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Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: Moon talk? Don't know? How are you into the mission
to launch a shuttle to orbit the Moon to collect
data to see if we need to maybe land on
said moon?
Speaker 6: I think it's awesome. Yeah, let's go, I mean why not?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Where Let's see where you stand on this? Uh? Has
have we ever landed on the Moon before?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 7: I've for the longest time was hardcore. Absolutely, I will
say I've, I've I've have some questions.
Speaker 8: Now, there's a lot of questions that need to be
and I don't know if they ever will be.
Speaker 6: But there's there's some there's some stuff there a.
Speaker 8: Little fishy that we still got to study, get a
mission out there to figure out how.
Speaker 6: If we can get there.
Speaker 8: It's kind of like five decades later, pretty sure you can.
They did it with a pocket calculator and a tube
of metal and some gas and some gas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, you just kind of wonder.
Speaker 2: I got a question for you, Doug. Baseball season.
Speaker 8: Since we've since we've talked last you know, it's been
opening day, opening weekend from Major League Baseball, of course,
so a shoot baseball is like right in the thick
of things. I've kind of been on this campaign against
the sliding glove for quite some time now, the sliding mint,
the sliding mit. I think it's really dumb. It looks terrible,
it looks soft, a lot of beta energy coming from it.
We're hand injuries from running and sliding into bases that
prevalent that they had to create a really dumb looking
oven mit to put on their hand.
Speaker 7: You know, the first time I saw one of those,
I also had very similar feelings. The aesthetics are not
very pleasing, but you know, I guess no, they're not
that prevalent in my experience with baseball.
Speaker 6: But I suppose too, that the one time it does happen.
Speaker 7: You know, if you have an Alex Bregman who slides
in and dislocates a finger or something, then you're gonna say, well, gosh,
why didn't you have that sliding it on? So, I mean,
I guess, but I'm also I have a hard time
just looking at them. You know, it's it's it's I
I can understand why you'd want your guy wearing it.
I get you don't want to lose somebody to a
flukey injury sliding in. For man, it's a.
Speaker 8: I think that I don't think I've ever heard of one.
An injury to a finger. Leke like you can hurt
your finger doing anything. I think it just kind of
adds some link to the hand, right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean you can. That's that's there's there's that too.
Speaker 3: That's what we're doing. M I will say, it's not
that swaggy. No kids think it's I think it's kind
of well. I saw I used to see a lot
more two years ago in youth baseball. It's going away
more and more. I think coaches like, we ain't doing that,
yeah or not, it's really dumb, I will say, so
my senior year in high school. So I was the
guy that played you know, three sports all the way
through until I was so I'm getting to my senior
year and I remember coach Daban calling me and it's
got what's your spring plans? I was like, well play
baseball in soccer. He's like, wow, they got He's like,
we had a guy that he's going back in. He's
second base, he's got a lead. They tried to pick
him off. He dies back into the bag and he
breaks his hand. He had the gray shirt the guy.
The guy didn't even get on the field I because
he broke his hand playing baseball senior year. I was like,
so no, so you go, coach, have you seen these hands?
So he basically was like, you can play soccer, yeah,
but you're not playing baseball. It might have been your
like is an oven mat gonna like prevented, you know,
but like it might have been your signing clas. I
don't know if it was like the year before or
if it was two years before, but he was very
adamant of a guy that broke his hand diving back
into second base because he's getting picked off. I had
a great shirt.
Speaker 9: The guy.
Speaker 3: The guy never got in the field. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 7: That feels like a lot of recency bias. I mean,
I feel like you've almost the other way around, Like
I don't want you to tell your a cl playing soccer.
For me, that's a bigger risk, you know, and an
injury that could put you out for longer. But yeah,
so clearly I think you had a little rescncy buyas
because it again we do see it clearly, but it's
not I would say the prevalence has been that high.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the moral of the story is just
get rid.
Speaker 3: Of the o ements, the slight ements.
Speaker 8: That's That's where I'm taking away from this. They're dumb
and if you want you, I don't know that.
Speaker 3: Like, I think that's the most passionate thing that you
have is your hate for even Mits Elandra. Would you
would you agree with that? I mean, he's not very
passionate about a lot of things.
Speaker 5: I would agree that he hates oven Mits.
Speaker 10: But I also agree with the take on the oven Mits.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not even disagreeing with to take either. But
this man hates I was like, I want to almost
like do some research. Did the creator of the oven
Mit also have a hydration company that's a competitor with
my high He.
Speaker 2: Cut me when I was with when I was with
the Packers, probably just.
Speaker 10: Get like everybody else did.
Speaker 8: I mean, like, look, it's not that big of a
like jam fingers are a way of life.
Speaker 3: As a child. Okay, so the mits are one thing,
and I agree with you, like I would just like
hold onto your bat and gloves, put it, put your bag,
glows in your back pockets cooler. Anyway, Yeah, it's nothing
that makes the thing from baseball, and I know it
has a purpose. One of the best hitters ever, Barry Bonds,
wore the big elbow guard. I the thing I have
a problem with is like after you bat, it's like
you're taking off the elbow guard, you're taking off the
leg guard, You're putting the oven in the back. Like
it's a process. It's a whole process.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of and there's a lot of flair.
It transitions down.
Speaker 7: I was the first base coach of my my son's
youth team, and a couple of the guys I'd have
to sit there and like, okay, give me that, give
me this. They're like they're stripping down and takes them.
You know, it's like, good lord, they're all about pace
of play. They put a they put the clock.
Speaker 8: On the picture, but it takes three minutes every every
time someone gets a single to take all the stuff off.
Speaker 7: I think you should like require them to wear it
around the bases. If they're gonna wear it the bag,
you know.
Speaker 2: If you can't put it in your back pocket, don't
put it off.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean that's pretty good rule of thumb. I feel
like that was pretty good.
Speaker 3: Even pitching. I get on Memphis sometimes like he'll he'll
be at second base, so come to the mound. It's
like he's gonna take the armsleeve off. He's gotta take
this all. You gotta take that. It's like, dude's just
let's go. It's a process, all right.
Speaker 8: Doc, you brought up something that kind of uh piqued
my interest here. You talked about i'd be more worried
about like ACL or a knee injury in soccer. So
it was so I remember hearing a stat at one
point that soccer players have a much lower rate of
ACL injuries or knee injuries. And there was one I
can't remember. There was a doctor making the argument about
because soccer players don't tape their ankles and football players
traditionally do ankle taping or braces on the ankles. And
I remember the when I was in high school, my
coaches got on this thing where they wanted me to
wear a knee brace in practice because they didn't want
to take a chance of me having a fluke injury
in practice. And it was one of these knee braces
that had like the tight sleeve on it, and I
have to wear it in practice, and I hated it,
but I wouldn't wear it in the game. And by
the time the game time came, I felt like my
knees were like weaker because I had this tight knee
brace on. H Have you ever looked at the correlation
between like what I just probably about the soccer soccer
knee injury rates compared to football, And do you think
anything there's a correlation to like having braces tape supportive
structures in a practice situation that might not that might
lead to less muscle development.
Speaker 7: So so a lot a lot of directions we can
go bracing. You know, it's interesting the braces don't seem
to work that well.
Speaker 3: For preventing injury.
Speaker 7: For one, I think we all like to wear and
there are some you know, small exceptions there. But for example,
most of the times we looked at knee braces, you know,
it's always the old lime.
Speaker 6: They're gonna wear them as Yeah, they're there.
Speaker 7: And I'm not saying we should wear the braces if
they make you feel safer, But the reality of it is,
the data doesn't really back up having the guys wear
them for preventing injury. It's not it's not that strong
of a correlation there. So, So one, was it beneficial
for your need to wear the brace and practice to
reduce your risk of injury?
Speaker 3: Probably not.
Speaker 7: Second, do you get weaker if you wear a brace?
That's always why I'm not a big brace or sling guy.
When it's not necessary, I try to get people out
of them as quick as possible. Uh, because yeah, you
do get weaker. You know, you know that there's there's
a term, you know, I think something will be a crutch.
It's kind of the same entiality.
Speaker 3: Something can be a brace.
Speaker 7: And if you have depended on it, now, if you're
unstable or if you have an injury, sure there's there
is a benefit. Then so I think you got to
kind of weigh all that with soccer versus football. You know,
I don't know the exact number, so I don't want to,
you know, lie about it. You know, it does seem
we get a little bit more from football, but we
do see a fair bount in soccer too with with
with you know, big ligament injuries. You know, maybe maybe
it has something to do with the ankle bracing. Maybe
it's the surface they're playing on. Maybe the cleats are
a little bit different. You know, the soccer cleat's a
little bit smaller, so they don't stick as much. So,
you know, there's probably a lot of all the above.
Speaker 8: I think the argument was, like the ankle tape in
has it prevents the muscle developing in the ankle and
the flexibility in the ankle to kind of roll over.
If your knee gets in a bad situation, your ankle
can make up for it by rolling over to be
more flexible, have it some more muscles.
Speaker 3: That's There's teams have kind of gone away completely from
taping or at least requiring you to tape one. Yeah,
and if you used to, it is the first thing
you had to do.
Speaker 7: Yeah, everybody line up is just yeah, it's uh, look
at if you look at ski injuries, you know, you
don't see a lot of ankle injuryes. We see a
lot of knee injuries and skiers, and it's the same mentality.
Your your ankle is completely immobilized, so yeah, you aren't
going to roll your ankles easily. But it's it's just
anytime that you immobilize something, you're going to offload that
to the next level.
Speaker 3: So I hated getting my ankles, I mean because they
had to use two rolls of tape on one ankle
for you, but I did. It is funny to think
about it like it was just it was mandatory. So
you go in every game we ever played in college
in the NFL, we probably had either a brace or
you had your ankles tape. I'm sitting and thinking, like,
I've never had an ankle like.
Speaker 8: I would definitely. I would definitely fake it a lot
because I didn't want my ankles taped, so I would
just put ank tape on the top of my ankle
and put my sock on.
Speaker 3: Oh, you had the fattest ankle braces our senior year.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? These are strong ankles.
Speaker 8: No the braces you had those big No, it wasn't
I didn't wear our senior year after you got hurt.
I thought you wore I had to get spatted up.
I actually wore the cloth ankle brace.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I didn't want to get taped. I hated getting
my ankles taped.
Speaker 8: I didn't want to get taped, so I would get
I did the cloth one for the first couple of years,
and it was so gross.
Speaker 3: Oh, we'll find We'll find some evidence of those, because
that's the picture. I'm playing in the peach bowl with
an in my mind. Like when I think of you
and the UNI, I think of those seeing those big Yeah.
Speaker 8: I had to wear offensive line and shoes because of that,
a big ass uh high ankle high ankle spraying plastic
mold brace that they that was fresh technology at the Yeah,
they took a mold on my foot and they made
this brace for me. I don't know if it worked, Doc,
but I had to like wear offensive line shoes.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Well he got he had this quarterback there and probably
four three four four then you know his ankle.
Speaker 3: Right, sure, bud uh. We got a user in the chat.
It says, hey, I want you to think doc for me.
He's been amazing with my son dealing with his uc
L injury. Yeah you go, doc, all right, Dot, I
appreciate that you nice job.
Speaker 2: Nice my pleasure changing lives real quick for.
Speaker 3: Let you go spring practice. You had a chance to
go out there yet see uh see everybody on the grass.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, I was out there on Saturday. I'll be
out there this weekend as well. And you know, so far,
it's been exciting to watch, you know, it's the practice
is definitely different. You know, a lot more up. Timply,
got a lot more going on. You know, you got
it's it's it is, it's it's it's.
Speaker 6: Fun to see. I think the energy level.
Speaker 7: You know, pretty much from January on has been a different,
different thing for sure. And I think that somebody all
talked about the vibe, the energy, whatever you want to say,
it's it's. Look, we'll see how it translates right fall.
But I will say, you know, I've said a lot
of people were winning the off season. I mean, it's
one hundred.
Speaker 3: Just I'll never forget last summer when Matt and I
went to practice and how short it was, how low
intense it was, and this is training camp and training camp.
How funny it was that defensive coaches immediately walked over
to us to explain themselves. Yeah, because they didn't like
it either, but they were like, hey, I know what
you're about to say.
Speaker 7: I brought brought my son out there for one of
the early practices with and he was like even he
remember leaving the field and he's like, they're already done.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 6: That's he was not.
Speaker 3: He was not impressed the same way.
Speaker 7: So, I mean, and this would have been what three
or four years ago, so he was thirteen ish, give
or take a couple of years, and at that point
he was like, that was that was not that impressive that.
Speaker 8: I did see something come out of spring. I think
Lane said that one day there was like six fights
and one price.
Speaker 3: There wasn't a So.
Speaker 2: Have you ever seen like fights are necessities for football?
Speaker 8: Absolutely, and for the most part, I don't think I
ever had anybody get injured. Now, a lot of people
punch helmets, but that's kind of the thing. You gotta
punch your helmet every day. Yeah, ever seen anybody's hand
get hurt the helmet punch?
Speaker 6: I don't remember one. I'm sure that you know. Yeah,
I don't remember when.
Speaker 7: I'm sure we had it, you know, and I may
just be you know, blocking that one out, but I
don't remember it. To tell anybody about hurt, Yeah, the
guy that got hurt in the weight room or something.
Speaker 6: But it's it's you know it. I agree.
Speaker 7: You know, you got to get that energy spring ball
and camp. You got to have a few fights, got
to get in the season. Is it necessary, Probably not,
but you may still get a couple of dust ups,
but you gotta get it out some point.
Speaker 8: Look, baseball players like if football players can punch each
other in the helmet with their bare fists, you can
lightly slag it slide into a bag without another event on.
Speaker 3: Full circle, break it all back there we go.
Speaker 7: Hey, one other thing we got to that we're hosting
the regional this weekend gymnastics, just to kind of for that.
Speaker 6: You got to play in meet today.
Speaker 7: So we're not competing today, but it's air Force and
somebody today. You can hear there against this afternoon, So
ifeyoboy wants to come out to.
Speaker 8: The lot of gymnastics of l shoes. Meat begins tomorrow
at seven pm, I believe, and.
Speaker 3: Then coming on yesterday. Yeah, j came on.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot.
Speaker 8: There's I think there's eight teams competing tomorrow through other
day one. There's the first meet at four five pm,
I believe, and then l.
Speaker 7: S un like today is a playing meet for the
second meet tomorrow.
Speaker 6: So there's two teams going the day right.
Speaker 7: Then you'll have two groups of four tomorrow and the
top two teams from each of those groups of four
will advance to Saturday.
Speaker 8: Okay, I think tonight is Air Force Nebraska and then
Shoes and then the l's hues Bright it's LSU number fifteen,
Clemson Auburn, and then the winner between air Force and
the Brass and then tomorrow afternoon is number seven Stanford,
number ten, Michigan, U n C.
Speaker 3: And Utah State. There is all right, so he's got it,
got it, cover, Doc. We appreciate this always, sir, Ay
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All right, so what's today? Wednesday? Today? But on Monday
I caught up with Saints head coach Kellen Moore. Had
a good conversation with him, and I thought, since you know,
I was the one doing the interview me and I
got Pat Kerwin over on Moving the Chains series six
M NFL Radio. I was like, hey, guys, can you
send me that because I think our listeners need to
hear from the Saints head coach Kellen Moore. So we've
got that for you. Now. Here is Keller Moore at
the NFL owner meetings on Monday. We are going to
catch up now with the New Orleans Saints head coach
Kellen Moore, a coach, always a pleasure. I hope you're
doing well. Yeah, thanks for having guys. Absolutely. I mean
what a couple of weeks of free agency. I mean,
signed some big time players. I know, David Edwards was
a huge signing from Buffalo. The interior, that offensive line,
Travis h n As we found out. Look, I'm from Louisiana,
so I always thought eight team was a little weird,
but I just kind of went with it. But a
couple of big signings there, noahfen to you know, just
keep on going with the signing so so far, probably
a lot of fun to get some new offensive weapons
in there.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's been great. It's been a great process. For us,
off seasons are always a mixed emotion. You're gonna lose
some guys, You're gonna you know, be able to sign
some guys. But we feel like we're building this thing
the right way and heading in the right direction.
Speaker 14: What'd you learn about this team after one year? You know,
you go in with some presumptions. Yeah, then the year
clears up those things. What'd you find out about these guys?
Speaker 15: We had the right kind of guys in the locker room.
Speaker 13: They were resilient, They stuck together, played our best football
towards the end. We don't win enough games early, but
our guys stuck together, and you know, you gotta appreciate that.
Speaker 15: Yep.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they really did. And just from Afar like the
quarterback situation and look Sventer's not playing bad yep at
the time, but you know you got to make a
move and then you throw Tyler in there. Tyler plays
really well in the quarterback room. We were talking beforehand,
really really healthy right now. But the thing that was
impressive to me for Tyler being a young player was
how he elevated those around him. I mean, you and
I we play, We've been around the league. That doesn't
happen very often that a young player can do that.
But that's a skill set that I wasn't sure that
anybody knew just how good Tyler could be elevating those
around him.
Speaker 13: Yeah, no doubt. We got a really good QB room.
You know, Tyler obviously finished the season off phenomenal. I
think the world is Spence. I thought Spence played some
really good football. We didn't win games because we didn't
play well collectively. He played some really good football and
so and then we signed Zach Wilson. So we feel
like we got a really good young room and I'm
excited to see those guys continue to develop.
Speaker 14: How do you because I've been asking guys that have
four quarterbacks in a row, like, how do you split
up the summer reps? I mean, our listeners are trying
to figure out how this works. And that's the coach
when he gets in here.
Speaker 2: It's not my job anymore.
Speaker 15: I know one thing.
Speaker 14: We tried to have a competition, not that yours is,
but it doesn't work. Now, get you get nervous a
week after camp starts going.
Speaker 15: We got to get ready for the season.
Speaker 13: Last year is testing our patients, you know, I saw
that's right. You're like, oh man, how long? How long
are we going to go with this thing? But uh yeah,
obviously there's a tear system. Iler Tyler's number one job
is to get ready as to starting quarterback and for
the other guys to continue to develop as players. And
so I think the thing we're always trying to maximize
is whether it's joint practice or preseason games, how many
times can we give these guys game like situations and
give them those reps that they.
Speaker 3: Need catch up. When you were on Saint Hey, coach
Killer Moore here on moving the Chains, so you mentioned,
you know, losing some guys and you lose to Mario
Davis and we all know what that means and the
leadership and everything. But you can ask Pat he can
back me up on this. I said, I hope they
sprint to sign Kaden Ellis Like that was the guy,
Like I said it that day on the show. You
make a move, I mean Cayden Like as a guy
that played running back, he gives you a lot of
problems because he can do so many things. He's a
great rusher as well. So I know you lose there,
but you add a guy in Kate ellis that those
new ones been there before. Yeah, I know you're excited
to see him out there on the grass.
Speaker 13: I am super fired up about Kayden. We first got
him out of the red, we got him in the
right colors again. He went and did a little I
don't know what it is.
Speaker 3: He was just gathering information, you know, from down the
red scouting.
Speaker 13: Exactly and really going against him. I mean, you know,
you're like, man, this guy creates so many problems. His
ability to play linebacker off the ball, he's super smart.
But then his ability to pressure, you know, he puts
you in a ton of conflicts. Running backs are like, really,
I gotta go block this guy. I mean you know,
so then all of a sudden, you're changing your whole
protection plan based off of this one individual, and which.
Speaker 3: As a goal like me, yeah, you tried to get
a guy that I always say this on Monday mornings.
We start with Okay, here's the guy, here's who we
got to worry about. How we're going to treat this guy?
Speaker 15: Yep, no doubt.
Speaker 13: And that's been Kayden for you know, three years, two
years now, you know, being into land and so you know,
we're really excited about having him back. He's got a
ton of familiarity with the community, with the organization. So
the transition I think is going to be great.
Speaker 14: Tell me about the what you do from here, Like
they're listening and they always they have their own eye.
Speaker 3: Is what you guys do.
Speaker 2: My next neighbor when I was working.
Speaker 14: With Dougie was like the first day after the end
of the season, he said, you must be off now
till August. I looked at him, go, you're never gonna
see me again. What are you talking about? So what's
your schedule leaving this meeting.
Speaker 13: Yeah, we're transitioning really heavy into the draft here for
the next few weeks. You know, that's a big part
of this process, and so we did a lot of
pro days and private workouts this past week. We'll transition
into that, spend a ton of time on that, put
ourselves in position for the draft and then really free agencies,
this big, you know, notarized thing in March. Well, it's
a year round process and so the pro side, you know,
there's gonna be prior transactions in our league before the draft.
They'll be transactions right after the draft, they'll be in June,
they'll be before training camp. Look at our team. We
made a couple of trades at the end of training camp.
It's a constant, year round process of building our roster
and getting as good as we can be.
Speaker 15: Yep.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Saints have always been really good about sending people
to a lot of different pro days and a lot
of people to certain pro days, and so draft board
come on together. And Pat always educates me on this,
like when you feel like you've got a really good
idea of where you're at right now, so where are
we at in that process of putting the draft board together.
Speaker 13: I've been fortunate I've gone through with Jeff and Mickey
kind of one time before before we went to the Combine,
just I had a little bit of an idea of
those guys, went through some early early meetings.
Speaker 15: But uh, you know, this is really the thick of it.
Speaker 13: You know, we just got off of this this pro
day circuit, these these private workouts, and then this is
where we really dig into these guys, you know, and
get everyone's observations, everyone's notes, and then obviously you got
to set the board. You got to set the board,
put your plan together, and uh, that's that's part of
the process.
Speaker 14: Last one. For me, it's a human nature subject. So
you can't help yourself. I'll just use myself an example.
I could not help myself. Every time someone in our
division signed someone, I thought about what.
Speaker 2: Does that mean to us?
Speaker 15: So how do you How do you not.
Speaker 14: Find yourself looking at the guys in your division what
they're doing during free agency?
Speaker 15: Or do you?
Speaker 16: Oh?
Speaker 15: I think you definitely do.
Speaker 13: We're gonna play six division games, and so that's gonna
be you know, the first way to get to the
playoffs is obviously the win your division.
Speaker 15: That's the most important formula for you.
Speaker 13: And so when you see what Carolina, Atlanta and Tampa does,
you know, obviously we got to have a plan in place.
We're gonna play those guys at least two times in
the regular season. You know, we've seen the battles that
those are and so it's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: I bet my goal is to get killing to sign
a fullback here in the next couple of years. I
feel like every time I'm talking with him, every time,
I'm just chipping away just a little bit. So you know, hey,
we got like seven running backs on the roster. If
one you know, wants to put their hand in the dirt.
You know, maybe you should try it out.
Speaker 15: Yeah, they might play a little bit of a full
back type role.
Speaker 14: The first day he became my partner, I said, I
can only promise you one thing. I'm going to bring
back the fullback every chance I can, and don't the
league started signing fullbacks like that first week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had all four of them on the show.
Speaker 15: Perfect come on over.
Speaker 3: You're hearing out a little bit of a shot there.
That's actually true. By the way, Kellen Moore, New Orleans
Saints head coach, he was great enjoyed conversation on the air.
Off the air, I really like where they're at. I
think he likes where they're at as well. You know
what I'm saying, You could tell like where a coach
kind of like when you talk to him off the air,
right and you kind of get it's kind of hard language.
Speaker 8: He's kind of hard to get past that that coach
speaks shell a little bit. Yeah, but I feel like
you OpEd like there's like every time I hear him
doing an interview, like there's little glimpses of like his
actual personality.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 8: Now, some coaches that are more tenured that shines through
like their entire whatever question they're asked, or just like
I am who I am?
Speaker 3: You get it.
Speaker 8: I think Kellen will get to that point. But he's
first time head coach. He's a little bit more buttoned
up on some of his answers. But you see you
get a glimpse of like actual Kelling.
Speaker 3: Moore, Yeah, you do. And I enjoyed our conversation. You
know they're on air what you just heard. But also
like before we started the interview, we're talking about it's like, man,
our quarterback room right now, like where it's at and
how we feel about it and not having to worry
about like you know, last year we didn't know so
we had three guys getting reps. He's like like, we
know what Tyler is, we know what Spencer can give us.
We just signed Zach Wilson. He's like even that, like
starting off with the most important position pretty much you know,
figured out to this point. He's like, we feel like
we can hit the ground running compared to last year
where we were just trying, we were swimming in it.
We're in the deep end. We're trying to figure out
who can do what who's going to be able to
elevate everybody? He's like, and whenn't figure that out to
the end of it, But we got to figure it out.
He's like, by the end of we were playing pretty well. Yeah.
Speaker 8: I mean when you the more answers you have going
into a season, the less questions you got to ask, Yeah,
and the other and there's more different type of questions
that you can spend your time on. So certainly that
quarterback room, they're in a very strong position.
Speaker 17: Uh.
Speaker 8: And I would have appreciated if you had asked them
if they would trade Rattler so I can get a
little bit quicker return of my card collection.
Speaker 2: So not a fox old guy asked him to do that.
Speaker 8: But I do think that there is some value there,
especially with the addition of Zach Wilson to the team,
so you know, we'll see it's I believe that there
would be a market for that. You got a guy
that's on a quarterback has a decent amount of starting experience.
His starting experience certainly didn't win like lead to the
w's on the win loss column, but certainly there is
very good NFL quarterback play there and he's on a
rookie contract. I think there is some value there to
be had with teams that have either established starters that
he could go and back up for, or teams that
are bringing in a guy that you don't necessarily know
if it's going to work out all uh Minnesota, Like
you don't know. I mean you could. You could make
an argument that Spencer's played better recent football than Kyler Murray.
You can make that argument, like not over a career.
Kyler has had nomits where he's stuck out and there's
no arguing the talent there, but like you just never
know how that's going to transition. So I think there's
some value there to be had as much as we
like rat learning things that he's done. Like I think
for the Saints there is value to be had for
them to make their team better. Position that you don't
necessarily need right now.
Speaker 3: Yep, I'm right there with you, And I think when
you sign a Zach Wilson gives you the freedom, the
ability to explore those options, to see what you can get,
see if you can gain maybe another draft choice there,
and they hold they hold a very important one. I
think the Commanders at seven and the Saints at eight
hold a lot of power in this draft because of
how the draft I think is going to stack up,
and what the team needs are right directly at nine, ten, eleven,
and twelve behind those teams, and how aggressive teams are
going to be to try to move up, and if
Mickey is willing to listen to trade offers, All right,
we will take a break. We got more OTB coming
your way. When we jump back your live from the
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Speaker 3: It's never if we just keep on, we could just
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us this packet and it was like blah blah blah
bye laws. I'm like, oh hell. Anytime I see that word,
I'm like, oh my god.
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be like, what can't I do?
Speaker 8: That's what I would the first Bible, I'll say, you
can't say anything bad about Roger Goodelle.
Speaker 3: You know, I do have to remind myself, maybe have
the platform I'm on now, because like we were talking
about the NFL p A and I just kind of
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Speaker 2: I guess we won't steal him. We'll give them.
Speaker 10: Yeah, should we do at the top of the nine o'clock.
Speaker 2: Hour, Yeah, we're gonna do kind of the same deal.
Speaker 10: Let's do the same thing.
Speaker 5: Was fun, So we gotta think it's more questions nine o'clock.
Speaker 10: Right, do y'all want to do it at nine?
Speaker 2: That sounds like a great time.
Speaker 5: Okay, So at nine o'clock, we're going to open up
the phone lines four nine nine one oh four five
four nine nine one o four five.
Speaker 10: We're going to open up the phone lines.
Speaker 5: We're gonna give you a question, and we're gonna give
you eight seconds to answer the question for your chance
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Speaker 2: What's the significant of eight seconds?
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rodeo in that's how.
Speaker 10: Long you stay on the animal while right? Also the
great movie eight seconds.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so yeah, stay tuned nine o'clock. The phone number
is four nine nine one o four five.
Speaker 8: We better start getting our thinking caps on for these questions.
Last time, there were some disappointed answers out there. Lie,
We thank you for colling and we respect it because, yes,
it is tough, like even the most basic of questions.
If you've got pressure put on you, it's tough to
answer even the most basic of questions. But before you
say it, when you call in, do not waste time
by saying you just put me on the spot.
Speaker 2: Right, that's the point. Eight seconds, Yes, that is the point.
Speaker 5: And don't take time being like oh man, good question or.
Speaker 10: Something like that.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 8: It's like you know, you you have to it's wasting
the mental exercise.
Speaker 2: Yes, the point is to put you on the spot.
Speaker 11: Well, look, a lot of other shows they'll just let
anybody call in. If you don't know the answer, don't
call in, just sit down.
Speaker 10: Well, I guess they wouldn't know the question until.
Speaker 11: Do you have any doubt while dialing the number?
Speaker 10: If you don't know ball, do not call.
Speaker 8: In if you can't handle the heat, get out the kitchen, period.
Speaker 3: Well more, somebody, I don't.
Speaker 2: Want to be on the tracks when the trains coming through, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah for a guy that's bad at sayings, you got
that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks, I appreciate it. Football movies in front program, I.
Speaker 2: Could, but wait, what is it? I just made it
up off the top of my head.
Speaker 3: Would you say you do want to be on the
tracks when the train's coming through?
Speaker 11: So major league two? Baker says he does.
Speaker 3: I know, he does say because uh, he like he
had trouble throwing it back to the picture.
Speaker 11: On the tracks when the train's coming through butt head.
Speaker 3: He had to recite the Playboy Yeah yeah to be
able to throw it down.
Speaker 10: I said, nine o'clock. It's he hung up or she?
I don't know. I don't want to assume.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's not make assumptions here.
Speaker 3: I'll make assumptions.
Speaker 10: Also, we have a text line, so if you want
to text.
Speaker 3: Us, tell us about the text line.
Speaker 5: So we got a text line and we can take
a look out. I have an account. I think Taylor
has one too. I don't know if you set it
up but we'll get your texts directly to the show.
So if you can't interact with us on the YouTube chat,
you can interact with us on our phone line, our
text line and it's.
Speaker 10: The same number.
Speaker 5: It's two two five four nine nine one o four five.
So if you want to text us, you can send
us a text right now and I'll get it.
Speaker 3: Talk about convenience, you can.
Speaker 10: Text us ask the bench questions.
Speaker 5: You can text us just normal questions, just like don't
you want to.
Speaker 10: Make exactly I'm sensitive.
Speaker 8: Which we do want to tell everybody now. I know
that since I've joined the show, which has been a
little while now, we have been not the best at
getting to that last segment of the show, asked the Bench.
But we are making a commitment storrying today that we
are going to give it a full segment. Thank you
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Speaker 5: I know we talk about dressed do sechis with like
the salt and lime all the time? Still alignment to
heen to him?
Speaker 8: So ask the bench is going to be on the
YouTube chat, but I guess we could also open it
up to the text.
Speaker 5: Yeah you want to text us do it two two
five one four five or no two two five four
nine four five text.
Speaker 3: That it's all right? Say now say now, well we
have for looting around here.
Speaker 10: I think it shows your name or anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you can say whatever you want. Yeah, Alandra,
I actually think that you just maybe created a segment
during football season. Okay, if you don't know ball, don't call. Yeah,
And I think we should open up the phone lines
here in football season. Yeah, right, And if you don't
know ball, don't call, don't call. I like it segment.
We think, okay, like eight thirty Monday mornings, and.
Speaker 10: Then they call it and complain or what do they do?
Speaker 3: Cheer complain depending on you know how the game went.
Speaker 2: We can go a lot of ways with this ram
called if you want to know ball.
Speaker 11: That too, right, and they can ask you guys questions.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I like the game actually was just
giving a landa a lot of credit for it. I
know that's what it does. Try to take it over.
Speaker 2: That's the thing about a great idea, it spurs conversation.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm full of great ideas, I really am.
Speaker 3: I actually don't know the thing. I don't I know
that like old school radio, like phone calls were a
big deal even when I got my start, Like we
were like in three four, we were like we took
phone calls all the time. We do it now, like
we take phone calls on NFL all the time too. Now.
The thing it makes me nervous on NFL if you
are bad and you say something that you can't say,
doesn't really matter there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I already have a question on this text line
for y'all. When is Kiffin bringing in Hester and Flynn
to speak.
Speaker 3: To the team.
Speaker 10: Didn't he already?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 3: That was Frank.
Speaker 10: Oh Frank did it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's when Frank got the job.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're looking for seventy seventy eight coach.
Speaker 5: For your guys, I got a yo, I got a
hashtag off the bench, don't know ball, don't call.
Speaker 10: I'm gonna started something there.
Speaker 3: Just don't curse when we do it.
Speaker 10: Someone said, this doesn't work April fools? Right, I respond,
did it works?
Speaker 3: Today's April April?
Speaker 15: God?
Speaker 3: I should have not wait this This person like I
wasn't coming in today.
Speaker 10: You should have.
Speaker 5: God, this person has a good idea. If you don't
know Ball, don't call. But the right call is to
drink those segies. I can't see y'all's names, so I can't.
Speaker 3: I cannot believe I didn't know it is April first.
You're April fools right out there and act like I
wasn't coming It wouldn't.
Speaker 11: Wait until like five minutes after the show started.
Speaker 2: I'm saying we were fully prepared to run national.
Speaker 3: There's those to national shows. Golly, I cannot believe I
did that.
Speaker 5: Steve Mullen in the chat says, then as a group,
we decide if the person that calls nos Ball or
they don't know.
Speaker 10: Yes, that's a great idea.
Speaker 2: Than if you are can we block numbers.
Speaker 3: We need to for like a month. So if you
don't know Ball, then waking Phoenix in the background gives
you the comes down. Okay, we are really cooking with here. Gosh,
this is good. Let's split all these ideas slam on
air too. Hey, this is what the group is. We
like we us hear us for our group with our
chat with our listeners. So we're all brainstorming.
Speaker 10: Together and we all share one brain throw.
Speaker 3: Sometimes half of a brain cell. All right, we will
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