Speaker 1: All start to you to presents. Off the Bench with
Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah,
Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Bob Aber.
Speaker 2: I gotta come off the bench now.
Speaker 1: Here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abart.
Speaker 3: Welcome in Tuesday edition of Off the Bench, Tyler Sharp
here for Jacob Ester and T Bob a bear. Those
bums are on vacation all week long, so we are
here with you today, Tomorrow and Thursday. The entire building. Well,
we got all for good Friday for well, I think
the first time since I've been here, but we are
hanging out with you for the next three days. As
Jordan's so eloquently put it a few seconds ago, We're
gonna cover a lot of different topics today. We got
a Lota Villa Reale, We got Jordan Kitchens back there
on the ones and twoes.
Speaker 4: Guys, how we feel in this morning?
Speaker 2: You know, it's another day to be alive. It's another
day to be alive. So it's gotta gotta take that
for what it is. That's not a real deep but
I was very sentimental.
Speaker 4: Just flying.
Speaker 3: I mean, we're apparently all flooding because of the river.
So thanks flood.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, who knows, we might all perish tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Okay, I need to go get my actual headphones. I
don't like this.
Speaker 6: I read into the So I went to go look
on my weather app the other day or no, it was.
Speaker 5: On Google Maps.
Speaker 2: Yea google Maps.
Speaker 6: It was Google Maps and it said flood warning. And
I was like, what this must be a glitch. There's
no way there's it's not even raining outside.
Speaker 3: This is like on Saturday, rightday.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And then I checked my weather app because I
was like, it's not even raining. So I checked the
weather app and then the weather app is like flood warning,
and I was like, what is happening? So then I
googled flood in Louisiana. The river is flooding because of
all the rain and the Ohio River valley, and I'm like,
how much.
Speaker 5: Rain did they get? How's it all the way down here?
Speaker 2: I didn't even know it rained? How much in Ohio?
Speaker 4: Remember a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3: It's because of snow, Like a couple of years ago,
snow melted and it came down.
Speaker 6: But so then it's supposed to get from what I read,
it's supposed to get forty nine inches or feet that
would not be Yeah, forty nine feet and the levee
is like fifty eight, so it should be fine.
Speaker 4: So we're not flooding.
Speaker 2: No, we need you need how to make an investment.
What's going on here?
Speaker 5: Flooding?
Speaker 4: Okay, so we're we're flooding.
Speaker 5: But the levee is keeping it in, So it's flooding.
The levee is just keeping it in.
Speaker 3: Going to be washed away in the parking lot? No, okay,
well then we're going.
Speaker 5: The whole purpose of the levee.
Speaker 2: Were got surance? Yeah, guess it's terrible.
Speaker 5: I need to go get my headphones.
Speaker 2: I'll be right back, all right.
Speaker 3: I want to layout today's show. Longer was talking about Saturday.
You had Google Maps up.
Speaker 4: I did two. Me and Victoria.
Speaker 3: We went out to the LSU Beach Volleyball for the
first time. It's something I've wanted to do all year long.
It seemed like a great vibe.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 3: We're actually gonna have Russell Brock, the LSU Beach volleyball coach,
on the show today at nine thirty. Zach Maggie's gonna
hop on at eight thirty. We're gonna talk some LSU football.
Brian Kelly dip into the spring transfer portal window with positions.
Is he maybe looking at Nick Underhill joining us at
his normal nine AM spot. A little bit going on
with the New Orleans Saints, all the Derek Carr news,
a little pre draft interview with our guy Nick as well,
So we'll get into all of that. But as Jordan
kind of laid out before the show started, wanted to
start here with the New Orleans Pelicans. And before anybody
freaks out saying, why in the hell would you start
with the New Orleans Pelicans, well it's it's good news
if you hate the people.
Speaker 4: Running the organization.
Speaker 3: The New Orleans Pelicans yesterday fired executive vice president of
basketball operations David Griffin.
Speaker 4: New Orleans went twenty one and sixty one this year.
Speaker 3: That's the franchise's worst record in an eighty two game
season since the two thousand and four to two thousand
and five.
Speaker 4: Season where they won only eighteen games.
Speaker 3: You want a silver lining, what happened after two thousand
and four two thousand and five, Well, they lighted Chris
Paul and he was actually an okay player. So if
you want to look at the silver Lining, but gil
Benson released his statement. She said, after serious thought and evaluation,
I have decided to relieve David Griffin of his duties
as executive vice president of Basketball Operations. This was a
difficult decision, but one that I feel is necessary at
this time to bring a fresh approach to our front
office and build a culture that will deliver sustainable success
on and off the court. I am committed to hiring
the right person to lead our basketball operations and deliver
an NBA championship to our city because this is what
our fan base deserves. She went on to thank David Griffin.
Blah blah blah blah. Griffin was in his sixth season
with the organization. This is a Pelicans team that only
made two playoff appearances during that six six year time frame,
and they never made it past the first round of
the playoffs. I think we can we all undoubtedly say
a change was one hundred percent needed. I mean, I
just laid it out twenty one and sixty one, not
exactly going to get it done. Gail says, I'm committed
to bringing in the person who I think it best
help turn this franchise around and bring this city a
Championship well, David Griffin. That firing was announced about eleven
am yesterday, ten thirty ish. A little bit later in
that afternoon, it was announced that they already have a
front runner for the position, and that front runner is
Louisiana native Joe Dumars. So according to Sham Shinaria, he
reports that the Pelicans and Dumars are expected to engage
in conversations this week and a deal could be finalized
by the end of the week. It seems like this
is something that is moving very very fast. Dumars is
actually the vice president of basketball operations for the entire
NBA right now. We all know Joe Dumars. He won
two championships as a player in eighty nine and ninety.
He won one as an NBA executive in two thousand
and four. All of those are with the Detroit Pistons.
That was the Chauncey Billups team. Everybody remembers that squad.
He was the lead executive Detroit for fourteen years us
beginning in the year two thousand. In that time period,
the Detroit Pistons had a winning record. It was fit
five ninety five and five thirty six. You can say Okay,
well that doesn't exactly blow the doors off the place. Yeah,
have to look at what the Detroit Pistons are now.
I mean, they've shown a lot of promise this year,
but the last ten or so years they've kind of
been an NBA bottom feeder.
Speaker 4: So that's actually a really good success in the NBA.
Speaker 3: He was named league executive in twenty twenty two after
three years with Sacramento, so he's been out of an
NBA front office for three years now. He's not been
there since twenty twenty one. Twenty twenty two is his
first year in this NBA League executive role. Everyone wants
to point out that he is a Louisiana Nate and
I was talking to Jordan about this before the show.
I'm like, that's great if you're trying to sell someone
to your fans. First Off, if you're trying to sell
someone this hard to your fan base, it may not
be the home run higher that you think it is. Secondly,
who cares if he has Louisiana ties. This is not college.
You are not recruiting in the state of Louisiana. I
don't care where it's from. Half the guys on your
team are European now, doesn't really matter where you come from.
I appreciate the success. I appreciate that he's been League
Executive at the Year multiple times. I appreciate that he
won a championship as VP in Detroit that was in
two thousand and four. And I just mentioned that he
hasn't been in an NBA front office in three years now.
Twenty twenty one was his last season running an NBA
front office. Now, he obviously didn't forget how to do that,
but he's just been out of the game for a
little bit.
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 3: He's been in the NBA front office. That's different than
managing one specific team. You're kind of just overseeing everything
in the NBA office. When you're the VP of an
NBA basketball team, every single decision in that basketball organization
goes through you. There is a lot more on your plate,
a lot more big time decisions have to be made
when you were VP of a professional basketball team. So, okay,
we got Joe Dumars out of the way. I'm not
that excited about it. I'm sure most people are just
kind of like, Eh, it's kind of how I feel
about it, Like, is that awful? Now again? He's a
guy that's had success. It's behind him, but he's a
guy that had success and none the left. What I
want to look at is what does this mean for
Willy Green? Jordan, you said that there was a rumor
that the Pelicans were going to make Dumars or whoever
becomes VP of basketball operations keep Willy Green?
Speaker 4: Is that right them?
Speaker 2: I just.
Speaker 3: Look, I don't know where that rumor started. I have
a hard time believing that's the case. I imagine that
the next guy in charge will want his own coach
and want his own coach immediately. And it's not like
Willy Green has this stellar reputation within the organization and
an excellent record to fall back on. Willie Green is
one forty eight and one point eighty in New Orleans.
He has a losing record. It's probably time for him
to go. Anyways, who should the Pelicans target. I'm gonna
throw a few names at you, Jordan, and you tell
me this is not Jordan Kitchen's host of the Pelicans scoop.
This is Jordan Kitchens fan of the New Orleans Pelicans. Okay,
Mike Malon, I mean, of course, Mike Malone.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Top top five coach in the NBA.
Speaker 3: I mean, find me five coaches in the NBA better
than Mike Malone. I don't think you're going to be
able to do it.
Speaker 2: There isn't And.
Speaker 3: Then people can say, Okay, well Mike Malone was just fired. Guys,
if you go look at Mike Malone's career record as
an NBA head coach. Sure, he was in Sacramento for
two years. They were awful. Everyone's kind of awful in Sacramento.
Not really his fault. You go look at what he
did in Detroit and Denver. He got to Denver in
twenty fifteen, they were thirty three and forty nine, then
the following year forty and forty two. So he doesn't
start hot after that. From twenty seventeen until this year,
eight straight seasons, he never had a losing record one time.
And let's not forget in twenty twenty two to twenty
twenty three season he was NBA champion.
Speaker 4: That was just two years ago.
Speaker 3: I thought it was a head scratcher that they fired
Mike Malone, But look, you don't know what goes on
behind the scenes, right, Maybe him.
Speaker 4: And the GM didn't get along, him and the owner,
how to spat whatever.
Speaker 3: Maybe the team didn't want to play for him anymore
because they were forty seven and thirty two under Mike
Malone this year they were battling for that four seed,
so it wasn't like they were out of the playoff pitch.
Nikola Yoka is playing on an NBA level. If I
had a vote, I would vote Nikola Yoka JIMVP. So
it's not like Mike Malone fell off. He just two
years removed from winning an NBA championship. Oh and he's
fifty three years old. I know everyone wants to talk about, Oh, retread, retread, retread.
I get that Mike Malone's not your typical retread. Mike
Malone's not a guy that won a championship a decade ago,
has had three to four straight losing seasons and the
team moved on. This is a guy that, in my opinion,
is still at the top of his game. If I'm
New Orleans, I hired Joe Dumars or whoever it is,
and they want to move on from Willie Green, I'm
picking up the phone and I'm calling Mike Malone as
quick as I possibly can before some other team does it.
Because they're going to speaking of another.
Speaker 4: Team doing that.
Speaker 3: Phoenix Suns might be in the Mike Malone market because
they fired Mike Budenholzer yesterday. So Jordan, I'm gonna throw
this name at you, Mike Budenholzer. No see, I'm kinda
I'm kind of with you on that. My knee jerk
reaction to that was, I don't want Mike Budenholzer.
Speaker 4: He is a retread, you know, he's.
Speaker 2: He's a retread. But I think this team needs a
stern leader, like we need to try it. That's no BS.
Mike Malone is no BS. Bud Buddhenholzer has a history
of just kind of just being a guy, like you
need somebody. That's why. So I'm on the fence about
the Joe Dumars thing. Yeah, yeah, sure, for sure. One,
he's a strong figure that I know for a fact.
He's one of those people that can literally NB a
Hall of Famer. I can sit down and tell Zion like,
look my way to highway blah blah blah, boom boom boom.
But at the same time, you know, yeah, he's been
out the game for a while. So that's why I
feel like you need a strong figure in this locker.
You need somebody that's going to the organize has been
given too much bs Like, we need somebody that's gonna
be in there, like I'm trying to win. Forget the
we cutting, no, no, no, we need to get into
electric tax. We need to spend some money, you know,
figure out why everybody keeps getting hurt, why everybody leave
the team and gets better. Figure that out, and that's
a core problem. So that's why I feel like it
needs to start strong figure.
Speaker 3: To your point, I was kind of on the fence
when I saw Boodenholzer got fired.
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, well, you know that's somebody they can
go after.
Speaker 3: And sure he's a retread, but he's had success and
then not two distant passed. I mean, you know, he
had a championship with the Milwaukee Bucks not long ago.
But what does it tell you about his culture that
they moved on from him quickly. He's gone just one
year in Phoenix. Now the new owner in Phoenix, this
is his third straight season moving on from a coach
after just one year. So I'm not holding that entirely
against Mike Budenholzer. But look, he's won a championship somewhat recently.
He's been a respectable coach in this league for a
number of years. What I want to look at is
what of culture can he create, regardless of how much
success he's had, whether any stop he's been at, teams
have not exactly fault. To keep him around, you need
somebody who's going to come in and establish a strong
culture because this team needs a complete makeover. And I'm
not talking about getting rid of all your star players.
I'm talking about instilling a mentality of toughness into this team.
We talk all the time about Oh, this guy's missing
games for a minor injury, or this guy's missing games,
or this guy doesn't want to play back to backs
they're on a rest. I saw the stat yesterday and
it made me applaud Chris Paul, but it also made
me sick as a Pelicans fan. Chris Poules in his
twentieth season in the NBA. He played in all eighty
two games in year twenty, and his team was not
in playoff contention at any point in that season.
Speaker 4: He could have hung it up. He could have set
during back to backs.
Speaker 3: He didn't do that because he's on a team that
has a strong culture, he has a strong mentality.
Speaker 4: You don't have any of that with the New Orleans Pelicans.
Speaker 3: So whether it's Budenholes or whether it's Malone, whether it's
it's a young coach. Now, I fully expect the Pelicans
to make a bad hire and be like, we're hiring
Mike White from Georgia that nobody's gonna get excited about.
Because that's what the New Orleans Pelicans do. But regardless
of who you hire, you can hire a former champ
like Mike Malone, a guy that people are on the
fence about about Mike Budenholzer, or some young up and
coming coach, whether it's a college coach or an NBA assistant,
make sure they can come in and establish a winning
culture in this locker room because that's what you need.
You could say, okay, well you need this. Look you
have Zion Williamson. I have said some choice things about
Zion Williamson, but when he's on the court, he can play.
You have a piece to build around. Build around that piece,
instill some toughness into this franchise and just get back.
Speaker 4: To being respectable.
Speaker 3: I'm not asking you to win an NBA championship two
even three years from now, because I think you're a
lot further away from that. But you can't go twenty
one and sixty one. You just can't do that. You
have to be a respectable NBA franchise. We'll see what
the Pelicans do. Do they hire Joe Dumars as Dumars
allowed to bring in his own coach, We'll find out.
There's going to be a lot of mix ups so
coming for the New Orleans. Look, sorry, we're going to
take a quick time out when we get back. Militia
Baseball has a midweek game tonight against McNeice, and uh
it's not a normal midweek opponent.
Speaker 4: We'll get into that.
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it's Off the Bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 3: Welcome back in Tuesday edition of Off the Bench Taylor
Showpier with you filling in for Jacob Hester and t
Bob Abert. The song always makes me think of School
of Rock. I don't know if you have seen School
of Rock, but this, uh, this one hundred percent makes
me think of this. I think they played this song
probably four times in that movie.
Speaker 5: Okay, Jordan, have you seen School of Rock?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: Okay, I was about to say, who hasn't seen School
of Rock?
Speaker 2: I have not?
Speaker 3: I agree because I've seen it a bunch. I feel
like there's probably a lot of people like Jordan that
hadn't seen it.
Speaker 2: It's to America evens like people, how old are you?
Twenty four?
Speaker 4: See, he's a little bit younger than us.
Speaker 3: Like that movie came out when we were what you yeah,
seven eight something, but you would.
Speaker 2: Have been like three, yeah, gotta be if you'all was
seven eight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like it was popular when it came out, but
like for you, if you didn't see it, like on
TV when you channel scroll Disney movie.
Speaker 5: I think it's it's it's jack you know.
Speaker 2: I have definitely seen that the Jackie when he like
teaches the kids how to Yeah, who has not seen School?
Speaker 3: I was saying, like someone your age, like if you
didn't see it scrolling TV, like you probably wouldn't have known
about it.
Speaker 4: It's like I get it.
Speaker 5: Because I didn't they show you in school too.
Speaker 2: Don't you see? That was back then when there was
like a lot of.
Speaker 3: Wind came over and the yeah, roll the projector in
and play the movie that was more like I don't know,
toys toy story or like Finding Nemo and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, move with it.
Speaker 3: Or schools made me hate Finding Nemo. We're in junior
high and they're like, it has to be an animated movie,
and it was always freaking finding.
Speaker 2: Nemo time aftercare finding Nemo.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like, I'm don't but ever watched in school? You didn't.
I don't think so you got you got lucky.
Speaker 3: Literally must be a Louisiana thing every single time, like
educational movies.
Speaker 2: Oh no, we're watching every Yeah, that's how we're.
Speaker 4: Like one of the last states in education. Shout out that.
Speaker 5: That's how you have to go to private school here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did go to private school. So yeah, hold
across shout out.
Speaker 3: I think you know what's funny, at leastes and staff.
I think me and paul are the only ones that
did not go to private school. Yeah, because everybody, everybody
across you did not. I didn't go to private Yeah, okay,
Louisiana then, yeah, they did not go to private school?
Speaker 4: Was me and Paula to syndrome.
Speaker 2: I went to Walker because you're proud about your You're
proud Walker, You're proud.
Speaker 4: There's worst places to grow up.
Speaker 3: Jordan's might not be there, might not be the giant,
big city that is New Orleans.
Speaker 2: Louisa ain't the clean boots, but they work. They work
though we're not even in New Orleans. Right you're hold,
I'll see you to see this is gonna be. That's
what the disconnects. So the West Bank, because people like
to be like, oh, you're from the West Bank, You're
not from New Orleans. Listen, man, if you honestly, it's
all the same to me. I'll say this. If you're
on the North Shore, you know Mandeville, Cove and t
that was a different city. Yeah, like that's that's could
you know. No, but slide out and slide o if
you slide I'm sorry, slide o. Y'all are not New Orleans,
not if you're in the central area. Kenner Kenner is
New Orleans.
Speaker 4: All that all that? Yes, I agree, that's that's that's
all New Orleans to me.
Speaker 3: Okay, look, LSU baseball play in a midweek game tonight.
We're gonna talk about that. But before we do, let's
get this show started.
Speaker 1: It's time to get to work. Courtesy of Tiger labor
and staffing where they can help take care of screening, training,
pay roll, and more. Now for starters.
Speaker 3: LSU Baseball taking on the McNeese Cowboys tonight at six
thirty at alex Box Stadium. You can say, okay, in
state MIDWEK game, the Tigers should roll in this one.
This is not your ordinary midweek game. Landre and I
were talking about it right before the show started. This
Cowboys team is twenty seven and five. It is the
best start in school history through thirty two games. Landra
mentioned they're twenty six in the RPI. They're at large
at the turn at an NCAA tournament bid right now.
They hit over three hundred as a team at three
zero three, and as a staff they have a sub
for ERA at three ninety two. This won't be a
walk in the park midweek game. And you're sitting there saying, okay, well,
maybe they have one to two dominant pitchers. No, they
got two pitchers on their staffs. That's ERA is above five.
Everyone else is like three and below. That's where that
that's where that three ninety two comes from. They are
good top to bottom. We're looking into it a little bit. Yesterday, Hey,
who's gonna start for him in the midweek doesn't really matter.
I think the most any pitcher has gone in the
midweek for them this year is three innings. So they're
really gonna throw three or four guys at you, depending
on the situation. You have to be ready for it.
So while this might be a tough midweek game, here's
what this does. This gives you an opportunity to bounce
back from an awful weekend against the quality opponent here
in your own backyard. Now, a lot of times you
could say, okay, well, MIDWEK games, it's a time to
get your young players involved the laundr. I'm gonna ask
your opinion on this, because in my opinion, I don't
want that against mcneesse. What I want to see tonight,
I don't want lineup tingreen. I want your best nine
out there, whoever you think is going to start for
you this weekend, and try to get those bats hot again.
Speaker 4: Because you were awful. We talked about it.
Speaker 3: You you dug yourself in multiple big time holes this weekend.
You tried to come back a little at the end
of games. It wasn't quite enough. I mean I mentioned
it yesterday. I think the first two games of the series,
one through six in the lineup were eight for fifty. Oh,
and then they were two for eight on Sunday. So
it didn't go much better for you there either. And
that's just one through six of the bottom three in
your order was not much better. Matter of fact, they
may have even been worse. So I don't know about you,
but I'm not going to be like, oh, let me
put this guy in this situation and see how they react.
Speaker 4: Let me do this.
Speaker 3: I want my best nine out there, and I want
their bats to get hot because the SEC series is
not going to get easier.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you kind of have to, just because
you need to give them the opportunity to shake back
from this weekend. Like you got to get them there
at bats. You gotta let them. And I think Jay
talked about it last night, you know, take this Tuesday
game to regroup and get back on track, and he
said that they actually practice yesterday. They usually take Monday off,
but they did light practice yesterday, So hopefully.
Speaker 5: There's not too much different tonight. But I don't know,
we'll see.
Speaker 3: Something else I want to see, because again, your top
three hitters on the weekend eight for thirty eight, it's
not going to cut it. That's a two to ten
batting average. I mean, think about who's in your top three.
That's Derek Curie, Old Jerry Jones and Daniel Dickinson. Those
are your best hitters right now. Vim and Steven and
Mylam wasn't great either top to bottom. That's kind of
how it was. Milam had the home run. I get
all that, but average wise not where you want it
to be. If it is, in fact William Schmidt getting
the start tonight, if that's who Jay goes with, I
want to see him extended a little bit because, honestly, guys,
I kind of think that Sunday spot is up for grabs.
Chase Shores only went two innings. He struggled a lot lately.
And Elandra, I know you mentioned like you don't want
Zach Cowen in that position because he's so good out
of the bullpen. I agree. I don't see why it
can't be William Schmidt. Maybe not now because you're not
gonna throw him in this weekend. It's too soon. You're
not gonna throw him in the fire at Tennessee. But
after that, maybe maybe you do a little change up
in the lineup, Chase Shores is still gonna have a role.
Maybe you bring him out of the pen for one
to two innings. I just I'm not saying you're going
to make a change. I'm just saying that Sunday spot
might be.
Speaker 4: Up for grabs.
Speaker 6: I think Sunday you do need a little more length.
But Jay mentioned last night that Shores was always gonna
have like a shorter leash on Sunday because they had
already dropped Game one and two, so like any little
thing that was gonna go wrong and they were gonna
pull him anyway. So it might be up for grabs.
But I'm trying to think like later on down the road,
when you're in Omaha and you have to use pictures
to start that you haven't yet, Like if you keep
your regular rotation right, you keep kid i andsen sure
and Shores in the postseason, you're still gonna need somebody
to step up.
Speaker 3: Because we were talking about it, like in Omaha, you're
gonna play Tuesday, You're gonna play Wednesday. Like people forget
Paul Skens did not pitch in the Championship Series, right,
because you need like an achin Alison had to step
up in the game, and he was fine.
Speaker 4: I mean you lost the game, but you had to
have somebody step up.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And that's kind of my point with that is
like maybe the Sunday spot, maybe it is up for grabs,
but even if it isn't you need somebody else as
a starter for when you get deeper into the season
like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So whoever it is, Look if it's if it's
William schmid I it's kind of where I mean, those
have kind of been the two guys that are starting
in midwek. I want to see them go three innings
and if they make it through three innings, can they
go four? And I know what you're thinking, Okay, well
that might hinder him pitching this weekend thanks to pitch
on Sunday. Thanks the pitchel Saturday. I mean, they give
them four to five days rest, they'll be fine there.
But look, you look at this lineup and just the
nine guys in this McNeese lineup that have hit the
most this year four thirteen, three forty four, three thirty three,
three thirty, three hundred, two seventy six, two fifty five.
You have three guys hitting two fifty. Everybody at that
is around three hundred and a bull This is this
is not a slotch We talked about how good the
pitching staff was. They're three to ninety two is a staff.
This team hits three to three as a team. They
hit from both sides of the play. They get on
base top to bottom. This is not gonna be an
easy out. But I think it maybe couldn't come at
a better time because of how bad you looked on
the weekend. You have a chance to bounce back in
the midwek but against a good opponent. Because if you
come out, you play some team that's just awful and
you win thirteen to nothing in seven innings, like great,
you didn't really learn a lot about your team. You
didn't really see how they can bounce back against a
good team. A Laundra put in the document like they're
an at large Turney team right now. This is a
type of caliber team you could see in the NCAA
tournament if you get the host of Regional super Regional
and you still have a chance to bounce back and
get hot and get this thing going back again because
you do have another SEC series coming up this weekend.
I want to take a quick time out when we
get back on LSU. Legend called it quits in the
NFL yesterday. We're breaking it down. I want to kind
of look back at his time in the LSU as
well as the NFL. That's all coming up here on
the other side here on off the bench after bench.
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seen Yes?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 6: I think so, but I don't remember Jordan, Yes, man,
Yes I have.
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title of you actually seen?
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Speaker 4: Journey had so many bangers.
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Speaker 3: All right, it teases going into break a little bit earlier,
and I'll shoe legend has caught it quits in his
NFL football career. One Patrick Peterson he decided yesterday that
he was going to retire as an Arizona Cardinal. Look,
I started thinking back it him being one of my
all time favorite Tigers. He made so many big plays.
What he did in that twenty ten season playing corner,
returning kickoffs, returning punts, it was magical. I mean, he
was one of the first guys to really be that
game breaker. Wearing that number seven jersey. I mean it
was like Ali high Smith him back to back. Then
he turns it over to Tyron Matthew. We know what
that numbers become. We always talk about hester b in
the original number eighteen. I get that. Ali high Smith
may have started it. To me, it's Patrick Peters. I mean,
he's the when you talk about who you think of
when you hear the number seven at LSU.
Speaker 4: For me, it's Patrick Peters. It always will be in
twenty ten.
Speaker 3: But just for reference of I mentioned how great that
season was, let me just show you how great. Twenty
ten forty two tackles at the cornerback position, two tackles
for a loss, four interceptions. He returned those four interceptions
for one hundred and thirty four yards. That is a
thirty five and a half yard interception return. Like per catch,
he returned it in an average of thirty three yards.
Did not have an interception return for a touchdown, but
he made up for it on punt and kickoff returns.
Speaker 4: On punt returns.
Speaker 3: Twenty six returns four hundred and eighteen yards and two
touchdown returns. On kickoffs, he was even better. He didn't
have a touchdown, but he averaged twenty nine yards per return.
Thirty two returns nine hundred and thirty two yards. He
had thirteen hundred yards and just returns. Is his last
year at LSU, and that's not counting what he did
on defense. I mentioned he he had all the interceptions,
he had four of him his last year here at LSU,
and he also locked down the opponent's top wide receiver
week in and week out. Started thinking back on it,
like what play comes to mind during his LSU career
when you think of Patrick Peters.
Speaker 4: For me, it's easy.
Speaker 3: Twenty ten opening game of the year, he played North
Carolina and in the Chick fil A kickoff, and you know,
going into that game, North Carolina had.
Speaker 4: A couple guys suspended, but then they had.
Speaker 3: Like this virus outbreak on their team and they were
down to like their third string running back, their second
string wide receiver. Like everybody thought LSU was gonna come
in and smash, But every time something like that happens,
it seems like the guys that are the second and
third team step up and play up to their level
of competition. And that's exactly what North Carolina did. This
game was tight for a long time. This was TJ. Yates,
He was the quarterback of this team, and in that
game they kicked it off to Patrick Peterson, and I
mean he just he did what Patrick Peterson does. He
made a game changing play. Did really swung the minimum
and you could see right here Jordans played it. It's
sixteen to ten at this point in the second quarter.
And then I mean, Patrick Peterson showing his athleticism and
nobody was catching it as soon as he got to
the sidelines. He did this so many times. He had
an interception in that game as well. Like that game alone,
that was the opening game of the twenty ten season
for LSU.
Speaker 4: That was the game right there.
Speaker 3: That body, It's like, okay, Like we saw Patrick Peterson
in two thousand and nine, we were wondering how he
was going to replicate it.
Speaker 4: This guy's the real deal.
Speaker 3: And you know, in my opinion, when you talk about
corners at LSU, that guy's always going to be in
my top five. Jordan, Is there a play for you,
Alandre as well? Like either one of you, Like he
can be LSU, it could be the NFL? Like is
there doesn't have to be I mean, because there was
so many, But is there any play that comes to
mind for you when when we talk about Patrick Peterson?
Speaker 2: Almost definitely college wise, was that intercept I was just
watching the highlights. Definitely was the intercept against ULM. Would
have the purple Jerseys. He kind of moster. I guess
you can call him a receiver. You want to call
that guy a receiver the way Patrick Peterson was looking
master receiver tasts it to the house and you got Pat.
You have a number fourteen tire Matthew running alongside of
them blocking guys. It's just it's kind of poetic a
little bit about this how they ended up being teammates
later on and Arizon him basically like helping change in
his life around. So it's good to see that.
Speaker 6: Oh oh yeah. There's also because he was like great
punt returner. There's also sixty yard one versus West Virginia.
I put it in the dock if you want to
pull it up, hits and then he hits the heisman
pose at the end, like.
Speaker 3: I was at that game, and like you see a
lot of people hit the heisman poses now, like really
like you saw Desmond Howard. But outside of that, guys
kind of shied away from it. A lot of guys
didn't hit the heisman post unless Miles fussed at him
a little bit on the sidelines. Like if you if
you go back and watch the full game, he uh,
he got you got fussed out a little bit for that,
but it was all worth it because that's how good
he was. I mean, every year, it seems like it
seems like every year there's a defensive player that you're like, oh,
this guy's getting Heisman consideration. Twenty ten it was Patrick Peters.
I mean that that's who it was. And Jordan, you
were talking about the Ulm game. Not even a play.
I'm talking about a performance, and if you go back
and look at the box score, you can be like, oh, well,
Taylor aj Green had a pretty good day. But LSU
was playing at Georgia and I believe two thousand and
nine this was Charles Scott the year he had all
those touch doubt and Charles Scott ultimately busted a long
run and helped you win that game. But Patrick Peterson
as a true sophomore, this was his first year as
the full time starter, because if you remember, as a freshman,
Patrick Peterson played a lot, but it was kind of
a corner rotation because he had Chris Hawkins and he
had Jow Eugene both as returners. Patrick Peterson kind of
worked his way in there, kind of took over for
Joy Eugene as the season went along. But two thousand
and nine in Athens, about halfway through the year, he
had to go up against AJ Green. Everybody knows AJ Green.
You know how great he was in college. You know,
dominant he was in the NFL. Patrick Peterson for the
majority of that game bullied AJ Green. I mean, he
big boyed him as a sophomore in college. And sure
AJ Green had a touchdown in that game because he
got his AJ Green's too good of a player to
shut down the entire game. But that entire performance that
he had against AJ Green, even on the plays that
he got beat, he was right there in position to
make these plays as such a young player. I mean
I remember sitting there watching that game, being like this
guy here, like he's he's a little bit different than
everybody else. On missed and then that ultimately led in
to the incredible twenty ten season. But you know, when
I go look at his NFL career, because that's all
everybody was talking about yesterday, is Patrick Peterson a Hall
of Famer?
Speaker 4: You look at his career.
Speaker 3: He got to Arizona in twenty eleven, Patrick Peterson made
eight straight Pro Bowls and sprinkled in there in those
eight straight Pro Bowls, was three first team All pros.
To me, you're in the NFL, There's no question about it.
Thirty six interceptions throughout his entire career, two of them
returned for touchdowns. Four sacks in his career, six hundred
and fifty two total tackles, five hundred and seventy one solo.
I mean everything. You get fifteen tackles for a loss.
Everything you want to see from this guy. And he
played sixteen games through the first eight games eight years
of his career, all of those Pro Bowl seasons, all
sixteen games, and.
Speaker 4: He played ten, then sixteen.
Speaker 3: He never played less than double digit games all the
way up to twenty twenty three when he was in Pittsburgh,
he played He played in all seventeen game. You're with
sixteen starts and you can say, okay, well, you know
you're eventually gonna fall off. Now, Really, you look at
what he did at his age thirty three season in
twenty twenty three, because he didn't play in twenty four
forty two total tackles, two interceptions.
Speaker 4: I mean, Patrick Peterson.
Speaker 3: Not only was he dominant from the time he stepped
foot in the NFL, he made first team All Pro
as a rookie. By the way, he was good until
the very end. There was never any drop off. And
I mean, this is a guy that's playing dB in
the NFL at thirty three years old, and there was
no drop off. They asked them to play safety a
little bit in Pittsburgh. He did it a little bit
in Minnesota. Whether it was safety, whether it was corner,
he was great wherever you put it. He was just
one of those natural football players. And you know, everyone
was having the discussion of is Patrick Peterson a Hall
of Famer? If I had a vote, absolutely now, first ballot. No,
I don't think he makes it first ballot, but he
has the resume. Eight Pro Bowls, three First Team All Pros.
I just brought up the numbers. He never had a
drop off in production. He was great from his time
in Arizona to Minnesota all the way to Pittsburgh, safety
and corner. His careers are very similar to a Charles Woodson.
Now he doesn't have the Super Bowl that a Charles
Woodson had, but Charles Woodson's a guy that came in
with a lot of hype out of Michigan. Woodson actually
won the Heisman Trophy. He has to move to safety
a little bit later in his career, and he was
still very productive all the way up until the day
he retired. And that's that's the category I view Patrick Peterson.
I mean, I think he's that good of a player.
So it's Patrick Peterson a Hall of Famer. I would
love for that to be the case. He makes a
compelling argument for sure in my vote. Yets all right, Look,
we're going to take a quick time out when we
get back. I mean, Samara got drafted in the WNBA
draft last night. We're talking about it and uh kind
of looking back on her college career. That's coming up
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to more sports talk. What's some other stuff
mixed in Off the Bench with Hester and T Bomb.
Speaker 3: Come back in final segment, hour number one, Tuesday edition
of Off the Bench, Tyler Sharp here with you in
place of Jacob Pester and t Bob a Bears.
Speaker 4: They are both on a little.
Speaker 3: VK mentioned it a little bit there before we took
that time out. Former LSU forward a Nissa Morrow drafted
pretty early last night in the WNBA draft. She went
seven overall to the Connecticut Sun. I went back last
night and I was looking at just the raw numbers
for a Nissa Morrow and forgot just how dominant she
was and for her career her two years at DePaul,
two years at LSU, her career average twenty and a
half points per game, twelve and a half rebound per game.
Speaker 4: That's dominant.
Speaker 3: You look at what she did at LSU her first
year here, sixteen point four points, right at ten rebounds
a game. This year eighteen point seven points, thirteen and
a half rebounds per game.
Speaker 4: And she she's someone that stands about six one.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's a lot bigger players out there in
women's college basketball than Anissa morri But she fought hard.
She was a menace down low. I mean, she was
just one of those players that had a knack for
getting rebound. I mean, her hands were almost magnets when
it came to that basketball. It seemed like anytime you're
listening to another radio or watching on TV, there's a
mishot by either team, Number twenty four is right there
to grab that rebound. Like Anissa Moro is just one
of those players that really kind of got underrated. I
mean she's again, she gets down low. She's not one
of those incredibly flashy players, but look, she was a
All American this year by four different polls. So obviously
people in college basketball circles thought very highly of Anissa Morrow.
She was a All American her first two years at DePaul,
so in four years in college basketball, she was a
three time All Americ.
Speaker 4: That'll get it done.
Speaker 3: So congratulations to Ansa Mark, Congratulations to the Connecticut Sun
because you got yourself a heck of a player. Okay,
we got about three minutes before we hit break landra
I gotta ask you, would you.
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Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: No, what about Jeff Bezos wife?
Speaker 5: Okay, No, I would not go to space period.
Speaker 6: I'm definitely not going to space with all the people
that wait yesterday. Also, I thought they were going to
be up there for like longer than ten minutes, And
I thought they were going to like space space like
I thought they probably.
Speaker 4: Just went to like stratus fever.
Speaker 5: I thought they were going to be in space.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I thought you thought like no gravity space suit,
like floating around.
Speaker 6: Well, I didn't think they were gonna like leave the
chip that that they were on or whatever you call it.
But I definitely thought that they were going to be
in space and they were going to be there longer
than ten minutes.
Speaker 3: No, I mean I was disappointed too, But what does
anything Jeff Bezos do other than disappoint me. I would
not get on there with Jeff Bezos's wife because well
I hate Jeff Bezos. Yeah, me and him have to
be Jordan, you know what I'm understand, Jordan. Okay, it
has been like three or four times in a row.
They've just completely lost my package in Amazon. Who else
does that happen to? Only three times in a row.
Three times I ordered something they lost it. They gave
me my money back. I gave the money to my wife,
had her order. It came in in two days. Damn
same address, like came in two days.
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all we canna let this.
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Speaker 2: So it's as somebody used to work in the post office.
Do you have beef with anybody in your local postal?
Speaker 3: Not their fault because if I'm getting like like okay,
like if I get a okay the varsity sports now
the games I call. Got my check in the mail yesterday,
no problem. Yes, they still send out checks. We don't
have to track deposit. But got my checking the mail
for that like anything city of walk or I get,
you know, all the local checks and bills and everything
still comes. This is Amazon packed literally just Amazon. So
this is Jeff Bezos's fault one hundred percent. But so
her as space goes what they did. Sure, I'll do
that going actually in space. I don't know, man, I don't.
Speaker 6: And this has been like okay, actually, I don't know
if we have time for this, but this has been
like weighing on my mind all weekend.
Speaker 5: Right, you know how I understand gravity.
Speaker 2: I get it off.
Speaker 6: Follow me here, please, you know how obviously the world
or the Earth is round, right, No, so like are
people on the other side of us, like standing upside down?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 6: No, no, I don't mean so like we're on this
side of the world, right, We're on the northern hemisphere.
People in the southern hemisphere like standing facing around.
Speaker 3: Everybody's standing in the same direction. Somebody's all right, look,
well we'll get into that more an out number two.
We got that coming up next year. On off the bench,
Off the bench,