you have
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  Speaker 3: a game changer? Do you have that dude that you're
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  Speaker 3: just like, because I can tell you right now, when
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  Speaker 3: I look at Ole Miss, Horatio Fields is a fun player.
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  Speaker 4: Traylon Ray stepped on up and had his moments yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: 99.9% of the time, got to have a moment, that
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  Speaker 3: ball is going to deuce Alexander. And you don't have
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  Speaker 3: a Deuce Alexander. You got some good players, Jackson Harris,
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  Speaker 3: Trey Wilson, Winnie Watkins, I think he'd be fun.
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  Speaker 4: You don't have that guy right now.
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  Speaker 3: And because you don't have that guy, it makes it
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  Speaker 3: more challenging for a quarterback that still is trying to
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  Speaker 3: learn to play within the system to be able to
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  Speaker 3: trust he's going to come on up and deliver.
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  Speaker 4: He's going to make that moment happen. And I think
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  Speaker 4: that that ultimately did hurt at times for LSU.
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  Speaker 3: I also think Lane put themselves in a position really
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  Speaker 3: early on to where, again, the conservative play calling and
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  Speaker 3: maybe the atmosphere, I don't know what it was. But
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  Speaker 3: they made it to where they allowed Ole Miss to
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  Speaker 3: gain so much momentum. And I give a lot of
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  Speaker 3: credit for them fighting on back end in the third quarter.
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  Speaker 3: If they don't get that interception, and let's just say
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  Speaker 3: that they score and it's now 31-7, you lose all
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  Speaker 3: the juice at that point.
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  Speaker 4: You do. So I give credit. But I also think
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  Speaker 4: that this is the beauty of what is college football.
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  Speaker 3: Where in one moment we are going to overreact to,
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  Speaker 3: holy crap, what a play in week one.
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  Speaker 4: To more of, this is who we are as a program.
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  Speaker 3: And there are some faults and there are some limitations
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  Speaker 3: that we may end up going 10-2.
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  Speaker 4: We may end up going 9-3.
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  Speaker 3: But there are some things that we're definitely being over-enhanced
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  Speaker 3: because it's the first time you ever saw us play.
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  Speaker 2: I think some of the conservative play calling in the
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  Speaker 2: first half was because Sam Levitt was rocked. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think they trusted Sam Leavitt in the early part of
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  Speaker 2: the game. You had 43 rushing attempts, 27 passing attempts.
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  Speaker 2: I know this is a team that wants to establish
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  Speaker 2: the run, and that's a hallmark of Lane Kiffin, but
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  Speaker 2: that's quite the imbalance for Lane Kiffin. Assuming what we
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  Speaker 2: saw against Ole Miss and Louisville, you would think that
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  Speaker 2: LSU saw opportunities to throw the football against Ole Miss
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  Speaker 2: in this game. I think there were some things that
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  Speaker 2: Ole Miss brought to the table. I mentioned their defensive
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  Speaker 2: line earlier. I thought the interior of their defensive line
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  Speaker 2: wrecked LSU's offensive line throughout the night. And TJ, going forward,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like this is still a really dangerous team,
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  Speaker 2: and they're going to get better from this. And you
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  Speaker 2: hope you get Tredez Green back, and you hope that
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  Speaker 2: you're able to get some pieces back on the defensive
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  Speaker 2: side as well. LSU is still a very dangerous animal
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  Speaker 2: within the SEC.
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  Speaker 3: Yes but at the same time i think that they're
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  Speaker 3: right back into more so the conversation of this is
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  Speaker 3: a year to where every win is going to be
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  Speaker 3: important for the future but if you don't make the
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  Speaker 3: playoff it's not the end i'll be all the way
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  Speaker 3: that someone make it out to be if you talk
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  Speaker 3: to lsu fans and then you talk to the national
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  Speaker 3: media the national media is pumping up the chest up
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  Speaker 3: you got to make the playoff in year one because
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  Speaker 3: of you left oxford and then you ask the people
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  Speaker 3: in baton rouge they're like we don't look if they
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  Speaker 3: just get nine and three and they show that they're
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  Speaker 3: on the come up with a number one recruiting class
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  Speaker 3: and they have the funds and the ducks in order
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  Speaker 3: for us to have a great foundation that's more so
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  Speaker 3: what we care about and there probably is truth somewhere
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  Speaker 3: in the middle of that but I again think that
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  Speaker 3: it's week one overreactions at its finest. LSU is a
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  Speaker 3: wagon that can't be stopped because you played against Clemson with,
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  Speaker 3: let me remind everybody, Chad Morris.
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  Speaker 4: As your offensive coordinator. You ain't going up against Chad
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  Speaker 4: Morris every single week.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to get tested. And you're going to get
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  Speaker 3: tested next week against Texas A & M even. So
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  Speaker 3: it's not like it's one of those things to where
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  Speaker 3: it's just this game. I think that LSU is in
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  Speaker 3: a good spot. You also won't be going up against
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  Speaker 3: Trinidad Chambis week in and week out.
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  Speaker 4: You just won't. Like that's kind of the blessing.
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  Speaker 3: They will find a way to be able, I think, get.
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  Speaker 4: Into that 9-3 range.
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  Speaker 3: But 9-3 is probably not going to the playoff this year,
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  Speaker 3: at least with their schedule. It was a big win,
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  Speaker 3: but it was a reality check that there are some
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  Speaker 3: things that you have got to clean up on both
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  Speaker 3: sides of the football. And it's really going to be
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  Speaker 3: interesting to see how they respond next week against Texas
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  Speaker 3: A & M on both sides, but I think offensively
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  Speaker 3: because you will not have that security blanket known as
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  Speaker 3: trade-in screen, in my opinion. So how do you be
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  Speaker 3: able to counteract that? And how do you get off
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  Speaker 3: to a faster start?
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  Speaker 4: Like, honestly, Lane, no offense, man.
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  Speaker 3: I know that you have some demons and you were
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  Speaker 3: able to conquer them. And I applaud you for that.
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  Speaker 3: Let some of those demons out against Texas A &
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  Speaker 3: M secondary in the first drive or two.
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  Speaker 4: Like, you've got to lay down the haymaker.
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  Speaker 2: They'll have opportunities against Texas A & M.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to them in just a moment. Cole, are
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  Speaker 1: they still in the playoff to you?
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  Speaker 4: I wonder if TJ's muted and he doesn't know it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I can hear him.
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  Speaker 4: I can't at all.
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  Speaker 1: Well, ask Cole what I said, then I'll refresh real
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  Speaker 1: quick while we go to the next one. But are
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  Speaker 1: they still a playoff team to Cole?
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  Speaker 2: TJ was asking if you, Cole, think that LSU was
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  Speaker 2: still a playoff team.
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  Speaker 3: They weren't a playoff team for me going into the year,
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  Speaker 3: so they're not a playoff team for me now. Again,
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  Speaker 3: this game, you guys remember when we did our access
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  Speaker 3: and we did our initial poll, you had LSU in
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  Speaker 3: the playoff and I had Ole Miss in the playoff.
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  Speaker 4: I had Ole Miss in the playoff because they won
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  Speaker 4: this game. So this game now is the reason why.