Tiger Rag breaks down the big clash between LSU and Alabama in Tiger Stadium on Saturday. Mark Heim of AL.com and WNSP radio in Mobile, Alabama, gives the scouting report on the Crimson Tide in year three under head coach Kalen DeBoer, and Charles Hanagriff with 104.5 ESPN radio in Baton Rouge joins the show to analyze the matchup from the Tigers’ perspective.
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Welcome to hour number two of Tiger Rag Radio. Jeff Polalmo, news and sports director of Louisiana Radio Network, along with the executive editor for
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Tiger Rag magazine, Todd Horn, and Case Kishnik. Coming up a little bit later on in this hour, we’ll hear from Charles Hannigri from ESPN 1045 and 1049. We’ll
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talk with him about this big LSU Alabama matchup and talk about the season in general for the Tigers who are ranked 14th in the college football playoff
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rankings. LSU will be taking on Alabama who’s number five in the CFP. And here to talk more about the Crimson Tide,
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it’s Mark Heim from WNSP radio in Mobile. Mark, thanks a lot for joining us on Tiger Rag Radio. How you doing tonight,
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man? Doing well. I guess not as well as Alabama. How crazy is that? They’re number five in that first ranking. That’s wild. I guess I guess it shocked you, huh?
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[laughter]
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Yeah, I think everybody I mean you never know what you’re going to get with these, especially week one, but that that I did not see that coming at all.
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I’m sure folks in the state are thrilled, but it just uh doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me, but I mean, that’s kind of college football this year, right?
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No doubt about it. I mean, if they lose this game against LSU, are they really going to fall? Because when you look at it, we all know who Alabama plays after
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LSU. It’s it’s not a very difficult road. Uh Vanderbilt, Chattanooga, and Auburn. So if I mean if if Alabama loses
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to LSU, I mean are they really gonna fall six, seven spots out of the whole thing? I mean the way they the way they graded to the
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Hooers and their non-conference opponent, anything’s possible at this point. But no, they they should this is it. I I can’t imagine a three loss
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Alabama team making the playoff unless there’s just some wild chaotic end to this season. Well, we talked about on our show, uh, SEC teams most likely to
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get in with three losses. And I think at this point, I think you can look at Texas and potentially even LSU with the way they’re playing. After that, it’s
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it’s kind of a crapshoot. I don’t see how Alabama gets in with with a third loss, especially uh the way they lost the the two straight. I just And they
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had to come back and rally against&m. Uh this is a team that just on their best day like a lot of the guy like a lot of the teams guys probably can beat anybody
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on any given day, but they are not consistent in a lot of different areas.
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So yeah, this is this is must-win uh time for for Alabama. No doubt.
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Mark, has it been the inconsistency? Is it mostly injuries or is it just they’re just inconsistent?
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Well, I think Kaylin Dbor would like like you to think it was the injuries and they they have been devastated with injuries, right? So Ryan Coleman Williams has been out. The real the the
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real tough one for for the Alabama offense has been their center Rayson Delgotti. They’ve had to shift the offensive line completely and it’s shown
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EJ Corell is Corell is the the freshman running back obviously that uh that it really has a tremendous upside but he’s been injured. Uh their cornerbacks and uh and their secondary been decimated.
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Uh Terrence Green on the defense the defensive tackle has been out. Kaylin Debor very cryptic about whether or not any of those guys would be back. I would expect to see some of them at some point
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I would think against against LSU. I I think to to your question, I I I think in some games they especially early in
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the season, they’ve started incredibly slow even when healthy, which has really been a detriment. And uh Kane Wax’s defense has been feast or famine. They
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have, I think, five pick sixes this year. So, they’re very opportunistic, but man, they give up chunks of yards at a time. And so, yes, I think to answer
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your question, it’s a little bit of both. Uh but I think right now, more than anything, it’s the domino effect that the injuries have had along that offensive line. So, and their rushing
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game, I mean, they started out the year almost gang busters running the football. Uh, 279 yards against Florida State, I believe. They had, you know,
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150 160 against Georgia. Uh, they they were running the ball really well for the first six games and then then 54
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yards against Tennessee and 68 against Texas A&M. You’re not going to beat anybody hardly doing that.
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No, but I mean, to be fair, no, Grant, you’re you’re absolutely right. and Alabama’s got to be better against Tennessee in the in the rushing game, but Tennessee’s got a just a monster
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front seven. So, uh I don’t I don’t want to give anybody a pass there, but at least I can understand that against Texas&M didn’t make any sense. And to
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your point, I think Delgotti’s been out, the center’s been out for a couple weeks now, and I think that’s when you start to see that shift. Also, fans not thrilled with Ryan Grub. Raise your hand
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if you ever heard this. Fans not happy with the offensive play calling. I never heard that.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Never heard that, I’m sure. So yeah, I and you know, look, they have an incredibly talented quarterback in Fel and Russell. Uh but
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he’s also very young, so you’ll see him make some of these outstanding plays. He made a a play that was just like I can’t even describe it to you against&m where
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they probably should have blown the the the the play dead. They let him keep going. He got out [clears throat] of traffic, he got out of trouble, he’s rolling right, he’s running, he throws
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one, it gets picked off. It’s like he makes his un like it was a microcosm of Keelin Russell in a nutshell in one play. It was the very best of him. It was the very worst of it. When he’s
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good, he is tremendous. He is outstanding. He is a lot of fun to watch. He’s going to be a premier player, but he is so very young and
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tends to make mistakes and has to remind himself every once in a while to throw the ball away. And usually the reminder comes in the form of an interception or a fumble. So, um, a little turnover
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prone. So, I I think uh I think Alabama’s got their hands full this weekend.
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Talking with Mark Heim from WNSP radio in Mobile. I’m glad you were bringing up Keelin Russell because that’s my next question. What lessons do you think he
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learned from playing in a hostile environment at Tennessee that can help him on Saturday afternoon in Death Valley?
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Well, I think it’s just experience and reps in those type of situations, right?
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I know Lane Kein’s kind of calling out all LSU fans. Uh, you know, do everything four hours earlier than you normally would, which is obviously a thought at the kickoff time. We get it.
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But, uh, but yeah, just reps and experience. He he’s getting better every time he goes out on the field. The
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problem is he’s finding uh there’s new challenges every day. So yes, I think LSU is going to he’s going to experience at least in the second half of the game
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nighttime in Tiger Stadium and he’s going to see uh and Lane Kein wants this one bad. He’s look I it’s my opinion
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that the worst LSU’s biggest hurdle sometimes is Lane Kein when it comes to Alabama. He wants to beat Alabama so
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bad. I think at Miss I think it actually cost him some games. I think he kind of treats it like a Super Bowl and gets everybody all jacked up and get your popcorn ready and all that and these
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guys just they didn’t go out and perform and they weren’t really kind of playing lane ball. So, I’m curious to see how he’s going to handle this week because he’s always got Alabama on the mind. But
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to your point, Kean Russell’s a special player, but he I’m thinking uh he’s not going to see anything like he’s going to see in Tiger Stadium this weekend. I
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will say his Monday press conference it was the sedate lowkey I don’t know if there was something bothering him or is
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it just that he’s focusing in knowing what’s lying ahead for LSU in these three difficult tough games. I’m not
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exactly sure but it was noticeably different. He was noticeably different in that Monday press conference. Now that might mean nothing on Saturday. I
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don’t know. But at least on for that 25 minutes that we saw him, he he did seem like he was a different lane Keith.
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Yeah, I don’t I I’m assuming that means that’s a good thing. I don’t know. I feel like he always pops off when maybe
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he’s trying to misdirect or mislead or at least take attention away from any glaring errors that might be uh showing themselves with their with his team. Uh
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that was kind of a little of a Nick Sabin trait back in the day. He would try to But I don’t know. I if I’m Lane Kein, I feel pretty good about my chances. I know it’s Alabama. I know
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it’s LSU, but I I’m I’m telling you guys anything you don’t already know, but LSU is certainly turning in the right direction over the last couple weeks.
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Sticking with uh Russell in the offensive line there. He’s been sacked 22 times this season. That’s third most of any quarterback in the SEC. LSU, of
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course, has been known for getting to the quarterback. They’ve got Princewell and Jordan Ross coming off the edge. How do you think those uh those Alabama tackles stack up against the uh the LSU
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pass rushing? Do you think that maybe uh Keelin’s contributing to the to that sack number at all a little bit with his inexperience? No, no question. I I think there are times
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where he tries to make something out of nothing instead of just eating it. I think he probably tries to sit in the pocket too much. In fact, I’d like to see him do uh uh you know, some more
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quarterback designed runs. I know there’s the the downside of that is, you know, having your quarterback exposed out there, but yes, the again I I
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mentioned it before, I’ll mention it again. They had to shuffle that line with Racing Delgotti out. Uh so with Delgotti back and I don’t know if he’ll be back. I guess we’ll find out in the
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latest injury report unless Dbor goes all lane Kein and says everybody’s out.
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I I don’t know how we’re going I don’t know what we’re going to do there, but that’ll get everybody back to their normal position. So I think I think they’ll be as healthy as um as they’ve
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been in the next couple in the last couple weeks. So I expect them to get the ball out of his hands quicker. I also think Ryan Coleman Williams if he’s
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back will certainly help. They have some very capable receivers, but you can’t deny the attention that Coleman Williams
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uh catches when uh from from other defense. So that from opposing defense.
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So I think that’s going to open up some uh passing ways for other the other receivers who quite frankly just haven’t really made up for the lack of his presence.
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Mark, you mentioned something earlier.
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You talked about Alabama secondary being a little bit uh having some holes in it.
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uh given up a lot of yardage this year being a you know five interceptions return for touchdowns but other than that given up a lot of lot of yardage a lot of ground.
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Do you think that Tradez Green is going to be containable for that defense or does he present such
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a challenge that it’s just going to open up more holes in the not just the secondary but also the you know the second level the linebackers etc.
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Yeah. Yeah. No, I I think he’s a I think he’s a matchup problem for anybody.
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Guy’s just a freaking nightmare. Uh and yes, so I think he’s absolutely going to cause some problems. I I don’t know if they have anybody back there that can
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match up with that just your size. So the idea would be uh to get to Levit um and and get to him quick and bring
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pressure, make him get rid of the ball quicker. Uh that that again that defense, it’s it’s really bizarre. I can’t really put my finger on it because when they’re good, they’re they’re
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outstanding. But man, they’ve given up a ton of yards. Um, in that secondary, um, you know, there was a lot of talk about
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Kane like Kane Wak used to likes to run a lot of zone. David’s kind of been in his ear about running a little more, man. Um, so I I think he’s kind of
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conflicted right now. I think there’s something he wants to do and I think there’s something he feels like he should be doing. Uh, it it’s, as you
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guys know, Staven’s got a very long shadow in Tuscaloosa these days. I mean, his office is still in the football building. Kane says all the right things
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about how he’s always very helpful and always very welcomed out there and Nick says all the right things about how he doesn’t want to, you know, uh, stick his nose where it doesn’t belong. But at the
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end of the day, absolutely. I think the way Sam Levit’s playing, that passing game, I think, uh, I think LSU’s offense is clicking like it we haven’t seen quite frankly since the beginning of the
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season against what we thought was going to be a good Clemson team. So, we didn’t I don’t think gave LSU enough credit back then, but clearly this team has started moving the ball again and uh,
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Lane’s got it going on. Do you see anywhere where Alabama has an advantage over LSU or what what
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can LA what can Alabama really rely on in this game on Saturday? Well, look, when the uh so I it’s going to sound
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like double talk and like I’m contradicting myself, but I think if Keon Russell can can get rid of the ball and make good decisions and if it I feel
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like if they can start running the ball a little bit now, whether they use the pass to set up the run or vice versa, uh as long as they can stay balanced, stay
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ahead of the sticks and convert on third downs. There have been some games where they’ve been great on third downs and there have been others where they’ve just they can they just can’t convert,
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they can’t move the sticks. Um, I don’t know if this team is great uh when they get down in a hostile environment. We’ve
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seen them come back in situations they can be very explosive, but again, that was with Ryan Coleman Williams in the in the in the lineup. That’s with your full
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uh uh offensive line available and that’s with your running backs coming in and out uh giving each other breaks. So, um they have the they have the ability
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to be explosive. And I don’t want I don’t mean to think I don’t I don’t mean to think that that Alabama can’t win this game. Alabama could very easily win
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this game. I just don’t like the way things are trending right now. That line has moved. I think it started I think it opened at like three and a half and it got bumped up to like five and a half
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within two days. Um so I Yeah, I I think if I had to pick and we pick at the end of the week on our show, I’m leaning toward picking LSU. It would not surprise me if Alabama won the game.
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Mark Keifin has already kind of compared this Alabama team to the the Alabama teams of the past, at least the defense with its length and athleticism and and
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the skill positions and their explosiveness. Do you think that that’s a fair comparison or is he kind of reaching on that one?
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Uh, no. I think this is the most talented from a roster standpoint that Kayn Dbor has had uh since being at
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Alabama. Uh, I think he’s finally got the quarterback he needs in order to be successful. Uh the fact that the it was
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really coaching malpractice last year in their inability to run the ball. I mean, we talked about the game against Tennessee, but that was all season. You saw what happened against Indiana in the
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college football. They just couldn’t how a team in any conference, much less the SEC can’t line up and get a yard or two yards on a consistent basis was the most
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baffling thing I’ve seen in college football in a long time with Alabama last year. With that said, they are certainly better this year. Now, I think
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people romanticize the end of the savings uh legacy in Tuscaloosa. Yes, they got to the College Football Playoff and they were really good, but a lot of
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penalties. Uh they weren’t very balanced. Uh I feel like they fought for everything they earned, whereas there there were times in Staven’s tenure
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where they would just kind of walk in and and win the games in in walk in warm-ups. So, I think we romanticize the end of it a little bit, but to your
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point, no, this is Kayla Dor’s uh most talented team. Now, whether or not they can get it done Saturday night, still another question to be uh to be answered.
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Mark, you talked about Lane Keifin earlier and you’ve you know, you’ve alluded to him in various parts of your discussion with us so far. Were you
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there when he was the offensive coordinator at Alabama for Sabin?
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Yeah. I mean, we covered him for sure. I love Lane, by the way. I mean, I don’t know if I’d want him to coach my team, but I love him. I think he’s [laughter] great.
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What What exactly what do you think is great about him? and and why would you not want him coaching your team?
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Well, I just think he’s uh I think he’s great for the game. I think he’s I think we’ve seen him kind of grow up in front of our eyes, you know, from from his
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days at Tennessee and USC and the tarmac and and calling out Florida and then having it out with Sabin and just
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learning his place. But also, I think he’s matured a lot. But there’s something about Lane, man. There’s like he can’t help but just stir the pot. I I
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don’t know what it is. um you know, with everything that you guys have gone through in the offseason with the the former professional players and taking
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shots at the SEC for for kickoff times, like uh after a while, I would think as as a fan of a team, you just want your
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guys to go out and do some winning and and leave all the other stuff for for the talking heads. But he he’s just a treasure trove for content, I guess, is
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why I love him. Like I’ve I’ve said I’ve done radio for a long time. I know you guys have, too. Like I I don’t I don’t care who wins or loses games. Just just give me storyline. Yeah.
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Like give me something to talk about.
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And Lane Tiffen is exhibit A. Like I’d rather it’s great when your team that you’re covering goes undefeated. Uh but after
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about the seventh or eighth game, you kind of walk in and what are you talking about? Yeah. We only won by 20, right?
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[laughter] Give me a coordinator that gets fired in the middle of the year and now we’re coming up with a coaching list. Now we got something to talk about. Yeah. I get you. I get you. Yep. Nope.
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It’s been non-stop uh for the last year since Brian Kelly’s been showing the door. It’s been uh there has not been a a quiet moment since then. Mark, thanks
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a lot for your time, man. We really appreciate it.
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Yeah, I want to let you know, by the way, anytime. I enjoyed it. But you guys you guys have it going on over there with Will Wade and Lane Tiffen.
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[laughter] God, you guys hit the jackpot. If we could kill Moy, too.
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Yeah, don’t forget in a pretty good baseball program, too. Even though it didn’t do very well last year.
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Yeah. Never never dull moment uh over there, guys. Uh enjoy it. Enjoy it while it last.
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Yeah. No, I I I think we all recognize how uh lucky we are as far as in the media because it is it’s been non-stop
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content. Thanks a lot, man. We appreciate it. We’ll have you on again. Absolutely enjoyed it. Thanks, guys.
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All right, Mark from WNSP Radio and Mobile. We’ll take a break. More of Tiger Rag Radio when we come back.
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Now, back to Tiger Rag Radio. Continuing on with Tiger Rag Radio, Jeff Polmo, news and sports director of Louisiana
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Radio Network, Todd Horn and Case Kishnik. Let’s hear a little bit from the Alabama coordinators. First of all, with the defensive coordinator Kane WAC talking about defending Tradez Green.
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Anytime you have big targets, right, they have a large catch radius. A guy like him that can run on top of it, I mean, present a number of challenges.
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And then just the way college football and the NFL work in terms of some guys know how to use tight end personnels and certainly this offensive staff. They’ve
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had a number of guys that are really good players in in the past right at the tight end position and and this guy’s second to none in that regard. And so
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he’ll create a number of issues for us that we’re going to have to find ways to match up and how we attack a big body and man, how we play them in zone from a
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bracket standpoint as well. Whoever they want to feature, right? you have to find ways to be able to creatively attack them in zone and man and and and pressure goes along with those things.
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And so we’ll we’ll have our our answers geared up if the game starts to lean that way.
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That was Kane Wac, Alabama defensive coordinator talking about defending trade as Green. Yeah, getting pressure on Sam Levit. That’s one way to try to
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minimize Green’s presence. You would think that he is much more even more healthier than what we saw in the Auburn
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game and he had a impact in the Auburn game and now you give him a couple more weeks he should be even that be he should be that much better uh going up against Alabama this Saturday.
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Let’s take a look or let’s hear a little bit here from Ryan Grub now on Alabama’s run game. The last couple weeks or the last couple of games they have failed to
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rush for 100 yards. Yeah, going up against Tennessee, that’s one of the best defenses in the country. So, you can understand why they might have had
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an issue there, but not really run the ball very well against Texas A&M, and that’s an Aggies defense that’s not all that great. Here’s what Ryan Grub had to say about it.
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I think just like any week, you got to run discipline or run physical. And what I mean by that is, you know, don’t pass on the four-yard run against a defense
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like this. If there’s a crack there, we got to take it. We can’t be greedy and and think about what if I bounce this one. You just got to follow their rules, be disciplined, and you know, run
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aggressively and and with belief. And I I believe our guys can run the football on these guys. I think we’ve run against some good fronts this season. So, for
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us, it’s just going to be staying disciplined in the read, keeping the ball moving forward, and then, you know, be patient for the big one.
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Getting their starting center back, I think, would be helpful. I know he doesn’t grade out very well with Pro Football Focus, but it sounds like since he’s been out, they haven’t been the
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same team running the ball. And then the physicality, that was what was missing out of that Alabama ground game a year ago. And you brought it up there a
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little bit as far as having to be physical here, too. So, trying to find that trait. We’ll see if uh they’ll be able to bring it on Saturday against LSU.
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We talked about it a little bit with Mark, but um Alabama was actually averaging 152 rushing yards per game
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before uh Delgotti went out. And in those two games without him, he sorry, 182 yards per game. in those two games
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without him, 61 yards per game. If they were to to stay on that 182 yard per game mark, they’d actually be right behind LSU in the SEC at fifth in rushing offense.
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So, yeah, we’ll see if they’re uh especially if they can get some of these guys back from the injury, you know, from the by-week as far as the injuries
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go. I mean, Lane has been very vocal about the injuries that have impacted LSU. There’s no doubt Alabama has certainly had their fair share of
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injuries, too. When we come back, Charles Hannah Griff from ESPN 1045. He’ll join us here on Tiger Rag Radio.
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We now return to Tiger Rag Radio.
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio, Jeff Warl along with the executive editor for Tiger Rag magazine, Todd Horn and Case Kishnik. And again, if uh you’ve missed
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any of the show previously, had a really good scouting report on the Alabama Crimson Tide from Markheim from WNSP radio. We also heard from Jacques Duceay
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earlier as well. If you missed any of that, you can catch us anywhere you get your podcast. Also, the show gets uploaded to YouTube as well. One of the
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familiar voices when it comes to Louisiana sports and talk radio in Baton Rouge, Charles Hannigri joins us now
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from ESPN 1045 and 1049. Him and Jimmy break it down every day from 11 to 1:00.
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Charlie, thanks a lot for joining us. How you doing tonight? Doing great, guys. Good to be with you.
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Well, good to have you on. How do you think uh this team has changed since that tough loss against Kentucky? And
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when you go back to that fourth and one that Lane Keifin didn’t go for it, how much do you think that play were just is
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going to be a bit of a turning point for this season? Maybe one way or the other.
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Well, I think you’d like to have it back for sure. Um, I think it goes back a little bit further than that to where this team started to change. And I think
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offensively it started to change when they lost Tyz Green. It forced and and of course that corresponded also with
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the injury to Sam Levit’s hamstring. It forced a couple things with the offense.
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It forced Levit to stay a little bit more stationary, a little bit more in the pocket, and it forced other receivers to step up. There were going
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to be more targets. Green’s targets were not going to go to Zack Grace. So, they were waiting for a receiver or two to step up and that’s really happened with
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Jackson Harris. Also, it got Dylan Jones involved in the passing game. And in my opinion, Jones is is the most valuable
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player on this team through eight games because they can run the offense no matter what they want to do with him.
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He’s a very good running back. He’s a very good receiver. He’s a very good blocker. He doesn’t put the ball on the ground. everything he does seems to be a
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net positive. And when Green’s targets went down, Jones’s targets went up. So, they were diversifying offensively once Green got out of there and Levit’s
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injury took hold. Now that they have Green back, it makes them even more difficult to defend. On the other side, I think the changes really started when
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when Weeks went out and to a bigger extent Deshaawn Spears because that forced them to move Tai Benfield down.
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it forced him Jayce Thomas into the lineup. I think they’ve done a really good job with that. So those two things
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I think you know the the way they have adapted to those two key injuries didn’t happen in one game but I think it’s made
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them a better football team and now they have Green back and well we’ll see if they ever get weeks back but I think they’re much better now because of it.
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Charles, on offense, LSU has, as you mentioned, with Harrison and Green especially, they have a number of ways and a number of places where they can
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attack Alabama’s coverage. But my question and my question for you is, can can LSU’s protection, especially the
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interior, hold up long enough, or will Kevin have to sacrifice some of those receiving options to help his blockers?
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Well, you know, they don’t really do a whole lot of things that require them to to to get into a deep drop and, you
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know, hold a protection for four plus seconds. If they find that’s a problem, the quick game really works. Again, we
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we talk about Jones um and I think Trey Green uh as well. And the idea that if
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you do drop back, Lev is capable of escaping a lot of this pressure. I’m interested to see how many design runs
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they have for him on Saturday because with the injury that kind of really reduced in in the last few games.
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Doesn’t mean that he can’t do it. And he said today, you know, he’s back to 100%.
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So, I don’t know that they’re going to have to rely very much on a lot of deep drops and a 4 second protection. And if
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they do and they find out they can’t do it, they they can adjust to that pretty quick. So, let’s talk about the running game aside from Levit, which I agree
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with you. They’re going to have more designed runs for him because he is supposedly 100% like he said today, but
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does LSU need more from its running game than it’s been getting on Saturday?
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If you’re talking about a traditional run game where they just line up and power it at people, I’d like to see that, but I’m not confident that you’ll
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get that. And I’m going to go back to the Old Miss game on that. Miss has got the worst rush defense in the conference. They’re really the only
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conference team that Alabama’s been able to run the football right at. And LSU really couldn’t do it that day either.
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It’s more of a creative run game. It gets Jones to corners. It involves
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pulling linemen. Uh it even gets on the the receivers, the jet sweeps, things like that. And then of course the
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quarterback running. um if you’re waiting for them to be able to line up and just power people, I don’t think
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they’ve got a an interior offensive line that’s capable of that.
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So, we were charting it. I was this morning in case was a little bit and the they’ve been, you know, when you really
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get down to the nuts and bolts, they’ve been pretty good with their uh gap and man runs, but their zone runs, which
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they run mostly or had run mostly, they’re not getting anything. So, when you get in those third and twos, like you were just talking about, there’s no
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way they’re going to have a a real good opportunity to get those. And I think they they may need some of that against Alabama this week.
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I I don’t think third and twos are running down for them unless it’s with the quarterback to be honest with you.
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And you know, Jeff brought up the Kentucky game in the fourth and one. Um everybody, and I count myself in this,
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just assumes they would have made it. I would have liked to known what they would have run. Um, you know, if we could go back and do this because I
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can’t promise you if they’ have run the football on the interior. I don’t think they’re getting the yard. Now, there’s a bunch of other things they could have
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run to get it. I think if Green had been on the field, they would have gone for it, but I can’t tell you that a third
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and short is a running down for LSU. Not on the interior anyway.
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All right, let’s switch sides. If if Coleman Williams is back [clears throat] on Saturday, and there’s no given yet
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that he will be uh for Alabama, does that change Baker’s total defensive plan?
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I don’t think so. And I I say that mostly because when they played Clemson,
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they didn’t travel DJ Picket with Clemson’s number one receiver. In fact, I don’t think they have traveled Picket
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with the number one receiver for any team that they’ve played this year. You guys may have watched a little bit more closely than I have, but I haven’t seen
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where he’s traveled. Uh maybe they play Ohio State in the playoffs, they’ll put him on Jeremiah Smith, but they play it
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straight. And so if they’ve done that with everybody so far this year, I don’t know that they would change coming up
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this uh this weekend for Coleman Williams.
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Coming into this year, kind of the the story of Blake Baker’s defense was not being able to contain the mobile quarterback, right? And he he seemingly
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answered that question against Marcel Reed. Contained him very well. Same thing with Byron Brown with the exception of the one big touchdown run.
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Um, but the answer against those two was kind of let’s make them sit back and become a passer and make them beat us as
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a passer. Keelon Russell is a guy that can beat you with both his arm and his legs and and when they tried to do that against Trinidad Chamblas, it didn’t
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work out very well. Do you see that being an issue uh with him beating you one of those two ways?
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One of the things that they did against those quarterbacks that you mentioned except for Chamblas is they got great
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pressure without breaking contain. And I give Oman Mielen a great deal of credit because I think he’s had a phenomenal
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year an allconerence and all-American type of year because when you can get pressure and they’re still not breaking contain you really done something. I
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think Jordan Ross got off to a good start and I think then he kind of lulled out a little bit at the end of September. I think he’s really come on.
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I think that’s been a big big part of it. Um with Russell, there’s a lot of rushing attempts, but there’s a lot of
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sacks in there. I don’t know that there’s a ton of design runs. He’s looking to throw first, and so I’m
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curious to see how much they would run him on a a design. early in the season, he was getting a lot of time. Of late,
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there’s been a lot more pressure. Now, the obvious reason for that is they’re playing better teams now. They’re playing better defenses. Georgia and Tennessee are better than, you know,
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Kentucky and and Mississippi State. But the number of sacks that they have given up is a key indication that teams that
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have good pass rushers and have good contained people have been able to curtail him. And based on the way the
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LSU ends have played really most of the season, I would suspect I suspect that they’ll have a lot of success on Saturday.
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All right, Charles, biggest decision Kevin Kein may have to make during the game. Something that, you know, could
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force him to change the plan he brought in.
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Oh, wow. That’s a That’s a good question. Um, you know, they haven’t had to they
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haven’t had to depend on the kicker for a really big pressure kick. I wonder how
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he would feel if they were in a situation where they needed a 47 y uh to
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tie the game in the last five minutes or it was fourth and three, you know, from the Alabama 30 or something like that. I
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Starzik has had a fine year, but there hasn’t been a real pressure kick on him yet. So, if there’s four minutes to go
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in the game and it’s a three-point game, LSU’s behind and they’re at the Alabama 30 line and it’s fourth and four, I
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wonder how much confidence he might have in his kicker.
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Maybe you just spoke something into existence, Charlie. We should have a good game. How how how much you you’ve been someone that’s been following LSU
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football for a long time. not only as a as a as a fan, but as a as someone that covers it, how much are you looking forward to this three-game stretch here?
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Oh, a ton. Um, you know, this is as good of a stretch as you can have and given the, you know, the playoff committee and
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the the giant log jam you’ve got in the Southeastern Conference, would you want it any other way? Um, if you want to
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prove yourself to the committee, this is the schedule you want. You want these two top 10 teams at home. You want
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another top team, but one that’s got some holes like Tennessee at quarterback on the road. That’s the proving ground.
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Uh I had a friend of mine text me as soon as the ranking came out and said, “This is a joke.” I said, “You’re right.
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They’re too high.” Uh the the teams that they’ve beaten have a conference record that’s I think two games over 500, and
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that’s Clemson. Uh they’ve got, you know, basically a 500 record overall.
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They haven’t proven themselves with big wins yet. They have the opportunity to do that now.
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All right, we’ll see how it goes. Thanks a lot, man. We appreciate it. We’ll let you get back to your night. Thank you very much, Charlie. All right, good to be with you guys.
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All right, Charles Hannig from ESPN 1045 and 1049. We’ll take a break. More of Tiger Rag Radio when we come back.
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Tiger Rag Radio is back.
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio. We just got a couple more segments left. one of the newsy items today. You can read a little bit more about it at tiger.com,
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but it was broken in the interview by Matt Masoneov after further review on 1045 ESPN Baton Rouge where he spoke
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with Winnie Watkins as part of his interviews that he’s been doing with um as a courtesy of FM Health and Our Lady
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Lake. Uh Winnie Watkins saying that he has been dealing with a a ligament in his thumb since the Kentucky game. And
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there’s no doubt that the Old Miss transfer has not been as big of a part of the passing game as he was say early
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on in the season. And when I first heard him talking about that, I’m like, well, maybe that explains why he’s had some of
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the drops and whatnot. But if I and [snorts] then I started thinking about it, I’m like, “Wait a minute. The drops really started the game before against
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McNees.” So, I don’t know. Um, I’m not saying that he doesn’t have a ligament
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torn in his thumb, uh, but he hasn’t necessarily been the same type of receiver he was the first few games. Not
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a surprise that he got off to a fast start considering he played in this offense last year. But I also really feel like the development or at least
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the confidence that you’re getting out of Jackson Harris has taken some targets away from Winnie Watkins.
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I I don’t think there’s any question that it has. Harris has really emerged as the wide receiver number one, but
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you’re going to need somebody coming out of that slot. Mhm.
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Whether it’s Watkins or someone else that can continue to make some havoc, wreak some havoc on those defenses, you’re going to need that.
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So, Watkins is still the I mean, if he can catch with his thumb, it’s his right thumb. Um, I I think that
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you have to see that. If not, somebody else has to step up. That’s all there is to it. But they’re going to need that.
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Maybe not so much this week, but they’re going to need it during the stretch.
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He’s a pretty confident little dude. If you listen to the interview, he says nobody can guard him in the SEC, and nobody in the NFL could guard him either.
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Okay. [laughter] All right. Well, then he’s the guy. He’s the guy. Okay.
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But you got to catch the ball. You might be able to break free and get open, but you have to catch the ball.
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That reminds me, that reminds me of LSU, former LSU linebacker Michael Brooks back in the 80s. Nobody my age can block
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me, [laughter] you know. So, and then uh Brian Kelly made a bit of
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news. he was uh doing his weekly spot with uh on SiriusXM and they asked him about the Florida State opening and he
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kind of rambled on and said how great of a job that would be. Who do you think has a job next year as a head coach more? Uh Brian Kelly or Blake Baker?
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Blake Baker.
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Yeah. I think if I’m Florida State or any other school who’s looking for a coach right now, I don’t I don’t bring a
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65year-old at the maybe 66 by that time into the uh into the fold when I can bring in a a Blake Baker. You would
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think based on the stories we hear and the fact that Kelly wasn’t necessarily
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always committed to the job, right? Or wasn’t I don’t I don’t know how the best way to phrase hungry. Yeah, it might be a good
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way to put it. Or or put in the time necessary to be successful. You would think there would be an ad that would call up Verge
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or somebody within the LSU athletic department and ask what was it like having Brian Kelly as your head coach.
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You see, you got you got to look at it both ways. It kind of balances. LSU’s on the hook for $54 million minus whatever he’s making with his CBS contract right
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now, which is not a lot of trust. I trust me. So LSU’s on the hook for a lot of money. So if you call Verge, Verge is going to talk as well about Brian Kelly
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as he can. So you hire him and take a little bit of that chump change off of that that check he’s getting every month
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cuz it’s a pretty hefty check every month he’s still getting.
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On the other hand, if were to be honest with him, uh I don’t think anybody would be hiring Brian Kelly. [laughter]
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Well, we’ll see. You know, a school like Ruckers or one of the, you know, a Maryland or whatever. I don’t know.
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North Carolina State apparently is interested in Russell Wilson. Eventually they’ll Russell Wilson.
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Yeah. Well, they there’s Philip Rivers, Russell Wilson. [laughter] Okay.
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I don’t know what they’re doing over there, I guess.
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[gasps]
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All right, let’s take our final break.
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We’ll be back after this here on Tiger Rag Radio. We’re back to Tiger Rag Radio.
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Well, back here on Tiger Rag Radio, uh, as we wrap up the show, some former Tigers certainly, um, putting on some good performances on the professional
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ranks. Angel Reese comes up one game short from winning a WNBA title. Did you watch much of that series? Did you? Uh, no.
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Okay. All right. I I honestly I flipped it on a few times because um she was playing. That was the only reason really
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reason I was watching. Uh but yeah, um give her credit. She me and Case were
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talking about this. the way it started in those first three games, the production she was putting up, she was
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on her way to becoming the WNBA uh MVP, the Final Series MVP, and then uh Golden State put the clamps on her for the most part, but it was an interesting series.
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Uh I was seeing that it was the most watched.
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You would think it’s game seven WN, it was the most watched WNBA playoff game on Saturday night.
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Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but this is the second year for the Valkyries to exist.
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Yes. And that’s is that has that ever happened before?
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I don’t know. Well, um to switch subjects or sports, uh Las Vegas, I think they were in their And Andrew is
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the hockey guy. He’s he’s next door getting ready for our election coverage.
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He’d probably be able to tell us. But, uh Vegas, I want to say they was that was their second or third year when they went to the Stanley Cup. So, okay.
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Yeah, it’s it happens. Uh Joe Burrow, how about the numbers that he put up in the game against the Titans? The last two weeks, Cincinnati has trailed 17 to
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nothing, but they’ve come back to win both times. Uh beating the Ravens two weeks ago, beating the lowly Titans this past week, 462 yards passing, five
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touchdowns throwing, one rushing touchdown. He threw three interceptions, all of them to the same guy. But uh Bengals still won and he’s got 20
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touchdown passes to lead the NFL right now. And what he did on on Sunday was the first time it’s been done in 75
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years since Norm Van Brocklin did it. So that’s unreal.
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That’s crazy that Norm Van Brocklin had thrown for 450 plus yards five in back in that era, right?
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That that’s crazy. That’s crazy that he was able to do that. But uh Burrow’s been healthy and the Bengals have been good. They’re better on defense. They’re
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five and two. Uh they play in a pretty competitive division. Well, now it looks like the uh the Ravens are probably going away since they got to be playing
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like a third string quarterback for the rest of the season or a journeyman quarterback, but uh looks like the Bengals got a shot, a legitimate shot
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between them and Aaron Rogers. And then the Cleveland Browns are somehow five and three as well, even though they’re been outscored by 34 points this season.
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So, well, they’ll be six and three after Sunday. [laughter] Gail Benson made some sort of comment like today like they they’re trying real hard.
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Yeah, they are. Oh, [laughter] good. Good. That’s great.
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Oh boy. Just stick with what you said a couple weeks ago at the quarterback club when you just basically said heads are going to [laughter] roll unless you
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don’t get your you know what out of your what.
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And now she’s all miss she lost that fire.
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Lost that fire because of a trip to Paris. My goodness. All right, that does it. That’s also our uh our our weekly Saints commentary that lasts 20 seconds
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on this show. [laughter] All right, for Case Ke, Todd Horn, we all think LSU is going to win Saturday, right? Right. Right.
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Yeah, I do. Okay. Okay. Yeah, I think LSU will win. All right, we’ll uh we’ll catch you next week as we preview LSU in Texas and look back at LSU in Alabama.
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