Speaker 1: Welcome back. In Friday edition of Off the Bench, we
got one more hour to go here on a Friday
Jampeg show. So far, so a little bit of a
recap Hour number one. We're pretty LSU heavy. We me
and Laundra did kind of a LSU baseball preview of
North Alabama. Really what we wanted LSU to work on
because it doesn't really matter that they're playing North Alabama.
LSU looks like they're hiring Kyle Williams as their next
defensive line coach. And then we did some Saints. Hour
number two talked with Bill Bender of The Sporting News,
got a March Madness preview. He had quite the nice
things to say about mister will Wade out there at McNeice.
I know that I wanted to bring that one up.
I knew everybody would have an opinion on that one.
Look right now, guys. I wanted to do it last segment,
but we kind of got caught up talking about the
movie Click of all things Laundra and Cassie. I don't
know if y'all knew this. On March first, at Laberg's,
a two day competition was held and it was the
twenty twenty five Louisiana Truck Driving Championships. How did we
miss this one? I'm very mad that I didn't get
to go two How long has this been a thing?
They said, it's a two day competition. It was held
at Laberg's. Apparently they just did it in like a
spare parking lot. So like it saw eighty truck drivers participate.
They had to complete three tests focus on drivers knowledge
and skills. Like they had a written examination which took
an hour. It focused on knowledge of truck driving, injury,
first aid, and fire fighting, which I did not know
that was a thing for truck driving. They had an
inspection test so and like these were all competitions, like
if you had the best pre competition inspection, you won
award for this. They had seven different categories. I mean, look,
they literally gave a mechanic toward it goes to Corey
Mitchell of FedEx Freight. They're all sponsored, They're all they're
old drivers of a certain uh certain company. Got the
highest free trip inspection score. Like they give out a
Rookie of the Year, they give out a Rookie of
the Year. The drug shout out Darren Lemoyne, whoever that is.
He got Rookie of the Year. I guess what he
drives for Walmart. They win every freaking ding. My main
issue is Nicholas Michael, Darren, Corey, Chad, David, Damien, Larry Shelton.
Where's the truck driver names? Guys, I'd see a Clem
nowhere in there? Where's Snowman? Where's Rubbert dug What? What
was Snowman? Smoking the Bandit? I think I'm remembering that correctly.
Speaker 2: No idea.
Speaker 1: You've never seen Smoking the Bandit?
Speaker 2: Not since I was like a kid.
Speaker 1: What what a classic movie Smoking the Bandit is? Excell
cat probably seen it? Never seen smoking? Yeah, I know
it is. I mean I think I think it came
out where we were born, truck driving Championship in batter
Uge You, guys, I am excited about it. What I'm
not excited about? Alandra? What's going on with you?
Speaker 3: Boy?
Speaker 1: Joey b I don't know. Trey Hendrickson has requested a
trade because the Cincinnati Bengals won't pay him. This is
Joe Burrow's fault, is it? Can you fix him?
Speaker 2: I mean I can fix just about anything.
Speaker 1: Just about him? Well, okay, so it came out like
right when the season was over. Joe Burrow was like, look,
I want Jamar Chase back, and I want Trey Hendrickson back. Yeah,
and I want T Higgins back. That's fine. You can't
have all three of these guys back. We talked about
the other day. You don't need T Higgins on this team.
T Higgins is a luxury, not a necessity. He is
a phenomenal player. He could be a wide receiver one
on eighty percent of the teams in the NFL. The
problem is you literally cannot pay everybody. Joe Burrow is
one of the top three highest paid quarterbacks in the NFL,
and rightfully so, because I think he's one of the
top three quarterbacks in the NFL. I think it's my homes,
Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, and then I actually think there's
a drop off to four and everybody wants to put
Lamar in there. Whatever, you're going to resign Jamar Chase.
He's going to be the highest paid wide receiver in
the NFL, no question about it. He's probably going to
get close to forty million a year. I mean, he's
going to get a bag. Your offense wasn't the problem
last year. It was your defense. You had one of
the words of defenses in the NFL, and what are
you doing. You're letting Trey Hendrickson request they trade because
you won't pay it. This is not well. You know,
he's a Pro Bowl caliber player. Guys, he was a
finalist for Defensive Player of the Year. I actually think
he should have won it instead of Patrick's Urtain. Saints
fans all the time talk about, oh, you let Trey
Hendrickson out of the building, Neil exact Bond out of
the building. Yea, that's because they're both really good players.
He was the NFL sack leader a year ago, the
NFL sack leader. Think about that for a second. He
has thirty five sacks over the last three seasons. Thirty five.
This is not some guy that's just your average run
of the middle player. Somebody, I imagine a championship contender
is going to trade for Trey Hendrickson. They're going to
give him a long term deal, and they're going to
reap the benefits from this. Obviously, I was being a
little bit tongue in cheek early. This is not entirely
Joe Burrows fault. However, I do think him publicly saying
I want Higgins and Jamar Chase back kind of put
him in a little bit of a bad spot. What
why do you need Look, we just talked earlier about
Christian Kirk. The Texan's going to pick him up. Why
couldn't the Bengals have made a move like that. A
one to two punch of Jamar Chase and Christian Kirk
is really good, especially if you resign him. Mike Kasiki,
why do you need t Higgins on this football team?
I don't understand this. Your defense was awful. Guess what
it's about to get a whole lot worse because the
only good player on your defense is now going to
be wearing a different uniform. He're in twenty twenty five.
You just had to cut Alex Kappa. He was a
cap hit. Now. Alex Kapa was awful. I mentioned that
he actually won the Triple Crown, meaning he was had
the worst pass blocking rate, the worst run blocking rate,
Andy gave up the most sacks of any guard in
the NFL. It's not an award you want to win,
but he did. Congratulations with Alex Capa. He's gone now.
So even though Alex Kappa wasn't good, you still have
to replace it. He was still at least a body.
You have to go spend money in free agency to
resign somebody said you were moving on from Alex Kapel.
You have to hit on all of your draft picks
if you're the Cincinnati Bingles. The only thing keeping the
Bengals from becoming the New Orleans Saints is that they
have Jamar chasen Joe Burrow. They didn't have Jamar Chas
and Joe Burrow, they'd be in the same situation. You
cannot resign t Higgins, so let's say they don't. Let's
say they don't resign T Higgins. He franchise tagged him
for the second year in a row. You can't come
to a long term deal, so after next year Higgins
has gone as well. It reminds me so much of
when the Saints let Trey Hendrickson walk out of the building.
Why because they wanted to keep Marcus Williams. They said
that mark As Williams was our long term answer at safety.
Guess what shortly after Marcus Williams was out of that building,
turns out he wasn't your long term answer at safety either.
The Bengals could be in a very very similar situation.
I don't understand what they're doing. I don't really get
what they're doing. I think it's a bad move all
the way around. I really do. By the way, Cincinnati
has the seventeenth pick right now in the first round
of the NFL Draft. What do you take you need everything?
Because you could say, okay, well it's easy, they're gonna
go defense, they're gonna go pass rusher, they're gonna go safety.
Maybe your offensive line's bad. You drafted Amarius Mems last year.
I mean, he looks like a pretty solid piece. He
looks like maybe you hit on that outside of him.
What do you got? You have nothing. Joe Burr is
gonna continue to get injured, making all that money, not
being able to play because of his offensive line, and
now you don't have any devents to back him up.
Look at Joe Burrow led the NFL in passing yards
and passing touchdowns, and your team didn't make the playoffs
because your defense was that bad. What do we do? Eh,
No problem, guys, We'll just cut our best defensive player.
We'll trade him. But I mean, what are you realistically
going to get into a trade from Trey Henderson? Because
other teams know two things. They know you're not going
to pay him long term because if you were going
to do that, you would have done it by now.
And Trey Hendrickson wants out, and whoever trades for m
is going to have to give him a long term extension.
What are you gonna get for Henderson? Second round pick?
Third round pick? Great, even if you get a first
round pick, which I don't think you will. Even if
you get a first round pick, you're going to try
to replace him with someone that you hope can be
a similar player to him. You already have him in
the building. And it's not like Trey Henderson's in the
twilight of his career. Trey Hendrickson is thirty years old.
He's a guy that you had in your building. Why
are you letting him walk? You don't have any sort
of signs of life on that defense. You have to
completely rebuild it. You just brought in a new defensive coordinator,
like honestly, I understand that he went to the Super
Bowl with Joe Burrow. If Zach Taylor doesn't make the
playoffs this year, Zach Taylor is fired as well as
he should be. Now, I'm not blaming this one him
or really not Burrow. That was more to just kind
of trigger a Luandra a little bit. But the front office,
whether it's the owner, the president at the GM, whoever,
is mismanaging this team in a really bad way. You're
putting your team in a bad spot. Everyone talked about
it all the time. Your super Bowl window was supposed
to be Joe Burrow's entire career. Since going to the
Super Bowl, he's been to the playoffs one more time.
He gave the Kansas City Chiefs all he won it.
I think he should have won that game. The referees
had a little bit to say about that. Look, I
get it, it's the Kansas City Chiefs, bump. We all
know about it. He's missed the playoffs back to back seasons.
And if you're telling me, okay, well, they have the
exact same offense they had a year ago. Great, their
defense is worse, at least on paper. It doesn't inspire
a lot of confidence into me. I'm not even a
Bengals fan now. I mean, we followed Joe Burrow and
Jamar Chase because they were so great here as LSU fans,
But I don't really understand what they're doing because there's
no way Philadelphia let Zach Bond walk out of that building.
They're not going to do it. Because Howie Roseman is
an excellent g himp. He's going to do it. If
he has to cut someone on the offensive side of
the ball to do it, he's going to do it.
Because say what you want about Jalen Hurts and AJ
Brown at Saquon Barklay, they're great. Your defense was the
reason you were as successful as you were this year
because they didn't have that at the back half of
twenty twenty three, and that's why you saw the Eagles collapse.
They lost eight of their last ten games. They got
upset in the first round of the playoffs by the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They bolstered that defense this year and
they became more of a complete team. This is a
team game. The Bengals can have the greatest offense in
NFL history, it's not gonna matter if you got a
bunch of bombs and practice squad players on your defense.
I don't really understand what management, what ownership is doing
with the Cincinnati Bengals, but they need to fix it.
If not, they're going to waste the career of a
really good quarterback. All right, look, we're going to take
a quick time now. When we get back, we'll talk
a little TV shows. Cassie was supposed to do some homework.
We're gonna see if she actually did that, and uh,
we all have to talk about that's coming up on
the other side here on Off the Bench.
Speaker 4: Off the Bench, Welcome in to the best morning sports
this show around Off the Bench with Esther and T Bob.
Speaker 1: Another banger, another banger. What's what's our theme today?
Speaker 3: Well, okay, when I got in the car this morning,
Welcome to the Jungle came on, and it got me
like super high as it was well because then I
went to the block this morning too, so I was
just like, hey.
Speaker 1: Before or after it came on. After, that's even better
because your blood's already flowing at that point, right, And
I had.
Speaker 3: Just picked up my coffee and like taken my first sip,
and like, Welcome to the Jungle came on, and I
was like, oh man, I'm lit right like I was lit.
But then somebody in the chat said that it's International
Women Men's Day, So then I just changed it to like,
I'm just playing like some of my favorite girlies, got
some of my favorite songs that are like.
Speaker 1: The International Women's Day. I knew we suspended. Jordan fer
He's and Cassie congratulates. Yeah, you got the project mostly done.
You had the privilege of waking up at five am
this morning. International women.
Speaker 2: I'm always so outnumbered in this Room's three to one.
Speaker 1: Three times this week too, three times this week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's two to one, two to one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, Cassie speaking of.
Speaker 2: Technically tomorrow is International Women's Day.
Speaker 1: But I saw a commercial last night. I'm like that,
I feel like we just had that. Do we have
some women's thing like a month ago?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: But that super Bowl commercial from Nike. Are you talking
about the Nike one?
Speaker 1: Maybe I saw it last night too, and I'm like, wait,
is it International Women's Day.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but I like that Nike commercial.
Speaker 1: Maybe that maybe that's it. So we played deer in the.
Speaker 3: Super Bowl, Yeah, and it was like they say you
can't so do it or something.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's what I was thinking of that commercial.
Speaker 2: And then it has like led Zeppelin playing in the background.
Speaker 1: But you hate led Zeppelin.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, yeah, women too, I'm a.
Speaker 1: Lodger, Cassie, did you do your homework over the weekend?
I think I know the answer to this.
Speaker 5: Oh, I don't remember what homework you're talking about.
Speaker 1: I told you this is a show for you, Ann
Adams Game, me and Victoria've already finished season one.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yet, No, I didn't watch it.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants this? You haven't seen no.
Speaker 5: Look, I was out going to parade this past weekend.
We already discussed this, so I didn't watch it.
Speaker 2: Well, you're being really aggressive to a woman on nash.
Speaker 1: Have you seen it?
Speaker 5: Wait?
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 1: It's called Nobody Wants This? No, okay, So it's Kristin Bell.
She's the main character, her and her sister. Have you've
seen Succession Laudra, Yes, I love Willa from Succession. Yeah,
she's the sister.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Her and Kristen Bell have this podcast and it's you know,
one of those raunchy podcasts.
Speaker 2: Is also on The Marvelous missus masel phenomenal. It's a
great show. Amazing show.
Speaker 1: That's not how Dane was the first. Want to tell
me about that?
Speaker 2: That's your homework? Watch Marvelous miss A Maze. I love that.
I think Victoria would really like it.
Speaker 1: Probably that's the thing about getting married. I used to
never watch any TV shows, and of Victoria's like, do
you want to watch this? And I say no, but
I always get into it. So it's it's your typical
rom com, a lot more comedy than romance. Though like
it it gets it gets a little wild. So basically
Kristen Bell and her sister, who are both you know,
just typical blonde, you know what, you would think, it's
a very stereotypical show at the beginning, and they have
this kind of raunchy podcast. Well, she starts dating a
guy who is a rabbi, so, you know, very Jewish,
very church going. Nobody in their family agrees with her lifestyle.
She doesn't. Basically, in order for them to get married,
she would have to convert to judaasm she doesn't really
want to do that. And then the rabbi is like, well,
if I become the head rabbi in my church, which
he's about to, I would have to either choose you
or her, I mean the or the church. It is
such a funny show. I mean, Victoria told me about
it and like that seems kind of corny. It's awesome.
Willa in it. The sister whatever, she is freaking hilarious.
His brother is awesome, Like you got Adam will love
this show too, I promise you, because like it's a
lot more comedy than it is romance, because like all
the rom coms are kind of the same, right, Like
you always hear the stereotypical like, oh this is you
know whatever, whatever, It's awesome. And guys, do I have
other big news for you. Love is Blind. Wedding episodes
come out tonight. Bruh, We're down to three couples now,
it was four, now it's three. This guy, uh, Dave
total douche like just just like you could imagine Dave.
He was engaged with his girl named Lauren, which the
whole premise of the show is stupid because you get
engaged then you're like, all right, now we got to
meet and make sure we really want to do this.
I feel like you should probably know if you want
to do it and you're getting engaged, right, I mean
that's just my opinion on things. But she, uh, she
was like, well, why won't you let me meet your family?
Like his sister. First of he has this weird obsession
with his sister, like basically whatever she says, it goes
like it's it's it's odd. So he's like, well, my
sister didn't think this was a good idea for me
to come on the show. She she doesn't want to meet you.
She's like, okay, well like you did go on the show,
like we we we might actually get married here in
like two weeks, Like you're not gonna let meet her
And he's like, no, not really, it's not gonna go well,
so they they really wind up just calling the whole
thing off. Right, guys they go to pick out their
wedding dresses. That's supposed to be a special thing, right,
they take all three of them as a group, like
you do everything as a group, like, which is fine,
but like like the guys they go on their bachelor
trip as a group, they take all three or four
of them or whatever. I just don't understand, Like none
of these couples are lasting. I'm telling you that there's
whatever one Joey and Monica. Monica was the one that
had the sister. There was that the younger ones getting
married before. She's the only one. Like it's one of
those things where it's like a train wreck that you
can't look away from. I love the show, guys. It's
like I don't even care what happens in the actual pods.
I like after they get out of the pods leading
up to the wedding, and then they do the reunion
show where they all gather around the table and just
kind of talk crap about each other, like right in
front of them. That's excellent. Alandra would love those, like
that's that's that, that is you. So after after Love
is Blind, weddings happen or don't happen, as we should say,
they do a reunion show where like they all invite
them basically on a giant talk show. They all sit
around the couch and they just all point the finger
and talk crap at each other, like right in front
of the other one. Like it is phenomenal. If you
do nothing else, go watch that. I mean, it's just
it's it, guys, It's it's incredible TV. I cannot look
away from. What are we watching, Cassie, what are you
watching currently?
Speaker 5: I'm watching More Girls. My one of my friends put
it on. It's like I like to watch like new
TV shows, and there's no not really like a new
one that's out right now that I want to watch.
So one of my friends was like, you have to
watch Gilmore Girls. So currently watching Gilmore Girls and I'm
watching Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares with Adam.
Speaker 1: Kitchen Nightmares is so much.
Speaker 5: That's pretty fun.
Speaker 1: It's so much of Victoria like to watch it because
like I always put it on, like while we're like
making dinner. Yeah, Victoria's like, I don't want to watch
this while we're making dinner, like we're not in that kitchen.
Like first off, Gordon Ramsey's hilarious. Yeah, like one of
the funny speed Like if I could meet a celebrity,
like he'd be in like the top five. I love
Gordon Ramsey. He seems super els Okay, So Gilmore Girls. Yeah,
every night Victoria puts on Gilmore Girls, and that's the
sound I fall asleep too, every single night.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: Like she'll put on something else. I love it She'll
put on something else. I can't fall asleep, dude, as much.
I've never actually watched it. Like I'll watch it for
like five minutes at a time, go to sleep. Yeah,
like even Okay, So Victoria's sister is getting married at
the end of April, they took a bachelor trip, a
bachelorette trip, like you don't know. January, late January early February,
she went on vacation. I still turned on Gilmore Girls
to go to even when she was gone. She called me,
She's like, what are you doing. I was like putting
on Gilmore Girls. She's like, you're watching Gilmore Girls. I'm like, no,
not really, Like it's the one for about five minutes
at a time. I don't really know what it's about.
I know there's one girl named Rory.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all I know.
Speaker 1: Is Rory, the daughter of the mom.
Speaker 5: Rory's the daughter. She's Rory because the mom's Laura. I
so she also named her daughter Laura. I but Rory
short for it.
Speaker 1: I would think Laurie would be short for Laura Lie.
Speaker 5: But yeah, but you got me more like it. Lorie
kind of sounds like an old.
Speaker 1: Name, Luri.
Speaker 5: Rory's a guy name, right, not necessarily.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know a guy or a girl
named Rory, but I've heard of.
Speaker 5: I have a friend. Her name's Rory.
Speaker 2: I know girl's name.
Speaker 1: Well, I hope they're not listening because let us know, Alger,
are you watching anything.
Speaker 3: I don't really watch TV like that, but if I do,
I've been watching The Traders, but like shows take me
forever to finish because I literally, like I get home,
I don't even want to consume content when I get home,
because I've been here all day consuming so much content
or like creating so much of it that I just
I get so I can't even look at my phone
sometimes why I.
Speaker 1: Have a bad habit of like I'll see like a
trailer for a show or a movie or something, and
I get really excited about it. I go home. I
suggested to Victoria. I'm like, hey, let's go watch this show.
I fall asleep in the first like five minutes. That's like,
that is like the one thing that just like I'm
really really bad at when in terms of like married life,
like sitting down and actually watching something together, I can't
do because it's always my idea. But like, guys, I'm
telling you, I could be fully awake, most energy I've
ever had. I sit down on the couch or turn
that TV on ten minutes stops them out. Doesn't really
matter what type of day it is. It doesn't really
matter what kind of day it is.
Speaker 2: I'm out, doesn't yell at you for that.
Speaker 1: Oh she hates it. She will not start shows with
me anymore. Like if she starts shows with me, it's
like trash TV, like Love is Blind or some crap
like that. They're like, you don't actually have to be
awake for it because you kind of know what's going
to happen before the seas and ends. Like that's it. Also, Traders.
You were telling me about that a couple of days.
That's a reality show. Yeah, okay, I was thinking this
was like Murder.
Speaker 3: Mystery, I guess, but it's it's like a take on
Murder Mystery.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's a reality show.
Speaker 1: As a show, somebody's like assigned as the killer all
that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: There's like three people that are the Traders, and only
them three know that they're the Traders, and then every
night they vote somebody out who they think is the Trader,
but the Traders among them so like they're it's just
like so funny because everybody starts turning on each other
and like they're gaslighting each other, and then the Traders
get together and they pick somebody to kill off.
Speaker 1: Sound this sounds like a U show, Like it's so good.
So like they don't actually kill them, right, No.
Speaker 3: They give them like a letter and they're like you've
been murdered by the traders or whatever. So then they
have to go home, and then everybody like goes to
breakfast the next morning and they come in like group
by group or one by one, and then until somebody
is like the last one out and they're like, oh,
they're the one that got killed off.
Speaker 2: And then they're like why would they kill them off?
Speaker 4: Who?
Speaker 2: You had beef with them? So you must be the trader.
Like it's so good.
Speaker 3: They start like just turning on each other. So much gaslighting,
just so much manipulation. Oh but then they also play
like games during it to get more money.
Speaker 1: Oh like it so it's like competition style show too.
So it's like a super intense version of Big Brother,
I guess.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, and there's a lot of people, so
like the first season was like half reality TV people,
half normal people, like not famous people, and then the
second season it was like half gamers like survivor Big
Brother stuff like that like that before yeah, or and
then like Bravo like Housewives or Below Deck.
Speaker 2: And stuff like that.
Speaker 1: It's just so Funnynda Song's got a new show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and apparently she knows ball too.
Speaker 1: Dude, do we have that?
Speaker 3: We have that yet?
Speaker 1: Let's I have not heard this yet. Would you start
a petition to officially named the gearshift the prindle?
Speaker 6: One thousand percent?
Speaker 4: What is the gear shift?
Speaker 1: What's your biggest fear?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: God, this question.
Speaker 1: If you're the Rams defensive coordinator, what would you have
done to prevent Saquon Barkley from running for two hundred
yards and consecutive team Well.
Speaker 4: Let me let me tell you, Christula.
Speaker 6: Let me tell you, Christula.
Speaker 2: I like you a lot.
Speaker 6: I like what you've done with our front four. But
my issue is we don't have a run stopper and
we don't use our middle linebackers in the middle. We
can't stop the run. That's our biggest problem. Besides our
O line. We cannot stop the run. Let's talk about
Mike Lafleur and our OC, about our O line and
why Jalen Carter sacked Matthew Stafford. Why we didn't get
why this? The Philadelphia sscor should been twenty eight twenty
nine and RAM should have been We could have we
would have murdered commanders. Sorry, love you, love you, love you,
Daman Daniels. But we'd have been the super Bowl. Okay, continue,
Sorry Gilberts, what's your greatest forgetting life?
Speaker 4: Not being?
Speaker 6: Not being an offensive lineman? So I could have I
could have protected Matt Stafford from that that Jalen Carter.
Speaker 1: Sack start booking up. Now you got cake left, and.
Speaker 2: I mean, let's do it.
Speaker 6: Give you that? Bring me that pasta back?
Speaker 1: Okay, first off, amazing elite ball knowledge. Yeah, because the
fact that she highlighted the specific play we talked about,
this exact play we came came back from. Uh, the
the divisional round is what it wound up being. If
you guys don't remember, that was the snow game, Okay,
and it was. It was awful, But like going into
the playoffs, the Rams were actually might pick to to
make it to the super Bowl. Out of the innit
are you? Okay? Are you dying over there? A Landa?
It's International Women's Day? What are we doing? Guys? I
look over behind the screen over here and like a
Landra like chokes and it is like falling over and
Cassie's laughing at her. What is going want? Everybody so confused?
What anyways, we'll let her get her crap together real quick. God,
they're still laughing. It was the play where it was
third and like two from about the fifteen yard line
of Philly, and the Rams are down by four, the
Rams are moving the ball, and you have like a
minute and fifteen left with one time out, so like
it may seem like the clock's winding down below, you
have plenty of time in this game. Instead of running
the ball on third down with Kyraen Williams, and if
you didn't get it, run it again on fourth down,
they dropped back to pass, Stafford takes a nine yard
loss and then they have to convert a fourth and
eleven with Stafford dropping back in the snow like that's
a low percentage play. The fact that our girl, London
Tipton like remembered that specific play, No, that's ball knowledge
right there, and then she circled back around to it again.
Speaking of London.
Speaker 2: Tipton, All right, we're composed back here.
Speaker 3: Okay, whatever happened was that I took a drink of
my water, went down the wrong pipe. I choked coff
right into the microphone that I did not mean to
do that at all. I think Cassie started laughing and
then it just went downhill from there.
Speaker 1: I get it almost die. There's a corn bread a
couple weeks ago for the same thing. It's a it's
a real thing.
Speaker 3: I didn't mean to cough, Like as an audio producer,
I should not have cost strained to the microphone like that,
but like it just it happened so quickly.
Speaker 1: It's fine. Brenda Song is in a new TV show
and it's like Elandra put this in the dock and
I'm like, have you heard about this show? She's like no,
So this is a total coincidence. Yeah, there is a
show on Netflix called Running Point. You of all people
would love this because like it's sports related but not
really Okay, So Genie Buss of the Lakers, Yeah, this
is essentially loosely based on Genie Buss. So like the backstory,
they own the Los Angeles Waves basketball team instead of
the Lakers. Yeah, like it's it. They made no bones
about the fact that it's it's her and like her
family owns the the team. The father since passed away,
the brother has taken over the team, but like he
kind of gets like it's bad drug addiction. The team's
not going well or anything like that, so they turn
it over to her. So Kate Hudson becomes the president
of basketball operations for the Los Angeles. Nobody respects her.
All the teammates are being like, oh, well, you know,
she's kind of hot and like they like to every detail.
Like in the show, she had posed for Playboys, so
that's all. Like which, first off, I don't know if
either you know this Genie Buss has posed for Playboy.
Speaker 2: I think I did know that, Like she did the.
Speaker 1: Pictures and like in the show she like does the
basketballs in the Staples Center, which is what other I
think Genie Bush showed nip not one hundred percent on that. Genie,
if you're listening, I'm sorry, that's pretty sure Geenie Buss
showed nip in hers. But on this one, she's like, well,
you know, it's just basketball. So like, you know, she's
kind of the just the rich guy's kid, right, and
they all kind of are. It gives off succession vibes
because like they turned the team over to her, the
oldest brother does He's like, look, I can't do it.
I have this addiction. You know basketball better than your
two brothers I'm giving it to you. Yeah. The other
two brothers like aren't having it. They're trying to overthrow her.
They call a meeting of no. Confident they call a
meeting of no. Please tell me you intentionally picked that
live read to play no.
Speaker 2: But to be fair, there's like not a normal well
that's true.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Also what I need to do is just get them
to sit down.
Speaker 1: And want to be like these are these are when
you're out because like, well, like you played it and
then te Up said like three words and stop. Then
I looked like the laundress computer crawd No just said
me forgot what he was going to say, and then
like cough, sneeze, farted whatever it was in the middle
of the like like I just don't I just.
Speaker 2: Don't understand that guy.
Speaker 1: They're so out of content, Like it'll be you start
them there in the middle of a sentence. But like
to her point, that's how they start, Like when I
have to email these to certain clients and all that,
that's pretty much what they sound like on it long
I gotta tell you, though we can't tell him because
he's probably not listening. I kind of missed my gut
to you Bubble a little bit. I never thought I would.
You know, it's one of those things where it's like
you get emotionally abused so much throughout your day, then
it becomes part of your day, and then when you don't,
you're like it's part of it's missing, you know, Like
I didn't have anybody yell at me like okay. Like
Daniel Basham in the chat said, the only way we
can top the end of the show is if as
he sticks a fork in the socket. Yeah, good news
is there's a socket right next to castle. I was
about to say, like, be so glad everyone that I'm
not in Cassie's position and t Bub's not sitting here,
like I'd be stick because like I'm I'm dumb enough
to do it right, Like that's the thing. I'm an idiot.
I'll be like, oh yeah, that's fine, dude, I'll do it.
We'll be fine. And then t bopbaagged me on like
we better be glad he's not here because that that
would be happening and and I'm trip to the emergency
room would likely be in someone probably me, probably the
Yeah yeah that's not even we don't one right next door.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're okay in the basement.
Speaker 1: Well, true, the basement too. Basement's scary.
Speaker 2: I hate lunch in there.
Speaker 5: I remember the first time I went in the basement,
I was I was terrified.
Speaker 3: And you know what, when you start working here, people
love to tell you that the morgue was in the basement.
Speaker 2: Like the first thing they tell you, like, hey, do
you know the morgue was in the basement, Like all right.
Speaker 5: I remember the first time they're like, oh, we've got
like cake in the basement.
Speaker 2: I was like, to the basement with me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I've actually stayed the night here before in guarantee. Now, Oh,
it wasn't in the basement. I'll tell you where it was.
It was the leather couch in the first floor lobby.
Oh no, we had to do it for so I'm
on the leather couch. Kate is right next to me
on the floor on a like an air mattress, hurt
cot or whatever it was. We're sleeping right there. It
was a hurricane Ida, which I mean we lost power
for like a week and a half.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, remember we didn't even have any freaking gas. Costco
had to open it up for which you never got
gass at Costco any fishing operation they run there. That
thing was wrapped around the building and I got gassed
in like five minutes. So we had to stay the
night here. And I was like, Okay, I'll take the
leather couch. It's cool on the first floor. I didn't
consider the fact that when the power went out, that
leather was going to get really warm underneath me. I
was practically stuck to this couch for oh. I mean
like when I woke up, I was I was in
a bad place. Was speaking of somebody else who's in
a bad place. Matt Ruhle is in the headlines for
all the wrong reasons once again. Now, look, whatever you
think about canceling spring games, not cancel. It's like he
did it. Texas does a US he does it. It's
like there's a couple of big name schools, but like
that rule's kind of the ring leader of this all.
So he has canceled the spring game. But not only that,
he wants to double down and say, okay, well, fans
are still allowed. We're going to do a skills competition
seven on seven games inside Memorial Stadium, So it's going
to be on campus. That'll be April twenty six, just
like their normal spring game would be. And if you remember,
Rule said that he didn't want to have the spring game.
He had concerns about other teams scouting players in the
scrimmage and possibly poaching them through the transfer portal. I
got news for you, Matt. That's pretty much going to
happen regardless of if you have a spring game or not.
And I've heard some people say, well, you know, we
don't have a depth chart, so players don't know the
pecking order. You mean to tell me the players don't
realize if they're wide receiver one or five going through
team drills, Like, come on, these players aren't stupid. So
here's the thing they're gonna do, similar to the Pro Bowl.
They're gonna have competition skill games, which like you're trying
to copy the Pro Bowl. Like the Pro Bowl sucks,
Like that's what we've talked about, how bad the Pro
Bowl and the NBA All Star weekend is, Like they're awful.
Like you had when Minyama doing the passing competition. You
had like dodgeball with the NFL, that's like the main
event now like the NFL Pro Bowl games are awful,
and you want to model it after that. Here's the
worst part. It's going to cost ten dollars per person
to get in. Not only are you canceling the spring game,
LSU spring game one hundred percent free, by the way,
it's been free my entire life. You cancel the spring
game where people can go watch actual football, and I
get actual football. I get it, it's a glorified practice.
But you're putting in seven seven skills games. They'll probably
have a freaking tuget war competition, and you're going to
charge people admission to go in. Also, for an extra
fifty dollars per fan, you can take a one hour
tour of their athletic complex and their football built No thanks,
they're calling this Husker Games. Nebraska will also host a
soccer at submission in that same stadium later that day,
so they're trying to turn it into an entire fan
day experience. You're going to charge people to go watch
your football players throw balls through hoops, play seven on
seven tag whatever they're playing. I think this is an
awful idea. Does anybody else think that? Like Matt rules
completely out of pocket for this.
Speaker 3: This is stupid and I'm gonna tell you why the
NBA All Star Tournament.
Speaker 2: I get through two different sports.
Speaker 3: Nobody cared to watch all that stuff, So like it
just I get through two different leagues, two different sports.
But like the sentiments the same for me too, are
like nobody cares to watch that, and I'm definitely not
paying to go watch that. Exactly would you go watch
or would you pay to go watch? Like, uh, the
what are the games that they do? Like for NFL member,
That's what I thought they.
Speaker 1: War like the agility competition SEP.
Speaker 3: But it is that, Like I was, like, they're Pro
Bowl games, Pro Bowl games. But this sounds so stupid
that I didn't think it was so like that. It
just no, I'm not paying to watch that. Matt rule
terrible idea. Yeah no, this is kind of a yeah
there go the NFL Pro Bowl Games is done too, Yeah,
nobody cares stupid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like we were talking, like, Okay, I get and
yes we all had fun with the laundercushes as person fan,
but like you literally disqualified Victor women Yam and Chris
Paul in a passing competition that like, really, at the
end of the day, nobody cared about right in the NFL,
they're playing freaking dodgeball, Like you're going to charge people
admission to watch college style seven on seven in Pro
Bowl games when Ellen's Shoe's entire spring football game is free. Also,
like you're canceling the spring game That told me everything
I needed to know about Matt rule. He was kind
of the ring leader of all this. Then you doubled
down on it, like I mentioned it was either yesterday
or Wednesday. I mentioned that, Like the Dallas Mavericks doubling
down was a total slap in the face of their
fan base when they were like, hey, we're raising ticket
prices by nine percent for investment into the franchise. When
you traded away your entire franchise, right, like you trade
away your entire franchise, you trade for an injured player
in Anthony Davis just played one game, Kyrie Irving tears
his acl and now you're like, guys, we got to
invest in the future. Like this is like kind of
on par with that, not as not as extreme because
these are not regular season games, but charging for seven
on seven I am not on board with that, all right, guys,
that's pretty much going to do it. For our Friday
edition of Off the Bench, ever about to get your
questions in the YouTube chat. We're gonna close this thing
out like we do every day, with a little bit
of Ask the Bench. Coming up next, Off the Bench.
Speaker 4: Back to sports talk, maybe off the Bench.
Speaker 1: Welcome back in final segment of a Friday edition of
Off the Bench. It has been a heck of a week,
Jacob Esser, Teaba Babar both back on Monday morning. We
went a little long in that last segment, so we're
gonna go ahead and get things started here with Ask
the Bench or nookie asked Ask the Bench if a
landra had been legitimately choking, are you confident you can
successfully perform the Heimlich maneuver? Because the doc that Oshner
is named for died that way at a medical conference
surrounded by doctors.
Speaker 3: So like yeah, like but yeah, I think I could
perform the Heimlich maneuver on somebody, but there is nothing
to maneuver out of me, like water and like.
Speaker 1: Guys, like she was laughing at that point, but like
also like if you can laugh, you can breathe. She's fine, right. Also,
I have told Cassie and Jacob Beck there's numerous times
because we all have our desk girl in the same
areas if you let anything bad happen, like, I cannot
promise I'll know what to do. I'll try to help,
but like I cannot promise that you will live because
I don't really know what I'm doing. Yeah, ask the bench.
Who is Taite's favorite person in the chat besides Scott Dice?
Asked by Scott Dice, the two Daniels cracked me up. Guys.
I'm not gonna lie to you. Guys, I love all
of you. But Daniel Basiulm has like this thing where
like he has this opinion of me that is like
so off that it's funny. And then Daniel Blunt says
the most off the wall thing, so, uh, probably some
combination of them. Daniel Bashima asked the bench. Is an
alarming that no one in the studio came to help
a laundry she was choking? Guys, she wasn't choking.
Speaker 2: Because they immediately laughed. She wasn't even like you good,
she was just like that's what triggered.
Speaker 5: The fact that.
Speaker 1: What made me notice was the sound. And then I
turn in there both laughing like we're fine. Plus like
if you're choking a water, are you choking or are
you drowning Like that's yeah, I was drowning like she's
she was drowning more than anything at the bench. And
your opinion, is it better for the women's basketball team
to lose tonight so that they can rest up for
the NCAA Tournament. I don't I know either.
Speaker 2: I don't ever think that it's a good idea to lose.
Speaker 3: Yes, And like I know that I say stuff about
the Spurs tanking all the time, but like they're actually
trying to win, and like when you get a drive
pick for that, don't get anything for it. I get
trying to get rest.
Speaker 2: But I don't think that you should ever go in
half ass anything.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 1: And also like the one player that's banged up is
Flage Johnson and kill Marty on her down till the
NCAA tournaments, say like you might as well go try
to win it now. It does it matter? El She's
gonna hover her on anywhere between the three and a
five seed. Yeah, I mean the higher seed the better.
I personally don't care that much about seeding, because if
you're gonna make it to the national championship, you gotta
play the best teams anyways, get them out of the
way sooner or later doesn't really matter. But no, I
mean I could see both sides of it, but the
fact that the fact that the philosophy has already shut down. Now,
I say, go ahead and go ahead and do it.
Ask the bench what would be good Lord Alandra's sparkling
on of death in the uh in the chat? Ask
the bench what would be the funniest way to die?
Speaker 2: Funniest? I don't think anyway.
Speaker 1: Getting tickled to death obviously, Yeah, I mean I don't know, like,
is there is there a funny way to die?
Speaker 2: No, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Ask the bench. Favorite uniform in pro sports and college sports.
So for the NFL, my favorite is actually the gold
white gold of the San Francisco forty nine ers. I
love that, especially during day games. The gold on that
helmet pops. I don't know why that's not going to
be most people's answer in the NFL, as far as
LSHO goes, will just stick to college. My favorite uniform
on campus. Hunt Palmer will hate me for saying this
is lsu' Sunday golds in baseball purple hat white jersey
or purple hat gold jersey, white pants. That is my
favorite launder. Do you have a favorite LSU uniform?
Speaker 3: Pinstripes just the Friday pans Friday pins, and I wish
that like we wore them more often.
Speaker 2: I love pinstripes, They're so classic.
Speaker 1: I love it too like that. That would probably be
my second choices.
Speaker 2: We have love. I would love if we have some
stirrups into it, like go fully do it?
Speaker 5: Do you?
Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever noticed you any of them
wear stirrups.
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I would love that.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Wait, I've never seen it. But uh,
the only reason I picked the uh the purple gold
white is I love Lshu's colors and I think that
uniform more than any sentuates, all three of them, purple
gold to white. I just I love it, always have it.
Just it pops to me. Guys. Look, that's going to
do it for a Friday edition of O TB. It
has been a long week here for us. I know
all three of us are tired. We' I've been into
a multitude of roles that we're not normally doing. But
that'll do it for Off the bench, Off the Bench