Speaker 1: Let's let's I'll start to what you want to present?
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 T bob Abert.
Speaker 2: Off the pitch.
Speaker 1: Now here's Jacob Hester and T bob Abert.
Speaker 2: What up y'all? Welcome in our number two of O
TB here on one of four five ESPN. I hope
everybody's having a great morning today. Guys, hit the like
button all that good stuff. Uh. I also should mention
as we need you start uh having coach Tarina back
on the show every week. But my guy Jetpack reminding
me to talk about a big weekend for LSU. Of
course I mentioned the open of the show. We talked
to the fact that look baseball opening day tomorrow in
the box. Absolutely love that your first date on Valentine's
Day with this new baseball team ferry at propos of course,
Friday night, eight pm on ESPN one number one for
number two in the country for Gymnastics Oklahoma and LSU
squaring up. Can't wait for that. Sunday, the LSU women's
basketball team heads to Austin for a top five match
up against the Longhorns, and LSU softball is going to
be hosting Virginia Tech in Northwestern this weekend, which means
the Burm is back. Speaking of great ways to take
in a sporting event. That outfield the Burm right, that outfield,
grassy knoll where the kids can run around, parents can
drink beer. Watched Elite softball. It is absolutely fantastic and
I'm excited to see what Jaden Hevener can do here
here in her second game. I mean, what was a
perfect game out the gates. Unbelievable. He also mentions Tory
Edwards hid three nukes last weekend. Of course, LSU went
a perfect five and er last week into the ultranslam
softball team. Really, the LSU softball team back in action,
playing host of Virginia Tech and Northwestern this weekend. Definitely
looking forward to that. Gut Arlington too, uh and U Trent,
thank you. And then Bilbo says big weekend as the
LSU track and field distance team heads to Boston and
the sprint team heads to Arkansas for the Tyson Chicken Invitational.
I mean yeah, like LSU Arkansas track is always a massive,
massive deal. Uh, Sasquatch giving us some further context saying
Northwestern Virginia teach are both ranked. Damn, I really missed.
I really dropped the ball. Then on on hyping up
softball in this in this huge weekend, I apologize that.
So things are just getting better here in the Capital city.
So if you're looking for some fun to do with
your your boyfriend, your girlfriend, your wife, your husband, your family,
we got plenty going down this weekend. I want to
talk about a potential LSU commit flip in a minute,
but first I gotta mention Greg freaking Burn. I never
really that's the alabam Ad. I never cared about Greg
Byrn really right. He was confident he had Nick Saban
and that was the extent that I thought about him.
But man, oh man, you want to talk about someone
who is quickly rising up my most unliked ranks every
single time he opens his mouth. When he was sitting
there crying during the college football play, I'll be against me.
Ye give me schedule heard at a CAMPINGTENI mot strength
to schedule doesn't matter. You didn't lose any out of
conference games, Greg. You didn't schedule hard out of conference games, Greg,
and you still didn't make the playoffs. Greg Well, now
his fix to field and court storming. Quote. If we
said that the home team, if they storm the field
or court, they're going to lose the game right then
and there, that we'll stop it. That's right. Greg Burn
is trying to make it so that if you storm
the field, the team loses the actual game. Okay. There
is so many infuriating angles from this as to be
maybe the dumbest suggestion that I've ever heard in my
entire life. Uh. First off, at the end of the day,
the sport is about the sport, Okay, And you have
to and it has to be such. If you're going
to change the result of what actually took place on
the field or on the court of battle due to
something that the fans do, you're an idiot. Get out
of here. You do not deserve to be the athletic
director of anywhere, much less Alabama. Secondly, it's just it's
it's it opens I mean, it opens teams to absurd counterattacks.
What if like what, okay, that's the case. What do
you have a bunch of fans of the opposing team
dressed up his home fans and try to initiate a
courts to O but and therefore flipping the result of
the game. Like it's just so freaking dumb and anti
competitive and whiny. And that's every time that Greg Burn
opens his mouth, it's whiny talking about how, oh you know,
how other schools do. And I remember that whole day
reason about how other schools doing it. I was like,
we don't want to be like that. We want to
actually have like initiatives behind it. It's not paid for.
It's all paid for playing, Greg, and you better get
it right because you're asked about to be out of
a job. We'll probably not because like basketball is really good, right,
Actually all the sports are actually pretty good under his tutelage.
But man, this guy's dude freaking pisses me off.
Speaker 3: Du Yeah, that's never gonna happen. It's never going to pass.
And you can be mad about people storming the court
against you or the field or whatever. It's part of
college athletics. And I know that I don't have a
strong stance on it like others. And oh my gosh,
you're this institution. You can't storm the field when you
beat that one. I don't really care about that. I
think it brings excitement. I think that some of the
best memories recently in LSU football memory are when you
know fans have stormed the field like it's great scenes,
players love it, social media loves it. It's like, actually,
wildly enough a recruiting tool. So no, I'm not going
to back Greg on this one. This one is not
going to happen. And it does. Like the last couple
of things that he said have not played well, I
am right there with you.
Speaker 2: No, it's like three things in a row for me. Now,
he go on to say about his opinion quote, I'm
not overly optimistic and understand it's not a popular opinion
in a lot of people's view, and I'll get criticized
for it, but that's okay. I do believe in it.
So he's doubling down. Uh, if somebody can come up
with something that's a better idea that does not include that,
I'm all for it. I'm not saying it's the only
possible way. I'm convinced in my own simple mind that
it would be something that would stop it.
Speaker 3: And look, I I time, I control in thousands and
thousands of fans, Like, how are you going to enforce that?
And if you're a coach, you lose this game because
they decided to get onto the field.
Speaker 2: So what I'm saying that it's like, yes, Greg, that
that would stop it, but it's also a suggestion so
ridiculous as to ignore the entire reason why everybody's there,
which is for the actual game and the result that
ends up from the game. I mean, I don't know.
Do I think the financial what was Sinkie's I thought
to think you have a solution? Or am I thinking
of I mean I remember liking their solution for the
fake in reason they had some courts for me. I mean,
I think the financial penalties are getting pretty imposing, maybe
to do security. I don't know. What is I agree
like the court storming and fields, I mean, happens a
bit too much, and it is, you know, potential player
safety issue takes one time somebody doing something crazy and
all of a sudden it's like a massive deal. But
this ain't it. This ain't it. Maybe it's it's increased further. Uh,
maybe it is increased further fines. Maybe it's now like
I might be more into Jake if you wanted to
do some sort of program penalty, even though that's still
pretty far like are you gonna take away a scholarship
or something like that. Like that could be something to
where it's like, okay, well maybe it's like off the field,
not in that individual game. Then maybe that's an avenue
to explore if things get really really extreme. But no,
not changing the result of the game itself. Greg Anyway, Yeah,
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about here, a little bit of LSU CREWD news. Can
LSU flip a big time quarterback commit who's currently committed
to the Oregon Ducks? And really, look, this is more
about looking forward to the twenty twenty six quarterback situation.
Who you end up bringing in. You're in a pretty
good spot long term right now. I mean, you love
Nuss here. Van Buren's a great insurance possibly with potential
to be the next guy. And of course there's still
Colin Hurley out there as well as he recovers from injury.
I get a kid who bettered himself very young, who
knows where his ceiling is but you got to bring
a guy in every year to try to compete. And
there's a few names you mentioned. Bo Bentley Taylor, four
star quarterback out of Texas. Pretty impressive resume here. Six three,
two hundred. He won the state championship in Texas while
throwing for over thirty three hundred yards, forty two touchdown,
forty seven touchdouts, coleting seventy percent of passes. He also
rushed for nine thirty and sixteen tons. So Bo Bentley's
got crazy numbers. He'll be visiting in March. There's Jake Fett,
who's currently committed to Arizona State sixty one, one ninety of.
It's smaller, but you know, crazy stats himself. Twenty five
hundred the air, thirty two touchs, six undred of the ground,
eleven tones on the ground. But then there's Jonas Williams,
currently committed to the Oregon Ducks. He's the number one
player in Illinois, the number seven quarterback in America. Again,
crazy numbers. Thrown for three thousand yards, forty two touchdowns,
six picks, sixty eight percent completion, seven rushing touchdowns, and
he's been committed to Oregon since August. But Joe Sloan
and this LSUE team's been moving in pitching him, and
it appears that they are gaining some momentum. So I'm
not saying any of this get you too locked in
or fixated on any one guy thus far. But these
are some names are going to continue to get familiar
with over the next year, as maybe somebody who would
battle with a Van Buren or a Hurley in a
in a post Nus era. Also, I think there's something
to be said, Jake for a bit of a symbolic
win if you can flip an organ commit in the
age of Phil Knight or the Dan Lanning or in
Phil Knight era of Oregon.
Speaker 3: I don't know what this means, but you mentioned Joe
Sloan four minutes ago on Twitter. He did put just
a tiger emoji. Hm, and it usually means something, right,
He's like a commitment, probably right, right, So yeah, the
flipmant perhaps maybe? Yeah, I thought it is a little
tiger emoji four minutes ago.
Speaker 2: Taylor, I mean, what do you think about these guys?
Would you throw your lot in with any one of them?
In particular, because as I see it, look they all
seem like good players, and really I find myself less.
You know, obviously somebody like Price Underwood was different because
he is different, Like I always find myself left less
tied to the individual as opposed to kind of the
template or the slot, like you need a quarterback in
every class. So I view these guys as being kind
of interchangeable.
Speaker 4: Yet it too.
Speaker 5: I think Bo Bentley would probably be my first target,
not that the other guys aren't great, but it's going
to be hard to flip someone from Oregon. Bo Bentley
is not committed anywhere. He's in the state of Texas,
where you recruit really well. He's won the state championship
at really high level of football out there in the
state of Texas. I think I think that guy might
be the easiest to get out of the three because again,
Jake Vett committed to Arizona State, Jonas Williams committed to Oregon.
Those are two schools with young coaches the players love,
Like Bo Bentley out there right next to door to you,
not committed anywhere.
Speaker 4: That would probably be my first target.
Speaker 2: It is crazy how much weight a Texas state championship
holds in my head, Like when I see that on
the resume. I'm like, oh, okay, dude, let's get pretty good.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what classification he played in, but
it's still like, oh yeah, this dude's pretty emn good.
I mean, that's that's the probably most competitive high school
football in the country. And I don't mean really from
like a like per capita basis, but there's just so
many people, so many teams, so many good players, that it's, uh,
if you emerge out of time, it's like it's like, uh,
it's like in Friday Night Lights Mike Winchell, you know,
he basically has to win state if he wants to
get that scholarship. Hell, it's not unlike how my old
man was recruited, because here he is. He played safety
all of high school. He starts playing and he kind
of got some talks with MLSUP for safety a little bit, right,
but then uh, senior year, he plays quarterback. But they
barely throw it in the offense. I mean it is
a run first, very vertical slice playbook. They throw it
a little bit. But because he won a state championship,
Northwestern State ends up taking a chance on him. They
were the only ones to give me a chance at quarterback.
So again that does carry with me at a position
where winning, you're so integral to the winning and winning
can speak to your intangils and whatnot. So just a
couple of names Followshoe Fans to be on the lookout
for going into this next era of LSU football.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this quarterback situation is gonna be wild to see
how it finishes out in the future. Like we talked about,
so many different guys top quarterbacks that have ties to
LSU in some way, somehow, or these ties to the state.
So you're in a good position and now you just
have to hope that you choose the right one or
the right one chooses you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is true. And again you know you sign
a quarterback, guys, and who knows if they ever finish here.
It's a position where you have to go seek playing
time no matter how you can, and only one guy
gets to play, so the port will always be able
to kind of also help you manage this roster. But
some names to look out for in that twenty twenty
six class, which you can probably sounds far off, but
you know, ten months Brody in February, guys, it's it
is going to approach faster than you think. Also because
we're all getting older, so we all experience time faster,
and so we are just hurtling towards death, meaning those
ten months are gonna go by way quicker than you
want them to whatever. All right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I know. I feel it more and more every day.
What do they say, the days are long, but the
weeks are short. You didn't really have to take it there,
I know. That's what I think. Yeah, think about constantly.
It's the end. Well, just the fact that again, the
more time you experience, the faster time goes by. And
that's a big bummer. It's big bummer.
Speaker 4: Just slow downstential.
Speaker 2: I know. Uh, the dread is always lurking in the
back of my mind waiting to consume me. A great
Patresa's right, he knew what he's talking about.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 2: When we get back, I'll shift to the NFL for
a bit, as I do want to engoage in the
little Chiefs talk more specifically some Travis Kelsey talk. Keep
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Speaker 2: I not.
Speaker 1: Back to sports talk. Maybe off the bench.
Speaker 2: You so, I said, we're gonna talk about the NFL here,
but there's a pretty interesting LSU basketball conversations started to
take place during the break where yeah, LSU sit here
at twelve to twelve. By the Repelicans are now losing
ten in a row. They're twelve and forty two.
Speaker 5: Let's talk about like the Pelicans wanting to get the
fifty wins. They're closing in on fifty losses.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, it wasn't fifteen. You miss heard fifteen,
fifteen to fifteen. Oh, we can do that, running out
of time, run out of runway. Anyway, though, we talk
about LSU basketball and how look, Matt mcmannon's a good coach.
I believe that. I think he took over an impossible situation,
and I think right now he's kind of in an
impossible situation, uh, because there's just not enough resource and
enough oxygen in the room. Not with LSU football, not
with LSU baseball, not with LSU women's bastle, not with
LSU gymnastics, all of these other stellar programs in which
people are are a much more apt to invest in.
But it does create a sort of chicken and egg debate.
And Alanja, this is what you were kind of speaking
on right before right, can you create the success without
the invest and therefore create the investment or do you
have to have the investment to to create the success
And can a person come in and create the investment
without the success, because that's what I don't see. I
don't see how anyone could come in here and have
success right now for the reason I's named. And I
know that Wade did it without the success and then
was having.
Speaker 6: Kat Taylor's already like shaking his head. I know that,
like Will Wade bent the rules. I get, But now
you have like stuff in place where now you don't
have to Yes, everybody did. Also, you don't have to
bend the rules anymore, so like you don't have that
disadvantage to where like you kind of have to be
secretive about what you're doing.
Speaker 2: So this is though, where I think, ironically, I'm not
sure if that works in Elshu's favor because the prices
are so much higher. Yeah, when it was utter the table,
maybe one hundred thousand could get you a really good player. Yeah,
one hundred thousand and get I mean, what a white mind.
These kids wiped their butt with one hundred thousand dollars
in basketball nowadays, So I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Point, I don't know, I don't know. I mean, look,
I mean.
Speaker 6: No, no, I just was saying, like what I said
during the break is that I feel like we had
less resources and less oxygen in the room after Johnny
Jones was the head coach and then Will Wade, like
I said, and I'm not saying, like y'all know, I
like Will Wade, but I'm not saying bring that's not happening,
but like it'd be lit. But like you went from
Johnny Jones and then Will Wade took over, went to
the NIT Tournament, next season, SEC Championship, and then to
Sweet sixteen, like and I would argue you had way
less oxygen in the room after Johnny Jones. Was nobody
cared about LSU basketball at all when Johnny Jones was
the head coach.
Speaker 4: That's what Will Wade took over.
Speaker 6: And I don't even know that if you can fully
say that, like in that first year, because I really
don't know this for a fact or not. Like in
that first year, was that when he started bending the
rules and paying players and stuff, like.
Speaker 2: I did a very good job of immediately when he
got in town, really diving into who are the movers
and shakers, Who are the big money people that care
about LSU basketball. Who can I get in with to
give me resources? Again, though, I think the issue is
it was just a lower price at the time, and
a legal price, but a lower price on the black market.
Then it appears to be on the open market.
Speaker 6: But investing in McNeice basketball, and he's still like recruiting
really well over there?
Speaker 2: True, true, true, But I mean, is it the sec
like the literal greatest not?
Speaker 4: But that's beside the point.
Speaker 2: I mean, and again, I don't think it's about bringing
back will Way. It's about can you find another way
type who did the thing that you're talking about, where
you come in where nobody cares and you can somehow
create that investment maybe before or you have the great
success on the court.
Speaker 5: I thought McMahon was excellent last season, going nine and
nine with that roster. I don't know if anybody could
have done a better job than that. I personally can't
say the same this season. I think that the program
has taken a big step back this season. I thought
that last year's job, last year's roster management, while in
a tougher situation. He did a lot better job, and
it didn't even look that way at the beginning. I
mean at the beginning, you were what two and five,
two and six and SEC play he went on the run.
He went nine and nine in SEC play. You had
so much confidence going into this year. So, like to
a Launder's point, like it was there, it was there
for the taking. The problem is you're not. I don't
think you're investing into basketball like these other programs because
baseball second here, basketball is second at most programs, Like
right now, the average Ducal basketball player makes what four
hundred thousand probably somewhere around there. There's players now, there's
players now since it's an open market that are like, hey,
I was really good the first two games of the year.
I want an extra two hundred thousand or I'm transferring.
I mean, that's that's the world we live in right now.
So like, while you have more resources, it's also harder.
Speaker 2: I wonder, I mean, I wonder how much you average
Alabama player makes or Auburn player right now, because again,
like we said, we know they I mean especially Auburn
right because we know they have money and basketball is
all they got right now, I mean that that is
that that is their time when they get to because
that's why we all want to win, right, because we're
petty and we want to lord over our friends and
say how much better we are than you. It's been
rough for Auburn on the old gridiron, but they've been
kicking ass in the gym. I actually I'm a little
excited to my mom, I might watching college basketball speaking
Auburn Alabama. Yeah, I'm getting a little excited. How is
your transition to college basketball going on? Serious?
Speaker 3: Jake, I mean really dove in yesterday, I mean pretty
pretty easy, just because I've known it was coming and
so having to make sure to study up over the
last couple of weeks. And gosh, we talked a lot
about Saint John's Villanova yesterday and Saint John's top ten basketball. Yeah,
Saint John's top ten basketball team and they had the
Red Store.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go great Patino. Uh.
Speaker 3: But Villanova, who's not having like their best year to
their standard. Like I talked about Saint John's having to
go to Villanova, and even though Villanova is not great
this year, like that win was going to mean something
because it would kind of get them over a hump
of a blue blood being in front of them, and
of course they lost the game. It was a closed game.
It was a great game. I watched most of the
second half. But like, those are the little storylines that
we're talking about now. You know, teams like Saint John's
trying to get over the hump. The SEC dominance five
of the top ten teams in the country right now
out of the SEC, and the ACCS only got two
ranked teams, Dupe being a top five team, then Clemson
at the back end of it. But it's crazy to
see the power shift in basketball now going to the SEC.
Speaker 2: Investment money passion. Did you see Karl Ravitch kind of
got got by what I would call maybe a bad
producer moment. He was. He was on the call and
he was talking about how like since and he did
the date whenever conference play started, let's say it's January fifth.
He was like, you know, since January fifth, the SEC
is eighty two. At eighty two, so like, there's not
like a super dominant team amongst a bunch. Well, the
problem is, guys, it's all conference games. Yeah, and there's
a winner and loser in every game, So it's literally
impossible to be anything but exactly five hundred. He made it.
He made the point live during the game. Dude, Hey,
it happened to everybody. It happened to everybody. Somebody put
that bugget and be fair. To be clear with me.
For a second, I was like, Okay, I don't get
why everybody thinks this is so dumb, and the I
was like, oh oh. It like took me a minute
as I'll be like, oh, okay, well, of course, actually
every conference is five hundred since conference play started. But yeah,
I might watch a little over Nolabama on Saturday.
Speaker 3: There's another there's another great game on the women's side
of things, and that is I believe tonight with number
one u c LA taking on number six USC.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's gonna be a great game as well.
Speaker 3: U c L a the only undefeated team in women's
hoops as we mentioned earlier. So no, it's it's it's
definitely starting to heat out.
Speaker 5: Andrew Watkins the USC like maybe the most popular player
in the country.
Speaker 2: See Taylor. That's how it's done right there, bo job
just have just have a name to establish legitimacy to
throw out there. It's very Stugatzi and of you. Very
well done, Very well done. I gotta sharpen my college
basketball knives. I gotta, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta
get in the lab a little bit. I feel I
gotta be honest with Jake. I feel a little overwhelmed, like,
how do you how do you learn college basket? Like
not like the sport itself, right, but like who do
you follow? What do you read? How do you stay
on top.
Speaker 3: Of field of sixty eight? Great follow on Twitter, I
mean great follow Matt McCall, former head basketball coach for
UMass and others lean on him all the time. Okay,
and then Aaron Torres sports radio man man, I will
hit airing up so quick and Matt McCall. Matt McCall, McCall, McCall,
McCall or McCall McCall, m c c A L L
A great follow on Twitter as well, All right, perfect,
former Florida assistant during those back to back national champe Wait,
this is a different Matt McCall. Yeah, when we had
him on, we have a segment. Good McCall bat McCall.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's great. Yeah, that's just top tier radio there.
Speaker 6: I'm not really on the college basketball train. Quite yet, but.
Speaker 4: A lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm jealous of right NBA team. Uh you know
what I forgot you? We never played here that I
really want to. So Also, this out of touch I am.
I didn't even realize Rick Patino is Saint John's head
coach now, but the two years that clip a couple
of weeks ago where he was like, uh, you know, whatever,
what do you say? Whatever my basketball team misses free
throws out? Yeah? You know, inside I want to kill myself.
The outside of I'm like, don't worry, guys, you got it.
You got it next time. Other than one, Patino's a
quote king to.
Speaker 4: Be fair, that's every Pelicans.
Speaker 2: Fan when I did love college basketball growing up. Actually,
Saint John's is one of my favorite teams, the old
Eric Barkley Saint John's teams. That and probably uh because
it was a front runner little kid or Matteine Cleaves
and Mo Pete and whatnot. Tom is a back in
the day Mo Pete Pelican great.
Speaker 6: Tom is a handshaking the error is one of my favorite.
Speaker 2: Tom is the moment I haven't seen that.
Speaker 6: I think the other team, like snubtack just started.
Speaker 2: Uh. Anyway, when we get back, maybe they okay, Well,
actually we still got a lot to get the We
can talk about Truvor. I'll let you all decide. We
can talk about trump' kelse, you talk about Matt Patricia
being hired as Ohio State defensive coordinator. Uh, we can
talk about the Super Bowl record numbers that it's Drew
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Speaker 1: Welcome in to the best morning sports this show around
off the bench with Esther and t Bob.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, and y'all welcome back to otb survived six
three in the body Ford YouTube chat says else use
land a commitment for twenty twenty six off at the
Blindman Briceton Martinez. Martinez becomes the sixth addition to this
class and the second old linement for Brad Davis.
Speaker 6: Is that what Joe Slane was tweeting.
Speaker 2: Now probably right, uh, and that's what the ride goes
on an invent I mean probably. Leonardo Vinci says, good news,
but commitment to this early are as meaningful as a
tea ball pledge to stop drinking. Uh. Okay again, guys,
I've done a shoot. I I'm man, I'm on about
thirty six hours of a dry February. So again, grats
to me, I haven't had a drink since playing n
C doble a two nights ago. To a lesson, I
never drink. I didn't even drink a Delta celtzer.
Speaker 6: What's that?
Speaker 2: What? What's that? Uh? I don't know. There's like a
million different companies, you know. There's like TG shelters that
are putting around now that you can get from like uh,
crushery stores, pretty chill.
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t bop and alcoholic shelters.
Speaker 2: No, no, no CBD.
Speaker 4: So it was like, wait, now we're not killting the selters.
Speaker 2: Did's go to TEK cancer. Yeah? I got canceler game forevergo.
And the thing is people have to pay us for that,
and and and then Curves I didn't want it anymore.
And that's cool. I freaking love Curbside. It's all good.
I don't even mind. Uh. Shaunton's picture in t bop
is a young chunky kids Serenade's childhood crush. Again. I
wasn't serenading because I didn't know this music. I wasn't
like Jake.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: I tried singing blank with eighty two Yeah, and it didn't.
It just didn't go as well. You know, play in
Bay against other I haven't played a lot of it casually.
I only play in my Dynasty. It's kind of crazy.
It's just the only video games I freaking play now, dude,
it's bumming me the hell out paying any miniature is
not playing any video games, stupid ass. Life is taking
over all of my hobbies. Even last night, I'm like
exhausted at nine pm, uh, you know, freshly engaged in coitus,
and I desperately wanted to go spray paint some minies
and I just didn't have it in me. Just turned
on my uh Roman Parthia book on tape and passed
out Roman perch. Excuse me.
Speaker 6: It was like five and I was struggling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh man, Yeah, the yesterday afternoon was real. At
one point I text my wife like, I'm struggling. Yeah,
I'm in a bad spot all right now. So whatever, though,
you know what I mean to do. I need to
shut the hell up and stop being such a freaking
loser because I love life and I'm very excited and
very blessed and it's awesome. So with that in mind,
let's talk about Ohio State. Hiring Matt Patricia to be
their new defensive coordinator. I don't know I feel about
this move. Now. I know that it's funny. All the
reports are like him at Belichick because actually last year
he wasn't even in football. He was producing Bill Belichick's
content for the thirty thirteen like he was. He was
Bill Belichick's literal producer, which is very funny. I mean,
they are truly biffles, even though Belichick ends up choosing
his son over him to go to you and see
with him. But they I know, right, but they are
like he basically is a I mean again like Taylor.
He made him the freaking offensive coordinator, which was the
ultimate jump to the shark Belchick comman. Here's my problem, Jake,
with are the questions that I have about Matt Patricia.
Matt Patricia strikes me as a very smart defensive coordinator.
He was a member of the Patriots organization, which really
embraced the NFL idea that look, man, if you can
handle it mentally or you're not going to do the
right thing, there's a million guys out there that are
physically basically just as good as you. You know, we'll
cut your ass and we'll bring in the next guy. So,
like we always talk about it in the NFL, players
have to rise to the level of the coaches. In college,
you have to work with what you got and you
have to meet the players where they are. I don't
know that I believe that Matt Patricia will be able
to meet the players there. I just always hear stories
about like Jimbo back, and I guess Jimbo did really well,
but about Jimbo back the day and now you know
how complicated sometimes the offense was for players here. And
I don't know. I just complexity in college does not
always play well. But you talked to Patricia recently.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I talked to him last week for about thirty minutes,
and I was actually blown.
Speaker 2: Away with his personality. Okay, cool, Wait.
Speaker 3: This doesn't feel like the guy that we saw with
the pencil and the hat and the beard, and he
had a very engaging personality, was great on a wow,
told great stories. He saw one of his former Patriot
players that we just got through interviewing, and they saw
each other and it was like this huge embrace, Like
my god, what's going on. I'm like, okay, well, it's
the players like this guy as well. And so I was,
I mean, well, I saw him on the rundown. I'm like,
Matt Patricia, is he gonna like give us anything complete opposite? Wow?
And look, this is somebody that is incredibly talented. And
now I know his head coaching days in Detroit didn't
go well, but outside of Dan Campbell's who has in Detroit.
Every year that he was a Patriots defensive coordinator, they
finished top ten in scoring defense every single year, right,
I believe it was from what twenty twelve to twenty seventeen, So,
and I know Belichick's heavily involved there, but Matt Patricia
obviously picked some things up from Belichick. And so when
you lose a Jim Knowles to Penn State, like you
got to go make kind of a power move. And
I think this is that. I think it's a really
good football coach. And again, based off conversation with him,
that's the personality that he shows in these living rooms.
I think it's going to bode well for a hostate.
Now here's also the thing too, and we know this
coordinators aren't like day in and day out recruiting. Now,
they still got a recruit Yeah, but position coaches are
getting things to the coordinator who gets it to the
head coach. So he just has to kind of be
the finisher, kind of a closer there at the back end.
Speaker 2: Go to some high.
Speaker 3: Schools because look, he is Matt Patricia. He was an
NFL head coach, and so he's known across the country
and so I don't think that portion of it is
as big of a deal as maybe at once would
have been. And then you know, he's got resources that
he can call in and say, hey, tell them about
me right, name after name after name that people that
could you know, vouch for him with these high school
recruits in their families.
Speaker 2: These solid points, but hadn't not considered And it's a
little bit of the full metal alchemist law of equivalent exchange,
where you lose to Chip Kelly to the NFL and
you bring an NFL guy in opposite sides of the ball.
But wait, did they end up doing OC? Did they
end up going with hardline? Is that official? Yep? Oh,
there's a lot of pressure on it. Now he's been
there before, but you know, then Chip got it.
Speaker 3: Tim Moulton's also going to be co defense coordinator for
Ohio State. He's got he's got a big NFL background
as well. He's been at Ohio State since I believe
twenty twenty two, so defensive back Sky and I think
it's actually a smart move because Patricia is going to
be calling the defense. But you've got now a co
defense coordinator that has been at Ohio State for multiple years.
He's integrated in the team, in the community, and so
you can kind of pair him with this new blood
of Matt Patricia that a thing's probably going to sell
better to those that were still maybe doubting Patricia.
Speaker 2: So soldo by Ryan Dane Ohio State as their coordinator.
Diss are now filled. All right, let's fill out the
rest of this hour when we get back here in
O TV Off the Bench.
Speaker 1: Welcome in to the best morning sports this show around
Off the Bench with Esther and T Bob.
Speaker 2: I wanted too much what yow he be? T Love,
Jake Alongre and the hanging out with you man. Oh guys.
Big news that I know you're all waiting for. Drinks
up rings. The Power season three officially confirmed. It got
the green light, Baby got renewed. Sourron is not canceled yet.
By the way, I really did like season two. I
get it's sounding. No it does. It's not gonna be
for everybody. Very slow start, but a very strong fit.
Okay that Lord of the brain. You know what else?
I love NFL football, man, and uh, you know who
else loves NFL football, America. It's time to basically stop
comparing the NFL to anything full stop, maybe save for
like a Jake Paul fight U because it just exists
on a different plane, like the thing that. So, in
case you missed it, even though the Super Bowl was
hot garbage in terms of quality of game, they set
a new record because of course they did up three
percent from last year, with an average of one one
hundred and twenty seven point seven million viewers one twenty
seven point seven peaked at one thirty seven point seven.
The game was garbage, but it's kind of like junk food, fastood,
whatever your favorite comfort food is in that Like, it
doesn't really matter if it's garbage. I'm gonna still stuff
my face with it. You put a plate a cheap
mall sesame chicken and low maine in front of my face,
I'm eating the whole damn thing. And then I'm getting
egg rolls. You know, the NFL is the same way.
It actually doesn't even matter at some points where the
games are good or not. You're just watching because you
freaking love it. So like NBA, MLB college football, stop
comparing yourself. You know, it's okay. The NFL's a beast
unto itself and that's fine. Doesn't mean you're not good.
You're just not the NFL, and you never will be.
I love Grandma's Boy. It'll never be Godfather Part two.
I Love Grandma's Gay was great, so good, fun, fun, fun,
fun time, fun time for all. It's not going to
be not winning any oscar stuff, you know, but that's
okay too. It's still good. It's really good one twenty seven.
And it's funny because if it was a good game,
the number probably would have gotten insane because it peaked
about halfway the second quarter. Yeah, so like it went
down as the blowout continue. These people hate watching too, though,
I think. I mean, look, definitely, that.
Speaker 4: Was my question, Like, is first half or second half higher?
Speaker 2: No? First half? Okay? No? No, I mean definitely. Also,
like the Super Bowls such an event, right, I mean,
I don't know about y'all, but like we planned our
entire day around. You know, had it on the TV outside.
Other the kids kind of watch them inside, but you know,
I had it, had it on as much as possible.
I loved all the run up to it, the Fox Freau,
just just all of it, just living in football for
the day, the commers, all that stuff, all that stuff.
So it's definitely an event. But man, one twenty seven
point seven on a bad game, it's crazy. Nobody's ever
gonna touch it. MLB you'll never get there. Yeah, you
get their college football, you'll never get there.
Speaker 3: It is now what was the college number, twenty something,
high twenties, which is massive, good number, but yeah, but
it ain't the NFL.
Speaker 2: It's a beast onto itself. Smile the dracket. College baseball.
Speaker 3: We love it, we love it, we're looking forward to it,
but not everybody. I mean, I've got co host on
serious that live in like Big ten country, They're like,
y'all get that excited for a baseball?
Speaker 2: Oh get it just means more baby right like nowhere
Actually is the SEC slogan more apt than college base
Hiss me off those The ACC is really good, but
they just don't care. And that makes me angry. Yeah true.
Our two in the books Big Deal, No big Deal,
Munchies and more coming up next. Keep be locking off
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