Speaker 1: All start Toyota presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where the.
Speaker 1: Plays get broken down and science gets denied to come
off the bitch. Hour two of Off the Bench live
from downtown Baton Rouge starts now.
Speaker 3: All right, then, welcome back in hour number two of OTB.
Here on what are you doing all your stuff in
your face? Yeah, I'm eating breakfast.
Speaker 4: I got some scrambled eggs, got a sausage, got some
bacon right here at the hot bar, fired up about it,
get a little hungry during the show, and then, like
usually in the studio, it's like, all right, cool, I'm hungry,
but whatever, you can't do an I don't have to
think about food. I just think about sports and all
these sweet hot takes. But then when you're in a
grocery store, you're just staring at food. I see, I
keep looking at the hot bar here the I see
the have over here whipping up some pastries and some soush,
all this stuff, and then I see the steam coming
off the hot bar, off.
Speaker 2: These delicious eggs. Yeah.
Speaker 3: When whenever we agree to do this, I don't think
they realized who they were letting out into the wild.
Speaker 2: You gotta be careful. Like I'm a.
Speaker 4: I like the I'll just say that. I'm not like
it stuffed my face on full. I just like to
I get real snacky. I want to try lots of
different things.
Speaker 2: Some call it the monchies.
Speaker 4: Yeah, whatever, don't be weird about it. That's what it's called. Sure,
I just said snacky. Yeah, I like I like the
term snacky.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: So he's us gonna feast this weekend. There you go
see there. You won't be there. I probably will be there.
That's what I'm trying to tell you. Yeah, anyway, says.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, I just haven't thought that. We're focused on
the birthday party. Birthday.
Speaker 4: I am high school football, and I to them, I am.
Speaker 2: Very excited for hugs. Far is tonight. It's tonight, So
I go there.
Speaker 4: Well, it's gonna be like a right after school situation
we're gonna do. He wants to do some sports card stuff.
They want to go there. They're going to see a movie.
I think we're gonna see The Fantastic Four maybe, and
then then yeah, we're loading up everybody in the car
taking him to the I think down to Place Park few.
Speaker 2: Okay, so big like in in.
Speaker 4: City game, so excited it's gonna be It's gonna be
pretty nice little Friday Friday Friday on us. So I
think that probably tomorrow the game situation is gonna be
like all right, we're gonna wake up, watch a little
college game day here, the sights and sounds get fired up,
and then you know, be like, hey, you want to
take talk to the game.
Speaker 3: I'll be all right, cool, then we'll go. Well, okay,
well let me know if you go. Because I do
have a birthday gift for Huck.
Speaker 2: Do you I do? Well, he brought you a well
gift this morning. Well, I think he's trying to troll me.
Speaker 3: If really did give me the Halloween version of the
NBA Hoops cards, if said give these to mister Jake,
he's trolling.
Speaker 2: Honestly.
Speaker 4: He came up to me the other day because we
got a package in the mail with some cards and
it came in there and he was like, deck, can
you give.
Speaker 2: Us mister Jake? And he laughed, come.
Speaker 3: On, man got him so got him real quick. I
almost spend a lot of time. I know all of
y'all don't dabbling cards like Flynn.
Speaker 2: And I do.
Speaker 3: But when you're you know, you're on these all these
different breaks, right, and they're like, hey, we got a
free giveaway, like click here and enter your free giveaway
for free cards. Well, when I first got into it,
I'm like, this is awesome free cards, okay, And I
won a couple and I was like waiting on them
every single time. They are the haunted hoops from Panini
that go into like your CBS and Walgreens. There's three cards.
They're probably not worth the paper that they're printed on,
and those are the free cards that these breakers send you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the cards it's you know, it's on maybe
construction paper potentially that's solid.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe, And don't worry.
Speaker 4: Got Julian Phillips here just hit a two pointer apparently
because he's holding up two fingers Spider web background.
Speaker 2: I'm taking my birthday gift back. But I'm taking it back,
you know.
Speaker 4: Oh he's so he's turning ten, so he's at that
age where he can he understands the trolling situation things
are for him like that. So yeah, good. So it's
gonna be a nice little Friday and looking forward to it.
How about you got any plans this weekend. Besides, so
y'all did the high school fotball game yesterday?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: So no, So so you you know my house and
our listeners by this point they know my house. Tonight's
gonna be Chargers Chiefs. We're gonna have Honey on one
side of the house, We're gonna have Jackson on the
other side of the house, and they're gonna be yelling
at each other back and forth, and we'll try to
be the mediator there in the middle.
Speaker 2: So we go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, any look, and they played twice a year, obviously
being in the AFC West, but it's always, uh, you know,
it's a high intensity day in the Hess household anytime
the Chiefs and Chargers get together.
Speaker 4: So usually, like if you got a housefold boys like there,
you know, boys can be a little aggressive it ever,
any like big time beefs with the kiddus, like any
pop up out worth throwing some let's throw some hands.
Speaker 3: You know, Jackson will six to about two fifty eight,
So we don't do that. So, like, you know, Huddy's brave,
but he's also smart.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, got it. So he knows the line, he
knows the line.
Speaker 4: He can tell so, how about that game tonight and
in Brazil it's I believe the local time there at
kickoff will be nine pm.
Speaker 3: It will be wild right because they're two hours I
would have got them found that out for us yesterday.
There are two hours ahead of us if it's the
seven pm Central timekick So yeah, I wouldn't like that.
I think better than a noon game certainly. Yeah, my gosh, yeah,
you don't want negative juice. Hey guys, hey, finish up
your eggs and then we'll go take the field.
Speaker 4: What so, yeah, first game. I believe this is the
first game NFL game in Brazil.
Speaker 2: Second second so last.
Speaker 3: Year the Eagles, Oh yeah, I forget who they played,
but they won down in Brazil, got it.
Speaker 2: I believe they won. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Those those international games are always just so fun and
interesting because.
Speaker 2: Everybody treats them different too.
Speaker 4: They do treat them differently, but they they're just the
fans that are there in Brazil or Germany or England
or wherever the game is. It's just always funny because
they kind of they get they like football, they like
the hitting part, but they don't understand, like most of them.
I guess I don't want to speak for everybody, but
the majority of people don't understand the nuances of the
game and the nuances of crowd noise. So they're just like,
you know, cheering when the people are in the huddle
and different things like that.
Speaker 2: Like they're just you know, it's just fun.
Speaker 4: To watch, fun to watch that kind of stuff and
kind of introduce the game. But I I respect, I
like the what the NFL does with the international games.
I do now for the players, it stinks nobody wants
to travel.
Speaker 2: I don't think. I always didn't.
Speaker 4: I never did it, so I can't speak.
Speaker 2: I loved it.
Speaker 3: I but you know, I'm a big soccer fan.
Speaker 2: And we got to play in Wimbley. Yeah, like that's like.
Speaker 3: You right, So that's like somebody that like somebody that
grew up in England and they grew up watching American football,
right and they got a chance to come over and
they played in the Rose Bowl, right, Like, it's kind
of the same situation. So like for me, that was
it was you got to touch grass? Yeah for you,
but yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2: So did y'all call it a pitch? I don't remember.
That was a long time ago.
Speaker 3: Coach that was seventeen years ago.
Speaker 4: That was about seven brain bruises earlier. No question, I'll
tell you we had.
Speaker 3: So we had fun, like as a team, like you know,
we went down to Abbey Road and then we did
the Beatles deal like we did that, and we went
to a casino and reading England and the like, the
whole basically, you know, basically the whole team went and
we're just sitting there and we're playing the table games
and just.
Speaker 2: Hey, how you doing over? Yup?
Speaker 3: No, all right, all right, like we were the only
people in there. And I don't know why everything I
young country, but it's country.
Speaker 2: Well you gotta you gotta make sure. So I did.
Speaker 3: I did hit Black seventeen, like I know Pat McAfee
tells the old famous oh the Red A team with
Peyton Manning. I did that before because I was sitting
there playing with Pee rivz Me and Weddell and I'm like, hey,
give me a number. Of course, he said seventeen. Put
fifty pounds on it. Not quite the money that maybe
Pat had on Red eighteen, but it hit and we
acted pretty excited about it.
Speaker 2: I think that pays thirty three to one, thirty two
to one, thirty thirty five or thirty four thirty five
or thirty four to one. Yeah, we're gamblers. We're worried
about cards.
Speaker 4: Okay, we worried about at cards, but it's not gas investing.
Speaker 3: So I actually thought it was a pretty cool, light
little team by So we played the Bills the week
before in Buffalo and then we just flew from Buffalo
to England. Okay, so that way we didn't travel too far.
Speaker 2: Miserable sounds awful. How about this?
Speaker 3: The power went out in Buffalo Stadium when we were
playing them, so they had to keep the clock on
the field. We had no communication and we're trying to
hand signal plays in this Is this a National Football.
Speaker 2: Leag National Football League football game.
Speaker 3: I can't believe for how long you played and the
amount of teams you played on, you did not go.
Speaker 2: Over I know. I'm surprised too.
Speaker 4: So before every season, when the schedules had come out,
there was one thing that all of my teams we
always hope for. We hope we didn't have the Hall
of Fame game. Surely hope we didn't go overseas. Those
are two things and I avoided it every single year.
Now the Packers did do the Hall of Fame game,
like right after I had left the Packers.
Speaker 2: With with FARV going into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4: But that was certainly one thing we were like, oh man,
please don't get Hall of Fame. Please don't get Hall
of Fame. Please don't get overseas. Come on, and we
avoided it. Didn't have to do it. I was looking
back on it. It would have been a cool experience. But
like for y'all being gone for a week and a half,
flying across the country, leaving your family and seeing the.
Speaker 2: I'll go.
Speaker 4: Playing in Buffalo, then going straight there England for a week,
that sounds awful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Katie and her sister flew out to
England and met us there. But yeah, I mean to
be away from home for that long was Yeah, it's
pretty tough.
Speaker 2: So I had fun though I about shout out you
won many pounds on something I did, but.
Speaker 3: Then I kind of played it back on the black
jack table.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, you got to keep the lights on there. Man.
Speaker 3: You're there for the fun, You're not there for the money.
We did stay in the castle for a week. That
was kind of cool, a real castle remote. It was
a castle that the drawbridge that they turned into a resort.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's exciting. Those are kind of cool. I like
going to places like that where it's like old like
things like a castle or old ruins, but then you
walk inside and it's like modern kind of coop.
Speaker 3: And we lost to the Saints. So Saints fans, you
won that weekend as well.
Speaker 2: You won that round Saints. We'll see later on the show.
If you can win, they're also going to win this
weekend year games. They're gonna win this game.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, we'll talk about NFL a little bit
later on. What about the college football weekend? Like you
don't even have to see who they're playing, Like who
has anything to gain from the teams that suffered last week?
So you know the team like Texas they play San
Jose State, they're not really like it doesn't really matter
what they do. Like I don't think there's anything that
they can do. Looking at you know, Alabama something, yeah
for sure, but you're not going to get an out
of boy, but you know you got to do it.
Speaker 2: You gotta do it.
Speaker 3: Like Alabama playings ul Monroe, like it's there's nothing that
they're going to be It's look, LSU has been in
this spot for the last five years where they've lost
an opener and they've come back and they've played a
team that nobody is going to give them any credit for. Right,
You've played some FCS schools, you've kind of you hadn't
played anybody of note. Okay, you're not going to get
praised from everybody on the outside, but you have to
you have to know internally, like it's got to look better.
Like for Alabama, they were what lack of effort, loafing
and got pushed around, Like the coach has got to
be able to turn on the tape.
Speaker 2: For them and see that those things went away.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it I don't envy the player like the guys
on the Texas roster, because what is the one thing
you wanted to do after a loss in college? You
wanted to go and play to get right back on
the field. To me, So for them to have to
go and play San Jose State, it is such a
It's like there's even more emphasis on the potential to
look past an opponent because you want to go hit
somebody else, You want to go hit another big boy.
So it that was always the thing it's like, as
soon as you know we lost, who'd we play after
we lost to Kentucky by Auburn.
Speaker 3: Somebody like that. Yeah, it was like game. Yeah, it
was a get right, it was I can't wait to
play that game. Get me back on the field immediately. Yeah,
it's always a difficult situation. That's why it's I don't
like those games. I don't like having them anywhere on
the schedule. You pay a lot of money to have
a no win situation. Yeah, you're paying for an extra
win on the win column. Fine, Yeah, it was avering
good memory there, Bud, no big deal.
Speaker 2: I had less brain braises than you. Yep.
Speaker 4: But that doesn't mean much because I don't recall a
lot of things. But yeah, it's just it's one of
those disappointing things, and it kind of it gives you.
It kind of gives a week like this week where
there's no juice too. There's like last week you had
a couple of top ten matchups. The best game this
this week is between some fifteen and eighteen.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, Oklahoma and Michigan. Even outside of that,
it's like you got Duke Illinois, you got Iowaiwa State.
Speaker 2: That's the new Baylor. Well, Baylor kind of screwed us
on that line, I know, but that's what we got. Yeah,
that's what we got, Bud.
Speaker 3: That's what your gimmet getting, because damn it does all week.
Speaker 4: I mean, you got these Texas A and m out there.
Speaker 3: Hey, hey, how about Arizona State, Mississippi State, eh Old
Blake shaping three to one? Great's right, he's got a chance,
that's right. Game last year in the Desert. Thanks for
what to upset the number twelve team in the country.
Speaker 2: Go, I'll be cheering.
Speaker 3: He threw for two seventy two last week. My guy,
my guy who's seen varsity Blues, Jeff Labby, he's also
seen it. Yeah he no, he has, he might have
been in it. I love that guy. I hope he
gets that upset. They didn't look that great Airsones State. No,
they didn't. The sneaky game of the week that is.
Speaker 2: I feel like, okay, a game like this is going
to go two ways.
Speaker 3: It's either going to go forty two to ten and
what we thought it was going to be leaves us
real quick, or it's going to be a dogfight.
Speaker 2: There's no in between.
Speaker 3: Is South Florida traveling down to gain or traveling up
to Gainesville, Florida to take on the Florida Gators. South
Florida housed Boise State last week, now as boy State Florida.
Speaker 2: No, I don't believe so.
Speaker 3: But Florida also has LSU next week. Could that be
a look ahead spot for the Florida Gators? Alex Golish
in that team South Florida, the Bulls, they got Jimmis and.
Speaker 4: Joe's I would say, from like a mental standpoint, just
a psychology standpoint, it's probably the look Their first game
was what Long Island? Yeah, the sharks, the fighting the
fighting sharks, sharks of Long Island.
Speaker 2: And yes, Taylor, there's sharks in the Atlantic.
Speaker 4: There is sharks famously, actually very famously, sharks in the
Atlantic Ocean.
Speaker 2: It's pretty big.
Speaker 4: I think that I think they were probably been saying,
like the South Florida that this is the game they've
been looking for. So I doubt that it's a look
ahead game for them, just from a psychology standpoint of
all right, the first game was, all right, Long Island,
let's get past that, so we can play at least
somebody that's got got a full football program with pads
and everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So, but yeah, and then of course worse if of
course after the game, then beating a you know, maybe
a twenty roughly a bubble top twenty five team in
Boise State, coming down and handling them and making some
explosive plays. That quarterback for South Florida made some plays.
He's got the probably the slowest delivery release I've ever
seen in my life. But he made some plays. Yeah,
I'll give him that. But I would think the speed
of Florida's dbs sec speed will probably break a little
bit quicker than the Boise State guys that were completely
hot and dehydrated during that game.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 4: I think Florida, certainly, I don't know if this is
going to be a trap game for them. I would
look to them to take care of business. But my
excitement comes from South Florida does look very capable, and
it will give LSU good film, good game tape to review.
You're gonna get nothing from watching Long Island. They probably
ran four plays total. Yeah, run right, run left, Let's
do a short pass here, a little little past here.
Speaker 2: That's all he did.
Speaker 4: There's not there's really not gonna be much to go from,
so we will get some good game tape from that game.
But I think it could may I would I would
love for Florida to lose, you know that. Yeah, I
want them to lose every single game. I hope South
Florida beats the bfiitty. I don't think I think a
good point about the game tape.
Speaker 3: You will have something to be able to go off of,
much better than Long Island, and so you know, it's
a it's a game. It's going to be interesting because
I do think South Florida is going to make some
plays against Florida. I do think Florida has to certainly
work on South Florida and can't just look ahead and
have two weeks of prep for LSU, Like if they're
playing Long Island this week, they would have kind of
two weeks of prep on l s U, Like they
would have their shadow staff working on l s.
Speaker 2: U and not Yeah that's what they call it, Daniel,
isn't that chat? Ask me?
Speaker 4: Do you still watch Shark Week? Let me answer your
question with another question. Do sharks live in the Atlantic? Yes,
yes they do, and yes I do.
Speaker 2: Do they have a pulse? Do they have a pulse.
Oh my, heret slow motion.
Speaker 4: Here's one of the one hundred angles of Jaylen Carter
spitting on deck. Yeah, yep, sorry, we got a TV
distractions people.
Speaker 2: Sorry, that's us. What kind of.
Speaker 4: What kind of like suspension? What like what how long
do you think that is? I would assume that before
the first snap of the NFL season, with millions and
millions and millions of people watching, they have to make
an example, right, you can't spin on somebody like like okay.
Speaker 3: Bill Roman ASKI did it, and like, well, that's what
we know him for. I mean a great football player,
but like that's one of the things we know him for.
Speaker 2: Was it JJ Stokes he spin on?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it was like what was it before a snap?
Before okay, I get the bottom of the dog pile.
Things happened, not excusing anything, but things happen. People emotions
get taken away. But like this was in a pretty
controlled situation where there're people, there's there's literally a guy
that just it is ball season, potentially his career on
a kickoff, yeah, where he ran four yards and locked
with up with somebody and blew out his knee laying
on the ground. War Daddy war, Daddy. You got two people,
two huddles, and then this happens, So you have to
make an example.
Speaker 2: No matter the circumstance.
Speaker 4: Maybe the film of that kind of spinning in his
direction changes the severity.
Speaker 3: Potentially spitting in a direction and spitting on the.
Speaker 4: Same that's not the same thing. I get it. I
guess we'll see. We'll see what is. It's probably going
to be a game suspension, I don't know, and he
would lose a game check on that, so it's going
to be a costly one for him, certainly.
Speaker 3: All right, we will step away here and certainly want
to get into the New Orleans Saints in their game
coming up against the Cardinals.
Speaker 2: Flynn's all in.
Speaker 3: Flynn feels like he is putting the Saints' money line
in his weekly plays.
Speaker 2: Were winning this game, all right.
Speaker 3: See, he's pretty confident about it. We'll find out, Yeah,
why he is so confident. When we come back here,
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Speaker 3: All right, So earlier in the week, we played What's
the Ticket? And it's a game where we give you
the highest ticket in the NFL or college football.
Speaker 2: We went with the NFL. We gave you the lowest ticket.
Speaker 3: What is the highest price just to get two feet
into the stadium.
Speaker 2: What is the.
Speaker 3: Cheapest price to get into the venue? Well, the Saints
and Cardinals game was the cheapest ticket, and at the
time it was at thirty seven dollars. Now, Matthew, so
you can get into the Superdome for as low as
twenty eight dollars. We'll get you into a National Football
League contest between two professional teams twenty eight dollars. I'm
pretty sure our tickets to U High Woodlow were more
expensive than that last night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, to watch one hundred and six of the best
football players in the entire world.
Speaker 2: Go at it.
Speaker 3: But I don't know if you're being a troll, but
you've been bullish on the Saints winning this game, despite
the fact that they are a six and a half
point dog at home.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they are home dogs. I think from a betting perspective,
people always look at the home dog situation and let's
not go ahead and just crown Arizona Cardinals as like
the most stable organization and like the best organization, the
best team out there.
Speaker 2: Yet they got some good pieces.
Speaker 4: Kyler Murray has his moments where he goes and plays
and does his does his little thing and runs around
and makes some plays. But like, are they really that
big of a threat. It's not like we have the
Eagles coming in, so you know they're a good team.
Speaker 2: I got it.
Speaker 4: I just think from a psychology standpoint, like there's been
so much negative, so much papuin, so much, so much noise,
and not in a positive way coming out of the Saints.
Everybody is not even cautiously optimistic. They're just cautious going
into the season. Right, there's no optimism coming.
Speaker 2: Out of the.
Speaker 4: Saints fan base, the Saints reporting there is all right,
let's try to find the good.
Speaker 2: Let's try to find the good.
Speaker 4: I can tell you it's it's an NFL football day.
It's not that there's not it's not gonna be doomsday.
So I do think they have the pieces. You were
out at training camp, you said they're starting eleven on
offense or starting eleven on defense. Are talented, they can
play with they can play with almost anybody in the NFL.
And of course, like you could have a good day,
you could have a bad day, whatever, whatever, the whichever
Sunday does any given Sunday is pretty famous movie about that,
any given Sunday, any team can beat anybody's.
Speaker 2: Guess what.
Speaker 4: It's week one, so everybody's healthy everybody. Of course, we
injuries on offensive line, there's some different things, but the
corps is there, the playmakers are there. We're not dealing
with injured wide receivers, we're not dealing with injured running backs.
Speaker 2: Like the corp is there.
Speaker 4: So if you're gonna pick it, pick them to win
a weekend, it might as well be when you know
that those people are going to be healthy in week one.
So that's what I'm saying. You got it at home.
People are just like I said, they're cautious. They're not
giving them the credit they deserve, well maybe not deserve.
Yet they got to earn it. But there's a new coach,
a new philosophy. We haven't seen anything about Kellen Moore's offense.
Speaker 2: We haven't seen everything.
Speaker 4: He told us on this show when we interviewed him
that they were pretty vanilla, pretty basic. They didn't want
to show a lot. So we don't know what this
offense is going to be. I believe he's a really
good coach. I believe he's a great offensive mine, and
I think he's a and I believe that he's a
really good play caller.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I think that he's going to put Spencer Rattler
in the best position possible. And if you're going to
get one in the first part of the season, it
better be this one.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean it's you're right, and I'm a fan
now right, I mean, you did get paid by him.
Speaker 4: They're the last person to pay me. Actually me too.
Boom boom. We just become Saints fans.
Speaker 2: We just become Saints friends. Yep.
Speaker 3: When you look at the injury report. So this was
for Thursday's practice, and this is on Louisiana Sports dot Net.
Speaker 2: Check out that website.
Speaker 3: For all the latest and greatest When it comes to
the new Orleans Saints, but Christian Boyd was a full
participation in practice, did not participate. Trevor Pinning he an
play this game. Chase Young, who got injured during the week,
doesn't look like he's going to be available for this
game either. But you know, the Trevor Pinning is kind
of known. I mean, he's dealing with the turf toe situation,
and so you'd like to have him out there because,
my goodness, this offensive line in the interior need some help.
Speaker 2: They need some good news.
Speaker 3: But it doesn't look like you get it from Trevor Pinning,
limited in practice, Jordan Howden and Alonte Taylor, and I
think everybody expects Alante to be able to at least
give it a go on Sunday.
Speaker 2: I would say, of those injuries.
Speaker 3: Obviously, Chase, youunk's not great. I mean, you know, pass
rusher is obviously something that you've been searching for. A
lot of people thought you'd actually go there in the
draft early in the draft, and you know, you signed
Chase Young to a big deal not having him available.
But Nick Underhill did report of New Orleans stock Football
that when they asked him about the injury being a
long term concern. His reply was simply, hell, no, yeah, okay,
so at least it doesn't sound like it's something that's
going to linger on. But you know, I would say
of those injuries because like you know, you got like
false Moora is going to be out for probably another
month or so, so like that one's not on here.
But we've known those, right because Falster's been on the
pup list.
Speaker 2: But Trevor Pinning probably the biggest one for me.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, that it's a big deal, especially trying
to break in a new offense, break in or not.
It's not a brand new quarterback, but full starter, a
young full starter, just getting name coming off of a
quarterback competition. Yeah, it's a big deal, especially because you
would you do you got established a running game, right,
you have to you have to establish the running game.
You have to be creative, You have to do things
to make life easier for a young quarterback, especially early. Hey,
there's going to be nerves, right, it's opening week, Open
week of the National Football League.
Speaker 2: There are going to be nerves.
Speaker 4: You have to a lot, like we talked about of
how you would come out of an offensive coordinator, a
play caller in week one lsu versus Clemton. There's gonna
be a lot of energy from the team's twenty eight
dollars a ticket. Maybe not a lot of energy in
the crowd, I don't know, but there's gonna be a
lot of energy and juice in the dome from the
from the from the player standpoint, because it is week one,
so you got to come in and try to establish
the running game as best possible.
Speaker 2: So Penny being out.
Speaker 4: Is isn't great, right, but so so what does Kellen
Moore do with that? How does he formulate the game
plan his play calling? Does he get the ball out
of the hands quickly into his playmaker's hand. How many
times are we going to scat Kamara out and get
the ball to him on a little a little.
Speaker 2: Wide route with some blockers out in front.
Speaker 4: Get your heat involved early, getting trying to get them
on the edge, get the ball in the hand with a.
Speaker 2: Now route or whatever it is.
Speaker 4: Try to establish a running game, stay on schedule from
and down a distance standpoint, and then boom, play extra fake,
let's go throw it over the top, tutter.
Speaker 2: That's how it's gonna ain't no guess, that's how it's
going to be. That's how it's gonna be.
Speaker 4: And I know I'm getting like for I'm the one
getting poopooed on now because I am picking the Saints
and I've just became a Saints fan. Now I'm getting
poopoed on for saying they're gonna win.
Speaker 3: I can't win around here, flying over here, pumping sunshine.
Speaker 2: Geez, there we go. Let's why not.
Speaker 3: Look, if you can't short to be miserable, if you
can't pump sunshine before the first game, you're never going
to be able to That's.
Speaker 4: That's my point of picking them this week to win.
They're plus two forty Yeah, so what it means you
get to win two? It in forty bucks?
Speaker 2: Easy? Uh? If you can't do it this week when
they're healthy.
Speaker 4: For those easy terms around, let's show do that yep,
gambling problem call.
Speaker 3: It's such a great unknown. There are we expecting a lot?
Nobody is. I mean, the Saints were ranked the thirty
second ranked roster in the NFL. They're one of the
lowest win totals in the NFL. I get all of that,
and so like, as you head into this season, like,
what are you looking forward to? I think the only
thing you can look forward to is the unknown. You
have the unknown of a Spencer Ratler. You have the
unknown of you know, getting some different weapons at receiver right,
and you make a trade.
Speaker 2: You're trying to be aggressive. Is the ceiling high? I
know we're not gonna sit here and tell you that
it is.
Speaker 3: But you know, after this, after we're gonna have a
better idea of what.
Speaker 2: That unknown looks like. T. Pallen.
Speaker 4: The chat said, more team captains and wins this season?
Speaker 2: What is it? Eighteen percent of their teams captain?
Speaker 3: All right, I tried, I tried.
Speaker 2: We've tried a lot of leadership guys. That's lead. They
couldn't choose. It's a leadership game. Three Yeah one is
a quarterback? Not one? What a dog? Not one? As
a quarterback? Tight More captains and wins?
Speaker 3: We had offense, defense, special teams?
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe you'd have two on one side of the ball.
I think we did. I think we had three.
Speaker 4: I don't know anyways, I think there's four maybe five
offense to defense.
Speaker 2: I mean, I can't team.
Speaker 4: We actually didn't have captains for the first a little
bit because we're a team.
Speaker 2: Okay, no names in the back, just named on the front.
Yeah all right, No, that's fun. Greg Jake is an
all time sunshine pumper. I'm trying.
Speaker 3: We're trying trying to pump some sun shine into the
Black and Goal week one. Why not try? I mean,
I like to live life with my glass half full.
Speaker 2: Greg, Saint's been good to us.
Speaker 3: But I know since the Tour de France is overgrade
that your glass is empty. But that's on you, okay,
because I'm looking forward to the things coming up in
my life. Sorry, the tour is not coming back anytime soon. Greg,
you and Flint can just go drink your tears and
that empty glass.
Speaker 2: They all have no tears.
Speaker 4: Not a Week one for the Saints, Week two, maybe
not week one.
Speaker 3: Just yeah, just trying to get him a win twenty
eight bucks. You can go watch it finally cheering for
the Saints.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to I've jumped on the bandwagon and now
we're getting poot pooed on it.
Speaker 2: All right, We'll take a break.
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Speaker 1: From the locker room to the airwaves, gets off the
bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in O t B. We are
live here from Arouses. Come hang out with It's just
had a couple of uh, you know, listeners sitting down,
have a little breakfast.
Speaker 2: Getting a little high fives. They're like, yeah, man, gosh,
you got the Saints. I don't know, man, I don't know.
The Saints kind of looked like Flynn's ankles. I don't know, man,
you know.
Speaker 4: Super strong, super strong, flexible, powerful.
Speaker 2: The exactly what they said. It's exactly what they said.
Oh man, mmm.
Speaker 3: It does feel weird like going into a season. And
I guess it was a little bit of this last year.
It was just with the fan base not looking forward
to the season. Saints got some of the best fans
in the NFL. You've played in there against them when
the dome's been rocking. I played against them when the
Dome was rocking. We'd never won playing in the Dome.
Playing against Think we did, I think I think we did.
We played we played them what was their home game,
that London game that I was talking about earlier, that
was their home games. Only did it once, but I mean, look,
we all know that venue, like we've all been to
Saints games.
Speaker 2: Like they want they want to.
Speaker 3: Be you know, good, but it's just like there's there's
just no hope, it feels like right now.
Speaker 2: Because it's just currently where they're at.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think everybody's been cautious to say anything positive,
like because it's just so many spots of it's not
even unknown, right, you kind of know what you got
and it's not probably on paper at least not as.
Speaker 2: Good as what everybody else says. So but there is talent.
Speaker 4: I mean, like you said before, if you can't be
hopeful before week one, if not now when so.
Speaker 2: Let's at least do it a little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they do have great fans, and we were not
successful when we would always come down, whether it was
you know, with the Packers or I think we played
here in the preseason game with the Raiders.
Speaker 2: We just didn't have a lot of success.
Speaker 4: But I do have one fun story in eight so
my rookie year, of course, we had just I had
just left LSU.
Speaker 3: We'd won a national championship in the Dome. I go
down there to play and we weren't very good my rookieyear.
He was six and ten, I believe, so not very good.
But Aaron Rodgers, it was his first year started and
he was like actually starting to play really well and people.
Speaker 2: Are like, okay, well this guy's pretty good. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, anyway, we're getting blown out, Like Drew Brides just
always went off on us every time we played them,
so we were not due. We got blown out. Like
fourth quarter comes and the Saints, like the Dome starts
chanting put Flynn in.
Speaker 2: Put and I'm sitting there.
Speaker 4: I'm like, guys, and I like kind of put my
head downs, like we're getting blown out, and they started
chanting channing for that.
Speaker 2: But I was like all right, But inside I was like,
all right, this is pretty cool. You're like pretty cool. Yeah.
Speaker 4: It wasn't like because you know, Aaron Rodgers wasn't playing
good or anything, but it was just like it was
like forty to nothing at that point. Anyway, they did
anyway they did, they put me in and got a.
Speaker 2: Good little round of applause.
Speaker 4: So I always appreciated that, you know, the North remembers,
or the South remembers.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean thrones? Yeaheah, I know you
got put in?
Speaker 4: I got put in? Oh yeah, hand the ball off?
I mean perfect handoffs too, like right in the Battle
Pocket Green eighteen, Grante said, hot, perfect angles I took
on the running back. We didn't fumble any snaps, didn't
fumble any handoffs. So basically I was perfect that day.
QB rating of perfect could be r im perfect.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, So they didn't let.
Speaker 4: You come with someone call it either que Be rating
a zero or keep Be rating a perfect.
Speaker 2: What would that be if you played in your zero?
Actually you don't have a QB rais I actually had
a bad one? So zero? No, you have it nothing? Yeah,
which is bad?
Speaker 4: It's a na I don't you remember if I threw
a pass or on? If I did, I probably completed it.
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New Orleans Saints, I get it, understand it right now.
What does the rest of the NFC South look like?
What are some of the big matchups across the National
Football League. We'll have that for you when we come
back here on OTB Live from Rolse's Market. Off the bench,
all right, speaking of Rouse's Market and speaking of this
thing you see right here in front of me, a
little supreme rice, right. And I've been telling you and
when I used to do the show with Hanny, he
really got me started on supreme rice.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: And he's started looking you got like you know, cause
that's where Hanny's from. He's like, look, you got to
try the jasmine rice. And I knew what jasmine rice was,
but I never really had tried it before. And now
like that is the only rice that I'm going to get.
But I mean they've got different options for you. Right
if you're in the brown rice like they've got that,
you see the brown long grain in front of me.
We've got right here the jasmine, which is my personal favorite.
Speaker 2: There.
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It was so cool to see Supreme rice and like
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it is something that certainly over the last couple of
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Speaker 1: Locked in on ULSU football twenty four to seven. You're
listening to Off the Bench.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in OTV.
Speaker 3: We are live here from a Rouse's Market on a
burbanking and we'll be here told ten am throughout the show.
So come hang out with us and come see us.
Had a couple of people roll in, eat breakfast with us.
Enjoy interacting with you, the listener, So again, I'd love
to have you out there. Flynn took his own breakfast
break earlier.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I sure did ate little eggs, some sausage, and
bacon the delicious. I stayed away from the biscuit today
because trying to avoid the breads this weekend. Why is
that just sometimes breads hit a little bit harder than
they do. So if I've been bread heavy for a
few days, I like to kind of lay off, give
my gut a little time to heal. So I feel
like eat bread a lot for sustained amount of time.
I don't feel great, and that's maybe because I'm a man.
Speaker 3: All Right, you're making me sad that you're forty and
just talking about your gut health right.
Speaker 2: Now, health, all right?
Speaker 3: The NFL tonight you've got Chief Chargers, and then the
week ends late on sun you got Bucks, Falcons, Bengals, Browns, Dolphins, Colts, Raiders, Patriots,
Cardinal Saints of course, Steelers, Jets, Giants, Commanders, Panthers, Jags, Titans, Broncos,
forty nine Ers, Seahawks, Lions and Packers, Texans and Rams,
Ravens and Bills on Sunday night, and then then Monday
night Football Vikings and the Bears. Of those games, I'm
going to go first and so I can steal yours
because I know you. I am going to say the
game of the week in the National Football League is
going to be the Lions and Packers in lambeau Field,
three twenty five pm kickoff between two teams that I
think have a really, really good opportunity to represent the NFC.
Speaker 4: Yeah these I mean, it's certainly the game of Sunday
for sure, Like this is the big game. It's the
Fox NFL before we so you couldn't take it. He
of course, everybody has all eyes on Micah Parsons and
how he fits in with the Green Bay Packer offense.
Of course, the all the drama coming out of it,
and he goes to a you know, you could call
it a rival, the Cowboys and the Packers, and they
trade and they traded to the Packers, and he makes
it its gonna make an immediate impact for them. And
like I was watching some clips of him yesterday talking
to the press too, he's not holding back on the lines,
talking a little talking that ish a little bit so.
Speaker 2: And the Packers are really sexy.
Speaker 4: Pick around the league, around commentators, around media folks for
potential of you know, at least NFC championship aspirations. I
think people are still going to favor the Eagles for
their future picks, for the Pete the team to win
the NFC and the Super Bowl. But I do think
this could be this is one of those years, and
they're in that The Packers are in the like that
window right now, They're in that window where they're pushing
their chips in. They have famously never made huge splashes
over the last fifteen to twenty years in free agency,
but they are doing it now. So looking forward to
that as the game of week, and you know, I
guess when we'll we'll wrap a Power two then come
talk a little bit more about the NFL slate because
it is week one of the NFL NFL Slave we'll
talk about that in hour three and break down a
few more games. But yeah, that Packer's Lions game, that's
gonna be a big one.
Speaker 2: Hour three.
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