WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:02.040
All right, last segment we were talking about LSU and
2
00:00:02.200 --> 00:00:05.480
high school recruiting, and look, those players might be here,
3
00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:07.519
they might not end up here. What we do know
4
00:00:07.599 --> 00:00:10.160
is the players that are currently on the roster, the
5
00:00:10.199 --> 00:00:13.800
guys that are going to very soon during a couple
6
00:00:13.880 --> 00:00:18.519
of weeks reconvene on the Ponderosa for a little training camp.
7
00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:21.079
As we look at the roster, as we look at
8
00:00:21.079 --> 00:00:23.879
the team, starting to look at maybe some areas that
9
00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:27.399
you're going to be focusing on the most. It's going
10
00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:29.160
to be, you know, the quarterbacks is going to be,
11
00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:32.920
the running backs, the offensive line, the secondary like whatever,
12
00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:34.880
it might be, the linebackers.
13
00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:36.039
Taytay.
14
00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:39.240
You obviously know this roster very well. And I'm going
15
00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:40.960
to give Matt some time to think about it.
16
00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:41.240
Here.
17
00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:43.960
If you were to go out to a training camp
18
00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:47.880
practice for the Fighting Tigers, where would you watch maybe
19
00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:51.960
a little bit closer of an eye, and why.
20
00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:54.200
Offensive line because it was so poor a year ago.
21
00:00:54.439 --> 00:00:56.799
I mean, I think that's your answer. I think getting
22
00:00:56.840 --> 00:01:00.679
Braylin Moore back is huge. I know that perform up
23
00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:02.119
to what we thought he was going to, but the
24
00:01:02.119 --> 00:01:03.880
scheme was really bad. I think the coach ad was
25
00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:06.480
really bad. I think getting your center back is awesome.
26
00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:09.280
Jordan Seton number one left tackle on the portal. I
27
00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:11.920
think Aliu Bo is the most underrated player you got
28
00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:14.280
in the portal just because he has almost thirty starts
29
00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:17.040
at a power forward program in Maryland. I think that's
30
00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:19.719
big for you. We talked about bo Bortolan on Thursday,
31
00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:21.680
like what he could mean to this team as a
32
00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:24.319
fifth year guy. I like the way they've revamped it.
33
00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:26.519
I think that's the spot and it's honestly both lines
34
00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:28.640
of scrimmage. It's it's the O line and the D line,
35
00:01:28.680 --> 00:01:31.519
because I mean, look the D line. They I thought
36
00:01:31.519 --> 00:01:33.120
they did as good of a job as they could thought.
37
00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:34.840
I thought Baker put him in a good position, but
38
00:01:35.359 --> 00:01:37.159
that was a group that left a little bit to
39
00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:38.920
be desired a year ago as well a lot of
40
00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:40.799
big time freshmen that you got coming in.
41
00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:42.959
So really both lines of scrimmage.
42
00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:47.439
Let me just for everybody listening out there, like, because
43
00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:50.280
we are going to get into training camp and it's
44
00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:53.680
going to be monotonous for the football team and the coaches,
45
00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:57.040
and it will be monotonous for reporters as well, because
46
00:01:57.040 --> 00:01:59.359
you're gonna go out there and you know, Nick Underill
47
00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:02.799
talked about it a couple of weeks ago, like the
48
00:02:02.840 --> 00:02:06.239
inner squad practices when they practice with different teams. When
49
00:02:06.239 --> 00:02:08.240
the Saints do, like it breaks up the monotony a
50
00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:10.639
little bit. So there's people gonna be looking for things
51
00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:12.759
to write about. Like when you when you read and
52
00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:15.000
you hear reports on offensive line, let me tell you,
53
00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:21.439
like from a just somebody watching offensive line and defensive
54
00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:25.479
line performance in training camp, it is impossible to tell
55
00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:28.400
if they're doing bad or good. You are going to
56
00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:32.120
have to rely on what the coaches say, Like everybody's
57
00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:33.879
gonna win a one on one rep and look good
58
00:02:33.919 --> 00:02:37.680
doing it. Like defensive line, offensive line, you don't. You
59
00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:39.439
just don't know. So it's just a little bit of
60
00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:41.439
like just a heads up, Like you can get an
61
00:02:41.479 --> 00:02:44.199
idea of like who's physically looking dominant and like who's
62
00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:46.719
not giving up sacks and stuff like that, but like
63
00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:51.520
you can't really tell about who is outperforming who really
64
00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:54.680
on an offensive line battle quarterbacks, you know, it's pretty
65
00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:57.960
cut and dry receivers, cut and dry, defensive backs, linebackers
66
00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:00.360
like all these other positions where they get to move
67
00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:03.680
in space and you can like literally see a lot
68
00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:06.039
of these one on one battles and how they're you know,
69
00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:08.280
is a safety down as the coach yelling at them,
70
00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:10.680
like you can see and kind of get a feel
71
00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:13.840
for how people are performing offensive line. It is so
72
00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:16.000
hard because you don't really know what you're looking at.
73
00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:17.719
You don't know who's screwed up. The mic call, you
74
00:03:17.719 --> 00:03:21.159
don't know who's screwed up. Like if a tackle gets
75
00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:23.840
beat to the inside, he looks bad, but you don't
76
00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:25.520
know if the guard was supposed to push out to
77
00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:27.879
help him on the inside shoulder. You don't know a
78
00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:30.360
lot of these things, so it's really hard to tell.
79
00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:33.759
The best the best reporting that you can get is
80
00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:37.919
reporting on one on one drills, right, that's pretty much
81
00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:40.199
the only thing you can tell. But like you have
82
00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:42.520
to trust the coaches that they're going to give you
83
00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:46.199
some you know, give you the real messaging, and you know,
84
00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:48.759
most coaches don't really give you the real messaging. But
85
00:03:49.199 --> 00:03:51.879
you'll be able to tell. And you can also tell
86
00:03:51.960 --> 00:03:54.280
when coaches start yelling at people too. That's when you
87
00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:57.240
can tell if someone screwed up. But like I'm just
88
00:03:57.240 --> 00:03:59.759
giving you warning, Like if you if you see reports
89
00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:01.120
like this guy's doing really bad.
90
00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:04.000
He might not be. He just don't really right.
91
00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:05.680
It's like tearing up training.
92
00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:08.120
That's the thing, right, Like maybe he's not because they
93
00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:10.000
just don't have they got pads on.
94
00:04:10.199 --> 00:04:11.759
But it's not like live bullets.
95
00:04:12.199 --> 00:04:14.199
It's like this guy's working on his rush move so
96
00:04:14.240 --> 00:04:16.600
he's not doing a bull rush and you know, things
97
00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:17.079
like that.
98
00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:20.279
And it's good to get that information. I want that information, but.
99
00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:22.240
You gotta certain positions.
100
00:04:22.279 --> 00:04:27.000
That's that those positions specifically interior lineman, defensive lineman, and
101
00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:30.319
offensive line really hard to like tell just from a
102
00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:32.800
bystander and practice without knowing the play call, like if
103
00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:34.079
they're actually doing well or not.
104
00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:36.800
I trust this staff to at least tell us what's
105
00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:38.319
going on, because like, okay, last year, like and to
106
00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:41.639
your point, yes, guard tackle like individual signments, but we're
107
00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:44.120
watching it. Last year, running backs ain't got nowhere to go.
108
00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:46.680
It doesn't matter left right up the middle of nowhere.
109
00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:50.720
And then Brian Kelly would come into the press conference
110
00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:52.759
and be like, oh, yeah, they look the offensive line
111
00:04:52.759 --> 00:04:54.680
like they're they're where we want them to be. I'm like, no,
112
00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:56.800
they're not, Like they're not. You can go out there,
113
00:04:56.839 --> 00:04:58.879
you can see, and they did like goal line period,
114
00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:00.920
on go line period, they're from the five yard line,
115
00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:03.240
couldn't do anything, and it was because their old line
116
00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:05.600
was bad. And Kelly would come in and say, oh, well,
117
00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:08.560
you know it's it's fine, like we're progressing. It's like, dude,
118
00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:10.800
you're two weeks before the first game and you can't
119
00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:13.800
score from the five yard line. I get your defensive practice, Like, no,
120
00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:14.759
we're not good.
121
00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:17.560
They couldn't do it to the game either. It did
122
00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:18.680
translate over like.
123
00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:21.399
Second and one was a bad down in distance for us.
124
00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:25.040
Don't get nine yards on first down. Please, I don't
125
00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:28.279
want to be a yard away from this first down two.
126
00:05:31.079 --> 00:05:34.519
Well, a reminder, the defense had to walk through run
127
00:05:34.519 --> 00:05:37.920
fits last year before Clemson because they didn't get that
128
00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:40.800
action in training camp against the offense.
129
00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:43.040
That's kind of all we need to say about that.
130
00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:47.240
If I'm so, you're not certain position group, I mean
131
00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:50.839
just more like skill guys. I guess because of what
132
00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:51.319
you just.
133
00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:54.519
For people, it's easier for people that aren't a part
134
00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:57.879
under that roof for meetings and know the game plan.
135
00:05:58.199 --> 00:06:00.639
It's easier for people to tell who's looking good and
136
00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:01.560
performing well.
137
00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:01.839
Right.
138
00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:04.759
It's hard to tell if somebody is performing good or
139
00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:07.879
bad on the media, I agree with you wholeheartedly. For me,
140
00:06:07.959 --> 00:06:10.879
it's what are the reps? Who's getting the breakdown of
141
00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:11.399
the reps right?
142
00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:14.439
That's what I pay attention to because that means throughout
143
00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:17.000
training camp they've done the things that the coach is believing.
144
00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:20.639
As you get closer to game time, if you see
145
00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:23.319
the reps change, that means this guy's done better. They
146
00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:25.600
believe in this guy more so, like I would want
147
00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:28.879
to go to camp, you know, sometime in the middle
148
00:06:28.920 --> 00:06:31.399
of August, and I'd want to see the running back rotation.
149
00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:33.920
Now I'm biased towards a position obviously, and your eyes
150
00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:35.399
are going to take you to the position that you
151
00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:38.040
know best, just like you'd probably be watching the quarterbacks
152
00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:41.519
because I want to see what the rotation Harlean Berry,
153
00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:47.079
Caden Durham, Dylan Jones, what does that look like. There's
154
00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:49.680
a lot of people in that building that believe Dylan
155
00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:53.279
Jones is going to be a force on this offense,
156
00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:54.920
and he's coming over.
157
00:06:55.040 --> 00:06:56.279
He doesn't have a lot of stats.
158
00:06:56.319 --> 00:06:58.560
They got him out of the portal and he I
159
00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:00.959
think surprised a lot of people, certainly guys on the
160
00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:05.079
defense during spring practice. Now spring practice is spring practice?
161
00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:09.199
Does that move on to training camp? Does what he
162
00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:12.040
does in training camp move on to the first game
163
00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:13.199
of the year against Clemson.
164
00:07:13.279 --> 00:07:15.000
I don't think they've been trying to hide that either.
165
00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:17.000
No, no, they have not.
166
00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:21.399
But again, when you have conversations with guys on the
167
00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:24.199
other side of the football, when you say, hey, give
168
00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:26.439
me some guys on offense that are you know, showing
169
00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:29.600
out a little bit, I would say seventy five percent
170
00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:33.240
of them were telling me Dylan Jones during the spring. Now,
171
00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:39.720
spring's one thing. Training camps another ten days out of
172
00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:42.040
the first games another thing. Like that's a new kind
173
00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:44.959
of phase of getting ready for the season. I think
174
00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:48.879
Harlan Berry and Cayden Durham are incredibly talented. Harlan Berry
175
00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:50.600
was the number one back in the country coming out.
176
00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:54.839
He certainly had flashes last year. Cayden Durham was top
177
00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:57.040
freshman in the SEC a couple of years ago. I
178
00:07:57.040 --> 00:07:59.040
thought he had some good moments last year, even if
179
00:07:59.079 --> 00:08:01.879
people didn't want to talk about them. They're good backs.
180
00:08:02.480 --> 00:08:05.800
But Jones is now part of that conversation, and it's okay.
181
00:08:06.120 --> 00:08:09.279
It's okay to have three running backs. When you look
182
00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:13.319
at LSU throughout its history, the most successful seasons outside
183
00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:16.439
of one, they have had a running back by committee
184
00:08:17.399 --> 00:08:22.000
in three right, at different times. It was Ali, it
185
00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:24.600
was a die, it was Shyne, and it finished with
186
00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:30.519
Justin and seven we had me Keelan Chuck Trendon Honday
187
00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:32.399
was even part of that backfield, right, I mean Trendon
188
00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:34.320
did big things in the backfield.
189
00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:35.279
We had two full.
190
00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:39.200
Backs, that's right, fullbacks. I'll explain what that is later.
191
00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:42.279
In eleven they didn't finish it. They're a damn good
192
00:08:42.279 --> 00:08:45.039
football team, and they had a running back room that
193
00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:49.480
had like three to four guys that rotated. Nineteen's the
194
00:08:49.480 --> 00:08:52.000
only one that didn't, and that was Look. Clyde played
195
00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:53.960
more than any running back in D one. I believe
196
00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:56.399
that year, he's like ninety three percent of the snaps.
197
00:08:56.720 --> 00:09:00.159
Remember your two backups refreshmen on that team, So you
198
00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:02.600
had Clyde out there and he was going to be
199
00:09:02.639 --> 00:09:04.240
the guy that got a bulk of the carries, and
200
00:09:04.279 --> 00:09:06.559
he did like more than any back in the country
201
00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:10.480
that year as far as playing time, not carries. So
202
00:09:10.559 --> 00:09:14.200
it's okay, Like three of lshu's four most successful seasons
203
00:09:14.200 --> 00:09:16.720
in the last twenty six years you had a running
204
00:09:16.759 --> 00:09:19.559
back by committee. That is a position. You don't have
205
00:09:19.639 --> 00:09:21.960
to have the bell cow. You can have a guy
206
00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:25.159
that's the leader, like he's RB one, but you can
207
00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:28.039
have RB one, B C and sometimes even deep.
208
00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:31.240
It'll be exciting to see how Lane Kiffin utilizes such
209
00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:36.240
depth at the running back position. Obviously, he's had great offenses.
210
00:09:36.279 --> 00:09:38.639
That's why he's here, That's why he's Lane Kiffin that
211
00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:45.480
we know today. But last year is Kyrin Lacy on
212
00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:49.000
his offense? Right, it wasn't who's the backup for a miss?
213
00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:51.519
Do you know? For what? For Ole Miss?
214
00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:54.279
Last year? Running back don't matter.
215
00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:56.519
It doesn't matter because he had That's what I'm saying.
216
00:09:56.519 --> 00:09:58.240
It's going to be really interesting to see how they
217
00:09:58.279 --> 00:10:01.399
utilize depth. He's got three really good running backs. How
218
00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:03.360
are you gonna utilize that? And it's gonna be really
219
00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:06.840
fun to dive into Lane Kiffin's offense in the mechanics
220
00:10:06.879 --> 00:10:08.799
behind it. Like, of course we know they go fast.
221
00:10:08.919 --> 00:10:11.080
We watched them for one week last year. Well, we're
222
00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:13.759
gonna get to watch Lane Kiffins's offense a lot and
223
00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:16.440
get really familiarized with it, and we're gonna break down
224
00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:18.600
film here we're gonna tell you kind of like what
225
00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:21.159
they're doing, what their goals are. But it's gonna be
226
00:10:21.159 --> 00:10:24.279
fun to see, like what the what the rotation's gonna
227
00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:26.919
be like? Because they go fast. When you go fast,
228
00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:28.799
that means you don't rotate a lot during a drive
229
00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:31.240
unless you get stalled. You get us like something happens
230
00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:35.000
in a special situation. So what's that rotation gonna be
231
00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:38.200
like for receivers? What's that rotation going to be like
232
00:10:38.279 --> 00:10:41.279
for running backs? So it's gonna be fun to figure
233
00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:44.679
out kind of how Lane is going to use such
234
00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:45.399
a plethora.
235
00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:47.919
It's a big word, right there, A plethora.
236
00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:48.440
I really love.
237
00:10:49.639 --> 00:10:51.279
This is a short word, but a fancy word.
238
00:10:51.320 --> 00:10:51.559
Man.
239
00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:56.000
I knew so I knew Dig's got some carries at
240
00:10:56.000 --> 00:10:58.600
Ole Miss last year. You know Logan from Louisiana he
241
00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:01.480
played here. I knew he had some. I thought it
242
00:11:01.519 --> 00:11:03.799
was way more. He only had thirty three last year.
243
00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:07.200
So that's that's a bellcal right there, Show you had
244
00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:11.519
a bell coal. Lazy had three hundred and six the
245
00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:15.960
running back times now Trinidad Chambers ran two, but still
246
00:11:17.039 --> 00:11:19.279
Lacey had three hundred and six carries.
247
00:11:19.320 --> 00:11:21.000
Diggs had thirty three.
248
00:11:21.879 --> 00:11:25.080
That's ten times more from your starting running back WHOA
249
00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:29.120
to your backup running back. So to my point, it's
250
00:11:29.159 --> 00:11:33.120
gonna be real interesting to see how I mean, when
251
00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:35.679
you were talking about three to seven teams, like championship
252
00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:38.559
teams that had you know, running back back committee, it
253
00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:41.039
was you wrote the hot hand a lot. Yeah, right,
254
00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:43.120
and you don't know who is going to catch it.
255
00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:46.120
So if somebody's run running their ass off, like you
256
00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:48.519
stick with him for the next drive, because, like I said,
257
00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:50.039
like these drives, there's not gonna be a lot of
258
00:11:50.039 --> 00:11:53.240
substitutions mid drive. If a play goes if a play
259
00:11:53.279 --> 00:11:56.000
goes thirteen or if a drive goes thirteen or fourteen plays,
260
00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:57.679
you might have the same running back and receivers in
261
00:11:57.720 --> 00:12:00.000
there the entire time because you're going so fast staying
262
00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:04.039
on schedule. Yeah, So like if somebody's riding a hot hand, yeah,
263
00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:06.799
do you put him in the next drive or do
264
00:12:06.879 --> 00:12:08.320
you stick with a three man rotation?
265
00:12:08.519 --> 00:12:10.639
Yeah? Is it going drive by drive by drive?
266
00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:14.320
I like staying with the hot hand I do too, and.
267
00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:15.440
Then keeping fresh legs.
268
00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:17.639
So it but it's gonna be super fun to just
269
00:12:17.840 --> 00:12:20.480
kind of like see how that'll that that rotation plays out.
270
00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:21.960
I say that because, like, you know what it is
271
00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:23.440
like as a running back if you get in a
272
00:12:23.480 --> 00:12:26.919
flow of things and you're like, you're seven carries deep
273
00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:29.519
and you got like for this drive and you're starting
274
00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:31.320
to see the defense say, I don't really know if
275
00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:33.799
I'm interested in tackling that guy anymore. Yeah, because a
276
00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:36.759
running back, you feel that and you're like that linebacker
277
00:12:36.799 --> 00:12:38.759
he took me. You know, at first it started with
278
00:12:38.799 --> 00:12:42.039
his face mask. Now it's with his shoulder. He's about
279
00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:44.679
to olay this thing like he is a matador and
280
00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:46.799
I'm about to run through him. You can feel that
281
00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:48.399
as a running back. So I do like getting in
282
00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:51.399
that flow, but you do have to learn the flow.
283
00:12:51.159 --> 00:12:51.600
Of a game.
284
00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:54.120
Like I knew there was gonna be certain plays that
285
00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:56.080
Charles Scott was going to come in because Charles was
286
00:12:56.080 --> 00:12:57.519
really good at those. I know there's gonna be certain
287
00:12:57.519 --> 00:12:59.440
plays that Keeling came in because Keiling was really good
288
00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:01.919
at those. Trendon was going to have his package, like
289
00:13:02.840 --> 00:13:04.919
part of the running back rotation that you're talking about.
290
00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:06.600
And I love it when you have a hot hand,
291
00:13:06.759 --> 00:13:09.360
But then that hand changes in a game. It can
292
00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:12.600
change in a half. But everybody has to be bought
293
00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:15.440
into that for that to work. If you go back
294
00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:17.600
and you watch in O seven, if Keeling scored me
295
00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:19.559
and Charles met him at the hash, if I scored Keeling,
296
00:13:19.639 --> 00:13:21.480
Charles met me at the hash.
297
00:13:21.960 --> 00:13:23.240
Same thing with Chuck Righte.
298
00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:27.000
So like that worked because we were actually rooting for
299
00:13:27.039 --> 00:13:27.519
each other.
300
00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:30.639
I've been a running back rooms somebody else shoot that.
301
00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:33.240
It was not the case and it doesn't work out.
302
00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:35.840
But in seven, like, if you're doing it because you
303
00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:38.639
understand why you're doing it, that's half the battle.
304
00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:40.159
Well, everybody's gonna get the chance to shine.
305
00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:43.320
Let's just say you're riding the hot hand early and
306
00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:48.399
Harlan Barry goes for the first two quarters, then somebody
307
00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:51.240
else of it. But in the fourth quarter you get
308
00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:53.879
a fresh leg Kaitt and Durham like throw him in there.
309
00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:56.639
They get a chance to because this is what Lane
310
00:13:56.679 --> 00:13:59.840
Kivin's offense does. It wears you out on no doubt.
311
00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:02.120
So if you're taking a if you got three in
312
00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:04.799
depth and link iff and make no mistake link if
313
00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:07.320
of wants to run the football as many stats as
314
00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:11.200
they have the quarterbacks looking great. He's built around the
315
00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:14.000
running game. Whether you choose to believe that or not
316
00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:16.840
it is. And so you throw a fresh running back
317
00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:19.159
they could go start at any other SEC team yep,
318
00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:22.519
in the fourth quarter, then it's gonna be fun.
319
00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:23.519
Uh.
320
00:14:23.639 --> 00:14:26.080
Just to give you an idea of the breakdown. Last year,
321
00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:28.360
somebody was asking if Lacey had three hundred, what was
322
00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:33.559
LSU Cadendorham had one eleven and Harlan Berry had one
323
00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:36.360
oh four, So one eleven, one oh four that and
324
00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:39.279
then Juwan Johnson actually had forty one. So your third
325
00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:41.559
back had more carries, and Ole Missus second back.
326
00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:44.879
And neither one of LSU's backs had as many carries
327
00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:45.919
as Kirraen Lacey.
328
00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:47.840
Now you could combine them, and then you combine him,
329
00:14:47.840 --> 00:14:50.720
and they didn't have not even really not even remotely close.
330
00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:52.320
Still like one hundred, like a hundred out.
331
00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:55.840
Yeah, So that's how much Lane wants to run the football.
332
00:14:55.879 --> 00:14:56.639
Can I admit this?
333
00:14:56.759 --> 00:14:58.720
And I'm not trying to throw shade at this young man,
334
00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:01.879
I swear I'm not. It's just I forgot Michael Van
335
00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:05.519
Buren played for LSU kind of. I mean, I kind
336
00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:07.399
of forgot that that happened just a year ago.
337
00:15:07.639 --> 00:15:09.639
Three games span at the end of the year, everybody
338
00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:12.120
was so chicked out, don't unnecessarily.
339
00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:13.559
Like I called the games and I was there, and
340
00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:14.200
like now it's.
341
00:15:14.039 --> 00:15:16.879
Like, oh yeah, But like when I saw his name
342
00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:19.279
on the rushing chart, I'm like, oh yeah, he played
343
00:15:19.320 --> 00:15:21.960
a lot last year after Garrett, you know, obviously went down.
344
00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:25.360
Buren boys. Whoa eighth president got about that?
345
00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:30.799
Anyways, there's your breakdown of what we're looking for in
346
00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:31.480
training camp.
1
00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:02.040
All right, last segment we were talking about LSU and
2
00:00:02.200 --> 00:00:05.480
high school recruiting, and look, those players might be here,
3
00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:07.519
they might not end up here. What we do know
4
00:00:07.599 --> 00:00:10.160
is the players that are currently on the roster, the
5
00:00:10.199 --> 00:00:13.800
guys that are going to very soon during a couple
6
00:00:13.880 --> 00:00:18.519
of weeks reconvene on the Ponderosa for a little training camp.
7
00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:21.079
As we look at the roster, as we look at
8
00:00:21.079 --> 00:00:23.879
the team, starting to look at maybe some areas that
9
00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:27.399
you're going to be focusing on the most. It's going
10
00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:29.160
to be, you know, the quarterbacks is going to be,
11
00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:32.920
the running backs, the offensive line, the secondary like whatever,
12
00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:34.880
it might be, the linebackers.
13
00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:36.039
Taytay.
14
00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:39.240
You obviously know this roster very well. And I'm going
15
00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:40.960
to give Matt some time to think about it.
16
00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:41.240
Here.
17
00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:43.960
If you were to go out to a training camp
18
00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:47.880
practice for the Fighting Tigers, where would you watch maybe
19
00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:51.960
a little bit closer of an eye, and why.
20
00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:54.200
Offensive line because it was so poor a year ago.
21
00:00:54.439 --> 00:00:56.799
I mean, I think that's your answer. I think getting
22
00:00:56.840 --> 00:01:00.679
Braylin Moore back is huge. I know that perform up
23
00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:02.119
to what we thought he was going to, but the
24
00:01:02.119 --> 00:01:03.880
scheme was really bad. I think the coach ad was
25
00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:06.480
really bad. I think getting your center back is awesome.
26
00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:09.280
Jordan Seton number one left tackle on the portal. I
27
00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:11.920
think Aliu Bo is the most underrated player you got
28
00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:14.280
in the portal just because he has almost thirty starts
29
00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:17.040
at a power forward program in Maryland. I think that's
30
00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:19.719
big for you. We talked about bo Bortolan on Thursday,
31
00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:21.680
like what he could mean to this team as a
32
00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:24.319
fifth year guy. I like the way they've revamped it.
33
00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:26.519
I think that's the spot and it's honestly both lines
34
00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:28.640
of scrimmage. It's it's the O line and the D line,
35
00:01:28.680 --> 00:01:31.519
because I mean, look the D line. They I thought
36
00:01:31.519 --> 00:01:33.120
they did as good of a job as they could thought.
37
00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:34.840
I thought Baker put him in a good position, but
38
00:01:35.359 --> 00:01:37.159
that was a group that left a little bit to
39
00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:38.920
be desired a year ago as well a lot of
40
00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:40.799
big time freshmen that you got coming in.
41
00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:42.959
So really both lines of scrimmage.
42
00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:47.439
Let me just for everybody listening out there, like, because
43
00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:50.280
we are going to get into training camp and it's
44
00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:53.680
going to be monotonous for the football team and the coaches,
45
00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:57.040
and it will be monotonous for reporters as well, because
46
00:01:57.040 --> 00:01:59.359
you're gonna go out there and you know, Nick Underill
47
00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:02.799
talked about it a couple of weeks ago, like the
48
00:02:02.840 --> 00:02:06.239
inner squad practices when they practice with different teams. When
49
00:02:06.239 --> 00:02:08.240
the Saints do, like it breaks up the monotony a
50
00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:10.639
little bit. So there's people gonna be looking for things
51
00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:12.759
to write about. Like when you when you read and
52
00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:15.000
you hear reports on offensive line, let me tell you,
53
00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:21.439
like from a just somebody watching offensive line and defensive
54
00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:25.479
line performance in training camp, it is impossible to tell
55
00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:28.400
if they're doing bad or good. You are going to
56
00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:32.120
have to rely on what the coaches say, Like everybody's
57
00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:33.879
gonna win a one on one rep and look good
58
00:02:33.919 --> 00:02:37.680
doing it. Like defensive line, offensive line, you don't. You
59
00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:39.439
just don't know. So it's just a little bit of
60
00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:41.439
like just a heads up, Like you can get an
61
00:02:41.479 --> 00:02:44.199
idea of like who's physically looking dominant and like who's
62
00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:46.719
not giving up sacks and stuff like that, but like
63
00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:51.520
you can't really tell about who is outperforming who really
64
00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:54.680
on an offensive line battle quarterbacks, you know, it's pretty
65
00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:57.960
cut and dry receivers, cut and dry, defensive backs, linebackers
66
00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:00.360
like all these other positions where they get to move
67
00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:03.680
in space and you can like literally see a lot
68
00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:06.039
of these one on one battles and how they're you know,
69
00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:08.280
is a safety down as the coach yelling at them,
70
00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:10.680
like you can see and kind of get a feel
71
00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:13.840
for how people are performing offensive line. It is so
72
00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:16.000
hard because you don't really know what you're looking at.
73
00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:17.719
You don't know who's screwed up. The mic call, you
74
00:03:17.719 --> 00:03:21.159
don't know who's screwed up. Like if a tackle gets
75
00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:23.840
beat to the inside, he looks bad, but you don't
76
00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:25.520
know if the guard was supposed to push out to
77
00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:27.879
help him on the inside shoulder. You don't know a
78
00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:30.360
lot of these things, so it's really hard to tell.
79
00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:33.759
The best the best reporting that you can get is
80
00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:37.919
reporting on one on one drills, right, that's pretty much
81
00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:40.199
the only thing you can tell. But like you have
82
00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:42.520
to trust the coaches that they're going to give you
83
00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:46.199
some you know, give you the real messaging, and you know,
84
00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:48.759
most coaches don't really give you the real messaging. But
85
00:03:49.199 --> 00:03:51.879
you'll be able to tell. And you can also tell
86
00:03:51.960 --> 00:03:54.280
when coaches start yelling at people too. That's when you
87
00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:57.240
can tell if someone screwed up. But like I'm just
88
00:03:57.240 --> 00:03:59.759
giving you warning, Like if you if you see reports
89
00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:01.120
like this guy's doing really bad.
90
00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:04.000
He might not be. He just don't really right.
91
00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:05.680
It's like tearing up training.
92
00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:08.120
That's the thing, right, Like maybe he's not because they
93
00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:10.000
just don't have they got pads on.
94
00:04:10.199 --> 00:04:11.759
But it's not like live bullets.
95
00:04:12.199 --> 00:04:14.199
It's like this guy's working on his rush move so
96
00:04:14.240 --> 00:04:16.600
he's not doing a bull rush and you know, things
97
00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:17.079
like that.
98
00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:20.279
And it's good to get that information. I want that information, but.
99
00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:22.240
You gotta certain positions.
100
00:04:22.279 --> 00:04:27.000
That's that those positions specifically interior lineman, defensive lineman, and
101
00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:30.319
offensive line really hard to like tell just from a
102
00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:32.800
bystander and practice without knowing the play call, like if
103
00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:34.079
they're actually doing well or not.
104
00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:36.800
I trust this staff to at least tell us what's
105
00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:38.319
going on, because like, okay, last year, like and to
106
00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:41.639
your point, yes, guard tackle like individual signments, but we're
107
00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:44.120
watching it. Last year, running backs ain't got nowhere to go.
108
00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:46.680
It doesn't matter left right up the middle of nowhere.
109
00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:50.720
And then Brian Kelly would come into the press conference
110
00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:52.759
and be like, oh, yeah, they look the offensive line
111
00:04:52.759 --> 00:04:54.680
like they're they're where we want them to be. I'm like, no,
112
00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:56.800
they're not, Like they're not. You can go out there,
113
00:04:56.839 --> 00:04:58.879
you can see, and they did like goal line period,
114
00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:00.920
on go line period, they're from the five yard line,
115
00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:03.240
couldn't do anything, and it was because their old line
116
00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:05.600
was bad. And Kelly would come in and say, oh, well,
117
00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:08.560
you know it's it's fine, like we're progressing. It's like, dude,
118
00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:10.800
you're two weeks before the first game and you can't
119
00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:13.800
score from the five yard line. I get your defensive practice, Like, no,
120
00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:14.759
we're not good.
121
00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:17.560
They couldn't do it to the game either. It did
122
00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:18.680
translate over like.
123
00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:21.399
Second and one was a bad down in distance for us.
124
00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:25.040
Don't get nine yards on first down. Please, I don't
125
00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:28.279
want to be a yard away from this first down two.
126
00:05:31.079 --> 00:05:34.519
Well, a reminder, the defense had to walk through run
127
00:05:34.519 --> 00:05:37.920
fits last year before Clemson because they didn't get that
128
00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:40.800
action in training camp against the offense.
129
00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:43.040
That's kind of all we need to say about that.
130
00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:47.240
If I'm so, you're not certain position group, I mean
131
00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:50.839
just more like skill guys. I guess because of what
132
00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:51.319
you just.
133
00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:54.519
For people, it's easier for people that aren't a part
134
00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:57.879
under that roof for meetings and know the game plan.
135
00:05:58.199 --> 00:06:00.639
It's easier for people to tell who's looking good and
136
00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:01.560
performing well.
137
00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:01.839
Right.
138
00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:04.759
It's hard to tell if somebody is performing good or
139
00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:07.879
bad on the media, I agree with you wholeheartedly. For me,
140
00:06:07.959 --> 00:06:10.879
it's what are the reps? Who's getting the breakdown of
141
00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:11.399
the reps right?
142
00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:14.439
That's what I pay attention to because that means throughout
143
00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:17.000
training camp they've done the things that the coach is believing.
144
00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:20.639
As you get closer to game time, if you see
145
00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:23.319
the reps change, that means this guy's done better. They
146
00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:25.600
believe in this guy more so, like I would want
147
00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:28.879
to go to camp, you know, sometime in the middle
148
00:06:28.920 --> 00:06:31.399
of August, and I'd want to see the running back rotation.
149
00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:33.920
Now I'm biased towards a position obviously, and your eyes
150
00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:35.399
are going to take you to the position that you
151
00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:38.040
know best, just like you'd probably be watching the quarterbacks
152
00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:41.519
because I want to see what the rotation Harlean Berry,
153
00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:47.079
Caden Durham, Dylan Jones, what does that look like. There's
154
00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:49.680
a lot of people in that building that believe Dylan
155
00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:53.279
Jones is going to be a force on this offense,
156
00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:54.920
and he's coming over.
157
00:06:55.040 --> 00:06:56.279
He doesn't have a lot of stats.
158
00:06:56.319 --> 00:06:58.560
They got him out of the portal and he I
159
00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:00.959
think surprised a lot of people, certainly guys on the
160
00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:05.079
defense during spring practice. Now spring practice is spring practice?
161
00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:09.199
Does that move on to training camp? Does what he
162
00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:12.040
does in training camp move on to the first game
163
00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:13.199
of the year against Clemson.
164
00:07:13.279 --> 00:07:15.000
I don't think they've been trying to hide that either.
165
00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:17.000
No, no, they have not.
166
00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:21.399
But again, when you have conversations with guys on the
167
00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:24.199
other side of the football, when you say, hey, give
168
00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:26.439
me some guys on offense that are you know, showing
169
00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:29.600
out a little bit, I would say seventy five percent
170
00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:33.240
of them were telling me Dylan Jones during the spring. Now,
171
00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:39.720
spring's one thing. Training camps another ten days out of
172
00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:42.040
the first games another thing. Like that's a new kind
173
00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:44.959
of phase of getting ready for the season. I think
174
00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:48.879
Harlan Berry and Cayden Durham are incredibly talented. Harlan Berry
175
00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:50.600
was the number one back in the country coming out.
176
00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:54.839
He certainly had flashes last year. Cayden Durham was top
177
00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:57.040
freshman in the SEC a couple of years ago. I
178
00:07:57.040 --> 00:07:59.040
thought he had some good moments last year, even if
179
00:07:59.079 --> 00:08:01.879
people didn't want to talk about them. They're good backs.
180
00:08:02.480 --> 00:08:05.800
But Jones is now part of that conversation, and it's okay.
181
00:08:06.120 --> 00:08:09.279
It's okay to have three running backs. When you look
182
00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:13.319
at LSU throughout its history, the most successful seasons outside
183
00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:16.439
of one, they have had a running back by committee
184
00:08:17.399 --> 00:08:22.000
in three right, at different times. It was Ali, it
185
00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:24.600
was a die, it was Shyne, and it finished with
186
00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:30.519
Justin and seven we had me Keelan Chuck Trendon Honday
187
00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:32.399
was even part of that backfield, right, I mean Trendon
188
00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:34.320
did big things in the backfield.
189
00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:35.279
We had two full.
190
00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:39.200
Backs, that's right, fullbacks. I'll explain what that is later.
191
00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:42.279
In eleven they didn't finish it. They're a damn good
192
00:08:42.279 --> 00:08:45.039
football team, and they had a running back room that
193
00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:49.480
had like three to four guys that rotated. Nineteen's the
194
00:08:49.480 --> 00:08:52.000
only one that didn't, and that was Look. Clyde played
195
00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:53.960
more than any running back in D one. I believe
196
00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:56.399
that year, he's like ninety three percent of the snaps.
197
00:08:56.720 --> 00:09:00.159
Remember your two backups refreshmen on that team, So you
198
00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:02.600
had Clyde out there and he was going to be
199
00:09:02.639 --> 00:09:04.240
the guy that got a bulk of the carries, and
200
00:09:04.279 --> 00:09:06.559
he did like more than any back in the country
201
00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:10.480
that year as far as playing time, not carries. So
202
00:09:10.559 --> 00:09:14.200
it's okay, Like three of lshu's four most successful seasons
203
00:09:14.200 --> 00:09:16.720
in the last twenty six years you had a running
204
00:09:16.759 --> 00:09:19.559
back by committee. That is a position. You don't have
205
00:09:19.639 --> 00:09:21.960
to have the bell cow. You can have a guy
206
00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:25.159
that's the leader, like he's RB one, but you can
207
00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:28.039
have RB one, B C and sometimes even deep.
208
00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:31.240
It'll be exciting to see how Lane Kiffin utilizes such
209
00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:36.240
depth at the running back position. Obviously, he's had great offenses.
210
00:09:36.279 --> 00:09:38.639
That's why he's here, That's why he's Lane Kiffin that
211
00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:45.480
we know today. But last year is Kyrin Lacy on
212
00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:49.000
his offense? Right, it wasn't who's the backup for a miss?
213
00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:51.519
Do you know? For what? For Ole Miss?
214
00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:54.279
Last year? Running back don't matter.
215
00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:56.519
It doesn't matter because he had That's what I'm saying.
216
00:09:56.519 --> 00:09:58.240
It's going to be really interesting to see how they
217
00:09:58.279 --> 00:10:01.399
utilize depth. He's got three really good running backs. How
218
00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:03.360
are you gonna utilize that? And it's gonna be really
219
00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:06.840
fun to dive into Lane Kiffin's offense in the mechanics
220
00:10:06.879 --> 00:10:08.799
behind it. Like, of course we know they go fast.
221
00:10:08.919 --> 00:10:11.080
We watched them for one week last year. Well, we're
222
00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:13.759
gonna get to watch Lane Kiffins's offense a lot and
223
00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:16.440
get really familiarized with it, and we're gonna break down
224
00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:18.600
film here we're gonna tell you kind of like what
225
00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:21.159
they're doing, what their goals are. But it's gonna be
226
00:10:21.159 --> 00:10:24.279
fun to see, like what the what the rotation's gonna
227
00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:26.919
be like? Because they go fast. When you go fast,
228
00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:28.799
that means you don't rotate a lot during a drive
229
00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:31.240
unless you get stalled. You get us like something happens
230
00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:35.000
in a special situation. So what's that rotation gonna be
231
00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:38.200
like for receivers? What's that rotation going to be like
232
00:10:38.279 --> 00:10:41.279
for running backs? So it's gonna be fun to figure
233
00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:44.679
out kind of how Lane is going to use such
234
00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:45.399
a plethora.
235
00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:47.919
It's a big word, right there, A plethora.
236
00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:48.440
I really love.
237
00:10:49.639 --> 00:10:51.279
This is a short word, but a fancy word.
238
00:10:51.320 --> 00:10:51.559
Man.
239
00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:56.000
I knew so I knew Dig's got some carries at
240
00:10:56.000 --> 00:10:58.600
Ole Miss last year. You know Logan from Louisiana he
241
00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:01.480
played here. I knew he had some. I thought it
242
00:11:01.519 --> 00:11:03.799
was way more. He only had thirty three last year.
243
00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:07.200
So that's that's a bellcal right there, Show you had
244
00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:11.519
a bell coal. Lazy had three hundred and six the
245
00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:15.960
running back times now Trinidad Chambers ran two, but still
246
00:11:17.039 --> 00:11:19.279
Lacey had three hundred and six carries.
247
00:11:19.320 --> 00:11:21.000
Diggs had thirty three.
248
00:11:21.879 --> 00:11:25.080
That's ten times more from your starting running back WHOA
249
00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:29.120
to your backup running back. So to my point, it's
250
00:11:29.159 --> 00:11:33.120
gonna be real interesting to see how I mean, when
251
00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:35.679
you were talking about three to seven teams, like championship
252
00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:38.559
teams that had you know, running back back committee, it
253
00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:41.039
was you wrote the hot hand a lot. Yeah, right,
254
00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:43.120
and you don't know who is going to catch it.
255
00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:46.120
So if somebody's run running their ass off, like you
256
00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:48.519
stick with him for the next drive, because, like I said,
257
00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:50.039
like these drives, there's not gonna be a lot of
258
00:11:50.039 --> 00:11:53.240
substitutions mid drive. If a play goes if a play
259
00:11:53.279 --> 00:11:56.000
goes thirteen or if a drive goes thirteen or fourteen plays,
260
00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:57.679
you might have the same running back and receivers in
261
00:11:57.720 --> 00:12:00.000
there the entire time because you're going so fast staying
262
00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:04.039
on schedule. Yeah, So like if somebody's riding a hot hand, yeah,
263
00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:06.799
do you put him in the next drive or do
264
00:12:06.879 --> 00:12:08.320
you stick with a three man rotation?
265
00:12:08.519 --> 00:12:10.639
Yeah? Is it going drive by drive by drive?
266
00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:14.320
I like staying with the hot hand I do too, and.
267
00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:15.440
Then keeping fresh legs.
268
00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:17.639
So it but it's gonna be super fun to just
269
00:12:17.840 --> 00:12:20.480
kind of like see how that'll that that rotation plays out.
270
00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:21.960
I say that because, like, you know what it is
271
00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:23.440
like as a running back if you get in a
272
00:12:23.480 --> 00:12:26.919
flow of things and you're like, you're seven carries deep
273
00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:29.519
and you got like for this drive and you're starting
274
00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:31.320
to see the defense say, I don't really know if
275
00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:33.799
I'm interested in tackling that guy anymore. Yeah, because a
276
00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:36.759
running back, you feel that and you're like that linebacker
277
00:12:36.799 --> 00:12:38.759
he took me. You know, at first it started with
278
00:12:38.799 --> 00:12:42.039
his face mask. Now it's with his shoulder. He's about
279
00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:44.679
to olay this thing like he is a matador and
280
00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:46.799
I'm about to run through him. You can feel that
281
00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:48.399
as a running back. So I do like getting in
282
00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:51.399
that flow, but you do have to learn the flow.
283
00:12:51.159 --> 00:12:51.600
Of a game.
284
00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:54.120
Like I knew there was gonna be certain plays that
285
00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:56.080
Charles Scott was going to come in because Charles was
286
00:12:56.080 --> 00:12:57.519
really good at those. I know there's gonna be certain
287
00:12:57.519 --> 00:12:59.440
plays that Keeling came in because Keiling was really good
288
00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:01.919
at those. Trendon was going to have his package, like
289
00:13:02.840 --> 00:13:04.919
part of the running back rotation that you're talking about.
290
00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:06.600
And I love it when you have a hot hand,
291
00:13:06.759 --> 00:13:09.360
But then that hand changes in a game. It can
292
00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:12.600
change in a half. But everybody has to be bought
293
00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:15.440
into that for that to work. If you go back
294
00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:17.600
and you watch in O seven, if Keeling scored me
295
00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:19.559
and Charles met him at the hash, if I scored Keeling,
296
00:13:19.639 --> 00:13:21.480
Charles met me at the hash.
297
00:13:21.960 --> 00:13:23.240
Same thing with Chuck Righte.
298
00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:27.000
So like that worked because we were actually rooting for
299
00:13:27.039 --> 00:13:27.519
each other.
300
00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:30.639
I've been a running back rooms somebody else shoot that.
301
00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:33.240
It was not the case and it doesn't work out.
302
00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:35.840
But in seven, like, if you're doing it because you
303
00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:38.639
understand why you're doing it, that's half the battle.
304
00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:40.159
Well, everybody's gonna get the chance to shine.
305
00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:43.320
Let's just say you're riding the hot hand early and
306
00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:48.399
Harlan Barry goes for the first two quarters, then somebody
307
00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:51.240
else of it. But in the fourth quarter you get
308
00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:53.879
a fresh leg Kaitt and Durham like throw him in there.
309
00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:56.639
They get a chance to because this is what Lane
310
00:13:56.679 --> 00:13:59.840
Kivin's offense does. It wears you out on no doubt.
311
00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:02.120
So if you're taking a if you got three in
312
00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:04.799
depth and link iff and make no mistake link if
313
00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:07.320
of wants to run the football as many stats as
314
00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:11.200
they have the quarterbacks looking great. He's built around the
315
00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:14.000
running game. Whether you choose to believe that or not
316
00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:16.840
it is. And so you throw a fresh running back
317
00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:19.159
they could go start at any other SEC team yep,
318
00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:22.519
in the fourth quarter, then it's gonna be fun.
319
00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:23.519
Uh.
320
00:14:23.639 --> 00:14:26.080
Just to give you an idea of the breakdown. Last year,
321
00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:28.360
somebody was asking if Lacey had three hundred, what was
322
00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:33.559
LSU Cadendorham had one eleven and Harlan Berry had one
323
00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:36.360
oh four, So one eleven, one oh four that and
324
00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:39.279
then Juwan Johnson actually had forty one. So your third
325
00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:41.559
back had more carries, and Ole Missus second back.
326
00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:44.879
And neither one of LSU's backs had as many carries
327
00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:45.919
as Kirraen Lacey.
328
00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:47.840
Now you could combine them, and then you combine him,
329
00:14:47.840 --> 00:14:50.720
and they didn't have not even really not even remotely close.
330
00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:52.320
Still like one hundred, like a hundred out.
331
00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:55.840
Yeah, So that's how much Lane wants to run the football.
332
00:14:55.879 --> 00:14:56.639
Can I admit this?
333
00:14:56.759 --> 00:14:58.720
And I'm not trying to throw shade at this young man,
334
00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:01.879
I swear I'm not. It's just I forgot Michael Van
335
00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:05.519
Buren played for LSU kind of. I mean, I kind
336
00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:07.399
of forgot that that happened just a year ago.
337
00:15:07.639 --> 00:15:09.639
Three games span at the end of the year, everybody
338
00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:12.120
was so chicked out, don't unnecessarily.
339
00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:13.559
Like I called the games and I was there, and
340
00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:14.200
like now it's.
341
00:15:14.039 --> 00:15:16.879
Like, oh yeah, But like when I saw his name
342
00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:19.279
on the rushing chart, I'm like, oh yeah, he played
343
00:15:19.320 --> 00:15:21.960
a lot last year after Garrett, you know, obviously went down.
344
00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:25.360
Buren boys. Whoa eighth president got about that?
345
00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:30.799
Anyways, there's your breakdown of what we're looking for in
346
00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:31.480
training camp.
