Why Ja'Marr Chase Craves the Challenge of Wearing Number 7 + Ed Orgeron Previews Spring Practice
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🗓️ 5 March 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Ja'Marr Chase walked into Football Ops this week on a mission.
He wanted No. 7.
It took him time to track down Coach O, who bounces around the building like a man on fire, but eventually, he found his head coach and asked for the jersey.
"Alright," Coach O said, "let's do it."
On today's show, we sit down with Ja'Marr to discuss why he wanted that number, what it means to him, and how he's working to set new goals after surpassing the many he set in 2019.
"I look at 7 as a competitive number," Chase says. "I think 7 at LSU is like a challenge for people. There's a lot of things that goes on in the year when you have 7 on, a lot of critics, a lot of people, a lot of expectations from 7, and I want to have that challenge upon me."
That's a mentality that's taken Chase to the top of college football, and it's the mentality that fuels his desire to go even higher, still.
Show Notes
- 1:45 - Recapping Coach O's Spring Football Preview Press Conference
- 2:02 - Position changes
- 3:14 - Spring absences
- 4:32 - Depth Chart
- 10:24 - Why Coach O thinks Myles Brennan is about to explode
- 11:51 - What Coach O liked about Scott Linehan in his interview
- 14:01 - Coach O on Bo Pelini
- 16:23 - Coach O's vow to work even harder than last season
- 17:22 - Ja'Marr Chase Interview
- 18:31 - Why Ja'Marr wanted 7
- 19:44 - Ja'Marr's mentality after winning the Biletnikoff
- 21:33 - Who gets No. 1 now?
- 23:27 - Ja'Marr's Combine Numbers (40, bench, squat, etc).
- 24:41 - Where Ja'Marr's love for the weight room comes from
- 25:16 - Meeting Lou Holtz
- 26:24 - Life without the Joes
- 27:15 - Working with Myles Brennan
- 30:00 - Setting new goals for 2020
- 31:24 - Fitting in to a new offense
- 32:51 - National championship game memories
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome to another edition of Hey Fighten Podcast, the official podcast of LSU Football. |
| 0:21.8 | As always, I'm Cody Wersham, digital media reporter for LSU Athletics. |
| 0:26.2 | And I got a very special episode today. |
| 0:28.6 | Of course, as you can tell from the episode title, as you can tell from all the media we've been putting out. |
| 0:34.3 | LSU has a new number seven. |
| 0:35.6 | That's Jamar Chase, junior-wide receiver. |
| 0:38.4 | Have a very good conversation with Jamar coming up at the end of this podcast. In fact, once I finish recording |
| 0:44.4 | and put everything together, I'll put it up in the episode description where that interview starts. |
| 0:49.1 | If you want to go ahead and just skip to that interview, feel free. It's a very good conversation |
| 0:52.9 | with Jamar about why he accepted |
| 0:55.2 | number seven, why he asked for number seven. In fact, there's actually a really good story there |
| 0:58.9 | that I didn't get on microphone, but Jamar went and looked for Coach O to ask for number seven. He |
| 1:06.4 | walked in the building. I think he saw Greg Stringfellow, the equipment head equipment guy over there, and said, I'm fixing to go get number seven. And I think he actually spent like 50 minutes walking around looking for Coach O, trying to get, trying to get number seven and tell Coach O that he wanted number seven because Coach O is just that active in the building. He wasn't gone. He was there. He was just moving around the building so much that Jamar couldn't run him down. So eventually he ran him down. He asked him for number seven |
| 1:32.5 | and Coach O gave it to him. So as you can tell from the title of this episode and all the stuff |
| 1:39.7 | we've been putting out. So it's a good conversation. If you want to get to that, go ahead and |
| 1:43.7 | start there. But before we get there, I did want to go over a couple of things that Coach O talked about at his press conference on Wednesday, previewing the start of spring practice, which begins on Saturday. And the couple of things that I wanted to go over, kind of newsy items and then a few sound bites, just kind of |
| 2:01.1 | talking about some of these newsy items. The first thing I wanted to go over with some position |
| 2:04.3 | changes. The ones that stood out to me, Marcel Brooks is going to move from outside linebacker |
| 2:09.0 | to, Coach O'clock an inside linebacker. It's that 4-3 linebacker spot. I don't know which one he'll be |
| 2:14.3 | playing, but slightly different than the role that he's been playing. Coach O'n mentioned that they wanted him to put on about 10 more pounds, get up from 205 to 215 to 215. But obviously he brings a lot of speed to that position and will be very dynamic there. Another guy moving to linebacker, Devante Lee, from wide receiver to linebacker. You can see it. You can see it with his build. I think Devante Lee actually went to |
| 2:35.0 | Coach Owen said he wanted to play defense. And with some bodies to replace a linebacker, he could be a |
| 2:40.6 | very good fit there. Joseph Evans also changing sides of the ball for LSU, moving from defensive |
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