Speaker 1: What's going on, y'all? Welcome into our number three. Were
making it back back.
Speaker 2: It is Tuesday at nine am, which means it's time
to talk to the autist himself, Nick Underhill at nick
underscore Underhill on Twitter, the man behind New Orleans Dot Football,
where they do an incredible job of covering your New
Orleans Saints.
Speaker 1: Nicky, what's up, brother? How we feeling today? Hey?
Speaker 3: Do you guys doing?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: We're doing well, man. Well that's kind of a lie.
Speaker 2: We're I'm not feeling great today, but you know we're
doing We're trying to fake it till we make it.
We are, we are pushing through. I have a few
different topics I want to ask you about here. Uh,
but let's start with the signing.
Speaker 1: Of Dylan ra Dunes. No, I'm just kidding. Brandon Cooks.
Speaker 2: Uh ugo amani. No, let's start with Brandon Cooks. Do
you find in this something we talk about yesterday?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: What does the Brandon Cooks signing signal for what the
Saints plan to do in the draft?
Speaker 1: If it signals anything at all, I don't know.
Speaker 3: To me, Like it kind of felt like they needed
to get a third guy at that position. And he
just ended up being the best value for that spot.
And you start looking at it, and I don't know,
thirteen million dollars sounds like a lot over two years,
but with the way the league's going, it's really just
kind of what guys get paid at the league minimum.
Like you're paying six million dollars for four hundred receiving yards. Now,
that's just what it costs to that's crazy.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of the going rate. Six million for
four hundred yards.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's just that's just where the league's
kind of out right now. Yeah, I would I would
like this signing if they didn't have two other six
foot tall guys that were one hundred and eighty pounds, Like,
I don't know why you need to have three of those, Well.
Speaker 1: Because they get hurt.
Speaker 2: So they get hurt. So now you always have maybe
one or two of the three available.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I mean, look, that's probably the part of
the reasoning behind it. I think best case scenario if
you have the ballpark it you know, we were like, hey,
how many how many games are you going to get
combined out of she heating the lobby next year? I
think you probably set the over under it like twenty
four to twenty five, like those guys miss time, Like
that's just kind of kind of what it is. But
I would have liked the signing a whole lot more
if he was six foot three, you know, it just yeah,
it just would feel different. It feels like that's what
they're missing, but on its own, you know, I don't,
I don't. I don't mind the addition. I just don't
like that they still feel like they don't have an
answer for this thing that's been lacking since Mike Thomas
rolled his ankle against Sampa Bay, however many years ago
it was. And uh, it just feels like it's still
a little bit on address. So I think wide receiver
is still an opium position in the draft. I don't
think this statiates it at all in any way where
you're like, this is this is good, this is done.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I think he's just kind of he's the third guy
right now and hopefully by the time the season start
seams the fourth.
Speaker 4: That's what we were talking about with making this move,
because if you were going to sign a receiver kind
of in the same thought process, like MBS is six
four to two oh six and he got what one year,
four million I think from Seattle, and so that was
a surprising thing to me. Is just because you had
somebody in the building, they actually played pretty well for you.
That was different than those other two receivers that we're
talking about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would have felt differently about him than I
do Cooks, and I think Cooks is probably a better fighter.
It's just the fit is just so I don't know,
it's so weird to me, like like who's going over
the middle and making a play, Like you don't have
anybody that can traditionally, you know, be in that mold.
You don't have anybody that's making you know, a tight
catching the red zone. You don't really have anyone you
can throw open. I just don't like, I don't like
where they're at right now. And it was just such
an obvious need last year, and it still feels like
such an obvious need now. And if this was just
Keenan Allen, I will feel different like he just I
don't know, it just feels like something's super lacking. But
there are going to be good receivers at nine. There's
going to be good receivers at forty. I think they'll
probably still try to address it in the draft, but
it still feels like a huge, massive need to me
in saying Juwan Johnson ten million dollars doesn't make him
a ten million dollar player, Like, you still need somebody
that can do that in the red zone. And I
don't think they have that player that you can consistently
count on on thirty three, Like you just got to
go find them somewhere.
Speaker 2: So then let's get to the draft check. A couple
of questions there that I want to ask you about.
Are are you starting to lean ted a Roa at
nine now?
Speaker 3: I'm not. I mean, I'm probably going to go gent
and Warren all the way, all the way through the process.
I think those are just the two guys that early
on I heard they like the most, and I hope
at the end you still like the same players the most,
because I don't feel like this is a team that
should be placing current need over future prospects at all.
Like I think you should be looking more long term.
You know, I think there's years where where you do
have to prioritize. At eighteen is a good example. You
made a huge mistake trading up for Davenport, but that
was a massive need and that team was on the
cross of trying to win a Super Bowl. Like, I
don't feel like you're in a place right now where
it's like, well, we better draft someone we like a
little bit less because we never adjust this needing free agency.
I hope they just stay true to their board every
single pick throughout this I don't think they're at a
place where they should be chasing anything. And even if
if Todd Warren isn't the guy you need the most today,
if he's the best player, you're gonna be in the
best position two years from now. And I think that
should just be kind of the view on the draft.
But I like I like t Mac. If they took him,
I wouldn't be against it at all. He's I like him.
And Will Johnson's another guy I kind of like at
that spot to that, but every now and then you
see him in a mocker on that that range. He's
usually a little bit lower, but but I like him.
I like him a little bit more than the guy
from Texas.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, it's just kind of kind of the health
thing a little bit last year, But you know, any
of those guys, I feel like it's gonna be really
hard to make a bad pick at nine as long
as you you just you draft it.
Speaker 2: Tickey with a good time there. You do have knowledge though,
of the same stall process he's on these situations.
Speaker 1: We were playing with the hypothetical earlier.
Speaker 2: Taylor's kind of laying out look, if Shadur slips past
the Giants, like there's potentially a world where he goes
like maybe all the way down to the teams or
something like that. Do you know, do the Saints have
any Layton Shadur Sanders desires a lah Pat Mahomes all
those years ago.
Speaker 3: I would be really really surprised. If they have pot
Mahomes desires, it would be for the guy that's through yesterday.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I mean everybody's obsessed with cam Warden.
Speaker 2: It does field Nick like he's become not just the
clear number one pick because of who's available, But it
seems like now people are starting to accept that cam
Ward is deserving of kind of being a number one
pick in any year.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think his talents kind of crazy. I mean,
he can do everything. I think it's just that consistency element,
and if you were to bring him into your building,
I really think it just comes down to the weather
or not you really truly have the belief that you
can develop him or not. And you know, I think
like him, like situation is going to be so important,
and just getting the right coaching is going to be
so important just to kind of harvest everything he can do.
But I mean, I don't know, Like, to me, he
looks like he has great feet, great arm, great release.
You know, you watch on me. He can go through
his reads. He likes to throw the ball over the middle.
A lot of young quarterbacks are kindative about that stuff.
I like him. You know, if I really believed in
my staff, I would be having conversations about, you know,
what it would take or if it's possible at least
just so you know, I think he's I think he's
that good. But if you end up in the wrong spot,
you know, I think that's that's the case for any
of these quarterbacks. So and you kind of see it all.
Sam Darnold's a great example. You end up in the
wrong spot and your talent doesn't show. You end up
in the right spot and your talent can show. So
I think it's it's so much about that. And I
think with him it's really going to be that. I
don't think he's can't miss or you know, a Joe
Burrow level prospect by any means. But yeah, I mean
he's somebody that I think if you need a quarterback
and you want a quarterback, I think I think there's
some special stuff there. I think he's got a couple
of special traits. And if you're going to invest in
someone eye, you want to have at least, you know,
a couple, one thing to hanger out on. I think, yeah,
a couple, and uh, you know, I like him a lot.
And yeah, I mean I thought he looked good. I
thought he looked really good yesterday. I mean, it is
a pro toaate and looking bad is the thing that's alarming.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but that fade away, you know, I.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Nick, you mentioned Tyler Warren there quickly when
talking about maybe potential places the Saints could go at nine.
Let's say you make that move, and he's a hell
of a football player, by the way, we saw how
versatile he could be. Four penn stay. But now that
you do have Jawan Johnson ten million dollars a year,
the way Fossil Moro finished the year, obviously, very strong
note there. So you would have those two players already
in that position. Room, where do you think the Saints
would utilize him? Like, where would he kind of live
within the offense?
Speaker 3: I think so one of the things they really want
to do is they want to they want to be
a high tempo team and a team that can do
a lot of nohaddle stuff and kind of get in
and out of a lot of different looks. And to me,
a guy like Warren looks like someone that can just
be an absolute weapon in those types of types of
packages and he and he feels like someone that you
could just put on the field and line up a
million different places. When we saw it at Penn State.
He can play in line, he complex, you can split
him out. He ran the ball out of the backfield.
I think you could theoretically let let's you know, you
could have a three snap sequence where he's carrying the ball,
he's he's blocking, and then he's split out and you
just kind of have a mismatch just a million different ways.
And you know that there was a man I'm so
reluctant to say his name, but but you know, Aaron
Hernandez that he he's kind of that way in in
in New England, you know that that second year and
it was just such a nightmare for for other teams.
And he could be a convincing tailback and that was
kind of the the whole, the whole piece of it.
And there was just absolutely no way to match up
with them, Like if you're if you're too small, you're
they're going to kill you with that if you're you know,
man the words. But like there's a lot of way
with this guy, and and and you know, I think
I like, uh, you know, yeah, I think there's just
a lot of different ways you could use Ty Warren
and he and he could be he could be a
problem for your offense in that capacity. And that's such
a backbone of what they want to do. And you know,
they have a really a really really interesting looking package
for these tempo and hurry up situations. They have a
one word offense. They have a two word offense. You know,
it could can dictate, you know, one word you're kind
of set always going the one side. You can call
it the two words, whereas you know, one place of concept,
the other words decide the field you're running it too.
They like to you know, ramp up the hyper speed.
They like to kind of slow it down a little bit,
but still not huddle. There's just a lot of stuff
that they do to kind of mess with you with tempo.
And I think the more versatile players you have, the
more you can do within that. And yeah, I think
he could be a really really interesting fit for specifically
this offense because of the way they want to utilize
their offense.
Speaker 2: Oh you give me a little hyped up for Todd Warren. Hey,
don't forget he did play center as well, right right
the USC did he even touchdown catch on a play
in which he lined up at center, So he truly
can do it all. Nick, I want to ask you
about the most recently released article Neorons Football Today, and
it is titled by Mike Tripplett, Seeking a Cure How
new sports performance director Ted Rath plans to tackle these
Saints' injury issues. This is always something that's very hard
to parse. How much of injuries is bad luck? How
much could be prevented. I've seen this game with the
Pelicans for years now. I remember being very excited, I
think when they got like Aaron Nelson from the Phoenix
Suns and if you look at the starting lineup that
the Pelicans put out last night, which is all time
good right up there with some of the elections see
a Jinsa Dante Cunningham lineups of your It didn't do
anything basically right. So what is like and what you
know about ted rav do you think he can make
he can help have an impact.
Speaker 3: Here's why I think it could actually help because we
saw last year when they just changed some of the
stuff they were doing in practice, the positive impact they
had in it. Yeah, So I think some of that
stuff was a little bit self inflicted and just kind
of with the preparation and maybe not taking care of
all the details the way you needed to. And you know,
I think just based on that, which is a better plan,
I think you can prevent some of this stuff. And
I also think last year was just unprecedented bad block
because you go back two years ago and their injuries
were league average, and then last year it was just
out of this world bad. But I think it was
due to some of those details going away. Maybe people
I think that's as part of your culture, like things
start to erode a little bit and maybe people stop
paying attention to the details the way they should, and
I think that was kind of part of that. But
rat has been really good everywhere, and I don't know.
I think I think will probably be be better than
what they had here. At one point he was voted
twice the the whatever whatever category it is just trying
to condition and Coach of the year whatever that awards
are called, war is called. He was given that twice,
So I think I think the theory of it makes
a lot of sense. But I also understand if somebody
feels snake bit and then they need to kind of
see it before they believe in in better progress there.
But I kinda I kind of believe. I want to
believe he's been around the right people, He's been around
the right programs. Every program he's done around has been successful.
There's a history of him turning things around and and
things get a little bit better, you know, last year
in Philly, you got let go in June, and I
think there's a little bit of a dip. So I
think part of it, too, is just kind of circumstantial
and you can't avoid everything. But I think I think
anybody will be better than what they had last year.
I mean, just the the circumstance and the luck and
you know, you do earn a lot of those. Yeah,
and you know, I think I think they earned it
just in general about kind of you know, the culture
just throwing the crap and I think that was part
of it.
Speaker 1: U Oh man, I haven't I missed this one. Nick,
what we learned about Kellen Moore, Dougnell Smeyer and the
Saints at the LSU coaching clinic. I was gonna let
you go, but give me, give me a quick give
me a quick bullet point on what you learn.
Speaker 3: So it was just kind of cool to see those
two up on stage, like, you know, we've never seen
Kellen Moore talking that that, you know, you know, in
front of a room of people as quote, you know,
a leader, and you know, I think you kind of
look in his face and he and he's thirty six
and you see that, but he looks even younger than that,
and it kind of makes you wonder, like, hey, what's
he going to be like up on a stage leading
the room and then seeing him up there, it's just
a presence, you know, it's just somebody that that seems
very smart, very detailed, very very engaging and had command
of the room. Knew what he wanted to say, knew
how to say. It was the effect that's communicating. And
then nus Smeyer coming up behind him, kind of being
in the similar mold, but the different more of a know,
kind of like the uncle is kind of how it felt.
Just someone that could bring it but also is a
little bit more personable and you know, crack a joke
and make you laugh a little bit. I think that
yin and yang between the two of them was really
was really good. Kellen talked for a while about just
the language that they use in their offense and how
they put it together and how they go through the
process of choosing specific words to illustrate different things and
then build out a family of those words so they're
all related. So if you hear a W, it kind
of triggers, Okay, these are all the plays with W
and they all kind of go together. They might name them,
you know, their space and concepts or you know, Pluto,
comment Saturn, things like that, so it paints a picture
of that and just kind of seeing how they put
the verbiage together. And he said, this is the most
mind bowing thing to me is that they've ran course
systems and he said, he's completely changed the language all
four systems, just to make sure it was catered to
that specific place, so they could use words that are
related to Texas or La or Philadelphia or New Orleans
and Louisiana and just kind of build out from that
so that it's just kind of common words, words they're
used to hearing, you know. And it's probably something as
simple as changing I got my hands on a copy
of one of his Cowboys playbooks and like a lot
of the players are you know, chrisco Austin Dallas, you know,
his words that are related to Texas. You know, it's
just probably as simple as going you know, slide out metai,
you know, New Orleans like, but just kind of changing
that up and having to relearn it, you know every time.
It is crazy, and it's just a level of detail
that I think makes it hard to fail. And if
you're going to take out some of those variables, it
kind of makes me believe in the system, you know
a little bit more, just knowing that that they're going
to try to fail safe this as much as possible
and it's not, Hey, this is how we do it.
You fit and it's kind of all right, how can
we make it easier for you and still work for
us at the same time and kind of meet at
that spot where it becomes a little bit easier, even
if it becomes a little bit harder for us. And and
you know, knowing that kind of it was illustrative, and
you know, I think it paints the picture of it
comes a little bit harder to screw up. You know,
if you don't know the playbook at this point, I
think it's more on the player than the system. And
you know, I think that's where you wanted to be.
Speaker 1: Nick Ken, Thank you enough man.
Speaker 2: Really great analysis, as always Doordon's on Football is a psyche.
I've been a proud subscriber for years, especially with the
draft around the Corner, the film breakdowns, everything.
Speaker 1: You want to sign up for Neworleans on Football. Thank you,
my friend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, take it easy, guess I take it easy.
Speaker 2: Nick Underhill at Nick Underscore Underhill, that's cool. I would
I I'm excited to dive into that piece of Normans
on Football. I missed it about the coaching clinic there
all right. When we get back here, note to b
I got a college football topic I want to get to,
and we still got to t take interval story of
the day day, so keep a lock to here.
Speaker 1: Note TV Off the Bench.
Speaker 6: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sort of.
It's Off the Bench with Hester Anti Bob.
Speaker 1: Jake. Did you did you see the Georgia girl that
got arrested?
Speaker 4: I did not.
Speaker 7: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: So what's her name?
Speaker 2: Lily something? We'll just say Lily. We don't need a
complete docs or man. But this this girl, and you
can just put a picture up there. She got arrested.
Imagine that she's a Georgia student. She got arrested for speeding,
because of course she did, right, She got pulled over,
let off with a ticket, and then immediately went back
to going twenty five over and got pulled over, taken
to jail, and then took the mugshot you see here
on the left.
Speaker 1: Jake.
Speaker 2: If anybody who has ever taken a mugshot, you probably
know it is near impossible to be attractive.
Speaker 1: In a mug shot. She looks good in her mugshot.
Speaker 2: So she ends up going viral ver over the weekend,
which of course she did. And but that's not why
I bring this up. The most insane part about all this.
So she actually ends up getting the charges dropped from
the arrests. From the speech, she's good to go, she's clean,
she's free. She got arrested again this weekend, and that's
the monk shot on the right. Oh no, only this
time for prowling an obstruction of a police officer, which
I cannot row.
Speaker 1: Yes, I do not know.
Speaker 8: I had to look this up yesterday. Lurking in an
area with an intent to commit a crime?
Speaker 1: Girl, what are we doing? Why are you turning to
a life of crime?
Speaker 7: She's super photogenic.
Speaker 2: Very photo That's what I'm saying. It's impossible. I don't
care how good looking you are. What's funny, It is
impossible to be.
Speaker 1: Well, she looks crazier.
Speaker 8: Though she does look crazier, you.
Speaker 2: Can see a little bit of the unsettled nature behind
the eye.
Speaker 1: And some of person gets arrested twice in one week.
Speaker 5: For prowling, I would say she's probably like a situation
ship that was somewhere.
Speaker 7: Maybe So do you know, does it say where she
was doing? Does it say where she was when she
was prowling?
Speaker 1: No? All I've seen is prowling an obstruction of a
police officer.
Speaker 5: Okay, well, she was probably prowl and looking to see
what her situation.
Speaker 7: Ships up to.
Speaker 1: Probably so.
Speaker 5: Probably so as a retired toxic person, I can't understand.
Sometimes you got to prowl.
Speaker 1: Have you ever done a prowl? Have you done a
drive by?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 5: Not for me, she was okay, so a friend, we've
I've done it with a friend before.
Speaker 7: Actually, probably a little too.
Speaker 8: Recent success an accessory to success.
Speaker 7: We prowled back in like December. I'm not gonna lie. Yeah,
probably a little.
Speaker 2: Too too prowling around Christmas? Is that when Todd Golden
was doing his prowling.
Speaker 7: Maybe I don't know. No, Todd Golden was before that.
Speaker 8: Because I was like, right before the season.
Speaker 1: Nothing, you can't be prowling at Christmas.
Speaker 7: It was like, what did you find out?
Speaker 1: Good or bad stuff or nothing at all?
Speaker 5: Well, okay, so it's not like it wasn't me, it
was my friend.
Speaker 1: My friend. Sure, absolutely, we believe.
Speaker 5: We were looking to see if somebody's truck was going
to be in a driveway.
Speaker 7: It was not. So that's not good.
Speaker 1: Oh that's not good.
Speaker 5: It was not good that his truck was not in
the driveway.
Speaker 2: Now, oh man, oh man, Well I'm glad all's well,
that ends well.
Speaker 1: I guess I don't know. Did it end up working
out for you?
Speaker 7: I did it at first, and now it's fine.
Speaker 8: I'm glad we know what prowling is now though, because,
like me and you were talking about it yesterday, I
was like, I tried, like for if at all possible,
to avoid committing crimes. I was like, I never know
if I'm prowling because I don't know what that means.
Speaker 2: It's a Lily Stewart, Okay, it says there it is.
I almost said Lily Phillips, but no, something else entirely.
All right, all right, Taitay, while a lodger's doing that,
give me a Titay NFL Story of the Day Day.
Speaker 6: It's time for Taytay's NFL Story of the Day day,
your daily dose of NFL news from Taylor Sharp.
Speaker 8: So we have heard that the Cincinnati Bengals are trying
to re sign their defense even after signing t Higgins
to a massive twenty eight million dollars per year contract
with him being the number two. Saw this yesterday. In
twenty thirteen, the NFL salary cap was one hundred and
twenty three million dollars okay. Between Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase,
and t Higgins, those three players are making one hundred
and twenty four million dollars per year. Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase,
and t Higgins are making more than the entire NFL
twenty thirteen NFL S salary cap. I don't know how
they're going to do this, but that is a plan
that they currently have. They're still working with Trey Hendrickson,
but another wrench has fallen into the Trey Hendrickson bag.
Hendrickson says, since he was not traded, he is looking
for a new deal. If he does not get a
long term deal with the money he thinks he deserves,
Trey Hendrickson says he could sit out the entire twenty
twenty five NFLC.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's all it's left to him. He's dominated
and nobody will pay him the money that he deserves.
I'm still I mean, have we got more detail in
the t Higgins contracts? I still feel like the t
Higgins contracts a little fake because they made very clear
the language of first two years guaranteed right, and so
are we actually dealing with a smaller number of front
with big fake years on the back end.
Speaker 4: Well, we'll we'll see.
Speaker 8: So it's a four year, one hundred and fifteen million
dollar contract total, that's but not all of that is guaranteed.
Speaker 2: No, only the first two years are guaranteed, and we
don't know what it breaks down to. What if it's
like six million this year, like eighteen the next or so.
Speaker 8: So it looks like for twenty twenty five it's going
to be five million dollar roster bonus six point two
five restructure, but apparently like base salary thirteen point.
Speaker 1: Eight million okay, okay, never mind a little more.
Speaker 8: And then but next year it goes down to under
eleven million.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, So giving him some of that money upfront
and then likely going to.
Speaker 8: Uh year four is the big one? Twenty seven million?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Fake might as well be written on toilet paper, right.
Speaker 4: That's the unfortunate part about the NFL. For the most part,
outside of a couple of key players quarterbacks, it's kind
of becoming the norm. But if you don't play quarterback,
guaranteed money is ugh, I still even know.
Speaker 2: I mean, there'saw a lot of contracts as where players
put the thumb on the scale for guarantee. Might I
still laugh about the Stingley contract. Eighty nine out of
the ninety million guaranteed.
Speaker 8: I made it fully guaranteed.
Speaker 2: Well, I think the team just maybe didn't want to
like say like maybe they didn't want to say.
Speaker 8: They want to say, get the guy a fully deal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, says the last million was just a bridge
too far.
Speaker 8: I get it. It's one of those things where it's like,
if he gets hurt, you're like, you gave this guy
a fully guaranteed No, no, we.
Speaker 1: Didn't know one million, a million, a million, a million.
Speaker 2: Coming up next, I want to explore this question that
ESPN had yesterday and has an LSU tie in, but
which non college football playoff team from last season do
you expect to make it in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 6: Dog here on O TV Off the Bench, Welcome back
to more sports talk. What's some other stuff mixed in
Off the Bench with hester at Bob.
Speaker 1: Uh just about being low energy? You could not have
brought me back with a more better song, more better
to fight? That low energy song makes me.
Speaker 2: Want to party, hard, roll, disco, all of it.
Speaker 1: You ever watched this music video?
Speaker 7: Watching it right now?
Speaker 1: She's magnetic in this video, So ESPN.
Speaker 2: Had an article where one of the questions was which
non college hoable playoff team from last season will make
the playoff this fall, and the use their entire college
football writing team on it. One team came away with
three votes, one team came away with two votes, and
then you add a few other ones. Who do you
all think led the way.
Speaker 8: The LSHU Tigers close?
Speaker 1: But no cigar?
Speaker 7: And you asked the question one more time.
Speaker 4: I'm going to go no ok with the old Miss rebels.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no no. I think people are down
in all Miss the exciting you get answered once? Uh,
Alabama got said three times shocker, which you mean you know,
I get it.
Speaker 1: They were close last year, not for the Oklahoma collapse.
Speaker 8: There's a third quarterback this year.
Speaker 2: I'm kinda leaning towards it being Austin Mack. I mean,
if it's ty Simpson, that would be kind of worrying
to me, Like what has Ty Simpson been doing the
entire time? The bammers are trying to tell me that
Austin Mack ran.
Speaker 1: Off, Julian saying and state lud Julie say it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so Alabama got three answers the one thing
so again, again, if they don't fall apart again, sell
you they make it.
Speaker 1: We get that.
Speaker 2: It's another year the boar making it his image to
dry and grub joining the squad. Should be pretty good
at all the different positions. Quarterback is a question mark though,
And I say should be pretty good at all positions. Right,
because it's Alabama, they should have topd them to But
like I'm being interested to see a couple of years
in this to boor thing, Jake, if Alabama is still
as outler. Yeah, if they're still as outlier loaded as
we knew them to be every single year in the
saving area.
Speaker 4: I don't know that anybody can be that loaded year
after year after year.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: I mean, Ohio State still kind of is with things
looking we'll see, Yeah, i mean they you know they
were a year ago, but we'll see if they're able
to do it. Sure that much more than the teams
around them. I'm just saying, like the playing fields, now
that it's out in the open, it's more even. We
just got to with some of those big dogs, you know,
we just got to.
Speaker 2: We just got to check the blue tip Ratios't wait
for that what that guy who's lives and dies by
it so well, it's it's it's just that all the
national championship teams have come from the over fifty percent
blue trip ratio, Michigan being the closest that did not.
I think maybe Florida State as well with James back
in the day was close to not.
Speaker 1: But whatever, So.
Speaker 2: Alabama get three votes, LSU though getting answered twice, and
why not? Right, you have all the talent through the
portal and high school. You have the timing with like
Baker being in year two, Brian Kelly bean in year four.
I guess my question marks would be a very tough
schedule against starting a Clipson seems like a nightmare, and
then an O line that's gonna be completely remade. And
really those two dovetail with each other because that O
line is going to be immediately tested by a Clemson
D line that features a couple of all Americans.
Speaker 1: There. Who else do you all think got answered?
Speaker 4: M Louisville.
Speaker 2: Oh, look at the big brain on Jake freaking nailed
it Louisville, which again I think clem is gonna be
tough to fight through. But Guinea Miller Moss and I
didn't know this, but this is what they write in
the article.
Speaker 4: My head just went to who got a quarterback and
who was not that far away a year ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they lost like four games, like seven points a thing.
But here's a quote in the article that we got
to look at you more.
Speaker 2: Quote may have the best O line in the ACC
and one of the best nationally, and it's two tailbacks,
Isaac Brown and Duke Watson are absolutely electric. So Louisville
bringing a running game to bear.
Speaker 4: Since Broms come over from Purdue. I mean, they have
done a fantastic job in the portal, not only identifying
players that are good players, but that also fit what
they're trying to get done there. So I think Miller
Moss is a going to go up another notch. And
the guy that you saw in Las Vegas, Canzelishu, I
think could be there for the totality of the season.
And the ACC's down too.
Speaker 1: So one of ESPN's writers and Dre Addelson falling into
a trap as old as time.
Speaker 4: Alson. Excuse me, she'll correct you, that's why.
Speaker 2: Really, Yeah, Anlsen, I'm sorry, guys, I'm sorry, uh but yeah,
she said Texas A and M which again I think
I actually fall into the text A and M trap
every single year as well. So catch me like two years,
two weeks before the season starts, and I'll probably be
doing like A well, I mean, I don't know, but
it's Mike Elco year two seventh in the country in
returning production. Right, they got conception on Jake's.
Speaker 4: A Swiss army knife.
Speaker 1: They got Marcel reid bag. I mean, is this Texas
A and M's year? Eventually it has to be.
Speaker 8: No, it doesn't know. Every not, every is a championship
caliber program. See, everybody in the bar.
Speaker 1: Is now making the playoff and that's a way smaller bar.
Speaker 8: Everybody else believes that Texas A and M is underachieved.
I do not. I'm I think Texas A and M
is now what they have always been. That's just who
they are. Contenders. Some people are eight and four. Texas
A and M is what they are, what they are.
Speaker 1: They are who we thought they were. They are Texas
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somebody's going to Obviously Arizona State would have you. We
would think they would have a great shot at repeating.
But it's it's such a wide open conference.
Speaker 1: Is a BYU.
Speaker 2: I'm a big rock o becked guy, though I don't
know what they're gonna do or in placing those receivers.
But I love Rocko getting basically killed in the Big
twelve game while he come back and look pretty frisky.
And then Texas Tech right, so much made of Texas
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not he can be that guy.
Speaker 1: Jake, who's your Big twelve team?
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go back with Arizona State again, just even
post scattabout post Scattaboo, I think Kenny Dillingham has shown
what he can do with quarterbacks no matter if he's
been an assistant, if he's been a head coach, he
gets the most out of that position. Levitt is a
guy that already is the stud. So if he goes
up another level, you get Jordan Tyson back.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Tyson's back. Yeah, Okay, you.
Speaker 4: Missed him obviously. If you have him, be get Sexes,
I think you win the game. So Skataboo is a dog.
It's going to be tough to replace him. But if
you're trying to replace a marquee position running back, is
going to be one of your easier ones to replace.
Outside of you know, a quarterback. It's incredibly difficult your
top receiver difficult. Running back not as difficult. So I
think Arizona State's going to run back.
Speaker 1: Did Kattabou end up running a forty at the Big
twelve Prodect?
Speaker 4: I don't think he did. I don't think we have
a forty time on you.
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Off the Bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 1: You imagine seeing him in the p MAC back in
the day.
Speaker 4: So Elton John in the Cajun Dom what yeah, damn?
Speaker 1: Seeing el John live would be incredible.
Speaker 4: I've seen him three times. Really, he came up to
Brookshire's arena up in Bosier City a couple of times. Wow.
Speaker 2: Ass the bench, what's the appropriate number of cars you
will pass on a two lane highway when stuck behind
some slow driver one, two, three, more than three. It's
your in your opinion, not what's legal.
Speaker 1: Person three.
Speaker 8: It depends what I'm busy, but it's gotta be.
Speaker 1: Really really slow. I I'm kind of a one.
Speaker 8: I'm usually two max.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'm I'm kind of a one. I'd be
scared to do I'd be scared to do three.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 4: Now, you look at your GPS. You make sure there's
no turns coming yep, right, you make sure it's a straightaway.
You make sure there's no heels. It's flat, yeah, so
you can see sorry bilbo heels. And then you make
sure that you can pass, and then you're good.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, No, no, I think, I think, I mean, yes,
you can handle it, but.
Speaker 4: So you gotta be aware of the surrounding.
Speaker 1: It's a tense time. It is when you're in that
left lane trying to get in front of three.
Speaker 4: Katie makes one of me all the time because she
says I do too much, like I rev and get
it like She's like, you won't have to know.
Speaker 2: You gotta get quit, you got to you gotta go
in and out like you got to go pedal to
the metal. You're there's no calmly passing. Ask the bench,
which movie world would you like to live in permanently?
Speaker 1: You know, Star Wars or Potter or whatever?
Speaker 6: Not.
Speaker 1: Star Wars seems kind of like an awful world.
Speaker 4: To live in.
Speaker 8: I mean, so does Harry Potter, though right? Like not
not if you're like a student, everything in this school
tries to kill you.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, but not a lot of kids die, you know,
not really? Also, can you imagine like cozying up in
the common room making out next to the fire. The
hookup potential be crazy.
Speaker 4: I guess I'd have to see my options.
Speaker 1: Any movie world in Gorgia. Harry Potter's a strong answer.
What about like a future world where everything's perfect, like
it's Utopia? I don't know. Has that gass the bench again?
Brain fuck?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: What is the one weird thing you like to put
into crawfish bowl?
Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't I don't like garlic in there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean garlics the best, garlics the best. Not
everybody does that, though, that's crazy. I'd be jokes in there.
Speaker 1: Oh that sounds very good.
Speaker 4: Never had that.
Speaker 1: I love a good artichoke tipped in butter hot dogs.
Speaker 8: I mean, I don't know how weird that is. But
Victoria's family I never.
Speaker 4: Say no to that. I've never seen that Victoria's.
Speaker 8: Victoria's family does red neck bro It's good. They do
sausage as well, but like they drop hot dogs.
Speaker 4: There, like full hot dogs, full wingers all right?
Speaker 1: Oh, not chopped up?
Speaker 4: No, just like ho huh?
Speaker 1: Has that? Guests have been? Choose your favorite Bond James.
Speaker 8: Purece Brosnan.
Speaker 1: Actually, I mean that's who I grew up on. But
aren't you like a Bond guy?
Speaker 8: Haven't you seen like.
Speaker 4: Connery?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I I just I don't know. I know, I love
Connery too, But something about Pierce Prowson.
Speaker 2: If I was going to sleep at the Bond, I
think Connery has the most animalistic attraction to him. That
Ris is a little pretty boy. Connery is all man.
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Speaker 1: Ask the bench.
Speaker 2: Do you think the meaning of life is something we
create for ourselves or is it something that exists independently
waiting to be discovered?
Speaker 1: Absolutely the former. When did the meaning of life mean
different things to different people?
Speaker 8: Sure?
Speaker 1: Jesus, guys, no one's even gonna like attempt to shoot
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Speaker 8: That's a deep thought.
Speaker 4: I'd rather just say, ask the bench. So, if it's
true what they say about eating pineapple, what happens if
you eat a crawfish boiled pineapple.
Speaker 1: Spicy nuts, sweet and spicy?
Speaker 4: Ask the bench? What super expensive sports car would you
most want?
Speaker 8: Literally you think like more exotic?
Speaker 1: Literally none. I don't care about cars in the slightest.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't want expensive sports car. I would love a
nineteen seventy one Dodge Challenger.
Speaker 8: Yeah see, I'm I'm with you. I like the classic
cars better. I want a seventy Chevy Chevelle.
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