Speaker 1: I'll start to you want to present some off the Bench,
He says, what we have been waiting for.
Speaker 2: The hype is over.
Speaker 1: Off the Bench. It is I got to come off
the face. Now here's Jacob Hester.
Speaker 3: Welcome into a Tuesday edition of Off the Bench. Taylor
Sharp here with you in for Jacob Heester. He is
out at SEC spring meetings. We'll hear from him a
little bit throughout the week. He's gonna send us back
some interviews they're going to play back for you, guys.
That'll be more tomorrow and Thursday. But I'm here with
you for the next three days until Jacob Ester comes
back on Friday. I think he's back on Friday. So
I texted him yesterday and I said, hey, you know
you're sending this interviews back and he's like, yeah, I'll
let you know who as soon as I get him together.
And I said, you're back on Friday, right, and he
liked the message. So I'm Mike, I'm assuming he's back
on Friday, So Jake will be here on Friday. I'm
here with you for the next three days. We got
a Landra Hillarya, we got Cassie Spizzali, guys, a little
extended weekend, some Memorial Day holiday? What did we get into?
Speaker 4: I didn't do anything yesterday, and then I went to
Jumbalaya festival Saturday at a remote out there. I didn't
have any jumbalaya you went to. They weren't like selling
any jumbalaya, which I thought was weird because it's Jumbalaya festival.
Like all of the little stands just had like regular
fair food or like food truck kind of food. And
my neighbor came with me and we're like, where is
the jumbalaya.
Speaker 5: We were so confused. But apparently it's just a cook off.
Speaker 4: I mean I knew like the cookoff was part of it,
but I just wrongly assumed that a lot more jumbalaya
was going to be consumed.
Speaker 3: Jumbalaya was going to be a jumbal I mean, that's
that's wild. Cassie. What about you? Were you disappointed any
this weekend? Like a laudra was No.
Speaker 5: I didn't do much on like Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 4: But yesterday one of my friends had like a little
family party that I went to, so that was pretty fun.
Speaker 5: It's very very chill weekend. I was also gonna say that. Uh,
I saw. I went to T Bob's going away party
on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm pissed at him for that because I'm on vacation.
He texted Saturday night.
Speaker 5: Well he did tell us he was gonna happen.
Speaker 4: I know, I just yeah, but it was fun. So
we got to celebrate the A Bears and uh Jake
was there too, and I was like, I know we're
missing Taite, but let's get one last pick together.
Speaker 5: And T Bob goes f Tayte.
Speaker 3: Not surprising look, staying on brand until the very end.
That is what I appreciate about my guy, T Bob.
A Bear got was like a little sun yeah, son
on the gate. It's not a burn though, so that's
that's good. It'll be it'll be a little bit darker tomorrow.
I burned pretty easy, but it was fine. It was fine.
We we were responsible this trip. Did a good job
of kind of like not covering because no yeah, like
once during the like in the morning, yeah, and then
I just let it ride throughout the day. So not
a burn, but not like no tan at all. So
we we did a pretty good job. If I eat
fried shrimp one more time in the next week and
a half, I will throw up because I think I've
had it five in the last six days. I mean,
that's basically all they have out there, Like they do shrimp,
like we do crawlfish every single place. Their specialty is
Royal Reds, which I'm excited about. But it's trimp, not crawlfish.
So what is it the flamingo that turns that color
because they eat so much trimp? Is that what it is?
Speaker 5: I mean idea, I think it is.
Speaker 3: I think the flamingo turns that color because he eats
so much trimp. Well that was almost me over the weekend.
But look, kind of want to lay out the show
for you. We're LSU baseball heavy in the first two segments.
I'm gonna talk to LOSU football as well. We're gonna
kind of combine our Monday and Tuesday shows, so we're
gonna have weekend winners and OTB mailbag. In hour two.
Nick Underhill and Devin Snow both hopping on and nowur
number three and then Chris Phillips of SEC Unfiltered will
be on at eight fifteen as we are trying to
make that a weekly thing. Okay, Well, we recapped our weekend.
Also over the weekend was the SEC Tournament, and your
Tigers played two games in that tournament before being eliminated.
He took on Texas A and m on Friday. In
that quarterfinal game, the Tigers get the win four to three.
They played two runs in the first inning, they played
it two more in the third and that was enough
to hold off the Texas A and m Aggies. Ethan
Frye continued his incredible hot streak. He was two for
three three RBIs, including a two run home run. He
obviously scored a run as well. And the pitching was excellent,
not just in this game but all weekend long. But
Kate Anderson got the start. He gave up four hits,
three armed runs, struck out twelve, only walked one. It
was another day in the office for Kate Anderson. After
the game, Jay Johnson said he thinks that the only
person that is as good of a pitcher in all
college baseball as Kate Anderson was Anthony Jonson. And speaking
of Anthony Jonson, he made an appearance. He had his
first relief appearance of the season. He came in he
threw the final three innings, four k's, one walk no runs. Now,
I had seen back and forth, you know, on social
media all Friday evening. Why did Anthony Jonson throw? He's
your number two starter? Why'd you bring him out of
the bullpen? I think it comes down to one of
two things. One, if you lose that game, Anthony Jonson
would not have pitched for almost two full weeks heading
into this regional. Jay obviously wanted to get him some work. Also,
a lot of people have set up here, myself included
and said, I don't think LSU needs to win a
game in the tournament, but it would probably help to
win a game in the tournament. Maybe. Jay stall process
was also, hey, let me go ensure that I get
one win, we lock up that national seed. We're good
to go. Everything else going forward is strictly land yap.
I totally understand the decision because if you lose that game,
not only are you one and done in the tournament,
but again, Anthony Jinsen does not pitch for two full
weeks heating into that regional. You gotta get him some
kind of work. I mean, he went three innings, four k's.
It was essentially an extended bullpen appearance for Anthony Ionson. Anyways,
it's not going to hurt him going forward. I like
the decision to throw Ionson go out there, win the game,
ending Texas A and M's run in the SEC tournament
as well. That's never a bad sign. But Kate Anders
and Anthony Ionson excellent in game one. Ethan Frye continuing
his hot streak. Now one to game two. LSU loses
this game to Ole Miss by a score of two
to nothing. The bats were ice cold, and when I
mean ice cold, I mean they had two hits the
entire game. That's the concerning part for me because this
Ole Miss staff was dominant against Ella Shoe. However, they
really hadn't been dominant all year, so the four arms
that they faced, Caid Townsend got the start coming into
this game. Caid Townsen had a five to seventy three
ERA on the season. Gunnar Dennis, who was credited with
the win, three seventy five ERA, Will mccauslan four to
twenty three ERE now Connor Spencer closed out the game.
He has a one six one ERA on the season.
He's been dominant all year long, but you face the
guy with an ERA above five one approaching four and
one over four, So they shut you down offensively. And
this has not been a top five staff in the SEC.
I mean they've been okay, but at times they have struggled.
They have shut you down. That is my biggest concern
for LSU going into the postseason is the hitting. We'll
get into that in just a minute. However, second game
in a row, the pitching was absolutely dominant. So Jaden
Nute gets the start. He goes four innings, seven strikeouts,
two walks, only had one earned run. Chay Shores, who
as far as I'm concerned, Stay is coming out of
the bullpen. He's been much better in relief than he
has been as a starter. Two and two thirds innings,
three k's, three walks, so a little bit of control
issue there, but he didn't allow when he earned runs.
He was steady. And then we get to Jacob Myers.
The last two and a third belonged to Jacob Myers.
Four strikeouts, no walks, no earned runs. When you look
at this bullpen and all year long we have set
up here me Jay Calandra, when T Bob was here.
The other shows, you talk about reliable arms out of
the bullpen, because you know Kate Anderson and Anthony Ironsent
are two of the best, if not the best starters
in the SEC. Who can you rely on out of
the bullpen? It's always been Zach Collowing, Caseen Avans, Cooper Williams.
If you need a left the Jayden Knut's name has
been thrown in there as well. Connor Ware's name has
been thrown out there. Chay Shores now appears to be
a bona fide relief pitcher. But Jacob Myers, I want
to talk about this guy more because I think he
deserves the recognition. Won the season. Now, Jacob Myers a
two nine to two era, won the entire season is
a one to zero record. He's been dominant. This strikeout
to walk ratio now is forty one strikeouts to eighteen walks.
He has been about as steady as you can be
out of the bullpen. And he's a guy that up
until recently, you know, you weren't talking about a ton
I mean, he had hype coming into the season, as
did this entire bullpen, but you know kind of got
lost in the weeds of the dominance of a Zach Cowen,
a case In Evan's, a Jaden Nude. I mean, those
were the guys that everybody was looking at coming into
the season. But Jacob Myers has been one of the
most consistent pitchers out of your bullpen. This is a
guy that you're going to rely on a lot. And
the starting ability of Jade Nut. Mina Landre have talked
about this a number of times about yes, it's good
to have three starters, but you're going to have to
find somebody in that fourth role to come in and
make a spot start because it's something you're going to
need in Omaha. Jadan Nut could potentially be that guy.
We've seen him start a few times now and he's
looked pretty good. I just mentioned four innings seven k's
just two walks. That's a little bit more of an
extended outing from Jaden Nute than we have seen in
the past. You obviously have shorers who can start or
come in in relief. I personally before I'm in relief now,
but having a guy like Jacob Myers out of the bullpen,
because let's look at your potential starters. Kate Anderson and
Anthony Iensent are obviously up there. You know, Cason Evans
can start. He's gotten a few Sunday starts. Jay Shores
can start in a pinch, Jay Newt can start. Connor
Ware has made some starts, but then out of the
bullpen Chores Myers, Cooper Williams, Zach Cowen, Kason Evans potentially again,
Jayden k Newt could also come out of the bullpen.
You have options, you have flexibility in this bullpen. I
am not concerned with this pitching at all going into
the postseason because of how hot they ended the regular season,
but also what we saw in two games back to
back in that Sez tournament. I mean, sure, you gave
up only five runs in two games, but you were dominant.
I mean it was across the board Anderson, Iansen, knew Shores, Myers,
there was no drop off. A lot of times this
season you've come in and said, oh, there were three
or four guys were really good out of the bullpen.
The rest of the staff straw. Not the case. You
threw five guys over the weekend in two games. All
five of them were nails on the mound for you.
I am not concerned with the pitching at all going
into the season. But when I am concerned about and Alaji,
I want to get your opinion on this, What is
your concern level just going into tournament play as far
as the NCAA goes, as far as elishues.
Speaker 4: Bats, I would say it's pretty concerning just because, like
it doesn't just go to the Ole Miss game, but
Texas A and M. We won the game, but the
last hit we had was in the third inning, So
from the third inning on you got no hit. So
and it's been an issue for a few weeks now,
I feel like, and we talked about it even back
during the Nichols game, like a midweek game a long
time ago, like that's when it kind of started. No,
well actually I don't know when it started, but I
remember us talking about it and me saying that, like,
not just a hitting, but the runners left on base
is concerning to me as well, because there were some
times where you could have had more insurance run versus
insurance runs versus Texas A and M, and you didn't
get it done. So I don't know, I'm a little
concerned about it. Yeah, but when they're hot, they're hot,
so it's just so weird.
Speaker 3: Well, what's the thing, right, They've been so hot at home,
which is why everyone said, if you want to make
it to Omaha, you have to be a top eight seed.
You have to host a regional, and if you win
that regional, you will host a super as well. Tigers
have done that because you go look at batting across
the board. It has been much better at home. And
I get that that's not an Lshu thing, right, That's
going to be any team across college baseball, but LSU,
especially in speaking of a top eight seed, the Tigers
did get just that. When the tournament seeding came out yesterday,
everyone assumed that LSU was going to get in that
top eight. They get the sixth seed in the Baton
Rouge Regional. They will host that regional and they are
a national seed in that regional if Dallas Baptist, Rhode
Island and Little Rock and also you were paired with
the Clemson Regional that's Clemson, West Virginia, Kentucky and South
Carolina Upstate. So the winner of that regional, if the
Tigers do advance out of the Baton Rouge Regional, will
come here to alex Box to play that super Regional.
Speaker 5: I think we had a great draw.
Speaker 3: I didn't too. I didn't too.
Speaker 4: The regional and the superregional that we're paired with.
Speaker 5: I'm not mad at it at all.
Speaker 3: What a tease, But you and I get into that next.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Off the Bench.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to industry. Tuesday edition of Off the Bench.
Taylor Sharp here with you us sitting in the host
chair for Jacob Est. He is out at sec Spring Media.
We'll check in with him throughout the week, but I
am here today, Tomorrow, and Thursday. Jake will be back
on Friday and then the next week our new show
format officially begins. Matt Flyinn's gonna hop in next Monday,
so that's exciting as well. But we tease that they're
going into break. LSU does earn the number six overall seeds,
so they are a national seed. They host the Baton
Rouge Regional. Dallas Baptist is the two seed, Rhode Island
Rams the number three seed, and Little Rock as the
number four seed overall. I really like this seeding and
the draw that LSU got. Look, we know about what
type of program Dallas Baptist is. They're a team that
people always keep an eye on come tournament time because
they're one of these smaller teams that just has a
really really good baseball program year in and year route.
If you remember LSU and Dallas Baptists played each other
earlier this year in February out in Arlington. Now the
Tigers won that game seven to three. But these teams
are so different, Like, look how different LSU is. Now
did they wear in February? You were worried about your bullpen.
You couldn't get anybody out in the bullpen. You were
tearing the cover off the ball. Now it's kind of
the complete opposite. Dallas Baptist is going to be that
way as well. Patriots come in. They're forty and sixteen.
They went twenty one and six to win the Conference
USA by two full games. And then if you want
to go a little bit further and look at the
Rhode Island team thirty eight and twenty twenty two to
eight in the Atlantic ten. They won that league. Not
only did they win the league, they followed that up
by sweeping through their conference tournament. So this is a
Rhode Island team that is hot. Also they can hit
the ball a three to zero nine team batty average
on the season. As far as Little Rock goes, which
is going to be LSU's first opponent. Because Tigers are
the one seed, they'll play the four seed Little Rock.
This is a team that's just twenty four and thirty
two on the season, but they did win the Ohio
Valley Tournament. So it's a team that struggled with consistency
all baseball season long. But they may have gotten hot
at the right time. This time of year, it doesn't
really matter what you've done. I mean, a couple of
years ago we saw Ole Miss get in the tournament
as the very last seed. They went on to win
the whole damn thing in Omaha and get the national championship.
So if you face a team at the right time,
it could be a little bit of a problem for you. Now,
obviously LSU is a lot more talented on this team,
but don't sleep on this squad. Again, this is a
team that went through the Ohio Valley Conference tournament, but
they are just twenty four and thirty two throughout the season.
I expect the Tigers to win Game one. If they do.
You got a forty win team in Dallas Baptist, you
got a thirty eight win team in Rhode Island, Landri.
You were saying before we went to break, you actually
like the draw. I do too. You actually like the
draw here at the ben Rege Regional.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 4: I think that the draw, like the Regional and the
pairing for the Super is very favorable for LSU. And
you're right about DBU being a solid team and especially
in the postseason.
Speaker 5: But we Airdy beat them earlier this season.
Speaker 4: And yes, our bats are cold, but I think, look,
our pitching is great, and we play Rhode Island.
Speaker 5: First, right, We'll play Little ron Little first.
Speaker 4: Okay, So I mean, I don't know what it's gonna
look like versus DBU, but I think it's pretty favorable.
And then also the Super that you're paired with facing,
I mean, Clemson is a tough team, but the rest
of the teams out there, I feel like are pretty beatable.
Speaker 3: Well. So, speaking of Dallas Baptists and Rhode Island, I
expect Dallas Baptists to win that game one over Rhode Island,
but let's say they don't. Let's say Rhode Island wins.
Either way, I think that LSU has a really good
matchup because you were talking about Ye, sure, the bats
are being cold, what if they wake up either way?
So Dallas Baptist is a team bat's only two sixty
as a team right now. Now they do have four
guys with double digit home runs, but their lineups a
little bit top At me they got about four or
five guys they hit over three hundred. There's a big
drop off after that. So the Yellow Shoe arms should
have an okay time with Dallas Baptist and as a
pitching staff. Dallas Baptist four ninety seven ERA on the year,
not terrible, not dominant, kind of somewhere in the middle.
So is that a team where LSU's bats can wake
up against? Really the same thing with Rhode Island. Now
I mentioned a minute ago they can hit a three
zero nine team batting average, But do you know what
the Rhode Island Rams as team ERA is. It's six
point two zero. That's another team. So really, your weakness
is their weakness. Your strength on strength. So and you're
at home, which is where Lshu has been. Both of
these teams decent bats. I trust LSU's arms. They've been
dominant throughout the last couple regular season series. They were
excellent over the weekend in the SEC tournament. I trust
Lshu's arms, both starting and bullpen to get it done.
And if you're struggling against batting, you're going up against
a team with a four ninety seven ERA and a
team with a six point two ERA. And that's if
you can get over the hump against Little Rock, and
if you can, maybe bats can get hot in that game,
get some confidence going up against Dallas Baptist and Rhode Island.
I like this draw as well. And then Alandra was
mentioning the the regional that you are paired with. It's Clemson.
They're the number eleven national seed. You also have West Virginia, Kentucky,
South Carolina Upstate. Obviously South Carolina Upstate the outlier in
that regional. Look, Clemson's had a really good season. They're
out there in the ACC. That's a conference that had
a couple national seed bids. And then you look at
West Virginia. West Virginia's baseball team has been pretty good
this year. They're in a decent conference over there in
the Big twelve. It's a team that you know a
lot of people have slept on for whatever reason, but
you go look at at what they've done this year.
The Mountaineers. They're forty one and fourteen overall, they're nineteen
and nine in the Big twelve Conference. They're seventeen and
seven at home. But here's the big one. They're twenty
three and five on the road. Do not sleep on
West Virginia. I think they could easily come out of
this regional. Now they're going to play the Kentucky Wildcats. First. Obviously,
Kentucky very cold right now. You look at LSU's bats.
You talk about that being cold, how about a whole team?
It's cold. But coming into the season, there was a
lot of hype around the Kentucky Wildcats. Nick Manjione one
of the most respected coaches in the SEC. A lot
of people like him. He's he's always going to be
on that list of like, hey, a big schools looking
for a coaching opening that's serious about baseball, Could you
bring in Mango. I like the draw overall because you
avoided an Ole miss who's hot, You avoided a Tennessee,
you avoided one of those SEC teams that you could
potentially have coming here. And in that case, it's pretty
much a winner take all SEC series. And we've seen
what the SEC is this year. In baseball, right, I mean,
Missouri swept Texas A and M. You got swept by Auburn.
Then you turn around beat you take down Arkansas two
out of three games. You take down Tennessee two out
of three games. It's an up and down conference. Anybody
can beat anybody on any given day. The fact that
you have avoided some of the top teams in the SEC,
potentially in that super regional matchup, I think also is
favorable for the Tigers. Again, Kentucky ice cold right now,
but they have talent on that team. I really like
West Virginia. That's the team I'm watching in this Clemson
regional again, forty one and fourteen on the year, nineteen
and nine in conference, twenty three and five on the road.
I think that's the big one to watch. And then
you look at how hot this team is. You go
down and look at their last few games. They're a
hot baseball team. Now. They lost in the second round
of the Big Twelfth Tournament to Arizona twelve and one.
That's an Arizona team that you almost got in your regional.
You're able to dodge that, but before that you lose
to Kansas. You actually get swept by Kansas you lose
two out of three to Kansas State. So as good
as West Virginia has been on the season, they've struggled
a little bit down the stretch. However, I'm still keeping
an eye on the Mountaineers. I've kind of liked what
I've seen from them all year long. They got a
decent balance of hitting and pitching. That might be the
team to keep an eye on. Obviously, Clemson has done
a really good job this year as well. They are
the host of that Clemson South Carolina Regional. Alandra, if
LSU gets through this regional, whether it's Dallas, Baptist, Rhode Island,
Little Rock, which team do you think LSU like? Who
do you want to see in that super regional? Clemson,
West Virginia, Kentucky? Who do you like?
Speaker 4: I thought my own mic was on that's so funny,
I think. Okay, so the very easy obvious answer b SC.
Speaker 3: Stay yeah, yeah, like the long chant.
Speaker 4: Sure, I think we have a good chance of seeing
West Virginia or Clemson. Like you mentioned, Kentucky's not doing great.
Their record is good to like get them into the postseason.
But I'm like a little surprise eyes So little surprised
that they snuck their way in. And you know what
else I kind of hate to get off topic real quick,
is that Tennessee got a regional host site.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they did not deserve it at all. But anyways,
we can revisit that another time.
Speaker 4: But if you were asking me between Clemson and West Virginia,
who I'd rather see, because those feel like the two
that were most likely to see. For some reason, West
Virginia has a feel to me where like, if you
let them go on a run, they like if you
if you let them win this regional, they'd come and
be LSU for some reason.
Speaker 5: I don't know why right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but let that team get hot. I just broke
down the record the conference, the really good twenty three
and five on the road.
Speaker 2: Face.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So.
Speaker 4: I'd rather see c Honestly, I would rather see Cleansing
than West Virginia because it's also like that team that
you least expect in the postseason that you always feel
like gets sort of magic.
Speaker 3: The Stony Brook. It's the Coast of Carolina. I mean,
it's teams like that.
Speaker 5: And we've lost the Stony Brook.
Speaker 3: We lost the Coast of Carolina too, Alright, it's it's
one of those.
Speaker 5: So that's what that's the feel that it has to me.
Speaker 4: So I would rather and this is like all not
based on facts at all, just vibes, but I'd rather
see Clemson than West Virginia.
Speaker 3: Speaking of national seed, you were talking about how Tennessee
did not deserve that regional host side. I agree with you.
Speaker 4: They lost the last five of their six series or something.
Speaker 3: Like that, and what they won one game in the tournament. Yeah,
like that's is winning one game in the SEC tournament
And was it too No.
Speaker 5: I don't remember.
Speaker 4: Actually, there's so much baseball being played last week.
Speaker 3: When when they announced the national seeds. Are your thoughts
on Vanderbilt getting the number one overall?
Speaker 5: I feel like it was kind of surprising.
Speaker 3: Like for me it was too And I get it.
They went on like they win the SEC tournament. I
get all that, but like all these coaches don't put
a lot of stock in the SEC tournament, like the
tournament's supposed to be for a Mississippi State or at
Tennessee or somebody like that, who like wouldn't be a
national seed ye unless they unless they win that tournament.
But like Vanderbilt getting the number one overall. That was
a little surprising to me.
Speaker 5: It was surprising.
Speaker 4: I don't feel any sort of way toward it, like
I don't have like a strong opinion on it one
way or another, but I think it did surprise a
lot of people.
Speaker 5: They quietly were really really good this season.
Speaker 3: They have the same conference record as LSU. That's yeah,
the bluemond.
Speaker 4: When I was looking at it yesterday, maybe it was
just us in like our little bubble that we didn't
talk about it at all, but I just feel like
it kind of they were quietly, really really good.
Speaker 3: It's one of those things where I look AT's a
great coach, well yeah, and it's like Vanderbilt's always so
dominant when they look like a pedestrian average team, they're like, oh,
they're all yeah, they suck. But then I went and
looked at it yesterday. They almost have the same record
as Texas. Texas is forty two and twelve, Vanderbilts forty
two and sixteen. They're nineteen and eleven in the conference,
the same as LSU. So it's it's one paper. The
resume is not as bad. Like I'm with you. When
I first looked at it, I was like, this is
a little bit surprising.
Speaker 5: But but it makes sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I when I looked at it and I kind
of dove into it a little bit last night, it
kind of made sense. And that's always a team to
watch out for, like Tim Corbin, multiple national championships. Yeah,
over there in Nashville. So that's a team to watch.
Speaker 5: I don't remember if you were here when we had
Chris on last week. Chris Phillips on last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was Tuesday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he mentioned like Vandy has a really good
record and they didn't play the bottom of the SEC,
like they didn't play Missouri.
Speaker 3: They didn't the RPIs s hi.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's surprising because we didn't pay much attention
to it, I guess, but it makes sense.
Speaker 3: All right, that'll kind of wrap up at least most
of our baseball discussion. We do have Chris Phillips coming
one at eight fifteen from SEC unfiltered. That was kind
of a breakdown, little little preview, little taste of that
baton Rouge Regional. LSU will take on Little Rock Friday
at two o'clock to get that beat. Ruge Regional started.
All right, take it quick. When we take a time out.
On the other side, Joel Klatt ranked his top ten
quarterbacks heading into the twenty twenty five season. This was
on Friday. I have major issues with this list that's
coming up on the other side. Here on, off the bench,
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Speaker 3: Welcome back. In Tuesday edition of Off the Bench, Tayler
Sharp here with you, filling in for mister Jacob Ester,
who is out there at SEC spring meetings. Teas did
a little bit there before that last break. Joel Klapp
put out his top ten quarterbacks heading into the twenty
twenty five season. I have some major problems with this last.
First off, he starts with Carson back at number ten.
That's fine if you want to put Carson Beck in there.
I think Beck's a talented guy. I think that his
season last year didn't necessarily show that Georgia's receiving corps
was actually really bad. I think they wound up having
like the most drops of any power for receiving corps
in the country, so they didn't help him out any
But Beck had way too many turnovers. I mean, you
look at Beck's raw numbers thirty four hundred yards, twenty
eight touchdowns, twelve interceptions, seven point eight yards per attempt.
I mean he was pretty average a season ago. Now,
Klatt says, okay, Well, you know, he didn't have a
lot of help on the outside at Georgia, so I
think Miami will help him a little bit. Who is
Miami at You lost Xavier Verstrepo, you lost the Leijoh Royo.
I mean, you'll have a decent running game. You're in
an ACC which is a little bit easier of a
conference than the SEC. But he's also coming off of
that UCL injury that he missed a little bit of
the offseason because of He seems fully healthy now. But
there's still a lot of question marks around Carson back.
But I'm okay with having him at ten, Like it's
the bottom of the list. I'm good with number nine.
He has Luke Altmeyer. Actually like this choice. Altmeyer was
in a flashy guy. He didn't put the crazy numbers,
but he was super efficient twenty two touchdowns to just
six interceptions. He returns to an Illinois squad that's actually
pretty talented overall. You saw him put some teams on
upset alert last year. I think we're looking at more
of the same this year. Leonora's Seller, South Carolina number eight.
DJ Ledway, Florida. At number seven is Garrett Nussmeyer, our
guy right here in Baton Rouge at number six. Here's
his ride up on nuts He's not the most athletic
guy out there, but he threw for over four thousand yards.
He's an absolute gunslinger. He's going to put up numbers,
and I think LSU will be a really good team
this season, he said. But nos Maarn needs to cut
down on the turnovers. He had fifteen last season, and
he's not the mobile guy that can hurt you with
his legs, so he has to minimize the turnovers. I
am okay with that. Everybody knows that Garrett Nutzmyer turned
the ball over too much this past season. He has
him at six overall, and you can look at it
and say, okay, well he's got him at six. Some
people have him at three, you know, wherever you want
to rank him. Like a lot of time you're splitting
hairs with these quarterbacks. I be doing it. I don't
necessarily have an issue with Garrett Nussbayer being six on
this list. Have an issue with who he put ahead
of Garrett Nusemeyer because I can't justify it. At number five,
it's Drew Aller of Penn State. What am I not
seeing with Drew Aller that others are? If you know
what it is, please let me know. He struggles in
big games. There was a college football playoff game where
he didn't complete a pass to a wide receiver. Klatt
mentions that in his ride up, but he says, you know,
that's a lot on the wide receivers. Okay, that's fine.
You can blame the wide receivers. Have they gotten significantly
better this year? I mean maybe a little bit, but
I mean they're not exactly a stud wide receiver cor
top to bottom. How's it going to be any different?
Singleton and Allen at running backer studs? But again, your
weapons on the outsider minimum. Drew Aller gets the benefit
of the doubt because he was a five star coming
out of high school. Andy's six foot five. That's what
it is, because says, Okay, you know, he may not
be where we want him to be, but he's improved
a year in and year out as a starter in
college football. But that's not true. You go look at
his numbers. In twenty twenty three, he completed almost sixty
percent of his passes. This past season, it was over
sixty six percent, Okay, so that is better. He also
threw for more yards this year, but he had one
less touchdown pass and six more interceptions than he had
in twenty twenty three. And he's still struggling in big games.
So all this talk about, yeah, he's not what we
want him to be, but he showed promise, he showed improvement.
That's not true. Drew Aller is essentially the same quarterback
he was the day he got on campus. His fifty
three touchdown passes over three years, which is really good,
but four touchdown passes as a freshman in twenty twenty two.
He didn't play a ton a twenty five to two
touchdown interception ratio in twenty twenty three, twenty four to eight.
Last season, he backtracked a year ago. He goes from
two hundred and two yards a game two years ago
to hundred and seven. That's not a huge improvement. And
find me these incredible weapons that Penn State added top
to bottom to say, oh, they're gonna be one of
the best Receiving Corps in college football. Drew Aller no
doubt bona FI top five quarterback. Drew Aller wasn't a
five star coming out of high school, he would not
continue to get the benefit of the doubt. Now at
number four on this list, it's Sam Levitt from Arizona State.
I'm okay with this.
Speaker 2: Look.
Speaker 3: He's a guy that came on late in the season.
He made big plays for the sun Devils. Now he
gets Jordan Tyson back, who was his top receiver a
year ago. What will he do without Cam Scataboo to
lean on. Teams are now going to be keying in
on Sam Levitt, not Cam Skataboo. That's gonna be a
little bit of a learning care for it. At number three,
it's John Mattier. I hate having John Mattier this high.
He was great at Washington State last year, but it's
his first year at Oklahoma and his first year in
the SEC. He's a talented guy. Look, if you want
to put him at seven, you want to put him
at eight, I'm good with that. Based on talent loan,
you can't have him in your top three after not
playing in the SEC at all. At number two, it's
Arch Manning at Texas, and look, you know, I like
Arch Manning. I think he could be good. But once again,
the national media is over hyping a dude. They're putting
unrealistic expectations on a player that has not even been
a full time starter in college football. He is entering
his first season as the full time starter in Austin, Texas.
You cannot have this guy at number two. He's going
to have weapons on the outside. He's going to have
a good running game, he's going to have a good
offensive line because Texas has all these things, but it's
going to be up to Arch Manning to put all
that together. Is he talented enough? Meganie Hell, I don't know.
I think he's I think he's got potential, but we're
gonna have to see it. Everyone is ranking Arch Manning,
and this is unfair to say because I think he
actually could be a good quarterback. But it's becoming ranking
this guy as high as you are because of his
name and not what he's done on the field. And
that's unfortunately because I think Arch has a good shot
of being a good quarterback, and it's gonna make people
dislike it. It is a lot of people already dislike Texas.
Now you have a guy with the Manning name who's
getting a little bit over going into the season. At
number one on this list, Joel Klatt has Kid Club
Nick at quarterback at Clemson. I'm okay with this, which
is why I'm concerned about the Clemson game in Week one.
He was excellent in a year ago. And you know
everything you say about Garrett Nolsmayer, Oh, he threw for
a lot of yards, he had a lot of touchdowns,
he had too many turnovers, het Klubnick did. He has
his top three receivers back from a year ago. He's
going to have a good offensive line. A lot of
people are going to poke holes in this Clemson offense
and say, okay, well, Kate Clubnick has no run game
to fall back one. True, but he didn't have much
of a run game a year ago anyways. I mean
they were bottom half of the ACC and rushing offense
to begin with, So how much are they actually losing there?
And club Nick third year is a starter out there
in Clemson. I expect big things from it. So I'm
actually okay with that in Kid Club Nick number one,
But going back to Garrett and Nolsmar He's at six
and you look at Joel Klatt's criticism up he said
he needs to turn down a limit the turnouts. I
endorse that one. I agree, But Nesmyer looked like a
different quarterback once Chris Hilton was fully healthy. If you remember,
all season long, everyone said, oh, this offense is limited
in what they can do in the passing game because
you don't have a true dual threat because Chris Hilton
could never get fully healthy. It was last three games
of the year Vanderbilt, Oklahoma, Baylor. In the bowl game
when Chris Hilton was fully healthy, Garrett Nelsmayer was awesome.
Seventy two percent completion, seven touchdowns, only one interception in
the last three games. You also have a lot of
deep threats this season. It was basically Hilton and nobody else.
Aar and Anderson came to one as a deep threat.
Of course, you have Hilton, you have Xavi on Thomas,
who's a year older. In this offense, Arrian Brown comes
in Jolannie Watkins a little bit of an undersized guy,
but we see what he's doing in track and field.
Can that translate to the football field. You almost have
an embarrassment of Riches at that deep threat spot when
you had nobody a year ago. I expect Nelsmyer to
take that jump. So Clat can say, okay, well, I
need to see this from Nelsmeyer. We've kind of seen
it again in the last three games when Hilton was
fully healthy. It unlocked everything in that offense, you know who.
We haven't seen it from Arch Manning. We haven't seen
it from John Mattiir, we haven't seen it from Drew Aller.
So again, if you want to rank Garrett Nelsmeyer as
your sixth best quarterback in college football, I'm good with it.
Aller Manning, John Mattier having no business being in front
of Garrett Nelsmeyer because there are way more question marks
around all those guys than there are against the guy
here in purple and gold. That's kind of my football
rant for the day. Look, I appreciate Joel Klat's list.
He put one out last year, and you know in
this article he admitted some of his mistakes and he
had Carson Beck att ten. He said, Look, Carson Beck
was my number one quarterback heading into the season last
year and it didn't work out. He said, That's why
I paused. I still think he's a talented quarterback, but
I can't put him higher than ten. I appreciate that,
I do. I appreciate the DJ Lagway is behind Garrett
Nosmeyer because a lot of people are ranking him ahead
of him, and I can't do that. He hasn't even
had a full season as a full time start. He
was good, completed sixty percent of his passes. He had
an up and down year what you would expect from
a true freshman. I think he's talented. I think Nessmeyer
has more weapons to work with, and he's played in
a lot more big time games in DJ Lagway, So
I do appreciate that he had Nelsmyer over Lagway. I'm
even good with Sam Levitt because it is important to mention.
Klatt says, this is not necessarily you know the guys
I think that just are going to blow up statistically,
he said, I think it's who will have the best
seasons between individual performance and leading their team to successful seasons.
So I imagine Joel Klatt's going to have Clemson ranked
really high, as a lot of people will. That also
adds a little bit to the arch Maning discussion. But
you cannot put arch Manning to If you want to
put arch Manning in your top seven, go ahead and
do it. If you think Texas is going to have
a good season, but a guy that's never been a
full time starter, that could not beat out quinn Ewers
a year ago in Texas, you're going to have him
as your second best quarterback coming into the twenty twenty
five season. I can't get behind all right. Look, we're
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Of course I was not here, so now I get
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Even if you watched Righteous Gymstones. No, you never watched it.
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which still ready for season two of that to come out,
started Righteous gym Stones last night. I don't know what
to think of it.
Speaker 5: What's it about? I've heard Okay, so it kind of
makes I've never seen it, but I've heard of it.
Speaker 3: It kind of makes fun of the mega churches, but
like not in like a bad way, like you know,
not like a sacrilegious thing or anything like that. But so,
Danny McBride is the oldest son of this family called
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is the father of the family. I mean he's he's
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Bumper from Pitch Perfect is uh is the younger brother,
and they're just not your traditional church family. Like I
think they killed somebody in the first episode.
Speaker 5: So that's why I couldn't watch it.
Speaker 4: I tried to watch Righteous gem Stones, and then the
first episode gave me so much anxiety that I couldn't
watch it anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like we just started it last night.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because they do kill some Well, I didn't.
Speaker 3: Watch episode two. I don't know, okaycause that's like the
end of episode.
Speaker 4: So I tried to keep watching it. I went to
episode two and I was like, I just can't do this,
but like, do you care if I.
Speaker 3: No, I don't care.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, they it's been out long enough kill I
don't think they killed all of them or they all
ended up living or something like that, because they.
Speaker 3: Ran over the guy, Like ran over that guy. I
haven't seen him, Like that was the end of the episode.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I don't know, they like tried to dump
the body and then.
Speaker 1: He will up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Righteous Gemstones didn't try to dump the body.
The friends that that person was with, oh okay.
Speaker 4: And then yeah, well I spent like my entire day
watching both Dunes yesterday because they're each like did you
like Doom two? So I had seen the first one, yeah,
but I hadn't seen the second one yet, and like,
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Speaker 5: And there's six books, so I'm hoping.
Speaker 4: I'm hoping that they make all the books into movies,
like we got well Dune Part one and two are
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Speaker 3: Oh hell, they broke the first book up into two parts.
Those movies are three hours apiece.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So the first one I watched, I didn't love it,
like I just it took me a little while to
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five I mean I thought that that was Thank god
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Speaker 5: I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: Not that I disliked him, I just I didn't see
a ton of Timothy Well. I didn't see a ton
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I'm like, you know, this movie's over his character in
that movie, and Dune too like made me love Timothy
Shell like for that movie. Like I haven't seen the
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Speaker 5: Timothy Chellon what's that called Complete Unknown?
Speaker 3: Complete Unknown? I'm gonna have to watch that one too.
But uh no, Righteous Jimstones, Cassie, maybe not your cup
of team, be very honest with you. It's not bad.
I'm gonna have to see where it goes. I'm definitely
gonna watch episode two. It's a little outlandish, like unbelievable
all that, you get it. But so basically the reason
they had to kill this guy is because Danny we
Brod was called on tape doing cocaine. Okay, well, obviously
they're trying to expand their megachurch. Nobody's going to let
a church family do that if the oldest son is
called on tape doing that. So they're blackmailing him for
a million dollars and he's trying to get in. My
thought was, okay, well, even if they get the million dollars,
they could still blackmail him in the future. And that's
what they said when they got there. So Davy broad
Like knocks the guy out and they will run him
over with their van. And that's that's the entire first episode.
So a little outlandish, but it was. It was funny
none the less. All right, look, that's going to do
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