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Speaker 4: Yo. Happy Ballentineesday, everybody. Welcome in to another episode of
Oh T B. It is Friday, the fourteenth, February fourteen,
twenty twenty five, which means the day in which some
of us will feel the prick of cupid'satarrow.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 6: Others will not.
Speaker 4: But that's just fine, whatever your relationship status is on
this wonderful day, it's all good, man, it's all good.
Let's have ourselves a great day. You know, is this Friday.
It's gonna be a good time the weekends here, it's
gonna be fun. I was talking to uh, one of
my homies this morning, said he's been in a twelve
year relationship since he was since he was eighteen, and
now they're on a bit of a break. Ooh, I said, damn,
it's a so it's a long time. It's a long time.
So you know, just just say, man, just you got this.
You got this. You're gonna make it through today. Head down, work.
Maybe go get yourself a little comfort food what you
enjoy most, you know, go lean into a little bit. Yeah,
treat yourself here on this, uh, on this, on this
Valentine's Day.
Speaker 7: Whenever otv's down and out Chinese food true appslutely true.
Speaker 4: Uh. Speaking of down and out, you three must be
feeling pretty bad about yourselves this morning, because fat feels great.
Because I believe, let me see, let me count them up,
one to I believe there are three apologies owed to
a certain member of the Rodentia Kingdom who hails from Paksatani, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 6: In the eighties on Saturday.
Speaker 4: I don't care. It feels pretty winchry this morning. Old
Posatani fail. Y'all out here hating my guy told he's
bad three hundred day, he just hit a C and
I single. I mean, it's feeling pretty wintry. I got
my dad sweater on this morning for a reason, then
none of this happened.
Speaker 7: You got and you got blue blue jeans on. You
look real dad, right, I mean it feels so good.
The plaid underneath it feels so good.
Speaker 4: Plaid collared shirt underneath the sweater, blue jeans. I mean,
I just feel like I am ready to take on
the world in a responsible and respectful manner. You know,
like if if I was your father or a husband,
you would feel very safe around me right now, and
and and that makes me happy. That makes me very happy.
Uh okay, so y'all say sorry that we can start
the show.
Speaker 8: I want to take this chance to apologize.
Speaker 4: To absolutely no.
Speaker 6: Here we go.
Speaker 8: I am not apologizing the.
Speaker 4: Film we know asking for apology to me. I'm asking
to films. I'm not about it. I'm not giving him.
Speaker 1: We know that T Bop suffers from a horrible disease
that many suffer from, called selective hearing. Yesterday, what did
we say. We'll give him a week grace period because
it happened a week and a half ago. Last week
was warm. We'll continue to see if it stays cold.
That was my words, word for word yesterday.
Speaker 4: Uh hey, guys, let's see.
Speaker 1: I'm not apologizing, have nothing to apologize for.
Speaker 4: I have this problem with selective hearing. I just I
don't know why it is. I just don't hear when
people say stupid things. You know I did. Why did
we just have dead air. Why was nobody talking a
second ago?
Speaker 1: There we go, here we go, we're.
Speaker 4: Talking about Taylor You now you're talking. What did you say? Okay, anyway, okay,
So nobody's gonna apologize. No, no, you're just gonna okay,
just gonna double down. Yeah, sure, fine, whatever do Uh.
So I hope everyone has a great Valentine's Day. Uh.
Speaking of love, there's love in the air with the
New Orleans Saints as they have a new football coach,
youngest coach in the NFL. I didn't realize that not
the youngest coach ever, but at the time of hiring,
thirty six years old. Uh, makes Kellen Moore the youngest
current active coach in the NFL and elandra I apologize,
but did you give me the sound cheets? Uh? Do
anything excess to the sound sheet? NOA, I can grab it?
Yeah yeah all good? O good? Okay, you got two
more seconds? Apologist? Now you da? No?
Speaker 6: No, not yet?
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah yet.
Speaker 7: Look, if we get a week down the road and
it's still it's still cold, I'll give Fat Phil his flowers.
Speaker 4: Okay, cool, all right, that's all I need. I I
was thinking about things today Hedgehogs like shout out.
Speaker 6: I know. I like that.
Speaker 4: We more is that we've adopted and filled the hedgehog
because we couldn't remember what kind of wrote it. He
was like we were calling Mount Rushmore mount Everest like
a week you know, I mean, you know we did
it Mountain Mountain. You know, Tomato, Tomato.
Speaker 7: It's basically well, I mean we compare it him to
Sonic and that's all I can see now.
Speaker 4: So, uh, who's your favorite Sonic character? Gotta be Knuckles?
Oh Shadow? Who said shadow? Oh wow, little emo, little
edge lord back there. Uh So, while Landra Grab's a
sound sheets before we get the show started, I was
thinking about some Valentine's d Yes, we.
Speaker 6: Know he's a groundhog. We talked about the movie yesterday,
but Hedgehog's on.
Speaker 1: Here, guys, it's called It's called groundhog.
Speaker 4: Uh So I was thinking about what to do for
for Valentine's asada because we're just gonna spin as a
family whatever, know, like date or anything. And yeah, I
don't I don't know why I've gotten fixated on this.
Maybe it was all the talk of onion volcanoes, but
I'm really feeling a little post carpool Hibachi, I already
hit up Mary Lee's this morning. I got him some
wonderfully themed heart donuts and whatnot. But like maybe going
straight from school to watching the ancient Japanese artub botch
it while they sit there and throw shrimps and scrimps
into our mouth and and catch eggs in their hats,
and and and and choot chew onion volcanoes. I think
it's the play. I think it's the play.
Speaker 7: Dude, I'm just on Valentine's Day. I would assume if
you don't have a plan to do that in place already,
you're going to like make some calls.
Speaker 4: But but but you missed a key to Taylor said
straight from carpool afternoon, Hubachi, probably gonna be pretty chill night.
Speaker 6: About you say chill, I'd say you probably get in.
Speaker 4: I think I can get into four people.
Speaker 6: You can get in, But I wouldn't say.
Speaker 1: Anything before like five thirty. You're good.
Speaker 4: I think I can get in a little four. Well,
I'm going to I just formulated this idea as we
were speaking no, no, like we did like the last hour.
My wife woke up to a flurry of texts. One
of which was we should take the kids to get
a bochi after school. Very excited. Also the other one was, hey,
your gas tank is empty, you got to fill it up.
I forgot you yesterday. Also, I love you. Happy Valentine's Day.
It starts first, what's the first well mind empty tunes?
She'd your mind so you know. Also I did stop
all stair. I just stopped all stair in love and
war not true. And what's the first text he sends me?
Speaker 6: Did you get the doughnuts?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I get you Friday? Okay, not even I love you?
Not any good morning. I do need to shout out
my wife though, shout out Caitlin Uh won her first
three to oh singles match last night. Let's go been
grinding in the lab one fifteen thirteen in tie breaks.
That's how you do it. Good job, ka, proudy babe.
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Kellen Moore met with the media for the first time yesterday,
and let's start with the question that everybody wanted to know,
right what is he going to do with Derek Carr?
This is going to be Kellen Moore eight.
Speaker 5: Derek's a tremendous quarterback in this league. I've had so
much respect for him the journey that he's been on.
He's a starter in this league. He's a premier player
in this league. He's had a great journey obviously, going
from Fresno State to the Raiders and now here. You know,
really excited to team up with him and go through
this process. And so just like any player on this roster.
You know, I just got here a few days ago,
and I'm excited to go through this journey with all
of them.
Speaker 4: Oh, Jake so non committal on the Derek Carr front,
you know, and granted, Like I guess if you were
to make odds before this press conference about what would
he do in regard to Derek Carr, Certainly the favorite
would be to be a bit ambiguous, but probably second
on that list would have been, say, Derek Carr's going
to be our guy if he really, like, if he
really just with a bullet thought that was the best
chance of winning. But no, leaving the door open on
Derek Carr for for all options.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and as he should.
Speaker 7: I mean, it's it's a situation where he might end
up being back because of what his cap number looks like,
what your options are, and those are gonna have to
be discussions that they have. You have to sit down, Hey,
do we want to move forward with Derek Carr and
try to piece something together around him this veteran player,
or do we want to go with the Spencer Ratler.
Do we want to go with somebody that started six
games last year and we feel like there's something in there,
and I feel like I can be the guy if
I'm Kelly Moore to maybe unlock what Spencer Rattler can
give you because he's a talented player. So they have
to have those conversations. I don't think, at least in
the first round, they're not going to draft a quarterback.
Maybe they take a flyer Gosh, your Jackson darts your
shucks from Louisville like somebody like that in the second
round or something of that nature. But I don't see
them taking a quarterback in the top ten. I don't
think they move up either for any quarterback here in
this draft. So it's going to likely be between Derek
Carr and Spencer Rattler, And now they have to have
those decisions and what they're looking for in this upcoming season.
Speaker 4: There are a few there are a few interesting sigamround
quarterback options, but we'll see that more for draft talk
later down the road. Okay, give me more. Twenty three.
This is again when he's kind of pressed on will
Derek Carr be the starter?
Speaker 5: Do you view that as you guys have a decision
to make at quarterback or you view it as Derek
Car as the quarterback I viewed as Derek Carr is
a tremendous starting quarterback in this league. We're fortunate to
have him, and we're excited to go through this process.
You know, as we built this roster together. Again, I'm
meeting these guys for the first time the last few days.
We're excited to meet more of them and this will
be a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: So again, process right, go to the process, evaluate see
if he thinks that he can work and win with
car or not. So again, just to reinforce the crazy
case of Derek Carr where it feels like everybody hates him,
even though, like again, the hate does not line up
with the actual results. This is kind of shocking to
me and Mike Trippling out. There's an RMS of football.
Derek Carr is fourteen and thirteen with a ninety eight
passer rating as the same starting quarterback. How is it
possible to be fourteen and thirteen with a ninety eight
passer rating? And I have a city dislike you as
much and fan base as to who that nation dislikes,
stare Carr?
Speaker 7: Well, I think a lot of the numbers came in
the first two games this year. I think some of
those and what was the narrative a couple of seasons ago.
It's like a lot of basically empty calorie yards. And
so yeah, so you're saying that that's how the passer
rating gets jacked up.
Speaker 4: But so fourteen and thirteen is not like I mean,
it's not nothing. I guess, I guess to me, I
don't know how I interpret it? Is it? I mean,
definitely some of its personality. He does not jibe with
the city in major red flag off the bat eadan
at Chipotle, first meal in the city, right, that only
kind of things only kind of spun out from there.
The postgame press conferences have not done him any favors,
where you know, you generally like your quarterback to stand
up there and say it's on me, even if they
really don't believe that in their heart.
Speaker 6: Yeah, done that.
Speaker 4: It was paired with the head coach that nobody really liked,
and it looked like it coddled him. So yeah, it's
just again I'm not telling you, like Derek, I'm not
telling you anything. But he is fourteen to thirteen for
whatever that's worth, as a saint starter. And so if
you do move on things may get way worse than
the short term. I get and look, if you cut
car this year, you have two options. You take fifty
million dead money this year, basically no ability to do
any moves in the offseason, but then you're completely free
next season. Or you split it up with a twenty
one million dollar hit this year a twenty eight million
dollar hit next year. Jake, if you were to cut
Derek Carr, which one of those do you think seems
like the better play?
Speaker 7: I mean, I try to split it up. I mean
anything fifties just crippling.
Speaker 4: But then you're free. I know, you know, little swallow
it's the old bitter pill thing. You swallow the bitter
pill for a year and then be completely free. Or again, yeah,
do you mitigate with the twenty one and twenty eight Yeah?
Speaker 7: And it look, it doesn't sound it didn't sound like
it's just going to be his job at all, Like
there's got to be conversations. Keller More would have just
come out and said, yay, for sure, he's our guy.
He's a veteran guy. Like we look at our room
and I think he's going to be our leader. He
didn't say any of that. So it's still there's going
to be deep conversations about who's going to be the
quarterback of this team. And I mean Kellen Moore to me,
is is somebody that has kind of had not I
don't want to say dual threat quarterback, it's such a
college term, but somebody that's always kind of been able
to do things with his arm and with the legs.
We look at Dak Prescott, you look at Herbert, and
you certainly look at Jalen Hurts. Quarterbacks are are athletic quarterbacks,
and you know that's kind of the style that he's
gone with in his NFL career so far.
Speaker 6: So Derek Carr doesn't doesn't really match with that either.
Speaker 7: So like there's a lot of things saying that maybe
it's not going to be car but the money is
going to probably be you know, get the final answer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, M I think if you were to arrive at
cutting him, would you get I'm still not one hundred
percent sure is the right choice, even if it's kind
of what emotionally I want. If you do arrive at
cutting him, I think I would rather just eat the
fifty million, And at that point that would be the
ultimate symbolic we are just going into full rebuild. We're
gonna rip the band aid off. We're gonna try like
hell to be as good as we can this season,
but then next year we can finally have our cap
fully reset and be ready to roll. Here's what to
give me more four? Here, Landra, this is him addressing
is he in rebuild mode? Is he in win now mode?
Speaker 5: I think certainly the great joy that as you went
through this process it became very evident was this is
a collaborative effort here, this is a team. This is
a group that works really well together. We're excited to
go through this journey. Obviously, we'll begin the process of
evaluating the player's side of this and building a coaching
staff and doing it the right way moving forward. It's
gonna be a really fun process.
Speaker 4: Going to give me more five.
Speaker 5: I think certainly we're going to compete for this this division.
We have a great opportunity in the NFC South, and
uh we're gonna focus on that while building this team
the right way.
Speaker 4: So it's kind of a straddling answer there, right, not
committing public to rebuild, but also taking uh, maybe an
accidental stray at the NFC South. Basically saying like, yeah, look,
I know the roster's bad, but hey, it is the South,
so like we'll have a chance to compete for it.
Speaker 6: And along the way we're going to try to rebuild.
You know, I'm trying to think who I was talking
with at the Super Bowl.
Speaker 7: It was somebody that was not It was a current player,
but they weren't involved in the South. And we're talking
about the Saints and then look, i mean, yeah, they're
not great, but the South is bad.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they got.
Speaker 7: A chance to go out there and you know, maybe
win a division. You win a division, then all of
a sudden, you know, the math kind of changes, and
so like that is part of it. And the Buccaneers
have been more consistent than other, isn't the Panthers we're
getting and all those things in the Falcon spend a
lot of money, but that does kind of give you hope,
and you know, it gives you an opportunity maybe to
go out there. It's surprising people. So yeah, it's it's
definitely part of the storyline. It's not the AFC North
by any means. Baker, Little Bryce, Derek Carr.
Speaker 4: And pitting Junior.
Speaker 6: What a division?
Speaker 4: What a division? All right when we get back, let's
move away from car. But as you can see, they're
the big highlight. They're no commitment to car again. What
are you gonna do? We'll see h Let's let's let's
get you a couple more answers from Keillmore's introductory press
conference kind of vision for the New Orleans Saint Having
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Speaker 2: Back to sports talk, maybe the bench easy.
Speaker 4: What's happening, y'all? Welcome back to O T. B Ready's
having a great morning today. Niggie Maden takes the Madden
Tucking Saints to the first day of the baseball season.
The chance, too, is h disgustine taste. I don't know,
I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, look, I'm
I'm very excited for Obody Day and we are certainly
going to get there. Uh but yeah, imagine talking about
the you know, the Odie Prescott's a new NFL head coach.
Speaker 6: That is pretty pretty wild. I agree.
Speaker 4: All right, let's get you a couple more here, Kellen Moore.
Kellen Moore too. Uh, Kellen, what's your vision for the
New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 5: We have an exciting, exciting future for New Orleans football.
Our number one goal is to create an environment allows
every player, coach, a staff member to be their best.
And this is the greatest team sport in the world
for a reason because it takes everyone. We know that
when we when we do this, when we build a
brand of football that we're all appreciative, it's going to
be a smart, fast, and a physical fotball team. And
I know that our style that Whoda Nation will be
proud of and they will rally behind. We have a
tremendous advantage in the NFL because of the phenomenal fan
base that we have, because of the home field advantage
that the Caesar super Dome provides, and I can attest
to the daunting challenge that when you come into the
super Dome as the visiting team, the challenges that you're
gonna have. Can't wait to get started? Who that nation appreciate?
You can't wait to go?
Speaker 6: I don't know. Maybe he's right, this is pretty poor.
Speaker 7: Actually, uh, you know the first when he got off
the plane, he was Saints Nation.
Speaker 6: Now he has been told, hey, it's who that nation?
Speaker 4: Yeah? No, I no, I fixed that. I I I agree,
I agree. Does this excite you players in our league.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, sorry, that was the wrong never mind, players
in our league excites me?
Speaker 4: Were you trying to play a lot?
Speaker 8: I thought it was the hoo one where he was saying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, okay, uh na whatever, no it, let's call
it there. Calm Moore, is your a new head coach?
You said he wants to build through the lines? Well?
Speaker 6: No, you know, no way? What for sure?
Speaker 4: Right? I mean, like duh, of course everybody wants to
build through the lines.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 7: The Saints have been trying to build through the lines
since twenty twenty. The Saints have used three first round
picks on offensive linemen.
Speaker 4: And that's not even including their best guy, Eric McCoy,
who's the second round pick. Like the Saints should be
awesome on the lines, they're not. Good luck, Kelen, good luck?
Speaker 6: All right?
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Speaker 7: The what amount of messages because we're talking New Orleans
Saints they just hired a new head coach.
Speaker 6: We got one on on Twitter and do better? Please?
Speaker 4: What for not talking baseball every day, bro or minutes.
We've been talking baseball a week long after hours, Like
I'm not gla.
Speaker 1: It's opening day. Everyone is excited about baseball. They should
be really good. The Saints introduced their new head coach yesterday.
LSU Baseball plays Perdue fort Wayne Chee. I wonder what
I'm going to leave that day.
Speaker 4: So I mean I see both sides here, because again,
the thing that sucks the energy out of me at
it is to like the Purdue Fort Wayne element, like
what are we really gonna learn? But I am very
excited to Kate Anderson, like I said, this is on
this Valentine's Day, this is your first date with this
twenty twenty five LSU baseball roster, a roster that you
think can maybe get you back to that national championship?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 4: How will Curio look at last Hernandez? How will Milam
look with a position change? How will brass Well look
at third? How will oh who I'm baking what are
their name?
Speaker 1: Look at short?
Speaker 4: No? I just said that more like yeah, more like
Barrett the plate, like is he gonna be like can
he take a similar leap that he did last year?
Speaker 8: I didn't say do you really think we're gonna go
three hours without mentioning L s U Baseball.
Speaker 1: Show by saying zero baseball today, we may be besed.
Speaker 4: We may honestly be being a little defensive right now.
Speaker 6: No, it's Finn the do better please? Yeah, Like, I
promise you we'll talk like L s U. Baseball.
Speaker 7: But when you get a new coach, when you were
the last team to hire a head coach in the
NFL and it looked like you were just in the desert,
just wandering around with no hope, and you get the
offensive coordinator from the Super Bowl champ. Yes, and it's
the first time that you hear from him, it's gonna
be a big deal. Yeah, I guess I was it dynamic? No,
that's on Kellen, not on us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I mean, you know these things are never
they're never dynamic.
Speaker 6: What's a coach.
Speaker 4: New head? Come?
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, do you not? Dan Campbell? That was dynamic? True?
Speaker 7: And hunt and mad and like, oh he's so stupid,
he's never gonna work.
Speaker 4: But also different, he still might knee cash like I'm
I'm a I'm a fan. Like especially the eyebrow work.
Nobody gives them any credit for the rhythm or the
eyebrow work to be able to raise both.
Speaker 6: I can raise my left. He raised both.
Speaker 4: Uh. But again so okay, but yes, you're right, like
Campbell was electric in that uh counterpoint, though, you have
to be authentic to yourself, right, Like if you try
to get up there and fake it, If Kellen Moore,
with his personality tried to get up there and be
Dan Campbell, I mean we we'd sniff it out a mile.
Speaker 7: Away, right, Like, yeah, I'm just saying like that was
that was Dan Campbell.
Speaker 6: That was authentic, That was not coach speak.
Speaker 7: That was this man's been waiting for this opportunity and
he was talking about biting knee caps and everybody's like,
oh my god, this is this is dumb. Well it
turns out he probably would bite kneecaps if he could,
and it's worked for them, and now Detroit is actually
like a winner for the first time in their franchise history,
like actually like every single year.
Speaker 6: Now in the fight. So yeah, I mean, I'm not
saying you.
Speaker 4: Can like Kellen Moore, but that ain't his, that ain't
gonna be that's never gonna be him. He is a
a nice, clean shaven warmon man, you know, I mean
he is he is going now now. He obviously has
some intensity to him, but it's an intensity that does
not express itself in the same way the Dan Campbell. Also,
he's not jacked, and Campbell's freaking jacked.
Speaker 6: I'm getting a lot of.
Speaker 4: It could be worse. He could have gone full out
Adam Gase and clearly have just done a ton of
amphetamines before he got up there. I mean, Nick Sirianni
had a bad one, but he turned out pretty great.
What was his He had the awkward rock paper scissors
analogy that he fumbled all over and none of it worked.
So I don't know.
Speaker 1: Philly Philly fans and never forgave Siriani for that.
Speaker 4: They I cannot wait till Philly goes to starts like
one and two next year or whatever. It's like, Cherianni
freaking sucks. It was all the coordinators. Get a out
of here.
Speaker 8: Remember how we were calling him NFL Ryan Day?
Speaker 4: Uh, I actually don't remember that? Is that? Is that?
What is that? What it developed around him?
Speaker 8: Compared him.
Speaker 4: Third base?
Speaker 8: We like Taylor and I said that he's like the
NFL Ryan Day, where like you're I mean, your fan
base hates you, and they were like crapping on you
the beginning of the season, crapping on you, crabbing, and
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Speaker 3: Let's talk with some other stuff mixed in off the
bench with Hester and tibob.
Speaker 4: Oh. All right, so LSU obeny day to day coming up,
really excited to putting away a lot of major questions
as we get to know this twenty thirty five LSU
baseball team. But before aget there, we got some news,
or we gotta get to some major news. In fact, guys,
how about this the New Orleans Saints yesterday, Kellen Moore
already making moves after a just rip roaring press conference
in which I think it's impossible to leave that press
conference and not feel more excited about the future of
the New Orleans Saints. The first move Kellen Moore hires
Chase Hazlet to be tight ends coach, and you may
be sitting there in your car. Chase says, why is
it sound familiar? Because he's the son of Jim Haslett,
and he acts he worked with Chase Haslett back in Dallas.
So Taylor, as our resident Cowboys, said, what can you
tell us about Chase Haslett.
Speaker 1: He's always had really good tight ends in Dallas. True,
Dallas has been a tight end. Pipeline went in to
Dalton Schultz, to Jake Ferguson. Haslt knows what he's doing, man, So.
Speaker 4: Maybe Chase Hasley could unlock some of this tight end pasient.
Shawn Johnson gonna be a free agent. I don't know
what happens there.
Speaker 6: I don't really care.
Speaker 4: You've really been too high on Jwan Johnson like everybody else. Jake,
do you have anything on Chase Haslett.
Speaker 6: Jim Haslet was good for a time.
Speaker 4: He I mean, who could forget the Leroy Glover? Yeah,
Norman Hand, Aaron Brooks, the first ever Saints playoff win,
I believe, yes.
Speaker 6: And then well, but there were some good times.
Speaker 4: They had about seventy thousand sacks that season they did.
I think Leroy Glover literally had like fifteen or sixteen
from the interior. Just crazy, which is yeah, amazing, also
very intimidy.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 4: He used to make me he was the player personnel
in Saint Louis that summer, I was there, and he
used to make me buy him dip all the time.
But but but, uh.
Speaker 6: How's Leroy Glover?
Speaker 7: Somebody made all them Pro Bowls, gonna make drafted free
agent rookie buy him dip?
Speaker 4: I don't know that's up.
Speaker 1: How much did you actually have to buy him though, like.
Speaker 4: Like a few few logs, no what over the course
of like five months or whatever. No, yeah, but I
got money this man. I mean again, I had a
three hundred and eight dollars signing bonus after taxes.
Speaker 1: The three dollars half of the three hundred eight right there.
Speaker 4: I lost money trying to make the involve. I thought
we were getting paid the whole time, and we were not.
And I might be the only person in human history
who went through an entire ota, all the way down
to final cuts and lost money trying to make the NFL.
I know, got that three hundred and eight dollars after taxes.
Speaker 1: Young t Bop got that three hundred eight dollars check
spin it immediately and was like, wait, like, where's my
next one?
Speaker 4: No, I thought you were getting that was just a signing.
But I was like, okay, whatever. Obviously I'm garbage, that's fine.
But but but I thought we would have something. I
think I think we maybe got like a few hundred
dollars in per.
Speaker 7: Diem for camp. But Shattle Laurie Gloves I actually really
love himself for us. It was like five hundred dollars
per week. I think tight I would have loved it.
Speaker 4: So in other Saints news, again, guys, we're gonna get
to LSU baseball. But another Saint's news, the Saints sign
Clyde Edwards Hilaire to a one year deal. I love
this fresh start for Clyde back here in the boot. Obviously,
he's been going through a lot lately on the on
the non football injury list last year, uh, dealing with
some PTSD from what he went through in college, which
of course he is. How could you not after he
was nearly robbed and what he was forced to do
and so returning home played well at the end of
the year last year. Now he's a full off season
to to to get right. Knowing that that he's going
to be competing. He seems like a perfect back up,
not really change of pace, but perfect kind of backup
to Alva Khmire to help take off some of the
load there. Maybe has a couple of moments left in him.
Shout out Clyde Edwards a layer back in the boot
as a New Orleans safe.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I was very glad to see this. I mean, you
played a couple of games at the end of the
year when you kind of look at what Kela Moore
has done. He's always had multiple backs, I mean, even
with Sakwan like Kenneth Gainwell still you know, got some
carries and was that back that you're talking about, And
so I'm happy for him. I think it's a good
landing spot for him. I do think there's still something
left in the tank. In the last couple of years, obviously,
he's been dealing with stuff off the field, like you said, obviously,
like can't imagine going through that, And so I think
coming closer to home and having loved ones around him
all the time, I think that's gonna be good. But
I'm excited for Clyde. I'm excited for the Saints, and
I hope it really does work out for him. And
I think Kellen Moore, like I said, with his history
of playing multiple backs, it will be good for him.
Speaker 4: So, you know, like I said, I'm really excited for
this afternoon's game to see Kate Anderson there in the mound.
I wonder if he can hold down that Friday night spot.
But it looks like we're up against the clock. So
here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna take a little
break and then when we get back, we'll start to
break down some of the top storylines for LSU and
Purdue Fort Wayne going into the weekend. What a weekend
at the box. Cannot wait to watch it, cannot wait
to talk about it, which we'll do next here on
Off the bench.
Speaker 2: Off the bench, maybe be back to sports talk. Maybe
off the bench.
Speaker 4: Welcome back to ot B. Massive weekend at Bton Rouge
this week and got a number one versus Number two
battle and the PMAC tonight for gymnastics, huge LSU Texas
top five battle in Austin for women's basketball going down
of course, open to day in the Box today and
I was thinking about it, guys, Jay Johnson tinkering this lineup,
moving guys around, you know, an incredible portal, incredible signing class.
A lot to chew on there. But the Saints just
hired Kellen Moore. We haven't finished with the press conference yet.
We gave you the Chase Hazlet news, we gave you
the Clyde Edwards z layer news. Let's go back to
the presser as we need to get some further insight
into what Kellen Moore views as as kind of his
vision for your New Orleans Saints. This is more thirty one. Kellen,
Will you call plays and all today, coach?
Speaker 6: Or was that kind of tough in the end.
Speaker 5: Yes, at call plays.
Speaker 4: Okay, so there you go. Confirmation pretty unambiguous, Jake, there
didn't leave a lot of wiggle room Kellen Moore going
to call plays very.
Speaker 7: Depth without it saying a lot. You know, I thought
that was just a very fascinating answer.
Speaker 4: I mean, look, you hire Kellen Moore to call plays,
it's what he does, he does, who he is, it's
what he does. He didn't hire him to to to
to not call plays. So uh, now you may know
speaking of Chase Hazlet, Jim Haslett, Kellen moore brother, Herbie Moore,
who is the OC for what missoo? Still is he
still at Miszoo or.
Speaker 6: Did he leave? Oh?
Speaker 7: I think he's still in Miszoo right yeah, yeah, yeah,
I had another good year there with the with drinking company.
Speaker 4: Uh here's more thirty two would you think about hiring
your brother?
Speaker 5: I'd love to work with him one day. Obviously he's
in a tremendous spot, uh, you know, a tremendous role.
They've had a ton of success at Missouri the last
couple of years, and so, uh, you know he'll have
great opportunities being forward.
Speaker 4: Okay, so not gonna be working with uh with Herbie
quite yet, but potentially in the future the door being
left open. Yeah, kind of like Derek Carr a little
bit in that way. Not gonna commit to him quite yet,
but potentially in the future the door beat all options
still remaining on the table.
Speaker 6: You know, if they ever.
Speaker 7: Crossed paths, he would highly enjoy it, I think, is
what he said there.
Speaker 4: Now. So one of the key parts when you're a
new head coach, something you gotta do. You got to think, O, hey,
what am I gonna do for my staff? Now, we
mentioned Chase Hazlet, the son of Jim Haslet. If you
missed it, you can rewind the show. We talked about
it last segment. He's back. He's the tight ends coach. Coordinators, though,
tend to be more important than position coaches. Let's talk DC.
A lot of Brandon Staley rumors, Kellen, this is more eleven.
How are you going to hire a DC.
Speaker 5: Yes, we'll go through a true process for the defensive
coordinator spot. We're really excited to go through that over
the course of the next few days, and we'll find
we'll find an excellent candidate.
Speaker 4: So, you know, I find that to be pretty fascinating, Jake,
because I thought he was going to be unexcited for
the process to hire a defensive coordinator, but he just
told us that he's like actually looking forward to it.
So I'm gonna say that shows me comeitbit to the job.
I'm getting more and more bullish from Kellen Moore the
more we hear from him.
Speaker 7: If it was Brandon Staley didn't work as a head coach.
But he's only been a defensive coordinator for a year.
But in that year points allowed, first, total yards allowed,
first passing defense, first, rushing defense, third. I mean, there
you go, dude, There you go, dude. But again, analytics process,
that word process. We're gonna do a process on our roster.
We're gonna do a process on our coaches, and we're
gonna stick to our process and eventually we're gonna find uh,
we're gonna find the right answers there. All right, So
I may have mentioned it, but in case you missed it,
Kella Moore hiring Chase Hazlet sort of Jim Hazlet to
be tight ends coach, signing Clyde Edwards d Lair to
a one year deal, also going to do a process
currently for a d C. Did you hear that he's
thirty six years old? That makes him the youngest active
coach in the NFL. This is more nineteen Kellen.
Speaker 4: Do you feel like your age works in your favor
tremendous value?
Speaker 5: Obviously there'll be certain players that are there more closely
associated with my age, and I think that's tremendous value.
I've been in those shoes for a number of years now,
being a thirty one year old offensive coordinator. You know
that first time half the room was the guys that
I was teammates with two years prior to and so
I think there's tremendous value and leaning those experiences having
been in their shoes in a relatively recent time. Again,
I think it's a great.
Speaker 4: Opportunity interesting guys. Three uses of tremendous value in that
one answer. So, as you can see, he thinks it's
giving him tremendous value to be akin to the age
of his players. I don't know that I fully agree,
but I like that he believes.
Speaker 7: That there's a fine line between being their buddy true
being their coach, and that's on Keller Moore to have
to find that fine line.
Speaker 4: I wonder how he's gonna do it. Maybe he'll go
through a process to try to give me more twenty
This is more talking about fitting his offen the personnel
the Saints currently have.
Speaker 5: I think it's just important. Every roster is different, every
challenge is gonna be different. You know, throughout a season,
we're gonna have obstacles. You know, we may lose a player,
we may have to adjust, and I think that's really
really important. Ultimately, we got to find out what our
players do best and put them in those positions to
be successful. And you know, I think we got tremendous
talent on this team. I'm excited to team up with
these guys, to get to know them as people, get
to know them as players, and then again provide that
opportunity for them.
Speaker 4: Now, if I'm mad to be fascinating, because I thought
the Saints roster was ass but he says they have
tremendous talent, and he's gonna create a system that highlights
that personnel. Go ahead and give me more twenty one
on the challenge of bidding his offense to that tremendous talent.
Speaker 5: I think that's the fun challenge, you know, Yeah, that's
the fun challenge that you get to team up with.
Certainly there's gonna be certain philosophies identities that I believe
in very very strongly. But again, I think it's really
really important that as we build this, there's gonna be
a process. You're gonna go through ota is, You're gonna
go through training camp, and we're gonna you know, figure
each other out more and more each and every day
that we sp and and you know, those those clear
identities will present their self as the season goes there.
Speaker 4: That word is again, guys, process. Okay, everything is a process,
and you got to fall in love with the process
if you want to get the results that you eventually want.
Speaker 7: Yeah, what said more, process are tremendous. That's the real
question of the press.
Speaker 4: Chris, I don't know. I mean, look, I think I
think I think it's leading to a lot of tremendous
answers myself personally. Uh So, let's go to more twenty seven.
So Chase Haslet, Jim Haslet's son, Jim Haslett, former coach
of the New Orleans Saints. Kellen Moore, the son of
a high school football coach, Kellen, what do you think
you learned from your dad coaching high school football.
Speaker 5: It's really all about building the right environment. Building an
environment allows every player, coach, and staff member to be
their best. And h we had a Friday Night Lights
setting and prosper Washington is a special place. Those were
the guys that I looked up to. But the culture
was really really special. Those guys worked really, really hard,
harder than any other team they faced, and they had
the confidence to challenge every single team no matter how
big they were. Uh, we felt like our a little
small town had a chance there.
Speaker 4: It is the key is working hard. I mean we
got I mean if you work hard, the results followed.
Trust the process. With tremendous work, the results follow guys.
By the way, he was Washington National, he was Washington
Gatory Player of the year, not to like fifty million
touchdowns of senior year.
Speaker 7: All I heard is we're trying to find our own
Tim Riggins in Friday Night Lights. If we can find
Tim Riggins, then we'll go play for championships.
Speaker 4: All right, So look, guys, a lot to get to.
Next hour opening in the box just a few hours away, guys,
six hours away. At this point, what's gonna happen at
the catchup position is Aaron Beattie, what's gonna go down
on the new infield now?
Speaker 6: But we'll get to it all next on Off the
bench
Speaker 2: Off the Bench,