Speaker 1: I'll start to you to present Off the Bench with
Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah,
Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: I got to come off the pitch.
Speaker 1: Now. Here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Aber.
Speaker 3: Welcome.
Speaker 4: In hour number two, Tuesday edition of Off the Bench,
Taylor Sharp sitting in the big boy chair for Jacob
Hester and tabab Aber. We got a Landra Villary. Oh,
we got Jordan Kitchens. A Laundra's confusing people in the
chat with her upside down other side of the world.
Talk like the people in chatting, they're not going to
understand this.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 4: I'm looking at half the people in the chat and
their minds are blown.
Speaker 2: I think it's a valid question.
Speaker 3: Hate it.
Speaker 4: I don't hate it. I mean it's it'll certainly make
you think. Yeah, all right, look right now, I want
to talk a little New Orleans Saints here, because look,
we talked a lot yesterday about Derek Carr possibly being
unavailable for the start of the twenty twenty five season,
maybe the entire season. What bothers me the most about
this is it has been over seventy two hours since
that was reported, and we still don't know what the
exact injury is or how the hell it even happened.
But that's kind of the New Orleans Saints for you.
They're just an inept franchise ran by inept people who
expect inapt results. Would the Saints draft a rookie like
I mentioned yesterday in Shadoor Sanders or do they run
it back or do they run it back with Spencer Ratler.
Those are certainly two options. We have some other options
as well. Look, yesterday I mentioned two quarterbacks. It was
Teddy Bridgewater and Carson Wentz. If you look at Teddy Bridgewater, look,
we know what he did here in New Orleans. He
was here for a number of years. Saints fans loved him.
I mean, he was breezing his back up for two
years and he had to come in in twenty nineteen
when Breeze went down. He went five and oh as
a starter, almost sixty eight percent completion, nine touchdowns, two picks.
He did some nice things here. That was what he
was twenty seven. He's thirty three years old now. And
remember two years ago he was with Detroit. At the
end of the year he retired, said he wanted to
go coaches high school Alma Minter and be their head
football coach. Well, last season twenty twenty four, he does
that right after the season's over. He had informed his
team this was apparently always the case, like at the
beginning of the year, that hey, if we win state,
I'm gonna go try it and make an NFL comeback.
He rejoins the Detroit Lions for the playoff run. The
playoff run was short lived, but he was on the team. Nonetheless,
he played in one game in twenty twenty three, did
not play at all last year because again he was
just there for the playoffs. The last time we saw
Teddy Bridgewater in action as far as extended action was
twenty twenty two with the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 3: He played in five games. He had two starts.
Speaker 4: He was owing to as a starter, six hundred and
eighty three yards, four touchdowns, four interceptions.
Speaker 3: Not great.
Speaker 4: The year before that he took over in Denver, he
started fourteen games, eighteen touchdown, seven picks. Eh the year
before that Carolina fifteen touchdowns, eleven picks.
Speaker 3: You get the point.
Speaker 4: Like he was great in New Orleans in twenty seventeen
or twenty nineteen, nine touchdowns, two picks, five and oh
w reck. Ever since then, he's kind of declined fifteen touchdowns,
eleven picks, eighteen touchdown, seven picks, and then four and
four in Miami, And again that was two years ago.
If you brought in Teddy Bridgewater, it obviously would not
to be your starting quarterback. You'd bring him in as
a veteran backup because all you have outside of Derek
Carr is Spencer Radler and j kne I imagine if
you brought in Teddy, you would roll with Spencer Radler
for a year. You would have a veteran backup who
could help Spencer Rattler out continued to adjust to life
in the NFL as best he could. The other name
I mentioned was Carson Wentz because these are kind of
the only two names left on the free agent market.
And no, they're not great options, but if you want
to go free agent rout, these are probably the two
names you're going to hear.
Speaker 3: Coryson.
Speaker 4: Wentz just went off his age thirty two season. He
played one game with the Chiefs. He lost that game,
but he went twelve of nineteen for one hundred and
eighteen yards. Not eye popping numbers, but he was efficient,
and everyone's gonna say, Okay, well, Carson Wentz he fell
off after that that awful injury back in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 3: Not really.
Speaker 4: He came back in twenty eighteen twenty one touchdown, seven picks,
twenty nineteen with the Eagles, twenty seven touchdown, seven picks.
Then he kind of fell apart a little bit in
twenty twenty sixteen and fifteen touchdown interception. But he took
over for the Colts for one year, started all seventeen games,
went nine and eight as a starter, twenty seven touchdown,
seven picks. So like, Carson Wentz wasn't quite as bad
an indie as we all remember. Like, sure it didn't
work out in Washington, but Washington was so awful as
a franchise back in twenty twenty two that do I
blame Carson Wentz or do I blame ownership in an
awful front office. I'd say a little bit of it
went to the Rams. Played in two games, seventy percent completion,
two touchdowns.
Speaker 5: One pit.
Speaker 4: You get the point. Kind of been an average NFL quarterback. Again,
if you bring in Carson Wentz, he's probably a veteran
backup to a guy like Spencer Radler. If Radler goes down,
wins can make some spot starts for you along the way.
We've talked about those two guys.
Speaker 3: We get it.
Speaker 4: There's another name out there. Would Aaron Rodgers be interested
in the New Orleans Saints. I'm gonna say probably not
because at this point in Aaron Rodgers' career, he's forty
one years old. He's gonna want to go somewhere where
he can win immediately. Obviously that is not in New Orleans.
Because if he wanted a roster like this constructed the
way it is, minus well, just stayed with the New
York Jets, even though the Jets obviously did not want him.
But if not New Orleans, then where Because to me,
it is very obvious Aaron Rodgers does not want to
go to Pittsburgh. And you can say, well, how do
you know that? I mean, I don't know, sure, I'm
not inside the mind of Aaron Rodgers. That seems like
a scary place. I would never want to be inside
the mind of Aaron Rodgers. But he's been linked to
the Pittsburgh Steelers for over a month now, and he
has not made his decision. Every other high end free
agent quarterback has made their decision. The Giants moved on
because they were tired of waiting for him, The Browns
moved on because they were tired of waiting for him.
The Jets kicked him to the curb. Everybody else kind
of has their quarterback situation figured out, unless you're the
Tennessee Titans and you're drafting cam Ward number one overall,
in which case you're not grabbing Aaron Rodgers anyways. So
I don't think he would want to come to New
Orleans because he doesn't want to go to Pittsburgh. And
if you look at Pittsburgh, he has everything he wants
what a starting quarterback would want. You have two really
good receivers, You'll have a decent running game, a pretty
decent o line. You have an established head coach that
has a winning culture in place in Mike Tomlin. You
have a pretty good defense as well that is led
by TJ. Watt, one of the best defensive players in
the NFL. He still doesn't want to go there. Why
the hell would he want to go to New Orleans.
But on the flip side of the thing, if you're
a Saints fan, Do you want Aaron Rodgers? Because I
don't know if I would. He's obviously an upgrade from
Spencer Atler and Jknor, But at what price? What is
Aaron Rodgers' number? How long do you have to commit
to that number?
Speaker 6: Four?
Speaker 4: He's forty one years old. How much does he have
left in the tank? And look, I get it. You
go look at Rogers's numbers in twenty twenty four. It's
obviously not as bad as everyone kind of made it
out to be. Sixty three percent completion, almost thirty nine
hundred yards, twenty eight touchdowns, eleven picks.
Speaker 3: Not bad. It's not bad numbers.
Speaker 4: It's not what he did in Green Bay when he
had forty eight touchdowns and thirty seven touchdowns back to
back years, both of which he had single digit interceptions.
Speaker 3: It was five and four.
Speaker 4: So he's obviously not what he wants. But could he
be a competent NFL quarterback for your team? I think
he could. However, do you want that in the locker room?
I'm gonna say no. I'm gonna say no to Aaron Rodgers.
You got a first time NFL head coach in Kellen Moore.
Kellen Moore is going to want to bring in his
own guy, a guy that he can build around, that
they can grow together. The last thing you want is
a guy like Aaron Rodgers coming in who's egos a
little bit bigger than his own field performance. Now in
his career, it's gonna want to call the shots. It's
gonna want to run the offense. That's the reason you
brought in Kellen Moore. You wanted to run the Kellen
Moore offense. You don't want to run that Aaron Rodgers offense. Jordan,
as a Saints fan, if you heard today that the
Saints signed Aaron Rodgers to a one year deal, how
would you feel about?
Speaker 7: Oh, you know, I would go bridge shopping. I'll just
pick which bridge I'm about to jump from the top of,
you know, I just know it's sufficially over preferably the
Crescent City Connection. You know, I want to jump off
right with the lights. You know, I just know it's
really not a bad view to your point. Yeah, you know, nice,
nice view.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 7: My I might put a brick in my pocket just
so I can can just you know, once hit the water,
I'm gone make sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't want to be like kept together artificial.
Speaker 7: You know, I don't want to know, like, oh he's
just a little paralyzed, he's able to make it. No ended,
Like if Aaron Rodgers in the locker room, it's over.
Obviously something has gone awry. I'm with you on that
one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: And like, I'm not even somebody who grew up in
New Orleans who's a Die or Saint fan like yourself,
but I agree, I think Aaron Rodgers is off the field.
Anthics are not worth him at forty one years old,
and what we saw from him last year, Sure you
can say, okay, twenty eight touchdowns, eleven picks, maybe not
quite as bad as what everybody made it out to be.
But the fact of the matter is he went five
and twelve. Zach Wilson had a better winning percentage with
the New York Jets than you had. Sam Darnold had
a better winning percentage with the New York Jets than
Aaron Rodgers, and things just crazy. The leuble seems to
find Aaron Rodgers wherever he goes. He goes to Green Bay,
he wins a Super Bowl with Mike McCarthy. Aaron Rodgers
can't get back because he's not performing in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: What do you do.
Speaker 4: You run off Mike McCarthy, You hand pick Matt Lafleur. Yeah,
you can't make it to the super Bowl again. Why
because you're not performing that well in the playoffs. Let
me throw a number at you. Seven and nine. That
is Aaron Rodgers's playoff win loss record since winning the
Super Bowl back in twenty ten. So in the last
fifteen years, Aaron Rodgers has a losing record in the playoffs.
He's making money like he's a top three to four
quarterback still, and he's forty one years old, and he
kind of has an ego issue. If you're telling me,
I'm bringing in a forty one year old quarterback who
doesn't have much time left, who might be a little
bit of a locker room issue, we don't know for sure.
And he has a losing record in the playoffs. And
you take the name of the off the back of
the jersey. You're gonna say no ten out of ten
times to that guy. I don't care that your name
is Aaron Rodgers. I don't care that you have three
or four MVPs in the last however many years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, had him in the last three years.
Speaker 7: Nope.
Speaker 4: And you need to look at the Green Bay Packers.
They're doing just fine without Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're way better right now.
Speaker 4: So and then then he goes to then he goes
to New York, doesn't perform. Well, what does the franchise do?
They blame Robert Sala. Yep, they fire Robert Sala. Guess what,
you had a better winning percentage with Robert Sala than
you did without him. You won more games before he
got fired than you did without him because you had
Aaron Rodgers leading your team. And I don't think Aaron
Rodgers is a very good leader. I have been very
critical of Aaron Rodgers, whether it's the show, whether I
fill in for hunt show, does not matter where, and
it doesn't really have anything to do with his play.
I think the character of Aaron Rodgers could use a
little bit of work. I don't want that in the
Saints' locker room because if you're Kellen Moore, you want
to establish your own character. You want to bring in
guys that you can grow, that you can build younger players.
Everyone talks about getting younger. A forty one year old
quarterback is not getting any young that's not what you want.
You bring in Aaron Rodgers for a year. Best case scenario,
you make the playoffs, lose first round, he retires. Worst
case scenario, he tries to change the entire offense. Kella
Moore essentially has to start over from square one in
year two.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't think I'm overreacting here as far as like,
I want Aaron Rodgers as far away from New Orleans
Saints as I can possibly get.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 7: Well, also, at the same time, like you said, you
want Kellen Moore to come in, be able to establish
put some roots down. You kind of want him to
be on the same timeline as a quarterback. That's why
the whole allure of drafting the quarterback, because you want
your head coach and your quarterback on the same timeline, like,
all right, we're gonna grow together. Aaron Rodgers is older
than Kellen Moore. Like, Aaron Rodgers is significantly significantly older
than Keller Moore, and he's like old dogs don't learn
new tricks. Just call it what it is. So at
the same time, I get it, quarterback, whatever, what a
side you're at the dart, you want your door whatever.
I just think the best case scenario for the Saints
is best player available. You have too many holes. Regardless
you could draft Will Campbell Fack and like you still
have at every position, you kind of have a whole
no matter where. So like, as long as it's not
running back, I don't even want to say that, you
know on the Jacob Pester Morning Show. But running back,
other than that, every other position I'm aokay for other
than DN being too. I just can't. We can't. I
can't go down this rabbit hole with it be in again.
Speaker 4: I'll say that, Yes, well, that's just because it's come
back to bite the Saint.
Speaker 7: So many times past, too many times.
Speaker 4: I actually went there yesterday when we were talking about
the Derek Carr thing. It was like a lot of
people are gonna say, you're forced to draft Shador Sanders.
My point was, if you originally thought that that was
your best player, take it. Don't change your entire draft board.
Continue stick with what you have. If your original plan
was to not take a quarterback, don't change it because
of this Derek Carr situation. You did your homework on
this guy, you thought this is the best guy for
your spot. I agree with you one or to sent.
I don't care if it's your door, I don't care
if it's somebody else. I want who you think is
the best player for your situation that'll help you win.
Speaker 3: And we were talking about it a.
Speaker 4: Little bit last week, like me and Landra brought it
up where it was like good news and bad news.
Bad news is the Saints are bad everywhere. Good news
is they're so bad everywhere that you kind of I
can't go wrong with this first round pick unless you've
a defensive end from some.
Speaker 3: Small school, stay away from me.
Speaker 4: If you pick somebody that everyone likes and all that, really,
regardless of position, your team has gotten better.
Speaker 3: Yes, I don't think you're gonna.
Speaker 4: Get better long term by signing a guy like Aaron Rodgers.
But lo, this is somebody who's a big name. He
would sell tickets because good or bad people are gonna
go to that game and they want to see what
happens with an Aaron Rodgers led offense. I just don't
think it's a good fit at all. I think if
Anon Rodgers plays this year, you got to go somewhere
where culture is already established with a veteran head coach
on a roster that is ready to win. Now, none
of that is the case in New Orleans. I don't
think it's a good fit. But we'll see what happens.
All right, Look, we're going to take a quick time
out and we get back. Get your questions in the
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Off the Bench and with Hester and t Bob.
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Let's get into a little OTB mail bag.
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Speaker 5: We'll be writing to you the internet.
Speaker 7: What the is the internet?
Speaker 3: OTB mailbag?
Speaker 4: Nookie asked, when was Jordan's How long was Jordan's suspension
the last time he filled in. He hasn't dropped any
profanity today like he did last time, so Jordan, I
appreciate it. You've actually been on your best behavior today.
There's been no yelling, gearing, breaks. You haven't had any profanity.
I do appreciate that, so I don't think you'll get suspended.
Speaker 2: You know, there is a few times without Jordan, like
just with Tea Bob, where I was like, man off
the bench is about to get canceled. But now did
I feel like it was gonna get definitively canceled more
than when Jordan filled in that one day?
Speaker 7: Well, look, man, that is more of the loure, okay,
I don't really think it was more of a slip
of the tongue. You know, sometimes stumble over your words. Sometimes,
you know, you get caught on certain words. It goes
about now the suspension. You know, I had a black
SUV pull up to my house and I didn't knock
my door. That was like, hey, man, can't be doing that.
And they had guns drawn and all that out. Oh yeah,
that's crazy. When I tell you I went back in
the house, I had to change my pants.
Speaker 4: Jordan's all right, some things need to be kept to yourself. Buddy,
would you be mail bag?
Speaker 3: Who would you like.
Speaker 4: To send to Mars? And some the first cruise won't
be returning. Who in this building are we sending to Mars?
That was such a quick answer.
Speaker 2: I'll go yeah, I would love.
Speaker 4: To send absolutely, I'll be back in three days now.
I think it takes longer just to get there. I
don't actually know how long it takes to get the Mars.
Speaker 2: It takes like three months to get to the Moon,
so I'm assuming it takes longer.
Speaker 3: To o't how much how much they paying me?
Speaker 7: Well, look, man, if you go with Eli's probably gouna
be like, you know, for free, it's for free.
Speaker 3: Just yeah, run into something.
Speaker 2: Then to ten months to get to Mars.
Speaker 7: Spaceship ride, brother, that's a long ride.
Speaker 3: I can be one of those like don't like sleep
chambers or something.
Speaker 7: Like just wake up? Yeah, wakes you up?
Speaker 2: Be in a spaceship with Jacob back for seven months.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, air, it's just nice, you said me. That
doesn't necessarily mean we're together.
Speaker 7: That's the crew.
Speaker 3: No no, no, no no no.
Speaker 2: They did take crew.
Speaker 3: Okay, well crews four. I think a typical astronaut.
Speaker 7: Will send boat because both can sit there and work
on it, you.
Speaker 4: Know, old Okay, I mean let me explain something to you.
If you said boat, you send boat to space with
me and Jacob back. When I tell you both would
do every single thing, and I would just go to sleep.
Speaker 3: I mean that whole heart.
Speaker 2: I think Bo would jump out of this spaceship.
Speaker 7: I can't do it no more.
Speaker 4: Hashtag nail bag would te let T Bob on the
door if they had been on the Titanic. Absolutely not
tough lock T Bob blood, You're not getting on the door,
Sorry to Bob. I will ask myself this, would T
Bob let me on the door?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: No, therefore Bob's not getting on my door. Find your
own door, buddy, Okay, for sure, he wouldn't have let you.
Speaker 2: I don't have like an opinion on this, but I
know that Rose like we all think she's evil because
she didn't let Jack on the door, right, and there's
definitely the worst definitely room on the door for sure.
Space wise, yes, yes, but like would the door keep floating?
Speaker 4: If I'm actually with you on this, I don't think
it would wouldn't because she was perfectly in the middle,
right if she scoots over that sidebody else Jack hops
on that side, meaning if the middle goes under your screw, I.
Speaker 3: Actually agree with you, right. Also, like Jack.
Speaker 4: Didn't try too hard to get on the door, anyways,
but Jack needs to put in a little bit more effort.
Speaker 3: He did not try.
Speaker 2: I still think she's kind of a bad person because
like you cheated on your were they married?
Speaker 3: You cheated on your she was she was married?
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, you cheated on your rich husband with like
some poor guy that you found on the Titanic. That's
like he's snuck on there.
Speaker 7: That's called adventuress. He's a venturess, you know, like a
little venturous guy.
Speaker 2: You still cheated on your husband.
Speaker 4: He did do it, very tasteful nude painting of her
on the Titanic.
Speaker 7: She loved that. She loved its risk. I couldn't do that.
He's touching where she where he couldn't reach.
Speaker 4: You've obviously seen it. If you seen Titanic, yes you have.
Did you like it?
Speaker 7: I mean it's well corny, now corny people get me.
Speaker 3: Heved for Titanic sucks.
Speaker 7: I'm going to say it's corny.
Speaker 3: It's like three and a half. But guys, the ship suck.
It was based on a true story.
Speaker 7: We know. To get to the point here, it's just
a bit.
Speaker 4: I don't need to watch Jack and Rose chasing each
other around the Titanic with romantic music playing.
Speaker 3: I'm good. I don't need that for twenty.
Speaker 7: Minutes nineteen fourteen, the fourteen.
Speaker 4: Let's let's cut a little bit out of this movie, please.
I got places to be. I think I Danic sucks.
Speaker 7: Look akt the bench in here. I'm ask you guys,
Oh yeah, ak the bitch. Yes, yes, I said, act
the bitch, don't do.
Speaker 4: That's a completely different segment, a segment.
Speaker 2: This is not the same as well.
Speaker 7: Look otb mail bag. Yeah, where is the cutoff for
like the longest movie? What do you feel like? It's
just too long for you?
Speaker 3: Two hours?
Speaker 7: Two hours?
Speaker 2: Two hours?
Speaker 7: I said, not two hours.
Speaker 4: Anything over two hours. I gotta do my research and
be like, there's better be a good movie.
Speaker 7: Okay, two hours for you? What about you?
Speaker 2: I don't know. It depends. It depends, like if it's
like two and a half or more, that might be
a little too long. I can do two and a half.
Speaker 7: I can do two and a half.
Speaker 2: I don't know, because like Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese
movies are really long and those are the best movies. So,
like the Godfather is really long.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, Godfather is long, even to.
Speaker 7: God The Wake Up Godfather too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I will say like two and a half
for you.
Speaker 4: I hate I hate long movies, but like I love
The Revenue with Lego DiCaprio, I love Shoyl Shane Redemption,
Like both of those movies are well over three hours.
So it's like it depends on the movie. If a
movie is good enough want to buy attention, I don't
care how long it is. But there's some movies where
it's like, it's really good the first forty five minutes,
We're gonna take a thirty minute loll where nothing happens,
and then you have another hour. Just take that thirty
minute loll out man watching this movie to be entertained.
I don't want to doze in.
Speaker 2: And all Masters is two and a half hours, and
it never feels too doesn't.
Speaker 4: It doesn't feel like it. Another movie The Patriot Mel Gibson,
I don't know if you guys have seen that. Yeah,
it's like almost three hours. Really good though, and it's
about the Revolutionary war. It keeps you engaged, old time.
Really good movie.
Speaker 7: So my cut off with you've seen The Irishman or
I know the movie Irish I never saw it It's
like like, that's where I feel.
Speaker 4: Like it too long, too many lolls in it. Yeah,
it had way too many lolls in it.
Speaker 2: It depends how.
Speaker 7: Bad I want to see the movie. That's where it
depends from drawn alone. Yeah, I really want to see this,
Like The Beinges a couple of times was close to
three hours. It's like, you know what, if I really
want to see that bad, I'll sit through it.
Speaker 4: Hashtag mailbag. What state has the weirdest people? Easily California. Yes,
this is probably the easiest question that's ever been asked.
Speaker 7: H Utah. Utah is my boat.
Speaker 4: You know, I've heard that I've never been to Utah,
but I have heard that I'm gonna go California.
Speaker 3: Have I ever been to California? Nope? Do I plan
on going to California? Nope? Because I know what kind
of people are in California. I'm good. Not my vibe
at all. California one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree to callis Kelly Kelly's Kelly's weird dude.
Not only is CALLI weird though, but like the the
way of life, the population everything changes from like like
northern California is like rural Wine Country and all that
southern California is like what you see on TV, big
buildings at beaches and all that. So like it's a
diverse state, no doubt about it. But it's just like
I don't know what part of California I want to visit.
I always assumed a northern California was more my vibe.
Speaker 7: But it's like, no, so like San Francisco, you would Hey,
San Fransan.
Speaker 3: Francisco is not northern California, Jordan, that's like the bear. No,
I'm talking north northern California.
Speaker 2: Okay, so Rose was not she was engaged, but.
Speaker 4: Still you talk to me, and you know what, I
bet they still got to get Do we know if
they actually went through with the marriage.
Speaker 2: I don't remember who.
Speaker 4: I bet she did. Bet she did movie long enough,
I bet bet Rose got a bag. Bet she got
a bag at the end of day.
Speaker 2: Right, Nothing that you can tell me that makes me
think that she didn't like cheat on her fiance, And
I don't think like it. Sure it was arranged, but
you still I don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And that's like you're not even bored with the
marriage at that point. Hasn't even happened yet. Think about
five ten years down the road when she's bored being
married to the same person. Like, think about how much
running around Rose is gonna do that day, right right,
Like I'm no, I'm out on roads. I'm out on Rose.
Was she wrong for not letting him on the thing? Again,
I don't think so. I don't think he tried very hard.
Speaker 3: To get on it.
Speaker 2: But like Titanic movie expert in the chat is saying
that Jack did see I haven't seen the movie in
forever because again really long couldn't deal with it. He
also says that Jack didn't want to get on the door,
and he didn't. Yeah, and that's fine. So like I'm
still wondering, why are we saying that, Like she didn't
let him.
Speaker 4: I don't know, because people looked at him, was like,
that's big enough for two people. But to your point,
they didn't take into consideration the door, right, Okay, imagine
that's Jack and Rose.
Speaker 3: Jack was not a very big guy.
Speaker 4: Rose is a woman. Imagine me and t Bob trying
to fit on the same door.
Speaker 3: Right, that's not happening.
Speaker 4: That thing is sinking quicker than Niko Yamaaliava's transfer a
portal stock. Like I mean that that door is sinking
so quick it's not even funny.
Speaker 7: He might be ben ye soon.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Taylor went on his bachelor trip to Cleveland, Ohio. Guys,
for the maybe thousandth time on this show, I did
not go on a bachelor trip to Cleveland, Ohio.
Speaker 2: Your bachelor trip was in Cleveland?
Speaker 3: No, it was not. It was not in Cleveland, Ohio.
Speaker 7: Was passing through.
Speaker 3: No, you know what I did in Cleveland, Ohio.
Speaker 4: Landed at the airport, and came back and flew out
of the airport. That is the extension of the time
that I have spent in the city of Cleveland, Ohio.
Speaker 2: Was your bachelor party in Ohio or not?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 3: Okay, but was not in Cleveland. That's like me like
you were like in the suburb.
Speaker 4: That's like me driving to shreport and Jordan be like, Hey,
I was in New Orleans this weekend. Guys, it's too
completely different. I was over an hour away from Cleveland.
Wasn't exactly close. Yeah, I flew into Cleveland and then
flew out of Cleveland.
Speaker 2: Ye.
Speaker 3: No, our Batchelor trip was not in Cleveland. Let me
tell you from somebody.
Speaker 4: Who's pass through Cleveland, Cleveland sucks. I wouldn't go to
Cleveland recreationally. There's nothing there. My bachelor trip was not
in Cleveland. It happened to be in the same like
perimeter of the state of Ohio. Doesn't mean it was
in Cleveland.
Speaker 2: You're not like really helping your case though.
Speaker 3: Yes, I am.
Speaker 7: Well, what's the next city you want to visit? That y'all?
Like in the in America? Next city that she would
like to visit here, like I've been there before. Like
she's literally leaving tomorrow tomorrow, that's where you really want
to go.
Speaker 2: She's got I actually am really excited to go. Yeah,
New York tomorrow, Rhode Island.
Speaker 3: Oh, she's not driving Jordan's flight. Yeah, she knows. She's
not flying.
Speaker 4: I mean she's not. It's like that's probably like that's
gonna take like two and a half hours.
Speaker 2: It's gonna take two hour flight to Charlotte and then
a two hour flight to Providence and then I have
to take a forty minute cab to Newport.
Speaker 4: Okay, so she broke she broke it broke it up
in the two flights drink when I get home, broken
up into two flights two hours, you know, depends on
the layover to so like, okay.
Speaker 7: We went.
Speaker 4: We went on our honeymoon. We went to a rube
like one of the Caribbean islands or whatever. I'm thinking
to myself, like, no, it's in the Caribbean. I'm thinking
like past Cuba and all that. I'm thinking like, there's
gonna be like a six hour flight. It was for
a little under three from here to Miami Richard my
connector and then Miami to Rubo is like two and
a half.
Speaker 3: It's not as far as you think.
Speaker 7: I just know when I went to Seattle and I
was like a five six hours flight and I was
like it was a NonStop ye if I'm not I'm
trying to see.
Speaker 3: That's the thing. Like mine was broken. Mine would have
been five hours, but it was. It was broken up Intowo.
Speaker 7: So basically I think we went straight to Seattle. I
think we had a layover when we went to California.
Seattle was like straight through and I was like, I
think like our four or five I'm like, dude, give
me off this plane. Man, Oh my gosh, all.
Speaker 4: Right, that'll do it for ATB mail Bag. Got a
lot of fun there in that segment. We'll take a
quick time. When we get back. We were going to
have Zach Naggie at eight thirty, We're actually going to
push him to eight forty five. So this next segment
we're gonna come back. Got some adults on Nico Yama Liava,
I owe him a little bit of an apology, and uh,
we're gonna ask Alandra maybe what she's into.
Speaker 3: In the uh Newport area.
Speaker 4: She is leaving me and I will be the sole
remaining member of OTB for the rest of the week.
That's all coming up on the other side here on
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Speaker 1: Back to sports talk maybe off the.
Speaker 3: Bench Welcome back.
Speaker 4: In Tuesday edition of Off the Bench, Taylor Sharpet with
your filling in for Jacob Vester and Ta Bob Abear.
We got a Landra Villarrial and Jordan Kitchens along for
the ride as well.
Speaker 3: Guys, if you tuned in.
Speaker 4: Yesterday, by yeah, I gave my thoughts on Nico Yama
Liava and the Tennessee volunteers and Tennessee ultimately deciding to
move on from their starting quarterback. They say it takes
a big man to apologize sometimes, guys, and I'm gonna
do it because yesterday I set up here and I said, well,
Notre Dame is always a possibility, maybe even Florida State,
who knows, maybe those are possibilities for Nico Yamilyev and
I want to apologize to Nico right now because I
gave him too much credit yesterday. Guys, did we see
the three schools that Nico's looking at right.
Speaker 2: Now, Ucla, TWU Lane, and I don't know what the
third one, the North Carolina tar Heels, shout out Bill Belichick.
Speaker 4: Well that that's kind of my point. No way in
hell is Bill Belichick bringing in Niko Yamialava. We can
go ahead, and we can go we can go ahead
and cross out the tar Heels. You think hard knows
Bill Belichick, who's been there, done that's bringing in Niko
yamialiov after what he just pulled leaving Tennessee.
Speaker 3: Absolutely not.
Speaker 4: So you got UCLA and you can say, okay, well
two Lanes had a good program. Yeah, Darien Menza was
a better quarterback last year than Nico. Niko is gonna
go from Tennessee who was in the College Football Playoff
to two Lane and then on the flip side of things,
two Lanes downgrading from Darian Mensa to Nicoyamilya. Or you
can go out west to Ucla. When no one goes
to your games. You can be the bottom feeder in
the Big Ten conference and you can call it a
day and you can be happy making two and a
half three million dollars a year. Whatever they're going to
decide to give you because UCLA is that desperate for
a quarterback.
Speaker 3: I know where you're not going.
Speaker 4: You're not going to Ohio State, now going to Georgia,
You're not going to Michigan, Oregon, LSU. You're not going
to any of the programs that are considered college football
playoff contenders this year. You know who was in the
college football playoff Tennessee just last year. And you know
you've heard this report of that came out yesterday yesterday
afternoon that a couple of players on Tennessee's team actually
considered sitting out the college football playoff game. Not a
bowl game that doesn't matter, not a college football playoff game,
the one they played against Ohio State. They considered sitting out,
one of which was Nico Eamiliava. But there were multiple
starters who considered sitting out in order to get more
money in the middle of the season. Look, I don't
know this guy personally. He might be a great kid.
I have no idea. Unfortunately, though, sometimes somebody has to
be made an example of. Maybe it's a Nico, because
stuff like this has to end. It's one thing to say, oh,
we'll pay for play. You can be for you can
be against it. I don't really care. But to threaten
to sit out a college football playoff game because you
want more money, you think you've outplayed your nil deal
that you got at the beginning of the.
Speaker 3: Season, that's insane.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 3: For example, let's say the Saints would have made the
playoff lash year.
Speaker 4: Obviously we're we're doing a hypothetical and Alvin Kamara has
a great year, thinks he deserves more money. And Alvin
Kamara's like, a, you know what, I'm good, I'm not
gonna play in the playoff game. That's not gonna fly
in the NFL. Somehow you can maybe get away with it.
In college football. The point is everybody's like, oh, well,
you know it happens in the NFL. One college is
not the NFL. NFL are professionals, which look, you want
to be paid like a professional, you're gonna get treated
like a professional, at least in my eyes. Secondly, NFL
can't do that. You have signed contracts. You don't have
any of that in college football. It does tell me
two things. One Tennessee had a culture problem, and two
maybe josh Iibel was a little bit to blame. I
gave josh Iipel a lot of credit yesterday, but the
fact that multiple starters considered sitting out of a college
football playoff game tells me a lot I need to
know about the culture in that locker room. Honestly, though,
maybe Nico should have set out that college FOOTBA playoff game.
Maybe they would have a better chance. This is Niko
Yamailiava's numbers against Ohio State in that college football playoff game.
Fourteen of thirty one good for forty five percent completion,
one hundred and four yards, no touchdowns. Now, he did
have two rushing touchdowns, but it was only on about
thirty yard Russian That's what Niko Yamailiava did in Ohio
State housed you forty two to seventeen. I don't know
who is advising Niko Yamailiava. You got bad advice. Unfortunately
you're seeing that right now. And look, nothing's happened yet.
There may be a school that jumps into the mix.
But Nico might pay the consequences for some bad advice.
Sometimes that happens, fortunate, but you demanded a lot more
money than what you were worth. It broke it down
yesterday about twenty nine hundred yards passing, nineteen touchdowns, five picks.
That's an average to below average college quarterback right now
in terms of how offensive friendly it is.
Speaker 3: Everybody.
Speaker 4: There were some elosy Vans that wanted to run Garrett
Nelsemyer out of town after that three game skid, and look,
I get it, Garrett had some turnovers, but Garrett Nolsmar's
numbers were way better than Niko Yama Lava, and Garrett
Nolzmar didn't threaten to sit out last week and demand
more money. That didn't happen. Niko Yamaaliava did it. You
didn't hear anybody at Ohio State, or you didn't see
Bryce Underwood get on campus and say, okay, well maybe
he's the leader in our quarterback competition.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah that three million.
Speaker 4: Dollars you guys gave me out of high school, Yeah,
number just went up since I might be the starter.
Speaker 3: It didn't happen. A lot of different players could have
done that.
Speaker 4: Niko's the one that did it, and unfortunately for him,
he's kind of paying the price Forard right now. Is
a UCLA is a two line as at North Carolina.
I don't think there's any chance it's North Carolina. You
had a good thing at Tennessee. You're gonna have a
strong team once again. You're coming off of college football
playoff appearance and now it's going it'll be interesting to
see the next chapter and the Niko Yamaalava saga. But uh,
we'll certainly be watching it and give you updates as
more comes out. All right, we're going to take a
quick time out when we get back, Zach and Aggie
is gonna hop one with us talks about as you
spring football that's coming up next here on off the bench, Off.
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Speaker 4: Well we already did Weekend Winners that was on Monday,
But thank you so much T Bob for the most
random live reads we could possibly give me and Laundr
we're talking about it yesterday, like the next time, either
T Bob's out Jake's out, they're both out and we
have a fill in host, Like we're just gonna get
Jake after the show when he comes back to record
generic spots for every single one of our commercials. So
Ta Bob's not talking about leaving your car on the
side of the road or me needing to visit Goodwood
or doing weekend Winners there on a Tuesday, Like, that's
just that. That's who Tea Bob is. That's what others
love about him. It's what makes me angry about T Bob.
So that's that's kind of It's kind of where we're
at on that. I gotta tell you, though, guys, I'm
kind of ready for my guys to be back kind
of am I appreciate it. I don't mind doing this.
I actually enjoy doing this. We're having a good time
this morning. But uh, I'm a person of habit. I'm
someone who who's who's always in a routine, right, and
it's like when something like cause, okay, I'm always here
this time.
Speaker 7: For this show.
Speaker 4: Anyways, Essentially, though today, everything I do after this show changes,
like nothing in here really changes. I mean yeah, I
mean like a slightly different spot, but like everything else
is pretty much the exact same. But like I'm texting
Jesse yesterday, I'm like, hey, can you make a short
for me?
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, do you have this?
Speaker 4: And Cassie's like I can, do you need to make thumbnails?
I'm like, well, I'm doing this, but I'm also like
a show prepping for tomorrow. Like I enjoy it, but
it's like ready, have my job, ready, have my guys back, man,
I'm I'm I'm excited.
Speaker 3: I again, I love doing this. But uh, speaking of
being out a Landra, yeah you're leaving me, by the way, No,
it wasn't.
Speaker 4: What happened was a Landra found out she was gonna
have to be with me and she's like, I can't
do it for more two days I understandable. Yeah, Victoria
threns to leave twice a week.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't blame her at all. She never
needs a place to stay.
Speaker 4: I got her Newport, Yeah, Newport, Rhode Island. Yes, Okay,
what are we doing? Do we have any plans that
are already nailed down?
Speaker 2: So I'm really excited about this. I We're gonna go
to this place called white Horse Tavern.
Speaker 3: Okay, wait, is this the place you show me? Really old?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 2: It is allegedly the oldest tavern in America.
Speaker 3: I got no reason to believe it's not.
Speaker 2: So I'm very excited about that they have this thing.
The only thing I'm not excited about is it's still
like really cold out there. I think the high for
one day is like sixty one, and it's in the fifties.
The high is in the fifties for the rest of
the time I'm gonna be there, So it's still cold
out there. And then plus it's the ocean, so it's
gonna be extra cold.
Speaker 3: I feel like be windy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm excited. It's beautiful over there from the
pictures that I've seen, and and they have this thing
called the cliff Walk that I'm going to try to
looking at it right now, people with me to do it,
but if not, like I don't have an issue doing
it by myself. So I'm gonna cliff walk for sure.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're gonna do a mansion tour.
Speaker 2: Yes, we're doing a mansion tour because the Vanderbilts built
a bunch of mansions.
Speaker 3: Like I'm just looking at big things to do in
Newport Island.
Speaker 2: We're actually staying at the Vanderbilt, which is one of
the mansions that they go but yeah, a little bugie,
that's one of the big things that you do when
you go to Newport is go on a mansion tour
because there's a bunch of them there.
Speaker 3: There's a mansion ghost tour. Are we doing it?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 1: We are?
Speaker 3: There's a mansion ghost tour. Yes, I think I think that.
It seems like you're gonna do a lot of hiking.
Speaker 2: Maybe yeah, probably mostly eating and drinking.
Speaker 4: Okay, I need you to go on to do one
of these little dinner and wind things on a sail boat.
It seems to be another popular.
Speaker 2: Call it's too cold to be on a sailboat. I'm
not gonna do it.
Speaker 3: Okay, what about a trolley tour. I don't know you're
doing that.
Speaker 2: I think I want to minimize my time outdoors.
Speaker 4: Okay, wineries and breweries, I'm down for a winer. Those
are probably indoors. Yeah, see me and Victoria needs to
go here.
Speaker 3: She loves wine. Yeah, I love breweries.
Speaker 4: You could just kind of split up me back in
the middle, that would be that would be great for her.
You're gonna have to let me know how this goes.
So yeah, I'm excited. Okay, remember we went to Montana
last summer. Those were Victoria's birthday.
Speaker 3: Well what I did.
Speaker 4: I got together like twenty different places. We played like
dealer no deal stop. I was like, all right, eliminate one.
I opened it up. I'm like, you missed out on this.
But Montana and Yellowstone is where she wanted to go. Yeah,
this area, like I think I did more like Cape Cod,
but like they're all kind of right up there in
that area.
Speaker 2: Like that New England.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's yeah, that was kind of thing.
Speaker 3: That was one of the options.
Speaker 4: I've always wanted to visit, like the the New England
beach area, whether it's Newport, Cape Cod and all that
all that stuff.
Speaker 2: So you're gonna sure getting a Yeah, I'm I'm getting
a My.
Speaker 3: Sister got one in Boston.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe last fall, and like she was like, it's
it's the best thing I've ever happened. Yeah, And I
was like, well, yeah, our lobster down here sucks because
we don't know how to cook it properly. Just like
their crawfish up there. This sucks because they don't know
how to do it. If that means if they do,
they have to ship it in. I don't think craw
fish are up there, think right, I mean that's yeah,
I don't think that.
Speaker 3: I don't think you have like the.
Speaker 4: Ecosystem for that. But uh, that's uh, Lauder is going
to Newport. We'll be back on Monday. But uh, do
we have a layer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, where we flying into Charlotte and then Providence.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's Providence, Rhode Island forty minutes.
Speaker 2: Forty minute cab ride or uber ride whatever to Newport,
paying for the uber yeah or cab whatever it is.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a half the uber cab or whatever
it is.
Speaker 2: It's not.
Speaker 3: Don't envy you on that.
Speaker 2: It's fine.
Speaker 4: Okay, look what we're doing in our number three I
told you guys we were supposed to have Zach Maggie here.
Full disclosure, Zach is actually out at LSU practice. He
texts me, Hey, I'm not gonna be out till like
eight four fifty.
Speaker 3: They ran a little long.
Speaker 4: I was like, you know what, we'll push it to tomorrow,
so we'll have Zach on Tomorrow's like, I don't want
to have you on for like four minutes and then
be done with it because he's been out there at practice.
He's out there at the scrimmage and a lot of
want to chop up with him about So Zach will
actually hop on tomorrow and hotur number three, we have
Nick Underhill of New Orleans Dot Football. He's hopping on
in his normal spot at nine am. Look, we're gonna
get his thoughts on the Derek car injury, find out
maybe if the Saints is draft has changed now their
draft board in the first round is shit or Sanders
the guy?
Speaker 2: Is he not?
Speaker 4: We'll talk about some late round prospects there as well.
You know, Nick is as well connected as anybody out
there in terms of covering the New Orleans Saints. Colin
Hurley was actually back at LSU at the scrimmage on Saturday,
didn in practice, but he did return to the Tigers.
I'll tell you what that means and what that means
here the LSU quarterback room. And then LSHU Beach Volleyball
coach Russell Brock is actually going to hop on the
show whether US at nine thirty.
Speaker 3: We'll get some thoughts from him.
Speaker 4: Me and my wife actually went out to the Beach
Volleyball thing on Saturday, their match against U Win O.
Speaker 3: It was a great time.
Speaker 4: They got a championship coming up. We'll kind of preview
that a little bit and then we'll close it out
with ask the Bench. So a busy hour three coming up.
You're not gonna want to miss it. That's coming up
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