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- 0:08What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to Just in Time
- 0:10podcast. LSU football is 1 and and Elaine
- 0:14Kipping any better? Yes, Sir.
- 0:19Man, we just walked in that stadium Saturday night and
- 0:22absolutely embarrassed 51 to you know and I said this a while
- 0:28back, I think I said it on Sunday.
- 0:32You know, this weekend on Saturday is going to be solid
- 0:35test for us. We'll know where this team is
- 0:38at. Mentally, yes.
- 0:42Then the big test will come in a hostile environment against OPS
- 0:47a week later. As far as testing emotional and
- 0:51I don't know how much football will be tested, but physically
- 0:54they'll be tested with Opus. But this is a good game.
- 1:00After an emotional win on Sun on Saturday, how do they handle
- 1:04Latex, you know? Yeah, You know, I love that you
- 1:08say that because we had, we were just in the same situation just
- 1:12time last year, brother. Like we get the emotional win on
- 1:15the road against Clemson in South Carolina and then we come
- 1:20home and we just look completely flat.
- 1:23I know many people. I know many people looked at as
- 1:25like, well, just as this is our first season opener win and like
- 1:28since 2019, we broke the long losing streak and like we also
- 1:33it was just the emotional win. I I think that could be true,
- 1:36partial, that could be true. But last year I was looked at
- 1:39that really scored 23. I can understand the scoring,
- 1:43just 17 on the road against Clemson.
- 1:45We only scored 23 at home against Lot Tech last year and
- 1:48we just did not look good. Like that was a huge red flag
- 1:51for me for the offense and I was and I was just end up being the
- 1:55story of the season, unfortunately.
- 1:57Yeah. And if you guys can read what
- 1:59it's back on that TVLSU put up on the operations, football
- 2:04operations building Lot Tech is not beating at lot Tech is
- 2:09beating LSU before. Get your mind right. 1 and up is
- 2:13all that matters. Get over yourself.
- 2:16You ain't doing shit, you know? Yeah, hopefully they did go
- 2:20ahead and get that mind right, you know?
- 2:23I would hope, yeah. But just like I said, delight.
- 2:27I just love how you put it. It's a great test for them,
- 2:30especially latte plays and plays is tough and I think when you
- 2:34when you could still the ideal would just to be really be more
- 2:38efficient offensively and be sharper than you were as a
- 2:43passing unit in Week 1. Yeah, I mean, people come on and
- 2:47say, you know, come on, it's just Louisiana Tech.
- 2:50But when we did the summer breakdown, you know, yeah, LSU
- 2:56hasn't beaten Clemson by double digits and almost a decade, you
- 3:00know, sure, we've beaten them, but this is a Louisiana Tech
- 3:05that, well, let me just give you 1 #80 they put up 80 points in
- 3:12the season opener. Now, that was against
- 3:14Northwestern State, you know, and they did lead 63 to 3 at
- 3:17halftime. But if we're going to compare,
- 3:20we only scored 51, you know, and they scored 80.
- 3:24But they don't have to. They're coming into Death Valley
- 3:28and facing an offense that absolutely obliterated Clemson.
- 3:33You know, and just yesterday on his this presser, Kiffin said.
- 3:40While he's he's also challenging the fans, you know, to treat
- 3:45this like any other opponent. Treat this like a big opponent,
- 3:49not just some SEC school, you know, some lower school in
- 3:54state, rot in state school will not rival in state school.
- 3:58Treat him like ASEC opponent, a big game like the Clemson game.
- 4:03I think he said. If you need to go out there and
- 4:04we need to build a mock game day stage out there, we'll do it.
- 4:08Just come. Yeah, I love that you brought
- 4:12that up because this is also a trap game because it's it's so
- 4:15easily a look ahead spot to the big showdown gets Ole Miss on
- 4:19the road. So you have the theme from last
- 4:21year, the let down from last year.
- 4:23I know it's a different staff, different team.
- 4:25I get it. This this is the the the
- 4:27principle of the matter that you don't want to come off fight
- 4:30against an emotional win against a high profile opponent,
- 4:33especially going into the second.
- 4:35The other fold of it going it ahead to a high profile opponent
- 4:39as well. Exactly.
- 4:41I mean, look, if we play our cards right, we handle business
- 4:45against Tech and after watching Ole Miss and Louisville on
- 4:50Sunday, there's not much football wise to look forward to
- 4:56to Ole Miss. But we'll get into that next
- 4:59week, You know, just we can't over, we can't sleep on and
- 5:06overlook what Ted just did, you know?
- 5:11Yeah. Scoring 81 points is difficult.
- 5:16Regardless of the, regardless of competition and you.
- 5:21Know. Look, I did learn a new rule.
- 5:24Maybe this is just me, but I never knew this.
- 5:27Did you know you can shorten the game?
- 5:29A coach can go if they kind of like a mercy rule instead of
- 5:32just running the clocks, they can apparently ask for the
- 5:36fourth quarter to be shortened. It happened in Arizona, Arizona
- 5:42State and Morgan State. Morgan State's coach actually
- 5:45played the short in the fourth quarter.
- 5:46You know, kind of want that to happen to LA Tech.
- 5:49I kind of want LA Tech to come come down here and blanket and
- 5:53be putting a butt whooping on him so bad.
- 5:58You know, just you know, it's funny man cuz.
- 6:01And once said, hey, can we shorten a game?
- 6:06A little bit like we had, we had talked about this the other
- 6:09night when you when, when you brought it up to me and made me
- 6:12think about Louisville back in when Lamar Jackson was there.
- 6:16I, I couldn't tell you who they played, but this it was got so
- 6:19bad. They just had like a continual
- 6:20clock in the second-half or the third quarter.
- 6:23I don't remember when it was, but it was just like a soccer
- 6:26clock. It don't stop until the game is
- 6:28actually over. I was like that.
- 6:29That's when you know it's bad. So even if somebody scored a
- 6:32touchdown on that clock stick, I'm like, goodness, Gracie.
- 6:34Yeah, it was. Louisiana Tech always comes in
- 6:37confident and it they always have this energy to them.
- 6:40Just these in state schools have this energy to them because most
- 6:46of these kids are Louisiana kids who dreamt about playing on that
- 6:50field their whole life and they're finally getting their
- 6:53chance and they have absolutely nothing to lose.
- 6:56They could go undefeated and won't even sniff the playoffs,
- 7:01you know? Yeah, they're going to be it.
- 7:03They're going to come in there loose as they should.
- 7:05Yeah, and they're going to throw everything they possibly can at
- 7:10you. Fake punch, 4th down attempts,
- 7:15trick plays, deep shots, aggressive, aggressive blitzes.
- 7:19This will be a test for offensive line, you know, But
- 7:22you know, probably the funniest match up of all of this is Blake
- 7:26Baker versus Blake Baker. I just.
- 7:30Sound like a album, but Baker versus Baker.
- 7:33Louisiana's Louisiana Tech's quarterback Blake Baker versus
- 7:38LS US defensive coordinator Blake Baker.
- 7:41I think I know who I'm putting my money on.
- 7:44It's. Going to be the dude who coached
- 7:47up that defense against Clemson to only give up 145 yards the
- 7:53entire game, you know? I will say like, you know, you
- 7:57know Baker, you know the quarterback.
- 7:59So you got to preface it. You got to preface it the
- 8:01quarterback. Say you completed 10 or 14
- 8:04passes for 232 and 3T DS in the first half against Northwestern
- 8:09State. Yeah.
- 8:10Yeah. 23 yards per completion on average.
- 8:13So you know, let's you talk about a chunk play performance.
- 8:17Yeah, but you don't have, you also didn't have guys like Wit
- 8:21Weeks. Yep.
- 8:23And then I'm coming after you every play.
- 8:26Well, it's true. So it'll be a little
- 8:27interesting, I'm not going to lie.
- 8:29It'll be interesting, you know? Yeah.
- 8:31Can LSUS pass rush versus Louisiana attack?
- 8:35Can they get home? And they get it.
- 8:38And look, I'm going to tell you right now the other shoes going
- 8:43to run all over them. Boys, that defensive front we've
- 8:47got is just destroyed Clemson and I think Latech will hold up
- 8:53for a little while, but it's coming.
- 8:57We go get there. You know, I think that Louisiana
- 9:02Tech's offense is going to be 1 dimensional by the end of it.
- 9:04You know, that's what I hope. That's what I hope.
- 9:07You know, even when I was looking at going back to the
- 9:09Clemson game real quick, just like I was saying, when Clemson
- 9:12had the ball offense, they were more effective when they got the
- 9:15ball very quick. They got the ball at like, you
- 9:18can't let like Louisiana Tech is going to have any chance of
- 9:22really being competitive, much less winning.
- 9:26They just cannot let those defensive lineman get after the
- 9:29quarterback like that. Yeah, but you can't let it
- 9:32happen. You know, we've got Jordan Ross
- 9:37Prince. Well, I'm not even going to
- 9:39tempt him to say that name. Mommy yelling Prince.
- 9:41Well, mommy yelling. Yeah, it's coming up.
- 9:45And then you throw wit weeks and damn, what's that other one that
- 9:48was back there the whole time he lived in the Clemson backfield.
- 9:51See, this is where being at the game doesn't get you much
- 9:54because you don't hear names, you just see numbers.
- 9:57That could comes in time. Yeah, but my challenge for LSU's
- 10:02defenses don't just beat them, suffocate them.
- 10:07Yes, show that Clemson wasn't a fluke in whole Louisiana to
- 10:11under 100 yards. No, not even 100 yards.
- 10:14Hold them to 50 yards under, 50 yards rushing.
- 10:16You know I. Mean listen just whatever you
- 10:18like one thing I always say about college sports and and and
- 10:22the difference between that and pro sports pro sports you just
- 10:25got to win college sports you got to win in style because the
- 10:29rankings evolve national wars draft stock so much is at stake
- 10:33for young players and young coaches, aspiring head coaches
- 10:36listen, just win in style. Just this one of those games
- 10:39where you just should dominate and I hope so.
- 10:42I hope that's what they. Don't think they will.
- 10:45I mean, Kiffin is in the right mindset.
- 10:47I feel much better having Kiffin at the helm than that clown we
- 10:51had last year, you know, And we're in so much better of a
- 10:57place right now than we were because the second matchup that
- 11:04I'm looking forward to can LSU run down their throats again.
- 11:09I was thoroughly surprised last Saturday when we ran the ball up
- 11:16and down that field with no resistance.
- 11:19Nobody even touched us. I mean, 309 yards rushing.
- 11:25It has been a very long time since I think we anybody around
- 11:28LSU has been able to say that. To start a season like that
- 11:33against AP4 squad, that's what takes it over the top for me.
- 11:38And 22200 yard rushes. Yes. 113 for Sam Levitt trying
- 11:46to do his best Jayden Daniels trademark pending impression.
- 11:51Speaking of that, before I go off, all these reports that LSU
- 11:55did not include Jayden Daniels in the NFLSU stuff or false, He
- 12:02got booed. That's what happened.
- 12:04He got booed. They showed him.
- 12:06He got booed. And Speaking of that, I didn't
- 12:09know the Houston Texans had so many LSU players on their team.
- 12:12Yeah, we got a couple players on there.
- 12:14Yeah, but back to important stuff was Dylan Jones another
- 12:21113 yards. You know, this is what we
- 12:25needed. I felt like it kept Clemson's
- 12:28defense on their toes. They didn't know if we were
- 12:29going to run or throw or both. You know, Sam Levitt was out
- 12:35there making people look like a fool.
- 12:37I ain't seen so many defenses, backs and lineman diving after a
- 12:41quarterback since LSU played Auburn in 2021 or 2020, the
- 12:49first time they beat us in Death Valley.
- 12:52Yeah, that's 2021. Yep, that's right.
- 12:54Because they that we won in 23. Yeah.
- 12:58The first win in Death Valley since 1999.
- 13:01Yeah. But yeah, Stephanie got got me
- 13:03that chain, brother. Yeah, but, you know, you got to
- 13:05look at this and what makes this interesting is Louisiana Tech's
- 13:10defense had 13 tackles for loss and held to held Northwestern
- 13:14State to 1.9 yards per carry. You know, but good news for LSU
- 13:19fans is Northwestern State most definitely is not LSU.
- 13:22You know, and another thing that really impressed me, and I
- 13:26probably should have said this last episode, is LSU
- 13:30conditioning. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 13:32You didn't have guys out there getting gassed after those
- 13:36running backs would run, you know, go for at that.
- 13:40Not to mention we didn't have that many huge burst explosive
- 13:46runs. I think one of the longest runs
- 13:49was 20 yards. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 13:51We just need to play aggressively now.
- 13:54You're going to come at you aggressive.
- 13:55You know, they're sure going to come at you aggressively.
- 13:59We need to play just as aggressive in.
- 14:01Just come out there and play, play their game, play their
- 14:05style, offense that they've been playing, you know?
- 14:08Yeah, and it's like one thing I like about just what they did in
- 14:11week one, just the ball control and you kept the clock moving,
- 14:15you know, just like it was so, so slow with the offense on the
- 14:18ground especially just like you put more pressure on the other
- 14:21opponent to score with more limited time.
- 14:24So just like the way they kept it kept moving forward, there
- 14:27was it was rare that you saw a negative play from us just like
- 14:32which we saw so much last year and this.
- 14:34But this year, this, this past game, it was just such a flow on
- 14:38the ground just to keep the ball turning forward positively.
- 14:41Arts, he knows. Getting it, getting in those
- 14:44like second and 3rd and manageable situations to make it
- 14:47easier for the offense. I love that.
- 14:48I love to see. Yeah, and you know, here's
- 14:51another one for me. The match up, the third match
- 14:55up, I want to see Sam Levitt winning from the pocket.
- 14:58You know, he did throw for he was really good in his debut.
- 15:03I think it was nerves, but checking the forecast, I think
- 15:07it's going to be another rainy game and I want to see how he
- 15:13can come out of the pocket. If we can get some of these
- 15:15weapons we've got on the edges out there and some grass, you
- 15:21know, and really have him aired out this game.
- 15:25Go ahead. He had 333 yard 3000 and 40 yard
- 15:3143 yards. I'm sorry of total offensive
- 15:34production from him. I want to see if he can get that
- 15:36much through the air, you know? Yeah, but look, awesome.
- 15:39That's. And that's why I want as well.
- 15:42Yeah, yeah, because the coming up in the next week, from what I
- 15:47saw from Louisville, old piss is secondary is weak.
- 15:52And they got, they got exposed, man.
- 15:54The second-half is like they just got gas.
- 15:56Exactly, they are weak and I want to see if you can throw
- 16:00against lot tech. So if you could throw it against
- 16:04lot tech down the field you for certain can get out there and
- 16:08throw it against old miss. Not to mention, like, once you
- 16:13get past old pisses line and linebackers rushing right, you
- 16:19might as well walk to the end zone.
- 16:21But you know, back to Tech in Levitt.
- 16:26I think his goal should be 2020 to 21 of 25 of 26.
- 16:32Yeah, here's my Big 10 turnovers.
- 16:36Yeah, clean game, but I want to. Clean game if you.
- 16:42Listen, I'll say this, if you even if there is a turnover, let
- 16:46it not be you. Yeah, not because you could be a
- 16:50TID back pass, I'm just or just like a blocker came unblocking
- 16:54the blinds. Whatever the case, let it now
- 16:56be. Your fault.
- 16:58Precisely on you, yeah. But something like that?
- 17:01Happened. Yes, I want. 250 plus yards of
- 17:06just airing it out and I want 3 touchdowns through the air, not
- 17:14rushing touchdowns. I want 3 touchdowns through the
- 17:16air and I want 5 total. I.
- 17:19Want two more rushing touchdowns And three passing touchdowns?
- 17:24Sounds about right from you, you know.
- 17:26And hopefully by the third quarter, he's just sitting on
- 17:30the sideline and letting those other two guys get some reps,
- 17:34you know? Yeah.
- 17:36But. It's just like we talked about
- 17:37earlier though, LS US biggest opponent might actually be LSU
- 17:41we talked about. The self-inflicted stuff, you
- 17:43know, just like and that's why you know, just an odd guys.
- 17:46We we harp on Mike and we could come across a nitpicky, but
- 17:49yeah, we care about the team. But you got to understand like
- 17:52that nitpicky stuff, we got to clean it up because even though
- 17:55it's like the the past, going behind the receiver with Sam
- 17:59like that led to the interception.
- 18:02That's a difference. Like imagine if Clinton would
- 18:03have scored a touchdown on that. See a better team.
- 18:06Like they're going to make you pay.
- 18:08So it's you got to avoid the self-inflicted stuff.
- 18:12Yeah. Look, you can't be your own
- 18:13worst enemy. We are.
- 18:15The 35 point favorite, you know, and I think when it closes,
- 18:20it'll be closer to 31 1/2 to 32 1/2.
- 18:23But, you know, the danger here is complacency.
- 18:28You know, in Lankifton talked a lot about it in that press
- 18:31yesterday of rat poison and how these kids are constantly on
- 18:35their phone, they're on social media checking out their stuff,
- 18:40you know, and how do they handle that?
- 18:42How do they hear stuff like playoff contender, national
- 18:46championship contender, Not to mention you go to old piss next
- 18:50week, you know, how do they come back and handle that?
- 18:55You know, in a lot of the Ole Miss stuff, you can't look
- 18:58ahead. You got to focus on the here and
- 19:01now. And I think this coaching staff
- 19:03actually has their heads, right? Lane Kiffin was back at work on
- 19:07Sunday morning. You know, and here's the thing,
- 19:12we do play Louisiana Tech first. Yeah, yeah.
- 19:18And we cannot turn the ball over.
- 19:21You can't. Give that you can't give the
- 19:23opponent life, especially the one that's supposed to be
- 19:26inferior. And.
- 19:28I give them life. You can't give them a spark.
- 19:32You need to snap that spark out. One thing I do like, you know,
- 19:36we didn't talk about, yes, but I was a fan of the two point
- 19:39conversion about 44 to three against Clemson.
- 19:43Yeah. Yeah.
- 19:45It just you're going to have to work on that and it's not like
- 19:50you're winning or losing on 2 point conversion.
- 19:52At some point down the line, it's going to come down to the
- 19:57two point conversion. And look, the way it turned out,
- 20:00that was the only negative play we had all night.
- 20:04Yeah, because. Since I mean yeah in.
- 20:07Kevin, the argument. With that, so you've been.
- 20:09Really could have legitimately told Sam Levitt, hey, look, take
- 20:13the sack because it's not like Levitt looked for an out at that
- 20:19point, you know, but we got to play clean.
- 20:23We got to eliminate the mental mistakes and we got to protect
- 20:27the football and that's. In a nutshell, like just.
- 20:31You. You.
- 20:31Want to play and it like this is the thing like you got to you
- 20:36got to make sure everything is Chris like that's the word
- 20:39Chris. I want I want to be float
- 20:42fluidity. I want to Chris office, I want
- 20:45to Chris production. Well, what's the word outcome?
- 20:50I want to Chris outcome, yeah. Yeah, and you know 5 things
- 20:55here's we're going to close it out with five things LSU needs
- 20:58to accomplish to win #1 start first, get that ball and score.
- 21:05No emotional hangover from the Clemson game.
- 21:09I want 2 scores early #2 no turnovers #3 continue running
- 21:15the football. Yeah #4 I mean, we talked about
- 21:19it earlier. Clean up the passing game in #5
- 21:23I want the starters out of the game by the mid third quarter.
- 21:26Same here. One thing I love about blowouts
- 21:30is that you get you you eliminate injuries to your key
- 21:34players and you get other guys time.
- 21:36I know many people are like like, well, you know, you know,
- 21:39the transfer portal in IO era, some of these guys may be gone
- 21:42next year. They might, but what if they
- 21:45don't? What if they stay?
- 21:47You know what, you have an idea what you're going to get.
- 21:49You just get them that necessary.
- 21:51You can give them that necessary to the list that they they can
- 21:53use. I mean, I'll like to me that be
- 21:57always will be the alternative of as opposed to losing a key
- 22:00guy that you really need throughout the whole season.
- 22:03Yeah, and just like we did last week, let's close this thing out
- 22:08with some predictions. Will, what's your final score?
- 22:11So I'm. Going they got they, they put an
- 22:1280 piece on or what you call it. So like, I know it's not us.
- 22:17Yeah, I'm going. To say I'm going to give us a go
- 22:194914. Oh, nice thing.
- 22:22I'm going to go 52 to 13. They don't like it.
- 22:27I think it's they're going to score once they'll get, I'll
- 22:30give them one touchdown. Yeah, and two field goals.
- 22:35I like it, but I say I think we scored.
- 22:40I'm sorry. Go ahead.
- 22:40Go ahead. Go.
- 22:41Ahead I was going. To say we go out 14, nothing,
- 22:44they score. So make it 14, seven and then
- 22:48we'll go like a long like unanswered streak and they'll
- 22:50score maybe the midway to the third on the 4th to make it.
- 22:55Yeah, yeah, I cannot. See this going the same way,
- 22:58like they get the ball one on a punt or something.
- 23:02A rare punt from us, we hadn't done that.
- 23:05Yeah, when we put. The backups in and they kicked 2
- 23:09field goals and scored touchdown in the fourth.
- 23:12Yeah. But because I, I think our first
- 23:15string defense is just way too good, you know?
- 23:20Yeah, yeah. Just it's, and you see, you saw
- 23:23it on display on national television, you know, So it's, I
- 23:28like what we had right now. Yeah, and I think we go, we go 2
- 23:35and O to go to OPS. I think we go we rush for over
- 23:39200 yards. Again, Sam Levin's got to throw
- 23:43for three touchdowns. Look, I'm not going to give the
- 23:45defense crumbs. I'm going to give them a whole
- 23:47feast. I think they forced two touch,
- 23:49two turnovers. And most importantly, I don't
- 23:51think any of those guys will be in in the fourth quarter and
- 23:55like. And I, and I'm going to throw in
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- 24:16And look, just a final thought. You know, the Clemson game told
- 24:20us LSU has the ability to be really good, but this game can
- 24:24show us whether we we're at the maturity to become great.
- 24:28Yeah. So that's a good way to look at
- 24:30it. Because championship teams
- 24:33don't, oh, get overly excited, you know?
- 24:36But it shows. It's going to show us what we
- 24:39need to do. Yeah, yeah.
- 24:42That's right and. Here's where LSU just needs to
- 24:44go off with Louisiana Tech. Don't even let them believe in
- 24:48themselves. Start fast, play physical,
- 24:51protective football and handle business and get the 2 and up.
- 24:54And you know, as always, make sure you like.
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- 25:05I'll see you after the game. Go Tigers.