Justin Jefferson on Breaking Out, Moving to the Slot, and Following in His Family's Footsteps + Mickey Joseph and Georgia Southern Wrap Up
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🗓️ 3 September 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Fresh off a breakout season in 2018 and a stellar start to 2019, junior wide receiver Justin Jefferson joins the show (22:45) for an extended sit down.
Justin dives deep into being the third Jefferson brother to wear the purple and gold, growing up around the program, and breaking out as a sophomore after showing up late as a freshman – when half the team thought he was a walk on. He also discusses some of the outside-the-box approaches the wide receivers implemented this offseason to make sure they're catching more passes and dropping fewer.
Before that, I put a bow on the win over Georgia Southern with some deep statistical dives into the passing game, the offensive line, and a couple of surprising defensive standouts. We also sit down with LSU wide receivers coach Mickey Joseph (15:20) to break down the success of the passing game in week one, when 14 players caught passes.
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| 0:00.0 | When you showed up at LSU, did people think you were a walk-on when you first got here? Yeah, because I came, I came like the second day of fall camp. Okay. So I was like, didn't have any more lockers, so I had to go in like 118. So I was like, I mean, people knew me because I was, you know, Jordan, Ricky's your brother. Yeah. It was like, oh, yeah, you're a walk-on. Yeah. Stuff like, I'm not a walk on. |
| 0:20.5 | Like, where do you get that from? |
| 0:37.6 | Hey, everyone, welcome to the latest edition of Hey Fightin Podcast, the official podcast, |
| 0:43.2 | of LSU football. |
| 0:44.0 | I am Cody Wersham, Digital Media Reporter for LSU Athletics, |
| 0:46.4 | feeling quite refreshed on this Tuesday after a couple days of rest. |
| 0:51.7 | Thanks for the feedback from everybody after I tried something new on Saturday |
| 0:56.5 | with the hurry up edition of the podcast. Got a lot of good feedback. It sounded like most of you |
| 1:00.8 | all wanted me to try to keep doing that. So I will. And I will also try to sound less tired |
| 1:05.6 | next time because apparently I sounded quite tired. A lot of the feedback was that I sounded a |
| 1:10.6 | little bit sleepy. And guess what? I sounded a little bit sleepy. And guess what? |
| 1:11.7 | I was a little bit sleepy. It was like 1245. But it was fun. It was fun to do. It was fun to get your |
| 1:17.8 | feedback. I enjoy making these. So we'll see how it goes this weekend on the road as LSU heads to |
| 1:24.5 | Austin to take on Texas. I will be on the team playing after the game. |
| 1:29.4 | So maybe playing podcast coming your way. I don't know. We'll see. It depends on who I'm sitting |
| 1:33.8 | next to. How annoyed they get with me, how loud the engine is. Maybe I'll just wait until we get |
| 1:39.1 | back and I can get back up to my office and then it will be even later. But who cares? I can sleep in |
| 1:44.0 | on Sunday and |
| 1:45.1 | and get you the content that you need and the content that I have fun making so thanks for the |
| 1:50.0 | feedback on that I don't want to spend a ton of time today recapping Saturday's game other |
| 1:54.8 | than to dive a little bit deeper on a couple of spots that I overlooked on Saturday night. |
| 2:02.4 | And some of that I use Coach O audio. |
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