Speaker 1: I'll start Toyota Presents off the Bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive.
Speaker 3: Ham'sday.
Speaker 2: Hester and Hester.
Speaker 4: Got at five out a five.
Speaker 1: You're locked in to off the Bench.
Speaker 3: Described control from the ASO.
Speaker 1: Live from the Mercedes Benz of Baton Rouge Studio. Here's
Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: Yo, Yo, Welcome in OTV Friday morning. Here one O
four five ESPN Baton Rouge.
Speaker 5: There we go.
Speaker 3: I can't hear anything. Headphones are going in and out.
Oh boy, I know, maybe I just bet here. No,
it's it's not the headphone.
Speaker 6: Sorry, it's actually the little jack part of it here
in studio. If you don't have the extra piece, which
I think is still in my equipment at my home.
Oh there we go, Thank you, Landra, still in my
equipment at the house. Sure, then it doesn't work. But
it's Friday like like the big piece. This fella right here.
I'm sure there's a name for it. I'm sure everybody
knows the name for it.
Speaker 3: The check that out, I don't know. Let's go the
little guy, Yeah, my little guy over sleep.
Speaker 4: But the wheel when the show started A long just
woke me up of my apology a couple of minutes late.
Speaker 3: Ah, that's much better. Thank you Landra, thank you Taylor
for looking.
Speaker 2: This.
Speaker 3: A weekend can't take my uh, can't take my vibes
away from me.
Speaker 5: I'm on weekend mode a little bit already.
Speaker 6: That's not what I meant. I didn't mean like week
in mode already. So you have step into the show.
I was just saying, like weekend vibes already. That's a
that's a different situation the way you said it was.
You're like, I'm here, but I'm not really here. No,
I don't here, but my soul is in the week I.
Speaker 5: Feel energetic, feel excited. I'm feeling like, uh, I got
some fun energy right now.
Speaker 3: You're buttoned up today, little there ball.
Speaker 5: Yeah, pearl snapped up, not buttoned up?
Speaker 3: I mean it is a button. I guess technically, is it.
Speaker 5: I don't think it is. That's our question to myself. Yeah,
I don't think a pearl step could be considered a button. Yeah,
I think there's a pretty specific to a snap and
a button.
Speaker 3: It's fair. It's fair.
Speaker 6: I hate that it's fair, and I agree with you,
but I I agree with you. Yeah, I don't look now,
but if you look on Poncho's website, they got a
new shirt called the Old Death Valley. A couple of
professional male models in there too, bo a couple of
male models.
Speaker 5: Right here, you're looking at people. It's not that big
of a deal. But it's kind of a big deal.
Oh see, we're already we can talk a lot of things,
so it's not We're not just a couple of faces
up here.
Speaker 3: We're laughing at just how many people send us those pictures?
Speaker 5: How you feeling?
Speaker 3: Trying to get free poncho from us.
Speaker 5: Ain't gonna happen. Get in line. I know, it's amazing
how many people wear poncho.
Speaker 6: Right. We didn't even announce it like it got announced.
I didn't even know it was happening, like an email fly. Yeah,
and a lot of our friends, ones that are close
to us, are like, we didn't know this was happening.
Speaker 3: Can y'all get us some free stuff?
Speaker 5: Yep? Here on off the bench, we got a couple
of him former football players, current male models summers saying.
Some are saying taking it into the weekend.
Speaker 6: Oh, everything else is good though, it is like football
season when you have like a random Raiders and Seahawks
preseason game on that you didn't really know was coming
on that late, and you're like, I hustling it a
little bit, and then you know you got more to come,
and you got the Saints and Chargers coming up this weekend,
like you got everybody between high school, college pros and
pads and just continuing to stride towards the season, got
like jamborees and scrimmages for high school coming up here
pretty soon.
Speaker 3: You got joint practices.
Speaker 5: Next week, I believe.
Speaker 3: So I think they go, now, crate me for wrong?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 6: Is it scrimmage, jamboree game, jambree scrimmage game, Taylor.
Speaker 4: Scrimmage, jamboreething game? So the jambere I have to calls
the twenty eighth?
Speaker 3: You have to call a jamboree. Yep, did you know
their voice and everything?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: We could probably AI Yet the probably doesn't matter at
this point.
Speaker 3: You're who's that?
Speaker 5: It's? Uh so?
Speaker 4: Well, like I was telling Matt before the show, the
team that I'm assigned is Episcopal. It's been my team.
I guess this is the third football season, so it's
just there jamburey. I think it's Saint Michael Piscopal St.
Speaker 3: Michael.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I'm trying to find the date on Jackson's right now
so I can make sure that I saved the date
on that jamburee scrimmage.
Speaker 5: Yea, I never. I don't think jamborees exists outside Louisiana.
Craig me. They were not a thing in Texas. I
don't know when I came. I remember going to a
jambuary when I was when I came to college here,
and I was like, what's it jamburee?
Speaker 3: Yeah, like three or that was a Texas guy.
Speaker 5: I had no idea.
Speaker 6: Jesus, there's three or four teams like get together sometimes
and you'll play this team a little bit, that team
a little bit, and you.
Speaker 5: Just kind of no, I get it now, but it's
I don't think it's a thing outside of Louisiana. Yeah,
at least was in Texas. And the part that I
was at least i'd never heard the word. You never
heard the word no Elandra. Do you know what a
jamboree is. There's a lot of words that you've never
heard when you come to Louisiana and like you've never
been there, and jamboree was certainly one of them.
Speaker 2: I feel like I heard the word jamboree before, but
I don't think we ever had one. Like I don't
know about schools getting together and doing it well. Also,
we did do like pep rallies, but it wasn't like
all the schools come together like three or four whatever.
Speaker 6: But well, how else would you talk about beating Bainebell
if you didn't have a pep rally?
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, you know, yeah sad. How was y'all'
pep rallies?
Speaker 2: Were?
Speaker 5: They? They pretty good?
Speaker 2: I mean they were pretty good. Yeah, we had I
went to two Biggish schools, like the first the first
one I went to is like medium sized, and then
the second one I went supersized. Yeah, the second one
I went to was huge, like it was in Santa
It was huge. The six A. If they had a
seven A, it was probably gonna be seven A.
Speaker 6: I'm sitting here thinking about your situation, maybe why you
didn't have jamboreez.
Speaker 3: You only had four teams in your district?
Speaker 5: Guy, Yeah, but had that? That is the jamb the
jamburee something normal jam we would scrimmage somebody. Well, I'm
just saying the word jamboree is not a situation outside
of the state lines, Okay, I don't think from Texas
or Mississippi or wherever.
Speaker 3: Actually it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 5: I mean maybe like the Southern heard of jamboree. You know,
maybe I don't think so. I definitely think or thought
until like we're talking about it right now, that is
a specifically a Louisiana term for just a bunch of
high school teams getting together and playing tackle football.
Speaker 3: I do remember going in gosh Ty, I think what
year it was.
Speaker 6: I went to like Rustin had a jamboree, and there
was this just mean, nasty, tough, little redhead defensive lineman
that was real angry. Now, I mean like I wouldn't
know we weren't playing. We were just like they were
on Thursday night. And I think like some other team
that we were playing was in then Russell was in
our district too, so like a little little scouting situation,
and yeah, nobody could block Kyle Williams.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do remember that. I was like, why is
he so mad?
Speaker 5: Why's he like?
Speaker 3: Why does Moor never stopped this guy news a jamboree.
Speaker 5: This is this guy knows it's August fourteen.
Speaker 6: Lord, I know the offensive line and wish that he
was thinking about it being August fourteen.
Speaker 5: But then they did did the same thing in college. Yes, yes,
I remember my guys. My buddy's in Green Bay, Josh sitting.
Actually we talked about who was a three year, four
time all pro. We said mm hmm. He was like, hey,
this is this second or third year, so hey, can
you call your buddy Kyle because we were playing Buffalo,
can you just tell him, like to relax a little bit,
like he didn't have to play to the past.
Speaker 3: The whistle, the echo of the way.
Speaker 5: He's like, if I lock him up, just tell him
to chill.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, forgot you. I got you, right, I got you,
I got you.
Speaker 5: I don't want to this fight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well Kyle does.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, didn't happen. That was like and uh I
had the same motors Kyle Vandenbush.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The most scary human being used to wear red contact lenses. Yeah,
he used to wear white out contact lenses. So when
you look at him, all you didn't see any like
pupils or colors and white eyes see.
Speaker 6: But the good thing about Kyle Williams, Kyle didn't have
to do all that. No, he didn't know it like
you already like yeah, normalized, but he was.
Speaker 5: But like a but a normal human who could just
turn on, just had a motor like he just just
went Cale Vanabis was one of these guys like like
nothing would shock me about his life right now, Like
he's were still wearing those contact lenses, like if I'm
walking down yeah, if I'm walking down the road here
in bant Rouge, and like he's just I look up
in a tree and he's just sitting in a tree
one day like that, nothing would surprise me about him,
Like he just kind of loose cannon. Yeah, scary. What
about good player?
Speaker 6: What about former teammates or even like former LSU guys
you played against in the NFL.
Speaker 5: How is how is that former LSU guys?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Did you ever have one that may be like really
tried to hurt you? Yeah, really really hard.
Speaker 5: I told I told Jack Murchie's the story this past
weekend when we were at camp. This might shock you
at who it is, but somebody tried to hurt me,
tried to end my career. Try to put me out,
maybe put me in the hospital. And he's a friend
of ours and his name is Craig Steltz, a rookie year.
Oh really, yep, a rookie year war Daddy. We're playing.
It's December. We are playing on the road, Chicago Bears,
Soldier Stadium, Solderfield, Solder Stadium, Soderfield, Soldier Field, Solderfield. If
you only played there once a year every year of
your career, basically a couple a couple times. I have
played twice. We went there and it was so there
was a huge winter storm that came through Wendy. So
we got there on a Sunday. It was Andy City, Yeah,
super windy, super cold, and it was like Christmas so
like they had all the Christmas lights on it. So
we so we stay I can't remember the name of
the hotel. We stay right on Michigan Avenue, so like
right in the middle of all the shopping and everything. Yeah,
and so we get there and you know, you get
there on a Sunday for a Monday game. You're watching
all the games in the hotel that are playing, and
it a winter storm came through and it was that
night it was minus forty five degrees wind chill in Chicago.
So there was actually on like you know you get
like a tornado warning, flash flood warning on TV. There
was a wind chill warning in Chicago that said do
not be outside for more than five minutes at a
time because at that point you can form ice crystals
in your lungs, sure like normal things. And so like
if the game would have been scheduled for a Sunday
night football game, it would have been canceled because of
the cold tempered extreme temperatures. So the next day, so
we're playing on money. So like there's a heat heat
front that came through the game of Monday.
Speaker 3: He got out to negative seven.
Speaker 5: I was nine as twenty two during the game wind chill,
so I think the real temple was like minus five.
Then the wind chill was minus twenty two. And I'm
the backup quarterback, right, So but this whole week leading
up to where we have this, I think it's called
the play is called Pittsburgh. I think it was a
fake punt. But they're gonna sneak me onto the field
as a personal protector. I'm gonna take a snap, I'm
gonna roll out, and this is a it's a fake punch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Why does everybody think you can do that?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I don't know, it's really don't yeah, really don't. Sorry,
go ahead, And so we do this and it's like
mid second I can't remember if it was mid second
quarter or mid third quarter, but i'd been on the
sideline for a long time in minus twenty two as
a backup quarterback. Yeah, frozen a popsicle, And all of
a sudden, I'm like, there's no way they're gonna call it.
And then I see Mike McCarthy talking to the special
teams go. She's like, we're gonna do Pittsburgh. Oh, And
I'm like, what, Like, there's first of all, I don't
know if I can catch the ball. I don't know
if I can grip a ball. Yeah, damn sure. Now
I can't throw a ball right now.
Speaker 6: And if you try to throw on the sidelines that that,
you know, the Bears would have been.
Speaker 5: Like, yeah, you can't throw, you can't warm up? Is
he doing that? Yeah? Okay? So I'm like, all right,
let's do this. Let's rip it. You know, having played
taken a real snap in the NFL all year, but
let's just go ahead and do this, December, let's rip it.
So I run out there, I throw my cape down.
Run out there. I'm like trying to hide myself, and
of course Craig Steltz is on the put returns. Of
course he sees me. He starts yelling quarterback, quarterback, And
then I felt like the whole entire crowd was yelling quarterback. Yeah,
because of course they knew it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So I'm sitting there and I'm still like trying to hide.
I got my head down, trying to like hide my jersey.
I'm trying to like move my arms in I hide
my number, and I'm like, I'm just praying. I'm like,
oh my god, please, nobody be open. Nobody be open,
because I don't want to throw the ball. Ye, because
I'm an NFL quarterback. When people go back and watch
the film, they don't know it's negative twenty two. Yeah,
like you don't see the elements when you go back
and look at it and number ten to a duck, Yeah, exactly, somebody,
I pray, And so all right, I take the snap.
I thank the God I caught it didn't shatter my hands.
I roll out to the right and I'm looking and
I'm acting like I'm actually gonna look down field and
make this throw, like I'm acting like showing my coaches
that I want to I want to throw this ball.
Everyone was like they knew as the quarterback. Everybody was covered.
Thank god.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I take off running. What's it down to distance?
You remember?
Speaker 5: I think it was like I think we had like
eight or nine together, so long. Yeah, take off running.
Maybe it's less, it might've been like six or seven.
But I take off front of get the first down.
I slide. All of a sudden, I look up and
I see this Chicago bear diving over my head like
trying to take me out. I'm like, all right, I
didn't I had no clue who it was whatever. Yeah,
the next day I find a still shot that it
was either on it was online or something. It's me sliding,
so I slow slid, get the first down. I'm sliding
and my head's back and there's this Chicago bear named
Craig Steltz, completely flat with his crowd of his helmet
down like duck, trying to like take me out while
I'm sliding, like right over my head. I was like, yep,
that's my guy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's our unform stuff here is brethren. That that's
just who Craig was for the most part. He kind
of brother in law with me a little bit doing
special teams when we played the Bears.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was kind of like alright, alrights, all right,
all right, right, but he tried to hurt you try
to hurt me.
Speaker 6: I don't know how this relationship really was. I don't
know if like, maybe not as solid as you thought.
It was minus twenty two degrees cold. If he hit me,
does my head pop off? Yes, I don't know. Summer asking,
there's there's there's got to be, like we can find that.
Speaker 3: I'll try during the show.
Speaker 6: I've got I've actually tried to find that. Well, I've
got the god I don't I don't who knows what
the apps called. There's so many apps, but I've got
the one with the NFL where you can go back
and watch old games, because I remember I got it
one time and I was showing my boys, like just
a long time ago, little grainy watch this flat route
right here.
Speaker 3: But once you pick of this pro past pro right here. Hey,
you want to see me block this? Ioball watch it?
Kids come in here.
Speaker 5: Well, on in here taken.
Speaker 6: Say, uh but yeah, so I think I can't find it,
We'll get there's find it.
Speaker 5: Uh exactly.
Speaker 3: We have a lot to get to.
Speaker 6: We got training camps, we got our top twenty five,
we got to get the show started.
Speaker 3: We got a lot we gotta get to here. Stay
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Speaker 1: From players to legends, Hester and Flynn breakdown LSU football
like only champions can.
Speaker 3: Okay, Mari Landra, I was to learn I'm a little
love chet that still trying to take your head off
when he was brother in law with me, jerk. I
mean it was my.
Speaker 5: Roommate though, And it's not like he didn't know it's me.
Speaker 3: He called, He told everybody in the stadium it was you.
Speaker 5: I was a little upset when I learned recently that
Darryl Hall and John Oates don't get along anymore. We
talked about this in Atlanta, Atlanta with your with your
serious career. Yeah, yeah, they don't get in the background
whatever by the way, whatever Mexican.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And they had a big like a projector screen playing
just like a live Haulling Oates concert, and they're like, yeah, well,
one of the guys there, I think, I don't know
if he's a producer or what. He's a producers he
knew Tony Skaggs knew everything there was to know about
Darryl Hall, and yeah, they don't get along apparently, and
that's tragic for all of humanity.
Speaker 3: I feel like there's a lot of bands.
Speaker 6: Alandra and I were talking about this not that long ago,
because we're talking Oasis, and there's a lot of bands.
Speaker 3: That just don't like each other very much. I know
I didn't have much time around each other.
Speaker 6: You're fighting for a creative fame a little bit like
who's gonna be in front, who's gonna be in the back.
Speaker 5: Do you think that's it? You think there? It's like
they're fame butting a little bit, a lot of little jealousy.
Speaker 2: I think Darryl Hall and John Oates is like a
money thing, like I think there's like a lawsuit involved contract.
Speaker 5: At the beginning, I got fifty they were never.
Speaker 6: Like gone By hallow Oates. People just started calling them that,
but like their albums are their full name.
Speaker 2: It is the full name. And then one time I
said it that way and like somebody in here corrected
me and I was like, I don't remember if it
was like t Bob, Probably not Taylor he like, but
it was probably Teach Bob, and I'm like, no, no, no,
I know that it's Darryl Hall and.
Speaker 6: John O's That's that's actually what they always went by,
but people.
Speaker 3: Just shortened it to Hallanos. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I always like when I say they're a hall in
John Oates, like I always hesitate before I say John Huts.
Do you know? I like I get names wrong quite often,
Like I'm not great with names, but I always felt like, no,
that's the Texas Rangers baseball manager Johnny Oats like it.
So I'm like, I'm getting it wrong somehow, but I'm not.
Johnny Oats, get a save that story for yourself. No,
I just wanted to give a shout out the nineties Texas.
Speaker 3: Rangers and your rain man like nineteen nineties Texas Ranger
knowledge mid nineteen ninety mid late.
Speaker 5: Early was I was still like six seven years old,
but I was getting there late late definitely.
Speaker 3: Yeah, certainly a sweet spot.
Speaker 2: So Darryl sued John to obtain a temporary restraining order
to stop John from selling his share of their joint
business venture.
Speaker 5: Oh, it was like a separate situation, like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, separate whole Oats enterprises, scart. I don't know what
it's like, uh, I don't know what it is. Actually
looks like a music thing, like maybe a label or something.
Whole Oats enterprises. They're beefing over that.
Speaker 4: You know, John always has to be selfish. Everyone says
that or selfish John.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've always said John Rights.
Speaker 2: I think so too. They have some bangers.
Speaker 5: Are we doing hollo oas Friday?
Speaker 3: Yeah we can.
Speaker 6: We can do a halloo like first hour and then
the second hour we can switch, and then third hour
we switch.
Speaker 5: They got more than three though, Yeah, for.
Speaker 6: Sure, but they got three like solid, like solid Okay,
I think they got like three megas.
Speaker 2: I mean this one rich girl, Rich girls.
Speaker 3: I didn't say they didn't have private all right. I
guess we go for as long as we can.
Speaker 5: Hey, what a great movie. Uh, She's out of my league?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: And the uh the guy has a Halo Notes cover band. Yeah,
that's great. Earlin from What's the Silicon Valley sitcom?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: That Silicon Valley?
Speaker 3: That's literally what this show is called.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Shooting Duo Friday says Matt's and the BAYEU for
YouTube chat. What's another with a few?
Speaker 5: How about me and Jacob? Yesterday? A lot of takes.
Let's agree.
Speaker 3: Uh take that tiger droppings.
Speaker 5: Yeah. We almost came to Blues yesterday a couple of times.
What about I can't remember.
Speaker 2: I mean either I had to separate y'all in the break.
I was like, no, don't do this.
Speaker 4: Matt was swinging one of those helmets like crazy.
Speaker 5: It was weird. Got weird. I won.
Speaker 3: Nobody believes that I won.
Speaker 5: Quarterbacks never going to be a fullback. Maybe maybe choo
quarterback versus former fullback. That's true, that's fair.
Speaker 6: Uh, speaking of did y'all see the Seahawks last night?
Speaker 3: Full back? What a full back? It was?
Speaker 6: I formation, it was offset, it was all of it,
and they were running the football.
Speaker 5: Are we on the Seahawks right now? I think O
TV we could become with Seahawks.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, look, they've got like a depens minded
head shareleader. I guess somebody that's in the hardball tree.
Speaker 5: I love the GM.
Speaker 6: He's gonna I do as well, Like they're going to Uh,
they're going to have an old school nature to him.
Speaker 5: There's nobody there. I have negative thought. Ross gone, Yeah,
that's good, let's go. Did you okay? So you were
teammates Marshawn Lynch. You love Marshawn Lynch, Right, So the.
Speaker 6: Running the running back goes and he scores a touchdown
and Marshawn Lynch was actually a photographer on the sideline.
Speaker 3: He had the vests and everything.
Speaker 6: He's taking pictures and the running back for the Seahawks
scores and he kind of like is backing into Marshaw
and Marshawn kind of checks him a little bit with
an elbow.
Speaker 5: I was like, Marshawn did step inside the dotted line
though he was about a foot where he shouldn't have been.
Speaker 3: Is he gonna tell him?
Speaker 5: And like what was he doing? Like do you think
he's just doing that for S and g's or do
you think that he he was doing some sort of
like funny promo like they were filming him maybe for
like one of the Amazon things, Amazon Thursday Night Football.
Speaker 6: Because Ken Griffy Jr. And Randy Johnson to Baseball Hall
of Famers, they are photographers.
Speaker 5: That so it's just a Seattle thing, Seattle former stars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're very hippie over there.
Speaker 3: Look at that. I didn't even think about that. Look
at you, big brain. Outside of the Rangers knowledge with
the baseball stuff.
Speaker 5: I know. I write a lot of King Griffy Junior
Baseball on Super Nintendo, as.
Speaker 3: We all did. Jay Bunor, even though it wasn't Ja Jun.
Speaker 5: If you hadn't played that one, that was the best
baseball game I ever created. I think that I hadn't
played a baseball game in good twenty years, but yeah,
still the best one. I would say that because they
like to film Marshawn just doing things, all random things
all over the world, I would say, is he probably
had a camera on him. Maybe so and so that.
Speaker 3: I also think that instincts kicked in.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, for sure. No, I'm just saying that's a why.
Speaker 3: My young running back. No, hold up, wait a minute.
Speaker 5: Marshawn's Marshawn Man. Love that guy.
Speaker 6: We're the same draft class and the same high school class.
Speaker 3: Sorry, oh four, yeah.
Speaker 5: I see. He almost came a little.
Speaker 3: Bit rated, just a little bit higher than there was
a there was a time breaking out.
Speaker 5: There's rumors in like eighto nine, maybe maybe maybe ten
that he there was a trade situation talks happened in
between Buffalo and Green Bay, and he almost came. I
don't think you wanted to come to green Bay, but
there was a situation there.
Speaker 3: I know you love green Bay, but going from Buffalo
to Green Bay, Yeah, what's what? What?
Speaker 5: Hey?
Speaker 3: Can I get it?
Speaker 6: Can I get a building that has more than three
floors on it?
Speaker 2: Can I get some sun?
Speaker 3: Buffalo?
Speaker 5: Buffalo's got some big buildings, do they. Buffalo's actually kind
of a cool little town. They had some really good
food because some restaurants and the power went out and really,
like I went from Oakland to Buffalo, and let.
Speaker 3: Me tell you what kind of up that was. Let
me just tell you. You could have gone to Warres,
Mexico from Oakland and you would have been happy and said,
this is the greatest place ever.
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come back here on our TV.
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Speaker 6: All right, let's look at some position battles here for
LSU and our guy Hump Palmer on Louisiana Sports dot Net,
laid out three to watch. It is the guard position,
the safety position, and also backup quarterback.
Speaker 3: Now backup quarterback.
Speaker 6: You know obviously you've someone you brought in from Mississippi
State who started games in the SEC. You also have
Colin Hurley, who was a big time recruit out of
high school, very young when he got here, and you
know he's gonna continue to develop.
Speaker 3: And what was he sixteen when he got here?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so he had reclassified. He skipped the scene right here,
he's just now eighteen. I believe what he was that sixteen?
Let's see nineteen. I think I turned sixteen in May
of my like freshman year.
Speaker 5: To evangel When did he get to LSU?
Speaker 3: Like, what do you mean? How many years ago? This was?
Speaker 4: Last year was his first year?
Speaker 5: Last year's first year. I remember seeing him and I
remember them telling me his age, and I was like,
that guy, ye I got it looks like he's twenty five,
Like books the party.
Speaker 4: He looks even bigger this year.
Speaker 5: And it's like usually when you're like when you hit
a growth spurt and you're that age, Like, yeah, you
might be tall, he might have like, you know, definition
in your arms, but like you like skinny leg like
you saidn't like filled that you don't look like a
full grown man that I did, I was like, good lord,
So I wish I had that one I was coming
out of high school.
Speaker 6: So it does feel like though it is a legit
like backup quarterback battle, and I would assume Michael Van
Buren has a leg up because of you know what
he did. Can't help yourself, Seinfeld, I know you can't
help yourself, but I do think having that many starts
under your belt in the SEC, obviously Colin Hurley is
going to have to do something that goes above and
beyond what Michael Van Buren's.
Speaker 5: I would one hundred percent say that Van Buren would
have the upper hand in a backup quarterback's just for
the sheer fact the coaches don't want to have to
think or worry about what they're going to get. Yeah,
with the backup quarterback, and Colin miss the entire spring too, right,
Like you, you want your backup quarterback to be someone
that you know has experience that they've seen you do
something in action, because they just don't want to have
to worry about what is going to happen, like if
something well, let's just say doomsday happened. At that point,
you can also have a kind of like a little
pseudo competition. You can change your mind, Like for a
guy that's gonna step into a game, let's just talk
about what if what if Garrett nuss Meyer dislocates a
pinky or something and he's got to be out for
a series, let's just play that. You just want to
get You want somebody that you can trust, that you
know has been in the sec they can just go
in there and manage a series or manage a drive,
not turn the ball over. You know what you're gonna
get right now. If a doomsday situation happens in a
backup quarterback has to you know, start for a couple
of games, then it becomes a different story. But at
when you're picking a backup quarterback to back a guy
up that is so important to your team, your offense,
like you just want the trust the trust factor there.
And so that's why I think that he would kind
of have the upper hand that being named the let's
just say this air quote like the number two going
in and that that that's how that's how I would
look at it at least, so like I don't know,
we've seen you know, you and I have seen one practice.
You never know what the you're gonna get when the
bomb squad's out there playing, So like you never know
if I if it throws air mailed or he misses
a you never know whose fault it is, so it's
kind of hard to judge that unless you're sitting there
with the clicker.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, Yeah.
Speaker 6: If a guy comes free through the A gap the
quarterbacks trying to get the ball off, it sails on him.
If you're just out there and you're watching and you
don't see that, and it's like, well, he missed his target.
He's trying to hit the digger out and he throws
it twenty seven yards on an eighteen yard route because
well he's on his back foot trying to escape somebody
coming straight through the A gap.
Speaker 3: So look, it's gonna be a great competition.
Speaker 6: Just you know, glad to see Colin Hurley back on
the field as well. I think Van Buren's won one
of the big gets in the transfer portal just because
he has started eight games in the SEC. Because the
last thing you want on the team that is talented
is if you didn't have somebody ready to go. So
I'm gonna give him the edge there as well. The
safety position, Tatsy, I'll bring you in on this one.
I know it's a position you've watched as close as
any aj Halsey comes in from Houston to Marcus Cooley
comes in from NC State obviously, Jordan Gilbert back for
another season. Deshaun Spears, somebody you've talked a lot about,
even before he got to campus when he signed with LSU.
Speaker 3: Where are you at right now with the safeties.
Speaker 4: I think it's Tamarcus Cooley and Aj Halsey. I mean,
those guys they look the part. AJ Halsey looks like
a middle linebacker out there. I think he's listed at
six one, two twenty at a safety like he's a
big body guy. He lit up Xavion Thomas last Saturday
right across the middle yard the ball loose. Cooley looks
a lot bigger than I thought he would look, But look,
there's there's a depth there. Javan Toviano looks pretty good.
Jordan Gilbert looks better now than he did a year ago.
You mentioned Deshaun Spears, like there's five or six guys
that are battling for that spot. That is a legit battle.
You go out there during like seven on seven, eleven
on eleven. Safety is basically rotating every single snap.
Speaker 6: It is a position that does rotate more more than most.
I mean, you'll have a bunch of guys kind of
rolled in. I do think you want to you want
to go from like five to three.
Speaker 3: You want to be rotating five guys in there.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 3: The thing about Tamarcus Cooley, he is versatile. Like if
you go.
Speaker 6: Back and you watch the NC State tape, he'll line
up everywhere like he was, Like he can be down
towards the box, he can be as a nickel, he
can be as a safety. So he gives you versatility
in fact that you can kind of place him different places.
Tovian has played different positions in his career as well,
so it's going to be like a mixture of a
lot of different pieces, but it can be the same
guys just put in different places as well. Joel Rodgers
is also somebody though that's in this position battle We
saw him in the ball game. Yeah, I guess people
are pretty excited about his versatility when he's signed, Like
I see Hunt included him in this article.
Speaker 3: Any any chance for him to get into the rotation.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, you know, they're they're all rotating, and
I just think he's more towards the bottom. The other
guys are just getting a little bit more reps right now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it does remind you kind of win whenever the
first year of this new staff and they went out
there and they got you know, Greg Brooks, and they
got an arc Converse and they just went and got
some like veteran guys that weren't you know, weren't as
celebrated like number one portal guy, but they were starters
from Oklahoma State, from Arkansas and you pieced them together
with young football players and that worked really well for LSU.
Speaker 3: Now the year since then has not worked.
Speaker 6: But this kind of has that feel to it today
of going to go get veteran guys that have been
through the fire in these big major conferences and started
a lot of games.
Speaker 4: No, it does, and especially in safety like you brought
in Delane and Jakeem Jackson. Honestly, I would say Jackson's
fifth right now in the corner rotation like I think
it's Stamps and Delane have kind of been your ones
more more times than not. And then DJ Pickett, PJ. Woodland,
one of those guys is a freshman. Two of those
guys have been here multiple years.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: That's safety spot. You brought in two because I mean,
think about it, we brought in Cooley in the spring.
Staff still wasn't satisfied. They brought in aj Hawsey in
the fall. Like that tells me a lot about they
need one. They need both of these guys to step
up at start.
Speaker 5: Taylor, who is who is rotating at practice the most,
at Nickel, who seems to be that nickel that go
to guys as soon as they throw it in there.
Speaker 4: Means so Perkins is at star, which I mean that's
their quote unquote Nickel in their base defense corner drops in.
Delanne's been doing it a lot. So what they've been
doing is dropping Delaane down and then you know, either
a Picket or a Woodland or a Jakeem Jacks on
the other side of Stamps.
Speaker 6: We'll look at the guard position battle before we get
out here again. This is on louisianasports dot Net. Nice
right up by our guy Hunt Palmer. Paul Mubinga doesn't
look like he's going to be a starter right now.
It looks like it's going to be DJ Chester and
Josh Thompson starting at guard. DJ Chester moose from center
to guard. Thompson is somebody that's kind of played all
over the place. In his Northwestern career. A little surprised
that that Paul Mubinga hasn't went with the Ones a
little bit more. Started the final four games of last
year on an offensive line that had four guys drafted.
But you know, that can be a couple different things.
It can be because, well, DJ Chester is a really
good offensive lineman. Some of the center stuff, the pre
snap stuff he struggled with, and like they want to
find a position for him, and you brought Thompson in
through the portal to be a starter. But I thought
at this point mubeng would had the leg up, and
it doesn't look that way. It looks like he is
the out, you know, on the outside looking in right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I know he started four games, and there's
gonna be people saying, oh, well, you know he was
awful in those four games. Maybe maybe initially he had
some struggles. You go back and look his PF fifth
grade improved every single game he started. He was like
low fifties game one to like mid seventies game four,
Like he improved steadily over four games. But yeah, it
kind of seems like it's Chester and Thompson. Honestly, Cohen
Eckles is kind of making a move at guard as well.
I know they also like him at center. But yeah,
right now, I mean I think it's I think it's
Chester and Thompson. As much of a rotation there is,
it kind of seems like the starting five.
Speaker 5: It's kind of set.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: It would be the group that I probably pay attention
to the most tomorrow when I go out to practice
is the interior offensive line. And see how see how
they developed over the last couple of days in training camps.
Speaker 3: I think they need to go up a couple of notches.
All right, we'll take a break, finish up our number
one when we come back here on O TV.
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