It's a busy day for me with two stories to write for NOLA.com (hoops and football), so I will transcribe my interviews with Sumrall and Greg Gasparato later, but just wanted to pass on the news that Sam Howard is doubtful for the Temple game. It has not been determined whether Dickson Agu or Chris Rodgers would start in his place, but Tulane is deep at linebacker and likely would not miss Howard much against an opponent like Temple. It might be an opportunity for Makai Williams to get some reps at linebacker. He is talented but has not worked his way into the rotation so far in his career.

"The deal with Sam is I probably could have been a jerk and pushed the gas on him, but the reason he's doubtful probably has much to do with if you're not ready, we've got guys that can play," Sumrall said. "Don't do anything dumb. Those guys (Agu and Rodgers) make plays, man. They're pretty good."

Thursday is a walkthrough in Sumrall's system, so there is very little to report from practice. I'll be back later with the quotes from Sumrall and Gasparato on the unprecedented defensive depth and balance.

SUMRALL

On if he's ever had a team with this much defensive balance and depth:

"I haven't. We're playing a lot of guys. We're trying to be fresh. You've seen different guys step up. The pick-sixes being a different guy each time is kind of exemplary of there's a lot of guys that can make plays. It's a lot of fun. I haven't been around defenses where the number is so spread out. Usually you have a leading tackler or two in the top group in the conference and a sack guy who's usually the top guy in the conference or close. That is very unique. It's a testament to the depth our defense. It's also a testament to the number of guys that are able to play when we're rolling like this."

On using a lot of guys on defensive line and being effective:

"There's been a lot of guys. Even like Terrell Allen last week had the one that was a big play. Gerrod Henderson had his game against South Florida. They've all had moments. Fobbs-White's flashed the past few weeks. Pat (Jenkins)'s Pat. (Eric) Hicks is Hicks. Adin (Huntington)'s kind of come on the last three games, so you're seeing a lot of guys. Patrick Peterson. Who saw that coming? It's a great tip of the cap to our team because they love watching each other's success on defense. I've had a lot of fun just seeing them be fired up about another guy making a play. That's what great teams do."

On moving guys around:

"We make mistakes as coaches all the time believe it or not. So we had Adin at field end and TA at bandit. That was off of body type. You look at a guy's body and think they should fit there, but really their experience and their comfort level were better suited in the other direction so we moved TA to field (actually tackle) and Adin to bandit, and both of them are playing better. It was us being dumbass coaches for a while."

On this being ideal:

"It's great. What I'm really excited about is we knew coming into the year Pat Jenkins and Eric Hicks up front. We knew coming into the year Tyler Grubbs. We knew coming into the year Slim Despanie. It's fun watching the younger players find themselves and grow in confidence and just improve their game."

On depth maybe hurting chance for all-conference selections:

"I've never put a whole lot of stock in those lists anyway. I played in college with a guy named Dwayne Robertson, who never made all-conference but was the fourth pick in the NFL draft. Most of the time nobody knows what they're picking. It's who made the most tackles. Well that guy might suck. He just fell into a lot of tackles. I led my team in tackles. I wasn't a good player. I was average."

On his making 17 interceptions in high school:

"Yeah. I played corner and safety as a sophomore and junior. I had 10 picks as a sophomore because the corner on the other side of me was like a real player and they thought they were going to throw at this skinny white kid and I just picked a lot of passes off."

GREG GASPARATO

On if he's ever had a defense with this much balance and depth:

"If we did, I think maybe myself and the coaches maybe didn't give them a chance to have it. We've got a lot of good players. Some guys have more experience than others. A lot of the experienced players haven't played together, so there's no substitution for game reps. There's none, so we had some growing pains early in the season maybe not fitting a gap or not running with a wheel route, but you've got to learn from that and these guys have done a great job. A lot of these young guys that maybe made some mistakes early have made some huge plays for us down the stretch, and that's why you continue to do that. They've earned it. They've done it in practice. They've showed intentionality. They love football, and as the season goes we've been getting better and better, but I probably have not been running a defense where the production is spread out as much as this one is."

On giving starters a rest and not worrying:

"It's a testament to the players and it's also a testament to the coaches on the staff. They've done a really good job preparing their guys whether it's reps during practice, extra film study, whatever that means. Everybody's got something they're not good at and they need to improve on, so they try to address those issues every week and get a little bit better, and that's the goal this week, to be better than we were last week."

On Jack Tchienchou and Kevin Adams' development:

"That's a very cerebral position. There's a lot of checks and adjustments based on the calls. Some are easier than others, but they've got to know what's going to happen before it happens. If this motion happens, we're going to this. They've got to process that before the ball's ever snapped. Again, when the bullets are live, it becomes a little bit difficult, but they've got so many accumulated reps throughout the season both in practice and in games, and we're running a lot of the same stuff week to week, so it's been just the cumulative effect of getting reps, seeing it, making a mistake, learning from it, getting better and they've done that."

On Dickson Agu and Chris Rodgers:

"I can't say enough how proud I am of them. Their ceilings are unbelievably high. I still don't know if they know how good they can be, but they are continuing to get better every week, they are making plays when they're asked to. We can move guys around. They can play multiple positions, so they'e learned this defense really well. They know the ins and outs. They know where the stress points are. They know how they've got react to certain things, and that's what this game is. It's a formation adjustment game and everybody's got a job to do. Those guys have continued to get better and they've got elite athleticism and length. They just do so many things really well. I"m excited to see them as the season goes and as the future goes."

Of if Agu or Rodgers will start if Sam Howard cannot play against Temple:

"Don't know yet. We'll see as we get closer to the game and we'll make that decision probably tomorrow."

On depth on defensive line:

"Again, that's a testament to the players and a testament to coach (Landius) Wilkerson getting them ready with. no drop-off. I tell everybody all the time I don't want to be hamstrung from call standpoint because there's a player on the field that can't execute. They've done a really good job. Now I'm going to be smart and understand who I do have on the field and use them to their strengths, but I can't protect everybody, so they've done a good job of taking ownership and doing their job--pass rush, run fits, stunts, whatever that is and when you do your job and are in position to make plays, that's when plays happen. When you're in the gap and the ball carrier runs into it, that's when you make your play. When you get a 1-on-1 pass rush, you've got to go win. If we call a stunt and you run it correctly, you're going to win. It's just the cumulative effect of these guys getting reps together and playing. They've all gotten better."

On good numbers across the board defensively:

"We're getting there. It's never as good as you think and never as bad as you think on tape, and that's what I've seen. Statistically it was good last week and score-wise it was good last week, but there was very poor tackling. There were very poor run fits at times. A couple of times coverage was not as clean as it needed to be, and that's what football is. If it would have mattered in a loss, it better matter in a win. You can't be oh, well, they didn't hit it. You better learn from them because everybody is watching that same play and is going to take advantage of it. Defense is about elite execution all the time. You don't get plays off. You can play 67 out of 70 plays perfect and three bad ones, and you just lost the game 21-20. We've got a lot of little things we can continue to get better at."



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Jon Sumrall left practice early to attend the funeral of Patrick Jenkins' mom, but it ended in the same way as all of the Tulane's Wednesday workouts with a two-minute drill pitting the first-team offense against mostly the second-team defense. Starting at the defense's 45-yard line with 49 seconds left, Darian Mensah completed a 7-yard pass to Mario Williams on a quick out that gained 7 yards and went out of bounds. He then rolled out to his right and fired a 19-yard strike to Yulkeith Brown before the offense called a timeout. A 5-yard gain I missed preceded a run that was stopped at the line of scrimmage and a spike to stop the clock, setting up Bobby Noel for last-second field goal. Unlike the previous four weeks, though, he missed the 33-yard kick, banging it off the outside of the left upright. They gave him a do-over and he hit the second one.

The second-team defense was Adin Huntington, Deshaun Batiste, Adonis Friloux and Gerrod Henderson from left to right on the line, Chris Rodgers and Dickson Agu at linebacker, Javion White at nickelback, Johnathan Edwards and Jaheim Johnson at cornerback and Jack Tchienchou and Joshua Moore at safety.

The only significant injury question this week is whether Sam Howard will play at linebacker after spraining an ankle against Charlotte. I will find out from Sumrall what his status is tomorrow.

I've brought this up before, but Tulane's depth defensively is off the charts. The Wave has no player among the AAC's top 25 in tackles or tackles for loss but is one of the best units across the board, ranking second in scoring defense, third in total defense, fourth in rushing defense, first in pass defense efficiency, third in sacks, second in interceptions, fourth in fumbles forced, third in fumbles recovered, second in third-down conversion defense, first in fourth-down conversion defense and first in fewest touchdowns allowed per red zone possession. Tyler Grubbs, who has a team-high 39 tackles (no other AAC team's top player has fewer than 45), would need to make 34 more tackles the rest of the way to match Macon Clark's 73 tackles from 2021, the Wave's low total for a leading tackler in a media guide chart that goes back to 1969.

Tulane has 21 players with double-digit tackles, 28 with at least one tackle for loss and goes at least two deep everywhere. Tyler Grubbs and Howard are backed up by Agu, who is ninth on the team in tackles, and Rodgers, who has an interception return for a touchdown. There is arguably zero drop-off from safeties Bailey Despanie (35 tackles) and Jalen Geiger (16 tackles) to their backups, Jack Tchienchou (27 tackles) and Kevin Adams (28 tackles). The trio of Rayshawn Pleasant, Micah Robinson and Johnathan Edwards are all starter quality at cornerback, with Lu Tillery a serviceable No. 4. Caleb Ransaw at nickel has a playmaking backup in Javion White, with Jayden Lewis a decent third option. Adin Huntington, the leading tackler among the lineman with 17, does not even start anymore. Patrick Jenkins is right behind him with 15, and Terrell Allen, who struggled at end before finding a home at backup tackle, is next with 14. Kam Hamilton, who has been more effective at end than tackle, is tied with Jenkins for most tackles for loss (five) among the front four. Backup end Gerrod Henderson has 13 stops, and starting bandit Matthew Fobbs-White has 12. Nose tackles Eric Hicks and Adonis Friloux each have five tackles, and another backup, Parker Peterson, has eight. That's nine significant contributors, and I'm not even including Batiste, Michael Lunz, Elijah Champaigne (interception against UAB) and situation pass rusher Shi'Keem Laister.

I talked to Despanie, Agu and Pleasant about the defensive depth.

BAILEY DESPANIE

On depth at safety:

"It helps a lot. We have so much depth, we are able to get fresh legs in anytime we want to. If we are having a long drive, we can get fresh legs in and there's no drop in energy, no drop in play, so I felt like that's one of the strengths of our team."

On so many different tacklers:

"It takes a lot of stress off the guys out there, being able to trust the guy next to you that he's going to be able to make that play, make that tackle. I feel like we play with a lot of great effort, so that plays a big role in that, too."

On pushing each other:

"We definitely compete with each other. That's just built into the culture of the defense, the culture of the program, to compete every day, to compete for the brother beside you. That's just our motto."

On how much D has improved during the year:

"I would say we definitely got a lot better. You could check the film. You could check the stats throughout the games. We definitely learned the ins and outs of the defense, the things that we needed to learn to be established as a great defense in this league, and I feel like we've done that."

On having championship defense:

"Definitely. That's the mindset throughout the program and throughout the entire team, but we try to stay focused on just next game, being 1-0 that week and just doing everything we can to accomplish that goal."

On Tchienchou:

"He brings a lot of energy. He's one of those high-motor guys that doesn't stop. It spreads throughout the defense."

DICKSON AGU

On defensive depth:

"With this new staff, they came in and brought in a few new people and also gave everyone who's been here a new chance, so me being a redshirt freshman, coach believed in me and put me out there and I just do my job, produce. There's other people like Chris Rodgers, they took from Troy, he played last year and he produces, too. But that's at every position. Jack Tchienchou at safety comes in and produces also."

On frustration last year:

"It gets a little frustrating knowing that you could go out there and play with those guys. You got a few reps, but you're not getting the full-game experience, so this year really being able to get some game experience boosts your morale and it helps the guys around you feel better."

On what he does best:

"I do my job consistently. I might have a few missed assignments every now and then, but whatever call it is, I'm going to do my best to go play it and I'm going to make a play on the ball."

On defense being able to stay fresh:

"Having Sam and Grubbs go in there first and having me being able to go in and take a drive or two really helps keep everyone fresh, so while the other team is really tired and frustrated, you're going in there fresh with new bodies ready to hit you and come at you again, it really helps our team."

On how much D has improved:

"We were talking about this in the meeting with Polk earlier. From Southeastern to now we've gotten so much better just in understanding our defense and knowing our assignments and just overall playing well together. If one person makes a play, we're all hype and we're ready to go change the momentum of the game and make another play for one another."

RAYSHAWN PLEASANT

On defensive depth:

"It helps a lot. We have a lot of guys that can go in and keep us fresh, so when the fourth quarter comes we are playing our best ball, so it just really means a lot having a lot of people we can rely on and go in and don't have a drop-off."

On pushing each other:

"We all know we've got one goal at the end of the year, so we just hold each other accountable knowing whatever it takes for us to make that goal, we've got to do it. We get along very well. We love each other, and we just hold each other to a higher standard."

On Micah Robinson and Johnathan Edwards coming in after spring and defense improving as guys got comfortable with each other:

"It got so much better like you said. As the year went on, guys got comfortable knowing how Gas and Summie wanted the defense to be played. It just makes us a better team in general."

On same scheme as last year with different head coach:

"It helped a lot for sure. I feel like we put the work in each and every day. We've been doing this since spring, so it's up to us to go out and execute every Saturday."

As always, the Tulane game counts double, home teams are listed first and the point spreads come from VegasInsider.com.

Tulane (-26.5) Temple
LSU (+3) Alabama
Ole Miss (+2.5) Georgia
Vanderbilt (+3.5) South Carolina
Indiana (-14) Michigan
Texas Tech (+3.5) Colorado
North Texas (+5.5) Army
South Florida (+3) Navy

With heavy contact almost verboten in modern college football practices, the way Tulane's Tuesday workout ended was a complete surprise. It was similar to an Oklahoma drill, with defensive linemen and offensive linemen having one-on-one battles and the rest of the players serving as judge and jury, either cheering or booing depending on the result Tristen Fortenberry absolutely got the better of Terrell Allen on one of them, and Adin Huntington was razzed heavily for a weak effort against Gabe Fortson and forced to go back and try a second time, where he fared a little better. Javon Carter hit Jayce Mitchell hard, drawing loud cheers. while Mitchell and Adonis Friloux battled to a standstill.

I have not seen an in-season drill like this in years, and Jon Sumrall had a simple explanation for the heavy contact afterward.

"I thought we tackled really poorly in the game at times," he said of Tulane's 34-3 win against Charlotte on Thursday. "That (drill) is something we did prior to here when I was at Kentucky on the defensive staff. We used to end the team period of practice with a thud, and the whole team's watching and you either get booed or cheered. I was very, very, very frustrated during the game on Thursday and then Friday watching it again at our performance tackling. We looked like we had not been coached how to tackle, like keep your eyes up, run your feet, wrap your arms, knock 'em back. We were just like diving off the diving board lunging, hoping the guy would fall down if we got near him. It was garbage tackling technique. I will compromise a team rep at the end for everybody getting a really good fundamental technique tackle rep. Teams that get better on the fundamental stuff during the year usually improve as a team. The schematic stuff is what it is, but we have to tackle better, and I was very frustrated, so that's why we went back to elementary school football and tackled at the end."

Tulane definitely practicing tackling much less under Sumrall than it did under Fritz, who taught his Seattle Seahawks tackling technique constantly with players form tackling cushions almost every day in one of the defensive individual drill segments. I did not notice the bad tackling against Charlotte, which scored the fewest points (along with Temple in 2020) of any Wave AAC opponent, but there definitely has been sloppy tackling at times this season from a mostly good defense. Part of Sumrall's anger is making sure Tulane is pumped up for a lousy opponent in Temple, but part of it is legitimate.

Tulane's starting defensive line today was Matthew Fobbs-White at bandit, Eric Hicks at the nose, Patrick Jenkins at tackle and Kam Hamilton at end, the same as the lineup against Charlotte. Hamilton has played better at end this year than inside, and Terrell Allen has played much better since moving inside than he did at end. The coaches have learned what their players do best as the year goes along, Allen is up to 14 tackles, the same total as Hamilton. Seven linemen have double-digit tackle totals, and four more have exactly five stops on the Wave's deep front.

I talked to Sumrall, offensive coordinator Joe Craddock (for a 1-on-1), Caleb Ransaw and Josh Remetich after practice.

SUMRALL

"Good to have a normal week. Last week was fast and furious with a quick turnaround. This week more normalcy for us. We've got to keep improving and getting better."

On message to team:

"We were North Texas's homecoming week. I did kind of lean into that a little bit and told them it's going to be their party, let's go put on a show for them. Last week it was at somebody else's stadium again--Thursday night, Halloween--and everybody was ready for a party and I wanted us to be the show. Well now we have to come home and it ain't time to relax. We're coming back to our home stadium, our home crowd. We need to be ready to put on a show again. Our guys need to be ready to play. Great, great attendance expected. Sold out for Saturday, and our guys need to take pride in playing at home. For the ones in their last year of eligibility, they've got two home games left. If that doesn't give you a little extra incentive, then we've got a problem. Like their clock's ticking. The sand in the hourglass is going fast, so these guys need to be really urgent in how they approach everything we do so we can go out and play the way we want to play on Saturday."

On what stands out about Temple:

"The quarterback's playing really efficient. I don't think he gets enough credit for how he operates. The receiver, No. 5, is really dynamic. They have another guy on the outside who ran track at USC who was a national champion on one of their 4 X 400-relay teams. They are big up front. They look like a team that you expect to be from Philadelphia, just big, strong guys up front. They are athletic on the D-line. Their linebackers are really good. Their linebackers might be one of the better inside linebacker groups we've seen in the league. They have good skill. Each week in this league I've been impressed that somebody's got a strength that you're like, just wow, this guy's really good. They are playing hard. Against East Carolina they scored a bunch of points, and they beat Tulsa, so they're played in some better games recently than people probably recognize."

On not overlooking Temple:

"I don't even think about anything else other than this week. Like anybody in our building that thinks about anything other than the game that's right in front of us, they're an idiot. If they do, I will call that out real quick. I am ultra in the moment to the point that if somebody comes to me and wants to talk about a game that's after this one, I might lose my mind on them. If anybody on our staff wants to talk about any other game or any our players want to talk about any other game than Temple, they are going to feel really uncomfortable because I'm going to go crazy. I'm so focused on this game. Our building has to. Everybody in our building, that's how you do things when you don't perform your best because you worry about something you have no control over. We have no control over Saturday yet. We want to have great Tuesday meetings as a staff, and our players need to go down after practice and lift and continue to maintain strength, and I want our guys to show up Wednesday with a good mindset for practice. I can't even think about Saturday yet."

On no recent history with Temple for Tulane:

"I don't know any of these teams really. We've played all these teams and I'm like, I've never played this team before. They are all such new weeks. The history part component, when there's recent history, that's one thing. When there's history but it's like we played these guys 10 years ago, half our guys were 10 years old or whateever. There are some recent history games we can draw on with a lot of our opponents, but we don't have recent history with Temple. There's not really anything to point back to. With Rice and with UAB, reflecting back on those games I was able to show our guys, hey, these were really close games last year, but I don't have to point very far. Temple's had some success in this league, so we just have to make sure we're prepared to play our brand of football and play to our standard. Really as we go into every game I'm so focused into playing to our standard, and that's why sometimes when we win, y'all probably think I'm frustrated because I'm like we didn't do this well enough. I just want us to play our best. Whatever that is, the scoreboard fall out the way it does. I just want us to play the best we can play."

On second in nation in time of possession:

"I don't lean into we have to win the time of possession. It's what you do with your possessions. I do think in certain games and the flow of certain games it's important. Last week when we were playing a short week, a Saturday on the road and a Thursday on the road, I did feel the need for our offense to stay on the field and protect our defense because the week before against North Texas we had played 80-something snaps. You have to consider where are we as a team, what was the last game like, what does this look like going into the next game. I felt like we needed to take care of the ball and control the clock because the travel back-to-back weeks was going to wear us down and the number of snaps we played the week before was going to wear us down and then some of that's a component of games, you go back to South Florida, we had an 11-minute drive to end the game. We didn't get points on it. We kneeled it out. At the end of the game I'm not one of these guys that wants to see how many points we can score. If we can bleed the clock for 10 minutes at the end of the game, I'm fine with that. I got no problem not giving the football back, so we're going to play complementary football. There are certain situations where we've been explosive this year and scored fast, but there are certain times where you need to run the ball, take care of your defense and play complementary football, too."

On if he will watch college football playoff rankings show tonight:

"Yeah. I'll look at that a lot closer than I do the election results, I can promise you that. This affects my day-to-day life probably a lot more."

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That will be followed on Saturday by Scotland hosting Fiji. That match looks near impossible to call, with Scotland naming an experienced XV but the Flying Fijians high in confidence.

As the rest of the southern hemisphere squads begin to make their way to Europe, South Africa are the team with the target drawn most vividly on their back having won the 2023 Rugby World Cup and Rugby Championship in the last 12 months.

Check out the full fixture list at the bottom of this page with Australia, Argentina, Japan, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France and Italy all in action over the course of the month as well. Read on for the TV and streaming details to discover how to watch 2024 Autumn International rugby from anywhere.

TNT Sports has won possession of the exclusive rights to show every single one of the 21 Autumn International fixtures this year.

You can get TNT by subscribing to the Discovery Plus Premium plan for £30.99/month, or you can add TNT Sports through Sky, BT, EE or Virgin Media to watch via your television provider.

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Fans can subscribe to TNT Sports here or add it to their existing Sky subscriptions. Alternatively, those who do not want to sign up to a contract can buy a £30.99 monthly pass to watch all of the Autumn Internationals in November.

Scotland will take on South Africa at Murrayfield on November 10 in their second game at 4.10pm. Portugal will then be the visitors to Scotland on November 16 at 3.10pm.

Scotland will also play Australia at 1.40pm on Sunday, November 24 to finish off the four-part Autumn Internationals series. All of the games will take place at Murrayfield.

The 2024 autumn internationals get a blockbuster curtain-raiser as the All Blacks come to Twickenham. This guide explains how to watch England v New Zealand live streams wherever you are in the world – including details of how you can use a VPN to watch the game if you’re away from home when it kicks off on Saturday 2 November.

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Marler has since apologised for his incendiary tweets that were met with an instant backlash, though such comments will have undoubtedly added extra motivation for New Zealand, with home captain Jamie George admitting that his fellow front-rower had likely “prodded the bear”.

England toured New Zealand over the summer after their demolition of a young Japan team under Eddie Jones, producing two strong performances but slipping to agonising back-to-back narrow losses in Dunedin and at fortress Eden Park.

Steve Borthwick’s men will be desperate to kick off another challenging autumn series with a statement victory after plenty of coaching upheaval behind the scenes over recent months and the shock resignation of defensive guru Felix Jones, with Australia, world champions South Africa and Japan also visiting the newly-rechristened Allianz Stadium Twickenham across November.

England twice ran the All Blacks close during their summer tour of New Zealand and – with home advantage – will feel that a rare victory could be on the cards. Scott Robertson’s team had a disappointing Rugby Championship, losing to Argentina at home and South Africa twice, and are currently a long way from a vintage All Blacks side. Steve Borthwick has named a strong XV to take the game to the visitors, welcoming back Henry Slade after injury, and giving Bath scrum-half Ben Spencer his first ever international start.

Matches between these two sides are never dull, so you’ll want to know how to watch an England v New Zealand live stream wherever you are in the world. Scroll down to find out more about broadcasters where you are, and check out our guides to the England and New Zealand teams. Don’t forget you can also watch Scotland v Fiji, the second match of the weekend, later in the evening.sadsafdfgdg