Speaker 1: Let's all start to it. You 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 Bob aber I
gotta come off the bitch. Now here's Jacob Hester and
T Bob a bear?
Speaker 3: Whoa?
Speaker 2: What's happening to John? It's Friday? What's up, y'all?
Speaker 4: Let's go. Let's have ourselves a Friday. Be safe out there,
little rainy and wet this morning. Not too cold though
it's not bad. As Taite said right before the show started,
it is definitely cuddling season. So everybody, Uh, stay warm today,
have a good day, get through whatever work you have,
and then go cuddle with you love one tonight and
go stay warm and put in a nice movie, maybe
a little nice drink, little popcorn, something like that, who knows.
Whatever you're into, go go enjoy it this weekend or
watch playoffs. So I guess what I'll be And here's
to hoping that it's as good as the sports that
were on last night. Now I know the playoff will
take center stage, but shout out to the LSU women's
basketball program going on the road to Tennessee. Kaylen Gilbert
kg pure score. Find in a way, the heasy crossover,
the drive, the left handed hook finish.
Speaker 2: We'll play it later, Joe.
Speaker 4: One of the smoothest finishes you will see at the
ram clutch under his second left Tigers win a ninety seven.
How about this only the second school in the history
of the sport to now win three in a row
in Knoxville. Shout out coach Kim Bulky, absolute legend. You
saw the crazy style of Tennessee and yet coach go small,
which he's uncomfortable with and lsu wins imagine that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we're gonna talk a lot of football day.
Speaker 4: We got NFL playoffs coming up this weekend as well.
We got to return to Champagne Shenanigans. Rivers is off suspension,
so looking forward to that. Shout out to my girl
Lindsay do guy, had a great time at Cavalier book
House last night, Taylor, wonderful. I love local bookstores. You
know here in Van Rouge, Redstick Reads absolutely head over
heels with you all. Should all go check it out.
Uh this is in Denim Springs and it is a
It's a stunning shop, really beautiful, great selection. I got
Lindsay's book Royal Airs Academy. Can't wait to dive into
that later today.
Speaker 2: But then I.
Speaker 4: Also got a really good Brandon Sanderson kids book. I
didn't know Sanderson had a kid's book out there. So
really fun night, gonna be a fun day today.
Speaker 2: A lodger. What's up? How are we feeling?
Speaker 5: Feeling great? It feels good that it's Friday. Yeah, you know,
it was rough to get back into a full week
A word, sure made, but we made it.
Speaker 2: I feel good.
Speaker 5: The cold in the rain is not for me as
y'all know, So I'm not as excited about it as
y'all are.
Speaker 2: No, I mean, I don't know season to me.
Speaker 5: Also, Marcus Freeman number one best looking coach in college
football NFL. Yeah close, honestly, I think probably the NFL two.
Speaker 4: Also as well head coach. I mean, would you take
him or Kingsbury?
Speaker 2: Be tough?
Speaker 4: I mean you can't go wrong, really, yeah, you can't
really go wrong. Also like Kingsbury a little more f
boy energy, Yeah, Freeman more like, this guy's just a man.
He's gonna support you, He's going to raise a family.
Yeah he has like six kids. Yeah yeah, Yeah, it's
got to be Catholic. He is Catholic.
Speaker 6: I looked it up there. Yeah, and I mean he's
thirty eight years old. Yeah, he's thirty eight. Not out
my range as James Franklin. Let us know, yeah, your
r little brother him. Yeah you did, and it didn't
work out for you.
Speaker 2: Did we play that on the show?
Speaker 4: Yes we did? Okay, yeah, yeah, you try to get
these jokes off, James, But here you are exactly where
you began. And I actually I don't want to start
with James. I want to I want to believed. So
I think the first part is we have to celebrate
this Notre Dame team and just how they continue to
find a way and what a game, great game, playoff wins?
Uh tite? What's up you little weasel? What's going on?
Speaker 3: What? Wait? What did I do?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm a good movie.
Speaker 2: You're gonna cuddle with this weekend?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 2: No wifey uh oh?
Speaker 4: When wife he's away that Tata will play.
Speaker 5: I don't know what that means for Taylor.
Speaker 2: I was not saying either, do I I don't know.
Speaker 3: You guys don't want to know, okay, I mean it's
it's it's it's a scary sight.
Speaker 4: But he just sits there and he just rips mock drafts.
He just prints him out, he chops it up on
the table and he just snorts mock drafts. He's gonna
come in Monday and be like, dude, did you see
those Saints' fourth round pick and Mike Mayok's latest mock
what sounds about right?
Speaker 3: No, not mock drafts.
Speaker 4: We'll probably uh he does fake fantasy drafts, just simulating
fantasy drafts.
Speaker 3: Not quite that time yet. That's that's more ju July area.
Probably looking into some portal stuff over the weekend. Yeah, yeah,
I mean, you know it. Uh, I mean I'm excited
though it's a good day. Should be out of here
relatively early bar in any outer scene setbacks here on
a Friday.
Speaker 7: So what was it the It's funny when when my
wife used to leave town with kids, they used to
have it so much because all it meant is that
me and my gay bestie were just gonna play board
games the entire weekend.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I used to log like thirteen hour sessions of X
Wing miniatures game, Lord of the Rings card game. Taylor,
don't let these times go by, Okay, these next few
hours are yours and yours alone, and that is something
that becomes increasingly rare the older you get. So lean
into them, lean into them and do whatever you want
to do.
Speaker 3: Look, we uh, I'm putting the chef hat on this
weekend since Victoria's not home. Okay, uh, we got we
got some banger meals coming. I already got them, already
got them ready. We got just feel boy that we got.
We got mac and one night oh okay, okay, and
then I got a frozen pizza for Sunday night. So
we're set.
Speaker 4: You know, you could even though again you probably don'tant
to do this, we're out of town, but you could
if you ever made a gumbo where you make your
ruin everything you have ann scratch. It's almost time. Yeah,
at that age, it is it's time to uh, time
to strap on your big boy pants and learn how
to do it.
Speaker 3: We held really good. We had really good black eyed
peas last night. Though we did it with sausage and onion.
We did green onion in there, sausage in there, black
eyed peas, and it was so good.
Speaker 4: That sounds great.
Speaker 5: Also, I wanted to shout out Jake because my gift
from him was like the massage gun. Yeah, I used
it last night because I was sore from power hour
at Block the day before.
Speaker 4: It was everybody needs to get a massage gun. I
bought one, but I don't know. I bought a cheap
one and it broke and I loved it for a
little bit. Yet I love it, Jake.
Speaker 3: Look at William Anthony's comment if if I wasn't in
a good mood already. Nickelback was listed as the top
rock band so far are the two thousands? I mean, guys,
come on, wow, is anyone surprised?
Speaker 4: Look at it?
Speaker 2: What are we doing here?
Speaker 3: They're iconic.
Speaker 4: I have a tachy body massager, but it doesn't like
punch in the same way and more vibrates and so
it's not like it doesn't it doesn't accomplish the same thing.
I gotta get a Scott's massage gun from a coworker.
Speaker 5: No, I don't think it is coming from, so.
Speaker 4: It's actually coming from It's actually incredibly thoughtful. Everybody here
is thoughtful at giving gifts, except for me because I'm whatever.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It just sucks.
Speaker 4: I'll just get you all more alcohol. That's just that's
that's what I do.
Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 2: All right, what a game? What a game? Last night?
Speaker 4: Notre Dame ends up in the end defeating Penn State
twenty seven to twenty four. And the word I keep
coming back to with his Notre Dame football team is toughness.
Speaker 2: They just continue.
Speaker 4: And I don't mean just physical toughness though when you
look how they play, they are a very physically tough team.
Look out, they beat up Indiana up front. Look how
they beat up Georgia upright. And now it's not just
the line, it's like safety's flying down. It's man coverage.
It's it's Kaiser linebacker. Who did they say sixty nine games?
Speaker 3: Yeah, how is that possible? Somebody last night was sixty
two as well.
Speaker 4: Good God. Either way, it's it's it's physical toughness at
every level, but it's it's it's the mental toughness that
is maybe most impressive to me. I mean, we talked
about it going into last night. One of the storylines
surrounding Notre Dame were injuries. They just continue to stack up.
They're down five starters, five very good starters, some even
some of the best in the entire country, and their
respect positions. What happens last night at the beginning of
the game. They lose their left tackle. You lose your
left tackle when you have Abdul Carter on the other
side of the field, and you still come back from
a ten point deficit and win the game. Mental, physical, toess,
this entire run has been just a massive culture and
process win for Marcus Freeman. Also, you are seen just
in an age of transient rosters where they're seemingly remade
by the day. You are seeing the value if you
can get guys to buy in long term, because that
is the other great strength of this Notre Dame team.
They just have depth and experience. And when I say,
I mean like experience, like so many different guys. They
flash up their resumes and oh they've they've played in
forty games, they played in fifty games. I mean, hell,
the guy so Nap, the starting left tackle, goes down
and the guy they replace him with, Tosh Baker. He's
only played sixty STAPs of the season, but he's played
in forty seven career games. So here's a guy who
used to be a starter, he used to play a
lot at least hasn't anymore, and yet stuck around and
had his moment and.
Speaker 2: Validate that moment.
Speaker 4: And I don't know, dude, maybe it's got to come
to an adventure, right you can only eat so many
injuries in Texas or Ohio State's coming to who knows.
But I just continue to get tickled watching this Notre
Dame team as they are proving something that I love
in football, the ultimate team sport, a week link sport,
which is ultimately the whole, can be greater than the
sum of its parts.
Speaker 2: Think about it.
Speaker 4: Who's the superstar on Notre Dame? Like if you really
like college football, maybe you know about Wats, maybe you
know about Howard Cross. You know these are all American
level of guys. Maybe you knew about Morrison, the corner
who has been out since Vincent's with a hip injury.
But like Ryley, Leonard's not a superstar. Not a lot
of name, Redvan, Jeremiah love Price, none of these guys.
What they are is a team and it's badass to watch.
And last night it looked like they were cook. Penn
State comes out there, codal Nikki and I gotta be
honest with from the Penn State perspective, I actually loved
the offensive game plan. I love the play calling. Drew
Aller just didn't execute. He had a couple moments, but
far too often missing throws that he needed to hit.
I mean literally took four points off the board early
on by not hitting that back in the flats correctly
throwing it behind him at his knees. Sure, the back
drops it, but the throw is the original sin there
and the main sin the seven turns into three even
if losing by three. Obviously, the pick at the end
speaks for itself. But like for a while there, Penn
State's offense looks so physical and yet creative, right, Colal Nikki's.
Speaker 2: Moving Tyler Warren all around.
Speaker 4: Tyler Warren just looks like a literal giant out there,
the mountain that rides you, just bigger, stronger, faster. You
line them with a Corbeck lineup of a receiver, you
throwing them, tunnel screens, you do whatever. And Pinstein is
his offense where it's all running backs, all Titans, and
it's all horizontal but very punchy, very machine like. And
Notre Dame looked like they just weren't going to be
able to keep up. They had nothing to speak offensively,
no success to speak of, and defensively they were on
the back heel. But then again, what's the new hip
portion of the game to analyze nowadays? And I don't
mean that as a pejorative. I think it's right that
it's hip, and I think that it's good that we highlighted.
Now the middle eight. We talk about starting, we'll talk
about finishing, but the middle eight, the last four minutes
of the first half, the first four minutes of the
second half, what do you do? And in that moment,
Notre Dame's death shine once again nothing working offensively. Riley
Leonard has to go into the tent for the concussion protocol,
and Steven Jelly, backup quarterback pocket passer, enters the game
and it's the uber rare switch up where the backup
is a better thrower than the starter, and all of
a sudden, the Name finally puts together their first successful
drive of the game because they can throw the ball
better than they could and they find a way. How
I mean what, we'll get to him because he literally
hit the game winning kick. But how about Mitch Jeter
six of twelve in the regular season, dealing with injury,
the guys been absolutely nails in the playoffs. You had
to have the field goal before half. Mitch Jeter finds
a way. You had to have it at the end.
He obviously finds a way. So then Jelly comes in,
because of course he does, because all this Not Name
team does is next man up all the way to
the national championship. And then you come out in the
second half and whatever they said at halftime, man sink.
Speaker 2: In the middle of eight.
Speaker 4: They were locked in double digit drive seventy plus yards.
You run it, you only throw once, you run it
right down. Penn State's throat touchdown tie game three and out.
On the other side, you come back another double digit drive,
seventy plus yards touchdown, you up seventeen ten, and at
that point it felt like it had completely.
Speaker 2: Flipped.
Speaker 4: But then credit to Penn State finding some reserve of
their own, they go down ty seventeen apiece. And here
was some classic foreshadowing, Like if you were watching this
in a movie, you would think and it wasn't vote
Like if it was an equivalent foreshadowing in a book
or a movie, you would probably say, ah, that was
a little too obvious. And what I'm talking about is
in seventeen seventeen, Drew Aller throws a swing pass to
Tyler Warren in which he completely locks in on Warren,
despite the fact the entire secondary is guarding him. He
is triple covered, and he throws it up to ward
in the end zone. It looks like an interception, and
all of a sudden, after Riley Leonard hues interceptions that
he throw, looks like Aler throws one right back only
past interference. And it was past interference, but it didn't
need to happen, And what it masked was a god
awful decision by Alan. I mean, he looked like me
on NCAA when I I'm thrown at X unless the
mic drops, and then I snap it.
Speaker 2: The mic drops and I still throw.
Speaker 4: It the X, and I'm like, why, I just told
myself I wasn't.
Speaker 2: Gonna do it.
Speaker 4: That's what Drew Rowler did there. And then all of
a sudden, okay, PI whatever, touchdown, pin State's up twenty
four to seventeen, and okay, okay, wow, look at that.
They looked out. They're good to go. But then how
about Great House, a man with one touchdown on the year, Alandra,
I saw you tweeting about him. A man Great House
snatch two sets of ankles on the way to the
end zone. I mean, just absolutely fantastic. Off the line,
he breaks Old Boy down and then once he catches
the ball, he puts the safety un skates as well.
Speaker 2: Twenty four twenty four.
Speaker 4: And then Alan, foreshadowing the same bad decision that led
to the pick that was not a pick thanks to
the PI, another similarly bad decision ends up giving Notre
Dame Life a chance to win the game. And of
course Riley Leonard comes through because Riley Leonard is a gamer,
and I don't mean a gamer in terms of somebody
who practices bad but plays good. I mean a gamer
in terms of who makes the play when in the
big moments in the play is on the line. That's
what Riley Leonard does. I mean, think about the third
and two in that winning field goal drive where he
scrambles around and creates extra time, then he dumps it
for the first down. Just fantastic, fantastic stuff from the Irish.
And then you know what I call uh Jeter's final kick.
It's the old crossing the street kick right, left, right
and left again. What a wild flight path that thing took,
considering the narrative that was the wind beneath that football's wings.
Are you going to the championship? Are you going to
otway championship?
Speaker 2: Ot?
Speaker 4: And then curls back the championship in the end.
Speaker 2: What a gay? Like Miles once said, what a game?
What a game?
Speaker 4: Kiss him on the Mouth only aired twenty five. I
don't care if you're a boy or girl, because all
these Notre Dame players and staff and trainers and equipment
managers top to bottom, deserve to be kissed on the
mouth for the run that they have been on in
these playoffs to beat Indiana Georgia and Penn State, all
while getting more hurt along the way. Unreal, unreal. Now
we do have to talk about the Penn State angle,
but we were out of time for this first segment.
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make you just long chance, just love man.
Speaker 1: Just welcome back to the best morning sports show around
sort of. It's off the Bench with Hester and TiVo.
Speaker 4: It's how I feel about Taylor and Landra. Love you guys,
Love you guys. Yeah, same, thank you.
Speaker 2: God.
Speaker 4: I was all right. I mean like like I'm noodling
out here. I gotta jam my sh y'all do that
to me all the way down your throat dead, get
you out of your catfish hole. Return the compliment, jam
I arm down your throat on New Year's Eve?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, what y'all did on New Year's Eve?
Speaker 2: What do we do on New Year's e?
Speaker 7: I was.
Speaker 5: I texted the group, I said happy New Year's Eve,
love y'all, and nobody said anything.
Speaker 3: What true? I don't even remember that.
Speaker 2: It's probably true.
Speaker 3: That's true. That's incredible.
Speaker 4: I think I think, I think I responded the next day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I don't think I gotta love you back.
Speaker 2: Yes you did.
Speaker 9: I don't think so. Well, I'll check I do.
Speaker 5: You don't have to do some scrolling if you're really looking.
Speaker 4: I'm not looking right now, Okay. I was like, no,
I'm gonna look in, I'm gonna look out.
Speaker 3: During the commercial break, man Eric Charles has the right
idea to Bobby, says, I think I might need to
call my middle school girlfriend right now. That's what you
do to this song. Yeah, you were asking me what
I'm gonna do in Victoria's hotel. She keeps playing nick
back middle school Gef's getting a call.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's one of the probably worst things I would
I recommend that looking back here to otb. All right,
let's kind of close the book in last night's game,
so obviously, so you know, there's the old sports mantra
thrill of victory, agony of defeat, and I don't it's
true in every game to a certain extent, but in
some games it is more true than others. And my god,
you want to talk about the thrill of victory. Marcus
Freeman from losing North Illinois earlier this year, only his
third year as a coach only thirty eight years old,
in validating everybody who bet on him.
Speaker 2: Agony of defeat.
Speaker 4: Though maybe nobody's feeling it greater than Jimmy Franks right now.
As I said it yesterday with James Franklin, it sucks
for him because they get that this is a very
good season objectively the Penn State had.
Speaker 2: But even though they.
Speaker 4: Won two playoff games, you know what kind of sucks,
it really wasn't that different of a season from what
we've seen Penn State do because once again, unfortunately you remember,
as some of you and Boise not top five teams.
Once again, unfortunately, every time they ran into a top
five team, they did not pass the test.
Speaker 2: And last night, again.
Speaker 4: Where you had so much opportunity, you almost found ways
to lose that game. So, if you're a Penn State
fan and you fathom the mental pretzels you're having to
deal with today as you try to convince yourself, wait,
this was still a good season. Du Roler is still
a good quarterback. James Franklin still led us to the
playoffs in two playoff wins. He played in a Big
Ten championship. But it just feels eerily similar to all
the frustrations of recent memory.
Speaker 2: Mm hm hmm.
Speaker 4: Good luck, Jimmy, good luck. But I got last thoughts
to the game last night again. I think it was
an instant classic toughness. I love that all the superstars
showed up right, Abdul.
Speaker 2: Carter was great.
Speaker 4: That Jeremiah Love touchdown run on the goal line. You're
going to talk about being indicative of the toughness and
the finding the will to win, just somehow find a
way the end zone, all injured to all hell.
Speaker 2: Just awesome.
Speaker 4: Judge me off her three James Raglans one and seventeen
against the top five teams.
Speaker 2: I've been said, now, I know Chris Andrey.
Speaker 4: Anybody think Markus Streeman's interviews are a little cringes It
just me his interviews give a hard for flirting bribe. No,
it's just se I don't think he's cringe. I think
I think he's solid, Like I said, just the leader
of men. It's tough and look, it's it's it's it's
it's a tough day for BK. In all honesty, I'm
sure there's a portion of him that's happy for some
of his maybe former players or associates.
Speaker 9: Uh, but.
Speaker 4: You broke up with Notre Dame, saying it's not me,
it's you and this new hotnail young thing down there. Ben,
I know what she can do. Only the people you
just broke up with are now doing what you thought
she could do. And she's not doing it. You're not
doing it. Wait, would am I the problem? That's kind
of what PK's having asked himself. I think probably a
little bit this morning. Also, you brought up with Mike
dem Brock, and here Mike dem Brock is in a
national championship a year after leading the best off. It's
in America. So it's a it's it's it's it's a
moment of reflection. I think for a lot for for
for that entire decision and everything that he had maybe
convinced himself of what was or was not possible at
Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: But uh, what a game. I hope.
Speaker 4: I hope Texas Ohio State is just as awesome.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 2: I think it should be.
Speaker 4: Again, like we talked about, I think Texas matches up
as well with Ohio State as anybody could. I think
if Texas were to win the game, I would probably
favor Notre Dame in the championship. If Ohio State wins,
I'm kind of gonna favor Hot State, especially if they
win handily like they have these first two games. And
that's maybe where it can become depressing, right is because
Ohio State is kind of the antithesis and Texas in
a lot of ways, both represent the antithesis of.
Speaker 2: What Notre Dame is.
Speaker 4: The Notame has money in this team as well, don't
get that twisted, but not the same amount like in
the highest state of Texas, and they're all very superstar
laden with big names, and they're flashy and finesse and fast,
where again, Notre Dame is kind of nameless, faceless and tough.
And we'll see who that ends up working out for. Honestly, night,
all I'm hoping for is a good game. I think
Ohio State wins in a close one final thought, final thoughts,
and we'll not talk about these anymore.
Speaker 3: Again. Like you said, if this lives up to the
first game, uh, wearing for a hell of a matchup tonight,
and I think I think that's what we're going to get.
I think that, you know, when everybody looked at these matchups,
like when I when I saw the Texas and Ohio
State was playing. I was like, that'd be a really
good national championship matchup. Like, I'm excited about that one.
I'm actually going to pick the winner of Ohio State
Texas to win the national Championship. No disrespect to Notre Dame.
I just I just I like what I've seen from
Texas and Ohio Who Notre Dame. Yeah, I picked them
to win the game yesterday. I mean I think that.
I think they're a really good team. I just Ohio
State and Texas are a little bit more right now,
that could be completely incorrect. Ohio, I mean Notre Dame
looked like they really well coached team. Last night. You
were talking about the Jeremiah Love run. I saw that,
you know what, I thought, that looks like a Nick
Saban coach team. Alabama used to do that all the
time when he was there. I mean, they always knew
where the first down marker was, they knew where they
had to get. They would extend the ball. That was that.
I mean, that was, like you said, like as bad
of a day it is for Penn State, it might
be worse for Brian Kelly because not only did they
win they won because they were better coach. Yeah, offensive
play college in the entire run, toughness with Marcus Freeman
was excellent. Like that's why they won this game.
Speaker 4: The entire run is a culture win for Freeman because
they keep getting hurt and they keep overcoming. Hell, they
even had flu working through the team. Hell, they got
seven days of rest to Penn State's nine going into
this game.
Speaker 3: Well, and we talked about it yesterday like Okay, whichever
team's going to be able to run the ball better
is going to win this game. Nope, shows how much
we know, Like that's that's not what happened. It was
Notre Dame ability to throw the ball. Yeah, so Penn
State ran for two hundred yards. Notre Dame threw the
ball for two hundred and sixty seven yards last night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you would have told me that Allen and
Singleton would have gone for an over eighty apiece, I'd
definitely thought that Penn State wins that game.
Speaker 3: Well, but like Riley Leonard, you put it in the
dock earlier, you didn't mentioned it, like his ability to
fall forward and these runs, like okay, third and down.
Efficiency in this game, Notre Dame was eleven of seventeen
on third down, Penn State was three for eleven because
Riley Leonard on third and three or less got the
ball every single time and he fell forward every single
time and kept moving the chains. I mean, it was
huge in the game.
Speaker 4: And the thing is, Leonard is never gonna beat you
with his arm on a play to play basis this
entire Notre Dame offense. Just they're gonna beat you into
submission and then they have to do enough through the
air to keep you honest and kind of make you
respect it. And Leonard's been so good in that role,
even with making two big airs last night, Like if
he makes those against a as they take that, you're
not gonna win those games. So he has to clean
that up. But I do love the mental ability to
flush and then make the plays afterwards. Really good game,
and my god, you know it's funny with how sports works.
I think this just cranks up so even more pressure
somehow on that LSU Clipson game to start next year.
You better freaking win, dude. You have to win that game.
Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 10: Too early and there's nothing to do.
Speaker 1: Back to sports talk, maybe off the bench.
Speaker 10: Slam driving down, then circles and I'm thinking about you, Todd.
I heard you got a new lasting name. Sure didn't
know it was gonna hit me this way.
Speaker 4: And the radio and just keep something.
Speaker 2: All these songs about.
Speaker 9: The rat turkey.
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Speaker 2: A love that go was a rise.
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Speaker 4: Welcome back to OTB appropriate morning for such a song. Yeah,
if you're if this song is hitting you in a
way today you're feeling some type of way, just lean
into it.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: Sometimes when you're said now, you never want to spend
too much time leaning into it, right, But when you
initially get sad about something, there's definitely something to be
said for wallowing in it, processing in it, basking it,
and allowing yourself to feel a bit.
Speaker 9: Lean again.
Speaker 4: You know who was not crying or who was crying?
I should have said who was crying? We're Tennessee fans.
Last night, as for the third time in a row,
the LSU Tigers go into Knoxville and beat the legendary
Lady Ball's basketball team. In fact, they're only the second
program in NCAA history to ever win three in a
row in Knoxville. Mississippi State did it from seventeen to twenty.
But a game that ultimately, I mean probably look up
the highlights right because a lot of y'all are probably
watching the college will playoff. But the a game that
lived up to everything that Coach Molkey talked about. You
saw that off kilter style that Tennessee runs with their
straight up hockey line shifts, subbing entire units in and
out to keep fresh legs and keep the pace at
just breakneck level. We said there was gonna be a
lot of scoring. Well, the game ends eighty nine, eighty seven,
and here is the highlight of the night. We've talked
about Kaylen Gilbert so much this year. She has emerged
as one of the premier parts of this team, a
scorer who has a chip on her shoulder. Everybody try
to tell coach Molkey don't recruiter, she's a bad ad,
cancer in the locker room, she's a bad teammate. Well,
it ain't been the case down here in ben Rouge
and once again, Coach Molkey just continues to blow me away,
not just with her ability to lead, to motivate, to recruit,
but her strategic acumen. Last night, going small something she's
uncomfortable with. She loves post players. She talks with the
value of the post all the time. Well, she gets
outside of her comfort zone because she thinks it's the
best path to victory last night, and Kaylen Gilbert, Flage
and company make her correct and shout out to Anissamara.
Twenty three points twenty one rebounds, the ninetieth double double
of her career. She is now third all time on
that list. Twenty three points, twenty one boards and so
here it is final possession of the game.
Speaker 2: Eighty seven.
Speaker 4: I want this with audio guys eighty seven eighty seven
and Kaylen Gilbert as the ball. You mean, Gilbert driving
in goes got it? No play that again, just keep
that plane and uh and then you get you commute.
I wish it would have left a little more on
the front end because the other angle we'll see and
you can pull up the other angle whenever as well.
The other angle you'll see, the initial crossover kind of
has the fake crossed. The crossover that she pulls, she
blows by the defender. Here it is blows by the defender,
cross the legs and then the it amidst the trees
down there, the smooth in air switch to the left hand,
finishing perfect, not by accident, not luck. I was talking
to with coach Molgi this morning. That is something that
she was adamant about. That ain't luck. That is practice.
That is hours upon hours in the gym. She works
on her left hand every single day. And here's the
baseline view. What a finish that's to go up eighty
nine to eighty seven, one point seven seconds left. LSU wins,
LSU remains undefeated. Shout out KG, Shout out coach Molky,
Shout out this legendary LSU women's basketball team. What is
it now?
Speaker 2: Eighteen and zero?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I know an sec play.
Speaker 4: And they'll be coming up on I think Monday. Is
it at Missoo or at home against Miszoo unt?
Speaker 2: Same is Monday though?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 2: What a what a play though? What a play man?
Speaker 4: I just like so they always talk about Gilbert being coach.
Speaker 2: Mogi said this multiple times this year.
Speaker 4: That she may host Vanderbilt Monday Vanderbilt. I'll just pleat
you wrong and everything great. Coach Mogy talks about this though,
How about Kayley Gilbert is one of the best natural
scores she's ever seen, and that highlight is why you
can't You you can practice things like that, but the
natural athletic intuition to feel that play out and to
feel that finish.
Speaker 2: Out is almost something that you have to be born with.
Speaker 4: Now, maybe you have to be bored with that intuition,
but without hard work, it means nothing. So what you
see encapsulated in that single highlight is God given ability
that you should always be thankful for, but mixed with
a heavy measure and even more so because of just
hard ass work in the gym every single day.
Speaker 3: Malki said it on her coaching show Tuesday night. Kaylen
Gilbert's already the best natural scorer on this team. Yeah,
and think about that. Like Floje Johnson, MICHAELA. Williams and
Anissa Moro can get buckets, but can Maulki trust her.
I mean, look what she did. She put the hands
in the game in the hands of her at the
last shot.
Speaker 4: I mean that's well, that is your second game season
you right, She did in the Bahamas earlier as well.
Speaker 2: So shout out KG legend.
Speaker 4: All right, when we get back, wrap it up our
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around off the Bench with Hester and t Bob.
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Speaker 2: Tell me that's not a little smooth right there that
you give it.
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Speaker 5: Like.
Speaker 4: But this is a funny series I found on Spotify.
This kid Evan Jacobson. I say, kid, I don't know
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to songs that don't need them.
Speaker 2: I like, that's pretty good to me.
Speaker 4: Y'all probably didn't.
Speaker 5: But did you listen to that blues version of House
of Pain that I sent?
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Speaker 4: It's actually a banger. Okay, well maybe we should play
that then.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sneak some Amy Winehouse in here.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: So we're doing a new series here in the show
and it's in conjunt you with Hunt Palmer at Louisianasports
dot Net, which, again, guys, if you're not checking out
Louisiana Sports on net, I use it every single day
to prep for this show.
Speaker 2: It is a it's an incredibly.
Speaker 4: Quick and great way to kind of fill your Louisiana
sports cup up immediately at the beginning of the day,
Hunt soon a great job Coverneli Sho, you got Marlo
giving you some entire SEC coverage, you got all the
different sports. Ross Jackson absolutely murdering the Saints' coaching search
right now, So.
Speaker 2: Go check it out.
Speaker 4: But today this is day two of the Portal profile
series that Hunt is doing, and well another incredibly exciting
one as today we're talking about Barry and Brown.
Speaker 2: And if you are.
Speaker 4: Talking about which portal edition you are most excited about,
and you were to answer Barry and Brown, I would
say you are well within your rights to do so.
Listen to what Barry and Brown is done thus far
in his career. First off, when he originally showed up
to Kentucky, it was a massive recruiting win for Mark
Soots Kentucky. This guy who's the number three recruit in
all of Tennessee. He was a consensus four star, incredibly fast,
six to one five true true lightning speed. Last year
led the Wildcats fifty catches six twenty eight. Seems pedestrian
until you understand that Kentucky's offense was god awful. How
about this little nugget from Hunt against Uga very good defense.
Ten catches for one forty five. So a player who
put his best foot forward when it mattered most. Actually,
was he the one that caught the ball against Ole
Miss as well? Down the sideline? Was that bearing Brown?
Speaker 3: It was either him or Dane Key? It was one
of them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was one of my I'm not not sure
which one. Uh, he also and and and so. Look
so just as a pure receiver, his potential is massive.
Like you talk about world class speed, He's he's faster,
He's as fast as he might on the field, if
not faster. And if he did fifty catches for six
to twenty eight in that offense, and now he has
Cortes hanked and he has Garrettusemeyer, well what he can
do in this offense becomes obviously very exciting. But maybe
nothing more exciting than about Barry Brown than the fact
that he was a first team All American kick returner.
This is a man who led the nation in kick
return touchdowns, a man who had three kick return touchdowns
in a single season, four for his career a man
who holds the already holds the SEC record for kick
return touchdowns in a career of four tied for the record.
Speaker 2: Maybe he'll become sole holder at the end of the season.
Speaker 4: So look, maybe there's like a man Sword Delayne that
you're very excited about. Or yesterday we broke down.
Speaker 3: From Floridam Jackson.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Jeef Jackson kind of run my own portal
series by not even remember yesterday's portal breakdown. I just
could have remember his name, guys, quarterback Florida. You know that,
like there are other names out there. I don't know
though that any and again Man Sword of Lane, very
proven player, Braylan very proven. I don't know if there's
a more proven player than Barry Brown. And he's at
a sexy position where you're gonna notice him immediately all
of a sudden. Oh yeah, you better kick that ball
out of bounds. You better be able to do what
Aaron Burrell does every time, because if you don't, you're
gonna be putting the ball into one of the most
electric playmakers in the entire country, and you're gonna be
giving it to him in space. Huge weapon, huge pickup.
Great addition by this LSU staff in Barry and Brown
in great portal profile by our friend Hudd Palmer at
Louisiana Sports. Do that any thoughts on Brown? Guys, you
were talking about here for your return kicks.
Speaker 3: You were talking about him as a receiver, Like that's
the thing for years we've been trying to say, Oh,
LSU has nobody in the turn game. Now you kind
of have like a problem as to who's going to
be your returner, right, Yeah, Aaron Anderson has the kickoff
return against Oklahoma, Xavion Thomas has won in the bowl game.
You bring him Barry and Brown, who's like one of
the best ever in the SEC. Like you almost have
an embarrassment of riches. Now it's like the opposite of
the other problem you used to have. Like that's that's
the most impressive thing to me is how this staff
is turned around the special teams.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good point. I forgot, I forgot. I
need to I need I actually still need to watch
the film from the bowl games. I'd forgotten about the
kick return. I forgot that we were treated to two
kick returns here here here recently. Yes, well, he was
just solid all season.
Speaker 2: Brown, Thomas Brown.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, sorry, yeah he was I agree.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 4: So it was great to see him break through in
the way that you kind of felt like he was
knocking on the door all year long. Either way, like
Taylor said, that is a cash of weapons with which
to point at the enemy. Hour or two of O
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