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LSU Football: Mid-Season Review and Accountability · JustIN Time

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Welcome back everybody. It's been quite a long time.
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A lot of stuff has happened, both good and bad, and we're
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here to jump right into it, remember?
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Who you represent, Remember who you represent.
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I know You ready. I love it though.
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Let's do it. Well, how you been?
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How you been? Good.
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Thanks for having me on it once again.
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It's always a thank. You for being on.
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Of course, it's always a pleasure to have to be.
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On with you. It's always a pleasure to have
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you on man. So where do you want to start?
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You know, I know what to say. We got a lot, we got a lot of
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data at this point. You know, I know you really want
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to touch on the the mid season report.
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You know, being that you're a teacher, I know this is near and
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dear to you. So like, you know, you, you take
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it, you take account for your students and you and you extend
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accountability. So, you know, the Tigers players
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aren't your students. You are their elders.
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For the older than them, yeah. Funny you should say that.
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That brings me to a perfect point.
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Taking accountability for my students and you know, if I had
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players, my players, something Brian Kelly fails to do week in
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and week out. This take accountability, not
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for the players because he's those are the first people he
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throws under the bus, but for his terrible coaching staff that
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he's put together on the offensive side of the ball.
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I think of a while back, I think it was after the Florida game,
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he actually went out there and admitted to this, that because
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the defense is so good, we've held the offense back.
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Then when they called him out for being stupid and saying that
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out loud and having that as a conscious thought, he quickly
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turned around and said, oh, it's because Garrett Nussmeyer has an
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abdomen injury. No, they swore.
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They swore up and down like all offseason was sworn up and down.
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You know, just hearing some of them always.
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I don't know where they're getting that from.
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They brother It's it's coming from.
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So did I just don't make that up.
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Like I don't think they make, they're never.
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Going to make something up, but Brian Kelly's the king of not
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taking accountability for stuff which you put some of the
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offensive numbers up if my computer.
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Would act right? Yeah, I got I could pull that
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right here for no reason Why I was really sorry too.
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It's crazy. Yeah, I got it.
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So I took the time to get some stats for LSU offense and LSU
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defense. 1st, I'm going to start with the good LSU defense.
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I want to give them the quick, the biggest shout out real
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quick. As of right now, through six
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games, you know, our Tigers, they're allowing 12.2 points a
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game. That's fourth in the country.
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Only three schools at the Power at the D1 level, the Power 5
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level are better. Yeah, only three schools are
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better ranked better as of right now.
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And we're in the top 25 in both yards allowed and rush yards
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allowed per game. So.
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Me. That's pretty good.
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Me. Out of 136 teams, absolutely
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without question. Yeah, that is you can't ask for
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more from a defensive staff that last year ranks almost at the
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bottom and everything. Really.
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The last two years. Yeah, with the exception of that
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Ole Miss game, we give one up an average of 10 points a game.
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Yes. And if you defend, if your
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offense can stay out on the field for longer, we would be a
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lot better. Listen, you could, regardless of
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how much you stay on the field, listen, you got to get in the
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you got to score touchdowns. Yeah, I know.
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Like a famous saying, you know, there's there's a lid on the end
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zone, there's a lid on the basket.
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I said, listen, there's no lid on our pots and skillets.
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We once we it's like, it's like me going to the kitchen and I'm
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putting up something in the crock pot right now.
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If I go in the kitchen and it's like there's no lid on it and I
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just turn away. I mean, there's no lid on it.
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Yeah, just for example, there's no lid on it.
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I mean, I can eat when I want. The LSU often is going to the
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getting in the red zone, getting to the goal lines.
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We just we had two takeaways at the goal line this past game at
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the goal. Line and one of those, one of
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those that interception on the goal line man Brian Kelly can
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say all he wants about was an RPO and he's responsible for
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that safety. Your offensive coordinator is
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also responsible for not calling boneheaded place.
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You know it will, it will be. Listen, I can see this in Jaden,
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but listen, I mean Gary's not an RPO quarterback.
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Yeah, really good. I mean not.
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RPO quarterback that's a hurt. RPO hurt quarterback in debt.
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You know what reminds what That reminds me of Fountain.
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Seattle versus New England when you should have just handed the
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ball off and ran it and took the touchdown.
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We throw it and we throw a pick on the 1 yard line.
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Yeah. That's right.
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And if that was any other team out there, they would have beat
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us. That can't happen this weekend.
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Yeah, and you know, it's interesting real quick about
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that game. I was working at Walgreens at
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the time. I had like just started working
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there like for maybe a month, maybe like 3 weeks.
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And I was there a guy, I was on the registry had a guy that came
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in, you know, he said he talked about the game, you watched the
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game, you heard about the game. I said who won?
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He said New England. I said he asked me a question.
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He answered the question. He said if you are, if you the
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Seahawks and you, you inside the five yard line, who are you
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giving the ball to? I said beast mode.
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I like beast mode. But and like I said, like if
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you're not going to give it, give it to beast mode.
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You need to at least have Marshall Lynch as a decoy at the
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very least. He wasn't even on the field.
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He he wasn't even on the like he's one of the best running
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backs in the in the league at the time.
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And then you have to give defeat the balls.
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Yeah, defeat the balls to the best player.
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Like if if you if you feed it to beast mode and he gets stopped 3
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or 4 times, I could live with that because at least I could
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say I gave it. I put the ball in the best
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players hand and we lived. We lived and died by the result.
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Yeah, I mean, you got to be better, but let's see if I can
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find my notes. X Chad GBT Give me a couple of
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jokes about Joe Sloan in this offense.
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No good night. And here's some of my favorite
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ones. LSU fans keep asking for
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fireworks and Sloan gives them sparklers.
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Something I don't understand this one.
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But LSU's offense under just long as like my phone battery
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looks good early, then dies at halftime.
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Man, my phone battery performs better than LSU's offense under
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just long. This one.
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Very true. Joe Sloan's favorite formation
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is 3 and out. I remember going like the
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Florida listen to Florida game. We had like 443 announced in
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like the first quarter and they had three in a row to start.
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I'm like, brother, y'all have to give me something and you know
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they, they're not I'm, I'm going to spew out the, the offense
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that real quick just to get it over with.
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So currently we had, we scored 19 point, just under 20 points a
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game, 19 point exactly. That ranks US 104th in the
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country out of 136 teams in the FBS level.
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We have, we're averaging 344.2 yards per game on offense.
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That gives us a 91st ranking out of 136 teams.
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We we only we only have 27, just over 27 Russian attempts per
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game. That ranks as 128th out of 136
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teams. We do average 113 rushing yards
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per game, surprisingly. That's probably because just off
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the chunk plays alone we've had last week and a couple weeks ago
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against Florida, that still give us 106.
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I think that's generous and we average in a 1.6 turnovers per
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game, which is 97th in the country.
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Like I said, like I told you and my Co worker for weeks I said
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there's nothing we do. Well, I've said this, I've said
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this this whole season thus far, this so far and we got time five
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seasons. It's just like the 2023 season
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flipped on its head. It's it's, it's, it's flipped on
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its head. Which?
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1 And I said, yeah, go ahead. Here's points per game just so
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people can get the We averaged 19.8 points per game, which is
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104th in the country this year. A year ago, with practically the
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same offense, we ranked 30 1/2 points, which made us 40s out of
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134. That's just strength of schedule
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that don't matter much. The offense average passing
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yards 315. I mean, we averaged 116 rushing
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yards per game. That's nothing to write home
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about, you know, But I mean, that's just where we are at this
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point in the season. And you know, I get it.
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I know. Yeah, go ahead.
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I get it, Nuss is hurt or was hurt.
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I've been to him this weekend. Especially when you come out and
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said that your least mobile player on the field who's your
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quarterback has a sprained ankle.
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Just give him another look put in.
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I don't even remember the kids name because Brian.
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Taylor BB. So.
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Sparingly. Van Buren.
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Yeah, Van Buren put him in, mate.
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He was an SEC quarterback. Yep.
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That's right. I mean, I, you know, it's not
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like he's sticking in one of them.
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He did. The only time we saw him, it was
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against Southeastern. But the way Nuts is playing, I
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mean you could put A1 arm one leg man out there and he'd be
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better than him. You know, just I know people,
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you know the biggest story. You know, last few last couple
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years I've been saying just the offensive line, you know how we
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lost 4 starters and four or five starters, which is true.
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I mean, they have they, you know, that's a unit on the field
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of the team is is strictly continuity, continuity or die.
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So I get it to the standpoint, but I I'm not going to blame the
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offensive line for a nush throwing in the triple coverage.
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Yeah, I'm not, I'm not going to I'm not going to be.
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Yeah, go ahead. As offensive former offensive
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lineman from like high school. Yeah, please tell me, can that
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educate me, brother, please. And people are going to get mad
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when I say this, but 100% offensive line's fault when that
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defensive coordinator on the other side of the ball knows he
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can send the bare minimum and still get pressure on your
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quarterback and have enough to drop where all your receivers
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are covered in triple coverage. Double and triple coverage, that
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is on Brad Davis. That is on Brad Davis and that
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offensive line. And Brad Davis is on the right
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underneath Joe Sloan. He is on my fire list.
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Yeah, yeah, a lot, a lot of people, Yeah.
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You know, I'm just, you know, and, and The thing is and and
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one thing I I like to go back to is just I don't need you.
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Is same thing with like if if the defense was struggling last
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year, like go back to last two years and the defense struggle.
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I don't need you to be 2011, 2003 special this year with the
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offence. I don't need you to be 19.
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I don't need you to be 20/23/2013 special.
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Like those are allies for a reason.
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But you have to give me something like it's you have too
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much talent on the roster even with the injuries.
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And it's not like with the even with the injuries, you're you're
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moving the ball. When you do move the ball, you
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quickly negate the any momentum you get on the drive.
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I'll go back to the Florida game with with sharp down the middle.
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It was like a 65 or something. Like our play who plays later.
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We we fumble the ball, the ball goes back 1015 yards, it's third
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and long and those 5 rolls out right to the back to the middle
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of the field, which is like cardinal sin for a quarterback
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gets picked off. So you went from a 65 plus yard
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play to a turnover to coming away empty handed?
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Yeah, but you know, you look at it though, a lot of nuts, his
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problems this season has come because Brian Kelly doesn't take
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care of his players and say, look, we need you to be rested.
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We got this big game, we need you to rest.
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We got this nobody team coming in at Week 2, we're going to
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arrest you because you got the abdomen injury or Southeastern.
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You know, we could arrest nuts that whole week.
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If Van Buren can't beat SE and he shouldn't be the #2
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quarterback on LSUS team, you know.
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Makes sense? But Speaking of that offensive
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line, you remember Braden Fajico?
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Yeah, 2019. Yes, Sir.
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Sunday morning, this is what he tweeted.
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Everyone talks about the flash the 2019 LSU had, but it was the
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culture we built. What's the culture?
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And he put a video of Thaddeus Moss.
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You remember that great defensive line that Auburn had
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19? He had put a video of that is
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most pancaking one of those great defensive lineman
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manhandling that defensive line. It's all about attitude.
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It's all about getting it done. That's what our offensive line
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lacks. We don't even have big fat guys
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that we can stick out there to take up space that are hard to
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move. These kids stand straight up and
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have no leverage, you know? Yeah.
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And you know, it's when you when you bring that up, I know, you
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know, people have mixed feelings about Les, which, you know, one
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thing Les did have they, they, he got, he has something like,
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you know, haulers on the old line, you know, just like Rd.
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graders, you know, all the term, the hogs green wall in Dallas.
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And if you look at the NFL examples.
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But just The thing is, I remember like Herman Johnson,
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you know, he was the the biggest baby that was born in the state
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of Louisiana. He was like 15 lbs when he was
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born. That's like all with the lover
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for LSU, though, you know, just and even then, I don't need you
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to be that, that elite. I just but you got to give me
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something yes, that's that's worth respecting like
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consistently, like I said, they they're not doing anything well
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to this point. No, I said.
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This one, I tweeted this out on the podcast page on Saturday
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night in middle of the third quarter.
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Joe Sloan is 1/3 rate offensive coordinator who couldn't cut it
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as a high school offensive coordinator.
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What makes Brian Kelly think he could be offensive coordinator
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in SEC? I'm going to just finish this
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one up. I got, you know, one more, two
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more. The opposing defenses send Joe
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Salon a thank you card after every game.
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But here's my favorite. Joe Sloan's up there and up
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there with him or his two brain cells, and they're both fighting
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for 3rd place. I.
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Mean he is terrible, a 2 year old, 2 year old to go up there
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in call plays and be better than Joe Sloan.
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He likes the creativity to do anything.
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I just The thing is like if, if, if you're not going to be
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creative, you got to be smart with with the the ball, be at
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least smart. A lot of stuff that's taking
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place, yeah. He also, in my opinion, likes
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the cognitive function to function.
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His brain basically does the stuff to basic stuff to keep him
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alive. I mean you tell me on 1/3 in 25
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in a close game you call a screen.
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The screen hadn't worked for us in three years.
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What makes you think a screen is going to work with those garbage
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offensive line? I remember.
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Last year. Last year that long that wide
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receiver screen annoyed as like brother like we would go.
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We would go deep on 1st down every time like you would take a
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deep sound for down won't connect.
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Got to get the Sprint, the screenplay to get yourself to
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try to salvage the the drive, the chains.
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Like man, listen, it hasn't worked in two years.
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And man, you know this. You know this.
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I've I'm a nuts my fan. Yeah, if he's hurting the team,
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especially since your offensive coordinator likes the cognitive
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function to write his name, let alone look at it and say that's
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not Jaden Daniels out there. This kids not going to run.
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RPO with a struggling offense and a nominal or hurt non mobile
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quarterback like Jaden. Yeah, I mean, he's not Jaden
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James, he's Garrett Nussmeyer. Their games are two different
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things. You know, you have two different
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quarterbacks. You need to have two different
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offensive philosophies for those quarterbacks.
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And Joe Stallone, I would have fired him a long time ago.
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Brian Kelly also has no balls because he doesn't answer
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questions that his radio show. He screens everything.
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So anything that's going to make him look bad and look more of a
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clown, and he already is. They don't axe biggest push to
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the. Side, you know, I've always been
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a big fan of this. The thing is I remember after
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the Florida game, he had snapped on the reporter after being
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asked a legitimate question. I'm all I appreciate him
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defending this guys. But The thing is, these are
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legitimate questions. I said before, like after the
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Tech game, I said, listen, I could give you a pass for
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Clemson for several reasons. One, you went on the on the road
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on national television in a in a a famous hostile environment
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against a very experienced team who had like the biggest
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retention rate of roster in the country, NFL players, NFL draft
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stock players in the first round on the D line, just experienced
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quarterback on the road. And and another thing just
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wanted to break the the losing streak on opening on week 1.
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So I give you a pass for that, even though they weren't very
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sharp in that offensive game either offensively, you know,
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they they were, they had made some plays.
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If you when you get held to 23 points at home against tech,
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that's when I get a little concerned.
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Yeah, I know people talk about the let down game.
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I get I I can get that in the sense.
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But even with, if you struggle somewhat during the a, a lesser
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opponent at home, typically you find a way to pull away, meaning
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scoring 35 + 40 plus and they may score 14, but you, you're
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already won by 2530 plus points. So any points today score is not
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going to hinder you that much. So you come away and when you
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come away with less than 25 points at home, you get now
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granted, now take this, I get it, D1 school, I get it.
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So and then I'm not going to take too much away from
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Southeastern. That's it.
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That's the FCS opponent, so at home, not going to take too much
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away. I was glad for their sake that
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they dominated, but you can't take away from a lesser opponent
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like that. I mean, what it all boils down
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to is for the sake of LSU fans everywhere, I hope there's
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rumors that after they got rid of Franklin at Penn State, to
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Penn State really wants to come over here to Baton Rouge and
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take Brian Kelly. As LSU fans, as LSU fans, we
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should pay part of Frank $20 million of Franklin's 49 million
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buyout just so they can take Brian Kelly.
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I'll be at Brian Kelly's house this weekend packing his stuff
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up. I'll do it for free.
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I'll do it for free. I'll drive to U-Haul, to Penn
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State. I'll take the extra cash,
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brother. God bless you though.
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I'll take that extra cash. You deserve the extra cash,
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brother. Feeding the kids, putting it
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when you're talking to the children, to the future.
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But I'm so fed up with Brian Kelly, I'll go move him for
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free. I know as what you know.
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No, but you. Know most teams, most teams as
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the season goes on. I mean, look at Alabama, A-Team
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that's coming up that'll probably beat the brakes off of
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us because we got a head coach with zero brain cells that
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doesn't understand how football goes.
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Apparently he's been doing this forever and when his won his
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200th game. Don't understand that you're
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supposed to get better during the season, not get
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progressively worse. Yeah, we got Vandy.
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We got Vandy. The good thing is you still got
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some time. You got Vandy on the road, Texas
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A&M, Good thing that's here. You know, that's going to be a
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big off and big test for our defense.
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But that's going to be if we take care of business or early
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start for Vandy, take care of business.
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I mean, there's a guy, give me something, man.
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Then you got the byway. Then, of course, you got on the
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road to Bama, Arkansas, as you call them.
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Yeah. Let's let's Kentucky.
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By the way, I thought Arkansas was going to be a layup, but.
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For this season, yeah. Considering what we just
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witnessed, what they did at Tennessee, they might have lost
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that game, but they gave Tennessee, who is ranked #12 as
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much as they can handle. And that's after firing the
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whole defensive staff. You know, maybe Brian Kelly
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should look at Bobby Petrino and say I should do what he did and
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get rid of everybody on the offensive side of the ball.
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Get rid of the whole coaching staff.
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The only one I would keep, honestly, just because he's a
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hell of a recruiter, is Wilson. But he's a shitty ass running
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back coach. But I told you when I told you
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about the Nah, it's. Fine, but you know.
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I told you about that. He is a horrible runnings back
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coach, running back coach. He is a great recruiter, but you
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know. That's what college is.
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That's what that's what it is. A lot of it.
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Yeah, Well, I really just don't understand how we could have all
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of these running backs go to these different schools and you
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know what? All of these running backs who
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are great and fast and physical, you know what they all have in
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common, the place they're from, for the most part.
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A lot of these Louisiana running backs are going to these other
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schools. And I get it.
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A lot of these other schools are going to sit up front and pay
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these freshmen who are not proven at all $1,000,000 to come
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to school there, you know, But like, look at Ole Miss.
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It's got to be a coaching thing because Logan digs when he was
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at LSU, he didn't do anything. They would hit him.
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They would breathe on him the wrong way and he would fall in
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against LSU. He had he ran over top guys.
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Let's see who'd Vandy play this weekend.
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They were off. Let's.
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See, yeah, I think they were, yeah, they were off because they
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they lost to Bama there because the battle played out in
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Missouri on the road this past Saturday.
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Yeah, OK, Logan Diggs didn't do that great against us, but he
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still ran over us for a touchdown.
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He had two carries for 8 yards and averaged 4 yards every time
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he had the ball. So maybe he's not that good.
23:21
Maybe it was just, you know. You know, just you, you get you,
23:25
you go to get your opportunity. Like I said, I know it's a super
23:29
slow like so I don't blame the young men to go the opportunity
23:34
because like I feel like a lot of people, they have this idea
23:36
that, well, the NFL is going to be there.
23:38
No, it's not. Not like you think.
23:41
I mean, that's not a promise to me at all.
23:43
Yeah, but you know you got Durham.
23:48
Wouldn't hurt for that Ole Miss game.
23:50
The game might have ended up differently.
23:52
Yeah, they just, they just had no interest in running the ball.
23:55
Only one like what, twice the second-half or something like
23:58
that. It wasn't.
23:59
Yeah, it felt like twice like the second-half.
24:02
I'm like, yeah, that's not going to work.
24:03
No. Even without missing the game,
24:06
Durham still you still this the team's leading Russia so far
24:10
with 283 yards. Yeah.
24:13
He's the leading Russian. But you know, I'm just looking
24:17
at this Vandy thing. I never thought I'd see a day
24:20
where the matchup predictor on ESPN would have Vandy percent.
24:27
And for the first time, and I think they said 77 years, Vandy
24:32
opens against the top 10 opponent as a favorite.
24:36
Yes, like they were like. I think the line is like 2 1/2
24:40
last time I had heard. Yeah, 2 1/2, It's not a big
24:44
difference, but it's a, it's a difference.
24:48
Yeah, I know how like I ultimately don't care about that
24:51
just because I know like because, you know, they usually
24:55
favor a lot of the home teams and just they give them that
24:58
something like couple points just for being at your home
25:01
spot. But yeah, it's still not a good,
25:05
you know, when they give them a layup like that.
25:10
LSU issue is just low hanging fruit.
25:12
And then done it to myself so far because I didn't leave stuff
25:17
on the field. Really don't get why we can't,
25:20
you know, go ahead and get better.
25:25
What is stopping us, holding us back from getting better?
25:28
In their own way, like I said, just going back to my point,
25:31
just of there's nothing, there's nothing I could say outside of
25:35
talent and spurts of, you know, spurts of plays, occasional
25:40
circumstances, there's nothing I can point to and say, yeah, that
25:44
we could hang our hat on outside of talent like this.
25:49
I mean, it's I just it's it's hard.
25:51
They're just not fully there yet.
25:52
And again, you know, just the beauty about this new playoff
25:56
format like the new playoff formats now is just even with
26:00
two losses or so you can you get a couple breaks because I
26:05
remember this time 1015 years ago, you know, you you you get
26:09
one loss to your seasons as far as title contention is in
26:13
serious jeopardy. 22 losses will be over.
26:15
I remember back in 2006, you know, we lost we went ten and
26:20
two in the regular season, but we lost to Auburn and then we
26:23
lost to the eventual champion Florida Gators, both on the
26:26
road. We have played four top ten
26:28
teams on the road that season, all in the SEC.
26:32
So just. But the good thing is we have to
26:35
worry about that as much. Yeah, we've got Vanji this
26:39
weekend. I'm not sure we can go over
26:40
there and beat them. Yeah, they, you know.
26:43
Offensively, they're ranked 4th in the country.
26:46
Well, 42.42 point, eight points per game, 165 yards per game,
26:53
yards per play got 7.5. Yeah, all the seven they they
26:57
ranked top 15 in several categories.
26:59
They got the number one in points per play.
27:01
I know you. Don't score and everything is.
27:03
For what it's worth. Yeah, I'm looking at who they
27:06
played, with the exception of South Carolina.
27:10
And South Carolina is not that good of a defense either.
27:15
The only time that Mandy played. Yeah, the only time Vandy played
27:19
an actual defense in a high caliber team in the SEC, they
27:23
only scored 14 points. You know, Yeah, My issue is can
27:29
our, how do I put this? Can I no show offense to stay on
27:33
the stay on the field long enough to help the defense out
27:37
and let them you know, because the at this point the defense is
27:40
going to win US these games. I mean, they've been doing this
27:42
so far, which would, if you have to guess, what was the score
27:46
going to be? But it's coming game with.
27:48
Them I think it's going to stay in between a three-point game.
27:51
I don't like it, but I can see it being a three-point game.
27:56
Even if even if it was 100% healthy.
27:59
Joe Sloan has just proved time in and time out that he is not
28:04
worth anything. This Coke bottle could call a
28:06
better game on offense than Joe Sloan.
28:09
It was reminded about Nick Saban talk about Pert Kirby Smart and
28:13
one of his press comments back in the day and the Coke.
28:18
That's funny. No, but I was I was more worried
28:22
about Vandy last year is weird because I was more worried about
28:25
them last year. You know, Pavia Mafia.
28:27
It had a lot of momentum. I don't know if he's as
28:29
statistically as strong as he is as he was and we have a better
28:33
defense. I don't know if you lead ever a
28:35
high in Russian attack. So you know, obviously.
28:38
That old man is out enough. That old man hasn't lost a step
28:43
that much yet. He might be pushing 30 but he
28:47
mean he's still right shooting for that 7th year early game.
28:52
Yes, I saw that a few weeks ago. Yeah man, it's crazy.
28:58
So. I mean, think we can pull it
29:00
off? Against Bandy on paper, must say
29:06
on paper, absolutely we have. We just have so much talent it
29:11
has to produce at the end of the day.
29:13
As of right now, I'm saying I'm going to say 2313.
29:17
Like I say, I'm not as I mean just because that deep one.
29:24
Yeah, not not like I was last year.
29:26
I'm much higher on our defense, though.
29:28
It's a role, you know, it's easy.
29:29
It's not a difficult place to play traditionally.
29:32
I know they're they're peaking as a program right now, but I
29:36
just and also I just offensive. I just don't think we're there
29:41
yet because I haven't seen anything from the first half of
29:44
the season outside of talent that could say we could have
29:47
capitalized. I'm just right now, I'm just
29:50
saying 2313, they just can't lose.
29:53
That's yeah, that's what it comes down to me.
29:55
They just can't lose because you have a tough stretch.
30:01
We get through Vandy, oddly enough.
30:06
I know A&M is number 4, but for the last 192021222324 last for
30:17
six years because it went to 18. The home team has won every
30:22
single game in this series. I don't think that's going to.
30:27
Change. I don't think that's going to
30:29
change. I think we beat Texas A&M at
30:31
home because if they let Jay Johnson down, I think Jay
30:34
Johnson might RIP the headset off of Brian Kelly and tell him,
30:39
look, let me show you how this is done and out coach Brian
30:42
Kelly and beat and maybe Scott Ward will be like Jay Johnson.
30:45
You could take over as the football coach, too.
30:47
You know, it's I'm glad you brought that winds up at home
30:51
just because A&M hasn't beat us in Tiger Stadium since they
30:54
joined the conference back in 2012.
30:57
Maybe on the beat us in Tiger Stadium since they've joined the
30:59
conference. I know like I would say every
31:01
year is different, but transduce stay the same.
31:04
They tend to carry on throughout years.
31:07
You know, Speaking of this trend, what were, what was A&M
31:11
last year like almost 500 at that time when they beat us,
31:16
They want a downward spiral. They weren't trended.
31:19
Upwards. And they beat us and we were
31:22
four and five or five and we were four and five in 2020.
31:27
And then we were or no, we, I think we went over and we lost
31:31
in 2020. In 2019-2020, one, they played
31:35
at home and we were 5 and 6 going into that game and they
31:42
were at their peak, I think, and we ended up beating them.
31:45
Yeah, we've. Yeah, 5 we finna in 2020, and I
31:50
finished at 5:00 and 5:22 and 1:00, six and seven.
31:55
Yeah. And then, you know, 22, Brian
31:58
Kelly's first year at 10:00 and 4:00.
32:01
And we lost 2 and 3 and 20. Three came back.
32:04
Yeah, yeah. So it just is back and forth.
32:08
I got them winning that game because that's not going to
32:11
stay. You know, it's just going that
32:14
trends going to keep going until one day LSU goes over there with
32:19
a new coach and beats them in that cult station.
32:22
They call it stadium. But going into the next week,
32:26
Alabama's trending up. As much as I hate to admit it,
32:29
and I would love to see them burn to the ground, they are
32:32
trending upwards. They're peeking at the right.
32:36
Time peeking at the right time. And LSU is not.
32:40
LSU is the only team in the country, I think to start off as
32:44
a top three team and then dwindle off.
32:48
I don't know, to be honest. I don't think they should be a
32:50
top ten team, you know? The events alone, you know, just
32:54
carrying them. So I get the case.
32:56
I mean, they've, they've really like like you said earlier and
32:59
I, I said it's similar to Florida this year too, is just
33:02
you just cannot ask for more from a defense in 2025 football,
33:08
regardless of the level. You just cannot ask for more
33:11
than from them. And, and people, yeah, I know
33:13
people you could say like, Oh well, you could score.
33:15
Pick sixes, scoop. Listen, that's the offense's job
33:19
is to score. That's not the defensive job.
33:20
The offense's job is to score. And our defense does a great job
33:24
of scoring, too. Yeah, they do, but they the
33:29
offers shouldn't put that on them.
33:31
That's my that's our job. You on the plays more to score.
33:34
That's we got to put the games. No, exactly.
33:37
Exactly. The offense needs to get off
33:39
their butts and do something but they like.
33:42
I said they like I said, they missed talent.
33:46
They have an offensive coordinator whose biggest claim
33:49
to fame and he had nothing to do with it is Jaden Daniels
33:52
success. And in all reality, Jaden
33:56
Daniels went during his offseason and his final season
33:59
at LSU to California and got what?
34:02
A quarterbacks coach then came in the LSU and was up there at
34:09
5:00 in the morning watching film and doing what he needed to
34:12
do to be a better football player.
34:14
It had nothing to do with Joe Sloan.
34:16
Joe Sloan was just a quarterback coach on paper.
34:18
And when somebody heard, when Brian Kelly heard that Joe Sloan
34:22
was up for another job, he said we got to keep this guy.
34:26
And he went to him and was trying to make him Co offensive
34:28
coordinator with den Brock. And Den Brock said, you know
34:30
what, I'm out and he went to Notre Dame and, you know, here's
34:34
a different time. And we, you know, you go and you
34:38
look and you see the grass is greener.
34:40
We were all like see you Den Brock you would trash.
34:43
I wouldn't, but thank you. I wasn't one of those people at
34:45
all. I said.
34:46
Man, how crazy. Well, I could see the writing on
34:49
the wall when they would putting us in.
34:51
In those games when he was the backup and den Brock was the
34:55
thing. He wasn't calling a game for
34:57
another quarterback. He's had the same problem as
34:59
Sloan. The only difference is if he
35:03
would have, you know, two seasons with nuts, he would have
35:08
tailored the offense to nuts. You know, it's just that offense
35:11
is coaching staff and that offense is a mess.
35:13
Those needs to be major changes. You know, I think we need a new
35:18
top guy, but let's see what his buyout is right now.
35:23
Brian Kelly current buyout 62 million as of September 2025.
35:29
Must be nice to be terrible at your job in when they fire you,
35:33
they have to pay you $62 million.
35:39
Costco was going to fire you because you were doing a bad
35:41
job. You think they would tell y'all
35:43
I'm going to give you 62 million, what would you do?
35:46
No, they gave me 62 million. I would listen.
35:51
I'd run to that often to get that 62.
35:54
I said tell me, wait, listen, I'll go out the back door.
35:57
I don't even want the shortcut. I've got the back door.
36:00
You know, they had, they give me an option with a contract that
36:04
says we fired, we got to fire you without 'cause you know, we
36:08
go pay you this. I would do really good at my job
36:10
for the first couple years and then just start doing terrible.
36:15
I'm locked. In.
36:18
I'd lock in for the first couple years and then start doing
36:22
really bad. But you know, like we said, you
36:25
know, you got Bobby Petrino back at Arkansas.
36:28
That's a fascinating story in itself, man.
36:31
They had it rolling back when we was out, when we was seniors in
36:34
high school. And honestly, I'm looking at
36:38
them when they play Tennessee. I don't think they took a step
36:40
back. He just picked up right where he
36:42
left off all those years ago. Yeah, yeah.
36:45
He didn't get to win. I was a bit like he took the
36:47
number, he took the number 12 team to the country within a
36:51
field goal, gave them all they could handle.
36:57
Yeah, they think like when he was there like yeah, like
36:59
back-to-back double digit win season.
37:01
So it was yeah, because 2011 they like we were talking about
37:05
just they had three top ten, the three top ten teams in the
37:09
country, number one, number two, number three were in the same
37:13
division. Forget confident they're in the
37:15
same division. LSU, Bama, Arkansas like if if
37:20
hypothetically speaking, if they didn't have to play to us or
37:24
them, they'd be in the national title game because that was the
37:27
best I've ever seen them and not and I've seen them with Darren
37:30
McFadden. They were the top five in the
37:31
country when he was there. But that they'll they was like a
37:34
step above because with the quarterback situation and the
37:37
passing game. But you know, it's child to
37:41
Felix Jones and painkillers 2 back in the day.
37:43
Yeah. I mean, it was just different
37:47
back then. It's different nowadays too.
37:49
But what you going to do? I mean, so you know, looking
37:53
back at it mid season review, what you thinking?
37:56
You know, just I like what I see.
37:57
Obviously defensively they just, I, I know people say no, you can
38:02
only go up. You you don't even go is up from
38:04
here. I said you can always get the
38:05
worse. So just off that alone, I'm just
38:08
really been thrilled by how they've played.
38:11
And it's even more impressive with the offensive struggles.
38:15
A lot of people don't when they rank certain defenses, historic
38:18
defenses, historic often whoever the case may be, they don't
38:21
really consider the other side of the ball.
38:23
I just think like you could be great individual even with the
38:27
great, you get your credit even with the great offense.
38:29
But to me it's a different level of dominance and impact when you
38:35
have a struggling offense that's even more so impressive to me,
38:38
like 2023 LSU. It's just like if you if people
38:43
really said sat back and actually did the research the
38:47
shoes off defence in 20, they were awful.
38:50
And for Jane to do what he did, of course he had he had help, of
38:53
course, but he was a driving force.
38:55
So to for him that off to do what they did with that defence
38:59
and what this this defence to do with the offence so far, it's
39:02
it's an incredible accomplishment.
39:05
Leave. They have immense talent.
39:07
LSU never going to be void of talent, but talent has to
39:10
produce. At the end of the day, potential
39:12
has to produce, has to show up just that I would say if I'm
39:17
great in the team or I would say AC only because and that's that
39:23
high because the defense is then that special.
39:25
So far, the defense. Gives them overall team thing,
39:29
yes. I'm with you.
39:31
I'm I'm with you. I give them AC for overall.
39:35
Yeah. I give that defense and a plus,
39:40
yes, give the defensive coaching staff, I'll give the defense the
39:45
most improved in the country. It is hard to argue.
39:48
It's hard to argue that yeah, because they are the most.
39:52
Improved defense in the country. Yeah, yeah, I would give the
39:56
offense pink slips. Would I just say what's?
39:59
Lower than AF pink slips. I'd give that offensive coaching
40:04
staff all pink slips. Because you can tell those off
40:08
when the offense goes out there that none of them know what is
40:13
going on, you know? And they none.
40:15
Of them knows what's going on, they look.
40:17
Confused like when we were talking about two years ago
40:19
with, you know, Mad House with the defense, I was like, listen,
40:23
man, just I don't, I never like I'm not for that call for
40:26
people's jobs. I mean, but you got to you got
40:28
to produce and with with the resources, you know, the when
40:32
you when you coach it or put when you put when you coach it
40:34
as a program that prioritizes the sport that you're involved
40:38
in. Like you have no excuse about
40:40
not having the the resources. You have no excuse about not
40:42
having to buy in. So when you have that poor of a
40:45
defense with the all time you wasted the all time special
40:49
offense, I was like, you cannot keep your job.
40:52
Now. The only reason I'm not going
40:53
there yet with this offensive staff because like I, I like to
40:57
give coaching staff time. But if you, if they continue
41:00
this trend and like they lose like 3 more games, I mean, it's
41:04
it. I just, it isn't hard for me to
41:06
argue for your case at that point.
41:09
Yeah, they still have time, but. See, I'm on the opposite end of
41:13
the spectrum for you then you. Yeah.
41:18
This is the midpoint of the season.
41:23
At this point you should be take.
41:25
You should be looking 1000% better than you did in Week 1.
41:31
We have regressed so, so much. And Joe Salone is in charge of
41:35
the offense. He's in charge of play calling.
41:39
And you know what makes me not feel so bad about getting rid of
41:42
him in the middle of the season? It's because his salary is
41:48
1,000,000. Well, you know, I can do.
41:51
Listen, pay off these bills, baby.
41:53
You know what? You may you.
41:55
Still have some stuff leftover. And you make $1,000,000 and you
42:00
are that bad at your job, Yes you get fired in the middle of
42:03
the season. I mean I'm all for giving
42:05
chances, but he had his first chance last year and he is
42:08
failing at his second chance. Get rid of him.
42:11
He's not doing what he's supposed to be doing.
42:15
Yeah. You know he's not getting in.
42:17
Context, like I said, I mean it it wouldn't to be honest, I
42:20
wouldn't be shocked either way if he stays the goal.
42:23
But like like I said, good thing is this this is a mid season
42:26
report cards yeah, you got you you got have your work cut out.
42:30
You're in the heart of the conference schedule now.
42:32
So it's you only have one non conference game from here on
42:35
out. So it's.
42:37
And that might be the if the way Joe Sloan calls these games,
42:40
that might be the only win on the season in the last six
42:42
games. He better hope not.
42:44
He better. Hope we might be looking at a We
42:46
might be looking. At a repeat.
42:48
What you were going to? Say, looking at a what?
42:50
No, we're going to say like. What you were going to?
42:53
Say, looking at another Yeah, I was going to say just like I
42:56
can't. They're trending towards 2023
42:59
all over again, just in reverse order.
43:01
I just don't want to have that same storyline again two years
43:04
like 2 years later because it's just you wasted historic units,
43:10
you know what I mean? Yeah.
43:12
I think we're trending. There's one thing you're both of
43:14
you guys are. There's one thing you're both,
43:16
both units are bad. Like if both units struggle,
43:19
like if both units were ranked in the hundreds, that that's one
43:22
thing because it's like you guys, not you just cancelling
43:24
each other out. You're not helping each other at
43:26
all. But if you, if you're, if you
43:28
bring it down the one the other side of the ball that much,
43:31
listen man, you give yourself less leverage.
43:36
So yeah. Look, I think to be honest, we
43:42
are going towards the 2020 and 2021 outcome because I'm just
43:49
looking at what's left on our schedule in I think we might be
43:53
a seven and five team this year. I think we beat Western Kentucky
43:57
and I think we can beat Texas A. But with the way Jones, Joe
44:04
Sloan calls this offense in these plays, throwing the ball
44:09
down the field, 50 yard passes, down the field on 1st down,
44:14
running the ball on 2nd down, up the middle, might I add, and
44:18
then trying to run a wide receiver screen when you get
44:22
tackled for a loss and you got 15 yards to go, that's not going
44:26
to cut it. It makes our pointer look really
44:28
good. But nuts has drafts.
44:30
Nuts has. Drafts like just a lot of the
44:32
like, let me tell you, just like with just the whole quarterback
44:35
class this year going to Cave Club.
44:37
Nick, you got Garrett a Drew Allen.
44:40
I know he got hurt, but you know, but he's he hasn't.
44:44
He has the best. I never really see him as
44:46
special, like I said, I mean, as a lot of that's with the
44:50
traditional culture playing style up there.
44:53
But you know, just it's interesting to see like, you
44:56
know, I think I saw like a glance at the mock draft.
44:58
It's like really dominated by defensive players so far.
45:02
Yeah. So.
45:04
Lucky for nuts. Lucky for nuts.
45:06
I think they're taking it. They're taking him as he's hurt,
45:11
you know? Yeah, and because he's still
45:14
sitting at a mid first round pick.
45:17
And this. If he don't step it up, he's
45:19
going to be. Just different.
45:21
Yeah. All right, listen, I agree.
45:23
Yeah. Well, we are getting to that
45:27
mark where it starts to go South Cross with the at the minimum.
45:35
Yeah. So I think we're think we got a
45:39
good stopping point today. Yeah, like I said, brother, it's
45:42
always, always a pleasure to be all with you.
45:44
Always. It's a privilege to be on your
45:46
show. It really is.
45:47
I don't think it lightly. I don't think it for granted.
45:50
So just it's always good to talk.
45:53
I say, you know, we love our Tigers.
45:55
Like we got, we got potential. We've got potential, man.
45:58
It's just they just got to put it.
46:00
They got to give me something offensively, man, because like,
46:03
I can't. That's why, you know, notice we
46:05
what we did today, we didn't nitpick about defense.
46:07
I'm not going to nitpick about a unit that's carrying the team
46:10
that'll be like 2023. Like you talk about Jayden,
46:13
couple of Jayden Daniels bad decisions.
46:15
I'm like he's carrying the team. I'm I'm not going to nitpick
46:18
about that exactly, At least not right now.
46:20
I'm not going to nitpick. About what the defense is doing.
46:24
This would have been last year, the year before that it would be
46:27
different. Yeah.
46:29
We'd be nitpicking at the defense and probably leave an
46:33
offense alone, but you know, it's a huge just long as the
46:36
most uncreative man on planet, I mean.
46:41
But hey, we got. Don't know much more I could
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say. But with that, yeah, it is.
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We have an announced, I have an announcement to make next week.
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We are going to do it, try to do a live show.
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We'll see how it goes, but we're going to shoot for the live
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show. I got a new set up, some mics
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and new cameras coming in. We're going to shoot for a live
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show probably next Wednesday. We'll see.
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We'll see. So we'll see.
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Just keep me posted, brother. I know you're going to keep the
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people posted. Yeah.
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I'm gonna keep y'all, everybody posted, you know, like share it
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and subscribe would be huge, huge thing for me for this
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channel for this. And comment while you had it.
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Exactly, you know and y'all have a great day, great night,
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whatever you have just make it a great one.
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Love you brother, that went love you too.
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That went well. Are we still recording?