Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 2: Let's all start to you to present off the bench
with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert. Yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah, off the bench with Jacob Hester and Bob Abert.
Speaker 3: I got to come off the bench.
Speaker 2: Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abart.
Speaker 3: Yo, what's happening? Everybody?
Speaker 4: Welcome into a brand new day of O T b uh.
No matter where you're listening from, maybe the future, maybe
your vehicle, if you're out there on the roads, be
safe this morning, take your time.
Speaker 3: Should be able to get where you're going just fine.
Speaker 4: Didn't seem like the interstate over again yet, but you know,
found some roads in the way coming in here.
Speaker 3: Ah man, what a couple of days.
Speaker 4: What an absolutely wild couple of days.
Speaker 3: There's an old you know, there's a you know, I
love hardcore history with Dan Carl.
Speaker 4: I'm obsessed, have been for years and years now, and
he kind of talks with that concept of knowing you
are living through something historical and how rare that is
and how interesting that is. And I can't help but
feel about snow Apocalypse twenty twenty five in that way.
I mean, I would have thought that I would have
lived an entire lifetime here in Louisiana and never experienced
what we just did the last couple of days, an
actual legitimate snow and it was so much fun.
Speaker 3: Snow day to lasts a lifetime.
Speaker 4: Who knows if we ever get another one, right, So
I hope everybody's very president having fun, because ah god,
I thought it was absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 3: Now. I was very excited for going into it.
Speaker 4: The two people in the studio with me right now,
a Landra via Al and Taylor Sharp, were not. They
were very curmudgingly and scrooge like. Did the beautiful fat
flakes that we were blessed with the last couple of days,
Now that we are the other side of it, guys,
did those icy hearts ever ironically melt.
Speaker 3: In the snow?
Speaker 1: It was definitely a sight to see that that way,
is that.
Speaker 3: The extent of your praise that you will bequeath upon it?
It was a sight to see.
Speaker 1: No, it was a sight to see. I mean to
be fair, I was actually shocked by the amount of
snow that we got because I don't know, you know,
people always exaggerate on the snow or like on the news,
on the weather or whatever. And I was like, Okay,
we'll get.
Speaker 3: Some snow, but we got so much snow.
Speaker 1: I was just telling Taylor that, like, I FaceTime my
friend Jennifer in Texas because they got some but not
as much as we did. And it was already melting
over there and we were still getting snow. And I
was like, dude, it looks like I don't even live
in Louisiana right now. And I was like, it really doesn't.
I was like, I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 3: It was crazy.
Speaker 4: I know it now, Taylor, are you willing to issue
to an apology to all of our meteorological brethren, who you,
quite frankly crept all over in the run up to this.
Speaker 5: I never thought this would happen, guys, but I was wrong.
Enjoy it will probably never happen again. He said. I
had a PhD in common sense. Well, I lost it
the last two days. I don't know where it went.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 5: Did I get eight inches?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: But I got about six so close enough. I thought, well,
I said we weren't going to get over three. I
was completely wrong. I actually enjoyed it, t Bob, And
I'll explain why. So you know, we were talking about
it on my day, and I said, look, you know,
we lose power, we can't be on the roads. If
we are, we have to drive in it. Look, Guarantee
gave us not one but two days. Yeah, hell, I
lose power one time, so I gotta say I had
a good time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really nice when nothing goes wrong, you know,
no burst pipes, no losing of the power. So Tate,
instead of eating crow today you will be eating.
Speaker 3: Thank you, land a good job. Proud of you.
Speaker 1: I will say, while I think that it was a
sight to see, and I was shocked by the amount
of snow that there was. Yeah, I wouldn't say that
I was out.
Speaker 3: There enjoying it. No, oh dude, it was. I mean took.
Speaker 1: Bonnie out a couple of times and she was, you.
Speaker 3: Make a snowman?
Speaker 4: Did anybody make any I mean, surely, Londa, you don't
strike me as wanting to make a snowman? Maybe though,
but taite, with all of y'all's family competitions and everything else,
was there not a snowman making competit anywhere in here?
Speaker 5: So not with my family. But Victoria had to make one, right, Yeah, sure,
the snow on Tuesday, I mean it was like, powder,
he's too soft. So we actually made it yesterday. We
did good. The neighbors across the streets see us a
doing it. They come outside and we're kind of watching.
And then the neighbors a couple houses down saw us
doing it, and then they were all like, let's see
who could build the best one. So it's like, you know,
we got had a little neighborhood competition.
Speaker 4: Here's one of the main things that I learned about
snow over the last couple of days that I did
not understand was that it's actually incredibly akin to sand
when it comes to construction. In that yeah, that powder
is like when you're on the super dry parts of
the beach, right with your dry So that's not what
you build with, right, It's not gonna say that you
need that wet sand in that same vein. If you
were gonna make it on Tuesday, in the middle of
the snowstorm, you had to get your snow from like
maybe the street, maybe a roof snow that would have
been a bit more melted and or sticky. And then
yesterday when it started to melt, you could really start
to create something. Now, when you made your snowman because
I didn't know. You know, when you were growing up
watching cartoons and you would see a snowball roll downhill,
it would gett increasingly bigger and bigger and bigger. I
didn't know there was an actual thing. But I'd be
damned if when we were building that snowman yesterday and
that that was kind of starting to melt a little bit,
you could legitimately just roll that thing around and it
would pick up every single bit of snow. Like it
was like, well, I don't know how many people understand this,
but like it was the ball from Katamar Demasi, the
old game back in the day, where you roll everything
it sticks with everything.
Speaker 3: I was flabbergasted, mind blown. God Tuesday, dude.
Speaker 4: At one point, I'm sitting out there jealous of our
Northern brethren, realizing they've been living a fully evolved lifestyle.
I had a six pack of beer in the snow,
staying cold, sitting on the easy rocker, Kids and dogs
running all around the neighborhood, just unreal good times playing
frozen in the backyard, kids going down the slide on
the playground with me shoveling like a little landing area
for them to land softly.
Speaker 3: It was. It was just it was the absolute best.
I will say this.
Speaker 4: Not having ski pants for the kids that was a
bit rough, a constant rotation of switching out pants, drying
them by the fire, and rint it repeat as the
kids's legs would get freezing. But it was just it
was something I'll never forget. You know, it's a little
sad that it's over, but in the classic parlance, don't
cry because it's over, smile because it happens. So yeah,
I would firmly like if I was doing a list
of all time beers, snow Dave beers have got to
rocket up that list. I don't know if they cracked
the top five given their rarity, but my god, tasty,
tasty beers. Indeed, something Devin Snow was tweeting about that
I could play agree with as well, and it probably
will not remain true over the next couple of days.
But that fresh snow that we had Tuesday, I'll be
damned if a fresh layer of snow just doesn't make
everything look nicer. It covers up all the defects. It
adds a beautiful gleam and sheen to everything. When it's
sunny outside, all the snow. All the light reflecting off
the snow gives it a wonderful kind of twinkling glow. Bushes, trash, cans, anything,
It all looks better the layer of snow on top.
How sad are we that it's over?
Speaker 3: Guys?
Speaker 5: Oh not sad. I was telling you this morning. I
got a little stir crazy. Yesterday. Tuesday was nice, had
a little day off yesterday. I want if I wanted
to leave, I could have, but I was like, where
am I gonna go? Nothing's open? Got a little stir graised.
I don't think I could have done more than about
two days.
Speaker 2: I uh I.
Speaker 4: And you know I will probably end up kind of
busy back and forth of the next three hours to
the snow topics and not the only thing we have
to get into today, because it must be said that
we have to. We have support our brother in arms,
Jay Kester, who unfortunately could not have gotten screwed harder
by this snow, as did many people who were maybe
at that National championship from this area.
Speaker 3: As remember, he had to.
Speaker 4: Be covering the game in Atlanta on Monday night and
has spent the last two three days in travel hell.
The pictures that he's sent us from the airport. Just
looked like an absolute nightmare, desperately trying to get back
to Louisiana.
Speaker 3: Every kennything.
Speaker 4: Last week, check he was in Shreeport, But how do
you get down from Shreeport. It's just really rough for Jake,
and we love him and we miss him, and we
hope that he gets back as soon as you get
That's why he's not on the show today. So I
hasn't even managed to be able to get home. So
absolutely brutal, brutal. Dinebastia's New Orleans look beautiful, Yeah, I mean,
the the pictures of like.
Speaker 3: Jackson Square, just just everything.
Speaker 4: I mean, even the satellite imagery of the Gulf of
America where there's just, uh it just there's like so
much snow that you can clearly see it from space
all along the ground. That was pretty mind blowing to see.
As I said, all the historic New Orleans monuments, and
just architecture really in general, which is a style of
architecture that when you see it, because you know where
it is, you almost feel the heat and the humidity
and the sweat and the music and the juice what
you don't normally feel is the serene cool and the
serene piece.
Speaker 3: That comes with that beautiful blanket of powder. So it
was is a day I'll never forget again. I loved it.
Speaker 4: Bunny Money say, it's the true COVID. Kids playing outside, families,
cooking and driveways and chilling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 4: It was one of the greatest days ever. And I'm
thankful and grateful to the world for having experienced it.
And I hope that everybody else had a good time
and avoid any busted pipes or anything bad like that.
And again, on the road to the next couple days,
let's stay safe as we return to a normal time
of life.
Speaker 3: Real quick, guys, I do want a little programming note here.
So it is Thursday today.
Speaker 4: Now, No, everybody's probably in a bit of a time work,
but it is Thursday today and LSU South Carolina was
supposed to take place tonight ESPN one College Game Day,
the first college game Day featuring a woman's basketball game
all year long. That game has been pushed back till tomorrow.
So if you want to watch Coach Mulking coach Daily
squads go toe to toe twenty and oh ls you
against eighteen and one South Carolina. It is still going
to be on ESPN one, but it'll be at four
pm Central tomorrow. I don't know if they'll have game
day or not. It was schedule a certain hour for
the game, so maybe they will have three to four.
But that'll be tomorrow in Columbus.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be.
Speaker 4: More Columbia or wait now, I'm getting confused. Uh, Columbia
right too much? Ohose state on the mine. That'll be
tomorrow afternoon. Can't wait, huge game, but push back to
Friday Sunday's game against Texas A and M remains unaffected.
It'll still be Sunday in the PMAC at three pm.
So lock in for tomorrow and uh, let's go Tiger.
Is a massive game coming up, all right when we
get back here on off the bench, if you want
to go ahead and get all of your Snowpocalypse takes
in the chat, YouTube.
Speaker 3: Dot com one, four five, ESPN, we can uh get
to those, and.
Speaker 4: Let's talk National Championship because again we are in a
bit of a time where and even though this game
took place Monday night, we have not yet gotten a
chance to discuss it on air. Of course, we have
a ton of Saints coaching search news UH to get
to as Domino's begin to fall, we have a hunt
Pommer player profiles, portal player profiles coming up, some els
who baseball players named preseason Americans Early Top twenty fives.
Munchie's big though no big deal infrastored the day A
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Speaker 2: Welcome in to the best morning sports this show around
Off the Bench with Esther and t Bob.
Speaker 1: Love.
Speaker 3: What have y'all? What a back to? O? T b uh?
Do you still do RB Thursday? If Jake's on here,
we're doing it in honor O j Okay okay, I
like that. I feel so bad for him. I know,
I know, I know, really bumped me out.
Speaker 4: Chad's bringing up some interesting points here and something I
don't fully interesting. How did everyone's dogs handle the snow?
Because it's interesting. I assumed all dogs just love it, right,
But a lot of people saying, you know, some like
I got two dogs one day, Yeah, like Dustin says,
one of my dogs absolutely loving it. Well, the other
one was like nah, fam, I mean my dog did
not want to come inside all day long. You probably
played fetch ran around the neighborhood for the last forty
eight hours, laying in the snow, rolling around it.
Speaker 3: How the pups like Snowpocalypse twenty five.
Speaker 1: So I watched my neighbor's dog. They're stranded in Washington,
DC right now. You can't get back to that Jakes situation.
But she was unsure of it. She's a Golden Retriever,
so already a silly dog. Yeah, she was a little
unsure of it, but then ended up really liking it
and was just looking for sticks under the snow.
Speaker 5: It was so cute. Oh yeah, Frankie was an absolute menace.
I don't know if you guys saw the video that
I said in the group chat, trying trying to email
it to myself to pull it up right now, sprinting.
When he found out he could eat the snow, it
became a big day for him. That was a that
was a big one. Eating the snow. He enjoyed more
than more than play And I would say, but uh yeah,
just absolutely like happiest dog in the world was Frankie
the other day running in the snow. Look, I got
this video right here.
Speaker 3: It's just like what watch the watch this dude, and
it's siliento. Let me see here, just a menace.
Speaker 5: Look at this guy. Haven't really started to come down yet.
Like this was early on.
Speaker 3: You can still see the ground.
Speaker 5: Oh he was going nuts.
Speaker 3: This is before all concrete had gotten completely covered.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: Look at that. Oh wow, look at that dude. That's wholesome. God,
I mean, these are images that will continue to shock
and baffle. It's funny.
Speaker 4: We had a bunch of people because a bunch of
the kids came over early on and then they were
all kind of inside our house with way too many
people inside the house, but cooking breakfast, hanging out, drinking
mimosas whatnot. Everything's going on. And it was so funny
because every conversation was simply, oh my god, look at this,
look at this, because it just kept coming down more
and more and more, getting thicker and thicker and crazier
and crazier. And I was like, I know that we're
being redundant and speaking in circles and this is not
the most witty conversation, but like, I can't help but
keep mentioning. It just never seen anything like it. It
was as fantastic anybody getting snow fires going.
Speaker 5: Oh, you'd be like in our fireplace.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we had not inside outside little street fire
for everybody to hang out.
Speaker 5: No, I don't want people hanging out with me. We
went inside, me and Victoria. We had a heck of
a fire. We picked up her dad had just cut
down a bunch of trees, like he has his property
where he raises cows and all that. I mean we
have enough firewood to last us about two weeks, so,
I mean we had a fire going the whole time.
Speaker 3: What about?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: Did anyone did you watch anything good or do what?
How did you? How did you fill your time being
alone inside the entire time?
Speaker 5: The movie snow Day of course?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Great movie. D eded on in the background a
little bit. I didn't sit down and watch it.
Speaker 5: Haven't you Chase doing the Snowman weather report?
Speaker 3: So good? Yeah? Beat it? I yeah and really?
Speaker 4: Uh? Sloan from Entourage bursting onto the scene back in
the day, Chris Elliot a snowplow man is something I'll
never forget. Probably one of the biggest ASMR triggers of
my entire life is him eating fries off of jossh
Peck's chest.
Speaker 3: Catch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's covered in ketchup. They're trying to make it
look like blood. I don't know why it makes me,
you know, you know, sometimes you see something in sensory,
you just get that chunky, good, satisfying feeling. That's how
I feel watching Chris Elliot eat fries off Josh Peck and.
Speaker 3: It's awesome.
Speaker 4: Ate some leftover gumbo, says Club. Yep, yep, that's I mean,
that was a lot of gumbos in play here. We've
been making so much. We held off there, made a
nice broccoli cheddar soup. Shoutout. Cannon tells as well. We
had a bunch of noodles and lasagna ready to go.
Been a very Oh look at this gumbo Monday, Chili Tuesday,
and STU yesterday.
Speaker 3: That's good time right there. Bo hell yeah.
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labor and staffing. So National Championship goes down Monday night
and in the end, Ohio State becomes wins the National Championship.
Speaker 3: In fact, they end up covering, barely barely, but they
end up covering.
Speaker 5: It was a.
Speaker 4: It was an okay game. It featured one of the
greatest opening drives ever seen in my entire life. As
though name comes out there, seventeen plays seventy five yards,
eighteen plays seventy five yards and can talk about nine
minutes off the clock. I mean, legitimately, no hyperbole, one
of the best opening drives you will ever seen a
football game. The problem was Ohio State came out really simply,
I think it might have been ten or eleven, maybe
even nine, moves the ball right down the field and
makes it seven to seven. And right there in those
first two drives, you could already see all the dynamics
that play for the game. Because while notre Dame's drive
was again, like I said, legitimately one of the best
opening drives you will ever see in a football game,
like top five of all time. It was grindy, and
it was hard, and it features featured multiple fourth downs,
and it featured really all Notre Dame had, which is
quarterback run right, Riley Leonard falling forward, all the things
he said.
Speaker 3: And then you get to Ohio State and it's a
little bit of everything.
Speaker 4: Chunk plays, Will Howard Megan with his legs, the running
backs Henderson and Junkins coming up big, and it just
seems so much smoother, and that would hold true through
the rest of the game. Now, I will say massive
credit to Notre Dame for finding a way to make
that game frisky. Many people are ready to turn that
game off at the end of the third quarter. Then
Notre Dame comes up with the big touchdown tu quicker version.
They immediately force a turnover, and here we arrive at
probably the only real decision inflection point of the entire game,
and that is Marcus Freeman down sixteen, fourth and goal
from the nine, and he decides to kick a field goal,
and whatever magic Mitch Jeter had rolling with him through
these first few rounds of the playoffs disappeared and he
went back to his regular season himself, and he doinks
it off the uprights.
Speaker 3: No points, But I want to explore.
Speaker 4: This, not that we made the difference of the game,
but you, honestly you have to pick apart, right, he said,
it was really only the only coaching inflection point of
the entire game in many ways. And here's here's okay,
I guess here's my pen. When you're facing that fourth
and goal from the nine, and Marcus Freeman with his
decision telling you that he believed that his teams could
get an additional two possessions in the time remaining in
the game. Uh, And so okay, I'm gonna keep filler,
go down thirteen, and I'll still get the ball twice more. Now,
eventually they had Ohio State at a third and eleven.
So let's play with the hypothetical that they actually stopped
them on third and eleven, and therefore you get that
other position. They were right on the edge of it.
So it's not a not a bad call there. But
my problem with the decision is, thus, so let's say
you get that third possession, you're either going to be
down eight five or uh sixteen right or or Juan
how much trying to say this, Yeah, no, really it's just.
Speaker 3: Eight or five.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're you're you're down eight or five without with
how you ended up scoring. Oh that's what they're sorry.
So facing that fourth and nine, you could be looking
at a couple of it'd be down eight to five
or maybe even being tied. And that's where I just
cannot understand why they did not.
Speaker 2: Go for it.
Speaker 4: Now I understand that, like, you got the turnover, so
you felt like you had to get something on the scoreboard,
get something out of said turnover, And I understand that
the first three plays on the goal line left so
much to be desired that it's a bit like when
Kurtzignetty punted back in the first round of the playoffs
and he was just like, what you let me just
go for it on fourth eleven. We have nothing that
has shown us that we can make it. But yeah, yes,
I actually do, because that was Notre Dame's opportunity to
maybe really make something of this game. And staid, they
try to kick the field goal and they end up
exactly where they would have been had a pass fallen
incomplete had they gotten stopped, so it could have been eight,
it could have been five, it could have been tied,
but instead the gap remains. Now it should be said,
on that third and eleven, you gotta credit Ohio State. Now,
it was interesting do an immediate reaction show with Aaron
Murray on Snaps because he has some great perspective as
a quarterback, right, and he kind of thought the third
eleven call was so easy. I mean, oh my god,
are you telling me you're gonna blitz You're gonna man
up Jeremiah Smith. Of course, I'm just gonna trust Smith
and launch the deep ball. But at the same time,
there's a lot of kind of layman football knowledge. It says, no,
you look, you want to run the ball, You're wanna
force him to use timeouts, use the clock, et cetera,
et cetera.
Speaker 3: And that if you throw the ball that you're in
curring risk.
Speaker 4: Gless Miles used to say, when you throw the ball
for only three things can happen, and two of them
are bad. Right like Will Howard didn't have to deliver
a perfect throw. Jeremis Smith could have dropped it. Jeremis
Sith could not gotten open, but instead third and eleven,
game in the line, the ability to close the game
on the line. Jeremiah Smith and Will Howard show up
and they complete a beautiful deep ball all of a sudden,
game over. Really, Will Howard man, he is the story
for Ohio State. He was perfect eight first downs, picked
up with his legs. It's not even getting to what
he did through the air. Just dominated that game, dominated
this entire playoff front and how wild. And here's what
you really have to highlight with Will Howard. And it's
something that I think we take for granted and that
gets lost. We spent an entire offseason talking about, Yes,
this Ohio State team has everything, but it can only
go as far as Will Howard goes an entire offseason. Here,
this cat comes from Kansas State and he assumes the
burden of an Ohio State fan base, the literal biggest
fan base in college football that is insane with mental insecurity.
They can't be Michigan, they can't win the Big Ten.
They have all these towns of rosses, and they can't
win NAST championship. Brian Day's gonna be fired by the
fact he has this incredible record. Will Howard stares all
of that down, takes over in the offseason, deal with
all that pressure, and then manages to come through and
complete the one thing that would have justified all of
the investment, everything that Ohio State did going into this season.
You really just do not just gloss over what an
accomplishment that was for the Kansas State transfer quarterback taking
over for a quarterback in Commic Cord who was actually
pretty good, and even after losing a Michigan, managing to
find a way to get his team a national championship.
Speaker 3: It really is spectacular on an individual level. It speaks
to a.
Speaker 4: Ton of mental toughness, even more so than any physical toughness,
though plenty of that was on display as well with
him on Monday night. All Right, so that's kind of
the actual game. I want to get some of the
bigger picture takeaways here in a minute, But first, guys,
any thoughts in the actual game itself from Monday.
Speaker 5: To me, it never felt like Notre Dame was threatening
in this game. I mean, I get it, they had
the opening drive. I thought Ohio State let off the
gas defensively in the same and half. I don't really
know why they played so conservative. They were playing eight
yards off the line of scrimmage. I would have just
kept doing what I was doing. It was working well
because you mentioned the opening drive and how impressive it
was from Notre Dame. Next four possessions for Notre Dame.
Eleven plays eleven yards. Yeah, I mean it was, it was.
It was a domination. This game was thirty one to eight,
I mean thirty one to seven at one point. I mean,
Ohio State was doing everything they wanted to. Now, credit
to Notre Dame for coming back.
Speaker 3: I think he ended up throwing the ball better than
they thought he was.
Speaker 5: Oh he did, and he had I mean they only
had fifty three yards rushing. He had forty other No,
I know that.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's the stat right there, right Like the
fact that Notre Dame was even somewhat competitive when they
are a run only team and they only had fifty
three yards of the ground is a credit to the
Duke transfer and Ryle Leonard as well well. Because in
great House, Great House is a beast, continues to base.
We always talk about you have to get your best
players the ball in the biggest games. Jeremiah Love four
carries for three yards in this game, and you could say, okay,
well maybe he got involved in the passing game. Two
catches for five yards made nine yards total. Well, the
game flow was a disaster for the game again run
only you get down big, you gotta throw the ball
to come back. That was never going to work out again.
I'm more just shocked that even almost got somewhat exciting there,
Elandroid William.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I actually didn't find the game that exciting.
Speaker 4: No, it was.
Speaker 3: I thought it was a boring I thought it was boring. Yeah,
like I thought it was straight up boring.
Speaker 1: I did turn it off in the third quarter, like
you said that people were thinking about doing it. I
did turn it off, and then my cousin was like,
they're within eight, and I turned it back on and
then I ended up turning it back off before it
even ended. Like I just was not into it. But
I do agree with Taylor that it seemed like Ohio
State they'd kind of let off the gas a little
bit in the second half there.
Speaker 3: But uh, I mean, it's a really good name, it's
a team.
Speaker 1: But also in the when they were going into the half,
she asked Marcus for you mean, like, what do you
need to do to convert on third down, I think,
is what the question was. And he was like, we
got to convert on third down. And I was like, ooh,
this seems like he's gonna lose.
Speaker 4: Well, I will say this, and yeah, I mean, look,
they couldn't stay on schedule, they couldn't run no no, No.
Dame had the best third down percentage entering of any
playoff team. They're fifty percent during the playoffs alone, because
they'd constantly been at third and short. I will say this,
Freeman did have all one of the all time great
in between third and fourth quarter interviews where he's like,
you know, we got to get stopped, we got to
force a turnover, and then they immediately forced the fumble
and it looked like they had some hope, but then
he ends up kicking the field goal.
Speaker 5: I don't remember if it was in between first quarter,
second quarter, or at halftime like she was talking about,
but I mean, I'm sitting there on the couch and like,
this game's over. Because they asked him, you know, what's
what's the issue. You guys got to be able to
move the ball, and he's like, well, you know, the
their zone defense is confusing us a little bit, so
we were hoping they went to man. But that's causing
us problems as well. I'm like, wrote their zone and
man are causing you issues like that, that's problem, Marcus,
That's an issue.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 4: Also, I mean you you knew this was gonna be
an uphill battle on under name as their defense comes out,
and this is one of the main man to man
defenses in the entire country, and they're just playing zone
and they're not bringing pressure. And credit to the Ohio
State offensive line. Every time they did bring pressure, it
was picked up perfectly. Will Howard could have hopped on
a laptop back there at times and set up shop
if he really had wanted to. Uh So, ohiously, wins
and Nash Chapionship coming up next. Let's get into what
that means because I think there are some very clear,
big picture takeaways that will ripple throughout all of college football.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sorta
it's off the bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 3: What's happening y'all?
Speaker 4: Welcome back to OGB I hope you're all eleving a
wonderful day where recapping the college football National Championship. What
it means going forward is Jake Forrest company back. I
don't know how he's going to get back.
Speaker 3: He truly.
Speaker 4: He needs the Polka king of the Midwest. He needs
somebody who can, who can, who can get him here.
Speaker 5: He should be able to drive back this afternoon around
like three o'clock, I think, because I think at eleven
it's gonna be like almost forty, so that I shouldn't
melt pretty quickly this afternoon, so he should he should
be back tonight.
Speaker 3: Let's do at Jake check.
Speaker 4: Uh So, let's talk about some of the big high
level takeaways in from this college football season in a
national championship. First off, regardless, look, I think the NFL
draft will still show that there's the most draftable players
in the SEC et cetera, et cetera. Uh but like
there's no way round the fact there's does any or
let me know, if anybody has the appatite here, does
anybody want to try to explain away the SEC kind
of losing its far and away dominance in college football
because I feel like the facts are pretty objectively damning.
Speaker 5: I would say other teams have caught up in nil
and transfer portal. First off, your quarterback play wasn't great.
I mean outside yours like Jackson Dart was great, didn't
make the playoffs. What's out of Quinn? Yours like Carson
Beck was up and down then he gets hurt, all right.
Speaker 4: I mean, yours is going to the NFL. Yours is
turning down millions of dollars to go to the NFL
because Texas doesn't want it back despite everything that he's
done for Texas the last couple of years.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think I think the SEC was the
SEC of old really good defense, really good running games,
but you kind of struggled to throw the football.
Speaker 4: I mean, you look, it's a second year in a
row which there's no SEC team in the championship, the
second year in a row in which are Big Ten
teams win wins it. And although the SEC finishes eight
and seven in bull season, the Big Ten finishes eleven
and six. But here is the most damning part about
it all. The Big Ten finishes five and one against
the SEC and bowl season. So all that noise that
and it wasn't just the big dogs. I mean, yes,
Ohio State did stack a couple of those, but again
that's Ohio State, a ten and two Big Ten team
beating your best.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: But then it's it's USC beating A and M with
a USC where everybody had transferred out. It's Michigan beating
Alabama with none of Michigan's best players playing. It's a
three point win by Mizoo away from being zero and
six against.
Speaker 3: The Big Ten.
Speaker 4: So first high level takeaway, college football is even now.
The SEC no longer this monolithic dominant group, and clearly
now we have a power too. We have the two
big boys, and then the rest of Countrey are still
good and I still need to be a part of it.
But yeah, the SE and the Big Ten separated, with
the Big ten even a little bit ahead.
Speaker 3: Of the SEC.
Speaker 4: The other big takeaway, which is impossible to ignore. You
want to win big, you gotta spin big. I mean,
we talked about at the beginning of the playoffs, with
a couple of exceptions, the teams that were there were
teams that had invested very very heavily into their roster,
and none so more than Ohio State, right, I mean really,
the only thing that maybe invested more as much as
Ohio State was in Oregon, and they managed to batohu
DA during the season, but they couldn't handled them in
the playoffs. Still had a very good year, So Oregon
would reinforce this idea as well. But just in case
anybody was holding any illusions about being able to bargain,
ben this thing about being able to and no name, look,
no name spent, but they did. It's been crazy. They
probably spent well like eight to ten if I had
to guess on that roster, and and and they got close.
They showed that you can still be a team that's
the hole is great in some of its parts. But
I'll be damned this National Championship game if they didn't
look like they clearly outmatched their name, because where were
they weak. They had a great D line and an
incredible secondary. Judkins and Trayvon Henderson in the backfield just
absolutely deadly. Judkins a red zone animal. We know about
a Buka who's now actually the House State all time
leading receiver, which is insane to think about. Jeremiah Smith
tied it. I mean, where were they we The offensive
line was supposed to be maybe the only weakness, and
then they lose a guy like Seth McLoughlin and the
rig in the in the middle of the season, and
that's like, oh my god, you lose your first team
All American sender.
Speaker 3: And they they just got better.
Speaker 4: They got better running the wave, as they said, the
pass for it was incredible on Monday. So yeah, you
want to play with the big dogs, you gotta pay
with the big dogs. And it just is the ultimate
refutation of how LSU approached the twenty four season, in
which they thought they could get away with bargain bin shopping.
They thought they were entering the season lean and mean
and trim and operating efficiently. And look, our costs are
so down and we're still going to be good. And
you were all right, But you want to be in
the playoff, you want to be lifting that trophy next year,
you gotta spend it else You is to be fair,
as we've covered in our portal player profiles, But it's impossible,
and I don't know how to verbalize or lay out
what the full impact will be, but it is impossible
to ignore that we spent an entire offseason gasping and
guffine at the numbers that Ohio State was investing, right,
fifteen million that we learned it's closer to twenty million.
Speaker 3: What twenty million dollars?
Speaker 4: Ryan Day not even coach anymore, spending all of his
time fundraising, and credit to him, he managed to justify
the investor's confidence, right like, he managed to get all
to that this money together. But it was with the
ear mark of but if you don't get it done,
then you may be done.
Speaker 3: And now he did. And so what does that mean
that everybody is going to follow suit?
Speaker 4: Let me find one of my favorite quotes ever you've
heard me mentioned it before, comes from Valais Patricullis. Found
this in Storm Before the Storm, excellent Mike Duncan book
on kind of the setup of the Fall of the
Roman Republic. But he said quote, precedents do not stop
where they begin, but however narrow the path upon which
they enter, they create for themselves a highway whereon they
may wonder.
Speaker 3: With the utmost latitude. And here's the important line.
Speaker 4: No one thinks, of course, is base for himself, which
has proven profitable to others, and spending twenty million dollars
has proved be very profitable to Ohio State. I mean,
how happier Buckeye fans did they get to steel Michigan's
national championship glory just a year after the Wolverines finally
got It's kind of a kind of what happened with
Missus State Ole miss baseball a few years back, but
on a way bigger level. But again no one thinks,
of course is base for himself, which has proven profitable
to others. So you want to win big, you better
be willing to spend big. All right, let's close that
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to more sports talk. What's some other stuff
mixed in off the bench with Hester Anti Bog.
Speaker 4: All right, let's go ahead and continue our hunt Palmer
player portal profiles as if you go to Louisiana Sports
dot net. Guys, they really are doing a great job
over there. All your local sports right there and one simple,
easy to digest landing page. Ross Jackson covering the Saint two,
excellent hunt covering LSU Marler on the SEC.
Speaker 3: But today we're gonna do Donovan Green. Probably should have
done bower Shark first, but we can come back to
Bowersharp today.
Speaker 4: We'll do Donovan Green, Texas a and M tight end transfer,
is the guy who's a former four star coming out
of high school and under Armour All American. His freshman
year and twenty two, he plays in ten games, he
starts four. He has twenty two catches, two hundred and
thirty three yards two touchdowns. Now, the thing about Donovan
Green is he's massive six four two sixty five, So
the receiving numbers are what they are, but also a
lot of his value is gonna come from blocking that
yackle that Jake has talked about, right, that that tight
end with maybe a little bit more thumb on the
scale when it comes to the blocking portion of the job.
But after his freshman year it was so good he
was actually named Aggie Offensive Newcomer of the Year, So
a true freshman who managed to take home the best
freshman award on that team. Unfortunately for Green, he ends
up tearing his ACL in twenty twenty three fall camp,
so he misses all of twenty three. New coaching staff
comes in for whatever reason in twenty four, he never
really catches on with them. Sure, he plays special teams
all year long, but not a lot of offensive snaps
in twenty four. So here Donovan Green sits at a crossroads.
He's going into what would be I mean, imagine he
red shirted his ACL year, so he would have just
finished up his red shirt sophomore season. So he's going
into his red shirt junior year, very experienced. This is
the time where everything's kind of old hat to you,
and he has two years of eligibily remaining. And here
he is a guy who is an under Armour All American,
burst onto the scene as a freshman, and has suffered
through two years of frustration.
Speaker 3: And so the question is how hungry is.
Speaker 4: Him to prove himself two years move from that ACL surgery,
fully healthy, once again getting a fresh start in a
new place, wanting to show that no I am that player.
I'm closer to that player that you saw freshman year
than I am the one who got injured and.
Speaker 3: Then struggled to really find the field last season.
Speaker 4: And the bottom line is for LSU's needs, this is
a perfect fit tight end as a whole was in need,
as you were basically down to just trade as Green
during the bowl game. Then you bring in Bower Sharp.
We'll get to in a later day. You bring in
the high School a crew lafleur and now you have
Donald Green. Of course, trade is mainly going to be
a receiver sort of tight end power sharp more in
that vein as well, Donovan now checking the box that
really bow Borderline did last year, where the key difference
being Onlke Borderline, who was never really a.
Speaker 3: Pass so it did a good job but never really
a pass it.
Speaker 4: Green legitimately hand leak out and break tendencies and become
a threat in the red zone. So the tight end
group as a whole was managed perfectly, going from a
weakness to about very good top to bottom. But Donovan
Green bringing something specific in his skill set that LSU needed.
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