Tiger Rag analyzes what went wrong in LSU’s 31-13 loss to Alabama – from the challenges the Crimson Tide posed on both sides of the ball to the shortcomings of quarterback Sam Leavitt and the red zone offense and Blake Baker’s defense’s failure to show up in big moments. Former LSU national champion linebacker Darry Beckwith joins the show to break down what the Tigers need to do to improve on defense and the biggest questions they still need to answer.
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another edition of Tiger Rag Radio. Jeff Palmo along with the executive editor of Tiger Rag magazine, Todd Horn. Case
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Kishnik, our producer tonight. Glad you can join us. We have a great show lined up for you as we look back at a very
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disappointing loss Saturday against Alabama. And look ahead to the final home game of the season. Another big contest for the Tigers. chance to write
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the ship when they take on Arch Manning and the Texas Longhorns. I was looking forward to starting the show by um Oh,
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here he is. Here comes Glenn. Is is he going to come in the studio now?
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Well, [laughter] fashionably late Tiger Rag owner Glenn Gilbo has walked into the uh studio. So,
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um, but, um, and I wanted to start off with you, Glenn, because, uh, Glenn is, um, the one who picked Alabama to beat LSU, uh, in tiger.com.
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And, uh, Glenn, he’s readjusting his headphones.
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My, my head’s too big [laughter] last week because because of that excellent pick.
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So, so what [laughter] what was your reasoning for picking Alabama going into the game?
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Uh, I mean, nothing scientific. I just college football is really unpredictable and often the team everybody thinks is
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going to win doesn’t win. And I I think there was something more substantive to it than that.
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Well, you you always do. That’s why you pick wrong so often. [laughter] Yeah.
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Okay. Okay. I’m actually running a tally on this and and I have a better record.
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Oh, but since we’re not bringing that forward, the my reason was is that Nick picked picked LSU games in the miss loss. Correct. Nick and this correct.
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Nick Sabin spent more time at Alabama than he did at LSU. So that was why he would pick Alabama over LSU.
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I really I really think there’s just something about the red helmets in LSU.
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I I really do. I mean, historically, Alabama just always wins this game. Yeah.
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It’s it’s unbelievable. And um I mean, you know, I I I thought it was a tossup game and I just happened to
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pick Alabama. Um but um you know, I think LSU has about as much talent as
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Alabama, though Alabama’s players have been together a little longer, which is very important. I think people
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underestimate that in the portal era, but um I think the open week kind of hurt LSU.
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I do too.
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And and and you know, but that’s part of it. You got to have an open week, but Lane was saying that before the open week. He said, “We’re really playing well right now. We, you know, we don’t
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need an open week.” Um but u you know, and it was it was just a gut pick is is all it was.
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Well, Alabama certainly has LSU’s number inside Tiger Stadium. And I uh Jacqu Duceay also when we had him on last week
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from WFP, he thought Alabama would win just because there were Alabama. We’ve seen this story before.
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And that quarterback was was dangerous, you know, and and he really beat him. Mhm.
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And and Blake, every every Blake Baker, every time you think he has that solved, it it crops up again, right?
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They his edge rushes were not as good as containing uh him as as they did uh Russell, as they did other quarterbacks, running quarterbacks this season.
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There’s just so many common themes with these losses that and this even goes back and I think this is where the frustration is at with um the three
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losses that you’ve had here and they go back to even the Brian Kelly era. Uh a weak offensive line, a Blake Baker
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defense that can’t get a key stop late in the game, right? Old Miss last year.
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Yeah. And heck, even even this year and Kentucky this year. No question. And then you’re up 13 to 10 as Lane says, and then you just give it right back.
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Yeah. And and you remember that’s happened that happens at all these losses.
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I think it was the uh I think it was the first possession of the Kentucky game.
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You remember where they busted that long run? Yes, you’re right.
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You know, they just have these strange lapses and then, you know, there was a uh one of Alabama’s touchdowns. Guy was
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all alone in the end zone. It was just a short pass and they probably would have scored anyway, but it was um there’s just strange lapses with Blake’s
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defenses here and there. Yet, you know, this year his overall stats are really good.
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Yeah, I I started getting a bad feeling about this game as I had LSU winning 2721, but I started having a bad feeling
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just thinking about it more and more um that the by-week came at a good time for Alabama. a chance for a lot of their
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players to get rested, right? They were more hurt than LSU.
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Yes. Yeah. And I know Lane has cried about not having the two number sevens on the field at the same time, but when you looked at the the availability
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report for Alabama, much more lengthy and much more critical players. But the fact that when that first availability report came out on Wednesday and they
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were all listed as questionable, I figured most of these guys are coming back and if LSU played him two weeks ago or played him a week ago, they would
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have a chance to beat him. But now that these guys are coming back, I also felt like Keelin Russell would learn something from his experience in
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Tennessee and playing in that hostile environment and it showed he was much more composed. Why can’t Sam Levit get
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to that point? I don’t know. Maybe it’s cuz the pressure is coming in in his face and he still can’t three and just rushing three and four guys.
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Yes, that was what was disturbing about the game too is that Alabama’s defense is not great. They they sure looked great
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the other night, but they’ve had some lapses throughout the season. And what’s scary is Tennessee’s defense and Texas’s defense is much is
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significantly better than Alabama’s up to this point. So, you know, the offense has its its work cut out for him and and
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yeah, you know, maybe maybe all those offensive linemen that Lane let go last year, maybe a couple of those guys would
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be better than a couple of the guys on this line.
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Mhm. What’s the problem here, Todd? Is it coaching? Is it talent? Is it Cookie
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and the fire extinguisher? What’s the issue? Well, I mean, you do you want you want to hear hot takes like Paul
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Finebomb and even Jarvis Landry and Leonard Fornette are giving and comparing the W of the program?
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No, we [laughter] want top takes. Takes.
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Well, th this LSU team matchup wise, even with Alabama at full strength, would probably
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be higher rated matchup wise than Alabama on a talent level. Well, a point spread reflects that.
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Yeah. And I would say that if they played 10 times, LSU would win the majority of them.
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Six or seven.
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Yeah, maybe even eight. Um, when you when you talk about how great when you talk about 18 [laughter] When you talk about how great the
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Alabama defense is, you have to consider that LSU ran up and down the field on them at will until they got into the red zone.
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Yeah. And that’s not great when you talk about how great Keelon Russell is and
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you talk about how productive the Alabama offense was. That doesn’t even hold water in when you watched the game.
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What you saw was LSU. What you watched Excuse me. I didn’t interrupt you one time while you were talking.
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Okay. Well, you’re getting some stuff wrong. No, I’m not. Yeah, you are.
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Well, write it down and let’s come back with it that way. I’ll remember it.
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Okay. Well, good luck. Um, they only had 28 285 yards. Yeah, which is nothing. Yeah, exactly.
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I know. And that’s my point.
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Score in the red zone and Russell was good in the red zone.
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Would you shut up? [laughter] All right. Was was Russell good in the red zone or was Al was LSU’s defense failing to execute?
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I was I would say probably a little of both. I would say that except for that one 25 yard pass
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on the first play after the punt return, it was LSU’s failure to execute. That was a great pass. Mhm.
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Now, but I still think LSU failed to execute on that. But LSU lost this game
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more so than Alabama won this game. And I’m not disrespecting Alabama or the job that Kalin Boore did because stopping
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LSU in the red zone, stopping LSU on fourth downs.
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All those things are a credit. Having a better special teams effort is a much is a big credit. Yep.
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Having um less failure to execute when it counted,
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out coaching LSU in the red zone, out scheming them for sure.
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Outing them planning them. Yeah, that’s to Alabama’s credit, but those are
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one game anomalies that in the long run wouldn’t pay off, but none of that matters. See, that’s what
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that’s what that’s what to me the knock on this program is right now, and you said it a minute ago, Jeff, and Glenn agreed with you.
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They don’t know how to close the deal.
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They simply do not know how to close the deal.
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Yeah. Three times. And yeah, they could be undefeated right now.
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And but you look at the score of the Alabama game and you go, “Oh my god, they got blown.” They didn’t get blown out.
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Well, they didn’t get blown out.
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Yeah, that there’s a little difference there because they started to not close the deal well much earlier against Alabama than they did against Kentucky.
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That’s why they did get blown out. the game was slipping away and even when they took a 13-10 lead, I don’t know if I still felt very comfortable.
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They lost the game on Levit’s interception.
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And I would say even not taking the points early on.
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Okay. Well, that that’s an argument, too. But think about Levit’s interception.
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Oh, it was huge. down 103 going into the half
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and throwing a pass, forcing a pass into somebody when you got Trey Wilson
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sitting here wide open with 15, 17 yards, the nearest defender to him. And how many times does that happen?
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Stuff like that. He misses the open guy.
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But but still, when they took the 13-10 lead, I I felt like they had a good chance of winning the game.
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Yeah. And they they they probably would have had they not completely busted a coverage for a 57
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yard gain. Then two plays later given up a third and nine because like you said the edge rushers were forgot how to
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contain. Um and then the the the touchdown with the wideopen tight end in
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the end zone. Um I don’t care if if if you say well that’s a player that’s not covering right. How can you blame Blake
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Baker? Well, maybe the reason the player wasn’t covering right is because LSU didn’t practice the right coverage in that type of situation. And maybe if you
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look at the stats, that tight end is not an effective weapon usually for Alabama in those types of situations and LSU was playing too much Tennessee. I don’t know
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the answers to all those questions, but I know when you hear Paul Finebomb and people go on the radio that night and the next day, not the radio, Twitter,
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the next night or that night and the next day and talk about how horrible this program is. If you compare
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the numbers to this program, to the program last year at this time, you can clearly see that this program has advanced a lot with 60 new players.
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I agree with that. It is Oh, yeah. the program’s in is in very good shape. You know, when people are saying, “Oh, well, this is a 90 million
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I mean 50 million roster or $40 million roster.” That’s a roster for next year, too. And really the year after. It’s not
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just for this year. People don’t seem to realize that. And a lot of the investment, they’re still going to be
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having it the next two years. And there’s, look, look at the two teams in the World Series, both low uh budget
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teams. And a lot of times the teams who spend the most money don’t always win.
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And Lane’s Old Miss team that he spent the most money on in 24 didn’t win till 25. And that’s just how it happens
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sometimes. And um I think yeah, the program’s in excellent shape. And Sam Levit’s not be a hot draft pick. So you
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got your starting quarterback for two years, maybe. the only Yeah, maybe. I think maybe because I don’t know that uh Lane Keifin or anybody on that staff
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right now would be willing to pay him the same salary next year to come back.
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But but is there a better guy that they can get out there and and you know that’s I think he goes shopping.
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Yeah. And and let’s not forget I mean he was Lane’s third choice. That’s why that’s why there was that uh little
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interruption when Lane when uh Sam was at the basketball game.
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Yeah. because of Desmond Washington, right? And before that, he wanted the quarterback who went to Texas Tech. All right, let’s take our first break.
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for a very long time. So, we got that to look forward to as we continue to break down what happened on Saturday night.
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It’s just the lack of winning plays is really what’s hurting this team. And I’ll say something that I I said fairly
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similar to after the Kentucky game. When you think about it, and I know everybody brings up the $40 million roster and how much they’ve spent on it,
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but it’s still a huge tall task to expect that when you completely
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uh turn over the entire program for this team to win at a very high level that following season or that first season.
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Now, what’s frustrating is is that they are oh so close that they if a play here or there they’re they’re got maybe only
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one loss or two losses or as you said earlier Todd maybe they’re undefeated.
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Well, I’d say they’d have one loss. Um, but the other thing too is that as I mentioned at the top of the show,
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the same issues that have been just hampering this program, poor offensive line, quarterback just not, and I guess
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maybe this is especially the last couple years with Nutser, quarterback just not good enough at times, poor special
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teams, defensive breakdowns at the at the wrong time. You have to and you could change out the players, you could
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change out the coaching staffs, you could change out the analysts, uh you could put a a basketball hoop on the sidelines and it all just keeps
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happening every single time in losses.
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Yeah. See, I against good teams. you touched on so many different aspects and I I I can’t I
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can’t operate that quickly. Um, as far as addressing every one of them, but I I want to focus on the spending for a second.
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We if we haven’t learned anything in college football, we should in this new era of college football, I think we
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should have learned by now that spending does not guarantee a championship.
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So, it doesn’t matter if we’re spending 45 million, right?
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Right. So, it doesn’t it does make roster or questions about roster construction, development, and coaching
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unavoidable, but it’s not an answer in and of itself. All right. If you’re going to spend $45 million, make sure
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you have an interior offensive line that can block.
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All right? If you’re going to if you’re going to spend $20 million and make sure you have an interior offensive line that
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can block a a what what is Kulie a thirdyear
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safety? He’s now played this is his third year, right? Second year at LSU.
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Yeah, I know. But it’s his third year of division one college football starting. Yeah.
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All right. How how do you how do you blow a coverage like that in that that situation? I don’t know the answer to that because I don’t know what was called. I don’t know if there was a
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miscommunication and I’m not willing to throw darts at the kid, but it certainly looked like from the eye test that he
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didn’t know what he was doing on that play and he was very late.
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Go ahead. I I think I was thinking about this yesterday. Blake Baker was at Louisiana Tech and he was at Missouri. They don’t
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have a lot of talent. I I think Blake is a little too complicated sometimes for his talent. I think he’s got enough
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talent now where he doesn’t he tries to do too many things. I think he tries to get too fancy and I think that’s why some guys might not know where they’re
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supposed to be at times. You know, the more the more talent you have sometimes the simpler you can play.
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Well, you know, if you go back to Kentucky on the first play of the game when they have an 80 yard run or a 79 yard run conversion.
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Yeah. I mean, it’s just there’s there again so many times the failure to execute and to me
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like I said earlier they can’t close a deal and that is coaching and that is something that has to be overcome
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in the film room in the tape room and on the practice field before you get there and that’s where Alabama was able to exe
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out execute LSU that’s where Kentucky in the in the crunch was able to out
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execute LSU they were out coached in both of those games.
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And that doesn’t mean that Lane Kein is not as good of a coach as Kayn Dbor or as whatever the guy’s name is. I can’t
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even remember it at Will Stein at Kentucky. It doesn’t mean that Kein is not as good of a coach. And it doesn’t mean because he has Kevin Cosner walking
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with him down Victory Hill that LSU is a rag tag trash program. All right. Yeah, people are jumping all over that.
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He and he he really had a good ex explanation for that. I mean, he’s it’s it’s recruiting. He said he said it’s all recruiting and and he he’s
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you I can understand you need those type of gimmicks at Old Miss, the the basketball hoop, the fire extinguisher, but do you need that really at LSU?
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Well, I mean, that’s who you hired. He He does it. He He He likes it. Um I I don’t think it really, like he said, I don’t think it has anything to do with
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winning and losing. It just aggravates people when they lose. you know that you didn’t hear anything about it when they were winning. I I don’t he he’s just
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really infatuated with the entire atmosphere of LSU and he’s trying to kind of capitalize on it and you know he may be
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laughing at us in a couple of years when when that turns into better recruiting and he he knows that he he can’t be
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bringing in you know 42 portal guys every year. uh he he knows he’s got to do it through the high schools and kind
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of pick and choose with the portal cuz the portal is is a used car lot that you know Sam Levit was the number one quarterback in the portal but he was far
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from the number one quarterback in the country when they got him and that and that happens almost every year.
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So so I think the the the fair qu All right all right how much time we go the 20 seconds. All right. So, the fair question is whether the program prepares and executes consistently.
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Uh, and is that enough to support the confidence it projects? Because I think that’s part of what the PR issue is is
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that LSU is acting like it’s projecting all this confidence and they’re not living up to it on the field.
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Going well, guys. How you doing this evening? Oh, we’re doing well. We’re doing well.
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This LSU defense statistically one of the best in the country, but uh it had it has not had its best performances
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when it’s been winning time. You know, you go back to the Old Miss game, LSU makes the furious comeback to get back in it to tie it and then Trinidad
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Chamblas marches them right down. They score. Uh Kentucky, you have the lead and then you you can’t hold on to that
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twice in regulation in overtime and then you take the lead late against Alabama in the third quarter and again you give
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it right back. What is it about those situations that you see, Derry, where this LSU defense just doesn’t come up and make the plays?
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I believe it’s just a it’s a personnel u thing they have going on right right now on defense. Obviously, you talked about
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statistically that these guys are top in the country and top in the SEC, but when you play these elite teams like the
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Alabama, Old Miss, and even I know George is not on their schedule, but when you play these teams that you have to beat to get to the level that you
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want to get to, that’s when personnel, I think, for this LSU defense is coming into play. You can get away with this
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against Auburn. You can get away with this against Mississippi State, but you can against these type of lead offenses because of the personnel. Meaning this
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obviously with the injuries to Whit Weeks, injuries to Deshawn Spears, that hurts the defense a lot because you don’t have backups that’s able to play
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at a high level. And so what you do, guys, you have to move guys from different positions. So Desan Spiels gets hurt. You have to move Tai Benfield
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to that star position. Well, he’s not used to that position. Alabama knows that. So, let’s put a slot receiver anti-benefit where he’s not able to
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cover him. And so, it’s it’s a personnel issue right now with LSU. It’s not so much just the talent. I think they’re having to put guys in different
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positions due to injury and these elite offenses are going to expose that and get guys in position that they’re not used to being in. Same thing with Devon
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Keys. You know, I talked about, you know, losing with Weeks is is huge because a guy like Devon Keys, yes, he is a thumper. He can go from tackle to
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tackle, but if you get him out in space, if you get a over route, he’s unable to run, diagnose, and read like the way Whit Weeks is, like Whit Weeks can. And
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so that’s the issue, guys. Not so much a scheme issue, it’s just the personnel that they have right now is kind of affecting them in these big time games.
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So Derek, applying that, what happened after LSU had taken the 13-10 lead late in the third quarter and Alabama comes
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out on the very first play and hits the 57 yard pass? I know what I thought I saw, but what did you see that
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structurally or e, you know, execution wise went went bad?
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A lot of times when when it happens, especially when you have a receiver wide open like that on defense, two things that come into play is your eyes and your technique. If your eyes are not in
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the right place, you you will get exposed in that situation. I know it was like a deep over route and I think the safety at the time Ty Coolage’s eyes wasn’t in the right position because
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they always tells defense don’t bite the cheese. So, a lot of times offenses will run another route to get you to bite, then it hit you over the top with the over route. And that was the issue that
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happened on the 57 yard catch and the completion to Alabama just because your eyes and your technique wasn’t keen to where it was supposed to be. And Alabama
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took advant Alabama took advantage of that. Kudos kudos to them. And obviously the quarterback Keon Russell didn’t turn the ball over. He he made the right
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decision at the right time and they were able to expose that expose that part. I saw an interview with Tai Benfield. is like what’s the issue? It’s like well if
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you watch football you’ll know what the issue is. So a lot of times, yes, it is a personnel. I think they have some personnel issues, but also I think we
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blame so much on coaching, you know, and what coaches have to do, but these guys are in positions to make plays. It’s sometimes the players are not just
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executing the way they’re supposed to execute to go out there and do and do their job. And and I think it was on the next two critical plays right after that
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57 yard pass that really showed because Russell escaped for the third and nine and then uh found the uncovered tight
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end for a touchdown right after that wide open alone in the end zone. That’s personnel.
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No, that’s that’s again that’s his eyes.
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That’s eyes and being disciplined in in your coverage. If you’re not disciplined and you’re not have your eyes in the right spot, you can’t you can’t make the
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right play. And I know Blake Baker does a lot of different things as far as zone coverage. But it comes to a point where
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when you try to play when you have guys when you play zone coverage, particularly at at the lineback position, you have to be able to play in space and move in space. You have to be
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able to read and diagnose extremely quick. Right now, they just don’t have the guys to do that. And so, I’m thinking about a guy like Devon Keys.
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I’m not picking on him. I do think he’s a good football player, but offenses are going to expose Devon Keys on third and long. They’re going to get him out in
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space. They’re going to get a slot receiver and they know they playing his own cover curvage. Fly receiver can find a zone and sit because he’s he can’t read and react the way with Reek’s hand.
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And right now, Blake Baker is not putting the extra DB on the field in his in Devon Keys position to kind of offset
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that. So, offenses know that. offense say, “Hey, if you going to keep the mind keys in on third long, we’re going to take advantage of that.” And and that’s what they’re doing.
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Talking to Derry Beck with here on Tiger Radio. Derry, how come Keon Russell was able to have success against LSU’s pass
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rush and get out of the pocket, whereas other dual threat quarterbacks this season LSU had a little more success against.
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I think for Keon, it’s all about for him the maturity level I think that he has.
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I know he’s a young guy. He’s a regular freshman. He’s his first year starting, but he had he’s a threat to throw the football and run the football. You talk
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about the guys that the&m the quarterback&m he kind of slipped.
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Marcel Reese. Yes. Marcel Reese can run with his feet, but also Marcel Reese has been a horrible thrower this year. Yeah. Byron Brown is not a good thrower.
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Yeah. Brian Bro, they can’t they cannot throw the ball at all. And so when you can’t throw the football and the defense knows that, they can put an extra guy in
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the box to stop a running quarterback. A guy like Keon Russell who’s a dual threat and can throw the football, you cannot put the extra guy in the box or
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maybe a spy because if you do that, he’s going to hurt you throwing the football.
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And so that’s why the success that Keon Russell has is because his ability to run the football and his ability to push the ball down the field and be extremely
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accurate as opposed to Marine Brown at Auburn.
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Yeah, LSU has dominated some putrid offenses. I mean Clemson was bad, Texas A&M was bad. Mississippi State without
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their top two guys. Uh Auburn once you took Byron Brown out of the game that was it. But the three times they’ve played offenses that have multiple weapons, they look average.
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You know what interests me though is that Marcel Reed at Texas A&M last year under a different coaching staff could
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pass the football. He and he had a better offensive line last year.
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So better wide receivers. There’s a one of those dudes is uh pretty freaking good.
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Conmption. He had two outstanding wide receivers last year. Right. Right.
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Yeah. So that that was that was part of it. But this year&M has none of that and LSU and he’s he’s been exposed and LSU
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took full advantage of and they have an offensive coordinator calling plays at Texas A&M that’s never called plays before.
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Yeah. Dary let me ask you does um you may have already answered this but so you don’t you don’t think really Blake
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needs to do anything differently as far as his um strategy and and so forth.
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That’s pretty sound. He’s just missing Whit Weeks and and Deshawn Spears.
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Yeah, it is. And I think obviously he can’t make a change. I think when you when you get in third long situations, he probably need to go to a dime package
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and bring an extra DB on the field and take Devon Keys out. Now, it’s give and take with that because if you do go down package and you take keys out and you
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put a a a corner in his position, you have the ability to to give a big run plays because a quarterback or nickelback may not be big enough to fit
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the run. But also, the flip side of it is when when a team does pass the ball, you have a corner who can actually you
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play against the pass. So, I think that’s one thing that he can probably adjust to. Probably play more man. Don’t play as much zone because again zone
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requires you reading and reacting. Play man, you know, you got this is your man and let’s go. Let’s go play ball. But
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it’s it LSU and I think fans need to realize it’s it’s the it’s the bigger picture. I know everybody talking about
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playoffs and and this and that, but I think with this whole NIL era and and how Lane Kiss structures his team, this
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is not Old Miss anymore. And when I say that is this, he can be the transfer porter king at Old Miss and have an overhaul of players every single year
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and win nine games and is great. You can’t do that LSU. You can’t have a overhaul roster every single year and
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expect to go out there and be successful. LSU has to get back, guys, at recruiting high school talent at a high level. I’m talking about a bunch of
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four and five stars. And also, the fan base and administration has to be patient with that because the issue with the transfer quarter, you have one
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injury, you don’t have a four or five star guard who’s been there two years, who’s hungry and can play. This is why Georgia is so elite and this is why
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Georgia is so consistent year after year because they they’re not portal heavy.
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They have a bunch of four and five star guys who’s been there who’s been there two years and when they get their turn they can play. If we get a guy get hurt right now, we don’t have a backup.
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So that’s an issue. And it’s not about winning championships every year. It’s not I I know that’s impossible, but being consistent and being a
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championship run every year is what is what you want and give yourself a chance. The only way you’re going to do that, you have to get back to building a foundation, recruiting four and five
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stars. did dab in the portal just a little bit and when you do that you build depth has no depth right now and that’s the issue that you’re seeing both
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offense and defense so Dary are you saying that at an old miss you can be a one hit wonder uh if everything works for you well in a
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transfer portal and people don’t get hurt etc but you can’t do that at LSU or Georgia if you want to build a solid consistent program is that what you’re
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saying you yeah you just can’t you can’t do that in general I know people looking at Indiana last year like Indiana got lucky. L Kisser said it this year. I was
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I was actually at a conference that he spoke at and he said with the transfer port they either going to get lucky or they’re not going to get lucky. He said last year that’s what happened.
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Yeah. Old Miss he said he he said oh miss they got lucky last year.
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He said that team two years ago with Jackson Dart and you know they had they had elite receiver that was a team to go to the playoffs. What happened? They didn’t. Well trend Chamblas nobody knew
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how good he was and they got lucky last year. Now Miss is probably not gonna be a playoff pitcher this year. You have to get back to the basics. Get away from
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what everybody else is doing. Start recruiting these high school kids, developing them, and ha have and have patience and making sure that you have
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people and have depth and have guys that that’s hungry and that wants to go to LSU and wants to play for LSU because you get these guys that transferring in all the time. They really have no
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legions to LSU. They want a quick payday and look, they may be gone the next year and that’s not sustainable right now in college football in my opinion. The
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other thing that Lane said about last year’s Old Miss team is they did not have the injury issues. They were relatively healthy and that allowed them
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to obviously have as much success as they did. Let’s uh take a break. Derek, could you hold on for another segment? Yes, I sure can.
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All right, Derek back with [laughter] two-minute break here, Derry. We’ll be back after this here on Tiger Rag Radio.
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And we’re back with Tiger Rag Radio.
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio. Jeff Palmo along with Todd Horn, Gwen Gilbo, Case Kishnik, our guest for another segment here, Derek Beck with former LSU Tiger.
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I believe Case had a question, Case, or did we uh get to it?
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Yeah, Derry, I was just going to ask going back to the Alabama game. It really seemed like, especially early in the game, there were times the defense just didn’t know what was going on pre-
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snap. He saw TJ Doy running around and grabbing guys and pulling them into position, and it just seemed like there was a lack of communication. Ty Benfield
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kind of referred to that after the game, too. I’d guess two parts here. Was that your take away from that as well? And how big of a difference will there be if
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there is like a week with weeks back in the lineup with the green dot the to your to your answer your first
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question? Yes. Um anytime you on defense and you don’t have you lack communication, if you lack communication, then you’re not going to
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know know what to line up at. One thing I look for for elite defenses, if I don’t see people talking and I don’t see people communicating, I know that’s
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that’s the issue. Just like on a basketball court, if you don’t see your team defensively, communicating, letting know where the pick is coming or or this guy’s cutting, then you’re not going to
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be good defensively. I need all 11 guys, especially those back those back those back guys, linebackers and safeties and quarterbacks. They need to be
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communicating. If they’re not talking, then that’s an issue. And so, you did see that in this game where you, like you said, you had TJ Do trying to pull
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people over. Hey, look, that can go to a lack of lack of focus or whatever it may be, but you had a by-week as well. So, that was probably the most disappointing
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thing that you had a bye-week to prepare for Alabama. And at this point in the season, Alabama is not going to reinvent their offense, guys. They may have uh uh
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certain formations in in in a different way, but they’re not going to reinvent their routes all of a sudden here in November. So, that is disappointing to
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have to have a have a by week when it came to that. So then to your second question, having a Whit Weeks in there, even if he’s not 100%, it does so much
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to defense because of the alpha mentality that he has and how he galvanizes guys around them. Wit Weekes
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can be out there on one leg, but I assure you the defense will play at much higher level because of his leadership leadership skills, his leadership
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ability, and his his his ability to communicate. And TJ D may not be used to calling plays. You know, that was weak
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week’s job. So now see the daughter’s in in that role to when he gets the green dot he has to call the plays he has to be able to communicate that that’s something he’s probably he can do he’s
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capable of doing it he’s not used to doing it when you have a guy like Wick Reeds who has the experience of playing that position and communicating getting the plays across getting the players in
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a timely manner being able to uh effectively communicate that helps the defense on the whole so we’ll see if she comes back um look I hope he does I
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don’t want to rush it just for his sis career sake but if she does I I I do think they will make a difference for this defense because they have a tough tough task against this Texas offense.
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So Derry, uh I want to flip the flip the field, but from a defensive perspective, I want you to tell us this. Alabama was
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able to successfully stop LSU all night long in the red zone and deep in their territory just outside the red zone.
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Lane Keifin said it was because they were doing things they had not done all year uncharacteristically aggressive and
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you either got to make them pay or you’re going to get you’re going to get creamed in that type of situation paraphrasing him from a defensive
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perspective. What was Alabama doing and why couldn’t LSU adjust to it after seeing it at least one or two times down the field?
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Yeah, I don’t agree with the part about what Ke said about Alabama defense not being aggressive. I No, he said they were aggressive. He said they were aggressive. He said they were more aggressive than they had been.
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They they changed some stuff open week.
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That part I don’t that part I don’t agree with because I but Ke because I’ve seen Alabama and they lead the country in turnovers because they are aggressive and so they they take a lot of chance
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and take a lot of risk. So I think by him saying he’s protecting well he’s protecting the elephant in the room. The elephant in the room guys, he doesn’t
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have a quarterback who goes through his progressions. He doesn’t have a quarterback who goes through his reads.
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And so anytime to his point now to his point when you do have a a team that that’s blitzing a lot especially in the red zone, you have to make them pay. You
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can’t have happy feet. I feel like Sam Levit um they they talk about a quarterback sometimes having ants um in his feet and they’re biting him and he
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just he just run around and he just he doesn’t [laughter] fit in the pocket.
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And that’s what’s happened with with with Sam Levit. And it’s disappointing because you you talking about a guy who has experience playing the quarterback
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position and so sometimes he’s running around just throw it away. He takes sacks that’s unnecessary. He’s thrown into triple coverage. That one he had
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interception. He was throwing Trey Green in triple coverage and he had I think uh Jackson Harris just wide open over the
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middle. Just hit the just take take the easy route. It’s like he’s trying to force things and do things that he doesn’t have to do. And that’s the
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elephant in the room. If Sam Levit doesn’t get better, then his offense is going to continue not to score in the red zone because the field shortens and
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your play calling has to change. Yeah, you can move the ball down the field all day long, but the the object of the game is what, guys? Get the ball across the
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white line. That’s that’s it. And that’s something they um effectively have have not been able to do particularly all season long in the red zone.
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The the book is certainly out. If you get in this guy’s face, he’s going to make some bad decisions. And Auburn, Mississippi State, all these games where
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he was completing all these passes and making it look so easy, [clears throat] none of them were putting pressure on him. Well, and and to your point, the book is is also out on how to get in this phase.
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Yes.
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How about having and the interior offensive line? I mean, that that’s great that Alabama, you know, that Alabama’s going to bring the pressure,
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but if you don’t have an interior offensive line that could stop it, then well, you got you saw what happened. So,
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and and also they struggle with physical defenses. So, you know, Alabama is is extremely physical. For to forget the rankings, forget where they rank
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statistically. If you have a defense that’s physical and fast, they’re going to make plays. And and that’s something that they I think they struggle with is physical defenses. And on the flip side,
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back to my side of the field, our defense, yes, it is better, but we’re still not physical. I still don’t think we strike fear in people. You saw the
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linebacker Mets, how he laid Sam Le out flat with it.
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That’s the type of That’s the type of things we have to do defensively. Get back to being physical and letting people know to think twice when they run the football or think twice when they
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come across the middle. We have to get back to that physicality.
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Derry, thanks a lot for your time tonight, man. We appreciate it. Go charge up that phone. I really [laughter] do. Appreciate.
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All right, the great Derek Beck with awesome analysis here as always on Tiger Rag Radio. We’ll take a break, wrap up hour number one after this.
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Now, more Tiger Rag Radio. Hey, we’re wrapping up hour number one.
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Just only got a few seconds here. Great interview there with Derry Beckwith. And if uh you missed it and you’re just joining us and want to listen back to it, um you’re in luck. All of our shows
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Coming up in hour number two, Garland Gillan from Fox 8. He’ll join us. We’ll also hear from Kirk Bowls as well as he’ll talk about the Texas Longhorns as
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um LSU and Texas 6:30 inside Tiger Stadium. Hard to believe it’s the home finale already went flying by. And of
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course, your last two games are are on the road. The LSU Tennessee game will be at 2:30. The we do not have uh tonight
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we will not be able to discuss the college football playoff rankings. They do not come out tonight until 8:00 when our show is off the air. So, Georgia
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will be number one. [laughter] Georgia will be number one. And Alabama will be in the top four.
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Either three or four, I think.
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Well, you’re going to have Miami in there. You’re going to have Utah probably. So, Alabama should Alabama should be five or better this week, but
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just cuz they beat LSU doesn’t mean that they should have been five last week.
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Yeah, but watch Notre Dame go from 11 to three or something like that.
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Let’s take a break. We’ll be back after this.
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