Are Lane Kiffin and LSU Football READY for the SEC GAUNTLET?

Of course, there's not a lot you are really looking to get out of a game against McNeese because you are on a complete other planet from a football standpoint than they are. But me and Wyatt came up with one, two, three, four, five, six things we were looking for on Friday and I wanted to read them aloud, expound upon them a little bit and then everyone grade it. The number one thing we talked about all week and of course on Friday that you wanted to see out of Saturday's game was to walk away healthy. Most importantly, your quarterback, but in totality, you had not walked away from a game since week one with everybody healthy and nobody having to get helped off the field or going down. Now, I can't say the same thing for McNeese. They had quite the handful of guys go down, hope they're all okay on that end. But from LSU's standpoint, you wanted to walk away healthy. If you were to grade that A through F, how would you grade LSU's job at staying healthy against McNeese? Do you dock points for since maybe having somebody in the class that should have been in the class but participated anyway? That is to each one of the teacher's own discernment. Because I will say, I was of the intention to not play Sam Leavitt at all. Now were they very careful with him? Yes. Did he play well? Absolutely. I can't give out my full grade until I see what he looks like against Kentucky. Because he was still walking with a moderate limp. If you didn't know he was hurt, what's wrong with the quarterback? I think that's a valid thought process, to not give the full grade yet. But you also saw why he played, I would say. Also very true. And then from an overall standpoint, everywhere else, everybody else healthy. A-plus. Wyatt, your grade? Yeah, I think Lloyd's point is very valid because I was surprised at how much Sam Leavitt played. I will say, give credit to the staff, not that this was really a worry of mine. I thought they had a good game plan for a quarterback who was pretty much playing on one leg. The offensive line, I thought, also did a good job of protecting him while he was in. Outside of one play that made my heart stop for a second. But great throw and catch. I didn't see it because I was watching Sam Leavitt get hit, which made me want to die. But overall, I guess you have to give it an A because no one was injured. But at the same time, we don't really know. Sam Leavitt could have, at some point in this game, maybe done something to his hamstring that might not make him as healthy as he could be for this upcoming week for Kentucky. We don't know. We'll see what happens next week. But overall, no one got injured. Everyone came out healthy. So I guess at this point, you have to give it an A. Professor Chrissy? Taking it at face value, I'll give it an A-. I thought, you know, obviously, taking it at face value, no one else got hurt. What we know is what we know. Everyone's still healthy. And I would also say to that point, the reason why I gave it an A and not a B was because you played so many guys and so many guys came away healthy. You played third stringers and nobody really got hurt. You played, you know, a lot of wide receivers you hadn't seen before, no one really got hurt. You saw a completely different offensive line, no one really got hurt. So you kind of keep those depth pieces, I guess, that you might need in these upcoming three games or even farther down the season. Yeah. So, A or A-. Yeah, no, I mean, look, I would give the coaching staff an A in how they handled this. I mean, look, I think, one, I was surprised to see Leavitt in as long as he was. Like Lloyd said, and we kind of deduced Saturday night, you really kind of saw why Leavitt got the start. I think part of it was, of course, to see that rhythm continue. I also think you wanted to make sure your team got in front in this game, and that was the only guarantee because behind Leavitt, the quarterback play was not great. And so watching that game from a health standpoint, it's an A. I mean, you walked away healthy. Of course, want to still see what Leavitt looks like moving forward. But I thought the coach's game plan, especially with Leavitt out there, was very, very good. The way they called plays, the way they called protections, there was only one play he really got on the move. It was a rollout on a fourth down conversion to Cory Barber. Great catch by Cory Barber. We'll talk about Cory Barber, of course, in a little bit. But I thought overall, you walked away healthy, that's an A-plus. And so the next thing we talked about was depth at running back. You wanted to see those guys behind Dylan Jones get into the football game and get to play. I will say, Jones got more carries than I anticipated in 16, but it didn't really feel like 16 because it was all very early on, because they went to him and fed No. 13 early and often. He led your team with those 16 carries. But we wanted to see, you know what you have in No. 13, and I'll say he impressed me on Saturday night again. Shifty, quick, still doesn't have the home run hitting speed, but he always gets you more yards, it feels like. Like when you think he's about to get tackled, he gets two, three, four more, and he impresses me every time I watch him. He's pretty dang good at football. But I would say we wanted to see depth at running back. We highlighted Harlan Berry. You saw a lot of Harlan Berry, 15 carries. You saw Stacey Gage get six carries, Caden Durham had five carries, Rod Ganey got two carries, and Deuce Gerald's got a carry. And so I'll ask you guys, how would you grade getting to see depth at running back, and then even the performance from the guys, those depth guys at running back? And I know everybody wants to continue to see Harlan Berry, and it's good to continue to see him get reps. You heard him in an interview talk about like what the concern was was valid because it was the case. Like I've never pass blocked a day in my life, and why would I? Like if you were a high school football coach and you have Harlan Berry, you're not really wasting him to go pick up an extra rusher. Like go out on a, like you're getting the ball. So you don't block anybody, but block for him. So I understand that, but to see him kind of embrace that, and not just be like, man, I wish I was playing more, and kind of that be that, it's like, no, I know I need to get better. And you see, that's why they got Dylan Jones, and this is also a, like you saw Stacey Gage, whenever he got in there, it was just like, I am, coach, you said if we play and play well, we're going to play more. I would like that to be the case, and so it was good to see, and then obviously the Deuce Gerald thing was unbelievable. Awesome. It was time. Ole Miss would have been unbelievable, but like I'm glad to see that it, and we should be in the playbook. We've got, and we have that circled and highlighted later on on this list as well, but no, it was awesome. But I will say, I'm glad you bring up Stacey Gage, because it starts with Barry, obviously 15 carries. Stacey Gage, talk about making the most of your opportunities. You get six carries, two of them are tuds, and on one of the carries, you hurdle a guy. Like I mean, that's about as good as it gets. Wyatt, how would you grade both the coaching staff and how they got, like what you saw out of the depth that running back? Yeah, A. A plus, if you want to give it to him. I thought Dylan Jones was good. He actually had more carries, as much as it's hard to believe, more carries this week than he did last week against Texas A&M, which is crazy. He looked good again, as you mentioned. Harlem Barry, I thought he looked great. Everybody wanted to see Harlem Barry. I appreciated what the staff did in terms of getting him in the football, because I think it's very easy to, when he has opportunities against a lesser opponent like this, kind of let him do what he's best at, which is getting on the outside, throwing in the ball. That's not really what they did. They kind of made him run the ball into the teeth of the defense, up the middle, which is not necessarily his strong suit. But look, we know he can do all of the other things that I mentioned, get the ball on the outside and stuff like that. Make him pass block, make him get the ball up the middle of the defense in between the tackles, because those are the things that are kind of holding him back from playing even more. So let him get those opportunities against a lesser opponent. And I thought he made the most of them. He had over 110 yards. So I think he looked great. That one run where he cut to the outside, beautiful. But he starts it between the tackles. Exactly. That's the best part of that whole thing. So I do want to see them get him the ball out of the backfield more as a receiver. We talked about it, what the split share, the carry share going forward is. And it really, for Harlem Barry, for me, like if it's 12 carries, 15 carries, whatever, it shouldn't be carries. It should be touches. Yeah. Right? Whether that's three, four catches and eight carries, however they want to split it up, it should be touches for Harlem Barry. And then you mentioned Stacey Gage. He was really, really good. I think a lot of fans kind of thought that playing Stacey Gage early over Harlem Barry was maybe them sending a message to Harlem Barry that, hey, you have to get better at certain parts of your game before we're going to let you get reps in this offense. And maybe that was the case. But I don't think Stacey Gage is just this bum that they were playing to send a message to Harlem. Stacey Gage clearly asserted himself in camp and earned a lot of those reps. And I was really happy to see him go out there and play. So I think you have a solid little three running back room right now. I would say it was a B, just simply off of Caden Derbyshire Forums. And also, someone had, we can't all say A. I know, I know. Just skip me. I appreciate it. I mean, ****. A, A minus, A plus. Like, all right. I have B. Oh, you're that teacher that busts the curve up. Like, ah, you can do it. Like, ah. You play McNeese State. You didn't capitalize the first letter. Three running back do really well. Caden Durham, a little unimpressive. All right, I had to say it. There's a few plays we saw him do that. Five carries. Five carries for 13 yards from Durham. Right. And it didn't look pretty. Like, there was some moments. I mean, he tackled his own player. I mean, he had to tackle the loss. He did say he did. Obviously, that's fair. With the handling of the other three running backs, I think we could chalk it up to an A pretty, you know, I think that's pretty obvious. But Caden Durham was unimpressive. I'd like to see the coaching staff. I don't know how you really put him in the best positions possible, but it seems like he needs a bit of help right now. And if he's going to play later in the season or there's an injury that's taken and you need a third running back or you need a second running back, like, Caden Durham's a guy that's and for him to be where he is right now is, it's a little sad and it's honestly just, it's pretty disappointing. So, I'll give it a B. It is. No, I appreciate that. Look, I think from what you wanted to see and to Wyatt's point, because Lane brought it up when talking about Harlem and he brought up Stacey Gage, the one reason why Stacey Gage was RB2 over Harlem Barry, pass protection. Right. He was like, Dylan Jones, our best pass protector. Stacey Gage is second. That's why he got the second team reps early on. But Stacey Gage is more than that. I thought that was nice to see him. Look, he didn't show anything crazy in those runs, but you saw the vision. He ran physical and he had the speed to get away and get it in the end zone. Six carries, 110 yards, two touchdowns. You tell him he's not playing. Look at that tattoo. It's unbelievable. That's a great tat. I've never, look. The fear god neck. Yes. I mean, yeah. Mm-hmm. Okay. Get some carries. There you go. And so, look. I thought from the standpoint of what you want to see how you're running backs, that's as good as it. I mean, both Stacey Gage and Harlem Barry had a long rush of 46 yards. They both had three touchdowns. They both had 100 plus yards. Dylan Jones had 16 carries for 79 yards and a touchdown. Landon Clark had a rushing touchdown. Deuce Geralds had a rush. So, you had six rushing touchdowns in this football game, yet 53 total carries. I mean, you ran the rock 367 total yards. And I thought from a depth at running back perspective, you get an A. Next up on the list, we want to see who stepped up at wide receiver. You knew who you had in Winnie Watkins and Jackson Harris. And I would say you even had an interesting development during the game in that Winnie Watkins didn't perform that well. Had two, I mean, tailor-made touchdowns that he dropped. And you saw how that turned into other guys getting opportunities. And so, you wanted to see outside of those two, who's going to step up and answer the call. The guy we highlighted was we wanted Jace Brown to get some free throws. He was very obviously in a tough spot mentally. When you watch that drop against A&M in the end zone, that's mental. That's not talent. That's not skill. That is just in your head. And when, you know, I compared it to basketball. When the shot's not falling, when you're out of rhythm, you want to get fouled. You want to get to the free throw line. You want to see it go through a couple of times. And then after that, you can kind of find your rhythm. And we thought that this would be an opportunity for Jace Brown to find his rhythm. He had four catches or 52 yards. Corey Barber, seven catches, 83 yards, two touchdowns. Eugene Wilson, four catches, 58 yards. Jackson Harris, four for 37. Trey Brown, three for 50. Winnie Watkins, three for 40. Roman Mothershed, two for 11 with a tud. You even had Malik Yelsey with a catch for 25 yards. And so I would ask the room, how would you grade the guys behind Winnie and Jackson Harris in the assignment in front of them to step up and take advantage of the opportunity ahead of them? And you can highlight one guy if you would like. I think everybody would highlight the same guy, right? Yep. That was, you almost, I mean, that was one of the first flips you had, right? Whenever Lane Kiffin was announced to LSU, he was an old miscommit. Corey Barber comes over and then he gets his fifth star. And you had a lot of transfers that came into the room. And it was kind of, I guess, a person-by-person analysis or basis of, oh, you didn't know what they kind of did in terms of nobody's a star, but let's see if you can work all of these people into a room and find a role for everyone. It turns out they all can just play wide receiver. Like they're all, and I love the way that Lane Kiffin's handled this because they're all talented and they're all itching to play. And it really is a case-by-case basis of, hey, if you're going to shine, like, I'm evaluating everything. And at practice, during a game, whatever it may be, like, Woody Watkins doesn't get pulled if he doesn't drop it. Corey Barber maybe doesn't get that opportunity that early, but when he did, he took advantage of it. And it's just another guy that you feel like you can kind of count on. And like, when you see him in the game, you're not gonna be mad. And it was good to see, like, I don't know when, I think the next one up that you're going to see maybe have that Jackson Harris-esque game is going to be Trey Wilson. I think it's just, he's been playing, he's been playing a lot. He leads your team in snaps at receiver. Yeah, and I just think it's inevitable at this point. Like, you've seen the skill set, and he's not just a one-trick pony because he'll block, he'll do all the, like, the little things. But you want to see that explosiveness and maybe design some things for him as opposed to just putting him at, you know, wide receiver two and be like, go block, like, get him going a little bit. But they haven't had to. They haven't really needed to do, oh, he had almost 800 yards of offense, who am I to complain? Like, the LSU wide receiver room, it still doesn't have, you look at it and go, that guy is your best player. It's still just like, damn, I don't know who he's going to throw it to, but when Leavitt's dealing like that, I am comfortable with everybody that's out there. Right. What? If you're going to take out, like, the way you framed the question was taking out Jackson Harris and Winnie Watkins, I'd say A, Corey Barber's obviously the highlight. That was super exciting to see. I think you're going to see him continue to get opportunities now. I'd be surprised if he didn't play a couple of meaningful snaps in Lexington this upcoming weekend. He's going to have the opportunity to, if you continue to capitalize on those opportunities, you'll continue to see a growth in his snap count and in his playing time. Jace Brown, obviously you mentioned him. I thought that was great to see. That made me happy because obviously he was clearly not in a great mental space. And I even turned to Noah, like, I think like third, like third quarter, maybe halfway through and he hadn't gotten into the game yet. And like so many receivers had played and I was like, man, like they may be done with Jace Brown. So it was good to see him come in, be able to make the four catches, 52 yards started off a little weird. He had the bobbled one and he had like a two yard catch. And then by the fourth catch, he gets it in the open field. He's making moves on people. So that was good to see to get his confidence up a little bit. If you were going to add in the two top guys, Jackson Harris and Winnie Watkins, I would have to demote this grade probably to like a B minus because Jackson Harris, after his big breakout weekend last week, only had four catches, 37 yards. Not necessarily his fault, just didn't see a ton of targets this week. And then obviously Winnie Watkins had the two dropped touchdowns, which look, it's not something that I'm super, super concerned about going forward with Winnie Watkins. I think outside of trade as he's been your best receiver so far, but it's something we're going to have to monitor. He's going to have to step back up against Kentucky this weekend. That can't happen. But Corey Barber, super, super, super excited to see him have a breakout game this weekend. I'll actually give this room an A minus. It kind of starts with what we know. What we know is Jackson Harris and Winnie Watkins can already do it. I don't look at that game and take much away from it. I believe Winnie's going to get straight. And I believe, I mean, Jackson had, he didn't have any, I don't think he had any drops and he had four receptions, 37 yards, whatever, you're playing McNeese. What I will say is this is actually the second week in a row now, and this has been kind of coming along slowly but surely, but Trey Wilson also had some more catches this week. I think his consistency is coming up. I think his separation is going to continue to improve, and I think Sam Leavitt and his connection is only going to grow. The reason mainly why I put it at an A minus is just because who you saw, like you saw literally everybody besides really maybe a Harlan Berry at the backfield and maybe a couple others. I would also say I put this at an A minus because Jace Brown can be so important for you if you can get him going. I don't think he is a flop in terms of talent. I think what you saw in the Kansas State film last year, and what you're going to see more so this year coming down the line, he's talented, he's a good player, he could have been, and he still can be your best receiver in this room. I don't think it's obviously going to happen, I think there's some guys that are proven that are making strides, but he can be a very good receiver for you and can also kind of be your deep threat that you've been looking for. I'll say A minus. Also, shout out to Cory Barber. Good week. When we talk about the best version of LSU, the best version of LSU doesn't have two reliable pass catchers, or three. The best version of your team is not going to just be three guys you're comfortable throwing the ball to. Those three, as of right now, would be Winnie, Jackson, and Trey Wilson. Those would be the three that you would say, that's kind of your three after that, you don't really know what you have. The best version of LSU is going to need more than three guys, because sometimes you're going to have a night like Winnie had on Saturday. It was very, very good to see, I'm giving it an A, because Cory Barber, you talk about the opportunity being in front of you and taking advantage of it, he did that and some. More so than even the two touchdowns, the play that impressed me the most was his first catch of the game. It is fourth down, they're running the play for you. Cory was the read. They're putting the hurt quarterback on a rollout to the right. He didn't really create much separation, but stopped himself right past the sticks, right before the sideline, was physical and got the catch. Talk about the first snap of the game needing to make a statement, and he does. I thought he was the biggest key. The other one that we haven't talked about yet, Roman Mothershed, you saw him get in, you saw him get in the end zone, you saw how much it meant to him, and then the next catch after that touchdown, where the pass was kind of high, goes up and gets it, gets popped, holds onto it. I loved the physicality I saw from him, and I think you'll continue to see that develop. Trey Brown had a nice catch down the left sideline on a throw from Landon Clark. I thought ultimately, for the opportunity to be put in front of these guys, to go and show you can be depth pieces, or you can step into that wide receiver three, wide receiver four role, I thought they all made the most of it. The only one that really let you down was Winnie Watkins, and you've seen what he's been able to do up to this point. That game was the anomaly. But then like we said, Jace Brown, four catches, 52 yards, good to see him find a bit of rhythm, and you hope that continues, right? This will be interesting to see, kind of like we're talking about it today, when we have our Watts party on Saturday, or the show on Monday, to look back and go, okay, what you saw in the McNeese game with these guys getting the opportunity and stepping up, here's how you saw that transpire into Kentucky. Because you're about to have seven straight SEC games, you need depth at every position. You need more than three pass catchers, and you saw a good step in that direction on Saturday. Defensive depth. Wait, going on real quick. What you got? Roman Mothershed? Did I blow him up? No, I just wanted to. It was good to see him get a touchdown. You see the big body, you saw everything that came, you're like, who the **** is that? Trey Ness. Yeah, and it's like, okay. It made me sad, honestly. Yeah, but it was good to see him out there. You can tell that he is still sticking with it. I don't know if he thought he would be a top three pass catcher in this offense, but you see the archetype, and you're like, that would be unbelievable. And then, obviously, Trey Ness goes down, so you kind of look at him again, and you're like, I'm going to move the tight end a little bit. Changes number to 14. Yeah, that's great. And then he gets to the end zone, so I just wanted to give a shout out to Roman Mothershed, because look, two catches, 11 yards, one touch. And we're still waiting on that first Zach Grace catch. It's coming now. It's on the way. If they could just get closer. You have to hit him in the face mask. If we could just get our guy on target here, please. You have to hit him in the face mask. If we could just get 44, just put it between the fours, just one time. I don't mean to wish ill will on anybody, I'm just waiting for him to piss all of us off. We can't compare him to Bowersharp yet, because he hasn't dropped it yet, or pummeled it yet. It's not been his fault yet. Get him going. His feet get in the quicksand a little bit. He's not really, you know, when the ball's not there, he's just kind of, when he's planted those heels, he ain't moving. You're supposed to catch it with your feet. It's almost like a bit at this point, like, oh, I just missed you. It's almost rude. Like, can we put it between the fours? No, we can't. No. No, it's thrown back to him. He's going to get one. It's on the way. Oh, massive. Fourth and two. It's going to be a huge play. It's going to be, it's going to be massive. I agree. D'Angelo Peterson, that boy. Yeah, reverse. Come around the edge. Don't Trey Quinn it. Oh my gosh, no. Because if you don't be 44, you will be in the portal that night. That's true. Back to Oregon you go. Defensive depth was one we talked about. You've had injuries defensively. You wanted to see, because look, we brought up linebackers specifically. The guy we singled out was Singleton. He was, what, linebacker number five? Well, guess what? Witt goes down. Charles Ross goes down. You've now gone from five to three very quickly after one week of play. And that goes for everybody in that room. They've all moved up a spot. The other guy we highlighted a lot, Wyatt highlighted, Fahim Delane, wanting to watch him and see him get the opportunity. He played a good bit as well. And so, from the defensive depth, how would you grade what you saw from the twos and threes in this game? But specifically as well, the guys that you were looking for at key positions that you've suffered injuries, like linebacker, like safety, the guys that you might have to rely on more as the year goes on? I'd go C plus, B minus. I'm not super concerned about the two touchdowns you gave up. I'm not going to dox anybody, but there were some players on the field for those drives that I don't think are going to get many meaningful snaps for you this season. As far as the guys you wanted to see that I think can be big parts of this defense, like Tylan Singleton I thought popped again. He looks really, really good, especially just in the uniform. I really like the way he plays football. Dylan Carpenter had a nice night. I think Zach Weeks had a nice night as well next to Tylan Singleton. I really like that linebacker duo. Jace Thomas isn't really depth anymore. He's a starter, but he had a nice night. Fixed the sleeves. Good on him. I thought Dom McKinley played well. Hasn't really started a ton to this point. Had a sack. Who else? Jakeem Jackson, not really depth anymore. He's playing well. Faheem Delane, who I mentioned on Friday, I thought he had good moments. He had one play where he went and hit stick some guy. It was a good play. But then on the reverse touchdown, I think he got sucked in, and that was kind of his fault. So a little bit of good, a little bit of bad. But overall, I mean, you have to dock them some points because of the two long touchdowns they gave up. But at the end of the day, I'm not super worried about that. Those were a lot of third stringers on that field, so I'm not super worried about that. It's kind of funny thinking about the defense because my initial thoughts like A, but then you remember like, oh, they gave up 14 points. Well, it was 14 points. One of the touchdowns was McNeese literally had to pull a trick play out. And then another one was somebody gets beat around the edge, cornerback, and so obviously. They ran three plays, two of which were touchdowns. Probably a B minus. They looked great on first and second down until the ones got back in the game. That was also wild. That was so disrespectful. We're going to run our twos and threes out there for first and second down. You get to third and 12. Hey, Prince, we'll get back out there. Imagine being left tackled. Be like, oh, are you kidding, dude? We were grading it off of that. And like, OK, we need you to get to third down. Hey, good job. You got first and second. You got us to third. We were able to get off the field. Yeah, but I would say probably like a B minus. Those 14 points at the end of the game, they didn't allow LSU to cover, which is not good in some people's books and some people's sports books. Literal books. And so B minus for me. I like the freshman D line. I do. Of course. Hey, you got to see all three of them on the field at the same time. Great point. Never wrong just early. Just early. Before La Tech, Chrissy goes, you know what I want to see tonight? All three defensive line freshmen out there. Yeah. Consistently. Got a full drive of it last night. And I went, Chrissy, guess what? All three freshman D line. He was like, never wrong just early. That's right. And the funny thing was, Pogey's point in that game, too, before Tech. Oh, you want to see Stacey Gage home run. It was. Never wrong just early. Shout out to the boys. There you go. Defensive depth, LC. How would you grade it? I would say if you had asked me six plays into the game, F. And then the seventh play, Tabarka Schooley. Unbelievable play. Like read it. He is good. Yeah, Chrissy. He is. Great point. Major improvement from last year, though. Like, he is. I thought he was good last year. But he's getting an opportunity to be like more of a future. Yeah. He's kind of not just a plug in play. He's like, go make plays guy now. Yeah. Which has been great to see, because that was a. Like, as soon as it left his hand, it wasn't a pick. Then he did. So it was right. It was perfectly read. You're like three. Like, let it go. Pick. Yeah. I was like, oh, now it's bringing to the house. But to see that. And then that got the LSU defense going. Three plays, eight yards, three plays, eight yards, three plays, zero yards. That's three straight punts. And then they went backwards. Three plays, negative seven. Three plays, negative five. Two plays, negative three. Like, this game is a rout. And so your defense did exactly. I guess what you're. I mean. Blake Baker, let's really consider what you, you know, what's going to be back. And what's. This is home. You don't have to go any. How many times do you get to look up and go, man, 63 points on one. Just. I mean, life is good. It doesn't have to be harder. Like, you can just play it on easy mode. Deuce Rich. And Lamar. Like, just see that through. Yeah. Three years. Just see it through. It would be a fool. You know, it's like. It's like if you. You went to a life for these opportunities. Like, if you got. You recruited them. If you worked hard for this. Yeah. A five star true freshman quarterback committed and he played really well. And then you left and took a new job and just left to the five. So now you see. Exactly. Through with your. Well, don't tell him to go take them to wherever he goes either. Well, that's right. Don't. Don't even put that out in the. That's what he was. Don't even say. That's not at all what I said. Yeah. I was talking about. I was talking about in the past. Yeah. When you would get a big quarterback and then you would leave and you'd be like, oh, you're just leaving your quarterback at that. Because I did see Lamar very, I would say, promising tweet. I can see how he could get like you see the success of Deuce Jarrell and you see kind of the guys that you came in with having, I don't want to say more success, but somebody that if it was Lamar Brown, I don't think anybody would be surprised. Right. Different position. Right. But you also see him eating up double teams. Like even he's like, don't let him get going. If you watch the Deuce sack, it's Lamar's getting double team. He's eating it up. Yeah. Doing a great, I mean, doing your, that's doing your job. Yeah. So it was good to see. Instead of it being like a clock's ticking type thing, it was like to the finish line. Yeah. Okay. You do have to like take it into account because I don't want anybody to leave. Namely being your best player on defense is Blake Baker. There you go. But yeah, I mean, defensive depth, look, your top three tacklers in this game, Tylan Singleton, Zach Weeks, Dylan Carpenter. I thought you saw some good things from Carpenter, but Singleton was the one that I circled out on Thursday because like I said, he got a double job promotion after a week and I thought he looked great. Like, I thought he was out there and he's, he's flying around, looks great in the uniform and like legitimately just, just, you ain't better than one job. Do what? Two jobs. I mean, literally he got it. Come on. I can fit more. Yeah. I mean, he went from LB five to LB three. Yeah. After one night, you jump up two spots on the, on the death chart. Um, like what I saw from him, I would still give this, um, I'd be with white, I'd give it a C plus because, um, there's a key position, uh, at cornerback that I would like to see the guys behind your first two, two, double job promotion. Your first two, two and a half. I don't even know if that's real or fake, but he does look like that, um, behind a beach behind DJ and PJ. You've got your team, but it's after that you still didn't, I still haven't seen enough from Michael Turner and, uh, and Finney at this point. And you talk about the touchdown where the corner gets beat around that was, that was Michael Turner. Right. And so I want to see that continue to grow. But I really like what you see on D at the defensive line spot. Like I mean those, especially defensive tackle, you have a really, really good rotation of guys. You have the top end talent. There's no more Deuce Gerald is up next or Deuce Gerald is on the way, but he 99 is here because it is, he is not the future. He's the present. Like that's how good he is in the country and second on your team, which is pretty cool. Um, so I just, I also like that you pull up the stats and your top three tacklers are all guys that needed to step up and take advantage of the opportunity in front of them. Uh, and so I'd give it a B minus on what I saw from the defensive depth, especially guys like Fahim Delane, um, guys like Tylan Singleton, Zach Weeks, these dudes that are going to be getting more opportunities moving forward because of the injuries that have happened in front of them. Also like to see Isaiah Washington out there for safety. Number 33 had a couple of good plays to see him out there as well. No, it was, I thought ultimately, you know, you take away three plays, I mean really two of them specifically, and you could, you, you wouldn't be upset at this at all. And one of them, like we said, it was a trick play, right? And it's just, it's your young guys that are undisciplined and they got beat around the end on a, on a trick play. So, um, liked what I saw from the defensive depth, especially guys that are going to be getting a lot of opportunities moving forward.