Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn. Let's
let's grove from a championship backfield to your morning drive.
Speaker 2: Ham'sday. Hester and Hester got it. Fiata pa your locks
in to off the bench.
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Speaker 1: Here's Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 4: Yea welcome man off the Bench Wednesday Morning. Wednesday Morning
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How are we doing great?
Speaker 5: We redeemed ourselves that yo was.
Speaker 4: So much better than yesterday because it didn't exist yesterday.
Speaker 6: So I had to bring it today since I messed
it up so bad yesterday.
Speaker 4: I could see it in your face when you walked
in the door this morning. You're about to bring the yos.
You'll see that picture I sent this morning came.
Speaker 3: It's like three morning when I walk in here, different spot.
Speaker 4: We got a creepy like toy story situation going on
with Miss Kane.
Speaker 5: So you moved her back over there.
Speaker 4: I moved her back over there. She moved herself the momentary.
Creepy stuff. Creepy stuff happening here, I guarantee.
Speaker 3: But you know now Kane moves mid show, I'm leaving.
I'm out of here.
Speaker 4: She didn't. You won't do with the cameras are on.
You know that only when they're off. How's a vibe
check for everybody? We're doing good. It's Wednesday. It's the
proverbial hump day. I guess.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so what they call it.
Speaker 4: That's what they had a whole commercial. They had a
whole commercial about it. Really, hump day for us is
Tuesday usually, but we've softened Tuesdays, softened that up a
little bit with eighties music.
Speaker 5: We made it fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, how y'all doing? We're doing good? Yeah? Back so good?
Since yesterday? Okay? Good? Any training yesterday?
Speaker 5: Not yesterday? Today. I'm back at it.
Speaker 4: Back at it. How many miles?
Speaker 6: I think it's only two today? Starting back slow and
a ten k. You don't really have to do.
Speaker 4: Anything about that. Only two miles today? She has to run.
Speaker 3: I'll drive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not like two miles.
Speaker 5: It's really not. I used to think that.
Speaker 4: Was a lot of it. It's really not. What's the
most you run without stopping like walking, like a continuous run.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think like seven. And then after that, I'm
like to take a little break.
Speaker 4: Here, like a little break seat. I hate nobody.
Speaker 3: Despite my mourning, I'm doing well.
Speaker 5: We got to rage road rage text.
Speaker 3: I'm in a good mood now. Though I walked in,
I put it behind me. Not gonna let it get
to me. Even though you know we had to get
off at Drusilla and go back roads and go government
all the way here. We got her twenty minutes after normal.
No big deal, not a big deal. We're good to go.
Speaker 6: Wait, you know why the vibes are great because we're
rated number six.
Speaker 4: I was about to say, like, I don't want y'all
listening and treating us any differently out there. We're gonna
try it. We're gonna try.
Speaker 5: To stay humble right, feet on the ground.
Speaker 4: Can feed on the ground.
Speaker 6: If y'all ask for pictures out in public, we get it,
we get it, but please try to refrain Number six.
Speaker 4: Some people saying six is the new one. I've heard
that a lot of people are saying it. Oh, I'm
congrats the whole team. It's fantastic. I don't know.
Speaker 5: Bob was holding the show back.
Speaker 4: Oh, no doubt for sure, seven to six. We did it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've arrived. Basically, I mean, you gotta go somewhere, man.
Just four years in a row.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we like every time. Four years in a row,
because I think.
Speaker 6: Even when like before I joined, did y'all go up
to like from eleven to nine or something like that?
Speaker 3: So we went, uh, ten to nine, nine to seven,
seven to six, and then before ten they weren't ranked.
So that's four years in a row.
Speaker 4: Continue climbing, Just continue to climb.
Speaker 3: Next stop number five, five, and you can say, who cares.
It's only a few spots every year. It has to
drop those since the rise started. So it's not like
had ranked, you got upset by someone you're shipping the
lost to yeah and you dropped no go yeah, a
spot or two every year, go and climbing.
Speaker 4: So now we're the sixth seed. M we're coming. We're
coming for you, macl roight.
Speaker 5: They don't even know.
Speaker 4: They don't even know they're gonna get blind sided one
year now, my looks like about six years from now. Yeah,
we're gonna get you in.
Speaker 5: Two thoy thirty watch out.
Speaker 4: Because of thirty. We're coming for that number one spot. Concept.
Never any self improvement people, that's what we strive for
in life. I hope everybody's having a great morning. Two
days in a row. I've woke up with springing the step.
I popped out of bed. I don't even snooze. Why
alarm went off? Popped out, feet on the ground, alarm off,
straight to the closet to get dressed. Incredible. I don't
know why, just fired up.
Speaker 6: It's because we're number six.
Speaker 4: It's because Lacy was looking at me a little differently yesterday.
Speaker 5: You know what I mean, She's like, wait, did you
say number six?
Speaker 4: Number six? You kidding me? We've been married a long time.
I don't even know what to say to you right now.
Speaker 5: I mean, you're glowing.
Speaker 4: That's why we do it, people, That's why we do this.
It's for the ratings, for sure, obviously, No, but it's
a it's it's good because it's a it's a lot
of work that everybody puts in here, and certainly y'all
put in the lion's share of the work. So it's
always good for a little recognition out there, just for
the hard work. So good job, kudos y'all. Showed us
to the.
Speaker 5: Whole team o TV.
Speaker 6: The like O TV is truly a team effort. Yes,
Like we are all very involved and that's why we.
Speaker 5: All work so well.
Speaker 4: We have fantastic guests, like we're guests we're gonna have today.
Kim gonna be joining the show if she takes my
if she recognizes my number. So I've never liked did.
Speaker 5: You say, Hey, it's Matt Flinn.
Speaker 4: I hadn't texted her. I was gonna wait a little while.
I didn't want to text her, like before seven am.
Speaker 3: It is a professional interview. Sure are you rolling with Dragon?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: True?
Speaker 3: Christ the name after all, it's on your packages and stuff.
Speaker 4: If you told us Yeah, no, Coach, I know you've
won a lot of championships in your life, but we're
the number six mid market morning sports show in the
country in the USA.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I know you're gonna be excited, but I
need you to take this interview series.
Speaker 3: We don't want to be treated any different though.
Speaker 4: I need you to keep winning so you can you know,
we can still find your spot on the show. You
know what I mean.
Speaker 5: It's gonna fill it real fast. The people are clamoring, clamoring.
Speaker 4: Now, look, before we have a great show, we got
a you know, getting closer one day closer to the
super Bowl. I'm getting excited at a lot more nuggets
coming from huh are you? I mean I am. It's
a super Bowl, so I know, I get it. It's
not like the uh, it doesn't have the juice or
the energy. I guess as most. But I mean which
ones do? What was the last Super Bowl were you're like, oh,
I'm used for this one, and like, what for? What
was the reasoning behind it?
Speaker 5: The Bengals because well.
Speaker 4: Okay you had a reading interest.
Speaker 3: Yeah, honestly, maybe that one because that was when Cooper
cup I mean, remember he was setting records, he was
going insane. Stafford's first sure you're out of Detroit.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Burrow on the other side of things like that, she was.
Speaker 5: For real though, Like, aside from my love for Joe Burrow, right.
Speaker 3: Because well, I they went on an incredible run the Bengals,
did I remember they upset the Chiefs in Kansas City.
And then again you're like Stafford finally out of the
Detroit shadow. Could he get it done? There were storylines
on both sides. This one for me, Yeah, it's the storyline,
there's there's there's not one really.
Speaker 6: I mean you could see you could find one in there,
but like, is it interesting enough.
Speaker 5: I don't think you could go.
Speaker 4: I mean not for us.
Speaker 5: You're right, not for us.
Speaker 4: I feel like for most Super Bowls, you just have
to find joy in the fact that it's the last
football game for a long time. Yeah, it's the it's
the culmination of everything you've been watching all season long.
It's the super Bowl. There's going to be a great
halftime performance, is going to be you know, hopefully exciting,
like national anthem. There's the commercials, there's maybe a super
Bowl party you're attending. So I think that's probably more
the excitement for everybody, like you get you consume so
much football for the last six months, like so much
football right after football seasons, like for football fans, like
you kind of get your life back a little bit.
Not I'm saying that it's like the most positive thing
because football's over and it's sad, but it's a super Bowl.
I don't think everybody. Very rarely do you have a
rooting interest in the Super Bowl itself. Yeah, very rare,
unless you're the Patriots. Very rarely does your team make
it and or do you like care enough a fan
base care enough about like their college team to like
follow their players and root them on.
Speaker 6: Right, I guess there's a lot of LSU players in
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Yeah, spoiled from from that aspect. Only only one on
the Sea yolks. Actually, oh, interesting, Bradford is the only one.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're all three on the Patriots five, five Campbell, Chason, Brayden,
Swanson And I'm blinking, but there's there's there's five on
the Patriots.
Speaker 4: Whoever, you are fifth one, We're cheering for you. I'll
pull up the graphic.
Speaker 5: It was so cute.
Speaker 6: It was like it's their first day at l s
U and it's like their freshman that's good, like it's
their first super Bowl.
Speaker 3: I will say, like to your point, I've never had
a rooting interest in the Super Bowl. That was a
little bit of a it was a little bit of
a low blow.
Speaker 4: But you know, well I didn't even mean it as
a shot to you, but now I do. Actually it's
just fine.
Speaker 5: I usually do care.
Speaker 6: I just can't bring myself to be as excited about
this one.
Speaker 4: I think it's more the I think traditionally for people
it's more of like the it's a day dedicated and
kind of surrounded and focused on Usually for people, it's
a super Bowl gathering party, get together. It's a small
group of friends, big group of friends. Still believe that
the Super Bowl should absolutely no questions asked me on Saturday, Yeah,
because people like to. I have a couple of could
pops and it's hard to do that. Or a late
afternoon game. What time? What? What's a what a kickoff?
Speaker 3: We got so normally like five th early?
Speaker 4: M hm? Is there anything like are y'all go launda?
I think I know the answer for you because you've
kind of talked about it. Are you excited for Okay,
maybe not for the game so much, but it is
the last football game of the year. Yeah, so you
watch it with you know, I watched the game with
mixed emotions, like I wanted to be a great game
and I'm excited for it just because it's the last.
But then I'm like, oh man, even.
Speaker 5: Last week and I was like, dang, I kind of
some football.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I am gonna I am going to try
to enjoy the last game that we'll have for a while.
Speaker 5: But and like again, like I'm gonna enjoy the super Bowl.
Speaker 6: It's gonna be fine, but I just can't bring myself
to be as excited about it as I have been.
Speaker 4: In the past excited about halftime.
Speaker 5: Yes, I might be the only person excited.
Speaker 4: About time now when I do some googling and some
national like trying to figure out who this fella is,
like you know what, you know all the things he
kind of made some headlines, was it the Grammy?
Speaker 6: He made some headlines the Grammys before the Grammys.
Speaker 4: Controversial, controversial, okay, which I feel like is a surprising
pick for the NFL. Controversial because they don't want like
they want to like stay so as non controversial.
Speaker 6: I was talking about this with Rivers last night, and
there was this video that was going around where people
were asking, like football players out the halftime show and
like we agree, Like the most reasonable answer was, well,
he's the most globally streamed artist. If you want to
be a global entity, then of course, like you should
get somebody who's globally popular.
Speaker 5: Like I get that it's historically not been that way,
but I don't know.
Speaker 6: I think it's fine. I think it's a good business decision.
If you want to attract different audiences.
Speaker 4: I don't know for sure. I did say that I
was kind of surprised that he is like the most
streamed person right now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's very popular.
Speaker 6: My friends that don't speak Spanish love Bad Bunny and
his music.
Speaker 5: Okay, Like he's fun, fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like that fun. I like fun. I don't
know if I will recognize any of the songs. Maybe
I will. Maybe should we play some songs today?
Speaker 5: Can?
Speaker 4: I don't know, plenty plenty? Oh yeah, He's like maybe,
just like to get the people like at least a
little bit prep and ready for what they're going to hear.
Speaker 3: I know the most play Yeah, I picked it to
be first.
Speaker 8: So.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah TD whatever that was?
Speaker 5: That song is like my aunt's asking me if I
have a girlfriend.
Speaker 6: I trying to sing it and then he's like, yeah,
I have a bunch of them, and he starts naming
all the girls and yeah.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well I hope it's great. It's fantastic. You'll have
a favorite super Bowl halftime. That'scha I've ever seen before.
Speaker 3: I loved Lady Gagays when she jumped into the stadium.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Although I'm shocker of the Week for you, Matt, I'm
a big Lady Gaga fan, so really, I mean I
was biased towards that one.
Speaker 4: I mean, who is the talent?
Speaker 5: The Bruno Mars Beyonce Coldplay one was fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did like that one. This is just a
personal preference. I like one. I like one person. I
don't like the boom boom boom boom ever, just really
just one like one.
Speaker 5: The Shakira JL one was good.
Speaker 4: The one where who was last year?
Speaker 5: That was the Kendrick Lamar.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Lady Gagays is good. I do remember that one.
The one that had like doctor Dre snoop was one
in l A a few years. That one was really
good too. I thought.
Speaker 1: That was that was that.
Speaker 8: Up?
Speaker 4: Come on, don't do that, man like that? Don't do that?
All right, Well, I hope mister mister Bunny has a
great performance on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Bonnie does Bunny.
Speaker 4: Has a great is it is?
Speaker 3: It does funny like Lint?
Speaker 4: I think so is? I think so that sounds right?
Speaker 5: I like that better.
Speaker 4: You can be jamming the house? Yes, all right, Well,
you know, I hope the whole thing is entertaining, and
I hope he has a good show, and I hope
we have a good show today. We will three hours
of just absolute six rinth entertainment right here, Sports takes galore.
We'll keep talking about the Super Bowl. Oh yeah, I
guess it's National Signing Day? Does that even matter anymore?
Speaker 3: Is waiting on two guys Matt and one's technically already signed.
Speaker 4: It's a big day for the LSU Tigers on the
recruiting path, A day that used to be filled with
LSU fans having a couple of cold pops at a
big party all twenty six, watching highlight films, celebrating high fiving.
It's lost its luster. I bet you woke up today,
probably didn't even realize or even think about it being
National Signing Day, the old traditional National Signing Day, the
one in February. But here we are, so we'll give
you at least an update on those two potential LSU
signings super Bowl. We've got a great show for you.
Stay tuned, stay tuned right.
Speaker 2: Here on off the bench, off the bench.
Speaker 4: All right, Well we just said it. We're getting ready
for the big game, the super big Game, this weekend,
this Sunday. So you maybe be playing a party, you
might be invited to a party, Well, if you are,
if you're hosting, if you're going, it doesn't really matter.
Make sure you are the life of the party. Make
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Speaker 8: No yeah, yeah, pal eyeball.
Speaker 1: Tigers turn talkers. This is off the Bench, Yeah man,
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Speaker 8: By schal that's Patricia, that's the young King.
Speaker 4: You all right, well, welcome back here off the bench.
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Speaker 5: Also bad Bunny, bad Bunny, Like, tell me this doesn't
make you want to move.
Speaker 4: I mean, you have no choice but to move, move out.
I'm not sure I leave the room. I'm not sure
if I like like, like it or not, but I'm moving. Okay,
is this t t This is it?
Speaker 5: What what told you? With him saying that no, I
didn't I.
Speaker 4: Could understand it, talking too fast? All right, Well this
is one of his hits. Yeah, okay, so this is
one of the best he's got. Yeah, okay recently, all right,
looking forward to hearing some of the deep cuts.
Speaker 5: People getting angry. It's so funny. What this is different? Horrible?
Speaker 4: Oh that's some of the comments.
Speaker 5: I don't know. They're just like garbage.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'm shocked Tailor doesn't.
Speaker 3: Want I don't like it.
Speaker 5: I'm so shocked.
Speaker 3: Well, look, I gotta tell you I was moving. It's
nothing against it. I'm sure it's a good song. I
don't speak Spanish and I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2: Like, I feel like you have to.
Speaker 4: Like the song. I like to know the words, but
you could just not like the song no matter what
the words are. The beat's fine. I just did you
move though, like your shoulders move?
Speaker 6: No, Taylor, sorry, man, similar not liking bad Bunny was
not on my beingo car.
Speaker 3: Guys, it's dust Bunny from the Hero Route.
Speaker 4: Taylor, you're not sounding like you're a lot of fun
at parties right.
Speaker 3: Now, great love concerts, go to a ton of them.
Speaker 4: The show is gonna be great. I got a feeling
that's the first bad Bunny song I've heard. Now I
can see where they can make a little fun, a
little fun show, though out of it probably not a
good dancing Again, I can see a lot of good
outfit based on that one song. The over is definitely
hitting on outfit changes, which is two and a half. Yeah,
if you're wondering, all right, well and then.
Speaker 5: What was it glasses on for the first song?
Speaker 4: Well, the well, the glasses remain on for the entire Yeah. Yeah,
because we and then I think we all came to
the conclusion that the dramatic removal of the sunglasses on
a beach just more of like a secon it's after
you do it after a song, after a song, and
if you're gonna do during a song, it's not the
first one.
Speaker 3: I don't, right, So if he shows up in sunglasses,
he'll finish the whole song.
Speaker 4: He'll finish that first whole song. No, maybe not so
national signing days today.
Speaker 5: Should we get this show started with that?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I want to. Taylor is going to give us
a little breakdown of the two people we're watching here.
Oh but before we do, let's get the show started.
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national signing Dave Baby LSU. You're gonna really boost up
their roster today, aren't they.
Speaker 3: You got two guys holding signings. You're really only waiting
on one of them. One guy's already signed. Mari p
possible ab sending his facts Mac.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't know if they still do that. He signed.
He's in role at LSU. He just wanted to hold it,
you know, a signing ceremony or whatever. You google a
Mari Peterson LSU sports dot net will come up. He's
he's kind of already in that class three star cornerback
out of Florida. He was committed to West Virginia de
committed before the early signing period, visited an m visited
Georgia Tech, but wanted to be at LSU, and LSU
said there was room for him, so he jumped in.
He signed the thirteenth, enrolled in class on the eighteenth.
As far as today goes Jackson Williams, the three star
corner out of Shaw, UH three star safety, I should
say out of Shaw. He's already committed. He committed a
few weeks back on January sixteenth. He will sign today.
He was committed to Tulane with the coaching James. He decommitted.
H almost committed to Washington State, got an offer the
two weeks ago when he visited LSU, so he committed
as soon as he got that offer. He's expected to
sign today as well. So if Williams does in fact sign,
that'll be the sixteenth member of the high school signing class.
I mean, we got a million in the transfer portal,
but it'll be sixteen high school signings.
Speaker 4: So that would be a total of what fifty nine
new players on the roster. That's more than an NFL roster.
Not bad, so obviously I know and understand this, But
explain to the people that might not know, how do
you sign on January thirteenth as a high school signing
when it's not a signing period.
Speaker 3: He did, Matt, he just did the answers ye of
college football.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he just he just did. If you don't know
the rules, now, I can't help you.
Speaker 3: I can't explain it to your period in December with
the early sign of period Wednesday to a Friday typically
like eight through the tenth or whatever, like somewhere in December,
and then you got this.
Speaker 4: But maybe he technically signed it on December third, but
forgot to fax it in he was in. Yeah, until
there's people that did.
Speaker 3: That, like number it was. It was talked about who
is you're gonna get the facts for a Lamar Brown
or Richard Anderson? Are you going to get them in time?
The speculation that they had already signed. What are you
going to send in that fact? I think it was
Richard Anderson. People speculated he signed on Wednesday or Thursday,
didn't actually come in till a Friday, So it is
it's one of those things that sign lost in the show.
But he's already enrolled.
Speaker 4: Yeah, our high school kids when they signed their letters
of intent for universities? Is that the last thing that
people use fax machines for? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think they still get them by facts. Yeah, I'm
pretty sure. I think that's the last use of a
fact machine.
Speaker 4: Is any of it? Y'all use the facts?
Speaker 3: I never used one, and I still don't understand how
they were they confusing that that is a technology that
is so far ahead of its time. You put a
piece of paper on top of the copy, or you
just scan it and it pops out somewhere else. Just
about typing in the number?
Speaker 1: What is that?
Speaker 4: It's like like a portal transferring of paper, transferring of
paper through a portal via fax machine. Forty three kids
in the transfer portal, potentially sixteen more in the high
school class with two today. Apparently one's already there. Work, okay,
the formality, all right, well, good on your lane. The
lane train keeps on a rolling and the class just
keeps getting deeper and deeper. But you know, is is
this something that's now I heard some people talking about,
you know, with the college football schedule and how just
wha I could do it is? And we'll talk about
the schedule for next year a little bit more, But
just from a signing day perspective, is it ever expected
to get rid of the early signing pier and go
back to the more traditional where they are waiting until
around this time to do it.
Speaker 3: I'd prefer that. Yeah, Because you and I before the
show we were talking so like next year, the national
championship is January twenty fifth. Lshu's enrollment data is of
January eleventh. Yep, what about the kids on that team
that are going to transfer, Like, what you're gonna cause
is more players, and then coaches like Lane that we
talked about that want to jump ship are gonna have
to leave in the middle of a playoff run. They
literally don't have another option.
Speaker 4: Yep, that's what it is.
Speaker 3: So I would like to move the transfer portal post
spring because you had a pre spring and a post spring.
They eliminated the post spring. I'd go back to just that.
I'd go back to the February signing period and people
could say, well, the freshmen can't enroll early. Leonard Fournette
came here and ran for a thousand yards and didn't
roll early. Justin Vincent did the same thing. Like freshmen
have contributed for a long time before that was the case. Like,
it's just not that big of a deal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't. I've never really loved the early enrollment thing. Now,
I know there is a huge benefit to that, but
I've just you know, I know that's the older guy
in me just not really liking the early enrollment. But
it screws up the whole schedule. Like so if that's
one of the things that has to give to fix
the college football calendar sket like the calendar year for
college football, then it is what it is. Like you
just can't enroll early unless you go back to like
the old gray shirting roll or whatever that was. But
it is ridiculous. I'm the schedule that I think most
of us would agree that the season drug on and
drug on and drug on. What the game was the
January seventeenth or eighteenth, Well, it's a whole week later.
Next year. Enrollment starts on January eleventh at LSU, and
I'm assuming most universities around that time at least I
think the last day to enroll next year enroll for
second semesters like the twenty first, twentieth or twenty first,
like you know, you get week and a half, two
weeks the twentieth, Yeah, the twentieth, and that's five days
before the national championship game.
Speaker 3: And think about it now. The rule now is teams
that make it to the National Championship their players have
an additional five days after just to enter the portal.
You're looking at January thirtieth as your earliest day entering.
You can't sign until mid February. Yep, semester has been
going on over a month now.
Speaker 4: Not all universities and college programs are going to have
the alignment of LSU where they can get guys into
school after that enrollment period. Oh we did it. Anyway,
It's uh yeah, we'll see, We'll see how it goes.
It's a little disappointed on that because I think we
said the quarterfinals for next year's college football season is
not until December thirtieth. December thirtieth is when we're going
to get the Elite eight playing football, which is a
wild situation to me. Anyway, Let's maybe just keep complaining
about it and maybe things will change at some point.
That's all we can do at this point. But we're
still gonna watch. Let's be honest, we're gonna watch it
year and it's gonna be great. Now she's gonna be there.
We're gonna wish national championship and we're gonna love it.
Go Tigers. National Signing Day, Big day, Big day, waiting
one two, All right, got a lot more. We'll come back.
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Speaker 1: This is Off the Bench with Hester and Flynn, Matt
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Speaker 5: Not bad bunny, This is a shanty.
Speaker 4: Old dust bunny. Got a I was thinking about the
matchup this weekend in the Super Big Game, and you know,
y'all kind of talked about it. How you know y'all
aren't excited about it. And there's there's a lot of
really cool stories storyline, even though, yeah, the same Donald
thing's cool. But there's one person for the Patriots organization
who sticks out to me above the rest person that's
been there a long time. That's offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels.
I think that he has the cream, has risen to
the top when it comes to offensive mines, play callers,
offensive coordinators, and I think he certainly is at the
top of that list. When it comes to offensive coordinators,
offensive minds, and play callers. There's a difference between a
really good offensive mind and a really good play caller.
Play caller is a skill set you have to have,
and he has proven that he is fantastic at it,
designing a game plan, implementing a game plan, teaching that
game plan, and then calling it. He understands how to
call plays. Obviously, did y'all know Josh McDaniels has been
a part of ten Super Bowls. That is one sixth
of all the Super Bowl ever played. Josh McDaniels has
been a part of it as a coach, most of
them as an offensive coordator, some is an offensive assistant,
certainly all of them with the Patriots. So it got
me thinking, with everything that's happened. Now the obviously the
quick answer for everybody's gonna be like, nah, it's stupid,
But just like think about it a little bit. Is
Josh McDaniels the most important Patriot of all time?
Speaker 3: Old Todd, No, I mean it's it's Tom Brady, but mean, hell,
he's up there.
Speaker 4: It's a I think it's a conversation that can at
least be like explored, at least to the point where like, no,
it's definitely Tom Brady, but without Josh McDaniels, maybe some
of this doesn't happen. No, some of it does happen.
Speaker 3: Certainly, coach, because if he wins it without Brady, that's
a notch on his belt. Belichick's offense was terrible when
McDaniel wasn't there, which is ultimately kind of what led
to Bill Belichick's downfall in New England.
Speaker 4: So I mean, certainly coach was. Now, Okay, let me
rephrase the question. If the Patriots win the Super Bowl
this year with Drake May, does that change your answer
any Patriot of all time?
Speaker 3: I'm still going Brady. It still it gives it more
credence for certainly, Yeah, if he wins it this year
with with Drake Man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it certainly does because he has to win one
with probably a couple. But like it puts him in
certainly the Mount Rushmore of New England.
Speaker 3: Patriots, I would think so for sure.
Speaker 4: A twenty one and eight record as the offensive coordinator
in the playoffs, twenty one and eight, which is a
pretty uh so, he's been the offensive coordinator with the
Patriots for fourteen years. I had the privilege of being
in his quarterback room for not long. I was there
for a couple of coffee, but I was there for
enough time to like kind of understand the vibe, understand
the teaching, understand how good he was in a very
short amount of time. He's a you know. This was when,
of course Brady was there. Jimmy Garoppolo was a rookie.
He was coaching Garoppolo hard now, like he was coaching
like an old school coach, with him on the field
in your face, yelling, holding them to a high standard.
Of course you're not going to coach Tom Brady like
that all the time, but he still coached Tom Brady hard, right,
And this is when you think of professional football, especially
professional football with star people like Tom Brady you're like, ah,
you probably there are more peers. They're gonna have mutual respect.
Of course there's mutual respect. But like he coached hard
and I think Tom Brady wanted that as well. But
that's Josh McDaniel's personality. He expects a lot out of you,
and he's a really good He was a really good
teacher of everything. Everything kind of made sense. He's a
huge dork and I say that in a great way
because he's a dork for football and like he's that
is that's his life and he loves it and he's.
Speaker 8: Just a.
Speaker 4: He is the best offensive coordinator in the NFL, and
he has been for a long time. And I've always
thought that when he came back to New England. How
many times he come back twice? Three times? This is
this third tenure. Every time he's come back, I'm like, well,
they're gonna win one Denver yep, came back left.
Speaker 3: Went to Oakland Rams. Yeah, the Rams first and then
well he'll.
Speaker 4: Never be a good head coach. And I think he's
probably realized that he's going to be the offensive coordator
for the Patriots forever. Yeah, till he wants to stop.
And he's not old.
Speaker 5: No, he's only forty nine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would.
Speaker 6: I went to look it up because when you were
talking about it, I'm like, wait, but he looks kind
of young.
Speaker 5: And then I looked it up. He's only forty nine.
That's crazy.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 5: John Carroll, John Carroll alone, Oh.
Speaker 4: John Carroll. That's right. We're big on the John Carroll
alums recently. So question for y'all, okay, question for the
listeners out there now. I know that it's getting a
lot of bad pub right now, rightfully, so they're making
some really dumb moves. But will there ever be a
place for an assistant coach in the NFL Hall of Fame?
Speaker 3: I don't think one will get in, but I think
they should.
Speaker 4: Why not, Like it shouldn't be, it shouldn't set if
one does, if a freaking punters get in. Yeah, I
believe that there should be. I believe there should be
an open door for special cases for assistant coaches, and
certainly this is one. This is a guy that tested
the waters a head coach, probably realized that's not his path,
and he's been a coordinator and been instrumental and have
When you have a twenty one to eight record, when
you've been a part of as an assistant coach, won
sixth of all the Super Bowls ever played, ever teed
up and kicked off. That's pretty impressive. Like it's got
to be a special, special situation. And I don't think
I think the underappreciated part of this is like Josh
McDaniels as offensive coordinator has had a really special, special
career up to this point. So it's an interesting thing
to discuss, certainly on the Mount rushmore of all time
important players or coaches for the New England Patriots when
you start thinking about that, assistant coach never pops up
to anybody's mind. But when we look at these storylines
leading up to this weekend Super Bowl, I think Josh
McDaniels is one of the most intriguing ones for me
just because I've been with him. I've seen it and
the record that he has and look he's about to
do it. Like what the Patriots have done coming back
and starting a new Super Bowl run after their long
term dynasty and done it a completely different way, new personnel,
new coaches, not the Patriot way, it's a different Patriot way.
Has been incredible. Like think of all the fan bases
that just don't get the chance to cheer on their
team at the Super Bowl. Patriots fans are spoiled and
a lot of it. One common denominator. They changed the
head coach, they changed quarterback roster, a different culture over there.
One person remains the same, Josh McDaniels. So I think
he needs to be praised for that. I think he
needs to be watching. I think he needs to get
the is that certainly assistant coaches, don't you normally get
All right, we're gonna go to break, we'll continue talking
everything super Bowl, and we're going to wrap up our
number one right here.
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Yesterday afternoon? We got the got the little news Monday night,
Monday night, Monday nightsh So we're a little late to
the party here. But Friend of the Show got to
make this announcement. Scott tolls in quarterback coach for the
New Orleans Saints, pulling his name out of contention to
be the offensive coordinator for Mike McCarthy's staff over with
the Pittsburgh Steelers. He says, man, I got Tyler Shuck,
I ain't leaving. I'm gonna coach this guy. I'm gonna
keep coaching him. So I would say that is a
nice little win for the Saints right there in the
off season. They get to keep their quarterback coach. A
rising star in the coaching ranks, and certainly he's been
on the show multiple times now. Former teammate of mine
talked to him a decent amount of times. Last week
at the Senior Bowl. He got to kind of test
his first time being an offensive coordator last year or
last week for the American team at the Senior Bom.
I got to get hands on with the Nusts bus
coach him up last week. So good news for the
Saints right there. Scott Tolsen sticking with it so which
was a little surprising to me. I thought, you know,
you don't never know how those conversations, those interviews are
going when you're looking like his. You know, he's got
obviously a really good and former relationship with Mike McCarthy.
Played for Mike McCarthy in Green Bay, and I believe thirteen, thirteen,
fourteen and fifteen, maybe sixty I think sixteen of mining
out on the Colts, but certainly coached with him when
Mike McCarthy was the head coach for the Cowboys and
Kellen Moore was the OC and I believe Scott Tolsen
was the quarterback coach there, So that's uh, you know,
they're all intertwined. They're those, all three of those coaches.
So good to see Saints getting to win there. Scott
Tolzi going to stick with coaching quarterbacks for New Orleans Saints.
All excited about that one, y'all fired up. Yes, that's
a good deal.
Speaker 2: Good dude.
Speaker 5: Also great coach.
Speaker 4: So yeah, he's a rising star. He's going to be
a next coordinator. Surprised that he didn't think I'm surprised
that he took his name out of out of being.
That's a great opportunity, right, yeah, certainly, all right, that's
gonna do it for our number one, Stick Withers. We
got a lot more super big game talk coming up,
more else you talk. We got coach Kim Molkey coming
up on the next hour right here, off the bench,
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