All right, welcome back to another edition of a hate fight to podcast from the back of the bus.

Cody Wersham, Jake Pester.

LSU Falls in Tuscaloosa, 2014.

A couple of news items, one, didn't bring the roadcaster, like I promised I would.

Mostly because it didn't have a battery.

But I did bring my recorder this time, unlike Ole Miss, so I'm not coming to you,

so though.

I do have Hester here, and pardon any sound interruptions of the background.

We are on the back of the bus.

Just your first thoughts.

I sent out a call for questions, so we'll have some questions.

But 2014, LSU's defense had a really stellar game.

Gave the offense a couple cracks there at the end of it. Probably a game that's decided by turnovers. LSU had three. Alabama, I think, went turnover. No, they had one right there at the end on the Cam Lewis strip sack. But Alabama got 13 points off turnovers, zero for LSU. Ultimately, the difference in the game. Yeah, Alabama only actually, you know, drove the field and went and scored on LSU's defense when they weren't given something one time. I mean, the defense played incredible, played inspired football. We saw some things we have not seen. We saw corner cats. We saw a three four. We saw Mike Jones implemented into the game plan. We saw a lot of things that we just haven't seen yet. So, you know, the defense did everything he could ever ask them to do, right? I mean, look, you turn it over, you fumble it, and then they score two plays later. They take a shot, which everybody's going to do, right? And also, like, that interception before half can't happen. It can't. It can't happen. You can't have that that's that's the game and you knew the last thing that could happen there for lSU the only thing that couldn't happen was the interception and you could say look at ricocheted off somebody it was a freak play but you know when you throw the ball late sometimes like stuff like that's going to happen yeah the defender got his hand in there too. Yeah, you throw it about 17 rows on that

play and it's that was you know for momentum as well. I going in the locker room tied with, you know, getting the ball back. That's just a completely different story. But credit the LSU players because they didn't allow that to get them down. They go down 20 to 7 and it didn't really matter. So, I mean, there was plenty of times where this team could have quit and they didn't, but a couple of key plays, as we're pointing out here, where Alabama's offense was able to capitalize off those turnovers because the defense, man, they held their own, like I said, for that offense, for the Heisman frontrunner, for all those first-round picks that are out there, and you've got a defense that's got, But, I mean, let's call it, it's bare bones. It's bare bones. I mean, you've got some very talented players out there still, but it's bare bones as far as depth and what you have out there, and they absolutely held their own here in Tuscaloosa. At one point, Dwight McLaughern got hurt. Radarius Jones came in the game, And I think Demarius McGee was probably the only scholarship cornerback left at that point,

besides the guys who were on the field.

Now, McLaughern came back.

We could highlight a bunch of individual performances.

I think that they were really outstanding for LSU, especially on the defensive side.

I think offensively, a couple guys had really nice nights, but overall the offense struggled.

But the first word that came to mind for me watching this game and watching the way that LSU

answered and played was resilience.

That's a resilient football team.

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