Speaker 1: All Star Toyota presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where the.
Speaker 1: Plays get broken down and science gets denied to.
Speaker 2: Come off the bench.
Speaker 1: Hour two of Off the Bench Live from the Mercedes
Benz Baton Rouge Studio starts now.
Speaker 3: Welcome back in our number two o TV one of
four five ESPN Baton Rouge. I apologize, I got just
stepped on that song, like the the best part of
the song.
Speaker 2: That's all.
Speaker 3: It's a rookie moved by a veteran player. I do apologize.
Just got a uh watch the film, that's the situation
and get better for the next day.
Speaker 2: You get right show tomorrow. Yeah, we're gonna be on
location tomorrow. We sure are.
Speaker 3: We're not gonna be Yeah, we're gonna be at rouses.
Speaker 2: We're gonna be amongst the people. We are.
Speaker 3: And so if you're wanting to come hang out, say hello,
buy some of my high, drink my high dot com
at Rouses, hang out with us.
Speaker 2: We'll be there. Get some groceries, feed your family, bring
us some groceries. We'll be hungry. Hello. Yeah, we got
got a little stage set up over there. Thanks thanks
to set up the pregame pre game stage. That's where
they're gonna do the hunting. The crew gonna do the
pregame show, right Yeah, and Han does it in studio,
that's right. That's right. Different pregame shows, Bud. Now, I
get to uh set up and take down every year.
It's fun. Get to me out of the office for
a stay there. So you set it up. Is it
is it there the whole season or is this every week?
You gotta know the whole season. I brought it there Tuesday, Tuesday. Yeah,
so we'll be there West Desk, we'll be there. It's
the opening game of the season. We do it every year.
Make a lot of sacrifices to be here. You're excited
about it. We're gonna be a rousses. Get some groceries,
come see us. I don't even know what time it opens,
but we'll be there at seven.
Speaker 4: What about next Thursday, we're all gonna be Next Thursday.
Speaker 3: We're gonna be at Pro Dreams. Shout out Pro Dreams
right there. Let's go. Oh appreciate that. Mandra come hang
out with us there.
Speaker 2: Too, and every single home game as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, every home game will be at Pro Dreams on Thursday.
They just moved to Baton Rouge and it is right
there in the O G shopping center that walk Ons
is in.
Speaker 2: You like you want to talk about like cool, a
cool store, yeap with an awesome vibe and just awesome
memorabilia in it. That place is great.
Speaker 3: Abba, it's a great point. We're gonna be at the
Burbank Rouses there.
Speaker 2: But it's a good point.
Speaker 3: There are a lot of lot of those when it's
the closest one to your house though, Like that's that's Rouses. Yeah,
it's just the grocers, just Roses. So I want to
run up to him, run to Rouses. You don't have
to say which one. So it's a good point. Good question,
no bad questions.
Speaker 2: Almost in the shadows of Death Valley, depending on where
the sun's at. Maybe it's gotta be a long shadow.
You gotta be a long one, real one. Yeah, really long.
Speaker 3: All right, let's get to the OTV top twenty five here.
But seriously, we'll be every Thursday. We're excited for home
games at Pro Dreams. Great Memorabilia, come check it out.
And then on Friday, every Friday during football season, we
will be doing our show live from Rouses on Burbank,
and I like that too.
Speaker 2: I remember back in the day, the old with Hester days,
we would do the show, we'd get out mongst the
people that was like twenty nineteen. Two fives are like
super high. But being out in about is a different
field to baton Rouge during football season. So we are
fired up to be at both Pro Dreams and Rouses
this season.
Speaker 3: All right, let's go down the list right now before
Matthew gives you the number three team in the OTB
Top twenty five at twenty five, Boise State at twenty four,
Memphis at twenty three, Baylor at twenty two, Georgia Tech
at twenty one, Tennessee at twenty, Iowa State at nineteen,
Texas eight and four at eighteen, Indiana at seventeen, Old
Miss sixteen, Florida fifteen, Texas Tech fourteen, SMU thirteen, Arizona State, twelve,
Alabama eleven, Miami ten, Illinois nine, Texas eight, Oregon seven,
Notre Dame sixth, Georgia five, South Carolina four, Penn State,
And now the number three team and the OTB Top
twenty five.
Speaker 2: This is getting serious. I mean, the whole things been serious.
Speaker 3: It's been serious, but this is getting real.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: It's heating up. The kitchen is heating up around here.
So if you can't handle the heat, get out the kitchen.
That's what they say. This is top three. This ain't
the top four anymore. That ain't top five, top twenty five.
This is top three. Now we are getting to the
point we are deciding on national champions We are we
are deciding on who's playing in the national championship. So
we do not take this lightly. We take this very seriously.
Some people calling us homers, No we're not. We're just
calling them as we see them, as we are predicting
in our OTB Crystal Ball how it's gonna end up.
We've talked about it. There's a lot of ways you
can look at these preseason top twenty five lists, yep.
But I think for the majority of this list, how
we've looked at it is how we think this list
is gonna finish, not based on what you did last year,
Not based on how many six, five, three hundred pounders
you run, four threes you're returning you who wants those guys?
Speaker 3: Not?
Speaker 2: Yeah, not us, Nope, two stars, Yep, nobody knows it
doesn't matter if you were turning that was a shot.
Oh yeah, that's was a shot, not from me, not
from you. You're just quoting, quoting, quoting history. Here is
it about. Doesn't matter if you're turning your top three
pass catchers from last year and have a Heisman contending quarterback.
Doesn't matter if you're returning some preseason All American defensive lineman.
The fact of the matter is our number three team
is fake. They're the fake Tigers. I didn't know where
you're going. They have a fake death valley, and it
should piss us all off that they try to claim
that their death valley is the real one. So number
three on our OTB Top twenty five list is the
Clemson Tigers. We know all about them. We've heard every
sea person on this radio show, on other radio shows
talk about Clemson, how good they are, what their potential is,
how much talent they're bringing. And I've listened all week
to pundits all over the country, experts, if you will
talk about how Clemson's gonna cover minus four versus LSU
in this opening game, Well, I got news for you.
It ain't happening. I know we've dropped five in a row,
but it's not going to be six, not on my watch.
I know, my watch doesn't really matter because I'm not
on the team and I'm not a coach. We will
not lose as a as a brand new co host
of OTV, LSU will not lose the opening game six
in a row. We will beat Clemson. At the end
of the year, LSU will be ahead of Clemson in
the polls.
Speaker 3: Are you saying it's t Bob's fault?
Speaker 2: Some people are talking, people are talking.
Speaker 3: You know, t Bob is now our enemy. He's got
a morning show, now what on Barstool Sports, So it's
not only just mac and cubes anymore.
Speaker 2: We got to Yeah, but he's not mid market morning
local radio.
Speaker 3: But it's like you either watch that show or this
show with peace and love. Of course, like we've already
hashed this out through text messages. Fair enough, we're gonna
have an anchorman's styche style.
Speaker 2: Couldn't like put him on some sort of like noncompute
or anything. They do make those.
Speaker 5: That's a great question.
Speaker 2: That's fair. It's fair to ask. People are asking. But no, Clemson,
they are the paper Tigers. The place is going to
be electric. It's going to be a great game, but
when push comes to shove, both teams will be in
the playoffs. I believe Clemson's good and I think they'll
make a run and I think they'll finish. They will
get to the semi final this year. They're a good team,
Kay Clubnick, great quarterback, great college quarterback, a lot of talent.
But it's facts that they will not win the national
championship or even be in the National championship game. So
that is why. And we don't need to go down
the list of like you know their credentials and we've
we've broken them down pretty good. I'm just making a
statement right here, l she wins the game. But this
list isn't We're not pretty through the game of this list.
This is just they're going to make the semifinals this year.
Speaker 4: So according to the och B list, Well, actually I
don't know because Jake and I have two and one tomorrow,
so I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know what Jake has planned. I know what
I have planned. Do you where do you have l
s U in your like mind?
Speaker 4: You have them playing for a national championship at the
end of the season.
Speaker 2: Yep, I do.
Speaker 5: So it's going to be an ups.
Speaker 2: In my mind, is going to be Ohio State LS
National championship.
Speaker 5: So upset on Saturday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean upset to like the dumb Nationals because
they're not the favorite. Because they're not the favorite. But like,
even even so, even if something crazy happens we don't
win the game, it still doesn't determine that the finality
of this list. L She's still gonna be in the game.
They're gonna be in the big and Clemson will not.
Speaker 5: I'm down with this.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, so, who's who is our four team
in state? Okay, so let's just say in the playoffs,
let's just predict Ohio State's gonna beat Penn State LS.
She's gonna be Clemson semi finals.
Speaker 5: Boom, We're gonna beat them twice.
Speaker 2: Ain't no guess, doesn't matter, bring them both, you know.
I'm just thinking this out.
Speaker 3: Also, like, is there gonna be any issue with us
being over remote and trying to.
Speaker 2: Talk back to you to give Probably? Probably, probably a lot.
Speaker 5: Probably, So yeah, well okay, here things work out.
Speaker 4: Okay, So you know how I have to have y'all
turned off while I'm talking back here in studio so
just let me get my spiel done and then I'll
go back to y'all and then.
Speaker 2: Y'all can Yeah, I'm going to and you're going one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you go to. We won't say anything back here.
Speaker 2: I know, why don't we just FaceTime?
Speaker 5: I was gonna say, what did we call in?
Speaker 2: First time? Long time? Okay, first time caller, longtime listener, y'all.
Speaker 4: Okay, we'll get Adam or whoever is going to be
the tech to call us from the guarantee okay, yeah,
to call the studio from the guarantee phone. Okay, all right,
a little inside baseball.
Speaker 2: Talk to the phone or the mic.
Speaker 5: We're talking to the phone, Okay, I was I didn't know.
Speaker 2: It was like, hey, we get a little quadbox going,
we'll see.
Speaker 5: Speak quad box might be out the question.
Speaker 2: Now, well, we're we're trying to work. Yeah, we're trying to.
Speaker 3: We're trying to think of a way that the quad box,
the meathead quad boxing.
Speaker 2: Talent is confirmed.
Speaker 6: I got it, and we're gonna do teams on this end.
I was telling you earlier. We're gonna it doesn't matter.
This is behind the scenes.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Yeah, Well we're gonna probably say we
got a big show tomorrow. We have a real big
one tomorrow. You are confirmed on the talent or the
quad box. Very excited about that. Hell yeah, it's not
really a secret either.
Speaker 3: We're already talked about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We got the general, mister Bobby Carpner, and we
have my man finding. I know he's got his like
Pat McAfee duties and all that stuff. But a J
Hawk gonna join us as well. Everybody's busy. Yeah, So,
I mean it's gonna be this room right here, I
think is a combination of we said one brain cell, ye, tomorrow,
that quad box will be about half brain cell. Yeah,
maybe it's gonna be a bruised brain cell as well.
Speaker 5: We're up to one and a half brain cells tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3: So there's gonna be six people one and a half
brain cells.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It might be numbers, it might be
subtraction by addition a little bit like the more people.
Yet it might go down.
Speaker 4: So a J Bobby and who are the other?
Speaker 2: Oh, so're gonna do the thing where like the Brady
Bunch were like kind of look.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so the plan is and look we still
got some things iron out, but it's gonna be uh Me, Flynn,
Bobby and a J tomorrow the Meathead Quad Box to
give you a full college football segment break down the
biggest games, talk a little trash.
Speaker 2: And what better? What better weekend to do it with
a two Ohio State guys too, lu guys, when those
are the two biggest games of opening Opening weekend. I
can't wait for that Texas game. Man is art gonna
fall in his face. I'm so excited.
Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna be man, I don't even know
where I'm gonna take that in, Like, I gotta watch up.
Speaker 2: You're gonna be on the road for that game. Yeah,
oh you won't be. I thought you were gonna be
like dry No, no, no, sorry, I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I'll be in the east in times will be noon
eleven am.
Speaker 2: How lame is.
Speaker 5: That for Ohio State versus Texas? It is lame.
Speaker 6: It is a lame for that big of a game basis. However,
for us, you got early game Texas, Ohio State, you
got a good two thirty game and then LSU clumbs
in it's seven like that that's actually.
Speaker 2: For us, And I need to tell like this is
a little public service announcement for people. Hey, it's a
big game early, we're gonna be excited. It's like that
first day of vacation. Yeah, where like you go a
little too hard and it ruins, like the second day
of vacation. We all know we're talking about. We don't
need to talk about, like how many beverages that takes,
Like that first day of vacation, sometimes it ruins the
next one. It's called a slow burn. Let it slow burn.
Go get you some of my high drink it throughout
the day, maybe even mix it into your cocktail every
now and then. It's a long day. It's a marathon Saturday.
It's not a sprint and you're gonna want to sprint
because little arc is gonna run run out there with
with his new starting jersey on, and he's gonna be
playing some football against the Rainy national champions and they're
pretty good, and you're gonna want to You're gonna get
so excited you canna be locked in. You're gonna be
like throwing those sekis back like they're gonna be going
down like water. You gotta pace yourself. Okay, it's a
long day, like you can get a limit. In my mind,
we call that super set. It's got a super.
Speaker 4: Set, ye yep, Okay, Well now that was to watch
all this at home, But now I feel like I
need to go somewhere and go watch.
Speaker 2: All these games.
Speaker 3: I was kind of like, am I gonna just go
like go to the waffle house? Watch on my phone
and right, Ander, how do you like to take out?
Speaker 2: So I love to be like at home for like
the games that you're like heartfelt about, like every type
of game, kind.
Speaker 4: Of every game, but the ones that like LSU versus Clemson.
For some reason, I just like to be by myself
and watching the games at home, like baseball season. I
like to watch the LSU games in the comfort of
my own home.
Speaker 6: But she's like she likes to pace back and forth
in the the I do be doing a lot of paces.
Speaker 2: Witnessed it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I had to remind myself that, hey, there is a
camera on you while you're calling this LSU game.
Speaker 2: Always remember that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, But now I want to go out for that
game or all of them.
Speaker 2: For all of them, I have to like be at
a place that you can hear it. That's a problem.
I'm so nervous, Like if I don't know the environment
I'm stepping into, I'm resident to step into it. So
I want to hear it.
Speaker 4: You know where one time I went to go watch
a game. This was like you're a few years ago.
I went to go watch a game and they had
sound on was and it was fun. Was that the
varsity they had like a huge projector and then they
were they had the sound on, but during commercial breaks
they would play music.
Speaker 2: So it was it's cool to be in a place
and watching a game with everybody's got the same mindset. Yeah,
like let's party and talk during the during the commercial break.
But like it's the t andus bar has got in
his hand. I don't care what how little Jimmy's doing
in school. I don't, I don't. I don't care about it.
Speaker 5: I need all to be locked.
Speaker 2: I care about it. It's commercial Yeah, after the game,
I want to know. To be honest, I don't care
about it during commercial leader. I have kids. I'm coming
from a little bit different perspective, but like I want
to hear about them as sociopath behavior a little bit.
I don't care about Mike, but during the you know,
they're not Mike. I mean it's being a citizen man.
Speaker 3: Real quick before you take a break funds and stuffing
about your four chat. Please, for the love of God,
get Matt a shock slash vibration holder for his mic.
I don't think that it's him hitting the mic. He
likes to hit the Yeah, he's a big desk hitder.
Speaker 2: I'm like Brian Kelly after the USC game last year. Yeah,
you do that. Vibes are good, right now, Matt, bring
that up something.
Speaker 3: So I think it's more. We need some foam on
the like instead of the microphone. Now I don't know
the microphone, but we'll get some phone in front of
him for the desk.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, get a little like pat with the arm
of this microphone. A lean on mind not the highest equality.
I heard that they were really expensive. Wow, got ripped off.
I didn't buy that kind of surgery. Can we do
it over the weekend? All right?
Speaker 3: That is the number three team and your OTV Top
twenty five Tomorrow we'll give you number two, number one,
and we will finish our top twenty five list and
put that out there on Friday nights. All right, we
will step away. Let's get to a little New Orleans Saints.
We hadn't talked about the Saints. Obviously they've you know,
made a decision at quarterback. What does that look like
moving forward and all that, But also they made some
roster moves. A familiar face is coming back to the
state of Louisiana. We'll catch you up there when we
come back here on OTB.
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Speaker 3: The New Orleans Saints made a waiver claim on somebody
very familiar here in the state of Louisiana. Someone who
was a star player for the Kentwood Kangaroos.
Speaker 2: O Ko ended up at LSU.
Speaker 3: Certainly had some big moments had some return scores in
his career, and you know, decided that he wanted to
be more active and play more receiver. Goes to Nebraska,
has some monster times there, and then goes to the
Tampa Bay Bucks. He was a six round pick in
the twoenty twenty three draft, six round pick by Tampa
Bay Bucks. And it has a couple of you know,
nice I think moments. I think his rookie year thirty
nine catches, three hundred and eighty five yards, three touchdowns
last year dipped a little bit. But now the New
Orleans Saints have claimed Trey Palmer.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 3: Smart move because we were asking the question about what
yesterday with the receivers you had, with the way that
they have not been able to stay healthy, who was
going to be your returner? Who was going to be
the guy that went back there? Because you cut like
everybody that we thought potentially could be a returner. Oh,
you moved on from that player. So you go and
you claim Trey Palmer again. In his career, he's got
thirty two games played, fifty one catches, five hundred and
fifty seven yards, eleven yards per catch, four touchdowns. He
does have a long of fifty four yards, But look,
can you help you in the receiver game?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Is he better than the guys that you ended up
playing last year? Absolutely right. We call him the uber drivers.
He's not that, he's more than that. But I think
you really get him because he's going to help you
in the return game. I would be shocked if he's not. Again,
I don't want Rashichi Heed back there. He is too
important to your offense. And I know the return game
can be important. But with the new rules that they
have in the kickoff, you can put somebody else back
there because now it's a different type of blocking scheme.
So I would fully expect Trey Palmer to be heavily
involved in the return game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're right. I mean it still doesn't answer
like the question of who, but it gives you an option, right,
It gives you an option right there, that is that
is in your building that you can pull up at
any given week if you want that option. Yeah. So
I agree with you. I think there's gonna be moments.
I mean, this team isn't going to be uh you know,
this team's going to have to probably manufacture some field position.
And we call that like the kickoff return kind of
kind of is like that hidden yardage statistic manufacture may
be a you know, some sort of special teams touchdown,
defensive touchdown. To win some games, you're gonna have to
rely on that. If you want to u play better teams,
better rosters, you have to have those moments. So I
think that putting your heat back there every now and
then for a return would be a smart move. And
I think that's something you might see from the Saints
and Kellen Moore putting them back there every now and
then just try to get some sort of home run
type of play, just some sort of momentum change or something,
especially when you're playing a good team. I'm like, I
remember a lot of times you see when a backup
quarterback starting for the first time. You'll see a coach
do a surprise on sidekick. You'll see some some sort
of trickery to steal a possession. That's what you're trying
to do. You're trying to steal a possession away from
the other team. And you see that when you don't
think that your hand is quite as good as somebody
else's hands, so you look for a way to improve
your hand, get an extra card in there so steal
an extra possession. So that can be some sort of
mindset for the return game with wishy heat because you
know he's a dynamic athlete and you know that he
does provide that. Now with the odds so low that
you know, returns for touchdowns happened, so but.
Speaker 3: Not very it's my field position, yeah, I mean, yeah,
you know talking about go out there and score.
Speaker 2: I mean sometimes you talk about trendon holiday back here. Yeah,
sometimes you gotta still like if he hadn't returned to
kick all game and they scored to go up at
the end of the game and you need you need
a field going, it's forty five seconds left in the game, Yeah,
maybe put him back there. Yeah, so I think just
you'll see it strategically, see him back there. I don't
know if I think that, but I think that's what
they should do. I would love to have Kendre Miller
be the kickoff returner.
Speaker 3: I think now with the way the blocking rules are
and the way that it's set up, it is conducive
to what a running back skill set is.
Speaker 2: I think it's it's reading.
Speaker 3: It's reading blocks almost like a kickout block on a
power or counter and you know a log block and
you got to bounce it like it's more conducive to
running back skill set than I think receiver or dB.
So we'll see what they end up doing there. But
Trey had some big moments. He's had some big catches.
His rookie year was certainly better than his second year.
Had some issues staying healthy here and there, but nothing major.
And so he is a player that I think is
a good waiver claim. I think he adds to your
receiver room. I think you make a trade and now
you add a waiver claim, and I think your receiver
room is much better than it was when you started camp.
When I went out there, and it's like, man, if
these two guys get hurt, you're in some real trouble
and you don't know what Brandon Cooks can give you either.
He didn't have the best preseason going back and watching
the tape, so I think this is another kind of
added protection, little insurance on a receiver room that last
year was decimated with injury and you ended up playing
guys that hadn't played in the NFL in two years.
Speaker 2: That's scared to think about, right, Well, certainly for Spencer
ra for Spencer Raller and your top handful if pass
catchers are out. Yeah, yeah, it's it's pretty pretty difficult
to play quarterback in the National Football League.
Speaker 3: That's why it's hard to grade him off off last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why it's so important for these guys to
stay healthy. And to your point of why they probably
shouldn't and won't put shad Het back there to return kicks,
let's just take one a couple more hits off of
them per game. Yeh. It's so so so for this
Saints team because there is talent. We have talented people
on this roster. They can play football with the best
of them. Are starting wide receivers and running backs. They
could play for any team. But it's the people behind him.
So it's all about that depth. So it's so valuable
and important. And to this point in the season, which
is I didn't play a game yet, but through preseason
and training camp, the injury bug has already bitten the
New Orleans Saints in the offensive line especially. But you know,
we looked at the practice squad too, our guy trading Welch, Yeah,
signed the practice squad. They to be able to get
in there because I didn't know. You didn't think you would, Yeah,
you didn't think he made it pass waivers, so we
were able to sign him to the practice squad. So
that practice squad as of right now it's finalized. Squad's
changed like weekly. Yeah, but they died like the male
model himself, Jake Caner practice squad.
Speaker 3: Howdel you're gonna give me? Sam Hartman let me said,
male model?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's kind of a model. He doesn't even really
have to try though. Handsome fella. Yeah, where's he gonna
end up? Or where did he end up?
Speaker 3: Maybe he's on Washington, he.
Speaker 2: Did because he got he got cut from a Washington Ye.
Speaker 3: We will give you the the full list of the
Saints practice squad here coming up. But I did want
to mention this article that I was reading. It's on
ESPN dot com and it gives like the X factor
for all thirty two teams, and I was like, Okay,
I wanna go. I want to go see the Saints,
like I want to go see who that is. You know,
X factor doesn't mean like the breakout start. It's like, hey,
if this guy is good, you could be good. If
he's bad, you're gonna be bad, like kind of a
swing guy.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: Well, they chose guard Trevor Pinning. I'm like, okay, you've
got my attention. Now whoever decide, I'll have to go
back and look at the top of it. But they
haven't watched the preseason.
Speaker 2: How do I know that? Listen to this.
Speaker 3: The right side of the Saints offensive line looks stellar.
Center Eric McCoy, guard Caesar ruiz In, tackle Fuaga. If
the left side can hold its own, the Saints have
the sort of group that can help either young quarterback,
no matter who it ends up being, Spencer Ratler or
Tyler Schuck developed behind sound production in a strong running game.
Tell me that you haven't watched a second of the
Saints preseason without having to tell me Stellar Steller. We're
talking about somebody that has graded out fifty five percent
or below in every preseason game, and two of the
games he's been in the forties. I would be real
careful using the word stellar. Okay, there's a lot of
words that we like overuse. Uniques one of them, but
when you say stellar, we do we do that one too?
Generational probably generational, yeah, but stellar is not supposed to
be used on Caesar Ruiz right now and what he's
done and how he's looked. The Saints have a guard issue.
It's not just on one side, it's on both. Tackles
have been great. Eric McCoy is a baller. Guards ain't
none stellar out there.
Speaker 2: M hm m m hmmm. Yeah, No, it's been uh,
it's been really bad. But they did call out caesaris
as being playing really good by name right there. Maybe
they're baseball fans and they think four of ten is good.
Speaker 3: I have no like to that point. I have no
counter argument. Maybe that's what it was like. He's hitting
four hundred, what do you mean like, No, No, he
grayed out forty. That means he's losing six of the
ten reps. And some sports that's great. If you're shooting
forty percent from beyond the arc, that's great. On the
offensive line, you get you wearing street clothes and paying
to get into the game.
Speaker 2: So a lot of people paying to get into the
game too, and they don't want to see that. They
don't want to see him on the field stellar. So
I was shocking when I read that this morning.
Speaker 3: All right, interesting, starting to put me in a bad
mood now thinking about somebody putting that. All right, we
will take a break. A little big deal or no
big deal coming up still your way. You know, we've
got munchies. We've got a lot still on the docket. Here,
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Speaker 1: From the locker room to the airwaves. It's off the
bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: I'm a bowler.
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Diamond Rock Waller and Howlder No Needa not a follow
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once you turned the song off. Well done, Elandra for
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Speaker 2: Well done.
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your station? A Landra?
Speaker 5: It was ninety three point three, but I don't remember
what the what it.
Speaker 3: Was called, Taylor, You were definitely listening to one O
four five ESPN.
Speaker 2: Weren't you?
Speaker 6: Hundred points some of the TI So I didn't actually
know about one of four five when I was in
high school, honestly, what.
Speaker 2: Really until I got in college one. Well, actually, we
used to push that hard.
Speaker 6: Actually one of four nine, alten Walker, one of four
nine has a better signal than you know what.
Speaker 2: We don't push it. I never really really hear it pushed.
But like ninety eight point one, h D two is
the best. It's crystal clear all over the place. I
don't know. I'm not supposed to say that that's one
has that trans and switch over to HD two. Yeah,
and it's.
Speaker 3: Used to.
Speaker 2: We used to, for sure. That's how I listened to it.
I don't listen to on the radio. I used to
listen you know when I I would listen to TV
every morning driving the work.
Speaker 3: You would, because if we said something you disagree with,
you let us know pretty quick.
Speaker 2: And it was a lot. Yeah, that's also fair. That's
some real dumb things, and we admit it. Now we
only say super smart things.
Speaker 3: I don't know that's the case.
Speaker 2: Are you ready? Okay?
Speaker 3: So you introduced the turnover chain, the bold prediction chain.
So are we giving like season long today and then
are like week one bold predictions tomorrow.
Speaker 2: So today what we're gonna do is give our season
long like futures type predictions. Bold predictions, things like that
I think I got mine. These are from like it's
got to be you know, you want to sprinkle some
bets around there because you want to hit something, and
these need to be like bold enough to where like
we get excited if they hit right, not like that
Smyer's gonna throw forever fifteen hundred yards this year. So
like what we're gonna do, We're gonna sprinkle this in
the rest of the show, just kind of bold predictions
that people have, whether it's college football, whether it's pro football.
We're gonna track us and then to what we'll do
is just do our kind of our certainly our pick'ems
are betting picks. What we think about the lines are
Pond two parlay and then also just some some hot
takes for the weekend. All right, so we'll keep it.
We'll keep it track by track on week by week.
But these are gonna be big ones that if they
happen like it's gonna be a turnover chain OTB celebration situation.
All right, then we're gonna we're gonna let we could
get thirty of these wrong. If we get one, the
whole world's gonna know that we predicted it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, before we get started, shout out to Tristan
Abert in the four chat he throughout ninety nine seven KMJJ,
you're a real one from the Port City.
Speaker 2: Appreciate that.
Speaker 3: Shout out ninety what ninety K that's where the R
and B played mm hm and songs like that that
we just listened to. Are you ready to give your
bowl prediction for the college football season? I mean I
got multiple No, I know that give a bold prediction.
Speaker 2: I actually have more NFL than I do. Okay, I
don't care. Do you have a college yeah, okay, then
give the college one. I kind of tease this a
little bit yesterday. My first bold prediction I'm going with
is to talk about bold predictions and not give one.
My first bold prediction here on UTB Bold Predictions for
the Football Season twenty twenty five, spit it out. Dabo
Sweeney will injure himself running down the hill at some
point during the season. I might not be serious. I
hope it's not serious, but there's gonna be a time
where he cannot full sprint down that hill. He will
have to walk. He will have to get down that
hill a different way than a full blown old man
sprint to the fifty. Okay, that is my first bold prediction.
So and it's gonna happen because of the run down
the hill.
Speaker 3: It's gonna oh they ain't no, guess that's what's going on.
Speaker 2: A hammy, pull a calf. He's going to do something.
Something's going to happen. And I don't wish that on anybody.
I hope this one's wrong. But when I look at
the at the OTB Crystal Ball, I have to tell
the people what's going to happen this season, whether I
like it or I don't like it. And I don't
like anybody get injured. But Daviswainey is going to injure himself.
All right.
Speaker 3: Not where I thought you were going to go with
your Bowl prediction.
Speaker 2: Well, I wanted to start it out, you know, just
to kind of I wanted to start out and give
the listeners and give you all in the room here
kind of like this can go anywhere. It can be basically,
it can be stats. It can be stat lines or
touchdowns or who wins the Highes, whatever it is, but
it could also be off the rails a little bit. Okay.
I wanted to set that expectation from jump.
Speaker 3: You did that, all right?
Speaker 2: That's Flynn's first bull prediction.
Speaker 3: Don't know if that chain is going to find a
toy on his neck a lot?
Speaker 2: Do you know if it does? Monday? I got a
voodoo doll.
Speaker 3: He's been sticking pins in it every night, Milandra. Do
you have a bold prediction for the college football season?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 4: So I feel like I kind of want to I'm
about to make things kind of complicated. I kind of
want to operatively define bold, like is it something that
is we all have to agree, we all have to
agree that it's bold, Like is.
Speaker 5: It something.
Speaker 4: Out of this like so bold that it might not
be able to happen? Or does it have to have
like the possibility to go either way?
Speaker 2: Like of course we celebrate like the ones, we celebrate
harder for the ones that you know, it's kind of
like betting. Okay, it's better at the you know, those
higher odds some things, but it still has to be bold,
all right.
Speaker 4: So the Bears, Caleb Williams, he has, like last season
not the best, has a lot of hype around him,
though everybody is still pretty high on him. Ben Johnson
with the Bears, My bold prediction Bears win the NFC North.
Speaker 2: That's pretty I would say that because I wouldn't say
to the other teams.
Speaker 5: Because the Lions. Yeah, I think the Lions have a
bit of an.
Speaker 6: Off yere good good to her about the Lions though,
having a bit of an off year. They lost both
coordinators and they're starting center in Frank Ragno.
Speaker 2: That's big, yeah talking about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they got a better defense coordinator, somebody with
the ultimate grid, somebody with the tiger blood going through.
Speaker 2: So I did think about for one of my bold predictions,
but putting the Lions last in that division, and I
didn't do it.
Speaker 3: I think they just because of that reason, because Dan
Campbells still gonna be biting.
Speaker 5: But I do think they take a bit of a
hit this.
Speaker 2: Ye think they win, So you think they're gonna be
they're going to best the Packers. The Packers when the
trade Micah Parsons, they're gonna do it. Dude, you keep
saying that if they do that, I am not coming
to work.
Speaker 4: I feel like saying that the Packers would win the
NFC North wouldn't be bold enough.
Speaker 5: Like I feel like that's possible.
Speaker 4: The team you picked is that like packers, it's not
a bold prediction, like I think that's possible.
Speaker 2: Okay, I like that one.
Speaker 3: That's a good one, all right, So Dabo is not
going to sprint down the hill every time this year
because you're gonna have a minor injury. A laundra at
Chicago Barriers are going to win the NFC North. We'll
get a bold prediction from Tata when we come back
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Speaker 1: From the locker room to the airwaves. Gets off the
bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn's dirty.
Speaker 2: Soap, Dirt.
Speaker 3: Dirty all right, welcome back, Gano TV one of four
five ESPN, Ben Ruge. You can kind of keep this
up in the background, Lunda, because I don't want to
be disrespectful to a Leah Tata.
Speaker 2: Give us a bold take there.
Speaker 6: The Florida Gators will finish five and seven and twelve.
Speaker 2: Is that what I wanted to go? I wanted to go.
Speaker 6: Mark Stubes gets fired mid season. Don't think that's all
that bold. Look you look at Florida's schedule. They could
very well lose to l s U, Miami, Texas, Texas A,
and m oh Miss. It's five losses right there. You
dropped at Tennessee. You drop a game against Florida State,
you should lose your five and seven right there.
Speaker 2: I love this is Florida's got a tough schedule and
an exact number.
Speaker 6: And DJ Lagway showed promise that dude's got so many
injuries right now, Like you started practicing a week ago,
this first time since the season ended.
Speaker 2: That's a concern for me. They lost a lot of weapons.
Like that's Florida. Florida's got some question marks for me
and a tough schedule. He's definitely got some soft tissue
question marks. It seems like something's happening a lot. I
think I feel like he just grew too fast. You know,
it's still coming into his body. He did, he did,
He said, I remember when I grew really fast, like
at the point in my life, and like I always
had like hamstring time. I always had that. I am
back in like something weird. Just everything's still shifting around
in there.
Speaker 3: Walked in that room. He's like, yeah, I'm six three.
I'm like, my guy, you passed up six three, like
years ago, you're six five.
Speaker 2: Have you measured in the last couple of months. I
think he's like that really is Taylor go. I would
have put a specific number out. These are going to
launder tape ones like it talking about yeah, yeah, yeah, all.
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