Speaker 1: All start to Yoda presents Off the Bench with Jacob
Hester and Matt Flynn.
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control from the live from the Mercedes Benz of Baton
Rouge Studio. Here's Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: You welcome in, hey b here on this Tuesday morning
one O four five ESPN Baton Rouge.
Speaker 4: We might maybe I think we actually do have.
Speaker 3: Some people in cars currently right now going to school
for the first time today, so you know, we apologize
for that. But here for these next fifteen to twenty
thirty minutes, while you're in the car going to the
first day of school, we are going to give you
as much juice as we possibly can give you. Jake Flynn,
Elandra Tata, the Gang's all back together.
Speaker 4: Turns out we might be the wolf back again.
Speaker 5: Were those yeo's good enough for you?
Speaker 3: Better than the ones where you were just like off
key A little bit is real pitchy? You kept adding
to it, little ab lib No, I don't know. We
did it for a certain way. For a long time
and you're just trying to star above the rest of us.
Speaker 5: Wait, wait, are we the wolfbag? Are we the fox
or which ones? Are we?
Speaker 4: Both?
Speaker 5: Were both?
Speaker 6: Yeah, obviously we're so foxhole that we're wolf pack.
Speaker 7: Right, absolutely, So, Wait, school it's starting for some folks today,
like orientation.
Speaker 4: I know my eighth grader, he's got like his first day.
He's not going for a.
Speaker 3: Full day, but he's going checking it out, getting the locker,
walking around, showing the fit off, you know, sharp sharp,
showing that drill a couple of times here and there,
showing the new shoes if you got them.
Speaker 5: Your kids say drip.
Speaker 4: No, I hope not.
Speaker 6: I think that's out.
Speaker 5: Is it out? I think so they could just hit
the third to fourth graders.
Speaker 6: Oh oh are your kids saying drip?
Speaker 5: Oh? Like, oh yeah, yeah, you get some drip.
Speaker 4: I was like old Huck saying drip. I'm sure Memphis does.
Speaker 7: I gotta tell you, I'm been really uh kind of
pleased as as pleased as you can in Baton region
traffic in the afternoon traffic recently this summer, and I'm
just like, man, it's about the end. It's about the
n Now the morning doesn't affect us because you know,
we're driving when it's the sun's not out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a little like it's a little worse than
it currently is, but not bad at all, because you know,
I mean, what college kids actually go to a seven
am classy.
Speaker 7: I like, I get on the Interstate, I think we're
just catching some industrial traffic headed over the bridge doing
all that.
Speaker 4: I get, don't you know on my drive in a
lot of big trucks.
Speaker 7: A lot of big trucks, a lot of people trying
to beat the traffic. But yeah, you know what, it's sorry,
this is I would say, the last couple of days
until the traffic starts to get real, real bad again.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 7: My my kids start Thursday, I believe, yep, And I
would assume by next Monday, everybody gonna be headed a carpool.
Speaker 6: Also, all the college kids coming back from out of town.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's always.
Speaker 5: I'll stay over there. I'll stay over there in tigre Land.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's always a hectic day, even like in the mornings,
because like initially, whenever you start a school year, everybody
goes to the morning classes and everybody's in attendee.
Speaker 4: This is the first day, right at last four Yeah,
like them three them.
Speaker 3: Three days at that last and then everybody's like, okay, yeah,
I'm not going to that early class every single time,
So yeah, that's coming.
Speaker 4: It's okay though, you know what that means, more time
to listen to O TB.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the right.
Speaker 4: You don't get quick, so it's quick for them. I
think so.
Speaker 5: I think so too.
Speaker 4: And you're gonna be entertained. They're going to have some juice.
Speaker 3: They're going to attack today with the enthusiasm unknown to mankind.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's what we are really here for. We
are here to of course bring you all the sports
news that you want, obviously, but to really just make
Bat and Rey smarter. So tune in.
Speaker 7: I hope you're stuck in traffick for like thirty minutes
you're listening to a couple of segments.
Speaker 5: Uh, we'll be sure to say all the smart stuff
from like seven.
Speaker 4: Thirty eight exactly. Yeah, yeah, because.
Speaker 3: We'll save the bangers for those two have until seven
thirty save travels.
Speaker 4: Yesterday. Glad you got back.
Speaker 3: I know you had some of my high business, so
we didn't miss you. And of course we knew you
were listening in the opening segments while we said drop
us a note in the chat, I had to give
you a hard time a.
Speaker 4: Little bit, you know.
Speaker 3: Did you know sometimes you're not supposed to be able
to take off in August.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying technically.
Speaker 7: Well, look when we when we started the job, we
we knew that every now and then a little my
high business, it's gonna have to take place.
Speaker 5: I gotta tell you the in and out travel, fly in,
fly out one day, fly back the next.
Speaker 7: Pretty tiring, I gotta tell you. And uh, when you're going.
I had to go to Richmond, Virginia. Yeah, not a
direct way there, No, no, not direct from Baton Rouge.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: You know what's really frustrated when you have to fly
somewhere and you gotta fly over where you're going to
get there.
Speaker 5: It's yeah, worse. I had to like fly to Philadelphia.
I had to drive New Orleans, New Orleans, Philadelphia.
Speaker 3: Then't even direct from New Orleans, I think, uge, no, no, no,
a foxhole, move that you're here today.
Speaker 7: And then from Richmond, how do you go to Richmond
to Dallas? Which is frustrated again, you know wave wave
of New Orleans and my car Uh. Just frustrating, you know,
but you know, everybody, we all, we all get it.
We all live here.
Speaker 5: I'm preaching to the choir to everybody that flies up
there for business.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when I was tired, when we come home from California,
we would go San Diego to Atlanta, Atlanta to Baton
Rouge because like we always flew Delta, that's who, like
we had our points and everything with Sure and so
it was like we are like really passing this up
only to come back.
Speaker 5: Is points the greatest invention ever for a business?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Like did you hear talking about Starbucks yesterday?
Speaker 8: No, we were talking about Starbucks points yesterday and how
they give you free coffee all the time.
Speaker 7: Yeah, free mugs, bags with the airline points. They don't
even really give you anything. They just like let you
do things that they make other people like, like you
get a free bag checked. It didn't cost them anything
extra at Starbucks, it cost them a little bit to
at least give you a little bit of coffee. American
Airlines that is who I fly with, and it's like, yeah,
well just you can you can sit in the exit
seat for free.
Speaker 5: It didn't cost them anything, right, But I go out
of my way to fly with them.
Speaker 7: Because I got the points. Yeah, and I you know,
I get a little prime already. Laying sneak in doesn't
cost him anything.
Speaker 6: Though, Season opener, ooh you should.
Speaker 4: Do you need to hire all of us in this
room for marketing?
Speaker 6: We could get you.
Speaker 4: I feel like we come up with some great ideas.
Speaker 5: I thought we were so, well, why don't need to hire?
Speaker 4: We're asking?
Speaker 6: Yeah, just just hydrated the season opener last year in Vegas.
I flew flying there.
Speaker 9: I flew Baton Rouge to Nashville to Vegas, and then
on the way back, I flew Vegas. Yes, and then
on the way back, I flew Vegas to Atlanta to
Baton Rouge. I was very mad because I took like
a five am flight and we had just lost the night.
Speaker 4: Before, like awful.
Speaker 8: Hanny and I were on that dang rickshaw about to
die on the interstate because a bike decided to go
on the Interstate with me and Hanny on the back.
Speaker 4: If Hanny's grumpy, Handy's grumpy.
Speaker 6: So then we didn't get to like where was it
Mandalay Bay?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Until late I don't know.
Speaker 10: It was think about like most subdued guy, I know,
but like funner than anybody else, drunk mad handy madder
than anybody else. He's so calm, but when he shows
the emotion, any emotion.
Speaker 4: It's like the best you've ever was my favorite Handy.
Speaker 8: We got off the little rickshaw or whatever that's what
they call it, right, a rickshaw.
Speaker 5: I don't know what.
Speaker 6: Thing on the back. Yes, sure, I don't know, whatever,
whatever it's called.
Speaker 9: We get off it, and Hanny's like how much the
guy was like two hundred dollars?
Speaker 6: It was one hundred dollars a person that was like, Hannah,
you got me.
Speaker 4: Two hundred. He was so mad, My god, what hell?
Speaker 5: Two hundred?
Speaker 4: I'd have been like, now you're going to catch you
in that little by It.
Speaker 6: Took us on the interstate.
Speaker 5: You got to negotiate that before he gets that first
pedal in.
Speaker 7: I know, but you know you got you, like especially
over there at that stadium, they got you because there's
no way back.
Speaker 6: Now you gotta take that little pedestrian bridge.
Speaker 5: You gotta take the bridge, but it's a long walk.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he.
Speaker 6: Wouldn't let me go by myself.
Speaker 3: They need to ban like all stupid flights like that too,
like you going to like all these for sec media days.
Speaker 4: We went from Atlanta to Tampa, Tampa to New Orleans.
What in the world are we doing?
Speaker 5: That's on the person that booked that.
Speaker 4: I was not very happy.
Speaker 5: Not to mention.
Speaker 3: I was finished line of just saying, you know what,
I'll see y'all in New Orleans because I'm just going
to go book a fly but stay in the fox
Old didn't do it.
Speaker 7: That was the dumbest book flight ever because not because
in Baton Rouge there is a flight that goes straight
to Atlanta. Obviously it goes like four places, but y'all
had to drive to New Orleans. I say y'all because
on the way there it was a direct yeah, but
on the way back, I.
Speaker 5: Didn't go back with y'all. The Tampa to New Orleans
drove back.
Speaker 4: Matt can see it on my face when he's like
when we started talking about it, because I knew it.
I knew it, and I didn't know it. I didn't
know it. Who in the world, what are you doing?
Speaker 5: What in the world?
Speaker 4: What are you doing here?
Speaker 5: Do we blame for this?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: I am I am glad to have the whole squad
back here, back together. Yesterday's show was a lot of
fun because, like, we we have pads everywhere now, and
you and I got a chance to go out to
practice on Saturday, and so like we'll cover that. But
that was a cool experience for us to be able
to go out there. We uh, you know, we brought
our sons out there, quick practice, efficient practice. We were
giving everybody a hard time because we're like, this is
a quick practice on the history of mankind?
Speaker 4: What are we doing here?
Speaker 5: History of training?
Speaker 4: We were some grandpa's out there.
Speaker 5: Back in my day, it would have been a warm up.
Speaker 4: There's no doubt.
Speaker 10: Matt's like, nobody's even bleeding.
Speaker 4: From these boys. They cramping, No, but.
Speaker 10: For real, but for real, Like, well so today they
start full two hour padded, good good.
Speaker 9: Hit.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean we're meatheads and we only knew one
way to do it. They got a little bit more technology.
Speaker 5: I gotta be honest. When I was a player, I
would have loved to have that practice.
Speaker 3: Oh, it was a a pro practice. It was a
prot it was like you're going from nine to seven straight.
It was like a pro season practice. Yeah, not a training.
That's a fair point. That's a fair point. Saints was
the same way though, SATs, Yeah, the same way.
Speaker 4: I'm like, y'all done.
Speaker 5: That's because that was haters going with the Wednesday.
Speaker 4: Jake.
Speaker 5: What did Jake do to you?
Speaker 4: I'm sitting there like I got there as he did.
Speaker 5: That photo shoot.
Speaker 4: That's true. Actually did Actually that is something I can
see you doing.
Speaker 5: Kid, Like what it was? It a joke? It was.
Speaker 7: It was satirical, right, I don't know, but like, can
we can we discuss this? I mean it's a long
time ago, but we can A long time ago he
had the uniform on is Yeah, I think it was
after his rookie year.
Speaker 5: Of rookie year photo shoot. Yeah, but did it ever
come out? If it was a joke?
Speaker 10: And that's the best part about it.
Speaker 6: I feel like he was so serious, but everyone.
Speaker 4: I feel like he was serious. He knew that it
was going to be so out there that people were
going to like he was.
Speaker 8: He he was in was where he's like back popped
a little bit and like hands around the collars, so funny.
Speaker 10: Well, he was in a he was in a win
win because he's like, I'm going to take this serious
either people are going to love it, or they're going
to assume that it was obviously a joke, like that's
a windy situation for jac is it though, Yeah, because
people are gonna be like, oh, he was obviously joking.
Speaker 5: He was obviously having the.
Speaker 6: Ones that they with a picture up and they're like,
not me throwing an interception.
Speaker 4: Come on, Jake, come on ja.
Speaker 3: Apparently whenever we sat down with him, like the entire
team kind of walk by and was talking golf with
Jay Caner, apparently like when he's done.
Speaker 4: He'll have the option to try to go play pro.
Oh kind of good.
Speaker 5: Can you imagine his photo shoot with his nine irons?
Speaker 4: I don't now, Matt. I don't know what in the
world wants.
Speaker 6: He doesn't like bind his bags.
Speaker 3: I don't know, Like, you know, y'all's handicap and scores
and all the things, Like I understand how it works,
but like how y'all just throw him out there, like, hey,
what are you?
Speaker 4: Plus four? It's like, okay, well, so is that what
it's Is he a plus four?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: He's a plus four? Yeah, not a four A plus four. Yeah,
it's a big difference. He said, plus four.
Speaker 4: I'm like, is that good?
Speaker 5: You reacted like, yeah, plus four is incredible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's what he said, and like everybody like
that walked by said something about golf to him.
Speaker 5: So it's this is there is eleven people.
Speaker 7: This isn't exactly how it works, but if it's like
depending on the course, like he should shoot four under basically.
Speaker 3: That's what like he said, plus four. Nobody batter an
eye when he said it. Okay, so maybe maybe he's
got a career if he didn't win. The Saints quarterback Also, yeah,
might I mean.
Speaker 8: Just to get us like hyped and juiced up this
morning and for the season, Derek Carr last night revealed
the toughest defenses he's ever faced.
Speaker 4: Yeah you got a video.
Speaker 5: Yeah, video, it's gonna be get your popcorn people. We're
playing that that is going to be elect and we're
going to break it down for maybe an hour.
Speaker 3: Well I don't know, if I don't know, if I
don't know, the cars having a juice for an hour
or worth of my time.
Speaker 7: Those pictures were great, Like I don't know, the Canter
the Jay Canter ones, they're so good. I know you
say it's two years ago when you releases that, we needed.
Speaker 10: Three last year, so this was his rookie year.
Speaker 9: I mean, I feel like I saw them make an
appearance last season when where he was in.
Speaker 7: He's got he's definitely the ones where he's grabbing his
collar and like doing that weird.
Speaker 3: He did feel like a very like yeah, like you
felt like very sarcastic humor.
Speaker 10: You got to respect the confidence coming in as a rookie.
Speaker 7: That's your photo shoot and what round pick fourth fourth
coming in as a fourth round pick too.
Speaker 4: I can see you doing this. I don't know why
you're at now.
Speaker 5: That I'm looking at it. I kind of respect it.
Speaker 7: I told you because the one I don't think I've
ever seen, the ones like the top left ones, the
two like close ups of his face where I can
clearly see he's being a smart ass.
Speaker 5: So okay, I respect it now. I like him, all right,
change my opinion, change his opinion.
Speaker 7: He's gonna be at Spencer ratle real all right, plus
four two respect.
Speaker 3: When we come back, we'll get a little a little
recap of lu practice that flintsall over the weekend.
Speaker 4: We kind of did the same yesterday.
Speaker 3: Tay was out on the Ponderosa as well, So we'll
break it all down. Continue it's talk a little training camp.
We've got the Coaches Pull that just released yesterday. It's
not as good as the OTB Top twenty five, which
will continue that today as well. But you know, we'll
lay it out there for you to tell you how
wrong they were when we come back here.
Speaker 4: On OTB Off the Bench.
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Speaker 4: All right, welcome back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, OTB one O four five ESPN baton rouge. If
it was good enough for Luca to celebrate his one
hundred and sixty five million dollar extension, it's good enough
for OTB here.
Speaker 4: On a Tuesday.
Speaker 5: I don't understand the reference.
Speaker 3: Lucas celebrated signing an extension with the Lakers by going
to BSB in Las Vegas.
Speaker 5: Okay, cool, thanks, enjoyed the kid.
Speaker 4: That could be like a drop, like oh my god,
we're back again, like.
Speaker 2: This was back. I think.
Speaker 10: Taxes yeah they are, Yeah, they're using the crap out
of that thing.
Speaker 4: Well they should like whenever.
Speaker 3: So Kenny Chesney just got diggd with his and I
remember and I was interviewing Kenny and we were talking
like afterwards, and he's like, man, I'm gonna be honest,
like it's got so many bells and whistles.
Speaker 4: My show doesn't really have that many bells and whistles.
Speaker 3: He's like, we are staying up late all the time,
like every night, getting ready for this concert, trying to
think how many things we can try to integrate into
the show that we normally don't have because you have
it available at the sphere in Las Vegas. Yeah, I
can imagine like a country concert, probably what do you
drive like after you do that?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 4: She thinks my tractor sex and you got you know,
the John Deere out there? Like what else you do?
Speaker 10: He does a lot of like Beachman each in the background.
But yeah, like to your point, I guess, like special
effects and stuff. Country is probably the least like live
show wise.
Speaker 5: Question okay, answer one hundred and sixty five million, Yeah, three.
Speaker 4: Years, hundred sixty five I think extension.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, cool. That's in the state of California.
Speaker 7: That's eighty nine million, one hundred thousand dollars he's paying
to taxes. Yep, So that is eighty nine million dollars
less he made because he plays in La than he
would have with the Mavericks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, think about that one.
Speaker 4: Like, you don't have to tell me. I know I
paid it for five I just one of.
Speaker 5: The listeners to know California sucks.
Speaker 6: They're robbing you blind, They're robbing.
Speaker 5: You blind people. It's fifty four, That's what I said.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I definitely may.
Speaker 3: I guess what, I'm not even thinking about it whenever
I still think about it, whenever I hit my incentives.
My fourth year, the most hour I ever made by far,
and I remember getting everything back at the end of
the year and I actually paid like fifty one point
nine percent in and then so I paid more than
I made.
Speaker 5: Yeah what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: And I couldn't like I know, but I'm I couldn't
get over it. Like I was calling people like hey,
is this right? Like this is this is how it
was supposed to be. Like I was expecting it to
be like sixty forty and I was like fifty one
point nine.
Speaker 5: It was forty before California got there.
Speaker 3: Well, California's what thirteen and some change, like Luisi has
got high too now for for where we live and
the weather that we live in, Like we got some
high state tax too.
Speaker 4: Now, let me get it twisted.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think CALLI though.
Speaker 3: This man hates California all right. Uh, training camp on Saturday,
we had a chance to go out there. My big
takeaway yesterday kind of the recap of the practice we
had a chance to go see, was Caden Durham. I
think Cayden Durham is going to be an eleven hundred
twelve hundred yard rusher. I think he's going to be
all SEC if he stays healthy. That's like my first
big football take of the year, is Caden Durham's going
to be all SEC.
Speaker 2: He So.
Speaker 7: I had to confirm because he had his jersey BRD.
I had to confirm that that was him, Like when
he ran, yeah passes on a play and I was like,
I'm pretty it's got to be him. He just looks
looks different. He looks the part he is. He's fast,
he's quick, but he just looks like he's a unit man.
He looks the part and excited to watch him, and
I would, uh, you know, I don't know what kind
of yardage I'm gonna put on it, but I will
say I was excited to see different run schemes. Offense
was running. You could tell that they had been working
on it. They had they had drawn up some some
different stuff. I was excited for what I saw. Now,
it was a quick practice and there wasn't there wasn't
a lot of hitting going on. But from what I saw,
it looked like it wasn't just you know, zone right,
zone left, but came down shirt certainly like looks the part.
I mean, the guy, he didn't look like, uh look
like a freshman anymore, right, the guy looks like, you know,
a guy that looks like he is uh poised to
have a very very solid year.
Speaker 10: So for what it's worth, I was out there yesterday
and I understand they're not in full pad, so it's
kind of hard to tell, but you can kind of
tell what's a touchdown and what's not. Sixty yard forty yarder. Yesterday,
like no other running backs, Like the d line did
a really good job of like Jackson Berry bottling them
up Kamber too long one.
Speaker 3: That's how it was the practice we went to. Like
the defense actually had a really good day of the day.
We were even made a comment about it. You're like,
until that Cayden Durham run, I think is the one
that you kind of pointed out, You're like the defense
had won to that point.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the defense had won that day for them, especially
from the defensive back. But let me go back to
that run. Hucking Memphis learned a couple of adult words
right there on the sideline. Yeah, you know, every down
then a male human gets hit in a place that
you don't want to get hit, and sometimes you just
got to take a knee on the sideline. Well, he
took a knee right next to old hucking Memphis. They
learned a few words that day and came in right there,
and then we were like, yeah, sorry, got hitting the balls, bud.
Speaker 5: You know it happens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yes, yeah, I don't know that yet, kids,
but you will, but you will, it will.
Speaker 5: It's not good.
Speaker 7: Just sometimes you just got to take a knee. Doesn't
matter where you are. It doesn't feel good. It's unexplainable.
Speaker 4: It was a great run though, it was a great run.
Speaker 5: But yeah, the defense at that point, the secondary was, uh,
it was blanketed covered.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they were.
Speaker 7: There's a lot of really good concepts we were running
to and sure we're getting into you know, multiple days,
so the defense starts to see the same plays kind
of over and over.
Speaker 5: I don't think the offense installed anything.
Speaker 7: New that day, so it was probably some plays they
had seen already, but they made it hard on us
Myer andus Myer's spinning it like we would expect him to,
looks very poised, looks like he's going through all his reads.
But the defense was they had blanket coverage. They were
playing well. So I was excited watching the defense work
and the secondary work. I'll be a little bit more
excited once we get the pads on, we start seeing
the pressures and things like that, because I think up
to that point the defense hadn't really I hadn't really
seen a whole lot of pressure packages, blitz packages from
the defense. So but you know, we said, we brought
in a lot of people from the transfer portal we hit.
We did a good job on paper, but you want
to see it come to life. You want to see
it in reality. You want to see it in an
LSU helmet. All those pieces come to play, that chemistry formed,
and you know, from the very short brief extent that
we were able to see, it looks like it's headed
in a positive direction.
Speaker 3: One position group that is going to continue to probably
get eye hustled the most I think is the interior
of the offensive line. And Tata correct me if I'm wrong,
but they've already said, hey, More's going to be the center.
Chester's going to have an opportunity to win one of
the guard jobs because and like right now, and I
do think that the defensive line is obviously in the
defensive tackle position is going to go up because you've
got true freshman from a year ago that played a ton.
They're gonna be much better this year, and we know
how talented they are from what they did in high school.
You bring in a couple of transfers that I think
a lot of people are going to know their name
pretty soon here, and they've got Kyle Williams coaching them.
Like all those things I do think play a factor.
But there's some interior defensive line that are getting in
the backfield. The first couple of days of camp is
what it sounds like.
Speaker 10: Yeah, so you know a lot of people will talk about, hey,
one on ones when they're doing one on ones, the
old line looks really good. It's eleven on eleven. Then
you know they haven't figured out how to play as
a unit yet, which is fine. Offensive line's kind of
taking shape there yesterday Kelly said, Hey, Braylan Moore is
going to be our starting center, like he announced that.
Then he mentioned there's four guys for two guard spots,
and he said, DJ Chester, if something were to happen
in the game, is our number two center. But y'all
were out there on Saturday, you had walk on Brayden
August's working at center. Yesterday they had Paul ma being
go play in a little bit of center. To me,
that tells me DJ Chester has won that guard spot
and they want him to focus on that. He's not
working with the twos at center and he is your
backup center in a game. Sounds to me like DJ
Chester's won that spot as well. Your tackles haven't really
rotated like it's really been Weston Davis and Tyree Adams.
Speaker 5: Yeah, on the edge, like the guards have rotated.
Speaker 10: Like, so you're kind of if your tackles are set
in your center set Chester wins that, you're really just
waiting for Josh Thompson to solidify on the other side.
Speaker 4: But it looks like he is.
Speaker 5: Go back to the rotation of the backup center. Say
that again, so.
Speaker 10: Kelly said yesterday in this press conference, DJ Chester is
our number two center, but in practice he's not wrapping
its own of center just because he played it all
last year. So like to me, that just says we
know what he can do in a game. We really
want him to win this guard spot, and we want
him to focus on that. I mean, that's just me
looking at it. Like outside view.
Speaker 4: I did see a couple of bad gun snaps that
was Paul like moving out.
Speaker 5: Who's moving from guard?
Speaker 3: So he's new new Yeah, I mean last year, last
four games, I think he started guard when Delager went out.
Speaker 5: Ye understandable.
Speaker 7: Hey man, it looked it looked like trying like the
the I got flashbacks of training camp, of watching those
offensive linemen and some of those drills, like the run drills,
half line drills.
Speaker 5: Just trying to snap the ball.
Speaker 7: You're rotating a ton of guys in so some guys
got to play center and snap the ball that don't
normally do it, and they're soaking wet and they're soaking
wet from sweat and they are It's just bad snaps,
but you know it happens. But yeah, little PTSD of
just seeing centers. I used to yell at centers and
training camp because they would sit there they're already wet
because they're they're sweating, and then they get the water bottle,
they just like spray their whole body down and I'm like,
stop it, stop it. Get the ball at it's hot outside, mat,
I get it. It's not all about you, it's about
the team. And for the team to be successful, got
to have a dry ball.
Speaker 4: Yeah. The team's also got to be standing up and
not passing out.
Speaker 5: Okay, you may throw pick because the ball's silking wet.
Speaker 3: Get a better grip, find up dry spot on the ball.
Yeah right, all right, we do have a coach's pull
to kind of break down. Tell you where LSU's at,
tell you where the opponents are at as well, and
we'll get this thing started when we come back here
on OTB.
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Speaker 5: Would we say that the l s U secondary has
been in sync up to this point.
Speaker 4: This is you know, backstree boys, but yeah, sure nailed it.
Speaker 6: They've been larger than life. This reminds me of my
first job, six Flags all the time.
Speaker 12: That was your first job, Yeah, honestly working at six Flags,
real job, Like I used to do like concession stands
out like the youth Baseball League thing or whatever.
Speaker 6: But that was like when you're like twelve or whatever.
But that was like my first real actual job was
at six No, I was at the like that at
the gates, at the gates.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, all right, laundra sucking anybody that tries to
get in with the faith.
Speaker 6: It was actually terrible. It's minimum wage seven to twenty
five an hour.
Speaker 8: But I kept it throughout the entire summer and just
like never worked because you and one other person got
into the park for free so you could does not work.
Speaker 6: I mean I just was like, oh, I'm busy.
Speaker 5: Oh sorry, and.
Speaker 10: Then they see your show up to the park.
Speaker 2: This is Sound'm busy.
Speaker 10: I'm busy doing this.
Speaker 5: Yeah busy.
Speaker 2: It was hot.
Speaker 4: H I was about to say, it's just baiting.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6: Fourth of July was like the worst day of my life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sounds like it feels like it. Yeah, we have
a Coach's Top twenty five poll. Okay, here goes from
number ten down to number one. Coming in at number ten.
You've got Miami coming in at number nine, the LSU
Tigers coming in number eight, Alabama at seven, Oregon, Clemson
at six, Notre Dame at five, Georgia at four, Penn
State at three, Ohio State at two, and Texas number one.
Now of teams receiving first place votes, Texas got twenty eight,
Ohio State got twenty, Penn State got fourteen, Georgia got three,
and Clemson got two. Any big surprises for anyone in
the room in the top ten, maybe me, You don't
have to raise your hand. Well, yes, Matthew, LSU had
nine is awful, But I thought LSU would be somewhere
six six seven, Yeah, five six seven, something like that
in a coach's poll.
Speaker 7: Texas is going to lose the first game of the year, yes,
and it's to Ohio State, who they have ranked two.
So that's the biggest thing to me that sticks out
is they will lose that game. I don't have any
I feel very confident in that. I don't know about y'all,
but I feel very confident. And LSU is going to
be Clemson who's ranked wise? Are they six six yeap six,
So I would definitely flip those I thought.
Speaker 3: Five too, by the way, you thought who I know
they're number six, but I thought they would be four.
Speaker 10: If you look at returning production from a year ago,
like they probably should be.
Speaker 4: Like you, you could go.
Speaker 3: Anywhere in this city right now with one hundred people
that are gathered together and ask them who's a Notre
dame starting quarterback? And I don't know that anybody could
give it to you. It's going to be It's gonna
be car probably not related to those cars.
Speaker 4: Who remember Michigan had coach for a long time. It's
his grandson. It's going to be the starting quarterback.
Speaker 9: Likely Penn State at three does something to my spirit
that like, I just don't like it.
Speaker 10: Should people just the national media loves Drew.
Speaker 6: I understand why they did it because of Drew. Yes,
I get why they do love Drew.
Speaker 7: It just you know, another team that most people aren't
going to be able to say the starting quarterback of
is who they got.
Speaker 5: Ahead of l s U Number eight in Alabama.
Speaker 4: It's true they can give you they probably names, but
they can't tell you who's going to be.
Speaker 10: Actually, Oregon actually confuses me.
Speaker 5: At seven.
Speaker 10: I don't think they should be that high. Like I
love Dan Lanning. I think he's one of the best
coaches in the country. The brand new quarterback, I think
that matters.
Speaker 3: He started the Lord games at u c l A,
which which helps compared to like, we don't know anything
about Ohio State's quarterback, about Notre Dames quarterback, really about
Georgia's quarterback outside of one game Texas. I mean we
got three stars from arch. I mean there's well, okay,
that's the story.
Speaker 4: Life for me.
Speaker 6: Too high too like number one.
Speaker 5: Or Oregon doesn't bother me because I.
Speaker 3: Would have a hot to State probably one, because there's
flair to be the man, you gotta beat the man.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Orgon doesn't bother me because a lot, because there's
quite it's college football. There's gonna be questions everywhere because
people graduate people. It's that's the name, it's the name
of the game. So seven, like, that's just on reputation,
that's just on they're a good program, they've they've done
good with new quarterbacks coaches, But on reputation. You can't
get number one with a brand new quarterback. You can't
be and not be at least the reigning champion. So
like based on that alone, like both of these teams,
Texas and O House, they have a new person, so
it's it's a big it's still a big question mark
whether you know who the person is, whether you believe it.
So on a ranking, you gotta give it just to
the Ragning champ at that point. Well, not only matt they're.
Speaker 4: The best offensive player and defensive player probably in the country.
Speaker 10: Like the top two players probably if you did, if
you did a list of the top twenty, like Caleb
Downs and Jeremiah Smith are both in the top five
regardless of position.
Speaker 4: You get CJ.
Speaker 10: Donaldson coming in at running back, which is an underrated portal.
Speaker 11: Ad.
Speaker 10: I get that they lost their two guys. You're at
home against Texas. I think they win that game. Like
people aren't pointing out the fact that arch Manning is
losing the top three pass catchers from Texas a year ago,
Isaiah Bon Matthew Golden Gunner Helm, they're all gone. Like
it's more than just breaking in a new quarterback. Huh,
State's breaking in a new quarterback. A lot of talent
around him. Texas is kind of an unknown.
Speaker 3: Texas going to be on the ground this year. Yeah,
Texas has two Sunday running backs. Arch you know last
year that was his package was to come in and
run the RPO stuff. He is, He's more built like
his father and not his uncles when it comes to
being able to run the football. So they are going
to be a run first football team. And I know
a lot of people here that are like, no, it's
Arch Manning. He can make the throws, but you have
to play to your strengths. And Texas strengths is going
to be their running backs and their quarterback being able
to run the football as well behind. I know they
lost a first round pack, but they still got a
good offensive line. It is going to be just like
we always talk about, everything's set up off the run
on some of these offenses that you just assume throw
the ball forty five times a game.
Speaker 10: Well that's why Pennon State's at three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they got a one to two punch for sure.
They lose Tyler Warren though, and that man was a unicorn.
That man played center, tight end, quarterback, running back.
Speaker 5: He did it all for He can't call him that anymore. Why,
Let's Travis Hunter.
Speaker 6: That's his nickname.
Speaker 5: That's his nickname. He gave it to himself. Jake wasn't there.
Speaker 4: We talked about it.
Speaker 10: He gave himself the self proclaimed nickname at a training
camp interview that he is calling himself the unicorn.
Speaker 4: Well get yourself.
Speaker 8: Well, you can't give yourself wanted. If you're gonna give
yourself one, it can't be unicorn.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, Matt called himself dragon Dragon. He gave it himself.
That's awesome.
Speaker 6: You still can't give yourself a nickname. Nobody who calls
you that?
Speaker 7: A lot of people Amazon, I'm gonna start calling him
that now a lot of people call me dragon.
Speaker 10: All of his door dash orders are like, are you dragon?
Speaker 5: Dragon?
Speaker 2: Me?
Speaker 5: A lot of a lot of our friends children call
me dragon. No, they don't.
Speaker 6: They do once they get older. You got hit him
with the drugondod when they're older.
Speaker 3: When they're older, at least, I don't know that information.
What they call you that they called your dragon?
Speaker 6: This Memphis out there calling no, he causing coach Matt.
Speaker 4: He calls him coach Matt because he coached him.
Speaker 5: In pre K coach Dragon Coach Matt.
Speaker 9: What? No.
Speaker 4: On that note, we'll take a break more OTB when
we come.
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Speaker 3: No, all right, welcome back in OTV one of four
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Speaker 4: I know we haven't technically got this thing started, but
we're going to at the top of the next hour.
There's a lot of people that are in the car
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Speaker 3: Bit later, right, okay of the Tuesdays in the case
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Speaker 3: A couple of teams that we did not get to
in the Coaches Top twenty five poll, so a couple
of Lshue opponents number thirteen, South Carolina number fifteen, Ole
miss number seventeen, the Florida Gators number twenty one, Texas
A and M. What a difference a year makes for
Florida last year at this time their win total was
four and a half, and now after going eight and
five last season, keeping two teams out of Atlanta, including LSU,
they come in at number seventeen. So the expectation has
completely changed there in Gainesville.
Speaker 7: Yeah, rightfully, So, I mean they went from who were
from Billy's not gonna be here anymore?
Speaker 5: Like why is he here this week?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Pretty much last year, right, And I think everybody was
on that train. I don't think there wasn't a hot
take last year at all. There wasn't anybody that was
wrong for saying Billy Napier should be fired at some
point during that season. But what a I mean, like
one of the best turnarounds we've seen during the season
in a long time. And a lot of it has
to do with mister DJ Langway.
Speaker 3: So obviously back to practice after his shoulder injury. You
definitely knew that.
Speaker 5: Definitely knew he had a shoulder injury. I was on
a business trip.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just happened. But they will go as he goes,
Oh for sure. He's just like South Carolina and LSU.
L she's really talented. They will go as far as
Garrett Nosmeyer takes them.
Speaker 5: I think that's the world.
Speaker 3: Now they do have a backup quarterback and vamb you're
in that did start in the SEC and then gives
you a little bit more faith than other places. But
these quarterbacks in the SEC, they are Sunday first round guys,
but more than any maybe in the conference. If Florida
doesn't have DJ Lagway, the narrative completely changes.
Speaker 7: That's the that's the world of college football, the NIL era.
The top schools are usually going to have like one
Tier one quarterback on the roster because usually they're not
gonna have a young guy or somebody willing to stay
there to be a backup. But that's the way it goes.
But yeah, DJ Lagway, I mean made all the difference
last year.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 7: And yeah, you're right though Florida and South Carolina are
both in the same boat like they If something happens
either one of those guys, the season is going to
be in wreck.
Speaker 5: So but we'll see.
Speaker 7: But yeah, I mean want to turn around by Florida.
I expect big things from DJ. Lagway certainly passed the
eyeball test that SEC media did.
Speaker 3: Some more teams that at some point in the show
will come back to that. Are in this top twenty
five tennessee a quarterback situation and they made a playoff
last year. They come in at eighteen. You've got a
couple of teams Michigan. We don't know who their quarterback's
going to be. They come in at number fourteen. So
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