USC Shocks LSU: Miller Moss Outshines Nussmeier, Kelly’s Curse Continues | College Football Enquirer

off and then it was just right up the middle touchdown like you know six seven plays later touchdown um quote of the weekend we had some guys play their butts off tonight and we're sitting here again we're sitting here talking about the same things pound the table Brian Kelly channels my mood while I do this podcast every time with YouTube you are my spirit animal Brian what is going on I'm angry uh you both out in Vegas various levels of sobriety uh speaking of bad trip there's been bad trips to Vegas people have had bad trips to Vegas they've left with regret lack of purpose injuries pounding tables you see at you see them at the airport Dan sitting at their gate you know and they're just their face they're just wearing it they're wearing Vegas on their face I used to do this trip where I'd go to uh Yahoo meetings up in Sunnyville California in the Bay Area and there was a flight I could take a red eyee back but I had to go San Jose to Vegas and get the red eyee and I would show up to get the red eyee in Vegas and I would have not been in Vegas right I'm just connecting and you get to your the midnight flight back to and it was like the people just sprawled out just you're like man this town when you come in with sober eyes you're like oh no look at these people they're just done puddles just they're sleeping on the floor guys got I just blew my mortgage like they smell a smoke and you're just like oh this flight is awful what does this town do Pat what is happening with Brian Kelly he's angry uh I will say I I barely did Vegas I you know I flew in Sunday morning wasn't feeling very good heroically did the overreaction podcast with you all and then covered the game and then flew out Monday didn't place a single wager and I I the when I got to the airport they originally said um my flight out was d42 I go to d42 and that actually is a flight that's going to Baton Rouge and yes the defeated detritus that was slumped around at that gate oh that was a rough Bunch that was a bunch that came in with high hopes and more money and left broke and ow and ones so that that that was a rough rough scene there but um you know it was a really good game I thought it was a very good game I I didn't walk away from that down on LSU and down on Brian Kelly uh really you know I mean I know they they are 0 and one three years in a row now with Kelly and they've lost they they take on these good games they don't win them they lost to Florida state twice and now they've lost to uh to USC and certainly in two of the three of those season openers under Kelly you could make a case they could have should have won absolutely the first one against Florida State and then this one you know they had the lead they gave up two touchdown drives in the last half of the fourth quarter and I get him being angry and I get LSU fans being angry because that's what they do when they lose but they're fine they're okay they're going to be fine I think and I but I'm I'm more impressed with USC than I am distressed by LSU yeah same USC's defense was kind of the the star of the game in a way for me I mean obviously Miller Moss played incredibly well both quarterbacks did but the uh the Improvement um in USC's defense just in tackling especially up front um and they had some one1 tackles too in space um that they made that last the last few years just didn't seem like a USC program uh makes um so that that was huge to see for for them and for their fure future this year but Pat might feel the same way we're up in the Press Box of that game and it's 17 to 13 you know late in the third quarter early in the fourth quarter and LSU twice takes over with drives up four and they started to run the ball well a little better got it going and you thought well this is over like and we were talking with the people around me in the Press Box like we've seen the show before about to be like a nine playay you know 70 yard drive with seven runs and Ells she's going to score a touchdown and win the game and put it away and that's that's what it felt like usually happens um in a game kind of like that especially with USC but give give it up again going back circling back to the def USC's defense LSU was had a third and one around the 40 on one of those drives lost a yard LSU had a third and maybe six um in in a great open field tackle to hold it to three yard yards and force another punt so give it up for for USC's defense that was impressive but yeah the LSU folks who I heard from quite a a few after the game we're we're not happy um and uh you know I I think if you're an LSU F you take away from that game that offensively you have some really big weapons you have a quarterback that is is pretty sharp and defensively um you know I think you're improved from last season I it feels like that it seems like they're improved the one issue was late in the game um you couldn't run the ball and and you struggled to you struggle to run the ball the whole game really and that was the that was the thing that came out of that game for the LSU side while USC probably celebrating having the offensive weapons that it thought and having improved defense I think LSU probably came away from that game same thing right improved defense offensive weapons but oh my goodness we can't run the ball and with a veteran um experienced offensive line one of the most experienced in the country could not run the ball late when it mattered and that was kind of the difference and that is demoralizing when you look at LSU's schedule yeah I thought it was a great game uh it was a great game to watch I'm sure it was a great game to be at live on TV it was just really great quarterback play by Miller moss and uh nus Meyer um back and forth you didn't know what going to happen and it's sort of to me this is what we want particularly as we get into this playoff like this doesn't hurt anybody you know you don't have to do this let's rig the schedule to go 12-0 or 13-0 um I think LSU I I get Brian Kelly angry because he didn't win the game and and and I kind of I kind of like it BEC I mean I don't doesn't matter me if he hits the table um people get all fired up with Brian Kelly but he created a meme created a meme oh my God yes and the somebody somebody screenshotted right when he hit the table and the water bottle in front of him in front of him flew into the air and they've got the the screenshot is the water bottle off of the table just it dispelled in midair it's great it landed though right it's not spill I don't believe impressive effort by the water bottle resilient danani or whatever it was um yeah I mean it it was a good game I think you you get you get more out of that than beating somebody 70 to Z zero right um so I don't think it's it's bad I think but I think USC's got to feel really good about the you know it's all been do they have the stuff in the trenches can they go up against these big 10 teams well they went up against LSU uh and did fine very happy for Miller Moss you know three years he sat in the program worked um he's a real cerebral player a kid really enjoys USC um I know I've read some different stuff on him and he's just he's he loves the school he wants to be a college student he's into chess all these different things and you know he goes into last year the the season ends Caleb will obviously sits behind Caleb Williams whatever um has the number one draft pick linkoln Riley has a press conference before the bowl game I mean right right at the end of season says I'm going to bring in two transfer quarterbacks well you know I've been here hey coach um and then they get in the Holiday Bowl and he wins the job and he's the next day Lincoln Riley calls him now he's scared Miller Moss is going to leave right he calls him and says hey I'm not taking any veteran quarterbacks right and and the job was wide open for him and now he's got it and he he looks tremendous and so I love those types of stories yeah very happy for Miller Moss um who has put in his time there and gotten his chance got better capitalized when he got the opportunity and yeah Lincoln Riley's tried to recruit over him they brought in m Nelson was the five-star guy that was supposed to be the next guy you know replacing Caleb Williams that didn't work out uh they did bring in Jaden mava from UNLV and he's not beating out Miller mosson Miller has played extremely well in his two starts as USC Trojan uh he was really he was very emotional after the game on the field and then he just kind of bottled that all up and he was really kind of bland in the postgame press conference we were a little we were hoping for a little more yeah we were walking out hoping we were getting a little more but uh yeah vultures media vultures that's right C just be happy for us come on yeah um but no it was it was a very good performance by by USC in general and deanton Lynn do we have a rising coaching star he's 34 years old he's the son of Anthony Lynn who was the head coach of the Chargers was in the been in the NFL forever uh he was the DC last year for UCLA and their defense got unbelievably better so Lincoln Riley big play goes across town swipes and brings him over and at least after one game their defense is unbelievably better they tackled well which USC I think was the worst tackling team in the country in 2022 and 2023 and they they made open field tackles they made tackles in gaps they were tough up the middle they covered they had a couple of busts but but you know they they were tough in the Red Zone I just thought it was an incredible performance that makes me say deanton Lynn knows what he's doing holy moly they brought in six new six defensive starters bya the portal um and then the bunch of of other guys who were 2023 transfers in so Lincoln said massive changes defensively and they have been massive but they're working that's what impressed me and one other quick note on LSU LSU's offense um Kiren Lacy was unbelievable in the first half and then they didn't get him the ball and I don't know whether that was you know I didn't study while the game was going on but whether that was a an adjustment that Lynn made to say we're taking him away or they just didn't even really press the issue to get him the ball and the other thing LSU has Elite tackles Will Campbell and and Emory Jones they're better pass blocking tackles than run blocking tackles I think and that's will Campbell's going to make a ton of money as a left tankle in the NFL but they didn't get a lot of push I didn't think as run blockers nether the guys inside of them G guard to guard so that's an area you know Ross talked about they didn't run the ball well I their line may just not be built to pound people yeah know that's a good point um yeah the Anon lire obviously um you know maybe one of the best coordinator hires maybe the best one that we saw in the off season it had a lot of Buzz around it took him from UCLA um Lincoln rally did and Lincoln Riley almost sounded uh surprised in his own defense afterward um that they trusted the system and the new players trusted the system like they did on a big stage and it was just I kind of wrote this but it was kind of almost like he internally was saying did we really do that are we sure that was us uh which is kind of what it what it felt like but yeah that was one of the most impressive things and look there were a lot of um back to Miller moss real quick I there were a lot of great quarterback play week one we we saw plenty of great stats and maybe I'm biased because was just at the game but I think his performance was the best uh on that stage um against the defense at LSU that's been improved and he just made some really really good throws and and he put his receivers in great spots to make phenomenal catches which they did uh kyen Hudson had two catches that were the best um I mean the two catches in that game from him might end up being two of the best we see all season the one-handed catch and then the catch late on the drive that set up the game winning touchdown where he was just hit he was targeted literally targeted and he hung onto the ball and again that catch was that catch was like a perfect throw in stride uh for Miller Moss it was yeah if I'm big 10 defenses uh I'm a I'm a little a little uh anxious for that for that game against those uh USC players and