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Speaker 4: It's off the Bench, all right, Welcome back here Off
the Bench hour number three. On a Tuesday Combine week,
all the best players in the country packing up their bags,
flying out, registering, getting ready for one of the biggest,
if not the biggest week of their young athletic the
careers of their lives, getting ready and trying to show
out their best performance, their best stuff.
Speaker 5: And some of that always gives us his best stuff.
Speaker 6: Joins the show right now, mister Nick Underhill, what's going on, sir?
Speaker 5: Good morning? How you doing?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 2: Just just out You're stalking the combine trying to, you know,
get the nuggets to bring here on a Tuesday morning.
I'm actually sitting outside of his Starbucks and I don't
know if you know, but this is the most dangerous
place in the NFL. Last year, Orldon, Jordan Schultzen and
Rappapork got in the fight year. So I'm just kind
of living dangerously right now, Yeah, I'm living dangerously not scared.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's what we're doing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, watch hester's there a little backup, go get them. Yeah,
he can protect you. I don't know if he still
got it or not, but that was gonna be my
first question for you. You kind of gave me. You
kind of gave us your secret sauce. When you're at
the Senior Bowl. It's like you like to hang out,
not at the bars at night, at the coffee shop,
so it makes sense that you are at a coffee
shop this morning.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, this is what it is.
Speaker 2: Like you just kind of stand around, You try to
pick people off and try to have conversations. It's the
dumbest thing in the world that, like we got to
come out here and talk to people that live like
five minutes away at home.
Speaker 7: But I mean, it just kind of is what it is.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, look, this is where kind of
everything starts to happen. And already I mean just kind
of a handful of little things, like you start to
pick up, like I think the alive thing gets done
probably sooner than later.
Speaker 7: It sounds like everybody's on the same page with that.
So that's kind of one thing that's coming out of here.
You know, they've talked to Cam.
Speaker 2: I think that the Mario situation is still in the
same place, kind.
Speaker 7: Of that wait and see. But I would bet by.
Speaker 2: The end of this week, I mean, you get everybody here,
it's all the agents, all the executives, everybody's just kind
of standing around trying to burn enough time in a
day and feel productive. I mean, by the end of
this week, I would bet a lot of stuff is
well defined and we leave here kind of knowing you know,
what's going to happen next. So that's already starting to
take places early in the week. Everyone got here yesterday.
But it really is just like a big football convention,
and it is where like a lot of stuff starts
getting done.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I think that's a big misconception for
a lot of people that think that this week's all
about the the soon to be NFL rookies coming in
and showing their stuff, which that that's the reason for
everybody joining together, But a lot of other business happens
because it's not, like you said, it's a football convention.
It is everybody that comes together, and most importantly, it's
a lot of current player invets agents come together with
everybody in the same room. So it's a lot of
other stuff, and I think that a lot of these
gms and agents and stuff are going there more for
that business rather than the seniors and soon to be rookies.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: I mean that's that's the biggest part now. I even
think on the on the evaluation aspect of it is
not what you're watching on TV. It's it's the it's
the meetings, it's talking to them, it's finding.
Speaker 7: Out what they're about.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: The medical part of it's a huge thing too. But
usually these things in your bull is the same way.
Like it's a lot it's a lot more about the
behind the scenes than what's actually out there.
Speaker 7: You know, it's gonna be it's going to be interesting.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think there's a handful of the things
that still need to come together that that are going
to define their season.
Speaker 7: I don't know that they're going to bend.
Speaker 2: Over backward for for some of these older players or
that though, Like I really do feel like this team
feels like it's on a path to just its next chapter,
and I think they want to keep the Mario I
think they want to keep cam but you know, already
just you know, off a kicking the tires on a
couple of things. Like I don't think they're gonna they're
gonna go crazy, you know, for for anyone.
Speaker 7: I think they do w't want to find those guys
who are more next.
Speaker 2: They want to find the veteran player that that you know,
hasn't necessarily gotten paid yet. Like I think that that's
where they're thinking right now. Doors open for everyone, but
I don't think they're going to compete for it. And also,
by the way, there was this report that came out
that they got to spend fifty million dollars or seventy
million dollars to raise their floor because they have the
three year thing.
Speaker 7: And if anybody's all that, like, it's kind of.
Speaker 2: A false flag because any money they spend right now
is going to count against that. So if you extend
chrys Olave and you give them a fifty million dollars
signing bonus, there's fifty million dollars off the seventy that
you got to spend.
Speaker 7: So it isn't it isn't.
Speaker 2: A precursor to some like free agency frenzy, like their
natural way of doing business is going to take care
of what they have to do to raise that three
year level, and uh, they're going to hit that threshold
just doing business they want to do. So, yeah, they're
gonna spend, they're gonna be aggressive, but it isn't going
to be like they got to spend seventy million dollars
to meet this number.
Speaker 7: Like that.
Speaker 2: The way that information came out, you know, for anyone
that that's why I kind of drove the conversation on
social for a few days like that. The way that
came out was a dross misrepresentational where things exist.
Speaker 6: Interesting, Yeah, I like I was, I was listening. I'm
not like super familiar with like the cappit that you're
talking about. But if anybody can control the cap situation,
I believe in the New York Yeah, New Orleans Saints
they can handle that. They're masters of it.
Speaker 7: Yes.
Speaker 2: So so just like the background on that, So there's
a three year threshold that you have to be at,
you got to say you gotta have there's like a
floor of spending that you have to be at. Cash
going out new cashit new players, So like Derek Carr Leeds,
so you aren't paying out that money kind of screws
up your number. They haven't really brought in a lot
of pricey people the last couple of years, so their
actual like new cash spending wasn't where it was supposed
to be.
Speaker 7: There's like five teams that got to spend to.
Speaker 2: Get there, and it's a formula over three years, so
like they literally have up until the day before the
league year next year to catch up on this. So
you extend Chris Olave, you extend Chase Young, you sign
a couple of free agents, and the seventy million dollars
they need to have to be at that three year
threshold will hit. But our report came out that was like,
well the Saints.
Speaker 6: And oh well we'll try to get him back on
right there. But that was that's an interesting It was
just just a hey, Nick, I don't know if you
can hear us, but we are. You're kind of cutting
out a little bit. I think the coffee shop you
were getting some really nice internet. Then you might have
walked away from the coffee shop. Hey just call me,
all right, sounds good.
Speaker 5: It's an in.
Speaker 6: I would call him like I did not know anything
about this whole three year spending.
Speaker 5: So there's a lot of hoops.
Speaker 6: You gotta jump through, a lot, a lot of things
you gotta do as obviously when you're balancing salary cap.
But apparently the nor Leans Saints just haven't spent that
Derek car situation went against that, so they got a
lot of money to have to spend. But Nick is
saying that we have until the beginning of next the
start of next, so we got over a year to
spend that money, and certainly chrysal Lave is going to
it's going to work against work towards that number. We
got them on, all right, we got nickd We got
Nick back?
Speaker 5: Nick? What's up? You there?
Speaker 6: Yeah, ok there, Look you look so much better in
video than this picture. I gotta tell you, it didn't
even look like you.
Speaker 3: That's what I was telling you. Guys have been doing
me dirty for for years.
Speaker 5: For years.
Speaker 3: I got to send a new pictures could if you could.
Speaker 5: We'll pay for the hit shots if you want them.
Speaker 3: I don't know who grabbed it, but it just makes
me look like such an asshole man, like I hate it.
Speaker 5: I hate it, so I love it.
Speaker 6: Okay, So let's talk about the combine a little bit.
I saw like I saw like a mock draft from
Kuyper that came out, and you know, take that with
a grain of salt however you want to. Uh, he
has the Saints takeing mackay Lemon from USC wide receiver?
Speaker 5: Now, certainly not.
Speaker 6: I think we all we talked about this yesterday, like
we would love to see the Saints go wide receiver.
I would love to see them get really young on
the offensive side of the ball, go like the Green
Bay Packer route.
Speaker 5: We just changed your picture. Holy cow, it might actually
be like more of a this is his Twitter profile pig.
So is that turtleneck?
Speaker 8: Why you just look like that?
Speaker 5: Anyway you'll see it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, let's talk about I would love to see like
the I would love to see them get young at
the wide receiver and very versatile and diverse, like the
like the Packers kind of look where they got four
or five just young guys, No, nobody that's like the
super number one. They just got to got really productive guys.
So do you still see them? What are your eyes
going to be on the combine from the wide receiver?
And how do you like the Kuyper mock draft of
mackay Lemon.
Speaker 3: I'm mc kay fan. Yeah, I mean he's interesting, like
when you kind of do like the rewatchers of those
guys I think like Jordan Tyson Connell Tay, like you
see it, you watch like six plays and you're like, yeah,
that that guy's great, Like I see what you gotta do.
I think m Kyle Lemon like it's kind of one
of them people that like you really got to watch
and uh it's like, you know, if you watch them
for like seven minutes, by the end of that seven minutes,
like you're gonna be like, man, this guy like he's
a beast. Like he's smaller obviously, but really strong player,
really right after the catch, great hands. Makes a lot
of guys mistackles all that stuff. So I'm a fan.
I like him quite a bit. I think he would
fit well with what they have. Like if you're if
you're kind of drawing it out a little bit, like, uh,
a lot is kind of you do everything great route
runner Bailey gives you that can test to catch and
then you know. I feel like Makatt would be that
guy that gives you the mix underneath the just the
strong hands, the run after touch ability. He's kind of
like thinking Willie Sneeth a little bit, but like putting
the Corvette injinetum, like just he's the uh, he's just
he's just like a really really good player. I like
him quite a bit. I do think though, like I
wonder if you can get better value of like forty two,
like if you do something different at eight. Like I
feel like there's just like a lot of receivers that
are going to be there at forty two, and you know,
I don't know, Like I just feel like if you
allocate your resources, you know, I I think taking a
receiver at eight would be will be a great value,
but I just think it'd be maybe possibly better. Like
there's just one two punches you kind of go through
and do like the Steven Round mock draft, Like I
don't know if like Gruden, Bayne or Downs is gonna
fall that far, but like I don't know, you can
get one of them and then and then hit and
get Chris Bell, Elijah Surratt. You know, there's just a
ton of guys that that I think you could fit
on a little bit later in the draft and check
two boxes. But I'm a Mac fan, Like out of
the three, I facilitate a little bit when you consider
health and everything, it kind of makes Tyson a little
bit a little bit scary. But I think I think
his his highlights, his fate, his his feeling is incredibly high.
He's probably my favorite one out of them. But like
if I'm actually building the team, uh, you can make
you can make a strong case for m Kyle lemon
At that's fuck yeah.
Speaker 5: Nick Lamour.
Speaker 6: I think about this draft for the for the Saints,
and the more I'm thinking about like which players where
they fit and looking at the draft glaves, like you said,
there's it's pretty deep at route like you had good receivers.
There's going to be guys available in the second, third
round and you look get another position to need the
edge rusher position. It's the same thing with that. There
is going to be really good players you can get
in the second and third round at edge like this,
to me, their position is so primed in my opinion
to trade back. Do you think that that is anywhere?
I'll Mickey Limis's radar get get you an extra second
round pick, move down in the first round, take your
wide receiver there or an edge there, whatever you want
to do, and then stack a couple of those positions
together in the second third round.
Speaker 3: I mean, I would love it if they did it,
especially in this draft, because like it's just there isn't
there isn't a lot. I like, gotta have a players
like and I even think that the guys that you're
that feel like the best players in this draft, like
you're compromising with them a little bit. Like Ruben Bay
doesn't have the prototypical line, so like you're kind of
you're taking a little bit of a chance there. But
you know, I think he's going to be a great player.
You know, Rvel Reeves is kind of more of an
idea than a than a real thing. You know, Austin
at Ohio State, great great highlights that I mean, he's
kind of new to play in the edge and he
doesn't have like a strong track record there and there's
a lot of stuff that kind of has to come together.
Or Jeremiah Love like, yeah, great player, But like do
you want to be drafting a running back in the
top five, top ten? Like typically no, you don't. Maybe
in this class you do. Down's another one, like it's safety.
So this is a draft where like if you can
move back, if somebody wants to move up, like, I
would love it because I think it's better in the
in the depths, and I don't know that that there's
there's a lot of gotta have a players. You know.
The sweet spot for doing that is it one of
those guys faults downs is sitting there, Bang sitting there,
Jeremiah Love sitting there. You decide you don't want them,
Maybe somebody comes up and gets something and you can
drop back a few spots and yeah, double dip, get
another pick. Because there are just so many needs, like
go through them.
Speaker 2: Like you are.
Speaker 3: You probably aren't drafting the tackle. Probably an't drafting a quarterback.
You can literally take any other position and it's justifiable
and almost it's almost a need right like guard center,
Like even your center, you've got a great turner, you
miss his ten games a year. You can draft the
center anywhere in this draft, it would be it'd be fine.
Anyone on the defensive line you need, you need, you
need the tons of tackles. You need a linebackers to
Mario League a lot day. Taylor's probably leading. You need
a cornerback. You can definitely add a stixty the next
like and I could make a case for taking any
one of those positions, like anywhere. I think you need
guys everywhere, So yeah, more picks allows you to address
more stuff, so i'd before it for sure you.
Speaker 6: Got any your eyes on any of the running backs
outside of Jordan Love, Like you know, I think we
can all agree on that. Probably not the pick we
want to see early in the first round, but later
in the draft certainly. I think that is a position
to fill in a position. Need to get your eyeballs
on anybody.
Speaker 3: I'm a Jeremiah Love guy, but like in this draft,
like specifically to this draft because laid I'm mugging at
the guys. I'm like, I don't know, Like there's other
positions that I'd probably rather take in a normal draft.
If you're telling me that it's that is even great
or even close, Like I'm probably taking he might be
the best player in this draft. And there are a
kind of guys but theoretically seton like I would rather
them address the team somewhere else with the player of
equivalent value. Yeah, I mean, I guess like Ice, like
the Notre Dame sidekick, Like he's another one. I like,
I don't know, man, Like it's it's it's a tough
running back draft. Last year it was like, really deep,
I don't think there's a ton of games rangers here.
You don't forced to pick at that position though, like
you know, being clear on that l at eight, you
do not force it, you know, I don't think you
want to take a running back there. It's just like
he's the number one guy on your board. Now, I
would be surprised to he's number one on their board.
I would bet they have a few other guys at him,
and I would bet they have other options there. I'm
starting to feel more like it's not going to be
him than it is going to be him at that spot.
So we'll kind of see how we'll say, yeah, that's
probably the spot where I'm going to add somebody may
be in free agency and address it there. And if
if you feel like you got to take love, you
can still take them, like kind of like the year
with Alvin, they signed Peterson a free agency, they drafted Alvin.
Alvin ended up being better. Peterson's gone, Like that could
be a fine situation. So even if you don't pick
him one to day, like you can sign someone and
the idea be like, yeah, we want to address this position,
but we don't have to win the draft. You know,
there's a lot of ways to go at it, but
I'm with you, like I would rather not be a
running back there, but this specific one. You can tell me.
I'm doing it today and I can make a strong
case for it. I did it last week when you
guys were out, like a ten minute ran on it,
like there's a lot of data that that shows that,
like he's a very very special prospect. But do you
tell me I can have Caleb Donald, Druden Bayn or
a Love. I probably go with one or the other two.
Speaker 5: Gotcha?
Speaker 6: Now, did you make some like some national Did you
get a little popular this week on the social media?
Speaker 5: Do you? Did you release an app that I see?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought it like a little cap calculator. The
guy that's CBA compliant you can do all this stuff.
I don't. I don't really know what happened. I just
kind of snapped and figured something out, and uh, by
the end of it, I had the most nerdy app
ever ever made, uh put together as Saints specific caps
calculator that you know, it's just gets into the real
gritty details and you know, look, it's cool though, like
the cap here has been like I'm two years late
on this, Puy, because like the cap was a huge
issue before and it's not now. But it's just kind
of a culmination of like ten years as how, like
putting stuff in the excelf stad cheets and trying to
figure it out, and like the technology is finally there
to where you can kind of automate some things, and
I don't know how they started playing around with it
and by the end I had something that worked pretty well.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, that I saw.
Speaker 6: That Rappaport had like reposted or something like that. So
good for you, man. If you're if you're a super
want a nerd out on some new Orance Saints Captain,
check out Underhill's page and his new app, go check
it out.
Speaker 5: So all right, Nick, we appreciate it, man. Good luck
this week.
Speaker 6: I hope you get a make a lot of contacts
and get a lot of tidbits at the at the
coffee shops around Indianapolis and uh and have a good week.
Speaker 3: Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And if you get bored, sit down, do some math
and have some fun on our cop calculator.
Speaker 5: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 6: There you go, there, he is Nick Underhill, New Orleans
a dot football. We appreciate his time each and every
week giving us some good New Orleans Saints info, and
so excited to see what they're gonna do in the
off season. New league year opens up, I believe March
third or March eleventh, and then certainly leading up to
the draft. So a lot to look look forward to
with the Saints, and uh, hopefully they can draft well,
do all the right things, make all the right decisions.
So we'll see, we will see. Hold your breath, let's
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You saw you saw the white board. I saw the
white board walking out. I didn't really know what was
going on. Looked like baseball players' names, but little play
on words. And so people are coming up with names
of baseball players but making fat jokes. Is that what
we're kind of doing?
Speaker 5: Sort of yeah, sort of body shaming.
Speaker 6: Body shaming, but not body shame. We're just trying to
make play on words here.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And I don't how did this whole thing start. So
I don't know how to give away too much information.
I don't know if this is one of those things
like fight club.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think it's. I don't think it's like
fight club.
Speaker 9: So you know, we love a big body goud on
the baseball field, and our guy, Zach Yorke has become
a fan favorite. First of all, I have never heard
a guy like, yes, he hit a home run his
first in bat very poetic. Right the second he stepped
foot in the box was like the loudest I've heard
it this year.
Speaker 5: I hadn't even taken a swing yet. It just steps
in like what was.
Speaker 8: That Grand Canyon University the year before, by the way.
Speaker 9: And everybody knows about him already, Like steps into the
batter's box game one whole crowd went insane. But yeah,
play on words, you know, like like David Ortiz was
big poppy. I've seen people try to come up with
nicknames for for Zach York. So that's how the board
kind of started.
Speaker 5: Perfect. So we had some examples. I came up with
Nolan Fryan. Nolan Fryan's great. Somebody said, what would you
just say?
Speaker 9: Snacks Snabody say that over the over the weekend.
Speaker 5: It's great.
Speaker 8: That might be one of my faves.
Speaker 9: Got a lot of them out there. There's I can't
remember off the top of my head. There's about ten
or twelve on that board.
Speaker 5: Kyle Schwarma, Kyle Swarm.
Speaker 9: That was Cade and then when we talked about it,
Kaid goes, thanks, it's Greek.
Speaker 5: I was like, yeah, but I know, all right.
Speaker 8: You had a good one. Show Hey, O.
Speaker 5: Tummy, tummy, there you go, good one.
Speaker 6: I like that one. It's the little things in life
that you know, keep you going. I keep you pushing forward,
probably especially.
Speaker 8: If you odds he hits a home run tonight, Yeah,
pretty high.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Always because of them. Yeah, because of the tummy.
Speaker 6: Those little things get a couple of giggles here and there,
a couple of laughs in the office in good fun
and good fun. That's how I got my nickname because
I was getting package sent to Dragon. This was when
when I was in Seattle, right, Seattle was in the
best moment in my football career.
Speaker 5: But it's the little things in life.
Speaker 6: Every time I got a package, I giggled a little
bit and that kept me going.
Speaker 5: So that's all the nickname. So did you have did
you have like a sports in nickname growing up?
Speaker 6: Not one.
Speaker 9: We we ain't going quad got here. I'm not talking
like give that. No, not really called me sunbonnet. I
don't know if that would translate.
Speaker 8: Yell.
Speaker 5: She would yell that at the baseball games. Yeah, mm hmm.
Speaker 8: They called my brother met Yeah.
Speaker 5: We had a bit of guy.
Speaker 9: So we had we had a guy on our team
when they called him meat because he was probably I
mean he was our nose guard, but he was probably
five to nine but thick boy, and they called.
Speaker 5: Him meat because of that.
Speaker 6: Nice always like an ironic nickname, like a big guy
you call him tiny, yeah, small, something like that.
Speaker 5: It was always made me laugh. Or a really small
guy called big Country.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: We had a guy called big Country Big Countries.
Speaker 9: Really, I always appreciate my uh, a freshman year QB coach,
because he gave me a nickname that was way too
cool for me at the time. I was lefty, the
only left a QB on the team, and he was
a big Kinny Stabler fan, so he just started yelling
snake at practice.
Speaker 5: That nickname hill on for about two years.
Speaker 9: So I was I was a snake snake, which is
a cool nickname, and again it was way too cool
for me. It was way too cool. I think that
was the because he liked Kenny Stablers. So that was
that was my nickname for about two two and a
half years really until my senior year.
Speaker 6: What movie is that from? I think I think I
think the quote is I think I know the snakes
or I've heard of the Snake's Home on Snakes. Oh,
we had a big guy on one of my teams.
His nickname was Pangaea.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that one. That one was very good.
Speaker 6: I don't know if it's appropriate anymore, but you know,
I can't change the past.
Speaker 5: That's what it was.
Speaker 6: I don't know if people mean, I don't know. Yeah,
softies just a nickname.
Speaker 5: It's just a nickname.
Speaker 8: Since we're like people that are sensitive about that would
not survive in Mexican culture because they take what you
are most insecure about and make it your nickname.
Speaker 5: Sure, not a great place to survive right now.
Speaker 8: This Uh they call you fair, they'll call you ugly
as your nickname. Gorda fatally Yeah for the girl, but yeah,
don't you you would not survive mmm.
Speaker 7: With the kid.
Speaker 9: Uh. He was a freshman when I was a senior,
and he hated this, Like I think I think you would.
I'm getting self conscious about it.
Speaker 5: But uh.
Speaker 9: He showed up late to practice about three days in
a like summer workouts.
Speaker 5: The coaches are mad.
Speaker 9: One coach started calling him blister, and he's like, why
you call me blister?
Speaker 5: Coach?
Speaker 9: He's like, Conch, you show up when all the work's
already done.
Speaker 5: So it was great. That's pretty good.
Speaker 9: That's it's it's great like high school coaches come up
with the greatest thing.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, that's incredible. I love that.
Speaker 6: Already done and never heard anybody with the nickname of blister.
That's gotta be an all time terrible one.
Speaker 9: I know it's awful because like with no context, you
like you like, why are you that?
Speaker 5: But it makes perfect sense God like that. You know.
Speaker 6: One thing we haven't done today it is OTB mail bag.
We can't do it right now because we don't have
any questions. Yeah, but it is nine thirty one, so
we're gonna show little clock integrity. Oh hey, if you're
in the chat right now, help us out for the
next segment.
Speaker 8: So we're just going to do one long ass ask
the bench.
Speaker 6: Well it's going to be o TV mail bag and
then and then ask the.
Speaker 9: They are completely different, I mean, but they are not
right now, what's what's her deal?
Speaker 5: Yeah? There are two completely different segments laundre jeez.
Speaker 8: I also thought we did it on Wednesday, but I
don't remember.
Speaker 5: Oh boy, no, we haven't.
Speaker 9: We didn't do a TV mail bag yet because we
had Jake on tonight o'clock out.
Speaker 5: That's true, we normally do.
Speaker 9: Jake really kind of ruined the show, gave us misinformation
on the time zone. Tell you what, he really tried
to play that one off. He knew when I saw
him tapping away on the on the computer, called him
out on the missing He's like, no, no, no, it's not misinformation,
but yeah, just dated information.
Speaker 6: Twenty years old. Pal, what are we doing? Go go
to your NFL network stuff, whatever that is. Go big
Thomas over there, all right, get your questions in a
tv BA mail bag. We'll come back right here.
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Speaker 1: Blocked in ULSU Football twenty four to seven, you're listening
to Off the Bench.
Speaker 5: Looking back in the Bitch.
Speaker 6: Got a couple of segments here on thirty seven Tuesday
Morning from the Raising Kings Studio. Another another fat joke
for a baseball player, Don Fattingly.
Speaker 8: So someone just I don't ever answer this phone because
I'm always scared that it's going to be somebody like
telling me I suck at my job or something. But
Wade was super nice. Shout out to Wade.
Speaker 5: Hell Yeah.
Speaker 8: He had a nickname for cad or just mixed up
sports Zach York Yorka like orca.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, york Uh, I like that. Okay, shout waite,
shout out Wade, thank you, we're at it. We'll add
it to the board.
Speaker 5: He's saying.
Speaker 8: He's like, all right, fat ass Yorka.
Speaker 6: Oh my god. I mean, is there anything scarier than
a pot of orc is? No, there's nothing more terrifying
in the world. Think we saw like a thing, you know.
These these dudes hunt.
Speaker 9: Animal whatever it was, ruthless, they're brutal, like that might
be the scariest creature in the world, no doubt.
Speaker 10: Rhinos like a hippos to hot in. These rhinos hippos
or hippos or I don't know, they're terrifying. But like
those orcas, thank you. Oh yeah, they got them. The
seals sitting up on like.
Speaker 8: And they have like a secret language they speak.
Speaker 6: They'll just like go up there and make the wave
like flip over that piece of ice at that seals
on dead you're not escaping, and then they'll pull you down,
just just drown you. Yeah, just play with and they'll
play with it too. It's not even dead, just like
pecking away at it. It's laughing in their little.
Speaker 8: Oh you just like hit them.
Speaker 6: Get there, That's what I'm saying. Because they're ruthless, they're brutal.
My goodness, I actually had a couple of nightmares about orches.
Speaker 8: I don't blame you.
Speaker 6: Well, you got one more coming to I'm thinking about
it too much, talk about it too much?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 8: Thanks a lot.
Speaker 6: Wade called someone as big as a way all then
give me a nightmare tonight.
Speaker 8: Stop was nice.
Speaker 5: I'm just kidding, thank you way for calling it. Appreciate.
Speaker 6: I don't even know how anybody gets the number know
me either. It just goes right and again.
Speaker 8: I never it goes off. Sometimes I never answer it
because I'm just scared it's gonna be somebody yelling at me.
That used to happen to me on Brian's show.
Speaker 5: What do you mean? People are so nice?
Speaker 8: So nice? Well, I love a girl that talks about
sports too, Try to love it.
Speaker 6: Try to avoid that nightmare. I'm gonna maybe crack open
a little do sequis this evening? Oh, go for that
double X beer, that delicious Mexican log or maybe the
Amber special they got the Michie Lotta's they got to
You're really a taste of flavor for everybody's taste buds,
South Louisiana, Louisiana all over. We we like to have
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maybe just cheers with a buddy, significant other, whatever it is.
Make sure you're going for DOSK. Go to your local retailers,
your local grocery stores, wherever it is. Make sure you
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Speaker 5: Hello, hell yeah, series coming up?
Speaker 6: Whatever it is, it's it is baseball season, babyso top
it off. Cheers your buddy, Cheers your neighbor, cheer's your
LSU fan right next to you with a nice cold
dose Segi state thirsty, my friend, drink responsible, but when
you do, make sure it's with those segies. All right,
let's get to OTB mail bag right here. We got
a couple of questions I came in. I'm gonna start
with this one from gold South ot hashtago TB mail bag.
Did Flynn know hester travel this much? When he agreed
to co ho. Hey youki.
Speaker 8: Open, It's okay, we'll just play some Duran Duran.
Speaker 5: It's not your fault.
Speaker 9: It's a brand new This is totally the first time
Alongers played it.
Speaker 8: I don't do it every time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's okay. I mean the show is basically flawless
at that point. Yeah, look, what help will happen?
Speaker 11: Now?
Speaker 8: I have one for dev We never play it.
Speaker 5: A gotcha, but I do like the A to B
mail bag open?
Speaker 8: You want me to play it?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Good?
Speaker 11: I help this special delivery for the bench.
Speaker 5: And look it is marked most urgent writing to you
the Internet?
Speaker 7: What the is the internet?
Speaker 5: All right? Hashtag? Go to the Meilbank. I'll read it again.
Speaker 6: Did Flynn know Hester traveled this much when he agreed
to be a co host?
Speaker 5: Simple answer, hel No.
Speaker 6: I told him he actually wasn't allowed to travel, take
vacation days, take off for being sick. I told him
he was not allowed to I said, hey, Jake, if
you ever miss We're I'm just gonna tell him to
play national.
Speaker 5: I'm not doing it. There's no way.
Speaker 6: But you know what, now, thank god I got a
launder and Taylor would not be able to do it
without them.
Speaker 5: I could not sit here and talk to a.
Speaker 6: Microphone at a TV screen by myself for three hours.
Nobody would want to listen to that. It'd be awful
for one. But when it's a tripod, I feel like
we feel our way through it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Maybe it's not as planned out as some other shows,
but this show isn't that.
Speaker 8: It's never been that.
Speaker 5: It's never been that, even before you joined.
Speaker 8: I don't know like what people expect when they're tuning
in off the bench. It's been the same show for years.
Speaker 6: Yes, we are not a let's let's just say, we're
not a sports show. We don't chase the headlines, we
don't chase the breaking news. We are sports entertainment.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, we're vie. I don't know for entertaining,
but that's the genre you would put us in, certainly,
I think entertaining. So that was a long answer to Hayle.
Speaker 6: No, I didn't know Jake was going to be gone
this long, but this is his busy time of year
towards he certainly endo football season with the playoffs and
all that good stuff, and the combine thing is new
for him, so good for him.
Speaker 5: Hopefully he crushes it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, to be fair, that wasn't like a planned.
Speaker 5: Yep, hmm. Did y'all see any other questions on here, guys?
Yeh t B Millbag.
Speaker 9: Will the US hockey team bring beers to the State
of the Union tonight? They better I was just bragging
saying this might be my favorite team of all time. Yep,
you're not cracking a couple of cold ones there at
the State of the Union, then what are we really doing?
Speaker 5: Are you even in the American hockey team?
Speaker 6: I'm going to say no, they're not going to bring beers.
I think that'd be un American. You know why, I
think the White House should provide them with the beers
again they get there. I think that's because we talked
about they should never have to buy beers again.
Speaker 5: Now it's gonna happen.
Speaker 6: People are gonna they're going to buy their own beers.
Let's not get it twisted here. People are gonna lose
the emotional connection. But we're riding on a high right now,
a USA high.
Speaker 5: And I think.
Speaker 6: Trump's got to bring it up at least twice in
a speech, right, got.
Speaker 5: To bring it up. Bring it up at the beginning
for sure. For sure.
Speaker 8: It just feels like a weird kind of thing to
and bite them to because it's the state of the
Union and I'm pretty sure all the like Epstein victims
are going to be there, So that feels like a
little I mean, I'm not against it, but it just
feels a little well to.
Speaker 6: Say, the union might go all over the place, might
be all over the place. Serve them. If you got
to put in a champagne flute, that's fine, whatever it is.
Speaker 8: Be Miller high Life in the champagne flute.
Speaker 6: Champagn's pretty fancy. So looking forward to that, man, I'm excited.
I'm I'm excited that for just the country right now,
how excited and brought together everybody is.
Speaker 5: That's what sports does, which just fantastic. Man.
Speaker 6: I gotta tell you, the chat's been on a heater
today now, like when Jacob's out here, I'll probably look
at it the least amount because I'm trying to like
focus on, you know, whatever whatever do in the next segment,
I believe it or not. I do actually kind of
focus on that a little bit. But it's been on
a heat today. Always get nervous though, Like when I'm
doing a live read or talking about something, and y'all
too are laughing over there.
Speaker 5: I'm like what I just say?
Speaker 9: Sometimes it's not you, it's us. In that time would
have been one of those times.
Speaker 5: Yeah, go south. Here we go. As I go to
the mailbag.
Speaker 6: On my highest website, a five pack a pure is
sold out, but a fifty pack is available. You just
opened a fifty pack and make ten five packs. It
was just by the fifty.
Speaker 5: That's all we gotta say. The problem.
Speaker 6: We do have a couple sold items. This is the
time of year where we do kind of run out
of packaging. And I ordered it all at one time.
So in the next you know, a little bit, I'd
say about a month and a half, everything should be
back in stock. It's just kind of the ebbs and
flows of business. Got to watch the cash flow. People
gotta watch that inventory. But being sold out is a
good thing. Yeah, always a good thing.
Speaker 5: M all right? Anybody else anything?
Speaker 8: Are we gonna miss the ghosts in the buildings when
we move buildings? And yeah, I am.
Speaker 5: Became friends with two of them. What are their names?
Do they haven't I don't know, We're not on the
first name basis or anything.
Speaker 8: They haven't told us.
Speaker 5: Yet no one has like a nickname, like a fat
nickname or anything. I can tell you one during the break.
All right, we got a ghost.
Speaker 6: You got a scandalous Yeah, no, the baby oil.
Speaker 9: I won't tell you exactly where men's bathroom, second floor,
other side of the building, second stall. If you really
want to creep ghost, do you really want to, you know,
just for research purposes, make your way over.
Speaker 5: There, or is he like he likes the peak and maybe.
Speaker 11: A little I mean maybe maybe maybe some maybe maybe
some diddling what maybe a little diddle here there's there's
multiple people.
Speaker 5: Stop it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, dude, I've actually I've accidentally been in that bath
room like four times.
Speaker 5: Happens every time. It's one of those things like.
Speaker 9: The other day, tell you you know there's a bathroom
like right by your desk, and I was like, yeah,
but this is just it's just nicer.
Speaker 5: I don't know if that's the ghost. Bud.
Speaker 8: Let's stay on time.
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Speaker 1: Bench, off the bench, from the locker room to the airwaves.
Gets off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 5: All right, welcome back, closing out the show. Here, this
is George.
Speaker 8: Michael, m h just George Michael, not Wiam. Yeah, I
have to play the song once a week.
Speaker 5: Here's we get cover of this song. Actually I can't
remember who it is, really good cover of this song.
Speaker 8: Thank you for that.
Speaker 6: All right, right here, off the bench closed out. We
appreciate you joining the show today, listening, hanging out with us.
We'd like to have a lot of fun here, a
lot of giggles, a lot of laughs, just talking about uh,
some ghosts, some deadling ghosts around the around the office, Taylor, that's.
Speaker 5: All about it.
Speaker 8: So actually asked me to play this song to dedicate
it to the host.
Speaker 5: I love that it's getting a warmed up on visit later.
Speaker 6: Well from all the conversations today, speaking of balls, let's
talk about baseball tonight Andandra.
Speaker 5: But we got McNeese coming into town.
Speaker 8: Yeah, mcnemnise McNeese coming into town today for a midweek
coming off a three game just terrible, uh series versus
Kansas lost the entire series. They're two and five on
the season so far. Probably expect to see park Morgan,
who we saw last season. LS you only let him
play or yeah, Parker Morgan, LS you only let him
pitch for a third of an inning because they took
him for four hits and three runs immediately only one strikeout.
So probably gonna see him again. He's tends to be
their mid week starter. But I also didn't look at
who pitched for them against Kansas. So that's just what
I would guess off of, like, because I know that
Paul copping Coppinger Coppinger he made his debut since for
the first time in since twenty twenty five this weekend,
so I don't know if we'll see him. We saw
him after Parker Morgan pitched last season. But yeah, probably
see the bats Keith the bats Hot. Probably see Cooper
Williams on the mound for US today or Zach Cowen.
Zak Cowen started the midwek versus Nichols last week.
Speaker 5: He needs at too.
Speaker 8: H So either Cowen or No, it doesn't work.
Speaker 5: It's different tech.
Speaker 6: You tried, though, they can go with anyone. I mean,
no one frying wouldn't big No. But well, I'm looking
forward to actually being able to watch the game. Yeah,
I'm gonna to tune it in. You know, Mia Stitch
had Seat is the one that covers this that I
really like, really good. Hey, we love you guys, Thank
y'all for joining. We'll be the tripod will be rolling
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