Speaker 1: Let's all start to what you want to present. 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 3: I gotta come off the bench now here's.
Speaker 1: Jacob Hester and T Bob Aber.
Speaker 3: What's going on and everybody?
Speaker 2: Oh, everybody's having a great day here Wednesday, April Night,
twenty twenty five. Got a really good show playing for
you today. A lot going down and I think it's
gonna be pretty fun. So if you want to come
hang out with us as always, YouTube dot com, Slash
one O four five, ESPN is where you can watch
and chat and whatnot. But you know, if you're in
the car, uh just listen to the radio and uh,
let's have ourselves a great day to day of everybody else, say,
if everybody, let's have a great Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Guys.
Speaker 2: We got the whole crew here, T Bob Abert, we
have Jake Hester, Landrivierel and Taylor Sharp as well. Jakie,
what's up man? We feel on this Wednesday?
Speaker 3: Feeling good? We got the answer to the question we've
all been asking for a long time. Does a bear
poop in the woods?
Speaker 2: Last night ah, okay, I was wondering where you were
going with that.
Speaker 3: What what a picture? What a moment?
Speaker 2: Yeah, incredible picture. So last night's game over there in
Thibodeau at Nichols, it appeared that Bear Jones had to
use the bathroom in the middle of the game, and
I guess the logistics of the situation dictated that the
bathroom he was gonna use was a porter potty. Yeah,
and there he is full uniform, I mean, batting helman
on full uniform, waiting in line for the porta potty.
It's a deeply humorous image there. I don't know that
I've ever seen anybody use a porta potty before in
full uniform, certainly not helmet. Uh So we obviously just
had a porter potty discussion not long ago, we did, uh,
And we kind of represent two different sides of the
of the scale. I mean, nobody likes them, right, but
I don't really have a problem with them. If you
have sit down, you have sit downe is what it is. Uh.
You all seem to be more of the hover variety.
Where do you think Bear lands on the how to
use a porter body scale?
Speaker 3: I agree? I agree, you see raw is what it
is hopefully not.
Speaker 2: You never want it, You never ever ever want it. God,
that'd be really hard to get back into the game
flow if if you did have to suffer that in
the in the fourth inning? Uh, actually, do we know
what inning he used the bathroom inn?
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna I don't. I don't know, but I'm
just going to act like it was whenever LSU started
to rally.
Speaker 2: Yeah to say, I think it was pre seventh INNY,
so that might have been. Uh, there's gotta be some
good porter potty rally porter rally. Maybe that was the
porta rally be getting rid of there the rally crap
oh geat rally craps. Not bad at all. I like
it a lot. It's a rally cap for sure. But yeah,
LSU last night getting a little bit of hot water,
but coming out with a wind. We'll continue to break
it down a lander, whatsuck girl? How are you doing good?
Speaker 4: I did the game last night, so I'm a little
a little tired because I like throws off my whole
routine if I get home later than like four thirty pm.
Speaker 2: So you also, yeah, you were a little test eat
during the game last night. We'll break that down as
we were as you were tech seeing about the game
as it was going down.
Speaker 3: Tayte, what's up? How you doing? What's going on? Guys?
Speaker 5: Hilarious picture of Bear Jones. I ever tell you all
the story of uh, the guy on my middle school
team going to get a snow cone in full football. Yeah,
we're getting blown out. Like he was an eighth grader
and he didn't play much and coach is putting him in.
The one time coach goes and put him in, nobody
could find him. We looked to the right and in
full football uniform, helmet and everything, standing there a little
five dollars bill in his hand at the Denim Springs
concession stay and trying to get a snow cone, you know,
on the field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I know coach is triggered, but y'all
are getting your ass kicked. It's the last game he
doesn't play anyway. Yeah, my guy probably didn't care that
he was kicked off. Like the second that you decide
to go wait in the line in full uniform. Yeah, Uh,
it's like Caesar crossing the rubicon. Right, the die has
been cast. He doesn't care, like he he fully knew
that this was going to be the end of his
uh Denim Springs football career, at least on that year's team.
Speaker 3: At least on that team.
Speaker 2: Uh so, wait, so when coach finds him in the line,
does he stay in line?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 2: Does the coach like yell at him that he's off,
and then he just like does.
Speaker 3: He stay in line? Did he come back?
Speaker 5: He comes back on the sidelines eating the grape snowcode.
Coach didn't say anything while over there. He comes back
eating the grape snowcode.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, okay, okay, okay, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Coach goes your mom here, He's like, yeah, she said
the stands.
Speaker 5: He goes, cool, take your shoulder, pets off and go
home with her.
Speaker 6: Wait, like, have y'all seen that meme? And it's March Simpson.
Speaker 4: She has her hand on somebody's shoulder and she's like,
go ahead and log out for me.
Speaker 2: And it's like, you're I'm not seeing this. Actually, I
am shocked to I'm shocked to be ignorant of a
meme man so chronically online that's to be on top
of this.
Speaker 4: It's like me when I'm watching a YouTube video at
work or something like that, She's like, go ahead, and.
Speaker 2: Log out you did so.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Gulf South says Bear had a suicide squeeze of his
own going on.
Speaker 3: True, we'll talk what would have been like epic if
he would because he had spikes on. I'm sure if
he would have walked out with toilet paper on the
bottom of his spikes. Yeah, could have slipped too.
Speaker 2: I feel like spikes in a plastic porter potty bottom.
Speaker 3: Actually it was an al turf field, so maybe he didn't. Yeah. Yeah,
it's all turf. Even the mound was turf. Damn.
Speaker 2: Look if I don't look, if you're if you're a
smaller school like Nichols where budget matters a lot, I
don't mind if you have a turf field. I completely
understand it's more economical option. I feel like it's problems
the big chunk.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I feel like the maintenance and upkeep is probably less
than keeping like a full thriving grass uh and dirt
field ready to go. Maybe I don't know about when
it comes to rain.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe I'm wrong there. I guess that's
my interpretation of it. I have no problem if Nichols
does it, or schools that you know actually have to
be really frugal with their spending. My issue comes when
Pexust does and Oklahoma does, because there's no excuse.
Speaker 3: There's no excuse for that.
Speaker 2: All right, Let's go ahead then and.
Speaker 3: Get this show started.
Speaker 1: It's time to get to work courtesy of Tiger Labor
and Staffing where they can help take care of screening, training,
payroll and more.
Speaker 2: Now for starters, Tiger Labor truly vets their employees and
builds relationships with them. Okay, we're not just looking at
job histories and paper resumes. Get to know every potential
employeed during the in person onboarding process and every morning
over a cup of coffee. So take advantage of the
shortest waiting period in the industry and transfer top talent
onto your payroll quickly.
Speaker 3: With Tiger Laborer.
Speaker 2: Uh So the game last night, once again, LSU comes
out with yet another midweek win. Now up to a
mind boggling thirty one and three. Are they eleven and
zero in the midweek now, I believe.
Speaker 3: So continue to be perfect there.
Speaker 2: However, last night was not like many of them in
that it was a battle that you trailed for the
majority of the night and you were held scoreless eight
of the nine innings, but the one inning in which
you did manage to plate some guys, the seventh, you
did enough damage to come out with the win five
to three. And it was interesting. Jay continues to tinker,
continues to practice things and lay track for situations.
Speaker 3: Down the road.
Speaker 2: And probably the biggest bit of tinkering William Schmidt not.
Speaker 3: Getting the start.
Speaker 2: It's been very good in a starting roll lately. Instead
last night he was saved for the pin and a landra.
This had you a little a little miffed when when
when they were losing.
Speaker 4: Well, it was just like for me, I just I
get that Jay tinkers, but I don't love it at
the like this laid into the season. I feel like
you should have your stuff already how you want it.
And every time that he started in the midweek, he's
came out as a starter, except for I think a
couple of weeks ago he came in in relief in
like the second or third inning. But against Louisiana Tech,
he came out as.
Speaker 6: A starter and connor Ware.
Speaker 4: Jay mentioned in the pregame interview that Chris did with
him that connor Ware is going to be a really
big piece this weekend versus Auburn. So if he's going
to be coming out of the pin on the weekend,
I don't really get starting him in the midweek because
I don't know because I never pitched, But I feel
like it kind of like could be a mental like, Okay,
I don't know if I'm gonna come out the pin.
I don't know if I'm gonna start today, And I
don't know if that gets you off to a bad
start or not. But like William Schmidt had eight strikeouts
last night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's gonna coming in in relief.
Speaker 6: Like maybe he's better in relief.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but it just if you would have
had that at the beginning of the game and it
went the way that it went with William Schmidt, then
we wouldn't have You would have put yourself. I know
we ended up winning the game anyway, but you would
have put yourself in a more favorable position to do
so if he would have started like he's normally been starting.
And like I said, I don't really get starting Connor
Ware if he's gonna be coming out of the pin
on the weekends.
Speaker 2: So I actually I really like how Jay handled this.
Speaker 3: I think that.
Speaker 2: I know, I think you want things as set as
they can be yah for the weekend, But I but
I do think like guys are still especially a young
player like Schmidt, there's still room to develop and and
in a run which this team appears that they are
good enough to go on a run, William Schmidt is
going to be needed in big games out of that pen.
And you know he's not gonna start. Yeah, Like I mean,
I guess maybe maybe he is the guy that will
get the ball in one of the odd starts that
we talked about.
Speaker 3: Potentially he's done both.
Speaker 2: But it would it would feel like his most likely
role in the immediate future would be coming out of
the pin somewhere. So I kind of liked switching him
up a little bit, throwing him out there, and then
because of how the game flowed him being in a
high leverage situation, him entering down the down runs, having
to hold the line, and then having to secure the
save and he ends up doing so. It gets to
win four shutout innings. You mentioned eight k's. It's it's
kind of like it's kind of like the eighth inning
they got the bases Zo to one out, Jay tries
to suicide squeet. It doesn't work, and I know that's
probably frustrated in some people, and it's probably not the
best way to maximize the damage that LS you could
don But Jan has put a real emphasis all year
long on practicing and going for these small ball manufacturing
runs situations, because I think he knows eventually there's going
to be a big moment against a great staff, great
pitcher where you're gonna have to find a way to
scratch something across, and he wants LSU to have in
game experience in doing so, and a hope would be
that maybe you've got the mistakes out of the way
and like a situation like this, so if you do
it against I don't know, tennessee later that you managed.
Speaker 3: To execute at a higher level.
Speaker 2: So I thought, I mean again, you always want to win,
and they escape with a win, But I actually I
actually came out even if they had lost, I think
I would have said that. I still like how how
Jay handled it.
Speaker 5: Greg Dagel in the chat he said exactly what I've
said last night, like Jay's gonna take her till the end.
It's just who he is. This is what he's always done.
I'm kind of I'm kind of in the middle, Like
I agree with the laundr Lake. I kind of feel
like you probably should have done this before the end
of the year. However, you can probably get away with
it a little bit against Nichols, as you saw last night.
I do like William Schmidt though, because not only could
you more than likely see him out of the pin
on the weekend, but maybe Jay's doing it to be like, Hey,
William Schmid has gotten comfortable being our midweek starter. Let's
see what happens when he's not comfortable. Yeah, let's see
what he and when he's not used to this. Now,
that can go one of two ways. He could go
out there and collapse, or he can go out there
and show up like he did. Now you're like, okay,
I could use Schmid as a starter or out of
the pin. So I mean it works both ways.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, he thought at one time that that
Schmidt and he told us was done on Tuesdays, but
he did not, you know, continue to replicate what he
had done, and he you know, needed some more time
to grow. And this is what that is. Because he
thought maybe he was done with that it was only
going to be on the weekends, but you know he's
ruggled a little bit. I think this was to get
him some confidence as well, which he has to have.
I mean four in striking out eight not giving up
a hit like that can now be parlayed into success
this weekend, potentially against Alburn.
Speaker 2: But it's a it's a great conversation and it was easily.
I think the most interesting part of the game last
night was how he handled Schmidt and then the performance
of William Schmidt.
Speaker 3: Other notes from last.
Speaker 2: Night again on the seventh inning, how the offense gets
it done. You mentioned the eighth and the I mean
any any how do y'all feel about the one out
suicide squeeze attempt at the basis loaded, I don't you're
only up to so like you are, you know you are,
You're playing a bit a bit risky. Yes, it was
one out right, Yeah, I think it was Jake popped up.
Speaker 3: That. Look, I am okay with that as well. It's
calculated and he felt like he had the right guy
up at the time. Jake Brown typically gets that down.
You're trying to get one more run across. I'm okay
with it, and I know a lot of people pay
well I mean Jake Brown, he had hit, he had
a couple of RBIs. It's like, why not let him
swing away? Like you said, though t, I think it's
every game. Jay wants to win more than any coach
that I have seen coach baseball in the midweek, he
wants to win the game, which I love that about him.
If you got uniforms on, the lights are on, you
got umpires, a whole deal of crowds there, go win
the baseball game. But those are things I think that
like you're saying down the road, he knows he's going
to need that. It was a high leverage situation. Let's
see if he can get that down now. You know.
Unfortunately you and I both know this being former players,
Jay might have a list Jake Brown situation cross that name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe maybe or or or you know maybe maybe
he he kinda tells him like, look, man, you got
out of your system.
Speaker 3: Next one you're gonna get right. I mean, I don't know,
but either.
Speaker 2: Way, it's uh, you can you can almost like viscerally
see the idea behind what he's doing and what he's practicing,
and and and I would I would near guarantee that
the situation's going to come up, and it'll just be
a matter if LSU ends up executing or not at
that time on a larger stage. So I uh, solid
win man again at the end of the day, this
team wins again eleven and oh, thirty one and three
are you kidding me? And then shout out Derek Curial
reaching base in the ninth with a walk, Baby, let's go.
The Freshman continues to be phenomenal, Absolutely phenomenal.
Speaker 3: There's some people that I thought maybe you had jinxed
him because you said the thing out loud yesterday on
the show.
Speaker 2: I didn't say it. I never said it like out loud.
And plus there's like millions of articles being written about it.
Speaker 3: And written and speaking I think into existence. Also, we didn't.
Speaker 2: We didn't, That's what I'm saying, though we kind of
tiptoed around it like we didn't. We didn't say it
out loud. But yeah, Derek Carroll continues to reach base.
Hell yeah, we love it all right. Coming up next
here on off the bench, I want to I want
to talk a little.
Speaker 3: LSU spring practice.
Speaker 2: So they were back on the practice field yesterday and
there were some interesting personnel decisions as far as the
depth chart is concerned.
Speaker 3: Keep a lock.
Speaker 2: Off the bench, Get Gordon and get it done. Two
to five eight eight eight eighty eight eighty eight. Gordon
mccurnahon injury attorneys. There for you when you need them.
Somebody's gonna stand up to the big insurance companies. Get
you what you deserve like that's you know, you get
an accent that sucks.
Speaker 3: What's even worse, you try.
Speaker 2: To file acclaim and get your just recompense and you
can feel the weight of a billion dollar insurance company
leaning on you. Who's gonna advocate for you, Who's gonna
fight for you. That's Gordon mccerney. So go to Gate
Gordon dot com or call two to five eight eight
eighty eight eighty eight. Also fallen on social media at
gig Gordon, Gordon McCune injury attorneys.
Speaker 3: They go to the website today, have a chat with them,
get everything set up right on the side. See what
they've already done in the courtroom, what they can do
for you in the courtroom. On social media at gid gordon.
See what they're doing in the communities throughout the state
of Louisiana and Tea Bob said it anywhere in Louisiana.
Your area code fall about eight eight eight eighty eight
eighty eight.
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 happening y'all? Welcome back to OTB Also forgot to
mention this LSU gonna be.
Speaker 3: Oh, I should have been.
Speaker 2: I mean I should have gone through maybe some of
the offensive numbers last night as well, even probably going
three or four.
Speaker 3: Pretty great night, you know what that big yeah him,
pick him up and put him down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a pretty freak just overall athlete, size, speed.
Speaker 3: Everything at then infield hit he had late in the game.
I mean, it's impressive, and the broadcast was talking about
it as well. We probably don't talk about it enough.
Him waiting his turn, and I know we've mentioned it before,
but waiting his turn, not going into the portal, Yeah,
going through not playing a whole lot as he's a
freshman in a sophomore. A lot of people, certainly today's
day and age, he was a big recruit. They take
their ball, they go home. But he wanted to play
for LSU, so he waited for his moment. He's making
the most of it now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's locked in right now for sure. So LSU's
gonna have two Auburn this weekend. Like Jake said before,
the long home stand, the long road trip continues, and
Auburn's very good at home. They've beaten Vandy and Alabama
in series.
Speaker 3: At home. Will do a deeper dive on Auburn.
Speaker 2: But I did love this shout out Hunt Palmer's piece
on Louisiana Sports on Net. Sam Dutton gonna be the
Friday night starter for Auburn. So the former Tiger Sam
Dutton gonna be out for some revenge against his teammates.
Dutton versus Kate Anderson. Cannot wait. That's going to be
a a.
Speaker 3: Ton of fun. How many people before they read Hunt's
piece realized that Sam Dutton still plays college baseball?
Speaker 2: I definitely I didn't. I was gonna say, I feel
like I didn't know but didn't want to.
Speaker 3: You mentioned it last week.
Speaker 6: We talked about it a little last week.
Speaker 4: It was off air, yeah, break at some point we
mentioned it because I think he was because.
Speaker 2: You were talking about he's doing well. Yeah, right, he's
doing real well. As as the Friday night guy, and
I was saying I always thought he was kind of.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, a Sunday starter as a freshman thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we talked, like my main Dutton memory has just
been McDonald loving Dutton because of Yellowstone. He just used
to get a hype to to talk about because he
loved Yellowstone.
Speaker 6: He is four for two on the season, a two
sixty six e r A, and he has his strikeout
to walk ratio is not bad at all. It's fifty
one to ten.
Speaker 2: Damn that those are freaking awesome.
Speaker 6: Numbers, way better than they were last year.
Speaker 3: He's six six. No, I mean it was time like one,
you know the clip of the Phillies ketcher when the
guy's coming out of the bullpen, Like that's the feeling
that you kind of had. But credit to him for
kind of turning it around and being a Friday night
guy in the SEC on a pretty good baseball team. Yeah,
it's a catcher. He's shaking his head.
Speaker 6: You did sometimes, Yeah, he kind of did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, was it the uh was it the Phillies that
twirked on the braves last night?
Speaker 6: Yeah? It was, But like Jake said, they won that game.
Speaker 3: B won. Let's go not one win, but two wins
on the season. Now, uh, you always win.
Speaker 2: When you upgrade your home with k t Z Interiors
and Outdoor Living kt o Z Blinds dot Com.
Speaker 3: K toz Blinds dot com.
Speaker 2: Katiez Tears and Outdoor Living can take your home to
the next level. And look, we can work with all
price points. So you got the home of your dreams. Great,
Let's let's juice it up. You gotta starter home.
Speaker 3: Great, Let's make it that much better so that it's
more endurable for you.
Speaker 2: And then, you know, increase the resale value. So if
you need any blinds, drapery shades, shutters, maybe some drop
down exterior shading, get it before that heat comes rolling
in so you stay cool while you're grilling and chilling
this summer. Go to ktoz Blinds dot com, ktz Blinds
dot com. So LSU football return to the practice field
yesterday coming off of spring break, and the thing that
stood out to me the most is the depth of
this LSU offense and it starts on the offensive line, Jake,
where I think interesting a note in yesterday's practice the
two big name transfers Brailin Moore, Josh Thompson, both run
with the twos, you're Cohen Eccles.
Speaker 3: It was it was DJ Chester at.
Speaker 2: Paul Macbinga and Cohen Eccles in the middle, with Tyree
Adams of Weston Davis on the edges and then Bradley Moore,
Josh Thompson and others backing them up.
Speaker 3: This is well.
Speaker 2: Look, first off, none of this is final. Second off,
this is a good thing at this point. Is it
maybe a little worrisome for the transfers themselves? Like, is
it in distinct for them themselves? Up? Sure, But what
this tells us is that the competition sparked by having
multiple good players competing over playing time. These these spots,
these super valuable spots. It's pushing everyone to be the
best version of themselves. So I kind of started on
the offensive line thinking about that. But then go down
the list, I mean eleven personnel with the ones Jacobs,
Aaron Anderson, Xavi and Thomas Chris Hilton trade as Green,
Caden Durham. But then what about when you go with
the two Nick Anderson, Barry and Brown, Kyle Parker, Van Buren,
Bauer Sharp, Caleb Jackson. That's a really good too deep
all the way top to bottom like this LSU offense
should be elite and should be somewhat injury resistant. I mean,
those six receivers are insane.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the receiver room is deep with three e's in
the middle, as we'd like to say here. But the
offensive line, I want to ask you say, because I
think that's maybe even the more important thing here, because
I feel like you've got receivers. Yeah, Elish's kind of
always had receivers and you finally figured out some quarterbacks
to be able to throw it to him. But it's
a deep room. If you have one guy go down,
it feels like there's a lot of guys with the
same skill set where you can plug and play a
bit and maybe you miss a little bit, but it's
not great enough where you're going to just absolutely, you know,
implode on yourself. Yeah. Now the offensive line like that,
to me, does that mean that the people that you
recruited have stepped up like they did in the bowl
game and they're you know, saying, hey, I don't care
where this guy's coming in from, Like this is my spot.
I was recruited here when they had the opportunity, it
was it was pretty impressive. Or is it like, you know,
maybe the transfers right now, maybe they're just trying to
to play catch up a bit, because I actually think like,
if your guys are holding off guys that have starts
in the big tent in the ACC that bodes really
well for you. Yeah, I mean exactly, we're like mine there.
Speaker 2: I think it's the former where you're talking about where
it speaks more to your your recruits developing well and
playing well, because yeah, I mean that that is the
bottom line. Josh Thompson and Bradley Moore are guys that
have a ton of starts on this level of football,
whereas maybe some of the guys they're competing with don't
have as much in game experience. If you're out playing
them at this moment, that that's very good. Again, this
is a true iron sharpens iron situation here, and everybody's
gonna be needed because injuries will happen and everybody's gonna
be needed at some point this year. But yeah, it
it makes me. That would be the main takeaway. And
it kind of ekes sends to the receivers, right because
if Nick Anderson walks into like Nick Anderson is immediately
a top three receiver on ninety five percent of rosters
in college football, and maybe he ends up being that again,
maybe josh Altbraymore end up being the starters. But the
fact that they're not yet speaks to these young guys,
especially in the offensive line. Less receiver, but the young
guys really developing well. So yeah, I mean, the depth,
the the too deep of the LSU offense right now,
even down to Van Buren being the backup quarterback, is
pretty insane to me. It's probably the best, it feels
like the deepest too deep that I can think of
in quite some time.
Speaker 3: For this team. And ils you had a good receiver
room a year ago. I think it's better this year. Yeah,
I think you add two guys from the SEC and
Anderson and Brown. Your leading receiver. Aaron Anderson is back.
You've got Chris Hilton Junior, hopefully you know, fully healthy
for the season. We saw what kind of game changer
he can be at the end of the year when
he was fully healthy. Zavion Thomas is back, Kyle Parker's
back healthy. I don't really think there's there's not a
way that you can convince me that last year was better.
I know, you lose Kyraen Lacy. But I think with
who you've added, you're not losing anything. Yeah, and the
tight end position is very intriguing because you do you
lose the school's leading tight end of all time and
like every category in Mason Taylor. But you've added a
couple of bodies from again the SEC and Sharp and
Green to try to replace one player, and that's okay.
Sometimes it takes two players to replace one player. So
the weapons for Garrettnusmeyer I think are better this year
overall in their totality. I think the running back position
we talked about that you've got an older Caden Durham.
You've got two really good young running backs that are
coming in as well. We'll see what happens with Caleb Jackson.
I know you lose Josh Williams, which is like steady
Eddie hey ish just hitting the fan. Put him in there.
He's gonna make sure he goes right. But if this
offensive line can give you what last year's gave you
and that look, that is that's tough. I mean we're
talking about album.
Speaker 2: Maybe be a bit better running ball, you're gonna be
a bit worse at pass blocking.
Speaker 3: Right, So if that can given itself out. This offense
was really good a year ago, well sixth overall. I
think in passing offense a year ago, if you can
get the rushing numbers up and you still stay in
the top fifteen in passing, it's going to be a
better offense than it was a year ago. On paper,
I feel very comfortable saying this appears to be a
championship caliber offense, which means it is going to be
up to wit weeks and the defense to restore the
pride of LSU defense, restore some of the intimidation factor
that has been missing for far too long. Like I
still like the roster defensively, but there's way more question marks,
way less proven than what you're bringing a bear on
the offensive side of the ball. But good for the
defense because getting to practice against his offense every day again,
Iron Trupen's Iron, it's going to make you much much better. Maybe,
like tomorrow will explore do the opposite conversation for the
defensive side of the ball. Yeah, because I think, like
I'm getting excited about the potential of what this offense
can be. Yeah, me too. And again we don't even
talk about it being Nutsmeyer's second year and a lot
year one was so good and you counted on him
so much. I mean he barely what like a two
and a half game kind of lull. Outside of that,
he was damn near elite for most of the season.
Everywhere that you look, he is the best quarterback coming
back in the SEC. You know, it's crazy. Well two things.
Speaker 2: First, look at the jump that Jayden and Joe made,
So if Nuss makes the equivalent jump, he's gonna throw
over eight thousand yards. I'm tucking nod, but you know,
it's crazy for real. Like all the national quarterback lists,
it's all like Club Nick and Mesmeyer.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: And it's gonna be game one out the gates. Two
very complete teams that both feel like this is their
championship year do in battle over the title of Death Valley.
This is easily the most and this is from a
program that plays big time openers all the time, but
this has gotta be the most typed.
Speaker 3: Opener since Oregon twenty eleven. Yeah, easily.
Speaker 2: I mean, these are two true championship contenders and maybe
the best out of conference game all season. Maybe the
only other one would be like Texas at Ohio State,
which I think maybe that same weekend to double check.
But that's gonna be crazy. It's gonna be Arch's debut.
It's gonna be Julian Satan's debut, Finny National Champs.
Speaker 3: That's pretty sexy to think about, too. Dude's not gonna
lie most lists that I see, it's L s U
Clemson one. Yeah. Yeah, So it truly is like Heisman
Little Death Valley, Big Death Valley. Yeah. Season opener for
L s U. Little Oa Clemson.
Speaker 2: Oh, five in a row, Dude, nobody gets us six times,
So okay, we draw the line of five.
Speaker 3: We'll see.
Speaker 6: I feel like I remember drawing the lineup.
Speaker 2: For We drew the line of four. I used that
line about eight thousand times in the Vegas pool.
Speaker 3: Uh, and we did not hold the lot.
Speaker 6: I feel good about it, though, to.
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't. So that's to you.
Speaker 2: I feel, okay, that's good for you. I have such
peace of mind would be wonderful.
Speaker 6: It's more like to say out of mine kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not yeah, we're not quite outlet.
Speaker 3: I'm just kind of numb to it at this point.
All right, when we get back.
Speaker 2: Uh, it's a little Saints draft history keep a locky
tb off the bench.
Speaker 1: Yest morning sports show around gets off the bench with
Hester and Tabob.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Zach Ewing the Advocate and Time spagy Un.
He had an excellent look back at Saint's history in
today's paper about the New Orleans Saints history of top
ten picks. Uh something that they used to do quite often,
but due to the Golden era, I have not done
it quite some time.
Speaker 3: Uh. Does anybody know in the last time says going
to pick the top ten? A bit? Hold on? I
would it have been when they selected Sullivan out of
Georgia defensive tackle? No, but you had the position correct, oh,
sedric Ellis, Yes, two thousand and eight, which, not to
be alarmist.
Speaker 2: Two thousand and eight was seventeen years ago.
Speaker 3: I don't know why you did that.
Speaker 2: Because we had for the story. It hurts me just
as badly, trust me. I mean, I don't even know
if Taylor and Landa were born in two thousand and eight.
Speaker 3: We were.
Speaker 5: We're only twelve, so we were not born in seventeen years.
Speaker 2: The point, it's not twelve, it's seventeen years. Seventeen years, yeesh.
Obviously Cedric gl sucked. That was a disaster pick. So
what wn't great? No, But what Zach wanted to do was, Okay,
let's look at the picks. Who are the good ones?
Who are the bad ones?
Speaker 3: And it again.
Speaker 2: Seventeen times in the first forty one years of the
franchise they drafted in the top ten. They only drafted
first overall once, and it was back in nineteen eighty one.
George chose George Rogers nineteen eighty He's Heisman winner running back.
He had an unbelievable rookie season still apparently has the
same sequel season rushing record sixteen hundred and seventy four yards,
he scored thirteen touchdowns. He was first team All Pro
Offensive Rookie of the Year, and I think it'd be
the only year he played in all sixteen games in
a season. Injuries ended up ruining George Rogers, which sucks
because again, what a beginning.
Speaker 3: Do you know who you took him over, Lawrence Taylor?
Speaker 2: All right, Yeah, he ended up He's good, Ronnie, but
still incredible rookie season. Injuries kind of ruined him. He
was an All Pro, though the next All Pro on
the list, Willie Rofe number eight pick overall in nineteen
ninety three, probably the best one of the bunch out of.
Speaker 3: I have no idea, actually, Man Taylor, I actually don't know, wow,
a lot of what was the question, Willie rof where'd
you go to college? Missions?
Speaker 6: Obscure? I don't know?
Speaker 3: Are y'all serious right now? I don't I actually I
would tell you if any Louisiana Tech. I did not
know that. What Willie Rove went to La Tech? Yeah?
I had no idea. Damn, where's he? Where's he? Where's
he born? And raised?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Let's see anyway.
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer, four time All Pro, probably the best
Saints' top ten pick in draft history.
Speaker 3: Uh, Pine Bluff, Arkansas?
Speaker 5: Okay, I mean that's actually that's actually not that far
from Tech.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: The next All Pro in the list, Kyle Turley number
seven pick in the ninety eight draft, only played five
seasons in New Orleans, but started seventy nine of eighty games.
Was All Pro in two thousand, the year and which
the Saints won their first ever playoff game. So out
of the seventeen top ten picks, those are all of
the All pros.
Speaker 3: Which is it?
Speaker 2: Like I wonder what the hit rate on a top
ten guy becoming all pros because all is very tough
to do.
Speaker 3: Three of seventeen feels like it could be bad anyway
for the top ten. You're saying, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like maybe it's not. Maybe it is because
look at some of the other names list yet Archie Manning,
of course, number two pick in nineteen seventy one, last
time they selected a seventy first round quarterback, two time
pro bowler. You had Reggie Bush with the number two
pick in the two thousand and six draft. Again, never
became an all pro, well.
Speaker 3: Become the guy that maybe people thought but still was
still really good pro. Still worse, Yeah, absolutely really good pro.
Speaker 2: In nineteen seventy six, the drafted Chuck Munsey, another running back,
number three overall.
Speaker 3: He was now that he was a dog. Yeah, he
was good. He was a pro bowler. Yeah, ended up
having some good years with the Chargers as well.
Speaker 2: One of my old man's old teammates, Jim Dombrowski number
six pick in the eighty six draft. Uh, just kind of,
you know, a very solid decade long starter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, like.
Speaker 2: That's that's that's great, that's great. Chris Nioli nineteen ninety
seven with the number ten pick A guard. I do
not remember him that much. Uh wait, was that wrong
about Cedric Glis? I am wrong about Cedjria Glaise. He's
better than I remember. I feel bad. I sat here
and started this entire segment by but he wasn't.
Speaker 3: When you select the deepestive tackle that high, I think
you expect a little bit more, though. Yeah, but I forget.
Speaker 2: I mean, he started seventy games over five years, So
I mean, I agree with you, I agree with you,
but I thought he was a disaster.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking of somebody else thinking about Sullivan from Georgia.
Speaker 2: Maybe so maybe, So I forgot he was a starter
on the Super Bowl team as well.
Speaker 3: So Cedria Gallis this maybe, but you're not You're not
crazy for off. Uh And look those my year. I
mean I definitely remember him.
Speaker 2: Those are kind of the good ones.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: You have Ken Burrow nineteen seventy, West Chandler in nineteen
seventy eight, Ricky Williams of course in ninety nine, and
now you get to the busts. Kevin Hardy number seven
pick in nineteen sixty eight, only started twelve games over
four seasons in the NFL. Roy Smith that guard number
eight pick in nineteen seventy two, nothing, Larry Burton in
seventy five. God, they were awful at drafting in the seventies.
Larry Burton wide receiver number seven pick and seventy five
never did anything. Joe Campbell number seven pick nineteen seventy seven,
never did anything. And then yes, I was thinking of
Jonathan Sullivan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can remember when that pick came in, played
three seasons, kind of just looking around like is this
a fake broadcast? Is is this something where they're trolling?
Speaker 2: There's a funny story about Sullivan. Does One of the
infamous stories Sullivan happened in his second season. Sullivan was
inactive for a game against the Atlanta Falcons that day
and surprise the media by showing up in the press
box for the pregame meal. Needless to say, Jim Hasstt
was not pleased. So this man already had a problem
with being overweight with food and he was inactive on
game day and he was so hungry. My man went
up to the press box to grab meal.
Speaker 3: And if you've ever covered a game in a superdome,
that's way up there. You don't want to get there
stumble across the press box.
Speaker 5: For what it's worth. Jonathan Sullivan one and a half
sacks in three years.
Speaker 3: That's crazy, he said.
Speaker 2: I knew I wasn't in tip top shape, but I
was getting there to be called out like that. I
didn't really like that, so they told me to cut
back on fast food. But it seems like everywhere you
ride you see McDonald's true.
Speaker 3: True. It seems like I apologize centric galus. I know, yeah,
I apologize.
Speaker 2: You're not Jonathans. So there it is a little history
of the things, all right. Coming up next to wrap up,
I want to bow to.
Speaker 1: Be off the bench.
Speaker 2: Spring has sprung and it's time to go for dose
during this baseball season. The perfect pier pier, the perfect.
Speaker 3: Beer on a pier in the golf.
Speaker 2: Okay, there you go. I was gonna say the perfect
beard a pair or the perfect beer on a pier
in the gulf is a crisp, delicious, ice cold de secies.
Why don't you dress that thing up? Take a little
lime slatter the neck, sprinkle some salt, drop the lime
inside and enjoy, or just probably the saltant lime beer
already Prida do they have that two secies. So if
you want what to do this baseball season, it's time
to go for We're getting.
Speaker 3: We're getting, I mean, we're gonna have it. Probably not,
but maybe Do Sekis is the perfect beer for summer vacation,
which is coming up. Have toes in the stand, do
sequis in hand, Do Sekis.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the seventh ranked morning sports show in America.
Off the Bench with Hester and T Bob.
Speaker 3: What's going on, y'all? Welcome back to otb Lochaiam shout
out to our team.
Speaker 2: Yeshiva, God's chosen people, getting it done yesterday as we
broke it down yesterday. But in case you missed it,
Lehman College, a college out of the Bronx, and Yeshiva,
a Jewish Orthodox university, we're doing battle in the worst
college baseball game of all time. They had a combined
one one hundred and forty one game losing streak coming
into the day. Leave In had lost forty two, Yeshiva had.
Speaker 3: Lost ninety nine.
Speaker 2: They had a doubleheader, a couple of seven inning battles,
and in game number one, it looked like my people
were going on my pew. It looked like Yeshiva was
going to remain in captivity as they had a big lead,
but blew it late to lead.
Speaker 3: Seven to six.
Speaker 2: Remember they had never beaten Leman either. They were zero
for seventeen. I think Leaman average like fifteen runs a game,
Mashiva like four. So their Yeshiva six Lehman breaks. They're
losing streak. They're celebrating to win. Yeshiva's now lost one
hundred games in a row, and it was at that
moment when they said no more and they managed to
win and get the monkey off their bat. Was the
final score of the second game, Milandra, I know you
were watching it.
Speaker 6: I think it was seven to five.
Speaker 3: I got five.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I got to the studio, so I didn't finish it.
Speaker 2: But awful broadcast. I mean, obviously they don't have they
don't have announcers. Seventy six was the first game.
Speaker 6: Sorry, nine to five.
Speaker 5: Yeshiva bats down scored them in the dull Yeah, true,
agg perfect, This is what I wanted. I wanted them
to lose the first one, to get to one hundred
straight losses and then get the monkey off the back
in the second one.
Speaker 3: Could not have been more perfect.
Speaker 2: There is something kind of deeply funny about both teams
being bad enough to let the other break their losing streak.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like both teams.
Speaker 2: It's kind of perfect for two such incredibly inep teams
to be battling each other. But uh, I guess shout
out to both Lehman and Yeshiva, but especially to the menches.
Good job, guys. Congratulations mazzeltof hour two a vote to
be flustering coming up next off the bench.