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Here's Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: Yo Yo, welcome in.
Speaker 2: Oh t be here on this Monday, Monday Monday. Should
let that breathe there, I should let that breathe every day.
I thought it was just instrumental. You know, we had words.
Speaker 4: You think people are listening, like, are feeling the music
as much as we are in here?
Speaker 2: I think so, I hope so. We got the radio
on the radios for a couple of things, but mainly music,
music and sports sports is there. It's mainly music.
Speaker 5: I think we enjoyed the music most of all on
this show.
Speaker 2: Half while I'm here. Jake Flynn elandra ta ta all
here with you to Monday. It feels like it's been forever.
Since the start of the week we've had everybody in.
Speaker 5: Here has happened. It happened since my first day.
Speaker 2: I think that was literally that was the last time.
Was the last time we were all here together on
a Monday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we don't want to throw shade at anybody me
and have been here. Did I miss it Monday?
Speaker 5: You missed like four days?
Speaker 4: You missed a Monday, that's right, yeah, right, but you
made it back from your business trip.
Speaker 5: I did. It was a little touch and go there.
It was in doubt for sure.
Speaker 2: I was like I was ready. I was like, oh,
here we go.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I had a real quick trip.
Speaker 4: Flew in Saturday, stayed one night, had like a short conference,
and then it was coming back and I, you know,
I pretty much spent the entire day at the airport yesterday,
which sucked.
Speaker 5: Orlando Airport. You stink was there?
Speaker 4: I mean, but let me tell you the commitment I
had to this show. I had three different flights booked
at the same time at one point to get back
here because I was on a I was on a
Southwest flight.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it was supposed to be like a five
o'clock flight, five thirty flight.
Speaker 4: Get the get the news at like noon one pm
that it's delayed till seven, Like all right, let's stink.
About an hour later, that's delayed till nine. Like, oh,
this isn't gonna work. I've seen this happen.
Speaker 5: I've seen this story play out. Why where they just
keep delayed, delayed, delayed, delay, canceled, cancel.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I was like, all right, so looked in. I
was like, all right, how else am I gonna get back?
I gotta get back to New Orleans. Guss where my
car is. I want to go to Baton Rouge and
have to like uber to New Orleans the next day. Right,
So we found the old Frontier airline.
Speaker 2: I was wondering because you said Frontier, and I'm like, look,
I know this is a cheap s ob, but Frontier,
what's he doing was he's got a wife and family.
He can't be risking Frontier.
Speaker 5: I just like, y'all should just know the commitment I have.
I was really willing.
Speaker 4: To risk my life to make it back for this show.
And that's what you're doing, really when you're when you're
booking Frontier. And I did it, and uh I got there.
We're booking Frontier and then of course they they like,
they don't cancel, they delay the flight, and in like
pure Frontier fashion, they don't tell you anything at the gate, like, hey,
how long were we delayed? I don't know, all right, Well,
like what's the problem. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't really know. There's just a there's a bunch
of maintenance people on the plane.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I don't like that.
Speaker 5: And so like I'm not on Frontier Frontier.
Speaker 4: So I'm like in my head, I'm just like, it's
not a mechanic, it's nothing wrong with the engine. It's
probably like the AC's broken. Because no one wants to
sit on a hot plane. They're probably just fixing the AC.
Well that probably so, all right, Okay, so let me
tell you that. So I got the Frontier flight and
I canceled my Southwest flight right right, got my credits back, yep,
got Southwest bucks. So this flight I'm about I'm there
for like three hours, still delayed, nothing, nothing, nothing. Well,
I rebooked my flight with Southwest, the same flight I
was on that had been delayed to like nine thirty PM.
Speaker 5: Rebooked with that anyway, So I had.
Speaker 4: A bunch of flights and anyway, my Frontier flight, they
finally say all right, let's go, We're ready. Mechanics said
we're good to go, and I'm thinking to myself, are
these Orlando Airport mechanics? Are these frontier mechanics?
Speaker 5: Like what calm?
Speaker 2: Which one's worst?
Speaker 4: What caliber mechanic we're working with? So anyway, we get
on the flight and it is what you think it was,
you know, frontier flight. You know, you never knew how
bare minimum like a chair could be until you.
Speaker 2: Get we might have we might have casting out your
life insurance through text messages.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was. I wanted to make sure it was
up to date.
Speaker 4: But you get on the plate and like you already
got you got some nerves I don't like in these
days anyway of it. Every little noise, like I keep
looking out the window, like right on the wing and
like there smoke coming out. Yeah, you ever like take
off of the flight real quick? So you take off
and they like slow down.
Speaker 2: Really fast and.
Speaker 4: The engine down. But it's like do you have to
do it so fast? Like I don't know, we're not
street racing here. You could take it back like easy.
Speaker 2: Uh no, speaking of kind of street racing. Went and
saw F one last night, me and Jackson Brad Pitt
F one. How was it awesome?
Speaker 5: That's what I've heard.
Speaker 2: Awesome and you said street racing reminded me of like
when we were in high school and you go see
fast and Furious and you get in your car and
you don't even really know you're doing it, and you're like, oh,
I'm going eighty seven and a thirty five. That can't happen.
Don't need to do that again. I mean, I'm pushing
this Highlander to the limits last night, just kidding all
Star sort of. Jackson's like, slow.
Speaker 4: Down, you know, that's what we always say about those
fast they.
Speaker 5: Can go slow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's basically Brad Pitt was driving it last night.
Speaker 5: Awesome, Wait real quick, I'll changed lanes without the blinker.
We we know how you feel about Frontier. What are
your thoughts on Spirit Airlines? Okay? All right, all right,
we're going to get there.
Speaker 2: Okay, can I can I set the scene real quick?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Because so when you were flying Frontier, we did pop
off a bunch of jokes in the group text and
we're like, you know, don't you make it?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you don't fly.
Speaker 5: That's true.
Speaker 2: I don't do. I did a singular I asked about
his life insurance. I just want to make sure lady
and the kids were taken care of, but it was
Frontier And so we got into the studio today and
we're talking about it and Tatan and I knew exactly
what he was going to say. He's like, Flynn, how
do you feel about Spirit Airlines? And his answer was
they're underrated.
Speaker 5: Spirit Airlines definitely.
Speaker 2: The funniest answer that I would have came out of
his mouth.
Speaker 5: Spirit said, no problems, but.
Speaker 2: Anyone ever say that Spirit Airlines is underrated.
Speaker 4: So I understand, Well, that's because I know how they
are rated in public opinion, because I get the feeds.
I get, like people video and fights and arguments and
all this like stuff about Spirit and I get that.
And actually I didn't know that Frontier with what y'all
told me was comparable to that.
Speaker 5: Yes, okay, so much. It makes sense. I got it now,
Like I'm with you on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But Spirit, to me, when you're talking about how they're rated,
they're rated really low because of what people post. So
that said they're underrated because I've had some good experiences
with because they have they have these random direct flights
from New Orleans. So I got I told y'all, we
took our family of five to a direct flight to Columbus,
Ohio one time, and it was like eight hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: I assume that you were going to go hang out
with ajo to visit a host state, unless you know
you were delivering them.
Speaker 5: We were visiting our friends.
Speaker 4: But like we got there for five kids, I'm sorry,
five family, five round chair for like eight or nine
hundred bucks. Now here's my disclosure on that. So I
did go. It was peaceful, We had nice I'm not
gonna say nice, but it was seats, all right, there
were seats.
Speaker 2: They had seats on the plane. We didn't have to
stand a minimum. You have to lay down.
Speaker 4: You do have to pay for carry ons. You can
carry a backpack. You got to pay for things, all right.
So it's like you bring your own snacks, like you're
already prepped.
Speaker 5: You're ready.
Speaker 4: Don't let them handle you, get your you get your
UH boarding passes on your phone beforehand, because they charged
you to like print out boarding passes. They charge you
for a lot of things. All right, that's crazy, but
you got to be prepared. But I'll say the one
complaint I had was a pretty big one. We were
sitting there and of course everybody knows how to what
it's like to travel with children. Yeah, like there's a
lot that you got to be very attentive. You don't
get to relax a lot because they always need something.
They need snacks, they need colors, they need whatever it is. Well,
one of my children was was eating or chewing gup.
I can't remember what they were doing, but they needed something.
Speaker 5: They needed a trash. Yeah, so I get what do
you do if you need trash on an airplane?
Speaker 4: You get a doggy bag? Yeah, And he gets a
little throw up the bar bag and I'm like, all right,
it's a fresh one. Boom, I get it.
Speaker 5: I pop it out?
Speaker 4: Had do you pop it out? You put your hand
in it, pop out the bottom. There's puke in it.
Wait yep, stuck the old hand and some puke.
Speaker 5: Hold up.
Speaker 2: A bag that was on the airplane in the back
of the sea. There was an old puke used bag. Yeah,
and you had the audacity to say it was underrated.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like I'm not. I'm not with you anymore. Like
I've only used it once and did have a problem.
If I have that happened I've.
Speaker 2: Used I stick my hand in there and there's puke
in there. Already, right, it is going to be Spard Airlines,
brought to you by Jacob Pester. Right everything you thought
Spirit Airlines would be. What are you talking about?
Speaker 5: Underrated? Yeah? Like, hey, because I was with you until this,
guess what it was? What?
Speaker 4: I don't want that to happen for sure. Don't want
to stick my hand in puke. I looked at Lacy
and I was like, I'll be back.
Speaker 2: Did you call somebody over and say, hey, there, you're
a little bit in shock, like things are happening.
Speaker 4: You're you're traveling with three young kids as it is,
so things are, things are hectic, all right. I didn't
have time to like look at the bag, inspect it
and be like, yep, that's a freshy it was I
pulled it out. They needed that trash, well, they need
that trash. They need it right now.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it was for you, remember, Wow,
did not expect that. I thought I thought you were
gonna say they charged me for using the bag. I
didn't that you were gonna end up with puke on
your hand.
Speaker 5: Yep?
Speaker 2: Did you end up telling anybody like, I gotta say
something to somebody. So the next poor bastard he got
puke on his hand.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was just a pay it forward situation. I
puked in a bag, stuck it in the pocket for
the next guy.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was tough.
Speaker 4: With that being said, I would fly it again because
of the cheapness. Pretty good. If you can say stick
what what is the dollar amount for you to stick
your hand in?
Speaker 2: It feels like, you know, instead of going to like Cabo,
you're going to Tijuana when you chance to spirit fly,
you know what I mean? Yep, from going to Mexico. Oh,
Cabo's cool to Juana, all right, but it's a.
Speaker 4: Direct It was direct. Didn't have to change over you
you're talking about layovers with children.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I got. I kind of go back and forth with
that sometimes I'm like, you know, you gotta because we're
we're going to California as the longest we go to
go see family. It's like direct from New Orleans to California.
That's a long one ball. But if you stop in
you know, Dallas or Houston and kind of split it
a little bit.
Speaker 4: I was also in a spirit plane one time. There
was a mechanic working on the wing and there was
what looked at the time, like duct tape because it
was you know, silver tape on the wing. Uh, I
mean ducta is strong, right. But I did find out
that there is something called like I'm not even gonna
say this, I'm just gonna make a generic turn.
Speaker 5: It's like airplane tape that is like somebody say.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's specific us. It looks like it did make
me feel better. Now, does Spirit pay for the airplane tape?
No other than because it's probably the same.
Speaker 2: No, they went to Wahlmart and got some duct tape.
Speaker 5: But we made it.
Speaker 4: I was on that flight yesterday and again super hyper
sensitive to any noise that plane is making, said my prayers.
Speaker 5: I was yeah, and y'all kept.
Speaker 4: Texting me before and I was like, all right, guys,
this is like this this group that has a lot
of fiery death vibes.
Speaker 5: Right now, so like let's just chill.
Speaker 2: Sorry. I was like, I was in the movie theater
watching the movie and it was fast cars, so I
had some of adrenaline pumping. I just thought i'd shoot
off some straight text messages. You made it. We made it, Elanda.
You really haven't seen the promos for the Brad Pitt
F one movie. No, I didn't even know Brad Pitt
had a movie out right now. I feel like everywhere
they don't really consume a lot of content outside of
like because I don't need that. I mean and certainly
like live TV. But I feel like if I was
watching ESPN for some reason, yeah f one that the
promo was there, I don't think I like, really pay
attention hard enough to did it linger it all? It
was long?
Speaker 4: But no, Well that's what because I was looking at
news all the weekend and it was like two hours
thirty five minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's like, but no, it was it was good.
Speaker 5: Did keep your attention? I'm sure there's had I mean
hours of like I mean, it was.
Speaker 2: No punt intending like full throttle. Oh dang, Brad Pitts
still Guy's fastball son of a gun. So saved something
for the rest of it. And what what was the character?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Sonny was his name, Sonny Hayes. I believe so this
is a fictional, yes, situation, but they have real drivers
like Lewis Hamilton was in in the movie. You didn't
have any like lines or anything, but they kept showing him.
And I don't want to give too much away. But
he was in. He was involved in a big scene.
So yeah, go check it out.
Speaker 5: Good.
Speaker 2: It's my movie recommendation. You just go see it. It's
two and a half hours, but it goes by pretty fast. Again,
no pun intended there either. Good movie. Brad Pitt did great,
great movie, go see it. Hadn't seen a movie in
a very long time. Certainly that wasn't a cartoon, so
me and Jackson enjoyed it. I ate my waiting popcorn.
Speaker 5: I think, oh man, come on.
Speaker 2: Yesterday was cheat day and there was cheating going on. Popcorn. Uh,
peanut butter, Eminem's and Pretzel.
Speaker 5: The pretzel leminems are so good and I can't find them.
Oh wait, like a pretzel pretzel because they also havel pretzel.
Speaker 2: But Pretzel Eminem's and the Blue Bag used to be.
I can't think they make them anymore. I only see
them in airports. Yeah they're probably old. Yeah, and I'm
still eating they do.
Speaker 5: They have the the coke ICs.
Speaker 2: It was a game time decision. Blue Red Icy are
go with the Coke zero? Do't with the Coke zero.
There's a game time decision. Though I'm with you.
Speaker 4: I will say they have made a lot of improvements
and at home popcorn technology, like that home popcorn is
legit now, like it's it's getting pretty damn close to
movie theater quality. But there's still nothing like that big
old bucket. Take it over there to the fake butter dispenser,
push that greasy red button.
Speaker 2: I know, I don't do that.
Speaker 5: I don't. I don't don't do the butter.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't. I don't go overboard.
Speaker 4: Okay, celebrated water, white cheddar, give me the white cheddar.
Speaker 5: Shakeup. I'm buying the res PCs and dumping them in
like we're doing it all.
Speaker 2: I mean, at least, you know, peanut butter, m and
ms on went peanut butter. Get some protein in there,
no extra butter on the popcorn went coke zero not
a coke.
Speaker 4: But but you know what's the difference when you go
to the theater and you have the guy or girl
that works back there, that takes ultimate pride, and how
they scooped that popcorn up, like.
Speaker 5: They fluff it up and they pour.
Speaker 4: It up and then and they'll like get it at
halfway and they're like, you want butter, and they'll pour
the butter halfway they'll shake it blah blah blah, like
they take pride in it. And this makes a difference.
If you're road last night, Yeah, I hadn't got it
in a while. That's a difficult, but y'all know what
I'm talking about. Theater and you get that guy that
takes pride in it, it makes a differences. Been a
little TLC in that popcorn bucket.
Speaker 2: There was like there we have an old school movie theater.
Like I'm old school, like old school, like the seats
like look like little stadium seats where like the little
cherry just folded down. They were cloth and it wasn't
even like On on the Rise. It was like the
old like barely this was no. This was in California.
I'm saying when I played for the Chargers went out
and it was in Poway, California. But they had a
guy John who did exactly what you're talking about. This
old movie theater. Now they showed all new movies, but
like a retro feel to it, and he was that
like he was a show. When he put the popcorn
into a bucket, you were getting like you're paying for
the movie ticket, but you're also paying for John services
for him to go out there and ham it up
when he's making the popcorn. And it was a great experience.
Speaker 4: Good for him. I don't even know if he's alive
or debit RP to him.
Speaker 2: He's probably still with us. He was young.
Speaker 5: Good for him.
Speaker 2: He's a young fellow.
Speaker 5: We need more.
Speaker 4: John's out there, more John, whatever your job is, BA John,
all right.
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Speaker 2: All right, so, Titey, you put this inside of the
document and it is a little surprising and it is
a strength of schedule for the SEC teams. And of
course we're talking football here because they go, you know,
from sixteen down to number one. And at number sixteen,
the Texas Longhorns played in the SEC championship game a
year ago, so really good last year, expect you to
be really good this year. And their average opponent win
total is the lowest in the SEC. At number fifteen,
another team that made the College Football Playoff, Tennessee. So
you go two teams that made the college football Playoff,
Texas and Tennessee, with what it's expected to be the
easiest schedules as far as win totals in the SEC,
that's pretty nice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, embarrassment of riches there. And I guess I mean
this isn't it's a little bit different than the old
days where strength you controlled your strength strength to schedule
a lot, by who you scheduled, you know, out of conference,
blah blah blah. So this is this is really just
kind of the luck of the draw at this point,
like who's good, who's bad?
Speaker 5: Like the teams that are.
Speaker 4: That are rebuilding, that you're facing where you're falling in
your home, you're being the visitor at home or away
whatever it is, like they take all of that into accounts.
So really, you got two of the better teams last
year in this say see, you know, just getting a
little bit fortunate here on this on this schedule. And
so I mean, good for them, but you know, they
can't really control everything that happens on their schedule or
how people are ranking them on a strength of schedules.
Speaker 2: You take, yeah, your SEC schedules obviously, just it's given
to you and you take it. And if you're fortunate
enough to be Texas or Tennessee, or if you're not
fortunate enough in your Oklahoma, which we'll get to them,
but so we go Texas Tennessee. Then Missouri's at fourteen.
Old Miss comes in at number thirteen, the Auburn Tigers
come in at number twelve, and then the LSU Tigers.
Average opponent win total is seven point two, and it
says here lshu's conference slate will be slightly tougher than
it was last year due to the locations of the
Old Miss and Alabama games being flipped, but it's still manageable.
LSU gets Texas, A and M and Florida n bat
rouge both games the Tigers loss last year. I mean, yeah,
you're going to Old Miss, You're going to Alabama. Ole
Miss is not as difficult of a place to play,
in my opinion than A and M or Florida. I
think both those venues obviously are going to be more
difficult to play. In Alabama, it's usually up for the
LSU game, but still like A and M in Florida,
those are not easy road trips. And I'm not even
just talking about the strength of that team. I'm talking
about just the atmosphere and the venue that you play in.
Speaker 5: So it's kind of doesn't. It doesn't really matter. Those
are the types of venues.
Speaker 4: It doesn't really matter how good the team is because
those places are always going to be tough, and both
those teams with LSU coming in are always going to
look at it as a some sort of a rivalry.
You know, probably I guess I would say Florida more
than A and M, but they seem kind of they
seem kind of equal as far as what the other
opponent thinks about LSU as a rivalry.
Speaker 5: But those are tough plays.
Speaker 4: I mean, the Swamp it is, so, I mean, it's
it doesn't matter if Florida's a five win team or
a ten win team that place, this is going to
be tough to walk in there, and LSU to beat
them always. Yeah, maybe not in the last ten years
or so because our record's pretty good against them, but
still tough place to play. And you know we've gone
into Kyle Field multiple times and you know, been a
tough game for us. So I don't know, those ones
are always for us are going to be tough.
Speaker 2: To me, it's more like sure where you're going, But
it's also like where it's at in the schedule. How
many games are butted up against each other. Is it
spread out more than anything, more than where you're playing
and who you're playing Because you've played in the SEC,
you're not going to have, oftentimes just an easy path
to get to the finish line. And so for LSU,
the thing that is going to be different. You do
face Florida on September thirteenth. That is always an October game.
It is now the third game of the year. So
you go at Clemson, Louisianattack at home, Florida at home.
Then you get set Southeastern at home before you go
to Old Miss, so you get them at home. But
I would say that's a tough stretch. I don't know
if I'd go Clemson Tech Florida, and no disrespect to
Louisiana Tech, you're just sandwiched in between those games because
you get Old Miss at the end of that before
you get a bye week. Then after the bye week,
it's South Carolina at home, at Vanderbilt, Texas A and
m at home. That's a pretty tough three game stretch.
I'd probably go there with the toughest one because then
you get a bye week. Then it's at Bama Arkansas
at home, Western Kentucky at Oklahoma. But I would say
South Carolina at Vandy and A and M might be
your toughest stretch. So yes, the opponents and going on
the road, there is some difficulty to the schedule, but
you get a lot of good games at home right now.
I don't you know at Vanderbilt, who knows Diego Pavia.
We saw teams go in there last year, Alabama come
out with a lost, Texas had to fight to the
very end against Vandy at home. So those aren't guarantees.
But the opponents are tough, but you you kind of
got a favorable draw of how many of those heavy
hitters you have in a row, because right now, I
don't think because of a bye week between Ole Miss
and South Carolina, you're not going to face two preseason
top twenty five opponents back to back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm trying to think about how I feel about
the stance here. Is a stretch more difficult because you're
facing good teams back to back to back? Is it
more difficult than you know, facing maybe a couple better
teams with like the lower schools Sandwich in between, and
you know my feelings against scheduling smaller schools on the
schedule anyway, I don't love it, you know, I don't
think or it will or should ever really change.
Speaker 5: I just don't love it as a fan and like
as a viewer of football.
Speaker 4: Right, But I you know, as a player, I think
I was I prefer the game stacked up on each other,
one by one by one, because you know, even even
though you're playing the Southeastern or Louisiana Tech, it doesn't
mean you're getting extra work.
Speaker 5: In for the next team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're just trying.
Speaker 4: You're just you're making the assumption that it's going to
be a less stressful game, it's going to be lower
impact on the body, which that might have a little bit,
but it's not like it's they're going out and playing
two hand touch or anything. I mean, it's it's the
same situation. You're just not quite as whether you admit
it or not, or subconsciously or even aware of it,
the preparations a little bit less. You're not playing as
hard in those games as you do for the big schools,
and it just it's just the human nature. That's just
the nature of the beast, all right. So I think
I would rather the games stacked up on each other
because every week you're focused, you're focusing on an opponent.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I get it.
Speaker 4: Maybe they hit a little bit harder, maybe, but I
mean it's still college football whether you play it, whether
you play at South Carolina, you play it was a tech.
Speaker 5: I mean, you're still a college football athlete that's going
to hit pretty harder. You know.
Speaker 4: It's you just might not have the skills that somebody
else has, so like the speed or the hand on
whatever it is. But they're still big, strong and fast.
I mean we're still hitting, we're still taking. Our bodies
are still taking and beaten. Right, So I think I
would prefer that. So I would say that stretch, I
would say the first stretch of the game to me,
or the first stretch of the year, excuse.
Speaker 2: At Clemson, Louisiana Tech at home, Florida at home, Southeastern
at home, and at Ole Miss.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that stretch to me is probably the
most important, especially over that middle where you're what we say,
South Carolina.
Speaker 2: South Carolina, Vandy and A and M Vandy being on
the road against the Commodoors in Nashville.
Speaker 4: I think just once you get into the SEC play
and you're playing good teams every single we you tend
to get in a rhythm, right, It's just more of
a rhythm of all right, this is sec play. We're
in a rhythm. We got a good team every single week.
This is the preparation. Blah blah blah. I think with
the smaller schools, the preparation is a little bit different.
Speaker 2: Louisian Tech game is going to be packed. I don't
know if y'all have talk to people like everybody I
talked to when they start talking about football season. I
guess because it is the first home game you start
off on the road. Everybody I know is like, yeah,
we'll be there for the Tech game. We'll be there
for the Tech game. You think that same referee that
was backpedaling and tried to beat me into the end
zones going to be calling the game again.
Speaker 5: He's been training, no doubt, he's being looked.
Speaker 2: His hips. Good God, did we.
Speaker 5: Ever get like a backstory on that guy? What your like?
How many years did you play in the league?
Speaker 2: I don't know, but we need to.
Speaker 5: I do was legit?
Speaker 2: The transition he made was it was pro.
Speaker 4: It is so great when you you see the club,
you see him every year in every sport, but it's
especially football when there's like a long play, a breakoff run,
like you got that one referee that's like, yep, this
is what I've been training for.
Speaker 2: Watch this boys. A lot of those guys are former
former players. One of my teammates, Antoine Cason, played at Arizona,
actually played against US here. JaMarcus threw a pick to him.
It's like the only thing Arizona did that day. But
he was our first round pick in San Diego and
he had a long career eight nine years in the NFL,
but he became a referee and he started like in
high school, in college and now he's I think this
might be his first year where he's getting some NFL actions.
Speaker 5: Awesome. Yeah, came up through the ranks, yep.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's it's so funny when you see those
guys because he got some like you'll have an NFL
punk returner, like just streaking down the sideline. He got
a referee running side by side with him, like you know,
he's not at that point, he's not looking for anything,
he's not looking for any penalties. He's just he's just
trying to show out on TV.
Speaker 5: On camera watched this kids.
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, we'll take a break. We'll get more
into some SEC scheduling. Who has the hardest schedule in
the SEC You've probably already guessed, but we'll break it
all down when we come back on OTB off the bench,
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Speaker 1: Locked in on LSU Football twenty four to seven. You're
listening to Off the Bench.
Speaker 2: Ay, Matt Flynn, what's up? You know who turns thirty
nine today?
Speaker 5: Ye?
Speaker 2: Demetrious Bird.
Speaker 5: All right, the bird.
Speaker 2: Let's go open of our show. Demetrious Bird.
Speaker 5: Yeah, de Bird, it is on our show every single
day he is.
Speaker 2: Welcomes the people to the show. Shout out, de Bird.
Speaker 5: What a good call that shout out?
Speaker 2: A uh, great moment in Elsie football history. A chaotic moment,
but great for some chaotic on the sidelines call him
in the huddle.
Speaker 4: I like to say there was ninety two thousand nervous
people and there was eleven people that weren't.
Speaker 5: We really weren't that Maybe we should have been.
Speaker 2: I don't know. You know, so like you'll see a movie,
all right, and stay with me. You'll see a movie
and it'll be a sports movie. For the love of
the games that does a really nice job. I'm sure
have y'all all seen that with Kevin Costner, Billy Chapel Yeah,
so like everything kind of slows down. He's kind of
talking to himself a little bit. Like sometimes you don't
think that happens in a sport like football, where it's
so fast and fast and fast and you're in the huddle,
but there's a couple of moments that that does happen.
It's like everything does feel like it's slow motion a
little bit. You feel like the clock's not running as fast.
And oddly enough, that was one of those moments for
me at least, because the clock's ticking. Now we knew
we had Colet David and Colt was a really really
good college kicker, but we wanted to go finish it
on offense. And you know, as the play comes in,
it felt like nobody was in a rush. I don't
think it was that. But then when we kind of
realized what was going on and we realized what defense
must chant was going to play like, we felt really
good about the situation. Yeah, I mean you seemed calm.
I don't know if you were.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you called a play and I didn't know
we were gonna get into this, But what a great
what a cool it is, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, shout out by the way, birthday cond antagonists because
of Demetrious.
Speaker 4: Birth happy birthday. What a legend. What a great addition
to our team too, by the way, good.
Speaker 2: Lord yeah Juco, right, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: So we get to the line of scrimmage what they
called the play. And let me tell you, like we have,
we spend so many meeting and practice hours that we
work on every situation. We go through every thing that
can happen, that could happen, that might happen, that probably
won't happen. You go through all of that, you practice
most of it. You can't practice against like every single situation,
like every single defense they get throat or whatever. But
you practice the plays, you practice the time management, you
practice the you know air quote like special plays, like
plays that might never happen. So there's always a period
or two periods in a game week that you practice
those weird things like like church plays or Hail Mary's
or you know, we call him Jesse James stand up
plays with defense like stands up the runner doesn't tackle them,
so a couple extra seconds run, like just weird situational football.
But this is one of those it's like, hey, we've
worked on it before, so we're gonna call a play
that's base that's a seven man protection, it's a base play.
Speaker 5: It's simple. We're just gonna run go routes. We're just
gonna run, run deep.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know what, We're gonna call this in
a situation at the end of the game where the
clock might be running. It may or may not be running,
but if it is running, you're gonna get up to
a lot of scrimmage and if they give you a shot,
take it. Yeah, they probably won't say time. They'll probably
in that situation, they'll probably line up.
Speaker 2: But there's a.
Speaker 4: Chance that if you're on the fringe field goal range,
and that's where we were. Yeah, So I mean it's
not like a gimme field goal. No, I mean, it's
certainly not like.
Speaker 2: An over forty five. It'd have been over forty.
Speaker 4: Yeah, anywhere, but anywhere around that forty yards. So if
they're in that, if they're in that range anywhere between
like a thirty five and a forty five yard field goal,
always have to kind of be alert in the back
of your head that in a two minute situation or
an into the game situation, be ready for pressure. Why
because the defense wants to sack you and put you
out a field goal range.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd been right. I just looked it'd have been
a forty yard field goal.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So every time that, every time that we run two minutes,
it's always like, once you cross the fifty, be alert
for pressure because they're going to try to get.
Speaker 5: You out a field goal range.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So we knew that there was chance, but in reality
we thought they're probably gonna play some sort of too
high safety, not going to give up the deep ball.
Speaker 5: Yeah, blah blah blah. But we've worked on it before.
Speaker 4: If they line up at man dea man, take a
shot because the play is only going to last from
snap to throwt it's only gonnalast about four seconds, four
and a half seconds, half five sent whatever it is.
So I'm damned if we didn't line up and they're
single high safety press man, which why are you pressing
on this even if you want a pressure? No reason
to press. I guess he's got He's a little bit
off on d bird, but still.
Speaker 5: There he is.
Speaker 2: Bo birthday ball, Let's.
Speaker 5: Go birthday boy, Happy birthday.
Speaker 4: Now we've talked about this about like your role in
that that play, which was obviously uber crucial. I think
you and Sean Jordan switched right.
Speaker 2: Well, no, so we would have been we were supposed
to be an eye formation because it was less. Why
not we said split it, yeah, and you were like, hey,
split back, So Paul's are right there today. We so
we had never like this wasn't in the playbook. Yeah,
we did not have split backs, me and Sean Jordan,
Sean being the fullback, I'm the tailback here in this situation,
So Sean's supposed to be in front of me in
a three point stance. I'm supposed to be like seven
and a half toes at seven and a half. But
because Flynn saw pressure, he knew it was coming, he
told us to split. So this this formation did not
exist in our playbook. But if I was at seven
yards Sean was at five, Sean would have had an
easy time. He'd have been okay picking up that blitzer
off of the right side. But I would have had
some trouble because the guy that I had to pick
up was coming straight through the A gap. So if
he's coming right through the A gap, I'm at seven
and a half, I've got to try to go around Flynn,
not knock matt off his drop back or kind of
getting his eyesight to pick up this blitzing linebacker and
it had just been a tough block.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And so it was one of those situations that
you like this reason you work on it because you
expect things. So like, because we knew of the area
of the field we were, we could expect maybe they
pressure us to knock us out of field guard range.
Speaker 5: Maybe they don't.
Speaker 4: But let's split it because I know him under center.
And there's nothing worse than having a free rusher at
you in a back having to like go around your
back foot.
Speaker 2: Because you know you can flip each other.
Speaker 4: It happens in practice, your feet clip, something weird could
happen and you won't avoid it. So split black, Uh,
split backs. Nobody thinks we're gonna run it. So we're
not trying to like we're not putting on a facade.
We're not running this, we're not running power. Yeah, because
there's nothing more like uh. Alone on an island as
a quarterback when you're under under center and there's a
linebacker that is in the A gap or the B
gap looking right at your face like we're making eye
contact and usually he's like frothing at the mouth because
defensive people are animals. And you know that he's unblocked.
You know that the guard in the center are just
gonna like pretend he's not even there. They're just gonna
go there always and block their guys. And you know
the back has to have your back, yeah.
Speaker 2: Because you're gonna part the red sea. And then it
gives the linebacker a three way go and if I'm
trying to avoid you get back into the rush lane.
It becomes a lot of different ways I can lose.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you stood up. You punched him right in
the face with your face.
Speaker 2: It's the only move I have.
Speaker 5: So there you go. Y'all were nervous.
Speaker 2: We weren't not nervous at all.
Speaker 5: You know who was nervous, it will must Champ.
Speaker 2: Yeah he was. I still can't believe he brought pressure
the the corners didn't like immediately bail and try to
keep everything in front of them. Shocking.
Speaker 5: I remember that so much. Shame.
Speaker 4: Obviously was part of an incredible run and incredible coaching
staff here at l s U.
Speaker 5: A guy that.
Speaker 4: Recruited both of us out of high school. And then
of course he makes his coaching journey, and just like
all coaches do, they're gonna be at multiple different places,
especially at assistant coaches that have, you know, want to
be head coaches. And so he's the defensive coordinator there
at Auburn that year and No. Seven and so were
I remember playing, Uh there was a third down or
something and I scramble out, run up the sideline, get
the first down and you know, run out of bounds
for hit or whatever. And I see you know that
the Classic it was almost the same thing, Remember the
the clip of saving and must Champ getting Linel turned.
It was almost the same thing, but the other way.
Yelling at his guys because I like scrambled out and
he's I'm not gonna say the F words, but he
was basically saying, break his legs, break his legs, break
his m F legs.
Speaker 5: If he tries to run.
Speaker 4: Will Will And I was like, hey, Bud, where you
to go to sit in my living room when I
was a high school kid, telling him.
Speaker 2: That you told Alvin and Ruth all those sweet nothings.
Speaker 5: Now you're trying to break my legs.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what Will said to me to close
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Speaker 1: Two thousand and seven Champs Purple and Gold to the core.
This is off the Bench with Hester and Flynn. Baton
Rougees go to for all things Louisiana sports.
Speaker 2: Since it's a little sorry, welcome back again, O TV
one four five ESPN Baton rouge again. Found out it
was d Bird Dimitrius Bird's birthday. Reliving the crazy Auburn game,
I will say so I was like an off returner
for that game because they did a lot of squib kicks.
And so when Auburn took the lead, I remember going
over there because it looked like they were they had
a good chance to win the game before the last
drive and well Muss Shampoo again was here. He looks
at me, winks and has a big old grin on
his face because he thinks we got you. So we
get the ball back, we score, three seconds left, whatever
it was. I go back in the same position on
kickoff because I'm I'm running down on this kickoff like
there's no chance that I'm not like, we're going to
tackle this guy. We're gonna And I remember going over there.
I'm like the L three or whatever, and I look
over at at mush Champ and he looks at me.
Clear's days like f you hester f U, but says
it like that that mean that like that looked that
he was. It was like, I was like, what happened
to the wing?
Speaker 5: Well, you didn't have like a lot of respect.
Speaker 4: Sometimes in that in sports world you can say that
in an endearing way.
Speaker 5: It was not at least a little respect.
Speaker 2: He was not very happy.
Speaker 5: Did you wink at him?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: No, I just was laughing at him, and I told
him that story when I covered Georgia's national championship game
in l A against TCU, I was like, hey, do
you remember that. I didn't do that.
Speaker 4: I was like I would do I think I feel
like you've had a lot of outer body experiences in
your defense.
Speaker 2: That whole coaching stuff did Uh yeah. They they like
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