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The Real Death Valley · JustIN Time

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  Welcome back to another edition of the Just In Time podcast.
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  I'm your host Justin, and let's get into recap of last night's
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  game. It went really well, but let me
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  start off, I'll be the first to admit I was wrong.
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  I didn't think we had it in us to go over there and beat
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  Clemson. Like I did say, I thought we
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  were the more talented team, but talent and coaching always don't
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  correlate. And I still don't think Brian
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  Kelly's our guy. But there was a lot of
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  improvements from last year on both sides of the ball.
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  I think we were more balanced offense last night.
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  The run game, I didn't think we were going to have a run game.
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  I was wrong. Quarterback play was really
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  good. We didn't have forced plays that
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  turned into interceptions or fumbles.
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  We had two fumbles. One of them didn't matter as
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  much because it was a fourth down.
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  We didn't convert anyway. At the end of the first four, we
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  gave them three points. The game should have been 24 to
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  7, but we'll get into that later.
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  Defense was a high point. They and what really impressed
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  me about our defense was every time Clemson had the ball and
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  ran the ball or every time Clemson ran the ball, there was
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  always 7, anywhere between four to seven guys making that
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  tackle. They weren't just pushed around,
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  they pushed around Clemson's offensive line.
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  They hurried Klubnick a bunch, got a couple of sacks, made that
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  guy make bad decisions and that's what lost.
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  That's what led to US winning that game.
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  Wednesday when we were talking about the game, we came down to
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  it and we said the game would be won and lost in the trenches.
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  That was correct. Our offensive line was bipolar
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  at times. At times they looked really,
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  really good. At times they look like a high
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  school offensive line. They didn't impress me to the
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  point where I say that still isn't a big concern, But if we
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  get to the point where we can hit our weapons out on the
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  outside and run the ball like we did and keep it balanced, when
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  you run the ball, it open softens up the defense for the
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  pass and when you pass the ball it softens up the defense for
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  the run. They don't know what you're
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  going for. I still think play calling was a
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  bit atrocious towards the end of the game, especially in the
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  middle of the game. They play a clip of Brian Kelly
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  slamming his first down on the desk from last year, saying that
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  you have to be able to put the game away.
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  And I still think they left room for Clemson to come back
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  through. And you know, they gave Clemson
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  too much time. I think they gave him too much
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  of room to make this game a game where they would come back in,
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  possibly win the game or tie the game and take it to OT.
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  We need to work on that. When you can put a team away,
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  put a team away. Don't worry about eating off the
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  clock. Deliver the knockout punch.
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  But you know, let's go into some stats here.
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  This is what was the rushing in passing leaders for both teams
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  and us was obviously the passing.
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  He was 28 for 38, 230 yards and a touchdown.
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  Cadenwood had 17 touches. He got 74 yards and a touchdown.
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  We had two turnovers, palm of possession, 37 minutes and 6
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  seconds. We had 6 penalties for 45 yards.
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  Some of those were SEC officiate being terrible.
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  Let's see, we had those two turnovers.
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  Klovnik was 19 for 38230 yards with an interception.
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  That's what OK after that, this game should have been 24 to 10
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  or 27 to 10. You take away that fumble at the
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  in the first half where Clemson got that field goal, it should
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  have been 27 to 24 to 7. We gave them those three points,
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  but Randall for them was their Russian leader.
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  He had five touches, 16 yards and a touchdown.
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  They had 260 yards total, one turnover.
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  They possessed the ball for 22546 penalties for 57 yards.
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  Here's the rest of our breakdown for passing.
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  Xavion Thomas completed a 16 yard pass.
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  You know Nuts actually had two touchdown passes because the SEC
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  officiating was horrible. I don't know how you call that
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  part every other game. Every other time a touchdown was
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  scored on the ground in that game, that ball came loose.
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  I know it's a little different since it was a pass, but he took
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  four steps, 2 inbounds, made it through, knock down the pylon
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  and made it through the end zone, got pushed to the ground
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  and the ball came out. Anywhere else, that's a complete
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  pass in that. Seven points of LSU officiating
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  was terrible. Then later on after that, Davos
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  Sweeney, who's a little bit of a whiny little bitch, was
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  complaining that they missed 2 calls when his DB had the jersey
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  out like this for 10 yards and got called for pass
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  interference. That moved LSU up and gave him a
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  first down. Told him man he missed 2
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  penalties. And that's after earlier this
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  week he tried and he successfully got one of our
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  players suspended for and a half and he tried to go after another
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  one because he didn't think that his team was good enough to do
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  that. He's a whiner.
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  That little I know they do it. Every game that walked down the
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  hill was stupid. In my opinion.
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  It was stupid. I didn't like it.
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  I'm not a fan of it. If the game was supposed to
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  start at 6:30, got pushed back to seven because they had to do
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  that, I didn't like it. Not a fan.
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  Barry and Brown made an amazing one handed grab for that
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  unofficial official touchdown that I just got finished talking
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  about. You know, then like I said, they
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  called that back. I don't know what the problem
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  was, ESP NS announces and two of them that aren't very high on
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  LSU to begin with even said that that was a touchdown and they
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  don't know what happened. But let's just get into this
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  rushing game because we had 100 and let's see, go to the box
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  score. We had 110 yards on the ground.
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  We had 123-4566 guys touch the ball, get carries for 29
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  carries, you know, and we got 110 yards nuts.
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  Went for, had a 10 yard run. That's something we complained
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  about. He didn't use his legs.
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  He tried to force plays. He grew up.
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  He grew up in his showed. Did he have a spectacular game?
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  No. But he got cheap shotted at the
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  end of the third quarter before the fourth quarter and he got up
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  and still LED us to it. The game went in touchdown
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  drive. Here we go.
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  Let's get into this, OK, The defense, that's what 1 is this
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  game. The defense came up 1 is this
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  game. They were stout.
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  They didn't bend OR break. At one point they bent a little
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  bit because they were on the field.
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  And then we run one play and they Clemson gets the ball back
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  off of a fumble. But our defense was really,
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  really good last night. We make it to the playoffs.
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  We make a strong run in the playoffs.
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  This is why we had 12333 players in Woodland and Weeks and
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  Perkins with five tackles. Woodland had five solo tackles,
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  one sack and a tackle for a loss.
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  He said 5 tackle total tackles, four were solos.
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  Perkins had five with three solo tackles.
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  The team got 41 tackles in 31 of the 41 with solo.
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  We had special teams. Was great.
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  I don't know what happened on that second field goal Ramos
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  had, but he'd look like he came up limping.
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  Punt returning was good. Chadwick.
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  I mean, not punt returning. Chadwick's up on a Punt returns
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  were good. We had one return for 18 yards.
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  They got called back on ABS penalty.
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  You know, a punter. Chadwick average 42 touchbacks
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  as long as was 52 yards and he had 167 total yards.
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  Ponting had one interception that we don't really talk about
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  those because we don't really do that.
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  We had one interception, you know, we had two fumbles, but we
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  don't we're not going to talk about those.
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  Going on to the Clemson side. Clemson, they said, was going to
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  be just like a drum. Kay Kublick was going to do all
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  these amazing things. He was 19 for 38.
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  Same yardage Nussmeyer had at 2:30.
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  He averaged 6.1. He had one terrible
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  interception. They only had 32 yards of
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  rushing. The receiving had 230 yards
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  through the air. Had three guys get 4 touches.
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  Their defense was not what they thought it was going to be.
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  They had 72 total tackles, 38 with solo.
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  They only had one sack to so much for our offensive line not
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  being able to hold up against this amazing cleansing D line.
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  Punt returns they had one for 16 yards.
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  Kicking was good. They were one for two with field
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  goals along with 42 and they had two punters point.
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  Well, one's their field goal kicker.
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  They lined up for a field goal and did a little shot to eat up
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  some time, but that was good. It was a good overall win for
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  LSU. They went and they proved that
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  the real Death Valley is in Baton Rouge got over a much
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  needed hump of winning the season opener after five years.
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  Yeah, they five years hadn't won a season opener since 20/19 with
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  Joe Burrow. One of the part of those reasons
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  were coaching. A lot of those reasons for coach
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  we're coaching. Some of those were different
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  reasons, but main point is we got over the hump, we beat a
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  really good Clemson team and it's time to move on and look at
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  the next week. Which oddly enough, two of our
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  next three opponents played each other last night.
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  So let's go and talk about that a little bit.
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  I can find what I'm looking for. Let's see which had.
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  So two of our next three opponents played each other last
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  night. I'll talk about both.
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  We play. We've got LA Tech at home next
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  week. Louisiana Tech.
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  Let's see. Yeah, that's what I want.
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  Louisiana Tech ended up beating Southeastern 24 to nothing.
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  Let's talk about Tech first. So their quarterback went 14 for
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  19 with 130 yards, one touchdown.
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  They had 133 yards on the ground, nothing too special, 33
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  yard runs. They had 100 and 30 through the
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  air. 1 touchdown, 1 touchdown. Their defense had 83 total
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  tackles, solo tackles with 33. They had 11 tackles for loss. 4
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  sacks, 1 touchdown. They had two interceptions.
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  One was returned for 25 yards. Kicked 1 field goal for 41
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  yards. That's decent.
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  Had three returns, one for 25 yards or two for 25 yards.
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  An average of 12.5. There were one for one with
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  field goals. That punter was good. 336 yards
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  of, you know, 59 long. What all boils down to is LSU
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  should win that game pretty easily.
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  I mean, nobody expects that to be a good game.
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  Then after we have Florida, who is going to be the best game
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  probably in September for us, our hardest fought game at home
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  be the best home game for sure. They looked really good
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  yesterday. Didn't play nobody.
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  That's why I'm not talking about them because usually we just
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  don't know enough. Southeastern, however, didn't
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  look good at all. They didn't score at all.
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  They had two interceptions from two different quarterbacks, only
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  128 yards on the ground, you know, 145 yards combined between
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  the two quarterbacks and receiving.
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  They had multiple guys with multiple touches.
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  They fumble twice. Their defense doesn't look too
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  good on paper. They didn't have any
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  interceptions or kick returns, punt returns.
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  They got solid punt returns, 17 yards.
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  They didn't kick and they're pawning.
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  The special teams were decent from what they did, but you
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  know, these two games weren't anything special.
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  We'll talk. We can talk about Florida just
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  because they played yesterday too, not just because they
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  didn't play anybody. We'll talk about them or let's
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  see who they play next week and then we'll talk.
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  We maybe can talk next week. Yeah, Florida doesn't play
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  anybody next week either. So let's just go ahead and knock
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  Florida out the way now. I know, OK.
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  Or we can just get Florida and talk about Florida State
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  whooping Alabama. But I don't want to do that.
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  So let's go talk about Florida against Long Island.
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  Florida win that game 55 to nothing as expected.
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  I mean, nobody expected Florida to go into that game and lose.
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  OK, here we go. Won't even talk about we're not
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  going to talk about their defense.
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  We'll talk about DJ Lagway, 15 for 18 had 120 yards do 1 total
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  because they play Jones. He did went 12 for 18 with two
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  touchdowns. Lagway had three touchdowns, no
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  interceptions. 120 yards for Lagway, 131 yards for Jones.
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  Here's what is going to be a true test for LS U's defense.
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  Florida had, and I know this is Long Island's defense, Florida
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  had 200 yards rushing on 9 attempts.
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  Jaden Baugh had 9 carries. I'm sorry if I butchered that
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  name. I don't really know.
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  Florida football had 9 carries, was 104, had 104 yards and one
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  touchdown. As long as run was 26 yards,
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  that's going to be LS. Us biggest test is Florida a run
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  they're rushing. You know, Florida did have two
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  fumbles, same as us. Florida's defense looked good.
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  Again, this is all against Rhode Island, Long Island, so I don't
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  know how good Florida actually is.
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  They're not one of those teams that went out and said, hey, let
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  me play a top 10 opponent or on the road or like LSU, Texas are
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  not one of them. Speaking of which, I'm not
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  surprised. I think Arch Manning is going to
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  be good down the stretch for Texas.
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  I think his experience as he gains more experience as a
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  starter in this conference, he'll be better.
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  And next year is when he'll light it up.
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  But back to Florida, you know, I can go over Florida and all of
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  this. They didn't really play anybody
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  for me to tell you what was good and what was bad.
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  They won 55 and nothing. And that was relatively easy for
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  them. You know, I think if LSU comes
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  out and plays like they played last night, when they go to Ole
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  Miss in a few weeks, LSU will be undefeated.
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  You know, if we play like we, if we play like we're capable of
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  and the offense starts picking up more of the passing game, you
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  know, they fire on all cylinders.
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  That was a huge win last night for confidence level.
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  Confidence level that gives you a huge win.
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  You get the first win off your back.
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  It's a good team. You can take the next the next
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  week, make the few adjustments in game adjustments and
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  adjustments against Louisiana Tech.
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  Then have your first real SEC test in Florida.
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  Hopefully come away with AW there, tune up a little bit
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  against Southeastern again, hopefully this is all hopefully
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  and then go into Oxford and beat Ole Miss.
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  I think we'll be good. Think we'll be good.
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  I think we might after last seen what they did last night.
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  Is there's a chance they still lose 2 games?
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  Yes. Is there a chance they go
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  undefeated? Yes.
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  Winning that first game just gives confidence, and confidence
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  is a huge part. Will we be able to get where we
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  need to be? I think so.
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  I think Ellis will be a great team this year.
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  I think we'll be a playoff team this year.
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  I think we have a few huge steps and we still have some a few
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  question marks that we need to answer.
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  Once we do that, everything else will fall into place.
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  You know, that was a good win for Nussen.
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  The boys, they can come back to the Rio Death Valley.
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  I don't know where they played at last night that wasn't Death
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  Valley. I think it was Memorial Stadium.
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  But the Clemson's got to come to the Rio Death Valley next year.
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  We'll show them how it will when they come down here.
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  We'll show them with the valleys.
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  We'll just have to show them. But you know, as always, have a
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  good day, a good night or whatever you have.
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