Speaker 1: Let's all start to what you want to presents. Off
the bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and C Bob aber.
Speaker 2: I gotta come off the bitch.
Speaker 1: Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: Way, what's going on, y'all? Welcome in ot B. It
is Thursday, March twenty seventh, twenty twenty five, and this
is a brand new edition of OTB Team. I'm jakeo,
Lundra and Taylor all hanging out with you today. Sorry,
I'm still if I sound a little off, I'm still
battling the flu. No longer contagious. Apparently they have like
a a what Jake called the morning after pill for
the flu. Now, it's one pill that you take and
it kind of knocks it out in twenty four hours.
So I told them wouldn't be contagious by this morning anymore.
Feeling okay, I'm sweating profusely. That just won't stop, and
then I'll be like cold the next second. But we're
gonna make it through today's show. We're gonna have ourselves
a day here. But if I guess, if my energy
levels are not what they normally are. I apologize. That's
the Uh, that's the deal. Great show yesterday, though, guys,
what's going on? How we all feel in today? You
got a little glisten to you. I'm sweating, bro, I
am sweating.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And what's crazy is when I first got in here,
I was freezing. But that's kind of been the last
three days. At least I'm not crazy, you know. Like
it's one of those things where even yesterday I woke
up and I just felt like absolute trash. But I'm like, man, like,
am I making this up? Like you woke up, I
was like, actually I should go in, I should go
into work or whatever, and then I was like, no,
I'm not. I'm not going to So at least when
I got to the doctor and they told me indeed
was flu, I felt somewhat validated that I'm not like
just making up. Also, that makes sense. I was in
such a poor mood on Tuesday as well, trying to
make it through that day.
Speaker 4: You did say that that felt like a six hour
show when you left, yes.
Speaker 2: Uh, And when don't you know it probably down for
another six hour show today? Got snaps in noon and
then roam this afternoon. So my god, is it it's
not hot near it's not as cold as it normally is.
I cannot stop sweating. I can feel myself sweating. Can
you turn down these lights? Maybe that for years.
Speaker 5: I get turned down the lights y'all on both the
alls of down.
Speaker 2: Maybe turned down a little bit. Man, Maybe maybe I
don't know if we can turn them off. Maybe maybe
I don't know. Maybe it's not even gonna change anything. Um,
but yeah, so it's it's it's what sucks though, is
it's a kind of crappy time, Uh, to be feeling
so bad because this is literally one of the oh
that actually feels sway better. Uh, this is I know,
the lighting's on as good whatever, it feels better. This
is literally one of the best days of the sporting year.
I mean, it's MLB opening Day, it's Sweet sixteen for
the NCAA tournament. LSU plays Mississippi State today in a
series that'll open up after the ass whooping they put
on UL the other night. Shout out kh nomics winning
that battle. But but yeah, it's a great day for
sports if you're feeling good, enjoyed today, because no matter
what you are into, there's a little bit of everything today. Yeah,
you're right, it is one of my favorite days.
Speaker 4: I love the Sweet sixteen once it gets you know,
back rolling now you've had time to kind of see
where every team was in the first two rounds, and
you think that you're the smartest guy in a room
yet again, and you restart your second chance brackets and
you know, talk about how your bracket's doing that nobody
cares about. But we're still going.
Speaker 6: To do it.
Speaker 4: You know, I love opening day of baseball as well.
So the Bravos gets to and you're right, we get
the rare Thursday night SEC baseball matchup and against Mississippi
State one in five, and so for the Tigers, you hope,
you know, take advantage of a situation where Mississippi State's
a little bit down right now.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, miss a one in five in the SEC
entery in this matchup, of course LSU four and two.
So yeah, I mean, look, we're not going to call
for sweet but you have to win this series. You
should absolutely take two of three. This weekend, loger, what's
going on? How are we doing today?
Speaker 7: I am doing great.
Speaker 8: I'm now kind of feeling like I might have had
the flu. Last week and maybe gave it to you,
but I'm really glad you're feeling better. We got Blake
Baker to record you like a little get better message though.
Speaker 7: Really yeah, so we're gonna play it for you real quick.
Speaker 2: Here it is.
Speaker 7: Here's Blake Baker wishing you to get better.
Speaker 2: I don't trust this. Uh T. Bob's out sick today?
Would you consider that a poodle?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? Man, there's there's no reason to miss talking on
the radio. They got they got cough drops, Bob. I
hope you're listening, and I'm thoroughly disappointed. I did not
expect that type of behaviorality. But we'll get you over here,
get you some plate pushes, man, and get you fixed
right back up.
Speaker 2: I could not be angrier right now. I told you,
I feel like dog water. I am sweating and shivering simultaneously.
I can't talk. I've got no energy whatsoever. And I
got to deal with you hyenas talking trash while I'm out.
I should not have come in today. It makes me
want to pack it up to be fit at home.
What was cut out of that?
Speaker 4: It was the chat asking to ask Blake Baker unbelievable.
Speaker 2: The situation unfreaking believable. I can't say. Okay, And I
told you all he was gonna be mad. He's gonna
be mad at me.
Speaker 4: But yesterday when I went to Pro Day seven, people
asked me where you were. Everybody was excited to see you,
so they did miss you at pro Day yesterday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, guys, I have the effing flu. Are you dumb? Like?
What are y'all talking about?
Speaker 7: Have you like what I was here all last week?
Speaker 2: You didn't have the flu?
Speaker 7: I was dying.
Speaker 2: You then go to the doctor. They go to the doctor,
go to the doctor.
Speaker 8: To go to the doctor. Yeah, okay, and get a
morning after pill.
Speaker 2: Okay? No, I mean it's like, yeah, you text some
people like oh yeah, yeah, sorry, I got a flu
or whatever, and their mediate concern is whether or not
you're giving it to them. I don't even think you
gave it to me, honestly. Uh it was. I went
to the doctor with Bobby the other day and no, no,
he wasn't sick. It was just a checkout around the building.
But in while we were there, she was like, oh,
hey we should do wead it's vaccinate? Should you like?
But you go ahead and give a flu shot as well,
because like it's uh, it's going around, You've had a
couple of people in here with it, and so that
seems to be the uh, the lead culprits. And the
timing would make sense because it was that night in
uh In in which y'allo no no no no, I
just mean being in that all throughout those offices, and
then that night was when it was when it ended
up kicking in right after that, you know, if this
is my cross to bear, so be it. I before
I was kind of hoping that none of y'all got it.
You get a jank, Alandra, I would really love if
you've got it for real this time. That's crazy, Taylor.
I don't want you to have it. Taylor's been nothing
but sweet and kind through this entire process. Thank you,
no flu for you, and I hope Blake Baker gets
the flu twice. Wow.
Speaker 5: Fact that it was like it was set up in
a way of like Blake Baker wished you well, and
right before it played, you were like, I don't think
he did.
Speaker 2: I don't know why, because I can I can smell
the fecal matter that y'all are about to spew at
my direction before it came out of that hole that
you think is a mouth, but I think it's actually
a b hole. Unbelievable, unbelievable. Yeah, where's Blake Baker when
I'm on the show? Huh? You book all these great guests?
Where's that every day of the show when I'm out,
All of a sudden, we just have like an all
star lineup of guests because I was solo. Yeah, exactly,
So where's that show? I can't do it like you
do when I'm not here. You just you can do it.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: But I'm saying, but we need more guests. So if
I'm getting criticized for the flu, I say, let's let's
get some like to get some of these.
Speaker 5: We discussed this yesterday and Jake was like, I hope
T Bob doesn't get mad because it's just coincidental. Think
about this, Okay, they practic is just they practiced on Tuesday,
they were off yesterday, they practiced today, and then next
week they're off all week for spring break.
Speaker 6: Like, yesterday was kind.
Speaker 5: Of the only day we could have it more, and
there was the only day he didn't have morning practice.
Speaker 2: I I want everybody in the commercial break to come
over here and by way of apology, open your mouth
and let me spit in it, and then we'll be
on even and then and then we'll be cool.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Let me let me spit in your mouth and then uh,
let's uh and then where and then we'll be and
then we'll be even, We'll be great. No, oh my god,
I have so much backsweat right now. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 4: Ethan Postig was asking about you, Ben Wilkerson was asking
about you.
Speaker 2: Damn. They were all up prodemm. What was Ethan doing
up there? He lives here. He just he just went
out there and see everybody.
Speaker 4: And so Ben Wilkerson is now one of the old
line co which is for the Browns.
Speaker 2: So is he still is? He has? He still not
been bequeathed a like full o line job.
Speaker 4: Still in the assistant unbelievable eight years, I believe, literal.
Speaker 2: Best coach I've ever had in my entire life, one
of the best players to ever play in an LSU uniform,
Remington Award winner, and a guy who if you want
to talk about the secret behind the success of the
twenty eleven LSU offensive line, one that did not feature
anybody who ended up making the NFL. It was all
Ben Wilkerson coming in for twenty ten and twenty eleven
and teaching us technique. He was such an incredible coach.
He's probably right behind Tommy moffittt my favorite coach I've
ever had. That makes me very sad that he was
an incredible teammate. Didn't see him yesterday, Nook. He says,
there's no way he's still not contagious.
Speaker 7: Trust me, it's a magic pill.
Speaker 2: Trust me. I asked yesterday. I asked yesterday, expecting the
answer to be no, you can't go to work, and
I was kind of gonna be a little happy so
to have that like get out of jail free card.
But he was like, no, but to morrow more. Your
viral load should be low enough.
Speaker 4: So I was like, all right, yeah, Well to say
I got fixed, I got hit with a I don't
know what it was from, but I got hit with
a false sense of confidence.
Speaker 2: Around like seven o'clock last night. I actually felt okay.
Then I went to sleep again and I thought I
would feel good getting up, but it did not. Did
not end up going that way. Uh Roy kent Uh.
Before I get this, I was headed to work. But
now I have to go to the Guarantee buildings and
team up and spit my mouth. I always imagined it
would happen, but not like this. Oh yeah, Roy, that's awesome, dude.
Uh yeah, you know what I'm I'm anna. Stephen A
Blake Bakery and steven A said about Lebron, which I mean,
come on, bru, they know what are you talking about?
You are talking out of your ass. In case you
missed it, stephen A said, if Lebron would have put
his hands on steven A, that steven A would have swung.
Speaker 6: I mean, you would have swung way up.
Speaker 2: What are we talking.
Speaker 4: We've all seen that clip of him in the boxing
gloves with the trainer.
Speaker 2: The Uh yeah, so Lebron actually posted that on his Instagram.
Oh yeah, with a bunch of crying emojis like yeah,
but yeah, so Blake Baker, it's on site. Next time
we see each other. Uh, you're lucky we don't run
into each other. Even though y'all set Blake up, y'all
are actually talking about an anti Foxhole move. Talk about
an anti Foxhole move, unbelievable. I mean, what would stephen
A trying to hit Lebron James even.
Speaker 5: Look like like it's like a child.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we would need to do that. I mean, uh
suk spinning dragon punch would be his only way of
reaching Lebron's chests.
Speaker 6: I don't know how tall stephen A is.
Speaker 5: He seems to be average high, like maybe like you know,
five ten, five eleven.
Speaker 6: I imagine he'd swinging a foot up.
Speaker 7: Yeah, six one according to Google.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, he's five ten.
Speaker 2: I don't know what his actual height is, but he
does not give off six to one, no at all.
Speaker 8: No. Uh, there's a picture with him next to Mike Tyson.
Speaker 7: They look the same size.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think I think Mike's list that I
was like five eleven.
Speaker 2: Steven A's on one hell of a power trip. Well, yeah,
he just signed a twenty five million dollars a year contract.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Tyson's ESPN's love being very good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thinking about it, Lebron was on ESPN talking about
steven A. Now, steven A is going to have this
for weeks to be able to use ESPN's thinking. Twenty
five million dollars is a steal right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is interesting that, uh that we live in
an age where it's and and I don't you know,
I'm not a journalist. I don't care about things like
journalistic integrity. But it is interesting where now it's almost like, yeah,
you want your personalities to be involved in the in
the story, not just commentate on it, which Stephen a
firmly involved in the story.
Speaker 6: That what we're talking about.
Speaker 2: She said.
Speaker 5: Mike Tyson's listed at five tens, is listed at six
to one.
Speaker 4: Maybe six one, Eh, you don't think, No, it don't matter.
He ain't six eight No, No, he's still a child.
Uh why are we talking about Steven a on Opening Day?
Speaker 2: What do you want to talk about the Dodgers? You know,
the Dodgers just have a super team. I mean, what what?
What are the opening day storylines that everybody's into. That's
probably the one that I'm most intrigued by.
Speaker 7: Did you know Paul Skeins is pitching?
Speaker 2: I know, it's shocking, it's crazy we did. But but again,
because I know we're making light of it, because of
course he is, but we should point out that he's
the fastest ever first overall pick to start Opening Day,
which is pretty incredible.
Speaker 7: Dylan Cruz is in the opening day lineup.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, give me some more Tigers.
Speaker 7: If you got him, Breggy is gonna be in his
first season.
Speaker 4: At where he took over third base.
Speaker 7: Disgusting. Yeah, which is anybody surprised by that?
Speaker 2: I know there was like going to go to d
H Now.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Devers was upset about it. But Devers is not
on the same level as Alex Bregman is.
Speaker 6: Matter of fact, I.
Speaker 5: Think, I think, like defensive efficiency, he was one of
the worst third basement in baseball this year.
Speaker 8: I compared their stats like on Twitter the other day
because people were complaining about it, and I'm like, Okay,
Alex Bregman is really good at their base Nevers is not.
Speaker 2: The uh I mean for me it I I just
the only thing. And granted I don't really have a
team that I root for anymore, although it's crazy because
growing up, the Braves were just like you know, I
would I would watch Sports Center, yeah, three or four
times just to see the highlights of Glavin throwing again,
like that was I'm watching baseball to night every night. Yes,
that was my team, but at some point just kind
of fell off of it. But but I think that
the most interesting thing is this Dodger team. It's just
absolute super team. Doing battle and a sport where it's
not like it's not like they're just like everybody's spending
a lot, but the Dodgers are just spending more like
you have some franchises that literally aren't paying like what
the Dodgers are paying a single player, right, and they've
got everybody, and they're unapologetic, unapologetic about it. A true
evil empire sort of feel trying to come with the
first ever back to back champs since the Yankees in
ninety nine two thousand. That sounds right, uh, and that's
gonna then. And then you look at like somebody like
theirates with schemes where basically their ownership told them, look,
y'all have to win for us to spend. But that's
kind of the catch twenty two of it, right, like
can you win if you don't spend? The pirates basically saying,
y'all are going to have to find success with what
we have now, and if you do, that revenue goes
up and then we'll be willing to invest some more
of that revenue.
Speaker 4: It is wild that in a sport where the Dodgers
can have a payroll of three hundred and twenty two
million dollars like and then some like it's actually a little.
Speaker 2: Bit more than that.
Speaker 4: And then the Marlins, who play in the same league,
play the same sport, right, they have a payroll of
forty seven million.
Speaker 2: It's unreal. That's what I'm saying. That is that is
there is not a that that that matches up nothing
else in American professional sports. Is that how the Premier
League is? Are there are there salary caps in the
Premier League?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: So like yeah, so like the EPL could be leagues
are yet similar to that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, true, in those clubs that are at the bottom
that are getting relegated don't spend like a third of
what Arsenal and man U and man City and all
those teams.
Speaker 2: So I guess it's not completely unprecedented sports, but definitely
an American sports. So I'm excited to watch all the
highlights coming out of today.
Speaker 4: And of the like active because some of this is
like injured money, they you know, pushed a little bit
down the road of active. So the active spending of
the Dodgers two hundred and ninety million, the Marlins twenty
five million. So of that forty seven I mentioned, eight
million is four players that were injured, not on the
opening day. Roster twelve has been pushed down the road,
and two point twenty five is just dead.
Speaker 2: Salary damn So.
Speaker 4: Twenty five active million compared to two hundred and ninety million.
Speaker 2: That's again, that is just that. That's bat crap crazy.
But happy overy Day, Happy sixteen. We'll get into all
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Speaker 1: How quickly will this segment leave the rails? It's off
the bench with Hester and T Bob.
Speaker 2: Yo, what's happening y'all? Welcome back? Oh TV? Okay, I
just randomly still feel a little better, dude, I don't
know what just hit Some did R and B Thursday?
Maybe so maybe so okay, So LSU opening up with
missopp State tonight and again the it's so the games
except for seven pm tonight, six thirty pm tomorrow and
then two pm on Saturday again starters Gordon remained same
for this weekend could potentially be some change. Obviously, like
we've talked about, Katie Anderson and Jinsen have been pretty
equivalent thus far. It's it's it's a chase shore piece
that may be open to change depending on where this
thing goes from here. What is y'all's biggest and look, clearly,
like we said, LSU needs to win this series, They
need to take two or three. They are better than
Missippi State. Last year we said many of the same things.
Granted it was opening the season on the road at
Duty Noble and well it did not go according to plan.
But this year, this is a one in five Missippi
State team and you are supposed to be one of
the best teams in the entire country. So if you
look at goals for this weekend, what is the number
one thing that you want to see this LSU baseball
team prove.
Speaker 4: I think what we've really talked about all week it's like, Okay, well,
if your starters give you enough to win, can you
close it out? And if you're tied in the fifth,
sixth inning and you go to your bullpen, can they
keep the lead? Can they keep it where it needs
to be long enough for your offense to score or
some runs. And you know, how do they work the bullpen?
Who comes in on Friday, who comes in on Saturday,
depending on the situation. Because that guy when somebody we
talked a lot about yesterday when Kendall Rodgers was on
with this, like you do have this piece that has
been really.
Speaker 2: Good in the bullpen.
Speaker 4: Like if he continues to be that guy, do you
mess with that or do you say, hey, maybe he
could be better as a Sunday starter, But right now
he's so valuable to us in the bullpen, we can't
really go anywhere else. And so you know, Case and
Evans as he continue to be that guy, and also
can somebody else in the bullpen?
Speaker 2: Can a third arm step up and be dominant?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it seems like it is all about
the bullpen. Kogie Riley wrote about it in The Advocate
today and mentioned, how look, if you take Cowen, Anderson
and Evans out of air, the other pictures right now
are having some control issues. Yeah, last weekend against Texas.
Again this is all excluding Cowen, Anderson and Evans, but
last weekend against Texas in twelve and a third, they
walk nine against Miszoo that same grouping walked eleven. They
also last week and gave up seven runs, nine hits,
and two home runs in just four innings over those
final two days. And although Ianson's stats in the year
are pretty good overall, like I said, they actually look
pretty similar to Kate Anderson save for the era he
did allow and this what kind of blew up his
numbers five to the last nine batters he faced on
Saturday to reach base. So those are the questions with LSU.
I don't think there's a problem with hitting. I don't
care that the bats ended up going to big cold
against Texas. They got right back on track against ul
seventeen four, really jumped on him just first inning on
the other night. And so that that is the only
thing that you're looking for is outside of Cowen, Anderson,
Evans and Ironsen to some extent, who are you going
to be able to rely on. And here's what I
get to be confused about. Missippi State. So not an
overall good record on the year, sixteen and nine, one
in five in the sc they get swept by Texas,
they lose two of three to Oklahoma, but you know
they're fifth in the league in team batting average hitting
three fourteen and they're actually fourth in the league with
a three three nine team era. You strike a lot
of guys out, so it is a team that is
maybe a bit more dangerous than they appear to be
just from their record, And so you're going you can't
just show up and win these games.
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 4: We talked about that a little bit yesterday, not only
their record, a couple of teams in the SEC and
who they've played and how it's kind of played out
and some close losses and so, you know, just like
last year when you played in Mississippi State, got a
little too excited about that series, but this one, being
at home, is a different But you are you are
the better baseball team. But they're certainly not going to
just roll over and die and just get like that
is not who they are going to be. So I
think even if you went to a three t in
this series, that is a big win for you, gets
you right back on track.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and if walks are a problem, man, uh, just
just just make him hit it, you know, be willing
to maybe a lot, because like your bats are gonna
come through. Your bats are going to be able to
put up numbers and support your staff. The worst thing
that you can do is just uh give them free
bases that end up making those big innings that you
seem to fall into last week and that much worse. Alandra,
what are the main elements that you're looking for this
week and against the Bulldogs?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I guess I'm just seeing if there's any tweaks
to the rotation, if there would be any, But it
seems as if he's probably just gonna keep it the
way it is, which I'm fine with. Besides, I mean,
it really just depends for me, like if tonight we're
winning and we have a big lead and he takes
Kate Anderson out and throws Cowen, it's gonna be the
same thing is last week to me, where I'm just like,
why would we put.
Speaker 7: Him there where we don't need him there? But I
don't know.
Speaker 8: I I'm pretty happy with where the team's at, so
I don't have anything that I'm I know.
Speaker 7: There's worries about the bullpen, but I'm not. The sky's
not falling to me, So I'm now, if.
Speaker 2: You lose this weekend, yes, then then it would be
fu conversation. I mean, but no, not right now. One
interesting note here the chat's pointing out is State's gonna
be saving their ace picocone for Friday night.
Speaker 7: So Aerry's starting tonight.
Speaker 2: Yes, Sierry, who doesn't uh doesn't have a ton of
indings on the year eleven and two thirds been good
in the eleven and two thirds fifteen k's three walks
two three one era A, but no wins or losses
on the record as of yet, so maybe kind of conceding, uh,
not not conceding the game necessarily, but recognizing that their
best chance to maybe get a win uh lies and
throwing the lefty Pico tomorrow night and him going toe
to toe with a Ands and Pico cone four to
zero on the year two five to two e ra A,
He's got fifty three k's to only seven walks in
thirty five and two thirds inning pitch. So Pico's having
a very good year thus far. And I kind of
love that and really challenging ninsen to uh to to
match his output and and and see what happens on
that riderious if he.
Speaker 8: Has a longer leash he did last weekend.
Speaker 2: Uh, I mean I don't would you think it would
be longer with Pico on the other side, or would
it be shorter given that runs maybe at a premium Friday.
Speaker 7: You have to let him go. We've seen him work
himself out of these jams. You have to let him
do it.
Speaker 5: Also, like that goes back to not throwing Colin on
Friday night, because if you're conceding Friday, like we actually
talked about this yesterday, so many people saying you have
to win Game one.
Speaker 6: No, you don't. You have to win the series. Texas doesn't.
Speaker 5: Texas could not possibly care less that they lost on
Friday because they took the series. Clearly, that's Mississippi state
strategy here. They don't think they can go toe to
toe with Kate Anderson. Let's say lsu wins tonight. Let's
say Kate Anderson goes six innings, you're up four runs.
Find you somebody that can get you nine outs. Maverick
Rizzy's been a solid arm out of the bullpen. He's
a guy that I think needs more run. If you've
struggled with the lefty and Kate Anderson, DJ Primo has
been good out of the bullpen as a lefty. You
don't have to go to Zach Kawen save Cowen maybe
for Saturday or Sunday, like we were talking about, because
you kind of burned him on a game that you
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with four innings to play. I mean, the bullpen was
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I don't care about starter and all that. I want
to see relievers used in the right spots.
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seven sixty or a twenty two and third pitch thirty
two K's nine walks really similar numbers Chores and Shores
and Carson. So offense probably going to be the way
to win game number three, but we'll see it. Starts
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sorta
it's off the bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 2: What's going on y'all? Welcome back to otb uh so
LSU pro day was yesterday, and some guys seem to
have some really good days, maybe nobody more so than
tight end Mason Taylor, who comes out of the four
six five forty four five two short shuttle seven oh
six three cone, twenty eight reps on the bench that
is very strong for a tight end. Uh and Word
on the City came in at six five two forty
six nearly ten in Chans. Here's a cat that you know,
based on his measurements combined with his film, may have
potentially worked himself into a second round guy. Jake's now
firmly in that takeing a round conversation. How much do
you think Mason Taylor helped himself yesterday? Oh?
Speaker 4: I think it's ton And there was some scouts that
had him easily in the four fives, which was crazy,
Like there was multiple I heard talking that had him
in the four fives and so even like even the
four six five would have been great for his size
and certainly the strength that he showed on the bench press,
but I think he was even faster than that.
Speaker 2: He looked great. The twenty eight reps is huge.
Speaker 4: Because I think that was a question for him, like
could he, you know, be strong enough to be an
inline blocker. That answers that question. So I think he
made himself a lot of money yesterday. I think he
was a top one hundred player for sure. See he
might be top fifty five player now after what he
did yesterday.
Speaker 2: This is this it's a really good tight end class.
Speaker 4: And when we have Rett Lewis NFL that we're going
to join us in hour number three, we can ask
him about it. Because you're probably gonna have two first
rounders at tight end. I think he's now the third,
and so if you need a tight end you didn't
get one of your first rounders, he's going to be
your second round pick. So I now would be completely
surprised if he's not a second round pick.
Speaker 2: One of the other guys that I thought had a
great day and looked the part was Josh Williams. I mean,
my guy looked jacked. I look like an Avenger with
a capitol J straight superhero body. And he comes out
with a four four five forty jumps forty two inches
on the vert he beinches twenty three. Yeah, I mean
at five nine, two hundred pounds, benching twenty three, Josh Williams.
I mean, give me the video of him running his
forty yesterday tale if you really want to show the
people just how impressive he looked. Yesterday A massive day
for Williams. I don't quite know exactly what his draft
outlook is, but if I'm somebody I don't know about
getting drafted, but here's a guy who you know, has
all the intangibles, right, the coaches are all gonna be
bragging on, as well as all the staff. That's why
I got number eighteen. Everything else, he he knows mentally,
he can handle it from a pass blogging standpoint, everything else.
Leadership got it, like Josh Williams is going to make
an NFL team and be a contributor on special teams
and potentially a running back for somebody in the NFL. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean when we would talk about him, there was
a lot of people that said, you know, he's not
an athletic, He's not this, He's not.
Speaker 2: That's what That's what I always kind of felt to
he shet everybody up yesterday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, to be able to go out there, I mean
forty two inch vertical, that's crazy, Gidney. That would have
been I think I saw a stat that'd have been
like third all time for like running backs or something crazy.
Speaker 6: Third all time second this year. I did not see
who beat him a run.
Speaker 2: Third all time all time second this year. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And then to run a four to four to bench
press twenty three reps, that's what I got. And that
was like two twenty two or something. So at two
hundred pounds to get twenty three reps, that's that's a
hell of a day for him. Yes, Like I don't
know what it was. Maybe before and maybe it was
just going to be an undrafted free agent rookie because
he played at LSU for so long.
Speaker 2: Certainly he was going to get an opportunity.
Speaker 4: But even if he doesn't get drafted, you know this,
he's going to be a priority free agent.
Speaker 2: Yes, now he will after what he just did.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, and he's gonna you said it, he's gonna have
a great opportunity to make a squad and make a team,
and he's gonna do all the little things right, and man,
he was so impressive.
Speaker 2: And you're right, he looked different. I mean he looked different.
Again that the video I saw specifically camera where LSU
football put it out and like Jake said, it looked
like a comic book. I thought. Garrett Dellinger bro thirty
two inch vert Yeah for DELI are you kid? Meet?
And he had some Timberland zone basically too. I mean
a five forty like thirty on the bench, nine to
two broad. That's a that's a really good amount of
athleticism showed by Garrett Dellinger.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so as well. He's played a lot
of football. He's gone through some injuries, but that's another guy.
Like when he was in there, he played well, and
when you didn't have him, you felt it, you felt
that his presence was not there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So here's the uh, look at that dude. There's
the video of Joshu Williams. My god, that body's insane.
All right, Taylor, look at the Will Campbell audio there,
get that Twitter link ready to go. Will Campbell not
doing anything yesterday but meeting with the media and was
asked about his arms. Now, Jordan Schultz Street on a
major development in LG. Priddy's American, Will Campbell arms measured
at thirty three inches, checking off a crucial box for
NFL executives and talent evaluators. Cam Jordan quote tweeted this said,
can he playball? Film says yes, Draft stads status should
be reflective of gameplay and resume put on it. So
Cam Jordan speaking some sense into the equation. But here's
what Will Campbell had to say about people saying that
his arms were too short to be a tackle in
the NFL.
Speaker 9: You as a prospect for two years, nobody had any
measurements on me, and nobody said anything about my play.
So now all of a sudden, Armley decides if I'm
a good player or not. I think it's bs. But
you know, any decision makers in the NFL, they don't
really care us all. You know people who don't coach,
and they don't coach for a reason.
Speaker 2: Here I can listen to that man talk all day long.
Speaker 4: I'd actually like to hear him say the Sea.
Speaker 2: Look and it's yes, man, don't overthink the Campbell thing.
I mean, Brian Baldinger had a great film breakdown of
him today and he's he's so right. For Campbell, it's
I mean, he has good hands, don't get me wrong,
but it's all about his feet. Everything works because of
his feet. He's got incredible knee bend, incredible natural footwork
that always has him in the right position. He's able
to time his punch as well. The word that I've
always come back to when talking about how will Campbell
pass blocks is composure. And the reason why he looks
so composed is because of his feet. And granted, look
his arm links is fine, which yesterday, but it shouldn't
have mattered that much in the first place. So a
great LSU pro day in which some of your favorite
guys help themselves. Uh all right, let's go and close
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the seventh ranked morning sports show in America.
Off the Bench and with Hester and T Bob.
Speaker 2: What's happening y'all? Welcome back to OTV. So did y'all see?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: The NFL's proposing another tweak to the kickoff rule. Yeah,
we're trying to make the thirty five yard line or whatever.
Speaker 4: That's that's that's too far, that's too egregious there, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, I don't know.
Speaker 9: Ye.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm saying if you wanted to, if you want
it to be returned, Uh, but if you don't, then yeah,
don't change it? Uh, did y'all see Gary Danielson? Did
y'all talk about that? We did not? And Gary Danielson
retiring after the twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 6: Man, why wait?
Speaker 2: End of an era? Man?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: But like seriously, like is there something I'm not I'm
not like taking a shot at him?
Speaker 6: Mike, Yes, you were just one final season.
Speaker 2: Like it's I hate when people do it. You just
did poufanting innocence as you know, exactly announcing I'm not
taking a shot a bit.
Speaker 5: No, Like seriously, like you're announcing you're retiring, but like
you're not, You're retiring in a year from now. I
was just wondering if there's like a specific thing, like
why is he waiting a year?
Speaker 2: Jim Nantz just announced that the one hundred Masters in
like twenty thirty six is going to be his last
one or something. I just hope to make it that long.
Speaker 5: That's That's what I'm saying though, Like the hundredth is
kind of like a milestone, Like is there like one
thing Gary's like waiting one?
Speaker 6: I guess it's my thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, do you do you like fault like when
you see these long time like who's gone? On retirement
tours recently, a lot.
Speaker 6: Of people have done it, for sure. I'm not saying
Gary's the only one. I was just wondering.
Speaker 4: I mean, Jeter went on one trip, Jones went on
one that's not recent, but that's yeah.
Speaker 2: But like you know, it's what you do when you're
a legend forever. Yeah, and you say, look, it's gonna
be my my last year, and so everybody knows that.
You know when they get to interact with you that year,
that it may be your last time doing this. So
I think that's why you do it. I think it
makes sense anyway. I I love Gary Anderson. I think
I think everybody. I think it's crazy the amount of
hate this man gets. And I think he's great at
his job. I think when it comes to breaking down
football live and what just happened, he's actually very good
at clearly explaining the dynamics of play and what's going on.
I think people think. I think it's interesting that most
people think that he just gargles Alabama all the time,
but then Alabama fans hate him, thinking that you know,
all he does and is not gargle them. Like to me,
if everybody hates you, then I think that means you're
doing a pretty good job of keeping it real and
keeping it objective. I do think what's maybe interesting about
him is there does seem to be the sentiment that,
no matter whether or not you actually like him or
think he's good, you're still going to miss him simply
because nostalgically what he has meant to your life as
a as a college football fan.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Like, growing up, I was one of those guys to
be like, Garry hates my team. But like to your point,
like the last few years when he's called less and
less LSU games, I'm like, it just feels different, you
know what I mean, Like it just doesn't fit.
Speaker 2: Mean I missed SEC on CBS this last year, did
y'all not?
Speaker 6: Yeah? No, the intro.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I definitely still miss when vern and Gary were together.
Speaker 6: I mean that was that was a great combo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Brad's great, but Vern Vern Uncle Vernon Gary will
always be my uh my premiere. Oh wait, where is
the comment that I want to do? Oh if his
job is to be on his knees for Bama, then yes,
he's great his job. So but here's the problem. The
majority of the time that he worked was when Nick
Saban was at Alabama and they were stacking national championships.
So if you're talking objectively about the game and you're
going to give credit for who is doing well, of
course it's going to come off like you're obsessed with
Alabama because Alabama's consistently doing well well and consistently dominating
in the Gary Danielson era, and they're playing the most
games on CBS. So like, don't be mad at Gary,
He's just doing his job. Be mad at Alabama.
Speaker 6: By being so good broadcaster?
Speaker 2: I love Gary?
Speaker 6: What broadcast would make good to me?
Speaker 2: What's that?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 6: What broadcaster doesn't do that? You know what I mean?
Like that somebody's doing good, you're supposed to.
Speaker 2: You can't. You can't just act like they suck. I
think it's crazy. And yeah, I think the SEC is
worse off for not having that SEC on CBS crew
or game anymore. And it just doesn't hit the same
as the Big Ten. I think even Gary and Brad
missed it being in the SEC versus being in the
Big Ten miss so much. Yeah, yeah, no, I mean
for real though, right, Like for I I don't I
do wonder in an alternate reality if we could somehow
see would he stick around if they still had the
sec contract. Part of me feels like he probably would. God,
I used to love an Uncle Vern Golden nugget. You know,
he'd always give you such interesting little factoids. Uncle Vern's
chortle as well. Uh babe. It's impossible to hear that
and not get a rush of nostalgia. Anyway. I love you, Gary,
hell of a career. I can feel the anxiety in
my stomach that has And you hear this because you
know something BIG's about take place over the next four hours.
You're gonna be on an emotional roller coaster. Hour two
next
Speaker 1: Off the bench.