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Speaker 1: I'll start to you want to present some off the Bench,

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He says, what we have been waiting for.

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Speaker 2: The hype is over.

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Speaker 1: Off the Bench. It is I got to come off

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the face. Now here's Jacob Hester.

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Speaker 3: Welcome into a Tuesday edition of Off the Bench. Taylor

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Sharp here with you in for Jacob Heester. He is

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out at SEC spring meetings. We'll hear from him a

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little bit throughout the week. He's gonna send us back

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some interviews they're going to play back for you, guys.

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That'll be more tomorrow and Thursday. But I'm here with

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you for the next three days until Jacob Ester comes

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back on Friday. I think he's back on Friday. So

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I texted him yesterday and I said, hey, you know

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you're sending this interviews back and he's like, yeah, I'll

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let you know who as soon as I get him together.

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And I said, you're back on Friday, right, and he

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liked the message. So I'm Mike, I'm assuming he's back

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on Friday, So Jake will be here on Friday. I'm

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here with you for the next three days. We got

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a Landra Hillarya, we got Cassie Spizzali, guys, a little

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extended weekend, some Memorial Day holiday? What did we get into?

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Speaker 4: I didn't do anything yesterday, and then I went to

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Jumbalaya festival Saturday at a remote out there. I didn't

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have any jumbalaya you went to. They weren't like selling

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any jumbalaya, which I thought was weird because it's Jumbalaya festival.

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Like all of the little stands just had like regular

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fair food or like food truck kind of food. And

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my neighbor came with me and we're like, where is

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the jumbalaya.

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Speaker 5: We were so confused. But apparently it's just a cook off.

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Speaker 4: I mean I knew like the cookoff was part of it,

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but I just wrongly assumed that a lot more jumbalaya

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was going to be consumed.

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Speaker 3: Jumbalaya was going to be a jumbal I mean, that's

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that's wild. Cassie. What about you? Were you disappointed any

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this weekend? Like a laudra was No.

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Speaker 5: I didn't do much on like Saturday and Sunday.

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Speaker 4: But yesterday one of my friends had like a little

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family party that I went to, so that was pretty fun.

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Speaker 5: It's very very chill weekend. I was also gonna say that. Uh,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm pissed at him for that because I'm on vacation.

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He texted Saturday night.

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Speaker 5: Well he did tell us he was gonna happen.

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Speaker 4: I know, I just yeah, but it was fun. So

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we got to celebrate the A Bears and uh Jake

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was there too, and I was like, I know we're

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missing Taite, but let's get one last pick together.

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Speaker 5: And T Bob goes f Tayte.

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A Bear got was like a little sun yeah, son

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on the gate. It's not a burn though, so that's

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that's good. It'll be it'll be a little bit darker tomorrow.

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I burned pretty easy, but it was fine. It was fine.

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We we were responsible this trip. Did a good job

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of kind of like not covering because no yeah, like

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I just let it ride throughout the day. So not

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a burn, but not like no tan at all. So

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we we did a pretty good job. If I eat

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fried shrimp one more time in the next week and

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a half, I will throw up because I think I've

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had it five in the last six days. I mean,

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that's basically all they have out there, Like they do shrimp,

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like we do crawlfish every single place. Their specialty is

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Royal Reds, which I'm excited about. But it's trimp, not crawlfish.

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So what is it the flamingo that turns that color

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because they eat so much trimp? Is that what it is?

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Speaker 3: I think the flamingo turns that color because he eats

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so much trimp. Well that was almost me over the weekend.

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But look, kind of want to lay out the show

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for you. We're LSU baseball heavy in the first two segments.

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I'm gonna talk to LOSU football as well. We're gonna

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gonna have weekend winners and OTB mailbag. In hour two.

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Nick Underhill and Devin Snow both hopping on and nowur

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number three and then Chris Phillips of SEC Unfiltered will

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be on at eight fifteen as we are trying to

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make that a weekly thing. Okay, Well, we recapped our weekend.

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Also over the weekend was the SEC Tournament, and your

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Tigers played two games in that tournament before being eliminated.

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He took on Texas A and m on Friday. In

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that quarterfinal game, the Tigers get the win four to three.

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They played two runs in the first inning, they played

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it two more in the third and that was enough

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to hold off the Texas A and m Aggies. Ethan

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Frye continued his incredible hot streak. He was two for

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three three RBIs, including a two run home run. He

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obviously scored a run as well. And the pitching was excellent,

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not just in this game but all weekend long. But

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Kate Anderson got the start. He gave up four hits,

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three armed runs, struck out twelve, only walked one. It

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was another day in the office for Kate Anderson. After

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the game, Jay Johnson said he thinks that the only

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person that is as good of a pitcher in all

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college baseball as Kate Anderson was Anthony Jonson. And speaking

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of Anthony Jonson, he made an appearance. He had his

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first relief appearance of the season. He came in he

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threw the final three innings, four k's, one walk no runs. Now,

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I had seen back and forth, you know, on social

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media all Friday evening. Why did Anthony Jonson throw? He's

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your number two starter? Why'd you bring him out of

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the bullpen? I think it comes down to one of

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two things. One, if you lose that game, Anthony Jonson

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would not have pitched for almost two full weeks heading

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into this regional. Jay obviously wanted to get him some work. Also,

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a lot of people have set up here, myself included

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and said, I don't think LSU needs to win a

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game in the tournament, but it would probably help to

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win a game in the tournament. Maybe. Jay stall process

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was also, hey, let me go ensure that I get

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one win, we lock up that national seed. We're good

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to go. Everything else going forward is strictly land yap.

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I totally understand the decision because if you lose that game,

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not only are you one and done in the tournament,

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but again, Anthony Jinsen does not pitch for two full

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weeks heating into that regional. You gotta get him some

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kind of work. I mean, he went three innings, four k's.

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It was essentially an extended bullpen appearance for Anthony Ionson. Anyways,

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it's not going to hurt him going forward. I like

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the decision to throw Ionson go out there, win the game,

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ending Texas A and M's run in the SEC tournament

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as well. That's never a bad sign. But Kate Anders

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and Anthony Ionson excellent in game one. Ethan Frye continuing

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his hot streak. Now one to game two. LSU loses

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this game to Ole Miss by a score of two

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to nothing. The bats were ice cold, and when I

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mean ice cold, I mean they had two hits the

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entire game. That's the concerning part for me because this

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Ole Miss staff was dominant against Ella Shoe. However, they

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really hadn't been dominant all year, so the four arms

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that they faced, Caid Townsend got the start coming into

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this game. Caid Townsen had a five to seventy three

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ERA on the season. Gunnar Dennis, who was credited with

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the win, three seventy five ERA, Will mccauslan four to

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twenty three ERE now Connor Spencer closed out the game.

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He has a one six one ERA on the season.

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guy with an ERA above five one approaching four and

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one over four, So they shut you down offensively. And

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this has not been a top five staff in the SEC.

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They have shut you down. That is my biggest concern

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for LSU going into the postseason is the hitting. We'll

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get into that in just a minute. However, second game

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in a row, the pitching was absolutely dominant. So Jaden

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Nute gets the start. He goes four innings, seven strikeouts,

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two walks, only had one earned run. Chay Shores, who

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the bullpen. He's been much better in relief than he

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has been as a starter. Two and two thirds innings,

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three k's, three walks, so a little bit of control

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issue there, but he didn't allow when he earned runs.

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The last two and a third belonged to Jacob Myers.

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Four strikeouts, no walks, no earned runs. When you look

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at this bullpen and all year long we have set

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up here me Jay Calandra, when T Bob was here.

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the bullpen, because you know Kate Anderson and Anthony Ironsent

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are two of the best, if not the best starters

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in the SEC. Who can you rely on out of

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the bullpen? It's always been Zach Collowing, Caseen Avans, Cooper Williams.

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been thrown in there as well. Connor Ware's name has

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been thrown out there. Chay Shores now appears to be

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a bona fide relief pitcher. But Jacob Myers, I want

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to talk about this guy more because I think he

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deserves the recognition. Won the season. Now, Jacob Myers a

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two nine to two era, won the entire season is

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a one to zero record. He's been dominant. This strikeout

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to walk ratio now is forty one strikeouts to eighteen walks.

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until recently, you know, you weren't talking about a ton

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did this entire bullpen, but you know kind of got

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lost in the weeds of the dominance of a Zach Cowen,

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a case In Evan's, a Jaden Nude. I mean, those

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were the guys that everybody was looking at coming into

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the season. But Jacob Myers has been one of the

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most consistent pitchers out of your bullpen. This is a

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guy that you're going to rely on a lot. And

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the starting ability of Jade Nut. Mina Landre have talked

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about this a number of times about yes, it's good

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to have three starters, but you're going to have to

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find somebody in that fourth role to come in and

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make a spot start because it's something you're going to

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need in Omaha. Jadan Nut could potentially be that guy.

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looked pretty good. I just mentioned four innings seven k's

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just two walks. That's a little bit more of an

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extended outing from Jaden Nute than we have seen in

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the past. You obviously have shorers who can start or

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but having a guy like Jacob Myers out of the bullpen,

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because let's look at your potential starters. Kate Anderson and

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Anthony Iensent are obviously up there. You know, Cason Evans

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can start. He's gotten a few Sunday starts. Jay Shores

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can start in a pinch, Jay Newt can start. Connor

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bullpen Chores Myers, Cooper Williams, Zach Cowen, Kason Evans potentially again,

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am not concerned with this pitching at all going into

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the postseason because of how hot they ended the regular season,

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but also what we saw in two games back to

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back in that Sez tournament. I mean, sure, you gave

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up only five runs in two games, but you were dominant.

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I mean it was across the board Anderson, Iansen, knew Shores, Myers,

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there was no drop off. A lot of times this

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season you've come in and said, oh, there were three

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or four guys were really good out of the bullpen.

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The rest of the staff straw. Not the case. You

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threw five guys over the weekend in two games. All

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five of them were nails on the mound for you.

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I am not concerned with the pitching at all going

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into the season. But when I am concerned about and Alaji,

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your concern level just going into tournament play as far

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as the NCAA goes, as far as elishues.

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Speaker 4: Bats, I would say it's pretty concerning just because, like

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it doesn't just go to the Ole Miss game, but

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Texas A and M. We won the game, but the

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last hit we had was in the third inning, So

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from the third inning on you got no hit. So

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during the Nichols game, like a midweek game a long

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time ago, like that's when it kind of started. No,

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well actually I don't know when it started, but I

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remember us talking about it and me saying that, like,

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not just a hitting, but the runners left on base

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is concerning to me as well, because there were some

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times where you could have had more insurance run versus

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insurance runs versus Texas A and M, and you didn't

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get it done. So I don't know, I'm a little

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concerned about it. Yeah, but when they're hot, they're hot,

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so it's just so weird.

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Speaker 3: Well, what's the thing, right, They've been so hot at home,

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which is why everyone said, if you want to make

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it to Omaha, you have to be a top eight seed.

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You have to host a regional, and if you win

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that regional, you will host a super as well. Tigers

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have done that because you go look at batting across

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the board. It has been much better at home. And

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I get that that's not an Lshu thing, right, That's

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going to be any team across college baseball, but LSU,

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especially in speaking of a top eight seed, the Tigers

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did get just that. When the tournament seeding came out yesterday,

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everyone assumed that LSU was going to get in that

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top eight. They get the sixth seed in the Baton

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Rouge Regional. They will host that regional and they are

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a national seed in that regional if Dallas Baptist, Rhode

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Island and Little Rock and also you were paired with

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the Clemson Regional that's Clemson, West Virginia, Kentucky and South

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Carolina Upstate. So the winner of that regional, if the

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Tigers do advance out of the Baton Rouge Regional, will

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come here to alex Box to play that super Regional.

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Speaker 5: I think we had a great draw.

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Speaker 3: I didn't too. I didn't too.

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Speaker 4: The regional and the superregional that we're paired with.

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Speaker 5: I'm not mad at it at all.

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Speaker 3: What a tease, But you and I get into that next.

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That's coming up on the other side. Here on off

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Off the Bench.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to industry. Tuesday edition of Off the Bench.

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Taylor Sharp here with you us sitting in the host

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chair for Jacob Est. He is out at sec Spring Media.

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We'll check in with him throughout the week, but I

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am here today, Tomorrow, and Thursday. Jake will be back

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on Friday and then the next week our new show

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format officially begins. Matt Flyinn's gonna hop in next Monday,

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so that's exciting as well. But we tease that they're

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going into break. LSU does earn the number six overall seeds,

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so they are a national seed. They host the Baton

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Rouge Regional. Dallas Baptist is the two seed, Rhode Island

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Rams the number three seed, and Little Rock as the

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number four seed overall. I really like this seeding and

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the draw that LSU got. Look, we know about what

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type of program Dallas Baptist is. They're a team that

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people always keep an eye on come tournament time because

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they're one of these smaller teams that just has a

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really really good baseball program year in and year route.

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If you remember LSU and Dallas Baptists played each other

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earlier this year in February out in Arlington. Now the

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Tigers won that game seven to three. But these teams

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are so different, Like, look how different LSU is. Now

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did they wear in February? You were worried about your bullpen.

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You couldn't get anybody out in the bullpen. You were

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tearing the cover off the ball. Now it's kind of

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the complete opposite. Dallas Baptist is going to be that

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way as well. Patriots come in. They're forty and sixteen.

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They went twenty one and six to win the Conference

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USA by two full games. And then if you want

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to go a little bit further and look at the

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Rhode Island team thirty eight and twenty twenty two to

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eight in the Atlantic ten. They won that league. Not

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only did they win the league, they followed that up

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by sweeping through their conference tournament. So this is a

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Rhode Island team that is hot. Also they can hit

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the ball a three to zero nine team batty average

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on the season. As far as Little Rock goes, which

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is going to be LSU's first opponent. Because Tigers are

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the one seed, they'll play the four seed Little Rock.

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This is a team that's just twenty four and thirty

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two on the season, but they did win the Ohio

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Valley Tournament. So it's a team that struggled with consistency

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all baseball season long. But they may have gotten hot

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at the right time. This time of year, it doesn't

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really matter what you've done. I mean, a couple of

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years ago we saw Ole Miss get in the tournament

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as the very last seed. They went on to win

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the whole damn thing in Omaha and get the national championship.

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So if you face a team at the right time,

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it could be a little bit of a problem for you. Now,

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obviously LSU is a lot more talented on this team,

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but don't sleep on this squad. Again, this is a

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team that went through the Ohio Valley Conference tournament, but

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they are just twenty four and thirty two throughout the season.

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I expect the Tigers to win Game one. If they do.

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You got a forty win team in Dallas Baptist, you

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got a thirty eight win team in Rhode Island, Landri.

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You were saying before we went to break, you actually

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like the draw. I do too. You actually like the

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draw here at the ben Rege Regional.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I like it.

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Speaker 4: I think that the draw, like the Regional and the

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pairing for the Super is very favorable for LSU. And

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you're right about DBU being a solid team and especially

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in the postseason.

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Speaker 5: But we Airdy beat them earlier this season.

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Speaker 4: And yes, our bats are cold, but I think, look,

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our pitching is great, and we play Rhode Island.

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Speaker 5: First, right, We'll play Little ron Little first.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So I mean, I don't know what it's gonna

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look like versus DBU, but I think it's pretty favorable.

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And then also the Super that you're paired with facing,

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I mean, Clemson is a tough team, but the rest

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of the teams out there, I feel like are pretty beatable.

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Speaker 3: Well. So, speaking of Dallas Baptists and Rhode Island, I

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expect Dallas Baptists to win that game one over Rhode Island,

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but let's say they don't. Let's say Rhode Island wins.

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Either way, I think that LSU has a really good

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matchup because you were talking about Ye, sure, the bats

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are being cold, what if they wake up either way?

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So Dallas Baptist is a team bat's only two sixty

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as a team right now. Now they do have four

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guys with double digit home runs, but their lineups a

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little bit top At me they got about four or

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five guys they hit over three hundred. There's a big

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drop off after that. So the Yellow Shoe arms should

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have an okay time with Dallas Baptist and as a

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pitching staff. Dallas Baptist four ninety seven ERA on the year,

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not terrible, not dominant, kind of somewhere in the middle.

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So is that a team where LSU's bats can wake

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up against? Really the same thing with Rhode Island. Now

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I mentioned a minute ago they can hit a three

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zero nine team batting average, But do you know what

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the Rhode Island Rams as team ERA is. It's six

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point two zero. That's another team. So really, your weakness

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is their weakness. Your strength on strength. So and you're

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at home, which is where Lshu has been. Both of

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these teams decent bats. I trust LSU's arms. They've been

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dominant throughout the last couple regular season series. They were

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excellent over the weekend in the SEC tournament. I trust

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Lshu's arms, both starting and bullpen to get it done.

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And if you're struggling against batting, you're going up against

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a team with a four ninety seven ERA and a

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team with a six point two ERA. And that's if

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you can get over the hump against Little Rock, and

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if you can, maybe bats can get hot in that game,

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get some confidence going up against Dallas Baptist and Rhode Island.

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I like this draw as well. And then Alandra was

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mentioning the the regional that you are paired with. It's Clemson.

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They're the number eleven national seed. You also have West Virginia, Kentucky,

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South Carolina Upstate. Obviously South Carolina Upstate the outlier in

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that regional. Look, Clemson's had a really good season. They're

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out there in the ACC. That's a conference that had

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a couple national seed bids. And then you look at

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West Virginia. West Virginia's baseball team has been pretty good

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this year. They're in a decent conference over there in

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the Big twelve. It's a team that you know a

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lot of people have slept on for whatever reason, but

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you go look at at what they've done this year.

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The Mountaineers. They're forty one and fourteen overall, they're nineteen

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and nine in the Big twelve Conference. They're seventeen and

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seven at home. But here's the big one. They're twenty

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three and five on the road. Do not sleep on

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West Virginia. I think they could easily come out of

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this regional. Now they're going to play the Kentucky Wildcats. First. Obviously,

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Kentucky very cold right now. You look at LSU's bats.

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You talk about that being cold, how about a whole team?

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It's cold. But coming into the season, there was a

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lot of hype around the Kentucky Wildcats. Nick Manjione one

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of the most respected coaches in the SEC. A lot

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of people like him. He's he's always going to be

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on that list of like, hey, a big schools looking

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for a coaching opening that's serious about baseball, Could you

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bring in Mango. I like the draw overall because you

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avoided an Ole miss who's hot, You avoided a Tennessee,

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you avoided one of those SEC teams that you could

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potentially have coming here. And in that case, it's pretty

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much a winner take all SEC series. And we've seen

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what the SEC is this year. In baseball, right, I mean,

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Missouri swept Texas A and M. You got swept by Auburn.

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Then you turn around beat you take down Arkansas two

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out of three games. You take down Tennessee two out

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of three games. It's an up and down conference. Anybody

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can beat anybody on any given day. The fact that

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you have avoided some of the top teams in the SEC,

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potentially in that super regional matchup, I think also is

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favorable for the Tigers. Again, Kentucky ice cold right now,

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but they have talent on that team. I really like

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West Virginia. That's the team I'm watching in this Clemson

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regional again, forty one and fourteen on the year, nineteen

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and nine in conference, twenty three and five on the road.

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I think that's the big one to watch. And then

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you look at how hot this team is. You go

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down and look at their last few games. They're a

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hot baseball team. Now. They lost in the second round

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of the Big Twelfth Tournament to Arizona twelve and one.

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That's an Arizona team that you almost got in your regional.

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You're able to dodge that, but before that you lose

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to Kansas. You actually get swept by Kansas you lose

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two out of three to Kansas State. So as good

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as West Virginia has been on the season, they've struggled

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a little bit down the stretch. However, I'm still keeping

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an eye on the Mountaineers. I've kind of liked what

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I've seen from them all year long. They got a

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decent balance of hitting and pitching. That might be the

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team to keep an eye on. Obviously, Clemson has done

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a really good job this year as well. They are

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the host of that Clemson South Carolina Regional. Alandra, if

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LSU gets through this regional, whether it's Dallas, Baptist, Rhode Island,

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Little Rock, which team do you think LSU like? Who

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do you want to see in that super regional? Clemson,

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West Virginia, Kentucky? Who do you like?

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Speaker 4: I thought my own mic was on that's so funny,

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I think. Okay, so the very easy obvious answer b SC.

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Speaker 3: Stay yeah, yeah, like the long chant.

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Speaker 4: Sure, I think we have a good chance of seeing

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West Virginia or Clemson. Like you mentioned, Kentucky's not doing great.

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Their record is good to like get them into the postseason.

471
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But I'm like a little surprise eyes So little surprised

472
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:03,960
that they snuck their way in. And you know what

473
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else I kind of hate to get off topic real quick,

474
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is that Tennessee got a regional host site.

475
00:24:11,279 --> 00:24:14,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, they did not deserve it at all. But anyways,

476
00:24:14,799 --> 00:24:17,000
we can revisit that another time.

477
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Speaker 4: But if you were asking me between Clemson and West Virginia,

478
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who I'd rather see, because those feel like the two

479
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:28,440
that were most likely to see. For some reason, West

480
00:24:28,519 --> 00:24:30,599
Virginia has a feel to me where like, if you

481
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let them go on a run, they like if you

482
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,400
if you let them win this regional, they'd come and

483
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be LSU for some reason.

484
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,119
Speaker 5: I don't know why right now.

485
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, but let that team get hot. I just broke

486
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down the record the conference, the really good twenty three

487
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and five on the road.

488
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Speaker 2: Face.

489
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Speaker 5: Yeah, So.

490
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Speaker 4: I'd rather see c Honestly, I would rather see Cleansing

491
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,480
than West Virginia because it's also like that team that

492
00:24:55,519 --> 00:24:58,759
you least expect in the postseason that you always feel

493
00:24:58,799 --> 00:25:01,119
like gets sort of magic.

494
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:02,920
Speaker 3: The Stony Brook. It's the Coast of Carolina. I mean,

495
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it's teams like that.

496
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Speaker 5: And we've lost the Stony Brook.

497
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Speaker 3: We lost the Coast of Carolina too, Alright, it's it's

498
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one of those.

499
00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:11,319
Speaker 5: So that's what that's the feel that it has to me.

500
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Speaker 4: So I would rather and this is like all not

501
00:25:15,079 --> 00:25:19,279
based on facts at all, just vibes, but I'd rather

502
00:25:19,279 --> 00:25:20,880
see Clemson than West Virginia.

503
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:25,200
Speaker 3: Speaking of national seed, you were talking about how Tennessee

504
00:25:25,279 --> 00:25:28,039
did not deserve that regional host side. I agree with you.

505
00:25:28,759 --> 00:25:33,240
Speaker 4: They lost the last five of their six series or something.

506
00:25:33,039 --> 00:25:35,079
Speaker 3: Like that, and what they won one game in the tournament. Yeah,

507
00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:37,880
like that's is winning one game in the SEC tournament

508
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:39,880
And was it too No.

509
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Speaker 5: I don't remember.

510
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Speaker 4: Actually, there's so much baseball being played last week.

511
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:48,480
Speaker 3: When when they announced the national seeds. Are your thoughts

512
00:25:48,519 --> 00:25:50,200
on Vanderbilt getting the number one overall?

513
00:25:52,319 --> 00:25:54,440
Speaker 5: I feel like it was kind of surprising.

514
00:25:54,079 --> 00:25:56,039
Speaker 3: Like for me it was too And I get it.

515
00:25:56,039 --> 00:25:58,039
They went on like they win the SEC tournament. I

516
00:25:58,079 --> 00:26:00,960
get all that, but like all these coaches don't put

517
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,720
a lot of stock in the SEC tournament, like the

518
00:26:02,759 --> 00:26:05,759
tournament's supposed to be for a Mississippi State or at

519
00:26:05,799 --> 00:26:07,759
Tennessee or somebody like that, who like wouldn't be a

520
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:11,039
national seed ye unless they unless they win that tournament.

521
00:26:11,079 --> 00:26:12,759
But like Vanderbilt getting the number one overall. That was

522
00:26:12,799 --> 00:26:13,799
a little surprising to me.

523
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:14,680
Speaker 5: It was surprising.

524
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Speaker 4: I don't feel any sort of way toward it, like

525
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,359
I don't have like a strong opinion on it one

526
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,359
way or another, but I think it did surprise a

527
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:23,160
lot of people.

528
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Speaker 5: They quietly were really really good this season.

529
00:26:26,279 --> 00:26:28,880
Speaker 3: They have the same conference record as LSU. That's yeah,

530
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:29,839
the bluemond.

531
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Speaker 4: When I was looking at it yesterday, maybe it was

532
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:33,720
just us in like our little bubble that we didn't

533
00:26:33,759 --> 00:26:35,640
talk about it at all, but I just feel like

534
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,680
it kind of they were quietly, really really good.

535
00:26:38,759 --> 00:26:40,759
Speaker 3: It's one of those things where I look AT's a

536
00:26:40,799 --> 00:26:43,359
great coach, well yeah, and it's like Vanderbilt's always so

537
00:26:43,559 --> 00:26:47,000
dominant when they look like a pedestrian average team, they're like, oh,

538
00:26:47,039 --> 00:26:48,680
they're all yeah, they suck. But then I went and

539
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,680
looked at it yesterday. They almost have the same record

540
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,359
as Texas. Texas is forty two and twelve, Vanderbilts forty

541
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:57,039
two and sixteen. They're nineteen and eleven in the conference,

542
00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:00,880
the same as LSU. So it's it's one paper. The

543
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:02,559
resume is not as bad. Like I'm with you. When

544
00:27:02,559 --> 00:27:03,920
I first looked at it, I was like, this is

545
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:05,480
a little bit surprising.

546
00:27:05,039 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 5: But but it makes sense.

547
00:27:06,759 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 3: Yeah. I when I looked at it and I kind

548
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:10,240
of dove into it a little bit last night, it

549
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,440
kind of made sense. And that's always a team to

550
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,880
watch out for, like Tim Corbin, multiple national championships. Yeah,

551
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:17,519
over there in Nashville. So that's a team to watch.

552
00:27:17,559 --> 00:27:19,160
Speaker 5: I don't remember if you were here when we had

553
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,680
Chris on last week. Chris Phillips on last year.

554
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:22,599
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was Tuesday.

555
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he mentioned like Vandy has a really good

556
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,920
record and they didn't play the bottom of the SEC,

557
00:27:29,279 --> 00:27:30,559
like they didn't play Missouri.

558
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:32,920
Speaker 3: They didn't the RPIs s hi.

559
00:27:33,079 --> 00:27:33,440
Speaker 5: Yeah.

560
00:27:33,519 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's surprising because we didn't pay much attention

561
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,640
to it, I guess, but it makes sense.

562
00:27:42,799 --> 00:27:44,759
Speaker 3: All right, that'll kind of wrap up at least most

563
00:27:44,759 --> 00:27:46,839
of our baseball discussion. We do have Chris Phillips coming

564
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:50,400
one at eight fifteen from SEC unfiltered. That was kind

565
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,160
of a breakdown, little little preview, little taste of that

566
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:56,559
baton Rouge Regional. LSU will take on Little Rock Friday

567
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,200
at two o'clock to get that beat. Ruge Regional started.

568
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,519
All right, take it quick. When we take a time out.

569
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On the other side, Joel Klatt ranked his top ten

570
00:28:04,599 --> 00:28:07,519
quarterbacks heading into the twenty twenty five season. This was

571
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on Friday. I have major issues with this list that's

572
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coming up on the other side. Here on, off the bench,

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Off the bench, all right.

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Speaker 2: Follow about eighty eight, eighty eight, eighty eight. Good Gordon,

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and get it done.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Off the Bench.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back. In Tuesday edition of Off the Bench, Tayler

600
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Sharp here with you, filling in for mister Jacob Ester,

601
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:40,440
who is out there at SEC spring meetings. Teas did

602
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,200
a little bit there before that last break. Joel Klapp

603
00:29:43,279 --> 00:29:46,759
put out his top ten quarterbacks heading into the twenty

604
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:51,000
twenty five season. I have some major problems with this last.

605
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,000
First off, he starts with Carson back at number ten.

606
00:29:53,359 --> 00:29:55,160
That's fine if you want to put Carson Beck in there.

607
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,680
I think Beck's a talented guy. I think that his

608
00:29:57,799 --> 00:30:01,799
season last year didn't necessarily show that Georgia's receiving corps

609
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:03,799
was actually really bad. I think they wound up having

610
00:30:03,839 --> 00:30:06,480
like the most drops of any power for receiving corps

611
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,440
in the country, so they didn't help him out any

612
00:30:08,519 --> 00:30:10,640
But Beck had way too many turnovers. I mean, you

613
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,599
look at Beck's raw numbers thirty four hundred yards, twenty

614
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:17,759
eight touchdowns, twelve interceptions, seven point eight yards per attempt.

615
00:30:17,759 --> 00:30:20,759
I mean he was pretty average a season ago. Now,

616
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,559
Klatt says, okay, Well, you know, he didn't have a

617
00:30:23,599 --> 00:30:27,079
lot of help on the outside at Georgia, so I

618
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,319
think Miami will help him a little bit. Who is

619
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Miami at You lost Xavier Verstrepo, you lost the Leijoh Royo.

620
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,680
I mean, you'll have a decent running game. You're in

621
00:30:37,759 --> 00:30:40,200
an ACC which is a little bit easier of a

622
00:30:40,279 --> 00:30:43,279
conference than the SEC. But he's also coming off of

623
00:30:43,359 --> 00:30:46,359
that UCL injury that he missed a little bit of

624
00:30:46,359 --> 00:30:48,920
the offseason because of He seems fully healthy now. But

625
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,119
there's still a lot of question marks around Carson back.

626
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:52,839
But I'm okay with having him at ten, Like it's

627
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:54,960
the bottom of the list. I'm good with number nine.

628
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,599
He has Luke Altmeyer. Actually like this choice. Altmeyer was

629
00:30:58,599 --> 00:31:00,960
in a flashy guy. He didn't put the crazy numbers,

630
00:31:01,039 --> 00:31:04,000
but he was super efficient twenty two touchdowns to just

631
00:31:04,039 --> 00:31:08,240
six interceptions. He returns to an Illinois squad that's actually

632
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,680
pretty talented overall. You saw him put some teams on

633
00:31:11,799 --> 00:31:13,920
upset alert last year. I think we're looking at more

634
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:17,759
of the same this year. Leonora's Seller, South Carolina number eight.

635
00:31:17,839 --> 00:31:22,200
DJ Ledway, Florida. At number seven is Garrett Nussmeyer, our

636
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,880
guy right here in Baton Rouge at number six. Here's

637
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,119
his ride up on nuts He's not the most athletic

638
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,400
guy out there, but he threw for over four thousand yards.

639
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:33,000
He's an absolute gunslinger. He's going to put up numbers,

640
00:31:33,039 --> 00:31:34,599
and I think LSU will be a really good team

641
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,279
this season, he said. But nos Maarn needs to cut

642
00:31:37,319 --> 00:31:40,400
down on the turnovers. He had fifteen last season, and

643
00:31:40,519 --> 00:31:43,759
he's not the mobile guy that can hurt you with

644
00:31:43,839 --> 00:31:46,400
his legs, so he has to minimize the turnovers. I

645
00:31:46,519 --> 00:31:49,240
am okay with that. Everybody knows that Garrett Nutzmyer turned

646
00:31:49,279 --> 00:31:52,759
the ball over too much this past season. He has

647
00:31:52,839 --> 00:31:54,599
him at six overall, and you can look at it

648
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:56,319
and say, okay, well he's got him at six. Some

649
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,599
people have him at three, you know, wherever you want

650
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:00,640
to rank him. Like a lot of time you're splitting

651
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,160
hairs with these quarterbacks. I be doing it. I don't

652
00:32:03,319 --> 00:32:07,240
necessarily have an issue with Garrett Nussbayer being six on

653
00:32:07,359 --> 00:32:09,519
this list. Have an issue with who he put ahead

654
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:13,240
of Garrett Nusemeyer because I can't justify it. At number five,

655
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:18,599
it's Drew Aller of Penn State. What am I not

656
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,079
seeing with Drew Aller that others are? If you know

657
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:25,000
what it is, please let me know. He struggles in

658
00:32:25,119 --> 00:32:27,319
big games. There was a college football playoff game where

659
00:32:27,319 --> 00:32:30,480
he didn't complete a pass to a wide receiver. Klatt

660
00:32:30,519 --> 00:32:32,200
mentions that in his ride up, but he says, you know,

661
00:32:32,319 --> 00:32:34,759
that's a lot on the wide receivers. Okay, that's fine.

662
00:32:35,079 --> 00:32:39,279
You can blame the wide receivers. Have they gotten significantly

663
00:32:39,319 --> 00:32:40,920
better this year? I mean maybe a little bit, but

664
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I mean they're not exactly a stud wide receiver cor

665
00:32:44,279 --> 00:32:46,000
top to bottom. How's it going to be any different?

666
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,319
Singleton and Allen at running backer studs? But again, your

667
00:32:49,359 --> 00:32:54,079
weapons on the outsider minimum. Drew Aller gets the benefit

668
00:32:54,119 --> 00:32:55,799
of the doubt because he was a five star coming

669
00:32:55,839 --> 00:32:58,759
out of high school. Andy's six foot five. That's what

670
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,079
it is, because says, Okay, you know, he may not

671
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,640
be where we want him to be, but he's improved

672
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:06,920
a year in and year out as a starter in

673
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,720
college football. But that's not true. You go look at

674
00:33:09,759 --> 00:33:13,640
his numbers. In twenty twenty three, he completed almost sixty

675
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,640
percent of his passes. This past season, it was over

676
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:19,839
sixty six percent, Okay, so that is better. He also

677
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:22,200
threw for more yards this year, but he had one

678
00:33:22,319 --> 00:33:25,960
less touchdown pass and six more interceptions than he had

679
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,440
in twenty twenty three. And he's still struggling in big games.

680
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So all this talk about, yeah, he's not what we

681
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,720
want him to be, but he showed promise, he showed improvement.

682
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:37,599
That's not true. Drew Aller is essentially the same quarterback

683
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:41,240
he was the day he got on campus. His fifty

684
00:33:41,279 --> 00:33:43,839
three touchdown passes over three years, which is really good,

685
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:48,359
but four touchdown passes as a freshman in twenty twenty two.

686
00:33:48,359 --> 00:33:50,400
He didn't play a ton a twenty five to two

687
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,519
touchdown interception ratio in twenty twenty three, twenty four to eight.

688
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:57,680
Last season, he backtracked a year ago. He goes from

689
00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:59,599
two hundred and two yards a game two years ago

690
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:04,319
to hundred and seven. That's not a huge improvement. And

691
00:34:04,519 --> 00:34:08,719
find me these incredible weapons that Penn State added top

692
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,719
to bottom to say, oh, they're gonna be one of

693
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,320
the best Receiving Corps in college football. Drew Aller no

694
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,960
doubt bona FI top five quarterback. Drew Aller wasn't a

695
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:17,639
five star coming out of high school, he would not

696
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,239
continue to get the benefit of the doubt. Now at

697
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:23,679
number four on this list, it's Sam Levitt from Arizona State.

698
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:24,960
I'm okay with this.

699
00:34:25,079 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 2: Look.

700
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Speaker 3: He's a guy that came on late in the season.

701
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,079
He made big plays for the sun Devils. Now he

702
00:34:29,119 --> 00:34:31,320
gets Jordan Tyson back, who was his top receiver a

703
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:34,280
year ago. What will he do without Cam Scataboo to

704
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,440
lean on. Teams are now going to be keying in

705
00:34:36,559 --> 00:34:39,159
on Sam Levitt, not Cam Skataboo. That's gonna be a

706
00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:41,239
little bit of a learning care for it. At number three,

707
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,239
it's John Mattier. I hate having John Mattier this high.

708
00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:46,639
He was great at Washington State last year, but it's

709
00:34:46,679 --> 00:34:49,079
his first year at Oklahoma and his first year in

710
00:34:49,159 --> 00:34:52,559
the SEC. He's a talented guy. Look, if you want

711
00:34:52,559 --> 00:34:53,840
to put him at seven, you want to put him

712
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,039
at eight, I'm good with that. Based on talent loan,

713
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:58,239
you can't have him in your top three after not

714
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:01,760
playing in the SEC at all. At number two, it's

715
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,320
Arch Manning at Texas, and look, you know, I like

716
00:35:04,519 --> 00:35:07,639
Arch Manning. I think he could be good. But once again,

717
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:10,199
the national media is over hyping a dude. They're putting

718
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:13,320
unrealistic expectations on a player that has not even been

719
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:15,599
a full time starter in college football. He is entering

720
00:35:15,679 --> 00:35:18,880
his first season as the full time starter in Austin, Texas.

721
00:35:19,559 --> 00:35:21,880
You cannot have this guy at number two. He's going

722
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:23,800
to have weapons on the outside. He's going to have

723
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:25,280
a good running game, he's going to have a good

724
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,679
offensive line because Texas has all these things, but it's

725
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:29,280
going to be up to Arch Manning to put all

726
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,960
that together. Is he talented enough? Meganie Hell, I don't know.

727
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,679
I think he's I think he's got potential, but we're

728
00:35:36,679 --> 00:35:39,480
gonna have to see it. Everyone is ranking Arch Manning,

729
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:41,320
and this is unfair to say because I think he

730
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,960
actually could be a good quarterback. But it's becoming ranking

731
00:35:45,079 --> 00:35:47,440
this guy as high as you are because of his

732
00:35:47,559 --> 00:35:49,119
name and not what he's done on the field. And

733
00:35:49,199 --> 00:35:51,760
that's unfortunately because I think Arch has a good shot

734
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:53,840
of being a good quarterback, and it's gonna make people

735
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:57,280
dislike it. It is a lot of people already dislike Texas.

736
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,119
Now you have a guy with the Manning name who's

737
00:35:59,119 --> 00:36:01,920
getting a little bit over going into the season. At

738
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,599
number one on this list, Joel Klatt has Kid Club

739
00:36:04,679 --> 00:36:08,000
Nick at quarterback at Clemson. I'm okay with this, which

740
00:36:08,079 --> 00:36:10,199
is why I'm concerned about the Clemson game in Week one.

741
00:36:10,559 --> 00:36:12,400
He was excellent in a year ago. And you know

742
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,559
everything you say about Garrett Nolsmayer, Oh, he threw for

743
00:36:14,559 --> 00:36:16,039
a lot of yards, he had a lot of touchdowns,

744
00:36:16,079 --> 00:36:19,920
he had too many turnovers, het Klubnick did. He has

745
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:23,519
his top three receivers back from a year ago. He's

746
00:36:23,599 --> 00:36:25,480
going to have a good offensive line. A lot of

747
00:36:25,519 --> 00:36:27,639
people are going to poke holes in this Clemson offense

748
00:36:27,679 --> 00:36:30,519
and say, okay, well, Kate Clubnick has no run game

749
00:36:30,559 --> 00:36:33,280
to fall back one. True, but he didn't have much

750
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,280
of a run game a year ago anyways. I mean

751
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:39,159
they were bottom half of the ACC and rushing offense

752
00:36:39,199 --> 00:36:42,239
to begin with, So how much are they actually losing there?

753
00:36:42,519 --> 00:36:44,920
And club Nick third year is a starter out there

754
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,840
in Clemson. I expect big things from it. So I'm

755
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:49,840
actually okay with that in Kid Club Nick number one,

756
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:54,199
But going back to Garrett and Nolsmar He's at six

757
00:36:54,599 --> 00:36:57,480
and you look at Joel Klatt's criticism up he said

758
00:36:58,159 --> 00:37:01,360
he needs to turn down a limit the turnouts. I

759
00:37:01,559 --> 00:37:05,079
endorse that one. I agree, But Nesmyer looked like a

760
00:37:05,159 --> 00:37:08,280
different quarterback once Chris Hilton was fully healthy. If you remember,

761
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:10,639
all season long, everyone said, oh, this offense is limited

762
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:12,119
in what they can do in the passing game because

763
00:37:12,159 --> 00:37:14,400
you don't have a true dual threat because Chris Hilton

764
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:16,840
could never get fully healthy. It was last three games

765
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,840
of the year Vanderbilt, Oklahoma, Baylor. In the bowl game

766
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,599
when Chris Hilton was fully healthy, Garrett Nelsmayer was awesome.

767
00:37:23,079 --> 00:37:26,440
Seventy two percent completion, seven touchdowns, only one interception in

768
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,679
the last three games. You also have a lot of

769
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:32,239
deep threats this season. It was basically Hilton and nobody else.

770
00:37:33,079 --> 00:37:34,880
Aar and Anderson came to one as a deep threat.

771
00:37:35,159 --> 00:37:37,639
Of course, you have Hilton, you have Xavi on Thomas,

772
00:37:37,679 --> 00:37:41,039
who's a year older. In this offense, Arrian Brown comes

773
00:37:41,079 --> 00:37:44,159
in Jolannie Watkins a little bit of an undersized guy,

774
00:37:44,199 --> 00:37:45,760
but we see what he's doing in track and field.

775
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:49,320
Can that translate to the football field. You almost have

776
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,400
an embarrassment of Riches at that deep threat spot when

777
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:55,880
you had nobody a year ago. I expect Nelsmyer to

778
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:59,719
take that jump. So Clat can say, okay, well, I

779
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,320
need to see this from Nelsmeyer. We've kind of seen

780
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,840
it again in the last three games when Hilton was

781
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,719
fully healthy. It unlocked everything in that offense, you know who.

782
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,679
We haven't seen it from Arch Manning. We haven't seen

783
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:13,360
it from John Mattiir, we haven't seen it from Drew Aller.

784
00:38:13,679 --> 00:38:15,840
So again, if you want to rank Garrett Nelsmeyer as

785
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:18,360
your sixth best quarterback in college football, I'm good with it.

786
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,960
Aller Manning, John Mattier having no business being in front

787
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:25,239
of Garrett Nelsmeyer because there are way more question marks

788
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:27,360
around all those guys than there are against the guy

789
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:31,400
here in purple and gold. That's kind of my football

790
00:38:31,519 --> 00:38:35,000
rant for the day. Look, I appreciate Joel Klat's list.

791
00:38:35,039 --> 00:38:37,280
He put one out last year, and you know in

792
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:39,679
this article he admitted some of his mistakes and he

793
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:41,599
had Carson Beck att ten. He said, Look, Carson Beck

794
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,440
was my number one quarterback heading into the season last

795
00:38:44,519 --> 00:38:46,280
year and it didn't work out. He said, That's why

796
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:48,360
I paused. I still think he's a talented quarterback, but

797
00:38:48,679 --> 00:38:51,239
I can't put him higher than ten. I appreciate that,

798
00:38:52,159 --> 00:38:55,639
I do. I appreciate the DJ Lagway is behind Garrett

799
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:57,920
Nosmeyer because a lot of people are ranking him ahead

800
00:38:57,920 --> 00:38:59,880
of him, and I can't do that. He hasn't even

801
00:39:00,039 --> 00:39:02,519
had a full season as a full time start. He

802
00:39:02,679 --> 00:39:06,320
was good, completed sixty percent of his passes. He had

803
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:08,039
an up and down year what you would expect from

804
00:39:08,079 --> 00:39:10,719
a true freshman. I think he's talented. I think Nessmeyer

805
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,199
has more weapons to work with, and he's played in

806
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:15,360
a lot more big time games in DJ Lagway, So

807
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:18,519
I do appreciate that he had Nelsmyer over Lagway. I'm

808
00:39:18,559 --> 00:39:24,360
even good with Sam Levitt because it is important to mention.

809
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:28,519
Klatt says, this is not necessarily you know the guys

810
00:39:28,559 --> 00:39:30,719
I think that just are going to blow up statistically,

811
00:39:31,079 --> 00:39:33,320
he said, I think it's who will have the best

812
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:38,119
seasons between individual performance and leading their team to successful seasons.

813
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,760
So I imagine Joel Klatt's going to have Clemson ranked

814
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:44,119
really high, as a lot of people will. That also

815
00:39:44,159 --> 00:39:46,119
adds a little bit to the arch Maning discussion. But

816
00:39:46,199 --> 00:39:48,639
you cannot put arch Manning to If you want to

817
00:39:48,639 --> 00:39:51,639
put arch Manning in your top seven, go ahead and

818
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:53,599
do it. If you think Texas is going to have

819
00:39:53,639 --> 00:39:56,039
a good season, but a guy that's never been a

820
00:39:56,079 --> 00:39:58,239
full time starter, that could not beat out quinn Ewers

821
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:00,840
a year ago in Texas, you're going to have him

822
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:02,800
as your second best quarterback coming into the twenty twenty

823
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:05,400
five season. I can't get behind all right. Look, we're

824
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:06,920
going to take a quick time out and we get back.

825
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,159
We're gonna wrap up our number one, then an hour

826
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,960
number two. We're gonna kind of combine our Monday and

827
00:40:12,039 --> 00:40:14,199
Tuesday shows. We're gonna have weekend winners. We're also going

828
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:17,119
to have OTB mailbag and Chris Phillips of sec Unfiltered,

829
00:40:17,119 --> 00:40:18,760
who is going to join us? All that coming up

830
00:40:19,079 --> 00:40:19,920
here on Off the bench.

831
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:22,639
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853
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in your fevers with me again? Or do you ever

854
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send off hos?

855
00:41:33,159 --> 00:41:41,280
Speaker 3: Do you guys? Exciting news, It's picture day today. Everybody

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Guaranteed last week had to uh take their new Guarantee

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website headshot, professional headshot pictures. It was, of course Wednesday.

858
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Of course I was not here, so now I get

859
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to drive to some studio and government stre eat that

860
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I'm still trying to figure out where it is and

861
00:41:58,039 --> 00:42:01,440
uh take my headshot forgot about it. Luckily I do

862
00:42:01,519 --> 00:42:04,480
have an ESPN shirt on today, so uh, we will

863
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be getting that done here relatively shortly after the show.

864
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:11,000
I think got it gonna be there at like ten thirty.

865
00:42:12,519 --> 00:42:17,679
Even if you watched Righteous Gymstones. No, you never watched it.

866
00:42:18,039 --> 00:42:19,960
I'll tell you what I'm I'm actually two for two

867
00:42:20,559 --> 00:42:22,440
on you guys recommending TV shows to you.

868
00:42:23,159 --> 00:42:24,079
Speaker 2: You loved.

869
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:29,159
Speaker 3: Nobody wants this, And then Elandra Loved Ball in Her Court,

870
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:31,679
which still ready for season two of that to come out,

871
00:42:32,119 --> 00:42:35,519
started Righteous gym Stones last night. I don't know what

872
00:42:35,639 --> 00:42:36,119
to think of it.

873
00:42:36,559 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 5: What's it about? I've heard Okay, so it kind of

874
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:41,719
makes I've never seen it, but I've heard of it.

875
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,239
Speaker 3: It kind of makes fun of the mega churches, but

876
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,159
like not in like a bad way, like you know,

877
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:49,480
not like a sacrilegious thing or anything like that. But so,

878
00:42:49,639 --> 00:42:53,679
Danny McBride is the oldest son of this family called

879
00:42:53,679 --> 00:42:55,639
the Gymstones, who run like a I mean like a

880
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:59,920
big like Jolo's theeen type like massive church. John Goodman

881
00:43:00,599 --> 00:43:03,519
is the father of the family. I mean he's he's

882
00:43:03,559 --> 00:43:05,440
the guy that built it all. And then Adam Divine

883
00:43:06,159 --> 00:43:09,679
Bumper from Pitch Perfect is uh is the younger brother,

884
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:14,400
and they're just not your traditional church family. Like I

885
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:16,519
think they killed somebody in the first episode.

886
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:18,159
Speaker 5: So that's why I couldn't watch it.

887
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,199
Speaker 4: I tried to watch Righteous gem Stones, and then the

888
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:23,920
first episode gave me so much anxiety that I couldn't

889
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:24,559
watch it anymore.

890
00:43:24,679 --> 00:43:26,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, like we just started it last night.

891
00:43:26,519 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, because they do kill some Well, I didn't.

892
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:33,039
Speaker 3: Watch episode two. I don't know, okaycause that's like the

893
00:43:33,159 --> 00:43:33,719
end of episode.

894
00:43:34,159 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 4: So I tried to keep watching it. I went to

895
00:43:36,039 --> 00:43:37,880
episode two and I was like, I just can't do this,

896
00:43:38,079 --> 00:43:40,480
but like, do you care if I.

897
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 3: No, I don't care.

898
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:45,320
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, they it's been out long enough kill I

899
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:47,599
don't think they killed all of them or they all

900
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:49,719
ended up living or something like that, because they.

901
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 3: Ran over the guy, Like ran over that guy. I

902
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:53,559
haven't seen him, Like that was the end of the episode.

903
00:43:53,599 --> 00:43:56,119
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I don't know, they like tried to dump

904
00:43:56,159 --> 00:43:56,960
the body and then.

905
00:43:58,440 --> 00:43:59,079
Speaker 1: He will up.

906
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,679
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Righteous Gemstones didn't try to dump the body.

907
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:06,039
The friends that that person was with, oh okay.

908
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 4: And then yeah, well I spent like my entire day

909
00:44:09,039 --> 00:44:12,000
watching both Dunes yesterday because they're each like did you

910
00:44:12,119 --> 00:44:14,719
like Doom two? So I had seen the first one, yeah,

911
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:17,039
but I hadn't seen the second one yet, and like,

912
00:44:17,199 --> 00:44:21,119
I love both movies, and I watched the first one

913
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:25,599
just to refresh real fast. But like, I love both movies,

914
00:44:25,679 --> 00:44:27,360
and I know they're making a third one and I

915
00:44:27,519 --> 00:44:29,840
need it now. So but I don't think it's coming

916
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,239
up coming out till like December twenty twenty six.

917
00:44:32,679 --> 00:44:34,599
Speaker 5: And there's six books, so I'm hoping.

918
00:44:35,119 --> 00:44:37,800
Speaker 4: I'm hoping that they make all the books into movies,

919
00:44:38,199 --> 00:44:41,199
like we got well Dune Part one and two are

920
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:44,000
the first book, so maybe we'll get like Hella movie.

921
00:44:44,079 --> 00:44:46,159
Speaker 3: Oh hell, they broke the first book up into two parts.

922
00:44:46,199 --> 00:44:47,800
Those movies are three hours apiece.

923
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:48,119
Speaker 5: Yeah.

924
00:44:49,039 --> 00:44:54,119
Speaker 3: So the first one I watched, I didn't love it,

925
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:55,679
like I just it took me a little while to

926
00:44:55,679 --> 00:44:57,320
get into. I didn't know what was going on. Second

927
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:59,360
movie was one of my favorite movies I've seen in

928
00:44:59,679 --> 00:45:02,760
five I mean I thought that that was Thank god

929
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:04,559
you finally watched that. I mean, I remember te Bob

930
00:45:04,599 --> 00:45:06,440
had been wanting to talk about that movie forever and

931
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:08,079
you're like, wait to have it seen it here and

932
00:45:08,119 --> 00:45:09,960
he's like, damn it a lot. You're like, you gotta

933
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,280
watch it. I'm so happy. Do you finally want that's

934
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:14,760
a late movie? No, yeah, it was good because, like

935
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:15,320
I wouldn't.

936
00:45:15,519 --> 00:45:16,400
Speaker 5: I really enjoyed it.

937
00:45:16,679 --> 00:45:19,159
Speaker 3: Not that I disliked him, I just I didn't see

938
00:45:19,199 --> 00:45:21,000
a ton of Timothy Well. I didn't see a ton

939
00:45:21,039 --> 00:45:23,880
of Timothy Shallow made movies until Dune and the first one.

940
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I'm like, you know, this movie's over his character in

941
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that movie, and Dune too like made me love Timothy

942
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Shell like for that movie. Like I haven't seen the

943
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Bob Dylan movie. I haven't seen any of that, and

944
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I still love.

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Speaker 5: Timothy Chellon what's that called Complete Unknown?

946
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Speaker 3: Complete Unknown? I'm gonna have to watch that one too.

947
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But uh no, Righteous Jimstones, Cassie, maybe not your cup

948
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of team, be very honest with you. It's not bad.

949
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I'm gonna have to see where it goes. I'm definitely

950
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gonna watch episode two. It's a little outlandish, like unbelievable

951
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all that, you get it. But so basically the reason

952
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they had to kill this guy is because Danny we

953
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Brod was called on tape doing cocaine. Okay, well, obviously

954
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they're trying to expand their megachurch. Nobody's going to let

955
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a church family do that if the oldest son is

956
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called on tape doing that. So they're blackmailing him for

957
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a million dollars and he's trying to get in. My

958
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thought was, okay, well, even if they get the million dollars,

959
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they could still blackmail him in the future. And that's

960
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what they said when they got there. So Davy broad

961
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Like knocks the guy out and they will run him

962
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over with their van. And that's that's the entire first episode.

963
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So a little outlandish, but it was. It was funny

964
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none the less. All right, look, that's going to do

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it for hour number one, Hour number two, we got

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weekend winners OTB mail Bag and Chris Phillips coming up.

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That's on the way here on off the bench, Off

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