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Hour Three | LSU vs. Clemson Predictions, Pontoon Parlay & What’s the Ticket · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: Bench with jacob hester and matt flynn.
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  Speaker 2: Hands to hester and hester got it five out of five.
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  Speaker 1: From carrying each other to a natty to carrying each other.
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  Speaker 3: On the air.
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  Speaker 1: Live from the raising cane studio it's off the bench i.
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  Speaker 4: Can't stand it i know you're.
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  Speaker 2: All right welcome back in our number three of football
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  Speaker 2: friday here from rouse's burbank and lee we've already had
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  Speaker 2: a couple people come hang out come see us you
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  Speaker 2: are welcome to as well you can wake muso up
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  Speaker 2: over there.
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  Speaker 5: Let's go moose.
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  Speaker 6: Moose you're doing uh game day again so what time
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  Speaker 6: do you get home on game day Oh, yeah, because
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  Speaker 6: we make Dick Dixon do postgame.
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  Speaker 5: He's the one who gets home like at 3 a.m. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: fair enough. I'm an idiot. Dummy.
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  Speaker 6: You know, Matt, something we haven't talked a lot about,
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  Speaker 6: and haven't heard any show talk about this really, putting
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  Speaker 6: these two things together. Last year, LSU's defense, 23rd nationally,
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  Speaker 6: allowing 328.7 yards per game. They were also 23rd in
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  Speaker 6: scoring defense at 19.8 points per game, okay? You pair
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  Speaker 6: that with Ole Miss' offense. They finished 10th nationally, and
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  Speaker 6: they averaged 489.7 yards per game and 36.9 points per game.
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  Speaker 5: And they averaged, you know, obviously.
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  Speaker 6: Equal in running the football, throwing the football, very balanced
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  Speaker 6: as well. So you put those two things together, the
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  Speaker 6: pieces aren't exactly the same.
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  Speaker 5: Know that. But Charlie Weiss Jr.
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  Speaker 6: Blake Baker, your two coordinators, If you pair that together
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  Speaker 6: and you get anywhere in the ballpark, let's say LSU's
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  Speaker 6: defense finishes 35th and Ole Miss last year finished 10th
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  Speaker 6: and you finished 15th in total offense.
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  Speaker 5: That's going to be hard for that team not to
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  Speaker 5: make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it sounds like a 50-point differential to me.
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  Speaker 5: You don't see that very often. Look at Like, forever. Like, Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 4: Like, they had the best offense in the country forever. And, like,
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  Speaker 4: nearly the worst defense every single year. And it kind of, like,
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  Speaker 4: flipped on them a little bit. You hardly ever see
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  Speaker 4: these dominant offenses be paired up with this dominant defense.
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  Speaker 4: Even national championship teams. Like, you're really good on both sides.
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  Speaker 4: You're never, like, the absolute best on offense. Absolute best.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe absolute best on defense. But you never see, like, those, like...
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  Speaker 4: Video game type number offenses, usually.
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  Speaker 5: Now, of course, like LSU in 19, you have it.
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  Speaker 6: But even with LSU in 2019, too, though, like the
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  Speaker 6: defense probably didn't get enough credit, but it was, you
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  Speaker 6: think about who was on that defense. Like Caleb on
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  Speaker 6: chase on just got paid in the offseason. Derek Stingley,
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  Speaker 6: Grant Delbert, who just got paid in the offseason. Patrick
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  Speaker 6: Queen got paid a couple offseasons ago. Like we could
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  Speaker 6: continue on going down the line of those guys. And so,
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  Speaker 6: but they weren't the best unit. But they were good
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  Speaker 6: enough paired with a great offense. But if you can
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  Speaker 6: have the balance like you're talking about, if you can have, man,
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  Speaker 6: we got the 12th best offense and the 29th best.
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  Speaker 5: Defense, look out.
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  Speaker 6: Because that's going to win you a lot of football
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  Speaker 6: games and you have a good balance. Now, we don't
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  Speaker 6: know this LSU defense paired with the offense that is
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  Speaker 6: a fast-paced offense that we get the ball snap.
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  Speaker 5: So we'll see how that, you know, how that changes
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  Speaker 5: the math. Does it change the math?
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  Speaker 6: Because maybe you're on the field more like Lane Kiffin
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  Speaker 6: likes to be aggressive. He likes to go for it
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  Speaker 6: on fourth down. So I'm not saying the numbers are
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  Speaker 6: going to be the same. I just wanted to bring
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  Speaker 6: it up to say that you've got the same coordinator
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  Speaker 6: that finished 23rd and you got the other coordinator that
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  Speaker 6: finished 10th. And now you're going to put those coordinators
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  Speaker 6: together and you're going to do it with a very
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  Speaker 6: talented roster. And if you do what you did a
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  Speaker 6: year ago and those numbers are close to the same,
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  Speaker 6: you're talking about LSU in the college football playoff.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, for sure.
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  Speaker 4: And, and, It's going to be a– it is going
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  Speaker 4: to be a– I don't know if you can overstate
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  Speaker 4: it enough how disappointing the season is going to be
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  Speaker 4: if LSU does not make the playoffs. That's the marker, right?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, you want to win everything. But realistically, to
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  Speaker 4: make that the goal, to make that the standard, a
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  Speaker 4: national championship is unrealistic for anybody to say national championship
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  Speaker 4: or bust. But with all the noise, all the money,
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  Speaker 4: all the people, it's– It's playoff or bust for sure. Now,
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  Speaker 4: if LSU finds a way to not make it to
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  Speaker 4: the playoffs, it will be a disappointing season. So, yes,
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  Speaker 4: you add those things up. And you've got to think, LSU,
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  Speaker 4: they were a really good defense. Now, they weren't feared.
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  Speaker 4: We hope they become feared this year. But you can't
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  Speaker 4: be feared when you don't have guys making sacks, right?
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  Speaker 4: If you can't create a pass rush with a four-man rush,
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  Speaker 4: you are not going to be a feared defense. So
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  Speaker 4: hopefully we can create that pass rush and combine that
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  Speaker 4: with everything else that we know Blake Baker can do.
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  Speaker 4: The creativity, creating pressure, being creative, bringing looks to quarterbacks
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  Speaker 4: that make it really challenge the quarterback and the lineman
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  Speaker 4: and the running back to see things pre-snap.
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  Speaker 5: We see them do it.
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  Speaker 4: They bring weak corners. They bring weak side safeties. Blake
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  Speaker 4: Baker's great at creating pressure. But if you can Combine
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  Speaker 4: that with also being able to pressure the quarterback without
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  Speaker 4: bringing a linebacker. And get home with four. Get home
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  Speaker 4: with four. Who's our lead sack leader last year?
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  Speaker 5: Harold Perkins. Harold Perkins. Well, actually playing your favorite position, star.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we're going to move on from that.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, let me ask you a question about.
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  Speaker 6: Practicing– against that offense every single day in spring and
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  Speaker 6: in early parts of training camp. There's some point you
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  Speaker 6: start to work on Clemson, but for the LSU defense
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  Speaker 6: and for Blake Baker to go against that defense and
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  Speaker 6: have to kind of change it up a little bit
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  Speaker 6: because you do like to bring a lot of different things.
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  Speaker 6: And maybe you found a way to bring more going
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  Speaker 6: against that fast paced offense, or maybe you just, you
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  Speaker 6: had to play against it in a different way. So
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  Speaker 6: now you feel like you have a different tool, another
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  Speaker 6: tool in your tool bag. Do you think that– because
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  Speaker 6: I think that kind of probably helped them because last
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  Speaker 6: year when they played Ole Miss, they couldn't do all
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  Speaker 6: the things that they were doing to get to that point. Now,
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  Speaker 6: some of it was because they had to. They couldn't
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  Speaker 6: get pressure on the quarterback. But a coordinator that likes
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  Speaker 6: to do as much as Blake Baker does, I have
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  Speaker 6: to imagine, what, 20 practices against that offense. He had
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  Speaker 6: to come up with some stuff that he felt better
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  Speaker 6: about going against an offense like that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, last year we heard the stories about when
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  Speaker 4: Brian Kelly got fired. He had to ask– Frank Wilson, like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: can we do inside run? Because there's things I need
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  Speaker 4: to practice on that I do not get in practice
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  Speaker 4: because we don't hit enough.
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  Speaker 6: He had to do that before they played Clemson last year.
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  Speaker 6: He said, hey, can we borrow some of your offensive
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  Speaker 6: guys because we have to go over these run fits
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  Speaker 6: because y'all didn't give us enough of a look in
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  Speaker 6: training camp to make us feel good about it.
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  Speaker 4: I would think that in a similar way, He was
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  Speaker 4: probably very ready to get to game week and game
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  Speaker 4: preparation because you can't do a lot of those creative blitzes, pressures,
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  Speaker 4: looks against a fast-paced offense. So he probably was ready
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  Speaker 4: to slow it down a little bit so they can
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  Speaker 4: install a lot of different things. Now, I'm sure they've
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  Speaker 4: talked about it, but there's only so much you can do. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I would assume that the communication on the deep, like
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  Speaker 4: they practice every day having to communicate fast.
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  Speaker 5: Quick. Now, last year, you're only preparing for an offense
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  Speaker 5: like that one. Six seconds is what they shoot for.
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  Speaker 4: Six seconds between what?
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  Speaker 5: The balls, like, snapping, getting lined up. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 4: It's crazy stuff. So, the communication I would expect to
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  Speaker 4: be on point for LSU. The game is going to be,
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  Speaker 4: for the defense, the game is going to be so
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  Speaker 4: much slower this weekend than it is every single day
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  Speaker 4: in practice. And you hear coaches and the best players
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  Speaker 4: ever to do it, they always say the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: Make practice hard. You want practice to be as hard
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  Speaker 4: as you can so the game is easy. And for
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  Speaker 4: the defense, it's probably going to feel like they're moving
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  Speaker 4: in slow motion out there based on what they've been
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  Speaker 4: seeing every single day, you know, through spring, through summer,
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  Speaker 4: through training camp, of course. So I would expect the
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  Speaker 4: communication to be on point. Blake Baker standpoint, he was
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  Speaker 4: probably like, let's get the Clemson scout team out there
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  Speaker 4: so we can slow down so I can do my walk-arounds.
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  Speaker 4: I can do my one hand in the dirt guy.
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  Speaker 4: I can bring my floods, my storms, my weak cats,
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  Speaker 4: all these different things that they are probably not able
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  Speaker 4: to do just going against Lane Kiffin's offense in practice.
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  Speaker 6: I can't stress it enough, going to practice, how the
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  Speaker 6: offensive staff, it is their main point of focus of
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  Speaker 6: When whenever you're the ball carrier or the receiver, whatever
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  Speaker 6: you catch a ball, like how quick they want you
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  Speaker 6: to spot the ball and how quickly they want you
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  Speaker 6: to get lined up and how quickly they want to
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  Speaker 6: get a ball snap. Like it was highly impressive to me.
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  Speaker 6: And I've watched a game with Lane before where the
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  Speaker 6: offense wasn't going fast. And he like starts like just
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  Speaker 6: kind of getting uncomfortable, like truly like, oh, just bored.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 5: Like this is so slow. Like, what are they doing?
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  Speaker 5: Get to the ball. And then the thing he really loves.
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  Speaker 5: Loves it. And then looks over to the side. They
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  Speaker 5: do that?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 5: He hates it. So how do they get to play?
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  Speaker 6: That's inside info that I'm not ready to give here.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So I do know that there, and I'm just going
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  Speaker 4: to speak. I don't know the rules, the headset rules. rules.
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  Speaker 4: In college right now, I'm sure they're available.
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  Speaker 5: It's just like the NFL. It cuts off at a
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  Speaker 5: certain time.
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  Speaker 4: It cuts off at what? It was 15 seconds?
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  Speaker 5: 15 seconds, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So you get there, it's a 40-second clock. You get there,
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  Speaker 4: the faster you can get lined up. So legitimately, they
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  Speaker 4: can call the play. I'm not saying this happens or
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  Speaker 4: doesn't happen, but I would suspect something. You get to
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  Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage, you call the play. You can
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  Speaker 4: actually have your coach talking to you.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, watch the safety to the left. While you're not
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  Speaker 4: calling the snap count, you're clapping. Maybe that's why they
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  Speaker 4: do the clap count, because your coach is talking to
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  Speaker 4: you the whole time. And if you're yelling, you can't
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  Speaker 4: hear it. Did we just uncover something? So the coach
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  Speaker 4: can talk to you throughout the entirety of the play
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  Speaker 4: if you snap it early enough.
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  Speaker 5: You snap the ball, he could say... You're saying if
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  Speaker 5: it cuts off at 15? No, I'm saying if you
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  Speaker 5: snap the ball... I'm saying, right, if it never gets
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  Speaker 5: to 15. If you snap the ball... I think it
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  Speaker 5: does cut off, like, when the ball is snapped, though.
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  Speaker 4: Who's cutting that off? Does it cut off with the...
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  Speaker 4: I believe so.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know how much that helps that offense with
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  Speaker 5: how fast they go. Like, if you're... If you're a.
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  Speaker 4: Coach that's in the booth and saying, throw the go-route
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  Speaker 4: to the left.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, you could, like, if you're lining up and you
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  Speaker 6: see them kind of scramming a little bit and you
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  Speaker 6: haven't snapped the ball yet.
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  Speaker 4: And I doubt they do that because sometimes that can
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  Speaker 4: hurt more than help.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes the quarterback does.
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  Speaker 6: Just like sometimes the hitter doesn't want to know what
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  Speaker 6: pitch is coming.
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  Speaker 4: But if you get us on a scrimmage and, like, look,
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  Speaker 4: that would be the best reasoning I've ever heard for
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  Speaker 4: a clap count. If your coach is telling you pre-snap
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  Speaker 4: what to do or what to look for, hey, alert
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  Speaker 4: pressure off the slot here or whatever. Alert weak cat. alert,
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  Speaker 4: you know, oh, I see this is press man. You're
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  Speaker 4: going to pressure off the strong side, be alert for
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  Speaker 4: your go right. You got so-and-so one-on-one to.
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  Speaker 5: The weak side.
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  Speaker 4: That would be the best reasoning I've ever heard for
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  Speaker 4: a clap count and one that I could, you know,
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  Speaker 4: not support certainly, but not hate quite as much because
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  Speaker 4: you're certainly not going to hear them if you're calling
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  Speaker 4: a snap count. But, yeah, that would be interesting. I'd
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  Speaker 4: like to know if the headset cuts off after the
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  Speaker 4: ball is snapped.
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  Speaker 5: I think it does.
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  Speaker 4: Because when was the last time Ole Miss snapped the
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  Speaker 4: ball last year with 15 seconds?
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  Speaker 5: They were probably trying to bleed clock.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: That would be the only situation I would see that
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  Speaker 6: actually happening. I wonder how much in that offense.
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  Speaker 4: That's the case, and that makes your offensive coordinator very
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  Speaker 4: valuable if he's telling them what to do.
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  Speaker 5: Or giving them hints, at least.
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  Speaker 6: I wonder how much in that offense, because a lot
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  Speaker 6: of times you're calling a play based off a little
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  Speaker 6: bit of what you see, but I wonder how much
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  Speaker 6: that offense is.
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  Speaker 5: You call your call.
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  Speaker 6: Knowing that they're not going to be able to get
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  Speaker 6: lined up and give you a look that you adjust to.
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  Speaker 6: And you kind of know what they like to do
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  Speaker 6: in certain situations, first down, second down, third down, down
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  Speaker 6: in distance. And you call the call based off just
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  Speaker 6: the analytics of it. Because you're not really adjusting because
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  Speaker 6: you don't spend enough time to make a check.
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  Speaker 4: Within the first quarter, maybe even the first half of
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  Speaker 4: the first quarter, you're going to know what defense they're
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  Speaker 4: trying to play. Because as a defensive coordinator, going against
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  Speaker 4: an offense that operates that fast, There's only so many
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  Speaker 4: defenses you can carry into a game. You're not going
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  Speaker 4: to have 12 different coverages, looks to bring into a
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  Speaker 4: game versus an offense that goes that fast.
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  Speaker 5: You just can't.
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  Speaker 4: The operation, you can't move. You can't operate that fast.
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  Speaker 4: You can't communicate that fast. And then you go into halftime.
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  Speaker 4: You come out in the third quarter. They might try
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  Speaker 4: to change a little bit. They might try to add something.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe they want to add a pressure with a different front.
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  Speaker 4: But they can't do too much. They can add something.
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  Speaker 4: So you might get one more look in the third
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  Speaker 4: quarter that you did the whole first half. But the coaches,
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  Speaker 4: after that first couple of drives, the offensive coordinators are
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  Speaker 4: going to know what three coverages they're running, what couple
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  Speaker 4: of defenses, which pressures. Okay, all right, I got it.
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  Speaker 4: You're going to have two calls. You're going to bring
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  Speaker 4: four down.
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  Speaker 5: You're going to bring your front four for the most part.
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  Speaker 4: Your two pressures are strong dog and– The free safety
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  Speaker 4: off the weak side. Those are your two pressure calls.
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  Speaker 4: We got your calls for the game. Maybe you add
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  Speaker 4: something at halftime, but you're not going into the game
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  Speaker 4: with 15 different blitzes and pressures.
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  Speaker 5: You can't.
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  Speaker 4: You just can't do it. So the offensive coordinators are
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  Speaker 4: going to know basically what the game plan is for
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  Speaker 4: the defense early on.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, because they're dictating what it is. That's what makes
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  Speaker 6: the offense very effective.
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  Speaker 4: That's why you've got that big-ass call sheet, and they're like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: these are our cover one beaters, cover three beaters, our
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  Speaker 4: strong dog beaters, our two, four quarters. They've got all
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  Speaker 4: that for every down a distance, and everything is pretty
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  Speaker 4: much mapped out. And then when they do that, and
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  Speaker 4: you can talk to the quarterback until the snap, it gives.
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  Speaker 5: You an advantage. Yeah. All right, we are going to
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  Speaker 5: step away.
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  Speaker 6: A little pontoon parlay coming up. We got what's the
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  Speaker 6: ticket coming up. And then our final thoughts on LSU
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  Speaker 6: and Clemson. Taylor in the chat did ask anyone going
• 14:56
  Speaker 6: to U-High versus Rumble tonight. Taylor is actually going to
• 15:00
  Speaker 6: be on the call for that game, and I'll be there.
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  Speaker 6: I'll be in attendance. I'll be rooting on J-Bones and
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  Speaker 6: Knox Hester.
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  Speaker 5: Don't worry. I'll be there. I'll be rooting them all.
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  Speaker 5: And you hear that, Craig Stelz? What's the line? You
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: hear that, Kevin Stelz? I hope Kevin didn't hear it.
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  Speaker 5: You hear that Garrett wobble? Rommel Raiders?
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  Speaker 4: Rommel Raiders.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. Rommel's probably a favorite. I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: They do have a Nussmeyer. He got there two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 5: They do.
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  Speaker 6: They do have a Nussbus of their own. That game's
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  Speaker 6: going to be in Baton Rouge, in the capital city,
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  Speaker 6: as you like to say. But I'll be there. I'm
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  Speaker 6: looking forward to it. It should be a good game.
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  Speaker 6: We'll see if the Cubs can get it done. Roma
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  Speaker 6: got the best of us last year down in the Superdome.
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  Speaker 6: We'll see if we can get it done this year.
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  Speaker 6: All right, we will step away. A little pontoon parlay
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• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Locker room to the airwaves, it's Off the Bench with
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: All right, welcome back in.
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: OTB here live from Rouse's little football Friday. Going to
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: be here every Friday during the football season.
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: Always look forward to it. It is officially the start
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: of football season when you end up at Rouse's. Real quick,
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: before we get.
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: To the pontoon parlay, somebody here on this desk kind
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: of talked a little ill of DJs and the skill
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: set that they had.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: Right or wrong? You want to defend yourself?
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: Okay, so look, I just said that there's DJs out
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: there that get paid half a million dollars for a
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: set in Vegas. You got all these people, and they
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: get paid a lot of money, an exceptional amount of money,
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: for what seems to be, during the concert, seems to
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: be just pushing a couple buttons, moving a couple of knobs. Now,
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: I know there's a lot of prep that goes into it,
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: but I've been at these DJ parties. I was at
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: a DJ-type vacation this summer. And it's like, there's a
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: lot of buildup. They're hyping it up. They get a
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: crowd up. They're not even doing anything. They're just doing this.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: They're waving their hands. They're pumping it up. And then
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: they go, push a button, bass drop, beat drop, and
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: then people lose their mind.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: This is not all DJs. Nope.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: Our favorite DJ just brought us these seats that are
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: a backpack that are a cooler all in one.
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: Not a huge deal. It's not. He brought me one.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: Too, even though I said those things about DJ.
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: Even though he talked trash about him. Actually, I didn't.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: Dos Equis.
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  Speaker 4: I think at the time, I don't even know if
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: I talked trash. I said I wanted to be a DJ.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: Felt like shit.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: Me and my buddy AJ were at a party in
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: New York City. There was a DJ there. We're like,
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: we could do that. So we're going to maybe be co-DJs.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: DJ Hammond Egg.
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: What do you think? DJ Hammond Egg. DJ CTE. DJ CTE,
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: for sure.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: Over under one and a half catches for Dayquan.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: Over. Over?
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: Over.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: Matt, can you fix your mic?
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: Maybe first two plays of the game. First play of
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: the game. What did Alondra say?
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: I don't know. Alondra, what did you say?
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: Closer to your mouth.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: Oh my god this guy's a rookie no look it's
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: floppy look at this.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah it is floppy he's got a floppy microphone.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: It's weird the tech's not working it's the strangest thing.
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah weird for otb it'll be fixed by the afternoon
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: don't worry um all right let's give a little pontoon
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: parlay uh was last week our best week no but
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: we're just ironing it out.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: We hit one of them.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: One of five. It was week zero. We don't know
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: about these teams. We're doing that now?
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: Do we know anything about these teams in week number one?
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: Maybe not. Maybe we don't. But we're going to find
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: out together. And that's what the journey's all about.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: Life's a journey. Life is a journey. It's all right.
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: The destination.
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: So we're going to throw back to studio and we're
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: going to allow Taytay and Alondra to give you their
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: picks for the pontoon parlay. Then we'll throw it back
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: here to Rouse's and we'll give you the final two
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: legs of the parlay.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: So Taytay, Mr. Sharp, go ahead and there. I'll kick
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: us off here.
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: Cincinnati and Boston College in Nippert Stadium. The Bearcats are
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: at home. They are currently a seven and a half
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: point favorite. over Boston College. They returned three starters from
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: an offensive line that was a Joe Moore semifinalist a
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: year ago.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: J.C.
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: French, they brought in a quarterback, love him, and they
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: won their first five games last year at Nippert Stadium
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: and have been good in season openers.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: Under Scott Satterfield, on the flip side.
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: Of things, Boston College, 2-10 in 2025, and they spent
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: the least amount on their roster among all power programs.
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: Pair all that together, I'm going to take Cincinnati to
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: cover the 7.5 at home against Boston College.
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: All right, Cincinnati minus 7.5.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: Say Nipper. Versus Boston College. Nipper.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: N-I-P-P-E-R-T. Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati minus 7.5 against Boston College.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Nipper Stadium. You can milk anything with nipples, Greg.
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: All right, on that note, let's go to Alondra Villareal
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: with her pick for the pontoon parlay.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Okay, so my pick for the pontoon parlay, I have been...
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: having it at the ready since the line came out.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: I think you're right that it was plus seven and
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: a half, but I'm going to go Louisville plus six
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: and a half neutral site game. I usually like them
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: when they're underdogs and they were 16th nationally in defense
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: in yards per game last year. Hunt, please quiet on
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: the set. Hunts in here sneezing. But anyway, I think
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: that Ole Miss does take a step back despite everybody
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: else thinking that they do not. And I believe in
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Jeff Braum. So I'm going to go Louisville plus six
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: and a half. And I would really, really enjoy it
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: if Louisville won.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: Really fun.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: It'd be really fun for us.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: That it would.
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: All right, so, so far we've got Cincinnati minus 7.5
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: at home against Boston College.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: We have got Louisville plus 6.5.
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: In a neutral site game in Nashville against the Ole
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: Miss Rebels.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: All right, Matthew, Clayton, Flynn. You know, it's tough. This
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: is a tough weekend to pick.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Because there's so many 35, 40-plus lines out there.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: So what I'm going to do here.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Is I am going to side with the country on this.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: Okay. I've talked about this earlier.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: There's Georgia, Oklahoma, all the top dogs in the SEC,
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: all the top dogs in the country, even not top dogs.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: They are 38, 39. That would be Mississippi State.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: Mississippi State is 40-point favorites against ULM.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: Everybody is a very big favorite, except one sticks out
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: to me, the University of Texas. over, I guess, the
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: Pac-12 team, Texas State. They're 29.5 point favorites. And in
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: this strange week of college football where there are so
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: many big lines, that one doesn't seem quite as big,
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: but people think that Ark Manning is the next coming.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: They think that Texas might be one of the best
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: teams in the whole country.
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: So I'm going to take Texas.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: I'm going to lay the points, minus 29.5.
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: All right, Texas minus 29.5 versus Texas State.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: I don't know how anybody feels about that. There's not
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: that many more games to pick that, I mean.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: I thought somebody would go Auburn and Baylor. I thought
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: about going Baylor. I thought somebody would go Tulane and Duke.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: I didn't want to disrespect the Wandra and her pick
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: and her love for Auburn this year.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: All right. Love is crazy.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: That's a strong word. Love is a strong word.
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: All right, so a little quick recap of the pontoon parlay.
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: Taylor goes Cincinnati minus 7.5 at home versus Boston College.
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: Alondra goes Louisville plus 6.5 versus Ole Miss in Nashville.
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: Flynn is going Texas minus 29.5 at home versus Texas State.
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: And I am going to go SMU minus 3.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: At Florida State. Florida State looked bad-bad in a win
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: last week. I like SMU. Who did they play last week?
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: New Mexico State without Diego Pavia.
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: I like SMU. I like Rhett Lashley. I think Kevin
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: Jennings usually plays well in a game like this. He's
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: back for his 73rd season as a starting quarterback for SMU.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: I like the Mustangs against the Seminoles. Let's go. I
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: believe that game.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: Florida State's going to have a new head coach next year, right?
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, just waiting on the buyout to go down. It's
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: a big number.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: You know, that's what teams do when they care about
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: their football. They just wait until that buyout number goes down.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: Well, Florida State does not have the dollar-dollar bills.
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: That's why Jimbo left to go to Texas A &
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: M years ago. That game is going to be, I
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: thought so, a Monday night game in Tallahassee.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: Ooh, two and a half.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Okay, now we get a two and a half.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: Two and a half. Two and a half.
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: We're seeing it right now. We are seeing it right now.
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: SMU minus two and a half is the number. I
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: think Rhett Lashley's done a heck of a job there.
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: I'm not saying it's going to be easy going to Tallahassee.
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: Florida State played great at the beginning of the early
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: portion last year, beating Alabama, but that did not translate
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: to this year. They did not look good against New
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: Mexico State.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: What a wild world last year. Alabama losing to a
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: very bad Florida State team. And then end up making
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: up playoffs.
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: Yes. As we all had it.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: Can we all agree that college football is kind of
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: cooler when Florida State's good?
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: No, they're one of those programs for sure. It's one
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: of those programs.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: And maybe it's just our nostalgia coming out. But they
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: were good not too long ago in the overall scheme
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: of things. I mean, it's been over a decade, I guess,
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: but Still, college football is better, so I wish they would.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: I wish they would be good. I like this little thing.
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: I like when the Braves do it better. The Atlanta Braves.
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: Talking baseball?
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: You're supposed to be doing it.
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: I was giving you the beat. The moment's moved. The
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: moment's passed. All right.
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: Missed it that is the pontoon parlay we'll put that
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: out there on social media so you can see it
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: as well on our otb page on twitter and on
• 27:12
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• 27:14
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• 27:17
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  Speaker 7: From the locker room to the.
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  Speaker 1: Airwaves, it's Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 6: new to the show, you don't remember us playing this
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: last year, what we do is we go across the
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: top 25 of We look at all the ticket prices
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: to get into the game, not the most expensive or
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: the cheapest in that game, but just to get in.
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: We want two feet inside of the stadium, and we
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: go across the top 25. At least one team has
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: to be in the top 25.
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: We go highest. We go lowest. We keep score. We
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: see who's good and who's really, really bad. At this game.
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: So we're going to start with the lowest ticket in
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: the top 25 this weekend. And here is the group
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: of games to choose from. Is it Miami at Stanford?
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: Is it SMU at Florida State? Is it Tennessee State
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: at Georgia? What about East Carolina at Alabama? Or is
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: it Fresno State at USC? So, again, quick recap. Miami
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: at Stanford, SMU at Florida State, Tennessee at Georgia, East
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: Carolina at Alabama, Fresno State at USC.
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: Taylor Sharp, you're up first, sir.
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  Speaker 7: I'm just hoping people actually show up to this game.
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: If you're the Trojans, I'm going USC. That game there,
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: I mean, that crowd last week was an embarrassment. They're
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: probably trying to lower ticket prices just to get people
• 31:32
  Speaker 7: in the door. So I'm going USC, Fresno State.
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm going to go with the same one.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: All right. That was pretty quick there.
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was going to go with the same one, too,
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: but I won't. Because you're not a sheep. That's not
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: going to be exciting radio. Yeah, I think three people
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: did go to the last UFC home game.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: It was friends and family. It was so bad that I.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: Think Lincoln Riley actually had to address it in the
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: media as well.
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they're losers.
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: So I'll go Miami at Stanford. I'll keep it in
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: California because California sucks. And obviously Miami fans aren't going
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: to travel. Maybe not even friends and family. Okay.
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: All right, so we'll go from the most expensive to
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: the least expensive here in the low ticket. Coming in
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: at number five, at $ 31, it is Miami at Stanford.
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: You're great at this game.
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: Coming in at number four at $ 28, it is SMU
• 32:32
  Speaker 6: at Florida State.
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: Coming in at.
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: Number three at $ 26, it is Tennessee State at UGA.
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: And at number two, coming in at $ 22, it is.
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: Fresno State at USC.
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: And coming in at number one in a landslide, the
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: cheapest ticket involving a top 25 team this week in
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: college football.
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: At $ 10.
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: Ten Bones gets you into East Carolina at Alabama. $ 10
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: will get you inside.
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: Of Bryant-Denny Stadium there in Tuscaloosa. Wow, Saban would never.
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: All right, so 0 for on this one. Zero.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: We're just lucky that it's not in Miami because last year,
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: I remember the ticket price is in Miami.
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: Or like six bucks. And they were good.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: And playing pretty good teams, too, when it was $ 6.
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: Anyway.
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: They were. Anyway, I digress. All right, let's go to,
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: that's the second time you've said that. You've been listening
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: to too much of AFR. I have a proclivity to
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: say that. Okay. All right, let's go to the.
• 33:33
  Speaker 6: Highest ticket in the top 25. Again, it's got to
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: have at least one team in the top 25. Here's
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: the list of games to choose from. Is it Boise
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: State at Oregon? Is it Clemson at LSU? Is it
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: the Apple Cup, Washington State at Washington? Is it Wisconsin
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: at Notre Dame in Lambeau? Or is it in Nashville
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: between Louisville and Ole Miss? We'll go to Alondra, blank space,
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: Villarreal to start us off here.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: So the Lambeau one threw me for a loop here
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: because for some reason I feel like that one might
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: be just because it's at Lambeau and it's Notre Dame.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: But I'm going to go Clemson at LSU.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: That feels obvious. Well, we're going the same once again.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: I think that's the obvious one.
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: Ole Miss and Notre Dame both being on neutral side,
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: I think helps LSU. I think having this game on campus,
• 34:27
  Speaker 7: really your first home game since 2019. If you don't
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: count the COVID year, Lane Kiffin era, that's the game.
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: Okay. Okay.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: I'll go different then again. I'm not going to go
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: LSU Clemson just because number of seats there are. There's
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: 900 free credentials that were handed out as well to
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: celebrities and media.
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: I'll go with Lambeau. I'll go up to Lambeau. Is
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: it Notre Dame, Wisconsin? Wisconsin, yes, Notre Dame.
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: It's actually technically they're calling it a Notre Dame home game.
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Notre Dame stinks, but whatever. It's in Lambeau, and that's awesome.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: And people want to go to that. It's a bucket
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: list trip for a lot of people. So let's go there.
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: All right, let's go from the least expensive to the
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: most expensive. All right, at number five at $ 63, it
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: is Boise State at Oregon. Coming in at number four
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: at $ 71, it's Louisville versus Ole Miss. Coming in at
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: number three in the Apple Cup, it's Wazoo at Washington
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: at $ 95. At number two at $ 133 to get two
• 35:32
  Speaker 6: feet into the stadium, it is the matchup in the
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: Real Death Valley between Clemson and LSU. And the winner
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: at $ 172 is Wisconsin and Notre Dame in Lambeau.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: We had one correct. You should have. I know.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: We had one correct answer.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: Out of the ten games. I got the last place
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: one on one and obviously first place on this one.
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so you're consistent.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: Not a big deal. You either win or you lose,
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: $ 172. A first, your last.
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: But LSU, $ 133. That is a big number as well.
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: Cannot wait to see the scenes around campus tomorrow inside
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: of the real Death Valley. So, again, the most expensive
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: ticket in the top 25, Wisconsin, Notre Dame, and Lambeau.
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: The cheapest ticket, East Carolina at Alabama here coming up
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: this weekend.
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: Do you think there's going to be some niceties tomorrow
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: between Dabo and Lane?
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: Niceties. Is that? Did you make that up? Yeah.
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: You know exactly what I mean, though.
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: Pleasantries. No, niceties. Yeah.
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: I mean, even coaches that really don't like each other
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: give the fluff middle of the game like.
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: Oh, man, how was training camp for you guys, man? Yeah.
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: We had a couple rough days there. We had some injuries.
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: We had some hamstrings, you know. Weren't real good in
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: the kicking game. We'll see if we got that all
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: fixed up.
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: All that. Yeah.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: We're going to find out tonight, I guess, you know.
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: Exactly. Yes.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: That will be said 13 times. Dabo doesn't seem like
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: a group texter, though.
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: No.
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: I don't think he's– Well, because he's got an Android.
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: I don't think he's cool like that.
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: He's got an Android, no doubt. For sure. All right.
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: We'll take a break, and when we come back, we're
• 37:18
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• 37:24
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• 37:27
  Speaker 6: the LSU game.
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: We'll give our score predictions as.
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: Well as we always do here on a Football Friday
• 37:31
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  Speaker 6: Before we get to our final thoughts for LSU and
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: Clemson and give you some score predictions here, a little
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  Speaker 6: Ask the Bench brought to you by Ice Cold Dos Equis.
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: Hashtag Ask the Bench.
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: Is this the most you've been fired up for an
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: opener in a while? And are you happy Moscona was
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: wrong about BK and he's gone?
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: That's three questions.
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: No, it's not the most fired up I've been.
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: For an opener yeah.
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: Um yes to all those yes is it i am
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: more than fired up for the opener i think the
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: pre-game pop for this game and i said this on
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: hey fighting podcast with harry uh harrison yesterday i think
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: it was yesterday god i think it was yesterday anyways
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: um I think it's going to be the loudest pregame
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: pop we've ever heard in Tiger Stadium. Now, I didn't
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: say loudest game. I didn't say loudest moment. There's too
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: many iconic ones to say that. Pregame pop from when
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: they announce, like, the things and the team runs out
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: of the tunnel, and it will be the loudest, I think,
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: in Tiger Stadium history.
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, that's exciting.
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: That is awesome.
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: But just, like, from the actual gameplay, no, because I
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: think OSU is going to blow them out. Is it
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: the most exciting? It's kind of like saying this is
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: the hottest day ever. Like every single opener I'm very
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: excited for. So to say I'm more excited than any
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: other opener, no.
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: What other opener were you more excited about?
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: I'm excited for every opener.
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: Okay, well that's. Because it starts football. All right, Switzerland.
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: We're 10 and a half point favorites.
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: But there's been ones that have been in neutral sites,
• 41:32
  Speaker 6: and they've been in Orlando, and they've been in New Orleans,
• 41:34
  Speaker 6: and they just.
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: It's in Tiger Stadium.
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I'm not going to.
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: You're what? But I'm not going to be there. That's
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: on you, Ricky Bobby. That ain't on the rest of us.
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: I'm just excited to watch some football.
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: All right. Well, yes, I am more than fired up
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: for it.
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: I think the pregame festivities are going to be incredible.
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: I think that when the team runs out of the tunnel,
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: it's going to be chills on chills on chills.
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: Hashtag ask the bench.
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: How many yards will Sam Levitt throw for against Clemson?
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: 317.
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: 317? Yep. All right. What about you? 247.
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: I think you're going to run.
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: The football, too. Look, when I tell y'all that.
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: I believe that LSU is going to run away with
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: this game, I mean it. Clemson is not, there's no
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: way to prepare for what LSU is about to throw
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: at them offensively.
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: You pair that.
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: With a defense that is consistent, has a lot of
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: carryover from last year when they were really good, when
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: you have better pass rushers for our defense, I just
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: don't think that Clemson has the talent to keep up
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: with it. LSU, I think, was going to have to
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: play very sloppy in order to keep this a game,
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: and I don't think that's going to happen.
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: At Tiger Time, he's a Clemson fan, says, cheaters going
• 42:59
  Speaker 6: down in all caps.
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: Probably learned that from you, Flynn. What? The all caps. Oh, yeah,
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: for sure. That is stupid homers.
• 43:09
  Speaker 6: Golly, you woke up at 9.52 to find an LSU-themed show,
• 43:14
  Speaker 6: logged into their chat just to comment.
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: He took a green monster emoji.
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah. It's good, though. I like it. I respect. We
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: invite everybody into the chat.
• 43:27
  Speaker 6: It's not really a homer if Vegas says you're a
• 43:29
  Speaker 6: favorite and us saying LSU is a favorite in the game.
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: Even though they will win by 20. I'm going to
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: take the alternate line at 19.5. I think it's plus 240.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: Any who's.
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I'm doing.
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: That's what I'm doing on my Saturday.
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: Ask. Let me see if I can make sure I
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: say this one right.
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: Will blank I'm from Louisiana finally be played again for
• 43:53
  Speaker 6: kickoffs if they want it to be?
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: Sure. Yeah. Did I see something about neck? I don't
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: think anything's off the table at this point.
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 44:06
  Speaker 5: I think all things are ready to go. Pay the fine.
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: Let's just roll with it. There's not really a fine.
• 44:11
  Speaker 6: I remember I asked the, uh, athletic director at the
• 44:14
  Speaker 6: time because I was sitting with, it was me, Burrow
• 44:16
  Speaker 6: and Clyde when LSU beat.
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: A & M in 2019. And they were like, Hey, like,
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: can we pay the fine? Can we play it? Blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: And they was like, there's not really a fine. We
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: just say that. So we don't have to play it. Yeah.
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: Oh, got it.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Got it.
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: Unless it's changed. That was seven years ago. Like just
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: from a band standpoint, it sounds like a fun piece
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: of music to play. Yeah.
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: Um, That'd be fun. That'd be exciting. It'd be exciting
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: for the people. All right. Let's go back. I was
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: going to say it.
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: Let's go back to studio. Alondra, I see your score prediction.
• 44:46
  Speaker 6: Bring it to the air. What do you have and
• 44:48
  Speaker 6: how do you see it going in Tiger Stadium?
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm just going to read off of what I
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: sent Hunt because he asked during the station survey. So
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: my score prediction is LSU 34, Clemson 14. I think
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: there's a lot of new on both sides, but I
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: think that LSU's new is infinitely more talented than Clemson's is.
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: Saturday night in the real Death Valley. Sorry, that threw
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: me off. It's a Lane Kiffin offense, a Blake Baker defense.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: Lights will be way too bright for old Dabo Sweeney,
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: and LSU gets it done.
• 45:21
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm in a similar boat. I'm going to go
• 45:24
  Speaker 7: 38-13 Tigers. The good guys, the good Tigers, of course.
• 45:27
  Speaker 7: I think Lane Kiffin pairing that with Blake Baker, it's
• 45:29
  Speaker 7: going to be too much for Dabo. I think LSU
• 45:32
  Speaker 7: gets this done easily.
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: All right. This is what I sent to Hunt.
• 45:37
  Speaker 6: I think Clemson hangs around early, but I think eventually
• 45:40
  Speaker 6: the environment, LSU's speed, and the pressure on a quarterback
• 45:43
  Speaker 6: making his second career start becomes too much. I think
• 45:46
  Speaker 6: LSU pulls away in the second half, and Lane Kiffin
• 45:48
  Speaker 6: starts the Baton Rouge era 1-0.
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: Tigers by two touchdowns, 31-17. I like it.
• 45:57
  Speaker 6: You've got 30 seconds to tell us what you like.
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's 37-17. Clemson returns a few guys
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: on defense. Great job, Dabo. Tip of the cap to you.
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: It's not going to matter.
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: LSU will operate fast. They'll be in better shape, and they'll.
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: Overwhelm Clemson's defense with the speed in which they operate.
• 46:12
  Speaker 5: It won't be perfect. There'll be mistakes made, but guess what?
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: It doesn't matter.
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: When the dust settles on Saturday night at Tiger Stadium
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: in Death Valley. Tigers will have 20 more points than Clemson.
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: All right, that is going to do it for us.
• 46:23
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• 46:26
  Speaker 6: For LSU, it's three letters, it's two colors, and it's
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: an ass-whooping coming on Saturday night in Tiger Stadium.
• 46:32
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