Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive.
Speaker 2: Ham'sday.
Speaker 1: Hester and Hester got it.
Speaker 2: Fie out of PA.
Speaker 1: You're locked in to off the bench.
Speaker 3: We described control the.
Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Kine studio. Here's Jacob Hester and
Matt Flynn.
Speaker 4: You welcome, man, Thank you welcome.
Speaker 2: I don't think that little I don't think. I think
Taylor gave me work adapt.
Speaker 3: I got another one. What happened to your adapter, buddy?
Speaker 2: I don't know, it decided it didn't want to work either.
Oh no, it definitely does not work.
Speaker 3: You got to put it in like halfway.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you gotta find the right spot.
Speaker 2: Oh you sound like a robot. Well you got.
Speaker 5: Well, he is Robot Flynn.
Speaker 2: Fun things were fun.
Speaker 5: What was that for Halloween?
Speaker 3: Halloween? And then there was elf Flynn.
Speaker 5: Elf Flynn came for Christmas?
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: God, seems like a million years ago, right, A long
time ago.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you. It has been a long time.
Speaker 6: You've taken so many like these, just relaxing weeklong vacations.
Speaker 5: It works.
Speaker 2: There we go. Hey, here you go. Oh I see you, yeah,
see you too, Jake, thank you appreciate.
Speaker 3: That friend of me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the problem typically when I take vacation from this show,
it's to work more for another show. I know, No,
I know, but I did you know? I had plans
to take that week where you took the week when
you went skiing, But then those plans change and I
even had to do some NFL radio that week. So
do you know what? You could be digging a ditch
somewhere till the day. You should tell me anytime I complained.
Speaker 6: And if you are digging a ditch, then you should
be the best darn ditch digger around.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's right. You can do everything the best. Like
if you have a bad howl and you're trying to
figure out how to get a better one, to work
at it, you work on it?
Speaker 5: Did you work on it?
Speaker 3: Working on it all? No? I hit that last one
yesterday so perfectly.
Speaker 2: No, you didn't ailed it.
Speaker 5: Let's hear like a Shakiro one.
Speaker 6: But it's too early in the morning. I've had a
sore throat for a week and a half.
Speaker 7: It's not in a proper acoustic environment to request this
from me.
Speaker 2: So how are we doing? How we live in Jake Flynn,
Olande tat Wolf Pack back.
Speaker 6: Let's go like I'm doing fantastic. I told you I
fell asleep out thirty yeah last night. That is an
hour to hour and a half extra sleep that I
normally do not get. Yeah, you boys tired yesterday? Yeah,
hybrid rockstar yesterday?
Speaker 5: The hell Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I was a hybrid rock star yesterday for the second
time in three days. Really stepping up the work. That
a deal, A huge deal.
Speaker 5: I wish we could go support you at the High Rocks.
Speaker 6: I need a lot of support because, like, if you
watched me when I'm training for this.
Speaker 2: High Rocks, are you dying?
Speaker 3: I'm the ugliest person in the world.
Speaker 6: Like it's it's not even it's not like, oh man,
this got It's.
Speaker 3: Like and he's like really tired and he's breathing hard.
Speaker 6: No, it's like ugly face almost puky the entire time,
purping up lunch.
Speaker 2: You're selling s.
Speaker 7: Person training for High Rocks. There's some ugly people out there. Man,
you ain't douglies, Okay, So you know, I'm just saying
I got that. You know, some people like when you
get like to that point of working out, there's nothing
you can do, like there's nothing you can do with
your face. You got you got the red face, Like
my mouth is open, like I can't breathe. I'm about
to die, holding back, like I said, holding back the pukes.
Like there's a lot of things happening, hands on hips,
hands on.
Speaker 3: Hips, like laying on the ground, flopping.
Speaker 5: Around, laying on the ground.
Speaker 6: But then it's like flopping around seems like, but then
like all the movements you have to do, like when
you're exhausted, you just have to keep doing like you
do like burpies and burpie long broad jumps. It's like
there's nothing I can do, Like I look so unathletic,
so out of shape doing this, But then you think
about it, Well, I'm like an hour and a half
into this workout, I'm exhausted, and of course I'm doing
it ugly.
Speaker 5: Right, you look good while you're doing.
Speaker 3: Worst thing I've seen ever, Taylor.
Speaker 8: Sorry, Oh my gosh, how unprofessional of you.
Speaker 3: Well here's the thing.
Speaker 7: I was pulling up YouTube to try to interact with
our really loyal listeners in the buy you four chat,
and my volume was I apologize so aggressive, but do.
Speaker 6: Like how you spin right, just flipped it right, total spin.
Well done, smart, thank you. So yeah, it's I'm doing great.
I got, like I told you, about hour hour and
a half extra sleep. I woke up, did like a
ninja ninja flip out of my bed today. I was
ready feet on the ground, thanking the Lord for another day.
It's a ninja flip, Like ninja get up.
Speaker 2: Off their back, straight straight to your feet.
Speaker 3: That's how I felt. Something you and Brittany had to
do that time launder was like from.
Speaker 5: The like from your knees to your Yeah, I can't
do that.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I remember that. I got that. That's light work,
not a big deal. It wasn't even sore. How you doing, buddy?
You know I'm here, You're here from here.
Speaker 3: You fell asleep even earlier than I do.
Speaker 2: It's been like a nine to forty So the four
hours of NFL radio you're doing in the afternoon just
hit hitting a little different. Yeah, it's long, you know
that fourth hour leans on you, leans on you a
little bit a little heavier. Yeah, it's two to six,
set of two to five.
Speaker 3: All right, big commitment.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, it is wild getting done at six
compared to getting done at five.
Speaker 6: It's a different world. That's a big hour, like in
the parenting world. Yeah, five to six it is a
big hour, big hour. A lot of things in the
streets happened at five thirty.
Speaker 2: Life changes if you're walking out of that door at five.
Speaker 3: Or six o'clock.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like you know, when you wake up early,
like waking up at four thirty in the morning compared
to five thirty in the morning. It's only an hour.
It's a huge difference the hour. You know, anything that
starts with a four when you wake up, it hurts
more than when you wake up with a five or six.
It's a mental thing, could be probably and also a
sleep thing. Yeah, that too. But you know what I'm saying,
Oh I get it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a especially for you you've a lot of
a lot of commitments. Of course, you have seventeen kids,
and you know that all happens in a five to
six o'clock hour.
Speaker 3: So for you, you enjoy it.
Speaker 6: Though you're enjoying like so I guess is you have
always very knowledgeable obviously about the entire country big school,
small school, medium school, whatever it is, on everything college football.
Now you're having to I mean it's less teams, certainly,
but I would assume the NFL audience demands some sort
of expertise on all things, every position, every single team.
Speaker 2: Oh, for sure or without question. It was your college
football knowledge going to kind of go down a little bit.
It already has it, already has okay, got it, it
already has welcome, Yes, welcome. Yeah, you know you worry
about thirty two teams compared to one hundred and thirty
five or whatever the hell we're up to now. Yeah, yeah,
a little uh, it's a little easier, but very newsy.
This is a big like time yeah, yeah, right in
just a free agency free.
Speaker 7: Agency franchise going to be born before you do. Yeah,
in the NFL is year round.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, let's see, what would the slowest points
be July?
Speaker 3: But even after after the super Bowl? Maybe we're not
we're not that full removed. But the super Bowl was.
Speaker 5: Three weeks ago, I think, like right before training camp.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like like June.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they would probably get pretty tedious, like the week's
leading up to the draft, Like you're talking about the
same things over and over. People are moving for no
absolute reason because they haven't had a workout.
Speaker 7: June July but even then you're talking about the rookies
that you drafted, what you saw from them early on,
So like it's a year round thing, you.
Speaker 2: Know, just like yesterday we had a massive trade the
Chiefs and the Rams and Trent McDuffie going to the
Rams and then the Chiefs getting back. Let me see
if I can remember a first, a fifth, a sixth
this year and a third next year for who Trent
McDuffie corner.
Speaker 3: I thought of, I thought of you in that trade.
Speaker 2: What they got a first, a fifth, a sixth and
a third rounder next year. Well, remember we'll just talk
about I know, we just turned to our corners.
Speaker 7: Corners like McDuffie's good. But so it makes sense that
it's the Rams though, Matt. They've had one first round
They've used one first round pick since twenty seventeen, and
it was Jared Verse, who's actually been really good.
Speaker 2: Let me see, so since twenty seventeen, just don't believe
in them. Twenty seventeen traded to Titans, twenty eighteen traded
to the Patriots, twenty nineteen traded to the Falcons, twenty
twenty and twenty one traded to the Jugu Wars twenty
two to twenty three, traded to the Lions. Twenty four
they select Jared Verse, pretty good player. Twenty twenty five
traded to the Falcons. Twenty twenty six traded to the Chiefs.
Some point somebody's gonna have to put a gun to
their head and make him pick. And they said, the
hell of them picks.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it would be some funny like that, Michael Jordan
of the kids.
Speaker 3: Next year, they can't find anybody to trade with them.
They just don't turn in their cards.
Speaker 2: Like I don't really know what we don't want to
do here.
Speaker 3: They select Texas with a dollar sign. They don't show
up the first night. They're like, we've never had a pick.
Well a couple of Thursday.
Speaker 2: Well, the good thing for them they still have a
pick in the early teen because they do have the
Falcons pick. So that twenty nine for them was a luxury,
and so they went and got a player and Trip McDuffie,
who was injured last year didn't play as much, but
it's been really good. They wouldn't I don't think they
make that move if they don't have a second pick
out six thirteen Cowboys or twelve. Well, the third's in
next draft, So kick it down the road. They'll get
that back. They probably don't want to because they hate
draft picks. That's a good point. But we did talk
about their roster kind of ready to go everywhere. Maybe
they could pray off the ball linebacker, maybe get an
upgrade there, but you can get that a third round,
second round. What do you think about them taking Ty Simpson?
Now your your windows open right now. They want to
make it. They want to get a new deal done
with Stafford two. Like those conversations are happening, Like if
you wants to play he's playing there, how many years
does he have left on his current because he just
signed a new deal, didn't he it was?
Speaker 3: Was it two years ago?
Speaker 2: So to that point, I'm pretty sure he signed a
new deal last all season because he was probably a
two year deal if I was assumed though, Right. Yeah,
So if you're the Rams and you you know your
windows wide open, like you know, you still have an opportunity,
like you draft Ty Simpson, that's for the future. You're
not worried about the future right now, you're just worried
about the current.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, there's there's a couple of ways to think
about it. I believe in that whole situation. I mean,
Sean McVay is going to be there a long time
as long as he wants young guys. So you got
to kind of plan for the future. But you also
notably you're like you said, the window is open. I
think you can go sign free agents to fill your needs,
draft somebody like like a quarterback if you believe in
that guy who knows what the rams believe.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying just theo.
Speaker 6: If you have a quarterback at thirteen you believe in,
you could take him fill all your needs with money
back in the contracts. Knowing Stafford is coming off the
payroll in two, three years, whatever it is, then you
could back in a lot of these vets, pay them,
pay them, you know, ten million this year, but the
next year they get thirty million, whatever it is. So
you say, all right, these guys that we need, we
got a lot to pay them. It's gonna be a
big cap in two or three years, but we know
fifty five millions coming off, yeah, because of Stafford, and
we have our quarterback. So you could There's there's different
ways to think about it, different schools of thought. From
a GM standpoint, and I don't know what the best is.
I just kind of posing the question as to I mean,
the Rams are in a luxury position very.
Speaker 2: Much so, right, and they also have twenty seven and
a half million dollars a cap room.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and the Falcons help them be in a luxury position.
Speaker 3: Anyway.
Speaker 6: It's an interesting school of thought though, is because you
know you're going to pee paying Stafford fifty five million,
but it's not forever, so you can back in some
veteran contracts, guarantee them their second or third years or uh,
things like that.
Speaker 2: Rams are gonna be okay, they can be right, they
can be okay.
Speaker 3: Second best team in the NFL this year.
Speaker 2: I said the same yesterday. Yeah, and Patriot.
Speaker 3: Fans probably one A, one B like you play that game.
Speaker 2: Again, said the same thing. Yep, Yeah, it's winner of
that game is going to win it.
Speaker 3: Yep mm hmm.
Speaker 2: So that's why you makes real good the brother really
really good? All right? Didn't have that on the bingo card.
What talking about the Rams in the first segment. Well,
you beginning make a big move, truth.
Speaker 6: I mean, listeners probably didn't want to talk about the
baseball game last night.
Speaker 3: The other time about the rams.
Speaker 2: Well, eventually like and eventually it's coming. Next segment, we
had to talk about it. It's the old was the
old panic meter. You know, it's just HM.
Speaker 3: When do you push the button? Panic button? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I wanted you. Okay, got it? Well, you're tired, tired
of not an idiot, that's true. All right, we'll take
a break, we'll come back. We'll get the show started
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Speaker 2: All right, LSU baseball goes down to Louisiana Lafayette seven
to two. Last night in Lafayette they were out hit
nine to seven and you had three big errors in
the game. And it's probably something we haven't talked enough about.
We'll talk about the lineup, certainly, talk about the pitching staff,
but remember how good they were defensively last year, and
every time Jay Johnson joined us, he would talk about
it and talk about you know what, it's done for them,
and there's been some sloppiness in the field as well
over the last couple of games, and certainly early in
this game it really cost them because they're throwing the
ball around, not making the plays that we have seen
them and certainly we know they're capable of making. So
that's one of the things certainly that stood out to me.
Speaker 7: Well, we talked about it the other day, right the
Monday game against the Northeastern when Northeastern jumped on you quick. Now,
John Pearson was at first and a lot of people
aren't going to consider him an every day starter, but
I mean he had two big time eras in the
first inning of that game. Cooper Williams is clean going
into the second if he makes those plays, and I mean, dude,
like you give up three runs in the first inning
off of Gavin Gidrey, but I mean very little help
from the field as well. Like you mentioned, I thought
it was interesting that Gidrey started, but I mean he
had two strikeouts. Control was a little bit of an issue,
but yeah, the defense has got to get better.
Speaker 6: Watching the game, of course, very what a great, great
atmosphere though, by the way, like watching it, it seemed
like it was pretty awesome atmosphere.
Speaker 7: Pat just redid that for about two years. Agoeah, it
looked like a really cool place to play it.
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 6: Night game, a lot of purfle was there as well,
so like it looked like a really cool environment to
just go and play baseball like it like that would
kind of get you going, certainly in the midweek, especially
like coming off the Monday night game against Northeastern where
there was like zero people in the in the stands,
you know what it's ah, so for a Wednesday night,
probably a pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Place to play, but the execution just wasn't. I mean,
it just wasn't there.
Speaker 6: The top of your lineup gets hot finally, but I
think Landra we were looking at it before the show started.
Speaker 3: In the last six.
Speaker 2: Games, the starting lineup for Fellowship with that in two
fifteen to ten.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so thirty nine hits in one hundred and eighty.
Speaker 6: Six and that's with Curie I'll be in three for
three last night and Jake Brown being two for four
last night.
Speaker 8: Kuriel and Jake Brown in the last six games both
lead with most hits at seven.
Speaker 6: So you're starting nine bat in two ten in the
last six games, which obviously not good. But but you
didn't feel that bad going into at least Monday night
because you won three this past weekend, but you still
didn't hit well your pitchers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, mister tailors, the middle.
Speaker 8: Of your lineup, usually the bottom half of your lineup
isn't gonna be as productive as like the top in
the middle of your lineup.
Speaker 5: But the middle of your lineup is slumping bad right now.
Speaker 8: Between Zach York and Steven Mylam, Zach York is two
for eighteen in the last six games. Steven Mylam is
three for twenty. So when you have the top of
your lineup setting the table. Jay is really good at
setting a lineup right. So like you have Derek Curriell
and Jake Brown, who are gonna get on base, They're gonna.
Speaker 5: Get a hit. Korea was a little, He was a little, but.
Speaker 8: He had three for eighteen over the weekend, so like, okay,
but he usually is very consistent. So the top of
your lineup is getting on base, and then the people
that are supposed to drive them in, with the exception
of Trent Carroway, just aren't doing a good job of it.
Like Trent Carroway, He's the only reason we have two
runs last night.
Speaker 3: Smash that ball.
Speaker 2: I mean it's Jake Brown, Curiel and Caraway. Jake Brown
hitting four hundred, Carrie is hitting three thirty three, Carroway's
hitting three ten. You don't have another hitter a regular
that would qualify, you know, to be in this conversation.
Mason Brown to eighty one, Aaron beat two seventy nine,
Dart r two sixty five, Stephen Mylam two sixty, Zach
York two fifty six.
Speaker 3: Zach York is Stee Mylam. They they're the ones that
you got to get.
Speaker 8: Well, especially Stephen Blom. Like we talk about all the time,
how Steven Mylam is very consistent. Last year, was super consistent.
Was always going to get on bass, was going to
drive runs in. So when he goes cold, I we
talked about it. He was going to be a big
piece of this team too. I still think he can't.
I mean, you can come out of.
Speaker 3: A slump and look like I was watching.
Speaker 6: I watched two of his bats last night and they
just had the perfect shift on Like he hit what
what normally be a base hit the third baseman third, Yeah,
the third base I mean it was like they playing
a short right fielder, and like they just said, and
then another one, he hits it right at the middle,
and there's a guy they have a shift on.
Speaker 3: He's hits it right to a guy that's shifted.
Speaker 8: I'm glad you said that. So there's this thing that
you can It's called batting average with balls in play.
So every time a ball is put in play, what's
the batting average for that? Like how many times is
it actually getting make right? So over the last six
games it's two fifty seven. Usually it's like between three
hundred and three twenty.
Speaker 3: Two fifty seven and just put the ball in between
the fifth putting on.
Speaker 8: Like the batting average when the ball is in play,
so like when you make a hit, so like are
they getting that out or like are they getting on base?
What is it? It's two fifty seven, So that actually,
like I feel like, tells the bigger story that they're
just kind of hitting into bad luck a little bit,
hitting into the shift. Like you said, it's not an excuse,
but it is a little bit of an interesting stat
to look at that, Like the batting average balls with
balls in play is two fifty seven, where it's usually
hundred and three twenty.
Speaker 7: Well, and to her point, like Mylam's been in a
slump before, we've seen it. He's been here three years,
but he always comes up with the clutch hit. Yeah,
it's not happening this year. Like Okay, yesterday she mentioned
York and Mylam York Milam. Aaron Beattie was four, five
and six in the lineup. They combined, oh for ten
last night, Oh for ten, And that's when your top
two or five for seven. Yeah, and Derek Curiel drew
a walk to your leadoff batter, got on base four
times last night and did not score a run.
Speaker 3: You left seven runners on base last night.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I'll look at like Stephen mylams slumped just
because what we just said different than like Zach York's.
Speaker 2: Like Zach York just yeah Zax just lazy, like just slump.
Speaker 3: Like popping it up ground.
Speaker 6: Like, well, at least Stephen Mylam's hitting it and should
have had two bases and like if they weren't shifted,
it's like traditional base.
Speaker 2: Of it.
Speaker 8: The shift is my least favorite thing ever because it
always works against LSU and to do it it's for LSU.
Speaker 5: Ever, like I'm i guess to know the numbers.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna see if I could try to find this,
like the number of times that issue has made a
play in the ship.
Speaker 7: The shift reminds me of like when another team is
going forward on fourth down against you and football You're like,
this is stupid.
Speaker 3: Why are you going for it on fourth down?
Speaker 7: And they go for it, You're like, I didn't want
them to because I knew that crap was gonna work
against me, and I knew it wouldn't work.
Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 3: That's exactly what the shift reminds me of. Absolute bullshift. Yeah,
that is exactly what it is.
Speaker 2: Like.
Speaker 6: That was such an aggressive thank you. It was one
of the most aggressive shifts ever on that one with
Steve Guy, just like a slap of button down that
they're just as j J just beat the shift.
Speaker 5: What's the deal.
Speaker 6: Ja taking taking it? Taking a lot of the blame.
Last night after the game, in an interview, saying question,
I don't remember what the question it didn't like the
clip that I saw didn't set the question, but Jock
du said had posted it, so I assume he was
asking if he said I probably didn't set the team
up very well with the scheduled early season scheduling, And
I'm like, I don't know, Jay, I mean, I get it,
you're their head cut, like you got to take the
way and you're like quarterback on the day that he
always take the playing for something. But like scheduling, really,
I'm so tough, like they got they got a roster
full of baseball players.
Speaker 3: You got a roster full of baseball players.
Speaker 2: Saying it in challenge him enough, I don't know what
they actually I don't know what he meant by it.
Speaker 7: He could have been the number of games number of
year and started saying whatever a couple of weeks ago,
saying we wanted to play the extra games. They played
five games in six days twice this year already. Yeah,
and like you're really not going The only time you're
ever really going to do that is if you're in
the loser's bracket in Omaha and you make it to
the championship series.
Speaker 3: Truly, the only time you're going to do so.
Speaker 7: Maybe maybe that's what he means, because like everybody plays
the out of conference like that's that's that's not a
I know, people like they blame Kim Mulk, you're having
a soft out of conference, that's not the issue.
Speaker 3: I imagine he's talking about the number of games.
Speaker 5: Maybe Matt and I were talking about it this morning.
Speaker 8: I'm like this, like beginning of the season schedule is
tougher than it has been in the past.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't think. I don't think he's talking
about the quality of opponents.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you're right that it's like the volume.
Speaker 7: Right, because he did mention on here a couple of
weeks ago. This is something I haven't usually done in
the past.
Speaker 5: So anyway, your head coach, I will say though that like, sorry,
go ahead.
Speaker 6: I was just saying your head coach taking taking a
lot of taking some of the blame off the players,
which I didn't really understand, like hit the ball, catch
the ball.
Speaker 3: That's that's what you need to go do the interviews
and be like, no, Matt, why did your team fail?
I don't know.
Speaker 6: I'm watching these people playing. I fought the second basement
made three air. I saw one of the guys yesterday
have about twelve cuts of the ball. I don't know
if it came within six inches of it once.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you need to be in the press conference, like
I need you in there.
Speaker 6: Jay Walks up the podium, you tap on the shoulder.
I got this one, Yeah, I got I got I
got this one. Just take this one off. But schedule's perfect.
At the ball you're doing a great job.
Speaker 3: So I did.
Speaker 6: Its like in all serious as Laundra and I were
talking before the show, and I don't know if this
is what you're about to bring up, but like I'm
watching the game and I don't know if i've and
I hadn't sat down to watch one through anyone through nine. Yeah,
so I'm watching it intermitutely throughout. I got kids helping
with homework, doing all this stuff. But I hadn't seen
like emotion from the team yet, or like intensity or
like even getting mad if you strike out or pop up.
And I get it, like you gotta stay chill, like
this is that's still March fifth.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 6: But on the other side, and of course I know
plain Las shoes like Mount Everest for a lot of
the smaller school team. And I don't mean that disrespectfully,
it just kind of is what it is. They're getting
fired up when they strike somebody out, and like there's
there's a motion to what they're doing. I hadn't really
seen that yet, and I know that'll come. And I
know that also has something to do with a mount
of games that they played, But I don't know. It's
just something that stuck out to me. And I don't
even know if it's a negative. I just haven't seen
people get excited when they score or get a hit,
or get mad when they don't. I hadn't seen that yet.
Speaker 5: You didn't see the motor.
Speaker 1: Boat was the lead.
Speaker 5: And you know what they did this weekend too.
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know. I've only saw them one time.
Speaker 7: They may have guy is hitting the ball, Yeah, Jake
Brown ever since the war motor boating.
Speaker 3: Mother ob.
Speaker 8: My response to that was that I don't really feel
like Jay's teams usually have a lot of like overly
emotional and Jay got ejected once. It's two years ago
versus was it against Florida.
Speaker 3: It was a conference game. It may have been the thing.
It's time bring up.
Speaker 5: I don't know about getting objected.
Speaker 3: Row bats onto the field. I think it's time light
of fire. Let's go for a Friday.
Speaker 7: What's like, uh like, Rachel Phelips says on Major League
too soft on these guys.
Speaker 3: Take away the hot water.
Speaker 5: That's what she did, make them do foul poles.
Speaker 2: Any lou Brown makes all right, we'll take a break
more O t B when we come back here live
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You know, one of the things we were talking about
it since it could have been doing a ton of
NFL stuff talking you know, quarterbacks and who's got what options,
And it's a draft that's not very deep, and it's
a free agent class that's not very young. It's got
a bunch of guys that used to be stars, but
they're older now and they're past their prime. And just
every quarterback situation and who maybe can you trade for
Kyler Murray got released blah blah blah blah blah. I'm like,
thank god, we don't have to talk about one of
these options for the New Orleans Saints and trying to
figure out what band aid you can put on the
bullet hole to try to stop the bleeding.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what I mean.
Speaker 6: The Saints, like, who would have thought halfway through the
season this year and we would sit here and feel
pretty good about what we're headed into free agency?
Speaker 2: That salary cap looks in the past, Yeah, compared to
what I's been.
Speaker 6: It's been the worst salary cap management like ever until
until recently, and you got your long term quarterback.
Speaker 3: So it is a luxury.
Speaker 6: And this is certainly not the year that you want
to be trying to find your long term quarterback in
free agency, and unless you're the Raiders in the draft
right especially, I mean at least immediate long term answer,
Like any one of these quarterbacks can get drafted in
the first, second through seventh round and be a franchise quarterback,
just probably not immediately except for Mendoza.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you're kind of looking at the rest of
the market. It's you know, take a chance on them.
Malik Willis, it's Aaron Rodgers who's only going to play
for Pittsburgh, and Mike McCarthy if he plays, it's Russell Wilson.
But he said that as of yesterday, I'm a McAfee show.
He didn't have a contract offer. He did that did
a mean thing. They played koy Ale last year. I mean,
what the Steedler's gonna do is gonna be Will Howard,
Mason Rudolph. They're gonna take Aaron Rodgers. I mean I
would take Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, me right now me too.
So I don't have the biases that you have, and
I'm still taking Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 6: What do you think about only let me ask that,
let's just take out Aaron Rodgers out of the equation
for the Steelers, what do you think about Kyler Murray?
Murray to the Steelers under Mike McCarthy, under West Coast offense,
a different type of offense.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna answer that that's so much more in
your lane. You played in that offense. You know that
offense in the NFL. Okay, I didn't play for Mike McCarthy, though,
I'm gonna.
Speaker 3: Think I think.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 6: I think Kyler Murray is certainly no less talented than
he was a handful of years ago. I think he's
played in a terrible organization. I think there's an opportunity
for him to reinvent his career and actually be a
good quarter I'm never gonna say great, but like a
good quarterback. I'm sure he's a little bit more mature,
maybe a little less call of duty these days. But
if there's gonna be a way to do it, it's
not gonna be with the Jets. He's not gonna get
better with the Jets, but a stable organization with a
one of the one of the good guys as a
head in the NFL, as a head coach who has
been known to make quarterbacks have quarterback friendly offenses. I
know his offense. It's awesome. West Coast offense is incredible
for a quarterback. It makes sense. The footwork is there.
It's all about footwork. You can't be sloppy like that's
what you train. You train footwork and it's all about
footwork and his ability to make I think that move.
If it's not Aaron Rodgers, I think Kyler Murray to
the Steelers actually has a chance to be really good
for both parties on that. Now, again, I'm not ever
gonna put like Kyler Murray in this. I'm just trying
to make something positive out of this quarterback group, out
of this quarterback crop, because I know the destinations that
he could go to and it's not going to be
good by AKA the Jets, AKA the Jets. So that's
the one where I would try to stay away from
if I was anybody. But if the Steelers don't go
after a Rogers, I think that would be an opportunity.
Speaker 3: I'm not Kyler to the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: I mean again, I don't know that the Dolphins ever
going to be good.
Speaker 7: No, I know, I'm just I'm just looking at the
players they got. You get a Devon a Chain, you
got a Jaylen Waddle.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I want Kyler Murray going to
live in Miami.
Speaker 3: You think pittsburghs safer.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I just And I don't say that as a
knock to anybody that this is one of the reasons
why I say I don't think the Dolphin's ever going
to be good. You're dealing with kids twenty two to
thirty years old for most of your roster, with way
too much money. Living in Miami. I think there's too
many distractions there to ever like be championship caliber team.
Speaker 3: They can prove me wrong, but I think.
Speaker 2: In general, yeah, like for anybody.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I when I was in there, I knew
multiple like agents and financial advisors that didn't want their
players to go to Miami because they would get too distracted,
they wouldn't play, they would.
Speaker 3: Lose all their money, they would do this or that.
Speaker 6: They'd be chasing bottle service, it'd be chasing, well, be
chasing something. So I'm just saying that. I don't think
like with the history, like again the call of duty stuff.
I mean, they still got that in Pittsburgh, get it.
But like I think, I just I don't think Miami
is never going to be yet.
Speaker 2: I mean, started this car twentization with the point thank god,
seems don't have to play this game this years crushing it,
thank god. Not a fun game to play playoffs, so're
saying it's just us, just us saying that. But we
will get with the New Orleans Saints options in the
NFL draft when we come back here on OTV. Off
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Speaker 1: Locked in on LSU football twenty four to seven. You're
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Speaker 2: Latest mock draft on ESPN dot com. I believe Jordan
Reed put this one out. Has the New Orleans Saints
selecting Jeremy I love, running back out of Notre Dame
at eight in Jeremy Barnard, receiver out of Alabama at
forty two.
Speaker 3: I love Jeremy Bernard.
Speaker 2: About ty Ty Montgomery sixth round? Yeah, I might have
seen him at Singer Bowl.
Speaker 3: I'd be so fired up if they took him in
six or seven.
Speaker 5: Mickey was paying attention at the Senior Bowl.
Speaker 2: I actually I'm with taste Jim. As far as the
Jeremy Bernard.
Speaker 3: I don't care how he is.
Speaker 2: Forty two was earlier than I thought he would go.
But Jeremy Bernard, it was really good at Washington, was
good Obama, very versatile guy. I like other receivers more
in this draft. So I don't know about forty two.
If you got him in the third round, I would'd
be awesome. I do a little tap dance. I would
feel very excited about that one. It looked like Bean
Crosby and the Holiday Inn. You know, remember this people.
Speaker 7: Were people were crapping O'Ryan Williams, and I get he
had some drops, but they're like, oh, sophomore slump. I'm like, no,
Jeremy Bernard is the one making all the plays. Jeremy
Bernard's taking his catches.
Speaker 2: So if the Saints went running back receiver, how are
we feeling?
Speaker 3: I'm not feeling great?
Speaker 2: I know, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 3: I loved I know.
Speaker 2: My good buddy Matt Miller, who does ESPN's draft stuff too,
he thinks he's the best overall player in this class.
And that might be so. But where you're at as
a team. I just don't know that that helps you
the most. There's other teams, Like if he went to
the Chiefs at nine, I feel different because everybody's got
different needs. Everybody's got different things they're looking for, And
I just think with the New Orleans Saints you have
more pressing needs than running back. And with this running
back free agent class, if if you say, okay, ak,
it's a it's not you, it's me, like a situation,
and you got to go, okay, well have him and
then go sign somebody else. Right, travesse Et is going
to be out there, Rico Dall's going to be out there. Now,
Kenneth Walker is going to be too expensive, but he's
out there. Isaia Pacheco's out there. There's a guy that
you can get that can give you some juice at
the running back position without having.
Speaker 5: To spend it might be good value. Who doubt all?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I might be good value. He's probably he is
six point five million is estimated salary, which you can handle.
Speaker 6: That, Yeah, if he truly is the number the best
prospect yeah in the draft, and he's available.
Speaker 3: At eight, like you can.
Speaker 6: I keep saying this and I know it's not gonna happen,
but you can get such good trade value for that.
You get such a good like somebody's going to move
as a contender.
Speaker 2: You've I met Mickey Lewis before, and actually you've played
for Mickey.
Speaker 6: He actually hired me, yeah, and also pretty much fired
makes he didn't rehire me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. I don't like I don't like the
Saints to select a running back. And we'll get into
it more when we come back.
Speaker 1: I have number two off the bench.