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Speaker 1: Live from the Mercedes Benz of Baton Rouge Studio. Here's
Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Yo, who welcome in OTB one oh four five ESPN
Baton Rouge.
Speaker 3: Here on this Friday morning. It is a game week.
Speaker 2: We are just a day away from LSU taking on
the Clipson Tigers there.
Speaker 3: In Memorial Stadium.
Speaker 2: Jake and Flynn on site, Ada Rouses here on Burbank,
Alandra and Taty Beck in student. It is football Friday.
It is finally here. How you doing, sir, oh Man?
I am doing. Greg can't be better man. We did it.
Speaker 3: We made it. It is football Friday. LSU Tigers kicking
off tomorrow. They kicked the butts and them cleansing Tigers
and we made it to football season two. It was
beautiful getting home yesterday from work and just turn it
on ESPN and watching football having it on the background.
It is officially timed, so it's a good feeling. It's
and this is a great setup here at rouses Here
on Burbank, I got this the beautiful pregame desk here.
I feel official. I feel like we're kind of like
it's like I feel likely corso a little bit Kirk
kurb Street on this desk. What a yeah it is.
Speaker 2: It's you know, it's a step above you know normally
when you go out on a remoter, you go to
media days, you get like a normal table exactly, and
you get a tablecloth and you throw it on the
We are officially official here at Rouse's.
Speaker 3: I talked what else they gave us? What buttons? Yeah,
I don't touch those? Why because we got we all
remember in shiny we gotta remember which one is actually
which we taught you what a jamboree was.
Speaker 2: I think last night you wrote me we were going
to watch the same one at six, and you said
the jumbalaya is at six.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well it was a question mark at it. I
was just confirming the time I said jambalaya. I think
I think it was a corrective or auto text correct. Okay,
that knows jamboree is not a word. I said, Well,
I said the gumbos at six. Yeah, so we nailed it.
It got there. Uh You High versus Dunham jamboree last night,
it was it was great. Yeah, it was awesome over
at Parkview great Field. Beautiful night too. Man, it wasn't High.
I started a little sunset. It just looked like football, baby. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I started to think how cool it was that you
High had like a top player in the country, top
five player in the country, regardless like what service you
look at. And then Dunham's got a top five player
in the country for the next cycle, no matter which
site you look at.
Speaker 3: It's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: To have that in the city here, and you know,
an opportunity to go see them play against each other.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just playing on a random August twenty eighth Thursday evening,
just a couple of ten minute halves, just to get
to go see him go out there, and I know
everybody still work. We're get there getting ready. I guess
I guess their week one will be next Friday or
Thursday or Friday. I know they kind of switch up,
but uh yeah, it's great to go see some really
talented guys and kids. I mean, high school football is
so fun to watch it's just men. The try hard
that they have and the passion they play with is great.
So yeah, a couple of it was a good, good match.
I think you high scored a few more points. But
there's plays made on both sides and some really good players.
I saw. I was listening. I was the PA announcer
came over and said the name Hester a couple of
times he did. Yeah, so shout out for sure. I
like to hear that name Hester on the football field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, shut out, Jackson Hester, little noseguard action, absolutely trenches.
Speaker 3: Hey got some speed. People are talking. Well, I mean
you know his dad did play nose guard until he
was a junior. So chance running back. We'll see there.
Speaker 2: I do have to complain about the shirt you're wearing, though,
it's inaccurate.
Speaker 3: Well, this is the second time I've worn it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well it says the nuts bus and it's got number
thirteen there in the window.
Speaker 3: Sir, Well, they haven't proNT of the shirts.
Speaker 2: Well who was actually that the shirts are available?
Speaker 3: Yell? Okay, cool, Well, this is an OG collector's item
if you will like. Look, there's nobody more pissed out
there about this eighteen number than the person that just
bought the Nustmayer jersey for the season.
Speaker 2: It's so easy, though, you just get some athletic tape
and you just close in the threes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's sure those jerseys. I'm going to go get
you some white out right now. So like on air Thursday,
you buy your jersey, like, oh man, I'm gonna give
it to my kids. It's their birthday, having birthday, here's
a jersey. Then on Friday switches numbers. Tough, yeah, tough
out there. You think they already got the eighteen. That's
my are like authentic jerseys on the on the show
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Speaker 2: Turn around again. Very easy to change the three into
an eight. Yeah, but it's not official. I'll get you one.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's go ahead and get this show started.
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Speaker 2: Obviously, the big news for LSU football, LSU safety aj
Halsey will miss the first half versus Clemson coming up
tomorrow night. Dan, He's not gonna play in the first
half because in his last game of.
Speaker 3: The twenty twenty four season when he was.
Speaker 2: Playing for Houston, he was ejected from the contest, and
the rule state, if you are ejected for fighting, you
have to If it's in the first half, you you know,
obviously get kicked out for that game.
Speaker 3: You miss the second half of that game.
Speaker 2: If it's in the second half, you miss the first
half of the next game. And this is the rule
put into place. And for me, it's like, Okay, this
happened when.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in twenty twenty four. Okay, it happened at the
end of the season.
Speaker 2: So we're talking about in November of twenty twenty four
going to effect August of twenty twenty five. And you
can say, well, the rules of the rules, well, I
can still say it's a dumb rule. I can still say, like,
of all the things the NCAA doesn't care about anymore
and just handways and turns of blind eye, like this
is going to be the one the week of the
game you're gonna tell LSU the week Thursday of game
week in a top ten matchup that they're starting. Safety
is not going to be in there. Like that's where
I have issue. Even if like if you would have
made sure LSU knew about this in May, all right, June,
hell even July. Okay, you're telling them about it at least,
but like to find out now, like that's the part.
Speaker 3: Like what are we even doing?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 3: How would they how would else you not have seen
this coming? If it was based on something that happened
that was known about, right, How would they not have
known the suspension was coming if the rule was already
in place? I don't understand how that. It's kind of
like a could be a surprise. I feel like you
would have known that that was coming, But it is weird.
It's just a strange story that that punishment wouldn't have
been dealt out in reaction to whatever the whatever happened
during the game. Now the game, of course, that was
six months ago. Seven months ago, Yeah, which is which
is mind bodeling, But yeah, it's it's it's extremely concerning
for me going into this game.
Speaker 2: It's because I'm concerned because you've told me the entire
lead up that safety.
Speaker 3: Was going to be the most important position for LSU. Yeah,
and it's going to be the position that I'm watching
the most, and this is certainly a concern for me.
When the guy that's going to be playing a lot
of safety for you and is a huge impact and
was a All Big twelve player a year ago. It's
a guy that I think that had a chance to
be pretty impactful. So we got to rotate in. You
got to put some guys in. But like Taylor has
told us, you know, all through training camp, there's been
a lot of rotation and in the secondary during training camp,
so a lot of guys have got a lot of reps,
a lot of playing time, and so you know, you
got to go in there and play without him for
one half. You got to keep Kate club macking the pocket.
You got to keep him from running trying to got
to keep him in that first half from making too
many explosive plays. Like I said, he's going to make
his plays. But for Halsey to get suspended, it's just
a weird story to me. I just don't understand how
something could happen with no, I'm with you that parton.
Nobody know about it. The NCAA sit on their hands
for so long and then deal out the suspension.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So the quote from Brian Kelly before he found
out that this was going to in fact come across.
We're waiting on clarification on that. This was Thursday before
he found out. We were informed on his situation on Wednesday,
So we'll see where that ends up. We're practicing him,
preparing him to play. We'll wait for further guidance. And again,
he's gonna play the game. She's gonna be in the
second half. But I like, I am, I am with
you as far as okay, Well, if this was the
rule put into place, if you get thrown out for fighting,
you got to miss a half, Like where was the miscommunication?
And actually it stays with you if no matter if
you change schools like aj Halsey did from Houston LSU.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that that's the part that to me is confusing
and strange. It's like how maybe they thought even though
Houston didn't play in a ballgame, maybe they thought like
that space was going to be right.
Speaker 2: Where it would take effect. Even though you didn't play
in a ball game, that's still not gonna happen.
Speaker 3: And you would think if there's no communication from unless
like unless the kid and they they didn't tell LSU
that there was just like if if it didn't, wasn't
this big thing, this big public thing that was on
he has been about this fight because it wasn't in
a bowl game. Yeah maybe at that point, nay, just
like hey just tells the kid or tells Maybe they
told the University of Houston and they didn't tell the kid.
So I don't know. It's just a strange situation. And
unfortunately that happens right now. And of course I'm going
to blame the NCAA on this one. That was dumb
to wait this long. What are we doing?
Speaker 2: Well, they were, you know, they were they were worried
about the Michigan situation that they came down so hard
on Michigan.
Speaker 3: For Yeah, that's true. They had they had bigger things, bigger.
Speaker 2: Fish tore fry a lot of people are, you know,
letting Clemson know snitches get stitches as well.
Speaker 3: Apparently this was Clemson that made the aware that's your guy, Devo,
that's my guy. Yeah, I'm the guy that said he
was gonna get injured right down the hill. That's my guy. Okay, yeah, yep,
absolutely so.
Speaker 2: Now it's okay, well, how do you replace a J.
Hawston Because you're not going to get the same level plate.
That's the obvious dament. There's a reason why he was
a starter. There's a reason why you got him from Houston.
There was a reason why he was an All Conference player.
Is it gonna be Jordan Gilbert, Javin Tobiano, Is it
going to be Deshaun Spears. It's going to be a
combination of all three of those players, Like that's gonna
be Like you you have another transfer into Marcus Cooley obviously,
and he had a similar situation, but he's going to
be good to go, and it is.
Speaker 3: Going to We got a couple of guys transferring to
have a fight in them. Huh yeah. Literally, little dog,
little dog in him. I like it.
Speaker 2: So you look, you have a very veteran player in
Jordan Gilbert. Now he is healthy. Last year he was
not healthy the entire way. You have experience, So I'll
throw that back to you. All right, He's a player
that's been last year. I mean, he was a full
time starter. LSU wanted to upgrade at the position, that's
no secret. But he does have starting experience and multiple
sec schools. I do find that to be a better
situation than if you were trying to play a freshman,
a rech air freshman that had never been in the
thick of it. I mean Jardan Gilbert at least, I
mean he played at A and M, he's played at LSU.
Speaker 3: The venue in the moment at least won't be too
big for him. Yeah, I think that is a I
think that is a big deal. I mean, if you
can ever if something happens to a starter, and you
can ever insert experience there, that's a premium for any team,
especially in this game one. We've talked about safety being
so important, so to be able to rely on him.
But I would expect that it's going to be a
rotation of guys. I mean, there's been so many guys
rotating in during training camp. I would expect you'd see
multiple guys just rotating in and out in that first half. Yeah,
and look it's one half, it's two quarters. I know
a like can happen, but first game of the season,
there's going to be a lot of energy out there.
I would expect that. I would expect that a big rotation,
but had to have Gilbert and that experience is for
this type of short period of time for first and
a second quarter, I believe is a is a big
asset for us. I mean it's you never want to
have a guy that you're relying on being a starter
and have had him in the start of rotation for
so long at the last minute have the rug pulled
from under you. But to be able to just say,
all right, hey, experience going there. The moment's not too
big for him. We know he's played in big time stadiums.
We know the lights aren't going to be too bright,
so it's good. And obviously they wanted to upgrade from
a talent level, that's fine, But like experience to me
in that situation, especially for it a short short amount
of time in the game, is definitely the way you go.
Speaker 2: And I know that Gilbert's been working at your favorite position, star.
Speaker 3: There, but you think they'll create a new position now.
Speaker 2: No, because Alabama took all the names of all the
positions with Wolf and the other ones that they had.
But this is somebody who can very easily slid back
to safety.
Speaker 3: And again it might not be him.
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm trying to think of Okay, here's the situation.
All right, You're going into a hostile environment. You've got
somebody that has been through the fire before. You also
have to worry about at least I do about sudden change.
I'm talking about it on the field all the time.
Speaker 3: It happens off the field as well.
Speaker 2: Right, you find out on Thursday that you're starting safety
not going to be available in the first half, Right,
which player do you think can handle that the best
when you call him into your office. Is it a
rich air freshman? Is it a senior who's been through it?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Because like that situation to me, If I'm a senior
and you're like, hey, Bud, yeah, aj.
Speaker 3: He's out for the first half, you're in, I'm like,
all right, coolest, go Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now, if I'm a freshman and they tell me that
I got the night sweats a little bit, got.
Speaker 3: The night sweats, got the butterflies, you start panicking a
little bit. You start thinking about the game plan, Like
you just said that again, And like the more you
say it to me, and the more you say it
out loud, the more it sinks. In How the Thursday
before the opening game of the season you find out
one of your starters is suspended for something that happened
last November. Yeah, the more you say it, the more
ridiculous this sounds to me, And the more it's like
kind of making me mad, Like this is complete. Somebody
dropped the ball somewhere. Either Houston held the information, the
kid held the information, or the NCAA just did not
make a decision or ruling or didn't even think about
it until they got it this week. This it's yeah,
and the more the more you say it, the more
like ridiculous the.
Speaker 2: Stories and it's gonna look, there was people on I
mentioned Clemson fans all last night. I didn't even tweet
about it, and they're still already tagging me like rules
are rules? Okay, right, nerd, I'm not. This isn't even
arguing rules or rules. I just think it's dumb. If
it was a Clemson player, I want to Clemson be
able to be available if something happened in November that
was like on the field because in the heat of
you know, football game, you know, heaven forbid, we got
into a little fisticuffs is what you like to call it.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah? Fisticuffs? Yeah right, yeah.
Speaker 2: You see of all the things, of all the things,
like you go into an n cua A parking lot
now and you know, it looks like you're going to
a car show because there's so many incredible vehicles in there,
and like, we're worried about this and this, this is
what's going to keep you off the field.
Speaker 3: Rules you ever rolled through the stops on Bud We're
going forty six at a forty five, they'll be a hypocrite.
So yeah, look for LSU fans, happen last last November. Yes,
for LSU fans.
Speaker 2: Obviously, I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that
this is going to be a good thing for LSU.
Safety's the most important position in this game, and your
best safety potentially is out for thirty minutes of the game.
I will say this. I will say that the Gilbert
portion of it, you are very fortunate to have somebody
like that ready to go. Look, he's had some good times,
had some bad times in LSU uniform. I will say,
he's playing injured most all of last year. Let's hope
that there's a better version that we're going to get
in the first half against Clemson. You could be in
a situation where you have somebody never been you know,
red shirted maybe last year, never really been in a
game like this on the road. So for a really
bad situation, you at least have something that I think
can help ease some of the nervousness and the stress
if you didn't have a veteran player ready to go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it is intention but I mean it's
still it's not a great situation to have a guy
like that out at such a key position to me
in my opinion for this game plan. So, I mean,
we're not going to sugarcoat it. It's not great for
the first half, but look, it's one half. H You
got a guy with experience jumping in there, and yeah,
he's gonna come in hell is gonna come in the
second half of Fresh Legs dominate. All right, we.
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Speaker 1: From players to legends, Hester and Flynn break down LSU
football like only champions can.
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It is man, it's exciting. Rows is here, So we're here,
rowses on Burbank. We got here, I see, I got
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six thirty to see if there's anything I can do
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plug in anything? I plugged in my own personal charger.
There you go. I learned how didn't mine too. Learn
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Speaker 3: Boat?
Speaker 2: Okay, that's what That's how it was for me trying
to touch it. Okay, we're in some real trouble here,
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Speaker 3: Perfect there we go. Love that.
Speaker 2: Last night we had some college football. Uh, Boise State
took it right on the chin. Yeah, Florida said, welcome
to the heat and humidity, Boisey. We're gonna treat you
to a nice thirty four to seven whooping.
Speaker 3: Yeah. See, I watched the I watched the beginning of this.
Then of course we went to the jumbal aysle last
night and it was actually pretty close. But then I
checked the scores and I'm like, oh my god, these
guys really took it to him. But yes, you can
just imagine like they kept it pretty close for a
little bit. You can just imagine like you're you live
in Boise, Idaho, near the mountains, not a touch of
humidity out there. They've probably been doing training camp in
seventy four. It was hot probably one day and got
to eighty and they come down to Florida and they
get hit right in the face when they walk off
the airplane. As soon as they walk off the airplane,
you kind of know, like in the back of your mind,
you can be tough all you want, but you know,
in the back of your mind when you hit that
heat for the first time, that just isn't good. Oh,
this is different, this is this is different. I don't
know if my body can react to this the same
as it did up in the mountains. And I think
you probably saw a little proof of that. But maybe no.
Speaker 2: Twenty four to nothing in the second half. Decent, decent
either one of those seems hydrated.
Speaker 3: Uh oh I after that, you know in the past
Boise State has been hydrated. I'd have to look on
the sheet for this year. I don't know if they
are this year. You know what can't work miracles sometimes
that's true, that's very true.
Speaker 2: Not the only game, but certainly Boise State, twenty fifth
in the country, made the playoffs last year. They lost
Ashon genty. A lot of people thought they'd be okay. Well,
South Florida had other plans and South Florida and Alex
Golish is good coach, and that foundation is completely different.
Now they get the victory thirty four to seven Rutgers
over Ohio thirty four thirty one. He had NC State
East Carolina actually end up being a really good game
at twenty four to seventeen n C State UCF the
fighting Scott Frost take on Jacksonville State. That game ended
seventeen to ten. You had Missouri all over Central Arkansas
sixty one to six to Bribula coming over from Penn
State twenty three of twenty eight, two hundred and eighty
three yards and two scores.
Speaker 3: Certainly looks like he is QB one. I know that they.
Speaker 2: Played multi or you know we're gonna play multiple quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: And it was gonna be a situation.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, Bro Pubulus said, I'm QB one.
Here he had ten rushes for sixty five yards and
added two more scores on the ground. That was the
only SEC team in action. Again, Missouri certainly gets done
sixty one to.
Speaker 3: Six.
Speaker 2: Chris still feeling pretty good about You know, my pick
is them being the dark horse. Now, I mean, I
know it's Central Arkansas, but still sixty one to six.
Speaker 3: Do you feel good about that one? I did finding
yourself on the back for picking that game. No, I
didn't pick the game.
Speaker 2: I'm saying Missouri like even a Mott Hardy who they
got over from Louisiana. Monroe one of the biggest running
backs in the transfer portal. He goes ten carries one
hundred yards in a score. So like the guys they
brought over, match with the guys they already had. I'm
just saying, with their schedule, don't look. Don't be surprised
if you look up and Missouri's got double digit wins
for the third straight year. Not real gritty of you
to sit here and seven thirty on Friday before the
first LSU game be celebrating the Missouri victory over Central Arkansas.
Good give him some love to Conway, Arkansas, where it's
a yup.
Speaker 3: Then we had the night game last night, Nebraska Cincinnati
in the Arrowhead Stadium. They kept showing h say we
had like Roola was playing quarterback for Nebraska. But then
they kept showing him in the stands in the in
the box suites watching the game. I was like, what's
happening right here? Yeah, he looks exactly like Mahomes. I
don't care what you say. Mahomes was in the Mahomes
in the crowd watching the game. And Nebraska comes out
with that one. They went twenty to seventeen. A boring game.
It was kind of boring, but it was.
Speaker 2: A I'm sitting there and we're watching the games last
night once we got home from the jamboree, and I'm trying.
I'm like flick flicking back and forth, and I'm like,
give me, give me something. And we're watching Nebraska Cincinnati
and we're going to Miami of Ohio and Wisconsin because
that game was close for a long time too, and
same color schemes, the just and O Katie's like, I'm
going to bed, I go watch you guys. I'm not
staying up to watch mediocre football.
Speaker 3: That's fair fair enough, that's pretty fair. That is fair enough.
So it's got to probably be like SEC well, that's
a good match.
Speaker 2: I mean, Nebraska was a lot of people, Oh, look
out for this team in the Big Ten, and that's
one game.
Speaker 3: And you know, Cincinnati, I don't. I don't think it's
going to be very good. They weren't a year ago.
They haven't been ever since that run that they had.
Speaker 2: And you know, Dylan Yolo looked okay, I mean thirty
three or forty two two forty three two touchdowns, But
I just is there anybody dynamic on the field.
Speaker 3: That you would worry about. It was just like, I
don't know, no idea. I was watching the game. I
was kind of like you because we got home from
from watching the high school football and we had it
on the television. We're putting the kids in bad But
I kept trying to watch it in the same way
as you. You and Katie were like I was trying
to watch it. I was like, man, this is this
is good. I'm gonna keep it on. It's certainly on,
but I'm also gonna be doing some of my nightly chores,
gonna be putting the kids to bed. They're doing some
some responding to some emails things like this. I wasn't
like extremely locked in, So uh, don't get me to
start reciting all the playmakers from our team. No, no,
if you, if you could, I would be.
Speaker 2: Very impressed because playmakers there was not and Nebraska again
very trendy pick because of their schedule who they had
coming back. But I did not see it last night,
but credit to them, they were victorious again twenty to seventeen.
I do want to throw it to our guy Tatae
back in studio because there is some LSU recruiting news
Tristan Keys flips from LSU to Tennessee. Now, it's not
a big surprise, Flynn. I think even you'll remember we
played the video on his official visit when he went
to Tennessee. He's going down you know, the runway there
and he's showing off his watch and they I had
a whole crowd there and it was like, wait a minute,
aren't you committed to somebody else? Well, turns out he
loved Tennessee there, and we've got a great story up
on Louisiana Sports dot.
Speaker 3: Net right now.
Speaker 2: Kind of logging it all, but I'll throw it back
to Studio Tata. Probably not too surprised at this happened.
Speaker 5: No, not a surprise at all. Like, I don't even
care that it's Tennessee. I know, we saw the little
cute red carpet that they did when he was on
his recruiting trip. I kind of always knew this was
gonna happen. I just didn't know what school it was
gonna be. I mean, he continued to take trip after
trip after trip. It was like you proposed to someone
and then right after you request that you have an
open marriage. Like that's what Tristan Keys looked like this
entire recruiting process. I'm not surprised in the least like this,
this was always going to happen.
Speaker 3: You trying to say he had pineapples on his front.
Speaker 5: Porch, Yeah, absolutely, big time, multiple pineapples.
Speaker 3: Outside.
Speaker 6: Allan's right, we're getting too far in the week because
I don't know that, you know, I don't even know
what that upside down part means the recruiting, and it's
a big player.
Speaker 2: Not going to sit here and act like it's not.
It's number seven overall player in the country, plays receiver, playmaker.
It's going to you know, if he signs with Tennessee,
signs with Tennessee, we'll see. We'll see if that ends
up being the case in December. I'm not going to
say that he's not a great player, because he does
look like he is. But I'll say this, it's high school.
It's a high school recruit, and change your mind. Who
knows where you get in December. And also, if there's
one position that I don't really ever, really worry about
for LSU, it's the receiver position. The I would say
for the best six receivers in the NFL right now
are from LSU and they're all from Louisiana. So again,
I'm not gonna act like he's not a good player.
Would you want him on your squad? Yeah, you don't
want him his number seven overall player, But the position
that he plays, the talent that you've had at that position.
If it was, honestly, if it was you know, an
interior defensive lineman, if it was a star left tackle
right now, if it was a position a star, you know,
not a star, don't get mad a star safety, then
maybe it's a different conversation, but tasting exactly. But a
receiver again, that's one position that I'm always going to trust.
LSU has multiple guys in stay, guys that are going
to be NFL players.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a guy you like to have, of course,
But just like you lay out, it's something we probably
don't need to be too worried about because we can
always always recruit the position, always have good players right
here in the state. There was one thing I was
worried about. And I'm really glad to hear his voice. Taylor.
I'm really glad you're here today. I'm glad you made
it to work. You picked your head up off that
pillow this morning. You stopped crying. We are Roulse's. We
can get you some more tissues if you need it.
So I know there was a big, big trade. So
I think we need to probably step away. Yeah, I know,
let him compose himself. Society's here and he's made it,
he's alive, he's well.
Speaker 2: And then we can go over something that Tata probably
cried himself to sleep over.
Speaker 3: And we'll have that for you when we come back
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Speaker 1: Locked in on LSU Football twenty four to seven. You're
listening to Off the Bench.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in.
Speaker 2: It is OTB one O four five, ESPN, Beton Rouge
and we are live on location at Rous's here on Burbank.
We will be here throughout the totality of the show.
So come hang out, come say what's up to us?
Fired up to be here for football Fridays, We're fired up.
Speaker 3: We're excited.
Speaker 2: You're probably excited because you've got football. You watched it
last night, You're gonna watch it tonight. You're certainly gonna
watch it all day tomorrow, gonna watch the Tigers, the
good Tigers take care of the.
Speaker 3: Other Tigers tomorrow night.
Speaker 2: But I'm not sure that anything Matthew is going to
get our boy, Taylor shark fired up.
Speaker 3: He got some he got some news.
Speaker 2: And I think you had some inside information with how
strongly you were saying that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, somebody in the chat saying that I probably need
to be total. That would be chaining around right now.
We don't have it. Hear a rouses, but I would be, uh, because, yeah,
Taylor's walking around. You ever seen that the meme of
Pablo Escobar from the show where you're just kind of
like sitting on a swing, like looking into space, kind
of like just super depressed today And like that I
said before going to break, I was just excited to
hear his voice. I didn't know if I'd ever hear
it again. It was one of those big time situations.
So yesterday in an absolute mammoth blockbustered deal on the
last moment. Right, we're a week before NFL football seasons,
a mammoth trade comes down, and we had been seeing
this coming. It was the Green Bay Packers had had
something in their their sights and they offered a king's ransom.
Micah Parsons gets traded from the Dallas Cowboys to the
Green Bay Packers and absolute mammoth of a deal. Of course,
that the Micah Parsons Jerry Jones stand off. Everybody had
been talking about it. It would have been the lead
of every sports show, you know, besides local sports shows.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Jerry was Jerry wasn't fighting with Micah Parsons.
He was fighting with Michael Parsons, as he kept saying,
So maybe he thought he was trading Michael Parsons and
not Mike Oh.
Speaker 3: And it's crazy because this is kind of how he's done,
always done business and it's never gotten to this point.
I mean, he did it with Dak Prescott a couple
of years ago. He even franchised tag Dak Prescott and
he signed him. I think they signed their contract the
day of the first game of the season. So he's
always come down and it's always kind of been the
knock on him and he waits. He waits so long,
he waits so long, waits so long, and then he
ends up paying more. But he it always seems to
work out well. This one just felt different leading up
to it. It felt like there was some actual bad blood.
It seemed like Micah Parsons was not going to back
down and Jerry Jones certainly wasn't going to back down.
So when a rock needs a hard place, it just
it was the Green Bay Packers. They offered him two
first rounds picks. Yeah, defensive tackle, a good defensive tackle,
good defensive tackle, but you're gonna you're getting the best
defensive player in the National Football League and a trade
reminiscent when they traded for Reggie White back in the
early nineties with the Green Bay Packers. So they worked
out pretty good for them. So on a team that's
loaded with talent and young towns and Reggie White like
the first free agent and the hell they got, Yeah,
he was like the he was the kind of the
poster child of free agency hitting the NFL that had
been collectively bargained and all that. It was like the
change with the Reggie right signing to Green Bay kind
of changed the landscape of NFL contracts in the NFL
business in total. So that was in the early nineties,
of course, and they went on a run. They won
a super Bowl in ninety six, I believe was in
another super Bowl in ninety seven. And yeah, so just
a huge deal, blogbuster deal, and all the Cowboys fans
have to be just absolutely in shambles today. Well let's
hear from our favorite one.
Speaker 2: We'll throw it to our favorite at Cowboys Faan, mister
Taylor Sharp your reaction.
Speaker 7: Sir, disappointed, but not surprised.
Speaker 5: I mean, we talked about this on Tuesday on the
show and I was like, Michael's probably not going to
play another snap for the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 7: I didn't think it was going to be the Packers.
Speaker 5: I hate that it's the Packers because my coworker, Matt
Flynn has been pushing it for the past week and
a half.
Speaker 7: So that's a little unfortunate.
Speaker 5: But you know, I was getting text messages around four
four thirty. I think Jordan was actually the first one
to text me, and all he said was my condolences.
Speaker 7: I was like, all right, let me take out a ESPN.
Here we go.
Speaker 5: Who'd he go to? And then I see the green
Bay Packers. Look, it's it's typical Jerry Jones single handedly
ruining a franchise.
Speaker 7: He's done it for the last thirty years.
Speaker 5: He had the audacity yesterday to say, well, we made
this trade because we needed to stop the run.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, when you look at pass rush win rate, Michael
Parsons was top five. Nobody else on the Dallas Cowboys
was top twenty five. So congrats, Jerry. You can't stop
the run now, you can't rush the passer either. You
got two first round picks back woo, Who who cares?
I mean, you got Kenny Clark. He's fine, He's a
solid piece. He's not Micah Parsons. Once again, he screwed
this up. But the good news is, guys, you give
Jake Ferguson fifty two million dollars.
Speaker 3: Oh well, that's that's positive. It's a good tight him. Taylor.
Close your ears real quick on this one. New Green
Bay Packers linebacker Micah Parsons is one of two players
in the NFL history to have at least twelve sacks
in each of his first four seasons of professional football.
It's Green Bay Packer linebacker Micah Parsons and Reggie white.
Those are two of them. The two. That's the end
of the list right there. You're not going to find
anybody else in that list. Yep so New Green Bay
Packer linebacker Micah Parsons. Taylor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, congratulations Taylor. Alandra. Make sure that you keep
an eye on him in studio. Don't let him get
too far away from you. We will take a break
more OTB when we come back.
Speaker 3: Here.
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Speaker 3: I can see the beer section from here.
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Speaker 1: Locked in LSU football twenty four to seven.
Speaker 4: You're listening to off the Bench.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome Backgan.
Speaker 2: It is OTV one O four five, ESPN, Matton Rouge.
Speaker 3: We are live here on row.
Speaker 2: Mate Remote Football Friday. Ed rous is here on Burbang.
Very excited to be here and very excited for the
future of Taylor Sharp's NFL fandom.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got a big announcement after the big news
yesterday Micah Parsons being traded to the Green Bay Packers.
You know, of course, Taylor is a diehard Dallas Cowboy fan,
and he appreciates that. He loves him. He eats, sleeps,
breathes Dallas Cowboys. Not a big fan of Joe Jones.
So this most recent move, I believe, as Taylor told
us yesterday, he is ready to move on officially, he
is ready to move on from a Dallas Cowboy fan
and pick a new team. And guess how he's gonna
do that. We're gonna do it right here on this
show over the next few weeks, reality show style, kind
of like a little like a Bachelorette Survivor Island Love Island.
We're gonna be voting people off the island. We're gonna
be voting teams off. We're gonna be maybe we're gonna
give the give the chat to vote every now and
then we will be eliminating teams. Taylor will be eliminating teams,
and we will pick a new NFL football team to
officially throw his hat in the ring with. Yep.
Speaker 2: And if you're, you know, looking for gently used cowboy
jerseys on eBay, t Sharp seventeen is gonna be the
uh the user name there, gently.
Speaker 3: Used Cede Lamb. Yeah, he's got the tear stains on
the shoulders, still on the chest. Taylor, you wanna, you know,
say anything about the reality reality Radio. You got a
minute left here today?
Speaker 5: No, I mean that's that's what I texted y'all last night,
like we're we're gonna make this happen. I told you guys,
there were a select few things that could get me
out of here, and this was one of the I'm like,
I'm I'm done. Like I'll love the Cowboys and may
go back one day, but I mean, Jerry's just just
sucked all the fun out of this. It's not fun
to be a fan anymore. So I'm out.
Speaker 3: There, you go, he said, the Cowboys suck. He's out,
and he's out. So we're gonna decide right here. So
get ready next next few weeks, it's gonna be absolutely electric.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, this next segment could be electric or it
could be a total disaster as we try to have
two people on the phone time at the same time.
We were gonna do it in video form, but one
of the people we're gonna have on is driving, so
we're gonna try it on the phone. It could be great,
could be a total disaster, but it's gonna have four
meat heeads.
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