Speaker 1: I'll start Toyota Presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Can say Hester and Hester.
Speaker 1: From carrying each other to and Natty to carrying each
other on the air Control Live from the Mercedes Benz
Baton Rouge Studio. It's off the bench.
Speaker 3: All right, Welcome back in o TV one of four
five ESPN Ben Rouge Friday Morning Weekend Vibes. Oh, it
feels good today to have y'all ever seen the music
video for Sabotage.
Speaker 4: It's incredible, like a movie.
Speaker 2: I've seen that, and then when they performed it, I
think on Jimmy fou say, actually, I don't think he's
been around that long. I don't know somebody, Oh, David
Letterman probably Yeah.
Speaker 3: And it was cool, great video. They play cops in there,
great mustaches.
Speaker 5: All their videos are pretty cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Beastie Boys Alzheimer's this is where this is where you
confirm them.
Speaker 4: So do we just switch from the Beastie Boys.
Speaker 3: Beastie Boys is always Hour three. That's been the Hour
three open.
Speaker 6: That's been like that for months, I know, for at least.
Speaker 5: I don't know. It may have been like that when
I no, I changed it I'm saying, and I thought
it was like that when I got here.
Speaker 3: If you want to get the juices flowing sabotage, that's
why we play it an hour number three.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, maybe maybe like.
Speaker 3: Oh you good, I gonna work three hours.
Speaker 4: We got the juice.
Speaker 3: First two, we got over and I got to bring
it for another hour.
Speaker 4: And that's what that does. I ain't got to worry
about us.
Speaker 3: No, I'm saying others, other people, others. We'll put the
pontoon parlay out there. Yeah, we are trying. I'm trying
to get something around seven fifty two plus one thousand
if we can. So maybe if we have to add
a fourth team, maybe we whichever one.
Speaker 4: We decide the final.
Speaker 3: Well, Louisville, UTSA, and LSU were all three for sure
in it because we picked them and they're hydrated.
Speaker 2: Is that okay? So like we pick them and they're hydrated,
that's what the parlay is going to be.
Speaker 3: I think, so okay, I think so okay. But the
only problem is, like the other hydrated teams, Arizona we
picked you, and see Tennessee, we picked Arkansas Coastal. It's
not hydrated. But Auburn is Taylor.
Speaker 6: Who is it in the chat that said the show's
lost all integrity because of my.
Speaker 5: Oh I don't know, Ryan something.
Speaker 6: Journalistic integrity is out the window, dream my hid I count.
Speaker 2: Not sorry, but don't we always say that the picks
that you go off of vibes, like when girls they're
just like, oh, I'm gonna go like I do that
with the March madness, I went off total.
Speaker 4: Vibes and better than My final four was.
Speaker 2: Well, to be fair, I picked all the one seats
for the final four and they were all.
Speaker 5: He had Clemson in the final four of his bracket.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they do. They also in the first game, they
lost the first game.
Speaker 6: It's not good my daughter's that she won our family
bracket challenge.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that doesn't surprise me. You don't watch basketball.
Speaker 4: I don't. It wasn't even close either, Yeah, also believe
college basketball. I also believe that it wasn't close. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Basketball basketball was a little bit like that, though, well
not this year. This year was real, Chalky. Yeah, I
won the serious XM Channel eighty four.
Speaker 6: This is not the year to win though, because like,
like you said that, you're just the lame guy picking
all the ones.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but a lot of times like you'll talk yourself
out of it because you're like, man, it can't be
this chalky, like I could have some upsets.
Speaker 4: One not really no, no, not if you're super lame.
Not this year.
Speaker 3: You know it's not super lame. Elite Training Academy.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 3: If you're looking for, instead of blame, an unforgettable summer
experience for your kids, Elite Training Academy's Jungle Camp is
the place to be boys and girls ages six to fourteen,
high energy adventure pack week full of competitive sports challenges,
obstacle courses, exciting games, all in a safe, structured environment.
That camp runs Monday through Friday eight am to four pm,
with early Friday checkout at noon. Choose from four different
weeks in June and July, and don't forget key kids
do need to bring their lunch there for the camp.
It is located at fifty four to fourteen Burbank Drive.
You can find it there on Google. Just type in
Elite Training Academy baton Rouge to sign up. Now, you
can go to the website Elite Training academybr dot com.
Slash Camps ELEAK Training's Jungle Camp where competitive meets fun
and adventure. So go to that website Elite Training Academy
br dot com.
Speaker 4: Slash camps flenk kids will be there. You gotta get
him at the house. You know that's got screens.
Speaker 3: Look, I mean, you know, we'll get some outside time
at ELIPE, but when you got an indoor facility in uh,
South Louisiana comes.
Speaker 4: In handy, pretty handy.
Speaker 6: I think that mofat used to tell us that to
bring your lunch it meant something different.
Speaker 3: Meant something, bring your lunch, bring your lunch, Bring your lunch.
He also told us to get our piss hot. Still
don't really know what that means, but he told.
Speaker 4: Us that's pretty often it's your chili hot. Uh, Like.
Speaker 3: He's likely warm, you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you won't.
Speaker 6: Question like a lot of old coaches saying you don't
really question it. Yeah, it's just like you get the understanding.
But yeah, that's what we said too.
Speaker 4: This is hot.
Speaker 3: I'm like yeah, like, I mean, like you really know now,
being a hydration guy, you know all about your all
about it.
Speaker 4: I mean, seriously, you think about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the worst thing you ever heard a coach say.
That you can tell because mine's easy. Jimbo, I wish
your parents never met, said it to face Jones. That's
David Jones. Lsu tied end. Yeah, we called it face
for we know the reason, but.
Speaker 4: We're not telling.
Speaker 6: So as a college kid, that is, you know, very
very mean, but as an adult objectively funny.
Speaker 3: I mean I didn't like it wasn't a father yet,
so I mean I didn't fully understand the extent of what.
Speaker 4: He was saying, was your parents never yet didn't have
the bird and beast talk yet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean I knew that, you know, I
went to evangaelmin, I went to Christian What are you
talking about? But like just the full power behind that statement,
like I really didn't know, Like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it hit harder than you thought.
Speaker 3: When I say I wish your parents never met, that
means I wish you weren't born. I wish you weren't here,
ye not here, like at Lsu, I wish you weren't on.
Speaker 4: Earth Earth, your soul was never created.
Speaker 3: And he said it's so nonchalot And you know, I wish.
Speaker 4: Your parents never met. I can't say it on every
Jim say that one.
Speaker 6: He really had a good nickname for Skuyler, I probably should.
If I can't say it there, I probably shouldn't say it.
Speaker 4: I shouldn't tease it.
Speaker 3: He also, I'm not gonna say this one either, but
you know he wanted to face Jones to go home
one time during a period of time that something was
going on back home.
Speaker 4: This is only funny to us, Sorry, people, this is
good radio.
Speaker 3: It's funny to us. A member of the two thousand
and four l s U football team or five. I
think David was back in five. I don't really know.
Speaker 6: I remember I saw in high school my head coach
was Jimbo kind of brought it up. He's a hard
nosed guy. Yeah, I love the Man of Death. Great guy,
but like playing for him, it was a different world,
right they I was prepared for saving because of my
high school head coach.
Speaker 4: Maybe maybe you know part of the reason. Yeah, I
went up.
Speaker 3: I came to a Christian school that wouldn't play secular
music during the pregame, so I was not but yes, continue.
Speaker 4: So I look over its my coach.
Speaker 6: I didn't start until my third game of my junior year,
so we had me and another age. We split series
and I took over in the second game. Hey, I
don't appreciate the laughter over there trials and tribulations of
my life.
Speaker 4: That's right. I mean basically, so.
Speaker 6: My my coach didn't like by the end of the season,
I don't think you really liked the accolades. I'd started
getting in like the heads. I was like the recruiting.
He didn't want to go to my head, what whatever.
So he you know, we're we're only throwing on third down.
That's just that was our offense, especially my junior year.
But every time we throw it, we get it and
it's like I sprint out half, spread out to the left,
hal spron out to the right like a one or
two receiver rout blah blah blah. Anyway, they kind of
knew by the last game they see we were playing
John Tyler, and so John Tyler back in the day,
they had these jerseys called they were the John Tyler Lions,
but they had these jerseys called Kujo. They were known
as Kujo in the night, and so they only would
wear their Kujo jerseys in the playoffs. They wear their
Lions jerseys the rest of the year. But this was
the last game of the season. They had three commitments
on defense to go to the play at University of Texas,
and they had to win this game to get in
the playoffs. Their offense was not very good, so they
brought out their Cujo jerseys for the crossown. I mean
there was probably fifteen thousand people and Tyler rose Ball
watching this game. It's on a Saturday afternoon too. It
wasn't even Friday. So we're playing probably pretty cold, and
so we're not moving the ball great because we can't
run it. And then our one receiver, you know, ten
yard out we'route wasn't working on third down, and so
I like threw one away and I'll look over to
my coach and he's looking at me and he's going
like this.
Speaker 4: He around his neck and it's like, you're Joke good,
You're Joe good.
Speaker 6: And he was committed to it, and the offensive line
coach started to get in the action. It went up
high and started patting him on his back to the
back him and I'm like, all right, well that's.
Speaker 3: Me right, you're getting too many added boys.
Speaker 4: I guess yeah, an office like I was just hitting
him on the back.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's actually really good. The bit by hitting himself
on the backs really.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's good. It's like they planned it. That's really good.
Got to get after this gay today.
Speaker 3: Oh to tell you what kind of high school I
went to, very very very religious. Right, And so we're
playing against West Monroe in the state championship game, and
I mean we're crushing them, just beating the.
Speaker 4: Hell out of them.
Speaker 3: Well, the only points that they had had four points
because our deep snapper snapped it over the punter's head
twice and went out of the back of the end zone.
Speaker 4: Safety.
Speaker 3: It's like, dude, it's thirty something to four, right, and
it's funny. The deep snapper ended up being a really
good football player, played at Alabama. But the second time
after he did it, the coach is yelling, you need
to repent your sins.
Speaker 4: You're paying for something.
Speaker 8: Repent And we're like, what you think, because this man
may spend the time or two he needs to repent
in God's punishing him for putting the football through the
back of the end zone.
Speaker 4: What are we doing here?
Speaker 3: I will never forget the way he said repent over
and over and over again.
Speaker 4: That's basically what it felt like.
Speaker 3: Before we get out of this segment, do we have
the rail route ready to go. Okay, let's play this
with sound and let's play that never was. Let's see. Yeah,
this is a play. It does not count in the
stat book. It counts in our hearts. And if we
would have actually had this stand, I think we beat Arkansas.
But you know what, that doesn't matter, you know why,
because we still won. We still want and we got
a great story to tell. We were undefeated in regulation.
But here's is the play that doesn't count.
Speaker 4: This is Hester coming left play fake.
Speaker 7: They look for Hester, they go date for Hester.
Speaker 9: To the ten textown m s U.
Speaker 4: The crowd was look at you, Oh, look at you?
Speaker 6: Look at I did still go back a little bit.
Speaker 4: Oh my brother, Early, I love you. I'm sorry that
bad language.
Speaker 3: I had no idea that that was in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4: The game's over. If that thy game?
Speaker 6: Can you pull? I? Can you still that where I
was looking at early? Run there not bad early?
Speaker 4: You know you have right there?
Speaker 3: You have j Cutler level body language, bad body language.
Speaker 4: Had Jimbo practice body.
Speaker 3: Like, Oh my gosh, I mean but just one step.
Speaker 6: That So the last game of the season, like those
happened early on. All right, it's the heart.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't think about that place still eighteen years later,
eighteen years ago, by the way.
Speaker 10: Bob, I don't believe that. That's not It's how math works,
all right. Eighteen years Oh look at the body, the
hands on the hip. Is that Karen Flynn?
Speaker 4: Look at that. It's like, Karen Flynn, I mean, you
weres so let me speak to your manager, Alredy, come
see me.
Speaker 3: Matt.
Speaker 5: Matt still thinks about this. Is here a break? When
I was looking like where the play is, he goes, no, no,
you gotta flip it. We were going to the other end,
and yeah, we're going.
Speaker 4: All I knew too. I could have told you.
Speaker 3: I didn't know the fourth quarter, but I knew that
we were going towards the north end. I didn't know that, man.
I mean, there is some fire behind those sides.
Speaker 6: I mean you can't tell because the coverage, apparently eighteen
years ago, was so pixelated. It looks like it was
a year after the earthquake game.
Speaker 3: Shout up, if you play in the Earth game, great game.
Speaker 4: We're sorry.
Speaker 3: That was not a straight that was just trying to
create a timeline one before that one exactly forties exactly.
But it's okay. Again we lost that game. Sure will
we ever get back losing our last game in Tiger Stadium? No,
but we didn't win a Nattie.
Speaker 4: So senior night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, is not the only game we lost, No, no, no, no,
no no. I lost two, lost two in Tiger Stadium,
Tennessee on a Monday night when we were up twenty
one to nothing, and then this game the only two
we lost at home.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: It also took away from me was being able to
play against and beat the hell out of the school
that I wanted to go to and didn't recruit me
the next week Tennessee, you didn't.
Speaker 4: M all right, I actually want to hit that.
Speaker 3: And we got Scott Tolzen, Saints quarterback coach joining us
in about fifteen minutes from now, so we still got
a lot coming your way.
Speaker 4: Stay locked in here with us.
Speaker 3: It is OTB off the bench, Matt.
Speaker 4: What's better than one? Do sequis dose exactly one? You know?
Speaker 3: Tailgating this weekend for the l Shoe game. Great time
by the pool. Maybe it doesn't matter. You can be versatile,
not a one trick pony here, just like dosequis is
in either us. While we got both right here on
the desk. Oh my god, it really is, man, it is.
It's heating up.
Speaker 4: We all know that.
Speaker 3: And if you're look, if you're cutting grass, if you're
by the pool, if you're right now listening to us
on the beach, because you're already on vacation, I'd argue
there's not a better time for a beer than a
beach beer. But no matter where you're at, little do
Sekis is always going to be the right answer.
Speaker 6: Yeah, do set. I'm like, ever since I've been like
an adult, a post college adult, DOSECIS has been my beer.
Like that's not lib service. Go get you some cold limes,
cut him, put them right in the top right there.
Speaker 4: Go for dose this weekend, Super Regions, baby, go for dose.
Speaker 1: From players to legends, Hester and Flynn breakdown l s
U football like only champions can.
Speaker 4: The space to in this town.
Speaker 3: You mentioned getting h knocked out of the Arkansas game.
Speaker 4: What was the actual injury? Shoulders?
Speaker 6: A joint, friend, A c joint. I still got a
big deal, see it all right? Yes, we call it
a gift from the football gods. That's actually like ugly,
I said, the high ankles friend, I got to I
still have like a little.
Speaker 4: Swollen puffiness on that side. That's, buddy, that's not gonna
gift from We looked. We heard that.
Speaker 3: You had fat ankles in high school already.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah I didn't even put that together, but yeah,
we already heard that.
Speaker 3: So you saying, you guys, man, it's fine fat ankles,
but you weren't in the Tennessee game. And man o man,
and shout out to you. Like, look, Ryan came in
and he certainly did some big things, and we put
in a lot of plays for that game because the
offense had to change. There was things Ryan couldn't do
that you did, and so we you know, we put
in some ISO runs. We put in speed option out
of the gun, like even like I was back there,
Like one of the big hits I had in that
game was from a speed option. So we were doing
things that were not conventional to what we had done
in the past.
Speaker 4: But oh boy, I'll never forget.
Speaker 3: He came into the huddle and that man caught a
play from I guess his high school days and where
he played high school is the East Saint John. I
think it's East Saint John right parallel. He caught a
play and me and Sean are in as like regular personnel.
We're like, oh huh, that doesn't exist. It's not in
our playbook. No, what are you doing? Because everybody's like
looking like, well what Sean is pretty funny At the fullback,
Sean says no, no, no, know, what what do you And
he's like, and Ryan into the play clocks.
Speaker 4: Click, you know, click click click clicking. Sean's like, what
are we trying to run here?
Speaker 3: And like Ryan kind of explains that Sean actually calls
the play in the huddle.
Speaker 4: The full back.
Speaker 3: Now Sean brilliant, I mean biology major and was going
to go be a doctor before He's like, no, I
want to go hit people in the face for for
a living and be a UFC heavyweight. But he had
to finish the play call and I do think though
that like that moment, Ryan did kind of like snap back, Okay,
let me it's a big environment.
Speaker 4: I can be.
Speaker 3: It's SEC championship game. His first was second start because
he started against middle Tennessee.
Speaker 6: Some would say it's as nerve wracking as doing your
first live read no love wor there you go.
Speaker 4: He gets it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I got Jonathan zen On.
Speaker 4: Let's go shout out to show that was a fun game. Man,
I really enjoyed it. It was not fun at all.
I hated it.
Speaker 3: It was fun for me. We've put in a lot
of plays that week that were different, and the boys
and we played full disclosure, we played incredibly loose because
we didn't think we had a chance to get back
in it. So it was all like, hey, let's just
go out here and win the damn SEC.
Speaker 4: And we knew we should win the game like we were.
Speaker 3: But we were like, you know, it is what it is.
We blew our chance was that the.
Speaker 4: Was that the Michigan Miles rumors.
Speaker 3: And you and I were sitting there watching the TV
together and we're like, this is before, this is way
before Twitter. My space was the only place in Facebook
where you had social media.
Speaker 4: But you weren't breaking news there.
Speaker 3: You were just trying to get these songs up on
my Space and get your top friends list, going.
Speaker 4: Friends with Tom.
Speaker 3: You weren't breaking news. We're sitting there watching TV together
and it's like breaking news. Here comes less Miles going
to be the Michigan hit coach.
Speaker 6: We're like, and it wasn't just breaking it was Kirk
Kirk Street yeah, on game day, on game day talking
about it, so it's like, well, I mean he's not
just spins.
Speaker 4: Bye bye bye.
Speaker 3: But if you'll remember this, you and I had a
conversation and I'll never forget it. We said, I don't
think it's true, because if it was, I think if
any players knew, you and I would know he would
have told us before it got out.
Speaker 4: And we believe that. I don't know if that's true.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's just us.
Speaker 4: You know, let us live our lives in our coach.
Speaker 3: But we're like, if he would have done this, I
feel like he would have given us two a heads
up because we're I mean, we were close with coach, right,
we had you know, the unity council.
Speaker 6: May I mean sometimes as coaching moves eight, things happened.
Speaker 4: Things do happen fast.
Speaker 6: I mean, it could have been like a phone called
at midnight the night before where they were like made
it an agreement in principle or something. I mean, where
there's there's fire, so like something was happening, there was
some conversations, or he wouldn't have come out and like
debunked it so emphatically. Really, I mean, you believe there
was some conversation, there was.
Speaker 4: Something there was just didn't pull it out of me. No, no, no,
I mean Hervey's you know like this like the standard
of he's not in the business. He's not in the
business like breaking this either. No.
Speaker 3: No, he had somebody that had really good information, but
it you know, it didn't get to the finish line,
which happens.
Speaker 4: All the time, which we might have to think.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, true, it might have been going like
Marcus Freeman was almost a defensive coordinator at l s U, right,
and I remember I went on there.
Speaker 4: I was like, look, this is not in the end zone.
It's like on the goal line.
Speaker 3: And I would not say even though like people that
I was talking with said, no, it's.
Speaker 4: In the end zone, like nope, no, no, no, no, it's
on the goal line.
Speaker 3: Until like like there was like it was far down
the road, like there was there was things that were
ready to be pushed out there to social medi with
his graphic and his logo, but it didn't finish.
Speaker 4: That happens. It happens all the time. Yep.
Speaker 6: Yeah, looking back on that, you know, obviously he wasn't
gonna take the job if he knew we were gonna
be in the national championship, like he wouldn't have entertained it. Yeah,
and he might not have entertained we're speculating here, uh,
because like you said, even the players thought going in
we got no shot. I mean, we're we lost our shot.
We were number one. We've been like number one like
nine times this year, which we still and to this day,
I still think that was the craziest, most unpredictable year
in college football history because of so many people that
I don't remember how you can look at the list,
it's like eight different number ones, like twelve different numbers.
It was like a huge number of that that list,
that top ten list, just fluctuating YEP day in or weekend.
Speaker 4: Week out.
Speaker 6: But do you think, like if Kirk didn't come out,
we don't talk about that, If Kirk didn't come out
of game day and say it, does Miles have like
the incentive?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Or does he keep it like close to it,
you know, close to his chest there and kind of
hold that information If there was information.
Speaker 3: Could have changed that game day for sure. And if
we don't win that game, we certainly don't win a
national championship. And well, those things last forever. You know
what you still benefit from. That's fun to, you know,
take a trip down and speculate. But it doesn't matter
because we beat.
Speaker 4: That ass that we did.
Speaker 3: Certainly like Ohio State, like we could have played the
seventy two Dolphins. Wouldn't have mattered that day because y'all
let us back in. We're gonna find a way.
Speaker 4: Don't let us don't let us in. Don't let the
kids get hot, kind of like lgu baseball.
Speaker 3: That's not the same way I wanted to use. As
we go into seed. I tried, Yeah, great, hey we do.
Speaker 6: We got Scott Tolzan coming on the show, Saints quarterback coach.
Speaker 4: My guy, my old teammate and the absolute man. Great dude.
Speaker 6: So introduce Scott Tolzan, the guy we got a bona
fide like quarterback competition right now. Introduce him to South
Louisiana Baton rouge area. Ye, so you get to hear
from him, meet him. Uh, he's not gonna tell us
like who's the quarterback's gonna be.
Speaker 3: So I don't like, all right, you're running it, send
it to break, Yeah, get a break.
Speaker 1: Off the bench.
Speaker 3: That was no, No, you didn't, you did not go
to break all right, go to trash trash rangers dot com.
Trash rangers dot com. Twoto five three six three nine
zero five three is the number. Give me call, tell
them what you're looking for. Certainly, if you're trying to
get a dumpster delivered to your home, to your business, Hey,
here's what I've got. Maybe it's a kitchen remodel. Maybe
it's a bathroom remodel. Maybe you're doing like a whole
home renovation, so you're gonna need something certainly bigger. Well,
they got three sizes to choose from you. Let them
know what your project is, and again they're gonna be
able to help you out. Make sure you have the
right size dumpster on your project. So you can go
to the website trash rangers dot com or always pick
up the phone, give the call, have that conversation two
to five three six three nine zero five three.
Speaker 6: Good people, hassle free, let them help. It doesn't matter
what you're doing. If you're cleaning out the attic, it's
been ten years since you've cleaned it out, if your
kids are older, not playing that you're cleaning, calling for
a rolloff dumpster, that's trash rangers dot Com two two five,
three six three nine zero five.
Speaker 9: To three.
Speaker 1: Tigers turn talkers. This is off the bench.
Speaker 3: To Jimson.
Speaker 4: Good you think that's pretty good.
Speaker 6: Welcome back off the bench, nine thirty hour. Here we
got a great guest right now, the new brand new
New Orleans Saints quarterback coach, my former teammate, way heck
of we Go.
Speaker 3: I told you our former, our former team.
Speaker 4: You can't even remember.
Speaker 3: Trying to steal twenty eleven San Diego Chargers. You keep
trying to steal valor from.
Speaker 6: Me over here anyway, Scott Tolzane, thanks for joining, buddy.
Speaker 7: Was a long tenure on the Chargers there, Jacob, wasn't it.
Speaker 4: Hey, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 7: Hey, I remember the quickest cup of coffee I've had
in my life.
Speaker 3: I know, Hey, but you did though, like a couple
of tutters and like over three hundred yards in the preseason.
Speaker 7: A long time ago, you know. Always disappointing guys was
the I was expecting Pearl Jam to be the lead
in music, but.
Speaker 6: Well they actually want I can't get them on board.
But Scott, so I wanted. I thought it'd be great
for you to come on this morning, because like the
Louisiana crowd, batanscount South Louisiana, all over Louisiana. Like we
want to introduce you to them, because I know you.
We we go back, great dude, But before we get
into that, we got an amazing one of the best
greatest quarterback highlights in NFL history.
Speaker 4: I wanted to play for our viewers right now. Queue
it up, o.
Speaker 11: Z ooh sweet bee. Oh, let's go. It's got the
spin move master, dud.
Speaker 7: You know what the best part about that was, you'll
appreciate this, Mats. I don't know if you remember. You
remember how they had, like you know, like that whole
talent like comes together on Lambo on game day, right,
and like like the security people that have the yellow
jackets on and it's like people that have been grandpothered
in for like fifty years lambeau Field. So it's like
it's like a bunch of senior citizens that run like
a field security there. Sure, so like real, so I
always remember it. So I scored the touch on whatever,
and you're kind of just in Lahah Land and then
like Coon's like you gotta go a jump man, you
gotta do the leap whatever. You're like, oh, hell yeah,
let's let's do it. You know, so you trod over
the wall and this wall is like huge. You're like, oh,
oh crap, like totally underestimated this. So like I'm jumping
up there like I think it, Like this security person
starts coming over here, and I've literally got like this
eight year old grandpa like boosting me on the freaking wall.
Speaker 4: Pushing you all time.
Speaker 7: Moment you're like, you're like, oh my god, this just
went from really sweet to really awkward.
Speaker 6: And you knew at that point, like the following week,
Aaron was going to have it on the highlight film
for the team.
Speaker 4: As well, like the bad lambo Leap. So yeah, I
always always got it, but you know, like you get
to this, you get to this wall and you see
people think a foot wall. Geordy makes it look easy,
just hops in there like casually lands.
Speaker 6: But you get there and you're like, oh boy, I
don't got it. I got yeah, I gotta leap. I
gotta leap again against the Vikings. Same game, No, not
the same game.
Speaker 7: A couple of weeks same year, though, like one couple
of weeks later.
Speaker 6: I want to say it might've been eleven. I've been
before that. Yeah, yeah, okay, pretty well. Uh So Scott
talk to us New Orleans saying, so, tell us how
how all this came about? So you started coaching when
you got done plays, You played seven years in the NFL.
Speaker 7: Right played seven right place at the right time for
seven years. Basically a lot of good people or whatever.
And then long story short is I was I did
a gig at Wisconsin as an analyst. So my offensive
ordinary quarterback coach was Paul Christ and then he ended
up me coming the head coach of Wisconsin. So I
was like, hey, thinking about this coaching thing, you got
any advice for me? And he's like, well, I could
ever interest you. Like there's I got an analyst job
where you kind of get your feet wet part time.
I was like, hell, yeah, that's perfect. So I did
that for a year. I'd always stayed in touch with
coach McCarthy from the playing days, stayed in touch with him,
and then when he got the Dallas job, he hit
me up and was like, hey, you know, like pretty
much all my spots are filled, but I do got
one like quality control slash like ops job. If you
want to get your foot in the door at this
if I was like, hell yeah, Like we had just
had our first daughter, so we were getting ready to
get a house, so the timing was perfect. So we
went down there in twenty twenty. And like the crazy
part about that is like I take this job and
you're doing like op stuff like helping out with practice
schedule stuff I'd never done, Like you're on Excel multiple
hours a day, and then this crazy thing called COVID
comes along and you're like, oh great, Like, not only
is it first year doing operations stuff, they have no
clue what I'm doing. Now you've got like memos coming
into the league on the hour, like tweaking rules. So
needless to say, that year was that. That year was hell,
but you also grow a lot from it. That was
back in twenty twenty and now I'm first year with
the Saints, so you're six of coaching.
Speaker 4: And when you got to Dallas.
Speaker 6: Well, first of all, when you took the job in
Dallas with Mike McCarthy, if I was shocked zero percent.
Always knew that you, like you had that work. I
think that mindset of like you love dice, you know,
breaking down the game, you love the film room, you
loved everything about it so like, it didn't surprise me
at all that year went into coaching. I was like, well,
this dude's going to be this guy's going to be
end up being a really, really great coach.
Speaker 4: And then when you went.
Speaker 6: Down to Dallas, I believe Kellen Moore was already there,
is that right, yep?
Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly. So Kellen's a year younger than me. Obviously
we knew each other just from the college football circuit
or whatever, but was crossed over with Kellen for my
first three years and actually Doug nus Meyer as well.
So was with those three guys for three years in Dallas.
And then when Kellen got the job here, he offered
to me we'd obviously stayed in touch. We have a
lot in common just age where we are in life
with families and football and whatnot. So yeah, so we
reunited with him and nuts and it's been a really
good thing so far. I mean, it's the honeymoon phase.
That's how this thing works right now. So everything's sweet
right now. We haven't lost where we go, that's all right.
Speaker 3: You know, Scott, in your playing days, you had a
chance to really be around some all time quarterbacks and
you start your career with Philip Rivers there in San Diego,
and then you go Alex Smith and Aaron Rodgers and
you know, Flynn's obviously there with you in Green Bay,
and then you get to Indy and Andrew Lux there.
Like when you're around guys like that, is there things
that you picked up that when you became a quarterback coach,
when you became a leader of that room, like you
kind of implement some of those things that you learned
from being around some of the best quarterbacks.
Speaker 7: Dude, you brought up a great but I think about
that all the time, and like that's one tangible thing
I try to share with my quarterbacks. Like, you know,
I was lucky to play seven years, but you know
it didn't play a whole lot. Did way more standing
on the sidelines than playing. So but like what I
do do is, like, man, one thing I am good
at is I'm really good at observing. So I got
to observe. Like you said, like two hall of famers.
You know, Luck was on the fast track potentially be
a Hall of Famer, Like I was gifted this opportunity
to be around a lot of really good football players
and Dak as well as the MVP runner up two
years ago. So like you get to see a lot
of these different styles and like you see what's similar
and what's diff between the guys, and that's super valuable
to draw and and like share those experience with the gause.
I think there's a natural draw when you're a young
quarterback to like, oh, how does how did the great
like how did Aaron Rodgers do things? And it's it's
fun to be able to share some of the things
that you observed about how they were and like, speaking
to that point, that was one thing when I saw
I had my first two years was in San Francisco.
My rookie year was the same rookie year as Colin Kaepernick.
They drafted him in the second round, so they were Dad,
Alex Smith and Colin Kaepernick and then I was the
undrafted guy after I got cut in San Diego and
then uh so we go to the Super Bowl the
second year and then I get cut go to Green Bay,
and like, the one thing I learned from Matt and Aaron,
I was going to share this, like just because it
was it was huge for my careers, Like you can
still have fun and joke around playing the game and
still be productive. Sometimes there's a stigma when you're a quarterback.
You know, you got to be serious all the time
and like you're the captain of the ship, and you are,
but you can still have a great time doing it
and like feel like I played the best football in
my career there because I was loose and having fun
and enjoying it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's.
Speaker 6: One stigma that that gets put on the quarterback position.
You've got to be serious, first one in, first one out,
which which is all true. You have to be able
to like turn it on and off.
Speaker 4: You got to be relatable, your team got to be.
Speaker 6: I mean, I was around so many greats, just like
just like Scott's talking about, and there's no one way
to skin a cat. There's Graates that did it that way.
There's greats that greats that didn't. But Scott, you you
bring up like such a good valuable point from like
a backup perspective, because you have to be able to
observe because you don't get the reps.
Speaker 4: So if you.
Speaker 6: Can't observe and apply what you're seeing the great ones
do or the person in front of you do, you
don't have a chance to make it of course you
had a seven year NFL career, so you were really
good at doing that and being able to implement and
taking taking advantage of your spot. So from that, from
your observation, being able to observe, apply, I got to
think it helps you from the coaching level because you
get to observe and you're applying it in like a
teaching way now, So you're observing like what makes people good,
what works the footwork, the tone of voice, what we're doing,
like those are all things you had to do to
maintain a job in the NFL. But now you get
to do it and teach and be relatable to players.
So I guess what is your like if you had
to pick like one thing that you are when your quarterbacks,
you know, talk about Scott Tolzy, Like, what is one
thing that you like to implement with them or put
on them and give them something to teach every single day.
Speaker 7: That's a great question, first of all. And I think
like one thing that there's a feel to this position, right,
it's the most interesting position in all of sports, all
the main for sports. Like I'm no different I do
draft eveils than guys too, and it's just a total
inexact science on which guys pan out and which guys
do do and don't. But so, like I think there
is an element of I think it helps having play
the position, just knowing okay, what's what's not enough coaching
and what's over coaching. Like there's totally a balance there,
as you can't be a robot playing the position, but
yet there is a discipline to the position that that
needs to be adhered to, and like I do believe
in like having discipline. Footwork, Like that's a big thing
for me, and some of it comes to because that's
how I had to play the game, So there's a
natural bias there, Like I didn't have the biggest arms,
so you had to be right with your feet so
that things syncd up on time. I think that's probably
one of the things I'm a little bit of a
stickler on is footwork. But yet you know there's a like,
as you know, Matt, like, there's feels to you know,
how how you throw a twenty yard dig versus how
I throw a twenty yard dig, Like, there's there is
variation in your feet and so you've got to be
able to work with your quarterbacks too and allow for
that variation. But you know, those are some of the
things like hey, you know, quarterback being it like you
can kind of weed out the bs in a meeting
room when they're like, hey, I didn't see this guy. Well,
sometimes that is real, Like the fans from the sky
or from the TV camera might see a shallow cross
running wide open, but they didn't realize that like the
three technique over set and was getting edged and the
quarterback really didn't have vision to him for that split
second that he was going through his regression. And I
think that's all relevant stuff, Scott.
Speaker 3: One of the things that you know, we've talked about
with the quarterback room that you're going to be leading there,
you know, it's obviously a young quarterback room. You got
a rookie and you got a second year player, you
got a third year player. You know, you don't have
like a ten year player in there, which you know
most of us when we've been in these rooms with quarterbacks,
there's always like one, you know, one older guy.
Speaker 4: So like when you have a younger room like that,
do you change.
Speaker 3: Anything that you go about like in a day to
day like is there anything that's different? You know, you
just came where you were coaching Dak Prescott and dark.
Now you look up and he's certainly a veteran in
the NFL. Anything different when you got a young quarterback.
Speaker 7: Room, I think you do teach the one oh one
level first, and that's not a bad thing, you know.
Like the worst thing in this game is when things
are assumed. You know the old adage assume makes an
ask out of you and me, And I do think
there's truth to that. So if anything, like you just
teaching stuff though one on one levels, just nothing's assumed.
And then it also it goes hand in hand with
the fact that we're first year operations, so like I'm
learning stuff too on the fly, right, So I tell
the quarterbacks all the time, like the best thing we
can do is all have dialogue. There's nothing worse than
a quiet room, because I really feel like there are
no dumb questions, Like the question that you might have
actually might be a question that I have as a coach,
you know, And the best questions always come through the quarterbacks. Anyways,
Like when you're in a staff meeting, there's stuff that
you don't think about until a quarterback mentions in. It's like,
oh yeah, Like you know, let's find an answer or
maybe there is a simple way to do this thing.
And so I'm just like one on one level, but
let's have dialogue and let's mold this thing how we
want to.
Speaker 6: Ah, right, Scott, we actually have like a real bona
fide like QB competition happened. So I really just kind
of want you to break down like the player, how
they've responded to OTA is getting ready for any camp
next week? I uh, I don't want to ask you
about like the competition and where they're at on anything,
but like, just tell me about the you got the
young guys shut just got drafted. Rattler coming off of
you know, a year where he played a lot, had
some you know, unfair you know, disadvantages that he dealt
with during that, but showed some moments like how are
those guys responding to this competition and kind of like
what's their what's their rotation? Like any quarterback competitions could
be so different from team to team and the head
coach's philosophy, Like.
Speaker 7: Sure, these guys, they've all been awesome to start, really
appreciated their approach and just who they are as teammates
has been really natural so and then and at the
same time, like, you know, we don't have the paths
on right now, so you know, we're like if you
just know everything, everything changes when that comes out. So
like you're quick to be like, hey, let's not overanalyze
things right now, you know, let's just let's truly develop guys.
You know, I think that's where we're at right now.
And and I love that part about it, Like let's
just develop guys, and let's not get caught up in,
you know, the competition of it. Let's let's just put
our best foot forward, coach into our best ability and
let things marinate, you know, rather than making abrupt, impulsive decisions.
But like they've all handled it like champs and been
a really fun group to be around, and I've appreciated
it from them.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And the development part is it can be challenging.
It can be true. I mean, it's a numbers game
too when you're trying to develop and actually have some
sort of competition of young quarterbacks because I you know,
you only get so many reps in practice. So that
way a coaching staff can handle that from a development
standpoint is tricky. And there's not like one way to
skin that cat either.
Speaker 7: You know, were you a part of uh, Like I know,
the coach Carty always just talk about quarterback school and
like like that was a foreign concept to us because
like I was been part of the new CBA and
it's like it's totally changed the development of the league.
But like I've heard stories.
Speaker 4: About three QB schools.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's that's what. When was that back?
Speaker 6: And like Mark, Yeah, so it was, Yeah, it was
off season right before i OTA started.
Speaker 4: It was it was it was tough.
Speaker 6: It was a tough workout like when I trained quarterbacks
every now and then, like I put him through what
that QB school used to be, which is which is awesome.
But yeah, hey Scott, we really do man, We really
appreciate your time. We know your busy, especially this time Louisiana.
We got a good one here, We got a good
coach of staff, a lot to be excited about.
Speaker 4: Scott. Thank you for your time, buddy.
Speaker 7: Appreciate you guys having me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, appreciate it. Scott Tolzy and good enough to join
us here on OTV. That was a lot of fun, man,
And uh, you know I knew from a short period
time knowing him being his teammate. Man, he was going
to do big things. You're right, like one of those
guys like, yep, you're gonna be a coach. You're that
is what you were brought here for. Damn good, right,
and so man, Saints fans should be very excited. You
could tell like in his answers, you know how in
depth and what it's going to look like. And I
think the right guy is going to win the job,
whoever that might be. So, yeah, certainly appreciate his time. Yeah,
that was great, good job, Bud. But getting him on
the show, it was you. Yeah, I mean you got
him on the show. Look at you, I mean leading interviews.
Well done, sir. All right, let's take our last break
up the week. We'll ask the bench when we come
back here to be mopter bench. I guess who's gonna
be at rouses today. Eleven to one. Your boss will
be there. We will be hanging out right there, the
one off of Burbank and Lee will be there. Come
hang out, come see us again. We'll be there eleven
to one. And remember they got all those great specials
going on like from now until June the eleventh. Stock
up on that twenty four ounce pack of right bacon
for just eight ninety nine. And let's be honest, bacon
makes everything better. And like I told you yesterday, King
Curtis would approve of that message.
Speaker 6: King Curtis, Yep, Ralph's biking is good for me. Ralse's
Market everybody, we got one right next to us. Rowse's
are everywhere. They're great here in Louisiana. We love them.
Got everything Rolse's Markets.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my high, they do.
Speaker 6: Got my high. They're running specials all the time. Got
that bacon, got that beef.
Speaker 3: And they got us OTV eleven to one. Let's go
come see us. Holler at you boys.
Speaker 1: Two thousand and seven. Shams purple and Gold to the core.
This is off the bench with Esther and Flynn, Matt
and Rouge's go to for all things Louisiana sports.
Speaker 4: I love God the Keeper. I'd say that every time
it's and they say, I smile.
Speaker 3: If Jacob Dylan leasing of the Wallflowers, his father is Bob.
I knew you knew it was an easy one.
Speaker 4: He didn't know it.
Speaker 5: There's no way you didn't.
Speaker 3: No way he did know it A favorite summer road trip.
The next one.
Speaker 8: Corpus Christie, your faith Christie.
Speaker 4: I love a road trip to Corpus Christie. I love
going to Shreveport.
Speaker 3: The only vacation.
Speaker 4: Your swim trunks, go to the water, going to Watertown.
Baby smells like pooh, this is the playlist? Hey, oh
for sure ask the bench.
Speaker 3: Who was that one teammate at LSU that you knew
had your back when things went down? Sean Jordan's Sean Jordan.
I could call Sean right now like, Hey, there's somebody
up at this studio that's acting crazy. I'm gonna need
you either. He would get here a s a p guy. Will,
Will's another one and those two together when they got
when Will and Sean like get together, don't be somebody.
Speaker 4: That makes them mad.
Speaker 3: Don't do something stupid, especially if we had a couple
of cold pops.
Speaker 4: That's all he is.
Speaker 2: Sean Jordan to pre UFC three eighteen next month.
Speaker 4: Okay, oh yeah, I'll have se Sean.
Speaker 3: You're listening, Come sit in, come sit.
Speaker 4: I'll just text you.
Speaker 3: But you know, if you're listening right now, because everybody's listening,
just come on in.
Speaker 4: Hey, great week, boys, great week, first week in the books.
Let's go pack time.
Speaker 3: Same place, off the bench Sparts. He made it five
for five? Will he make it next week five for five?
Speaker 4: No, he's doing that town.
Speaker 3: Ktoz Blinds dot Com, kt Z and Tears and Outdoor
Living been doing it since two thousand and four. And
as we've laid out today on the show, two thousand
and four was a very long time ago. And you
don't last that long in this business unless you're doing
things right. And Brandon Barton and the team do a
lot of things right. In fact, I'll go as far
as say they do everything right. Interior outdoor living does
not matter. Sometimes it's gonna take care of both. That's
what that motorized screen does for me. It's gonna do
it for you. My dad installed one because he saw
ours at our house branding. The team like did us
as solid went up to Shreeford did it because they're like,
that's who we are. We're gonna take care of our customers.
KTZ Blinds dot Com.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Ktzy Interiors and Outdoor Lim They got a brand
new beautiful website. Go check them out at kdoz Blinds
dot com. Seal they can help you this summer