Speaker 1: All start to what you want to presents. Off the
bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and Bob aber I
got to come off the bitch. Now here's Jacob Hester
and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 3: Yo, what's going on? Y'all? Welcome back.
Speaker 4: We are live here at the Senior Ball Mobile, Alabama.
Speaker 3: Once again.
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Speaker 3: Our trip out here.
Speaker 4: It's been a very good time thus far, and this
might be the most excited that I've been to start
a show. As if you're watching live on YouTube right now.
The man who just sat down next to me is
we're really one of the stars of the show this week,
and that is you've heard him talking a lot about him,
my guy, Willie Limkin, Willie, what's up?
Speaker 3: Brother? What's going on?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 3: T Bob Man? It's nice to meet you.
Speaker 4: Were just mean god firm handshake first. He's strong, hands
over bro, but I mean watch you of course.
Speaker 5: I mean, okay, see Bob, by the way, he's not
a nine inch king. He's in the ten club with me.
Handsyzed like all right, that's the whole deal.
Speaker 3: Yes, I know, I know.
Speaker 4: Okay, look, so I'm gonna say, guys, uh, for those
that don't know Willie's you know, you've gone a bit
viral because obviously, I mean whatever, it's think you're not
used here he comes in at five ten, two seventy
and here we have like Dean Walker sixty seven three fifty,
Camp Jackson six six three whatever, and Willie's out here
kicking ass man, kicking ass owning one on ones, powerful,
strong hands, long arms, great body.
Speaker 3: Great control. What's up, man? How's these first two days
been for you thus far?
Speaker 6: That's been exciting. I'm just blessed to be here, you
know best, to be a part of.
Speaker 3: The Sea Bowl. It's been a blessing. And uh for
those who don't know.
Speaker 4: Again, in case you think like, let's let's not get
a twisted okay, uh, Willy First Team All American U,
the Jacob's Award winner. That's for the best blocker in
the a c C and the highest graded guard in
the country according to PFF. Okay, just they knew, but
this is the first time. It's the first time that
a lot of us are getting to see it. So
we take us to Saturday, man, because you were gonna
play in this game. Somebody gets hurt and then you
get the call on Saturday to come up here. Was
what was that like?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was just telling my hotel room in Arizona,
just playing the game, and I just get a call.
I'm like, what is this calling me? And I see
like it's like our deble number. So I called back.
I'm like hello, He's like he's Jim Naggy with seeing Ball.
Would you be interested to come out and play?
Speaker 3: I was like what.
Speaker 6: I was like, Yeah, definitely, I'll definitely be out. I'll
definitely be out there as soon as I can. And
I got I got my flight stuff and I was
here immediately.
Speaker 4: Stay ready, guys, I mean my guy was ready at
the drop of a hat to come out here and
throw it in the ring and put everything on the
line this week in Mobile.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he tell them about your journey though.
Speaker 5: Going from Coastal Carolina, you go to UNC kind of
bet on yourself. You know you can play at a
higher level, and like I told you yesterday, no disrespect
to Coastal and the Sun Belt, a great league, great school,
but you want to challenge yourself and go to North
Carolina playing the acc and then you end up, you know,
winning the award for the best offensive Lineman.
Speaker 2: But what was that journey like for you going from
Coastal to UNC.
Speaker 6: You know, it was definitely difficult, you know, Uh, because
I took the transition by myself. I went on at
OV by myself. You know, it was like everything was
new to me. I was at Coastal for three years,
so I was super comfortable with coaching staff.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 6: Uh, it was definitely difficult, you know going to UNC,
you know, trying to you know, make my own way,
pay my own way. But you know, it was definitely
a great learning experience. So it's been a long journey,
and you know it took a lot of hard work, dedication,
you know, extra work, you know, every single day, having
to you know, put the extra work in, you know, Uh,
go work out by myself, Go train by myself, go
you know, go different places, you know, try to get
you know, this has been a long journey, you know,
and a lot of work, a lot of hard work.
Speaker 7: Put into it.
Speaker 4: Well, and it's reflected in your play, I would say,
And it's so interesting.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: So my my old man played quarterback in the NFL whatever.
But he had this center for the Saints for years,
this guy Joe Hilgenberg, And he was about two sixty five, right,
but he was He was a wrestler at Iowa, right,
So like pass right, he just had elite body control.
Speaker 3: You were wrestling in high school? Is this true? Four
state championships?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, okay, okay, So give me, give me the
wrestling background, though, because I feel like when I watch
you play, I feel like I can see that seeping
through in your paste.
Speaker 5: He's about to be humble, but go ahead tell him
the record. I mean, it might not have been four
state champions never.
Speaker 4: Is it true that you never lost the match? I
don't know, Like it's the legend of Willie Gret. I
keep hearing all these things.
Speaker 6: So my senior year, really my senior like senior year
summer to the end.
Speaker 3: No, I didn't.
Speaker 7: It was a match.
Speaker 3: But let's go my career. My career record is one five.
Speaker 6: My last year, senior year, I went forty seven to
zero with like forty pins, had like forty pins. My
junior year, I broke the school record for how many
I had, like forty five pins. Damn, I played second
in the finals, but it was like a three time
state qualifier.
Speaker 5: Let's go, dude, did you have a chance maybe to
even do that at the collegiate level.
Speaker 6: I did, but I knew wrestling, Like I feel like
I was a better football player than I was wrestler.
Speaker 3: So yeah, just like under state.
Speaker 4: So again, so the whole point in bringing up the
wrestling is how much do you feel like that helps
in past?
Speaker 3: For specifically even I mean ron blockings and that's what.
But like, how much do you think that kind of
informs or has helped your football?
Speaker 6: I would say definitely, Like I'm having that leverage, that
body control, you know, just being able to use like
my entired body from my entire body, have that good leverage,
be strong at the point of contact. Yeah, and you know,
just have that docmentality. You got heavy hands to dude,
which I mean, look, that's it.
Speaker 4: I always wanted to be described as having heavy hands.
I never got it, unfortunately. But such a good uh,
such a good moniker.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Like the opposite feather hands is not great, you know
what I mean. You don't want to be feather hands.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: So okay, so you get the call Saturday, you show up.
What is okay, I gotta tell you a great story.
Speaker 3: So i'm i'm, i'm, I'm going to the bathroom.
Speaker 4: Here yesterday after one of the shows and all the
d linemen are in there and they're talking to each
other talking trash or whatever, and what it's like, Uh,
Man really sort of pitched me off. He goes, Man,
you keep this up of them as seek Willy on you.
Speaker 5: So somebody you'd be on the day before. I wonder
I wish I wish we knew who it was, because
that's a fantastic So, I mean, it's Willy the day
before locked them up.
Speaker 2: He's like, I'm gonna get Willy on you. You stop playing.
Speaker 6: That's funny, that's funny.
Speaker 3: Uh So okay, So, like Jake said, you better than yourself.
Speaker 4: You go to Carolina, was there ever any doubt of
like like or like, did you have a moment where
all of a sudden, your practice you play whatever, You're like, oh,
like I got this, like okay, Like I'm like okay,
never mind, Like I got.
Speaker 6: This really, Like you know, that first practice, like I
know it was gonna be tough because like I had
to get used to like the pace of the practice.
It was kind of fast, you know, compared to Coastal.
And then I had to you know, do special teams
as well, so you know, just getting used to all
of that and plus like the strands supportal was just
like it was crazy being a transfer and uh, you
know going to a new school, like it just was
so different. It's like super different from being a freshman
and going to a new college. Really in college just
like how so it's like like you're just like kind
of like a new it is to the team. But
I'm not like a like a freshman. So yeah, I
don't I don't come in with you know, kids my age.
I come in with you know people that's sophomore, you know,
senior graduate transfer. So it's like I'm kind of on
my own. Yeah, and I had to get used to that.
Speaker 3: Oh yess, that's true.
Speaker 4: You're not like there's no like freshmen like yeah, because
you're right, you always having freshman you have the other boys,
Like everybody's coming to You've.
Speaker 2: Heard me talk about this team.
Speaker 5: So I like, going into my fifth year in the NFL,
I go to Denver and you know, I played in
the same division as Denver, but whatever. Man, I felt
like a eighteen year old, like I just I felt
so out of place. I'm like, man, I've been in
this I played against these guys. I know these guys,
but it was such a different feeling. Nobody else came
in with me.
Speaker 3: It was just me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I'm sitting there and I'm feeling like a
rookie again, just because I didn't have those other guys
that were the same age, same goal kind of coming
in at the same time.
Speaker 4: Willie, you look so uh you look so comfortable at center.
But as I said, highest graded guard in the nation
according to PFF guys, you've obviously done a lot of
cross training there. How Like, I guess, what's what's your
center background up to this point?
Speaker 6: Honestly, I only have one year of center background. That
one and that was at Coastal. That was at Coast
Carolina my junior year. That's the only time I've ever
played center.
Speaker 3: Damn, dude, because you look great out there.
Speaker 4: You look very comfy, like in your set, snabs off
and firing.
Speaker 2: Dude, do you think that's where you'll probably live in
the NFL? Is that center?
Speaker 6: You know? I've had some people talk to me about
playing a guard as well, and I've had the questions
about playing fullback.
Speaker 5: Okay, Fullback's a great position, and I'm just letting you
know it's a great position the league. For a while,
it feels like though you're like willing to do whatever, center, guard,
full back. You know, some guys come into this game
Willie and they're like, no, I'm a quarterback. I'm not
playing tight end, I'm not playing fullback. I'm only going
to play quarterback.
Speaker 3: But it feels like.
Speaker 2: That did Tim. Tim.
Speaker 5: Not everybody can play quarterback, it's okay, or fullback, but
it feels like you're just like, hey, I just want
to go out there. I want to play. I don't
really care where I'm at. I just want to be
a National Football League player.
Speaker 6: Definitely. Like I just feel like, you know, if the
opportunity presents itself, you know, I just want to, you know,
step into it and fulfill it.
Speaker 4: What about does it ever get Can you feel when
you walk out there sometimes when people see you for
the first time, can you kind of feel the judgment
or they're kind of like maybe.
Speaker 3: Not judgment, but just kind of like, wait, what's what's
what's going on here?
Speaker 6: Some people like a lot of people confuse me for
like a running back. It's kind of crazy. Like when
I was playing against Smson, Like the guy he thought
I was a running back?
Speaker 3: Oh what guy? Then you just locked his ass up.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 5: Oh I'm not gonna lie like you hold two seventy
really well, like I would get like.
Speaker 3: I mean jacked, quickness is strong.
Speaker 2: I can tell what about.
Speaker 3: So what's your because.
Speaker 4: Because you're you seem very you seem very kind, like
you know, you see you seem very kind of this setting.
Uh what's your kind of demeanor on the field? Would
you say I'm angry?
Speaker 6: Hell yeah, Hell yeah, I would say when I get
on the field, you know, uh try to you know,
twitch my mentality. You know, uh off the field, you know,
always been like told like my grandpa, you can't be
uh me and off the field, you know you have
to be nice to be because you know, I want
to be cheated the same way. But on the field,
you know, I definitely have to twist that mentality and
go back to that dog mentality.
Speaker 4: That's exactly what my old man told me growing up.
You know, you can be two different people. You got
to be two different people. But you know, on the
fielding on the field. Once you get on.
Speaker 2: It's the only time you can get away with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: True, once you become a civilian over here, you can't
do that anymore.
Speaker 3: Actually true. Let it ride.
Speaker 4: Uh okay, so here we show we're going into it
is just the last practice of the week for.
Speaker 5: The game, I think, so yes, okay, the first like
you know, real practice, you'll have like some walk through stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so how we how were feeling going to this
final day? Do you feel good?
Speaker 6: I feel good? You know, just you know, trying to
get comfortable at center, you know, trying to you know,
take every day one at a time, learning the playbook,
you know, get comfortable with my teammates, you know, uh,
get to learn them how they play so they can
help me become better player and I can help them
become a better player.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 6: These basketball days have been awesome.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so t Bob played center at LSU as well.
So both of you could really answer this, Like, I
have no idea what it would be like to try
to transition from guard to center, but.
Speaker 2: It feels like it would be very difficult.
Speaker 5: Snapping the football is one thing, but also you got
to snap it then you got to go get your guy,
and then you got to make sure that you're in
the right spot. You don't have a chance to maybe
jump it like you do it guard or tackle. So like,
how difficult is that to kind of go back and
forth and play center when you haven't really done because
T Bob also played guard as well.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a a gona lie. It's difficult, like because
you have to get the first thing you have to
get is a snap, like without the snap, right, So
you have to be able to snap the ball. And
that's one thing I have to learn because at first,
you know, at Coastal, I didn't I wasn't the best
to snapping the ball, but I could definitely come off
the ball for sure, right, Yea, Sometimes you just got
tone it down, Like I.
Speaker 5: See that that would be difficult for me, Like, i
know I'm ready to go, I know, I know my assignment,
but I've got to make sure I snap it before
I go do it well.
Speaker 4: And I mean think about you know you're you're closer
to the d lineman than than anybody else. I always
see this man like center maybe isn't the hardest physical
position because there's less one on ones you know, you
always got help or whatever, but guard is the D
line of the O line. Those are the dumb asses. Yeah,
your card is hard physically, you're gonna be asked to
do a little more. But like I said in an
interview yesterday, like you know, if you can play tackle, yeah,
you can play guard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like if you can play you know, and a
lot of time. Yeah, So so it's it's it.
Speaker 4: But but it just seemed like center is a natural
fit for you, man, because of your quick last thing here,
I'm sorry, well, I know we've kept you a long time,
but what about the mental lift, because maybe even more
so than the technique, you're snapping, stepping everything like that,
all of a sudden, here you are and you're having
to make all the calls on the line and make
sure that this group that's never played together, like you said,
he kind of looked like a cohesive Unit's what's been
like mentally getting down the playbooks and the verbage and
everything like that.
Speaker 6: It's been it's been smooth, you know, the NFL playbook.
Just hearing that long play it was crazy, like the
first time I've ever heard it. When I was talking
to Riley, if I felt like I was listening to
John Gruden.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all those viral clips of Gruden.
Speaker 5: I'm like, why you don't have to make it this difficult.
Speaker 2: Try to be a smartest guy in the rooms.
Speaker 5: I'm sure like your college call was probably like a
code word and a number maybe in front or behind it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was like when I was at you to
see it was like, you know, just like a three numbers.
Now it's like that was it like the verb.
Speaker 2: I give you a NFL play call?
Speaker 5: Example, Jack Wright scat right ninety nine stop F cross
M like that's gonna be yeah, exactly like that, And
that's a basic in the NFL, and that's in a
number system that's supposed to be a little bit easier.
So I'm like, hey, you don't have to be like
the smartest guy in the round.
Speaker 2: Just gave me a couple of numbers.
Speaker 3: Shut our brain off. Though after Jack writes scot right.
Speaker 2: Right like you can't, Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 3: I got them for a basis.
Speaker 5: So Jack Wright's talking to the fullback, so I got
a line to the titand scot Wright's my protection. Then
I got to listen to the ninety nine stop af
crossing them because I'm part of the rock concert.
Speaker 3: Dude.
Speaker 2: Hey Willy said he might play some fullback. I'm trying
to get him ready for the fullback stuff.
Speaker 3: God protection, We're good to go. Dude.
Speaker 4: Hey Willy, Uh, I've been geeking out over you all week.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 4: I love watching you play again. The the the It's like
a viper, dude. The quickness, the toughness, the body, control,
the balance. It's been great, man, and I hope you
keep kicking ass and you have a great another day today, Dude,
I'll be stack plays baby Willy Lambkin highest graded player
in the country, ID guarded the country last year, first
Team All American Jacob's Award winner and Senior Bowls stand out.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the ninth ranked morning sports show in America.
Speaker 3: Off the bench, Yo, what was adding y'all?
Speaker 4: Welcome back O TV Live here at Mobile, Alabama. We
are at the Senior Bowl. It is our last day here.
It's the last day of practice as well. In shout
out to Labert's Hotelling bat Rouge for us seeing us
out here.
Speaker 3: It's been a great.
Speaker 4: Experience and we're very thankful to Lebert's for allowing us
to do some now. Uh, in terms of other stand
out from yesterday, I mean we can, we can, we
can get to maybe you know, outside of LSU, but
there is a heavy LSU contingent here.
Speaker 3: And Jake, I have.
Speaker 4: I have some Uh well okay, no, sorry, I'll say
it this way. I'm not trying to be a homer.
But when you talk about the Senior Bowl, you enter
and there's a certain level of expectation that you enter
the week with the goal is to raise the expectation.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: It's not saying that you're gonna be a first rounder,
right like one guy's gonna enter as a fourth round,
one's gonna enter as a second whatever the case may be.
But however people think of you, the goal is to
raise how they think of you. And really, it seems
like everybody's done that. I mean, Miles Frazier had one
on one reps and started going viral yesterday. Emery Jones is, uh, well,
you got a good Emory Jones story coming up here
in a second. Mason Taylor continues to be the tied
end him and Arroyo from Miami that everybody's talking about.
Shaviian Jones is maybe not getting all the headlines. But
I think again, I think it's like a less race.
But he too has been practicing well, so it's it's
been a really good week for those guys.
Speaker 5: It has been, and every single day, like one of
the Lshoe guys here has stood out, and certainly like
Mason's had an incredible run here so far. Like day one,
Mason was grabbing all the headlines. He still had a
great day. On day number two, I was catching up
with Billy Bowman from Oklahoma and we asked him, I said,
who's the hardest guy here and mobile to cover? And
he quickly went, Mason Taylor. Oh it's Mason Taylor. Wow
else you tied end he goes. When we played against them,
I wasn't really on him as much, like only only
a handful of times because you know, obviously other receivers
and Billy Bowman's got like just a ridiculous interception numbers
think hat like thirteen in his career. But it's like
I didn't really get to guard him, so I wasn't
familiar with his game basically, and so he quickly throughout
Mason Taylor's name. You mentioned Miles Frasier, he had a
good day. But like Emery Jones man at the end
of practice yesterday, it was incredible because you know, like
they had the competition deal. Did I think I told
you yesterday? He wanted to go on day one so bad.
He kept walking up there and the guy's like, go
sit down because he wanted to go, and then Miles
ended up going. But he got a chance yesterday, and
I know that. Did you have a chance to watch
the videos?
Speaker 3: I've not seen the Emery Jones videos yet, all right,
so do you know though, so I got I have
I have access to.
Speaker 4: I guess I would say that I have sources to
some scouts and Emery Jones competitive spirit and attitude was
one of the focal points of conversation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so okay, So the first day he wanted to go,
and again it's like you're between the hashes and all
the players are in the back. But then all the
like NFL personnel, they're on like the hashes, and you
got media out there as well. So the first day
he keeps walking up to the coach, coach like, go
sit down, Go sit down, go sit down, because he
wanted to be out there. And so day number two
is like he's the first guy up. He's like Emory Jones, right,
and he's going against an edge rusher from Texas. And
the first rep that they go, initially the Texas guy
he kind of wins, but then Emory finds his way.
He kind of recovers and then pushes him past the quarterback.
But then the defense acted like they won.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm about to say that first exactly there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Texas is dead.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 3: I saw the first one. They were dapping him up
like he won the rep.
Speaker 2: That wasn't at all, No, not at all.
Speaker 3: I mean him up rep three too, dude.
Speaker 5: And so the Texas guys celebrating and Emory's barking, I
mean barking at him, say get on the sweet nothing line,
you know, I mean said a couple of choice words
like get on the line. And so they did a
second rep and Emory locks him up on the second
rep and then the guy is still talking. He tells
him to get right back on the line. They go
three like good on good live reps. And then the
third one he certainly locked him up and he was
letting him know. So, yeah, there is an incredible spirit
with Emory Jones, and I asked him a little bit
about it yesterday and hopefully we can get him on
today because he's like the nicest guy. Like he's walking
around big smite, still got braces. He kind of looks
like a big old kid, yea, but man, he's got
some piss and vinegar when he goes between those lines,
and it's like to the echo of the whistle plus
not enough to get in trouble, but enough to know
that he's there.
Speaker 2: And it was a cool scene to see one of our.
Speaker 5: Guys go out there call somebody out compete, and then Rep.
Speaker 2: Two, Rep. Three, there was no doubt who won.
Speaker 4: I will say this, it's a little intimidating from an
LSU fan perspective to see these three oerlignemen having so
much success here because it does give you an idea
of how how much quality you've had for the last three.
Speaker 5: Years, and there the one that's gonna get drafted the
highest isn't even here. It just tells you, you know,
and oh my gosh, I know that is a point
of conversation in Baton Rouge to the offensive line, but
I can tell you here in Mobile Alabama, through the
run game and the pass protection they've been really good.
Speaker 4: Uh, well let's do this then coming up next here
and off the bench, let's hear from Miles Frasier as
I got to sit down with Miles Frasier at Media
Day yesterday, and.
Speaker 3: Well you'll see.
Speaker 4: But like, first off, dude is a media superstar. How
we never had him on off the bench or anything
boggles the mind. He obviously loves it, he's great at it.
But just wait and see what he has to say,
not just about his experience at else here and everything else,
but what he thinks about next year's team. We'll play
for you next here on OTV.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Off the Bench?
Speaker 4: Were live mobile Alabama and of course our coverage of
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the man himself, Miles Frasier here uh live on set
going into the final day at practice, Miles of Sumbur.
Speaker 3: I was going on, man, how are you doing today? Oh?
My mad I'm just gonna sorry, no you good?
Speaker 4: So Miles, Uh we we we We got to talk
yesterday and you opened with, uh, you weren't you? Look
no no bs. You said, look, man, I've been kicking
ass all week straight up. So how we feeling? And
it's true and it's true. I mean you literally went
viral yesterday for locking people up in the one on ones.
Speaker 10: Uh, it's a this is experience. I went to show
that I was the best swing player in the in
this draft class. And I feel like I'm doing that
each and every day, each and every rep, and I'm
just taking advantage of each and every rep and taking
advantage of having the opportunity to be with Emory Delhi
Mason and save on and what.
Speaker 4: About Because one thing that I find to be pretty fascinating.
You look so comfortable, so good out there tackle. I
knew you had tackled before. You get to tell you
that that's where you're freshman All American everything. But what
was it like, uh, getting to train at at for
the bowl game, getting getting to play.
Speaker 3: Some tap kind of prepare you? Prepare you for this?
Speaker 10: So my biggest focus was making sure the young guys
took that next step in terms of being self motivated
and just taking extra step extra wor just maximizing their
full potential while I was there. Then my second thing
was to show that I could play tackle. So I
got with coach Davis and Coach Cliff and we did
a lot of tackle sets of stances. First I had
to figure out my stance. Then I had to figure
out what side I was more comfortable with, and then
we did a lot of INDI like additional to practice
on separate film and things like that, and I think
that really helped me.
Speaker 5: I mean, tackles a different life than guard. I mean
it's hard to play guard, but tackle you're out there
on an island. So what like, what are some of
the biggest differences, So for our listeners that have never
done that, Like, what are some of the biggest differences
between playing guard and tackle? And like just your mentality
kind of going into both.
Speaker 10: I would say basically in your past it a lot.
You have to be way more patient at tackle. Yeah,
Like guard is way more aggressive and tackle is way
more patient. So like yesterday, I'm a lot of my
one on ones I knew the D line. They were like, whoa,
he's a he's at tackle now, Like they didn't know
what to expect.
Speaker 7: From me.
Speaker 2: Did they think they were gonna get you? Nah? Yeah,
they thought I was.
Speaker 7: To be more aggressive rights patiently.
Speaker 10: I still remember how to play tackle from the whole
game and from my off season training. But the biggest
difference is inside in the run game. At guard your
r bigger bodies, short compact, bigger bodies, and then on
the outside it's more leaner.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Now, Miles, one of the most fascinating things that
I learned to talking to you yesterday, Well, first off,
that you're incredible at media, like I don't I don't know,
Like if you wanted to be in this when you
get done, you'd absolutely kill it.
Speaker 3: But what I love is kind of your journey man.
Speaker 4: You cover New Jersey under recruit out of high school,
go all the way down to Florida International, then find
you way at LSU. But I always assumed you just
kind of arrived at LSU. But as you tell it,
I mean you were LSU was your school, was the school.
Speaker 10: So like I said yesterday, it was just everyone that
goes to LSU was just so high on LSU and just,
oh my gosh, forever LSU go Tigers wearing wristbands like
everybody who's in the league, and everyone's's who's in the media,
and every like just everyone in general, different sports and
stuff like that. So I was wondering why the culture
was so strong. So I actually waited to in the
portal to get l s U and that was the
specific school that I wanted to go to. And then
once I got the call, like it was it was
a no brainer.
Speaker 2: No, I mean there's a lot of true to that.
You're right.
Speaker 5: I mean, if you go to l s U, you're
certainly prideful about it, right, speaking of that, like what's
going to be your most prideful moment, Like what is
going to be like the moment and the memory for
you when you look back at your LSU career.
Speaker 10: Just just being with my guys, like my my bomb
squad unit, Like that he.
Speaker 3: Is bomb squad tatter on his shoulder, let's.
Speaker 10: Go, but that unit specifically, Like those are the same
guys that are going to be in my wedding, Those
are the same guys that I'm going to carry for
the rest of my life that like really made an
impact on me, specifically Coach Brad Davis, coach clip of coach,
everybody who was involved coach, Steve the Mayo, Caanan Ray,
all those guys, Like I cherish those moments specifically just
to be with those guys because when you're in the
trenches and then you have a good relationship off the
field and you're going out to bowl and just and
stuff that's not required by the team, but you just
want to do it anyway, that's when you build like
such a close unite.
Speaker 2: Y'all played so many snaps together, that's like.
Speaker 3: And now they're still playing.
Speaker 5: And that's just about saying in this day and age
of where we're at in the college landscape, like you
don't really get together that law actually, so to have
y'all be for three years, I mean basically, I know
Delly had some injuries, but outside of that, I mean
it was Will and Emery and yourself and Deli kind
of all there together. And I mean Charles Turner for
a long time. He had DJ this year, but certainly
y'all four y'all together for three years.
Speaker 2: That's hard to find.
Speaker 10: And it's just it's just like each time you're more together,
you're just more comfortable, Like you're just you know that
those like those of your guys that you're you're just
gonna bleed with and it's like it's a no brainer
win and like you go against the bamas and the
a and ms and the old misses that at the
end of the day we always say, like to emmy,
I got your back, you got my back, So we
already know what it is when it comes on the field,
Like we just we just pressed player, Yeah, now.
Speaker 4: What about the future of LSU, because you mentioned that
one of your goals was to make sure that the
young O lineman, the next generation, we're ready to go,
and we just talked about it. As an LSU fan,
it's a little intimidating watching the week that y'all are
having and how good you are and no, and like
we already know, I mean where you're losing, but like
it really reinforces the point that, like there's a lot
of really good players that have been there for ever
leaving that room.
Speaker 3: How do you feel about about the boys next year?
Speaker 10: I just feel like the s guy's limit for that group.
Each person in that room was hand picked by coach
Brad Davis. And the fact that they're hand picked from
coach Brad Davis, they're gonna follow suit in that way.
Which means they're gonna compete. They're gonna just pick up
right when we left off. So a lot of people
will be questioning, oh, will to be a drop off,
like four guys are leaving and whatever. Like at the
end of the day, somebody got to step up in
whoever that role is. Whoever that person is, whether it's
Bow Borderline, Weston Davis Tyree, whether it's Coen Echos DJ,
whoever the new the new guy Solomon, Yeah, whoever it is,
Coach Davis is gonna get them right and at the
end of the day, they're gonna make the next step.
Speaker 7: So I talked to us the other day, like two days.
Speaker 10: Ago, and like I told him, like, it's up this year.
Like a lot of people, a lot of people count
l as you out and like me, I don't really
talk on the media and say what like like all
kinds of stuff like that, but like, like it's up.
Like at the end of the day, that Bond squad
unit with Nuts and then the defensive side with Perk
with and Autumn, it's gonna go crazy.
Speaker 3: So you think you think you think you think Uts
gonna have a big year.
Speaker 7: Definitely Heisman year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean, he's like, he's like the odds
on favorite.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, I think you give great perspective because
in the bowl game we talked about you playing, but
you played with all the new that you're talking about.
I mean it was really you, like you were the
veteran player out there. So what was that lead into
that ball game and that preparation like, and then y'all
went out there and y'all had a really nice game.
I mean, that's if I'm not mistaken, he didn't take
a sack.
Speaker 2: Y'all ran the football very well.
Speaker 4: It was it was one of the it was probably
the biggest takeaway for me from the bowl game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how solid. I mean, I'm be honest, I'm calling
the game.
Speaker 5: I'm going through the flip chart, like making sure I
got everybody's name right because it was so much new.
Speaker 2: So, I mean, what was that like?
Speaker 5: Because y'all played really well, and that's the future of
the LSU offensive line.
Speaker 7: It was those guys bought in. They knew, they knew
there was a void.
Speaker 10: They knew at first in the beginning of practices it
was it was different, but as they as they bought
into like their potential. I feel like in a in
a quick period because it was only like two and
a half three weeks of that that first practice of
the bowl game, Like they bought into the bomb squad
way yeah, and they embodied it in the game like
they did phenomenon. I'm proud of those guys, Like for real,
like those guys are take the next step. I'm just
like I'm taking the next step here, they're taking the
next step on the field, and those guys are going
to dominate the SEC next year.
Speaker 4: So i mean, look, obviously, the you know, the the
the short trip goals, just keep second age, keep second place,
kick ass stave in.
Speaker 3: The moment, all all these sorts of things.
Speaker 4: But how how how excited are you to take that?
Like when you were growing up, was the NFL always
a dream? Like it's this like like was it always
you know, for football NFL or bust?
Speaker 10: Yes, since I was five, Like that was my plan,
A plan B playing C and like that was that
was so the fact that I'm here, it's just a blessing.
Like I'm not gonna lie, like I'm like this moment
at the Reces Bowl, playing next to my guys that
I played, it's more like my first moment in Death Valley,
like when I first ran out and I was like wow,
Like I remember that first home game first Southern, Like
the bands were going back and forth.
Speaker 7: And I was like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 10: They show you on the visits like in the little
theater room. Yeah, but nothing compares to actually experiencing it.
So like it definitely like this, this definitely is my
dream Recee's Bowl, the NFL, LSU all that, and it's
it's a blessing that everything is like coming to first all.
Speaker 5: Right, So I'm gonna make you talk nice about another school,
Like just I know there's a lot of old miss here.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of Alabama and Alburn.
Speaker 5: So maybe somebody that you win against during the season,
and you're like, I don't really know if I like
this guy, but here being his teammate, maybe you've you know,
kind of learned to uh not hate the other SEC
player as much anybody like that that has been really
good in practice, and you're like, Okay, I can appreciate
your game.
Speaker 10: I think Watson Noland's a pretty good player. Yeah, he
was pretty good in the game, and it's pretty good
out here. He's he's one of the best d linemen
in the SEC, and at the end of the day,
like I like going against him. I feel like I'm
the best guard slash swing player in the SEC.
Speaker 7: So at the end of the day, it's competition.
Speaker 10: Competition breeds excellence and I'm glad to compete against him
every day.
Speaker 4: Who's the Who's the biggest fat ass on the l
s U A line?
Speaker 10: I can't It's just just the younger guys.
Speaker 5: I can't get into so not DELI. Hey, hey, I
asked Emory that yesterday and he kind of said the
same thing.
Speaker 2: He's like, all those young guys man for three, that
does that mean?
Speaker 3: But it's true. I remember Trey Turner who.
Speaker 4: Ended up being an absolute dog, but when he showed
up sloppy, sloppy.
Speaker 3: We had to get him right to Miles Frasier.
Speaker 4: As you can see, man, awesome, awesome, and he's having
an awesome week.
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Speaker 1: Welcome in to the best morning sports this show around
off the bench with Hester and T Bob.
Speaker 3: Yo, what's going on?
Speaker 4: Yo? Welcome back to O T b Uh. We are
live here, Mobile, Alabama. It is our final day. Oh yeah,
I mean Miles is big dude. Uh, I'm sorry Rivers
telling us Scooter, welcome back to t be there, live here, Mobile, Alabama.
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Speaker 3: Thank you again. I mean I told you guys.
Speaker 4: So we're not playing the interview from yesterday, but uh,
Emory is sorry Emory Miles dude, that dude, that dude's incredible,
so confident, so.
Speaker 3: Well spoken, so like, uh, what's what I'm looking for?
M very just very.
Speaker 4: Seems very cognizant of of of of of everything, and
play like again when he's talking about wanting to play
in the ball game and wanted to bring along the
young guys and kind of ensure the success you know,
ensure the succession plan, make sure that the boys is
gonna be all right next you bring them up to
that level.
Speaker 3: Like he'd have to do that. He could have skipped the.
Speaker 4: Ball game and and and and been fine, and yet
he wanted to because he loves BALI loves to challenge himself,
Like he said, go against Walter Nolan.
Speaker 3: Wanted to put the best against the best.
Speaker 4: Just just a fantastic player, and I think he's going
to be a star.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought that was great stuff.
Speaker 5: It's a great point by you by highlighting what he
said there at the end and trying to get the
next generation, you know, kind of up to speed and
short like it helped him playing in the Bowl game
playing tackle. But to your other point, he had been
a freshman All American and tackle before, so it's something
that he didn't have that one singular game wasn't going
to make or break him. He could have come here
and he did it yesterday. I was talking with him before.
He probably did sixty forty at tackle, Yeah yesterday, compared
to Gar but it meant something to him, and that is,
you know, it's good to hear somebody that didn't start
the career at LSU. But what it meant to him
to play for LSU. Yeah, And he talked about, you know,
I'm sure you're talking about guys like Joe and Jamar
and all these guys wearing the LSU wristbands when they're
still playing in the NFL, and what it means to
all of us to be LSU. Alam and Spears and
Ryan Clarkove on ESPN or whoever it might be. We're
going to find a way to get our LSU talk in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's he I kind of thought that maybe I
just assumed because the portal what not, that maybe his
LSU thing was more like it happened by accident or
he hits the portal and l she wins the recruiting battle.
But no, he said, the day he entered the portal,
he had like twenty some offers, but he didn't care
because LSU hadn't hit yet, and that right when LSU hit.
That's and and and and it was also embracing me
hearing him talk about how he never sort of you're
from Louisiana.
Speaker 3: How could you not go?
Speaker 4: He was like right at the school, like, l you're
back in Jersey, Like I absolutely would have been there,
but we don't, right, And so it's just it's it's
just it's it's unparallel. So a great tiger, Miles Frasier. Yeah, yeah, exactly, no, exactly, Yeah,
what you want exactly?
Speaker 3: You just exactly You're reinforcing.
Speaker 2: The point then, Yeah, Rutgers in Princeton.
Speaker 4: Shout out, real quick, guys to the coffee table behind us.
You got nine minutes left on this earth before they
take it away. I'm gonna sprint after this segment. It's yeah,
things that get me fired up?
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, why does dcaf coffee exist?
Speaker 2: Why is it something that we actually have in the world.
Speaker 3: Well, not to get you fired up.
Speaker 2: I need it, not to get me fired up, exactly.
I got to create that on my own. What are
we doing?
Speaker 5: Coffee has a purpose, and the purpose is not to
be decaffeinated.
Speaker 2: I need the caffeine.
Speaker 4: I love the taste, but I don't know if I
love the taste that much to engage in a decaf coffee.
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, I like the warmth of it as well.
But ay that, I mean, what are we doing? But
either way, rips the coffee table. They're gonna wheel it
out before eight am.
Speaker 4: It's an insane decision. They've been doing it every single day.
But we love you coffee table.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The first year you weren't here, so we know what
it's like without you coffee table.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 4: True, actually true, even though you might as well not
be here if you're actually d Kevin, don't actually like that? Uh, Jake,
any any other practice notes for me? Yesterday? The other
guys that stood out did.
Speaker 2: Well, Jack besh yep Man.
Speaker 5: Jack continues to go out there, and I think you
had a chance to catch up with him yesterday as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we'll play that, We'll play out Yeah.
Speaker 2: Just I mean, gosh, just the we talked about it.
Speaker 5: The mentality for him to be here, for him to
do what he's doing right now, just the mental toughness.
I can't even fathom what he's going through right now,
but he is. For those two hours, he is putting
his head down and he's going to work and he's
escaping from everything going on on the outside.
Speaker 2: And not only that, he's thriving and he has.
Speaker 5: Been somebody in one on ones and I've seen him
win almost every rep maybe one and it was really
maybe the quarterback and where he put the football. He
has made himself a lot of money here this week
so far Inmobile. I'm not sure where he was to
begin with, but you're starting to hear some buzz of
him being like a top sixty sixty five player now
in this draft. And so I love that for Jack.
Besh loved him at his time at LSU. The best family,
some of the best, and so I like the fact
that he's come out here competed. And again, I don't
know how he's doing it, A lot of us don't,
but he is certainly doing it and he's got his
family behind him and he has thrived this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah apparently too.
Speaker 4: He spoke uh at the big FCA event and just
really floored everyone with his faith, his his his his toughness,
his courage, his heart and so uh yeah, we'll.
Speaker 3: We'll, we'll, we'll, we'll catch up. I mean, we'll, we'll
play the interview later.
Speaker 4: But uh, yeah, he's he's he's really transcending this week.
Like on the field, everything's going very well, but again
off the field, to be able to carry all this
internalize do media. I mean, it's just it's it's it's incredible.
And even yesterday, you know, they were getting him out
of there and he stopped to do this because he's like,
oh no, they've been covering me for what and and
so yeah, really.
Speaker 5: And yeah, I've seen him stop and do you know
all these different media things And again I know he's
having to bring up just painful memories and talk about
something that's got to be painful every time he talks
about it. And so you know, shout out to him
for again like just being here in the way that
he's handling himself. But I would tell any player here
right and the media portion of this is going to
be your life from here on out. Like yesterday, there
was there was a couple of players. There was some
that didn't show up to media day. Oh really, there
was some that just did not come. There was some
that showed up late and they were told just just
go home, just get out, just go back to your
room because the Senior Bowl.
Speaker 2: Look, the Senior Bowl does a lot.
Speaker 5: They put together a lot for these players and love
it or hate it, you can't hate it.
Speaker 2: In the NFL, you have to answer questions. You don't
have the choice.
Speaker 5: If you don't, you have a FedEx package envelope in
your locker with a fine and it's a big fine,
it's not a small fine. So you have to answer
those questions. The senior bowls trying to help you get
ready for that's another portion of it. So just just
know that.
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