Speaker 1: All Star Toyota presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where the.
Speaker 1: Plays get broken down, then science gets denied.
Speaker 2: Got to come off the bench.
Speaker 1: Hour two of Off the Bench Live from the Mercedes
ben So Baton Rouge Studio starts now.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in hour number two O TV
one oh four five, ESPN, Baton Ruge, Jake Flynn, Alandri
and Tata y'all here with you on this Tuesday morning.
I believe report day for You're fighting Tigers is tomorrow,
if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 2: That is that correct?
Speaker 4: That they actually report today practice first first practices tomorrow?
Speaker 2: Really boring? I just got the training camp shivers. I remember,
I remember report day? You carry your bag?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly where my brain went. Is like carrying
your stuff into West Camp West.
Speaker 5: Remember when when Danny Etling reported training campus senior year.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, didn't have a flint shirt on. Forgot about that?
Did you work with him? Yeah?
Speaker 4: It was okay, Yeah, you had the Air Canada shirt
the year before that?
Speaker 2: Remember, yeah it might have but mine might have been
the year.
Speaker 5: I can't remember who's who it was that he was
too much star one year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so what he printed. Uh, I don't know where
you got that shirt from. Is the one who you
holding the crystal ball? I think it was. I have
one of those as well. Uh did you get him forced?
I think got him forced. He didn't get one from me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he probably did. I'm just assuming that you misplaced
it like you.
Speaker 2: Danny Atling. I called him Danny Etling.
Speaker 5: He just got that looks shrimp. He just got Flynn
uh sneaky NFL quarterback at least five years, right.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I know he's playing right now in the the UFL.
I don't know if he got five of like vested years.
Speaker 5: I'm not even gonna ask chat GPT because I'll said
to do it too much. I'm just gonna ask Google.
Speaker 2: It's just not fa.
Speaker 3: You tried to burn me yesterday by saying we lost
to the Buccaneers in eight in like week four, and
we beat him in week sixteen in eight and got
John Gruden fired.
Speaker 2: We killed.
Speaker 6: I said, I loved how much he used chat GPT.
Speaker 5: You did all right, respect that well practice tape, And
I said, that's honestly all I got.
Speaker 7: Jake is the one that was like, you need to
stop trusting he does.
Speaker 3: He like it got him at SEC Media Days, it
got him yesterday trying to burn me.
Speaker 2: It's got me a couple of times.
Speaker 3: I think it's a good tool for some things, Like
you know, if you want to check your grammar on
something you're writing, quick grammar check. There's websites to do that,
but it's just it's quick.
Speaker 2: Like what about So here's an example of what I do.
Speaker 5: We're having Wressell Shepherd on like I just asked for
a brief, like a bio brief overview of his career.
That's kind of what I did with that guy that
got me at Baylor. It's like, give me, give me
an overview his career. And one of the overviews is
like he had a highlight game in the bulkames how
many yards they do for?
Speaker 2: And I was like, yeah, so you threw for this
many yards.
Speaker 6: He's like, no, Oh my gosh, that's how much he
used Gibt Jake. You got to stop trusting it. And
I also forgot that we were naming like the most
random baseball players last night, and I was like I
just kind of blacked out and started doing it.
Speaker 2: That no do what you're talking about. That that game.
I knew a couple of those ns.
Speaker 3: Not random that that game could be fun, like a
snub like somebody. If somebody was sitting there drinking with
me and a Landro like and playing that game, they'd
hate us.
Speaker 7: That was I don't know why I.
Speaker 6: Can name like so many Royals players.
Speaker 2: It was fun.
Speaker 3: It had like it had like a mix of like
their homegrown players and also like some old heads that
they brought in.
Speaker 2: It cannot better.
Speaker 7: Like Moneyball a little bit, but like it worked.
Speaker 2: It's like that looks Gordon.
Speaker 4: He was like the guy on that team they brought in.
Speaker 7: He's a captain.
Speaker 2: I think they brought Lorenzo.
Speaker 4: Caine that year in the outfield, and he was a
he was a guy they had just brought.
Speaker 7: I liked Lorenzo Kaine.
Speaker 6: So Lorenzo Kine got injured and he got sent down
for rehab and the team, I forget the team it was.
Speaker 7: He It wasn't round Rock, but he played against round Rock.
Speaker 6: And this was like after they won the World Series
and I went to that game. But this was like
I was still in high school, so I had a
curfew and I had to go home, but I was
so mad because I wanted to get Lorenzo Kine, a
World Series champ, to sign a baseball that I had,
and I had got his attention and he told me
to wait for him after game and he'd sign my ball.
And I had to leave before the game was over,
and I was so mad. I didn't talk to my
parents for the rest of the night. I was so mad.
Speaker 3: I had had an experience like that in the minor
league game shout out to the Shreefport Captains. There used
to be a double A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants,
and the affiliate would come play like one game a year,
like the you know, the major league club to the
we'll play one game a year there, and the San
Francisco Giants came and I think, like Kevin Mitchell was
on that Giants team, but more importantly, Will Clark was
on that team, and I knew Will Clark was from
Louisiana and I know he wasn'tn LSU.
Speaker 2: Guy. I went to Mississippi State.
Speaker 3: But I wanted like Will Clark to sign my baseball
so bad, and like I finally Guy's attention, I'm like, well, well,
my guy's attention.
Speaker 2: I'm like, you sign you signed? He looked at me
and turned away. No, that was messed up.
Speaker 6: He came to Guarantee one time and I met him
while he was here, and he was super cool.
Speaker 2: But I must say he's not I'm saying I don't
know him.
Speaker 6: At all, but I've heard stuff like not just from you,
but I've heard stuff like that.
Speaker 7: And I so I didn't want to ask him to
take a picture.
Speaker 6: I mean I was, but I was new here, so
I was definitely not going to ask him.
Speaker 2: For though.
Speaker 3: I just remember when my parents used to talk up
Will Clark, so I was I hit left handed and
like you need to hit like well you know the
left handed. I just remember like Will Clark was like
big in our house. He's like the only non brave
that we ever talked about. And then he was coming
to Shreveport and I don't even think he played that day.
Speaker 2: I think he was just there. I think like he's just.
Speaker 3: Like tune it up and he was like in the dugout.
Speaker 2: I got his attention, but.
Speaker 5: Quickly if he can't not everybody's look.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying like I remember, like it's a core memory,
like well, a lot.
Speaker 2: Of eight year old, a lot of eight year.
Speaker 6: Old at that time was an eight year old and
he had a football and he's like, man, Matt, you
would look at him and turn away.
Speaker 2: No, that would sign it exactly.
Speaker 5: So the only time like this is okay, this is
back in the playing days where you know, there's people
just want autographs from people that have the jersey and helmet.
Speaker 2: It's not about like the person. You know.
Speaker 5: I'm not always so there is some times where I
would turn away. Little kids, I'm gonna, I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you why so much.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna I'm tell you why I called you a
d bag and you're.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna tell you why because everywhere you go, and
Jake's gonna attest to this when I bring it up.
Speaker 2: Everywhere you go when.
Speaker 5: You fly to a hotel where if you stay at
your hotel, there is a group of people that find
their way around the security security barriers and they're autograph hounds. Yeah, okay,
And there are people that that dude for a living.
They sell autographs, They sell pictures, and they will try
to sneak around and get autographs for the sole purpose
of selling them. It's not for a fan, it's not
for like to go up on their wall or whatever.
And players started getting used to this and learn and
figuring it out.
Speaker 2: And you can and you can spot them. You can tell.
Speaker 5: You can just tell because they have there's notebook of stuff,
they have a bag of stuff, and like so they
started trying to hide, and they try to hide the
fact that hide their stuff behind. They would start bringing
their wives to go ask for these autographs, and then
they started asking their children. Their children were like runners
for them, like they're like, all right, you you would
see them like back in the back because you would
get off the bus and you see them, all right.
They'd give their kid a card or a picture or
something like go run and get it and like and
I would, and every now and then a kid would
come up.
Speaker 2: And be like that is that your dad over there.
Speaker 5: I had a hard time doing it, but there was
people around me that certainly would something like.
Speaker 2: That vis Ago.
Speaker 5: If you followed any athlete or quarterback, you would see
him turned down.
Speaker 2: A lot of quarter all have a meeting being like
Phillips would sign a lot. But I give that situation.
Probably those kind of.
Speaker 5: Guys like like if a quarter of starting quarterback in the
NFL is gonna sign everybody's autograph who wants to like it,
it's gonna they'd still be signing.
Speaker 4: I could just I just see y'all having a meeting
and being like, gosh, don't fall for it.
Speaker 2: The kids are more.
Speaker 5: They also come back with like this piece of paper
and they're all like taped and like he's like, can
you sign all eighty of these?
Speaker 2: So I'll sign one one.
Speaker 4: Stuff saying like they don't sign with blue ink or
something like that.
Speaker 5: For you, like if someone comes with that as a player,
you're like, if anybody asked for like if they give
you a pen with blue ink, don't sign?
Speaker 2: Is it because it's easier to like I don't know.
I don't know did y'all have it?
Speaker 5: Did people ever tell you all that they told us,
or like they come out to you with the blue ink,
don't don't sign it?
Speaker 4: Oh no, I've seen that from like like red carpet
celebrities and stuff talk about like, yeah, you can't sign
anything with blue een.
Speaker 2: Yeah that was that was That was the real thing.
I'm not trying. They're autographed hawk there is right right.
Speaker 3: I saw I swear to like in this statement, I'm
not trying to be funny. We didn't have the same
situation probably as a Green Bay pam Like I'm not
just you know, No, San Diego and.
Speaker 8: The Chargers we had Hall of fames that had valuable
but when I went, well, when I went to Denver,
like that's when I kind of saw like what you're
talking about, like people hiding.
Speaker 3: And coming out of the bushes basically and kids asking
for parents for like some of the players we had
on that team, like in San Diego as wild because
I don't I don't you know, I don't know if
it's because nobody's actually from there. I don't like cause
it's not like it's a it's a big city, don't
get me wrong, but there's so many other things to
do that like people aren't that's probably why they're not there,
Like weren't really worried about it. So like we'd all
go out like to the movies, to dinner, to like whatever,
and maybe like one or two would come up to
even Philip like for an autograph. So I think you
truly like y'all had a different situation because like you're
the Green Bay Packers, like you're one of like the OG's,
like when you went to Chicago. I can't imagine what
that was like, because when you go to Chicago, they
know everybody.
Speaker 2: I was blown away.
Speaker 3: Like anytime we played the Bears in Chicago, we'd go
try to eat dinner and like the deep Snappers getting
asked for an autograph, like they know everybody.
Speaker 2: That was our experience. Lease.
Speaker 3: I played there twice, I think, and that was so
I'm sure like when y'all went to like places like Chicago,
which there's probably packer fans, I'm sure y'all couldn't even
get around town Ian we could.
Speaker 2: Yeah you could.
Speaker 5: You just had that group. You had, Yeah, the group,
and they you could. They were sitting there, they'd have
like five Duffel bags. They'd have every mini helmet you
could think of, real helmet jerseys like already pinned up
on cardboard.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 5: They were prepped and ready knew what they wanted to sell.
They already had the inventory. Yeah, they just needed to
get it signed. So watch one of those videos of anybody,
like anybody saying like if anybody doesn't sign, like on
a video. A lot of times if you look closely
somebody's handing them a blue ink pin and a card
and they're like, no, dude, and then they come off
as a prick. Yeah, I guess I did sign something
in I put so on like at this point our career,
it doesn't matter. It's like, yeah, if you needed that, BA,
if you need that, four dollars here, Bud take it.
And a lot of a lot of young players in
the NFL too. That's how they make a majority of
their money is signing things. So they're not gonna they're
not car they're not gonna sign.
Speaker 2: Yeah bought my first car off card money. Yeah, they're
not going to like sign things, just like they'll sign
for kids. Yeah, okay, so right here.
Speaker 4: According to Matt's favorite source, AI, it says due to
concerns about forgery or reproduction, so it must be easier
to like clam down on the blue ink and copy
it or something.
Speaker 2: That's what it says. It says, my mind, I had
no idea this is a thing.
Speaker 4: It's you can it's easier to reproduce an autograph with blue.
Speaker 3: Ink, blue ink on the Herbie blue ink on the
Herbie blue ink on the Keenan Allen.
Speaker 2: Okay, I get it.
Speaker 3: Blue ink on that one too, Okay, cool, all three
of those are blue ink.
Speaker 2: I get it, I get it.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: I actually I think it was a National Treasure card
of mine that I put on our off the break yesterday.
Huh signed by me blue ink. Yeah, just sign that,
says raider hater. Did you have a stack up at
your house?
Speaker 2: No? Not, I got a stack of those of those
that are not signed.
Speaker 5: Well on the back of online at least you like impress.
So when I got done playing, they did give me
a bag either. Yeah, they got a huge bag like
stacks in my cards my background because those ones are sweet.
Speaker 2: But on the back of you it's like an impression.
Speaker 5: You can barely it's like a watermarket says like a
sample on it.
Speaker 2: Oh, very cool. Let me just check that out. See So,
but if you want an autograph of.
Speaker 3: Me, that says raider hater, because I if I signed chargers,
I put raider hater and if I sign l s U,
it's gator hater.
Speaker 5: Oh we gotta get it. We gotta release our video
a laundra cut up for us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we do, because she did a nice jack as
ye were talked, your tongue dry that day, probably did.
I don't know. It was bad. No, no, it was good.
Speaker 7: It was good. I think the video came out really well.
But you like forgot to put one of the papers in.
Speaker 6: The oh yeah, oh yeah yeah, so I just had
to fast forward that.
Speaker 2: Part that was actually, Yeah, you did a good job.
We didn't give you a lot to work with. So yeah,
so update everybody.
Speaker 5: We had five of our most valuable cards from our
collected days.
Speaker 2: We've sent them off to p s A to be great.
Speaker 3: Yeah that box, that box was an expensive box. That's
a used car box.
Speaker 5: No, no, it's not that much. Well I think it's
great at tens. Maybe it gets great and tens. That
is a high school used car And currently they're currently
being graded right now, they're in the grading process because.
Speaker 2: We we did the expedited service.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and we're going to open them on air without
even looking at it.
Speaker 2: And so if you think the S word is the
worst thing that Flynn said.
Speaker 5: If they get like nine or eight, I might might quip, oh,
well you might get fired for what you say.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I have enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: I have enjoyed and honestly, we might be the photograph first. Yeah,
the first day that we started this whole deal with
like trading cards was t Bob's going away party.
Speaker 2: That's right, that's right.
Speaker 5: I don't know how you're like, because I have you
been into cars? I recently started, like we got it.
And my son got into it in March maybe yeah,
just because he was had some buddies at school they
were they had seen some cards and he had really
been into NFL football recently. Yeah, so I took him
to a card shop. We opened some cards and like
he hit lad McConkie card that was worth like one
hundred bucks. And then like my ears perked up, was
like huh, yeah, those things are worth stuff.
Speaker 2: And then started learning a little bit more about it.
Speaker 3: But then yes, for your remember you would come in here,
you know, once every three weeks like you did, and
you would talk about it. I was like, man, that's cool,
Like I want to and so like I started, like
because I was the only thing I was ever chasing
was like the Paul Skins debut patch, like one of one,
like I bought boxes of those tops. Like I didn't know,
I had no idea, Like I hadn't I didn't know
what a refractor was.
Speaker 2: I didn't know anything.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, that's shiny, that's gotta be worth a
couple of dollars.
Speaker 2: But it was T Bob's party that you did this.
It's your fault, was it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because we were saying goodbye to T Bob and
we're in the corner watching a card break and your
wife was judging us.
Speaker 7: I literally walked over and was like, are you watching
the car? He's like, I'm not watching a card break.
Speaker 2: No, you're watching a card break.
Speaker 3: Hit I hit, I hit that one. Lad that you're
getting graded for me in that break? Yeah, what a
good memory. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Then at your birthday party, gave you Jacob ester p
S a graded rookie card.
Speaker 2: Only nine and a half didn't get a ten. Good
can splurge for the ten. Huh. They didn't have any
limited populations, zero.
Speaker 3: Popular anytime that you got a card and you're in
your practice uniform and let you know how many you've
really got out there.
Speaker 2: Only had two years of cards. First year, second year.
Speaker 5: There's this card that I got that's got me on it,
and it's like four other quarterbacks on it, all rookie,
like the same age. Yeah, and they were all the
top pick so they like they were part of the
NFL premiere.
Speaker 2: Flacco Ryan and so they all like at the Rookie Premiere.
So they all had like their game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I had my red practice jersey and my
son's like, what, why did you have a practice jersey? Yeah,
well that seventh round pick.
Speaker 3: It's right, you beat that second round pick out.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, he's calling place for which school now, matt
uh is he at Louisville? Yep?
Speaker 5: He was the head coach of Louisville. His brother, Jeff,
you're really growing well great. His older brother has one
of the greatest sideline interviews of all time.
Speaker 2: Come back. Yeah, we'll play that.
Speaker 3: Jeff Brom, who I think is an incredible head coach.
Brian Bram, his brother who Flynn beat out. He was
a second round pick the same year flim as the
seventh round pick, is the OC there at Louisville, and
we'll play one of the best sidelined interviews. Also, after that,
we will get into a little l s U training
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Speaker 1: This is off the bench with Hester and Flynn, Matt
and Rouge is go to for all things Louisiana sports.
Speaker 3: All right, real quick, before we get into a little
training camp, we got Russell Sheppard also joining us. About
ten minutes from now here is Louisville head coach Jeff Brown.
And how in the world are you starting this game
tonight after taking that hit just six days ago?
Speaker 2: Well, let me answer. Let me answer that question by
asking you two questions. One is this or is this
not the XFL? Yes?
Speaker 5: It is?
Speaker 2: Two do or do I not currently have a pulse? Yes?
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 2: Let's play football. Oh that's in incredible. Wow, that's that's incredible.
Or do I not? And he like he meant that,
He meant it. He was ready for that question. But
how they go on the spot. They had him ready, dude,
that was incredible. I love They had to have told him, like, look,
I hope they didn't get an interviewed. I hope they
didn't either, because it off the top of the dough.
Speaker 5: Yes, it is currently have a pulse. Yes, I did.
Fact the old XFL.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like where the coin tosses two guys sprinting for
the football in whicheveryone recovers it gets to choose, like
there was so many collar bones that were just taken.
Speaker 2: You got a concussion six days ago, but do I
do not have a pulse. Let's go.
Speaker 5: You might got a couple of brain bruises in there currently.
I can't believe how much he looks like his brother.
To go ahead, lord, all.
Speaker 3: Right, we mentioned that reporting days today. Practice actually starts
tomorrow for l s U. Super fired up for that,
and it truly is talking. Season is kind of over
and now with the Saints and LSU both in camp,
and I know they practiced in the morning, but you know,
Flynn and I are going to head across there at
some point. Go check out maybe the last couple of
periods of practice. I might just leave y'all and just
take like a com rex one day, do the show
from over there, because, by god, I bet we could.
I want to see Falcony, I bet we could. I
want to see inside run. I want to see the
inside run drill nine on seven because that to me,
because of the offensive line, the defensive line, and the
running backs and also the tight ends. Think about what
you can learn about LSU if you just go watch
a nine on seven period and like for those.
Speaker 5: Listening nine seven periods, Yeah, I'm just wondering, do they
run the personnel enough that personnel know they have like
a run period?
Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody, So everybody still has nine on seven yeah,
inside run seven yeah, or the defense is going to
be you know, a little bit of an advantage. So
if you can run a nine on seven, there's nine
against seven, that's hence the name.
Speaker 2: You can do it anywhere.
Speaker 3: Like safeties in nine on seven are like it's six yards,
you know, because they're like there's no threat of his pass.
Speaker 5: I mean you practice is supposed to be harder than
the game, and nine on seven is one of the
main definitions of that because it's nine on seven and
so it's a running.
Speaker 2: Period, runningdrill. You can't throw it. Everybody knows. I want
to see that.
Speaker 3: I want to see I want to see the physicality
with the offensive line. I want to see who it
is left or right. I want to see the tight
end position as well. Okay, because you brought in two
new tight ends. Trade as Green is going to be
an f but like he's going to have to do
some why things. He's going to be an inline blocker
sometimes because if he's not, your fall into tendencies Like
Cayden Durham's fully healthy, like he had a foot injury,
toe injury, basically the entire back half of last year.
Speaker 2: It was still really good.
Speaker 3: Like he's still like think about like some of the
games that he made some hey in like South Carolina game,
he probably won you the game as a true freshman.
I want to see the young running backs, but like
if I could pick one drill to.
Speaker 2: Tell me a lot of what I need to know about.
Speaker 3: LSU, I think that is the perfect one because every
kind of question Mark would be involved.
Speaker 2: In that position. That's to watch too.
Speaker 5: Think he's involved, but there's no like, you're not going
to offense is never going to look great in that period.
You're never gonna like break a huge run or anything.
Speaker 2: But if you do. And the quarterbacks these days, you know,
this is.
Speaker 5: A you're ready for a back in my day type
speech here. They will never understand the hardships that quarterbacks faced.
Speaker 2: In nine on seven.
Speaker 5: They will never understand what hardships when you and you
get up there and you're underneath the center and you're
calling a snap count, trying to take a snap from
a center in nine on seven who is usually getting
away lower than he usually would and firing off the
ball faster than he normally would because the defensive line
is firing off faster because they know it's a run.
There's no threat of pass, the centers like lose their mind.
And then not to mention, like, you rotate a lot
of people, so you always get like the second backup
center who's like the right tackle or the guard. So
and then if you fumble a snap in nine on seven,
you'll just look dumb and the head coach loses their mind.
So I remember going to a nine on seven's probably
the most like nervous of any of the drills that
we did in practice. Not nervous might not be the
right word, but the dread of like, oh gosh, I
gotta like take the sentence, like I gotta take the
snaps from these guys.
Speaker 2: They're going to be so low.
Speaker 5: These defensive tackles are gonna like hit them like as
they're snaping the ball.
Speaker 2: So that's pretty tough on his quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I feel so sorry for y'all. How
did y'all ever, how did y'all ever get through that then.
Speaker 5: But the quarterbacks these days, guess what, they don't get
it because of.
Speaker 2: Nine on seven.
Speaker 5: There is let me tell you something, Oh don't you
dare go heart count hard like in nine on seven.
It's on one. It is on one if you quick,
If you quick count them, defensive coaches lose their mind
if you hard town them.
Speaker 2: Everybody jumps off sides. Everybody's losing their mind. How many
times did you hear Jimbo Fisher?
Speaker 3: Hey, Hey, I'm sorry, Bo, Hey, we'll tell Auburn not
to go on too all right, sorry, but we'll tell
Auburn this way.
Speaker 2: Hey not, hey, don't go on to Bo's not ready
for it. And then just yep, yeaping ready to throw down.
Speaker 3: I used to love watching those two go at it,
and they loved each other like they hung out like
on the road and stuff like they go have a cold,
like those two who have a cold. Pop yep, but
dere in practice.
Speaker 2: Sorry, we'll tell Auburn not to go on to this.
Speaker 5: Week bow and then he picks his ear with us
fist pencil eraser.
Speaker 2: What are you doing?
Speaker 3: Shout out to Jimbo though he actually just got a
spot on tv ACC Network shout out.
Speaker 5: That was me in the NFL, Like once I got
vested to the defensive coordinators and scout team and stuff.
When I'd run it like, I would go hard, count
all the time, I'd audible. I would throw it to
the to the last person they had. They want to
be a throw to. Oh my bad, I didn't know
Ben Roethlisberger wouldn't go on to know.
Speaker 2: Oh you would have been Roethlisberger to throw in the
comfort too. No, dude, I'm good. Oh you didn't like
I would. I would change the protection too. I would
slide it out to the nick stuff. They don't do that.
I'm like, yeah, they're NFL.
Speaker 3: See, I'm so glad, Like I don't know, we're gonna
get a brave We got chep Waite nose.
Speaker 2: Norm was so good. North Turner like he wouldn't do that.
Speaker 3: And if we had to repeat a play like more
than twice, he's get it out. He's like, you think, hey,
you know what, I bet you. Oakland's not going to
allow us to repeat the play on Sunday. So if
we're repeating it on practice time, that need to get
it out, get it.
Speaker 5: Out, well, Oakland might have that's true, but other things
the Broncos didn't Kansas City.
Speaker 2: Not Oakland, Oakland. You won't do it again. Okay, we
do or do not have a pulse? Yes? I do electric.
All right, we'll take a break.
Speaker 3: Russell Shephard, former l s U longtime NFL VET, joins
us to talk tigers.
Speaker 2: When we come back on one of four five ESPN betteris.
Speaker 1: Off the bench.
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Speaker 1: Locked in on l s U Football twenty four to seven,
you're listening to Off the Bench.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in OTV one O four five
ESPN Baton Rouge, Jake Flynn, a linger tat all here
you and now we're going to be joined by a
former LSU longtime NFL receiver.
Speaker 2: Russell Shephard joins the show. Shep, what is up, my man?
How you doing?
Speaker 10: What's going on? Brotherand thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2: Excited to have you on.
Speaker 3: And today is actually reporting day for the LSU Tigers.
Now we know NFL teams have already reported to training camp,
and so you know, Flynn and I have talked about
it like that reporting day. You know, depending on where
you're at in your career, you got a different feel
Like when I say reporting day to Russell Shephard, what
do you.
Speaker 2: Think of.
Speaker 10: Butterflies? You know just kind of you know, full of energy.
You know it's coming off just a good amount of
time with the family, kind of working working my skills.
You know, you know, the off season is a kind
of a just kind of get your juices back going,
you know, fall back in love with just the grind.
And so when you get to that first day of
training camp for reporting day, you know you kind of like,
you know, the build up.
Speaker 3: One of the things that we were talking about is
like you know, different times in different years and when
you're reporting, Like for you, like once you get to
the NFL, right, and I mean you had a hell
of a career, you lasted a very long time. What
was that first one like for you? Because Jeff, like
you knew what kind of player you were and you
were going in undrafted free agent type guy, Like what
was your mindset going into that training camp maybe compared
to year four or five in the NFL.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah. So look so with me, like every every
player has that different journey and it's a unique journey.
All of them are worth it that earned. So with me,
I was an undrafted free agent to Philly. I was
the first you know drafted and undrafted class time that
Chip Kelly, So you know, we you know I didn't
have I had a relationship with coach Kelly coming out
of high school. He recruited me. I still ended up,
you know, going to LSU. So when he was in
a head coach position with Philly, it made perfect sense
for me to go there off of the relationships. So
had a great training camp. I was able to play
with my all time favorite player, Michael Vick. He was
a quarterback at that point in time with the organization.
But we were stacked, man. We had Sean Jackson, Jason Levon,
Jeremy Macklin, Roley Cooper, the list goes on. It was
deep room. So I end up, you know, getting waves
with final cuts. I made it all the way to
the final cut. The last preach is the game. I
got waves and the next pave. You know, every NFL
team had twenty four hours to pick up your rights.
So with me, you know, not really knowing kind of
you know, if I was gonna end up somewhere at
that point, I didn't have an agent, so I was
just kind of a little little since sleep that night,
not knowing my future. So I get a call from
Tommy Mossick. This actually the first time I ever told
the story. So Coach Mossy called me about nine thirty
that night. I actually just got off the phone with
Hollie Roseman, the GM for the Philadelphia Eagles, and you know,
Howie told me, you know, Russell, unfortunately, Man, we had
to release you, but we want to bring in the
practice squad if possible. I said, well, Howie, what do
you mean possible. He's like, well, somebody picks you up,
then you know you have to go with that team,
you know. But you know, I said, well, what's the
chances you think of me getting claimed Howie on the
scale of one to ten. And you know, Howie's a
good friend of mine. He gave me opportunity. You know,
no shade towards him or that made an organization, the Eagles,
but he told me I had a three out of ten.
So that was kind of it kind of kicked me
in the you know, the coach you know, when he
told me that. And so when I got off the
phone with Howie, just randomly, I get a call from
Tommy Mossick, and coach Mafick told me, hey, Bush Davis,
who was the former head coach at University of North Carolina.
He's a special associate assistant to Breg Ciano and they
called asking about your chef. So I know I heard
you got waved with Philly, but I just want to
let you know they called action about you. And I
woke up that morning. I went in to sign my
contract with the Philadelphia Eagles to be on the practice squad,
and Howie Roseman had to pull He pulled me to
the side and say, ship, unfortunately, man, you can't sign
this contract. You've just been claimed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
And yeah, it just it just all just clicked. So
I went into training. You know, obviously my training camp experience,
I had a great camp, had a great relationship with
coach Kelly, but obviously through other relationships, you know, Coach Mossick,
you know, speaking highly of me when they they when
Tampa calls me playing against Bush days in North Carolina,
having a great game, and you know, three years prior,
you know, all these things led to me ultimately getting
claimed and being with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Speaker 5: For your straight It's such a cool story because you
were the epitome of like do everything the right way,
do with the right attitude. Like I used to love
when I was playing coming back in the off season
and I work it out with you, played throwing with you,
running routes, all that good stuff.
Speaker 2: Man, we had some good times back in the day.
Speaker 5: But like football is such a small world and college
NFL is so interconnected. So so like you, certainly, I
think all LSU fans would agree and Hesse certainly like
you were not used correctly when you were here at LSU.
And but you made a name for yourself in the
NFL for a long time because you did the right
things and that story like highlights that because you had
somebody from college all on your behalf and vouch for you,
and that's.
Speaker 2: The way these things work.
Speaker 5: But then you get to Tampa and you have a
really good I think four years in Tampa, is that right?
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, yeah, man, it was a great opportunity. You know.
The thing about so people that have different opinions about Coachiano,
but he's very easy how he's very intelligent.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 10: He obviously is a very you know, strong armed, you know, leader,
and he has a notary background, and I think people
like him, you know, whether Nick say, Ben Greg Ciano,
Chip Kelly, you know, you have some guys that are
wired more social college and I think that was his
you know, his ultimate thing. But I learned a lot
from him, and I kind of got introduced to special teams,
you know, you know when I the funny thing, Matt.
So when I got to Tampa, the next morning, I practice,
but that morning, not knowing the playbook and still getting
you know, just first day at work, I didn't they
didn't have me do any reps. So immediately right after practice,
it was me and another guy that they claimed. I
forget the young man's name, but he's a d D.
So right after practice they pulled me in this young
man and say, hey, Rush, we want you guys to
do some one on one. And this is after I
got claimed. So you know, typically when you when you
get claimed, you have to be on the NFL team
for three weeks straight. They have to pay you at
least you don't have to be on the team, but
they have to pay you that. You know that the
money from the three games. So you know, I thought
I was on the team. Everything's where I got at
least three weeks to show myself. So literally after practice,
me and this the dB we do fifteen straight one
on one before but before we even started, they had
half of the post out, the in house shouts. They
were on the sideline as well as the GM Gregg Cheano.
They were all there watching us do one on one
and man, ultimately I end up you know, you know,
competing and I feel like I won the battle overall.
Literally after that practice, they end up waiving a young man.
They brought me in and they told me, hey, Russ,
you know both you guys play special teams at a
high level. We claimed you guys because we both you know,
we wanted a guy that can contribute the team, and
then we wanted the guy that had the potential to
grow into a dependable receiver and ultimately that that one
on one sets since is the reason why we kept you.
So you know, it's just like you said, relationships is
taking advantage of the moment. It's providing the right energy,
being a guy that can learn on the move, or
just all that places to have in the longevity in
the NFL.
Speaker 3: I never I honestly, I don't know that I've ever
heard of like going like one on one, Like I've
seen guys try out and have competition.
Speaker 2: That's a great stort.
Speaker 5: I mean, CHP, especially after signed right, like yeah, you
go and do your workouts trying to get signed.
Speaker 2: But yeah, you're right, like you.
Speaker 3: Already signed your claim and Chef like think about like
what that did, like that one twenty minute period, Like
what that did for your life, and like you know,
it could go in one way or another, it certainly
went your way and you earn that spot there, but
just do you think about like what that moment meant
for your life and like where you're at now successful
businessman and all the things you're doing.
Speaker 10: Oh man, it's everything, man, you know, it just kind
of gave me a true understanding of just capturing the moment,
you know, just being grateful for the opportunity, you know,
to see the glass half full not empty. All these
things just leading to having a positive mindset, just preparing
and joining the process. I mean that's kind of led
me into entrepreneurship because while I was in the league,
like you two guys who were both mentors and just
you know, leaders to guys like me, time at you
the Jordan Jeffersons of the world. Like you know, it's
all about being present, having your seat grounded, and making
the impact what you're at. And then, like I said
in Breaking you know, the competition. One thing about an
LSU player in the NFL, whether it's Jason Light from
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, is Howie Roseman. Whomever you're talking
to LSU players, they come to get us because we
compete at a high level and we got a little
sucking to us. So, you know, that was one thing
that was grateful for, you know, being in that rum
being a part of, you know, the program, is that
we had a little edginess to us, but also too
we were great, you know, great, just great young men.
So it's a special thing being a part of, you know,
that purpolement goal.
Speaker 5: And kind of to that note, let's pick your brain
a little bit about the twenty twenty five unless you Tigers.
Have you been keeping up whether you follow it? What
are your thoughts going into the season with just the
weapons at receiver, the weapons at quarterback and everything.
Speaker 2: What's your what's you're outlook on it?
Speaker 10: Man? So you know, I spend a lot of time
at the school now with us doing business you know
out there, So you know, I spent a lot of
time around a lot of young guys.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 10: Most I've been around the school really since I've been
in school, and you know, I will say this is
the closest team that I've seen since that twenty nineteen
twenty team, the national championship team. I think, you know,
I hate a QB man. I think he has a
good grasp of the team. I think they they follow him.
I think he leaves. He kind of reminds me of you,
Matt Very. He leads from the front quite you know,
it doesn't say too much, peaks upone needed, you know.
I just you know, at the end of the day,
this game that revolves so much around you know, distributing
the football, so the quarterback position is just turned too
such just you know, part of you know, wins and losses.
So I definitely think it starts with with with our guy.
I think he's in the right position to lead and
kind of take us to where we need to go.
And I think from the offensive line to all the
skill guys, you know, the young guys on defense. I
just think, you know, coach has he kin't got a good,
you know, opportunity man to capture, but I think it's
a great opportunity to take the crown.
Speaker 3: Yeah, before we let you go, man, I'm so proud
of like everything you've done post playing as well and
doing big things.
Speaker 2: And I know you mentioned being an entrepreneur there.
Speaker 3: Tell us a little bit and tell our listeners about
check Boys Waste Management, what you're doing, where you're doing it,
and kind of all these things you've got going.
Speaker 2: On right now.
Speaker 10: I appreciate it, brother. So you know, in year twenty twenty,
man I told the time with the Baltimore Raven, I
didn't think we were going to have NFL season COVID.
I was like, hide in the hell, We're going to
drink in the sand, water bottles cowers in the locker room.
But you know, me and my family came together. We
thought we can start this crazy you know I did,
which is a Porter Partty company. So I retired two
days before the season in twenty twenty. Man, I call
coach Hardball and I told him I was gonna retire.
He's like, shut what the hell about to start training counting.
I was like, I'm about about to hop in the
Porter Partty truck. And you know, he thought I was
pretty I was crazy, but man, we started shop Boys
Waste Management in twenty and twenty at the height of COVID,
and we are in Central a Portable Toilet Company. We
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have two thousand rentable items out throughout South Texas and
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Speaker 3: He is Russell Shephard good enough to join us, shep.
We appreciate your time, man, look forward to seeing you
and Bat and Rue soon.
Speaker 10: Man. I appreciate yourself, Go tiger.
Speaker 3: All right, there is Russell Shepard again, good enough to
join us here as we get ready for LSU training camp.
All right, we'll take a break, wrap up our number
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