Speaker 1: I'll start Toyota Presents off the bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Say Hester and Hester.
Speaker 1: Five from carrying each other to and Natty to carrying
each other.
Speaker 3: On the air, there's Brock Control.
Speaker 1: Live from the Mercedes Benz of Baton Rouge Studio. It's
off the bench, all.
Speaker 2: Right, welcome back in our number three, O, TV one,
O four five, ESPN, Baton Rouge. Let's get to a
little big deal. No big deal, no big deal, big deal,
no big deal, big deal, no big deal, no big deal,
no big deal, A big deal, big deal, are no
big deal. Cleveland Brown's quarterback Shadier Sanders injured his oblique
throwing the football on Wednesday morning and is not likely
to play this Saturday in the second preseason game for
the Cleveland Brown.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's that big of a deal because
it's a preseason game and they haven't really named a
starting quarterback yet, Like they didn't say Shadoor is our
starting quarterback.
Speaker 5: So I don't think it's that big of a deal.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 6: Look, normally it would not be a big deal for
the guy that's listed fourth on the depth charge in
your quarterback battle. But the guy that looked very, very
good and probably was gaining momentum towards at least being
the second string guy who would eventually play some games
this year. There's not going to be one starting quarterback
for the Cleveland Browns in twenty twenty five, so.
Speaker 3: It is a big setback.
Speaker 6: But what's crazy is of all the quarters and the
young guns, the only quarterback that has stayed healthy for
the Cleveland Browns is the old man.
Speaker 3: Mister Joe Flacco, the guy draft class, the iron.
Speaker 6: Man, the only one that stayed healthy and hasn't missed time,
hasn't been missed, practiced, and will not have missed the game.
Speaker 5: This is a big deal.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 7: We talked about it on Monday when you and I
were discussing his performance over the weekend, Like, yeah, is
he going to be named a starting quarterback from week
one to preseason?
Speaker 5: No, but he has an opportunity to make a.
Speaker 7: Move because Dylan Gabriel is down with an injury, Kenny
Pikett's down with an injury.
Speaker 3: It'd make him.
Speaker 7: So it's a big deal for Shador Now he's taking
a step back again, and it's a big deal for
Cleveland because you have five quarterbacks on your team.
Speaker 5: You got to cut that down and pick the best guys.
Speaker 7: Now you're just gonna have to kind of decide who's
available for that opening day roster. Like that's a big
deal for Cleveland as well, because you can't evaluate any
of these guys.
Speaker 6: I would say that based on even if he doesn't
play another game, Shudre is guaranteed to make this team
as a fifth rounder. That's crazy to say, you know why,
because the noise that comes with not keeping him after
playing well is is going to be deafening. And I
know that that organization say like, oh, we we don't care.
Speaker 3: We blocked that out. But like it's a big deal.
Speaker 2: So Flacco, Gabriel Sanders, pickets an odd man out.
Speaker 6: Four probably four is absolutely unhurt. I think, yeah, when
they drafted quarterback, I think pickets the odd man out.
Speaker 3: Now he might be. He might be their.
Speaker 6: Best option to be a seventeen game starter if they
wanted it.
Speaker 3: But to what end, I guess is what they would do.
So I don't know.
Speaker 6: Earlier I was thinking Flacco would be the odd man out.
But he's the one one saying healthy right now and
getting the most reps because nobody else is practicing. It'll
be interesting to see, but I think we can all
assume there's gonna be at least three startered starting quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: Get that Jersey ready. There's gonna be names attitude.
Speaker 6: Not to say that Dylan Gabriel or should or Sanders
won't be the long term option. I'm just saying for
this specific year because should Or showed. I mean I
was impressed watching and played just the mechanics of all
a great comfortability, the reads that he made. It was impressive.
It was impressive to watch. Okay, all right, big deal,
No big deal. I'm gonna look at Taylor right in
his face right now. I say this one. The Dallas
Cowboys contracts and a lot of negative albeit press, it
is press, and I think we've discovered that Jerry Jones
is the modern day PT Barnum as far as uh media,
as far as marketing goes and get an eye by
on his organization. He recently said that he loves the attention.
He would rather this basically interpreting the words that he said,
he would rather the attention on the Cowboys then make
a smart business decision for the team. So of course
they're famously having this argument contract negotiations with Micah Parsons,
one of the best players, if not the best defensive
player in the entire National Football League, which means the
entire world, and they will not pay him. They are threatening.
It seems like both sides have dug their feet in.
They are anchored into their position. Jerry Jones and his
side is saying that they had a deal verbally done
in the spring, and he's welcome to take that. But
it takes two sides like Parsons in them. They disagree,
they want a deal done, they want to renegotiate.
Speaker 3: Both size are dug in.
Speaker 6: But the biggest travesty that continues to be part of
the collecting collective bargaining agreement is the franchise tag, and
the Cowboys do hold more cards because they can just
franchise him and it's not just a bluff. They've done
it with Dak Prescott, and they were about to do
it for a second year with Dak Prescott and a
contract got signed like the morning of Game one, which
is insanity to me. So he's they're waiting and they
always pay more. Are they going to pay more this time?
It seems like this is not a bluff. They will
actually sit there in franchise tagging big no big deal.
Speaker 7: Unfortunately, it's no big deal because I'm not surprised.
Speaker 5: I mean, this is what Jerry does.
Speaker 7: Jerry has turned the Dallas Cowboys into a soap opera.
He doesn't really care about what they do on the field.
And then to your point, they can always just franchise
tag him. So for a guy that doesn't care about
on field success and knows that he has the franchise
tag in his back pocket, Jerry ain't moving. Like Jerry's
whole point is just idiotic. Cause he talks about this
agreement they had in the spring. So the reports are
that him and Micah Parson's gonna have this quote unquote
a handshake agreement him without the agent, right, him and
Mike apart since one on one talked about it. Mike
was like, yeah, sure, that sounds good. I just kind
of want to get back to it. He ran it
back to his agent and was like, hey, here's the deal,
and his agent goes, no, no, no, no, I can get
you a lot more money. And now Jerry's like, well,
why don't we have to have the agent involved. I'm like,
you're pissed off because his agent's involved.
Speaker 5: Everybody an agent in every single agreement has one. It's
a flawed way of thinking for a very flawed GM.
I'm not surprised.
Speaker 2: That's no big deal because it's the Cowboys have been
relevant last thirty years.
Speaker 6: So I think it's a huge deal because it highlights
what the NFLPA should have negotiated out of the CBA
a long time ago, which is the franchise tag.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean yeah, for sure, it's benefited like very few.
There's some there's some running backs that maybe not would
have gotten the payday they got. But for the most part.
Speaker 3: Yes, when is it? When has it ever been a
positive thing?
Speaker 2: There was a couple of years I think it was
Sprolls that we we franchised and he made like he
made some incredible money for the running back because running
backs just you just never know what you're going to get,
so any value, I think you get a running back,
but it's really the only position.
Speaker 6: It's great for like one, but nobody wants to sign
a side a franchise tag, and it's the ultimate negotiation tool,
power move that the organization has over the player because
they're like, oh, you don't want to sign it, you're
under contract, blah blah blah. I can just franchise you
and lock you up. And then players like, well, no,
I can't get injured because I'm on one I'm on
this one year deal.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Sure, I'm making decent money for really good money for
this one year. I got no security. I've like, I
don't have any long term commitment from the because when
in a world where the commitment is so one sided
between the organization and the player. Yeah, like, oh, players
got to play those contract. Well okay, well, organization, you
got am under five year contract. You can't cut them.
I give him the same breath. It's like, it's just
I think the franchise tag is awful, and I.
Speaker 2: Think being able to cut somebody when you have a
contract and owing them nothing is.
Speaker 3: Awful because it's such a it's such a stupid argument.
Speaker 6: It's such a stupid argument the Bengals are making with
their defensive end and the Cowboys are making. He's under contract,
he's got to play it out like he's an employee
right now. He has to play it. It's so one sided.
Don't love it. And then the franchise tag makes it
even worse.
Speaker 4: All Right, Alandra, I don't have a take on this,
but I do have a big yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean look, I fell asleep the
Cowboys a long time ago. Like, it's very interesting in
the fact that the franchise tag deal situation, but the
Cowboys portion of it, and that.
Speaker 3: Was really the most part. I was like, more interesting.
Speaker 6: Yeah, hopefully it brings it to light that it becomes
more of a conversation that this needs to be negotiated out.
Speaker 4: Sorry, I'm distracted. Landon just texted me. He said he's
bringing Benny up to us. Do we know like what
he's talking about? Because there's a Benny and he's Brazil.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I wasn't sure.
Speaker 2: I said, Okay, I said, policy big.
Speaker 4: No big deal.
Speaker 5: Benny Brazil and.
Speaker 2: We're going to have an Olympian in the house, a
national champion. That's a big deal.
Speaker 4: Okay, So my my actual big deal are no big deal.
I'm going to give you all two options and y'all
can let me.
Speaker 2: Is he here?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Okay? Should I just should we just wrap this up?
Speaker 3: We do want okay?
Speaker 4: All right, I'm gonna give you.
Speaker 8: All two options.
Speaker 4: Do we want to talk the Athletics QB Tier list
or do we want to talk the Milwaukee Brewers.
Speaker 2: The Milwaukee Brewers talking about QB tiers.
Speaker 4: The Brewers are on their second double digit win streak
of the season, So they had a ten game win
streak earlier this season, and they're on the They're eleventh
game that they won in a row, thirty games above
five one hundred, which is just where did the Brewers
even come from? This is insane? But so there's only
ten or nine other teams that have done multiple double
digit win streaks in a season. So the twenty twenty
five Brewers, the twenty nineteen Astros, the twenty seventeen Dodgers,
fifteen Blue Jays, thirteen Braves, the two thousand and one Cardinals,
nineteen seventy eight Pirates, seventy seven Royals, sixty nine Mets,
and the sixty nine Astros. The Brewers on a heater,
big dealer, No big, that's.
Speaker 3: A big deal.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of people that would not know that
the Brewers are on that kind of a run. The
Brewers have a lot of great star players. Yellock, Yeah,
I mean he's he's like the veteran now, yeah, he
is he's like crazy, Yeah no, but they've got some
great prospects that have all kind of turned out and
get at the same time.
Speaker 4: Ricky Caleb Durban's doing a great for them. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you've heard On Palmer's take on this.
Speaker 7: I think Hunt Palmer says the Milwaukee Brewers are cheating
because they don't have any good players, so how are
they winning.
Speaker 5: So Hunt actually thinks.
Speaker 2: The Brewers they have evaluated those players, and those players
are all up at the big league level now playing
really well.
Speaker 6: At the same time, then they're an hour and a
half away from the Cubs.
Speaker 4: Hat Murphy is they're a manager like they're cheating because
they're better than the Cubs.
Speaker 3: Gotta be. They don't have to be. I just know it. Deep.
Speaker 6: Sorry, sorry, as soon as you said the Braves, I
knew Jake is going big deal.
Speaker 2: Thirteen Braves, twenty thirteen brads. Let's go all right, Uh,
we gotta take a break now because we've got Like
I said an Olympian Bennie Brazil, he heard the call,
he saw the bat signal, and now he's going to
be in studio with us when we come back here
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Speaker 1: From players to legends, Hester and Flynn breakdown LSU football
like only champions can.
Speaker 2: I'm all right, welcome back, here in OTV one O
four five ESPN and Matton Rouge. We got a very
special guest in studio with us, now our former teammate
over at LSU, now still at LSU coaching the track team.
I got Benny Brazil. Benny b what's up?
Speaker 3: Brother? Thanks for having me, Thanks for having me, Thanks
for having me.
Speaker 2: I'm just glad. Look, I was like, hey, we gotta
get you on the show. You said nine fifteen, you
were here at nine ten. I mean, the man of
his word pun sure.
Speaker 9: Hey, hey, you know we've been blessed with that situation.
He says, you're gonna do something. You gotta honor, you
know what I mean. We come from that coacher. Before
we start this, though, I have to give Matt Fleyn
his flowers. I haven't seen Matt in a while, and
I feel like the things he did in college, we're
gonna go back.
Speaker 3: Matt.
Speaker 8: I remember the a SEC Championship when JaMarcus got hurt.
Speaker 9: Right that two thousand and five, Right, he gets hurt,
you gotta come in. I remember your first pass and
what happened on that out route, right, Yes, sir, but.
Speaker 8: But you came back through all that adversity.
Speaker 9: You know what I mean that Bowl game Miami, you
showed out, you came back and you showed us something.
You led us to that win. I have to get flowers
on that. But it's more to the story. You come
back the next year, right, JaMarcus is back starting. You
could have left, could have transferred. You know they had
a quarterback then. But you deal with that adversity. You
set there, you set back and just went through it right.
And that next year you had your time. You delivered
us a national champ right. So I want to always
give your flowers for that shoot. Always put you in
the list with quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: We have come through L. S. Shoe.
Speaker 8: We had a lot of talented guys, probably more.
Speaker 3: Times than you. But you want us to ship and.
Speaker 9: That's what matters. Like when you and your family go
out theater around bet and rouge. Matt Flinn shouldn't have
to pay. He's a champion.
Speaker 8: He bought us a champions and that's the culture championships.
Speaker 3: When it comes to L.
Speaker 1: S U.
Speaker 2: Free Benny, of course you go hang with him.
Speaker 9: Everybody everybody's I had to give you flowers on that
was huge.
Speaker 6: I gotta tell you, five year was so fun. I know,
so you and I played a lot, like at the
end of the game and things like that, but it
was just so fun that Tracy Smith was there calling plays.
Slid hilarious, dude, uh man. We had We had a
lot of fun, man, and you were a special part
of that. Every a lot of a lot of Benny
Brazil stories.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, the the only Benny story that we tell.
That's it's a little negative, but not because of what
Benny did, because of Coach Saban. The day we had
to run more one tens because Benny, who was doing
exactly what he was supposed to be doing, he was
making his times. There's a time Benny was coming in
under the time. But because Benny wasn't winning every race
and he was an Olympian, Coach Saban thought we needed
to start the whole one ten test over.
Speaker 8: I apologize for that.
Speaker 3: That's me. I'm wrong.
Speaker 9: I apologize. You guys go through that. But it wasn't
just coach Saban. The other half of that was coach Maffitt.
Oh yeah, it was him.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But but again, like you were doing everything that you
were supposed to do, you just weren't winning every race.
And like you're going to the Olympics and you're not winning.
Every race started over.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I apologize that was four. I mean you had summertimes.
Speaker 9: That was four was so it had to be that
next year after that was summer time.
Speaker 3: I guess five, like whatever summertime runs. I remember that.
Speaker 9: We were like we're like what thirty one?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, because when.
Speaker 2: Were you out for the Olympics, Like you were outside
whole summer.
Speaker 9: Train, just the summer training. You know what I'm saying
that I came back back at the very end. I
came back at the very end.
Speaker 3: That's when that was really. I think that's where it was.
I remember I remember in mid stride that was tough.
Speaker 8: You know, don't I don't think they run one teams
no more.
Speaker 2: They don't.
Speaker 3: It's changed.
Speaker 2: They don't. I mean even like the guys that were here,
like Kirby Smart was here four and I remember asking
Kirby last spring, I'm like, what's the conditioning test now?
He's like, oh, hees, we don't do the one ten
stuff more. It's like we're not knuckleheads like we used
to be. We got the GPS and we know if
a guy is not working hard. We can tell and
we make him run after that, he's like now one
tens or a thing. In the past, Coach Saban didn't
run him at the end either. No shocks had to
change it a little bit. I heard it, but I
wish you needed that. Bill care You remember our fourth
like the fourth quarter program, Like I had to come
having the trash cans like every five yards, and I had.
Speaker 3: To come out the track practice. That's changed. I had
to try right part in the evening.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it was forty five. It was in the evening
time back then. So I had to come straight from
track practice to four quarter program. And then we're going
to these you know, we're doing all these stations and
then you get the coach net station.
Speaker 8: I couldn't take that serious or something. But yes, good thing,
good times, good times.
Speaker 2: Yeah, speaking of good times, Benny, I want you to,
uh look at it now. Don't listen. Don't pay attention
to how grainy this is.
Speaker 3: Because we.
Speaker 2: Played a long time ago, right, So look, we got
a Bennie Brazil, we got a Matt Flynn, we got
myself in here. We're all in the game. At the carry.
Carter a little shy up there in the eye. Let's see,
let's see how this play turns out for the law
Shoe Tigers against the Old Miss Rebels. My god, that's grainy.
Oh what a release by that fullback. Benny's five yard down.
Maybe the only time that Benny didn't get a celebration
penalty was on this touchdown right here because he was
good for two or three.
Speaker 3: I've never been there before. I've never been there.
Speaker 2: Any of those though that year and five did Benny
catch like at least six of those kind of passes
that were like fifty plus yards. It felt like good
time the Florida game and five good time day game. Yes,
Tiger Stadium. I think Jay Russ hits you maybe.
Speaker 9: On the same play, yep, same thing in Arkansas. It
was a couple of them good times fellers. Wow, how
does that make you feel? How grainy that was? Though
it's a little it makes me look my age a
little bit, you know what I mean. But at the
end of the day, it was a touchdown. And like
they said, you want a championship, man, I don't care.
You want us a ship you went next. I can't
take that from us.
Speaker 3: I think it's got to be a bad download.
Speaker 2: Right YouTube, you went to LimeWire to get that.
Speaker 5: We were talking about it yesterday like this was five.
This looks like in nineteen seven. You gotta have a
better one than that.
Speaker 9: Crazy That was coach Madains first year, right, Yeah, Yeah,
that was such a good team.
Speaker 2: It was a great team. Tough year obviously with Hurricane Katrina.
Where we're supposed to start the season planning against I
believe North Texas. That game gets canceled. We're supposed to
play Arizona State across the street. Yep, that doesn't happen.
We have to fly out to Arizona. I remember that Tempee.
They were a good team that were ranked teams.
Speaker 3: It was we got kind of lucky. Yeah.
Speaker 2: We we blocked the kick for a touchdown. Ye blocked
the punt for a touchdown. Then JaMarcus hits early on
a play that if it gets reviewed.
Speaker 3: Out of the game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it worked out.
Speaker 3: It worked out.
Speaker 2: If if that season it was a normal season, I
think LSU compete for a national champion.
Speaker 8: I totally agree. But the next year, no excuse six.
Speaker 9: Yes, I think that was one of the greatest chance
we ever had on paper, offense and.
Speaker 2: D four first round picks.
Speaker 3: Totally agree.
Speaker 8: So that team there no way that should have won
to ship.
Speaker 2: Losses to Florida on the road in Florida on the road, Yeah,
that's what it was. We lost to Auburn, was like
nine to six or something something, low scoring game.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but as far as talent wise, both sides of
the ball was amazing.
Speaker 2: I'm with you. I'm with you. Now that season ended,
it ended well beating Notre Dame at the Sugar Bowl, but.
Speaker 3: Suld have done more. Totally agreed.
Speaker 2: That was a window of now in four I don't
know if y'all agree.
Speaker 3: We were We're.
Speaker 2: Okay, We're just three football team. Yeah, we had some town,
we had some you know, we had seaweb and spears
on those guys. Ton, but we lost a ton because
you won the national championship. But five O six there
should have been at least one championship in those times.
Speaker 3: I totally agree.
Speaker 6: Yeah, when both those teams were clicking, playing its best
football game plan, everybody healthy, like there was no team better.
Certainly like there's no team in O six beating the
team that showed.
Speaker 3: Up at the Sugar Bowl. Totally agree. Nobody, nobody even
closed what did you.
Speaker 9: Think the problem was in O six with you guys,
because we were already we had left.
Speaker 3: So what was different those?
Speaker 2: I mean just two close road losses. So okay, I'll
tell you what. At Florida, we're at the swamp. We
score first, we hit like a two forty six Yukon
score first, boom, and we're going in for our second score.
And I think we were on fullback belly. I think
we're at the ten. I think I get it down
to the one. I still think I scored whatever they
call it, down the one first and goal from the one.
We're good, Okay, Jerry Russ Fommelton next. Now fumbled at Florida,
got it they went, they scored, and now we're talking
about we were gone up. I think a couple of scores.
Now it's like tid game crazy. And then that was
t ba's first ever jump pack Tibo mania. That was.
That was a tough game and we could not do.
The defense tried. It's one of those games. The defense
tried to keep us in it for as long as
they could, but put him in bass situations. We had
special teams play. I think I missed you. I don't
remember who it was. And might have been somebody somebody
muffed the punt.
Speaker 3: I think something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, those two road games at Auburn and that floor.
Now we're talking today's college football with that resume the playoffs.
Speaker 9: So I think in our times, I think it was
just different and I think we had a standard. When
I say that, at that time, it was either BCS
a Bush. Remember that BCS the Bush. That's the standard.
Speaker 3: You know. If we didn't go to the BCS, I
mean Texas Bowl. No disrespect of those bowl games, no bowl,
no disrespect to them. But that was not standard, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 9: And I think when it comes to L s U
football and some sports, the standards of championships a bus.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think it should be that. Like I
think like if you ask Jay Johnson what the standard
is championships, he's not gonna tell you anything like record.
He's gonna say, omaha, So what he's gonna say? I mean,
same thing you us Kim Mulky like, hey, what's the standard?
She's gonna tell your final fours? Track, same way, rack
and field, Like you've got a standard that you are
going to try to list like now that it's a
twelve team playoff for LSU, because you're right, like it
was a BCS game when we were in school, there
was only so many of those. Now that's a twelve
team playoff. It's playoff or bus And if it's not
that way, then you don't need to be here. Like
in any sport, I'm talking any sport. I love, just
got any sport.
Speaker 3: I think that's the expectation, certainly the expectation this year.
It's gotta be. And you said us.
Speaker 6: In track, tell us about your coaching track, tell us
about what you're doing, your role right now and your
day to day.
Speaker 3: No good question.
Speaker 8: So we kind of like an off season at this point.
Speaker 9: Right now, you got people getting ready for world championships
coming up, so preparing for their different countries us say,
anybody else that's on our team, So they're preparing for
that situation. But when it comes to the collegiate wise,
we're getting ready to start practice.
Speaker 3: I want to say. We always go to day after.
Speaker 9: Labor Day, we get the fall training going on everybody
and we're getting this ball rolling. So for the most part,
we just ended up with recruiting and everything at this
point and were just ready to get the season started.
Speaker 2: Couldn't you coach Matt Flynn to run the three hunters hurdles?
Speaker 9: No, sir, I cannot do that. I wouldn't want to
see that. Like I said, Matt's already made men.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
Speaker 9: He bought He bought LSU a championship. So I feel
like when you bring LSU a championship, you in a
different category.
Speaker 2: Is it something you did like all growing up as well,
or is that something like you kind of found later
on as you got the l shoot good.
Speaker 3: Question in high school.
Speaker 9: In middle school, I was just running regular and I
was just trying.
Speaker 3: One day, I say, you know, let me try this.
Speaker 9: I was just trying it one day and I had
to I was running the sprint hurdles, and I had
to want two three one two three.
Speaker 8: It just came natural.
Speaker 9: So at then I just start doing it, you know
what I mean. And I around seventh grade. I started
eighth grade, I was okay. Ninth grade, I kind of
started coming a little bit. But I sophomore year in
high school, guess.
Speaker 6: I can't believe you say you can't coach me to what?
But I guess my my high school coach did tell
us that, like you can't win the Kentucky Derby with
a jackass. I guess that's the statement, right, I guess
I guess I'm the jackass.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean you said it, not me. Uh you
mentioned like I don't even know if we were on
air when you said this, but like, you know, used
to go like track practice, football practice. We always tell
stories about the guys that played baseball. Uh, you know
Chad Jones, you, Jared Mitchell, Chris Jackson. It was a
part of team with us, like they would change on
their way to the box and go play baseball. Uh,
so you've done it in the track world as well.
So Jelanney Watkins is trying to do that, like right now,
Like what, like what are the challenges because it's I'm
sure like a different mindset obviously, Like he is so
good on the track, he's so good on the grid iron.
What is it like trying to make sure that you're
in the right mindset depending on what sport you're at.
Speaker 9: I think that's good question as well too. I think
for the most part when it comes to it with
us as being like athletes, because we love both, right,
we love football and we love track. So the crazy
part about it is when you win football season, you
win football season, you're thinking about track, and when you're
in track season, you're thinking definitely about track, you know
what I mean. So for the most part, it all
comes together because sometimes when you at track practice, you
got to be able to go back to the spring ball,
spring meetings and.
Speaker 3: All that kind of aspect of it.
Speaker 9: So you just got to keep your mental right, I mean,
just stay positive best way you can, because we already
know you're gonna go through some adversity. I think in
our time what made it different. We were red shirted, right,
So in our time it was okay to be red shirted.
Speaker 8: Right these days, yeah, we wouldn't know you got it.
Speaker 9: Hester you got it, you played at the true freshman congratulations.
Speaker 8: But for the most part, it's okay to be red shirted,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 9: So I think these days and age, when guys get
red shirted, they go in a tank guard this cre
and I know it's hard social media. Just imagine if
we are all roommates in college US three. Yeah Heester's playing,
we're not playing. Were red shirted, and the social media stuff
is going on, We're gonna feel some time way, you
know what I mean. So you got to be able
to block that out the best you can, Like coach
Sabman always said, block out the rat poison.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I canque on how you handle your track athletes
because it's it's such a different sport than anything else
because they do have like the Olympics, the World's thy
goa right, and different meets outside of just LSU. So
like when you're coaching somebody, are you kind of like
end up being their personal coad? Do you travel with
them and coach them up for these different events?
Speaker 9: It just depends on what the track media is whatever
it is, Like I feel like collegian legs because under twenties,
but usually like World Championships and Olympics for the most part,
Kochhev would be there, but if it's part of our
sprinting athletes, I'll be there as well with them as
well too. That's anybody on our staff, you know what
I mean. So how it comes to that aspect, but
it just depends on it. But the number one thing
is the NCAA Championship, coach Benning, right, that's number one.
Speaker 8: Then Olympics and everything else. But the main thing is
the main thing.
Speaker 9: Yeah, So I think at the end that you focus
one in that national championship first and go to everything else.
Speaker 6: I would assume more like but I was saying, those
outside meets kind of help with recruiting athlete.
Speaker 3: Big time, big time.
Speaker 8: They see it that way, but I feel like it
helps out.
Speaker 9: But you know, the number one thing is changed now
it's all about nil, So I think that's kind of
important as well too. So I feel like the resume
really doesn't matter no more of what you've done, and
it's about what can you do for me?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Give me your favorite play you were involved in l
s U football, l SU football.
Speaker 3: Favorite your favorite one?
Speaker 2: My favorite one because my mind, I'm not even like
it's O five versus Florida, like I said urban Meyer,
I believe his first year there. I want to say
they came in maybe even as a favorite. In that game.
It is a CBS Day game. It was hotter than
hot obviously, and Benny kind of closed the door on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say that that was my first touchdown.
It was huge. That was really huge for the game.
I thought that was huge.
Speaker 2: You get a fifteen year pal, I did got it.
Speaker 3: I got in trouble.
Speaker 8: You know, I got you know, I got cussed out
on Monday.
Speaker 3: Coach Mouse got me remember that meeting.
Speaker 9: Yea next time again, next time I see you again
on the sideline, You're gonna be on the sideline with
me next time.
Speaker 8: I act like he been there and I was like,
I haven't.
Speaker 3: Jimbo said, well, you know, he's right, you haven't been
there before.
Speaker 6: But let me let your celebration. Your yours is like
the most genuinely like positive.
Speaker 3: It wasn't look at me. It was just like, I'm excited.
Let me celebrate. We gotta we got to celebrate together.
Speaker 2: Don't worry, listeners, We'll we'll find that clip at some point.
We'll play that Florida touchdown. Benny Man, you're the man.
This has been a lot of fun. Probably, Like I said,
I mean, it's like open door policy. Whenever you want
to come in if track has something going on, football like,
it doesn't matter. If you just want to come hang out,
you got an open door.
Speaker 9: I appreciate that, but that's not I forget the standard
of LSU is championships had some of the greatest individual
athletes come through LSU before one of the best ones ever.
Speaker 3: I mean, hey, Shack, right, Shack was good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good.
Speaker 3: Shout out to Uncle Mallett.
Speaker 9: You know Sharik, my little nephew. Shaq was one of
the greatest to come through l s U. But he
didn't win. I still love him though. It's about championships.
Speaker 3: It is. Look at this, Look at this.
Speaker 2: Let's go back. Yeah, we got the clip. Let's go back.
It's so funny that that guy, oh wit, this is
grainy too. My gosh, it's just this is not good.
Look I see you face Jones with the block Benn
in Brazil down the sideline fifteen yards. That got him
fifteen yards. That right there got Benny fifteen yards.
Speaker 3: So good. And think for myself that a team coaches
haven't been there, haven't been one of the.
Speaker 2: Benny. We appreciate it. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll take a break when we come back.
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to off the Bench, all.
Speaker 2: Right, welcome back, Yeah, OTV one of four five VESPN
Ben Rouge. We apologize getting too munchies a little bit
late here, but Chef We appreciate your time. As always,
our guy, Bennie Brazil came in studio surprise us. It
was awesome. I know you probably see Benny all the
time there y, you know, probably in the cafeteria certainly
serving food and nutrition at center. So we had Benny
on our guy. So we apologize for the tardness, but
you know, Benny, I mean lights up a room. We
had to have Bennie on for like twenty minutes.
Speaker 10: Benny's one of my favorites for sure. Man, I love
Benny's death. I'll take a back seat to Bennie any
day of the week.
Speaker 2: All right, chef, Like, how's it going, how's everything like? Camp?
We know, man, this is a time where it's just
like every single time you turn around, you probably feel
like you're trying to feed an athlete.
Speaker 10: Yeah. You know, yesterday I asked somebody what day of
the week it was twice and what time it was
twice because I've been losing tractive days and you know,
at like five o'clock in the afternoon yesterday, I wasn't
sure if it was five AM or five MS. So, yeah,
it happens.
Speaker 2: Hashtag of munchies hunting season is three weeks away. What's
your favorite wild game to cook eat?
Speaker 10: Oh that's a good question, man, And honestly, I have
you know, like I thought about hunting a deer for
the first time like two days ago, and I don't know,
you know, it's probably gonna be deer. I mean, I've
I've never hunted an elk before, but I think it
could be something larger than a deer. But it's it's
always going to be something that's in the moment fresh,
you know, Like I like to peel the backstraps out
of a deer and cook them. I'd like I like,
I like eating rabbit, you know, like I just kind
of enjoy you know, the hunt and the kill and
and reaping the rewards of it. So I don't I
don't know that I have a favorite species, although there
is something really special about shooting a wild boar and
eating it, you know, like that not everybody eats wild
boar but I but I do. And I take a
particular fondness for because not only are you killing a
creature and you know, like putting it on the plate,
but you're also helping me in vironment and doing so yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the backstrap off while board is incredible and oh yeah,
and then just to add to that, my favorite would
be the Mallard duck breast like a.
Speaker 10: Fresh yeah so good, yeah.
Speaker 3: Very good.
Speaker 6: Yeah chef hashtag munchies here putting together my wedding registry.
What do you recommend for kitchen utensils, wood and metal
for different things?
Speaker 10: Yeah? Man, you know, like I think every kitchen has
to have a sort of a set of really good
wooden like spoon sets and and and ladles and such.
And you know, I just yesterday I was looking at
an olive wood set because pretty the wood is really dense.
Olive wood is uh, super tolerant of abuse in the kitchen.
There's some other woods, but they're a little bit more precious,
and I you know, like they're they're good wood, good
woods to use, but they're kind of controversial as to
whether we should be using them or not. And I
like damboo in the kitchen honestly, so I think some
one of those. I think a wine opener is important,
you know, like a proper wine opener, you know, because
if you're if you're when I'm cooking at home, I
you know, like I kind of get passionate about what
I'm doing and you know, sharing that moment with my
loved ones. So I think that that's important. You know,
my knives are are like an extension of my hands
man and having the right tool for the right job
is important. So a good set of knives is always important.
I'm a Woostoff guy. I carry Woostos. There's other more
affordable knives out there, but I have a knife for
every task. I probably have. I probably have one hundred
knives somewhere shape or form over between the kitchen and
the house of you know, like different you know, like
cheese knives and and different different tasks and such. I
don't know why, but I have a I have a
real fondness for a particular type of calendar. You know
that it's I in particular, you know, like a sturdy,
stainless steel And I found one just the other day,
And you guys are gonna be like, what the hell's
wrong with chef. But it's a it's a very steep,
sloped sided calendar I think lets the water and the
materials flow out easier versus a broader, broader based one
that you know isn't going to sit inside the kitchen
sink and so I just have an appreciation for the
well thought out things that are quality, that do their
job well.
Speaker 6: Is there something in it, like a kitchen tool or
utensil that is like a frequent gift that people give
to somebody, and like when you go to someone's house
they pull it out and you just kind of cringe, like, ugh,
that's that's kind of dumb.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, like a garnic press. It's one of
those things. I kind of like, it's amentary gardic. It
doesn't take three seconds, you know. Like, but I do
like a lemon dreamer, which is kind of weird, you know,
because it kind of I don't know. Well, I'm actually
not going to go down the road. I hear the
voice of T Bob in my ear, you know, going
down this path of what a rumor is. And so
I'm just gonna call now.
Speaker 2: A good idea hashtag munchies, any good healthy meal ideas
that I can cook at a beach house for eleven
people that's not too time consuming.
Speaker 10: You know. I love putting together a fresh falsa or
thebch and letting its fit, you know, because it can.
And I like to take if you you know, if
you have the fish available to you. You know, I
think I was just in grand Al not too long
ago when we caught fresh snapper and put it, you know,
put it in the bowl and the incidity helps it.
It actually proves itself better to sit it on the
table and let it fit, because it cooks better that
way rather than refrigerated. And you know, you can just
throw it together and pull some chips and people enjoy
it for what it is. And if you make a
big batch of it, you know, like I don't know,
I love sabch and I love I love salsa, but
you know, you can turn a salsa into a fruity
salsa with paink pineapples and mangos and such, and you know,
I think the kids will eat it that way rather
than it just being spicy. But if I'm at the beach,
I'm it is almost certain I'm going to have one
of those two things, chef.
Speaker 6: The are some like health safety controversy on nonstick pants.
Do you use like traditional store bought nonstick pans or
do you kind of just season up the cast ire?
Speaker 3: How do you work with the nonstick?
Speaker 10: I did not use nonstick, specifically teflon coded so the
controversy behind teflon is is that it doesn't have a
half life, but it is a forever chemicals and if
you ingest that if it starts flaking and gets into
your food, it can you know, it will stay in
your body for your life. And there is proven like
there is a particular chemical company out there that produced
this material that has been sued time and time again
for like the past thirty years and lost and that
they are still paying out because the where they started
producing teflon was soaking into the ground and started making
the township sick and the cattle sick. And so it's
not a matter of whether it is is an absolute
and so you know, the idea is that it's intact
in the pan, it's nonstick. But if it's not and
it's flucking a way, it is a car synergen and
and we just we just don't mess with it. I
prefer to get a fan. I like stainless, and I
like copper, and I like cast iron outside of those three.
You know, like if you hear somebody say there's this
new science behind nonstick, you know, food has been around
for a long time, you know, metallurgy has been around
for a long time. I trust what I understand, and
I know, so when you.
Speaker 6: Make when you're making like a fried egg on a
stainless or a copper you have to use plenty of oil.
Speaker 3: Is that how we we fit?
Speaker 10: Yeah, proper heat, the proper proper amount of heat in
the in the in the proper amount of oil. And
you know, like if you I think that those nonstick
pans are meant for absorbing lesser talents, is cook in
the kitchen? You know? Yeah, yeah, exactly. And so I
prefer to you know, I'm a man of education. I
like to teach people versus you know, kind of simplified
or done myself down to the less least common denominator.
I would prefer to throw people. And so I'm gonna
teach you how to cook in the right fan.
Speaker 2: There he is, Chef Michael Johnson, good enough to join
us every single Thursday to answer your munchie questions. LSU
Executive Chef. We always appreciate the time, sir, look forward
to our next conversation. You know, it's almost over, Chef
Camp's almost over. We can see the light at the
end of the tunnel. We're gonna be here in season
and we can get back to a normal schedule, so
we always appreciate it.
Speaker 10: Awesome. If you guys make it over here, man say hi, absolutely.
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Speaker 3: Uh, great Commentaryly, we were talking about red shirting with Benny.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: They said, yeah, Jacob, you red shirted in high school.
That's just called being held back.
Speaker 2: You know what, That's not true. I got red shirt
in fifth grade. Turns out they don't know what they're
talking about. Jokes on you. U was a nineteen when
I got here. Maybe maybe a red shirt did not.
Speaker 6: Hold you in seventh grade. I'm sitting there halfway through
the cool year. I walks in from streetport evangel transferred
to our middle school, had a mustache.
Speaker 2: You're driving?
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erase board? I thought, I thought that's what he said
it first the way I said it, because it kind
of skipped past me. That's actually funnier if we just
have an intern that holds the whiteboard note inroom held
held drag race boys, I go back down. I actually
like the intern idea better. Could you bring that in? Please?
Thank you?
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