Speaker 1: Good morning at seven am here on Tuesday, May sixth,
today at bed Ridge, you can expect rainy skies but a.
Speaker 2: High of seventy eight.
Speaker 1: In our one of today's show, we'll talk some LSU baseball,
some Saints rookie mini camp, which rookie should we watch
out for as that gets underway, and the LSU Tigers
added another player from the basketball portal. You can follow
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Speaker 3: I'll start to you want to present Off the Bench
with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert. Yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah, Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and T
Bob Abert.
Speaker 4: I gotta come off the bench.
Speaker 3: Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abar.
Speaker 4: Yoh, what's going on? Guys?
Speaker 5: Welcome in to another day of OTB, Tuesday May sixth,
twenty twenty five. And what a weird morning it has
been for your boy personally. As I said it a
little late last night, I was enjoying some belated May
the fifth.
Speaker 4: You know I caught up Button and Or, which is
just awesome.
Speaker 5: By the way, Then if you know this show, you
know that I love behind the scenes stuff more than
anything behind the scenes movie stuff. And there's a series
that I didn't know was a series called Light and
Magic on Disney Plus, and it goes to the history
of industrial light magic, the effects house that built you,
Star Wars, Jurassic Park, everything, a ton of stuff back
to day. Right, Well, they had six episodes a couple
of years ago. They came out, loved them, they were awesome.
Well they dropped three more. So then I stayed watching
that and then I'm like, well that's us works, And
I said that, And why didn't you know with kids,
you stay up too late, tend to sleep in. So
imagine my utter shock when my eyes cracked open with
a and I saw sunlight streaming through the windows. Yes,
woke up about thirty minutes ago, which is very rare.
And now here we are about to do the show.
So today's should be very interesting. But if you want
to come hang out YouTube dot com sas one, four
or five ESPN, that's probably not the weirdest part of
your watching online. You see me looking at my nails
in my hand, Um, do you care to explain that?
It looks like I've been I don't know, you know it.
It looks like I'm turning into a Simpson. My hand
is going yellow, but I don't think it's from the inside.
If it is my actual skin, then I'm very freaked out.
But I've tried washing it a couple of times, and
I feel like I've gotten some of the yellow off.
I don't think it was as starkly yellow as it
was before.
Speaker 2: Last night Star Wars night got a little weird.
Speaker 5: I mean, Marge came over just for a minute, but
I mean you slap your hand and a box of
cheese puffs us something.
Speaker 4: How many?
Speaker 2: How many? How many fingers are yellow?
Speaker 4: The whole hand, the.
Speaker 5: Whole hand, the whole hand hold hand shady or SpongeBob,
I don't know, but something is going on. You can't
just be putting your hands in holes, bro, You gotta
watch that. Certainly, I hope that this is not my
actual skin. You can't see it as well. The light
and light he kind of washes it out. But like
you know how you can get rid of that right now?
You have to accumulate iguana pe and put your hand
in there. I don't even understand what.
Speaker 4: This is a reference to. Is this from SpongeBob?
Speaker 6: No, it's not from SpongeBob. It's from another Nickelodeon shutto
called Drake and josh Oh Drake and Joshon.
Speaker 4: A little behind my time, that's a little after me.
Speaker 6: Well, Drake's feet turned yellow or green or something like that,
and the only way he can get rid of that
he had to put his feet in iguana pete.
Speaker 4: Getting stung by a jellyfish.
Speaker 5: Yes, all right, So if anybody has an iguana out
there listening, go ahead and gather it's urine and run
by the guaranteed studios and somebody will do that. I
will be very impressed if somebody actually gathers iguana urine
and drops it off at Mama Jack.
Speaker 2: If that happens, you have to stick your hand in it.
Speaker 5: Just it's a courtesy, so I would accept. I gotta
know that it's a guana pee. You are not going
to get one over on me by bringing up your
own urine in a bucket and having me plunge my
hand inside of it and post it online. So the
chances of that happen, I would say, are slim to
none unless I see that iguana pee into that bowl
evidence my hand. Even if no, no, no, I gotta see it.
You need to see it. There's too many easy ways
to gain the system to get me to play with
your urine. What a weird, weird morning anyway, guys, I'm
t BA baby. We got Jordan in for laundre today.
She's out of the AMC Awards ACM nin CM one
of them something country her and Britt. We had Taylor
Sharp in here as well. Jake will be along shortly
doing dead stuff. This morning. Running the kids to school
sounds like a bit of a hellish travel day for
Mama Bear and baby Harlowe, but they finally made it
safe and sound back to back to bendrous.
Speaker 4: So we love to see that. Jordan. What's up, brother?
How are we doing this morning?
Speaker 6: Fired up? Baby? Always?
Speaker 4: Good night in the NBA.
Speaker 6: Last night, dud dude, I was sleep man, because at
the time I went to sleep, okay, see was up
like twenty points or something like that. Yeah, there was up
a lot, and I was like, you know what, Okay,
so he's gonna put the stranglehold on him. Let's call it,
and let's call it a night. I wake up to
see Ched holmgrom peet on his leg and Aaron Gordon
shoot him in a face. So amazing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was crazy. Celtics missing forty five three.
Speaker 2: Yea, that's on them for taking sixty and so they
do though.
Speaker 4: That is know, that is what they do. There's ever
a team that's that's gonna shoot sixty. It is. It
is that team that's absurd.
Speaker 6: Very absurd, Don't get you wrong, it's very absurd, especially
when you have Tatum with Jalen Brunson on him. Who's
what five eleven on a good day of Tatum sixteen.
Speaker 4: Look, Brunce is tough, butuzz like I was about.
Speaker 2: To say, We're not gonna We're not We're not gonna
do that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love Brunton's celebration.
Speaker 2: Dude, that's that's that's officially Jalen Bronson.
Speaker 6: Man, look at the jersey.
Speaker 4: What happened? When did this come about a.
Speaker 1: Couple of weeks ago when everybody just like stops talking
about it and I'm like, guys, all he does is
drop forty on your favorite team, and they're like, I.
Speaker 2: Wonder if Jalen Brunson can be a number one. Uh yeah, Ken,
he's ill.
Speaker 5: I mean yeah, he had at least thirty five games
in the first series, he had thirty nine. Again last
night they steal one in Boston, first time they beaten
him all season. Yes, only the third time in the
last eleven tries. So a series that did not seem
interesting going in.
Speaker 4: Uh, pretty damn you know, all of a sudden, jeezn't.
Speaker 5: Them both of them now? Homer Simpson's going on, yeah,
both of them? I agree. The the other Uh, the
the interesting part about the thunder Nuggets is going to
be just that the m v P is already decided,
and yet like we'll let you say it because this
this is a scenario, right if Yo Kic wins, because
I think SGA probably won it, yeah for sure, But
the main pillar upon which he won it was having
the better team in a bit of Yokic fatigue. So
if Yo kicch wins and as we did last night
and puts up these sort of stats, it's, man.
Speaker 6: Well it's really crazy because Jokis averaged triple double this year,
so it's kind of like season should have won m
VP and he's not even you.
Speaker 1: Go look at the m v P s he's won.
He had a better season this year than he's had
a nose like he's.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's I mean, that's the that's that's the but
that's the.
Speaker 5: Old Matt Liner thing. Matt Lioner won, the Iman had
a better year the next year, Reggie Bush win. I mean,
it happens in all in all sports. Hell, even Lamar
this year with Josh Allen, like we we did some
heavy lifting to give the m v P.
Speaker 4: To Josh Allen.
Speaker 5: I know he was awesome, don't get wrong, he was awesome,
but Lamar was objectively better in.
Speaker 4: Every single statistic. So it just happens.
Speaker 5: It's one of the dynamics at play when we give out,
uh these awards.
Speaker 1: Taylor, what's up, dude? How are you doing? Let him
do good? You have a good mood this morning. We
got a late one, but we're good to go.
Speaker 4: How about that? How about that hockey last night? Huh?
Speaker 1: I saw the comments in the YouTube and I know
exactly what you're referring to.
Speaker 5: Jordan does a Pelicans podcast and it was an awesome
NBA choosing me, and it is funny. It is funny.
I call myself out for it, says, good night, team,
I'm the only black guy in studio. Okay, Relax, relax.
Jordan is who I talk NBA with. He becomes a
Pelicans podcast, watch the NBA more than anybody, and Taylor
looks hockey.
Speaker 4: Taylor doesn't actually cocky man.
Speaker 2: No, I didn't actually watch any Taylor was watching ball. Yeah,
I was actually watching.
Speaker 5: Keep him with our random NBA SpongeBob start here or
Iguana urine, Yeah, Guana Uron shout out to coach Pop yesterday.
Speaker 4: Did you'll see al Hafe?
Speaker 5: That'll play that a bit later in the show, saturalm
is not here to celebrate al Hafe?
Speaker 4: What Taylor?
Speaker 2: No, I just I didn't see it.
Speaker 5: Oh, okay, it was a cool moment. He came out
and basically, you know, set his piece. He can't do
it any more, health and everything. He had Manu and
Tim Duncan flanking him. He'd a bunch of the other
Spurs with him as well. And at the end he
was like, and you know, he basically like, and here's
my new job.
Speaker 4: We'll play the video but uh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and he unzips his shirt and his shirt says
hefe and uh, you know, because now he's like the
boss upstairs.
Speaker 6: Can we talk about Tim Duncan man, Like he looks
like he needs to drop a reggae album at any moment.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, where did Tim Duncan end up? Where? Where?
Where do he grow up?
Speaker 6: Of the Virgin Island?
Speaker 5: Yes, exactly right, he looks yes, and he looks he
looks yes exactly and he has the island culture feel.
Speaker 6: But like the way he looked throughout his whole career
to how he looks post retirement.
Speaker 5: Is this completely now he's got full dreads, long gray.
Speaker 4: Looking wise, he's take an old lion.
Speaker 5: He uh i I I still think of all the
style icons of our time, Tim Duncan does not get
enough credit for being undeniably himself.
Speaker 4: Like he is right up there with Adam.
Speaker 5: Sandler in terms of just wearing some of the most
ridiculously simple yet like he wears it so comfortably because
it's what he wants to wear.
Speaker 6: Adam Sandler with a biggie big shirt, big shorts, shorts
to your ankles. He's just whooping La fitness runs to
find Adam Sanders.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: And and and I mean He'll walk the red carpet
in the in the in the shorts, in the uh,
the shorts, in the hoodie, triple X shirt, always so baggy, dude,
it was, it was, it was a better time when
actually not true. I don't know how we all wore
baggy shorts. Fashion's funny like that.
Speaker 1: Speaking of walking the red carpet to Bob, I know you,
I know you got it in the dock a little
bit later on.
Speaker 4: But that's some athletes met Galla Fitch.
Speaker 1: I ask this question though, because I get home about
seven thirty last night, I look at the TV.
Speaker 2: Victoria's watching something. I'm like, what are you watching?
Speaker 1: She goes, the met Gala? Yeah, Like I didn't think
you could watch it. She goes, well you can watch
all the celebrities walk in. And I'm like, who in
the hell would watch that?
Speaker 4: So why?
Speaker 1: And the thing is, I'm like, I'm looking and it's
on me. I'm realizing how out of touch I am.
I knew nobody up there last night. I knew like
maybe five out of the twenty people that I saw.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, it's it's it's a lot of it's.
Speaker 5: It can be sometimes a lot of like oh, I
know that guy. He's from Uh, he's from that.
Speaker 2: That Kevin Hart does a really good thing.
Speaker 1: He's Appy Finger famous where he's like, oh that guy, yes,
that guy from Yeah. But like I'm looking, I'm like, okay,
that like vaguely looks like Kylie Jenner. Victoria is like, yeah,
that's right. I'm like, okay, I don't know who anybody
else is.
Speaker 4: But look'd Jalen Hurts was there.
Speaker 2: Didn't see him.
Speaker 4: Sa Quon Barkley was there. Lewis Hamilton.
Speaker 5: Uh so the thing is, I know Stefan Diggs was there,
showing absolutely why nobody wants Stefon Diggs to be introduced
to their sister. He had this like beautiful lion's mane
on these red shoes, just looking like looking like he's
about to walk in and just steal your wife, your daughters,
whoever he wants.
Speaker 2: Not what those are faminine ass shoes.
Speaker 5: Bro Okay, you tell that it's Stefan, tell him come
on in and that And that's the thing, dude, I
will say this the met Gala, you can frame it
however you want. It is absolutely like ostentatious. Uh, just
what's the word I'm looking for it's it's just an
a It's obscene, right, It's an obscene show of.
Speaker 4: Well bunch of vampires. Especially, yes, especially at a.
Speaker 5: Time when a lot of people are struggling inflations all
over the place, and here it is we're putting as
much money as we can into everything just to come
up with the craziest outfits. Right, so you can frame
it as this hugely negative thing that you hate, but
I'd be lying like, Okay, I love movies. I love
costume design in movies. I love all that sort of stuff.
And you see just some wild, really artistically interesting fits
at this thing. And so, especially if you are a designer,
you love fashion, I could definitely see the appeal of
a night like today because because this is when people
like fully let all of their societal guardrails go.
Speaker 4: Like you have you all seen Hunger Games? This is like,
this is like the Capital.
Speaker 5: This is this is where they go full capital style,
like what would like rich people in a sci fi
movie do?
Speaker 4: And and so I kind of.
Speaker 6: Like utopian world type of ordeal.
Speaker 5: You know Jordan's I would have voted for Obama for
a third time I've seen.
Speaker 6: No I've seen it was like uh, hey, Jordan, have
you seen Centers?
Speaker 4: I was like, Okay, get all your jokes, get all
your jokes.
Speaker 1: This is me and Jordan's conversation every every day while
I'm sitting next to each other, just stuff like that.
Speaker 5: No, No, I hear you and Jordan when I'm in
the bathroom every day, and y'all are constantly like our
own Cornheiser and Willbond just having the most random and
inane sports debates.
Speaker 6: Who's Will Bond? Who stays up later? I might stay
because tailor has to be up at a crack of dawns.
Speaker 5: Then it's because Cornheiser's famous for something that we've all
done in this business, which is sleeping. And then maybe
like reading the box score and taking off of that,
so you'll be Cornheiser?
Speaker 4: Can you go to bed earlier? Like I handled that one.
Speaker 6: I can't do it.
Speaker 4: Y'all trying to catch me here.
Speaker 5: Anyway, So I don't know again, I I I get
everybody you hate some at Galas and turned.
Speaker 4: Off by it.
Speaker 5: But there was some cool fits last night. Joey b
was there, Angel Reese, big Winner. Yeah, we'll get I mean,
I agree, Christa, Jordan Taylor, do need to do a
podcast together. They both work a lot already though, so
there's a lot going on. But that would be uh fan,
uh exact, we just we just talk every day just
to talk.
Speaker 6: Ridiculous. Uh they put to them, they put me right next.
Speaker 4: To this taking taking taking anyway.
Speaker 5: All right, So coming up tonight we may have an
LSU baseball game or maybe not.
Speaker 4: We'll get into that.
Speaker 5: Uh we mentioned Saints rookie Mini Caamp. I'm gonna approach
it from a bit of a different Uh, I'm gonna
approach you from a bit of a different angle where
because like there's no need for you to care about
all the names of Mini Camp. There's something that's gonna
happen in mini camp. It's gonna really matter to you.
But I want to explore the kind of cognitive dissonance
between that and the fact that every player on that
field is fighting for their life, Like these are the
most important three days of their life.
Speaker 4: And it's something that could lean less. Couldn't it mean
less to us? So let's get into that next here
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to more sports talk. What's some other stuff?
Mixed in off the bench with Hester Anti bomb.
Speaker 6: Yo.
Speaker 4: What's good?
Speaker 5: Yo, welcome back co TV anime. Bear's is what's the
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I said, I put it in the comments. So yeah, y'all,
this has been booming.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 6: You know, you just have to be prepared for the
draft lottery on May twelfth, that's the day of reckoning.
Speaker 4: Come on, baby, come on, oh man, six days away.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I can feel it.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, since we have you on God.
Speaker 5: I used to be such an advocate too for the Pelicans,
and now just they've broken me.
Speaker 4: But listen, I'll die back in a little bit. We're
in a new era. Though.
Speaker 6: I don't feel bad about that. That's the product they
gave you. Don't don't feel bad about and your love
like that. I totally agree. If a bad sports team,
this is the product that they don't care and they're
gonna give you this. Do not feel bad about walking away, bro,
It's okay walking away.
Speaker 5: But you know we'll get we'll get to do Mars
and everything. So I want your perspective on it. But
first I want to talk. I want to talk about
no we actually don't do that anymore. We don't know,
not right now. I'm no, no, it's all good. This
is literally this week.
Speaker 4: So you're you're fine, Do not worry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like the end the end of a Yeah.
Speaker 4: But I like it though on your p's and q's.
Good job, dude, got.
Speaker 5: So Saint Turgy minicamp mini camps all across the country
about to get underway, and uh, I can't help I've
got a few thoughts rattling through my head as we
sit here on the precipice. Uh.
Speaker 4: First, speaking of.
Speaker 5: New era, h you know with the Pelicans, I mean,
this is truly for the first time now, this is
truly the beginning of a new era, right because and
we talked about it at the time, but going Sean
Payton to Dennis Allen was some quasi I don't want
to fully dive in the pool, but I want to
dip my toe in. And you kind of tried to
live like a franchise in two worlds, both the past
and the future, thinking that you could keep some of
that Sean Payton culture that had been around have been
very success us for damn near twenty years. Well, also
maybe moving into something pseudo new Unfortunately, as we all know,
no man can serve two masters, and it ends up
crashing and burning to where the era comes to a
halting screech in the middle of a season and you
finally have to go hire a new hey coach. So
here we sit in the beginning of the Kellen Moore era,
and it does beg the question, how does Kellen Moore
set the tone? Because look, it's a fully new coaching staff.
There's new trainers, there's new signs in the buildings, there's
even a new QB one if everything goes according to plan.
And it's funny because if you know your saint's lore,
then you know how Sean Payton set the tone back
in the day, right, go into mill SAPs for that
six training camp, hot as hell, having him sleep in
crappy little college dorms. Guys talk talking about Himan go
listen to Zack Streef and others talk about it, talk
about it being the hardest camp they've ever been a
part of, basically trying to weed improve and saying this
is our identity, this who we are going to be.
So if you're Kellen Moore, what do you do? Do
you chase the ghosts of Sean Payton passed or do
you look to forge your own path? Can you even
do that anymore? And with the with the modern player,
the modern team, if you're Kellen Moore, could you get
them to buy into such a camp? And you may say, well,
I mean, I don't know, you know, but Sean Paynton
what he did, he didn't have any skins on the wall.
He was a young oc, very young looking, right, young
brash and maybe just too dumb to know any better,
because that's the kind of confidence of youth there. But
the point is he took this tact and it ended
up working somehow. But I wonder how the Vets will
respond if Kellen Moore tried something similar or is that
even Kellen Moore's personality? And that's something that I don't
think it is outside looking in. But I don't really
know coach Tief that well, and I don't think that's
something that you can know because he's never been a
head coach, much like Sean Payton. So one of the
things that I'm going to be really interested to watch
over the next couple of months is that tone that
he tries to set. Is it gonna be player friendly.
Is it gonna be like we're gonna outwork everybody, and
and and and to be clear, uh, I don't think
he needs to do like there is no one way
to skin a cap, right, There is no one path
to success.
Speaker 4: It all lies in the execution.
Speaker 5: And I think ultimately you have to engage in a
style that is sincere to you, because like all else
things in life, we know when.
Speaker 4: Somebody's faking it.
Speaker 5: And and so that's that's that's an element that will
start to get some insight to into this rookie Mini caamp.
And when I hear about rookie Miniicamp I were, I
can't help but think back to the uh whirlwind of
activity that it felt like from my perspective when I
was there. And it's funny because it probably looks very
trite and tired and cute to you know, salty NFL
vets like Jake, But to me going through this time
where you get the UDFA call and a few days
later you're.
Speaker 4: Flying out on.
Speaker 5: A plane to a new home and you're meeting new teammates,
new coaches, new roommates, seeing the the the hotel or
whatnot that you'll be living in for the next couple
of months and you try to make your dream come true.
You're meetings constantly, you're learning new position groups, You're you're
in the weight room seeing oh, who's strong, who's not.
All these sorts of things you're running together.
Speaker 6: Like.
Speaker 4: It was all.
Speaker 5: Intensely active, intensely competitive and with my road rose colored
lenses a bit here because it maybe didn't feel like
this twenty four seven at the time, but intensely fun
because if you are a competitor, it challenges you in
a way that you have not been challenged up to
that point. Yeah, granted, you walk onto a college campus
one day and there are some similarities. You know, all
new people knew culture, knew this and that. Trying to
kind of measure yourself against others, see what's up, and
but you know you're gonna be there something like many
can from this day forward. Everybody's job is on the
line every single day. Now. If you're like one of
the top draft picks, Okay, you got yourself a little cushion,
and that's good.
Speaker 4: You earn that with your previous performance.
Speaker 5: But if you're one of these udfa's, if you're one
of these tryout guys, you don't have that luxury, and
you won't every single day, and you don't need to
know their name because most of them won't matter. But
then you look at it from these players perspective, and again,
to them, it doesn't matter us and it shouldn't like you,
You don't need to know about James Burnett, the Alabama punter,
easting Kitty, the Kansas State O line. I'm in a
Marii Thomas. Oh they got Mary Thomas. That's going I
remember him from Tennessee. That's a UDFA guy right there.
But the point is most of these names will mean
nothing to you. But which players will start to make
a name, Which udfas will suddenly be like, oh, man,
I think we got a diamond in the road fiew
this guy. Okay, let's see what he could do in
actual camp, which tryout players, which if you don't know
because you're doing a rookie mini camp, you have to
have more players out there on the field, so you
bring in tryout guys who like at least if your
UDFA in theory, you almost have a leg up to
make it to.
Speaker 4: That first cut.
Speaker 5: If you're a tryout guy, you got nothing promised past
this weekend. Nothing promise past this, this rookie minting gap,
which tryout players will survive in advance, which udfas will will, we'll, we'll,
we'll eventually find their way to a roster. A majority
of nameless men on fields around the country, fighting with
everything that they have, fighting with every ounce of talent, drive, ambition,
competitive spirit, the craft that they have been honing for
many of these guys, what you're nine, ten years old?
Speaker 4: What all comes to a head?
Speaker 5: Here?
Speaker 4: Are you good enough?
Speaker 5: And there's something really fascinating about it because at the
end of the day, well, sure there's some politics involved,
you know, because like I said, drafted guys is gonna
have a bit of a leg up and whatnot. At
the end of the day, it still is a pretty
objective and meritocratic process where what happens to you is
based on what you do, how you perform. And man,
I kind of get goosebumps taking myself back and thinking
about the competition during those practices, those reps that you
have learning the playbook, impressing your coach is because you
got it mentally, impressed him, because you got it physically,
and slowly but surely.
Speaker 4: People start to disappear one.
Speaker 5: By one, weed it out, told, sorry, you are not
good enough, like some sort of competitive magic school. We're
only the best witches and wizards get to survive and
and and go on to learn. Nope, sorry you aren't
good enough. Who will be good enough? Only time will tell.
I'm very excited to see now if you're talking about, okay,
which players soond you may be?
Speaker 4: I'm looking for it.
Speaker 5: Like what do we want to hear? Look, you want
to hear something against. You want to hear the Calvin
Banks Junior is doing very well. Right, that's your first
round pick, top ten. You're you know, outland tropy. When
you're expecting him to walk in and start in the
NFL Day one, so he better kick the rookies ass
right when he's going up against I mean, who are
some of the edge guys he'll be going up against here,
and they'll have some year two players, but look they
get this guy Sherm Davis from Wake Forest, Mario Thomas.
Speaker 4: Like we said, I'm from Tennessee.
Speaker 5: Like when he's going against him in one on one
pass rush, you want to hear that Calvin Banks is
locking them down.
Speaker 4: That's one thing you want to know, obviously with Tyler.
Speaker 5: Shuck, another guy that we are kind of painting as
QB one, Well, he better be out there leading that
huddle with a calm, cool confidence. Better be locked in
on that playbook, have the operation down, and have everybody
lined up ready to go where they need to and
on the same page, because he's going to be asked
to lead a group of men this weekend is a
bit of dipping the toes in the water. He'll be
asked to lead a group of what are essentially boys,
and everything for Shuck, everything for Banks, everything for all
these guys is going to be a continual step up
right from rookie mini caamp into actual mini camp. Later
we get into actual fall camp, then you're gonna get
into your preseason games, and every single step more and
more people get weeded out. And I was a UDFA
signed for five hundred dollars back in the day three
oh eight after taxes, lost money trying to make the NFL.
Speaker 4: But I'll be damned, I made it to that last cut,
final cuts, and yet.
Speaker 5: What happened in the last preseason game just choke put
together the worst thirteen plays of my entire life in
all honesty after really playing well the previous three games,
and I was fifty to fifty with another guy the
entire time, a second year player, Tim we're splitting all
the twos and the threes. I got the older guys
telling me, oh, don't worry, bro, you're gonna make it.
Speaker 4: You're gonna make it.
Speaker 5: And then I get the tap on the shoulder from
the from the Angel of Death who was the string.
Speaker 4: Coach at the time.
Speaker 5: And you go to the coach's office and you talk
to him, and I remember my our line coach, coach
Brewdre was like, I don't know what happened, man, what happened.
Speaker 4: To I was like, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 5: Turn in your playbook, get your little speeches, go down, shower,
and congratulations.
Speaker 4: Into the working world.
Speaker 5: You are now uh just uh, your your identity, everything
that you've been up to this point football player is
not you anymore.
Speaker 4: You're just a regular Joe. So go get to work.
And those stakes are fascinating to me.
Speaker 5: And that is and will look, I'm not gonna pretend
like I'm gonna sit here and cover rookie minute camp
in depth, and won't. We'll give you updates whatever people
are talking about blah blah blah. But if you love narrative,
which I do, and that's my favorite part about sports
are the storylines and the emotions and the stakes. For
these guys, the stakes could not be higher. Their whole uh,
like I said, their whole life's work now on the line.
And who's gonna shock you, who's gonna rise, who's gonna fall,
Who's going to make a name for them to hels?
It all starts now? New era coach tieth in the building.
Let's go all right, when we get back.
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Speaker 3: Come How quickly will this segment leave the rails? It's
off the bench with Hester and T Bob.
Speaker 4: I could not get this yellow to wash off. It's
getting a little lighter.
Speaker 2: I really want to know how that happened. You find
out let me know.
Speaker 5: I mean I had a yellow hufflepuff mug that I
was drinking some sleepy tea out of before bed last Well,
but that when it makes sense so that's a it's
a literal mug.
Speaker 4: For coffee.
Speaker 1: No, no, but like it might just have like some
of the yellow war off on your head because you're
left handed, so you probably hold.
Speaker 4: But it was on my right side. It was on
the right side of the cup. Right now, I know,
I like.
Speaker 5: Yell. I don't know, Okay, Taylor, I don't know how
to uh. I don't know how to set you up
for this because you asked me, do you have anything here?
And I was like, hey, no, like talk about like
that midweek gay. Maybe I have maybe I won't got
some baseball stuff, but uh.
Speaker 4: But but but but you have something, and I just
tell you what is it? Well, so look you're.
Speaker 2: Going to laugh.
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 1: But you were talking earlier about like which undrafted guys
could you keep an eye on, like Marcus Yarns, the
running back out of Delaware.
Speaker 2: Like he's a really good player.
Speaker 4: Okay, So after.
Speaker 5: I made the point that the majority of names on
this list or nameless faces nothing to your life, somebody's
going to make it. So you have a deep cut here,
tell me about Marcus Yarns. They're running back from Delaware,
So I know about dev Neil yeah, and I love
me from Devin Neil can't do and I want to
hear that he's doing really well here. Why should I
be excited about Marcus Yarns, Well.
Speaker 1: One, you should be excited because Kendre Miller and Jordan
Mems like I'm done with both of them. There's a
chance the Saints add two new running backs. Why can't
Marcus Yarns be one of those guys. I think he's
got a lot of easier shot at making the team
just depending on depth. But I mean, you go look
at Marcus Yarns as were all numbers and like you know,
they're not gonna look great just because he's never had
a thousand yards in a season, but Delaware threw the
ball a lot, Like you go, look, he didn't have
a ton of carries, but two years ago seven yards
per carrey, last year six point three yards per carrey.
He also catches the ball out of the backfield a
little bit. So I mean, look, you know, I'm not
saying this is going to be a guy that's going
to come in and be r RB two right away,
but like you want to talk about a guy that
could make the team, like Marcus Jarns could make this team.
Speaker 5: So you're basing this solely off the idea that there's
not a lot of tread on the tires. He wasn't
has to do too much in college, but when he
did get the ball, he was very effective.
Speaker 1: Like, okay, last year six point three yards per carry, Yeah,
seventeen point five yards per catch.
Speaker 4: Okay, so good receiver out of the back.
Speaker 2: Like he can do a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1: You're gonna say, Okay, well, you know he had eight
forty five, nine to forty back to back years rushing,
but over three hundred yards both seasons.
Speaker 5: We'll say too, if there's a position where it's easier,
like it's rare to be a UDFA lineman, right, it happens.
I'm not saying that it happened again, hell I almost
almost made a team trying to do that. But like generally,
it's it's kind of like.
Speaker 4: Whatever. It's even like high school cream, like like any
of it.
Speaker 5: Like linemen are easier because a lot of its size
depend its strained depending. Linemen are generally gonna be easier
to scout and and you're the cream's gonna rise the
top bit more.
Speaker 4: It's it's it's easier to be a hit and gym
at a skill position.
Speaker 5: Like if you look at the biggest differences between like
a like at one Double A school and the Division
I school, it's in the trenches. You you do get
a lot of your Oh god, who's the old corner
from Nicols Darius web to play for the Ravens for
it doesn't matter. The point is Marcus Yarns is actually
maybe a pretty interesting name.
Speaker 1: Well, look, you've been a lot of NFL guys make
it out of Delaware. They've had some corners, I've had
some mo o line men. Joe Flacco's out of Delaware.
That's a that's a good program.
Speaker 2: And I get it.
Speaker 1: Never made a thousand yards two years ago, fifteen rushing touchdowns.
Like the guy can find the end zone. He's a
he's a good player. He just he didn't get a
Delaware to do a program. Huh what did Delaware do
last year? I'm just saying, like they have, they put
in a lot of talent in the NFL known and
then go see a guy like there.
Speaker 5: I mean, to your point, I do remember when Flacco
is getting drafted, all the thing of like you know,
Delaware actually packs it out. They have like thirty thousand
people a game there or whatever, like there is a
huge football culture around Della. I have no idea if
they've been good here recently, but thank you to Tae
giving you a name to watch from the UDFA pool.
Marcus Yarns running back out of Delaware? What about you, Jordan?
Who's your name to watch UDFA?
Speaker 6: I'm gonna be real. I don't have not one bro
not one.
Speaker 5: We'll see, uh, I'll just leaking at the list SMU
widers here Muchie Dixon, that's a fun name.
Speaker 6: Well, he's tough on all college football twenty.
Speaker 4: Five is there?
Speaker 5: You go?
Speaker 2: It's worth Delaware wint nine and two last year.
Speaker 4: Look at that dude, good prop Get him take get him?
Speaker 5: Uh again, MARII Thomas does have actual like name recognition.
He was very those fifty five U at Tennessee.
Speaker 2: I believe it was. Well that's the thing like an
SEC guy too, like yeah, you know he's been there,
done that.
Speaker 4: I will say that it's coming from the SEC. I
think end of the NFL does.
Speaker 5: It's without a doubt harder, don't get me wrong, because
it kind of becomes one of those things where like
the best guys you would face is suddenly every guy. Ye,
but it's not an overwhelming jump, Like I still wonder
what the hell it was like to be Trevor Pinning
and go from Northern Illinois to suddenly playing in the
NFL and like you handle himself great at something like, uh,
the Senior Bowl, But that's still way different than getting
into actual.
Speaker 4: Actual camp. Man. Wait, did Rich Gannon go to Delaware?
Is it true?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: What google it?
Speaker 5: I'm saying, let me, I mean if if if Delaware
can claim Flacco and Gannon, like.
Speaker 4: How many, how many? How many schools?
Speaker 5: Oh? No, he didn't win a Super Bowl though, in
never mind, I was gonna say how many schools can
claim two Super Bowl winning quarterbacks?
Speaker 4: It's probably not won MVP with with Chucky.
Speaker 5: With Gruden back in the day in his side arm,
you know, hung out the side of his mouth thing,
Ryan Brack, which is the l s U guys the
best chance to make the team. So Ryan, Uh, it
looks like a massed a list of Udia face from els.
You hear Josh Williams with the Bucks, Zion Alexander, the Seahawks,
pair of Shan the Bills, madeor burn the Bears Geo Piez.
Speaker 4: The Bears shut out Paiez.
Speaker 6: Dude, oh I did like Z.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say, Zai is the first one that
jumped out of me.
Speaker 2: I was surprised I didn't get drafted.
Speaker 6: I don't know how either. I guess he was slow.
Was he slow? Was forty was a little slow tailor?
Speaker 5: And then I'm between Josh Williams and Paris Shanned. I mean,
I find it very hard to doubt Josh Williams.
Speaker 4: At this point too.
Speaker 1: Me and Moose we're talking about this the day we
hosted for you guys, when all the undrafted ls you
guys were announced.
Speaker 2: I love Josh Williams.
Speaker 1: I think if anybody's going to make a team, it's Josh.
I just hate these with Tampa Bay, not because they're
a division rival, but that's a good running back room.
I mean, you still have Sean Tucker, Rashawn White still there,
Bucky Irving was excellent last year.
Speaker 5: Like that's a tough And it's tough too because back
the day you used to have four preseason games.
Speaker 6: What do you have now?
Speaker 4: Is it three or two? Three?
Speaker 5: It's still three, probably gonna be two if they that's
that's a tough there's's not a lot of reps to
go around. But you have to remember is every rep
during prac, this, the games, whatever, every rep is a
tryout for all thirty two teams. So you may be
just competing on your practice field, but that is film
that can disseminate and find its ways and opinions that
can disseminate and find their ways to other locker rooms
to maybe give you another opportunity somewhere else in a
less crowded running back room.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 5: Alexander Josh Williams and then maybe pair shanned after that.
All right, we'll get back, get some baseball news. Congratch
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Speaker 3: How quickly will this segment leave the rails? It's off
the bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 4: Yo, Good y'all. What's happening? Welcome back to OTB.
Speaker 5: Hope everybody's having a voondebar morning here on this Tuesday,
May sixth, twenty twenty five. Shout out to Anthony Ironson
named sec CO Picture of the Week. Shares the award
with Zach Root of Arkansas Ianson of course unfortunately gives
us a just absolute complete game three hit, one run, masterful,
masterfully efficient performance. Like remember we talked about Cade when
he did against Oklahoma, and that was one hundred and
thirty pitches. What was Ianson's final pitchcount? Like one O three,
one off? I'm guessing here. I don't remember. I just
remember that he was It was not something overly crazy.
He was efficient and dominant fourteen as throughout the entire night.
The problem is it was sandwiched on a weekend that
ends in heartbreak, and so it doesn't get the love
that it deserves. That Anderson game is a Thursday night,
so we gave a full Friday show over to it.
We would have loved to do the same for Ianson,
only you know you have to engage in the other
two games. So I love seeing Ironson get awarded in
this way because it is absolutely deserved. It is so
rare to watch a pitcher be able to stretch and
be able to to finish a game with the stakes
as high series on the line, your team desperately needing
you to to to come through to to try to
take the series. And he did it, and he set
Lsu perfectly up for Sunday and they had it until
they did it. So should shout out to Anthony Jinson
for winning that award and getting it done LSU Grambling tonight.
But Taylor, you're telling me that weather could potentially imperil
this game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it could. I think it likely will.
Speaker 1: There's supposed to be storms like starting at one o'clock,
like essentially all the way through the night. I mean,
we'll see, you know, Louisiana. Like, just because storms are
on the radar doesn't mean they're going to happen. But yeah,
it didn't look great. Uh.
Speaker 5: In minstream ads in the chat, says, and Kate has
been asked since oh what.
Speaker 2: I don't think he watches the games.
Speaker 4: Tennessee duel. Okay, I mean Friday gets pray. Are you
kidding me? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Go look at go look at game one on Saturday.
Kate Anderson have it right here.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Six innings, three hits, one run, twelve strikeouts. Yeah, I mean,
what are we doing here? Twelve strikeouts, one earned drawn.
Speaker 6: They don't get no better than.
Speaker 5: That, Scott nice as coach Johnson overthought things on Sunday
should have kept shores in.
Speaker 4: Well, the thing there is U again.
Speaker 5: I well, I don't know if I I get, I
get how we arrived there. But he was consistent with
his approach to Lavla that he had done all Sunday,
which was put a lefty against him, and again it
damn near paid dividends. He induced a weak ass grounder.
It was just a bit cheeky and lucky in that
longlet's fast and and and he managed to beat out
the throw. But like, you know, one man, yeah, it
it's it's a weird thing coaching because you have to
it's you know what. That's a bit like let's say
you're like a system player in blackjack, and you and
you stick to your system and it goes awry, and
you're like, oh, man, if only I would have hit
there instead of state, I would have won. Yeah, but okay,
but can you but how would you know that magically? Right,
this is your system, it's been working, you've been playing it.
You have to stick to it, unless maybe you just
get some sort of gut feeling and you and and
you want to go all of it, which of course
then if that doesn't work, or say, well.
Speaker 4: Why did you stick to the system.
Speaker 5: So it's kind of a ultimately it's just a resultspace thing,
which which maybe it means you're right. I guess I'm
more just saying that I understand why Jay Johnson did
what what he ended up doing. I think it's tumoric,
my wife was saying from the tee, which does make
sense now because now I remember I was digging my
hand around in the powder looking for a scoop. So
I don't think I'm going through liver liver failure. It's
a it's a big hour one win for your boy.
So uh, thank you to everyone who was who was concerned.
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