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Hour One | Football Friday! Patriots vs. Bears Recap & Top 25 College Football Preview · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into Off The Bench.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob Hester and Matt Levin.
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  Speaker 2: Terrifying and terrible.
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  Speaker 3: Live from the.
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  Speaker 2: Haunted Raising Cane's studio.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Jacob Hester and Matt Levin.
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  Speaker 3: Yo, and welcome in OTB live from Rouse's on Burbank
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  Speaker 3: and Lee, Jake Flynn, Cassie here with you.
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  Speaker 2: Alondra is Tay Tay or Paul? I can't remember. Paulie.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought I remembered that right. Paulie, Paulie O'Neill
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  Speaker 3: back in studio. It's a football Friday. We'll be here
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  Speaker 3: all show long. Burbank and Lee at Rouse's.
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  Speaker 2: Come see us.
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  Speaker 3: Come hang out. Come eat breakfast. Just stay about five
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  Speaker 3: to ten feet away from that.
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  Speaker 2: All right. We're not social distancing today, buddy.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody wants the flu, bud.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Well, you know, whatever it was, we dominated. We
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  Speaker 2: crushed it.
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  Speaker 4: I thought I had yesterday morning, but I was lying
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  Speaker 4: to everybody. I was lying to myself. Sometimes you got
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  Speaker 4: to talk positivity. But this today is different. Medically, we're
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  Speaker 4: crushing it.
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  Speaker 3: If you just wanted an off day, you could have said, hey,
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to come in.
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  Speaker 2: I would have planned for it, you know. Buddy, hey.
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  Speaker 4: Can you imagine most people in the world, they felt
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  Speaker 4: 5% as bad as I did.
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  Speaker 2: They would have probably taken off for a week. A week?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe two weeks. I don't know. Nobody really knows how
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  Speaker 2: bad you felt. Pretty bad. Take me out of something?
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  Speaker 2: Come on. Take me out of a championship golf match
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  Speaker 2: as well? I didn't go play golf. You looked like ish.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you that. I went home and went to
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  Speaker 2: see the doc. The doc? The good doc. Oh, the doc. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The good Dr. Ethers.
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  Speaker 4: Went to go see him, checked it, and gave me
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  Speaker 4: a little shot, gave me some medicines, and went home.
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  Speaker 4: Some medicines, huh? I was in a fever dream all
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  Speaker 4: day until about 5, 5.30 a.m. Woke up from the
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  Speaker 4: fever dream. Ninja flipped out.
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  Speaker 2: Ready to roll. You've been up since 5.30? Yesterday afternoon? Oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: I went back to sleep. Okay. I went back to
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  Speaker 2: sleep in my normal nighttime. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So I know I needed it because my body, my
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  Speaker 4: internal clock is not screwed up after sleeping for eight
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  Speaker 4: hours during the day.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, well, do you remember anything about yesterday's show?
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  Speaker 2: Not really, no. You had some wild takes. Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you were giving some wild stuff. Like, are you okay?
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  Speaker 2: Are you sick or something? Yeah, wild takes. What did
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  Speaker 2: I say? Just all the stuff. Give me one. All
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  Speaker 2: of them. I probably predicted the Bears would win. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's not really a wild take. They were favored.
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  Speaker 3: And the home team on Thursday night football, just straight
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  Speaker 3: up Thursday night football, last three years, now 15-31.
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  Speaker 2: The home team is 15? The road team.
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  Speaker 3: The road team is 15 and 31. The road team
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  Speaker 3: is 15 and 31 now.
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  Speaker 2: Is that abnormal? I wonder what the– I mean, obviously
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  Speaker 2: it's– 15 and 31 feels real bad. It does feel bad.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with you.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you play for Green Bay. You play plenty
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  Speaker 3: of Thursday games. I played a lot of them. Every
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  Speaker 3: time we played the Raiders, it was Thursday. That week
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  Speaker 3: is not fun. Now, afterwards is fun because you get, like, Friday, Saturday,
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  Speaker 3: Sunday off.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a little mini-bye.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you would always think that, like, Thursday night football
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  Speaker 4: would always end up being sloppy just because it's a
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  Speaker 4: short week. I mean, you just got done playing on
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  Speaker 4: a Monday. You get, really, you get your off day.
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  Speaker 4: You get one real practice, right? And then you get
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  Speaker 4: kind of a jog-through type practice. But they still have
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  Speaker 4: to give you your off day just because you can't.
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  Speaker 4: go from a game to monday i mean you do
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  Speaker 4: like your stretch of stride and you do all.
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  Speaker 3: Your like you like we on mondays after a sunday
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  Speaker 3: before thursday we would actually go out like we didn't
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  Speaker 3: have an off we would have a practice on monday
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  Speaker 3: on monday okay trying to think if we did i
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  Speaker 3: don't think i don't think you actually got an off.
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  Speaker 2: Day yeah i don't think we had i mean it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't and nothing was ever heavy.
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  Speaker 4: We might have had like a jog through but you
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  Speaker 4: had like helmets on yeah you know what i mean
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  Speaker 4: i don't think we did that on a monday um Obviously,
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  Speaker 4: on Tuesday, that would be your one real, real practice.
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  Speaker 4: And then the day before the game, you never really
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  Speaker 4: do much. You'll go do a jog through or a
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  Speaker 4: walk through. Well, especially if you're traveling. But you would
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  Speaker 4: think it would always be sloppy. But for some reason,
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  Speaker 4: we always get really good games on Thursday. This was
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  Speaker 4: a great game. And a lot of it is there
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  Speaker 4: is less prep time. There's less game planning time for
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  Speaker 4: the coaches. So the coaches can't draw up all this
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  Speaker 4: crazy stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Can't chase ghosts.
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  Speaker 4: Can't chase ghosts. You don't have time to. You don't
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  Speaker 4: have time to make up any ghosts in your head.
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  Speaker 4: So coaches don't really overthink Thursdays. They just go and
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  Speaker 4: run their plays. And it's always entertaining. Special ball plays.
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  Speaker 4: Let me tell you, last night was a good, that
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  Speaker 4: was a high-level football game to watch. Caleb Williams played,
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  Speaker 4: is playing, it's going to be hard to find, like,
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  Speaker 4: tape that is better play than that. Like, he just,
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  Speaker 4: he didn't do anything that was, like, over the top,
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  Speaker 4: but just working his progressions in the pocket was, finding
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  Speaker 4: open people, being accurate with the ball, and then making
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  Speaker 4: some plays when they needed it, whether he was working,
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  Speaker 4: you know, within the play, like on schedule or off schedule,
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  Speaker 4: having to maneuver in the pocket. He made some guys
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  Speaker 4: miss in the pocket and delivered some throws yesterday. That
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  Speaker 4: was very high level stuff. And on the other side
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  Speaker 4: of the ball, Mike Vrabel with a couple of extremely
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  Speaker 4: high level coaching decisions towards the end. Now, they're down,
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  Speaker 4: Patriots down by six, and they do a couple things like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: what are they doing? But it was high-level coaching. I
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  Speaker 4: think there was, I wrote it down here, there was
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  Speaker 4: 13 inches. The Bears are 13 inches on the Patriots'
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  Speaker 4: 40-yard line. Pats are down by six. The clock has stopped.
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  Speaker 4: Pats have three timeouts. It's 13 inches now. And it's
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  Speaker 4: right in that go zone for most offensive people. Well,
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  Speaker 4: I am assuming, and it looked like it, the defensive
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  Speaker 4: tackle jumps off sides for the Pats, gives them an
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  Speaker 4: automatic first down. And I believe it was an intentional
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  Speaker 4: offsides to give them that first down.
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  Speaker 2: And that is high-level coaching.
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  Speaker 3: So you don't, yeah, you're talking about more time off
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  Speaker 3: the clock if it's, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You got to assume that they're going to go for
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  Speaker 4: it for two straight plays, right?
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: So you're going to, with the clock stop, you jump offsides.
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  Speaker 4: It gives them the automatic first down, but it doesn't
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  Speaker 4: start the clock. So you don't have to waste one
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  Speaker 4: of your timeouts. You know for a fact that if
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  Speaker 4: they have a first down and you stop them, You
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  Speaker 4: can blow your timeouts, and you can still.
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  Speaker 2: Get the ball back. So high-level coaching stuff there.
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  Speaker 4: And then later on, when the Pats did get the
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  Speaker 4: ball back, they were down by nine points.
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  Speaker 2: So two scores. They get it. They are down.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's around the 20-yard line or something.
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  Speaker 4: On second down, they kick the field goal with 40
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  Speaker 4: seconds left on the clock. They're like, oh, well, you're
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  Speaker 4: so close to the end zone. You've got to get
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  Speaker 4: in the end zone at some point. I liked that
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  Speaker 4: idea because you're going to have to get an onside
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  Speaker 4: kick to have a chance. You're going to have to
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  Speaker 4: get it anyways. Give yourself an onside kick with more
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  Speaker 4: than 10, 12 seconds left on the clock. Give yourself
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  Speaker 4: an onside kick and– Try to get the ball in
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  Speaker 4: your offense's hands with 40 seconds left so they can
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  Speaker 4: at least have a couple plays to get it closer.
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  Speaker 2: To the end zone. Right. I like the clock management.
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  Speaker 4: There's some high-level stuff right there from Braves. Now they
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  Speaker 4: come up losing, but I just– from both sides of
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  Speaker 4: the ball, it was a very entertaining game to watch
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  Speaker 4: from just the– it was a class.
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  Speaker 2: Game, I thought.
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  Speaker 3: So I was doing some research here, and this feels
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  Speaker 3: about right. So I mentioned away teams now, I guess– Yeah, 15-31.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and add last night's game in there.
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  Speaker 2: 15-31 on straight up, not.
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  Speaker 3: Thanksgiving games, not Christmas games, not season openers, straight up
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  Speaker 3: Thursday night Amazon football.
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  Speaker 2: 15-31.
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  Speaker 3: Away teams in general this year, 45-48-1. So there's something
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  Speaker 3: to it.
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  Speaker 2: There's a difference.
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  Speaker 3: There's something to it on a short week, and that
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  Speaker 3: includes last night's game added into that equation. And also
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  Speaker 3: it does include– the designated away teams in international games,
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  Speaker 3: but that's not enough to– even if every one of
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  Speaker 3: those was taken off the board, it's still 45-48-1. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there's something to being the away team on a short week. Because,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you're already– everything is just jammed in there together.
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  Speaker 3: And then when you've got to throw travel in there, too.
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  Speaker 4: I wonder– this is going to be a harder stat
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  Speaker 4: to look at lower on air, but I wonder if
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  Speaker 4: that affects– Away teams coming off a Monday night game.
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  Speaker 4: Because y'all got to remember, like a Monday night game,
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  Speaker 4: it's a short week too. You're getting one less day
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  Speaker 4: to prepare as well. So one less practice.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of times if we had a Monday night game,
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  Speaker 3: win or lose really, Tuesday was off.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like we don't see you. And then you
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  Speaker 2: start on the next opponent Wednesday.
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  Speaker 3: So you didn't even really get a chance to have
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  Speaker 3: corrections off that tape. Now, you could watch it on
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  Speaker 3: your own, which you did, but normally a Monday would be, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to have corrections, we're going to go over
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  Speaker 3: the tape, we're going to see what went wrong.
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  Speaker 2: You kind of blow.
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  Speaker 3: Past that game on a Monday night and you go
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  Speaker 3: straight to your next opponent.
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  Speaker 2: If you had a really good game on a Monday night,
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  Speaker 2: it was like.
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  Speaker 4: coach just tried to get you back on the regular
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  Speaker 4: schedule because tuesday's always the off day in the nfl
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  Speaker 4: tuesdays they don't you don't you don't go to the
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  Speaker 4: facility you don't see you yeah some guys might want
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  Speaker 4: to come get a workout most people do not yeah
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  Speaker 4: um so yeah tuesday's your see you day.
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  Speaker 3: So if you had a really good game on monday
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  Speaker 3: night football you're like we're not gonna watch that If
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  Speaker 3: you had a really bad game on Monday Night Football,
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  Speaker 3: you were pretty excited.
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  Speaker 4: It's kind of like as a backup, time to shine
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  Speaker 4: was preseason.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Never watched the tape on the fourth preseason game. I
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  Speaker 4: was like, Coach, come on now. We're not going to
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  Speaker 4: throw that up there? I'll give you three bills. We're
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  Speaker 4: not going to throw the highlights up that we can
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  Speaker 4: shout out everybody and make a good play?
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Coach. You're like, no, Matt, the Uber driver
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  Speaker 2: went back to Ubering. Yeah. He's not in the building anymore.
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  Speaker 4: We're cutting 40 people today. We don't want to celebrate
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  Speaker 4: you and your throw on third down.
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  Speaker 2: But, Coach, you don't understand. That's a really nice throw.
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  Speaker 2: That's all I got, man.
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  Speaker 3: That was also some pretty high-level quarterback play last night, too.
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  Speaker 3: That was a lot of fun to watch. Man, I
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  Speaker 3: enjoy watching Caleb Williams play. Drake May was good, too.
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  Speaker 3: Drake May, 24 of 31, 321, two touchdowns. He did
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  Speaker 3: have the interception there, but he played at a very
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  Speaker 3: high level. Had four rushes for 26 yards and a
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  Speaker 3: touchdown as well. Caleb Williams, 22 of 33, 308, two touchdowns,
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  Speaker 3: no interceptions. He ran for 18 yards.
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  Speaker 2: And so it was high-level quarterback play.
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  Speaker 3: And it's something we talk about with quarterbacks all the time,
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  Speaker 3: like that 26 yards on the ground that Drake May had,
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  Speaker 3: the 18 that Caleb had.
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  Speaker 4: It's not a lot of yards, but it just gives
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  Speaker 4: you something. It's chain moving at the right time. So
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  Speaker 4: both of those guys are playing at a high level.
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  Speaker 4: I know Drake started a little slow, and I know
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  Speaker 4: Caleb's had some injuries, but both guys, man, for this
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  Speaker 4: to be what, their third year, third season in the league,
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  Speaker 4: they are playing at a very high level of making
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  Speaker 4: plays when you need to. Even Drake, he throws interception
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  Speaker 4: on a seam route to a tight end early. It
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  Speaker 4: looked like a bad Touchdown, he saw man-to-man.
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  Speaker 2: He's trying to throw.
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  Speaker 4: What I believe is probably like a back shoulder seam
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  Speaker 4: route in man-to-man. Just misread the defender's leverage. Misread his
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  Speaker 4: body presence with his receiver. It ends up looking like
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  Speaker 4: a bad throw, but he comes in like a quarter
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  Speaker 4: later and rips a man-to-man seam route to a tight
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  Speaker 4: end in the same spot for a touchdown. You're looking
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  Speaker 4: at two high-level guys that make the plays when they
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  Speaker 4: need to and Like, with your feet, they are able,
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  Speaker 4: and like you said, not like real sexy stats, but
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  Speaker 4: like back-breaking, chain-moving, when-you-gotta-have-it type scrambles. And if the Saints, like,
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  Speaker 4: let's take this to the Saints. Like, if the Saints
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  Speaker 4: want to win games, I think if the Saints have
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  Speaker 4: a W on their schedule, and, like, you look back, like,
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  Speaker 4: we got the win.
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  Speaker 2: Let's take a look at the stats.
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  Speaker 4: You're going to see Tyler Shuck's going to have 20
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  Speaker 4: to 40 rushing yards.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. And it's going to be strategic. It's just going
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  Speaker 2: to be like that.
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  Speaker 4: It's when you got to have it type moments. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know if, you know, there's a lot of metrics
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  Speaker 4: to look at. There's a lot of hurdles to overcome
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  Speaker 4: for the Saints. But I think that is one that
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  Speaker 4: this season, at least, is a must-have. Tyler has got
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  Speaker 4: to be able to get it done with his legs
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  Speaker 4: at some point in the game. And not a called play.
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  Speaker 4: We're not doing quarterback powers around here. But I'm talking
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  Speaker 4: about a third and got to have it. Third and
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  Speaker 4: got to have it in a moment, whether it's the
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  Speaker 4: end of the second quarter or whether it's in the
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  Speaker 4: fourth quarter, whether you're down by 13 in the third
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  Speaker 4: and you just got to have it at that moment.
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  Speaker 2: I hope someone's okay over there. Oh, breakfast bar coming.
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  Speaker 2: It's coming. Very loudly.
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  Speaker 3: I think sometimes they're like, hey, I know they're on
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  Speaker 3: the radio. Let me see how loud I can be.
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  Speaker 3: and see if they say something. Hey, these chairs got
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  Speaker 3: to be put down at some point.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, our guy. He loves it.
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  Speaker 3: He's coming over here, and he's going to screech the table,
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  Speaker 3: look at us as he does it, and.
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  Speaker 2: Then throw the chair down onto the ground. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to bring his forklift over here for no
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  Speaker 3: reason and just set it up to the side.
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  Speaker 2: Our guy's a presence. He is a force to be
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  Speaker 2: reckoned with.
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  Speaker 3: He said, and I bet Flynn won't do anything about it.
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  Speaker 2: He did say that. He said it with his eyes.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't actually say it. He didn't have to. Yeah. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember what I was talking about. Something about
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  Speaker 2: Tyler Shuck running for 250. Yeah, exactly. No doubt about it.
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  Speaker 3: But honestly, though, doing the NFL stuff in the afternoons,
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  Speaker 3: Packer fans, when they call in, there's some crazy stats
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  Speaker 3: about Jordan Love, like just not running, just won't do it,
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  Speaker 3: will not do it, will not take off. And then
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  Speaker 3: last week he had something like 14 yards rushing. And
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  Speaker 3: it was the difference. Like, it was a big, big difference.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So we're not talking about running for 50 yards. Sometimes
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  Speaker 3: it's run for two first downs on third and four.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. You know? And it's sexy. He likes to run backwards. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then throw it. He does like to do that.
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  Speaker 4: He likes to run backwards and then throw it about
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  Speaker 4: 80 yards in the air.
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  Speaker 2: And then it lands perfectly. That's very, very true. All right.
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  Speaker 3: We will take our first break of the show. And
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  Speaker 3: when we come back, of course, we've got to dive
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  Speaker 3: into LSU and Auburn. We've got to dive into the
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  Speaker 3: Saints and the Steelers. A lot to get to. Basketball
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  Speaker 3: season coming up. A couple more exhibitions.
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  Speaker 2: What season? Basketball.
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  Speaker 3: So are you ready for Coach Mulkey?
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  Speaker 2: Heck yeah. A little nervous? I can't wait. Nope. Not
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  Speaker 2: at all? I was when I first heard it. Now
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  Speaker 2: I'm not. Okay. Must have been that fever. She's just
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  Speaker 2: a human, you know. Did she intimidate you a little bit? Nah,
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  Speaker 2: she didn't. All right. We'll take a break. More OTB
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  Speaker 2: when we come back here live from Rouse's. Off the bench.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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• 17:33
  Speaker 3: Flynn and Cassie here, Pauly and Alondra back in studio,
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: downtown Baton Rouge, little Raising Cane's studio. And we're going
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: to look now at the college football weekend. We're going
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: to look at the slate of games. What is coming up?
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: What is coming up is the breakfast bar, I'm assuming. Yeah,
• 17:50
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• 17:53
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• 17:55
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• 18:10
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• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: I didn't know that was still in the rotation anywhere.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: I was unaware that it was in the rotation in
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: any type playlist.
• 18:20
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• 18:25
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• 18:26
  Speaker 4: Lucky by Britney Spears. A good one to add to
• 18:29
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• 18:33
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• 18:49
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• 18:55
  Speaker 3: This weekend in the top 25 in college football, we'll
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: go over every matchup in the top 25. Some will
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: pass right over because they're not great games. Some we'll
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: talk a little bit about. Coming up on Saturday morning,
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: tomorrow morning, 11 a.m.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Central Time, besides LSU Auburn. We'll get there.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Pittsburgh and Miami. This one's going to be in Miami.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: Pittsburgh 5-2, Miami 6-0. Miami a 19.5-point favorite, as they
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: are every single week because, well, they don't play anybody.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Indiana and Michigan, number six, Indiana. Traveling to Ann Arbor
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: to take on the Michigan Wolverines. Indiana a seven and
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: a half point favorite in this game. Michigan likely to
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: have a new starting quarterback. Carr going to be the quarterback.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Underwood on the bench. Uh-oh.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Got yanked, huh? Yeah. Holla at your boy. Got the hook.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: They gave him a couple years. Gave him some time.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Did we dodge a bullet with that one? Feels like it.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Feels like we did, didn't we? Feels like it.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: I think I'll take old Sammy right now.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: We dodged a bullet with him and Sorsby. Oh, man.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Holy Brendan Sorsby. Yeah. I haven't thought about that name
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: in a hot minute. Look, I'll take Take Sam Leavitt
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: hopping around any day of the week. No question about it. Indiana?
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Feel like it? Yeah. Michigan's at home.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: It feels like coming off of a loss like that
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: from Indiana, I mean, literally six inches away from beating
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Ohio State.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Maybe not even that. That was, oh, man. Who do
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: you put that on? The quarterback or receiver? Receiver. I
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: put it on the receiver. Receiver. I put it on
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: the quarterback a little bit. That ball was inbounds enough
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: for him to go stay inbounds. To have some awareness. Yeah.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: And you know me. I would love to say quarterback.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: That's a tough– yeah, I know. Look, that's a tough play.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: It is tough in that situation to have the overall
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: field awareness, presence.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: He knew it. He knew it as soon as he
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: did it. He did it. You got to be better. Yeah.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: As my high school coach would say, you got to
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: make that catch. Always. Look at that.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Katie said, how did y'all get to school so fast
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: to the boys in the group text? And my one
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: that was driving sent a picture of Fast and Furious
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: Paul Walker.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Okay. Don't love that. Good. Oh, it's fine. Don't love that. Oh, Jackson,
• 21:24
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• 21:27
  Speaker 3: Let's go to number eight, Texas Tech traveling to Cincinnati.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Sure. Cal, this is a heated question. Heated ACC rivalry game. Obviously.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Cal traveling to number 23 SMU. Oh, my goodness. The
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: game's at 11 a.m. Central time? Yep. That's going to
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: be 9 a.m. body clock for Cal. Yep. That's fun.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: We should figure out combined how many miles away are
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: both of the schools to the closest point of the Atlantic.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Sounds like a job for Claude. Yeah, it does. I think.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: I think you'll actually have it pretty quickly.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: You've got Rutgers traveling to number 24, Northwestern.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Number two, BYU hosting central or actually on the road.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: I thought they were hosting. They're on the road to
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: central Florida.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: BYU is seven point favorite against central Florida, UCF on
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: the road, UCF three and three on the year one
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: and two in big 12 play. I mean, by that line,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: maybe a little, uh, assuming a little letdown.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they gotta be right. Um, It's interesting.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: The weird stinky lines this year, and I know they
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: usually do. They're stinky for a reason.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. The weird stinky lines this year have kind of
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: all panned out. Yeah. That I remember. They really have.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: Things that we're like, what are they seeing that we aren't? Remember, like,
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Florida being favored over Ole Miss after Ole Miss beat LSU.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I was like, what? Like, I don't know. Like,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: LSU's really, really good. Yeah. And Florida housed them. Yeah.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: And they did. They were right. I don't know. It's crazy. So, yeah,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: they are obviously thinking of some sort of letdown.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: All right, Michigan State traveling to number nine, UCLA. UCLA,
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: a 14-and-a-half-point favorite.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: How about this one? Good football game.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Number 11, Tennessee traveling to take on 3-and-3 South Carolina
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: in Williams-Brice Stadium. South Carolina, two-and-a-half-point favorite.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, geez. Marler set that line. He did. What is
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: going on here? They let him do it for his
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: wedding day. South Carolina plays one good game. One and
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: three in the SEC. They were favored over six and
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: one Tennessee. Well, I said it last week.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: I don't think Tennessee's very good. I hadn't watched them
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: until last week. Marler texted me after the Tennessee-Bama game, said,
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: I hate you. Then he put, quote, I hadn't watched
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: Tennessee at all, but I know they're not very good.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah. End quote. That was my quote on radio last week. Well.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: And it was true.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: I hadn't really watched them. I didn't think they were
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: very good. I don't know if I still think that
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: or not.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah. After they dismantled Alabama. Two and a half point dog, though,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: to South Carolina?
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a weird line. All right, we'll see if
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: that one plays out.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Is there an injury? We might have to come back
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: to that one. Did the coach get hospitalized? What's going on?
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: We might have to come back to that one. All right,
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Texas A & M traveling to number 13, Alabama. Alabama
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: is minus 13 and a half in this game. A
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: & M' s pretty bad. They're 4-3 overall, 1-3 in the SEC.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: I can't.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't trust A & M to walk my dog
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: across the street.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: 13.5 is a lot of points against an SEC opponent
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: that is, you know, supposed to be respected at least
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: year in, year out.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Like you said, I wouldn't bet A & M with
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: any amount of points. Right. I don't know if I
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: would bet.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: It like the other way. I think I'd probably just
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: stay away from that game myself.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: Because it is a lot of points, but I would
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: never put any of my hard-earned dollars on A &
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: M this year.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: No. Not a chance. Like, if it was minus 21,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't do it. I'm right there with you. If
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: it was 28, maybe.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: They're just bad. They're not any good. And they quit
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: in games, which is, you know, not– I know Mike Elko.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: We know Tommy– like, that's not who they– are as coaches,
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: but you turn on the tape and oof. Number 15,
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Iowa traveling to Minnesota. That feels like a breakfast sausage game.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Number 21, Boise State traveling to 1-6 Washington State. Good God,
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: it's a friends and family game. Number 7, Ole Miss
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: traveling to number 19, Texas. Texas, a three and a
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: half point favorite?
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Wow. Wow. Wow. Now, that is a stinky line. Who
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: are they? Yeah, okay. Ole Miss, Texas. Number 7, Ole Miss.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Challenge number 19, Texas. Texas, 3.5 points. That is doo-doo stinky.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: I think I know how I'm betting that one.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: They got me. I don't think Texas. I don't know if, like,
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: the whole get-right game matters to them.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Right. I don't think they're very good.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: No.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: I think they're talented. There's a difference between being talented
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: and good.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Yes. And Texas is very, very talented.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: Now, unless they get this backup quarterback effect, if they
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: yank Arc and put the backup in, maybe they get
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: a boost from that. I just don't know. We've seen
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Arc play well. We've never seen him consistently play well.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: Right now, as we sit here at 730, it could change.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: I'm parlaying Tennessee and Ole Miss right now.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Money line.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: All right, you've got Vanderbilt traveling to number 12, Kentucky. Kentucky, 10.5-point favorite.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: I like that game. I like that line. Number 16,
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: USC traveling to Wisconsin. USC, a three-point road favorite. You've
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: got Iowa State traveling to number 25, Arizona.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: And then.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: Number 14, Houston, traveling to number 10, Utah. Utah, a
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: six and a half point favorite in that game. I
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: actually like Houston to cover that one. I think it's
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: game day, I believe.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Houston. Yeah, that's the game day. Yes, Houston good.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: They're six and one. Their one loss is, I mean...
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Like a yard away from tying it up against Texas Tech.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: I mean, this game actually has some pretty big playoff implications,
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: doesn't it?
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Like the Big 12. The Big 12, for sure.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Big 12's got an opportunity.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: You know, the Holy War's going to happen with Utah
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: and BYU, so that's going to be a big one.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: I did see that there was somebody talking about the
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: Big 12 might have a chance to get three people
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: in this year.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Like, I know, we've got to pump the brakes a
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: little bit. But there is.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: There is a scenario that could play out where they could.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Utah and BYU playing each other, though.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: BYU is holding a big win. They play each other.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Utah beats BYU. Houston beats Utah. There's a way that
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: it could play out where they could get three. I
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: don't know how good these teams are. I really haven't
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: watched Houston play. I heard that they just keep winning
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: and winning.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: Wildly enough, I feel like every time I turn on
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: the TV when I'm on the road covering a game,
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: Houston's playing.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Let's see.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: And I see my guy Willie Fritz on the sideline.
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: Last couple games, they beat Oklahoma State 35-32. Oklahoma State
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: was ranked 18 at that time. I think they just
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: got done beating.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Oregon, I believe.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: They had some good. Oklahoma State, not bad this year.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: They beat Kansas State 35-16.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: Oklahoma State lost to Houston and then Tulsa.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: They beat Houston. They beat UCF 27-17. Their one loss
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: is to Texas Tech by two points, 28-26. Yeah, they
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: were going for two. They were just short of it, yeah.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: That's a good, that is a pretty quality loss at least.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: So that is the slate in the top 25 this weekend.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Ranked on ranked matchups. Just real quick, a little recap here. Well,
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: not many of them. Number seven, Ole Miss. Number 19, Texas.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: And then that number 14, Houston versus number 10, Utah.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: But some interesting, very interesting lines there. A couple of
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: games where the road team is a dog, even though
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: it feels like they're the better team. what do they
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: know nothing let's parlay them and let's win some money
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: all right we will take a break and of course
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: we didn't talk about one of the games involving a
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: top 25 team that was number 18 lsu traveling to
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: the plains to take on four and two auburn we'll
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: talk about that game when we come back here on
• 29:57
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  Speaker 3: OTB here live from Rouse's on Burbank and Lee.
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  Speaker 2: Moving right along here in the.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Football weekend, a little football Friday here at Rouse's. Got
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: LSU traveling to the Plains a little bit later on
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: today to take on the Auburn Tigers tomorrow inside of Jordan-Hare.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: Of course, you've got the Saints already in Paris. Been
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: waiting on the Steelers. I think the Steelers actually took
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: a red-eye yesterday, if I read right. That's dumb. It's
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: not smart.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: You think so? I do think so.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: The teams, have we not learned from the team from Australia?
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that was like a day before. They took
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: a red eye. I mean, they just got there today.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I read that they were going to take a
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: red eye and practice when they got there.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: We did the same thing.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: Now, we got there like a week ahead of time,
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: but you know how strength coaches are. Shout out to
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: my guy, Hurd. We got there, and he's like, we've
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• 32:52
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• 32:56
  Speaker 3: So we're in our suits.
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  Speaker 2: Are you serious?
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: We're in our suits. And he's like, got to get
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: the body moving. They had this weight room set up
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: at the place we were staying. And we're in our suits.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Swear to God, we're in our suits lifting.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Lifting.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Because our bags hadn't gotten there yet. Lifting in suits.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: And we had a week before the game.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: Norm made y'all travel in suits across the Atlantic Ocean?
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's messed up. Pretty sure we did because we
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: had them on. Y'all didn't put them on to work out?
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: It was like, okay, sure. I've never played a football
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: game in London before. I would rather do that.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: What would really piss me off is if you made
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: me fly to Paris a week before.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: That would piss me off. Oh, see, I think I'd
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: like that better. Being away from your family for a week? Well,
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: I bet a lot of families. Like, my family, well,
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: I didn't have.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: It was just Katie. We didn't have kids yet. But
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: she flew to the game when we played in London.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: I would rather do what the Steelers did, I think. Ooh,
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: I'd rather. Maybe a day before, a day earlier.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: But medical research does show that the Rams.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Will get their butts kicked in Australia. Listen to this.
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: Um okay so the rams was way a little bit
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: different it was way farther flight and we're talking what
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: 20 hours for them and nine hours for steelers maybe
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: maybe less um and they were a day later too
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: they were a day so they flew in and got
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: there the day before the game at least they're getting
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: there two days before the game so you do have
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: a little bit of time Now, I'd probably like to
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: get there like three days, but a whole seven days beforehand,
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: no thank you.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Especially civil unrest happening. Nah.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Nah.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. It's just me. I'm a homebody, though.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Very much so. All right. You would like to be
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: there seven days before the game? Hell yeah. Hell yeah?
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Get to go to Paris. Okay. What are you going
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: to do?
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: You know the last time I had a vacation?
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Moby Dick was a minnow.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: Yes. We stayed in an old castle an hour away
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: from London when we went.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: It was awesome. You watched film? No.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: No.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Went to pubs. Casinos. Yes, we did. It was awesome.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: All right. Anyhow. Let's get to the LSU game. Then
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: we'll get to the Saints. Okay. LSU game. All right.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Got some stuff here. Going to ask you some questions, okay?
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: The first one's going to be, Can LSU carry what
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: it's built up from a week ago onto the road?
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: LSU 5-2, but as we know, 0-2 away from Tiger Stadium.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Haven't won in your last six chances on the road.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: You beat Mississippi State 31-0. What is it about the
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: road for this team, and not just this team, last
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: year's team as well, that They've played well at times,
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: but they cannot finish with more points than their opponent
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: when the clock hits triple zero. Because it doesn't look
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: like there's, like, you know, communication issues.
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: It's easy to pin it on a road team. Let's
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: be honest. Like, yeah, the road thing sticks out. But
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: let's just look at this year because that's the only
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: fair thing to look at. We can't look at Brian
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: Kelly's time and his road. His road record doesn't mean
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: anything right now. Sure, it's a stat, and it is
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: something to hang on to. It's certainly a stat to think, man,
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: what's the deal? What are we doing right? What are
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: we doing wrong? I look at it, and if I
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: take the stadium away from it, I don't think that
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: we necessarily played any of those games poorly. Sam has
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: improved so much since that Ole Miss game. Like, I
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: would like to play that team again. But he has
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: improved so much at quarterback. since the last time he
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: was at Ole Miss.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: Kentucky, I don't think we necessarily played poorly that game.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Either. We've had injuries that we've had to overcome.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: And going on the road, you've been on the road
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: in two, you got the best shot from the team
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: and the crowd and the atmosphere that you can get
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: at those two places. And it's been really good. Kentucky's
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: a hard place to play for whatever reason. Maybe it's
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: not for every team, but for LSU it certainly is.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And one, since we stole it with Devery Henderson.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: We should have lost that one. We stole that game, right?
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: Bluegrass miracle.
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: And then you couple that with it being Lane Kiffin's
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: first year here.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Everybody wants to beat him. You couple that with Will Stein.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: It's his first year there playing at night, the bourbon trail,
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: you name it. We ran into two quarterbacks that played
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: their asses off.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: Ran into two quarterbacks that played at a very high
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: level of reading and what the defense was giving him.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: Blake Baker brings a lot at you.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: And there are things that he takes risks on, and
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: he will give up some things because he thinks the
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: odds are better that we're going to get to you
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: before you can get to him. And that's why we
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: love Blake Baker, and that's why he is so good.
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: You see guys in the NFL being a great. You
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: saw Dennis Allen yesterday be crazy aggressive for the Bears,
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: and it works.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: And it does work for the most part.
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: You've got to play the quarterback position at a very
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: high level to take advantage of what Blake Baker does.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: From a defensive schematic standpoint.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: So what you did, you ran into two quarterbacks that
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: played at a very, very high level. I don't know
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: if Auburn's quarterback, if he's got that level of play
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: in him with his arm, with his legs.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a problem.
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: He is a problem, and it's not scrambles either. It
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: is called quarterback runs. It is getting the extra blocker,
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: and it creates issues. Your fits on defense have to
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: be perfect this week. Your play, how you're going to loop,
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: how you're going to play at the linebacker position has
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: got to be perfect.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: Safety.
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: You've got to have a great safety game this week.
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: Everybody's got to be ready to make their fits, to
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: shed blockers, and to make good plays within the box.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: So it's a problem.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: And as an LSU fan, you'd be crazy to think
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: that Byron Brown's not going to get his– he's not
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: going to have some plays.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: He's going to. Yeah, I mean... That's just what happens
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: when you get an extra blocker.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: He leads the... team in passing, obviously, and rushing. He
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: has 459 rushing yards and five scores.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: Like, you've got to know where he's at at all times,
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: but on third down, you've got to have a plan
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: in place.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: Like, 459 rushing yards– He's a runner. He is a
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: game changer with his legs. He runs better than he passes.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: For sure.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: So you go into the game plan, and I would
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: assume it's going to be, hey, we're going to trust
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: our corners. We're going to put a lot on our
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: corners this week because we're going to add some numbers.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: We're going to have some numbers in the box. Our safeties,
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: like Matt was just talking about, our nickel, they're going
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: to be in the box. Ty Benefield is going to
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: play linebacker this week. Even though he's tabbed as a nickel, Sam, star,
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: whatever the hell you want to call him, he's going
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: to be in the box.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: And you have two good corners.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: And you say, hey, guys, you're going to need some
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: of my highs after the game because we're going to
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: ask a lot of you. And those corners have to
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: be up for the challenge. And they have been so
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: far this year.
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: DJ Pickett, he has surprised me so much this year
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: about his willingness to get into tackles and to take
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: on blockers and put his nose in there.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: It's been impressive.
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: And to give you all just a little bit of
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: comparison– about what kind of quarterback Auburn we're dealing with
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: this week. Byron Brown has rushed, just like Jake said,
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: has rushed for 459 yards this year. 459 yards as
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: a quarterback. To compare that, your Dylan Jones has rushed
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: for 566.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: So he has.
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: Run for less than 100 yards more than the starting
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: quarterback for the Auburn Tigers. So that is the type
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: of quarterback we are about to go against. That is
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: the type of quarterback we are facing.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: And.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: That's what he wants to do first. And he.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: Is accounting for so much yardage for them. He is
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: that engine, the motor that makes that offense run. And
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: you have to stop him, make him beat you with
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: his arm and not his legs. And it's tough to do.
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: It's really easy to say that, right? But it's really
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: hard to do it.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: All right, we'll continue breaking down this game when we
• 41:43
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• 41:45
  Speaker 3: to the Steelers and the Saints, kind of some of
• 41:47
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• 41:50
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  Speaker 2: All in all, it was.
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  Speaker 3: the football weekend. And we'll continue talking a little LSU
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: and Auburn stuff. Sam Leavitt had an incredibly clean game
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: last week, right? First game without an interception. He's gotten
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: better each and every week. Even in games he's had
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: a turnover, he has played a better quarterback game each
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: and every week.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: Can he continue that?
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: Can he be that guy that we've seen over the
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: last couple weeks continue to get better?
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Last week was his best week.
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: If he plays clean like he did a week ago,
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: I have a hard time finding a way that LSU
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: doesn't win this game.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Hmm.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it would.
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: If he continues to play the way he has, it's
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: going to take a heroic effort by Byron Brown to
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: beat you. And I'm not saying that he doesn't have
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: that heroic effort in him.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: But Sam has.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: Sam has started to play, to play better and better
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: and better.
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: And it's not just, you know, athletically, he's just playing
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: within the system, playing within, going through his progressions, going
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: through his reads. The offense has been really good. Again,
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: It hasn't been great yet, but it's been really good.
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: It's been very efficient. Dylan Jones has come on to
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: be an absolute star on the college football scene in the.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: Nation, not just the SEC.
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: He is a college football star right now, I believe.
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: And it's one of those things that, yes, the LSU
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: offense has been impressive from a yardage standpoint, from a
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: scoring standpoint, but there is.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: A lot left. to reach out and get for that
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: LSU offense.
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: There's a lot more plays to be made. There's a
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: lot more, uh, just really simple things, coachable things, making
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: the right mic declarations, having the right communication. And every
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: time something wrong happens in a game from a miscommunication standpoint, from,
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: you know, two weeks ago when there was all, there
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: was against three down, there's a missed assignment and one
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: guy runs free, a linebacker gets good, comes free and
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: makes the play at the line of scrimmage. Like, Every
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: time that happens, it is a coachable and it is
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: a teachable moment for that LSU offense. And I feel
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: like the coaching staff has done a very good job
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: of addressing issues, addressing problems that have shown up time
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: and time again, and fixing it. So, yeah, I think
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: if Sam continues to play and that offense continues to
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: improve like they have been each and every week, that
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: it's going to be tough for Auburn to win this
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: game unless there's some sort of heroic effort on the
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: other side.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: I'm right there with you. Sam Levitt plays clean.
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: He plays like he has with the way the receivers
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: and Jackson Harris are going to be available as played.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: You like the good Tigers. All right, coming back your way,
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