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Speaker 2: It's off the bench and welcome back in a number
three of Oh g B and we are here live
at Pro Dreams again. I want to remind you I
will be here this weekend hanging out watching college game day,
sign us some autograph. So come hang out, Come hang out.
Maybe you know, maybe Matt can come hang out too.
I'm sure he's up at ten am, probably sleeping, though I'll.
Speaker 4: Definitely be up at ten am. Are you are you?
Do you your kids like to sleep in the morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got some sleepers.
Speaker 4: I woke up today at my normal time, got up
about five point forty and I heard like thuds from
because my kids are beds on the second floor right house.
I heard thuds. My kids were awake at like five
point forty five, playing, all of them, all three?
Speaker 2: What are we doing?
Speaker 4: What are we doing that?
Speaker 2: You should have said? Do you know what dad would
do to be able to go back to bed right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, do it for me, guys, do it.
Speaker 2: Let me live through you.
Speaker 4: I'm not supposed to be seeing y'all before I head
off the radio. Hey, Taylor in the Taylor back in studio,
you sounded awful during your announcements coming in an hour three.
Just want you to know that he sounded a bad Yeah.
I'm sure he didn't even look good.
Speaker 2: He sounded it terrible. Probably had probably had just a
resting you know what face as he was reading it.
Speaker 4: Oh, there's no doubt. Yeah, look terrible. I know it's
his birthday and everything, and people are supposed to be
nice to him, but some people hadn't earned it.
Speaker 2: Well, is there anything you can do about that? No?
Speaker 4: That just changes everything.
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we'll be there tomorrow and every Friday during the football season,
and I'm sure tomorrow one of our conversations will be
about the result of the Washington Commanders and the Green
Bay Packers from lambeau Field. I'm so fine JD five
versus Jordan Love. I'm going for the Commanders, right, I mean,
I got a cheer for my guys, JD five. The
Packers don't have an LSU guy on their team, I
can't cheer for them.
Speaker 4: Okay, but I would expect, I would expect most people
around here absolutely to be cheering for the command That great.
Speaker 2: I'm cheering for definite for Jaden and definitely not Taylor,
definitely not Tall.
Speaker 4: I'm cheering for ja That's gonna be a good game.
Like when I watch NFL games, I usually cheer for storylines,
I cheer for people I like, players I like, and
then I cheer for the Packers as well. So I'll
be cheering for JD. It's just not like I see
the Packers play the like the Lions last week. I'm definitely,
I'm one hundred percent all in. I don't want them
to lose the Lions. But like you know, if JD
goes off and beats the Packers, I don't see that happening.
I think the Packers are way too good. There's gonna
be a lot of juice that defense. My god, it
looks like when they when the when the other team
is running the ball, it looks like a zombie apocalypse
because you got eleven Packers flying to the ball and
you don't always get that in NFL regular season, right,
A lot of times it's NFL regular season, it's all professionals.
People know that it's livelihoods at stake here, and they
know it's a long season. So a lot of times,
like if an offensive lineman has a good set and
lost the defensive linemen up, it's like, all right, cool,
play over, like you got me this time. Next play,
I might get you. And if I if I I'll
give effort, like if I if I think I can
get it. But there's a lot of brother in law,
so just you know, was opening open and Opening weekend
they were flying around like it was playoff football, and
I would expect kind of that same energy. I mean,
it's prime time, it's nighttime, it's uh Thursday night football.
So man, I'm fired up. But good god, if anybody
would ever thought that JD's season was a fluke last year, well,
just turn on Week one. Yeah he looked great. Yeah,
it look great. And that guy is just no sophomore
a sophomore slump. It's the guy was just a ball
and nothing that he did last last year was an accident.
Like everything that when he plays, he plays in control.
He has a moxie about him, he's got poised, and
he's just just a smart football player. And he has
built that football IQ. He has worked on it from
his time at LSU, using the virtual reality. Being able
to take coaching and do something when he did something bad,
able to turn that around and not do that again. Yeah,
which people a lot of people can't do. It's the difference.
Like that's what the term coachable means, right, It's like
when you're coachable, like a coach only has to correct
you on something once, right, and if it's twice, you know,
then he gets the three, four or five like that's
in the NFL, you see a lot of good athletes
not make teams because they don't have time to continue
to coach. You coach the same thing over and over.
But JD one of the greatest turnarounds I've ever seen
from a week to week standpoint, was at LSU when
he turned like it was like one quarterback was playing
one week and then I saw this other quarterback play
the next week and they weren't the same right after
the Tennessee game and it wasn't the same person, and
it was never the same person again. And it was
the most impressive thing I've ever seen because we saw
the physically physical talent. He doesn't have like the most
when he got LSU didn't have the most like traditional mechanics,
and I was kind of a hater on that from
a mechanical standpoint, But if you get to the it
doesn't matter what your takeaway when you're a quarterback with
your takeaway. When I say takeaway, your your left hands
touching the ball. You're in your drop back, and when
you take the ball away from your left hand, that's
I know the takeaway. It doesn't matter what that looks like.
When you get to the end. There's your elbow in front,
is it up? Are you extending out? Like there's different?
Like you looked at Philip Rivers, you get Cam Newton,
you looked at Tom Brady, Drew Brees, like you looked
at all these guys. So I take the best quarterbacks,
and then I take the guys that had like funky
mechanics like Philip Rivers, like Cam Newton. They all look
different throwing the ball from the takeaway and how they
got to the to the front of their throwing motion,
to the back end of the throw motion. So but
they all look the exact same. When you get stills
towards the end of the throw motion, it doesn't matter
how they got there. They got there. Now, when you
look at bad mechanics, the takeaways bad, and they don't
get there, they don't get that elbow in the arm slot.
And JD does that. Yeah, sometimes it didn't look conventional,
but he does it. And man, he's accurate. He's an
accurate passer. But mentally, man, what he built that football.
IQ so excited to see him progress. I can only
imagine that his career production is just going to keep
improving and improving and improving because we saw a mistake
that he made this past weekend with a little clock
management thrown away, get an intentional ground and call into
the first half ten second runoffs. That will never happen again,
right to j Na. Yeah, it might happen again to
some other guy in another young quarterback, but I can
guarantee you that will never happen to him again because
he's a guy that processes information, he learns from his mistakes,
and he's coachable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I credit him a lot because he was like,
look his freshman year at Arizona State, like he had
some big moments, and he had Brandy Ayuk and he
had Ricky Piersol and Rashe White like they were talented,
and he went out there and he did like against Oregon,
he made so many plays right, and it was just
like off his raw athletic ability. But for him to understand, Okay,
I've got this gift, right, I'm a hard worker. Let
me pair that with all the things that I have
access to to be able to build this football like
you and now like you watch it, and I think
his football, like Q is one of the best in
the NFL. YEP, it is high, high level and the
things that he gets done, and you pair that with
his athletic ability, with his ability to throw the football, like,
that's what makes it so impressive, is and he continues
to work, continues to try to strive to be the
best possible version of himself there, which is extremely high.
And now, like Jeff Hafley and that Packers defense, they
got to try to deal with it, and they were
super aggressive in that first game. But as good as
Jared Golf is, he's not Jayden Daniels. They're a completely
different quarterbacks. So the game plan has got to be different.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let me tell you this. Let's not undervalue the
addition of Michael Parsons that Green Bay defense in this game.
Because if there is somebody that knows how to play
Jayden Daniels, it's the guy that played him twice last year. Yeah,
it's the guy that figured out a game plan last
season alone. In two games the Cowboys versus the Commanders,
Micah Parsons had four and a half sacks. That's pretty
good versus Jayden Daniels. Hard to sack that guy. Yeah, right, sure,
So he understands, and so don't undervalue what he brings
to the table of just a Hey Micah, what'd y'all
do last year? How did y'all affect him in the
pass rush? And his coach being able to coach that
defensive line in Green Bay is hungry, hungry young guys
that want to learn, and you don't think they're picking
Michael Parson's brain. Hey Michael, how did you get that?
You get home? How did you get home? Where on
your pass rush from the defensive end? What was your
aiming point on Jade and Daniels? Where are you aiming
for his back hip? Where you aiming for his front hip?
When you got to his level on the field. If
he's standing on the thirty five and you're rushing, did
you stop on the thirty five? Did you stop your
rush on the thirty four and peel back? Did you
stop it on the thirty six? Did you go behind
him and then peel back?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 4: What was the coaching point? Because four and a half
sacks in two games versus Jaydon Daniels is a shocking
number to me. Yeah for one person. Yeah, I'm four
and f sacks in two games against them in a game,
is right? Okay, that's that sounds right. But four and
a half sacks from one player. That is a type
of impact. And that's why he commanded forty whatever billion
dollars a year or whatever he got.
Speaker 2: So don't just punch in the air right now, punch
in the air.
Speaker 4: I'ld be accidentally hits the wall even though his birthday,
even though his birthday. I'm just kidding. I don't mist
that on any man.
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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in. It is OTB and again
we are live here at Pro Dreams thirty nine thirty
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but it is Thursday. It is nine fifteen, so you
know what that means. Our guy chef Michael Johnson joins us. Now, Chef,
what's going on? Brother? How we doing? How we living?
Speaker 5: I'm good brother?
Speaker 2: There are we all, uh doing good. But I think
you're doing a little bit better. I think you had
some fun this week, my man. I think you you
took our opponent. You said, you know what, I'm not
gonna wait till Saturday. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go
find myself some gators here coming up for during the
middle of the week.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I had been talking with Chase clemong
about just for quite some time when we cook gator
every years for me, you know too, it's it's also
about celebrating the Louisian heritage.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: It's it's about uh, you know, as a chef, I
have to appreciate the process of what it takes to
get food to table or or swamp the table as
it may be. Right, it was definitely one of those things,
and I wanted to be able to say, hey, you know,
we went and harvested this, we brought it to you guys.
This is uh, this is our our homage to you
guys as a team. You know, not just about playing
the gators this week, but it is about also about
Louisiana heritage and eating alligators part of our lifestyle here.
So you know, it was it's just been. It was
such a cool experience. Man. We spent some time with
the Cajun Navy and UH and understanding what they did,
did do end did and you know, it was just
a really great experience. And I got to spend some
time with j. R. Belton, the director of Football OPOS.
We went now with me and he got him a
little gat too, and we got the bond a little
bit and so it was I mean, it's just an
extraordinary experience.
Speaker 4: So tell me about the guy, Like so size of
the gator, what was the like? Was there cool stories
about like, just tell tell me about the whole experience.
Speaker 5: So, you know, we we we checked probably fifteen lines
in the morning, several of which had been had been stripped.
There was a there was a couple of real small
with the call pups that were under three feet probably
you know, for under four foot three foot something like that.
We ended up with two small gators which we brought
back to cook on the smoker because they are sizeable.
Of the two cook on the smoker, the one that
I killed was nine feet and I think that thing
probably went three fifty. Man, it was to me what
I would consider a you know when you're standing on
the ground. So the gator that I killed, it was
it was on it was on land, right, and so
I had to get out of the boat, go on land,
straddle the gator in order to make the kill shot.
And you know, there's a very small area that actually
killed and so you have to be you know, precise
in what you're doing. And there's a reaction to it.
You know, I don't recall ever having my blood pumping
and adrenaline rushing quite like, so you know, like standing
next to this prehistoric creature that has you know, a
severe business end, it was. It was just exotically adrenaline rush,
you know what I mean. So then we got it
back in the boat that kept twitching. I think, I
think J R. And I we're kind of anticipating this
Tommy Boy moment where rears up in the boat and
everybody's shattering.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So yeah, it was awesome.
Speaker 2: Oh man, that is that's hilarious. Uh So, chev like,
does the team like they appreciate like now, like you know,
you got this deal, like and they're gonna have a
chance to you know, have gator this week, and is
this something that kind of maybe even fires them up
a little bit.
Speaker 5: You know, we we don't make a big deal out
of it until Monday, you know, like I don't celebrate
it until we celebrate it, right, So if if in
the event that we've been we we will smoke the
gator sohoul all day Monday and it presents them, you know,
as full gators. And if we don't win, we don't
want to be so moistuous about it, and we'll like
pick it and black and gator and and just put
it into dishes that we would otherwise serve anyway, you
know what I mean, So that it's it's not so
in your face, you know, we we we uh are
trying to be thoughtful about our process, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So when you when you kill a gator, and
did you do the like the butcher in yourself? Is
it just the tail that we eat or is there
like a gator backstrap? Is there other parts?
Speaker 5: Oh? Yeah, yeah, I mean there's there's definitely multiple parts
of the gator that you need. We uh the big
one I left behind and they peeled and cleaned. I
think Chase actually did that one himself. The the the
guy that we went out with had did the did
the two smaller ones for us pretty quickly. Man, it
was impressive like a guy, it was uh impressive with
the knife. And that's coming from a chef, you know
what I mean, very comfortable and confident with his knife.
And but to your point about the question of the meat,
there's actually different textures of meat, and there's different types
of muscle tissues the gaters have. Gaters have a third
kind of muscle tissue around their jaw that is meant
to clinch that thing tight down, you know, in a
in a millisecond, right, and that that muscle tissue super
tender e thrial tender. It's kind of like pork wine
or pork pork tenderline, you know. And the flavor of
it mimics somewhere between pork and turkey, as do the legs, right,
So they use those legs for swimming a lot. And
they have it's a dark meat, right, so they there's
there's a lot of myoglobe in there. It makes the
meat dark and and it makes it, uh you know,
more flavorful. And again it tastes a lot like pork,
somewhere between pork and turkey. The tail actually, you know,
has tons of meat on it obviously, and but it's
a it's a lighter, wider meat that that. You know
it excuse the expression, but it tastes like chicken, you
know what I mean, Like it really does. It really
is mimic of chicken. Now, there is a difference between
eating wild gater, arm gater, farm gator. The fat content
it tends to be a little stronger because the diet varies.
A farm gator has a controlled diet that is the
same every day, and a wild gater eats what it finds, right,
sometimes that's live fish, sometimes it's not, you know, so
you have to prepare a lot gator, trim some of
the fat off in a little bit more. You know.
The age of the gator impacts the flavor of it
as well. The size of the gator impacts the flavor
of it as well, So you know, you have a
you have a kind of an optimum size there. And
the younger the gators, the speeder, it is, like, the
less likely it is to have a real profound, uh flavor.
So not only that it's easier to put in the
out Yeah.
Speaker 4: Not to like change the conversation away from a dead gator,
because nobody likes a dead gator on Florida Week more
than me. But what you're what you're explaining to me
sounds so. I judged a gumbo cook off one time,
and the chef that made this gumbo, it was all
the protein was from a snapping river turtle, like a
big one of the big old and he was explaining
to me, and it blew my mind. He was like,
there's I think he said, either five or six types
of meat in this one animal. There's white meat, there's
dark meat, there's pork, there's like some sort of fish
like that. All the different types, and what you're explaining
about the alligator, it sounds really similar.
Speaker 5: It really is. It is kind of similar. And turtles
are equally as interesting to me. You know, like I
eat about anything as a chef, I feel like I
have to, you know, if I'm going to ask somebody
to eat something new and interesting, you know, what what
does that mean of me?
Speaker 4: If I want to?
Speaker 5: You know what I mean? So turtles, absolutely, there's different textures.
You know. I think that there's some beat on a
turtle almost that would remind you of clam that that
gets really tense and tough, and there's you know, like, uh,
there's other pieces, like you said, that's kind of turkey
and porks.
Speaker 2: Yep, chef how like. And we've got a lot of
these questions inside the chat about just like maybe all
the different ways to cook a gator and do you
ever switch it up or do you say, you know
what this way works for me, Let's keep it like
it is.
Speaker 5: Well cooking hole, I usually smoke. It's a It's a
slow and low process that allows it to you know,
not get too dry out. And I like to brin
the gator, to put it down on an ice chet
and soak it in a Brian over twenty four hours.
That helps prevent it from drying out because gators by
and large are pretty active creatures. And the fact that
they're they're lean, you know, like that it has a
pretty lean muscle tissue. And so if you when I
smoke it, I'll take and basee what I what I
love to use is like a mixture of chopped garlic
olive oil and these calabria and chilies that are soaked
in the oil. So the oil takes on the flavor
of the garlic and the chilies, and I'll take that
split it over the gator, and it'll take on kind
of a gold red color while you're smoking it, and
actually turns a little bit brown too, so it almost
takes on like a natural color of the gator. But
it also the oil prevents moisture from from escaping it,
and it kind of locks in the moisture inside of
it so that it doesn't dry out. It's kind of
like cooking a turkey. You know, you base the turkey
and you don't want you don't want it to dry out,
so you can say you're basing it with oil so
that the moisture doesn't steam and escape. It's the same principal,
same process. And then you know, like I said, if
we don't win and we don't feel like having the
whole gator is the appropriate delivery, then we'll put you know,
probably cook it and picks and eat and put it
into like a sausty com or uh, you know, like
saute it down and brown it and then and then
braise it. I love fried gator, you know, like I
am an absolute idiot for fried cater you know what
I mean. But I think that's I think that's primarily
tailed me. You know, the the leg muscle tissues are
really good for braising, so you know, just like any
other creature, there's gonna be tougher parts, so it's gonna
make more tender parts. I've never actually, you know, put
a like a steak off of the gator's leg onto
the grill and eat it that way, but because it's
so tender, I would definitely would try it. Now that
I'm talking about it, I'm kind of curious about it. Uh.
In philosophy, you know, you can take the different cuts
with different textures, and and the more tender it is,
the more high heat it will tolerate, and the tough
is the longer lower the temperature needs to be.
Speaker 4: We're geting a lot of questions here in our chat,
and I can tell there's some eager tailgaters that might
be cooking some gator this week and so here so
hashtag munchies. Is there a specific brine you would recommend
for a gator or is it just kind of like
a don't overthinking situation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it could be either one of those things,
you know, like I with gators because it tastes like chicken. Primarily,
I think a citrus for Brian throwing a little bit
of lemon's ass or lemon rind in there. Not the
juice necessarily, because the juice is a cilic and it will.
Speaker 4: Actually cook the meat.
Speaker 5: But putting a lemon and lemony flavor, or even a
citrus with like lemon lime, orange tatsuma that you know,
putting those peels in with your brine. But realistically it,
you know, is as salt sugar water mixture that is
meant to absorb into the muscle tissue to prevent it
from trying out and when it does, so you know,
the flavors that you put into it are going to
be imparted into it. So you know, you could probably
put some sage in there with with the lemon and
oranges and stuff, and it it tastes quite well. You know,
everybody kind of has their own opinion about what flavors
go well together. But I think you know, a citrus
of sage or or even marjoram, a little marjoram in there.
I mean, you could probably make you know, like go
an Italian stalcator. I don't know why you would, but
you know, if you're kids, you're constructing it like a
chicken dish, you know, Italian Italian chicken dishes are wonderful,
So I think the flavor profile is personal preference. But
the but the the brine itself is going to be salt,
water and sugar, you know, like it's like a quart,
a quarter of water or a gallon. I'd rather a
gallon of water to two cups of sugar, two cups
of salt, one cup of sugar. So it's I don't
know if I got that clear enough. A gallon of water,
two cups of salt, one cup of sugar. And then
you're and then for every calen, you know, you put
your seizing in, you know, like you're flavoring in as well.
Speaker 2: Chef last one before we let you go. After LSU
is victorious on Saturday and you serve Gator on Monday,
can two washed up former athletes who had a lot
of success against the Florida Gators come and enjoy some Gator?
Speaker 5: You guys absolutely should.
Speaker 2: Okay, asking for a friend, asking for a friend and
not saying it's us, but just asking for friends.
Speaker 5: Well, I probably have a private invite for you. You know,
I think we're serving I think we're serving it for dinner.
But I think exactly athletes are are capable of coming
over and saying hello, all.
Speaker 2: Right, all right, fair enough, fair enough, Chef, you're the man.
We appreciate it every single week. Look forward to seeing you.
I'm assuming you're going to the game this week.
Speaker 5: You know I'm not. Actually I'm I'm off.
Speaker 2: Brother, and I know, I know, I know, I know,
I know, but it was Florida and I didn't know.
Maybe if that changed the math, you.
Speaker 5: Know, I actually I have. I've been offered tickets, and
I promised, I promised time with my kids. We're gonna
do all good.
Speaker 4: Think you might have the gate the Gator hunting bug.
He might be out there on the boat.
Speaker 2: I know absolutely.
Speaker 5: I will definitely be watching the game.
Speaker 2: But yeah, all right, chef, We'll see you Monday for
some victory Gator. I appreciate you, Chef. Michael Johnson good
enough to join us every single week here on O TB.
Man love that guy. Saw some some still clips still
photo sorry, and some clips of him out there.
Speaker 4: That's awesome. And I've never done been I've been in
Louisiana a long time. Have you done it before?
Speaker 2: Yes, but not to that extent. You know what I'm saying, Like,
not going off and getting in the boat and making
sure they brought it. Didn't do it the smartest way.
Speaker 4: I'll just you know, just jump on the back say.
Speaker 2: That like you know what so like when Steltz in
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birthday boy, Taylor Sharp and we'll have that for you
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Speaker 1: Locked in on LSU football twenty four to seven. You're
listening to Off the Bench one.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in It is OTB. We are
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I'm gonna throw it back to studio because it is
now time to play a little INFL Bachelor as Taylor
Sharp is trying to pick his new team because he
finally got tired of Jerry Jones and his antics and
the Cowboys sucking. So here is Taylor Sharp on his birthday,
Happy birthday, Tata picking his new NFL team, or at
least getting down to the final two.
Speaker 3: Yes, we have four teams right now.
Speaker 7: Lot When I started this process, it was it wasn't
an easy decision. I had been with the Dallas Cowboys
my entire life, but finally decided enough was enough, went
on a few dates and with some other teams, kind
of got some feelers out at the opening weekend, and
I'm down to four now. It's the New Orleans Saints,
Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tennessee Titans, and Buffalo Bills. Unfortunately, I
do have to eliminate two of these teams today.
Speaker 3: I love this guy.
Speaker 7: I think he's probably the best football player in the NFL.
But I am going to have to eliminate the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 3: I'm not a North guy.
Speaker 7: I mean, I don't really like Snow, and the Buffalo
Bills seemed to play in the snow pretty much more
than any other team in the NFL, so for.
Speaker 3: That reason they're out.
Speaker 7: It also felt a little bit too bandwagon for me,
almost almost a little recency bias. Love Josh Allen, always
be a fan of him. Love Bill's mafia. I think
it's the best fan base in the NFL. Don't know
if I'm ready for that, because I want to go
to a place where I can realistically go see a game.
Buffalo kind of just not in the cards. So the
Buffalo Bills are eliminated. Okay, So now we're down to
three Saints, Titans, Bucks.
Speaker 3: Look, this is this next team. I always had a.
Speaker 7: Little fleeing with them. We flirted back and forth for
a number of years. There is nothing I love more
or nothing that I'm more proud of than being from
the state of Louisiana. I love Louisiana. I think, if
you ask me, pat Ruge is the greatest place to live.
I know a lot of people craft on it. I've
lived here my entire life.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 7: However, if I was to pick the New Orleans Saints,
I would just be picking the Dallas Cowboys. They are
the same team, their front offices ran the exact same
They're both in bad shape and there's no clear path
to winning in the future.
Speaker 3: I just don't see it happening.
Speaker 7: This was the hardest pick because it is our home team,
but the New Orleans Saints have also been eliminated. So
the final two we will be deciding with tomorrow the
Tennessee Titans, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Speaker 2: The Tennesseeans, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Just like I
knew it would be the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Baker Mayfield.
Tayte can't help himself, and then Tennessee Nashville, the home
of country music.
Speaker 4: That's my prediction.
Speaker 2: You don't understand how much this man loves Baker Mayfield, but.
Speaker 4: If he's basing it just alf of that it's a
short term.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean to be fair to Tayte and Tampa Bay.
Mike Alstott played his entire career there, sure, so you
can always fall back on that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but he did. He waxed poetically about how much
he loves Louisiana, which is very heartfelt, and I get that,
but he does love it so I don't know if
he's going to want to consciously choose a team out
of thin air just because of quarterback and actively root
against other Louisiana's in the same division. I don't know
if he can do that, could choose somebody that twice
a year, he's got to actively cheer against his neighbors.
So I don't know, but I think Tennessee is the
one here.
Speaker 2: You're going, Yeah, he cheered for the Cowboys. Saints fans
hate the Cowboys.
Speaker 4: That's true, but they didn't always play them every year.
The Bucks are playing him twice a year, maybe one,
I mean, maybe once. Maybe he wants to smoke, but
it look, well we already know he's not the smartest
guy in the world.
Speaker 2: Look, it could be worse. I mean I can remember,
you know, playing against them and being a little starstruck.
Is like Dan deren Brooks is out there, like that's
kind of cool. Like Rande Barber's out there. That guy's
a Hall of Famer. Both those guys are Hall of famers,
you know. Because so it could be worse. Could be
the Falcons could be the Cowboys again.
Speaker 4: So he wants to be able to realistically go to
games so I guess like New Orleans Airport, one of
those who can southwest to It's been an hour and
fifteen hour and a half flights southwest to Nashville. Yeah, Tampa,
same thing, that's not bad, The same thing, not bad. Okay, realistic,
you can get to either one. Buffalo, you right, be
a little tougher. I thought Buffalo had a shot out
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do you say like that?
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Speaker 2: All right, that is now time to get to your questions.
Hashtag ask the bench do you think tom Brady and
Tata had the same way to get to Tampa Bay?
Same process Tampa Bay and tom Brady to Tampa Bay.
Speaker 4: I feel like tom Brady's was a lot more well
thought out and constructed and executed, for sure.
Speaker 2: Hashtag asked the bench. If one of y'all sons got
an offer from the Gators, would you let him go
on a visit? No?
Speaker 4: Hell no?
Speaker 2: I mean seriously, like no. I've told like no, and
I've told him no. There's places in the and we
raise our children, right, No, I wouldn't want to go.
This isn't like a joke either. There's places in the
SEC they can go to. Like if my son want
to play for Shane at South Carolina, if you want
to play for Eli at Missou Hell, if he even
want to play for sarcut Texas and LS you didn't
offer him, right, that's a caveat here. Like else you
didn't offer and probably get those offers. You probably get
the shoes. But if they didn't, he ain't go play
for those guys. He ain't going to play for the
Gators in Gainesville, Florida, and ain't gonna happen because if
you get an offer from Florida, you got one that's
adjacent to it, and you're picking that one.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 2: I'm not singing Tom Petty unless I want to sing
Tom Petty. I ain't wearing orange and blue, all right.
I'm not wearing macromade jean shorts. I ain't doing that.
Ain't having I want to give.
Speaker 4: A real thought out answer here, and I want to
just follow up question to you. What if LSU didn't
offer him and he was signing to make life changing
money and Florida's the only one two offer that.
Speaker 2: Nope?
Speaker 4: Okay, no, I heard it here first people. No, we
don't care what our children want. No, it ain't happening.
We raise them, right, we raise them to hate Florida.
Speaker 2: Hashtag asked the bench, why does Taylor suck so much? Flynn?
Speaker 4: You got that one, so I need to explain it,
just because because he's just he can't read a rim.
You know, he makes bad decisions, poor decisions, and you
had multiple opportunities to at least, you know, do the
right thing and make it interesting and keep it competitive.
We didn't say you need to pick our teams because
of our teams, you know, but we can't support someone
who makes bad decisions over and over and over. At
some point, you just got to set them free. And
I don't know what set them free means, just ridicule them.
So we're there. It's happy birthday, though I hope it's
a great one. We are you?
Speaker 2: Silent hashtag asked the bench, Well, I do it to you?
Which game outside of LSU Florida are you going to
be talking about the most on Monday show. I'm assuming
college and say I think it is going to be.
I think Clemson and Georgia Tech.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because we do like Haynes King a lot.
Speaker 2: Clemson and Georgia Tech. I think that one's going to
be the first one. And I think Tennessee and Georgia
because if Tennessee upsets Georgia, that's certainly newsworthy. And if
Georgia houses Tennessee, right, I think that's newsworthy as well,
because Georgia's kind of have been slow out of the
gate and they haven't you know, really dominated other They've
won against Marshall and Austin p but they hadn't really dominated.
And so if they go there and they dominate Tennessee,
I think that's storyline. Those are two you mentioned A
and m notre Dame match.
Speaker 4: That might actually be Vanderbilt, that actually might be South Carolina.
That's going to be a great game South Carolina. We
are obviously a very high on here at off the bench,
so we'll see how that goes. Vanderbilt coming off a
great win, so to dynamic quarterbacks, both guys that can
take over a game. So I'm excited to see the
replays of that one because I'll be in Death Valley
cheering on the Tigers. Not worried about that game, but
I'll watch it the next day. Maybe maybe not.
Speaker 2: Hashtag asked the bench, is there anyone on Florida staff
who played in seven that's still sour about y'all cooking them?
I don't know the staff that well, probably not, maybe
like somebody like deep within equipment or trainer or something.
Take case, he's a sideline reporter. He played tight end
for the Cators. They good guy, though, from Longview, Texas.
Shout out to the Lobos. But I don't. I don't
know that there's anybody on the staff. I'd have to
look it up and see. Now, they got a lot
of blue polos in their coaching picture. They got it.
They had a gosh a Coordinator of game Changing Moments.
That's an official title that was on their staff. So
maybe saw Maybe just because they got so many coaches.
Speaker 4: He's the assistant coordinator of game changing Moments.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but I think the coordinator of game
changing moments got let go.
Speaker 4: Seriously, I don't dance. I think you got let go.
It's his fault if you want to Flynn feeling.
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Speaker 4: A muffin top.
Speaker 2: We can't beat that. We're not even gonna try.
Speaker 4: We're canles.
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