Speaker 1: All Star Toyota presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester
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Speaker 1: Well's control from the Live from the Mercedes Benz of
Baton Rouge Studio. Here's Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 5: Welcome in OTV one oh four five ESPN Baton Rouge.
Here on this Thursday morning, Jake, Alandra and Tata here
with you. No Flynn, but no pictures either of him,
so a little surprised by that. We got one picture
of these custom T shirts that they made where he's
looking like an idiot, so par for the course. But
that's all. It's all we really got. We got an
airport beer picture and that picture.
Speaker 6: So speaking of the T shirt, is that his face
cropped onto somebody or did he actually have hair like that?
Speaker 7: Like that you had hair like that?
Speaker 8: I mean, I didn't remember because we were talking about
I like had found this whenever we were making the
graphic that we're gonnaounce whatever.
Speaker 4: I found this like picture of him when.
Speaker 8: He was with the Jets, And yeah, he mustache and
like we were making fun of him.
Speaker 7: We pulled the picture was hanging out of his head.
A little bit of Yeah.
Speaker 4: He was like, oh that was when I had the
man bun situation.
Speaker 5: I was like, it wasn't very New York pluscious man
bun like, it was kind of like Ratty and Bun.
Speaker 7: That's what he had, what he was rolling with.
Speaker 5: Fine, So uh, yeah, he's out.
Speaker 7: He'll be out today, he'll be out tomorrow. It's okay.
Speaker 5: We got it held down here and laid out the show. Yo,
got a big show. Very excited about today's show. Kind
of going a little bit of everywhere. Talk a lot
of football with Connor, Munchies with Chef, obviously, baseball with Jay.
Speaker 7: Ryan McGee like covers Omaha.
Speaker 5: Every single year, and you know how Ryan is, like
he does like a deep dive into like the history
and the culture and like all the things surrounding Omaha.
So very excited for that conversation. And then when Justin
Moore joins us he is a Arkansas fan. He is
a hog. Now he didn't marry somebody from Louisiana. She
started out an LSU fan, but he converted her. But
it's Okay, we're gonna talk a little trash with Justin.
Maybe make a bet. So any suggestions you have put
inside the chat, anything for a bet now, just know
whatever the bet is, I'm probably the one that's got
to do it if LSU doesn't win, So don't make
it too crazy. But we'll come up with something whenever
we have him at.
Speaker 7: Nine point thirty.
Speaker 8: What about if LSU wins, he has to wear an
LSU sh shirt or jersey at his next concert and
post it on Instagram, or he.
Speaker 6: Just has to come do a show down here Justin.
It's been too long, man.
Speaker 7: He was here last year.
Speaker 5: He's a march.
Speaker 4: It was like May because it was Cajun country.
Speaker 5: Okay, so that's why I remember when whenever he was here,
I was not here. We're trying to link up and
didn't feel that long ago. So last year makes sense,
all right. So if he does that, if he has
to wear an l s U shirt on stage, which
I do like that, trying to think what the equivalent
would be for me, Oh, would I have to wear
an Arkansas shirt here? No? At SEC media Day? Yeah,
that's a lot, and you have to.
Speaker 4: Call the hogs.
Speaker 5: That's not that bad at.
Speaker 4: SEC media Day.
Speaker 7: That's bad.
Speaker 6: Do you know who would be elite calling the hogs?
Hunt Palmer Hunt would be I could just see Hunt
as an Arkansas fan going all out all in the Hogs,
like that's him.
Speaker 7: I don't know that Hunt would appreciate that.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: He went full yell later he did. I forgot what Probably.
Speaker 5: That's probably why I get this clap and the whole deal. Okay,
so we'll see, we'll see what the bet ends up being, Landra,
how we doing? You know, nothing like spending your night
at AutoZone.
Speaker 4: I don't even know, guys, Like my life being me
is so exhausting. I don't even know.
Speaker 8: Like my car died again last night and I had
to take it to AutoZone, and then they tested the
battery and the alternator and he said that both were fine.
Speaker 5: So yeah, And I was telling you, it's like almost
like you want something to be wrong because then you
kind of know, all right, well here's the issue. I
can fix it. And he's like, no, they're all good.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 8: My car is just not starting sometimes great. Yeah, yeah,
I mean started.
Speaker 5: This morning, and it started yesterday obviously when you left here. Yeah,
but then you go work out out, you come back
and doesn't start right tight.
Speaker 8: So yeah, awesome, super cool. Yeah I like that a
great time. Yeah, but other than that, life's great.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Tate, you said you got to be at work
late tonight. Not not late.
Speaker 6: I'm just we're doing a FR the next two days to.
Speaker 7: Uh, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know where Paul's at. But Matt is on
his way to New York.
Speaker 7: I knew that.
Speaker 5: No, I thought he's gonna maybe he's in Boston to
watch the Yankees.
Speaker 4: Okay, so it's a okay, so he's going to Boston.
Speaker 7: To watch the Yankees Red Sox.
Speaker 8: And then so Moose is hosting, so I'll be doing
audio and Titay is doing video.
Speaker 6: So get this, I got audio today, I'm doing I mean,
I got video today. I'm doing audio tomorrow.
Speaker 7: Have you tell that in a long time for a FR?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, at least yeah, Moscone is not hosting. Like
he'd yell at you, brat you a little bit. Let
you know how bad you are at your job. It's true.
Mostly just get mad at itself. He'll just start hitting
his head.
Speaker 6: It'll be like, it's my fault. I got this more
on to.
Speaker 5: Come exactly like apiate, Yeah, no question about it. So
at least you don't have that situation.
Speaker 6: We got the we got the grass cut yesterday too.
We beat the rain, big day for you guy.
Speaker 7: Monarchs? Were they on?
Speaker 5: No, you own air monarchs, There's no doubt mine.
Speaker 6: I actually don't.
Speaker 5: Whatever.
Speaker 6: No, these were These were a pair of aces that
I've had like eight years. They got like a hole
in the toe. Those are the grass cutting choose.
Speaker 5: Uh, you might want to cover that up. I mean,
like part of cutting the grass. Certainly when you push
mo like you're gonna have some things thrown back at
you for sure. Okay, it's probably why you have a
hole in the toe already.
Speaker 6: They stay outside though, like we're good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, those ain't coming in the house. Uh rsp one
two one eight. Inside the chat says Jake, you got
to wear the foam hog hat.
Speaker 7: Oh, I feels like a step too far.
Speaker 5: I'd be if I wear a shirt and I'm calling
the hogs in front of all my sec brethren, that
feels like that would be enough. Now is the bet
going to be just this one like Solo game? Or
is it going to be who makes it farther in Omaha.
Speaker 4: Let's make it who makes it further?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 6: Because like yeah, like okay, because if Arkansas beats l
Shoe loses their next two and LSU goes on to win,
like that, Arkansas.
Speaker 5: Reallys of LSU wins a national championship, just like you
didn't probably want to wear a LSU shirt if Arkansas
finally wins a national championship. All right, so we'll format it,
we'll get it all together. Uh, we'll present it to
Justin at nine point thirty when he comes on with us.
So all right, so we do have a bunch to
get to. So let's go ahead and get this thing started.
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Speaker 7: So the thing that I wanted to do right here
off the top.
Speaker 5: LSU football television schedule, all right, because I would say,
and I'd argue that we're probably the place that cares
the most about kickoff times. We don't want to play
a lot of games in the sunlight. We certainly don't
want to play any home.
Speaker 7: Games in the sunlight.
Speaker 5: I am not Big Ten Bob who likes to play
marquee games at brunch. That is dumb. That makes no
sense to me. And I want to go out there
and have the full experience of an all day tailgate.
Let that thing buzz up to an eleven before you
kick it off under the lights in Tiger Stadium. I know,
Like I've been on social media and there's so many
like former Big ten players, current Big ten players, people
are like, nothing's better than a noon kickoff and then
you can go.
Speaker 7: Out to the bars afterwards.
Speaker 5: It's dumb, No, you just tailgate all day and then
you go to it, and then you still go to
the bars afterwards, because no big game should ever be
kicked off while pancakes and waffles are still being served. Okay,
so that's what we look for, all right. So some
of these we already knew, but we'll go.
Speaker 7: Down the full list.
Speaker 5: Elandre Tate, if y'all want to react to one, certainly,
just jump in here. We know at Clemson gonna be
on ABC. It's going to be a six thirty pm
local kick. Week number two versus a La Tech that's
going to be on ESPN and the SEC Network plus
six thirty again versus Florida. Right, remember an early early
Florida game. That one's typically in October. It is going
to be the third game of the year, September thirteenth,
at home, ABC, six thirty pm Local kick. Thank god,
that game always needs to be under the lights when
it's the Tigers and Negators.
Speaker 6: Love that, like the two that I think of two
thousand and seven obviously, and then twenty nineteen with Kyle Trast,
Kyle Pitts and them or yeah here, like every every
Florida game I think of at home at night at night.
Speaker 5: Yeah, when Jaden goes off at night. You're twenty nineteen.
The one you're talking about, it was at night. Go
all the way back to our game in O seven.
That game was at night. We played them at home
during the day in O five and we beat them,
And it just doesn't feel the same when you play
that team and you beat him during the day. Now,
the one that TDP set the rushing record, I didn't
care when that was being played.
Speaker 7: That was awesome. That was incredible. That was at eleven am.
It was early.
Speaker 5: It was I know, I think it was I think
it was noon. Okay, it was like a noon kick
or whatever. Uh And they re encounter about forty seven
straight times and playing tight end and nobody could stop it.
Speaker 7: It was.
Speaker 5: It was incredible football rotica right there running encounter and
they knew it was coming and they couldn't do anything
about it.
Speaker 7: And this big, like you know.
Speaker 5: Pretty in his uniform edge rusher that like thought he
was really really good, and by the end out he's
like tapping out, like please stop running this play towards me.
Then we got the the Tay Table versus Southeastern on
the SEC Network's Trouble six kickoff, and then okay, you
got at Old Miss that's gonna be on September the
twenty seventh. That is going to be a flex game.
Speaker 7: So flex games can.
Speaker 5: Be two thirty three, thirty five seven, right, so all
those essential time by the way, So it could be
a day game, but not going to be the noon game.
Speaker 7: Same situation.
Speaker 5: Versus South Carolina at home, that's going to be a
flex game, so one of those windows, but again not
a noonkick. Now at Vanderbilt, that is going to be
an early kick.
Speaker 7: That is going to be one of those brunch time games.
Speaker 5: And LSU fans last time you went there, you sold
them out of beer.
Speaker 7: But just be careful.
Speaker 5: This is going to be an early boy, probably gonna
be a little hot there in Nashville. That's a trip
that a lot of LSU fans are all with. Every
every away team for Vanderbilt is gonna make that trip
Nashville boom, and we all know that. So if you're
going to go to that one, go to go flow,
get some my high and get hydrated. But I don't
mind that one being early. It's like it's on the
road whatever.
Speaker 6: So I prefer the road games at eleven AM a lot.
Speaker 5: Now I'm working and calling the games.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well just because everybody says, okay, well it's eleven am.
The home crowd's not in it. Yeah, that's my point.
Like I'd prefer to playoff road one early.
Speaker 5: Texas A and M at home that's going to be
on October twenty fifth, that's going to be in that
same flex time that we talked about with Ole Miss
and South Carolina at Alabama, that one is going to
be at night, So you're going to get a primetime kickoff.
No surprise there, that's just what that game typically always is.
Speaker 7: Versus Arkansas, the.
Speaker 5: Only early game you're going to have at home that
is going to be in the eleven am or a
noon you know kick that's going to be an early
one in Tiger Stadium against the Razorbacks. So the only
one you have because then it goes to Western Kentucky
that's actually going to be a night game, and then
at Oklahoma is in that flex spot as well. So
only two early games at Vanderbilt versus Arkansas.
Speaker 7: It could be worse. It could be worse.
Speaker 5: I don't love any of those early kicks like that
at home, but if you only get one, it's against Arkansas,
that game has been played early before. As long as
it's not one of the Marky ones, as long as
it's not Florida, as long as it's not Old miss
as long as it's not Alabama, I'm okay with that
one one early.
Speaker 6: You're gonna get one, Yeah, one early home game because
Vandy's on the road. Like has that ever happened? Maybe
a few times, not in recent history. So again you
usually get two or three.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you could get some day games, you could get
some of those two thirty games.
Speaker 7: But again, the only.
Speaker 5: Early game, right, the only like eleven am situation you're
going to get at home is Arkansas.
Speaker 7: So that is kind of the TV schedule.
Speaker 5: For LSU football, I mean just not even really looking
at the TV portion of it, but just kind of
looking at what it is. Plays out pretty nicely for you.
You look at your home games, you look at your
away games, you look at how their format is.
Speaker 7: What we always look at.
Speaker 5: It's going to be every opportunity for LSU to make
that run that we're talking about. All Right, we will
step away for the first time. We've got connor O
Garris set to join us in about fifteen minutes from now.
We'll break down LSUE football SEC football with Connor.
Speaker 7: Will do it right here when we jump back on
OTB off the bench.
Speaker 5: All right, So we told you about the two pictures
that Flynn sent us, Well, they both involved dosakis.
Speaker 7: The first one was rude.
Speaker 5: He was enjoying an airport beard during the show while
we were here on air, nice frosty mug right next
to the dos equis ice cold rude. And then the
shirt that we're talking about, it was with him with
this ridiculous haircut and you know it's like four Yeah,
it was like fortieth birthday theme shirt and he was
on the golf course and guess what he was holding
in his hand?
Speaker 7: A dose sakis? Right, So that's not just lip service here.
Speaker 5: It is something that we enjoy and it's always a
good time to enjoy a dose sekis right, Telgate beer Elite, right,
Ballpark Beer Elite. If you're in Omaha, for sure, beach beer,
Lake beer, studio beer. Maybe go for dose drink do
sekies drink responsibly.
Speaker 1: From players to legends, Hester and Flynn breakdown LSU football
like only champions can.
Speaker 5: All right, Welcome back in OTV one oh four five
ESPN Baton Rouge. KK. You linked a couple of Saint
stories here in the doc, one being Saints are interested
in receiver Gabe Davis, and my goodness, what a fall
from grace he had. He was like this great, not
secondary piece, because I felt like he was more than
that in Buffalo with Josh Allen and certainly like a
trusted piece. And then he sounds like this big deal
to go to Jacksonville where it just was not great,
and now you're starting him. And I hate this part
of the NFL because now it's like he's done, can't play,
can't sign that guy.
Speaker 7: It's like.
Speaker 5: Some of these franchises. I don't know why we don't
look at him and be like, that's just a terrible
Franchise's just a bad franchise. It's poorly ran to coaching,
just revolving door. Nothing really goes right there. They'll have
a one off every now and again. It's like a
player like that signed a big deal not that long ago,
goes to a bad franchise and then perception is he's
just done. I can't play, and I hate it. And look,
I'm biased here because I see former players, former teammates.
I've seen This happen to a lot of guys. But Tata,
what would the Saints be getting with a Gabe Davis, Like,
what would it add to the receiver room? I think
we'd had another deep threat.
Speaker 6: If you remember two years ago, this is how he
got that big contract. It was a playoff game for Buffalo.
He hit three touchdowns in that game. Yep, I believe
it was. That was the overtime game with the Bills
and the Chiefs that the Chiefs ultimately won. But I
mean nobody could cover Gave Davis in that game, and
that was a good Chiefs defense. He's twenty six years old,
and your point, everyone's going to say, oh, well, he
can't play anymore. He had a bad year. He had
a really bad quarterback last year. Trevor Lawrence was awful
last year. Chris Kirk wasn't good. Christian Kirk got picked
up by the Texans. I think he's a good receiver.
It was really Brian Thomas and that was it for
that Jags offense. Like, yeah, this is a young guy.
He hadn't had terrible injuries. I mean there's been a few.
He's twenty six, like probably getting pretty cheap.
Speaker 5: Well, so he's receiving more than eleven million dollars from
the Jags, making a one year veteran minimum deal likely
so for his next destination. And uh so the Jags
are paying his tab right again, he signed a massive
deal with them.
Speaker 7: And by the way, shout out to Ross Shacks.
Speaker 5: And I saw that little nugget on louisianasports dot net
where you can check out all your latest Saints news, like,
I yeah, if you're gonna sign in for a VET minimum,
if the Jags are picking up the tab on him.
We talked about it during the draft process, like this
Saints roster and this Saints team they need some juice
at receiver because you have a Chris lave who And
this isn't like trying to be funny, just is what
it is.
Speaker 7: Like he's one hit away from who knows.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's had so many concussions, so that could
be a situation where if he goes down again, Well,
what do you really have? Will you have Rashid Shaheed?
Remember Rashid Shaheed, incredible athlete? What do we always talk
about with those incredible track athlete type guys? A lot
of hamstrings, a lot of muscle, Pulls, so he hasn't
been able to get on the field consistently. You sign
a Brandon Cooks and so you got a veteran presence there.
But I would just say, because of the past health
of the receivers that you have, do you really want
to be showing up again with uber drivers as your
receivers on Sundays? That's what you did last year. These
guys that were like out of football games and they
came back. I mean, and bub might be one of
the more exciting of the name, right and the Kevin
Austin juniors, Cedric Wilson junior coming back, Dante pett Is
coming back. My god, so many times y'all made me
listen to Mason Tipton facts a year ago.
Speaker 7: Okay, so if you can get a veteran guy.
Speaker 5: That, sure, he's not coming off his best year, but
I think you need to look at where he was
in Jacksonville, what that franchise has been working mount does
he still have it? And look, he's got a different
body type. It's a different body type receiver built really
more like a running back than a receiver. So, and
I say that in like a positive way, because he's
really good on the edge, run blocking, but also he's
good tough catches over the middle. I think you can
throw him some noiles, you can throw them some bubbles,
some different things. You don't really have that receiver now,
like you got speed, you got a Lave, you got
Brandon Cooks, you got Rashid Shahied, you don't have the
receiver that we're talking about, right, So you go ad
somebody again. Another team is playing paying the eleven million,
you're paying the veteran minimum, which is basically a little
bit more than a rookie minimum.
Speaker 7: So there's no real investment here.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I think it makes all sense in the world for
the Saints.
Speaker 6: Yeah it does, And so many people are gonna say, oh,
well you still need a big bodied guy. What did
we hear you signed the exact same receiver again, to
your point, he plays a lot different, but also like
who this is what you have Chris Olave who's injured
all hell, Brandon Cooks who's now over thirty, and Rashijia
Head who's really a number three and not a two.
Like I'm not saying I'd rather have him over everybody,
but I'd rather have him over Brandon Cooks at this
point in his career, like Cooks couldn't stay healthy. He's
thirty one years old, he's declined for three years in
a row. Yeah, Hey, Davis had one bad season. Nobody
thinks he's washed.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and uh, look he is six two two twenty five,
So I mean he's a big guy. Yeah, I know
he is not kind of in the mold of those
other receivers that we're talking about, that short slender receivers. Again,
incredible athletes, incredibly fast, but six two two twenty five
is different than what we're talking about there. So look,
it makes, uh, in my opinion, a lot of sense
for the Saints if they do end up him.
Speaker 7: You add him to a room that needs protection.
Speaker 5: It needs guys that so for when your guys do
miss games, because history tells us Chris lave Rashi, Chihid,
Brandon Cooks they're going to miss games, you add a
veteran guy in there that has been through the fire,
that understands what the NFL is all about, and.
Speaker 7: You don't allow what happened last year to happen to you. Again.
Speaker 8: Well, christ Olave also doesn't have Derek Carr throwing hospital
balls at him this that is true, so we might
have him for a little longer than last season. But
this is kind of why I don't really have faith
in the Saints this season though. Like I know, everybody's like, oh,
we got Tyler Shuck Spencer Ratler or whatever, but we've
been so focused on the quarterback room that nobody really
talks about how bad the rest of the roster is.
There's like some some bright spots, but I just I don't.
Speaker 6: Know, Well, to your point, I have faith. We hope
the other two quarterbacks are good. They just have a
different casing in hospital balls tree.
Speaker 8: You know, maybe Spencer rollers out there trying to give
Chris Alave CT two.
Speaker 5: I don't know. Well, I mean he's unfortunately, he's probably
going to have that already. Yeah, but we're just talking
about the severity of what.
Speaker 3: We're talking about.
Speaker 4: Bad. I feel like really bad for Chrystal Lave.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean if Chris A. Lave was with.
Speaker 4: Antua, yeah, I mean that's that was sad.
Speaker 5: Yeah, But I was thinking more like if Chrystal Lave
was with like a better different situation, yeah, because he's
already had some pretty solid seasons. If he was with
you know, somebody not Derek Carr and not what the
Saints offensive line has been over the last couple of years,
protecting whoever the quarterback is and time to throw the
football down the field. His numbers I think would be
up there with some of the best.
Speaker 6: Right, Here's here's a team that doesn't really have weapons
on the outside. What if he was with the Kansas
City Chiefs. Yeah, Chris Olave's all pro caliber player.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: With the Kansas City.
Speaker 5: He's with my Bushley Bolts and Herbert. Right before they
got lab McConkie, they were just begging for somebody to
be the number one receiver. Yeah right, and now their
number one receiver is you know, a five to nine
and eighty five pounds white guy. Yeah, so he's baller,
hell of a player. But they could have used him
as well. So let's hope that Chris Olive, with a
new quarterback, with a new coach, with a new coordinator,
with all new around him, can play a full season
and put up the numbers that we think he is
certainly capable of putting up. All right, we will step
away when we come back, going to be joined by
Connor O Garas Saturday down South, right, here on o
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Speaker 1: Tigers turn Talkers. This is off the bench.
Speaker 2: On the perfect day.
Speaker 5: All right, welcome back in OTB one of four five, ESPN,
Beton Rouge, R and B Thursday. Of course, bring it back,
bring it back. I'm gonna go to video now. We've
got to got Connor o Gara Saturday down south set
to join us. Connor, how are we doing, sir? How
are you living?
Speaker 7: I'm living well.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize it was R and B Thursday. I
would have come more prepared with Boys to Men takes
ye somehow still underrated, even though that that era missed
me a little bit. But I like R and B Thursday.
I feel like that's a genre that I think we
need to get back to a little bit more.
Speaker 7: Thank you. Yeah, that's why I do it. It's for
the people.
Speaker 5: Vois to Men certainly is on the playlist here. We'll
place some certainly, some usher, genuine, some jagged d some
jotasy like all that will be played here today.
Speaker 7: Just so you know.
Speaker 3: That's that's good to know a late nineties susher too,
not like, hey, I've made it big and I'm you know,
putting out like into the odds. I like real late
nineties usher. It hits home in a different way.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm so proud of you right now. It's a
great take.
Speaker 5: I typically do like your takes, and so I'm not
surprised by it. One of the things I want to
get your take on immediately right here, because I need
to know this information. When should what time slot should
a marquee football game be played?
Speaker 3: It's a good question. I think context is key, because
lord knows, Ohio State fans are just incensed that big
noon kickoff exists and they want to have every single
Ohio State game starting at noon. And fans are like,
what the heck? Like this is just ridiculous, even though
it's their pockets with cash as we speak. But I
think an ideal college football game is played at night.
I think it's played at night. I think it's a
seven PM. I think that there are certain justifications for
three thirty. Obviously, three thirty on CBS two thirty in
your central time zone was a staple for two plus
decades that we obviously hold very near and dear in
college football. Is it still that way anymore? I don't
think it is. I really don't. I do think that
if you're talking about a premieer college football game, and
what is most important? What is the thing that you
turn on TV and feel like it is biggest? It
is Chris Fowler, It's Kirk Herbstreet, It's Holly Row. It's
this big time type atmosphere where it feels like anything
can happen.
Speaker 7: That's at night.
Speaker 3: That's at night for me.
Speaker 7: That's a correct answer. Well done, sir.
Speaker 5: And you know, look, I do a radio a lot
of former Big Ten athletes, and you know they pushed
the noon kickoff. I'm like, look, no big game should
be at breakfast time. Like I need that game to
marinate on campus like all day long, Like I need
that build up to just continue to build. And look,
the tailgates are still there at that time. Hell, the
tailgates for it, like a big time SEC game are
there on Thursday night, right, And so like you wake
up early, you tailgate, and you walk around campus and Connor,
it's like you can feel the electricity of the game,
and by like the hour, it just intensifies and just
continues to build. And then you get to kickoff and
if you've handled yourself right, if you've hydrated properly, you're
gonna enjoy a nice three and a half four hour
game that you've been waiting for all day long.
Speaker 3: I'm a Big ten grad, so I can say this.
It's one true.
Speaker 5: Look.
Speaker 3: I remember games at Indiana wherein Indiana would play gosh,
who was it, Oh, it was ball State. They had
ball stayed on like a Thursday or Friday night or
something like that, and that game by the time you
got to kick off at seven thirty because Indiana never
had night games ever. It's just not something you do.
And in Big ten country later in the season, the
weather the way that it changes, you need to be
able to have those daytime games so that fans aren't
miserable watching teams that aren't going to be playing for
national championship. And so at Indiana, that game over the
course of the day. You're right, it progressed. It progressed,
it progressed, and it created one of the wildest tailgates
I've ever been to. You could probably find it in
deep dark corners of the Internet that I don't care
to go to anymore. But there is just something to
be said for that, as opposed to look, I went
to tons of Indiana games where they were starting at noon,
and one of the biggest games I went to was
against the Michigan Nari Robinson team, and that build up
was just not quite there and it was gray. Everything
felt slower, and it just didn't quite have this sort
of gravitas that a seven thirty game did. And that's
a weird thing to say. For whatever reason, though, our
eyes are just trained to process it that way. There's
a reason why when we watch the NFL, it just
feels like such a better product when these games are
being played at night. I think that's something that the
SEC has always done so much better than any other conference,
is having these games at night and really saying like,
do we want to have this game at eleven local
time or noon? Because I just think there's something about
it that looks better to the viewer when it's being
played you know, under the lights.
Speaker 5: Yeah that I agree, Well said there, And we looked
at LSU schedule a little bit earlier and kind of
went down only going to be one like truly early
noon type kickoff and that's going to be Arkansas at home.
So LSU schedule looks like LSU fans would want it
to look like Connor. There was a question going, you know,
around the internet and at a couple of different people
reach out to me and they ask for my answer,
and then of course I made some fans mad, because well,
that's just what happens in the SEC when you disagree
with somebody.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 5: Start bench or cut, Nuss Meyer, Lagway, and Arch, all right,
so tough tough, right, So Nus, Lagway and Arch start
bench and cut.
Speaker 7: And I guess it started with our guy CD in Roman.
Speaker 5: They were doing the SEC network and they both went start, Lagway, bench,
Nuss cut Arch Manning. I would just flip Lagway and
Nus and then roll with the rest.
Speaker 3: I'm not pandering when I say this, because I mean, look,
I'm already on record saying I think Nuts is the
best returning quarterback in the SEC. I have Lsu winning
a national championship, so I'm not gonna I'm not gonna
bench Nuts. Obviously, I have to start in US in
this situation, So I would start in US. I would
bench Arch so that he can watch get reps figure
some things out, and I would only cut Lagway, who,
by the way, I still have Lagways my number three
quarterback in the SEC. He's one of the players I'm
most excited to watch in all of college football. I
am fully in on DJ Lagway. The only thing is
he spent an entire off season going into this first
full pivotal season as a starter, not throwing the football,
and there are still people wondering is that shoulder right?
Is he gonna be okay? And is he going to
be in a spot where he just doesn't have it
necessarily from the jump and Florida is left scrambling. That
would scare me. Obviously, there's always injury risk with all
of these guys, But knowing that that's kind of baked
in there, I would probably have to bench someone like Lagway,
and I would take more of a chance on Arch.
But I mean, Lagway is the more proven player, if
he's healthy, Who's going to be the better player day one?
I'll take Dj Lagway. I'll take care at Innsmeyer over
Arch obviously, But it's a great question, and Leonora Sellers
you could absol throwing the Yeah, you get into the
stuff with him about a is Mike Shula gonna be
the guy that's gonna kind of maximize his abilities? You
just kind of don't really know but it is a really,
really interesting question that surely just upsets a lot of people.
Speaker 5: I mean, this is really the year of the quarterback
in the SEC for me. I mean the three guys
that we just mentioned. You mentioned Leonora's sellers.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 7: You can go Jeo Materi at Oklahoma.
Speaker 5: I know you're not quite as high on him as
maybe some others, but still, you know, a really good
quarterback at Washington State. We'll see what he can do.
At Oklahoma. You got Diego Pavia. And sure it's not
NFL polished quarterback play, but I'll be damned if if
I went into battle if I didn't call that guy first, Like,
I don't know where you fit in, but I'm calling
Diego to be in there with me. And so like,
there is some highly intriguing quarterbacks and what is wild
is like, so we're talking to all these quarterbacks Georgia,
Ole Miss, Alabama, like some of the heavy hitters have
quarterback questions. Now we think that those guys are going
to play well, Like we think that, oh, well, Ole Miss,
it doesn't really matter who the quarterback is because Lane
Kiffin's coaching them. But like some of the teams that
have had the most success are the ones that had
the quarterback questions in the SEC and the ones that
are trying to punch up. I feel like they have
quarterbacks figured out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's extremely rare. I mean, South Carolina has famously
never had an all SEC quarterback at season's end, and
you could argue Lenora Selis is one of the five
best quarterbacks in all of college football returning. I mean,
for ever LSU during the twenty tens, it was where
are they going to find a quarterback? And now, seemingly
on a yearly basis, they have their guy Florida for
the longest time, you know, with different iterations. Obviously they
felt comfortable with Kyle Trask returning or something like that,
but to have a guy like Lagway, Yeah, it is
different for Texas to have all the guys that they
missed out on in their state in the twenty tens
and then to now be in this position where finally
the arch Manning era has arrived. You're right, it does
feel like a bit of a change in the guard.
I'll be interested if it's a changing the guard at old.
Miss Austin Simmons is really interesting. He's nineteen years old
and he's graduated college, which is the new Ryan Williams
is seventeen. Stat of it's crazy to.
Speaker 7: This crazy guy.
Speaker 5: Hey, the day I graduated high school. So the very
day I graduated, on May the eighth of two thousand
and four, I turned nineteen high school. The day I
graduated at high school, I turned nineteen. And this guy,
I mean, so it is pretty impressive.
Speaker 3: He's going to be one of those guys that we're
going to be talking about so much. And I'm already
talking about him a lot because of some of those factors.
You know, LSU fans remember remember Walker Howard really well,
and for people that covered Ole Miss last year, when
Austin Simmons earned the backup job and moved ahead of
Walker Howard, it was kind of like this, wait a minute,
what how is that happening already? When Walker how it
came in as this really decorated transfer, that thinking was
he was gonna red shirt, essentially have a red shirt
type season. I read he'd already red shirted, but behind
Spencer Sanders and behind Jackson Dart and then Austin Simmons
is just a better player, and it was pretty undeniable.
And that's obviously why Walker Howard hit the portal at
season's end last year and Austin Simmons did what he
did most, notably against George when he delivered ole Miss's
biggest drive of the season. But the floor for ole
Miss quarterbacks has been at least you know, twenty twenty
two Jackson Dart and twenty twenty Matt Corral were at
least middle of the pack quarterbacks in the SEC. So
there's so much potential with Austin Simmons, and I think
he's someone that people are really really excited to see
in Oxford.
Speaker 5: What about the weapons there for Old Miss? Because I
was talking about them, and the defense is not going
to be the same, Like, I don't care who you
brought in. I covered the draft in Green Bay and
I swear we were saying defender ole Miss, defender Old Miss,
like when we were breaking down that somebody was getting
drafted from there. So the defense isn't going to look
the same offensively, You're right, I mean it's Lane Kiffen
with a quarterback. Is it going to be on the
same level of Jackson dar last year? Not out of
the gates, but maybe it can get there. But Logan
digs at running back like obviously we've seen him here
at LSU, like he's a good, solid running back, not
really a game changer. And then at receiver, man, you
know how big of a fan I am of Trey
Harris and when he was there last year, they were different.
When he went down with injury, like that was a massive,
massive hit for them. So what about the weapons Simmons
is going to be throwing to?
Speaker 3: Cadinen Lee's a stud. He's something that needs to be
talked about more in the SEC. Is one of the
best returning receivers in the SEC. I think he's right
in that same exact year that Aaron Anderson is in
coming back this year, maybe right behind where Ryan Williams.
And I'm very bullish on Cam Coleman at Auburn, especially
the way that he finished last season, the former five
star recruit who will be entering year two. Those guys
are my four best receivers in the SEC. So Ole
miss still, even after losing Trey Harris, even after losing
Juice Wells, who didn't end up being the player that
they hoped she was going to be, still is one
of the best four receivers in the SEC. And then
they were active in the portal. They get a receiver
from the second option in Penn State's passing room behind
Tyler Warren. They get stribbling from Oklahoma State who put
up big numbers this past year with Bowman who is
Alan Bowman, who was in like year twelve at Oklahoma State,
and they have a really nice receiver room. The question
for ole Miss, though, is oddly the ground game. They
never figured it out last year. They never did. They
lose Quinn Shawn Judkins to Ohio State, and thinking as well,
ole Miss doesn't have to overpay for a running back
because this is link Kiffin just plugging Chuck. Bring Henry
Parrish back. That guy was here like four years ago.
Get him from Miami. Let's see, it'll work out just fine.
They never figured it out, and so I don't know
that they're going to figure it out this year. Diggs
hasn't been able to stay healthy. You guys know that
very well. And this is a team that has a
lot of questions on the offensive side of the ball.
They're not in the top one hundred and Bill Connolly's
percentage of returning offensive production, and I think it's going
to be very much feeling like a gap year for
oll miss, but the schedule sets up well on the schedules,
that's really really well, and it could be a.
Speaker 5: Dark horse that does man the schedule for another year.
It's like, I don't know who owed you all favor,
but y'all cash it in and we'll see if it
can pay off for old miss Connor. You're the man.
We appreciate your time as always. You can go catch
Connor's work Saturday down South at cj Ogeret is the
handle on social media there.
Speaker 7: I'm sure I'll catch up again with you very soon, sir.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna be talking literally later today.
Speaker 7: Figure. Yeah, that's what you know.
Speaker 5: I was like as soon as like, I was like,
oh yeah, let's get Connor on the morning show talk
a little quarterbacks. And I was like, oh yeah, it's Thursday.
I'm going to talk to Connor twice. But you know what,
I still did it because I enjoy our conversations.
Speaker 3: Sir. Hey can't get enough. We'll always talk ball twice
in the same day with you, man.
Speaker 5: That's right, all right, see you later, literally, all right,
Connor Garre Saturday down South. He does, so he joins
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Speaker 5: I got a lot of Gators mad yesterday and I
was like, look, I would start in us Meyer, i
would bench Lagway and I'd.
Speaker 7: Cut Arch and like, oh you're such a homer.
Speaker 5: I'm like, guys, well uh, but also like objectively, if
I'm looking at this and if I'm evaluating one through
four under two thousand yards played in twelve games, like
I know he didn't start all those. He played in
twelve games, twelve touchdowns, nine interceptions, the other one through
for over four thousand yards, completed sixty four percent of
his passes. Lagway was fifty nine percent of his passes
and through twelve interceptions and many many, me many more attempts.
I was like, this isn't being a homer. I love
DJ Lagway's game. I think he's tough as hell as well.
I'm not starting him over Garrett Neessmeyer. There's not a
quarterback in this country that I would start over Garrett Nessmyer.
Now we can have the conversation, like I will sit
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gonna be DJ Lagway, it's not gonna be arch Maning.
I actually will put Lenora Sellers probably in in that
group and top three quarterback and archies. You got to
show me. But I'm not starting anybody over nuss So
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