Speaker 1: I'll start to you to present Off the Bench.
Speaker 2: This is what we have been waiting for.
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Speaker 2: Now here's Jacob Hester.
Speaker 4: Welcome back into our number three a Tuesday edition of
Off the Bench. Taylor Sharp sitting in for Jacob Hester,
who is out there at SEC spring meetings. In just
a couple of minutes, we'll be joined by Nick Underhill
of New Orleans Dot Football. There's not gonna be any
blocking in flag football. We just figured that out as well, So, uh,
no blocking in that. But uh again, I think me
Elandra Cassie, we all created great flag football teams. Right now,
speaking of football, want to be joined by Nick Underhill
of New Orleans Dot Football. Nick, how are you this morning?
Doing good?
Speaker 3: Nick?
Speaker 4: Last segment we were talking about, you know, the Olympic Committee. Okay,
NFL players playing in flag football. What Saints player are
we put on the flag football team?
Speaker 5: A good question? Flag football?
Speaker 3: Uh man.
Speaker 5: So, I mean I think part of it is elusiveness.
You kind of want to go to to like some
of the quicker guys right away, and I think I
think that matters, you know, for building the Olympic flag
football team. Like my first side is Alvin Kamara, but
like I don't know if he's running by anyone, and
like the tackle balance doesn't really or contact balance doesn't
really benefit you. Uh and the thing where they just
got of got to pull the flag off, you know,
books is kind of interesting. I think he's still even
being out there at that first oka, he still looks
like the fastest guy on the team. If he's losted
the step, is speeder moving too faster you to be
able to tell, because like he looks faster than the
other receivers. But I think he has kind of more
like straight line speed, and that's one of the reasons
he's played on the outside more throughout his career and
hasn't really played a ton in the slot, you know,
because I think it's kind of more you know, straight
line sprinter type speed as opposed to like in a
box qut change the direction type stuff. So I'm not
sure i'd go with him. That puts us at like
Alave and Shaheed, I think both of them would be
good choices. But look, I'm honestly gonna go with with
with somebody else, and it's a little bit outside the
box here. I think Alte Taylor might be the guy
like that. I would want to put the ball in
his hands in a flag football game. His hips are
really fluid, he moves really well. You know, he's explosive
when when you get him kind of like a little
bit of an alley, can pick up speed really quick.
I think that's the guy. I would take him on
the Olympic team, and I will put him on offense,
and I think I think that he would be a
difference maker for for our flag football team.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 6: Nick.
Speaker 4: Speaking of the New Orleans Saints, let's dive into it
came out late last week. It was after we were
able to have you on there. So that Jake Hayner.
It was the oblique injury. He's out for a few weeks. Obviously,
you talk about the brand new quarterback battle between Hayner,
Spencer Rattler, Tyler Shock. What does Jake's future look like
in New Orleans after this news.
Speaker 5: Yes, it's interesting. I don't think the oblique injury really
changes anything for Jake Canner. I mean, obviously it's not
advantageous to have that right now at this point in
the season, you're trying to compete for a job and everything.
But I don't think look I mean, realistically, he's not
in the competition to be the starting quarterback. I think
we know it's gonna be Rattler Shock, it's not gonna
be Jake Cayner. I think he is kind of fighting
for a roster spot right now. But I don't think
this really puts them too far behind anything. I think
I think it's gonna take Deckers some time to pick
stuff up. I think that training camp is when that
battle is really going to start. Nothing's going to be
decided right now. We didn't see Decker's throw in the
last OTA. It was only about an hour long, and
it was eight throws for Shock, eight throws for Rattler,
and that was it. But I would imagine that that
Decker's probably looks kind of similar to Shock right now,
where things are happening a little bit slower. The ball
isn't coming out like real fast. It's it's kind of
looks like a guy learning how to play at this level,
like kind of getting used to the speed of it,
and is you know, his his use to the temperature.
So I don't think he's probably pulling up on Hayter
right now. And the thing with Hayter is as soon
as he hits that field in practice, we already know
he's gonna look amazing, Like he is an amazing looking
practice player. So any ground loss over missing what is it,
uh ten practices or something like that. I think he's
gonna just show up day one and training camp, assuming
he's ready, go out there and practice, and he's gonna
remind everyone that, like, hey, like this is a guy
that that understands things. So I don't think he's losing
the battle right now. I think it's detrimental to to
you know, the possibility of him winning that starting job,
but that was never that was never realistic to me
as far as.
Speaker 4: Ota is go as a whole, and like you just
you guys are only out there for about an hour,
so I get you're limited on what you can see.
Are there any standouts out there that maybe call your eye?
Speaker 2: Nick?
Speaker 4: You still there?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 4: Maybe we've lost Nick Underhill. We will try to reconnect
with him right there. You know, it's funny he was
talking about Jay Kyner and that battle between him and
Hunter Deckers for that QB three spot. Look, Hunter Deckers
is a guy that can play a little bit. You know,
we talked about him. It was actually one of one
of T Bob's last shows. We were talking about Hunter
Deckers and his potential. He obviously signed with Iowa State
coming out of high school. He was one of the
highest ranked quarterback commits that Iowa State ever had. He
got to start there and did some nice things. Now, ultimately,
if you remember the big sports gambling issue in college football,
hunter Deckers was part of that. But before that, he
was a really nice player out for Iowa State. Right, Nick,
we are back with you right now. Sorry about that,
you got cut off a little bit. But going back
to the previous question, anybody that's made caught your eye
out there at so far, I mean.
Speaker 5: Probably the guys that that should I thought Rattler had
had a really great practice, Like stuff was just happening
fast and balls coming up quick in rhythm, kind of
back foot hitting on the three step drop ball out,
you know, stuff like that where where you kind of
see the experience of a year. So he was he
was the main guy I left that practice like really
kind of you know, excited about seeing what he looked
like in year two coming into it. But that's kind
of to be expected.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: One guy that really stood out that was surprising to me.
That wasn't I don't think got my radar at all.
I don't think he got mentioned in like a single
off season conversation with with Dante Pettis. He he's playing
high up in the order. They had this period where
they split up the field. It was kind of like
the first team and then the top reserves on one
end of the field like everybody else at the other end,
Dante Pettis was on the right end of the field
with the with the higher rated players, is how I
put it. And then even in this stuff and on
steven period he had a nice touch up the sideline. Again,
it's one day, like it's one day of practice, it's
an hour. He might not look good in anywhere else,
but in those sixteen reps we saw on the four
that he was out there for he looked pretty good
and he stood out and it looks like just Dutch
shart wise this early he's ahead above means right now.
I said of that, not really like anyone that was surprising.
I think maybe the undercover, low key takeaway here is
that when the offense goes fifteen to sixteen in a practice,
maybe there's some secondary concerns a little bit. There's some
guys missing obviously not out if these practices. Tyron wasn't
out there for this practice. Jamaira Davis wasn't out there
for this practice. So I mean there's a couple of guys.
Quincy Riley still hurt, the rookie Day drafted to compete
at cornerback, He's still not out there. So I mean
it's not like a full team thing. There's no pressure,
nothing like that. But when the offense goes fifteen to
sixteen with a guy with six starts and a guy
with zero starts, I mean, I think there's a little
bit of a commentary on where the defense is as
so maybe standing out for the wrong reasons right now?
Is that second?
Speaker 4: Speaking of the secondary, you know, you drafted Quincy Riley,
who you just talked about, but you lose Paul's and Adebo.
You traded Marshall on Lattimore, you know, so you have
who like McKinstry back from a year ago, and a
lot of people don't believe that Alonta Taylor is an
outside corner. So like, in your opinion, if this season
started today, the outside corners for the Saints like who's
getting that start.
Speaker 5: I think it would probably be so in the base.
My guess would be is that it would probably be
a Lante and kool Aid out there when they're just
out there and you know, the four defensive backs on
the field, and then when they go into like Nickel
or Dime, I think Alante would probably move into the
slot and then you'd put I got him out there.
I can't project Quincy Riley yet because we haven't seen
him on the field. I have no idea if he's
if he's going to be ready to play. Maybe it's
not a Samuel ends up on the team and and
you know he's not something that's going very good at it,
like run defense, Like he's done a liability there, So
maybe you would do it the same way Orlanti on
the outside, move him to the inside, and then put
Samuel out there in the situations where you'd be looking
at like your recovery situations. But I think Alante is
at his best in that role. Like I think, just
beyond anything, I think you need to find a way
to get in there, and I think your defense is
better if you have him on that inside role. I mean,
you look back at the beginning of last season, there's
some of these stats like charting dynamic plays, pressures, quarterback hits,
like pass breakups, all this stuff, and they put it
in there and it's the stat like just measuring that,
like who's impacting the game the most. He was at
the top of the list on that stuff, and it
was it was playing the seed of the eye, like
the blizzing ability, the pressures, like the run defense, the
tackles for a loss. Like if you put him in
the slot, I think that he becomes a multifaceted weapon
and he's somebody that can maybe even be like part
of the identity of your defense a little bit in
that role.
Speaker 3: But you move them to the outside and you get.
Speaker 5: Those variables where he becomes more boom er bust. I
think on the inside, where things are tight and there's
a lot of traffic and there's a lot of players around,
you can risk a little bit of that boom er
bust because there's gonna be somebody in close quarters to
help clean it up and it doesn't really set back
your defense. You you're able to harvest a lot of the
positives from a unique player like that. But on the outside,
you're on a you're on an island. You're isolated. If
you make the wrong play, you make the wrong read,
you try to jump something, you get beat like. It
just kind of takes away from the things that I
think make him special. So I think they need to
make it a priority play a long pay in the
spot stinking.
Speaker 4: With the secondary. Nick Nick Underhill of New Orleans that
football joining us right now as far as that safety
room goes, Look, Tara, Matthew's not getting any younger, you do,
add uh, Justin Reid in the offseason, But what does
the depth of that room look like right now? As
far as the safeties go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they got a couple guys. I mean, if Holton
can take the next step, like, there's a guy there
that I think even now he's probably fine depths, but
I think obviously I don't think he chunds him for
a starting spot and designing and Justin Reed kind of
kind of tells you that. And then they drafted Sanker two.
He's somebody that he looks pretty good moving like not
really not not really seeing any plays yet, can't hit, like,
but just seeing how he moves out on the field
that kind of stands out a little bit. There's some
movement ability there. So there's a couple of young guys
in the line there that I think can develop a
little bit, and they're in a good room with two
like really good leaders with Hiring and Justin Reid. So
I'm kind of excited to like see what Sanker can
do just all over the place, like even his special
teams highlights or they look like special and somebody that
can maybe make a difference there well well serving possibly
as like the third guy in that safety rotation. I
would probably project them right away coming out of the
draft being a side ahead of Houding. Housing was fighting
ahead of them right now, but I would assume they
believe Sankor can overtake that role. So yeah, I mean
there's some guys there. I think there's not a lot
of proven commodities behind the top two, but I think
there's potential. And I mean, really that's what I want
to see the team doing kind of everywhere, is just
chase the potential with with young guys, be willing to
go boom or bust everywhere, be willing, you know, be
okay with any any kind of outcome, just kind of
find out what you have and a lot of these
guys and see where you're at. You know, I do
think if the Derek Carr thing had happened before free
agency and you're stuck without a quarterback, I do wonder
if like Justin Reid's even here, because like his timeline
doesn't even really sit up with the teams right now.
I don't think he's like in his eighth season as
a pro, twenty eight, twenty nine years old. You know,
I do wonder like how it would have affected their
whole free agency approach. But I think you're lucky to
have him because I think he is a good leader.
I think he's a good presence on this defense over
the next couple of years as they're trying to grow
into something else.
Speaker 4: Nick, want to switch back to the offense here real
quick to start OTA's you know, one of the the
big notes that everyone was talking about was Trevor Penning
at guard on that offensive line. What are your thoughts there?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I've been saying it for like three
years that I don't know if that's the best spot
for him. But look, I might not be a reliable
narrator on Trevor Penning. I thought him playing right tackle
last year was going to be the thing that brought
down the team. I didn't think they were gonna be
able to play him week one. I thought he looked
really bad during training camp. Then he gets out on
the field and he's like kind of serviceable. I don't
think he's good enough. I don't think you played well
enough to be an answer at tackle for any of
the thirty two teams. Maybe like a a below James
Hurst lebble player at that position. But he became okay,
Like he wasn't he wasn't something that was gonna cost
him this season or anything like that. You were able
to get by with him. So I was absolutely wrong there.
I could be absolutely wrong about the guard thing. I
like the idea of trying him out at that position.
I feel like they've already lost on the draft pick.
I feel like they've lost on the value they traded
up to get him. He's not a tackle. He's not
going to be a tackle for this team. So like
that's already gone, Like he took the l there. But
if you can get him at guard and he can
be a serviceable guard, I mean that's that's pulling a
win out of the lost and if he's okay enough,
if he's decent enough at that spot, maybe you even
like resign him and you keep him. I like the
idea of his athleticism at that position. You know, leagues
kind of trended towards six seven guards a little bit more.
You know, Andrews feet was kind of at the forefront
of that. Those guys are getting bigger and taller, so
that's playable Chuckshure quarterback, that's not really a problem. And
you know, if you can get in there and run
and mall great, I mean, maybe maybe it could play there.
I just don't know if like inside rush, quick poss
rush moves it, if that's the thing that helps him succeed.
I kind of feel like he might lose a little
bit more at that. But look, I'm not I'm not
standing on like anything with Cunning. I've been super wrong about,
you know, my last couple of takes on him. So
you know, maybe he makes it work. And if he does,
I would feel really good about this offensive line overall.
You know, there's a possibility and it should be I
think I've said this before on here, like I think
that old line should be a strength of the team.
I think they should be held to that standard. They
put way too much into it, and uh, you know,
if he can play there, I feel I feel pretty
good about the offensive line overall.
Speaker 4: Nick, just one more for you, as you were talking
about Alvin Kamara a little bit earlier, maybe the running
back depth chart behind Camara, what do you expect that
to look?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's interesting, man. They they had Yarns the ud
FA on the field, the one to the field with
with like when they split it up, he was down
there and Neil was at the other end, which you know,
it isn't necessarily like rookie es to earn it. Kendrick
Miller was was down with the top team, So maybe
it's kind of like a Miller versus Neil thing, and
Neil has to overcome h Miller to get down to
that end of the field. Maybe Yarn's just kind of
viewed more as like the you know, the satellite tight
back to pass catching back, and maybe he's kind of
competing for for a different spot on that depth chart
within the same meeting room. But I kind of I
kind of expect it. Look I think when all said
and done, I think I think it's probably alvin In
and Neil or probably probably the top guys at that position.
I think that's probably how they they want it to
work out. It would be great if Kendre Stiller figures
it all out. You know, I'm still the president of
the the Kendre Miller Believers Club. I still think he
has all the talent in the world. I still think that,
you know, he's just an incredibly gifted player, but learning
the playbook has been a huge problem for him every
single year. And now you're changing offenses again, and he
starts all the way over at the beginning, and maybe
Joel Thomas and Kellum Moore in Paganetti and all those
guys working with the run game, like maybe they're the
ones that get at the click for him, And if
they do, I think he's probably the second most talented
back on the team. But it's just kind of reached
the point after multiple years where it's just like, I
can't bet on this guy, so I got a bet
on the other guy, and black Miller proved me wrong.
Speaker 4: Nick Underhill of New Orleans Dot Football, Nick, thanks so
much for the time this morning. Man.
Speaker 5: Yeah sure, go yep.
Speaker 4: YouTube. There was Nick Underhill of New Orleans that football
Nick underscore Underhill on Twitter. Look, we were able to
fight through the uh spotty internet and phone connection. Good
stuff there from Nick as always. All right, we're going
to take a time out when we get back. LSU
announced the jersey retirement of someone that Tiger fans will
remember pretty fondly. That's coming up on the other side
here on off the bench, off the bench.
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Speaker 4: Welcome back in Tuesday edition of Off the Bench, Taylor
Sharp here where you're sitting in for Jaco pester Landraville
Rial Cassi's bazzally along for the ride as well. We
hope you are also uls you will retire former running
back Charles Alexander's jersey this coming football season. Charles was
actually on AFR on Friday. He was revealed the date
to Matt Moscona. Of course, on after furtherview, the date
will be the September thirteenth game against Florida in Tigers Stadium.
No more appropriate game to do it then against those
hated Florida Gators. Obviously, Alexander becomes the fourth Tiger to
have his jersey retired. He joins Billy Cannon, Jerry Stoveall,
and Tommy Casanova. You see the twenty, the twenty one,
the thirty seven, and now the number four will be
hanging up on the stadium in Tigers Stadium when Alexander
left LSU. You know, this was before my time. He
played back in the late seventies, and I had always
heard stories of Charles Alexander, and you know how good
he was. I mean the nickname Alexander the Great, right,
I mean everybody, everybody loved Charles Alexander when he was here.
I guess I just didn't realize how good. When Charles
Alexander left LSHU, he held twenty seven school records. He
was a two time Heisman Trophy finalist. He's already been
elected to the Luisiana Sports Hall of Fame, the LSU
Athletics Hall of Fame, the College Football Hall of Fame.
He was a twelfth overall pick in the NFL Draft
in nineteen seventy nine, ironically by the Cincinnati Bengals. He's
everything you would have wanted and needed in a running
back at that time, and it makes a lot of
sense that they're retiring his jersey. His career at LSU,
he finished with just over four thousand rushing yards. That
was over fifteen hundred more than lshu's previous career rushing yards. Leaders.
In that nineteen seventy seven season, he had had one
six hundred and eighty six rushing yards. He also averaged
one fifty three point three yards per game. Both of
those were LSU single season records until twenty fifteen. Both
of them were surpassed by Leonard Fournette. We know how
good he was in college when you look at what
Charles Alexander did here. I mean I mentioned the nineteen
seventy seven season, but it was more than just that.
I mean forty total touchdowns in a four year career,
he averaged four point seven yards per carry sure seventy seven,
he had seventeen hundred rushing yards seventeen touchdowns. Very next year,
though he had twelve hundred yards, he had fourteen rushing touchdowns.
I mean, this wasn't just a flash in the pant
He catched the ball out of the backfield a little
bit as well, four hundred career receiving yards. And this
was a guy that did everything for you in a
time where LSU's football program it was up and down.
I mean, you didn't have the consistent winning that you
do now. I know everyone's gonna say, what do you
mean consistent winning? We haven't. I get it, but this
football program is in a lot better shape now than
it was when Charles Alexander played, and players like him
is a big reason why. Now when I look at
jersey retirements, obviously there's four in the stadium. You have
Billy Cannon, Jerry Stovall, Tommy Casanova, and on September thirteenth,
Charles Alexander will be your fourth. Who should be next
in having their jersey retire?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 4: The easy answer people are going to come up with
is Joe Burrow and Jayden Daniels because they both won
Heisman trophies. Burrow, of course won the Natty as well.
That's going to happen. LSU is very particular about this.
They have a waiting period for players to get statues,
have their jersey retired, you name it. I mean, you
go look at the LSU roster. Since twenty nineteen season ended,
no one has worn the number nine. No one is
currently on the roster wearing the number five. They didn't
wear five last year. That's something that the team has
kind of taken upon themselves. No one's going to wear nine,
no one's going to wear five. Those are going to
happen in due time. There's just a process as far
as like as that. I think could potentially hear their
name called soon, because I mean you look at the
guys that are getting their jersey. We're done. I mean, hell,
Charles Alexander at two time Heisman Finals. He played back
in nineteen seventy seven. It's just now happening for him.
Jerry Stovall was just a few years ago. I'm twenty eight.
I was in the stadium when it happened for Tommy Casanova,
and all of these guys was well after their playing career.
First one I want to look at is someone a
little bit more modern? What about Glenn Dorsey? Like he
was a first round pick, fifth overall by the Kansas
City Chiefs. He won every single award you could imagine
his final year here at LSU. He was a consensus
first team All America and he won in the Girsky,
he won the lot, he won the Outland, you name it,
he won it. There was a defensive award or a
Lineman award, it was given to Glenn Dorsey in two
thousand and seven. It's funny we were talking about this affair.
I was talking about it with tbub and Jake a
couple of weeks ago when they talk about oh, everyone
says Glen Dorsey's junior year was better than his senior year.
That's not true. Somebody came up with that, pulled it
out of their butt and never won rolled with it,
because Glen Dorsey's junior year was really good sixty four tackles,
nine tackles for a loss, three sacks. But in that
two thousand and seven season he was dominant. Even after
the Auburn game, we know the cheap shot, the chop
block that they pulled on Glen Dorsey. He wasn't quite
the same after that injury, but he was still really
really dominant. Look what Glen Dorsey did in two thousand
and seven, the year LSU obviously won the national title.
Sixty nine tackles, thirteen tackles for a loss, seven sacks.
So in three seasons, Glen Dorsey twenty six tackles for
a lost thirteen sacks on the interior of the defensive line.
He was also about three hundred and ten pound defensive town.
That is dominant. Before or since, I don't believe that
we have seen a defensive lineman as dominant as Glen Dorsey.
He was incredible in every aspect of the game. Again,
he played I mean what that all bring game was
Week seven, Week eight, somewhere in there. I mean he
played the back half of that season almost with a
banged up knee, and he was still dominant. He still
made an impact. Glen Dorsey is a name that I
would look at, no question about. But also what about
Kevin Falk. Look, he's your schools all time leading rusher.
He was here for four years, eight hundred and fifty
two yards as a freshman. After that, never less than
eleven hundred. He finished with forty six rushing touchdowns in
four years. Also, he was on that team in the
late nineties that Jerry DeNardo bring back the Magic teams
four ls. Shoot now, again, they weren't winning a ton,
not like they are now. But he was kind of
that first big recruit that LSU was able to pull
in and say, hey, we can hang with the big boys.
Can we get this going? That kind of kick started
LSU into the Nick Saban air and then of course
Les Miles had oors around Brian Kelly where you are now.
Kevin Falk was probably the most important recruit during that time. Period,
forty five hundred rushing yards, forty six rushing touchdowns, five
point three yards per carry. Also, he had over six
hundred receiving yards in his career, over five thousand yards
from scrimmage, fifty total touchdowns. This guy's name should be
inside Tiger Stadium forever. This is a name that continuously
gets brought up in terms of, Hey, who's the next
guy to see his name up there? I think it
has to be Kevin Faulk. You didn't have the team
success you probably would have wanted, but Kevin Falk was
a huge member of that team. He's essentially all you
had on some of those teams. I mean, back to
back to back years, twelve hundred yards, eleven hundred, twelve hundred,
thirteen fifteen and twelve touchdowns. That's incredible. That's good on
a good team, on a team competing for a national title,
much less those teams in the late nineties that had
some good years had some bad years. I think as
far as the pre two thousands era, Kevin Falk's they
got to look at. And then if you want to
go off more recent history, sure, Joe Burrow, Jaden Daniels.
They're going to get honored in some sort of way.
They did too much for this school, in this university.
Glenn Dorsey is a name to keep an eye on
as well. All right, look, I want to take a
time albumen we get back Devin snow hold the Mayo
hopping on with us. We'll recap Memorial Day. He hit
a milestone on RDNR Day. We'll talk about that as well,
maybe even get into some WrestleMania. I know Dev's gonna
have some thoughts about that. That's coming up here on
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Speaker 2: This is off the Bench.
Speaker 4: Welcome back into a Tuesday edition of Off the Bench.
Taylor Sharp sitting in for Jacob Heestor, who will be
back on Friday. Right now. We normally have him on Mondays,
but Memorial Day kind of pushed everything back. He was
gracious enough with his time to hop on with us today.
Devin snow hold the mayo, Dev, How are you today doing?
Good man? Look a little extended weekend for most of
us with Memorial Day. I saw your RB and R
Day yesterday you went out to Blue Oak. Is this right?
Speaker 6: Is it?
Speaker 4: Two hundred and sixty three rby and our days?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And I had just realized yesterday morning that I
think that's like five years of doing it, So I
think two hundreds. Look, I don't know, I don't know
the division, but it's got to be something close to
five years. I think.
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure the run you've been on is impressive.
And you know, I thought about you last week because
I was watching Jason Josh. I don't know if you've
seen him on TikTok, the two British guys that have
been touring around Louisiana. Dude, how the hell did you
not get the hook up with those guys and collaborate
with them?
Speaker 3: Bro, you gott realize, like, none of these these people
ain't They don't know me like that. You know, I'm saying,
they're way bigger than this. That's the look. Man, I'm
I'm Louisiana Golf Coast. These guys come from Britton or
way ever. You know what I'm saying, Like they never
heard of me, so don't. I don't blame them, but
it looks like they had a great time. And you know,
I'll call it how a suit. I thought they were
pretty funny, you know, just I think a lot of
it has to do with the fact that they are
British and they in such a different surrounding, so it
is funny. But yeah, man, I don't know. I don't
know how it didn't happen because I.
Speaker 4: Was watching the video of them in New Orleans and
they're like, guys, we need food recommendations, we need this
and this. I'm like, we need Devin Snow to give
them a tour of the Big Easy, Like I thought
that would have been great, bro.
Speaker 3: I dude, I put a I remember probably like what
two years ago or something like that. I think I
dropped and it's the last time I have a drop
recommendation to anybody that's you know that big. I did
it with Kay Adams and dude, when I tell you,
I dropped her ten dangers under her comments and it
got like thousands of likes. Bro. She wound up going
to Cafee's mind, like you can't help these people, you
know what.
Speaker 4: I yeah, it's like give me recommendations. You give the recommendation,
they go somewhere else. Feel like, okay, well that's what
you think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they it's not even like what they think
of me. It's just like they can't help it. It's
some of these places that we've know about our whole life,
like they just learned tourists in you know what I'm saying,
you can't. I mean the Parkway, and it's not like
it's bad or anything. It's just like there's so much more.
You know.
Speaker 4: That the big news out of New Orleans is unfortunately negative.
You know I saw this. I guess it was Wednesday
or Thursday. Whenever it was first announced that WrestleMania is
pulling out of New Orleans. The ww said they were
going back to Vegas. Like, I know, you got to
do the interview with the Rock late at night and
all that for the promotional thing. What are your thoughts
on them pulling out this this soon? I mean, it's
less than a year or.
Speaker 3: Right, just unbelievably unfortunate, and it's just it's terrible, Bro,
it really is. Man. I'm still not feeling good about that.
I just hate how it happened. I hate how it
happens to New Orleans. You know, it don't happen to
nowhere else. Yeah, I gee you if they would have
been going to LA, they wouldn't have pulled out of LA.
You know what I'm saying. It's just part of what
we go through.
Speaker 5: Bro.
Speaker 3: They will pull a whole refle Mania. We still don't
have clarity on why we just got to assume that
it was over some money, you know, and it's just crazy, man,
so many people are looking forward to that, and uh yeah,
it's it's very unfortunate, but also like I'm not completely shocked,
Like this stuff happens to us all the time, dude.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, speaking of like the why I was
reading last night a little bit, and you know, they
were saying, Oh, we've made so much money in Vegas.
We don't think we can replicate that in New Orleans.
We're just going to go back to Vegas to kind
of you know, save it and get the money back.
But like, I don't understand how they could be this
tune deaf, Like the people in New Orleans will show
up to events like this. I don't I don't realize.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a smack in the face too, because wrestling
and combat sports have rooted history in New Orleans. So
it's like we basically they're saying, bro, we can't about
this bag so much. We got to eat this bag
so much, Like they have billions of dollars, this place
WW is universally bigger than its APPA been, right, and
they're like, no, we got to eat this bag even more.
And they just disregard the history in New Orleans for wrestling,
you know, and it's just it's disgusting, man, it really is.
You know, I go turn that stuff on last night.
They got every single match is sponsored by a different company.
Oh this match is sponsored by cash app. Oh this
match is sponsored by Snapchat. Bro, go eat a bag
and go away. Like seriously, bro, Like it's all they
care about in the money?
Speaker 4: Well exactly, I was seeing that, Like a couple of
the promoters are actually from Vegas, so they were like, oh,
we want to we want to keep the money yet
a little bit more local. Wait, which is crawd But
you were you were talking about the combat sports like look,
Pourier Holloway is coming out. That's gonna be a big
time UFC event in New Orleans.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, same people that run not to cut you off,
but same people that run wrestling, run the US. They
on the UFC now And going back to the bag
bag eaters part, go look the tickets for USC man,
I mean, borrow, ain't nobody loves UFC fore to me, dude,
And I'm gonna tell you right now. At them ticket
it's I say, thousands of dollars for this event, and
I've still yet to pull the trigger on the ticket
because it's just crazy.
Speaker 4: Oh dude, I've seen like average ticket price now, I've
seen like twenty five hundred bucks like per ticket. Like
it's it's insane, like, but for them to pull out,
I thought it was kind of weak. But I wanted
to get your thoughts on this. Aaron Rodgers over the
weekend had this little Q and a. I don't know
where it was, doesn't really matter, but there was a
Saints fan in the crowd saying, Hey, Aaron, would you
ever consider coming to play for the Black and Gold?
And he was like, look, you don't have to be
disrespectful or anything, but uh, absolutely, no way. I have
no interest in living in Louisiana. Like if you didn't
want to do that, that's fine. Like you played in
Green Bay and went to Berkeley, Like those don't seem
like great spots either. But like, is Aaron Rodgers out
of options? Is he going to play this year?
Speaker 3: Well? I think he has a point with not wanting
to be in Louisiana. You bring that guy down the
New Orleans Like, I'm telling you, bar, he's gonna wind
up being a bird the Street, tarrot reata you know
what I'm saying. Yeah, he's a guy, he's a he's
a strange fellow. This is a strange place. And no,
it probably wouldn't work out. He probably getting into the hobbies,
you know, but who knows. Like I guess the only
team really left, so maybe pick up Adon Rodges would
be Pittsburgh, But it's starting to feel like they may
not so well.
Speaker 4: The thing is dev like this morning, this made one
hundred days till the start of the NFL season, Like,
this guy's not at OTAs, He's not going to be
a training camp. Like I look at it as I've
always considered Pittsburgh as one of the more stable organizations
in the NFL. But like, if Pittsburgh makes this move
like that just screams dysfunctional to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't seem very Mike Tom Whin either, Like
you would think that Mike Tom was probably thinking, like,
you know what, forget this dude, you know, And maybe
he's already thought that they moved on. We don't know,
but I think the whole that the whole like being
bigger than the team not showing up then, man, that
stuff is so lame. Now brow like it had its
little run with a couple guys. Aaron Rodgers late late
on that man, that stuff's lame. Bro, you don't want
to show up for the team because Janne Rodgers. All right,
well we all human at the end of the day, Bro,
Tom's gonna fly on and people are probably gonna forget
that you will, you know, Aaron Rodgers, So more power
to him, but also see him later. We don't want
him down here anyway. I mean, thanks for asking the
question as far as the girl that asked it, but
who can speaking.
Speaker 4: Of the quarterbacks that are going to be in New
Orleans Devil Saints question before we get you out of here?
Saints here underway and OTAs. And it was reported that
Jay hayneer out with an obleaque. Now he was obviously
a dark horse to win this starting quarterback spotting everybody.
Everybody thought of him as the third right, But like,
is he done in New Orleans?
Speaker 3: Got it right?
Speaker 2: People?
Speaker 4: They like Hunter Deckers.
Speaker 3: Bo. I'm gonna tell you right now, you want to
talk about a dark horse Dacca, Yeah, I mean the
name you know what I'm saying that it's the same
names as a drill as a power drill. You know
what I'm saying. Black and Deck are like something about
this guy just screams that he's gonna he's gonna work
his tailoff. So yeah, Jake Kam's time. I don't know, man,
I don't want to be mean, but it just seems
like we just need to go a different rude. Get
that last Fresno quarterback out of here, you know, just yeah, yeah, yeah,
get relieve.
Speaker 4: Us of that, man, Devin snow hold the Mayo dev
What you got coming up this week? And RB and
R day was already yesterday, But what you got on
the dock?
Speaker 3: Well, I know, I know in June I got a couple.
I don't know what I got this week. Saturday, I
might go fishing again, but hey, you know, I'm gonna
be at Manning Camp June twenty sixth, twenty eighth. That's
gonna be fun. Doing a golf tournament with Fletcher mac
on June eighteenth, and then you know, obviously the UFC stuff.
My boy Sean King's fighting on July eighteenth, the night
before UFC three eighteen. He's fighting on Fightpass. I'll be
at that, and then eventually I'm gonna pull a trick
on and take it to UFC three eighteen. I'm just
kind of waiting, you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, all right, Devin snow holding Mayo. Dev thanks for.
Speaker 3: Hopping on, all right, brother, take care yep, that was.
Speaker 4: Devin snow Right. We're going to take a quick time out.
We got one segment left. We're gonna wrap it up
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Off the Bench.
Speaker 4: Welcome back in Welcome Back. In final segment, Tuesday edition
of Off the Bench, Tayler Trumper with the Elantra Villary,
Ali Kessi Spizzally with us Elandra, the Macrone, the Macrone situation.
You have a video with this show.
Speaker 8: Wait, I thought we were talking about the publatory one.
Speaker 4: Oh wait, you know what, I'm an idiot. You were
talking about the publicatory one. What is the publictory?
Speaker 8: So the publictory one is well, the McCrone one is
all over Twitter, you can find that link anywhere. But
the Publotory one he's talking about he is my weekend loser. Yeah,
and he's taught because he's like being creepy at this
point about the Jordan Hudson thing. He's talking about how
he found her on a fan cam at a Patriots
game back in like twenty twenty one, and like this
is the video that made me make him the weekend loser.
So y'all could just let me know. I feel like
he's doing entirely too much and it's getting borderline weird.
And like stocker ish, but that's probably a stretch.
Speaker 7: But here it is, Oh buildings, How do I prove
what I had been told, which is that she was
around Jillette Stadium November twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: There is a thing called a fan cam.
Speaker 4: You're familiar, yeah, so you can, I believe.
Speaker 1: But a fancam you can put in your seat, like
your ticket number and your row and everything at a
certain game and it'll show you that section on camera,
so you can find yourself as a fan in the
crowd at the game that.
Speaker 2: You going back like like you can. I don't know,
I don't know how far back it does.
Speaker 7: Turns out he's going to find it on December fourteenth,
twenty fourteen. What I didn't realize is that this was
a whole searchable thing with like high definition cameras everywhere.
We could zoom into any the Panopticon. After exhaustive searching
of the Patriots fan cam database.
Speaker 4: Is where it ward a hobby?
Speaker 7: Sorry, I keep finding it was the Sunday November twenty eighth,
twenty twenty one, when the Tennessee Titans visited the New
England Patriots.
Speaker 2: This is like when David Blaine, like eats a thing
of glass where you're like, what, how did you do that?
Speaker 8: What's the slight of him?
Speaker 2: No, you know what I did. I just did it. Yeah,
I actually did that thing, the thing that you're like,
no one would do that. I did it. Oh my god, stop,
it's zoomed way in. We are way zoomed in on
this fan cam.
Speaker 4: There's so many bad sure is the entire is Jordan.
Speaker 1: This is November when twenty eighth.
Speaker 2: Twenty eighth, twenty twenty one.
Speaker 7: It's the Patriots thirty six thirteen win over the Tennessee Titans.
Bill Belichick has a row of seats out right beneath
the overhang in Gillett Stadium. And what I had to
do was scroll endlessly through Jillette Stadium's fan cams.
Speaker 2: You're telling me that you just went through it.
Speaker 1: You knew the section, but not the day Like that.
Speaker 8: Is so insane, Like he who wears enough to like
go through all that? It's crazy butt.
Speaker 4: Jowl Hudson went to a football game.
Speaker 8: Yeah. My whole point about that though, is that like
it's weird. Yeah, it's weird to have that much time
on your hands too, to look through every single.
Speaker 4: You saw the the.
Speaker 8: Zoom out of it. It's the entire stadium full of people.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I think it's getting weird. But like
I get that there's some people that like have nothing
else to do, like the like the guy with the
pope right finding him in the crowd, but like public
Tori is like national sports writer, and this is what
you were devoting your time to. Like I'm thinking maybe
Pablo's trying to like ride the Bill Belichick train all
the way to the top, kind of like Brian Windhorse
did with with Lebron James and Windhors has been great
since them. But I mean that's that's kind of how
Windhors rose to prominence was because of that.
Speaker 8: But uh, but to like hyper focused on Jordan Hudson,
it's so weird. And I know that, Like we talked
about it and stuff, but we didn't take it that far.
Speaker 4: No, it's it's it's odd. Okay, Look, before we get
out of here, we got a few minutes, let's do
a few ask the bench questions. We actually have quite
a few. Ask the bench. Favorite summer movie' The Sandlot's
pretty damn good. As far as summer movies, I don't
know what classified like a movie that takes place during
the summer, because like I think of Days That Confused
as a summer movie, because I mean it's it's the
last day of school they get out. All that Days
of Confused would be one. Mine would be Sandlot for sure.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Silt's a good one.
Speaker 4: I don't I can't think of one. Ask the bench.
Favorite breakfast food pancakes? I mean yeah, I mean, do
you guy?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Like, is there is there a wrong answer here? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Bacon?
Speaker 4: But all of these options, like is there any bad
answer here? Ask the bench. Will the laundry be doing
a Willem Defoux movie marathon this week?
Speaker 6: Maybe? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Which one we saw? One is pretty good? I have
yet to see, Like it's pretty good. I've heard it's great.
That's the one that's like black and white, right Pattinson? Yeah,
and they're like in a lighthouse. Yeah. Ask the bench.
Favorite brand of Mayo. I like Blue Plate. I don't
know a lot of people say Duke's Mayo. I'm a
I'm a blue Plate person. Ask the bench. Are you
gonna see Mission Impossible Final Reckoning? I want to This
is the last one, you know, Mission Impossibles made like
twenty five movies. Haven't been able to keep up with
all of them. I know Jake loves the Mission Impossibles.
I've seen like through four, and the ones i've seen
are all really really good, So yeah, it's not that good.
But I don't know the Final Reckoning, Yeah I haven't.
I haven't heard anything about it. I just I don't know.
I'll break. I'll break watch it just because it's the
final one. Ask the bench, Bagel, donut or biscuit'sco it?
Speaker 8: Okay, although I do love a bagel, I'm.
Speaker 4: Gonna go donut. I just like sweets. I'm too big
on the sweets. That's a that's a that's a problem
for me. Sweets. Whether it's drinks and then like sour drinks,
it's weird. Are those are kind of my my two
right there? Ask the bench favorite Mission Impossible movie? The
original Mission Impossible, the just the first Mission Impossible. Nothing
beats that the first time you hear that Mission Impossible music.
I think that it is incredible. Mission Impossible three I
really like as well. But uh, those are those are
probably the top two for me. I've only seen the
first one. Okay, well, we know her favorite. Ask the
bench favorite current pro wrestler. Now I'm gonna switch it
to for a laundry. She's a UFC fan, favorite current
UFC fighter.
Speaker 8: I really like Ilia Tuporia right now. Obviously I love
Dustin Poorier, but he's retiring, so for like up and
coming and right now, I love Ilia Tuporia and I
love it is between him and I like I love Patty.
Speaker 4: The Batty, Patty pimblete.
Speaker 8: Is He's definitely it's it's a tie between him and
Ilia because I think Ilia is bringing a lot of
fun and excitement to the sport.
Speaker 4: Pisode is Patty. So I love both of them. Did
we ever play the video? I know we talked about it.
Do we ever play the video of Patty Pimblet training
the Marines on jiu jitsu? So like a lot of people, like,
you know, they talk about Patty, Oh, you know, he
didn't care. You know, he's he's never in shape when
it's outside of fighting. You know, everybody kind of kind
of laughs about it. Like Patty Pimblet went up there
and was teaching these marines, like you know, the basics
of jiu jitsu, ten of them in a row, I mean,
back to back to back Patty stayed on the mat
and my guys, like jiu jitsu is hard. He gets
up there easily submits all ten of these guys and
like they're fresh. He's been out there fighting. I mean
one jiu jitsu match could take three or four minutes.
I mean that's two and a half UFC fights right there,
and I mean he just he kept going and going
and going like it was. It was really impressive. As
far as favorite current wrestler, I really only know Roman
Raine and I'm going to go with Roman Raines. It's
like the only wrestler I now not a big wrestling
fan here at Cody Rhodes is a big name now.
I think that's that's a big name now. So we'll
go with those two. All right, Look, that's going to
do it. For a Tuesday edition of Off the Bench,
We're jammed back today broke down a lot of LSU
baseball pretty much the first hour of the show. We
did it DISLOSU football as well. Chris Phillips with sec Unfiltered,
hopped on to preview the upcoming NCAA baseball tournament. We
created our own flag football teams. Now the NFL players
might be able to compete in the Olympics. Nick Underhill
of New Orleans Dot Football Devin Snow hopped on because
we kind of wanted to do a little combining a
normal Monday show with a normal Tuesday show. So thanks
to all the guests that we're able to hop one
today that's going to do it for a Tuesday edition
of OTB. I'm back today, tomorrow and Thursday. Stay tuned.
That's coming up off the bench.