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Hey Fightin' Podcast Network: The Official Podcast Network of LSU Sports

Pursuing Perfection with Blake Ferguson + Special Teams Coordinator Greg McMahon on Cade York, Derek Stingley, Avery Atkins, and Special Teams Stars

Hey Fightin' Podcast Network: The Official Podcast Network of LSU Sports

LSU Sports

Sports

4.9537 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Senior longsnapper Blake Ferguson joins today's show for a wide-ranging conversation that starts with LSU's win over Texas and ends with Chelsea-Arsenal banter.

In between, we get into some fascinating stuff: Blake's craftsmanlike approach to his trade, how he and his brother got into the longsnapping game, how his parents have been at every LSU game since 2012, and the inner workings of the special teams room. He talks about Cade York's poise, Zach Von Rosenberg's work ethic, and which special teamers came to football from soccer backgrounds.

After that, special teams coordinator Greg McMahon jumps on to break down York's recruitment and early success, Ferguson's leadership, Avery Atkins' consistency, and the culture of special teams at LSU as a launchpoint for young stars in the making. 

LSU fans know as well as anyone: special teams gets overlooked until it starts making mistakes, and since McMahon's addition to the program before the 2018 season, mistakes have been few and far between.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Every day is about getting better, like you said.

0:02.4

And, you know, I keep a notebook here in the special team's room,

0:07.4

and I'm charting my snaps every single day.

0:09.8

Every snap that I've had since we started fall camp has been charted in that notebook.

0:15.6

And so my job right now is to be bluntly as perfect as I can.

0:22.0

You only notice the long snapper when he messes up.

0:37.7

Hey, everybody, welcome to another edition of Hey Fighten podcast, the official podcast of LSU football.

0:43.2

I'm Cody Worsham, Digital Media Reporter for LSU Athletics.

0:45.8

Happy you could be here today.

0:47.7

I want to be very quick at the introduction, since I think we recap the Texas game,

0:51.9

in the hurry up on Sunday morning pretty thoroughly.

0:54.8

If you want more recap stuff, I've got plenty of it out and about.

0:58.3

On my Twitter feed, there's a lot of video recap at Cody Wersham.

1:01.7

I also have an oral history of the 3rd and 17 play that LSU converted.

1:08.0

To give you a little insight on that, like, I don't know if you ever read

1:11.4

oral history or not.

1:13.4

They're usually kind of these in-depth, long pieces about some big game or big event, but

1:18.4

I kind of just thought about doing it for that one play.

1:21.5

One, because, to be perfectly honest with you, I had about a million quotes on it from

1:24.8

guys after the game and thought that it might be interesting. And then when I listened to the broadcast feed and listen to the play-by-play that Chris Blair called in the LSUports radio network, I thought, okay, there's something to work with here. So if you want to kind of relive that play through the eyes and the ears of the players and the broadcasters and the coaches.

1:44.8

That's up at LSUsports.net right now.

1:46.9

And like I said, all my video recap of the game against Texas, some X's and O stuff,

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