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it is now time. Last week, not allowed to celebrate.
We'll get back to it. Weekend winners.
Speaker 6: That's how win it has done.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 8: We can't have anyone to freak out out there.
Speaker 6: Okay, he's got a k bark apologer, got too far.
I'm by winning. I went here and I went there.
Speaker 7: Now, what are you doing what it takes to win
a championship?
Speaker 6: Wow? Winning? Well, then I guess there's only one thing
left to do.
Speaker 1: What's that.
Speaker 6: Win the whole thing? All right?
Speaker 7: My first weekend winner is Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold.
Speaker 6: When he was with the Jets, it was bad it
was bad, bad.
Speaker 7: He was famously seeing saying he's seeing ghosts out there. Well,
it turns out just the Jets because he went to
a couple of different spots and didn't really get an
opportunity to start. But once he got the opportunity last
year for the Vikings, played incredibly well fourteen wins, I
believe in the regular season for that team. And right now,
I mean they won yesterday. But JJ McCarthy struggling right now.
But Sam has gone from being you know, labeled as
a bus to being one of the best quarterbacks in
the National Football League. Yesterday against Washington twenty one of
twenty four, three hundred and thirty yards, thirteen point eight
yards per attempt, four touchdowns. He's playing as a top
five quarterback in the NFL right now, and he boosted
his odds to be the MVP.
Speaker 9: He actually had seventeen straight completions at one point last
yek good. Well yeah, so yeah, definitely a guy that
will be in some MVP toss. We are quarterback position
is very healthy. I did that a quarterback ranking last week. Man,
I was like, this is it's it's pretty challenging. We
have this many quarterbacks playing at a high level, trying
to take everything into an account.
Speaker 6: So I would agree with that.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna kind of stick with the Seahawks right there
with my weekend winter. It's kind of it's spurned on
by the Seahawks, but kind of have seen it all
over the NFL this year. But throwback uniforms, like the
good throw, like the classic throw, not the crazy ones
that the Steelers did or the Packers did yesterday, but
the good throwback uniforms.
Speaker 6: The Seahawks uniform looked awesome the eighties or nineties. Eighties, nineties.
Speaker 9: We saw the Chargers, dude, a couple of weeks ago,
the Yellers, not the bananas as you'd like to call them.
Speaker 6: No, the Navy. Yeah, we saw the Broncos do it.
Speaker 9: We saw the Buccaneers do it with their creat sincles. Yeah,
the Falcons did a little throwback as well, like the
the good, the well done, Like let's go back to
the seventies or eighties. Throwback uniforms are popping this year,
and I just like the fresh on my mind. One
was last night just watching the Seahawks play. It was like, man,
that looks really good, way better than that that crappy
knee on stuff that they do sometimes.
Speaker 4: Uh, weekend winner.
Speaker 8: Jaguars kicker Cam Little sixty eight yarder new NFL record. Dude,
kicking is just absurd now, like Tom Demsey's record stood forever.
That's the second time in four seasons the NFL longest
kick has been broken. How about from ESPN research, seven
field goals of at least sixty yards so far in
the NFL season. It's becoming expected now for NFL kickers
to make sixty.
Speaker 6: Yards shot out in the Saints point when it's like
a fifty four yarder. Yeah, damn Group Little.
Speaker 1: I'm glad he got this done. He did it. He
got a sixty eight yarder in preseason as well, and
everyone said, oh, you hit this in preseason. Unfortunately for
Cam Little the preseason record didn't count. He got his
chance again. He nailed it once again. So he's two
sixty eight yarders. Wild great kicker. We can winner for me. Okay,
you guys were were talking about the unis a little
bit Okay, So on Thursday night, Coastal Carolina played the
day before Halloween, and they wanted to do something a
little bit different. So here's what the uniform originally looks like, Okay,
this is what it looked like when they were on
the field. It's it's got some graffiti on it. It's
pretty cool. But this was actually a glow in the
dark uniform. This right here is what it looked like
when Coastal Carolina was walking out of the tunnel the
night before Halloween. Those are there, glowing the dark alternate unis.
And they put up fifty five points and won the
game in a game they were not projected to win either.
Shut out Coastal Carolina. Awesome alternate uniforms.
Speaker 7: Hey, Coastal, I'll see you on the smurf turf kind
of because teal. I don't know what you call it,
poise smurf turf, but I mean it's a it's a
teal color.
Speaker 6: Do we have a cool name like that, Yeah, they did.
Speaker 1: They call it teal turf.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's lame.
Speaker 6: Oh that's not good.
Speaker 4: I don't like the color turfs so bad.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's I'm not a big fan either.
Speaker 7: All right, weekend Winter Major League Baseball, the World Series.
I mean, I couldn't care less about the Dodgers or
the Blue Jays, but I stayed up late watching it.
I was invested and from somebody that used to be
a massive, massive baseball fan, like didn't miss a brave game,
like I'm watching all one sixty two I have in
recent years. I might watch a little bit of this one.
I might have watched like total fifteen games this year.
Just kind of fell out of love with it. But man,
that World Series had me locked in again two teams.
I don't care anything about major League Baseball.
Speaker 6: Nice shot.
Speaker 7: I think you got a lot of people back into
the game after a great seven game World Series.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I wasn't liked into it, but I
did read that one fellow pitching, he was what all
the people say back in my day, I used to
throw it two days in a row, used to throw
double hit, doubleheader. Well I guess he did it. Well,
did you pitch one hundred pitches in Game six?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 4: Are rather ninety six hundred somewhere in there?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: And then again yeah, man, I mean that's.
Speaker 6: Put the team on your back, like Greg Jennings.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I got a weekend loser, and it's kind of
all of us football fans, you know, weekend loser. Of course,
the YouTube situation, well there was no contract dispute in
the NFL, but there was a lot of really good
players going down with the injuries. Yesterday in the NFL,
your guy Joe Walt injured, carted off with an ankle injury.
Speaker 6: He had just come back.
Speaker 9: Tucker Craft for the Packers, just destroying it, killing all
Like he's killing all the stats in the tight end
column this year from receiving. He goes out feared a
c L injury.
Speaker 2: C J.
Speaker 6: Stroud.
Speaker 9: They were they should have beat the Broncos yesterday. That
like the Houston Texas are back and forth so bad.
He gets a concussion, gets cuss yesterday, leaves the game.
If their backup comes in and can't do anything, and
Broncos win, They're six straight against the Texans. There's some
other players to note, but you know all of us
LSU fans watching last night. Jayden Daniels, Yeah, that one
looked bad. It was one of those situations where he
was kind of rolling on the ground, you could tell
in pain. I was watching it live and I was like, Oh,
he's rolling over his left leg. It's got to be
a leg injury.
Speaker 6: They'd showed a slow motion replay his elbow bit is
completely the wrong way. It wasn't great.
Speaker 9: They had to put a cast on it right there,
and it's not anything that anybody in the NFL wanted
to see as one of their young star players, raining
rookie MVP, offensive MVP go down with an injury like that.
Here's a Jaden getting healthy quick hopefully a quick return.
Hopefully nothing is damaged to the point that it is
a long, long term situation.
Speaker 6: But it did not look very pretty.
Speaker 7: At least it was the non throwing arm, and it
gives you a little bit of hope.
Speaker 6: It's a bad.
Speaker 7: Situation, man, and they're just a bad team right now,
both sides of the football. They can't just they can't
do anything right now. They had so much momentum from
from a year ago. He had a hold out situation
during camp with your best receiver.
Speaker 6: He lost a couple of key pieces. You traded away.
Speaker 7: Uh, you had a running back rotation, you traded away one,
and then the first week your other running back, Austin
Eckler Terrace's achilles.
Speaker 6: He's out for the year. It's just been yep.
Speaker 9: I saw something I saw I didn't I didn't fact
check this, but I saw something. I'm probably never gonna
quote this right, but it was a tweet last night
that said Washington Commanders Robert Griffin the third injured himself
the same year, the same date, on the same field,
agains the same opponent.
Speaker 3: Well that.
Speaker 1: Cool, no good, good, that was uh that was o
G three and uh Jadon Daniels. Yeah, so that's not
the that's not the first time that's happened with quarterback.
So Alex Samith and Joe Thaisman both had the awful
leg injuries. Have you ever seen this? Okay, So Alex
Smith and Joe Thaisman, they both broke their right to
be amphibula both on November eighteenth, they both played for
the Washington Redskins at home. Happened on the thirty nine
yard line for each of them. The final score in
both of those games were twenty three to twenty one.
JJ Watt, three time Defensive Player of the Year tackled
Alex Smith. Lawrence Taylor, three time Defensive Player of the
Year tackled Joe Thiseman, and both of their Pro Bowl
left tackles were on the sideline due to injury.
Speaker 4: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: So this is the second they're trying to tell us
that NFL is not scripted.
Speaker 6: I mean, that's wild. That's wild.
Speaker 1: When you were saying that, I was like, let me,
let me look at this. I couldn't remember all the similarities.
But and it was the same thirty nine too, so
it wasn't like opposite, it was the same thirty nine yards.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that good. Most you got another weekend winter loser.
Speaker 4: I'all go weekend loser Auburn boosters.
Speaker 8: I guess more more money is coming off the bottom
line at yellow Wood. It's the third buyout since twenty twenty,
third buyout since twenty twenty for Auburn fans and their boosters.
Speaker 4: That's uh, that's a tough scene.
Speaker 8: And I guess honestly in that same vain week in winter,
Hugh Freeze, congratulations, you're now have the greatest job in
the world, fired firehead football.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you know you can get in a few
more rounds of golf there, totally.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we'll hear about Hugh and is unfortunate coaching passing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got one more quick one. So I can't
give her full credit because she has remained anonymous. I
don't know if you guys saw this. On Saturday, two
people were arrested in a Dillard's parking lot and slide
down for shopping. But here's where it gets interesting. The
cop was attempting to stop these two. The guy was
waiting in the car. The woman takes off, running hops
in the car to take off. A good samaritan in
the parking lot sees the cop chasing after him on foot,
pulls over, lets him jump in the car. He tells
her to chase. This whole thing's on WDSU on their
website if you want to go. Look, she's driving in
this high speed pursuit with the cop telling her where
to go, and they obviously call her back up. The
other cop cars cut them off. They're able to arrest them.
But yeah, shout out to her. She pulled over, told
the cop hop in the car, and they took home
down half All.
Speaker 6: Right, nice, hell yeah, get it done, Get it done.
That's what they did. Do you get that point?
Speaker 9: You got permission to hit them?
Speaker 6: How much can I get away with? Here? My car
goes faster than him. All right, that is weekend winners.
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Speaker 7: All right, welcome back in ot B. Here live from
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Devin snow A Ka hold the mayo now, Dev, what's
going on?
Speaker 6: Brother? How we doing?
Speaker 3: I guess we're doing all right?
Speaker 6: I mean, how y'all doing well?
Speaker 7: The Saints are one in eight, the Pelicans are oays six,
and LSU's looking for a president, a d and head coach.
Speaker 6: Other than that, it's great, fantastic, just.
Speaker 3: How we thought it would all work out.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, it's.
Speaker 3: It's one thing to think like things are gonna go bad.
But I mean, I don't know how somebody could imagine
this type of misery. You know, can't find a win
with a search warrant on any sport?
Speaker 6: Which one are you more surprised?
Speaker 7: More defeated by the Saints being one and eight are
the Pels being zero to six?
Speaker 3: I would I gotta be Honest, I'd have to say
the Saints because even though we knew it would be
a bad year, you thought by now after non games
that you would see the team maybe progressing. But there's
no progressing. That it's a regression, right. You don't want
to regress in anything, you know. I say this all
the time. You know, if you go take a piss
and you're not pissing the same, right, you probably should
go see the doctor, right, because something's going on.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 3: This is not like when people say, hey, it's a rebuild,
be patient, no problem.
Speaker 6: This is not.
Speaker 3: Even what a rebuild should look like. It's just not
you know, you should We've seen this many times before.
You see teams like they suck, right, but then they'll
catch like a little traction, or you'll see them doing
things better. That's it's going the opposite way right now.
Speaker 7: Yeah, to say the least, dev and gosh, I mean
you may change a quarterback and you like for a spark.
There's no spark. I mean it never was. I mean,
how'd you like that spark? DEVI yeah, suck. What do
you think about it?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, Well when you got the ball for sixteen minutes,
the entire game what are you really sparking up? You know,
we'll spunk up a cigarette. That's about the only spark
you're gonna do. Because, dude, what in what world was that?
Especially that first half. In the second half, I don't
even know. You're basically just looking at your eyeballs at
that point, right, But it's like that first half, dude,
that is some of the worst play calling I've ever
seen from Klin Moore. Aba, know, it's time to start
looking at telling more. I'm not saying, hey, acts the
guy anything like that, but I mean, we got to
just call it what it is. This guy's play calling
is not creative. It's not even like I mean, it's
not even like traditional. It's it's very dull. It's very
you know, hey, man, you got a third and six,
let's throw it four you let's let's dial up a
play for four yards. It's like the same thing that
we've been seeing and there's just no I don't know, man,
it's you know, what do we tap out to that? Hey,
just the roster just completely sucks.
Speaker 6: I guess, yeah, yeah, you have to tap into that.
Speaker 9: It's it's almost like their offensive game plan is like
you draw up your first fifteen, but you can't get
past your first fifteen for like a half of football. Yeah,
it's crazy, like the amount of sustained drive that the
defense has and the lack of just any downfield passing game.
I mean, it's it's not like the like they're trying.
I assume they're a trying to get guys down the field.
There's no one's getting open. You can't pass protect long enough,
so you always just have to keep taking underneath routs,
underneath routs. And it's the same old story. I mean,
it looked the exact same that it has for weeks.
Speaker 3: And that's the thing too, Like you drafted all these linemen,
you know, all these linemen, and I understand McCoy's out,
but come on, man, none of these guys are proven
that they were worth the draft pick. They just not. Okay,
give a pass to the guy we just drafted this year,
Sure we'll give that pass. I guess the other guys. Dude,
what Penning got blowed up? The whole the whole game
always gets blowed up. Yeah, Caesarus, I mean Jesus, you know,
all I can think about is when we drafted Caesar Ruez,
My exact reaction was, who the hell is Caesar Ruez?
Who is that? Well, now we know we know exactly
who Caesar Uaz is. You know, Fuaga, I see no,
like from year one the year two, I don't, I
don't really see it, you know, only that bad to
where like dudes can't even like take the next step.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and we're wondering what it's going to look like
next year. I mean, you right now have a real
opportunity to have to get the number one overall pick,
and so a lot of the conversation is do you
spend that on a quarterback? Do we think there's a
quarterback in this draft class that's worthy of the number
one pick. It's going to be the conversation. I think
that there's going to be. But it's like, well, you
need so many things. Do you potentially trade out of
the number one spot and get to you know, let's
say number four or five, six, somewhere like that, and
then get a treasure chest of picks to.
Speaker 6: Go along with that.
Speaker 7: But if you did that, you'd probably maybe sign a
free agent at quarterback. If you don't think that Spencer
Ratler or Tyler Shucks, you're a guy, and there's just
there's not a lot there either. Like Daniel Jones would
be probably the only one that's going to be on
the market that you could feel good about. I mean,
because I meant you got Daniel Jones, Aaron Rodgers, Russell Wilson,
Marcus Mariota, Zach Wilson, Tyrod Taylor, Joe Flacco. That's kind
of what your quarterback free agency class looks like next year.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine Daniel Jones as a saint? I mean,
and look, that's no knock on the guy to shit,
He's played pretty well. He finally came back to reality yesterday.
But you know, can you imagine how bad that would go?
I mean, it would just it would just not be good,
and and and and and it's and like you said,
it's bigger than just the quarterback position. It just really is. Man,
you need a surplus of players. But then it's like, okay,
we got to trust this guy making this space cadet
Nicky Loomis to like make the right trade, you know,
with the with the prize pick. Talk about a treasure chest.
Micky Loomas couldn't get a treasure chest if it was
dropped on his head, you know, it's just not it's
not gonna work out that way. So I don't know.
I mean, I guess the best thing to look forward
to this season for the Saint is December twenty eighth. Man,
you're gonna be playing of Titans, and that'll that'll probably
be a game for the first round pick. I mean
for the first overall pick.
Speaker 6: That's the one that's the day we got. So maybe
the Jets and Jets might beat you to it too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, at least the And here's another thing, it's
not like the Saints. This is back to the whole
progress and regressing thing. It's not like the Saints are
like close in these games. I mean, at this point
they getting throttled. At least at least the Titans lost
to the Charges by seven, you know, like at least
that's respectable. There's nothing really respectable. I mean, your best
player is who Chase Young? And you know everybody else is.
I heard you talk about Brian verzies Grade yesterday, talk
about couldn't find that guy. I was worried he wasn't
in the stadium.
Speaker 9: I mean nothing, Yeah, you got you were kind of
talking about because like there's there's other teams that are
not good in the NFL. But these other teams that
aren't good are at least being competitive. I mean, hell,
we saw the Panthers go up and beat the Packers
in lambeau Field yesterday. Yeah, I got the winning record,
but I don't think anybody's confusing them with like a
really good team. So like you at least have these
other teams that are finding like at least like every
now and then, finding a little spark, a little something.
But every game for the Saints is looking the exact same.
So I don't know where you go from here. I
don't know, like what the improvement. You just got to
hope that at some point the process takes over. But yeah,
I mean you got it. At this point, you got
to be looking at like, man, this that first draft
picks starting to look good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and like when's the trade donline again? It's this
week right, yeah, tomorrow tomorrow, and we just nothing. I've
heard nothing. I mean, we should be trading more than
nad dak right now. I don't understand, like what is
taking so long? You know, I understand it. All I'll
play is suck, But let's get anything at this point,
you know.
Speaker 9: I'm sure Micky's going on no sleep right now. I'm
sure he's been on the phones all night. Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 3: I'm sure Micky's watching Price is Right right now, just
hanging out eating porkskins, That's what I'm sure of.
Speaker 7: Well, you know, prices right and start with thirty three minutes. Yeah,
that's true. He's watching, let's make a deal before Price
is right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know, and then you get the Pelicans,
same situation, not even close, three thirty point losses. I mean,
same problems that we've seen for years. Dude. Stuff I
was talking about on Twitter three four years ago, how
they can't play anything. They can't play worth a worth
a hell in the third quarter at all. Right, the
rotations are just horrendous. You can't figure out. It's like
an Arubics cube, Like they just don't they This guy
cannot figure out the rotations. Man, you sitting a guy
that you traded all these picks for. You're not even playing,
Sarah Queen.
Speaker 7: I know you traded next year's unprotected first round pick
and you're zero to six right now and you don't
even play the guy.
Speaker 3: I mean serious, man, Like I know seven year olds
like my Nephews. Right. They can do better on NBAH
two K with managing a team than what we're doing
with the Pelicans. Man, it's just it's it's horrendous.
Speaker 7: The Pelicans shouldn't be as bad as they are. They
got to they got to really consider making a move.
And look, I'm not trying to fire coaches out here
too often, but when you look at what the results
have been, you don't see any progress. It's not like
your ex'es and o's and you know, teams out there
and put yourself in a good position to be able
to go out there and win. You're getting blown out.
You're getting the breaks beaten off of you right now,
like you got to make a move.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And look, I guess the bright spot about them
is we know that they hit on Jeremiah Fas and
I think that they hit on Queen too. I think
that he'll progress, what I mean, super young, but I
think that they'll they'll both progress into something. I even
like the Jordan Poole acquisition. And some people hate on
Jordan Poole. Oh he shoots too much, dude. At least
he's like trying in to generate some type of offense
at least he's got a trigger on him. At least
he's not nervous sitting on the three point line. I mean,
how many years if these fans told me that Trey
Murphy was going to be a star, dude, I am
like just so fat up with it, bro, Like you know, oh,
he's a great guy, Dude, Great guys, don't you know? Yeah,
you could be a great guy. If you're not winning games,
you're just a great guy.
Speaker 6: If you're not the first person that's come out here
to talk New Orleans professional sports and say somebody on
their team is a good guy, get really nice. So
that's not what you want to hear when you're a
sports fan.
Speaker 3: I mean, what is it? What does that do for us? Like,
where is that ranking the traits of creating a good team.
Oh he's a great guy. At this point, dude, I
want this thing for the Pelicans to get a psycho pass,
you know, like, give me somebody that's got like anger issues.
I don't want no more great guys.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm with you. I'm with you.
Speaker 7: It's kind of like we talked about with LSU as well,
Like I want somebody that's a that's different than what
you had and almost somebody has got some grits, some
some toughness and meanness to them some some.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm gonna go out there and grind for
whatever it takes, right, I.
Speaker 3: Mean, dude, when I think about LSU, man, I think
about like, you know, Lauren Landry and you know, like,
where's where is that man? Where has that been? You know?
And my favorite thing I wanted to mention to y'all
about LSU too, is some of these people always say, well, yeah,
Brian Kelly got the program back to respectability. What what
is what? Like? What is respectable about what Brian Kelly did? Dude?
There's nothing for me. Nothing happened, there was nothing respectable.
What on the field was respectable? Jayden Daniels want a heisman?
Jaydeen Daniels want a heisman? He's that good, you know,
like other than that man, the guy. I just don't
see where we became more respectable. I feel like we
less respectable, did not.
Speaker 6: Respect, did not respect the body. So what you got
to top?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 6: You got a top three candidate over here for LSU.
Speaker 3: No, I don't have a top three teen. I know
about three guys I really would like to not get those.
You know, I'm not big on the Lane Kiffin thing,
not obviously big on the Nick Saban. I don't want
to spend a bunch of money again, that's you know,
I heard y'all talking about this last week. Why would
you give guaranteed bazillion dollars to somebody that hasn't even
proven what they could do at LSU? Why would you
do it?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: It makes it doesn't make sense it and then double
down on it. No way, there's just no way you
could do that.
Speaker 6: Give it to Hi when he's been there a couple
of years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think that's a great idea. I mean,
even if they do something after a year, you know,
I just I don't know, man, the money's out of
control everywhere. I mean, look at the YouTube ESPN thing
right now. Dude, I'm you know, I'm back on crackstreams.
You know, it's it's just ye just Saturday alone. It
was such an obstacle to watch college football, man, it
really was because of money.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, dev you know, Saints are down bad, l
Shoes down, Pelicans are as bad as you can possibly
be down, and there's not a lot going on. I
understand that, but hopefully today, on this Monday Red Beans
and Rice day, you can have a better experience than
you had the last time we talked with you.
Speaker 6: That's my hope for you. Dev.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well I'm really looking forward to it, guys,
I really am.
Speaker 6: I can tell I can tell.
Speaker 7: Well, we look forward to seeing the video, Dev, And
I hope you find just the perfect place, maybe a
new place, the place you haven't been to before, and
they can do your body good.
Speaker 6: I hope that for you, Dev.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Y'all take it, and I enjoy.
Speaker 7: The rest of I'll get all right, Dev the Devin
snow aka holding Mayo going to join us every single
Monday here, I mean even even Dev's red beans and rice.
I guess it would have been two weeks ago. It
was like bad. It's a bad experience.
Speaker 6: He didn't Eve want to talk about it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, wild, I'm just one day even tu Lane got
housed by UTSA.
Speaker 6: There's nothing going right. I saw too. They're one and
four moos you went to right.
Speaker 4: I was there Saturday night.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I got beat.
Speaker 8: Yeah they did they they they give up a goal lead,
one goal lead in about a minute's time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they were leading they were leading a.
Speaker 9: Sudden never doubt that's I started off one and four
on a way to lose.
Speaker 6: All right, well, we got to pour one out. We
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Speaker 2: Off the bench from the locker room to the airwaves.
Gets off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 6: All right, welcome back in OTB. Take it easy, Phil,
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Speaker 6: Another week, another coach gone but not forgotten. This is.
Speaker 9: These eulogies are becoming all too familiar. Look at that man,
dearly beloved. We gather here today on the planes to
late rest the tenure of the one and only Hugh Freeze,
the latest name carved into Auburn's ever rotating head coaching tombstone.
His time here was short, his press conference is long,
and his sermons, well, they didn't quite match the scoreboard.
When Hugh arrived, he came preaching redemption. He was the
comeback story, the prodigal coach returning to the sec after
being cast out for let's just say, some creative uses
of the company phone. Auburn fans chose to forgive and forget,
believing that the man who once beat Nick Saban twice
could do it once again. But as it turned out,
the gospel, according to Freeze, had more fumbles than faith.
The offense sputtered, the winds never came, and the booster's
patience evaporated faster than his play sheet in November. The
man wants famous for calling plays from a hospital bed,
like a literal hospital bed, couldn't heal the Tiger's ailing program,
no matter how many prayers or quick slants he called in.
Hugh Freeze's time at Auburn will be remembered for what
it almost was, a redemption tale that never quite got
past the first chapter.
Speaker 6: But let's be honest.
Speaker 9: When your resume includes using a school issued phone to
hire an escort, trust, the process hits a little.
Speaker 6: Differently, So farewell, coach freeze.
Speaker 9: May your next stop have less pressure, shorter sermons, a
burner phone that actually stays off in a Wi Fi connection,
strong enough to call plays from anywhere, preferably on your feet.
Speaker 6: This time. The planes will move on, because they always do,
and the legend of your time here will live on
in every cautionary tale told from Oxford to Opaca. Poor eagle,
Poor eagle. I know for Hughes it will be no
more Egal. God bless whoever's holding the next headset, and
God bless the United States of America. That was a
beautiful man. That was a hard one, well done. I
love that man. He loves some certain things too. Summer
golf obviously, guys, obviously, clearly. No easy transition from that.
The jest that's bread eagle, nice one, so but no
coming back from that. He'd want us to laugh. He
would want us to laugh. Let's see, Hue, I know
what's take a break.
Speaker 7: We'll ask the bench to close out today's show for
you and for you when we come back.
Speaker 2: Off the bench.
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Speaker 6: We got a beer cave there too. Games coming back
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A little bit. We'd like to have an adult beverage
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Speaker 2: Blocked in on l s U Football twenty four to seven.
You're listening to off the Bench, We got y'all, we're
wearing hose here.
Speaker 6: What you gotta do is that you say, yeah, just
gut right there. I hope it doesn't get to figured
out for the night Monday night football. You think they will.
Speaker 9: What's what confuses me is like my subscription I had
that was ten dollars, they wouldn't be upgrade to thirty.
I got to watch all the college game day. But
as soon as the game started and they're like, no, no, no,
we're in this contract.
Speaker 7: I don't get I don't get that because you shouldn't
be able to watch anything.
Speaker 6: Yeah, are everything anything? Or everything?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I thought they were gonna get me. That wouldn't let them.
It's a principal thing. Sometimes you gotta sacrifice and watch
big ten.
Speaker 7: Little brunch time game looking like putting your best game
on brunch.
Speaker 6: Yeah, mister, you freeze m all right again, try to
move on. No easy transition from that.
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Speaker 6: Sorry, that's on me. That's on me. I was gonna
say something that's gonna bring the vibes down. Okay, yeah,
don't do that as the bench.
Speaker 7: Does Freddie Freeman enter the Hall of Fame as a
Brave or a Dodger?
Speaker 5: Ooh?
Speaker 6: Two World Series for a Dodger. Yeah, one for the Braves.
Played a lot longer and longer in Atlanta. But I mean, hell,
he's not slowing down now. God, the Braves really screwed though.
Speaker 8: I mean's he's had big postseason moments with the Dodgers
as well. I mean two walkoff homers including the Grand
Slam in the World Series, Like those are big moments.
Speaker 6: He's from southern California.
Speaker 4: I'm rooting for him to.
Speaker 6: Go in as a break Yeah, me too.
Speaker 9: I feel like you're gonna get to a point like
this day and age, like at some point you're just
gonna go in as you with a couple of different
like because a lot of guys are gonna multiple teams.
Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, it's just me.
Speaker 7: You're getting uh, you're getting asked if you can put
together all the coaching eulogies as one whenever we get
down to the final nitty gritty of who's all going
to be fired?
Speaker 6: Yeah? What do they call after the NFL season? What
do they call that? Monday? Uh? Monday, that's one. I mean,
I have to do it on Tuesday.
Speaker 7: Ask the bench what is the number one thing else
you needs to do to get the win at Bama
this weekend?
Speaker 9: Use the entire fifty three just middle of the field.
Continue the good part what you're doing. Continue what you're
doing in the run games. You did a lot of
really nice things versus A and M. You just ran
the ball, you know, gave the herd them once in
the second half after his average seven yards per carry
in the first half. Continue what you're doing those little
little tweaks and changes to the running game. Expand the field,
expand the right, call some normal pass plays, and then
just have a good sound game plan on defense and
play a lot of energy and fierceness and tenacity. The
LSU can win this football game. Let that be known.
They can win it, will they We'll see it's a
tough place to play, going on the road, but they
can win this football game.
Speaker 7: Ask the bench how many streaming services are there for
them to be named Fubo.
Speaker 6: There's gonna be a lot of them if you're going
to fubo. Oh okay.
Speaker 4: I was like, I don't I got them?
Speaker 6: Now, well, I guess a little bit about that.
Speaker 9: Says streaming service. Mm hmm, fu bar fubo. Jimbo used
to say, foo bar a lot yep, beyond all repair.
Speaker 7: Does Jimba Fisher get a look at being the next
hid football coach of the Auburn Tigers?
Speaker 6: Is it a long time assistant? There?
Speaker 9: There are so many job openings that are available and
that will become available. He'll get a look at somebody
that everybody's gonna get a LuxI Yeah. A lot of
people filled in calls right now. Yeah, And if you're
not doing it right, like if you're LSU, if you're Florida,
if you're now Auburn, like if you're not calling one
hundred people.
Speaker 6: Then.
Speaker 9: I always have one hundred hundred pers Like, oh, maybe
a lot, but you got to have a conversation. Even
if it's not like you don't think it will ever happen,
you still have a conversation.
Speaker 7: Jimbo's forty five and twenty five at Texas A and M.
Speaker 6: So you know we're talking about He's got a lot
of history at Auburn.
Speaker 7: I'm talking about these coaches and like where they were
and Hugh Freeze and Billy Nape here and like losing record,
losing record, losing record.
Speaker 6: They didn't get to where they wanted to get to
at A and M.
Speaker 7: But he did have them I think with their highest
finish since nineteen thirty nine, the.
Speaker 6: Year where they finished third. That year they went to
the Orange.
Speaker 4: Bowl in COVID year, Yeah, nine and zero.
Speaker 6: I mean to think that he could come back and
be successful. I do think national change in winning coach.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's not many of those, and so like if
you know, if if he's ready to do the things
that we talked about earlier, the changes you have to
make now to be an elite head coach, he'll get
an opportunity. I would think bahmmagum said, auburns a perfect
eight and four places for Jimbo.
Speaker 6: Eight and four would be a vast improvement.
Speaker 7: They're five and seven, six and seven, five and seven,
four and five, so.
Speaker 6: What's a lot of time? They won eight games?
Speaker 1: The horse had ever won eight.
Speaker 6: I don't think he did. Maybe once maybe.
Speaker 9: What do we say earlier third buyout twenty twenty, Yeah
for Roburt not bad call that, but not real big
ones though, ainy fifty three million dollars big true, we
got them on that.
Speaker 6: Did Harrison have one? Let's see, you would have to
go back.
Speaker 7: To twenty nineteen, is that would have been Goes. Yeah,
Harrison was six and seven, five and seven, so you'd
have to go back to twenty nineteen, their last ten
win season.
Speaker 6: You have to go back to twenty seventeen, a long
time ago. Guys. All right, we.
Speaker 7: Appreciate you, we love you, we thank you. We'll see
you at the same time, the same place tomorrow. Until then,
enjoy the rest of your day.
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