Speaker 1: Let's I'll start to you to present Off the Bench.
Speaker 2: This is what we have been waiting for.
Speaker 1: The hype is over. Off the Bench. It is I
gotta come off the fitch. Now here's Jacob Hester.
Speaker 3: Welcome In a Thursday edition of Off the Bench, Taylor
Sharp here with you in the host chair for jacob
Hester one more time. Our guy will be back tomorrow
and then on Monday, the new era of Off the Bench,
Jacob Hester, Matt Flenn, myself, a Landra Villarreal. We will
be at it starting on Monday morning. Speaking of we
got a Landra here, Landra, how we do win this morning?
Speaker 4: Good?
Speaker 5: I'm ready for the weekend.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3: I'm ready for the weekend already. It's like we weren't
here Monday. I was off the last three days of
the week before, and whenever I come back, it just
seems like it's busier than when.
Speaker 6: I left, which is uh, which is insane.
Speaker 3: Okay, So yesterday, we know we started the show with
Jordan's wardrobe mouthfunction. We all had a we ought to
go would laugh about it, and you know that's what
we do on OTV. We get to the bottom of things,
whether Jordan's wardrobe malfunction was intentional or not intentional. We
grilled him a little bit yesterday morning when Jake was
here before I went on vacation, we talked about the
guy who took a dump in the Guarantee parking lot.
Speaker 6: We wound up getting behind that as well.
Speaker 7: Brittany had to let me know that I walked right past. Yeah,
I didn't even know that.
Speaker 6: You saw it on the security camera.
Speaker 3: But today we have another case dissolve and this involves
our Jordan Kitchens. This is the car Key Caper case
and a Lauandra is actually indirectly involved in this story.
Speaker 6: She just doesn't know it yet. Jordan.
Speaker 2: Oh no, she knows. Okay, we had a whole Okay, no,
we had a whole. Uh you want to call it?
Speaker 6: Tell us what happened?
Speaker 3: Because you normally leave here like one thirty, because of
hitting of them are done it like once you're one thirty,
two o'clock. Yes, dude, it's three thirty, I'm leaving. You
were still sitting in your car in the rain. Okay,
give us a little what happened?
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, let me just let me just preface
this for everybody. Get a little bit to know a
little about me. I am a very meticulous person. Everything
I do makes sense. So I'm not the type of
person that I'm not. No, no, no, I'm not a
type of person where I'm like forgetting my keys or
leaving my wallet, especially because I have to travel for work,
so before I leave, I make sure I have everything
ready to go. That's that's numal un no number one.
So you know how to come in early for OTB yesterday.
So I guess I was just a little groggy or
whatever and just didn't hear my keys fall in the grass.
That's what it was. Because they fell in the grass.
They didn't fall it. If it hit the concrete, you know,
it probably made a noise. And oh you know I
dropped my keys or whatever. So you know, when hit
the grass silent like like a Native American walking on
leaves silent. So next thing, you know, I just I'm.
Speaker 2: Ready to leave.
Speaker 7: You know, I finished uploading live at lunch. I'll tap in.
I finish uploading live for lunch, and I and I'm
ready to get up out of here. And I hit
my pockets and I wear cargo pants and I keep
everything in my cargo pants. Pockets I'm hit my pockets.
I'm like, my wallet's here, where are my keys? So
red flag? Where are my keys? That's the US didn't happen.
I'll be checking it in my bag, not in my bag.
So I'm like, okay, cool, let me go. Because it's
only a certain amount of areas I went that morning
here my studio and for the meeting that you know,
on the fourth floor. So I hit all those spots
nowhere to be found. And so I remember, I will
go out there by you and I'm like just ripping
the deaths up and I'm like, dude.
Speaker 6: You were frantic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, cause it's like, well, my keys are going. I
live in New Orleans.
Speaker 7: We just stay the night on the counch man, please listen.
So I'm just I just cannot believe. I don't know
what my keys are. So I'm just looking around, looking around,
looking around. So I'll go outside where my car is,
and you know, they're doing a construction by the church,
and you know the construction guy he's sitting. You know,
it's a black guy. They were like smoking the Jael.
He's like, uh yeah, you're smoking the Joe. Real cool.
He's like, hey, this is your car. I'm like, yeah,
this is my car, you know, I'm over there. I'm
like because my door was un locked.
Speaker 2: Weird. So I'm like, you know, trying to see if
they stole something anything. Nothing.
Speaker 7: They didn't even touch the inside of my car, which
is weird. I ain't gonna say too much. I got
items in there that you know, if you wanted to
steal it, you could have stolen. So I'm looking around
and dudes like, yeah, man, this this lady. She had
your keys man, blah blah blah. She was looking for you.
But I'm like, well, does she leave a name? What
did she look like? He's like, yeah, it was this
a little black lady. Keep this in mind, we're in
South Louisiana. We're in Batton Rugseley, and this is not Wisconsin.
This is not uh North Dakota. This is not South Dakota.
It's black. It's black people every corner. Like So, if
you're gonna give me a description of a little black
lady by a Baptist church, that is that is like
what That's like going to an EDM concert and be like,
hey man, there's somebody here with drugs. Everybody here has drugs,
like it doesn't matter. You're gonna you can't give me
that description. So now I'm like, I'm now I'm really
tripping because the stories or was like, yeah, lady's looking.
Speaker 2: For your keys.
Speaker 7: She went over there, she gave your keys over there.
So I go to our you know, I go back
across the street to guarantee. I go in there. I
go to Lady Jag matter of fact, because I'm like, well,
if anybody were gonna turn something in, she's gonna be
the first one with it. So I go to her
and I'm like, Lady Jack, you know, I'm looking at
anybody turns some keys in. She pulls out like a
Janitor ring of keys, like, yeah, somebody turned these in.
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, what I'm gonna do with Janitor keys?
These ain't These ain't my keys.
Speaker 7: And so I'm like talking to myself going to the elevator,
and I hear Landja in the office. She's like, uh,
She's like, are you good? What's going on? I'm like, dude,
I don't know what my keys are. Like, somebody stole
my keys. Go back upstairs. I'm like, Taylor, they're gone.
Somebody stole them. It's like, bro, nobody stole your keys? Manbody,
what are you talking about?
Speaker 3: Because Jordan, when I was trying to explain to you, dude,
no one stole your keys. If your car is still here,
was still to steal keys, you would have to take
the vehicle exactly.
Speaker 2: So that's why I was so irate a little bit.
Speaker 7: It's because so you take my you take the keys, lady,
you don't take nothing out of the car. I think
in my mind she was waiting till you know, like
eight nine o'clock, come back around car. I'm still there.
Now I'm about to get up in that thing. I'm
out of there. So I'm like losing my mind at
this point because they talking about that. Like I said,
the description is this little black lady which the keys.
She came to the office, so Elanza tells me, like,
oh no, she did come over there. So the stories
now the stories make sense. She did go there, but
she didn't give up my keys.
Speaker 5: She's been super weird thou.
Speaker 6: So, so that's the thing.
Speaker 3: Like she she took the time to go to the
church as if it belonged to them in there, yes,
and then they said, hey, it probably belongs across the street.
Speaker 6: She comes in there, but then just leaves with the.
Speaker 2: Keys, leaves with the key, don't even leave a name.
Speaker 3: So why the hell did she waste her time walking
to two different buildings?
Speaker 2: Nicely?
Speaker 7: Why I'm pissed? Well, I can't know what I said
on on the RADI yeah, and I see why I
was mad. It's because, like, so, you didn't leave a
name a number, like, okay, well if he does show up,
here's how you can get in contact with me, here's whatever.
So she didn't get the keys up, but she did
come over here, you know, be like, all right, somebody
lost their keys. So this is so, this is some
random lady with my keys, right, And at this point
you didn't even know about this. Taylor saw.
Speaker 2: I see a black lady with some red keys. You know,
my keys. I have like a little red Nike tag
on my keys.
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 2: I ran at her, ran up full sprint.
Speaker 3: She's like, oh my god, what else do you do?
Speaker 2: A man? At that point I ran, I'm like, oh
my du are my keys? Those are my keys?
Speaker 7: Find out the red thing or her keys was like
a bottle opener or something like that. So it wasn't
even because it wasn't even that. And then so I'm like,
I'm just extremely iron and this it's scary because there
is this lady lurking around in this area with the
extra key to my car, just waiting, just waiting, Like
I can't even park back there no more because I
just know once she might just come back around and
go hoping that thing.
Speaker 2: So, to make.
Speaker 7: A long story short, my sister had to come through,
bring me the extra uh, bring me the extra key.
You know, so very grateful to have people in your
life that can sit there and do that for you.
But in the moment, especially once when Elijah came with
her side of the story about Leno, like this lady
does exist. She did pull up, but she didn't give
up the keys. That just made it worse because it's like,
what logical sense does.
Speaker 6: That make, Jordan.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying then I hope this happens. All I'm
saying is it would be funny. You walk out there
and you're like, yep, she came back vehicle gone.
Speaker 7: Oh no, oh see I parked in front of the
station today. Oh come try these cameras. Oh we waiting
on you, We waiting on you, were waiting on you.
Speaker 3: Hey, the cameras have already caught someone in. We got
her too. Okay, but do you feel a little bit
better at least because yesterday you were running around frantic saying,
I don't know who somebody stole my keys. They were
right here in my pocket them.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 3: But I was like, Jordan, like nobody reached into your
pocket without you noticing, pulling out the keys, leaving the
wallet and all of that. Like, and I have you know,
I went on a little wild goose chase for you.
Speaker 6: I went in all these studios behind you.
Speaker 3: I went into the podcast studio, the brand new one.
Speaker 6: I tell you what. I even did.
Speaker 3: I even shine my light in that little hole in
the floor in the second floor studiocause I was like, oh,
if they fell out of his pocket, maybe they've fell
in there.
Speaker 6: Nothing.
Speaker 7: But I knew you was doing that because you saw me.
I was talking to one of the guys.
Speaker 6: Because I was about to leave, and I'm like, that's raining.
I was like, can I hold off anyway? I ain't
getting no nelsony.
Speaker 7: About to say the little dude that I was talking to,
That's why when we turned around and looked at you
in the stairwell, He's.
Speaker 2: Like, you know that guy.
Speaker 7: Oh my yead, that's my boy tailor he looking for
my keys. I just knew you was looking for him.
But now, like I said, I just appreciate the effort.
You know, people, even though this lady's walking around and honestly,
I'll be honest with you guys right now, if I
do see her, she's getting RKO like Randy Orton Prime,
Randy Ordon arc.
Speaker 6: So what you say it is if you don't chow
up tomorrow and I have to do live at launch
it just because you are in jail. He actually, we
don't know if she's old.
Speaker 7: I'm about to say this is retaliation, all right? Are
You're just not gonna just run off of my keys
and act like, oh, you know, I tried to give
him away. I tried to give him back. You didn't
try to do anything, lady.
Speaker 5: She really didn't.
Speaker 4: Exactly, she really did not like she was being super weird.
She I was walking by the door and she like
comes up knocking to it. Not even lady jack store,
like the side door that I come in through, and
so I just like opened it and she's like, does
anybody own that car back there? And I'm like, well,
I'm sure someone does I don't know who, Like, I
don't know what Jordan drives, Like, I don't know what
anybody here drives. And like you said, there's people at
the church, there's construction people in and out of guarantee whatever.
And then she's like, oh, well, uh they drop something
and I have it. And I was like okay, well
like what or I was like, well, what do you need?
And she was like, they drop something and I haven't.
I was like, well, what is it? And she's like, well,
I'm not gonna give it to you or tell you
if if it doesn't belong to anybody.
Speaker 6: Here, that's weird, weird, Jordan.
Speaker 3: We have to find like, you need one of those checking.
I want to know where the hell your keys are?
Does she still have them? Did she just go turn
them into b RP?
Speaker 2: Literally walking around?
Speaker 7: I swear, I know this lady is waiting for me
to go park back there again. And while I'm in here,
she's gonna go I I told you, I have every
construction guy over there. They don't stand by. They're like, hey, man,
we see your keys were getting there?
Speaker 3: Like no, honestly, ready, in a situation like this, structured
workers are really good people.
Speaker 2: They were super chick.
Speaker 6: Don't play around.
Speaker 2: Oh, they don't play.
Speaker 7: They don't play especially because there was like, that's on me, man,
I should have made her give us the keys man
because she did come in there and ask about the
keys man and matter of fact, she was acting weird.
And that's when Elijah said the same thing that she
was acting weird. So that's why all the stories added up.
It wasn't like I got this sword this story over here.
I got this story over here. Know, everybody had the
same exact story about this lady. Honestly, Elija, be honest,
she probably wanted some type of money reward.
Speaker 2: That's why her. Yeah, She's like, oh that's why. Yeah. Man,
So it is what it is.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 7: Just you just all you gotta do is just be
grateful you have people in your life that can help
you out in a time of need.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 6: I appreciate that wild start to the show.
Speaker 3: I am still trying to figure out what the hell's
going on with these crowns and numbers in the YouTube chat.
I have never seen it before my life. Brian Burgess
is number one. You got a handful of twos, a
handful of threes. Daniel Basham and Daniel Blunt have nothing
next to their names, which is really funny because they're
probably in here the most. I don't know what these
crowns mean. Trying to do some digging, trying to search,
try to figure out what it is. I don't know, Jordan,
I emailed you a picture before the show. Yes, we're
about to go to break but before we do, I
gotta give a little birthday shout out.
Speaker 6: Guys, my best is.
Speaker 3: But of course I'm talking about my main guy, Frankie
right here, two years old today.
Speaker 6: Okay, the Australian.
Speaker 3: Shepherd, the guy, the Frankster, two years old today. Happy
birthday to my guy FRANKI all right, look, we're gonna
take a time out. When we get back, we're gonna
talk a little LSU football. Well, Brian Kelly audio. A
little bit later on in the show, Jake interviewed him yesterday.
He sent that back, but LSU Wire put out something
interesting about ranking every SEC offensive line. LSU pretty high
on that list. We'll break that down next here on
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Off the Bench.
Speaker 7: Come on, all.
Speaker 6: Right, welcome back.
Speaker 3: In Thursday edition of Off the Bench, Taylor Trump here
with you, filling in for Jacob Hesser almost said two
over two.
Speaker 6: Dead to me. Saw him yesterday. He actually he actually
gave me a little gift.
Speaker 2: Uh here.
Speaker 3: We'll get into this a little bit later. It's uh
something he just gave me on the way out. He's
cleaning out stuff. We'll get into it a little bit later.
Speaker 2: Okay, I didn't even see you walk in with that.
Speaker 6: I had it at the desk. I left. I just
left it here. Oh it was just it was sitting
at the desk. Anyways.
Speaker 3: Will Rosenblade of l s U Wire yesterday decided he
was going to rank every op offensive line in the SEC,
and he preferences this by saying, I have considered returning production,
talent level, and coaching to try and assess which units
are in the best position entering twenty twenty five. Now
we ranked all sixteen in the conference. I'm not going
to get into all of them, but at number six overall,
he's the LSU typees and you know that's a big
question mark. Probably the biggest question mark on this team
heading into this season is the offensive line, and he
has them six out of sixteen SEC teams. He does
mention that they're one of the tougher teams to rank
on this list because they lost four NFL draft picks.
But I wanted to kind of look at what you
lost what you return as far as guys that were
on the roster last year, which freshmen are coming in,
and the transfers that you added is six too high
for LSU. There's talent, but a lot of it is unproven.
Here's what you lost, Will Campbell, Garrett Dellinger, Miles Frasier,
Emrie Jones. All four multi year starters on your offensive line.
Your two gods and your two tackles. That's a ton
of production, especially with Campbell and Jones, who have been
three year starters in this program essentially since the day
they got on campus. I mean, Will Campbell was a
day one starter. Jones not a day one, but I
mean what third or fourth game into his freshman year
he grabbed that right tackle spot.
Speaker 6: Never let it go for three years.
Speaker 3: So for all purposes, we'll just say full three year
starters for both of those guys. Dellinger, Fraser, if you remember,
Fraser came in after playing his first season out in Florida.
He comes in, He's a multi year starter here. Garrett
Dellinger came in as a five star. He was a
three year starter here. I mean, just so much talent
and experience between those four guys, what do you return?
Dj Chester is back. He's the only returning starter from
last year's offensive line. But the word is DJ Chester
might not even play center by all accounts of you
know what the rotation looked like during spring practice. All
the reports coming out of camp was that they'd like
to move him to guard. However, he still cross trained
guard and center. So you have Chester back. He's your
only full time returning starter. Now Paul Mabingo returns to guard.
He played the last four games of the season. If
you remember, Dellinger goes down in the A and M game,
Mabinga slides in. Then he plays Alabama Vanderbilt Oklahoma, and
then of course the bowl game. Mabinga struggled at times, obviously.
I mean, look at Kyle Field in College. Station is
a tough place to be thrown in the fire for
your first game, and he looked bad the first two games.
But if you go look at his PFF grade and
how he graded out as an offensive lineman, every single
game he got a little bit better. I think Paul
Mabinga showed some promise at the end of the year.
You obviously have Tyrie Adams back. He played a good
bit at left tackle whenever Campbell needed a breather or
in that Bowl game. Tyri Adams has played a lot
of football for He's played some guard as well. If
you remember before the season, Tyriy Adams went down and
Kelly talked about how big of a blow it was
until he got back, because he said, Tyriy Adams is
essentially our sixth man, whether it's guard or tackle. Tyree
Adams is going to come in. We'll shuffle the offensive
line if we need to. So they clearly like what
they have in a guy like Tyrie Adams. Ye also
overturned bow bored Alawn. He can play guard, he can
play tackle. He was uses your big tight end a
lot last year, so I'm wearing number eighty nine out
there a lot. Orie Williams is back Weston Davis, who
was competing for that starting spot at right tackle.
Speaker 6: Cohen Ackles.
Speaker 3: He's a guy that when you signed him, was a
little bit under size, maybe a little bit under recruited,
but they really like his potential in the future as
a possible center on this team. She do have talent
coming back, and just outside of dj Chester, very limited
experience as far as starting goes. Now, you did a
good job in the transfer portal Braylon Moore and Josh Thompson.
Braylon Moore, obviously one of the highest rated offensive lineman
in the transfer portal, was a multi year starter at
center at Virginia Tech. When he came in a lot
of people said, hey, he's the day one starting center.
But if you go back and look at spring practice,
they're making him earn it. DJ Chester was getting first
team reps. Then they would move Chester to guard. Mo
Moreward slide in there to center. I think in a
perfect world and what the coaches would prefer, this is
just entirely my opinion, Braylan Moore would be the starting center.
DJ Chester would take over at one of those two
guard spots because you have the most experienced that way, right,
Because Chester's played a ton. His natural position when he
came to LSU was a guard. Anyways, he kind of
played center out of necessity. Then you have Braylan Moore
who can step in there be a starting center, has
played center at a high level at a power for
program at Virginia Tech. That's really good veteran presence right
there in the middle. Did you bring in Josh Thompson
from Northwestern? You could play guard, he could play tackle.
Most like him at guard, I said a little bit earlier,
when spring practice was going on, I might prefer him
at tackle. We'll get into what the starting offensive line
may look like here in a minute. But Braila Moore,
Josh Thompson, both of those guys I expect to start
on this offensive line.
Speaker 6: Now, as far as.
Speaker 3: Freshmen go, you brought in two big ones. Solomon Thomas
carryus Current, both highly highly recruited guys. Kerrent reportedly can
play guard or tackle, and then Solomon Thomas just a
big guy right there in the middle. He is likely
a guard at the next level. And then you signed
Tyler Miller as well, who is also a freshman on
this offensive line. So what will the starting rotation on
this offensive line look like. I think Tyree Adams has
locked up the left tackle position, because if you go
back in the spring and you look at the offensive
line rotations, the one constant on that first string offensive
line with Tyree Adams at left tackle, you moved around
her guards a little bit.
Speaker 6: Right tackle has been a battle. We'll get into that
in a minute.
Speaker 3: Obviously, Chester and more kind of seeing who's gonna play guard,
who's gonna play center. But Tyree Adams was the was
the constant. He was the steady presence on that offensive
line in the spring. I think Tyrietdams since your left tackle,
no question about it, barring some sort of injury or
something unforeseen before the season starts. Now guard, I would
like to see Paul Mabinga, because again I thought he
improved a lot from his first start to his last
start in that Bowl game. But what if it is
DJ Chester. Let's say DJ Chester takes over left guard.
That puts Braylon Moore at center. So now you have
Tyree Adams, who the coaching staff loves, they've seen him play.
DJ Chester's played a ton of football on this team.
Braylan Moore comes in as one of your most experienced
guys transfer or returners at the other guard spot. See
I originally thought it was going to Bembingo on one side,
Chester on the other.
Speaker 6: I'd have been good with that.
Speaker 3: Have Josh Thompson at right tackle because he's played guard
and tackle, but they really really like Weston Davis at
right tackle, and that's a guy that was taking the
majority of the first team reps during spring. Again, I
thought it was going to be Thompson, But let's say
it's Weston Davis at right time tackle. Josh Thompson sides
in their right guard. So from left to right in
this situation, it would be Tyree Adams, dj Chester, Prayland Moore,
Josh Thompson, west and Davis, Paul Mabinga kind of becomes
a swing guard along with the Cohen eckles, along with
the bowboard alone, and then Salomon Thomas Carries, Kerrent Dull
earned their spots as they progress through their college career.
Speaker 6: But that's kind of the starting ode line right now.
Speaker 3: The reason I wanted Josh Thompson had right tackles because
west and Davis was a highly recruited guy coming out
of high school hasn't played a ton of college football.
Now a lot will say, Okay, we have an inexperienced
guy at left tackle, you have an inexperienced guy at
right tackles. Sometimes that's a recipe for disaster, sure, but
sometimes it's not. I just mentioned Will Campbell and I
Marie Jones. They both came in. They earned starting spots
at the two tackle spots. As freshmen boom. You had
your book ND Tackles for the next three years. But
how often does that happen? But if this coaching staff
and Brad Davis, who I trust them mentally, thinks that
it's Weston Davis, keep in mind, even though this would
be Davis' first year starting, he's been in the program
multiple years now. You can bring into Josh Thompson and
if things get harry, you can always move Thompson back
out to tackle, put in paumbinga guard. But kind of
the lineup you've been seeing is Tyree Adams, d J Chester,
Braylan Moore, Josh Thompson, Weston Davis.
Speaker 6: That's kind of been the group that we've been seeing.
Speaker 3: And again that can flip flop because Chester and Moore
can flip flop. Thompson could move out to guard Mabingas
Thomas can move from tackle to guard, and Mabinga could
slide in their guard. Not only did you do a
good job of adding veteran presence with Moore and Thompson,
think you did a good job in high school recruiting.
I mentioned Solomon Thomas and Carrius Kern.
Speaker 6: You also have some depth.
Speaker 3: Ory Williams is a guy that they like. Cohen Eckles,
we talked about him. I think he'll be the backup center.
Solomon Thomas, Carrius Kern, Paul Mbinga bow bort A line.
I mean that's six guys I just mentioned that could
possibly be rotational pieces on this offensive line. So while
there's not a ton of returning production and a ton
of returning starting experience, I think there's talent on this
offensive line, and if they get the starting rotation right,
there's a lot of depth theory as well. There's a
lot of versatility. Again because of DJ Chester and Josh Thompson.
I think those two guys are the key to this
offensive line. So your rotation that'll take shape, that'll form
more organically when you get into fall camp, he'll get
a clearer picture on that. But whether it's Thompson at
guarter tackle, Chester at garter center, Mabinga as a starter
or a rotational piece of guard, you have a lot
of options, and I think you have a lot of
talent on this offensive line. That of course, is the
biggest question mark for this team headed into twenty twenty five.
You got the running back in Caden Durham, Garrett Nelsmeyer's
coming back as his second year in this program as
a starter. He looks to be one of the best
quarterbacks in college football. And we know about all the
weapons you got on the outside at tight end and
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go to talk a little Lashoe baseball on the other side.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's all. That's well, that's acceptable. Okay, Look, we
want to talk a little lshue baseball here. I had
Doug Thompson on yesterday when I asked him, you know,
kind of a broad breakdown of this Beton Rouge regional
coming up this weekend. Doug brought up something that I
hadn't heard mentioned yet, but since he mentioned it, I
have seen it probably two or three times yesterday, and
I want to give my thoughts on it because I
actually disagree. So Doug was saying that he believes there's
a fifty to fifty chance LSU can pitch off, meaning
they will not throw Kate Anderson game one, they would
save him from maybe game two and then have Anderson
Ayenson back to back.
Speaker 6: I don't think that will happen.
Speaker 3: Here's why, because Jay one really likes to keep his
guys in a rhythm. He doesn't like to change days
on pitchers. And there was talk about this back in
the twenty twenty three regional. If you remember LS she
was the host site two lane was the four seed
or in state really tough program was the two seat.
Everyone questioned, Hey, is Paul Sken's going to Are you
going to pitch off to Tulane throw a lesser arm,
throw your ace against Oregon State? Jay didn't do that.
Now a lot of people criticize that decision for Jay
not throwing skeins. The Tigers won two straight against Oregon State,
they swept that regional, they moved on ultimately won the
national Championship, it didn't matter. So not only do we
have a blueprint of it working out for Jay Johnson,
but we have a blueprint of what Jay is going
to do. Elandra, Do you think there is any sort
of possibility LSU pitches off against Little Rock?
Speaker 5: History has shown that.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I mean with Jay, you never know, but
I'm pretty confident that he'll probably pitch Kate Anderson against
Little Rock tomorrow.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 3: And because you and I have talked about this the
last couple of weeks, everyone says, Okay, well, you gotta
throw Kate Anderson.
Speaker 6: He's your ace.
Speaker 3: As far as I'm concerned, Kate Anderson and Anthony Jasin
are one A and one B. I mean, they're they're
they're what what to me? At this point, they've both
been that dominant. So do I care if it's Kate
Anderson or Anthony Iinson in game two? Nope, I don't.
I think they're going to keep the rotation exactly like
they have. Also, I've seen the questions of Okay, well
it's Dallas Baptist going to pitch off. No, Dallas Baptist
is not going to pitch off for two reasons. One,
Rhode Island can really hit the ball. I mean they
hit I think it's like three eight, three oh nine
as a team on the season, like Rhode Island can
swing it. And Rhode Island's ace is actually pretty good
in his own right. So I think Dallas Baptist's best
is going to go up against the ace and Rhode Island.
I think it'd be stupid for Dallas Baptists to do
anything otherwise. Also, going back to the Lshue factor in
all this little Rockets throwing their ace, coach Chris Curry
was on with Matt Moscona back on Tuesday and he said,
that's the worst kept secret that we are throwing Jackson
Wells against LSU. That's our ace, that's our guy. Jackson
Wells is not a normal small school arm. Now when
you go look at his you'll say, okay, well, he's
three and six on the year, he has a five
to two four ERA in fifteen games. He does, but
you know he's he's he's dealt with a little nagging
injury at times this year. But you go look at
his strikeout to walk numbers, ninety strikeouts to thirty two walks.
Speaker 6: So still pretty solid there. Now.
Speaker 3: He's allowing a lot of hits, but only seven home
runs given up all year long, so he's still a
really solid pitcher. You can go looking, zoh, he has
a five point two four ERA. Yeah, I don't. I
don't really care about that. His strikeout to walk numbers
are really good. He has a high strikeout number and
he doesn't give up a lot of big home runs.
Speaker 6: He's a good pitcher.
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty three, I don't know how many of
you remember this, but Paul Skeins finished that twenty twenty
three baseball season with the second best ERA in all
of college baseball, and it was incredible. It was one
point sixty nine. Do you know who was first in
twenty twenty three? It was Jackson Wells two years ago,
Jackson Wells one point six y five er.
Speaker 6: Now, I get it, that was two years ago.
Speaker 3: But Jackson Wells has more strikeouts this year than he
did that year, and that was in ninety three innings.
In twenty twenty three, he's thrown seventy nine innings this year.
He has ten more strikeouts than he had in twenty
twenty three. So the era is not there, but the
strikeout numbers are up. Jackson Wells is not your normal
small school, aren't. He can really throw the ball. I
don't think there's any question what Jay Johnson is going
to do in this region, because again we've seen the
blueprint with it with Paul Skens. He threw him against
Tulane a Glandrovigion. You never quite know what Jay is
going to do. But Jay is also a guy of
habit right. He likes to keep his pictures in a rhythm.
So I'm with her. Is where it's like, you don't
know one hundred percent, but I am pretty confident. I
am almost certain that Jay Johnson is not going to
switch up this pitching irritation. Because if you throw Kate
Anderson and you win, which I expect both of those
things to happen, you will play the winner of Dallas
Baptist Roade Island. Let's say, let's say everything's chalk and
it's Dallas Baptist beat Rode Island.
Speaker 6: LSU beats a little rock. The one and two seeds
move on.
Speaker 3: Your number two starter should be a hell of a
lot better than the number two starter at Dallas Baptist
because you have a guy in Anthony Jonson, who on
the majority of teams in College of Baseball would be
the Friday night guy, would be considered the ace of
the staff. So I would give advantage Tigers in Game
two over Dallas Baptist. And you win that game, you
only got to win one more. You're sitting pretty. You
can piece that last game together if you want. You
can throw Jaden Nute, you can throw Case and Evans,
you can throw Connor where you can piece that thing
together and get that done. I don't think there's any
question about who he's going to throw game one, why
he's going to do what he is. But going back
to game three, we know it's Kate Anderson game one,
we know it's going to be Anthony Ions in game two.
We have set up here me elandre J when t
Bob wazir him as well and talked about you gotta
find maybe a third and fourth arm, not go six
seven innings, but a guy that can maybe go four
for you can start a game for you. Do you
feel confident you can win with because you're going to
need that when you get into postseason and you're really
going to need it if you make it to O Mahu.
They've tinkered with it a little bit since taken Chase
Shores out. Cason Evans got a few starts. We saw
Jade Nu get a start in the SEC tournament. Connor
Ware has gotten some starts in midweek, like they they've
they've kind of tinkered with a lot of different guys.
Speaker 6: A Landra, who would you throw.
Speaker 3: Let's say you win game one and two, you only
need one more win to move on, and you use
you already use that cow when he's out, you use
him out of the bullpen. Who's the game three starter?
Like if you had to pick today Anderson Iansen?
Speaker 5: Who so like where he used Anderson?
Speaker 6: And I am you're in game three, but a two
game lead, you just need one win.
Speaker 4: I liked in the tournament when we used Newt and
then Chase Shores came out, and then if we haven't
used case and Evans, we can.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think we can get enough out of.
Speaker 4: New Shores to maybe go to Caseon Evans to close
it out.
Speaker 5: But if you need somebody in the interim, there's plenty
of people to go to.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We talked about this YO yesterday with the with the
depth of the bullpen, right, I agree. I Jaden Knut
might be my first option, and I'm with you about
the Newt to Shores combination because I just think Chase
Shores right now is a lot better out of the
bullpen than he was as a starter. Some people are
like that. Remember when Zach Kess was here as a freshmen,
he was a dominant closer. You tried to make him
a starter the next year. It just didn't work out.
Once you moved him back into the bullpen, he was
dominant once again. I just think right now Shores is
better out of the bullpen than he is as a starter.
Jade Nut's proven that he can kind of do both.
Cason Evans has proven that he can kind of do both.
So you may have found a third and even a
fourth starter that again aren't going to go six seven innings,
but can go three to four innings for you. In
Jaden Nude in case of Evans, you're going to need that.
That's going to be big time when you show up
in Omaha if you happen to make a domol, which
I think this LSU team has a good chance in doing.
We've talked all week long about how favor of a
draw they have with Dallas, Baptist, Rhode Island, and Little
Rock in the regional and then you're paired with the
Clemson Regional. So it's Clemson, West Virginia, and Kentucky and Andre,
you and I were actually talking about West Virginia the
other day, and you know, looking at their overall record,
I didn't realize this. Pretty much every time this season
West Virginia has played a top thirty RPI team, they've lost.
So that record as a hole is really good, but
the record against good teams it's not there. So there's
a chance because like you and I were talking, oh yeah,
if it's not Clemson, like it could be West Virginia,
keep and eye on that. I think Clemson might actually
be in the driver's seat right now. But if Kentucky
gets hot, that's a team that not that I don't
want to see.
Speaker 6: But like the small ball you to death they bought.
Speaker 3: They're good at advancing runners, at manufacturing runs, and Nick
Manngeon is a really good baseball coach. Watch out for
the Kentucky Wildcats because I was kind of looking at
this as a as a two headed race between Clemson
and West Virginia. But when you go look at West
Virginia against top thirty RPI teams. It's not great when
they have a good record overall and in the Big twelve,
but when they play those elite programs, they've come up
just a little bit short. That's something to keep an
eye on. But going back to the original dolt, I
don't think Jay Johnson pitches off. I think it's anderson
ianson to be determined in game three and game four
if necessary. We'll get to that when we get there.
We're going to take a quick time out. We get back,
we're wrapping up our number one. Then an hour number two.
Jacob Pastor in Destin for SEC spring meetings. We're gonna
hear from coach Kim Malkey and coach of Brian Kelly,
as he interviewed both of them yesterday. That's coming up
in the eight o'clock out. When we get back, we're
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Speaker 3: Welcome back in final segment, hour number one. Here on
a Thursday edition of Off the Bench, Taylor Shoppy with
you sitting in for Jacob Ester one more day.
Speaker 6: Our guy will be back tomorrow. He has been at
SEC spring.
Speaker 3: Meetings all week long, and he actually sent us back
a couple of l s U interviews. Yesterday was l
s U day over there at SEC spring meetings. So
we're gonna hear from coach Kim Mulky at eight am.
This is an interview that Jake did with her yesterday,
and then at eight thirty we're going to here from
LSU head coach Brian Kelly.
Speaker 6: Look, there has been a ton of debate.
Speaker 3: I mean, you've heard the Greg Sinki sound bites at
nauseum at this point about what he thinks about the
sixteen team playoff, whether or not the SEC should even
be in the NCAA. Why three three loss teams got
left out even though two of them be Georgia broke
that down yesterday. How about don't lose to crappy teams.
That's a good way to uh not get left out
of the college football playoff. But this segment I got
T Bob Abear was actually in the building yesterday, ran
into him as I was leaving, So it's really funny.
Right after the show, now Landra is carrying these what
looked to be really heavy packages up to T Bob's office.
So they didn't go in.
Speaker 5: They were heavy.
Speaker 6: They looked at heavy. I mean the boxes were huge,
and like there was no gift to me either.
Speaker 3: There was no gift to two boxes in my hand,
my keys, So did you walk up the stairs with them?
Speaker 4: So I took the elevator, okay, but I had those
two big old boxes that were actually pretty heavy in
my arms. And then I had a bottle of champagne
that I was trying really hard not to break because
Katie Jake's wife got T Bob this amazing bottle of
champagne that uh somebody hand painted like a bunch of
OTB stuff and put all of us on the bottle.
So I was trying really hard not to break that,
and nobody was like, hey, need some help. So I'm
just like carrying all this stuff in my hands, struggling.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's on me. I did I did see. I
did see right before you got in the room that
that's that's on me.
Speaker 3: It's fine because my original thought was, oh, she carried
it this far, she'd probably make it ten feet, but
you actually you actually brought the bottle and showed me
the cries.
Speaker 5: T Bob left all his gifts out, watched.
Speaker 6: T Bob doesn't forget anything.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know how.
Speaker 4: He doesn't work here anymore, and I'm still like grabbing
stuff for him that he left behind, Like at Whiskey
and Wine. I'd always like put all his stuff on
his chair so he wouldn't forget it.
Speaker 3: So I was telling Victoria when I brought this home, Well,
we'll get into this in just a second of what
this is. But uh, I was telling her. She's like, oh,
you saw Tea Up today? Because I was like, yeah,
Tebub gave me this. She's like, oh, you know, it's
it's it's cool. He comes around every once in a while.
I was like, Victoria, Teabup's last day was two weeks ago.
I think I've seen him every day at work, but
like two I's been here every single day.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm like every day pretty much.
Speaker 3: So went to Chicago last week, but pretty much the
beginning of that week, like Monday Tuesday, he was here.
But then when he was in Chicago, I was also
on vacation. What to see him Anyways, Then he got
back in telling on the weekend you all saw him Sunday,
I see him yesterday.
Speaker 6: Like we've pretty much seen Tea Bob every single day.
Speaker 2: Yea, even though that like.
Speaker 4: We had brunch or whatever. Yeah, I've seen him. We
were like being so dramatic like, oh, this is your
last day, but we've seen.
Speaker 5: Him like every day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like like literally every single day. Okay, we'll speaking
of T Bob a couple of weeks ago. Okay, so
his last week was too. His last day was two
Fridays ago. That's Sunday night. So leading up to his
last week, you know, he's cleaning out all of his
stuff and he said, hey, what size shirt do you wear?
Can you wear a medium or is that too small?
And I said, well, it depends on the shirt and
the brand. I'm usually somewhere between a medium and a large.
And he said, okay, cool. Caitlin got me a Queen
of Sparkle shirt forever ago, but for some reason, she
got it in a medium. I've never been able to
wear it. Tag still on it and I said, oh, okay,
nice thinking. And I'm never going to see this because
it's tea bop. Well that was two Sundays ago. Yesterday,
I catch him walking, you know, we're talking a little bit.
He goes, oh, don't leave.
Speaker 6: Just shit.
Speaker 3: He goes, I got something for you. So I am
now officially the owner of a Queen of Sparkle shirt.
It's gaudy, it's not really my vibe, but I'll tell
you what.
Speaker 6: I love it. Like you see Queen of Sparkles.
Speaker 3: Everybody knows her because she designs all the flashy outfits
for Kim Maulki went on the website yesterday because I'm like, Okay,
forgive me for thinking this. I see the name Queen
of Sparkles. I'm like, he don't make men's clothes. This
is actually the only men's shirt go to the go
to the shot Jordan. It's actually the only men's shirt
they they make. It's got the UH, it's got the
queen logo. Looks like a plate in card.
Speaker 5: What's on the shirt in the UH?
Speaker 3: So it's it's called it's called the second I'll put
it on when we go to break So it's it's
called the Second Line shirt. Just New Orleans themed. I mean,
it's got men and women in like cocktail attire. It
has French quarter on the back. It's a second Line
like it's it's a pretty cool shirt. Like obviously I
don't own anything like this. It's got sparkles across the front. Like,
this is a very t bop shirt. But I think
I'm gonnare this? I think we're gonna put it on
a little bit later.
Speaker 4: Uh well, her husband wears like really he wears him
and Jamie is her name, Like they wear very similar.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think so. So I judged like a Battle
of the Bands with her one time, and his name's Hunter.
Speaker 4: He was there too, and my neighbors are friends with him,
like they've been friends since college or whatever.
Speaker 5: But yeah, he has a very They both have very
how do I say it?
Speaker 4: Like their style is lamboyant, flamboyant, I guess is the
I mean it makes.
Speaker 3: Sense if you're married to the Queen of Sparkles, you
gotta be bring it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you got to bring it if you're married to
the Queen of Sparkles.
Speaker 6: But yeah, So it's funny.
Speaker 3: When Tima first brought me this, I was like, no, Wing,
you're giving me your fruit shirt because a bunch of colors.
I was like, TV, you're not You're not getting rid
of your fruit shirt. He's like, no, this is the
Queen of Sparkle shirt.
Speaker 6: I'll tell you. But I was like, I forgot because
I was like two weeks ago. But uh, it's pretty
cool and it does fit.
Speaker 3: I had to try it on when I got it because,
like again, sometimes I'm a medium, Like this shirt, here's
a large. This shirt here fits me better than this
like it's it's weird. I'm a tweener. Like if they
ever made an extra medium, that's me because like this
medium shirt is looser on me than this large shirt.
Speaker 6: It's like, I don't know, it's weird.
Speaker 7: I'd rather be extra medium than medium. You never want
to be the sho No no, no, no no, I'm
not the small medium. I'm the extra medium, the medium
to the law.
Speaker 3: It really depicts, can't beat a sh medium guy. No,
but uh yeah, shout out t bop, shout out. Queen
of Sparkles. Got me a I mean a Queen of
Sparkle shirt. We're gonna try it on, you know, be
the first in my wardrobe. This will this will definitely
be uh something that I wear from time to time.
Speaker 2: Now Friday, I'm tell me, hey, Friday shirt.
Speaker 6: First women's basketball game next year. This is getting broken out.
Speaker 7: You got to find a way to get a pictrol
of malkey by both of y'all. Whatever outfice she got
on the Queen Sparkles.
Speaker 6: Got the Queen of Sparkles shirt.
Speaker 3: I'm steadily turning into t Bob told myself I would
never do that, but now I'm going to be wearing
flashy shirts as well.
Speaker 6: Okay, look that was kind of a fun Hour number one.
Speaker 3: There, we got into Jordan's car Key Caper story, got
a little Queen of Sparkles, did some Loshue baseball, did
Someameloshoe football.
Speaker 6: Coming up here an hour number two.
Speaker 3: We're gonna hear from Kim Malkey, from Brian Kelly, and
we're gonna talk a little New Orleans again. These interviews
come from Jay Castries out at SEC Spring meetings. Whoever
Malkey coming up next at the top of the hour.
Stay tuned Hour number two of OTB Off the Bench.