Speaker 1: I'll start to what you want to presents. Off the
bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and C Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: I gotta come off the bench now, here's.
Speaker 1: Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 3: What up, y'all?
Speaker 2: Welcome in to a brand new day. Up oh TV,
T Bob Bland via Reale and hanging out with you today.
We have collectively forced Jake to stay home. His body
is i think shutting down after the extremities of the
last couple of months in which he's been counsel wearing,
constantly traveling. So here's to hoping that our guy Jake
can shake it and feel a bit better. But what
that means, It's like Rorshak tells the inmates in the jail,
I'm not trapped in here with you. You're trapped in
here with me and Taylor for the next three hours.
So you wanna you'rena have some fun YouTube at compas
one of four five yearspn that's so you can hop
in the body for YouTube chat. Yet all of your
excellent takes off and uh yeah, we'll we'll yeah to
them all. We have a very Uh, we have a
great show playing today. Lock going on, gonna be a
bit all over the place. We're gonna talk so football,
We're gonna talk some baseball, We're gonna talk some basketball again.
We really are going to talk a little bit of everything.
Is always a cause of a coach. Multi at eight
thirty cannot wait for that. And at seven point thirty,
I will tell you about and have on Jordan Tabor,
who is a very special and important event going down
in the p MAC tomorrow night. So it's going to
be a good day here on ot B, Alandra, How
are we feeling today?
Speaker 4: I feel good. I'm so. Jake texted us this morning.
He was like, I can't shake whatever this is, and
I'm like, dude, it's literally the fact that you've been
working yeah, his body seven days, like really. So my
point saying that is that I feel like I can't
catch up on rest from last week. So I can't
even imagine Jake doing eight hours of radio for like
four months straight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, every day. So it's it's it's it's definitely
a lot five kids.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the five kids that he likes still somehow is
an incredible father too.
Speaker 2: As a uh, you know, thirty six year old. Yeah,
wise elder.
Speaker 4: So wait, hold on, do you remember, like how you
thought you were the wrong age? Is this the age
that you thought you were?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, that great? Yeah, isn't that great? Umber he
gained a year of my life, Like, yeah, that that
don't know, Alds referencing I've spent a few months last
year thinking I was already thirty six. And then I
was on a zoom meeting where I was meeting some
new people. And do you all ever do this in
zoom meetings? You maybe google the person that you're talking to.
Speaker 4: I don't think I ever zoom meet with anybody that's googleable.
Speaker 2: Okay, well it was just so I was looking at
this guy's Wikipedia and at thirty six years old, but
he was born in eighty eight, and I was like,
oh my god, what, yes, I'm thirty five and that
that was an incredible feeling. So it really didn't want
to be turning thirty seven, right, thirty six thirty seven
feels like a bad jump, no dispecting a your thirty
seven year olds. But as a wise thirty six year
old dollar now Landra, I would say that life is
like getting in the gym where if you were to
walk into the gym out of nowhere and try to
binch three hundred pounds, you're gonna get crushed by it.
But life is just one ever increasing load of responsibilities
that are hopefully at it incrementally, so you slowly but
surely build up your tolerance and your ability to handle it.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: That's why your first kid or whatever you feel completely overwhelmed.
Everything's such a big deal. And third, it just feels
like you're still completely over well, but it's like the
same thing. It's like the same level of overwhelmmant. So
you're just getting them life muscles up. Dude. Yeah, Taylor,
how are you feeling?
Speaker 5: Okay? I woke up this morning, could barely talk. Yeah,
well for some rank and like nothing reasy happened to
me yesterday. But uh, it's slowly coming back.
Speaker 2: We'll get there, okay, Right on, man, Look, if you
don't want to talk, it's completely fine, really fine. Actually
I don't mind you talking today. It shakes on here
all right, though.
Speaker 3: Look, I want to start by really and.
Speaker 2: Y'all just gonna have to get used to it. You'all
gonna say, wow, what an off season segment right, because
I'm about to talk about LSU football. But it's just
on my heart. It's just on my heart this morning,
and it's because ESPN released their way too early All
American Team for twenty twenty five and Lhuan's up with
two names on there. I think, interestingly, they're not the
names that you would maybe think, right. No garritt u
Smeyer on that list, despite the fact that he opened
first or second on almost every single Heisman odds list
from the various sports book No trade has Green on
that list, which is maybe less surprising. However, I thought,
you know, with his raw physical potential and the Bowl
game that he had and looking at him coming back
for another year in a bigger role with no Mason Taylor,
that maybe he would be on that list. But no.
The two names no Aaron Anderson. I The two names
that find their way to list are the transfer from Oklahoma,
Nick Anderson, and the returner and wide receiver from Kentucky,
Barrion Brown. And why we are going to highlight this, guys,
is because I want to start the hype train now
and the theme of this entire offseason will be not
shying away from expectations and what the expectations should be
based on how the team is on paper. And I
will continue to say if you don't make it next
year to the playoffs can contend for a championship, then
I will never give you the benefit of the doubt
that you will. Because this team looks awesome. Think about that,
you're returning a ton of guys offensively, and the two
they get named to the All American Team are guys
you added out of the portal. Nick Anderson coming in
as a second team American wide receiver. He was hurt
all of last year essentially, but as a freshman seven
hundred and ninety eight yards, ten touchdowns, over twenty yards
of catch, six to four massive body. Now for Nick
Anderson to reach his full potential. My hope is that
in this offseason, him and Nuts and really everybody but
especially maybe him, are just grinding routes, grinding time, and
grinding chemistry. Because you think about garrettnus s Meyer, he
is a quarterback that his greatest trait is his anticipation
and his trust and look at the guys that he
would go to last year. It's the guys that he trusts.
So you have one offseason to build that up. Here's
to hoping that Nuts and Anderson are spending a lot of
time in that lab and he can meet the full potential.
As far as Barryon Brown goes, he's the first team
All American kick returner.
Speaker 3: Does not even get into Davia.
Speaker 2: Thomas, wh ends up coming with a big kick return
touched up finally at the end of the year, but
really was solid throughout the year. So now you're just
getting better where you were already really good and with
the best. I mean, how could he not be the
first team All American returner.
Speaker 3: He ever just thirty.
Speaker 2: Yards of kick return he has the SEC record and
leads all active players with five kick return touchdowns. Okay,
oh yeah, I guess what. He's also pretty damn good
offensively as well. So now you add these two weapons
to receiving group that includes Aaron Anderson, who was awesome
throughout last year, and if he would take even half
of the step that he took from here one to
year two, that's getting into All American territory. You have
Chris Hilton, who fought through injury for much of the
year and then ended on the most positive note that
you could, showing that this is the guy who literally
changes l's in two wins. If Chris Hilton plays like
he played the last cow Yams the entire year, you
probably make the playoff. You, Savid Thomas, you.
Speaker 3: Got trade as Green.
Speaker 2: Six all six, seven to fifty, just an absolute the
red zone monster finished incredibly strong to the season himself,
and we be relied upon even more next season. And
that's not even touching on guys like Bower Sharp in
the backfield. What you got Cayden Durham, a man who
turned down millions of dollars from Oregon in the offseason.
You got Harlan Barry, J. T. Lindsey. Like, as long
as this offensive line holds up, which I think they will,
I don't think they'll be quite as good in areas,
but they could be better than others. But as long
as they hold up, this offense will be unstoppable. And
that's not even getting into the next generation like maybe
Kyle Parker, Johnnie Watkins. It's actually insane how good this
offense could be. Massive pressure on Joe Sloan to be
able to take advantage of all of these weapons and
put together an offense that can It's what did they
say in twenty nineteen. Everybody eats, everybody feasts, somethings along
those lines. It's incredibly hard to do. It's an impossible
bart live up to. But it's what you should strive for.
That's what you should aim for.
Speaker 3: Who could ever forget?
Speaker 2: Did y'all have this poster in your seventh grade science class?
I'll never forget it. It said, shoot for the moon.
Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. Now,
my older age, I realized that, well, frankly untrue. The
moon is way closer than the stars. You're in if
you're dying, way before you at ever retart. That's not
the point, though, Okay, that the the the the the
metaphor there is ye okay, maybe you not. You're not
gonna live up to that nineteen billion, of course, because
how could you. It's impossible.
Speaker 3: But make that your goal. Everybody eats.
Speaker 2: And see where you live. No, you maybe ask yourself
care no smire you said, he said the top of
the eyes with those wid on the All American team. Well,
they named Kaid Klubnick first Team All American and arch
Manning second Team, and I think understandable on both counts. Now, granted,
I think arch has As. I think Arts is capable,
but I think it's a lot of pressure for a
first year starter that he's having to deal with. That
is a large burden. Now if anybody's shoulders can handle
it out of those broad manning quarterback shoulders, but again
it is this first year starting. As far as Club
Nick goes, let's just go ahead and continue to build
up the hype for Week one because Club Nick, who
showed great growth last year. The receivers really came on
at the end. Go watch the Texas Clemson playoff game.
Understand how good the Texas secondary is and then watching
those freshman receivers and Clubnick we're doing to him at
points in that game. You got a great challenge if
you're this LSU defense, and if you're not smier this office,
you better be ready week one because it is going
to be a due or a quarterback and will potentially
decide almost the entire season. The hype for this LSU
game is going to reach a fever pitch unseen. I
would say likely since Oregon, I mean they'll te get
me wrong. The FS two games were a big deal,
the USC game big brands, but I don't think any
of them or at least well, I guess as you
ended up featuring the talent even though we didn't know
the time. But this is going to be an elite
opening game with Clemson and Cave Club Nick and Garrett
Nasmeyer and all the weapons on both to everybody going
toe to toe and so much in the line for
both coaches. So the offseason begins today and it's a
very important spring coming up for the LSHOP football team
to start to develop these weapons. And I said, get
chemistry and trust. That word is going to be critical
for Anderson shar any of these new guys, Barry get
that trust by Garrett Smeier. And the only way that
trust comes is reps. Just reps, man hard earned reps.
When nobody's watching this offense should be insane. Like all right,
when we get back here on off the bench, let's
let's go ahead a little bit of LSU baseball. As
D one Baseball announced their top one hundred pitchers, UH
starting pitchers in the country, I say, let's look at
the top thirty maybe and kind of see how the
sec is shaken out. And also, if you want to
get a take in the bodyboard YouTube chat, what is
the biggest question mark with this LSU baseball team. Keep
it locked right here on one of four five ESPN
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around.
Speaker 7: Sort of.
Speaker 1: It's off the bench with Hester and t Bob Gosh,
I don't want to call it. You don't want to
call it.
Speaker 2: You want to, Taylor, you want to kiss one hundred
boys and bars, I'll do it right there along with you. Okay,
that you too, Launder, we could all kiss a collective
hundred or one hundred each. Part of that, I believe,
whatever y'all want to do.
Speaker 4: What's one hundred divided by three.
Speaker 2: Thirty three point three repeated? Of course that's a lot.
Speaker 4: It's a lot of boys, boys to go through. Yeah,
it's a lot of boy I don't even think I
could do that in a lifetime.
Speaker 2: So that's a you could kiss thirty three point three.
Speaker 3: Kiss it.
Speaker 4: I don't even think I'm halfway there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fine. I mean I'm not saying you have to.
I'm saying if you wanted to, you could. That's not
that's not the that's not the issue. Now, if you
want to. I mean, look, if Bonnie could do what
she's been doing out here, I think I think you
could kiss thirty three guys.
Speaker 4: Okay, I don't know if I want to be on
her level.
Speaker 2: No, I know, you don't, I know, you know. I'm
just saying like, it's like the five minute mile. Yeah,
Banister runs the sub five minute mile, and then all
of a sudden everybody can do.
Speaker 4: It, right I can't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you're right.
Speaker 5: It takes away the special notes for Bonnie.
Speaker 4: If everybody's doing it, yeah, Bonnie, then nobody's Bonnie.
Speaker 2: True. But hey, she was the first of that wall.
You know, sometimes you gotta.
Speaker 4: I don't know that, Lily girl.
Speaker 3: Yeah there is one there. Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's right. That's that's the other right, It's it
is a it's it's a race.
Speaker 5: It's like, uh, what do you call it? Joey Chestnut
and Kobeashiever way we need which actually actually better. What
they do is not dogs.
Speaker 2: Not you know, not not dissimilar to be uh to
be fair. Uh oh guys. Okay, So l SU Baseball
opened up this Friday. We're gonna talk to Jay Johnson
tomorrow and I want to know, I want to know
what what do you all think is maybe the biggest
question mark with this l s U team, and in
light of last year, is it too reductive or simple?
And all my baseball takes are laymen and simple and dumb.
But that's fine. I just you know, I like it.
I'm not saying that I'm an expert, But is it
too reductive just to say that it's the staff? Uh?
Because and maybe you want to zoom in further if
you're like, well, I don't know about the middle releave,
I don't know who's gonna be the closer, I don't
know who's can be disorders. But like I know, J.
Johnson is going to get offensive production. You have so
many weapons. That's where his specialty lies. And so for me,
it's like I can't shake the insecurity created by last
year right enter the year hyping up the staff so much.
Start is gonna be awesome. You have more arms and
you know what to do with and then suddenly halfway
through you felt like you had a dearth of arms,
you couldn't find any. And so that's where my head's
when I think about question marks. The biggest question marks
that I need answered is what is this staff gonna
look like? First do you agree? And then would you
zoom in further on a specific portion of the staff
over another.
Speaker 4: Are you asking us? Yes, so I would agree with
you because of what you said of last year. But
also if I were gonna zoom in, my question would
be about the middle relief because we had great starters
last season with Louke Coleman and Kate Anderson later down
the line, But that middle relief is kind of where
it started to fall apart a little bit, like you
didn't really have somebody to bridge the gap between the
closer and the starter. Yeah, so that's kind of where
if I were to zoom in, where I would go
with the pitching staff. Also I didn't, but a lot
of people were questioning Nate Yesky last season. Yes, lot, Yeah,
this is the season for you to prove yourself as
a pitching coach because you have a highly rated staff
right now, it's just a matter of executing it.
Speaker 3: Am I crazy?
Speaker 2: Or is this the first year under Johnson where a
pitching coach has returned? Right? Yes? That is right? Okay,
he went.
Speaker 5: Three in three years. Yeah, I would go pitching staff,
but I'm actually going to go starters.
Speaker 2: That concerns me the most.
Speaker 5: We know Chase Shores is probably going to be there,
but again, we haven't really seen him in extended action
for two years since he's been here. Really, you know
what Kate Anderson can do. Who's going to be that
third starter? A lot of different people have a lot
of different opinions. And to her point, like Kate Anderson
came on at the end of the year, but if
you get back at SEC played before he came on,
you lost a lot of game threes and the reason
was is the team you were playing had a third
starter and you have not. You have enough arms. I
think people are gonna carve out different roles. You're going
to have the closer, You're going to have the middle reliever.
Like not having that starting pitcher put you behind the
eight ball in Game three because like what did we
see last year? You had two or three guys you
really trusted in the bullpen, but you couldn't throw them
every single game of the series. And without that third starter,
it's really difficult to win those game threes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think y'all are both right, and
I think this is just a I think this is
just a question of varying degrees, right, So I'm still
I still do wonder like, who like is is Gavin Gidgery?
Is he going to be like a true shutdown closer.
I know he has the attitude for it. I know
he has the stuff for it. You maybe need to
find a little bit of the consistency. But you're absolutely
right about the lack of a day three starter last
year the impact had and Landra you're right too. Then
a lot of times like because one problem sort of
creates the other, you don't have a day three starter,
you're having to use more arms, then all of a
sudden you know you're lacking in that middle relief as well.
So the staff is my biggest quas run. But look,
according to One Baseball, look pretty emn good. Kate Anderson
in the top one hundred, Kate Anderson coming in at seventeen,
Anthony A and Sigg coming in at twenty seven, and
Chase Shores at forty six. LS few one of a
few teams with two in the top thirty. Let's look
at other SEC teams and where some of their starters
rank in this top thirty. Ryan Prager comes in at
number three for tex A and m of course he
does a lefty. Gabe is a Gayckle Gockle Arkansas at
number six. Are these Oklahoma brothers the Witherspoons, They have
to be I cannot imagine that they're not. But you
have Kyson Witherspoon from Oklahoma coming in ranked number eight,
and you have Malachi with has been to Oklahoma coming
in ranked and number twenty one. So those are a
couple of new names out for as we get to
see the Sooners in the SEC Baseball Gauntlet or the
the the gauntlet that is SEC Baseball for the first time.
You have Zach Root at Arkansas coming in at eleven.
So already here Arkansas two pictures in the top eleven,
Colton Smith, Georgia sixteen, Saint Adams Alabama eighteen, Nate Snead
Tennessee at twenty, Hunter Elliott, Ole, miss twenty six, Jared Spencer,
Texas twenty eight, Gage Wood Arkansas coming in at thirty.
So Arkansas with three pitchers in the top thirty. But
that's always Arkansas. That's just what the Razorbacks do. Also,
if there is a monkey on Jay Johnson's back, it
is probably the Hogs. But uh yes, yes, I miss
missed opportunity by me. So as you can see it.
Look the SEC. Have you thought it was gonna be
any easier this year? No, It's going to be like
it's been, only more so. Like in the age of Nil,
where increased economic investment continues to directly correlate with increased
production on the field. Emotional investment creates economic investors to
increase that production, and nobody cares as much as the
SEC does. And they're only carrying more and more because
it just means more, which means the SEC is only
going to get tougher and tougher, and I.
Speaker 3: Freaking love it.
Speaker 2: The only I need is the new MLB the show
video game on Road to the Show, they have like
a mini college mode where you play for a college. Well,
but it's where you play for college like on your
like be a pro mode. Why not just give us
a full like SEC just little sub sub license or
or you do not need to make a full college
baseball game. I don't believe.
Speaker 5: I mean, they used to have these, I know, I
know they basketball too. They never brought those.
Speaker 2: Back, I know. I mean, maybe it's a money thing
because you have to pay all the players now and
so like INTAA football actually became one of the biggest
selling sports games of all time, if not the biggest selling.
Speaker 5: You don't have to pay nearly as many baseball and
basketball players because there's not as many.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 5: So if you can do it with football, I don't
see why you couldn't do it.
Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, though, it's like to do all of
the sport would take a lot of work. So here
in the interim, you've already gone through some of the work.
Just do like an SEC mode or something. Yeah, just
you know, keep it to sixteen teams, sec acc if
you just want to do the big two. Uh, that
would be the only thing that would get me back
on a baseball video game, and I'll likely it if
it was college.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this show's pretty fun.
Speaker 2: I remember playing the show years and years and years ago,
and I agree it was fun of like the right
stick batting if that's what they still do and everything.
But I just I grew up, you know, obsessed the
Braves as my team every single night, reading the paper,
every day, watching sports and every morning. Tom glad It's
actually why I chose Kate Anderson for the player most
looking forward to on Louisiana Sports on Net because Tom
Glavin which is it's really stupid logic.
Speaker 4: But Tom mentioned him.
Speaker 2: No I did, no, No, I'm being dumb when we
hunt asked us, you know what are you most excited for?
I say, Kate Anderson because I have such positive memories
of watching Tom Glaven growing up and I left the
a dominant lefty starter. That's whatever. They're just both left hand,
all right. Coming up next, let's tell talk to Jordan
Tabor about the Rain Will Bring Flowers Foundation and they've
been going on in the Pmacamar planting seeds of hope. Guys.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to more sports Talk. What's some other stuff
mixed in off the bench with Hester and T Bob?
Speaker 3: What's going on y'all?
Speaker 2: Welcome back to O T b here on one O
four five ESPN. And uh, I know we have a
lot of fun on this show, but I want, I want,
I want to be a little serious here and UH
speak on an event that is going on in the
PMAC tomorrow that I think is well worth your time
and very important. This is planting seeds of hope. It's
gonna be hosted by Ryan Clark. Also Emma Benwan and
DJ Shark will be there that six pm in the
p MAC. It is from the Rain Will Bring Flowers Foundation,
and we'll explain exactly what it's all about by talking
to Jordan Taper, the most affected by this. Jordan, what's
going on man? Thank you so much for joining us
this morning.
Speaker 7: Good morning see Bob, and thank you for.
Speaker 2: For having us so Jordan, There's there's no easy way
to talk about this, but I know that it is
close to your heart to to to tell this story publicly,
try to bring awareness and help others explain to everybody
the story behind how the Rain Will Bring Flowers Foundation
came about and what the goals are with tomorrow's event.
Speaker 7: Absolutely Rain Will Bring Flowers is a youth student athlete
suicide prevention nonprofit that was stood up in response to
my family's tragedy. We lost our son, Owen in April
of twenty twenty three, and Owen was popular, never bullied, smart, athletic.
He was starting at the end and tight end for
Saint Michael's High School as a sophomore, and he came
from a stable family where he was loved and supported.
And I just share this with you, T Bob and
your audience so that everyone understands that if a kid
like Owen and our family could fall victim to suicide,
and I really believe all of our kids are at risk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And so in this journey, which I cannot fathom,
by the way, and I credit you for trying to
take that pain and make something positive out of it.
In this journey, what have you learned about steps that
could be taken, things to do or or or how
to fight against what can be you know, when when
when maybe your brain kind of starts to betray you
or mental health, like we what have you learned in
this journey thus far?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know what I did. What I have learned
is that how prevalent suicide is and it's actually the
second leading cause of death in Louisiana for adolescence. And
there was also a study that was released recently and
it's the second leading cause of death for NCAA athletes.
Yet no one's really talking about it. And you know,
when I was in school, there was mad there was
there and it was really kind of you know, auditorium
style education, classroom style education. But due to the stigma
around mental health, we're really not talking about it. And
that's that's really the goal of planning Seeds of Hope
to just normalize the conversation and make getting help for
mental health as normal as you would if you were
to injure yourself on the on the field.
Speaker 2: So, Jordan, we have a lot of we have a
lot of people you know, at this time of the
day on their way to school, carpool and whatnot. I've
you know, I hear from a lot of kids like
to listen to the show around this time. If a
kid is out there and he is listening to this
and he's like, man, you know that kind of speaks
to me a bit here, what resources can he engage in?
He or she, I should say, I apologize, what resource
can hear she engage in to maybe get some of
some of the health or some of the help that
they might be seeking.
Speaker 7: SRA. And so my colleague Shelley mullenex from the Elisha
Athletic Department is also on the line with us, and
I think she'd be the best person to respond to
that question.
Speaker 2: Hey, Shelley, did you Shelley, did you hear the and
I love Shelley by the way. I've been knowing her
for many, many, many years. Shelley, did you hear the question?
Speaker 8: I did?
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 8: Nice to hear your voice.
Speaker 2: Keep up.
Speaker 8: I appreciate your time. Well, you know, you know, if
you know me, that we've been talking about mental health
in the athletic training room for a long time. It's
a big part of wellness for us and for me,
and I've made it hopefully everyone's all of our student athletes,
I made their business to at least try to tend
to it because it's just not you know, it's not
the cool thing to talk about. And so I know
that all the you know, the people and the kids
that are in the cars right now are uncomfortable and
not knowing, you know, how to say stuff. There's a
lot of resources. I mean, the first and foremost would
be your parent, which I know would be a difficult thing.
But I've had conversations with my own kids with you know,
about these topics, and they're scary to have, but they
need to happen. And there's a lot of relief when
you do have these kind of conversations with your kids,
because they're having these thoughts and they just don't know
what to do with the thoughts. So absent a parent
being able to have that meaningful conversation for you know,
for good reasons, there's you know, obviously a pediatricians. Of
course you have to be going with your parents probably
to the pediatrician. But the doctors should be prepared for
these kind of conversations. But the easiest thing is nine
eight eight. You know, we know that number. We hear
it all the time. I've actually worked those crisis lines,
so I've received those phone calls. These are the are
you know, people that are prepared for difficult conversations with
anybody who calls. I've gotten phone calls myself from young folks,
from older folks that are in crisis and in the moment,
and it's really you know, important that when people are
feeling that lost and that isolated, that they reach out
to somebody. So it doesn't have to be you know,
the best psychologist or mental health person in town. Sometimes
it just could be a friend. And so I think
when we talk about how to how to managemental health,
it's about removing the shame associated with it. So if
you were to come to me in the training room
and say I'm really struggling today that I wouldn't you know,
freak out, and that we would have a meaningful conversation
and I would try to find resources for you, just
the same way if you came in and said, my
knees killing me, what can I do? I would have
a plan for you. So you know, it should not
be any different. We have to normalize it because the
shame is there and and it creates more isolation, which
is just a challenge for both, you know, the parents.
Speaker 7: And the kids.
Speaker 2: So guys, I mean, if you are listening to this
and this is resonating with you, or maybe you're listening
to this and does it right now and one day
you think back on anything, it doesn't just I think
the first step you just have to talk to someone.
Talk to someone, be it a loved one, a parent
called the number that Jelly said, talk to someone to
get back to the event going on tomorrow night, six
pm in the p MAC, host by Ryan Clark, planning
Seeds of Hope Jordan. How can people get involved? Tickets?
What's the kind of logistical details of tomorrow night?
Speaker 7: So the event is absolutely free, Okay, it's a community event.
Everyone is welcome and really just show up. You know,
there's no need to register, just show up. We're looking
to pack the t MAC since we are gonna be
sitting with everyone during the dinner hour. We've brought in
a thousand chains boxes through the generosity of the Joe
Burrow Foundation and LSU Athletics and Rain will bring Flowers
is also feeding an additional thousand folks with Papa John's.
So the first two thousand to show up we'll receive
a free meal on us.
Speaker 2: So you go. P MAC starts at six f and
mar you show up a little bit earlier, it's free,
you get dinner. And then is it a panel discussion
about mental health and everything that people go through in athletics,
sit and otherwise.
Speaker 7: Correct and the doors will actually open at five. We'll
we'll have a tabling event where we'll have over thirty
community resources. They are just to show their support and
let the attendees know of all the help and support
available to them. And then yes, the the it will
be a panel format like you pointed out, Ryan Clark
will be moderating and we have a panel of high
profile athletes as well as credential mental health professionals and
it'll be an opportunity for Q and A and the
panelists are just going to share their life experiences, their
struggles and how they've overcome and where they're at today.
So it's really just going to be a night of
hope and inspiration. We just want these kids to know
that they're not alone and that there's tons of support
to help them.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's pretty incredible, Jordan. Just as this interview
has gone on, we have our chat feature right where
people talk and it's being inundated right now with messages
of people who lost love wife that say that seemed
like you said happy outside look at it and you
never know what's going on, and so thank you for
all the work that you're doing. And guys, go out
tomorrow to the PMAC six P and Rain Rain will
being Flowers as a foundation plan of Seeds of Hope
is the event. It's going to be an excellent night.
You can go, get yourself a free dinner and then
an excellent night of normalizing conversations that need to take
place to protect ourselves, to protect our kids, and to
make sure that they feel comfortable discussing these sort of things.
And shout out to the Joe Burrow Foundation, l Club,
our Lady Lake Health for all spots of it, and
most of all, thank you to you Shelley. But most
of all, thank you to you Jordan again for wearing
this on your sleeve and and and being willing to,
you know, put this out publicly in order to try
to save others lives. It's it's it's a very big
thing that you're doing.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Bob. You know, I just can't let my
son's tragedy get to waste, and we're just trying to
make sure that no other family has to walk in
my shoes. And I would just leave one thought with
your listeners. If you're a coach or if your parent,
if you're a parent, and you're sitting there thinking, you know,
mental health, that's not going to impact my family or
my team. You know, if I'm being honest, I felt
the same way. I just didn't see this coming and
it never felt like this would would impact my family.
And I really wish I would had access to an
event like this. I wish my son would have had
access to an event like this. So if you're sitting there,
clear your schedule, bring your family out, bring your team out.
Thank you so much to Bob.
Speaker 2: All right, George, thank you and you have a good
day man, and looking forward to tomorrow's event guys again,
that is six pm in the PMX. Our doors will
open at five, like you said first two thousand in there,
get yourself a free meal man. Thank you to Jordan again.
When we get back more off the bench, off.
Speaker 1: The bench, back to sports talk, maybe off the bench.
Speaker 2: What's happing, y'all? Welcome back to OTV. Thank you again
to Jordan, and that event is planning Seeds of Hope
tomorrow night at six pm in the p MAC. All right,
let's just transition here. The New York Jets have informed
Aaron Rodgers they are not going to re sign him.
So the god awful Aaron Rodgers Jets experiment is is
add an end. Now. It'll be interesting to me to
see what if he follows, just goes the full Brett
fav route signs of the Vikings beat out to to
McCarthy and then ends up being awesome, right, because you
remember Brett Farr first played for the Jets, didn't do
much and didn't played for the Vikings and did awesome. Again.
I don't think it gon't happen, but we'll wait and see.
But that's not what I want to talk about. I
don't really care about Aaron Rodgers or the Jets for
that matter, unless the Jets won Derek Carr. And here's
where it gets a bit interesting. If you google Jets
and Derek Carr, there's not a lot of recent articles,
but there are are a ton of articles talking about
how Derek Carr was basically going to sign with the
Jets two years ago before they ended up wanting Aaron
Rodgers and then he ends up in New Orleans. And
what's funny is I think right now, actually Derek Carr
is a better quarterback than Aaron Rodgers is. Maybe Derek
Carr do really well. They're give them their best chance
to win. And you may be saying, ah'vitibo, what's the point, right, Like,
you're not actually gonna get that much cap relief. It's
all gonna just be dead money. And this is true.
But I've been thinking about it a lot, and I
was in New Orleans all of last week and talking
to people last week. I just don't know that I've
ever seen anything like the relationship between a fan base
and a player like Derek Carr and the hoot at Nation.
It's just toxic. It's just absolutely toxic, and it's toxic
to a level that is not actually reflected in the
level of play. I'm not saying Derek Carr has been
great or good, but he has been okay. And yet
you would think that he's actively a bottom five quarterback
in the NFL, that he's just hot garbage. I've just
never seen anyone hated as much where the play is. Again,
you could say good, but I don't even think you
need to go that far because then people are like,
what is and it doesn't matter, Like, oh, the steps
don't and I understand all that, but like, at a
certain point you have to see what the relationship is
and I don't know, man, I think you have to
move on now. Obviously, you're gonna empower Kellen Moore when
he's announced his head coach. You're gonna empower him to
make this decision. And I think there's real incentivization for
more to keep Carr. If he's trying to win as
many games as possible next year, If that is the goal,
then keeping Derek Carr is probably the answer. However, when
he's hired the front office is cognizant of what a
complete mess they've made of everything, and so I think
they tell him as a way to entice him, Hey man, look,
you're not gonna be judged off of those year one results.
We're gonna give you time. And in that context, doesn't
it make all the sense to try to move car
for whatever you can get, play rattler, see what you have,
and probably lose a lot of games along the way.
But in doing so, clean the crud, you know, trim
the fat, start to reset things, and then maybe set
yourself up to draft a first round quarterback for the
first time in fifty years, which is absurd and mind boggling.
That is a stat But it is like, it doesn't
matter how well Derek Carr plays here, He's never gonna
be liked. What was one of the common frames last week?
Where is dere Carr? Jamis Winston's out here charming the
entire city, tired, Matthew cam Jordan's riding around on a
freaking mopet at Radio Row for an hour straight. Where
is dear Carr? Probably Chipotle, not even in North And
so it just appears so clear that that relationship is
over and neither side really wants another year of it,
so it's up to you.
Speaker 3: Kellen Moore.
Speaker 2: But I would say to really really think about moving
car for whatever you can get, eating the dead money,
and it's a lot of dead money to eat, and
maybe starting starting over for real this time.
Speaker 4: And signed jameis hear me out? Trades back sis and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just trade. Let's just go back. Let's take it
back a few years. Trade car sign jamis heal the city.
This is the way, Kellen. You have the opportunity to
be the prince that was promised save us.
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore.
Speaker 2: All right, Hour one of the Bucks, Hour two coming
up next, keep it locked on, o dB off the bench,