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Speaker 1: Welcome in Friday edition of Off the Bench, Taylor Sharpier

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with you one more time, filling in for Jacob Hester

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and Tababa bear Landra vill Rial Cassie's bizzally on audio

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and video.

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Speaker 2: Guys, it has been a heck of a week.

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Speaker 1: We got three more hours to go and we are

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working for the weekend here on a Friday morning. Before

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we get this thing started, let's go around the room, Alandra,

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how we feel in this morning?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 4: Feeling good? Ready to kick off the weekend?

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Speaker 1: You and me both, Cassie, you are you played hooky

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from work yesterday, so you must be well arrested, right?

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Speaker 3: I did well, I'm not. I'm not that well rested

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because I was up late last night working on a

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school project, which is why I had to take off.

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Speaker 2: Oh, Matt told me you just skipped no.

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Speaker 3: Working on a school project. Almost done graduating May, but

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still gotta just rend it out before then.

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Speaker 1: So this was your not your advertising class, right, it

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was your advertising.

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Speaker 3: My advertising class. We were we were filming some commercials.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, you filmed a lot of commerd Cassie has

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done so much free labor for these mega businesses.

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Speaker 2: It's it's incredible. Well if they have, they is any

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of them users? I know you did one, We've we

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pitched them.

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Speaker 3: So last year we did like an advertising campaign for

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relief windows and like we actually pitched it like to

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the owners of relief windows. Like that was pretty cool.

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But like I don't think any of them used any

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of our stuff, which, like I guess it's not technically

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free labor if they don't use it. But we still

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did all the work.

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Speaker 1: That might be worse though they just Meanjors wasn't good

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enough to be used, right, guys, I do know aright

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this morning as well, A little tired went to the

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gas station this morning, look trying to get my usual

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morning snack, and I'm just berated by the lady behind

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the counter, Like she tries to tell me that like

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I'm too old to be drinking doctor pepper, and then like.

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Speaker 2: She starts going off about Catholicism.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, lady, can I just get my doctor Pepper

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and my snickers and going about my day? It was

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just it was the strangest thing. What a thing to

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get upset about.

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Speaker 5: But can everybody relaxed, right, right?

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Speaker 2: Like what are we doing? Is doctor Pepper's for everyone?

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Speaker 3: What are we doing. Why are we putting age limits

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on doctor pepper a.

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Speaker 2: Landra gave it up.

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Speaker 3: That's what I gave up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because she already looked younger. I mean, look like

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it's been three days.

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Speaker 3: That's so true.

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Speaker 4: I asked my sister if I looked like I was aging.

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She said, a spec. I was like, all right, I

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mean we go. She was talking about something else though,

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but like it came after she was talking referencing something else.

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She was like a spec And then she said that

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after I sent the message, So it looked like she

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was saying that to me. And I was like, well,

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let me book my botox appointment. She was like, no,

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that's not what I've met twenty seven. Man, I'm in

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my late twenties now. I don't know how I feel

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about that.

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Speaker 1: Cassie was telling me this morning. She's like I was yesterday,

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was like picking up cameras up and down. She's like,

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I'm so sore and.

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Speaker 3: Ias are sore. I shouldn't be that sore.

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Speaker 1: I told Elandra, like I had to play golf and

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we were dancing at the wedding on Saturday, Like I

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had to wait till Wednesday to go to the gym.

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That was Saturday. I got like, I'm twenty eight years old.

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I should not be hurting this money too.

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Speaker 3: I should not be so of just picking up cameras.

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Speaker 1: You're fine, twenty two, you got you got a couple

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more years before you really start feeling it. Okay, guys, look,

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jam pack show today a lot to discuss. Big news

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drop for LSU. We're certainly going to get into that.

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Let's get the show started like we do every day. Okay,

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So every day this week I have done a position

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breakdown going into spring practice which will begin tomorrow. Yesterday,

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I'm putting the show together and I couldn't decide, like

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do I want to go OH line? Do I want

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to go D line? Something told me to go D line.

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And it's one of those things that worked out perfectly.

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Because reports are that LSU has found their next defensive

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line coach. Multiple reports came out yesterday after afternoon. It

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looks like former LSU Tiger and Buffalo Bill's Great Kyle

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Williams will be named lshoes next defensive line coach. He

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reportedly came into bet Rouge on Wednesday, interviewed for the job,

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was offered it yesterday and he accepted a little bit

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of a weird hire, a little bit of an unorthodox

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hire for Brian Kelly and his staff because you've seen

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Kelly go after the cream of the crop, right, the

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guys who have been there done that, the guys who

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were established coaches. Kind of the opposite for Kyle Williams.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Kyle was a great player here. He wound up being

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an All American at Lshue. He was a fifth round

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pick at Buffalo in two thousand and six, and you

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guys know the rest of it. I mean, he played

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his entire thirteen career year career in Buffalo. He made

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six Pro Bowls. He was a second team All Pro

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in twenty ten. The guys one of the best defensive

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linemen to ever come through this school. He's never coached

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in college in any capacity, so a little bit of

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a weird hire. Actually, since twenty twenty is been the

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defensive coordinator at RUST in high school, so he's stepping

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up a level of competition. Obviously, this will be his

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first collegiate coaching position. So it's a little bit odd because, okay, look,

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you're not going to replace Bo Davis. The reason it

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sucks so bad when he lost Bo Davis. The reason

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he was the highest paid D line coach in the

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country is because he was the best D line coach

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in the country. You're not going to replace him, whether

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it's as an on field coach or recruiter. Bo Davis

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was the whole package. I'm not really worried so much about. Oh, well,

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Kyle Williams says never done it on this level, He's

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never recruited, even though that is certainly a concern. If

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you wanted to hire a guy who's a technician, who

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knows how to coach of this position, who has played

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this position at the highest possible level, there's not too

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many guys out there I would trust teaching a young

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group of guys how to play the defensive line position.

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Then Kyle Williams a guy who's been an All Pro,

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who is an All American, who played over a decade

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in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: So, while the on field coaching experience isn't the.

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Speaker 1: Experience at the position, you're not gonna find anybody more

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qualified from a technical standpoint teaching guys how to do

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it the way he did it.

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Speaker 2: Also, what this does is this brings in.

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Speaker 1: A homegrown guy a little bit of a younger guy

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in terms of coaches that can hopefully keep the defensive

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tackle group together.

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Speaker 2: We've talked about it a few times.

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Speaker 1: The biggest loss for Bo Davis immediate as far as

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the immediate future goes, is you have to retain all

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the guys you work so hard to get on campus.

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Mod bro Dominic, McKinley. You still have shown Washington the

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three freshmen you brought in. Can you keep those guys

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here in bat Roote if they can develop a quick

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relationship with a younger guy like Kyle Williams, who's from

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this school, who had a lot of success here, who's

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lived in Louisiana most of his life, that's going to

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be important for the depth of this position.

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Speaker 2: Look, there is talent in this group.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's start with the defensive tackles first, or the

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interior if you will, because I think that's where Kyle

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Williams is going to spend pretty much all of his time.

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You have Jacoby and Guillery back from injury. He's a

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sixty year guy. He's been there, done that. So much

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hype coming around him last year and second game of

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the year he has a season Indian injury. I mentioned

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a mod Bro numerous times on this show, and how

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good he's looked as a freshman. This is huge for

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a mod Bro because Kyle Williams, I mentioned, was the

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defensive line coach at rustin mod Bro played at ruston

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he has already played under Kyle Williams before. That connection's

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already there. You want to retain these guys, give them

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a little bit of familiarity. I'm sure a mod Bro

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is over the moon about this decision with Dominic McKinley.

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Speaker 2: While he didn't.

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Speaker 1: Play under Kyle Williams here in Louisiana, he is a

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very familiar with who this guy is. That is important

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because those are your two best young pieces in all

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likely as good as Jacoby and Gillery. I think is

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going to be important as he is depth wise, experience wise.

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You only got him for one year. Hopefully you have

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a mob Bro and Dominic McKinley this year and next year.

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That's important of retaining these guys because you saw the

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flashes last year as freshman. You lose Goopiez, you lose

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JVR Sugs, but look what you added to that room again,

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A bunch of young guys that can hopefully connect with

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Kyle Williams Zion Williams six four, three hundred and thirty pounds.

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He's going to be a nose that one technique. Brandon

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He can actually play inside or on the edge if needed.

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eighty five two ninety. You can get his weight up

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or down depending on where you want him to play.

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He's a guy that can play inside or outside, and

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then you bring inside here Mitchell, the Texas transfer. He's

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six y five, he's three hundred and forty pounds. He

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is a massive human being. If Kyle Williams can keep

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that group together. Look, sure, you lose Goo Piez. He

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was an every down starter for you a year ago.

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Lose JVR Suggs. We've talked about a number of times

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on this show. While the number of snaps might not

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be there, when JVR Suggs was on the field, he

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was an impact guy and he was probably your best

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interior pass rusher a year ago. So you lose Suggs

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and Paiez, but you get back Guillory, a mod bro Dominic,

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McKinley and the three talented freshmen I just mentioned. Oh,

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there's not a ton of on field experience. There is

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a heck of a lot of talent in that defensive

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line group now as far as defensive end goes, and

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it'll be interesting to see the working dynamic between Kyle

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Williams and Kevin Peeples, who I think is one of

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your best coaches on your staff.

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Speaker 2: Look from a.

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Speaker 1: Year ago, you louse Winson and Jones. So while Kevin

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Peeples has been here, he's in the same position as

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Kyle Williams. You have to replace a lot of new guys,

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so you louse Winson and Jones are two starters. You

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also lose the Shawn Womack to the transfer portal. He's

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a guy that, for whatever reason, could not seem to

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get on the field consistently. He seeked out other opportunities,

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but he was a five star who came in. He's

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a guy that you would have liked to have kept

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for nothing else other than depth of purposes. You were

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excellent in the transfer portal here. I set up here

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yesterday and talked about the defensive back group and how

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good you were in the transfer portal, the only place

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you were probably better is the defensive end, the edge,

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the pass rusher, whatever you want to call it. The

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first guys to Jack Pieburn, three year player at Florida,

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played in twenty nine games.

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Speaker 2: Last year was certainly his best year. He played in

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twelve games.

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Speaker 1: He had sixty tackles, four tackles for a loss, only

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one sack.

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Speaker 2: He did have an interception in though.

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Speaker 1: Now that one sack, that's kind don't look at that

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too much because Florida took him off the field in

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third down situations. You're at an interview with him right

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after he decided to come to LSU. He said, look,

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I want to improve my ability as a pass rusher.

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I want to be on the field in third and

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long situations, getting after the quarterback. It's why I left Florida.

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It's why I wanted to come here. I wanted the

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opportunity to do it. So, yes, well, he only had

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one sack last year at Florida. He wasn't on the

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field in passing situations a ton, so that number might

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be a little miss leading. And then you also bring

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in Patrick Payton, the Florida State transfer. This is a

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guy who's six foot five. He's very quick off the edge,

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and he was super productive. He was in Florida State

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for four years, but in twenty twenty one he only

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played in one games, we'll call it three. In twenty

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twenty two, thirty one tackles, six tackles for a lost

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five sacks. In his red shirt freshman year, played in

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thirteen games. Twenty twenty three, that was the big year

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for Florida State. They went undefeated regular season, played in

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all fourteen games, forty four tackles, fifteen tackles for a

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loss in seven sacks. And think about how talented that

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defense was. That's a defense that had Jed Verse, that

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had Braden Fisk, and he was able to step up

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play that many games and make that type of impact.

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That's the kind of pass rusher that you're getting in

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Patrick Pate. Last year, no different, twelve games, thirty five tackles,

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eleven tackles for a lost four sacks. So this is

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the guy coming in super productive in college. One hundred

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and ten tackles, two tackles for lost, sixteen sacks in

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three seasons at Florida State.

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Speaker 2: The guy is a player.

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Speaker 1: I expect we're gonna hear his name a lot here

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in spring practice and then the last guy is Jamari

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Butler comes over from Nebraska. He's a little bit bigger

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than both Jack Pieburn and Patrick Payton. He's six foot five,

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two hundred and forty five pounds. Can he take over

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that saveon Jenes Roll? Now, we'd have to put on

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a little bit of weight to do it, because Savian

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was suffering around like two seventy five to eighty three

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years at Nebraska. Twenty twenty two to twelve games, two

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tackles for the loss, twenty twenty three thirty four tackles,

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five and a half sacks, and then last year's seven

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tackles for a lost two sacks. So he comes in

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seven and a half sacks three seasons at Nebraska. Mentioned

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a little bit of a bigger guy. He can be

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a run stuffer for you as well. There is a

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ton of talent in this room, and I just mentioned

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the front line guys. As far as the defensive end

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position goes, you still return Gabriel relev who we saw

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flashes of a year ago as a true freshman.

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Speaker 2: He's back. He's going to be in the mix.

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Speaker 1: Look, I get it, everyone's going to talk about Pyber

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and Peyton and Butler, because they're the transfers that everyone's

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excited about. They're the new phases. Gabriel Reliford's a player.

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You are so many people at the Senior Bowl say hey,

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Gabriel Eliford, watch out for him. As far as the

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LSU guys, they were there. Savion Jones mentioned it, Brayden

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Swinston mentioned it about like who's next up for LSU.

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They both mentioned Gabriel Relevan. You also bring in freshman

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Damian Shanklin. He's a guy who's six foot four, he's

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two hundred and forty pounds. He was a four star

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coming out of high school. Kevin Peoples should have a

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field day with this group, even a guy like Jack

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Pieburn who wants to rush the passer but doesn't have

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a ton of experience doing it.

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Speaker 2: Just look at Brayden Swinson.

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Speaker 1: Braiden Swinson had like five and a half sacks over

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like a two year span. You bring in Kevin Peoples,

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he had eight and a half last year, and then

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look at the jump Savion Jones made from before Kevin

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People's got there to after.

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Speaker 2: Peoples is an excellent coach. He knows this group.

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Speaker 1: If you can bring in a technician next to him,

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like a Kyle Williams that could form a really good

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group as good as Bo Davis was.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited about this.

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Speaker 1: Do I have concerns absolutely, because Kyle Williams has never

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coached on the college love. But again I'll go back

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to as far as someone from a fundamental a technique standpoint,

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someone who knows the position, knows how to play it,

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You're gonna be hard pressed to find somebody better at

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that than Kyle Williams. All right, look, we're going to

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take a quick time out when we get back. Interesting

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right up at Louisianasports dot Net about the strength of

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schedule released for all SEZ teams heading into twenty twenty five.

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We'll get into wear LSU ranks. We'll kind of break

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down their schedule, give you my thoughts on now that's

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coming up. On the other side, you're on off the bench,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back in Friday edition of Off the Bench Taylor

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Shepherd with us sitting in for Jacob Pester and t

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Bob Abar Tease them a little bit there going into break.

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The twenty twenty five SMP Plus rankings have come out

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for the twenty twenty five season. This was actually last week.

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Bill Conley of ESPN put these out look. Those are

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a little confusing. They're solely based on Conley's analytics and metrics,

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So essentially what he does is predicts strength of schedule

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based on the projected winning percentage an average top top

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top five team could expect against your specific schedule. Also,

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every SEZ team is listening in his top twenty five

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on strength of schedule. No surprise there Missouri last which

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fielded for Hunt Palmer a couple of weeks ago. I

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don't know who Eli Drinquitz has paid off to get

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such an easy schedule. He had by far the easiest

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schedule in twenty twenty four and he has so once again,

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think about what we said all last year about Missouri.

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Speaker 2: Is this team actually good?

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Speaker 1: And here's why, because they played they were, They were

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beating the crap out of teams, but they weren't any good.

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They played three ranked opponents last year. Missouri lost all

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three of them and honestly should have lost to Vanderbilt.

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If Vanderbilt kicker doesn't miss a forty two yard field

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goal and send that to force the game into overtime,

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Missouri wins Vanderbilt wins it in regulation.

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Speaker 2: So that's interesting to.

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Speaker 1: See that their schedule is so bad in the SEC

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two years in a row. For what it's worth, is

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Oklahoma number one, Florida two, Arkansas three, Vanderbilt five, Mississippi

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State six, South Carolina seven, Kentucky eight, LSU down at nine.

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So he believes that LSU has the ninth toughest strength

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of schedule in the entire country. Let's kind of look

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at their schedule a little bit, kind of get our

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thoughts on it. Obviously, you open the season with Clemson

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in South Carolina on August thirtieth. That's the big one,

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right that might actually be your season defining game, even

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though it's Week one of the college football season, because

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of how talented you were projected to be on paper

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and how talented Clemson is as well. Look, I think LSU, potentially,

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depending on how certain dominoes fall, where the chips lay

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and all that, has a chance to be a really

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good football team this year. The Clemson's going to be

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a really good football team as well. Kid Clubnick returns

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as the starting quarterback. Going into last season, everyone wanted

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to see, Hey, can Kaid club Nick protect the football

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a little bit more. He did that thirty six touchdown passes,

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only six interceptions, close to seventy percent completion percentage.

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Speaker 2: He was excellent a year ago.

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Speaker 1: Also, he returns all three of his leading receivers from

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last year. Now, Clemson's offense loses Phil MafA, but you

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couldn't really run the ball last year anyways, because your

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offensive line just wasn't good at run blocking, very similar

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to LSU's offensive line for most of the season. So

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while you lose Phil MafA, he wasn't a huge impact

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for you last year anyways. In your offense was still effective.

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So first we're gonna do is Let's say LSU beats Clumps. Okay,

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it doesn't really matter what scores. Let's say Lshue goes

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on the road beats Clumps. So you're sitting there at

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one and eight and you come home against Louisiana Tech.

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That's going to be a win. Week three of the season,

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you host the Florida Gators. It came out yesterday the

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DJ Lagway is suffering a little bit of an arm issue.

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You can't throw the ball. He's going to miss the majority,

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if not all, of spring practice. If that lingers into

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the season, you're in Baton Rouge. You lost to Florida

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in the swamp last year, which is a game I

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think you should have won. Anyways, I like your chances there,

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So then you're sitting at three in it. Let's give

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you a win against Florida. You come home again Southeastern

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and that's going to be a win. So you're at

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four and oh, going to Ole Miss on September twenty seventh.

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Ole Miss was a tight game a year ago, but

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I'm gonna give the advantage to LSU strictly because they

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lose Jackson Dart they have to replace it now. Austin

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Simmons is the projected starter out there at Oxford. By

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all accounts, he's a talented quarterback, but we just haven't

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seen him be that starting quarterback at ole Miss. I

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gotta go with with who I trust with who I

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know has been there, done that. That's Garrett Nusmack. He's

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the returning starter. So you're five and oh. Right now,

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I think you beat South Carolina, even though that's going

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to be a dogfight once again, because you were able

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to go in and their house last year beat them

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on the road. They come back to Baton Rouge, you're

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six and oh, I think you beat Vanderbilt. That puts

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you at seven. Oh, Texas, A and M is at home.

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That is another game. And in the first half of

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that game you absolutely dominated. Something flipped late in the

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second quarter. The second half, A and M comes out,

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blows the doors off of you, and then that started

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lsho's three game skid last year with A and M,

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Alabama and Florida.

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Speaker 2: Can you fix that problem?

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Speaker 1: Though you know Marcel Reed is likely going to be

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the guy all season long, there is no excuse of, well,

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they changed quarterbacks in the middle of the game. We

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really didn't expect to see him. We weren't prepared for it.

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You got all year to prepare for that guy. Now

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I expect them to do that. I expect them to

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do a much better job to give them a win there.

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Now you're eight and oh, you go to Alabama, I'll

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give you a loss. We'll give it a lost to Alabama,

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even though they're breaking in a new quarterback, Bryant. Denny's

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a tough place to play, even though LSU has fared

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well there in the regular season. So that puts you

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at nine and one or eight and one. I think

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you're gonna beat Arkansas. I don't think they're gonna be

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any good. You're gonna beat Western Kentucky. You're ten and one.

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Then you got to go on the road at Oklahoma.

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So if you beat Clemson, there's a chance you can

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almost win out the rest of the year. Drop one

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of Ole Miss or Alabama. I think those are your

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two toughest games because they are both on the road.

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What happens if you lose to Clemson. Let's say you

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lose that first game. I still think you beat Tech.

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I still think you beat Florida, You'll take Southeastern. So

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you're three and one at that point, So you lose

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your first game of the year. All you have to do, though,

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is run the table win all the other games you're

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supposed to win.

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Speaker 2: Now, I get it.

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Speaker 1: That's easier said than done. DJ Lagway is going to

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be really good, but that's n baton rouge. Marcel Reed's

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probably going to be good. That game is n baton rouge.

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I'm giving you the advantage over both of those teams

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because you're at home. You play so well in Tiger Stadium.

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All you gotta do, even when they lost to Clemson,

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is split one of ole Miss and Alabama. That puts

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you at ten and two in the regular season. A

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ten and two SEC team is in all likelihood going

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to get into the College Football playoffs. You get into

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the playoff, anything can happen. So while look, there's certainly

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tough games. South Carolina at home, by no means is

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going to be a cakewalk. A and M at home

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is going to be a tough game. Florida at home

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is going to be a tough game, especially if DJ

474
00:22:21,519 --> 00:22:24,920
Lagway is fully healthy. By then, you got ole Miss

475
00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:28,240
on the road, you got Alabama on the road, you

476
00:22:28,279 --> 00:22:30,200
got Clemson on the road. I just listened six games

477
00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:32,640
you could potentially lose. But if you take care of

478
00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:36,319
business at home and win one of if so, if

479
00:22:36,319 --> 00:22:38,440
you take care of business at home and win one

480
00:22:38,559 --> 00:22:42,160
of the three on the road, Clemson, Ole Miss, Alabama,

481
00:22:42,519 --> 00:22:47,440
you're sitting at ten and two. Especially if you beat

482
00:22:49,079 --> 00:22:52,119
Alabama or ole Miss, then you only have one SEC loss,

483
00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:55,079
You're still in a really good spot. You look at

484
00:22:55,079 --> 00:22:58,200
the scheduling, yes, it certainly looks tough, but most of

485
00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:00,880
your tough games are at home. Even with Old Miss

486
00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:02,640
on the road, Alabama on the road, they're both breaking

487
00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:04,799
in new quarterbacks. I'm assuming it is going to be

488
00:23:04,799 --> 00:23:07,119
Austin Simmons at Old Miss not all accounts.

489
00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:07,759
Speaker 2: He's talented.

490
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,119
Speaker 1: We haven't really seen it yet in Alabama. Is it

491
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:12,880
going to be Ty Simpson? Is it going to be

492
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:16,279
Keeland Russell? We don't really know. These are all things

493
00:23:16,279 --> 00:23:18,839
that are still very much up in the air. And

494
00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:22,799
again A and M at home, Arkansas at home, Oklahoma

495
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,440
on the road. But they're kind of a mess right now.

496
00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:27,799
I mean, they bring in John Mattier, which he did

497
00:23:27,839 --> 00:23:30,079
a lot of good things at Washington State. Playing in

498
00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:31,880
a two team conference in the Pac twelve is a

499
00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:34,559
lot different than playing in the SEC. And Brent Vnables

500
00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:36,759
is on dan Ice there. Anyways, I think they're going

501
00:23:36,799 --> 00:23:38,359
to have a good defense, but is it going to

502
00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:39,839
be as good as a defense as was last year. You

503
00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:42,200
lose Danny Stutsman and Billy Bowman, those were your two

504
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:47,640
best defensive players from a year ago. You lose Jackson Arnold.

505
00:23:49,039 --> 00:23:51,000
How many weapons are you going to have on the outside.

506
00:23:51,319 --> 00:23:53,880
LSU stole your leading receiver in Bower Sharp last year

507
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:55,839
and your most talented receiver that didn't get to play

508
00:23:55,839 --> 00:23:57,319
in Nick Anderson. They were both going to be in

509
00:23:57,319 --> 00:23:58,039
Tiger uniforms.

510
00:23:58,039 --> 00:23:58,599
Speaker 2: They ship.

511
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:04,039
Speaker 1: Weapons, are honestly going to be around John Mattier. You

512
00:24:04,079 --> 00:24:07,519
put up big numbers in a wide open offense, and

513
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:11,720
here's the problem. Oklahoma is trying to run that spread offense.

514
00:24:11,759 --> 00:24:14,119
But in the SEC, I get it, it's a past

515
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:15,680
happy league. Now you still have to be able to

516
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:17,519
run the football. They were not able to do that

517
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:19,960
all season last year and that's really what kept them

518
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:23,000
out of ball games and what got them behind early on.

519
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:25,359
I don't see how they've made a big improvement in

520
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:29,200
that area this year. Like LSU's chances there so yes,

521
00:24:29,319 --> 00:24:33,279
While Bill Conley has them as number nine toughest schedule

522
00:24:33,279 --> 00:24:37,240
in his SMP plus rankings, I like LSU schedule. I

523
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:42,200
actually think it's pretty manageable. Clemson could define your season

524
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,000
week one, but it doesn't have to. Even if you

525
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,480
lose to Clemson, you take care of business everywhere else,

526
00:24:48,839 --> 00:24:53,200
win all your home games, beat Oklahoma on the road

527
00:24:53,279 --> 00:24:56,720
last game in the season. Your season really comes down

528
00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,480
to two games at Ole Miss at Alabama. Kenny split them.

529
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:02,759
If you lose to Clemson, you have to split those games.

530
00:25:02,839 --> 00:25:04,799
If you beat Clemson, you probably lose both of them.

531
00:25:07,559 --> 00:25:10,000
So while on paper, yes, this is a really tough schedule,

532
00:25:10,039 --> 00:25:12,839
things fall nicely for you. Some of your tougher games

533
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:16,839
with returning quarterbacks like Florida, like South Carolina, like Texas,

534
00:25:16,839 --> 00:25:18,960
A and m are all at home, will missing Alabama

535
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:20,640
on the road. But they're both breaking in new quarterbacks.

536
00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:23,119
How are they going to look? They also both lose

537
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:24,519
a lot on the offensive side of the ball, and

538
00:25:24,519 --> 00:25:26,319
Alabama didn't have a ton of weapons on offense last

539
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:29,039
year to begin with. It'll be interesting to watch. I

540
00:25:29,079 --> 00:25:31,839
think LSU does have a tough schedule, but honestly, as

541
00:25:31,839 --> 00:25:33,559
far as the tough schedule in the SEC he goes,

542
00:25:33,839 --> 00:25:36,200
this one might be more manageable than a lot of

543
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:37,920
people may think. We're going to take a quick time out.

544
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When we get back, we'll do a quick segment on

545
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,920
LSU baseball. They take on North Alabama this weekend. We

546
00:25:44,039 --> 00:25:46,319
had a laundris thoughts as well. Look as the three

547
00:25:46,319 --> 00:25:48,480
game series, you're not gonna learn a ton about the

548
00:25:48,519 --> 00:25:51,240
Tigers as far as the opponent they play. But I

549
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:52,960
think there's a lot of things the LSU Tigers need

550
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:54,519
to fix. We'll get into that. On the other side,

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576
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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back in Friday edition of Off the

577
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Bench Taylor Trumper with Earlandrevill, Rial Cassi's Bizzali here as well.

578
00:27:10,599 --> 00:27:12,839
We are filling in for Jake and t Bob one

579
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,440
more time. They will both be back on Monday. Well,

580
00:27:15,599 --> 00:27:18,160
their scheduled to be back on Monday. I got confidence

581
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:19,359
my guy Jay Kesher will be back.

582
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 2: T Bob, I don't know.

583
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:22,799
Speaker 1: He's got a little bit of a track record to

584
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:24,759
kind of extend that vacation an extra day.

585
00:27:24,759 --> 00:27:25,160
Speaker 2: We'll see.

586
00:27:25,799 --> 00:27:28,160
Speaker 1: I hope both of them, though, will be back in

587
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,680
the fold on Monday. Okay, ls Shoo Baseball playing what

588
00:27:31,799 --> 00:27:35,720
is essentially their final full dress rehearsal before SEC play

589
00:27:35,759 --> 00:27:38,920
gets started. As far as a weekend series goes, Tigers

590
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:40,960
are going to take one North Alabama in a three

591
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:44,640
game series this weekend. North Alabama is not a very

592
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,680
good baseball team. They are three and eight overall through

593
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,000
in the middle of a five game losing streak, and

594
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,519
they are zero to six away from their home ballpark.

595
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,000
LSU should have no problem in this series. You absolutely

596
00:27:56,039 --> 00:27:58,559
should sweep this series. You absolutely have to sweep this

597
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:04,200
series this weekend. It is not about LSU's opponents. It's

598
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,759
about Lshue and cleaning up the things that you need

599
00:28:07,799 --> 00:28:08,160
to fix.

600
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 2: What can we expect this weekend.

601
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:14,519
Speaker 1: What I want to see personally is clean up the errors,

602
00:28:14,799 --> 00:28:19,160
whether it's throwing errors, whether it's misrunning balls in the outfield.

603
00:28:19,559 --> 00:28:21,359
You saw it on Tuesday night. They kind of all

604
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,559
came to a head. In the same game. LSU was

605
00:28:23,599 --> 00:28:25,880
able to weather the storm. They were a lot better

606
00:28:26,279 --> 00:28:28,720
in the Wednesday game against North Dakota State.

607
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 2: They cleaned it up.

608
00:28:29,519 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 1: It was a point eighty, but still anytime you see

609
00:28:32,519 --> 00:28:35,519
that against the bad team, LSU clearly just looked like

610
00:28:35,519 --> 00:28:37,559
they weren't focused on Tuesday night. You got to be

611
00:28:37,599 --> 00:28:39,599
focused this weekend because this is your last out of

612
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:40,680
conference weekend series.

613
00:28:41,119 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 2: And I get it.

614
00:28:41,759 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 1: You're playing Missouri week one in the SEC. They're not

615
00:28:44,519 --> 00:28:46,960
that good, but that's still an SEC opponent. You're still

616
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:51,119
going up a level in competition from North Alabama and

617
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:55,519
North Dakota State. I want you to stop giving batters

618
00:28:55,559 --> 00:28:56,279
free passes.

619
00:28:56,519 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 2: Now.

620
00:28:56,759 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 1: There's been a little bit of back and forth on this.

621
00:28:58,519 --> 00:29:01,000
Some have said, man, this as a hole started out

622
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,160
so strong. The first eight games, and then the last

623
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,440
few they've kind of fell off, and then those will say, well,

624
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:08,680
they didn't fall off, it's the midweek guys that you're

625
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:10,839
not going to count on. I understand that to an extent,

626
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:15,319
but look at Wednesday night. William Schmidez absolutely an arm

627
00:29:15,359 --> 00:29:17,720
you're going to count on in the weekend. Sure, Lsu

628
00:29:17,759 --> 00:29:19,279
was great. They didn't give up a ton of runs.

629
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,319
He manages just fine. He still gave up six free

630
00:29:22,319 --> 00:29:24,960
passes to batters, whether it was hit by pitches, whether

631
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,880
it was Waltz. You have to clean that up because

632
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,160
teams like North Dakota State are not going to beat

633
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,160
you when you do that, because they're not talented enough.

634
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,559
When you get into SEC play and you play these

635
00:29:35,559 --> 00:29:38,599
top teams in the country, that loses you games. That

636
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:42,720
is the difference between winning and losing games. By that point.

637
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,119
The catcher battle as well. Cater Embattie has a lot

638
00:29:46,119 --> 00:29:49,559
of talent. We've seen the flashes. Even though his batting

639
00:29:49,599 --> 00:29:52,000
average isn't great, We've seen him with some pop on

640
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,279
the bat. He actually hit the home run Tuesday night.

641
00:29:54,359 --> 00:29:56,000
That kind of spark you and get things started for

642
00:29:56,039 --> 00:29:59,480
you offensively against North Dakota State, but he's been bad

643
00:29:59,519 --> 00:30:02,559
behind the play. I mean he's been super inconsistent. There's

644
00:30:02,559 --> 00:30:03,960
no other way to put it. I mean, he's a

645
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,200
young guy, he's a freshman. He'll likely get better there,

646
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,119
But what is that going to look like? Is it

647
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,119
going to be Hernandez for a three game series? Even

648
00:30:12,119 --> 00:30:15,480
though Blaze Priester is not hitting, his defense actually looked

649
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,839
pretty good on Wednesday night. Does he get some run

650
00:30:18,599 --> 00:30:21,240
because a lot like giving up the free passes to batters?

651
00:30:22,119 --> 00:30:24,200
How did things get started for North Dakota State on

652
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:28,440
Tuesday night? Kate Aaronbidi dropped the third strike, It put

653
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:31,279
the batter aboard. Then he throws the wild throw to

654
00:30:31,319 --> 00:30:33,880
first base, that batter goes to second and then it

655
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:35,839
kind of all unraveled from there. You saw the throwing

656
00:30:35,839 --> 00:30:38,759
air from Steven Milam, Jake Brown, misrad a fly ball

657
00:30:38,799 --> 00:30:41,000
in the outfield, Stanfield let one go over his head

658
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:45,519
in centerfield. It kind of all combined. One error turned

659
00:30:45,519 --> 00:30:47,359
into like five or six. Then you're looking at a

660
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,079
seven to one deficit after three innits. That loses you

661
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:54,720
games against good teams. Because North Dakota State they didn't

662
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:56,680
do anything. I mean, they scored nine runs and six

663
00:30:56,759 --> 00:30:59,920
hits on that game, and they're pitching staff had a

664
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:03,720
plus eleven er eight. Nobody you play in the SEC

665
00:31:03,759 --> 00:31:06,039
is going to have that. They're all going to be

666
00:31:06,039 --> 00:31:08,000
better than that. If you dig yourself in that deep

667
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,720
of a hole in SEC play, you're going to lose games.

668
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:14,079
You have to make sure that doesn't happen to you

669
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,920
this weekend. You have to treat this like an SEC

670
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,519
series again, even though the opponent's not great, it's all

671
00:31:19,559 --> 00:31:22,200
about you. It's all about the mistakes you make or

672
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:27,079
don't make. The last thing I'm looking at, does right

673
00:31:27,119 --> 00:31:29,519
field and DH become more clear? Because you know, there

674
00:31:29,559 --> 00:31:31,960
was about four or five guys we mentioned before the

675
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:33,359
season started, Hey can they play right field?

676
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 2: Can they play DH? What's the combination going to be?

677
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: It's kind of come down to three guys, Jake Brown,

678
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:39,400
Josh Pearson, and Ashton Larson.

679
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 2: And honestly, the last few games, Ashton.

680
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:43,359
Speaker 1: Larson kind of seems like the odd man out, which

681
00:31:43,359 --> 00:31:45,799
coming into the season, I didn't expect that at all.

682
00:31:45,839 --> 00:31:48,880
I mean, we were sitting here on Monday morning, the

683
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:50,880
day after the first weekend series saying, man, we were

684
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:52,920
really surprised that Ashen Larson didn't get that opening day's

685
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,119
start because by all accounts he looked really good in

686
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:57,839
the fall. He set some bad at bats recently, and

687
00:31:58,519 --> 00:32:00,480
Jake Brown and Josh Pearson kind of seemed they passed

688
00:32:00,519 --> 00:32:02,599
them up for the moment. You're still going to need

689
00:32:02,599 --> 00:32:04,359
Ashton lars and Ashton Larsen is still going to have

690
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,240
a place on this team. But that's kind of what

691
00:32:06,279 --> 00:32:09,279
I'm watching. I want the errors cleaned up. I want

692
00:32:09,799 --> 00:32:12,519
pitchers to stop giving batters these free passes. I don't

693
00:32:12,559 --> 00:32:14,119
care if they're good teams are bad teams, you can't

694
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,680
do that. We need the catchers to be a little

695
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,720
cleaner behind the plate, and right field and d H

696
00:32:21,599 --> 00:32:23,519
Are there going to be guys that lock down those spots?

697
00:32:23,519 --> 00:32:25,440
Are you still going to see a rotation? I know

698
00:32:25,519 --> 00:32:27,640
that's kind of a lot, But again, it's not about

699
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,640
the opponent this weekend. It's more about you can you

700
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,119
fine tune everything before you get into SEZ. But because

701
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,480
once you hit Missouri, sure they may not even be great,

702
00:32:35,519 --> 00:32:38,000
but there's still SEZ competition. It doesn't slow down, it

703
00:32:38,039 --> 00:32:40,599
only gets tougher from there. You still got a long

704
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:46,240
season atty. That's kind of what I'm looking at as

705
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,319
all elandra as far as like this weekend for you again,

706
00:32:49,559 --> 00:32:52,279
North Alabama. I don't care whether you're playing North Alabama,

707
00:32:52,319 --> 00:32:54,319
whether you're playing Cathol High School. It doesn't really matter

708
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,279
who your opponent is this weekend. What do you want

709
00:32:56,279 --> 00:32:57,279
to see from the Tigers?

710
00:32:57,759 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 4: I don't really know what else I can add to

711
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:03,119
you just said I but if I want to get

712
00:33:03,119 --> 00:33:06,079
like specific, I want to see Anthony Ansen not get

713
00:33:06,119 --> 00:33:09,440
behind like he has been the past. I mean he

714
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:16,079
he does good. Yeah, yeah, so he's done good in

715
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:19,960
those spots, but let's not get behind, Like, let's just

716
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,039
have a clean game and behind the plate. We need

717
00:33:23,039 --> 00:33:26,079
to clean that up real real, real soon, real soon,

718
00:33:26,079 --> 00:33:26,640
because it's like.

719
00:33:26,839 --> 00:33:28,519
Speaker 2: That's the that is the biggest question mark on this

720
00:33:28,559 --> 00:33:29,000
team right now.

721
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, because it's like you said, like we're just giving

722
00:33:32,319 --> 00:33:34,759
up these free bases and you can't just give them

723
00:33:34,839 --> 00:33:37,160
runs like that when you have the pass balls, or

724
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,240
like you can't put them in running position for the

725
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:44,759
or a scoring position for them. So just don't like

726
00:33:44,839 --> 00:33:48,640
it's just like small mistakes that turn into critical mistakes

727
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:53,680
when the game is closed, like it was on Tuesday night.

728
00:33:53,839 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 3: For however long it was.

729
00:33:56,440 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 4: But that and then I agree with you with Ryfield,

730
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,640
But I think if it were me, I would want

731
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,039
Josh Pearson there just because like he has proved time

732
00:34:07,119 --> 00:34:11,159
and time and time again to be the most clutch players.

733
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,079
Speaker 2: Every day player for you. Yes, at this point, I

734
00:34:13,079 --> 00:34:13,360
really do.

735
00:34:13,519 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 4: And he has the clutch gene, like we talk about

736
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,760
it all the time, Like he anytime you need him

737
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,760
to show up, he does. Like I've never been in

738
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:26,440
a position where like we were behind or we needed

739
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:28,440
to tie up the game and Josh Pearson came up

740
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:30,920
to bat and I was worried. Ye, Like I'm like, oh,

741
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,559
we're good. So yes, I kind of just agree with

742
00:34:34,599 --> 00:34:36,400
everything that you said. But if I wanted to get

743
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:39,239
into specifics, I want a clean game from Anthony. Iinson,

744
00:34:39,519 --> 00:34:41,679
don't get behind in the count, don't give up the

745
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:45,039
free bases, and yeah.

746
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 1: Well to going back to what we were talking about,

747
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:48,639
because like I've heard a lot of people say, Okay,

748
00:34:48,639 --> 00:34:51,360
well the free passes, you know, that's that's that's the

749
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:53,719
Tuesday game of the guys who aren't going to pitch

750
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:55,800
on you for you on the weekend. First off, kind

751
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:57,360
of whar has been really good up to that point,

752
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,400
he's a guy that I thought you could rely on

753
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,280
in the weekend up until last night. But I mean

754
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:04,280
Jayden Newt DJ Primo, Like, these are guys that have

755
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,480
been on this team. You're going to count on DJ

756
00:35:06,599 --> 00:35:09,760
Primo in all likelihood at some point in your weekend,

757
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,079
in your weekend games. These are not just guys that

758
00:35:12,519 --> 00:35:15,719
oh the freshmen throw out there, like sure Chandler Dorsey.

759
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:17,480
It was his first time seeing him, and he actually

760
00:35:17,519 --> 00:35:19,280
he looked settle things out. Yeah, he was actually your

761
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:23,719
best pitcher on Tuesday Night. To Elandra's point about Anthony Ionson, yes,

762
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:26,079
because you know what, we all kind of gave our

763
00:35:26,119 --> 00:35:27,960
big takeaways in this room, and all of us had

764
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:29,760
a different takeaway as far as week one of the

765
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:34,159
series goes, and mine was it was Anthony Ionson because

766
00:35:34,159 --> 00:35:35,400
he was able to get out of a jam. You

767
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,280
don't always have your best stuff. We've seen it about

768
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,679
two or three times now, Anthony Ionson getting in a jam.

769
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:43,159
Now he settles things down like the last three innings.

770
00:35:43,159 --> 00:35:44,880
It's kind of his first two and a half to

771
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:48,760
three innings. That's really a concern. To Allandra's point, you

772
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,400
can't do that because you're not always going to play

773
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,880
in North Alabama, North Dakota State, you know, Omaha, anybody

774
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,800
else they've already played so far this season. When SEZ

775
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:01,360
play comes around, you get people on bay that's an issue.

776
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:06,039
And as far as Josh Pearson goes, she's right, I'm right. Whoever,

777
00:36:06,119 --> 00:36:08,320
like we both agree that he has to be an

778
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:10,480
everyday player, Yeah, because it's not one or two times

779
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:12,480
that Josh Pearson comes through much to her point, and

780
00:36:12,519 --> 00:36:13,880
it's been for three years now.

781
00:36:14,039 --> 00:36:14,199
Speaker 2: Yeah.

782
00:36:14,199 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: I mean even as a freshman, that's how he got

783
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,960
into the lineup because a freshman he was only hitting

784
00:36:18,039 --> 00:36:20,159
like two thirty five, two forty, but it was the

785
00:36:20,199 --> 00:36:20,960
clutch at bats.

786
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 2: I mean, he was key in that national championship season.

787
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't think about that, but like

788
00:36:25,119 --> 00:36:27,920
when the SEC tournament came around, when the NCAA tournament,

789
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:29,880
Omaha came around, Like, Josh Pearson was a guy you

790
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,320
were relying on and you've done that ever since.

791
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:33,079
Speaker 2: I agree with you.

792
00:36:33,159 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 1: I think whether look, whether it's Jake Brown, Ashton Larson,

793
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,719
whoever takes the dhrol, Josh Pearson has to be in there.

794
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,039
I think he has solidified his spot so far. I

795
00:36:41,079 --> 00:36:42,880
know that every year people are like, oh, we got

796
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,639
to replace Josh Pearson. He just is his batting average

797
00:36:45,639 --> 00:36:47,480
isn't isn't good enough. First off, he's sitting like three

798
00:36:47,599 --> 00:36:49,800
hundred this year, so his batting average is actually pretty good,

799
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,719
but it's the clutch moments. You cannot sacrifice that for

800
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:56,079
maybe a guy who's going to hit to sixty two seventy.

801
00:36:56,119 --> 00:36:57,320
Speaker 2: I mean you have to have him.

802
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,199
Speaker 1: Plus he's actually a pretty good outfielder as well, Like

803
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:00,840
he didn't make a ton of out there either.

804
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:02,280
Speaker 2: We saw Jake Brown say.

805
00:37:02,119 --> 00:37:06,280
Speaker 4: Like he he's clutching the outfield too, Like he's clutched

806
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,239
offensively and offensively it's.

807
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 2: Great catches at LSU in his career and.

808
00:37:10,639 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 3: Like this is like little things.

809
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:15,800
Speaker 4: And sure maybe his batting average isn't great, but he

810
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,559
takes good at bats, like he will get into that

811
00:37:18,679 --> 00:37:19,239
pitch count.

812
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:22,880
Speaker 1: He's not a guy that's just gonna go up there

813
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,519
three four pitches at bats and he's going to six, seven,

814
00:37:25,599 --> 00:37:26,079
eight pitches.

815
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:28,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's not going to get recognized because of

816
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,320
the batting average. But and it's a small thing, but

817
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:36,760
it's important in baseball. So it's Josh Pearson absolutely is

818
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:40,000
like one of my favorite Tigers that have played at LSU.

819
00:37:40,159 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.

820
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,280
Speaker 1: All right, Look that was a was a pretty good

821
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:45,000
baseball segment there. Welcome back in Friday edition of Off

822
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,559
the Bench, closing out our number one on a Friday.

823
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:52,000
Travis Kelcey and Jason Kelsey. Obviously we know they have

824
00:37:52,079 --> 00:37:54,400
the New Heights Podcast and it's one of those that

825
00:37:54,599 --> 00:37:56,480
kind of hits a lot of topics. Well, they got

826
00:37:56,519 --> 00:38:02,400
to talking about the NFL Combine and and apparently Travis

827
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:06,920
kelce really likes Mason Taylor. So, according to sports Keta,

828
00:38:07,159 --> 00:38:13,639
on the New Heights Podcast, Jason Kelcey asked Travis about,

829
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,000
you know, certain prospects in this draft that he liked,

830
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,199
and Travis Kelcey apparently said, Mason Taylor is just a

831
00:38:19,199 --> 00:38:22,719
fluid athlete. He's not even twenty one yet. So this

832
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:24,599
is a guy that had a good amount of success

833
00:38:24,639 --> 00:38:27,079
at LSU, played in the SEC. And on top of that,

834
00:38:27,119 --> 00:38:30,039
he's only going to get better as he gets older.

835
00:38:30,079 --> 00:38:32,760
He's only going to develop more strength and more athleticism

836
00:38:33,159 --> 00:38:36,920
the longer he plays the game. If there's someone out there, look,

837
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,880
whatever your opinion, if Travis Kelcey is, doesn't really matter

838
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:41,800
there's someone out there who knows the tight end position.

839
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:42,199
Speaker 2: It's Hill.

840
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 1: He's one of the best to ever do it in

841
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,159
this game. And of course he likes Mason Taylor, right.

842
00:38:47,199 --> 00:38:49,280
I mean, he meant so much to the LSU offensive

843
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:53,199
season ago. You can look at Mason Taylor's numbers and

844
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:55,320
be like, wow, he was really productive. I mean thirteen

845
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,880
hundred yards and six touchdowns over three seasons, one hundred

846
00:38:57,880 --> 00:38:59,559
and twenty nine catches. I mean, he basically holds every

847
00:38:59,559 --> 00:39:02,880
tight end for LSU. It's more than just that. Throw

848
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:04,719
the stats out the window, throw the records out the window.

849
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 2: Doesn't matter.

850
00:39:05,599 --> 00:39:08,119
Speaker 1: How many times did Garrett Nelsemeyer go to Mason Taylor

851
00:39:08,159 --> 00:39:11,920
and big means. Think about the ole Miss game. He

852
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:15,000
went to him twice on fourth down to tie the

853
00:39:15,039 --> 00:39:17,639
game at the end of regulation, and then they had

854
00:39:17,679 --> 00:39:20,719
to have a third down in overtime. He converted on

855
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:24,280
that as well. You saw it time and time again.

856
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:24,800
Speaker 2: This season.

857
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 1: He went to him early in the Vanderbilt game when

858
00:39:28,519 --> 00:39:30,559
that game was still tight to get them rolling. There

859
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:34,320
we all know about freshman year Mason Taylor. They run

860
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:37,079
the two point conversion play. Jayden Daniels rolls to his right,

861
00:39:37,199 --> 00:39:38,679
hits Mason Taylor out in the flats. I was a

862
00:39:38,679 --> 00:39:41,679
play that was designed for Mason Taylor, a true freshman,

863
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:45,480
to take down Top ten Alabama. That's how good of

864
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,079
a player this guy is. That's how much his coaching

865
00:39:47,119 --> 00:39:52,000
staff trusted him his time here. It also makes sense

866
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:53,960
why LSU had to fight so hard on the transfer

867
00:39:54,039 --> 00:39:55,800
portal to get tight ends because Mason Taylor is not

868
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,559
going to be easy to replace. Well, do LSU add it?

869
00:39:59,079 --> 00:40:01,760
Bower Sharp from ocal Oahoma. If you haven't every down

870
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,559
tight end, this guy's it. He was a leading receiver

871
00:40:04,599 --> 00:40:06,440
for the Sooners a year ago. Now, Oklahoma didn't have

872
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,719
a good offense, but Bower Sharp is a bright spot.

873
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:09,800
Speaker 2: You had it.

874
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,320
Speaker 1: Donovan Green from Texas A and M A big body

875
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,239
tight end. He's likely you're blocking tight end this season

876
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:18,760
and we know all about trade. Is Green freak athlete.

877
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:20,159
I mean he's six to seven, he's two hundred and

878
00:40:20,159 --> 00:40:22,920
forty five pounds. We saw what he did late in

879
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:23,960
the year, we saw what he did in.

880
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:24,440
Speaker 2: The bowl game.

881
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:27,280
Speaker 1: I mean he is just poised for a big season.

882
00:40:27,679 --> 00:40:29,920
There's a guy I'm excited about on this offense outside

883
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:31,800
of Garrett Know's my other year. It's trade is green

884
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:33,519
because I can't wait to see how they use him.

885
00:40:33,639 --> 00:40:35,679
I still think he'll line up more out wide than

886
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:37,880
as a traditional tight end spot, because that's why you

887
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,519
brought in Bower Sharp. You needed a traditional hand in

888
00:40:40,559 --> 00:40:42,760
your dirt edge of the line of scrimmage tight end.

889
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,920
That's Bower Shark. I mean, he was very good. He

890
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:47,280
was one of the top tight ends in the transfer

891
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:51,960
portal for a reason. Wherever Mason Taylor gets drafted, and

892
00:40:52,039 --> 00:40:55,199
right now it looks like he's going to go second round,

893
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,320
third round, somewhere in there, somebody's gonna get a heck

894
00:40:57,360 --> 00:40:59,639
of a player. He's been around football his entire life

895
00:40:59,639 --> 00:41:01,960
because who his dad is, of course, Hall of Fame

896
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,960
defensive end Jason Taylor. He came to LSU, and keep

897
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,119
in mind, he was actually not even an early and rolye.

898
00:41:08,119 --> 00:41:10,239
As a freshman, he came to LSU in the fall,

899
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:12,519
had about three weeks to learn the offense, and he

900
00:41:12,599 --> 00:41:14,760
was your everyday tight end from the moment he stepped

901
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,440
foot on campus. You went to him in big moments

902
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:21,239
over a three year span, and he made big plays

903
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:22,599
for you over those three years.

904
00:41:22,599 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 2: He also never dropped the ball.

905
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:26,039
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously he has a few drops, but I mean,

906
00:41:26,079 --> 00:41:27,599
you know, you know what I mean, it seemed like

907
00:41:27,599 --> 00:41:29,119
he rarely dropped the football.

908
00:41:29,559 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 2: He always made the play when you need. He's also somebody.

909
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:33,239
Speaker 1: Who's very aware of that first down line. I mean,

910
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,440
go back and watch the tape of Mason Taylor. He's

911
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:37,239
got the catches, the ball gets upfield, He's like, I

912
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:38,679
got to get to the first down line? Do I

913
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:40,679
stick out the ball here? Do I lean this way?

914
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,199
Mason Taylor is a little bit better after the catch

915
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:47,239
than a lot of people realize. And I mean, who

916
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:49,880
better to compliment him than a guy like Travis Kelsey.

917
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:53,480
Who what do you think of the Chiefs, Patrick Mahomes,

918
00:41:53,519 --> 00:41:55,920
Travis Kelsey, whatever, Travis Kelsey is one of the best

919
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:57,400
tight ends to ever play in the NFL. That is

920
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,639
high praise right there. I think, whoever grabs Mason Taylor

921
00:42:00,119 --> 00:42:02,719
to get an absolute steal in this draft, all right,

922
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:05,239
that's going to wrap up our number one in our

923
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:10,760
number two. The NFL free agency and trades and whatnot

924
00:42:11,039 --> 00:42:14,559
is going wild. Here's why the Saints need to jump

925
00:42:14,559 --> 00:42:19,159
at this opportunity. I think also, an NFC South rival

926
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:23,440
is linked to a very very popular corner in free agency.

927
00:42:23,639 --> 00:42:25,320
Why that could be trouble for the Saints. Then at

928
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:27,480
eight thirty, Bill Bender of the Sporting News is gonna

929
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:30,400
hop one. He put out a great article projecting the

930
00:42:30,559 --> 00:42:33,559
entire sixty eighteen field from March Madness will break that

931
00:42:33,639 --> 00:42:35,079
down as well, and then we're gonna have some fun

932
00:42:35,119 --> 00:42:37,679
here in our number three again, hour number two coming up,

933
00:42:37,679 --> 00:42:39,559
we'll have Saints at the top of the hour. We'll

934
00:42:39,559 --> 00:42:41,360
talk to Bill Bender at eight thirty. That's all coming up.

935
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:43,199
Since stay tuned for more Off the Bench. You're on

936
00:42:43,199 --> 00:42:44,440
one of four five ESPN

937
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Speaker 5: Off the Bench.