Speaker 1: All start Toyota presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where the.
Speaker 3: Plays get broken down, then science gets denied.
Speaker 2: This I gotta come up the bitch o.
Speaker 1: We're two of Off the Bench live from the Mercedes
Benz Baton Rouge Studio.
Speaker 3: Starts now, all.
Speaker 4: Right, welcome back, he in Nour number two, OH, TV one,
O four five, ESPN, Beton Rouge and we go now
to my boy, Christopher Paul Doring. You know him, you
love him, SEC Network, Florida Gator legend, and he's the
only person I would ever say those words about c D.
Speaker 5: What's up, brother? How we doing?
Speaker 6: Good morning man, Good to be back with you, first
time with Flynn. Man, looking forward to h to getting
to know you a little bit better.
Speaker 2: Maddy, I've fired up.
Speaker 7: I've heard so many stories I've seen I've seen the
different costumes and stuff.
Speaker 2: So that was like, Man, that's a guy that I
think I could have a beer with.
Speaker 6: For sure, we definitely do that. Hopefully you'll be in
meeting days in Atlanta here, well, we will be there.
Good looking forward to We're.
Speaker 4: Trying to get his mind right right now for it
what's that. I'm trying to get his mind right for
it right now.
Speaker 6: Well, you know, we've kind of calmed it down a
little bit in the last few years. The early start
time has has hurt me. But uh, we are on
eastern times, so I don't have quite the early call
time as we've had in recent years being there in
Nashville and uh, Birmingham back of the day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that is fair, that is fair. Uh what are
we doing today?
Speaker 4: Are we already slinging mortgages today?
Speaker 6: Now? You know what, I took the day off radio today,
so it didn't you know, kind of easing into my
my my day a little bit. About to go hit
the gym here in a minute, and uh, and then
we'll get after some mortgages. I think I'm gonna think
able to ride over to the beach tomorrow too.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 6: It's been really hot here as it is been for
everybody else, So might do a little beach time this weekend.
Speaker 4: See. Do do you ever wonder, like Flynn and I
were talking about this last week, do you ever kind
of wonder how in the world did we do what
we did in college in this weather?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 6: I think that's an old guy thing.
Speaker 4: Think.
Speaker 6: I think like when you're young, you don't know any better,
and then as you get older and you get out
of doing it, it's hard to get back into it.
It's like getting in shape. It's easy while you're it's
easier while you're staying in shape, but harder when you've
gotten out of shape. So I yeah, man, the humidity here.
But let's be honest, though, these kids ain't doing what
we were doing, so you know they'll they'll never have
any sort of idea of what it was like doing
two A days back in July and August in the
heat that we got here in the Southeast.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that is very fair because I even appreciate the
fact that I got a couple. If Lynn got it,
you certainly most of your career got like old school
two A days. At the next level, it's like, man,
you young cats, like y'all have no idea, like this
is a grind, and you remember, I'm sure you went
through this, like when you would scrimmage another team, Like
when you're practice with another team in the NFL, it
was like you had four game days in a row
and it was like true to a days you would
go against that team like eights in a four day period.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the intensity level was ratcheted up next level. And
what is he what do you think by like practice
three year into like the full fledged fights that you know,
So it's that that set up for failure inevitably, especially
as deep as in the camp as we used to
be before we get a chance to do some of that.
But yeah, man, I I don't miss I don't miss
the uh the grind of being out there, but I
do miss the training camp thing. I was literally just
talking about that on on radio the other day. Man,
as much as it sucks, it's one of those things that, like,
you know, you hate it at the time. I do
miss being there with the guys and going through that
and experiencing kind of the bonding that takes place during
during camp every year.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Chris, your vibes are really uh meshing well with
Jake and I show it because like we give off
so many like back in my day, vibes, they don't
go through We did blah blah blah. We you know,
we probably spend half of the show just telling those stories.
And we were just talking about the kind of the
break the roll of summer workouts for all these guys
of coming together doing the seven or sevens, the players
only time on the field, and how important that is
in your opinion? Like what can these kids get done
in the summertime without coaches on the field, just themselves
leading up? I mean each team is a little bit different.
I always kind of leaned on the leadership, but like,
what what do you what do you look for.
Speaker 2: From a team?
Speaker 7: And you can you can put this on your experience
on the summer, the weeks leading up the training camp,
because training camp is an as kicker, but yeah, just
mentally physically, what are they doing to prepare?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's interesting and because you know, I think teams
are built during your your off season conditioning. You know,
it's it's built with what you're doing in the gym,
It's built with those six fifteen runs. It's where leadership emerges,
It's where you know, bonding takes place. But actually, I
mean these guys are having a lot more time nowadays
than what we used to with with coaches, and you know,
we got so much hip hop. See in college football,
you know we talk about in IL, which is actually
just pay for play and recruiting, inducements and everything else.
We just don't call it the right things. Well, these guys,
these guys have OTAs now in college where you're out
there with the coaches, you just can't have a ball.
So what do they do. They roll up a towel
and tie it up and stimulated being a ball. Like
I don't even know why we do some of these
stupid things that we do, but it does feel like
coaches have an opportunity to get to know their teams
maybe a little bit better in the offseason because of
the time together. And let's be honest, like that only
makes sense, like why were we not allowed to be
with our coaches and now as big a business as
it is, it truly is, you know, much more like
the NFL, So you should have the opportunity to get
coached during the off season more, you know.
Speaker 4: One of the things we were talking about for LSU
is the fact that they don't necessarily have to go
all the way back CD to like day one install
once they get to training camp, because they got a
veteran team, they got a quarterback coming back, and I
think that is helpful, like you can kind of just
look at it and then move along pretty fast there.
But I think that's going to be the case in
the SEC with so many returning quarterbacks. And one of
the things that's going to be intriguing to me once
we do get to Atlanta is you look at Florida,
you look at LSU, South Carolina, Vandy. They know exactly
who they are at quarterback. But the traditional powers over
the last couple of years, you're Georgia, You're Alabama, Tennessee
who made the College Football Playoff last year, Ole miss
is won a lot of games. Like those teams don't
know who in the hell they are at quarterback. Now.
They think they've got some guys that can fill in.
But the league this year, some of the teams that
are trying to take that next step, the ones I
laid out there, they know exactly who their guy is.
But the teams that have been there, the UGA's like
they're gonna have a lot to figure out.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Uga, Alabama, even Texas. I mean, we know who
the guy is gonna be, but we don't necessarily know
what he's going to be. We think we got a
good idea of what he can evolve into.
Speaker 5: But the head ball coach had something to say about that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I feel the same way, like, why
are we ready to just crown somebody as being the
best in the league or the the number one draft
pick in a couple of years just because of the
last name. Now that there's a lot of good things
that I love his leadership, but I love you know,
he's he's a guy that hangs with his boys, which
I love at the quarterback position. But you know, I
do think it's an interesting dynamic because you know, this
has every year we go to to media days, you're
you're you're looking at at the returning quarterbacks and projecting
what teams can be based upon the experience at that
most crucial position. We had Matt Moscona on Your Boy
the other day and I was talking about how good
I thought the quarterback play was going to be this year.
He kind of took a little bit of an exception
to that. And to your point, I think there's about
half the league that feels really good about returning quarterbacks,
and then you know another half who's trying to figure
it out or has a guy that hadn't necessarily played
for that school and that offense before. So I really
like that. I do feel like it's going to be
an offensive inclined league this year with a lot of
really good quarterbacks. But I also look at at all
the different pieces around the quarterback now that come in
and how quickly they're able to acclimate. I know that
you guys there and Baton Rouge are dealing with a
bunch of new receivers or a lot of talent, but
how much have those guys been able to bond so
far in the offseason and get the rhythm down that
you need between the quarterback and wide receivers.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the great teams, it usually comes down championship team.
It usually comes down to head coaching, quarterback. I mean
it's the ultimate team sport, of course, But I mean
if you don't have at least one, preferably two of
those things, a really good head coach and a really
good quarterback, you're you're behind the eight ball a little bit.
And I want to go back to arch Maning a
little bit. I mean, if there's one guy that is
would be made to handle the media and the pressure,
it would be a Manning because they've been around it
their entire life, right, But I want to know that
this day and age, with the access to social media,
access to everything, you're going to with unless you are
actively trying to not see it, You're going to be
expec everything, the good, bad, the ugly. What is if
you were coaching a guy like Arch, what are you
telling him as far as the cell phone, the looking
at the press clipons, looking at all that stuff, Because
it can be a dang if you don't have the
right mental makeup, it can be a dangerous thing.
Speaker 2: But what would you say to a guy like that?
Speaker 6: Yeah, honestly, I feel like Arch is the exception to
the rule, really, you know, And and let's credit Stark
Starts done a great job of managing the quarterback room,
managing Arch manning and his expectation. But I also think
a lot of that came from the family influence as well,
having multiple uncles that have dealt with and a grandfather
that's dealt with it a different era there. But is
a guy that comes from great pedigree, not only athletically
but mentally. And I there's not a whole lot of
guys that were as highly recruited as him that would
have been as patient and waiting for his turn or understood,
you know, how they were going to use him as
they dipped his toe into the pool. So I I
really like the maturity that he has shown. And you know,
he has some fun on social media. You see him
on commercials. He's doing a little bit of it, but
I don't get the sense that it's getting to him
the way that it does some other guys. And let's
be honest, the money thing is something that can affect you.
He comes from a family that has a pretty good
amount of money, so it's not like a shock to
the system where you know, a guy hadn't had anything
all of a sudden, he's got a bunch and he's
going crazy with it. So I just I think all
these things line up to me to feel really good
about what his career is going to be. And often,
let's not forget, I think Stark is the best. I
think he's the best play designer, best play caller in
college football right now. And so it helps that he
gets an opportunity to learn from him and that he's
surrounded with the type of weapons that he has on
that team where they're going to run the football. He
didn't have to win games himself because of the ability
to run with that group of running backs and behind
a really talented offensive line.
Speaker 4: Cause you know where the boy Chris Doring here on
OTB CD when I take a look at the SEC
and I know we talk about the same things pretty
often of Hey, this team needs to take another step,
this team has to make it to a college football playoff,
this team needs to win one more game, whatever it
might be. There's a team that's not really in that conversation,
that has really been struggling, and their fan base expects
way more. And I'm surprised it's not a little bit louder.
Speaker 6: Are we talking about the Auburn Tigers.
Speaker 4: The Auburn Tigers looking at us. We know each other,
so I mean two and six in the SEC last year,
five and seven overall and CD, I just I don't
even feel like we are talking about Hugh Freeze and
him needing to get it together. Really, the noise isn't
as loud as I thought it would be.
Speaker 6: It's funny because I think you got two different approaches,
polar opposites. The way you talk about your team. You know,
Brian Brian Kelly has really kind of magnified what the
expectation of the fan base is in terms of what
they expect from this year's team. Meanwhile, Hugh Freeze is
talking about we just we need to make a bowl game.
Get the hell out of here. Make a bowl game
like that ain't enough. And particularly because of the expectation
coming in and what they've done on the recruiting trailers
the last couple of years, I do think this is
a team that's poised to make a big jump this year.
They played a lot of games where they lost in
single digit ball games last year, So I think, as
Lynn said, I mean, it's so much is about the quarterback,
and I believe that Jackson Arro getting a fresh start
and a different offense surrounded by a lot of really
good players. I mean, this is a receiver corps that
I think could be one of the best in the
league this year. They went out and got the Speedster
from from Georgia Tech to kind of compliment with what
Cam Coleman brings to you. So I actually am kind
of buying, cautiously buying that that Auburn could be a
little bit of a dark horse team this year in
the SEC.
Speaker 2: So I want to hear.
Speaker 7: I want to hear Chris Dorian's kind of just your
power rankings, preseason power rankings going into the season when
you look at everything from what people did in the
off season to what they're returning to everything.
Speaker 2: Going into it.
Speaker 7: Walking into game one of the twenty twenty five season,
give me your top three or four power rankings in
the SEC and then also tell us why LSU is
number one.
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 6: I'm high on LSU.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 6: I'm a little biased too. I mean, you know, I
was talking about this yesterday on our show, just how
many LSU folks I'm surrounded by. I was doing the
show with Caroline Finton, who is another LSU grad, And
I think back to that magical twenty nineteen season, the
way that I was kind of welcomed into the fan
base by so many of the great Tiger fans. I
really have enjoyed watching Jay Johnson's run the last couple
of years. He was fantastic with us yesterday on our show,
and I guess pass I'm maybe finally going to get
my autographed l s U jersey from him, the one
that I had to Yeah Wetay.
Speaker 4: Off the bet with Yeah Yeah, doing has a baseball jersey.
We're trying to get Jay Johnson to sign it. I'm
gonna personally make sure that happens. Don't lean on g
to get it done.
Speaker 6: I'll get it he he did. I mean I mentioned
that at the end of the interview yesterday and Coach
Johnson said that he was going to get with the
equipment guy as soon as the interview was over to
make sure I had that that purple and gold jersey
up in my office. So I'm committing to that. And
when I say up in the office, has I mean
leaned up against the cabinet as I know that makes
you a little upset, but I yeah, I mean I'm
high on LSU. I'm interested in what you guys think about.
Like I made this assertment that I think this is
maybe the most important opener that I can remember for
any team in a long time, given the lack of
success that the program has had in general the last
five years and openers and particularly with Brian Kelly the
last couple of years. But at the end of the
end of the day, the way that the playoffs is
set up now you can lose one or two games,
is still get in and it isn't not a conference game.
You know, it's crazy. You guys would agree with me,
Like seeing that Florida LSU game in September as the
as the conference opener, like it, that is a that
may be a more important game. But I do feel
like there's a lot of angst about what this opener
will looked like there in Death Valley.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know how I feel about Florida LSU
being that early. I gotta be honest with you, that's
an October game every day, all day, and for it
to be right there, and you're right like those teams
and they've got some tough opponents before they even get
to each other. It might be a must win situation,
like your first time out of the gate in conference.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it is, you know, jumping right into the fire. Now,
you guys remember last year, Florida had a brutal schedule
to open the month of September. I had to play Miami,
got physically embarrassed in that one, and then two games
later had to play Texas A and M and got
manhandled on the line of scrimmage there as well. I
do like the schedule for Florida this year. They get
to eat into a little bit more Long Island in
the opener and then South Florida week two. But I
don't know if there's a more brutal stretch of four
games success in succession than what Florida plays. They got
to go to Miami to play the Hurricanes, or excuse me,
they got to play They play you guys in Baton Rouge,
then Miami and then have to play Texas at home,
and then Texas A and M and College station. Like
that's gonna be a defining run for Florida. But I
do think remember the old days has we did on there,
we talk about, all right, where's the three game stretch
that matters the most for teams and what they can
or can't be. I think now with Texas and Oklahoma
in the league and a little bit more difficult scheduling
out of conference, we're seeing these these stretches where you know,
four games in a row or are brutal. So it's
it's it's kind of a sign of the times. But
as fans man, I would much rather get a chance
to see my team playing ball games like this than
playing SCS opponents.
Speaker 7: I couldn't agree, But we talked about that the other day.
It's like, do whatever you have to do with the
playoff rules and how you're going to get in do
whatever you have to do to make sure that these
games stay here and they don't go back to scheduling
and other stuff.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean that kind of leads me to
a good question.
Speaker 6: Let me let me ask you a question playing real quick, Like,
as players, we wanted to play the best competition, man,
we wanted to get a chance to test ourselves. Don't
you love the idea of mandating the Power four teams
all having a game against the other Power three conferences
and being able to see how you match up against
the ACC, the Big twelve, and the Big ten, Like
it feels like that should be something that we could
at least mandate to really get a better temperature of
which conferences are the best and the teams out of
conference that are the best.
Speaker 7: I love any idea that puts the best against the best,
no matter what part of the country and no matter
what the patch or the conference is on your jersey,
doesn't matter. I mean every year, we used to get
so excited for all the bowl games because you saw
the interconference matchups, Like we should be having that throughout
the year. And that's that's why, you know, you get
into these conversations about the committee and all this I
just I just prayed that it never gets to the
point where we have to go back to just strictly,
you know, you have to be undefeated or one loss
to be able to be in the conversation of getting in.
Speaker 6: So meanwhile, the thing about like literally obviously didn't win
the Big Ten, didn't even play for the Big Ten championship,
and lost their final game of the season when we
were playing. You lose the final game of the season,
that's pretty much a death wish. So like I do
think that Ohio State, once they got past that Michigan game,
was playing the best of any team in the country.
So I think now college football is like, hey, let's survive.
Let's give ourselves a chance to be in position at
the end of the year, and you know, if we
can find a way to start clicking on all cylinders,
you can get hot in the postseason like a lot
of the other sports do in terms of determining champions
So it is a bit of a survival, particularly in
the grind that the SEC is now. But honestly believe,
with what happened last year in the postseason, we're gonna
get at least one or two nine win teams in
this year, something that we talked about last last year
a lot when Ole Miss, South Carolina and Bama got
snubbed at nine and three. But I do think that
we'll see at least one, if not multiple, nine win
teams from the league getting in this year.
Speaker 4: A r There he is our boy, Chris Doring, SEC Network,
Florida Gator legend, somebody that we're gonna have a chance
to hang out with in two weeks, Sir Camp can't
wait looking forward to it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, man, right around the corner boys, I look forward
to catching up with the Atlanta all right.
Speaker 4: There he is Chris Doring, always good enough to join
us with his time. And look, if you're a Florida
Gator and you can be a friend of mine, you've
done something right, especialties. You have figured out the Rubik's cube.
You have turned it a lot of different ways and
finally solved it.
Speaker 5: All right, we will take a break.
Speaker 4: I do want to recap some of what CD was
talking about there, kind of look at what the SEC
looks like and kind of some of the different tiers.
Some of those teams like in Auburn that nobody's talking about.
Do we give them any opportunity will start that process
when we come back here.
Speaker 5: It is otbpter bench.
Speaker 4: All right, good to all Star, toy at Baton Rouge
dot com, All Star to.
Speaker 5: All Star, not store star. Everybody.
Speaker 4: They've got everything available buying, new, leasing, renting, and once
you figure out what it is, you call miss Leasa
Sessions in that rental department. Hey, got a trip, gonna
be gone for three four days, and you get everything scheduled,
You pick up the vehicle like that day, and then
you bring it back and it's like per day rental prices.
Even if you call them like, hey, we extended our
trip by a day, that's fine, Just add a day
to an incredibly flexible there in the rental department. All
start to it at venders dot com.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I need to buy, looking at buy new, used,
set up a lease, whatever it is. Call them today
see how they can help you. Conveniently located on Airline
near Goodwood. Go check them out, or you can go
on their website. See what they have in stock, see
the cars, the fans, the trucks of Sedan's whatever. I'll
start toy to Batanuge dot Com.
Speaker 1: Two thousand and seven, Shamps Purple and Gold to the core.
This is off the bench with Hester and Flynn. Baton
rougees go to for all things Louisiana sports.
Speaker 4: Try to knock them all, right, welcome back in OTB
one oh four five ESPN ban Rude, I brought up
Auburn Flynn because we talked so often about Okay, LSU,
they need to get to a cass football playoff. They do,
but they were nine to four last year, five and
three in conference play. It needs to be better. We
all agree, A and M who a lot of people
make fun of, and I get it.
Speaker 5: It's fun.
Speaker 4: I do it as well. They were five and three
though in conference play. Now eight and five overall. They
did lose to Notre Dame, who played in the National
Championship game. But it's not good enough by any means.
But it's not falling off a cliff, right, Even the
Florida Gators last year they're four and four in conference play, right,
they want to be better now. They did take strides,
they beat LSU, they beat Ale Miss at the end
of the year. But we talk about those teams so
often of they gotta be better. They got to be better.
They got to take another step and I'm talking about
not just here on this show because obviously, like we're
not talking about all these SEC teams every single day.
I'm talking about even on off campus over on serious XM,
like we'll talk, you know, the totality of the conference.
We'll have callers and interaction, and those are the teams
that people want to talk about. I'm like, Oklahoma was
two and six in the SEC last year, six and
seven overall. The Auburn Tigers were two and six in
the SEC, five and seven overall, and nobody's bringing that up. Like,
no matter where I go, no matter what show I do,
I'm like, it's always you know, it's it's A and M,
it's LSU. Alabama's got to get back to the playoff.
Florida's got to be better. And I agree with that,
But like when when you think about but when you
think about like the powers that Oklahoma and Auburn have been,
Like I'll argue when when we were in school, like
the Auburn Tigers were one of the toughest matchups we had.
Speaker 7: Well when I got to school, that was that was
the rival at the time. Of course, the LSU, the
rival fluctuates with time and who's good at winn and where?
But man, I remember if you went there like you
were like I remember like seeing the highlight video, like
the recruiting highlight video that they used, and it was
like Phil Collins in the air tonight and it was
Auburn smoking cigars.
Speaker 2: Cublic Is that him?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, that's why you didn't win in Tiger stating
for like twenty years after that.
Speaker 7: But yeah, it's so interesting because LSU's so unique because
the rival does fluctuate like that, And yeah, to hear
to hear that they were two and six in the SEC.
Speaker 5: They haven't had a lot of good there.
Speaker 7: And I'm trying to figure out, as you're saying this,
why are they getting that pass? And is it because
they've been so good in the past do they get
like a little legal.
Speaker 4: Because Brian Harson, like if he if he stepped in
the wrong direction, people were like ready to throw him
at town. I mean there was a there was a
literal coup against him that turned out not to be
true to try to get him fired. But because Hugh
Freeze when he was an old mess beat Alabama a
couple of times, it feels like he gets this like
ultimate pass.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what was it? The cheerleader thing? There was this rumor.
Speaker 8: There was never a proven about Harrison and a cheerleader,
but there were people in Auburn that one of him fired,
Like the day he stepped went on campus.
Speaker 2: People hated that higher.
Speaker 8: Their philosophy was, we're Auburn, we don't hire a guy
from Boise State like he was. He was des in
avail before he even got there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I feel like in college football with some of these teams,
it's like the court of public opinion. It is every
now and then can be pretty reasonable and look at
the situations and be like, all right, this school, this
football team, the organization. There's so many things happening that
are wrong, like bad, like we understand why they're like
we almost felt like it's a rebuilding, like Tennessee a
handful of years ago, like they were in the same
position like how do we ever get back to this?
And they the noise was probably equally as low then
because I think everybody just understood like this is this
is a rebuilding. We got to figure out how to
get back. The expectation isn't there, Like when you talk
about A and MLSU, like that expectation is there because
of recruiting classes, recent success. But like the team that
shocks me over Auburn is Oklahoma because they have had
recent success.
Speaker 5: You're exactly right.
Speaker 4: And you know so many times when we start talking
about the Big Twelve, everybody thinks it was Texas OU,
Texas OU.
Speaker 5: They swapped punches.
Speaker 4: Oh, you dominate the Big Twelve.
Speaker 7: They wanted so in recent like they've had success recently,
how was that noise not?
Speaker 4: When the playoffs got expanded, they were there every year.
Now they didn't win a game in the playoff, but
they were there at a seat at the table.
Speaker 2: Oklahoma sooners two and six in conference play and.
Speaker 4: Then Texas went to the SEC championship game, which.
Speaker 2: So then they have heis. They have two heismans in
the last but six years.
Speaker 4: You got Bakery and Murray runner up. And if it
wasn't for Sir Joseph Burrow having the year he had,
herds would have wanted.
Speaker 7: To And a handful of years later the two and
six in conference play and that noise isn't deafening. Bren
was like a get off first year Oklahoma no and.
Speaker 4: They have look and so I feel like Auburn's just
continuing to add like good receivers. But then you get
Jackson Arnold at a quarterback. He was a quarterback for Oklahoma
last year, like he was kind of in and out
of the lineup, like there was nothing. Now he had
injuries a receiver. I do get that, but there was
nothing that gets you excited. I think enough to think
Jackson Arnold can come in and turn it around. Now
for Oklahoma, I will say this about them, they have
done everything they.
Speaker 5: Can to try to hit reset.
Speaker 4: You go get Jah Mattier from Wazoo, You go get
Jay Nott at running back from cal You go get
Jim Naggy from the Senior Bowl. Jim Naggy's now their
general manager. So they they've at least they've tried to
add to the roster because I think Vinnibles understands you
can't win two conference games at Oklahoma and lift to
tell the story.
Speaker 7: No, he is not the way it works. I dare
you to do that again this year you be gone
for sure. But yeah, I mean it's the noise around
Auburn has seemed like it's been kind of a cluster recently,
but not not with Oklahoma. That is the shocking part.
To me about all this is why they are not
calling into the show your show and screaming about that.
I would assume that he is on a hot seat,
am I Am I wrong for thinking that he has
to be.
Speaker 2: This is year three, right, see. But the problem with
it's still two wins, right.
Speaker 5: But the problem with Auburn in the.
Speaker 4: Way they've kind of handled things, like they're still paying
Brian Harson. And not to say that Auburn doesn't have money,
I mean they do have have yellow wood, they have
deep pockets, like we understand that.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about that. I'm talking about Oklahoma Inventable.
Speaker 4: I'm just going over like, so that's what for Hugh Freeze,
I'm saying, like that's maybe why it's not loud there.
Speaker 5: I haven't heard anything from.
Speaker 4: Oklahoma either as far as like he's got to win
nine games or he's gone like Lincoln Riley leaving the
way he did. It feels like it hurt soon, like
they because for them and their eyes are like we're
not a place where our coach leaves to go anywhere else.
We're Oklahoma, and it feels like it hurt them, and
like they got this guy in Invinables that wants to
be there, has been there before as an assistant, and
it feels like he's getting a little bit more leeway
because of that.
Speaker 7: I agree, But at some point the administration there has
to say, just like you just said, we are Oklahoma,
like we cannot accept below mediocrity in our conference, right,
we can't accept, but we can't accept being in the
middle of the pack, let alone the bottom of the pack.
So how much of a lease do you give? What
message does that send to all of your alumni, your boosters,
your fan base, what messages that sense saying, you know,
two wins is not enough to get you put on
a hot seat.
Speaker 2: Maybe he is.
Speaker 7: I mean they're not going to come out and say that,
you know he's on a hot seat, of course, But
you know, I think where there's smoke, there's fire, and
if there's no smoke, there's certainly there's no fire.
Speaker 4: How about this before we take a break, here's Oklahoma's scheduled.
I know a lodger's loving this conversation right now. She's
probably raised to hate the Sooners. You got Illinois State, okay, whatever,
Then you got Michigan. You got Michigan at home. Now
we don't know what Michigan is going to be. There'll
be a preseason top twenty five team. Maybe Bryce Underwood
is the quarterback to start off there at Michigan. And
then you go on the road, which why on the
road to Temple? What in the whale is going on there?
Speaker 2: You're Oklahoma.
Speaker 4: Now you're playing in Eagle Stadium Lincoln Financial, But that
doesn't really matter. You're going to Temple, like playing.
Speaker 2: A neutral site at Temple. That's basically what it was.
Speaker 4: You're staying like if Okay, so like La Shoe will
go and they'll play like if they went to Houston.
They play it in NRG. But that's the biggest alumni
base for l s U. Makes sense, right, You give
those Tigers there in Houston a chance to go see
l s U play in Houston. Nick Saban would be
famous for somewhere in Florida, like he would go play
a game at South Florida because it was like the
Tampa area that was big for them. It was a
big time recruiting ground for them. Oklahoma is not creating
a pipeline and recruiting to Philadelphia.
Speaker 9: That's so what is happening far from and then Temple
and they're awful.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you have to well, I know you have to
schedule the big time game. So far in advance, I
don't know. Temple is not a big time game. When
did they schedule it? Well, when Lincoln Rally was the head.
Speaker 8: They were like, guys, Lincoln Financial Field early in the season, A.
Speaker 10: Kick what You're right, they're not going to fill that
out either. There's like it's gonna.
Speaker 4: Look, there's gonna be three people there.
Speaker 9: It's gonna be incredibly empty there. I would be shocked
if there were ou fans in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 7: You're putting yourself in a voluntary no win situation at
an empty.
Speaker 5: NFL stadium.
Speaker 8: Man, all right, we can Financial at night? Great eleven
am on a Saturday.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 5: So that surprised me as well. So I'm glad the surprised.
Speaker 4: And then okay, then they play Auburn and that's gonna
be at home as well. So two teams were talking
about here. Then you get a bye week, and then
you get Kent stayed at home. Okay, all right, whatever,
But then you've got Texas in Dallas at South Carolina.
Now they get Willie b during the day and not
night that's that's good for them. But still at South Carolina,
Ole Miss, at home, at Tennessee, at Bama.
Speaker 8: I think those are five losses. I think they lose
all five of those games. I mean, find me a
little boy, to your point, your point they get Williams
probably said day and not night. That's fine unless you
struggled their ass off at eleven AM last.
Speaker 4: Year Williams seventeen broken pencils.
Speaker 8: In a game that, in my opinion, l s you
shouldn't have won a year ago. Like, that's five losses
for Oklahoma right there.
Speaker 4: At best it's two and three, yes, right now, it
looks like it's now. I love Jeometerier quarterback.
Speaker 5: I love him. He is a too gritty to be
pretty like type of guy.
Speaker 2: But man, where's material coming from?
Speaker 5: Washington State? He was cam Ward's uh back up.
Speaker 4: They actually had like a two quarterback system at times
where they would play together.
Speaker 5: It's pretty badass.
Speaker 4: Like he Jeometereer would get it running back and they'd
snap it. Cam Mood would hand it off to him
going this way. Matier would grab the ball, reversed out
and throw it to cam Ward in the flats.
Speaker 2: It was awesome.
Speaker 5: It was an incredible play design.
Speaker 4: But buckle up sooner because after that Alabama I talked about,
you get Missouri at home, you get LSU at home.
Speaker 5: So I mean, buckle up, man. That's only it is
what it is.
Speaker 2: It's only so much like good hydration contin I don't
know if you can do that much.
Speaker 4: All right, we'll take a break talking Moore sec football
when we come back on OTV.
Speaker 3: Off the bench.
Speaker 4: It's just brutal shiting here looking at it. Temple Philadelphia
at eleven am. Go to get Gordon dot com Gordon
mccurnin injury Attorneys.
Speaker 5: Right there on the homepage of the website.
Speaker 4: You can see what they can do for you in
the courtroom, what they've done for past clients in the courtroom.
You can have a chat with them. Right there on
the homepage of the website. You can see the phone number.
It is your area code in Louisiana. So three one
eight nine eight five five oh four two two five
three three seven like whatever it is we're talking to you.
I mean top to bottom east west in Louisiana. Follow
about eight at eight eighty eight eighty eight. Get Gordon
and get it done.
Speaker 7: Be part of the g team. You see the work
that they do. They see you, see the billboards. Go
to their website, see the testimonials, the reviews.
Speaker 2: People.
Speaker 7: If you're injured, it is not your fault, personal injury,
car accident, whatever it is. See how they can help
you anywhere in Louisiana. Call eight eight eight eight eight
eight eight.
Speaker 3: I had a way they using it on my own.
Speaker 4: I had all them, but the queen.
Speaker 3: Has been over through.
Speaker 1: Locked in on LSU Football twenty four to seven. You're
listening to off the Bench.
Speaker 5: The dog is too hot to beat and I'm not kidding.
Speaker 10: The joy me to push me?
Speaker 3: You show them rists still time to stone.
Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in O t B here on
this Friday morning.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: Like I said it, I said the weekend vibe would
pick up as the show went along, picking up a
little bit.
Speaker 2: This song like gets me like little service vibes.
Speaker 10: What would you put what would you like? You know
how they bring out there? You put on it?
Speaker 4: Did any of y'all get like from tigers?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 10: Whatever people bring in?
Speaker 4: It's just like I feel bad. I'm like, you don't
have to do Yeah, you don't have to.
Speaker 7: We break down like no one else can you know,
hold the sparklers this time.
Speaker 4: If it's said from from tigers, if it's from tigers
to talkers, I would just walk away.
Speaker 5: I don't want to.
Speaker 10: What if it's said more game than a gumbo pot.
Speaker 4: I believe the premises out of the building, not just
the table. We gotta play that one.
Speaker 9: And what if it was big boys lady holding it up?
Speaker 7: I know, Oh my gosh, big voice lady.
Speaker 2: Oh man. It's only only appropriate time to say big
and lady.
Speaker 7: In the same sentence because it's a voice situation. So
we call maybe Fridays. This fall is like bottle service Friday.
Speaker 2: I don't know, bring a sparkler. Howould they feel about that?
You know you ain't gonna reach the ceiling.
Speaker 8: I mean there's something that will not the ones that
we'd get.
Speaker 2: We'll be good.
Speaker 5: I think. Wouldn't mind a sparkler?
Speaker 8: No, actually, old bottle rockets, or you can heat up
the place a little bit, like it gets cold.
Speaker 5: That's he does. I'm so much happier over here it
used to.
Speaker 4: Be over there.
Speaker 8: Honestly, like when when shows like Solo and I'm over there,
I'm never cold during the show.
Speaker 5: It feels great. I can wear short sleeves again.
Speaker 7: I don't have to wear this seat over here. This
side of the table is like having a fever. You
get chills because you're so cold, and then you break
out in sweats because it's so hot. It's just like
back and forth, like my shirt doesn't know what to do.
It's like soaking wet because I'm sweating, I'm freezing.
Speaker 4: We're also doing push I got it, flew over here
breaks and you did. I think you did a set
of stairs today.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm just like, yeah, I shivered for half, sweat
for half. I got like COVID twenty one.
Speaker 10: Over here, COVID twenty one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Got long it's a variants.
Speaker 4: Oh god, I feel like we need to move on
for this goes down the road too long.
Speaker 8: Speaking of we got Livingston Paris shout out. They got
a West now Case. Saw that the other West case. Yeah,
the first one years and it happened to LP. It
ain't me, guys, I promise, but we got one living soon.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know where. I just saw the headline
it said living West first.
Speaker 8: West now Case, and like, I don't know, like a
long time right here.
Speaker 9: I just feel like there were my be somebody n
l P named West Nile.
Speaker 10: They were just like, for sure.
Speaker 5: West Nile up there got the West virus.
Speaker 10: L the guy out there.
Speaker 9: There's just a guy out there named west now that
has a computer virus.
Speaker 4: And it was my brother in Lall had a friend
growing up. His name was west Nail. That's the truth
for it. And you say it with an accent like
we have a an l P.
Speaker 2: It is west Nail. Hey tell you didnim springstand is right? Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 8: The uhou the excellent eighteen wheeler driver hit the guy
in the bucket.
Speaker 10: Truck and those people drive like driving.
Speaker 8: I was telling Matt for the show. I knew the
intersection before they even released where it was.
Speaker 4: It was like, exactly where that is?
Speaker 5: Is that the worst one?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 4: Is that the one where you get off and your
if you were going to downtown, din't the anti It's right.
Speaker 8: There where you got like Chick fil A on one side,
Mickey D's on the other.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my man was just hanging. He was clipped in.
Thank good.
Speaker 2: It's always where ship protection kidding me.
Speaker 10: He did, but for him, I wasn't the lane blocked.
Speaker 2: Off though, Yeah, that's that's on multiple people.
Speaker 10: But also it was behind.
Speaker 9: It was like an epidemic of eighteen wheeler drivers driving
insane and not paying attention to where they're going, as
if they're not driving the biggest vehicle in existence.
Speaker 8: Also, trust me, wouldn't have mattered if that lane was
blocked off not there not there not, there.
Speaker 4: Would an eighteen will like on the interstate, Like when
you're traveling and one like knows that, okay, I shouldn't
get over, But what's he really going to do if
I do? And they do it and they come like
an inch from hitting your car? Man like, yeah, they
turn road rage up to eleven. I'm like going in
the other lane. I'm like, pull over. You can't see
me because you're so high up, but I'm trying to
get my horms high.
Speaker 10: I get so mad.
Speaker 9: I get so mad when they're in the fast lane
going slow and I'm like, you need to get out
of my way.
Speaker 7: They're going sixty one, but the eighteen wheeler quarter mile
ahead of him going sixty r so they got a
pass on at sixty one. It's maybe just like skinny
one on the right, but he just hit it a
little bit harder.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just like as my Dad used to always say,
it's the long, skinny one on the right.
Speaker 7: Push it down, push it a little bit harder, that
lead foot a litle bit heavier, guys, that's all we need.
But I'm sure all the eighteen wheel drivers listening to
this show the tens of thousands video where you give
sure they're good drivers.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, dang.
Speaker 8: Show block, look at that got the bottoms, Like, hold on,
I do love my truck drive.
Speaker 2: Everybody.
Speaker 5: Our series XM show is like eighty percent truck driver.
Speaker 10: Shout out, truck driver, shout out y'all.
Speaker 4: But except for that game, they're not driving a mass
of hot I'm gonna.
Speaker 10: Need y'all to realize what y'all are in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they got those bright yellow vests on. They're there.
Speaker 4: So when that guy keeps going, you think, what's that
phone call? Like boss from his like he knows he
hit him? Does he call him? Or is he just
like wait for them call him?
Speaker 5: I hit what?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: I had no idea.
Speaker 8: I always loved the vehicles in front of you driving awful,
and it's like the company, It's like, how is my driving?
Speaker 2: That's what I just said.
Speaker 7: You think the guy working that that fell right, there
that got hit, called that number, said not good.
Speaker 2: I was in college driving called eight eight.
Speaker 10: I was in college called one much money?
Speaker 5: Oh I know, two idiot.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 8: I was sad to work in college and I had overslept.
We had a late night the night before, and I'm driving.
This guy's going twenty five and a forty five, So
I called the damn number in front.
Speaker 2: He's like, do you ever complain to my Can you
tell your guy to speed up? I'm going twenty miles
under the speed and it just hung up the phone.
Speaker 4: Hey move, all right, we will take our last break
of our number two.
Speaker 5: Coming back your way here on.
Speaker 4: OTV, off the bench. All right, it is the weekend.
We do have weekend vibes here in the studio. No
better thing to do over the weekend than go for
dose grabb an ice cold dose secis. Enjoy it by
the pull, enjoy it on the beach. If you're lucky
enough to go ahead. Fourth of July is coming up,
and maybe, just maybe you were lucky enough to get
the entire week off. And we said it yesterday, We'll
say it every day. Toes in the sand, do sequis
in hand? Not a better beer to enjoy. So hopefully
you're enjoying going for dose responsibly.
Speaker 7: Yeah, stay thirsty, man, right, stay thirsty, drink some do sequis.
It is the weekend, weekend vibes. We're feeling good. Doesn't
matter if you're going fishing this weekend, if you're cooking out.
I know that I'm gonna be in an airport, and
we all know that the airport beers are elite. I'm
going to be going for dose drinking do seqis. So
pop open a cold ice cold Mexican lagger.
Speaker 5: They served those in Orlando.
Speaker 2: Oh, they said from everywhere, buddy, go for dose, go
secy drink responsibility.
Speaker 10: Annoyed with me, I know, I.
Speaker 1: With them, with them from players to legends, Hester and
Flynn breakdown l s U football.
Speaker 3: Like only champions can.
Speaker 10: Get a little bit of me at the perfect time.
You want me, I want you.
Speaker 3: I got you.
Speaker 7: Got the hits today, I got man Friday vibes.
Speaker 10: I wanted to get the party story.
Speaker 4: We needed it.
Speaker 5: We needed some good Friday vibes.
Speaker 2: There was.
Speaker 4: There was Tuesday energy in the room when we first
got it like that, and now it's Friday.
Speaker 9: I did come in a little frazzled got you all
the Live sheet a little late.
Speaker 7: Okay, it was like it was low t Friday earlier.
It was I guess what we're back.
Speaker 10: I would hope I had totally. I would hope I
had lo TI.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got it back.
Speaker 7: I didn't get any breakfast this morning. I don't have
a problem, but you got an extra protein bar?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 5: No, I had to eat mine already.
Speaker 4: What's hrs already on the drive in. It was bad,
Like I didn't eat. I didn't eat a biging of
dinner last night. The protein bar went down. Yeah, like
on Nicholson this morning.
Speaker 2: I even I had breakfast this morning.
Speaker 8: I never eat well because I'm I'm gonna be here
all day and I'm like, I gotta have something.
Speaker 7: Do you ever get like just drink a ton of
coffee like me right now? Get the jitters, the hearts
beating fast energy, Like.
Speaker 10: No, I want to have the jitters.
Speaker 4: Our push up count coming, I won't like at least
five cups of coffee per day.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the more titters I have, like the less clear
I speak, though, And then you know it's already kind
of a a feel battle.
Speaker 2: What's the push up count up?
Speaker 5: Bigger, bigger, than yesterday.
Speaker 9: I was really trying so hard to figure bigger yesterday.
Speaker 7: My wheels returning, We're gonna do a bigger the amount
of push ups, y'all, y'allow way ahead of me.
Speaker 2: I didn't do a matter of how.
Speaker 10: Far, I don't do the pushups. I can do some squads,
but all right, yeah, girl can't do push Let's.
Speaker 4: Get weird our number three off the bench. All right,
go to Boudroselectrical dot com. Bujos Electrical dot Com is
the website to go. Get that free geno wack quote
that we talk.
Speaker 5: About all the time.
Speaker 4: So look, when you have them come out, they come
to your space and this is like it generates, is
gonna go right there. We're gonna be able to have
it in this time here, which is going to be
an incredibly fast set up process and four storm season.
Like if you're wondering if it's too late, it is not.
They can install that. You'll have that ultimate peace of mind.
Whenever everybody's power goes out, you'll know that you'll have AC,
you'll have TV, you'll have a refrigerator, have everything that
you normally do. You're not even going to be bothered
because you have that whole home generator from Boudros. That's
why the tagline plays oops more power, more Protection, Boudros
Electrical dot Com.
Speaker 7: Ye have them come out to your house and size
your generator. So many companies will just go put a
one size fits all. They won't get one that fits
your house perfectly, big, small, whatever it is. Boudros Electrical
dot Com