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Speaker 2: Yo Yo done, Team Walcome in o TV Monday Morning
one oh four five ESPN, Baton Rouge, Jake Alandra Taty
here with you. Turns out the new flashy tripod has
got a walky leg on it. You gotta go get
the old one out of the attic. We gotta go
climb up there, get the dust off of it and
just say, you know what, sometimes old is better than news.
So it is US three. Flynn is on business with
My High and it's kind of a big one, kind
of a big boy. So good luck to Flynn and
My High. He'll be back on tomorrow. We didn't get
a chance to go to practice though on Saturday, so
that was a lot of fun. We brought He brought
Huck and I brought Memphis and so we had some
some junior OTB reporters out there as well, so we'll
certainly break that down. But like we do every single Monday,
we got to see how the weekend went around the
room a Landra, Did you end up not doing anything
like you said?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 4: I didn't do anything on Saturday. I did work out
a little bit, but nothing too crazy. And then on
Sunday I deep cleaned my house. I'm in a real
good mood today, like my house is clean. Yeah, I
went to the gym this morning, right, except Okay, so
I went to go pick up my coffee at Starbucks.
Speaker 2: Right yeah.
Speaker 3: He was like, see you tomorrow, and I was like, oh,
I gotta find a new Starbucks. No, I can't be
a rag.
Speaker 2: You can't be the sea tomorrow.
Speaker 3: See you tomorrow. Like that just feels so excessive as long.
Speaker 2: As you use the app and you're not like t
Bob and literally get coffee every single day without using
this tool that if you scan it, No, I probably
have free coffee for a year, right, No.
Speaker 4: I use the app one hundred percent so that I
could get that free coffee.
Speaker 2: As you should have.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't still don't know what Bob he's doing. But
the biggest like I'm stealing from my rewards program.
Speaker 5: The rewards out of it. He makes funny. He would
call a loss and be like, guys, I'm gonna be late.
The person in front of me took twenty minutes, like
order on the app ahead of time, walk in, pick
it up, and leave. He don't want to use the rewards.
Don't use that's true.
Speaker 3: You don't have to use the rule, like you don't
have to get a free drink.
Speaker 2: If you don't, you can stack them up, right, you
can stack them up and you can get cool stuff
like uh, you know, new cups and bags and coffee itself,
like round coffee. No. That man, that man every single
day for five years that we worked together had a
coffee from Starbucks and never once to use that one time.
Speaker 3: I do love that. Something about it being this tripod
feels so right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does. You the yo.
Speaker 5: This morning, some are saying better than I'm.
Speaker 4: Here into I was like, okay, I'm the first waterfall
of it.
Speaker 3: I gotta be ready.
Speaker 2: It's true. You gotta be is important. Really big steps,
a big step.
Speaker 4: But it's been like doing ad lib yos the last
few years.
Speaker 2: Hey, yo, yo, it's not how this works the whole
point to get everybody involved before we get you know,
like kind of initially.
Speaker 4: Started right, and then we made fun of him for
the sports thing, remember like where he would be like.
Speaker 3: Sports and then he's like you, oh you.
Speaker 4: Didn't let that time and we're like, well, you can't
do it. He hasn't done it.
Speaker 2: You can't do it every day. It's not funny. You
gotta do it like once a week and then oh
we'll snicker, right it because we forgot about it. Okay,
he's learning. Yeah, he's learning slowly, but he's learning. Uh yeah,
he is. Uh really though. It's a big, one, big
meeting from my high. Uh So, hopefully all goes well
and he will be back tomorrow. He's probably listening and
he's probably fom up the wazoo. Can't help himself. Yeah,
drop drop a yo in the chat if you're up
there and you're listening with an AirPod and uh te
how was the weekend? How was the grass mowing? I
know you did it. I don't know, but I know what.
It's a.
Speaker 5: It's a it's a it's either today or tomorrow that's happening.
I don't need Joe worrying you had to go to
Victoria's tend your high school reunion on Saturday. And we're
leaving and she needs like a little bit of gas.
I'm like, a, let's get guts on the way home.
I get out and she's like, oh, it's my car.
You want my card. I was like, I can get you. Yeah,
it's not a big of a deal. Get out. I
opened my wallet, left my card at the event, so
then I was like, okay, I'm gonna need Luckily, like
her best friend was still there and she's like, hey,
Taylor left his card because it was a weird thing
at the bar where they're like we keep your card
till the end of the night, which I hate. I
feel like not that many people do that anymore, but
they did it, and I just I walked off and
I walked off and left it, and like we're leaving
that night, Victoria goes I feel like we're forgetting something.
I was like, you got your purse on your phone.
She's like yeah, it's like, well we're good. Walked right out.
So I didn't have a debit card like all weekend.
I got it like yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well they got like tap to pay now everywhere.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's that big of an issue now, I
mean where it's at and you have to get it.
Speaker 2: So like for for a while a couple of years ago,
I don't know why, but like I lost, like I
lost my card something whatever, and so like because you
can do it on your phone, that's what I did,
Like I was Apple Pay, tap to pay, like whatever,
and just continue to do it that way. And you know,
I travel a ton from December to February for college
football and it didn't matter because like hotels still had
to tap to pay and so like incidentals boom, you
could do that. And I went to One and Out
in LA and they didn't And the amount of paperwork
and like back channels I had to do just to
pay for like incidentals to be able to get into this.
It was the year TCU and Georgia played for the
national championship. I'm like, of all cities like I've been
to like Gainesville, Florida, Starkville, Mississippi, I have been to
College Station and this has worked in Los Angeles, It's
not gonna work. Yeah, and it got me so now
I got to Now I gotta carry a card because
of it yeah, I thought it was hip. I thought
it was cool a little bit. Yeah, just get the
phone out.
Speaker 4: You know what I don't like though, at Whole Foods.
I'll never do this that you can just in your hand.
Speaker 3: Did you see that?
Speaker 5: What building?
Speaker 3: I know, I don't like.
Speaker 4: That either, But that's more like a bluetooth on your phone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because you have to have your phone.
Speaker 4: With you if you wave your hand or Amazon, well
it is Amazon a Whole Foods that they use.
Speaker 3: So it's like if you just wave your hand, here
we go.
Speaker 4: Here's Flynn in the chat, Yo in the chat.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: But yeah, you can just put your hand over the
scanner and it pays for your groceries that I know.
Speaker 5: It would have helped me over the weekend.
Speaker 2: It's like it's like mark the stuff. I'm good with it.
Speaker 3: I don't even understand.
Speaker 4: I don't understand how your hand Like I think you
have to have an Amazon account, but I still don't
get it, Like it doesn't.
Speaker 5: Register an Amazon account. They just sneak in and they
chip you in your sleep.
Speaker 2: No doubt, there's no there's no way teabops hand will
be picked up on that.
Speaker 5: Scan which again I'm waiting.
Speaker 2: No chance, which.
Speaker 5: Again I'm good with because if it helps me and
it's more convenient, you can chip me in my sleep,
that's fine.
Speaker 2: No, after Flynn said, yeah, we got a lot of
wrestling dog wrestling in the chat there. Hey, I'm hip,
I'm cool. I watched it with my boys, you did.
My fifteen year old and my thirteen year old. They
were watching it, and it's like, hey, we'll turn it
on in the living room if y'all like, will stay
out here, hang out with mom and dad, you know,
be present, play with Harlow, do the whole deal. Yeah,
and which they're typically good about. But you know, teen boys,
they like to go play n C Double A and
be on their phones back in the room. And so
they're out and Brock Lesner comes out after John Cena
beats what is Dusty rhodess Son's name, Tody Rhoads, and
they like make this noise that I've never heard them
make before. And of course Harlow was like kind of
napping in the back. She's they wake her up, like
everybody in the house with very excited.
Speaker 3: Yes, they like Lesner came.
Speaker 2: Out, Yeah, not even like they like Bride, but like
it was like nobody saw it coming or something. So
I definitely know all about it from last night because
the noise they made when brock Lesner came out. It
woke up Harlow.
Speaker 5: He's still a big deal, man. I mean, look, people
in the chat are talking about it.
Speaker 2: I know, I know. I didn't know it was such
a I didn't know that it was such a thing
still until my my boys started watching it again. It's
like it's on Netflix like every Monday, yeah, Monday night.
It is like a big like a big big deal.
Like the pay per views are on Peacock now, well
it used to be pay per views. Now it's on Peacock.
But I had no idea.
Speaker 4: Wait, so you don't have to pay to watch like
WrestleMania or like the money in the Baber.
Speaker 5: The big ones.
Speaker 2: You do this one like Summer Slam on Peacock. That's crazy, Yeah,
which I guess you still pay for Peacock. That's what
I told the boys.
Speaker 5: We used to have to, like I watch the credit
Card on the TV.
Speaker 2: Forty five or something. You got to beg your parents
like hey can I or WrestleMania or like my uncle
shout out Sammy like he'd get it and like we'd
all go over there watch Survivor series or whatever it was.
And then the next one crazy my dad would get
and everybody, all the cousins will come over to our
house now just right there on peakle.
Speaker 5: And then we were an elementary USA network. They would
rerun they would rerun it the day after. Yeah, home
the day after and be like oh, and it was
cool because like none of us had seen it, so
it's all technically live us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it so easy. Oh you want to watch this
movie on demand, just go type it into the TV.
You don't have to get the TV guide and see
what day of the month it's coming on. And you
better hope that you're home at seven when it starts.
Speaker 5: Get a TVO.
Speaker 2: This is before like t BO was like incredible because
you could actually kind of go back and paul stuff
all right before we take a break. Uh, we're on air.
We got everything going. When Elandra and I walked in
this morning, you were on the phone. And if somebody's
on the phone talking that loud at six fifty five
in the morning, it's never good.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: So Friday we had the issue where it couldn't drag
anything over. Well, guys, it's the same thing this morning. Now,
it wasn't the same for the midday and the afternoon show.
We had a temporary fix.
Speaker 1: On the.
Speaker 5: Guys, believe it or not.
Speaker 2: No way, I'm.
Speaker 5: Pig for most of this crowday because if it happens over,
Because if it happens over, there has been nobody knows
until I get here, and I'm like, hey, the hell?
Speaker 2: So that's yeah. I think maybe we should start sending
somebody in here for like, I got a life check
on Sunday.
Speaker 5: Out pretty quick, do it.
Speaker 3: I'm here Sundays anyway.
Speaker 2: I don't think you need to do any more than
you already do. I was calling somebody outside of this
room who wants to come in here.
Speaker 5: We got to work around. And I know what you're saying.
This was a workaround we had on Friday. Yeah, I
didn't think about it on Friday broke midshow, I didn't
think about it. We're gonna use the livery it's back
here video call.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm a meathead. I just sit up here and talked.
I don't know what in the world. Okay, got it ready?
There it goes is right behind it, and let's go ahead.
We'll go to break when we come back. I think
Tata went to practice. I went to practice. Flynn, who's
not here, went to practice, and so, uh, it was
fun to get our eyes on the LSU Tigers. I
was very excited for some of the things that I saw,
and we'll kind of recap everything when we come back
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before I kind of give some thoughts. You were at
practice the full time on Saturday. I was also there
on Saturday. So let's see if you know, see if
some of the things that we saw actually line up.
Speaker 5: First thing, when I highlights the secondary, because they were
awful last year in fall practice, like you you could
kind of.
Speaker 2: See it cut off.
Speaker 5: You could come see it coming a little bit last year.
Like we had talked about their flaws, Yeah, coming into
the year last year, and that was the big concern.
I think the secondary looks really good, Like there's guys
battling for spots, like Stamps and Delane have kind of
been the top two for the most part, but like
Keen Jackson got in there and made place. DJ Pickett
looks the part already. The safety rotation which I love
that Hawse and Cooley both got the start.
Speaker 2: It was a little bit bigger than I thought he
was off tape. No, no, oh Cooley.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean I'm not saying he's a giant, like he's
probably two eight two ten. On tape, he looked like
he was like one ninety five, yeah, somewhere around there.
Like I kind of went up and he made a play,
and I'm like, say zero Cooley and I forget what
staff Moanro was talking like, yeah, I was like, okay,
I did not have him playing that role and playing
that side. So he flashed him as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah he's big. If this offensive line can be average,
Caden Durham has a chance to be all sec. I
think he looks phenomenal out there. I mean, also, what
you notice is seven on seven, eleven on eleven, Caden
Durham's getting the ball very often. Like I think eleven
on eleven each period we saw he got the ball
first play and then first two plays and seven to
seven they threw it to him out at the backfield
like they love going to Caden Durham. And then people
are gonna be surprised how versatile Bower Sharp is Yeah,
people talk about trade Desgreen. You know he's gonna move inside,
He's gonna move outside. I saw Bower Sharp lined up
at tight end with his hand in the dirt. I
saw him line up at slot receiver, and I saw
him line up at running back with Caden Durham. They
were on either side of Garrett Nosemier. That guy's gonna
play a lot of footballs as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was having a conversation with the strength staff
and they said, probably the biggest surprise, in a positive way,
of all the new people, be at high school or
be it people that came in through the portal, Bower
Sharp certainly is that guy didn't didn't quite know all
the things that he could do. And so we actually
kind of line up because the defensive backs was something
that I was like, Okay, this is this is better.
This looks much better than it did a year ago.
I mean, since you already went for they were terrible
last year. The law and the transfers looked the part.
They look like veteran players. Now pick it to somebody.
I don't know if it's right out of the gates.
I don't know if it's in Clemson South Carolina, but
at some point he has the look of some's going
to be hard to take off the field as a
true freshman. I don't know when that happens. I don't
know how he evolves as a player and if it's
later in the season. But he was in there against
the ones, I mean multiple multiple times. Now, he wasn't
running with the ones, you know specifically every single time out,
but he was rotating in against the one offense. And
so that's somebody that looks like so far, he is
living up to all the billing we had out of
high school. But my biggest takeaway of the entire practice
that I saw from inside run to eleven on eleven
to whatever drill it was, is Kaden Durham is going
to be an all SEC running back. Ye I don't
know if his first team, I don't know if it's
the second team. And the only reason average, the only
reason it's going to be second team is because he
might not get the rushes that somebody else gets. Because
even last year, we're talking about somebody that had seven
hundred and fifty yards on the ground, averaged five and
a half yards per carry, and remember he had a
foot toe injury basically the final eight games, and he
was never fully healthy. I cannot tell you how many
times after a game we'd be getting on the team
plane and the coaches would be like, man, that run
that Cayden had if he was healthy, he hits his
head on the goalpost, like he would have finished that
in the end zone, right, I forget you know which
game it was, But he had a couple where he
broke out and look they were like sixty yard runs,
but he'd get caught before he got to the end zone.
And like he is just gritting his way through this
foot injury. And so being a true freshman, knowing you
have elite speed and you are fully healthy, that should
get LSU fans excited. And not only the seven hundred
and fifty yards on the ground, but he also added
twenty seven catches. That's a pretty big number that probably
puts him I think firmly it would put him in
top ten catches by a running back in a season.
Like it's kind of that category, like it's right there,
probably only on the verge of that, and and that's
got to be something that continues to go up as well.
Now it's training camp, so we didn't see a ton
and it was what day three or four, we didn't
see a ton of like blitzes and him having to
pick up guys off the edge or pick up a safety,
you know, coming on the backside of a blitz. That's
where he had to go up. In my opinion, that's
where you're gonna miss Josh Williams, because Josh Williams was
he was mister fixer, right, he was the guy that
would come and whatever the problem was, he would fix it. Now,
the ceiling might not be where Cadence was, but you
knew Josh was gonna be really good in pass protection
as well. That's got to go up because LSU's gonna
throw the football and you're gonna throw the football a lot,
and that look, you can't in today's college football, really
any level of football. You can't have a running back
that's only a two down back. He's got to be
a three down back, certainly with the way he can
catch the football. And so I want to see that.
And if he has that, if he's gone up a
couple steps in that, then I will I think I'm
already standing fully behind my all sees he like he'll
be a he'll be a first team guy if he
has thirty six catches, is really good in pass protection,
and doesn't have to come off the field, He's going
to be a thousand yard rusher of healthy. Oh yeah,
and that's gonna happen.
Speaker 5: Like I'm good with him having twenty carries a game,
Caleb Jackson coming in and spelling him for maybe eight
Harlem Berry, maybe you know six or seven, Like I
want Kaden Durham to do the bulk of the work.
Last thing I noticed, anytime a player like Aaron Anderson
misses practice, it should stand out. It didn't. And that's
not a knock on Aaron Anderson. It's because the rest
of the receiver room's really good. Like I had heard
a couple of people, you know, cause like the first
couple of days of practice we weren't able to go
because it was like nine am Saturday. Was my first
time out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had heard so.
Speaker 5: Many people say, oh, Dustin Hill, Dustin Hill, Dustin Hill.
And I'm like, okay. Every year, just like in the NFL,
there's a guy that people fall in love with. Dustin Hill.
Looks like he's gonna actually play and play a lot
of football. Nick Anderson looks like he's almost full healthy,
like Chris Hilden's out there catching balls like Kyle lark
and Anderson, Kyle Parker, Kyle.
Speaker 2: Parker in the run game. And look, I know that's
not something that people want to hear a lot about
a receiver in the run game. They're asking their receivers
to do more on the edge. I don't know if
you noticed that. And again it's one practice. They got
some runs up where they're asking their receivers to do
their part, and Kyle Parker was a dog out there
on the edge. Now again, you've got ten receivers that
feel like they can go out there and find time.
And I don't know how that's going to work itself out,
but that feels like something that they're looking for is
receivers they can also do their part on the edges.
Speaker 5: Well, Kelly's opening press conference that I had to go
to on Wednesday unsolicited mention Kyle Parker by name when
I asked about the receivers. Like anytime a coacher does
that when not being specifically asked about a player, that's
something I take notes.
Speaker 2: I'll say this too. I had an offensive coach did
the same thing after practice. Well, yeah, he was really.
Speaker 5: Good the first three or four games of the year,
maybe called the deep ball into UCLA and was kind
of hurt. The rest of the year, he looks good.
But Juwan Johnson is a guy that like he got
carries in the backfield, a ton of them on Saturday.
Like I left Saturday practice being like, Okay, if the
season started today, Jawan Johnson's your number two running back.
And you know when the two's were out there in
seven on seven he rotated in with with Michael van
Buren at quarterback. He didn't have the red jersey on,
but yeah, he lined up out wide, he lined up
there's a plan for you.
Speaker 2: He lined up at.
Speaker 5: Running back like he's gonna play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think there's any question it. I'm be honest, Like,
backup running back is a little bit of a worry
for me because you have two true freshmen. Now, I
I can't sit up here and act like I don't
always say it, because I do. Like, if you can
transition from high school to college fast, it's going to
be at running back. But still that might take four
five games, Like doesn't matter how good you are, Like,
think about all this stud running back like Leonard Fournetes
freshman year, was a grown man. But it took him
like three or four games. Because you've always been able
to get the football and hit a home run like
your head's on the goalpost. You got to learn how
to read it a little bit right. It's faster. You
got to take a seven yard run and not always
look for the seventy yard run. And Leonard did that
incredibly fast. But are these backs like J. T. Lindsay's
long man. His frame is going to be able to
add a ton more to it, Maybe not this year,
but certainly next year. And those young guys are going
to play. Caleb Jackson's got to be effective for this team.
He just has to be. There's no question about it.
Like as much as I think Cayden Dorman can be Superman,
He's going to need a breather. He's gonna there's gonna
be a time in a big game where he hits
a long run and he taps the top of his helmet,
ask him to come out and when Caleb Jackson rolls
out there, they have to get production. He is one
of the most important players I think on this football team.
Certainly non starters because of what they have to have
him do, not what they would like for him to do.
They have to have him be successful when he's out there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, at least just like you don't. You
don't have that short yardage back. And I understand Josh
Williams wasn't built like a short yardage back, but he
was damn good.
Speaker 2: He came back.
Speaker 5: He was by by sixty year. Yeah, but he was
really good at it. Like kid En Durham could maybe
be that guy. But look, we talked about Jawan Johnson.
He's not really a short yardage guy. He's more of
a finesse guy. Kind of the same thing with Harlan
Berry and JT.
Speaker 2: Lindsay.
Speaker 5: There's gonna be a role for Caleb Jackson at least
in short yardaget at least early.
Speaker 2: In the year.
Speaker 5: Happen to be because you talked about it like it
might be easy to adjust as at a running back
as freshman. But they physically look like freshmen right now,
like they're they're a little on the lighter side. I
think they need to gain a little bit, so Calyb's
gonna have to play early.
Speaker 2: That's all I was saying. With with j T. You
can tell, like, so he just got here. I believe
in the summer he wasn't an earlier. You can tell,
like you can look at him and say, oh, that
guy can add fifteen pounds to frame with ease and
not lose anything. But he's not gonna do it right now,
Like that's gonna take some time. Like Caleb Jackson is
going to be as important as any non starter on
this team offense or defense, because he's going to have
to give you something, like there has to be something there.
It doesn't matter what year you look at for LSU,
Like the most historic seasons that LSU's ever had, they've
had a bell cow, but they've also had players underneath
that bell coal that helped them win national championships. I mean,
you can look at it in three like there's five
backs and seven. There's five backs and eleven when they
got there and didn't win it, but does a damn
good football team there was five backs. Clyde's kind of
the outlier now because Clyd's kind of in the similar
situation that Barry finds himself in, or sorry, Durham finds
himself in. Because Barry, it's kind of like Emory and
you had TDP. He was a young player as well,
and but for the most part, and still those guys
made plays that year in nineteen, you're going to have
to have somebody step up, and it's got to be
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So certainly going to be somebody we continue to watch,
and he's going to have to continue to develop, continue
He looks apart and we know he's got a skill set,
but he's got to put all that together to help
LSU move the football. All right, let's talk a little recruiting.
LSU had another big week and another big commit and
we'll do that when we come back here on OTB
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Speaker 2: All right, Welcome back in OTB one O four to five, ESPN,
Baton Rouge talk a little LSU football, LSU recruiting. Bryce
Kuon is going to join us to do so over
there now at on three Sports. Bryce, We appreciate the time, man,
congrats on the new gig.
Speaker 7: Yeah, man, no better time to start. Right in the
midst of the beginning of fall camp, and obviously with
what the recruiting run LSU's been on. It's been quite
the run there too, So no better time to start
than right now.
Speaker 2: They are absolutely on a heater. And it feels like
every time that we talk LSU recruiting this cycle, it's like,
all right, well, where did we leave off? Like who's
the last guy that they got that we talked about?
And you try to like kind of play catch up
a little bit, so for our listeners, like, what has
the last ten days or so been like for LSU
on the train?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I think you kind of hit the
nail on the head. And just in terms of if
you're a fan, you're a subscriber to one of the
many message boards on this beat, it's like, you know,
did you turn your head and you miss the commitment
or you turn your head and you miss kind of
the latest tidbit or nuggets. So it's really has been
a whirlwind, and you know, you kind of go back
to I guess Darius McKinley, which feels like it was
you know, five, six, seven days ago. It was just
a couple of days ago. Obviously had of a Kadian
over there, brother of Don McKinley, and a guy that
you know made his decision and really and truthfully, you know,
I didn't, I didn't. Nobody wanted to spoil it for him,
But this was a race that LSU was really kind
of leading the whole way. I mean, you go back
to the race for Dom and how LSU flips him
on New Year's a couple of week years ago, and
you know, just Darius and what he brings to the table.
That with the way that family feels about the LSU staff,
even you know, into transition from from Bo Davis to
to Kyle Williams, man, it's just just continued to stay silent.
So Darius McKinley obviously going to Hu's LSU was there,
and he's been on sow campus so many times, just
on family Day when the families allowed to practice. It's
it's the amount of unofficial visits he's taken, probably rivals
a guy like Lamar Brown, you know, who's right there
on campus. So that was a big pick up. And
then obviously Menust Geralds I mean good Grier, I mean Jacob,
I mean, I'm a guy that's from the state of Georgia.
Originally I watched Gerald's play up at Colin until multiple
troops for making the move, you know, down to Louisiana
and would you get a guy who and maybe I'm
a little biased here, but when you get a guy
here is from Louisiana, understands the culture, understands what LSU's about,
the relationship between his dad and Frank Wilson, and he
still gets to go play some really really great high
school balls six, A, seven, eight all over there in
the state of Georgia, which is really really good at
that level. I mean, it's just that's the kind of
development piece you look at and you say, Okay, he's
doing it against guys that are going to play D one,
and we know he's going to be able to make
the transition as long as the head's on straight. And
that was something they just had to bet in terms of,
you know, making sure that he understood that this wasn't,
you know, another six day high school football game. This
is this is the big Boy League. And so, you know,
LSU did a great job, I can say in terms
of making sure everything was right in this recruitment. This
was kind of an organ lean for a while, but
we had kept telling our subscribers, you know, hey, don't
count him out here. That relationship with his dad and
Frank Wilson who recruited him to Whole Miss and then
obviously with what he had going on in terms of
the amount of times he's been on campus, it just
never felt like LSU was out of it. And I
guess for Tiger fans it feels pretty good because if
we're telling you LSU's not out of it oftentimes and
not Austin Thomas and the crew are getting it done
and able to kind of, you know, put the nail
in the coffin with a lot of these recruitments.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it really does bright seem like it's a
point of emphasis to shore up the defensive line and
kind of get it back to we all used to
know the LSU defensive line. That's not to say that
they haven't had in the past, but I mean you
would look up and there would be four pros in
front of you, and I know, like I like I
can speak on on our team, like our best player
on our championship team was a defensive tackle. It was
Glenn Dorsey. And it does feel like Kyle Williams now
coming in as a defensive line coach, he's got kind
of a prototype that he's looking at, like some of
these guys. They're not your three hundred and fifty pound
defensive tackles, like you have some of that, but it
looks like it's like the two hundred and seventy two
hundred and eighty five pound defensive tackles, and they really
kind of got, you know, a certain body type that
they're looking for at that position.
Speaker 7: Yeah, i'd agree. And even being at a a you know,
fall practice on you're seeing type of drills to Kyle
Williams is running these guys through and they want to
be athletics stein Stett, I mean, yeah, you still have
to have, you know, your big run stuffers. You got
to have guys that can you know, take on a
double team and not be moved off the line. But
you got to have guys that are disruptors of this league,
right and you have to have guys that understand how
to use and utilize their hands. Have you know this
this ability to shed a block and then make a
play in the bankfield. They're not just you know, stalling
the offensive line. They're pushing them back and making some plays.
And you know, I think maybe the prototype of what
we're seeing currently on that D line is a guy
like a mod bro who put on too much weight
to even play defensive tackle. And now you're looking at
who they're recruiting in that kind of well to say
two seventy to two ninety range, Well they're looking at Okay,
how are they utilizing bros. The guy who can move
side to side? You know when he played along that
entire defensive line and rustling a couple of years ago
and that's what he was known for, and even playing
on the edge a little bit. So yeah, I just
think where they're moving in terms of how they want
to recruit this defensive line. Maybe you know, old school
fans are saying, hey, where's the big three hundred and
thirty pounder, right, I mean one those guys don't grow
on trees, and you got to make sure they can
move a little bit too. And the guy got like
Saverir Mitchell, who's you know, kid can be that for them.
But just in terms of how they're recruiting men you
look along that defensive line, I mean, uh, it's it
has the potential to be one of the better ones
when you go back to the recruiting rankings, just based
off of that potential, it's gonna be the chance to
be one of the better ones in LSU recruiting history.
Speaker 2: Talking recruiting with Bryce Koon here on OTB and you
mentioned Lamar Brown there and we all know, I mean,
how highly touted he is. And it's so obviously like
him coming and committing and all that's like it's going
to be a big get. But even more importantly, like
from him being from U High being on campus then't
look full disclosure, our listener, that's where my kids go.
Our listeners know that way, talk about it all the
time and like that that look, that's even one of
my worries all the times, like, man, are they really
gonna want to go, you know, to school at LSU.
I sure hope, so that they've been on campus their
entire lives, Like it's always a concern. But so like
to get him from where he was at school and
now you've kind of got this little nice pipeline you've created.
But like last year you get Moses, now you get Brown,
and a guy that's here in the city can kind
of be that lead recruiter. So as much as like
on the field certainly helps, Like what Lamar Brown seems
like he's doing off the field for this class is
also helping as much or you know, maybe it seems
like right now because he's already locked in you know more.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And I mean I've kind of taken a step
further here with you. The leader that Lamar Brown is
in the recruiting room is goes well beyond just the
tweet that he put out you know yesterday, right. I mean,
this is a guy who you know, has done the
camp circuit, has built relationships, you know, in terms of
whether it was on the under under camp circuit or
wherever it was. I mean, he's building those relationships in
terms of saying, hey, you know, come play with us.
You know, Richard Anderson was a guy who I think
is going to be an absolute monster out of vnic Car.
I mean that guy you talk about he's big and
can move that That's exactly what he is. You know,
he and Lamar are super tight. I've talked with Richard
multiple times about that and just in terms of they
want to build it. Deuce Gerald is the guy that
every single time Duce came to campus, whether it was
official or unofficial, Lamar Brown was around. And so you know,
I always say that that the love from Texas A
and them and even some of the appreciation that was real,
that was never fake. And I think they did a
great job of recruiting him. But else she was always
going to be hard to beat. And you know, here's
the last part of it that you were kind of
hinting at here. I mean, you know there's a safety
over there at Catholic that's looking to head up north,
and you're already trying to see in some of the
push with you know, a move Lsu made in terms
of bringing you know, a staffer from Ohio State down,
and you know, the big question is can you do
enough to flip Blaine Bradford right and Lamar Brown? If
I have to have a guy, a player, or a
recruit helping me in that room, Lamar is one of those.
He and Blaine have a good relationship, and you know,
I don't know if it's something that else she's going
to be able to do. Ohio States had a pretty
good track record developing some safeties and they got a
pretty dangle one good one up there right now that
they're trying to pattern Blaine afterwards. But it's just one
of those things. Man, We're having guys like that who
are vocal leaders and build offensive relationships helps you so much,
and it often goes I guess unseen because we just think, oh,
well they had more money here, they had this. No,
those relationships still do matter and they still play it
for a pivotal role.
Speaker 2: All right, Bryce, last one before we let you go,
and we certainly appreciate the time. What's next, Like what's
next for LSU? What are some names to be out
looking forward to see where they're going to end up?
And you know, kind of the next couple of guys
at LSU fans need to really kind of hone in on.
Speaker 7: Yep, I'm gonna tell you Green County, Mississippi Ride receiver
Chase Matthews is announcing on August eighth. Talked with him yesterday.
You can check out that full interview over at the
Bingle Tiger. But just kind of a synopsis. Cortet Tankton
has really done a great job here. This is the
kind of a race right now for me, just talking
with some people on both sides and in both programs.
Really it's Auburn and LSU. Derek Nicks over there on
Auburn's staff, he's a Mississippi guy. I believe he's in
the Southern miss Hall of Fame there as well in
terms of his playing career. So he's got really good
roots in that state. Auburn's done a good job here man.
LSU's really pushing and kind of putting a hard selling him,
and his mom is a is a pivotal piece of this,
and so his mom has played a big role in
his recruitment. She's gone on all the visits. She loved LSU.
So that's what I'm watching On August eighth, he'll be
making that decision and then the end of the month,
just kind of another one. Darius Gray, the big offensive
lineman that you know from up there kind of in
the Maryland area. I mean, this is a kid start
of the Virginia area. It's one of those things where
he loves Brad days and a lot of questions is
would he be willing to, you know, move that far
away and just talking with him. The amount of times
he's been to campus, the amount of times that Brad
Davis has reached out. I mean, look, you don't have
to be a diehard LSU fandom to look up what
Davis has done in terms of recruiting good talent that
maybe he's not even sincessarily in the LSU region. I mean,
he's got a national reach with how he recruits, so
great is the guy that I believe announcements on August
of twenty second Right now, I would probably put it
as a South Carolina LSU race, which might you know,
peak some of the interests of LSU fans saying South
Carolina really the game talk with him, man, it's his
longest standing relationship. It's one that started very early on
in his high school career Tennessee Ohio State or in
that race too. But you know, the Tigers have a
really good chance. It's really snagged, you know, some really
good players before the season officially starts. And that's what
you want, right before these kids really get to the
meet and statas of their senior year, get that commitment,
maybe get them for one last visit so they can
experience that game day atmosphere and know that's something that
Gray is excited to do, regardless of where he commenced
on the twenty second. So, man, it's there's some potential
for some spils fireworks before LSU kicks off against Clemson.
Speaker 2: Are there? He is Bryce Coon good enough to join
us at Bryce underscore Coon is to handle on social media.
Game a follow there at Bengal Tiger on three also
always throwing up LSU articles. Give them a follow as well. Bryce.
We appreciate the time man, look forward to our next conversation.
Thanks though, all right, we will step away and when
we come back to end our number one, Taylor's top three.
I like that alliteration there. It was Taylor's top five.
I think Taylor's top three sounds better. We can talk
about it during the break alliteration triple t. I don't know,
we'll figure it out. Taylor's going to give you a
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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in OTV. It's time now for
Taylor's Top three or we'll see how he's acting. Tata's
Top three.
Speaker 5: Number three for me, it's Lushu's a big recruiting weekend.
I mean we just talked about it with with Bryce Coon.
You get Deucey Gerald's on board, you get McKinley, Darius McKinley,
that is on board as well. The Tigers aren't done.
There's a lot of top prospects that are gonna be
in the mix with the time BN. I think LSU
has done a great job. Like we were talking transfer
port a little bit earlier. LSU could start eighteen transfer
players potentially on this year's team, like whether it's high school,
whether it's transfer. I think Kelly has done an excellent job.
Number two for me, we're actually top two. We're gonna
be baseball, big, big stitch out over here. Julio Rodriguez,
I should say he homered over the weekend as the
Rangers beat As the Mariners beat the Rangers. He became
the first player in Major League history to have twenty
home runs and twenty stolen bases in each of his
first four seasons. Our guy made history over the weekend.
And then Number one for me, it's it's Bristol Motor Speedway.
We were talking about it, Darren, like the NASCAR sounds
the game like you were talking. Game one actually got postponed,
which would have been a really big pictures duel. But
the sounds of that the NASCAR like ninety one thousand
people in that stadium, right, yes, that is that is
the biggest ever for a Major League baseball game. It
was phenomenal. Like you saw Tennessee do this against Virginia
Tech a few years ago. They were at I think
they were at Talladego where they played that game, and
it was awesome. They played the football game. The baseball
game in Bristol was excellent. Like that's that. That's number
one over the weekend by a long shot.
Speaker 2: Where would y'all like to see a baseball game be played?
Because they've actually branched out, we've had to field of dreams.
Speaker 4: I want them to bring that back, Okay, I want
them to do that at least once a year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. That was awesome.
Speaker 3: It's awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean even like you know the memes that
came out with Kevin Costner looking around stuff, it was
still really really cool. Yeah, because baseball needs some juice, right,
they need something.
Speaker 3: Just let them start doing steroids again.
Speaker 5: The conversation over the weekend, I heard a lot of
people bring up does this help baseball more? Nascar? And more?
I say it helps baseball more because like NASCAR is
such a niche market like, sure, but those fans are hardcore. Yeah,
those NASCAR fans are going to go to that baseball
game for sure. Like we talked about the sites, that
sounds it sounded like you were adding NASCAR race. I
think this is huge for baseball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, it's really smart having the Braids there.
I would say of the NASCAR community, the Braids are
probably the team that people root for the most. And
so well done. It was very, very cool. Hopefully baseball
does some more of that. Hey, the Braids actually won
a game on Sunday. It lost I think ten straight
on Sunday, So there you go. There's that as well.
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