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Speaker 4: Yo, what's going on y'all?
Speaker 2: Welcome in number three about TV kicking off here live
the recent senior roles. Shout out to Labart's casino Beton
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very funny bathroom trip in the commercial break, Jake, Uh,
you saw the d linemen in there. A few giants bro.
I think one of those either camera Dion. I don't
know Base yet, but I mean some big boys. Yeah,
in the bathroom just now and they're all cutting up,
talking trash on one another. And uh, one of them, Well,
it was like you shorting you a job, bromstick Willy
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yesterday I was very pleased to get to sit down
with potential Saints head coach and current the New York
Giants offensive coordinator Mike caf If you wonder who we
hear you, who he is what he operates. We've got
some insight. Here is coach Kafka. Yo, what's going on y'all?
Welcome back to off the bench and it's my pleasure
to be joined by coach Mike Kafka, currently New York
Giants associate head coach offensive coordinator, Northwestern grad, former NFL
guy and the head coach of the national team. Here
the Senior Bowl coach Cathol. What's going on, man?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I love that. It's great to be here. Thanks
for having me.
Speaker 2: So I a head coach here the Senior Bowl. And
that's kind of what I wanted to start to pick
your brain about because obviously we're from Louisiana, so we're
you know, we cover the Saints and everything else. The
last couple of years, though, you've been doing a lot
of these head coaching interviews, right and you're young, You're
I'm coach right now, You're a head coach here mobile.
Do you feel like this is helping you find your demeanor?
Did you already kind of know what you want to
be as a head coach? Like what is this experience
like in terms of furthering that goal?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'd say that's a great question.
Speaker 6: I think the best part about this is not necessarily
about me, because I've played it at a high level
in college, in the pros. Ye, I've been in almost
every seat as a player and a coach with a
quality control position, coach coordinator. So that part of it's
not as important to me as like just the players.
Speaker 5: Getting those guys right.
Speaker 6: I've bet in those seats playing in senior games like
this wasn't the Senior Bowl. I played the East West Game,
but similar atmosphere, and so I know what those guys
are going through, Know what those guys are sitting in
those chairs, what they're what's kind of racing through their
mind a little bit.
Speaker 5: So I have that perspective, and so I.
Speaker 6: Think the most important part to me is just really
get to know these players, you know, giving them confidence
to like just go show who they are as a person,
as a player and really put their best foot forward.
Speaker 5: From all these teams.
Speaker 2: Well, it's crazy because I mean, you know, you are
like every kid, like you're saying, every kid is grown
up with the dream of being in the NFL, and
you're kind of the first person that's stewarding them into like, Okay,
this is what life is going to be like in
the league, is how the meetium rooms are going to operate.
You're obviously very cognizant of that responsibility. So then what
is the process like? Because here, I mean, you have
a week and I know the games. It's look, it's
not like gonna be super vinc It's not like the
game matters even as much as a practice or individual
but you still need to put a product out there
on the field, Like you have to have all these
guys from disparate backgrounds who when you call a play,
they're gonna line up. You know, Seequic chain is gonna
be good, snabcount all that. So what's your process like
and making that happen? And you're even with a bunch
of different coaches, so like, how do you bring that
all together in a few days?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well you get a play.
Speaker 6: Like you said, there's a bunch of different coaches from
all over the NFL, position coaches, their assistance.
Speaker 5: This might be their first.
Speaker 6: Time in front of a room coaching and presenting. So
you're you know, you're kind of wary of that as well.
But I have great coordinators. I have trusting them to
put together like the packages for the players but what
I try to stress in front of the teams, like
the details, like what's reality if you're late for a meeting,
what are the consequences if you're late for the bus,
what are the consequences?
Speaker 5: So you try to lay out those.
Speaker 6: Things out in front of them, so if they are
in a situation like that, like they know what the
expectations are. So that's really what I feel like my
role is in this is putting them in a nice plan,
whether it's meeting schedule, practice plans, whether they can have
a great evaluation. But that also showing them the details
of here's what it's gonna take when you get into
a real time meeting room.
Speaker 5: For your organization.
Speaker 6: Here's what it's gonna look like, here's what's gonna sound like,
and here's what the expectations are.
Speaker 2: You're like preparing them for the kind of lifestyle rhythm
of the NFL.
Speaker 6: As much as the right college college is over, like
that part of their life. They gotta be able to
turn the page and like the ni out of all
that that that goes into it that was a different
part of their life, Like this is the page. If
you want to be a competitor and you want to
play in the football National Football League. Here's what the like,
here's what it's going to look like.
Speaker 2: Did you always know the NFL is going to be
in your future? Because like looking at your playing career,
three conference championships in high school shout out, but then
at Northwestern, right, like not playing a lot until your
senior year, but then kind of exploding on the scene.
But when you were in college, are you ever like man,
I just I don't know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'd say I'd always aspire to be a football,
you know, pro football player, absolutely, like you dreamed it
as a kid, I did that as well. And like
I think when the opportunity presented itself throughout my college career,
like whether it was in high school, I didn't play
quarterback until like pretty much my senior year full time.
Speaker 5: Then a bunch of scholarships came. I took advantage of
that opportunity.
Speaker 6: Same thing in college, Like I didn't have a lot
of playing time. Early started, got hurt. Then there was
like you know of time where we'll battle through some adversity.
Then I got an opportunity, took advantage of that opportunity.
So I just would say my career has built upon,
you know, taking advantage of opportunities. And so now I'm
in a position right now where I can show that
to the players and give that message.
Speaker 2: Well, and it's it's crazy you mentioned taking advantage of opportunities,
because your rise in the coaching ranks is pretty insane.
You get done in the NFL, it's one years a
GA Northwestern, then all of a sudden you're on the
chief staff. But it's still you know, it's quality control
kind of like an NFL GA of sorts. But then right,
that's just one year, and then the next year you're
the quarterbacks coach. You coach you Patrick Homes did Andy
Reid is your head coach?
Speaker 5: What do you.
Speaker 2: Feel like where your strings are? What do you feel
like allowed you to kind of have that sort of
meteoric rise to the ranks.
Speaker 6: I'd say, first off, like coaching quarterbacks for coach Reid
is probably like one of the greatest privileges I've ever had.
Just the level of detail, the discipline, really all that
goes into the quarterback position. It's a master class learning
from coach read. I was with him as a player,
so I know I knew how he operated and what
he wanted that position to look like and then being
able to come into quality control role see how that
has developed over my you know, course of my playing
career and come back into the into the building Kansas City.
I knew what that looked like, and so it was
just about getting back on the same page and working
through all those things that that coach Read, what his
standards are and what our expectations are. And so for me,
it was about delivering that message from the head coach
and then applying it to the quarterback room.
Speaker 2: And like you said, I mean, you're learning from the
best at that point. It's like taking a master class
from you know, a multiple PhD guy. What how much
you feel like Coach Read's affected Like, how would you
describe your coaching style.
Speaker 6: I'd say Coach Read was a was a pretty big
influence on me as far as coaching style. I I
feel like i've I've like to mirror that aspire to
be what Coach Read is and haven't been around them
for five to six really eight years total player and coach.
You know, I just I just respect them so much
that you know, when you respect guys like that, you
try to imitate them to an extent, not exactly, but
you put your own twist on your own personality and
coach Read has certainly had a huge influence on me.
Speaker 2: What is your kind of offensive philosophy when it comes
to putting together what you'll kind of want your core
principles to be.
Speaker 5: I'd probably say just like one word like surgical.
Speaker 6: That's what I think about when I'm thinking about offensive play,
and that applies to everybody. The O line, the quarterback,
the receivers, tight ends backs, the details that need to
be applied to have a really efficient offense, effective offense,
that all matters. So this I think all of the
work and all of the explosion or what efficiency or
production is because of having a surgical way of thinking.
Speaker 2: And we know that you interviewed with the Sage recently,
and I was wondering just kind of like, you know,
we talk about the team every day or whatever, give
us kind of you know, an outside perspective coming in
to interview about the franchise and kind of the organization.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was very well run Mickey and his staff.
I mean there was five or six guys in the
room and uh, you know, the first one was a zoom.
So just kind of get to know, yeah, pretty easy conversation,
low level kind of philosophy stuff. Then you get you know,
then we flew out a few days ago and I
was in New Orleans, and you know, we were able
to kind of sit face to face and talk about
all of those principles and all those standards and your
practice schedules and how you're going to respond to certain
things throughout the year and the off season, in season,
different players, your experiences.
Speaker 5: So it's very well rounded.
Speaker 2: It's a very with hypotheticals like do you feel like
you're a player on the white board?
Speaker 5: No, they're absolutely, There are absolutely an element of that.
Speaker 6: And every like everyone's different, Every interview I've got on
has been different. This one just happened to be a
little bit more face to face and a little bit
more details in terms of, like, you know, your scheduling
and just there are some scenarios that put you in
and they want to see how you respond, whether it's
right or wrong.
Speaker 5: They want to see your answer and see how you
got to that point.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I guess last one here, and granted this
may be a bit redune because I feel like you
did touch on some of this, but we're here mobile
for the Senior Bowl. At the end of the week,
what do you kind of look back on and be like, Okay,
I feel like I accomplished what I set out to
do in.
Speaker 5: The Senior Bowl.
Speaker 6: I think one of the three goals that I have
is the first one is just to get a great
evail on the players.
Speaker 2: Get to know these guys. That's why you're actually like
here as well.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like the second the second part of that would
be just introducing these guys to the NFL language, so
their execution, the way that they go out and play
on Saturday, that's important to me. And then the third
part is winning. Like I came here to win. I
want to win the game. I'm competitive, So putting these
guys in a good position, you know, ultimate, trusting the
coordinators and there we're just going about there.
Speaker 5: And have some fun.
Speaker 2: Hell yes, dude, coach Mike Kafka, kid, thank you.
Speaker 5: Enough to join us.
Speaker 2: Man, we're begging more off the bench. Next there you go,
Coach Mike Kafka shot a two. Coach for uh Sitting
down on this stair, starting to get a little idea
of some of his philosophies what this week means to him,
head coach of the national team.
Speaker 4: Cool guy, cool guy. What was the feel man?
Speaker 7: What I mean you sat down within him for ten minutes?
What kind of field did you get from him?
Speaker 2: I mean really really nice. I mean that sounds that
sounds weird to say, but sometimes coaches can be you know,
a holes, and especially when it comes to deal with
the media. And yeah, he was like very like open
and chill, and you know, I see the same ages.
It was good, you know. I look, it's not like
there was anything in that interview that was going to
make you be like, oh my god, I wanted to
be the next Satan's head coach. But it's kind of
like I said to what we were talking about the
search early, I don't know who is set up for
success right when it comes to this job, Like, it
doesn't feel like it's it's successful set up for anyone.
So if you're gonna tell me, it's more it's Kafka,
it's Rizzy, Like, sure, you know it doesn't. It's it's
the the everybody pulling out of the job and kind
of missing on your top targets has kind of pushed
me to maybe maybe apathetic is not the right word,
but almost like in a weird way, almost like an
ambivalent spot. It's like, you know, I don't know. I
don't think any of them will be successful, at least not.
Speaker 4: The current structure.
Speaker 2: Not in the short term. It's gonna take a little
while to get this thing off the ground once again.
Like you said, potentially the worst job opening in ten years.
You had somebody tell you, guys, Okay, relax. This sweater
is the only warm weather piece of clothing that I
brought on the trip.
Speaker 4: I accidentally forgot yesterday.
Speaker 2: It's okay, every day I've not just I've worn it
every single day. I brought my others, like dad sweater
that I've been wearing as well, but I washed it
by accident. It was dry clean only. So now it's
a crop top and so like that was the only
other thing I brought. I put it on it. That
doesn't work. I left all the bomber jackets at home. Okay,
but you know what, this thing's really comfortable, so screen,
I'll guess what else I have on Star Wars shirt.
You haven't seen that in weeks? Have you shut the
hell up?
Speaker 4: Weeks?
Speaker 2: It has been weeks.
Speaker 4: Check the tape.
Speaker 2: When's lets have wear the shirt. I wore the shirt
in like probably like months.
Speaker 4: Actually it's a good shirt though, it's a staple.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Daniel. I agree, he says, I think this
sweater makes you looks like a handsome little boy. Thank you.
I don't want to spurs sweater, Scott, get the hell
out of here. Even though I was happy before you,
Scott that you got to dress up like a pop tart.
I saw that on Twitter. Congratulations.
Speaker 5: Dude.
Speaker 2: All right, God, my knees are hurting. These chairs are
so low. I feel like I'm freaking doing a Sigon
squat the entire time during this.
Speaker 7: Yeah, my cast are kind of tied so there. They
are so low that I've kind of had my my
toes pointed. So I'm getting a good cast stretch because
they are so low and like it's putting pressure on
my cast. I'm getting a good kind of stretch from it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Mobile cells closed. Yeah, I guess that's what.
Speaker 7: We weren't driving in. You're like, is there anywhere to
buy clothes and mobile? I'm like, I'm pretty sure there's
a Dillard's. I'm pretty sure they're big enough city where
they got at least a Dillard's. I mean, I know,
I get something more like downtown, though I don't really
want to get in a car. Parking is about to
be at a premium here in the city with the
uh Marty Gras about to kick up, but shut up
something in front of my swetter guys. All right, wouldn't
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Speaker 2: Off the Bench, Oh what's going on? You'll welcome back
to ot B here Live and the Mobile Covich Center
and the Reese's Senior Bolls. Shout out to Le Bear's
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A lot of arguing going on in the chat right
now about Marty Gras and who had it first, Mobile,
New Orleans whatever, guys, just remember this. I talked to
a wise old hotel porter here in the city one
time and he told us that was it. Mobile's the
mother of Marty Gras, and New Orleans is the father.
It doesn't have to be one or the other, Okay,
it can be both, and it isvo city loves Marty Gras,
It loves Marty Graus and that's okay.
Speaker 4: It doesn't. It doesn't.
Speaker 2: You know, EVERYTDY chill out doesn't have to be a competition.
It's great for all. There's fun to be had both here,
there and everywhere.
Speaker 4: I'm still team Louisiana.
Speaker 2: You had a king cake yet? No?
Speaker 4: I I almost got one, almost got one for the
what it's me?
Speaker 2: That's me doing you eating healthy?
Speaker 4: Can't even understand you. I hate you. I was about
to give it, you know.
Speaker 7: Anyways, ass I almost bought one for the house because
there's a rouses.
Speaker 4: By our house.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and yeah, I think I think the rouses king
Cake will get the job done, certainly for someone that yeah,
that doesn't.
Speaker 4: Have it, so we need to go get it.
Speaker 7: There's like literally a rouses from the Airbnb ran like
a mile down the road. So hell yeah, man, king cake,
you punk. I'd rather a protein version, but they don't
have that.
Speaker 2: Uh. Jake about to throw hands. Yeah, his hands are
so big though that if he misses, gonna fall off
the balance. Yeah. I've had one king Cake thus far
in the season, and it was a plain one and
it was quite tasty. If another one.
Speaker 7: I tell you where my brain is and how much
I've traveled. When you said it was a plain one,
I was like they were serving keencake on the plane. Like,
that's sadly exactly where.
Speaker 4: My brain went.
Speaker 7: That'd be awesome, though they did. They should do that
for New Orleans flights. I well, piece of kingcake mate,
I was gonna.
Speaker 2: Say for first class at least certainly some man these
flights coming into the Super Bowl. The more toisty ones
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Speaker 4: Man loves peace so illiterative. I love it to be fair.
I don't know if he's.
Speaker 2: Calling you that. Uh, he just calls it the baseball
position preview. I called the Palmer positional preview I do,
I do. I've always loved Pea. But today we talked
about catching yesterday today first base, and for what it's worth,
this is a conversation that is kind of just more
of Bear Jones. Uh, you did not lose any first baseman.
You return Bear Jones. And look, there are other names
the lists, certainly big time recruiting. Ryan Costello's six three
to two oh five freshmen right eventually, probably gonna be
really good. A couple of the catchers that we mentioned
yesterday at a yam in the four Luis Hernandez, they
have some first in them as as well. Interestingly, Jake,
one name who was pitching on Sunday was Dalton Beck. Yeah,
he was pitching on Sunday, despite the fact that incarnate word.
Last year he had three seventy seven with eighteen home runs.
But look, first base, it's all about the bear, Bear Jones,
who is currently eighteen home run shy of third all time.
Oh wow, yeah, how about that Bear Jones? Could it
up in the top three? Probably will should end up
in the top three by the times that twenty eight
home runs last year over two years, he's a three
h three hitter. Last he's a three or three hitter.
Probably the most impressive improvement last year for me was
sec play because if you think back two years ago,
did he dominate out of conference? Did Yeah?
Speaker 4: As a freshman Yeah, kind of.
Speaker 2: Got humbled a little bit once you got to the
big leagues. And then last year at well, everything just
got better. His kray goes from thirty seven percent into
thirty two, ends up walking fifty nine times. How about this,
Jake a twelve one ops last year and for context,
the season in which Tommy White hit three seventy four
twenty four home runs one hundred and five RBIs his
ops was eleven fifty seven. Yeah, so a lot and
an absolute explosion twenty.
Speaker 7: Eight hom I mean, we were shocked that he was
able to come back, Like we just yeah, we just
said he's gone, he's done. We didn't think he'd last obviously,
we thought he'd get drafted incredibly high.
Speaker 2: An explosion of a sophomore season for Bear Jones. And
I think the most exciting part for me is again
looking at the growth from year one to year two.
Can you take that same level jump year two to
year three, and if you can statistically that starts to
look really insane.
Speaker 7: I mean, he's going to be somebody that is, if
he stays on the same growth track that he has,
is going to be talked about as one of the
best players in the country.
Speaker 4: Like he's got that potential.
Speaker 7: I mean last year during spurts of the season, he
was that guy, like you could kind of put.
Speaker 4: Him in that category.
Speaker 7: So again, like him coming back, we never thought that
he would have an opportunity to come back. We thought
he's gonna be drafted, He's gonna be drafted in the
first three rounds and he's going to be gone.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 7: I don't know what those conversations were, Like, I'm not
sure what his number was. He does have some leverage
because he could come back, but this is somebody that
I mean, it's like you use you trade for an
All Star and you didn't have to give anything up. Yeah,
And so LSU season, I mean, I know they got
a lot of new players and a lot of guys
that did things other places, but as far as guys
that we know can do it in the Purple and
Gold at alec Bach Stadium with all the pressure on
what it means to play for LSU where in uh,
you know, the gold Jerseys on Sunday, all that information.
This is somebody that we have seen do it in
all of that, and you're probably gonna count him more
than you do anybody in the lineup this year.
Speaker 2: Sorry, see I'm gonna speak, so I'll tell you a
little bit. I think an Palmer two in his piece
on Louisiana Sports on that asks U probably the most
salient question, Jake, which is where does the protection come
from Bear Jones in the lineup? Will a bat emerge
that will force teams to throw to him or will
he have to battle out, be disciplined, walk a lot right,
be able to lift fastballs that are low and away,
which Hunt says he can with the power that he has.
It's something that that's gonna be the question, because if
a bat does emerge and you do have to throw
to him, well, then again, I mean the sky's liver
with thirty homers like whatever, He's already a top four
hitter in the SEC. He could be a legitimate Golden
Spikes caliber player if that were the case.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So here's the thing that we don't know, and I
kind of just mentioned it.
Speaker 7: You have players that are coming from other schools that
you think can be that protection because they've done it
at a very high level in other places. So that's
what you're having to bank on. That's why you do
a deep dive into the transfer portal. You go and
get guys that have been in the middle of lineups
and other places, and you try to protect a Bear Jones, Like,
what's Monster Milam going to be?
Speaker 4: Where is he going to live in the lineup? It's
going to be kind of a question as well.
Speaker 2: The names that Hunt kind of brings up as well.
I'll just be here's an excit from the article right
now here are you definitely challenging Jones to stay away
from Not Josh Pearson or Stephen Mylam, not Derek Curial,
not Michael braswell. At this point, it's not Danny Dickinson either.
It sounds like maybe through his writing for in the
Dickinson would be the the maybe one of the best
bets there. But yeah, that if that emerges, then as
Hunt does, he can feast shout out Bear Jones. This
first pase previous very easy. He's awesome, you know, I
mean's his name's Bear. It doesn't get much better than that.
It's pretty easy, dude, name Bear that's gonna hit twenty
eight home runs and look really good in the uniform.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the bat looks like a toothpick in his hands.
Speaker 2: God, his lower body's so thick too. He's got like
a really good, great lower half. Yeah, you know, like
he's got good like body makeup right, like weight district high.
But yeah, but dies love it. Love Nelly for Tato too.
We'll see a lot of y'all out here. Little boys
can't handle a woman. She's forty six or three kids
and looks incredible.
Speaker 7: Court in cells, corn break, cowboy, he was on your team. Yeah,
I sent that to you, I know, but it's like
a real man.
Speaker 2: I just don't get these like in cells like what
I don't know, I don't know, touch some grass.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, I'm look, I'm with you. I'm right
there with you.
Speaker 2: I agree. Shoutout Bear Jones, Shout out Nellie for Tatoh.
That's all I gotta say. Coming up next, we got
to Taya invil Story of the Day to keep you luck.
Speaker 3: Off the bench. Uh.
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Speaker 8: To the ninth ranked morning sports show in America.
Speaker 3: Off the bench.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Jack, what song is that?
Speaker 4: It's Wallflowers? Take that new Heartache?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Do you all need the show?
Speaker 2: I don't really care. You want to talk about Wallflowers? Y'all? Y'all, y'all,
gover what you Why don't you come over here.
Speaker 7: With lead singer. Lead singer of Wallflowers is lead singer
name Flowers? No, come on, his famous father, you can
do it. Danny deveatd his name Okay, he has a
famous father and his first name is somebody that you.
Speaker 2: Spent a lot of time with, Scott Eastwood.
Speaker 7: No, somebody you spent a lot of time with Jared Poshay,
you spent a lot of time with Jared Poshe.
Speaker 2: No, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know
anything about Wallflowers.
Speaker 4: I don't know. His name is Jacob Dylan and it
is Bob Dylan's son.
Speaker 9: Okay, when I was in college, Jacob, you.
Speaker 4: Spent a lot of time like, how me, Aaron? You
didn't throw either one of you.
Speaker 9: Are Jake Fair but also Marthy's.
Speaker 4: Jacob spells it Jakob.
Speaker 2: Jacob Dylan just sounds like the most generic white bread
name in existence.
Speaker 4: With a K, right, yeah, Jko.
Speaker 10: So when I was in college, I was a DJ
for our university radio station, and I would always play
that song as the last song of my of my
shift because it's like a seven minute song. So I
could just be like, all right, well, closing out the
hour here, and so I would get out like seven
minutes earlier.
Speaker 2: There you go. Is there anything else on Wallflowers that
you want to tell me?
Speaker 10: I mean, like, you know, hey, one headlight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a great actually a couple of songs we.
Speaker 10: Didn't talk about last night. We had a very good
time last night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, shout out to shout out to Red or White
local pizza wine place that uh jke y'all put us
on fin fantastic meal, very cool where you walk in
a ton of great bottles of wine, you select the bottle,
then you sit down to eat. But great wine, great food.
Really just a was incredible. Shadow guy holding Sophia. It
was really a tin out of ten. Glad.
Speaker 4: I had a good time.
Speaker 5: It was it was it was.
Speaker 2: It was a ten out of ten meal.
Speaker 10: He picked out all our bottles of wine for us.
They were incredible. We ate incredible meat.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 10: But it was so delightful.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like a CHRESO. Yeah, I would say
so if you're in mobile, this gets the OTB. Two
thumbs up, yeah, big time, three because we all liked that. Yes,
well well okay, yeah three thumb yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was meaning like, well human only as two thumbs Yeah.
I know, but we are six, you know, we have
six between us, So I say three, So what are
you saying fifty?
Speaker 4: I think three? I think six one hand in my pocket.
The other one's giving a thumbs That's what I'm saying.
You can't.
Speaker 2: You can't even get your other hand out of the pocket.
For Red or White.
Speaker 7: No, because it's so comfortable. After having a great meal
at Red or White.
Speaker 2: Okay, we.
Speaker 10: So weirdly, not weirdly, we shut that place down, but
well around and I was like, I think that they
are trying to cleanse.
Speaker 2: It's still early in the UH. It's still early in
the week for Mobile, so we are not too things
staying open as of late U or open later.
Speaker 7: We went to a pretty good place. I think it
was Half Shell was the name of it. And I
will give Mobile a ton of credit. I've had a
lot of seafood in other places that's been horrible, and
you know, being from Louisiana, we're very prideful.
Speaker 4: But Mobile does a really good job of the seafood.
Speaker 7: I mean the ghost right here, but there's a lot
of Louisiana Field two Mobile.
Speaker 10: We had the second year in a row we got
cities in treport.
Speaker 2: But oh yeah, shout out to UH Debris Shot to Debris.
Speaker 9: The boys are just incredible.
Speaker 2: They do a legitimately great Poe Boy I mean, I
know we've talked about it in the past. They get
their Lenheim bread and everything, but it's it's it's really
well executed fried Chimo Boylicious Ingredients.
Speaker 10: Both finished our po boys and we were like, Wow,
did that hit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm excited to tell these chese straws out. I've
never had a cheese straw.
Speaker 4: That is like very surprising because you love straws.
Speaker 7: Yeah, chees shaws like a TJ Max like when you're
checking out, like they always got them like right there
at the at the register. But you love cheese balls
so much, right, So I figured like this is like
this is the bougie version of cheese balls.
Speaker 10: I worked at a gift shop in high school and
we sold like bags of them.
Speaker 2: There are uh new like I'm using air quotes, not
healthy cheese balls, but there's new cheese balls like better ingredient,
right you not, Like that's kind of one of the
things that's been happening lately. These people take classic sacks
and make them better ingredients. The the healthy cheeseballs are
out of this world, dude, I really they are. When
I tell you, I wish I could lock myself in
a room and just eat a bathtub of these things.
Get naked and just eat myself. Tea can see me naked, right,
just eat my way out of that tub. I'd do it.
Speaker 10: The cheese dip we had last night was good. It
was like a cheese crab dough.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, but not overly crabby or cheese.
Speaker 10: It was yeah, it was perfect.
Speaker 2: Shut out right, all right, taite, it is time for
an NFL Story of the Day Day.
Speaker 8: It's time for Tat's NFL Story of the Day day,
your daily dose of NFL news from Taylor Sharp.
Speaker 11: All right, guys, we have a brand new NFL coaching hiring. Obviously,
it's about the New Orleans Saints. They're never going to
get that deal done. The Baltimore Ravens have made a
surprise higher on their defensive side of the ball. Chuck
Pagano has come out of retirement. He's been retired for
four years. He's now going to be the secondary coach
or the Ravens. They ranked twenty sixth in the NFL
and pass defense, so they could certainly use all the
help they can get. If you remember, Pagano was actually
the head coach of the Colts for five seasons, then
in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty defensive coordinator for the Bears.
Retired in twenty twenty. He's been away from the game
for four years, sixty four years old. Buddy's coming in
to help out the Ravens pass defense.
Speaker 2: Yep. He was head coach of the Cult of the
Andrew Luck right, and then he got cancer. That's when
Bruce arians came right at success and Bruce ended up
getting a head job elsewhere. Has he even on McAfee.
Speaker 7: He's been on McAfee, Yeah, because he still stayed I
think in Indy, so you know, they do the show
there in Indy. So yeah, that's what he's been doing
the last couple of years.
Speaker 4: I believe shot out Chuck E.
Speaker 2: P That's a very experience.
Speaker 9: I was trying to say, he looks so different.
Speaker 4: So no, no, sorry, that's his brother John. Oh, yeah, happening.
I was okay.
Speaker 7: So we started talking about Chuck Pegano and my mind
went to John Pigano because John was with us in
San Diego my entire time there. I was like, huh,
I wonder what John's doing now. He's actually a coach
for the Commanders.
Speaker 2: Pegana's a fun last name.
Speaker 7: Say John pat But John and Chuck don't look anything alike.
Speaker 10: But I'm saying John though with a beard and without
a beard, looked like two different humans.
Speaker 2: Would never fathom that they would be brothers for sure.
Speaker 10: What do you think that you guys would look like
without beards?
Speaker 9: Shape?
Speaker 2: Sometimes like great, Bob, not great? You know I have
I have no idea what I would look like without
a beard nowadays.
Speaker 4: I mean I know what I yeah, I get pretty close.
I mean I don't know beer. I hadn't used a
razor since like seven, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Mean I never had a beard in college. Oh wait,
what was that picture from high school? You know, let's
see like that that's more high school. Look at that.
I got a Falcons Bobby a beer jersey with my
high school girlfriend who is now my wife. Not sharing
a blanket. That was always a rule in our house.
You were not allowed to break the blanket rule. Too
often would and then they ended up with high school pregnancies.
Speaker 10: I mean, you gotta be careful, dude, Why the blanket
rule exists?
Speaker 2: Also, you gotta be careful drinking hurricanes. I think that's
how my oldest sister came about College New Orleans hurricanes.
Speaker 10: I think it's it's too like a good rule of
thumb and just true in general.
Speaker 2: Hurricanes, especially as we're you know, I had a Marti
gras here. Who will.
Speaker 4: A beard?
Speaker 2: I mean, look, the funniest picture remains from SEC media
days when I had to go clean shave inso have
my heaviest and I had to suit that was entirely
too small, and I was like a you know, a
biscuit squeezing out of the can, looking over stuffed and overserved.
Speaker 4: Oh man, yea, well you found it. I found something
that's not from SC media.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, that's that's just like a you have a beard.
Speaker 9: They're kind of behind.
Speaker 2: No, that was that was at the beginning of my
of my beard.
Speaker 4: You have a beard, but you don't have a chin.
Speaker 2: No, I mean look at that. That's when the that's
when the SC media that played in the Georgia. That's
not a good look.
Speaker 4: Look, we all got bad ones out there.
Speaker 2: Wait.
Speaker 10: Te Baw told me a really funny story of a
super embarrassing moment in his life last night. You're like, real, God,
when you had to break at the pool, like when
you had to oh.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because we were talking about we were talking
about sideline reporters just through the years, and I was
talking about Aaron Andrews and how I had a crush
on Aaron Andrews because like a lot of people did
my age. And ahead of the l s U Alabama
Game of the Century, I got to do a live
sports in her hit with Aaron Andrews, which was nice
and it was it was in the players, but at
the end of the hit, they were like, because we
were around a pool table, you know, kind of a
half playing pool or whatever, and well we weren't playing
because it wasn't broken yet. We were just staying around
with like stick in hand. And then at the end
of the hit it was like, okay, interviews done. Now
you go. You go in like you break it, you know,
let's let's go. I'm not, like, I'm not good at pool.
You know, it's fun. I played a little bit, I
guess growing up, but like, I'm not, I'm not good
at pool. I'm not good at breaking and all of
a sudden I have to do it live on Sports
Center and it was just the weakest like little wet noodle,
bad feeling. It was live, so it was like cuball
bounced off. Maybe a little bit of separation happened.
Speaker 9: It was just like he did it and they cut away.
Speaker 2: I remember just being like, why did you all make me?
I'm not I'm a football player, not a pool player?
What do you all do? It? You get here and
Andrews watching me freaking fail?
Speaker 10: Can you imagine the Internet had really existed then, like
that would have been all around.
Speaker 2: Getting I remember getting a slight slight it was early Internet.
I remember like a couple of comments making it my way.
But yeah, that was that was not good.
Speaker 4: That was There's so many I found it.
Speaker 7: But there's so many different versions of T Bob Abert
on the Internet. Like there's versions with a beard, with
no beard, with biber hair, with crew cut hair, with
long hair, different weights, different sizes. This is It's a
fascinating Google search. If you have time today, just type
in t Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: You will see the many lives of T bob obvios
twenty nineteen tea Bobb will never be defeated for is
he okay?
Speaker 7: Look I know it was out of control. Look this
man looking incredibly sharpened. This suit is related to this
man the same person.
Speaker 4: Hey, look, look how good our guy looks right there?
Speaker 2: That was at the Is that the labs or is
that what is that?
Speaker 4: Is that maybe twenty one like young something of the year.
Speaker 2: I think yeah, yeah, yeah, yep, young young champion of
the year.
Speaker 4: It's not a young champion, that's young champion.
Speaker 2: Whatever. Let's go to break and do as the benure
and we get back.
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Speaker 3: Rush back to sports talk maybe off the bench?
Speaker 2: Oh what's going on y'all? Welcome back here on OTB.
It is time for some ask to the bench, probably
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Sweet as a Bench with Rivers producing this week with
the champaigned on Friday. We'll be back Friday. Okay, we're
coming back Thursday. So yes, I believe there will be
and I'm feeling better this Friday. Sports I got a
fish man at Botic though, ask the bench, what's something
that Jake talks about that makes Sea Bob check out?
So of course there are many things that I talk
about that you can tell make Jake's eyes glaze over.
Speaker 4: For me, I'm always and though I'm not I don't
mean it like that.
Speaker 2: For me, it would probably be R and B.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's a blind spot for you for sure, and
it's a love of mine. Yeah, yeah, that's that's fair.
That's very fair. I don't know that I have anybody
at work and any job that I do that like
Roddy Jones is the only one that enjoys the R
and B with me. And Roddy and I are kind
of the same age, and so that's it's the only
person I can really share my love of R and
B with that actually reciprocates it and throws it back
to me.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, because I like R and B.
Speaker 4: But that's not yell or more like Clindie Rock.
Speaker 10: Yes, I don't clean it's like my favorite, but I do.
Speaker 9: I do enjoy.
Speaker 2: R and B. Yeah, I like movie scores or that
Creed remix. Yeah, or that Creed remix. It's really good.
Ask the bench, can we recreate the picture from last
year with t BOP's arm around Jake? I think they
might be Are you talking about the titty pig? No?
Speaker 4: No, no, casting couch, Oh yeah, hotel room.
Speaker 2: No we we we did not.
Speaker 4: You didn't do snap set. They don't think I didn't
when Monday, did you know?
Speaker 5: I did?
Speaker 2: He didn't do it, but I did it from the
cup chair and it's it was very very funny looking.
It looks like a hostage video. Hashtag asked the bitch
when will we get Taylor to talk to the br uh?
Speaker 4: Wait?
Speaker 2: Will when will Taylor get to talk to the b
r zydacho lady again? What are we talking about again here? Taylor?
Do you want to hop in here? Yeah?
Speaker 11: So sometimes when I host for you guys, it was
once or twice I had my friend lele On who
works with the bet Rey Zaydecho, and the chat took
a liking to her. But unfortunately, guys, she actually got
her marriage license yesterday.
Speaker 2: I posted it on social media, So you guys are
a little too late. That What a weird way to
say somebody got married.
Speaker 4: That's saeriod.
Speaker 2: Never I've never heard of age got her marriage license.
She's not married yet. She got the marriage license.
Speaker 4: She got her marriage license. What are we doing here?
Speaker 3: Do you?
Speaker 10: Yeah, you have to get your marriage license because you
show up at the wedding with it.
Speaker 9: And you sign it with the right.
Speaker 4: But that's still.
Speaker 2: I don't remember that Is that true?
Speaker 4: I don't think I made that up.
Speaker 2: Hasseg asked, the bitch, would you rather the Saints be
in their current situation today or they hired the Jackson
new head coach.
Speaker 9: Okay again, guys, it's the eyebrows. It's like the eyebrow
is perfect.
Speaker 4: I can't even I can do one.
Speaker 10: You can't. I don't think anybody else can move their
head in their neck like he did.
Speaker 2: He was like a snake.
Speaker 4: Well, can y'all do like the rock eyebrow? Like on both?
I can do it on one. I learned doings got
bro tox? And Rick new Heiseel was.
Speaker 7: Deeply offended that Doring gets protox.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised Rick doesn't be honest. Really, yeah, just because
like a lot of you know, a lot of people do. Actually, yeah,
that's like, coach, are you shocked by this?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Not?
Speaker 7: Also like, yeah, like what are we talking about during
the course story days and enduring? Also like we were
wanting to go to waffle House for content and for
delicious food and Dooring was too bougie for it. Him
and new Heisel both.
Speaker 2: Also chat Is calling out Taylor, saying that uh, chat
does not that that that Taylor's obsess litely not not chat.
Oh my god, dude, Alandra found the picture of me
and Aaron Andrews in the players lounge doing the sports interhead.
Please how did you? How did the right time? So
do dude? All right, We'll be back with more. OTB
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