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Speaker 1: All start to you to presents. Off the Bench with

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Jacob Hester and T bob Abert.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Off.

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Speaker 1: The Bench with Jacob Hester and T bob Abert.

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Speaker 3: I gotta come off the bench.

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Speaker 1: Now here's Jacob Hester and T bob Abert.

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Speaker 4: All right, welcome into a Monday edition of Off the Bench.

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No Jacob Ester or T bob Abert. They are both

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out for the entirety of the week, so you'll have

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me here the next four days. We are all off

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this coming Friday, of course, because of Good Friday. Taylor

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Sharp sitting in here with you. We got a Laundra

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villar Rial, we got Cassie Spizali. Guys, how we do

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win on this Monday?

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Speaker 5: Pretty good. The weekend was kind of I mean, we

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all know, not.

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Speaker 6: A great not we know, not a great l s

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U weekend.

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Speaker 3: Going to the block this morning, I got this squad

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is russo so I'm feeling I'm feeling pretty good.

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Speaker 6: That's forests, I'm assuming.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, see, y'all judge me for what I drink. I

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don't think I don't think I've ever had a quad

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express it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but there's a difference between like a coffee. There's

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like a sophistication to coffee.

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Speaker 6: Right, I will admit that you got it may.

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Speaker 3: But I actually might have Like I don't have any

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sugar in this, so it's like I definitely have way

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less sugar than you do.

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Speaker 5: This pretty normal today.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, this one doesn't have any sugar.

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Speaker 5: Is celsius.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I don't like them that much.

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Speaker 4: But I was like, I gotta stop drinking motor oil

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in the morning. It's like I gotta do something that's

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a little bit healthier for me. So like it's an

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acquired taste that they're getting better. Yeah, I just I

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don't like things that are healthy obviously because it.

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Speaker 6: Doesn't have any sugar. But I'm getting used to Cassie.

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Speaker 7: How are we?

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Speaker 4: I know that, uh you were not typically the best

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in person in the building, so uh we were we

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rocking this morning?

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Speaker 6: You just you just each rolled in nothing.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm I'm still trying to wake

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Speaker 5: Come, that's crazy that you don't have any caffeine.

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Speaker 7: I okay, I don't like coffee and I don't like

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energy drinks, so I literally just have to like run

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off of sleep, and like, as a college student, I

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just don't get enough sleep.

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Speaker 5: That's crazy.

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Speaker 6: You'd always take like speed or something.

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Speaker 5: Nah, that's all right.

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Speaker 6: You don't see my personally.

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Speaker 4: Guys, what did we get into this weekend, Cassie, You're

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always like doing something.

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Speaker 6: You got a New Orleans I did.

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Speaker 7: My parents are out of the country. They went to

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Saint Lucia for their twenty fifth anniversary.

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Speaker 5: Saint Lucia. I don't even know where it is.

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Speaker 6: You they get to go to Saint Lucian. You got

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to stay here.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I had to go home and take care.

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Speaker 5: Of the dog.

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Speaker 6: That's okay.

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Speaker 4: I heard Saint Lucia and New Orleans pretty much the same.

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I mean, I've heard Saint Lucia's pretty overrated. I mean,

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but beach is not really that pretty.

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Speaker 7: It looks kind of beautiful pictures though, it's really pretty,

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like lots of sun sets having dinner on the beach

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in the scene.

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Speaker 5: It's in the Caribbean, by the way. Really it's really nice.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So it's one of the god, I don't even

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know how many small islands. There's like one hundred out there.

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Speaker 5: In the Caribbean.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, So Saint Lucia for what twenty fifth you said.

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Speaker 7: Twenty fifth anniversary?

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Speaker 4: Yep, I just had my second. We didn't go to

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Speaker 7: Well, they never take trips, so they were like.

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Speaker 6: We went had dinner in Covington. Does that count?

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Speaker 5: Well, they never take trips.

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Speaker 7: They're like twenty fives a lot, and like we never

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do anything, and like all of the kids are like

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out of the house. Me and my brother are at

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colle are in college, and my sister's married now. So

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they're like, let's go take a trip. And I like,

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I'm proud of them. They think for themselves.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, right, laundro. What did we get into?

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Speaker 3: I went to I had to go out to Ponchatula

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for the Strawberry Festival.

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Speaker 5: I did a remote out there. Feel for you ga news.

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Speaker 3: I got out of there before things got crazy. There's

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uh if y'all didn't, I don't know if anybody heard,

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but there's a shooting at it.

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Speaker 6: I call this. I think that's the second year in

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Speaker 3: So it started off really good because Okay, I got

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there early, Like my remote was from ten to one

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and I got there at ten. Obviously, this was Sunday, Saturday, Saturday.

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It is, but I did a remote Saturday. There's a difference.

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I just was doing like little checkens or whatever. So then,

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but by the time it was like eleven thirty, there

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were so many people, and it's in such a small area.

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I started getting like claustrophobic and I didn't even want

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to walk around anywhere because but it, I mean, the

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concept is cool of strawberry Festival. Like there were a

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bunch of vendors out there and stuff, and I got

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me some strawberry plants that I'm really excited about.

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Speaker 6: You're gonna growing stuff, right, like you're your stuff that

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you grows.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it actually grows.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I don't think anything we've ever bought, not Victoria or

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my fault. I mean we water it like they say too.

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I don't think anything we buy ever grow.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I mean everybody's like, oh, Taylor, the Azilia bushes at

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the corner of your house are so pretty. How did

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you plan them? They were here when we bought that

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house here. So I mean that's okay. The Strawberry festiv them.

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it every year. Yeah, there has to be some sort

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of capacity limit or just a bigger place.

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Speaker 5: It's literally a tiny park that.

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Speaker 4: They have that park, Cassie, if you ever been to

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the strawberry festival. No, okay, well allow me to give

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just a ringing endorsement here. If that park holds three

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thousand people, the city of Potchatula is like, ah, you

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know what, better make it ten thousand. I mean it

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is shoulder to shoulder like picture Bourbon Street on Marti Gras,

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but for like six blocks like that's that's the Potatulla

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Strawberry Festival.

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Speaker 6: You got a park.

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Speaker 4: About a half a mile to a mile away. Some

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people were telling me it took them thirty minutes to

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walk from their car to the strawberry festival one way.

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Speaker 6: I mean, it's just it's every year.

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Speaker 4: This is this is every single year, and then there's

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shooting on Saturday.

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Speaker 6: Like, guys, it's a strawberry festival. Fun.

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Speaker 3: Everybody's being like strawberry shortcakes and stuff. And how did

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we get to that?

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Speaker 4: You think you're hard because you fired a shot at

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the strawberry I.

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Speaker 3: Wonder I wonder if it was the guy that I

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saw that had a T shirt on that said in

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glocks we trust I.

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Speaker 6: Bet it was. I bet you know what, I bet

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it was interviewed.

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Speaker 5: I with that shirt on.

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Speaker 4: That's a tough scene to show up in public with

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that shirt and later you're shooting. That's not a good look.

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I mean, what do you what do you do? But uh, yeah,

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the Strawberry Festival a great food.

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Speaker 6: Not my scene.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's uh, it's hot, it's shoulder to shoulder. It's

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It's one of those things where like I show up

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for thirty minutes and I'm like, all right, I'm a

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little overwhelmed. I'm just gonna get out of here like

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that's that's that's kind of how Yeah.

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Speaker 5: But the food was great. The vendors are great.

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Speaker 6: It's always great.

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Speaker 5: Were really good until they weren't.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So they actually reopened yesterday. They they kept going.

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I'm okay with I remember we used to have to

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do the Sunday shift. I would always think the last

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shift for the show by festal clean up and everything.

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We were done at like ten thirty on Sunday night.

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Speaker 6: Like that. That's tough. So close it at five o'clock.

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Speaker 4: Not the worst thing in the world, all right, look,

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wanted to kind of just recap everyone's weekends, the good

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part of the weekend. Not a great weekend for LSU athletics,

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both on and off the field. And you know, yesterday

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when the Karen Lacy news broke, I was kind of

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debating on whether or not I wanted to touch this

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subject on the radio. But driving in this morning, I

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decided I would not be doing my job if I

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did not mention it. So, for those of you that

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are unaware, and most of you already know, Karen Lacey

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was found dead in Houston on Saturday night, and the

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word right now is they do believe that it was

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an appearance suicide. This is unfortunate news for a young

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man who was only twenty four years old. He look,

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when he was at LSU, You're on top of the

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world one minute, right, I mean, he had almost nine

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hundred yards receiving, he led the sec actually a nine

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touchdown catches. I didn't realize he had led the entire conference.

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And then, of course most people know back in December

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he was he was not in a car accident. There

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was a lot of, you know, discussion about that this weekend.

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Some reports were wrong, but everything seemed to be fixed.

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He was not in a car accident in December, he

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was barely driving reckless and was accused of causing a

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head on collision which ultimately took the life of an

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elderly gentleman. Again, he was arrested for that back in December,

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he was released on bond. For what it's worth, the

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grand jury for that hearing to decide whether or not

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he was going to be formally charged and dieted, ultimately

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going to go to trial. That grand jury meeting was

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actually set for this morning. So already a pretty tough

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weekend for Kyen Lacy, you know, I mean, he may

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have had a good idea of where that one was

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going to turn.

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Speaker 6: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: We don't want to suspect anything, but again, you're on

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top of the world one minute, and the next minute

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you you don't know where to turn.

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Speaker 6: Great player.

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Speaker 4: By all accounts, everyone in the LSU building talked about

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how good of a young man he was as well.

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I was never fortunate enough to interact with Kyen Lacy personally.

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I've just heard second hand stories. When I heard this

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news yesterday morning, like it's one of those things where

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it's like you didn't want to believe, but you had

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to check and make sure. So I'm texting a few

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people that I know that would know. They all kind

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of tell me the exact same story. I'm not going

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to get into the details of what happened on Saturday night.

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Speaker 6: It did take place in Houston.

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Speaker 4: If you want to go look Louisianasports dot NAT has

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a short rite up on it WBRZWB. They have more

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lenkedier details about what occurred on Saturday night if you

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want to know what led up to the situation.

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Speaker 6: Again, I'm not going to.

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Speaker 4: Get into it here because it's not my job to

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form an opinion on a topic like this, and you know,

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break it down. That's not what we're here for. We

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like to do more lighthearted opinions. This is something that

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I'm going to stay out of. I will say this though,

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if you know someone that you think might be going

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through a tough situation, check on check on your friends,

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check on your son's daughters, brothers, sisters, fathers, whoever it

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may be. Because there are a lot of people out

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there that struggle with mental health, and there's such a

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stigma around mental health and I can't figure out why

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because it's so prevalent in today's society. Far too often

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you hear stories like this, and you know people are

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embarrassed by it, they don't want to seek the help

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they need. But if you know somebody you think might

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be going through something, not even necessarily like current Lacy,

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because again, we all know the situation, right, We know

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that you know he was possibly facing some charges. We

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know about the arrest back in December. Even if it's

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not something public. If you run into somebody and you're like, hey,

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I feel like there may be something going on behind

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the scenes. There may be something under the surface that

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we're not quite talking about, check on them, reach out

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to them, because far too often mental health cases end

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up the way that this Kinen Lazy story did. It's tragic,

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it's unfortunate. You feel for his family, You feel for

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the entire Lsu family. We all hear guaranteed media. I'm

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sure to speak for everyone when I say that our

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hearts were a little heavy yesterday morning. We all you know,

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we're keeping his family in our thoughts and prayers. Okay,

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look impossible to segue into another topic from that. So

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what we're going to do is it's twelve after, we're

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actually going to go to break. When we get back,

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we're going to officially get this show started.

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Speaker 6: We got a lot of things to cover.

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Speaker 4: There's Derek Carr injury news, LSU baseball against Auburn. The

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Tigers wrapped up their spring scrimmage which was into the public.

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Will break down all of that. It's coming up on

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the other side here on off the bench.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sort of.

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It's Off the Bench with Hester and T Bob.

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Speaker 6: What song is this.

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Speaker 5: Slide away by Oasis?

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Speaker 4: Okay, confession time, you, Jake, T Bob, y'all sit up

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here and they're like, we gotta go to an Oasis show.

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It would kill It would be awesome. Guys, I don't

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know Oasis.

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Speaker 6: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I don't think I know a single Oasis song unless

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it's one of those songs where I'm like, oh yeah, Oasis.

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Speaker 3: Okay, now you're just pretending because everybody knows Wonderwall.

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Speaker 6: I didn't know that was Oasis.

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Speaker 5: There's no way you didn't know.

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Speaker 6: I had no idea that was Oasis.

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Speaker 3: Cassie, there's what do you? Oh wait, hold on, sorry,

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I forgot. There's no way he didn't know that was Oasis.

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Speaker 8: I don't.

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Speaker 7: I don't think I know it either. I'd have to

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hear it, but like, I don't think I know anything

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from them.

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Speaker 5: You wonder I never heard of Oasis.

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Speaker 6: Cassie likes heavier stuff, his six A c DC shirts.

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Speaker 5: We need to I need We're from this world.

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Speaker 6: We're triggering her like I'm gonna get something thrown at

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me in about ten seconds. No, there's no way I don't.

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Speaker 3: Know any that I can get behind you not knowing Oasis.

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But there's no way that you didn't know Wonder Wall

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was Oasis.

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Speaker 4: I knew I know the song wonder Well. I didn't

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that never knew who sung it. I feel like so

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many people have covered that song though.

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Speaker 3: So it's like, trigger me more and talk about Derek Carr,

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aren't you?

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Speaker 5: Or what are we talking about here?

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Speaker 4: Saints quarterback Derek Carr could potentially miss the entire twenty

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twenty five season due to a shoulder injury. This was

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news that came out about four o'clock Friday evening.

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Speaker 6: So story is now he has a shoulder injury.

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Speaker 4: If it does require sir, which they have not fully

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confirmed yet, it does seem like it's leaning that way.

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Napika potentially miss the entire twenty twenty five season. Now,

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according to Nick Underhill, it seems like the Saints have

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known about this for quite some time. He actually put

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out that possibly they knew about this before they even

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restructured his contract. If you remember, they guaranteed him forty million.

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They restructured it kind of backloaded that contract to twenty

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twenty six, which is what the Saints do. But what

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does this mean for them now at that number nine spot?

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Because look, kay T bought me and Lodger, We've all

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set up here and said, it doesn't really matter who

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you take, because your team's so bad, you're gonna get

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better regardless.

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Speaker 6: I agree with that. I was fully prepared.

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Speaker 4: To be like, oh, Will Johnson, because you need a corner, Teedero, McMillan,

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Tyler Warren, any sort of offensive playmaker would do as well.

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But does this mean schadrs Sanders at nine? The Saints

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might not have another option. They may have to take

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Chador Sanders. They may feel that they have to take

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Shad Door Sanders. Now, should they draft Shad Door Sanders? Honestly,

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I actually still say no, because if you draft a

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quarterback in round one with no Derek Carr, he'll be

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expected to play right away due.

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Speaker 6: To this injury.

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Speaker 4: I don't think shed Door Sanders is ready. Look, he

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certainly has a lot of good traits. He's an accurate passer,

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he's got a strong arm that was on display numerous

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times in Colorado. But he holds the ball too long.

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Everyone likes to point out the sacks. Fifty two sacks

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last season led college football. Yes, the pushback you hear

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from that is, well, his offensive line's not very good.

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Speaker 6: What's he going to do? He's over there running for

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his life. How about this?

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Speaker 4: Of those fifty two sacks, over forty of them, he

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held the ball four seconds or longer. So his offensive

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line might not be that good. Chador Sanders is not

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doing his o line any favors. It's funny because like

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the way Shadoor plays, once the ball leaves his hand,

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he's as accurate as anybody in this draft class. There's

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no question about my concern for Shador Sanders goes from

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the snap to the time he lets go with the ball.

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Speaker 6: If you watch him.

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Speaker 4: Play, he kind of runs around back there, you know,

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like a Johnny manziel did or a Kyler Murray in college.

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Speaker 6: Like some of these mobile quarterbacks.

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Speaker 4: The problem is he plays like a mobile quarterback who

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really doesn't have that much ability to run. He can

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run a little bit. I think that's something that people

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don't highlight enough. He can run a little bit. But

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you're not going to fear Shador Sanders running. You're not

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going to be scared about him beating you on the ground.

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His legs is something that's not an issue. He can

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run when he has to. He's never gonna be that

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guy that's gonna run ten to fifteen times a game

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card up.

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Speaker 6: That's not who he is. He's not a Jaden Daniels.

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Speaker 4: So it seems like the Saints have known about this

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before they restructured the contract. Again, we have an article

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on Louisiana sportsnett Or Else Jackson wrote it. He quoted

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Nick Underhill in this piece. So what's the Saints' best option?

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In my opinion, stick to your original draft plan, whatever

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that may be. If your original plan was to draft

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Shirr Door Sanders, by all means, go get him. Obviously,

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the Derek Carr situation's bad news. But the last thing

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you need is a knee jerk reaction. You look at

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all these months that you've done preparation for the draft,

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You've dove into all these prospects, you brought them in

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for visits. You scrap everything because your quarterback goes there.

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And I understand, quarterback's a big position. Obviously, it's the

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most important position in professional sports. So sticking to your

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original draft plan, to me is what you do now.

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Is that Todor Roll McMillan, is that Tyler Warren, is

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that Ashton Genty, is it Shador Sanders? Whoever it is,

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Take them because you did your homework on that guy.

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Take them because you think that's the best fit at

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number nine, Not because oh, well, our quarterbacks out for

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the season. We're in panic mode. Let's go grab somebody

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that maybe we didn't do enough homework on. Not saying

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they didn't do their homework on shouldwarer Saanders by all

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accounts they did. But if someone falls to you there

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you think is a good value that you truly believe

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can change this franchise. If you think shaudor Sanders is

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the next franchise quarterback, take it. I just personally don't

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at he's not yet. I think maybe he could become

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that if he sits for a year. The problem is

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if you bring him in with no Derek Carr. I

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imagine you're going to start him over he Spener Rautler.

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But what if you don't think should war Sanders. Could

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you go with a Spencer Ratler, or even sign a veteran.

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The problem with signing a veteran is there's not that

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many out there. I mean there's there's not a ton

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of free agent quarterbacks remaining. If you go look the

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guys you have available right now. Or Carson Wentz, who

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at one time looked like he was going to be

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MVP of the NFL back in twenty seventeen he had

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the knee injury. Nick Foles takes over, It takes a

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team to the playoffs, goes to the super Bowl, wins

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the super Bowl.

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Speaker 6: The rest his history we know about. He moves on.

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Speaker 4: He goes to the Washington Redskins, doesn't have a ton

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of success there. They bring him in for a year

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in Indianapolis. Was actually okay. There goes to be Patrick

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Mahomes's back up with the Kansas City Chiefs. That's kind

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of like maybe option a right now in free agency.

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If that's a guy you maybe want to kick the

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tires one, maybe not even as a starter, but if

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you don't draft a quarterback in the first round. You

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have Spencer Atler, J Kyner, you're gonna need to add

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another guy anyways, So maybe you add Carson Wentzon. You're

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not even planning on starting, and you just need another body,

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a physical body in that quarterback room. Carson Wentz is

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an option, and I get it he's fallen off since

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that injury. He's never been able to regain that MVP

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for him. But if you look at his numbers, I mean,

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he has over a two to one touchdown interception ratio.

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He wasn't quite as bad in Indianapolis as everybody said.

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I mean, he was hit and miss in Washington, but

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that old franchise was a mess. How much of that's

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on him? How much of that's on the franchise? And

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then he was just Patrick Mowhomes's backup. He played in

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one game this year. He went ten of fifteen, one

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hundred and nineteen yards, no touchdowns, no picks.

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Speaker 6: They did lose that game.

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Speaker 4: That was the final regular season game where they were

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resting all their starters because they had the one seed

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locked up. That's option one in free agency, Option two.

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Teddy Bridgewater Saints fans love Teddy Bridgewater. They were familiar

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with Teddy Bridgewater. Teddy had a lot of success when

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he was here. Last time he filled in for Drew

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Brees and he went five and zero as a fill

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in quarterback. He's bounced around the league. He's had a

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lot of success at a lot of different places. The

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problem I have with Teddy Bridgewater, if you remember he

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retired from the NFL, he went to coach his high

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school team, led them all the way to the state championship.

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After that, came back to the NFL, joined the Detroit

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Lions for that playoff rup So in terms of being

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an every day football player, start to finish in a season,

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Teddy Bridgewater hadn't done that, no for two years. How

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physically ready is he? I'm sure he's fine. He's a professional.

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He's still only thirty two years old. But that's a

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question mark as well. So whether it's Spencer Rattler, Carson Wentz,

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Teddy Bridgewater, there's not a ton out there right now.

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Either way, twenty twenty five will likely be another rough season.

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I've always been of the opinion of, hey, wait, the

473
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twenty twenty six quarterback class is a lot better. Don't

474
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reach for a quarterback that you're not at if you're

475
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not absolutely in love with them. Here in twenty twenty

476
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five because of this Derreck Carr news and you know

477
00:22:49,319 --> 00:22:51,559
the pushback with that, there's some downside there as well.

478
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You're gonna say, Okay, well you don't know where you're

479
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drafting in twenty twenty six. What if you win games

480
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you're not supposed to in twenty twenty five, you surprise

481
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them people you're and at the back half of the

482
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first round, you don't have as good of a draft

483
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pick as you have this year.

484
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Speaker 6: That's certainly true.

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Speaker 4: However, I think the twenty twenty six quarterback draft is

486
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just that much better than this year. I mean, essentially,

487
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you have two guys that you believe are going to

488
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go in the first round. Kim Ward's going number one overall.

489
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We all know that, and then shad Or Sanders somewhere

490
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in the first round.

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Speaker 6: He's projected.

492
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Speaker 4: But I'll know yet, is somebody gonna reach for him?

493
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Is he going to fall? Where is he going to go?

494
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But everyone believes that those two quarterbacks will be in

495
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the first round. Some say Jackson dar may sneak in there.

496
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But right now, as far as first round locks kim

497
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Ward spend a rout or kim Ward shaudors Anders.

498
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Speaker 6: But I still think the twenty twenty six class is better.

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Speaker 4: Luca could potentially be coming out, Kid Klupknick could be

500
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coming out, Gary Nussmyer will be coming out, Arch Manning

501
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could be coming out, and those three guys right there,

502
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somebody will be there when the Saints are picking, you

503
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would imagine, unless they go one, two, three, which is

504
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a possibility it's happened before. But I just like this

505
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class as a whole better. You're a lot deeper. Maybe essentially,

506
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if you don't get Schador Sanders at nine, you're not

507
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drafted a quarterback in the first round. You're not drafting

508
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Jackson Dart that high unless you trade back, which might

509
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be the smart thing to do, but let's be honest,

510
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making limits is never going to do that. I'd be

511
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okay with maybe taking a Tyler Shuck at forty or

512
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a Quinn Ewers in round three.

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Speaker 6: Somebody that you can develop.

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Speaker 4: Again, you can develop Shador, But if you're gonna spend

515
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first round draft capital on a guy that you don't

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believe can start right away, I don't know if you

517
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take it and maybe they do believe that. Maybe they do,

518
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maybe they have done their homework. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe

519
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they're right. Maybe shoudor Sanders can step in day one

520
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and play quarterback for this team and do well and

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have success.

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Speaker 6: Either way, though, without the.

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Speaker 4: Veteran presence of Derek Carr, it's either going to be

524
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Spencer Rattler, a free agent that nobody else is signed

525
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yet for multiple reasons, or should door Sanders. No matter what,

526
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twenty twenty five might be a rough season, Saints Fantom

527
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might have to hold on one more year. Maybe year

528
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two of Kellen Moore is where you really find your groove.

529
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I think it's gonna be hard to do it here

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in twenty twenty five. All right, we're gonna take a

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quick time out when we get back LSU baseball head.

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A series against the Auburn Tigers didn't go the way

533
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Tiger fans wanted it to go. But we're breaking it

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all down next here on off the bench.

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Speaker 2: Off the bench, go to Central Plumbing Dot or Citral

536
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Plumming Dot or maybe nine two five eighty five fifty two.

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Central Plumbing is your one stop plumbing shop and has

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been for damn near fifty years.

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Speaker 6: And when you look at that timeline, it tells you

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a few things.

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Speaker 2: First off, the only way you keep your doors open

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that long and you continue to grow over that time period,

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is that your customers are consistently satisfied with the customer experience.

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And this is everything from the pricing to the service,

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to the quality of the work. And they want and

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why not right license, bondit your employees flattery pricing twenty

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four seven Emergenie service, great warranty once the work is done.

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It also tells you that they seen it all, they

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can fix it all. Good to sitch a plum dinnor.

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Speaker 8: Go to the website today and see what they can

551
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do for you. Remodels go tankless with the tankless water heater,

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never run out of hot water again, but you always know.

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Twenty four seven three sixty five weekends, Holiday's game Day,

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they will be there two to five, nine eighty five

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fifty two.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to more sports talk. What's some other stuff

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mixed in Off the Bench with Hester and t Bob.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back in Monday edition of Off the Bench. Taylor

559
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Sharps sitting in the host chair for Jacobsser and Tababa

560
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Bear who are both out on vacation. I'll be here

561
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Monday through Thursday. A Laundra's leaving me after tomorrow, so

562
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it's gonna just be one member of OTB here Wednesday

563
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and Thursday. The entire building off Friday for good Friday.

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Speaker 6: Okay.

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Speaker 4: The yellows us you baseball team had a three game

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series against the Auburn Tigers.

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Speaker 6: On the road and they went oh for three. That's right.

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Speaker 4: The Auburn Tigers swept LSU inside Plainsman Park. I'll give

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you a quick recap how the scoring went in the

570
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first three games, and then uh Me and Lange will

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give you some thoughts on what we saw. In the

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first game. Uh Auburn had thirteen hits. They win an

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eight to four ball game over Number three LS shoot

574
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Alburn got the two nothing lead in the bottom of

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the second. It was catcher Chase Freylik, who I mentioned

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on Friday. They put a lot on that young man's plate.

577
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He's just a freshman. He calls the pitches behind the plate.

578
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Now we see why that occurs. Chase Freylick pretty dang

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good catcher. He had a two run double in the

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bottom of that second inning. They extended the margin to

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six nothing. In the fifth, right fielder Ike Irish, their

582
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former starting catcher.

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Speaker 6: He had a three run triple.

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Speaker 4: First baseman Cooper McMurray, who is always a really good

585
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power hitter, delivered an RBI single.

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Speaker 6: Designated hitter is Rembert.

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Speaker 4: He had a sixth inning RBI that gave Auburn a

588
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seven nothing lead. Now LSU did get three runs in

589
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,759
the seventh, Derek Curiel had an RBI ground out. Jared

590
00:28:10,839 --> 00:28:13,920
Jones smashed a two run double that got LSU back

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in it a little bit, but Auburn responded in the seventh.

592
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Speaker 6: It was Eric Gerreva. He had an.

593
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Speaker 4: RBI single through the infield, and then back to back

594
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doubles by Stanfield and Curiel got LSU a run in

595
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the top of the ninth. However, it was not enough.

596
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The Auburn Tigers win it eight to four. Game two,

597
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it was more of the same. Second baseman Eric Snow

598
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He homered he drove in two runs. On Saturday night,

599
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it was a lower scoring game, but Auburn again wins

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by multiple runs, four to two.

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Speaker 6: At home.

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Speaker 4: Stephen Mylin actually did have a solo home run in

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that game. His seventh home run of the year that

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gave LSU a one nothing lead in the top of

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the second, So the Tigers get on the board early. However,

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in the bottom of the fourth, Auburn goes up two

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to one. I mentioned a little bit earlier right fielder

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Ike Irish. He comes through again. Cooper McMurray. You're going

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to hear these names recurring all weekend long. LSU got

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the deficit four to two in the eighth. It was

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an RBI single by Tanner Reeves, but again they could

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get nothing going in the ninth.

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Speaker 6: They lose out one, four to two.

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Speaker 4: As far as Game three, it was Cooper McMurray had

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a two run double. It gave Auburn a two to

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nothing lead. In the bottom of the first inning. It

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was three to nothing like that, I mean, it was

618
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three to nothing after the first two innings. LSU narrowed

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the deficit three to two in the bottom of the eighth.

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There was three nothing virtually the entire game. Stephn Milam

621
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had an RBI ground out. It was a run scoring

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triple by right fielder Jake Brown, So it looked like

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the Tigers were going to make a comeback. Save one

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of these games they fall one run short because again

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they couldn't get anything going in the ninth inning. As

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far as the Friday game goes, LSU had a lot

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of trouble with Sam Dutton. It was a matchup we

628
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talked about because Sam don't had been here for multiple years,

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he was a Friday guy. How was he going to

630
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react playing his former team? Quite well, six innings pitched,

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no runs, seven k's, only two walks. And then on

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the other side of things, we remember the complete game

633
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from Kate Anderson last week. He had one hundred and

634
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thirty pitches. He didn't even come close to that this time.

635
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Kate Anderson goes four to third innings, six k's, did

636
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give up five earned runs. However, like, okay, if you

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would have told me Auburn sweeps LSU this weekend, I

638
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would have said, okay, Well, LSU scored a lot of runs,

639
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the starting pitchers maybe didn't go as deep as you

640
00:30:34,119 --> 00:30:36,640
wanted them to, and the bullpen got hammered. Because that's

641
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what we all thought was going to happen. The bullpen

642
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was really good this weekend in all three games. Look

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at the first game, so I mentioned Kate Anderson struggled.

644
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He goes four to third, Cooper Williams, Maverick Grizzy, Jacob Myers.

645
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They combined for three and two thirds innings, gave up

646
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earned two runs, only one of them earned five k's,

647
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one walk. Game two, Anthony Jonson got hit early. He

648
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pitched five innings, gave up four earned runs, five k's,

649
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,839
one walk. Once again bullpen good Connor where Connor bingch

650
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,200
DJ Primo. They go three innings combined, give up no runs,

651
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two strikeouts, one walk. Here's the problem in game two,

652
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not only does your starter not go how you wanted

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to for this second game in a row, you left

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ten runners stranded one base in Game two in a

655
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really tightly contested game. Also one through six in the

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order after games one and two, one through six in

657
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the lineup, eight for fifty eight for fifty one through

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six in your lineup. You can't win games like that,

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especially when the starting pitchings bad. Your hitting can be bad.

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If your starting pitchers go seven innings eight innings, you

661
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can't have both. At LSU had a bad dose of

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both this weekend.

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Speaker 6: Again.

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Speaker 4: In Game three, Jay shores two innings, three hits, three

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earned runs, two strikeouts, two walks, all three of your

666
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starting pitchers struggle, Zach Cowen, case of Evans. They come in,

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they go six innings combined, six hits, two k's No.

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One through six. How they do in this game? They

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struggled in the first two games. Maybe they bounced back

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here in game three. Nope, two for sixteen in game

671
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three the only hits were Derek Curiele and Daniel Dickens.

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But if you look like a Landro, I'm gonna bring

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you in here because like maybe maybe you have a

674
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different opinion on what exactly went wrong for LSU, Because if.

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Speaker 6: I was to tell you you threw.

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Speaker 4: Eight relievers, eight bullpen arms, and they gave up a

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total of two runs the entire weekend, I would have said, well, hell,

678
00:32:33,599 --> 00:32:36,279
LSU swept this series. I mean, that was your biggest

679
00:32:36,279 --> 00:32:38,000
concern was your arms out of the bullpen. You threw

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eight of them, they give up a combined two runs.

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I mean, what did you make it this weekend? Because

682
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it's like you see, you see all the time, like, oh,

683
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good teams find different ways to win games. Unless you

684
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found a way to lose all three of these games,

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despite the fact that their biggest weakness was like kind

686
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of their strength this weekend.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the bullpen is definitely not what lost these games.

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It started on Tuesday, honestly against Nichols.

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Speaker 5: You left fifteen runners on base.

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Speaker 6: You can against Nichols.

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Speaker 5: You can get away with it against Nichols.

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Speaker 3: And I remember, like I was texting y'all in the

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group chat Tuesday night versus Nichols, and then it was

694
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what the seventh inning when we got hot, and yeah,

695
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that's what I'm saying, And I was like, well, I mean,

696
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I guess you can't keep the bats out for too long,

697
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but Auburn kept them out the entire weekend. Yeah, you

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just leaving seven runners on base on Friday, eleven on Saturday,

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and I think it was another seven on Sunday. I

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don't remember what they have the buck score uploaded wrong

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on the website.

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Speaker 5: But it just you can't.

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Speaker 3: They were giving you free opportunities and free bases, and

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you just did nothing with the opportunities that you were given.

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And I mean, that's pretty much what you said earlier.

706
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Speaker 5: That's how I felt.

707
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 3: But again, it started on Tuesday night when you were

708
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:02,480
playing Nichols. You had, let's see, eleven hits on the

709
00:34:02,599 --> 00:34:08,039
night against Nichols and you had fifteen runners left on base.

710
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:12,679
Speaker 5: You just can't do that. There's like no offensive production.

711
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:16,639
Speaker 3: And the other thing is like, for some reason this weekend,

712
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,559
like the team just felt kind of flat, like energy

713
00:34:20,599 --> 00:34:21,480
wise too, like.

714
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,119
Speaker 5: They and you know, maybe.

715
00:34:24,519 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 3: We're more than halfway through the season you've been having.

716
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:31,760
You just went through seven, nine, what ten road games,

717
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:36,000
So I get it, but it just, you know, shake back,

718
00:34:36,599 --> 00:34:40,119
get the win against I think McNeice on Tuesday, and

719
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,840
you host Alabama this weekend, so hopefully having a home

720
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:47,599
game will be better.

721
00:34:47,679 --> 00:34:50,039
Speaker 5: But they just need to shake back.

722
00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 3: I feel like it's kind of besides the bullpen, the

723
00:34:52,519 --> 00:34:55,159
same thing that happened versus Texas, you know, like you

724
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:57,440
just didn't go out there and execute the way that

725
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:01,280
you've been doing the entire season. So I still think

726
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,320
that LSU's a good team. You just need to get

727
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:04,559
out of this slump a little bit.

728
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,199
Speaker 4: Well, And I'm glad you brought up the point of

729
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:09,360
like it started on Tuesday because you had to make

730
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,000
a late rally and you were able to do it

731
00:35:11,039 --> 00:35:13,039
against a team like Nichols. You tried to do it

732
00:35:13,079 --> 00:35:17,320
here you just couldn't because on Friday again you spotted

733
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,800
them seven nothing. You battled back into this game. You

734
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:22,119
made it eight to four, but you had to do

735
00:35:22,199 --> 00:35:24,480
all of that in the last few innings. You had

736
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,679
to do it again on Saturday. In that Game two game,

737
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,719
it's four to two, Auburn had a two to one lead.

738
00:35:31,079 --> 00:35:33,320
You actually narrowed it four to two in the eighth inning.

739
00:35:33,639 --> 00:35:36,360
Couldn't get anything going. You did it yesterday. It's a

740
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,559
three to one ball game. In the eighth inning you

741
00:35:38,679 --> 00:35:41,519
narrowed it three to two. You had the RBI by Milam,

742
00:35:41,639 --> 00:35:43,760
you had the single by Jake Brown, which scored a run.

743
00:35:44,079 --> 00:35:47,639
You just didn't do enough. You cannot consistently get behind.

744
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:49,719
Even in Game two, when you took an early two

745
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:53,159
nothing or one nothing lead, Auburn immediately came back, made

746
00:35:53,159 --> 00:35:55,119
it two to one. You could never recover from it

747
00:35:55,199 --> 00:35:57,599
until the very end. And by that point Auburn's hot

748
00:35:57,599 --> 00:36:00,880
and you're cold, like you cannot do that against Good's

749
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:01,480
a good team.

750
00:36:01,599 --> 00:36:02,079
Speaker 5: Yeah, Auburn.

751
00:36:02,119 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 3: They were ranked at number eleven coming into the game,

752
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:06,719
so they are a good team. But also my other

753
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:10,079
thing is, and I brought this up when we UH

754
00:36:10,159 --> 00:36:13,559
Wednesday when we were recapping the Nichols game, and I

755
00:36:13,679 --> 00:36:14,920
one hundred percent understand.

756
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 5: You don't have to tell me that.

757
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:19,519
Speaker 3: Uh Jay Johnson tinkers with the lineup, with the bullpen

758
00:36:19,639 --> 00:36:22,599
all of that throughout the season. But I said on Wednesday, like, okay,

759
00:36:22,599 --> 00:36:25,559
it needs to like you he did it this weekend,

760
00:36:26,079 --> 00:36:30,280
like you were just putting I think Josh Pearson started

761
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:32,559
and then you put Jake Brown in and then it

762
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:41,559
just so I think that you just need to have

763
00:36:41,639 --> 00:36:44,440
a plan and stick to it and if it's not working,

764
00:36:44,599 --> 00:36:49,079
like just stay with it, like it'll it'll work itself out.

765
00:36:49,199 --> 00:36:54,320
But I don't know it was you know me, I

766
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:58,400
didn't watch Saturday or Sunday because I couldn't, and I

767
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,639
listened to some of it on Saturday, And.

768
00:37:00,599 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 4: I mean, is a carbon copy every three If you

769
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:04,960
watch Friday, you watch the other two games exactly, mean

770
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:06,320
that they were the exact same game.

771
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:08,400
Speaker 5: You know, I get like two invested into it.

772
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:10,800
Speaker 3: So I was like it was like frustrating me so

773
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:12,400
bad that I couldn't watch it anymore.

774
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 4: Guys too invested. As an understatement, Okay, we're working. Sometimes

775
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,039
we have to do two games at the same time

776
00:37:18,079 --> 00:37:19,079
at LSU, right, and like.

777
00:37:19,079 --> 00:37:20,760
Speaker 5: You like blow up the group.

778
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,800
Speaker 4: I think, Yeah, I think two rooms within one, so

779
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,719
it's one room at LSU. It's two different boards and

780
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:28,880
it's glass, so it's like you can't really hear each other,

781
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,239
but you can see each other. It's just a glass dope.

782
00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:36,920
Like I'm doing I think this this game, I'm actually

783
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:40,039
doing baseball. No, I was doing basketball. It was doing

784
00:37:40,079 --> 00:37:42,679
basketball season. I was doing basketball. You were doing baseball,

785
00:37:43,079 --> 00:37:45,719
and we had the baseball game on the studio because

786
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,360
basketball is on the rid. Laundra walks in the studio

787
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,440
three times. It's like, what's happening here. She's like Kate

788
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:53,280
air Bit, he's eightting three balls passive and then he

789
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:54,000
hits the home runch.

790
00:37:54,039 --> 00:37:54,559
Speaker 6: He comes back in.

791
00:37:54,599 --> 00:37:57,199
Speaker 4: She's like, good job for Kate, but like still he's

792
00:37:57,199 --> 00:37:58,960
eting three balls behind it. Like, guys, it is just

793
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:02,000
a WorldWind of emotions. But to your point about like

794
00:38:02,079 --> 00:38:04,679
leaving too many runners on base, you kind of did

795
00:38:04,679 --> 00:38:07,199
this last weekend against Oklahoma, and you got away from

796
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:09,039
it because you pitched well. I mean people are gonna

797
00:38:09,079 --> 00:38:10,840
be like, oh, well, Kate Anderson had the that was

798
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:12,639
a two nothing ball game. Yeah, because you'll left so

799
00:38:12,639 --> 00:38:15,800
many guys on base. The Saturday game, which was Game three,

800
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:17,920
it was three to two. I mean you you've done

801
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,679
this five of the last six games that you've played,

802
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,440
six of the last seven if you include the midweek, Like,

803
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:26,119
this is becoming a trend.

804
00:38:26,159 --> 00:38:27,559
Speaker 6: And I don't know how you feel about this.

805
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,280
Speaker 4: I know you might agree because you've always been a

806
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:35,800
big Michael Braswell fan. But keep Michael Braswell at third base, okay,

807
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:39,039
because everybody's gonna say, oh, well, Tanner Reeves is hitting.

808
00:38:39,159 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, no, you take this weekend out of it.

809
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:43,440
You want to give this weekend?

810
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:47,519
Speaker 4: Yeah, in sec play, Michael Braswell is betting three oh four.

811
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:50,320
Tanner Reeves is betting three to oh eight, and that

812
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:51,480
was coming into this weekend.

813
00:38:51,559 --> 00:38:52,639
Speaker 6: Reeves didn't have a good weekend.

814
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:55,800
Speaker 4: They're essentially the same offensively, and Braswell is such a

815
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:57,639
better glove out there at third base. Leave him at

816
00:38:57,679 --> 00:38:59,800
third base, get a little bit of consistency.

817
00:38:59,320 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 6: In your lineup.

818
00:39:00,119 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 4: Is yes, Yeah, they're essentially batting the exact same three

819
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:04,400
oh four to three h eight. Do I give a

820
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,920
crap about that difference? Nope, not really. And Reeves has

821
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,199
actually dropped a little bit further outter this weekend. Well,

822
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,920
Lee Braswell in the lineup, I get the like.

823
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:14,639
Speaker 3: Okay on FT's kind of my point when I was

824
00:39:14,679 --> 00:39:17,719
saying that, like you you're there's a little too much

825
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,639
movement for me in the lineup and in the field.

826
00:39:21,079 --> 00:39:24,199
Like Michael Braswell has a great glove. I've always been

827
00:39:25,159 --> 00:39:27,840
a Michael Braswell supporter. I remember last year I was like,

828
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:29,880
make him your lead off hitter. He finally did and

829
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:31,960
he thrived in that position. I mean, you don't do

830
00:39:32,039 --> 00:39:34,559
it now because Derek Curiell is Derek Curriell. But like

831
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:39,480
it just yes, I agree, leave, let's let's give Michael

832
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:41,719
Braswell his little chance to shine.

833
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:43,840
Speaker 4: But Braswell deserves a chance to sean. I mean, he's

834
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,480
he's been a pro since he's been here because like

835
00:39:46,519 --> 00:39:48,440
a lot of guys like he came in from South Carolina,

836
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,239
he was the guy he comes in. Last year he

837
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:52,280
does some nice things, but he took a lot of criticism.

838
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:53,880
I mean, some of it warranted, some of it not.

839
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:56,840
This year, he's kind of battling for his spot with

840
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:59,719
a first year LSU player. But like he hasn't complained

841
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:02,239
about it. You haven't heard anything bad about Michael Braswell, Like,

842
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:05,280
let's give Braswell his flowers a little bit. And you know,

843
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:07,800
me and Moose were talking about it on Friday. Uh,

844
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:09,719
we were looking at the lineup and watching the Masters

845
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:11,719
because Matt's on remote, so we're just sitting here in

846
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:13,519
the studio and he's like, look at this lineup and

847
00:40:13,559 --> 00:40:19,000
they had Josh Pearson in the five spot, and Moose

848
00:40:19,119 --> 00:40:20,800
is like, I get why he's doing it. You don't

849
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:22,920
want three rd's in a row, but like, in reality,

850
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:24,559
how many times are all three of those guys going

851
00:40:24,599 --> 00:40:25,960
to bat back to back in the same many Like

852
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:27,800
it's the middle of your order, Yeah, you can have

853
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:28,880
so it's just And.

854
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:34,559
Speaker 3: Then Saturday, man, what was it maybe the seventh or

855
00:40:34,599 --> 00:40:36,880
the eighth inning, and Ethan Frye was up, but then

856
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:40,360
they changed the picture and Jay put Jake Brown, Yeah,

857
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:42,519
put him insteadthan Fry and.

858
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 6: Brown Brown did okay, like he was he was good

859
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:44,760
this weekend.

860
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, but whenever you switched Ethan fry with Jake Brown.

861
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:50,039
Not to say, we don't know what Ethan fry would

862
00:40:50,079 --> 00:40:52,039
have did in that position, but you had the bases loaded.

863
00:40:52,119 --> 00:40:54,639
Speaker 6: The fry has been such a good hitter, and.

864
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:56,760
Speaker 3: You had the bases loaded and Jake Brown popped out,

865
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:58,559
and I was like, why did we do that?

866
00:40:59,440 --> 00:40:59,599
Speaker 8: Like what?

867
00:41:01,199 --> 00:41:02,519
Speaker 6: But again, it was all weekend.

868
00:41:02,559 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 4: So yesterday I'm driving home, I'm listening to the game

869
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:08,480
on the radio. It's a fifth inning. There is one out,

870
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:13,519
bases loaded, you're down two runs. You got no runs

871
00:41:13,519 --> 00:41:16,320
in that inning, bases loaded, one out, LSU came away

872
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,400
with nothing. That was a fifth inning in yesterday's game.

873
00:41:18,679 --> 00:41:20,880
It was just like that all weekend long. And again

874
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:22,559
it was kind of like that against Oklahoma and do

875
00:41:22,639 --> 00:41:25,079
it at three games. Landra mentioned had started on Tuesday

876
00:41:25,119 --> 00:41:27,519
against Nichols. Like this is actually a little bit of.

877
00:41:27,519 --> 00:41:28,199
Speaker 6: A recurring problem.

878
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:30,159
Speaker 4: I'm not sitting here like neither of us are about

879
00:41:30,159 --> 00:41:32,599
like doomsday situations. This team is still good, but like,

880
00:41:32,639 --> 00:41:35,559
this is something you gotta figure out, because again, you

881
00:41:35,559 --> 00:41:38,079
can get away with it against Nichols, you can't necessarily

882
00:41:38,079 --> 00:41:38,800
get away with it.

883
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:40,440
Speaker 6: I get to a team like Auburn and.

884
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:43,119
Speaker 3: Don't look now because they've only played South Okay, I'll

885
00:41:43,119 --> 00:41:46,039
give them credit for the Tennessee thing, right Okay, and

886
00:41:46,079 --> 00:41:49,280
they played South Carolina this weekend was Texas.

887
00:41:49,039 --> 00:41:50,800
Speaker 5: A and M get a little warm out there.

888
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:53,599
Speaker 6: I mean they're a talented team. Like, yeah, they were

889
00:41:53,639 --> 00:41:54,400
never gonna.

890
00:41:54,159 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 5: Be started off so bad.

891
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,280
Speaker 4: They were overrated coming into the your Shock or Texas.

892
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:01,559
A and M was overrated in any sport. They started awful.

893
00:42:01,639 --> 00:42:03,960
They were never as good as they were projected to be.

894
00:42:04,199 --> 00:42:06,639
They're not as bad as they started out. They're gonna

895
00:42:06,639 --> 00:42:10,079
be somewhere in the middle. Maybe, But I mean, how

896
00:42:10,119 --> 00:42:12,440
hot can you get? Because we talked about it last year,

897
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,440
like as good as LSU finished, they were bad at

898
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:16,079
the beginning of the year. The didn't even get the

899
00:42:16,159 --> 00:42:20,280
host and like that that call start no, and that's

900
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:21,719
what I'm saying. A and M's even worse. So like

901
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:23,800
they got to get on a major role to make

902
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:25,880
something happen. All right, Look, we went along in that segment.

903
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:27,639
Good discussion there. We're gonna take a time out and

904
00:42:27,679 --> 00:42:30,840
we get back a quick little master's recap is a

905
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:34,119
couple of people's favorite golfer took home his first Master's title.

906
00:42:34,159 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 6: We'll get into that. On the other side, you're on

907
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908
00:42:38,519 --> 00:42:40,360
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Speaker 4: In final segment our number one Monday edition of Off

938
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the Bench, Taylor Shopier where you I mean? And Landra

939
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went long complaining about LSU baseball. In the last segment, Ora,

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I don't know if you know this. You were talking

941
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about like managers changing the line up. Do you know

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that's actually like what managers do.

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Speaker 5: Oh, I had no idea, thank you for but like.

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Speaker 6: My I was just let you know, that's what the

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that's what they do.

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Speaker 3: I fully understand that that's what they do. But my

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point with it is that I feel like sometimes he

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overthinks it. Like it's like a paralysis by analysis kind

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of thing where you're like overthinking it and you know

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you got like all the analytics and stuff like that,

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right and just let it happen.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes I get it.

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Speaker 6: I don't think you do get it. Okay, you're not

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getting it, like we can, we can talk about it.

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Durn't break You're not You're not getting it.

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Speaker 5: Maybe explain it a little further in.

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Speaker 4: Depth, Guys, obviously I'm kidding. Look, you can't please everyone.

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There's some comments in the chat. We're just having a

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little fun. Okay, Look, we only got like a minute

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left in this segment. I was going to talk about

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the Masters. We can actually push that at the eight

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forty five. Do it in a weekend winners. We'll get it somewhere.

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Just cover a little recap. In hour number one, we

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did mention the uh Kyraen Lacy news, the unfortunate news

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of his passing over the weekend. If you want to

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hear that, go back to that. We actually opened the

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show with that. This morning, we talk Derek Carr's shoulder

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and drew how he could potentially miss the entire twenty

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twenty five season. LSU baseball out of three game series

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against Auburn. Unfortunately, they went oh for three. As far

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as hour number two goes. At eight o'clock segment, we're

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gonna go LSU football. They had their spring scrimmage on Saturday,

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the one that was open to the public. We'll give

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you recap of kind of how that went. My overall

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thoughts on maybe the strengths and weaknesses of this team.

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Since we are just about to wrap up Spring practice.

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At eight fifteen, we have Mike Scarborough from Tiger Bay

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dot com on he'll give us his thoughts on LSU

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Spring maybe what they can do in that spring portal window.

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And then of course in the nine o'clock hour we'll

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have weekend winners. We'll wrap it up with Ask the

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Bench that's coming up here on the other side. Stay

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tuned two more hours Monday edition of Off the Bench.

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