Speaker 1: Sanna's little helpers, Jacob Hester and Tea Bob Aber are
taking over off the Bench, presented by All Star Toyota.
Tune in for some naughty and nice sports talk this
Christmas season, live from the Mercedes Benz of Baton Rouge Studio.
Here's Jacob Hester and t Bob a Bear, say.
Speaker 2: Yo and welcome in.
Speaker 3: It's you O TV one, O four five, ESPN, ben Rouge,
Jacolandra and Tata here with you. I don't know when
Tea Bob's going to be here. Just found out kind
of when you did that. He's not going to be
here for the first segment, So we'll see when t
Bob gets here. Like Tate said, we certainly still have
a lot of news to get to.
Speaker 2: But before we get there, how's everybody doing this morning?
Speaker 4: Doing well?
Speaker 5: I also didn't know Ta Bob wasn't going to be
here until Tita told me this morning, so sixty seconds ago,
shout out t Bob.
Speaker 2: Purple party Dad would a little too hard. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I know, I did seem.
Speaker 3: I did seem dressed up last night though in his costume,
So he's feeling himself a little.
Speaker 5: Bit Yeah, it's not what I thought the outfit was
going to be.
Speaker 4: I don't know why.
Speaker 5: I imagine, like when you say purple party, Dad, I'm thinking,
like fool, do you imagine.
Speaker 2: Like Grimace from mcdonald'. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I actually really did, like full body suit of like
him just wearing like a purple type.
Speaker 2: Okay, it was more Willy Wonka. Yeah, it was big
Willy Wonka vibes. Tit. How we doing?
Speaker 6: We're doing good. Apparently I'm the only one that T
Bob told. So who would have thought that out of
the three of us, I would have been in the
loop with T Bob? I would have thought I would
have been last. But uh no, So he told me, uh,
we'll just go ahead and lay out the whole show.
He said, Hey, I'm gonna be here either second or
third segment. Jake, you're leaving it like around eight thirty,
is right to go catch your plane Army Navy. T
Bob's like, well, I'll be here, but then I'm probably
leaving at like nine to fifteen, But that's okay. Tell
you can handle the last couple of segments, right, And
then he just was kind of leaving and I was like, yeah,
I guess so, So that's that's our show for today.
Speaker 5: The BUYEU for YouTube chat telling us that he's on
the news right now, so should we put it on
w BRZ.
Speaker 2: Wait, he's he's on the news probably for the nuts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, as long as he's not on the news
for doing something after the nutcracker, right right, that's okay, Okay.
Speaker 2: That would be worse if again after again, Like I.
Speaker 3: Don't care, none of us care, but we just didn't know,
had no idea.
Speaker 4: We could have had it all. I know, we could
have tuned into him. He didn't tell us.
Speaker 2: It's all right. Bob has a lot of skills, Yeah,
the least of which is communication, right, probably the worst
communicator I've ever been around in my adult life.
Speaker 4: Which we work in communications.
Speaker 2: So it's kind of to be fair to him. Though
he didn't get his degree in communication. That is fair,
got in general.
Speaker 4: Studies, general studies.
Speaker 7: I mean, it's why he's a bad communicator.
Speaker 3: It's why he's a bad communicator he did not go
to school for It's okay, we'll communicate until he gets here,
and again we don't.
Speaker 2: Know when that is.
Speaker 3: But Tata did kind of lay out the biggest news
that we're going to get to here today. Garrett Nessmeyer
coming back as the LSU quarterback, and some people assumed
we believed maybe he would, but you look at the
draft boards and he's pretty high on a lot of
people's lists.
Speaker 2: So we'll react to it.
Speaker 3: But here's the video that Garrett Usmeyer put out yesterday
telling everyone he was coming back for another year.
Speaker 8: Proverbs thirty verse five says that everywhere to God has falls,
and he's a shield to those who take refuge in him.
He has blessed me with an amazing family, circle of
support and the ability to.
Speaker 2: Allow me to live out my dream.
Speaker 8: The fact that I am even in a position to
make this type of announcement is truly a testament to
His true glory and love. Philippians four thirteen says that
I can do all things through price.
Speaker 3: Re strengthens me.
Speaker 8: When you put your mind, body, and soul into Him,
disguise the limit for anyone. No dream is impossible with
him on your side. Proverb sixteen to nine says that
the heart of a man plans his way, but the
Lord establishes his steps. Since a young kid, all I
have ever wanted was to grow up and play in
the NFL.
Speaker 7: God brought me to LSU for a reason.
Speaker 8: I had to observe and trust in his timing and
his plan for me time and time again. I stayed
at LSU because of that reason. And again I feel
like my time at LSU is not over. I'm officially
announcing that I am returning for my final year of
eligibility and I am fully committed to bring in this
university a championship. My teammates, coaches, and the fans will
get the absolute best out of me every single day
until we complete that goal.
Speaker 2: Go Tigers.
Speaker 7: We're taking receipts and you know we'll see at the
national championship.
Speaker 2: Garrett not smyer shuffle pass Shabi and timeads. How's call?
Speaker 7: That's why a man's at all good?
Speaker 6: Scene to the left around.
Speaker 9: The Carter Well touchdown, a touchdown, the tray is great.
Speaker 2: Slings it downfield one on one.
Speaker 6: Looking for the ball forrit Jilton makes a grab a
marker touchdown, sniggers.
Speaker 3: All right, and there it is again, Garrett Nessmeyer coming
back for his last year of eligibility here at LSU.
And there's a lot of people that you have a
lot to say about it. A lot of positive stuff
and if you're in the negative camp, well, I'll sit
down and I'll watch football with you any day of
the week and we can have a conversation on why
this is a massive deal for LSU. Garrett Nesmeyer through
for the six most yards in the country a year ago,
twenty six touchdowns. I know the eleven interceptions. When you
look at some of those, obviously, you know some are
things that Garrett has to have back and some were
just dictated by the way the game was going, lack
of run game, some of those situations.
Speaker 2: But this is a massive deal.
Speaker 3: There's no way that you can be an LU football
fan and not be excited about Garrettnssmeyer coming back for
another year.
Speaker 2: You don't now have to panic and.
Speaker 3: Go into the portal and try to find somebody you
think might help you.
Speaker 2: You know Garrett Nesmeyer can help you.
Speaker 3: Right, you look at in the SEC he was second
in passing yards. Right, You're getting big time production coming back.
Speaker 2: You're looking at a quarterback that had one hundred and
forty quarterback rating.
Speaker 3: You looking at somebody that was in his first year
as a starter. And I know it's a thing that
we all do. But when you look at other guys,
even Heisman Trophy winners here in Van Rouge, their first
year it didn't look as good as Garrett Nesmeyer's first year.
Allow him the chance to go through those first year
growing pains, they weren't real painful. He had a lot
of great moments actually his first year starting at LSU.
Speaker 2: And so I'm firing up about this. I think it's
a big deal.
Speaker 3: I think it puts LSU in a completely different situation
than if he would have gone to the NFL Draft,
where guys like mel kiper Junior had him as a
fourth overall quarterback in this draft. And so I think
he's even passed up some guys, you know, talking to
different people that I know throughout the NFL, He's passed
up guys like Carson Beck.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of people like him better than Queen
you were.
Speaker 3: So he he was going to have an opportunity to
maybe even go down to Mobile and play himself into
who knows, right, second round into the first round quarterback.
Speaker 2: So he had a decision to make here.
Speaker 3: He makes the decision to come back to LSU and Taytay,
I know you've got some thoughts on Garrett Nesmyer coming
back as well.
Speaker 6: I'm glad you pointed it out, Jake, that look at
the two. Look anytime you follow two Heisman winners, it's
very hard, right, and it's human nature for us to say, oh,
look how big of a step down he is from
Joe Burrow. Look how big of a step down he
is from Jade and Daniels. Jake, you look at his
first year numbers, and I'm not saying he's better than
Daniels and Burrough. They're the two best players to ever
played at this university. Obviously his numbers are better, though,
I mean across the board, completion percentage, yards, touchdowns, they're
all better. I mean, sure, Jayden had eleven rushing touchdowns
his first year. That's an element he added that nobody
else could. But there were so many people after that
South Carolina game say, look how bad he struggled. He
threw this interception and if the block in the back
penal he wasn't called South Carolina loses that game, Burrow
and Daniels never would have done that.
Speaker 7: Burrow was pretty average in the SEC his first year.
Speaker 6: Jaden Daniels's first SEC road game was against Auburn. He
was eight for twenty for eighty yards. Being a first
year starting quarterback in the SEC is very hard. And
then now that nos Meyer is coming back, Jay, can
I interest you in Fernando Mendoza?
Speaker 7: You want him as his starting quarterback next year?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: From cal elite Murphy, Miller, Moss, Jackson, Arnold, Caden Salter,
that's probably one of those guys you were gonna go get. Yeah,
if Garrett Nosmeyer doesn't come back, I just I've read
so many negative comments of people being like great, I
wonder how many games he's gonna lose this this year.
Find me a kid on LSU's roster or in the
transfer portal that is better than Garrett nosmyck, you're not
gonna do it.
Speaker 7: I mean, this is huge.
Speaker 6: This is the biggest offseason news we're going to get.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you look at the quarterback that were ahead of
him in passing yards. I mean you talk about Jackson,
darr Shadira Sanders, cam Ward, Kyle McCord. So you're talking about,
you know, really really good quarterbacks. I mean, you've got
a Heisman finalist in there, should Sanders and cam Wore
probably won two as far as quarterbacks off the board
in this upcoming NFL draft, and so this is this
is massive news. And when I see the negative stuff,
it really is, We're gonna sound like such.
Speaker 2: An old man.
Speaker 3: It usually is from you know, younger LSU fans that
only know or not only know, but they know well.
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow and Jaydon Daniels. Hey, look, I mean you're
talking about two top five quarterback seasons. Maybe ever, I
mean according to QBR they are both top five quarterback seasons. Ever,
Joe's is probably number one, Jayden's isn't far off of it.
And you can, you know, you can have the debate
and where those fall, but it wasn't in their first year.
It's what we keep going back to if there's gonna
be some real growth for Garrett Nessmayer. Now, I know
some people inside the by four chat also talking about
the lack of ability. A lot of people have given
themselves over to only being able to win with a
dual threat quarterback.
Speaker 3: He's not going to ever be what we saw with
Jane Daniels, where against a team like Florida he can
pull it down and go seventy five yards. It's never
going to be that. But that's okay. Can he give
you what Matt Flynn gave you in two thousand and seven.
Can he give you the times that Joe did in
twenty nineteen. Can he get close to that? Because there
was times with their legs that they were out there
and they won games for you. Maybe it was off
one scramble, maybe it was off one time they stepped
up in the pocket. He does need to, you know,
improve in that area. There was times where you would
like to see him maybe tucket and run. He started
doing a little bit at the end of the year.
But you can win a championship without a dual threat quarterback.
Does it look different? Absolutely it does. You got to
get there, Like, if you're not going to have the
dual threat quarterback, you got to get the run game
more consistent. We saw flashes, but not nearly enough. You've
got a talented running back room. As far as talent,
I mean, you could stack it up with whoever you
want to. I mean, you've got Kayden Durham coming back,
who's a freshman All American. And you've got true bona
fide five star running backs that are coming in as well.
And we'll see what happens with Caleb Jackson. Can you
get the offensive line on the same page. Can you
figure out the running game philosophy that you want to
go out there and be more successful with a lot
of north south This year didn't have a lot of
success when you went north south. You did when you
went east and west. You might not like that, but
that's where you were better at. You know, Can you
play to your strengths better in the run game. You
gotta go get some tight ends. You gotta get some
blocking tidend. You gotta go get a why. And we
talk about y's and f's all the time here, right,
A why is a little bit more athletic of a tackle.
We like to call those a yackle. Right, you need
one of those. You need some f's.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: F is your modern day tight end, your you know,
your Travis Kelsey's Antonio Gates, you know from from years ago.
Like those are f's. They line up in the slot.
Sure they can do some wili.
Speaker 2: Things, but they're never going to be confused for a while.
Speaker 3: You know, Mason Taylor kind of fell into that category here.
You got to go get like two or three tight ends,
and you've got to go get one that's a mauler
in the run game.
Speaker 2: So there's things that you still have to work on.
Speaker 3: It is not all sunshine and rainbows here, but this
getting Garrettnsmeyer back is massive for LSU if they have
any hopes of going to play for an SEC championship
and trying to get into the college football playoffs. So
big news for LSU. Certainly will react to it throughout
the show. Get t BOP's thoughts whenever or if he
does decide to come today, and I know he's big
time and he's on the news, so we'll see if
we can come get him to come back to Little
OTB here.
Speaker 2: We will take your break again.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of news across college football, including maybe
the greatest football coach of all time is joining us
here in the.
Speaker 2: College football circus.
Speaker 3: We'll update you on that story as well when we
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Baton Rouge y'all enjoy this.
Speaker 4: Music while I go get tea bob real quick.
Speaker 2: Okay, Hey, look, you don't have to temp me with
a good time.
Speaker 3: I've seen Boublaying concert like four times, so I can
certainly enjoy some Christmas Boublay Tay Tay. When I'm sitting here,
I'm looking at the college football playoff quarterbacks and how
many like are dual threat because that's become a conversation
inside to buy you Ford, Chad, I mean you've got
a mixture of both.
Speaker 6: I'm glad you brought this up. I was I had
pulled up the bracket right when you were talking about
that earlier.
Speaker 3: I mean, Kay, Klebnick can can run. Somebody not a
not a runner. Queen Yours not a runner. Nico is
not really a runner. Will Howard's a runner. I'll good
than that. Jennings a Decimy is a runner. Drew Rowler
can run, but it's he's not really He's not known
for his running ability.
Speaker 2: Curis Art not a runner. Riley Leonard certainly a runner. Georgia,
we'll see. I mean Gunner course stocked that. I mean
either of neither of them. You know they can you
know they can be effective if a play breaks down.
Speaker 3: You know a lah what we were talking about earlier
with Flynn and Joe in those championship seasons. Uh boys state, Nope,
Dylan Gabriel if he needs to, but you know, not
the thing he specializes in. Then there's no state. You've
got Levitt who's athletic but not a dual threat.
Speaker 9: Is that?
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's not a vanky to take off like he
certainly can't. He reminds me a lot of like you're
talking about with club Nick, like can take off it
wrong and can be effective.
Speaker 7: He'sn't really looking to do that.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh no, no microphone for Purple party. Well, we
didn't know when you're going to be here, so.
Speaker 3: I thought Taylor was really about to answer to the
clap of putting the microphone on. Uh tea bops here.
I mean I didn't, I didn't. I didn't know you
were going to be I know I'm setting it up.
I know you're gonna be missing today, but I heard
you were on the news just minutes ago.
Speaker 2: Yes, can you hear me?
Speaker 7: Can you hear me?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yes, Oh that's just correct. It was media day for
Ah the Nutcracker a Tail on the Bayou, an original
production right here in bat Rouge for over thirty years.
And of course the talking to the down is myself
reprising my role as the Purple Party Dad. Now, as
you can see, I've even come in costume for today's show. Yes,
very excited. Seriously, guys, very excited. It's gonna be also
going down this weekend. Okay, we just did. We had
tech rehearsals last night. We just did our media hits.
The dolls are great players. Everybody was great after the show.
At the end of the try, I gotta leave early.
Tailor's gonna take over. Jake's flying out. I gotta go back.
We're doing our There's one of the dress rehearsals is
a school performance, so we're gonna go perform from a
bunch of students and whatnot. So yeah, but I actually
left everything in the dressing room, so I have no computer,
no nothing of a phone. But how about Bill Belichick
at you and see huh oh, Billy Beatie bed like
it's so crazy. Look shut up a lot of the stairs.
The costume.
Speaker 7: I love the outfit. You look great. This is the
dapperest I've ever seen.
Speaker 9: You.
Speaker 7: Love I'm disappointed in the costume. And I'm gonna tell
you why.
Speaker 6: Why is that I wanted purple tights, velvet, purple shirt
with like a purple hat.
Speaker 2: I mean, I want his vest tailor.
Speaker 7: I wanted like purple headed too, to fix.
Speaker 2: My hair actually tucked that in. Don't want any shirt
leaking out there? Is that tailor just for you?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Like, how do they how do you know?
Speaker 6: Ish ish ish?
Speaker 2: Yes? Fitted fitted might be more appropriate. I got some
suspinders on under here. He'll hold the pants pants a
little big. But we're gonna go take a huge no
no though to to take the costume anywhere outside of
the theater, so to get very special miss Salty, huge
no neud to drink or eat anything in the costumes. Well,
that's what I was gonna say. It's that's the incredibly
convenient that I have that y'all know me, Like I
have that very weird quirk that I do where I
fill up coffee cups with water and then just drink
water out of the coffee cups. I've alway done in
my whole life. I don't know why, so it works out.
So I'm only breaking one rule taking the costume out
of out of the FAA again. Guys, go get your tickets.
If remember, if it's more than like ninety bucks, then
it's you're on a resale site. You're getting scammed. You're
gonna go to Bataruge. I think it's Benruge Ballet dot org,
but if you start, it's Betuge Ballet Theater. Go to
the Banneruge website, the dot org Battery's Ballet Theater website,
and then get your tickets to there and you're thirty
nine bucks. We've got Saturday showings at two and six,
Sunday at two and six, and I'll be doing Saturday
too and Sunday at six. Very fun though, man, I'm
telling you, there's nothing like that stage.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 2: I have to spend weeks and weeks and weeks practicing
in the studio and it's just mirrors and wood paneling
and ballet bars, and all of a sudden you into
the stage and there's the beautiful sets, there's snow, there's
special effects, there's lights, it's a beautifully refurbished raising Canes theater.
It's just awesome. Just infuses you with a holiday spirit
and creativity. That uh, it's it's it's like my favorite
feeling in the entire world. Can't wait, can't wait? But yeah,
you all should all come out. Who's coming this weekend? Guys,
I'll be in Washington, DC. Lucky. Excuse a Landra You coming?
Maybe off? Maybe? Do you have something else to do?
Speaker 4: We're gonna go to the zoo lights.
Speaker 2: Oh that that does seem actually like that. That seems
very fun. Also, I think Burn and Gardens has some
pretty sweet looking holiday lights. Tonight you're going to night? Okay? Great?
And I know you love doing family activities, so you're
ass better be either Saturday at two or Sunday at six? Okay?
Speaker 4: Is it only Saturday and Sunday?
Speaker 2: Yes, only this weekend. If you want to go Cracker
Saturday two and sixth, Sunday two and six, it's And
remember we've got you know, we've got all the wonderful
children from the uh Baton Rouge Belly Theater, but then
also professional dancers coming into reprise some of the main roles.
The claarers are great. Everything's great. I love it. It's
the best their original production though, guys, this is not
h take it from anywhere else. Molly and Sharon back
in nineteen ninety two made this for Louisiana. So this
is literally bespoke to Baton Rouge itself.
Speaker 5: The entire production is so if I said, Hey, I
want to bring my neighbor's kid and my neighbors it's
a great, great time, me like, okay, here's four tickets.
Speaker 6: Not at all.
Speaker 2: No, I even bought my own family tickets to support
the cause.
Speaker 3: Do you think this man who won't give a father
of five a Rouse's gift card, but I'll give it
to a random stranger, you think he's given you free tickets?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I like so. First off, I ain't even give
my wife free tickets. I made her y five man
five nice tickets. No, dude, trying to support the theater?
What you think you think support? And you just can
you subsist on just uh bubblegum and dreams? No, you
need cash, Okay, I mean some supporting the theater. You
like the NFL. They may And also you continue to
publicly advocate for me for to to rig the Rouses
gift card system in your favor against the general public. Yes,
in your favor. Former NFL player, multi multi business owner
National Show, I cannot rig this system to give you
a gift card. I can't do.
Speaker 3: You are the opposite of Jeremy Renter when I come
and say we got to go some stuff up.
Speaker 7: Yeah, look, you want to tell out the whole details,
tell me this. Are you in the writer?
Speaker 2: There's no good, no doubt. Jeremy Renner. That's toxic behavior. No, yes,
that is behavior A thousand percent. That is calling that
foxhole behavior. It's somebod who aspired to that is toxic
masculinity writ large. Oh man, yes.
Speaker 4: To me, and you're like, let's go do this. You
wouldn't want me to tell you what.
Speaker 2: No, I should hope you'd be like, what are we doing?
We're gonna go kill someone. They didn't say that. I
don't think I'm into that. You just set them down
for whatever you need. I don't think you want to
go beat someone up. I don't want to beat someone up.
I haven't been a fight in years. You just want
me to go fight? Like what we fight? Do they
harm your family? We don't know. It doesn't matter, we
don't know. We don't to me, what if they just
hurt your feelings, I'm sorry, get over it. If they
harmed your family, okay, then let's do something it absolutely
matters to me. Yeah, context matters. Like the college football playoffs.
Speaker 6: Context doesn't matter. But like to Jake's point, you're in
trouble the same either way. It doesn't really matter what
they did.
Speaker 2: If you not, I don't do anything. I'm not in trouble.
Speaker 6: No, But I'm saying, like, if they gave you a
good enough excuse you you go you beat these people up,
you're in trouble either way.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, but I am not lawful good lawful I am.
I believe it's neutral good, which means that I will
do what I view to be morally correct, so the
law doesn't come into play. But again, if it's just
your feelings hurt, I'm not gonna go beat that guy up.
He skimmed you out of some money, Okay, then maybe,
you know, maybe we show up, do a little intimidating
and Whatnot's come on, now, we don't want to have
to get this money back the hard way. They hurt
a family member, then we're in, then we're in. But
I don't think that's crazy.
Speaker 9: I do.
Speaker 3: I think in this room, and I think Tay somewhere
in the middle, I think he might be willing a
lot is my call in this room.
Speaker 2: It's fine.
Speaker 4: I grabbed my bag and we're going, Yeah, it's fine.
Speaker 2: I'm just said that you won't y'all won't get to
be cell mates because you'll be in the female population
and he'll be putting the.
Speaker 4: Male popular just identify as a male.
Speaker 2: Damn. There you go, y'all. Could y'all could y'all could
be best friends till the end. You know you're gonna
get real.
Speaker 4: Close in that cell the other child molesters like that
one guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean, look, if you're gonna go, if
you're gonna go for a long time, you might as
well muss well form your own gang. Now. Granted that's
probably gonna invite a lot of trouble as well. Maybe
just read Hunt said we're fighting. Yell, let me know
when and where?
Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly, see exactly. It's toxic.
Speaker 2: I don't agree. I don't agree from the beginning. What
would you do for your best friend? Then? What do
you mean I do the same thing? What do you
mean your very best friend's Like?
Speaker 3: If black will call you say hey, I need you
in West monro right now, some stuff's going down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd start driving. I'd be like what's going on?
Explain the situation. If his phone died, then I drive
up there and when I saw him, be like, hey,
what's going on? Explain the situation? Could actually if he
could get somewhere, it's probably is probably yeah, yeah, that's
that exactly, not heart, that's not But no, I look,
I don't I don't think I'm being crazy. I think
I'm being honest. If if others feel differently, that's fine,
I think have I think that there's like ten people
that could call me right, No, if you're.
Speaker 4: Like this girl, she's talking so much mess.
Speaker 2: The only person that could get me to do that
would be my wife. And even then I'd be like,
what's going on? I mean, I'll keep it real with
my wife. When she's complained about someone and she gives
me the story and I think she's wrong, I'll be like, well,
I won't be like I think you're all kind of soft,
you know, soft launch like a well, yeah, you know,
I see what you're saying, but like, I think it's
you know, it's interesting. There's a I kind of I
kind of understand both points of view here a little bit.
Now that has gotten me into trouble in the past,
and there are certain times where you have to use
your better judgment and you just agree with everything, even
if internally you're like, I think you're wrong. Actually here
you just agree. But but no, but sometimes you got
to also be willing to call that out a little bit.
So again, I understand what you're saying. But there's like
ten people that I'm not asking any of those questions
that you just asked. It's fine, that's fine. You're a
more risky man than I am. I just like, yeah,
that's not wise man. Once said you do have to,
in fact risk it to get the biscuit.
Speaker 9: You do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say Bruce Arians counts as a wise
man for sure. For sure, winner of a super Bowl,
the one that made one. Yes, he made that up.
You didn't make that. If Bruce Arians didn't make it up,
who made that up? I mean I've heard that for way.
I mean did al Colan?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 2: Al Copeland made that up? He was doing it was
late into one of his uh late night binges, when
when it hit him risk it for the biscuit, and
he was like, oh my god, we got a franchise
this thing, and we're gonna build this thing. We're gonna
build this empires. Yeah, I so. Actually randomly, I I
was craving up, I was craving up popeye sandwich, or
I drove by one and it kicked in a craving
for a Popeye's chicken sandwich, which again, and I got
a good one. When you get a good one, elite,
I think, at its peak the best fast food chicken sandwich.
But I got my kids the biscuits because I've never
been there and I wanted to try it. And true, boy,
that's a dense biscuit. I mean they just packed that.
It might as well be fifty percent butter, which is
not a negative, not negative, very salty, very buttery.
Speaker 7: You eat that with no drink, you could die.
Speaker 2: There was I remember you remember in college Jake Maffatt
yelling at us about eating Jack in the box. Yeah,
and I don't know how this is possible. A Jack
in the box sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit had over
a thousand calories just just just a little biscuit. I
mean they were really no no sausage and cheese, sausage,
but still like from a calorie to size standpoint, they
were just packing that thing full of like fat and butter.
Hell yeah, tasted good. Though taste a real good. Let's
go get on my scooter back in the day. Yep.
Speaker 3: Early research here risk it for a biscuit is from
an Irish newspaper head in nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 2: Ft I believe it came Bruce Arians. I wasn't he?
The writer stated, Bruce Arians back in his young career,
before he coached football. He was not. I think it was.
I'm almost positive was. He's old enough for he could
have been a junior reporter in sixty six for the
Irish Sun Gazette. Who would have known he'd ever come
to American football.
Speaker 3: I doubt the Irish newspapers, the Sun Gazette and all
his son in Ireland.
Speaker 2: That's true. It's the the what the lucky strike.
Speaker 7: I don't know what it would be, Cloud Gazette, the four.
Speaker 2: Leaf Reader, the four Leaf Reader, the Cloud Gazette. It's
not bad.
Speaker 4: If you're still listening, I'm emailing you back right now.
Speaker 2: Wow, you still said I'll get you after my workout forgot.
I'm not judging girls, that's me. I'm not that's t TV.
Speaker 5: I'm not judging this place called LeRoy's in Saint Gabriel yesterday.
Listen to this Leroy Jenkins. Okay, it's LeRoy's Cajun cookwear
and they sell like pots, all kinds of quote unquote yes,
and like Dutch ovens, cast et cetera. But it's like
a bar and you walk in the bar and then
they have like a little room off to the side
that has all the cookwear.
Speaker 4: That Where is St. Gabriel my house?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Cool, it's I was right by the Sant Gabriel grocery store.
Speaker 2: Where's that somewhere where the hardware story is. I could
even tell you where I was, Like Schruman's in St. Gabriel.
Thing's popping in Sant Gabe. All they need to do
is connect my part of town and think ayone with
like a like a road, because right now you got
to do that like rectangle. There's no easy way to
get to your house from my house. The crowd. It's
not far at all. Yeah, I'm doing a notification check.
I have a seven hundred and seventeen voicemails, what one
hundred and nine text messages in twenty five thousand, five
hundred and sixty seven on.
Speaker 7: Checked, I would lose my mind forty.
Speaker 2: Three calendar notdies. Even got a couple of FaceTime nodies
in here. Why have photo nodies?
Speaker 3: I don't know sure I have one miscall or voicemoud
note that is, and I have this is. I have
no texts that are unread, and I have one hundred
and forty five emails. Oh wow, but that's with like
a lot. That's like with multiple accounts. Now, that's one account.
I've just had that account for too long. I've got aids,
you know, I've just put it into too many different websites.
My email account, like you know, I've had.
Speaker 6: It for my entire one or two text notifications. I'm like,
I gotta get rid of that notification.
Speaker 2: Nah, dude, I'm wavy. I mean, I'm just done. I'm cooked.
Are you're cooking the email? You just you might as
well just go ahead and select all delete. I'm saying,
even texts aot one thousand, one hundred, and that's what
I'm never getting back.
Speaker 3: Never getting back Like that means you haven't like there's
there's there's like at least six hundred people. If you
have a thousand text messages that have reached out to
you that you've just left on red or not even read.
Speaker 2: Just ignore by accident though you know, have you always
been like that?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: No, it's gotten a let's add as you've gotten further
and further into cell phone times. I just hate it
more and more of the older.
Speaker 4: I guess that's honestly fair.
Speaker 2: I feel like it's just yelling at me. Twenty four
to seven. Let's think I think the furthest unchecked texts.
I have somebody asking me to come on radio in Jacksonville. Sorry, dude,
how long you go? Was the date on that? Actually
that's not long ago? That's oh so maybe there's text
further back buried somewhere here. I don't know. We should
probably go to break though, Yeah, we should. We should
go to break.
Speaker 3: And then we got to get T Bob's reaction on
Garrett Nessa Meyer coming back for he really wants to
talk about Bill Belichick. When we come back here on
O TB.
Speaker 9: Off the Bench, I really can't stop maybe cold outside.
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Just join us on YouTube. My Purple party that.
Speaker 7: As a clip on.
Speaker 2: Funny if you just like showed up in that and
just didn't explain what it was for. Yeah, it's full
Andy Kaufman.
Speaker 3: It.
Speaker 2: I don't know if this is true, but I heard
when I was younger. It's always stuck to me, but
that Andy Kaufman for an episode of The Andy Kaufman
Show one time just showed h a shot of a
jar of mayonnaise for the entire show. And I've always
thought about that as like the ultimate commitment to the
bit like absurdist comedy. And yes, that would have been
in that in that same uh, same name, speaking of commitment,
Garrett Nosmeyer coming back to the Tigers, y'all talked about it,
and I'm sure my sentiment will echo yours, which is
this is great news. How could it not be? Right? Yep? Uh,
I'm sure we mentioned the leaps that the previous two
l'sue starters have taken. We did between year one and
year two starting I think contextually, uh, stability at quarterback
and this day and age is arguably at a higher
premium than it has ever been before, given the ever
shifting nature of rosters in that position and and just
the landscape of college football right now. And it goes
back to like how I kind of thought about Jaden, right,
which is where one of these strengths of that off
season for Jaden was there were very clear areas in
which he could improve and and I believe the same
could be said, uh for for Garrett Usmier. Uh if
I if I was to highlight the main area, well,
I mean, look, you could definitely still work more of
like a pure vertical threat. It was missing for the
Majoritan season. Part of that's personnel related. We'll see what
ends up happening with Chris Hillton. But to me, Jake,
I don't know. To me, you know what the main
thing may be some of the just the pocket presence,
pocket footwork, which can be really good at times. So
it is tough. It's a mixed bad, right weird. It
can be a really good and it's been like you
gotta do better. It can be a lead at times.
But he did have a bit of a and some
of this comes from it into your officsive line. Maybe
you don't fully trust, right, you kind of have to
force shelter to get over that. But there were too
many times where you could step up in the pocket
and everything would have been fine, but instead you fell
back and it caused complete chaos to uh to to
come about. So running the ball, I mean, you're not
just gonna learn how to run, maybe more of like
a willingness to run us.
Speaker 3: I think I think it is a willingness because I
do think there was times last year where you clearly
could have picked up eight to ten yards and you waited,
wait to wait it until somebody came open, and that
person doesn't always come open, yeah, and you had to
throw it away or whatever. And so I do think
and we kind of you're never going to be a
dual threat guy, that's the obvious statement.
Speaker 2: But can you be what Flynn wasn't oh seven? Can
you be what Joe was in nineteen?
Speaker 3: And I'm not even saying like those guys yards they
probably were, Like Flynn definitely was in Joe's probably somewhere.
Speaker 2: Joe's pretty I mean I think Matt Matt was. That's
like a legit for six. Matt was. Matt was carries
true duel threat.
Speaker 3: But Matt was really good at knowing when to run,
Like if the play gave him ten yards, he was
going to take the ten yards. I think that's where
nos Amier can grow. And if you're going to run
zone read, which you continue to run, you have to
show that you will pull the football and run with it,
even if it's for a six yard game, like you
have to do those things. It's never going to be
a five hundred yard rusher, but can you make enough
plays throughout the year to make a difference. I personally
think he has the athletic ability to do it, but
you have to be willing to do it so those
years improved. But also want to celebrate where he's already great.
And I mean, what were his final numbers this year?
I he's sixth in the country in passing yards and
so he completed sixty four percent of his passes. He
through for three thy seven and thirty nine yards seven
point six per attempt. He had twenty six touchdowns, eleven interceptions,
a quarterback rating of one hundred and forty point seven.
I mean, a hell of a first year. Obviously, the
I iNTS creeped up a little high, but everybody's did.
Remember the meta of college football this year is that
the defense is winning. I also kind of the meta
of the NFL quite honestly. I mean, they were just
showing a graphic on the Eagles. They're nine and er
since Week five. They're like first and everything, but everything's
based off of running the ball. Yeah, you know they're
first and rushing. They don't turn it over, et cetera.
They could try it.
Speaker 2: So like, honestly, I wouldn't mind those yards going down,
yards per attempt going up a bit and then ideally
just and and and and give more support through a
better running game. Right, stay on schedule, take some of
the pressure off, that will deviate those iron ts, that
will leviate some of the one dimensional nature that you
suffered this year. So not just nuts, but this is
great news. Hell, shoot, Like, if you're crafting the best
team for next year, this this had Garrett has had
to happen and tite.
Speaker 3: You listed a couple of quarterbacks that were in the
transfer portal, and if Garrett Nesmeyer decided to.
Speaker 2: Go to the NFL, this is who you were going
to choose from.
Speaker 6: You got Fernando Mendoza, Yeah, Murphy Miller, Moss Jackson, Arnold
Caden Salter, Michael Ben Vennurn. Those are the top quarterbacks
that have not already committed to.
Speaker 2: Buren already went in even though Jackson Arld isn't one yet. Yes,
Dismissippi State. It might have been a situations like, oh,
you want to flirt with Jackson Arnold pretty good freshman year.
Had some moments, Yeah, some moments, but yeah, I didn't
say it was great, but he had some moment. I'm
thinking his mentality for sure, No, no, for sure, for sure,
you're absolutely right? All right, well, so again I think
the bottom line, if you want to be the best
possible LSUN next year, this was priority number one box checked.
Now let's you know. Now, now you gotta get back
in that pertol and put together the rest of this team.
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the Bench.
Speaker 2: With Hester and t Bob Chris so oh man, what
a great time. Jay giving us a very fun fact
there during the commercial break. Grover Cleveland the only president
until now again to serve four years in the White House,
leave then come back give another four years after you know,
a term in between.
Speaker 3: Because somebody said you look like you're running for president
in the late eighteen hundreds with your getting I.
Speaker 2: Feel like I'm running for I feel like I could win, honestly.
But it got me thinking, has there ever been a
fatter name than Grover Cleveland? I don't think if you
were named Grover Cleveland, it's just impossible, will be skinny.
It's it's there, you go. And he's not fat. He's
not fat. It's just a you know, it's a well
built man. Maybe a little little portly or not in
like morbid obesity there for for Grover at the time, No,
not at the time. Actually at the time maybe so yeah,
good point. Yeah, yeah, there's a little punch more than
a p that's a penguin. Do you mean how tall
was he? That's gonna matter. That's a short king right
there too. I can tell no, way, no, no, Grover
Cleveland was huge. You don't get you don't get elected
twice unless you're least six to two.
Speaker 7: Rover Cleveland was five to eleven.
Speaker 2: What I told you, a little bowlin ball. I think
Trump pretty tall, is he not? I think he is, yeah,
but I don't know he's tall as his son Trump.
Speaker 4: Yeah, damn, I thought he was.
Speaker 2: Okay, keep it in the pants, Michaelandra. Okay, uh, how
about Bill Belichick? Guys, what's like, obviously we need we
are going crazier Scott Frost or Bill Belichick? What do
you what do you?
Speaker 7: What do you mean?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I just don't know that. And then
we got rich going back. I mean you told me that.
I didn't realize though Rich Rod has been having a
lot of success to Jacksons. He has just won the
Conress Championship. Okay, Likes, how in the world are we
supposed to know if Scott Frost is a good hire
or not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because he's since he was terrible at Nebraska. He's
like a consultant for the Rams and they're like yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: At the time that he's been out, like everything has
changed top bottom of the sport.
Speaker 3: At least know Rich Rod was the offenseive coordinator at
Louis in Monroe. They looked much better. Then he goes
he's the head coach at Jacksonville State. Well, they were
a brand new program basically, and they won a Conference USA.
Speaker 2: It's Scott fro and like Belichick, you know, it's Bill Belichi,
so of course you hire him. Scott Frost at UCF
is wild, especially considering you know, they're reaching out the
sum roll like they were trying to get big dogs
and maybe even did they reach out at Belichick? Is
that reat outed someone else? That was a story. I
can't remember who you sef doesn't matter. Oh no, they
reached out to you know what I'm talking about, big
name and some reason. Okay, uh no it is Lincoln Riley. Yes,
and they're like, no, let's just go back to Scottie.
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