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Speaker 1: All Star to Yoda Presents Off the Bench with Jacob

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Hester and Matt Flynn.

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Speaker 2: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive Hamsday.

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Speaker 3: Hester and Hester got it five out a five.

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Speaker 1: Your Luck's in to Off the Bench West Control the

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Live from the Mercedes Benz of Baton Rouge Studio. Here's

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Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.

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Speaker 3: Yo.

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Speaker 4: Lords, Welcome in O TV one, O four five ESPN

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Baton Rouge here on this Friday morning weekend.

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Speaker 2: Vibes already all over this place.

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Speaker 4: Jake Flynn, Alandra Tata, We're all here. The gang's all here,

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excited to talk sports.

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Speaker 2: I mean yelled it.

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Speaker 5: Let's go Day five, buddy. Some said it couldn't be

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done a lot like every mos said the hater's gonna hate.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then next week.

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Speaker 5: You said, I'm not gonna be fine.

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Speaker 2: Good optics for you, but it's fine.

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Speaker 5: Well, I got one week next week. Admittedly, we're gonna

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have some tardiness. We're gonna have some absences. Were tardy

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now too, Okay, maybe not tarties. We are definitely gonna

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have some absences. They're excused though they are part of

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the contract.

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Speaker 2: You did run them up the principal's office.

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Speaker 5: I did run them up the old flagpole. But five days.

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Some said it couldn't be done. Some said it was

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one of the greatest upsets in sports history. Was me

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showing up five days, not even on time early? You

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have been early? Yeah, I don't think I've walked in

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put a foot in this building later than six twenty nine.

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Speaker 4: How has it been so you're I mean, you're a weekend.

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You've never done five straight days. I don't have you

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ever have done two straight days?

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Speaker 5: Maybe? Maybe? No, Well, I've never come in before eight

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am at any point.

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Speaker 4: You did once for me, you did, like when Teabo

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was thatt One time you did because I remember, like

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you literally you look like you had had a bender

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in Vegas and you just walked straight in here even

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though you had gone to sleep.

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Speaker 5: Obviously, And I wasn't on a bender, just not a

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morning guy, you know. But I've rewired myself completely. Some

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say that can't be done either.

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Speaker 2: I did it at almost forty years old.

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Speaker 5: Power of the mind, people, I mean, we're what.

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Speaker 2: Gosh, we're almost We're just like two weeks.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm about to enter two weeks from today, I'm

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about to enter the second third of my life. It's

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time to rewire second third. I think that's the way

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you say that I'm gonna live the the way modern

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medicine is going there days hitting me.

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Speaker 2: No way, I woult to live to be one hundred

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and twenty.

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Speaker 5: What if it's super quality?

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Speaker 2: Now, who's going to be super quality at one seventeen?

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Speaker 5: You're saying you don't want to be doing the show

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for eighty four years.

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Speaker 2: No, oh god man, you I mean no.

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Speaker 5: Running stairs right and stairs on the break.

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Speaker 4: I can barely do that at forty okay, and have

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the breath to come back here and talk.

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Speaker 5: Just saying they are doing crazy things in medicine.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I get you.

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Speaker 4: Look, I'll say you know better than I because you

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actually do come up with a formula to go into

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the body and better the body.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, drink my hind. It is surprising, like how much

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my knees and achilles are just not feeling great every day. Yeah,

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some days they feel better than others. I've never even

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had any injuries. Like people are always like as soon

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as you get to forty, it's like it's like a

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light switch comes on, Like you stuff starts to hurt.

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I'm like, man, that's that's dumb. Gonna take care of

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me stuff. I eat healthy, I stay crazy hydrated meats.

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I go in spurts of healthy ause, of course, we

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all have to live our life and enjoy it. What's

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the point if we're miserable all the time. Laundry is

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just well, you've got the juice cleans going awesome, it's great, terrible.

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You can do that in spurts. We can do it

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a little bit. I like to do Keto diets. You do,

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but I only like to do it like once or

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twice a year. But it's like a good mental challenge

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makes me feel good, makes my gut feel good. I

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just respond well to it. Yeah. I don't want to

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live life like that. No, I want to have some

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good chocolate. Yeah, I want to have a French fry.

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I want to Dad tax the heck out of my children.

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Speaker 2: What's the number one? Dad tax? Mine's usually going to

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be some kind of like a shake or some Dairyes.

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Speaker 5: I usually go, I don't. I don't Dad tax a

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lot of the sweets I'm I like, like very specific sweets,

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Like I used to eat all the candy I used

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to like everything. If I could get us like my

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sweet tooth fix on, I would like the older. I

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get the worst. It kind of makes me feel so

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I kind of pick and choose, like I look at

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it dessert and like, are you worth it? If you're

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not worth that, I'm not doing it because I just

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don't want to, because I'm a man. Are you worried?

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Are you worth this? But I like the dad text,

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like the French fries. So if like we do, if

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we do like a Chick fil a or something like that.

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My kids don't like the crispy parts of things, which

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is arguably, maybe not arguably objectively the best part of

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the nugget is like the like the little crispy parts,

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So eat around it, nose drop all the crispy parts

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of the box. Okay, leaving the crispy stuff.

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Speaker 4: See, I get all the turtleback fries because kids don't

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like those.

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Speaker 2: I love them.

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Speaker 6: I don't like those them White Victoria loves the I

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can't do it either.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I've never even thought about somebody liking this. Those

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are absolute trash.

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Speaker 6: It's like it's like when you got like the n

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piece of the corn bread at school and it was

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hard on both sides. You didn't want that's like, there's

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no there's no crisp to it, there's no like.

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Speaker 5: It's the most undynamic bite you could have in.

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Speaker 4: A fast food It's the best one if you're dipping

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it inside them because it doesn't go through the holes.

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Speaker 5: You probably like the old steak fries those potato wedges

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used to get back in the day.

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Speaker 2: Bad.

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Speaker 5: It's better than it is better than no fry. Bad fries.

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Speaker 6: It's like bad pizza, Like even the bad ones, you're

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still you're still gonna eat it.

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Speaker 5: It's true. So I don't want to poo poo all

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over all the fries. But of like, if we had

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a fry tier list, steak fries are not even close

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to the second to last place. They are so far last.

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Speaker 4: That's actually not a bad tear list potatoes potatoes.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but there's so many different types of fries you could.

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Speaker 4: Strictly there's are under seasons.

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Speaker 2: One thing, though, you did say didn't have any injuries earlier.

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It's kind of a lie.

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Speaker 4: I remember you being so dramatic going into the locker

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room getting shot up against Arkansas and like coming out

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like dude, dude, you're not even hurt. You got the

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fattest ankle braces I've ever seen on in my life

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because he got bigging due Elandra.

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Speaker 2: They were gigantic.

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Speaker 4: It looked like he had two casts on the bottom

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of his legs.

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Speaker 6: People exercise with like Uncle Wade.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly what they look like.

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Speaker 5: The adversity I faced in that season, from start to

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finish was just unheard of. Things like that or you

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usually get books written about them. At an ankle sprain.

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Speaker 4: I think we could put all our brains together and

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write a book.

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Speaker 5: Let's do it.

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Speaker 2: I think we could, and then turn it into your plate.

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Speaker 5: Can it have last full back?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, pictures in it, because like, here's the thing.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna be very.

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Speaker 4: There's the book that I put pick up and it

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doesn't have pictures in it.

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Speaker 5: That's a surprise, That's what I'm saying. Like I'm not

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I'm not reading it. Well, we have to. We got

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to put the X rays in the that shows slight inflammation.

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Speaker 2: Slight And this man went into the locker room. All right, listen,

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I had roar of the crowd for slightness.

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Speaker 5: I had sprained a sea joint. I did for just

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risking my body Tuesday diving for the high line for

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a two point conversion. It is a great story though,

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in that game where I sprained my right a sea joint,

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I think it was in the third quarter in the

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two point conversion, I dove for the pylon sprain the

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a seed joint, and I'm like, wow, that didn't feel great,

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Like I hate I'd hate to like hurt my right

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arm in a two point conversion. And so they take

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me in, shoot me up, numb it. Yeah, feels great. Right,

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started dropping some dimes, playing great the old lighter Kane.

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They put in the shoulder stops like starts wearing off right.

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At the end of the fourth quarter and we get

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the ball. I think we're tied at this point. This

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is before we went to overtime, and we're like on

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the fifty and like all right, let's get in there.

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I'm like, oh my god, don't don't call Hill Mary.

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Do not call Heill Mary, because I because I couldn't

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lift my like like.

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Speaker 2: This was like we did you knew he had one

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more play.

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Speaker 5: We knew he had one more play. It was a

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tie ball game. It was like on our on our own.

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Maybe I'm there forty five it was. It was Hill

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Mary Territory. Yeah. Yeah. So I get there and I'm like,

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I can't lift like my elbow like past month, my

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chest right, like, oh god, it's gonna be bad. So

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I get there and we I said all right, down,

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said hut, And I was like, I already knew the

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outcome of this throw, like what it was going to be.

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I was like, oh, let's just let's just rip it,

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let's give it. Hell I got, I roll out and

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I throw it as far as I can and it

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went like twenty yards. Oh no, and then a guy came.

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This guy came and hit me in the shoulder to

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insult the injury. That is why they took me into

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the locker room and proceeded to give me two shots

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of light it can at that point. Yeah, and then

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that's when, of course we I was like, let's go

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do this. Hopefully we win the coin toss and we

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get the ball second, right, but I think we lost

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the coin toss and we got it first. So they

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were like they were throwing, scraping, scraping the needles against

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my bone and stuff like get it in there. That's

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when I ran out and I think y'all were already

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in the huddle. Yeah, we were in the huddle on

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the field first play of overtime and I run out

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of the tunnel.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so dramatic.

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Speaker 4: It was the door, like waiting like parents out there

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in the.

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Speaker 2: And go, I wonder, are you talking about the Arkansas game? Yeah,

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I need to re I need to kind of relive

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that game.

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Speaker 5: I don't.

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Speaker 2: I don't remember a whole lot about that game.

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Speaker 5: First half we sucked. I remember like in O seven.

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Speaker 4: I definitely remember like Virginia Tech, and I remember Florida

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even kind of remember Kentucky more than I remember Arkansas.

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I don't remember. I do remember you and I. We

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hit a rail for like sixty five. They get called

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back because.

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Speaker 5: Early rail you out of You just had a like

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offset full back. Yeah I play.

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Speaker 2: Actually I never played fullback that year. I really didn't.

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Speaker 4: And they put me a full back. I'm like, oh here,

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they're gonna know something's coming. But Arkansas thankfully adjust to it.

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Speaker 5: Was it was it early in Brandon early and Jared.

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Speaker 4: I think it was early in Jojo. They get on

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the line and yeah, it got called back for legal.

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Speaker 5: That was tough for me.

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Speaker 2: That killed a lot of momentum.

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Speaker 5: Killed so much momentium and we would have gone out,

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we would have obviously won. There didn't matter. But early

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man that that was tough for him. He thought through

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so much that you're seeing injury. So he didn't have

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a lot of practice time. So it was like one

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of those things we called a play was a brand

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new play that we installed like two days before the

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game or something like that. So they just had some

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alignment issues mid line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 4: I think, I mean hindsight, but I think we win

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the game if they don't call that back because yeah,

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we didn't score on that drive.

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Speaker 5: I ain't no guess the linebacker.

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Speaker 4: I do remember this, so you know, if I was

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ever lined up at fullback, it was typically like to

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get the ball thrown to me, yeah, and I'd go

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into the flats or something and we try to run

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like a post from the outside receiver.

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Speaker 2: I'd run a flat and try to catch it hit

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the corner.

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Speaker 5: It was amazing back in the day, like old school

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football is. Like you see an offset full back on

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fourth and one or third and one, how many times

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they would outflank the linebacker to get to the flat.

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Speaker 4: I know for a two yard on fire and lightning

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kind kind of plays. So this linebacker overflowed heavy thinking

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I'm going to the flat, gotcha, And so as soon

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as he like overflowed, I just sleep like kind of

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slipped like right underneath him and then got back into

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the route.

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Speaker 5: I dropped that throw on you. We did old numb

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numb shoulder, old shoulder over here.

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Speaker 2: One of the few times you threw a pretty ball.

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Speaker 5: I'd never felt better throwing though I couldn't feel it.

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Let's go.

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Speaker 2: I relived it the other day when I was looking for.

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Speaker 5: Highlights, like sound bites of the highlights. The one you found, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: It was like a really long highlight video on you

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about that game.

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Speaker 2: I no, no, the Arkansas No, just the Arkansas game brief.

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Speaker 5: That would have been a very like four tuitous like

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highlight for us to put in the intro maybe to

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hester that ended up getting called back for Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Actually perfect, you play the play the five.

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Speaker 5: Second but it didn't.

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Speaker 2: That isn't good. That is going to be your job

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doing the breaks if you can find that.

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Speaker 6: Well, I'm almost I'm almost to the flint Hill, Mary play. Oh,

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I'm watching the full four hour game here.

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Speaker 4: Mary, is it a hail Mary if it goes twenty yards?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know what you.

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Speaker 4: Think it is, all right, we will when we come

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back get this show started.

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Speaker 2: But but something that I wanted to make sure we

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got out there.

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Speaker 4: Today Today marks the eighty first anniversary of D Day,

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So June sixth, nineteen forty four, when more than one

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hundred and fifty thousand Allied troops to the beaches of

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Normandy and obviously one of the most pivotal moments.

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Speaker 2: In world history.

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Speaker 4: Their bravery turn the tide on World War Two and

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helped liberate Europe from Nazi domination. And we remember the courage, sacrifice,

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unbreakable spirit of those who fought in those who never

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made it home. Their legacy lives on in the freedom

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we enjoy today every day, and we always honor them.

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So shout out to everybody that obviously had anybody involved

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in that gosh, I mean, one of literally the biggest

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days in the history of the world, and today is

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the eighty first anniversary.

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Speaker 5: I'm sure like everybody listening has some sort of personal

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impact with World War Like they had a grandfather, a

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great uncle, whatever it was that fought and served and goodness,

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good lord, I mean, are we are we grateful? We thankful?

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Are we blessed for that generation of those people that

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that's sacrificed, who were brave enough to to answer the call?

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So thankful for them. And it makes you I mean,

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we just have a Memorial Day not too long ago,

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so it makes you grateful for the people that were

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fought in that day and that at that time, but

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for the people that serve now. So makes us proud

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to be Americans.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, And if you like, if you want to catch

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up on like exactly how everything went down, Bandon Brothers,

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Speaker 5: Brothers again, like so good, that's the best.

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Speaker 4: Uh, your boy boy finally found a landing spot. Aaron

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Rodgers one year deal Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Speaker 5: Are we surprised, not at all.

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Speaker 2: I mean so.

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Speaker 4: Surprising the fact that it's like it's just continue to

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drag on so long.

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Speaker 2: You're like, well, maybe this isn't gonna happen.

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Speaker 4: I don't I don't really know, but you're trying to

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find a landing spot for all these you know, the

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quarterbacks that were out there, and Russell Wilson goes to

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the Giants, Jamis goes to the Giants, Flacco goes to

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the Browns.

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Speaker 2: But Aaron Rodgers was like kind of the one.

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Speaker 4: It's like, all right, well, wherever he goes, he's going

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to be the starters. So it's a little bit different

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than those situations I just laid out there. But you know,

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for whatever reason, it took a long time, they didn't

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draft a quarterback and then we're like, okay, well they'll

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bring somebody and they're not going to go into the

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season with Mason Rudolph as or starting quarterback. We didn't

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know who it was, so you know, we thought it

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would be maybe the Vikings because he just felt like,

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you know, he was trying to trail Brett fav as

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much as he could going from Packers to Jets and

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the way that it all went down.

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Speaker 5: But I mean, fairness, though, I would I would rather

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go play for the Vikings. Feels me, yeah, pretty good.

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Speaker 4: You got a pretty good out there, good receiver, got

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a couple of guys out there, but a rod he

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goes to the Steelers. It's just brutal division. I played

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in the AFC my entire career. I didn't play in

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the North, but we always ended up playing the AFC North.

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I swear it's like, some way, somehow, either in the

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regular season or in the postseason, we're going to play

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the Steelers, we were going to play the Ravens, and

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it was going to be hell. So it is a brutal,

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brutal division. And you know, you've got certainly the Bengals

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the Ravens that have championship aspirations right, and they've got

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Jimmy's and Joe's all over the place, and even the Browns.

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Speaker 2: The Browns aren't good, but the defense is good. The

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well in the pass.

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Speaker 5: Rush, I'll kill you with quarterback numbers. If five hitch

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it down, I'll beat you down. When you think one

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of them is tired, the next another fresh one comes in,

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different QB every quarter coach.

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Speaker 2: All right, so initial thoughts? What do you think?

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Speaker 5: So initial thoughts? I didn't know what he was going

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to do. Of course we're buddy, his friends, but I

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don't ever talk to him like about football or about

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like what's hey, what's your next move? Blah blah blah.

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It's kind of a dumb, weird conversation for you know,

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friends that have to think.

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Speaker 2: But you're in sports media now.

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Speaker 5: So I'm in sports media for day five and no

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big deal. So people always ask me, hey, what's your

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boy gonna do? What your boy gonna do? I honestly

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didn't have any idea. But the more it kind of

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like went on without a decision or without like something

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official being signed, well, you know, maybe the writings on

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the wall that he maybe doesn't want to go there.

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Maybe he something always comes available during training camp and

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maybe it's that kind of situation. But when you look

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at like now that it's official, when you look at

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everything that happened, do you not think do people really

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not think the pundits out there that the Steelers and

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Aaron had some sort of like gentleman's agreement this whole time,

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Like people, the media has been driving me crazy, driving

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me crazy about how.

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Speaker 2: Now your colleagues, the Steelers.

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Speaker 5: And Mike Tomlin are so stupid for waiting this long

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and they've they've missed every other they didn't draft a quarter,

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but they didn't do this. Blah blah blah. The Steelers

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aren't stupid, Mike Tomlin.

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Speaker 4: They're one of the best franchises in sports, right Yeah.

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Speaker 5: And so it's it drove me crazy. And then oh,

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Aaron Righter. He's so selfish. He just wants people to

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talk about them. He likes the spotlight. He just does

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all this. He does this for attention. Have you ever

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have you heard him say anything? He's not driving, he's

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not trying to get attention out there. He's like the

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timing to me, he's signing a week before minicamp. If

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he signed three months ago, he wasn't going to go

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to tas No, right, not that many forty forty one

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year Olds are going to tas So, like if they

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don't think that there was some sort of gentleman agreement

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that I think people are crazy, right because I.

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Speaker 4: Mean it's been thrown with DK as well, Like yeah

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on the side, which doesn't necessarily any meaning thing, but

473
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when you're rumored to go to Pittsburgh, he got traded

474
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to Pittsburgh.

475
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Speaker 5: Yeah, but let me just say it's like for for

476
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,839
all the they like to paint Aaron and I get it,

477
00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:31,480
I get some of the some of the optics, some

478
00:23:31,559 --> 00:23:34,759
of his deliveries not the best sometimes, Like I get it,

479
00:23:37,079 --> 00:23:39,119
but to pay them like trying to be this guy

480
00:23:39,279 --> 00:23:42,400
like selfish and want attention and like and trying to

481
00:23:42,559 --> 00:23:46,279
jack around the Steelers and not taking the seriously, that's all.

482
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:50,440
That's all stupid and lazy, like takes. Like, first of all,

483
00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:53,640
you never know what somebody's going through right in their life.

484
00:23:53,799 --> 00:23:57,000
But to think that he wanted any attention from it,

485
00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:01,359
he didn't want any Yeah, he doesn't want that sort

486
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,079
of attention and he didn't certainly didn't do it for that.

487
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:07,119
But he goes there. I mean, I certainly don't think

488
00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:09,400
it's the best place for him to land. It's there,

489
00:24:09,559 --> 00:24:12,680
I was going. Of course, they brought in DK back

490
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,119
ew They just got rid of Picket. They are in

491
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,440
a terrible, terribly tough division.

492
00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:19,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, Nazie Harris is no longer there running back. He's

493
00:24:19,759 --> 00:24:22,440
with the Chargers now. So Warren's gonna be your your

494
00:24:22,559 --> 00:24:23,480
RB one yep.

495
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Speaker 5: But for the Steelers it makes I mean, it makes

496
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:30,440
a ton of sense. Even if he gives you because

497
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,079
you don't know what he's going to be. He's gonna

498
00:24:33,079 --> 00:24:35,119
be good. He's not going to be a bad quarterback. Like,

499
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,519
even when there's a lot of negative stuff about him

500
00:24:38,519 --> 00:24:40,640
in New York, he still was good in New York.

501
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:42,799
Look at his stats. He didn't have like they played

502
00:24:42,839 --> 00:24:44,799
on People got a little fatigued from it because they

503
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:46,920
kept playing, putting him on primetime and stuff like that.

504
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,599
They didn't necessarily have the success that they wanted to.

505
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,960
They only won five games last year. The team was awful.

506
00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:56,640
But you look at what he did and it stacked

507
00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:00,200
up pretty good against it. Certainly it was low, it

508
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,000
was down for his like career stats, his career averages.

509
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,119
But if he can find a little bit of that spark,

510
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:08,319
I think there's only been one quarterback that's ever been

511
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,640
like worth anything after the age of forty, that's the goat.

512
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's far had you know, a nice mini run

513
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,039
there with Minnesota, but I mean the Jets was bad,

514
00:25:19,039 --> 00:25:21,799
but then Minnesota was for what at least one year,

515
00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:22,720
maybe two.

516
00:25:24,039 --> 00:25:27,079
Speaker 6: They made the NFC Championship when the Saints. Well, and

517
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:31,519
somebody was talking about that this morning when Farv signed

518
00:25:31,519 --> 00:25:34,960
with the Vikings. He signed in the middle of August, right, see,

519
00:25:35,079 --> 00:25:38,119
because he had thought he's got a half shoulders certain Well,

520
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:39,599
you and I would talk about the other day and

521
00:25:39,599 --> 00:25:41,640
I'm like, hey, if it's not the Steelers, like what's

522
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:43,680
his option? And you were like, hey, you can always

523
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:44,960
sign somewhere, like right before.

524
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Speaker 5: If somebody decides they do a QB, it always happens.

525
00:25:47,799 --> 00:25:52,160
Somebody gets injured, somebody underperforms. Let's just take a very

526
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:58,000
super hypothetical situation Week two training camp. JJ McCarthy sprains

527
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:02,759
and ankle or just isn't looking right, just something. Because

528
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,279
it's football, it's a collision sport. Somebody is gonna have

529
00:26:06,319 --> 00:26:08,440
a tweak, somebody's gonna have something. Oh right, the Falcons

530
00:26:08,799 --> 00:26:10,799
Michael Pennock, Well, I guess they got Kirk behind him.

531
00:26:10,839 --> 00:26:13,400
But let's just say, you know what I'm saying, something

532
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,640
is always gonna happen, and I think that probably odd

533
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,319
say that a better situation potentially could pop up, but

534
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,720
you never know. The Steelers are Mike Toma. What he's

535
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:25,440
done there, I think he's been there for over fifteen years.

536
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:27,599
I mean, it's it's incredible. I know that Mike and

537
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:31,200
Aaron have like a super like a mutual respect and

538
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:36,079
admiration for each other. So from that aspect, I think

539
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:37,799
it could be a really good fit from a relation

540
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,960
relationship standpoint, And Aaron is very big on like having

541
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,599
a good relationship for the people he's working with, working for,

542
00:26:45,519 --> 00:26:50,039
playing with, And you'll never find anybody that's currently in

543
00:26:50,079 --> 00:26:52,680
the locker room with him that says he's a bad

544
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,160
teammate right now. You've had some disgruntled people in the past,

545
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,559
like you know, Greg Jennings, Ter Michael Like, You've had

546
00:26:57,559 --> 00:26:59,799
some people come out and say some things afterwards, but

547
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,599
I mean who hasn't. But you've never found anyone that's like, oh,

548
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:05,519
that's a that's a bad teammate, or you probably wouldn't

549
00:27:05,519 --> 00:27:07,079
find Anye on the Steelers that says, nah, we don't

550
00:27:07,079 --> 00:27:10,000
want to yeah, yeah, no, because when he's great, like,

551
00:27:10,079 --> 00:27:12,400
let's just say he finds the spark. Yeah, I mean,

552
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:16,519
people forget he won MVP three years ago. Yeah it

553
00:27:16,599 --> 00:27:18,920
wasn't was it three?

554
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 6: I mean I guess technically four didn't he didn't play

555
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:24,000
because he got hurt.

556
00:27:24,039 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 5: But I guess four. Yep, So I mean it's and

557
00:27:28,519 --> 00:27:32,319
he was thirty eight. Yeah, probably when he did that.

558
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:33,480
I think, I think when he did that.

559
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,559
Speaker 4: So, like the end of the day, Mason Rudolph was

560
00:27:36,599 --> 00:27:38,920
a quarterback and now it's Aaron Rodgers.

561
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:40,079
Speaker 2: The team's better.

562
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,799
Speaker 4: He found a landing spot and it's the Steelers, so

563
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:44,559
they'll at least be nine and seven.

564
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 5: Let's just say, let's just say he's got a ten

565
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:51,359
percent chance of finding his old magic, his old form

566
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:53,440
and I say old couple of years ago, his old

567
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:57,720
form and being playing at an MVP level. That's ten

568
00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,200
percent more than Mason Rudolph. Yes, right, so it's a

569
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:03,319
better it's a good signing. It's a really good signing

570
00:28:03,319 --> 00:28:08,880
for the Pittsburgh Steelers. But we'll see how it plays out, obviously,

571
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,400
but I'm excited to watch him. I'm glad. I'm excited

572
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,799
to watch him for another year. Instead of him not

573
00:28:13,839 --> 00:28:16,680
playing and retiring like take it in. He's been one

574
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,200
of the greatest and most dynamic and talented people we've

575
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:26,079
seen play that position. So get over yourself people, there

576
00:28:26,079 --> 00:28:28,799
you go and relax. Let that man live his life.

577
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:30,599
Speaker 4: All right, Well, we're going to live our life and

578
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,480
we're gonna be joined by Ben McDonald. LSU Legend are

579
00:28:33,519 --> 00:28:35,480
going to be on the call for the super Regional

580
00:28:35,519 --> 00:28:39,000
between LSU and West Virginia coming up on Saturday. In

581
00:28:39,079 --> 00:28:41,559
the box and will have been when we jump back

582
00:28:41,599 --> 00:28:43,039
here on OTB.

583
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Speaker 2: Off the bench, you say relaxed.

584
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 4: I thought Aaron's supposed to spell relaxed and they say.

585
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,319
Speaker 5: Oh, that was not a call out. That was actually

586
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:51,000
not a call out.

587
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,400
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588
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589
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590
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591
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What is that, Well, you put in your address, okay,

592
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and it's going to get an outline of your roof

593
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that you could be your home, it certainly could be

594
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your business, but it's gonna get an outline of it

595
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through Google Maps and then it's gonna give you an

596
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estimate on what it would be for your roof replacement.

597
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598
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Speaker 4: And always remember like they're in Baton Rouge and Lafayette,

599
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they're not driving back and forth. No, they have roots

600
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in local communities supporting all kinds of different things in

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603
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Speaker 2: Go to the website today Pelican Roof dock out.

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605
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607
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Speaker 1: Five Tigers turn Talkers. This is off the bench, all right,

610
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:12,319
welcome back.

611
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,119
Speaker 4: In and it is OTB here on this Friday afternoon.

612
00:30:15,279 --> 00:30:17,480
It is always our pleasure to catch up with our

613
00:30:17,559 --> 00:30:21,160
next guess. It is Ben McDonald, LSU legend, gonna be

614
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,400
on the call there for LSU and West Virginia super

615
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:25,839
Regional action in the box.

616
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 2: Ben, always a pleasure. Hope you're doing well.

617
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 3: My pleasure always good to chat with you guys.

618
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Speaker 4: Man last week. Uh, look, the box was rocking. I

619
00:30:34,079 --> 00:30:36,960
know you had a chance to call that regional as well.

620
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:37,759
Speaker 2: It was.

621
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Speaker 4: You know, it was an interesting regional because LSU looks

622
00:30:40,279 --> 00:30:42,440
like they were on cruise control. But this team, man,

623
00:30:42,519 --> 00:30:45,960
Little Rock, they were fighting and scratching and clawing, and

624
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,400
they take down Dallas Baptists, after they take down Rhode Island,

625
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,680
and they came into the box on Sunday with all

626
00:30:51,759 --> 00:30:54,640
the confidence and so it was one of those situations

627
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,480
on Ben on a Monday, like, man, their ultimate you know,

628
00:30:57,599 --> 00:31:00,599
confidence is showing if you're LSU or you stunned a

629
00:31:00,599 --> 00:31:02,559
little bit because you had the four seed kind of

630
00:31:02,599 --> 00:31:05,400
punch up. And I give you a lot of credit because,

631
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,400
as you know, in the game of baseball, when you've

632
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,799
got momentum on your side like Little Rock did, it's

633
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:11,480
hard to close out and continue on.

634
00:31:12,799 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, baseball is a separator for our major sports,

635
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,799
right and this could never happen in football. Ever, it

636
00:31:18,839 --> 00:31:21,599
could never. Little Rock doesn't even have a football program,

637
00:31:21,599 --> 00:31:24,079
But if they did, LSU could play them in football

638
00:31:24,119 --> 00:31:27,079
one thousand times and LSU football would win a thousand

639
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:30,680
out of a thousand that's just the truth. It wouldn't

640
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,359
happened in basketball either, but it can happen in baseball.

641
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,440
That's to me what makes baseball the greatest game in

642
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,960
the world. It looks with all the upsets that we had, guys,

643
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:39,839
and I know y'all been following it, but think of

644
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:43,519
it like this. Texas A and M and Virginia where

645
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,680
unanimous pre season. When the season begins, the number one

646
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,240
and number two teams in the entire country, nobody was

647
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,839
even close. Odds are in Vegas, A and M was

648
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,160
gonna walk away with the national title. None of those

649
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,400
two teams don't. It's not gonna win it, teaches, they

650
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,319
didn't get in the field of sixty four this year.

651
00:31:58,359 --> 00:32:01,720
And then you fast forward to the top eight national steeds,

652
00:32:01,759 --> 00:32:04,440
the best teams in baseball, Vanderbilt and of course you're

653
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:05,839
the Bergs at Tech. The don't even get out their

654
00:32:05,839 --> 00:32:08,640
own regionals this year. And so that's what kind of

655
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:10,559
year it's been in college baseball. We had seven of

656
00:32:10,599 --> 00:32:13,359
our top sixteen national seeds go down in regional play,

657
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,599
which has never happened before. It's been a wild ride,

658
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:17,720
and so it could happen in baseball. But I was

659
00:32:17,759 --> 00:32:19,759
proud of LSU the way they fall back. Look, they

660
00:32:19,799 --> 00:32:22,279
got down five to one in that deciding game in

661
00:32:22,319 --> 00:32:24,240
Game seven and found a way to come back. You know,

662
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,359
obviously Cason Evans was the biggest part of that, and

663
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,279
he came in out of the bullpen and started stacking

664
00:32:28,359 --> 00:32:31,640
z ros and was phenomenal. You know, in LSU ploub

665
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,000
back in it. But this is what has to happen

666
00:32:33,039 --> 00:32:35,319
in baseball to be able to advance the next level.

667
00:32:35,319 --> 00:32:37,640
And now they're going to play West Virginia this weekend,

668
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,079
who've been the Big twelve record season champions the last

669
00:32:40,119 --> 00:32:42,039
two years in their second Super Regions. So this is

670
00:32:42,039 --> 00:32:43,079
not gonna be an easy weekend.

671
00:32:43,079 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 5: But the Tigers, No it is not.

672
00:32:45,119 --> 00:32:47,119
Speaker 4: But and before we move forward, I do want to

673
00:32:47,119 --> 00:32:49,799
get back real quick to Little Rock in that last

674
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,559
game because I am going to assume that the lineup

675
00:32:52,599 --> 00:32:54,680
that we saw in the last game against Little Rock

676
00:32:54,799 --> 00:32:56,240
is going to be the same one that we start

677
00:32:56,279 --> 00:33:00,359
off with here against West Virginia, because honestly been I've

678
00:33:00,359 --> 00:33:02,559
been saying it all week. If you don't make those changes,

679
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:05,240
I'm not sure that LSU's still playing. Because you move

680
00:33:05,279 --> 00:33:07,480
Ethan Fry up to the two hole, he goes four

681
00:33:07,559 --> 00:33:10,960
for four, has two walks on base six times, two doubles,

682
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,599
a home run, and then having Luis Hernandez in the

683
00:33:13,599 --> 00:33:16,039
eight hole, he hits two home runs. I mean, Jay

684
00:33:16,079 --> 00:33:18,240
did a lot of tinkering with the lineup there in

685
00:33:18,279 --> 00:33:21,319
that last game, Game seven of the regional and it

686
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:23,920
all really worked out incredibly well. And if you don't

687
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,039
make those moves, I'm not sure you're still playing.

688
00:33:27,039 --> 00:33:29,119
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, look, I give a lot of credit

689
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,720
to Jay two because most coaches aren't going to do that, right.

690
00:33:31,759 --> 00:33:33,400
Most coaches are not going to take a guy that

691
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,480
hit twenty eight homers last year. They probably should have

692
00:33:36,559 --> 00:33:39,400
left for pro ball and didn't. And Jared Jones and

693
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,000
he's been scuffled a little bit, so he kind of

694
00:33:41,039 --> 00:33:42,839
shook the lineup and dropped him down to the five

695
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,519
hole moves Eathan Fry up and you'll brought Steven Mile

696
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:47,319
up and Nickas. It really just shook up the whole

697
00:33:47,319 --> 00:33:49,279
lot in Stanfield. But hit nine hole to hit the

698
00:33:49,359 --> 00:33:52,240
entire year. He hit seventh hole in that ball game too,

699
00:33:52,279 --> 00:33:54,839
so he shook it up. It paid off. Now most

700
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:58,480
probably Lu's go to face a left handed pitcher in

701
00:33:58,559 --> 00:34:00,720
game one, So I don't know if that things or not.

702
00:34:00,799 --> 00:34:03,039
We know furiy Ll hits about two hundred and fifty

703
00:34:03,039 --> 00:34:05,400
points better off of right handers than he does left handers.

704
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,440
At the top that hit left, he's very well. I

705
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,159
could see a scenario where they shake up the line

706
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,800
up even again and maybe just put a right hander

707
00:34:12,039 --> 00:34:14,360
to lead it off and drop Kuriel down a spot

708
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,599
or two. That could happen as well, but it very

709
00:34:16,599 --> 00:34:18,519
well could be the same amount up that you're talking about.

710
00:34:18,559 --> 00:34:20,599
You know, I just don't know what exactly what Jay's

711
00:34:20,599 --> 00:34:22,360
don't do just yet. But that's what one thing I

712
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,280
like about Jay is he not as afraid to tak

713
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,320
her a little bit when he feels like he needs

714
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:26,880
to tink.

715
00:34:26,679 --> 00:34:29,599
Speaker 5: Her a little bit. Ben, we all know the and

716
00:34:29,599 --> 00:34:31,920
we're all witnessing and get to see firsthand like the

717
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:35,679
greatness of Kate Anderson and Anthony Aysen right now. But

718
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:37,679
I want to hear from your perspective because we all

719
00:34:37,679 --> 00:34:39,679
see the big picture. We see the results, we see

720
00:34:40,599 --> 00:34:43,360
the strikeouts, and and we see him being good. But

721
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,320
I kind of want to hear like a scouting report

722
00:34:45,559 --> 00:34:49,159
from from you on what makes this guy's good? What

723
00:34:50,039 --> 00:34:52,079
Why is there stuff different? Why is it great like

724
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:55,000
the more movement? What is their position with the pitches?

725
00:34:55,039 --> 00:34:57,480
What is your kind of scouting report on each of

726
00:34:57,519 --> 00:34:59,320
these guys on what makes them so good?

727
00:35:00,199 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 3: Well, if you talk about Kate Anderson, you talk about

728
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,000
a kid. Remember this is just a second year on campus.

729
00:35:06,039 --> 00:35:07,679
And if you go back and look at what he

730
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,480
did last year, the kid had a twenty seven e

731
00:35:10,599 --> 00:35:12,960
r A at SEC play. Like he didn't pitch well

732
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,440
as a freshman at SEC play. And you want to

733
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:17,719
talk about helium and the draft, guys, I mean this

734
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,360
to me, Kate Anderson has the most helium out of

735
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,800
any baseball player coming up in the draft next month.

736
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,679
I mean he was a projected into the second round,

737
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,480
mid the second round pick when the season begins. This

738
00:35:28,639 --> 00:35:31,239
you know this year back in February, and now some

739
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:35,639
publications MLB dot Com Jim Kallis has him going three

740
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,800
overall in the first round of the Seattle Mariners. And

741
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,800
he had shot up the draft boards as a drafta

742
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:43,320
well sophomore, and I think there was a lot of

743
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:45,639
folks thought he was coming back to LSU for his

744
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:49,800
junior year next year. He ain't coming back, Guys, he's

745
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,440
they better enjoy him now because he's not coming back.

746
00:35:53,519 --> 00:35:56,159
And what makes him good, I think there's a lot

747
00:35:56,159 --> 00:35:58,760
of things. One on the mound, you can't ever tell

748
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:01,119
if he's up, free or down. Like we just got

749
00:36:01,119 --> 00:36:03,119
the hit factor. You know, he's blocked in all the time.

750
00:36:03,119 --> 00:36:06,159
He's down. An extremely emotional guy, he stays locked in.

751
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:08,920
I think what's really happens growth in one season, and

752
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:10,880
as a scout and as a GM, that's what you

753
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:12,639
want to see. He picked up that new pitch, the

754
00:36:12,679 --> 00:36:16,039
slider that he didn't throw last year. Last year was fastball, curveball,

755
00:36:16,119 --> 00:36:18,480
change up. This year he added a slider to the

756
00:36:18,519 --> 00:36:21,079
mix too, and it's been his most used secondary pitch,

757
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,079
you know, right behind the fastball. The velos picked up

758
00:36:24,119 --> 00:36:27,039
a little bit. His composure on the mound is elite.

759
00:36:27,119 --> 00:36:29,360
And let's not forget he's left handed and that always

760
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,280
helps too, you know. And in the year we're talking

761
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:35,159
to some gms and scouts. The draft overall, you talk

762
00:36:35,199 --> 00:36:37,639
about the entire the entirety of the draft, it's a

763
00:36:37,679 --> 00:36:39,760
little bit weaker than what it has been in the past,

764
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:42,000
Like it's a weaker draft, and so that's another reason

765
00:36:42,039 --> 00:36:45,280
why he projects out Anderson does as a starting picture

766
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:47,760
at the MLB level, and I think that's why they

767
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:49,519
like him so much and why he shut up. He's

768
00:36:49,599 --> 00:36:52,199
talk about Anthony ianson. Look, when you get a guy

769
00:36:52,199 --> 00:36:55,559
from midweight major and imthin k from UC San Diego,

770
00:36:55,599 --> 00:36:57,679
you never know how the stuff is got of translated

771
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,559
in the toughest conference, kind of like football, you don't

772
00:37:00,559 --> 00:37:02,840
know how it translates until you get them on campus

773
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,360
when you start running out there. But Anthony Ias and

774
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,719
I'm telling you what, guys, the fastball to me is

775
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:10,880
a good one Holkser hitting two ninety two off of it.

776
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,559
But the difference maker for him is his all speed pitches.

777
00:37:13,559 --> 00:37:16,000
In other words, his slider, his purve ball, and his

778
00:37:16,039 --> 00:37:19,480
flip finger fastball are all elite. I'm talking about They

779
00:37:19,559 --> 00:37:21,679
hit like one fifty or lower on all three of

780
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:23,920
the all speed pitches, and that's just separated for him.

781
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,559
He could really spend the breaking balls in there, and

782
00:37:26,639 --> 00:37:29,000
so he's adapted well. And I would I always like

783
00:37:29,039 --> 00:37:31,679
to look, Okay, how do you perform against the best

784
00:37:31,679 --> 00:37:33,719
competition in the country. And I went back and looked

785
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:37,000
at Ayenson's numbers on an SEC play alone. His ten

786
00:37:37,039 --> 00:37:39,760
stars guys. He had a two point eight era and

787
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,519
those ten stars and sec plays. So this dude is

788
00:37:42,599 --> 00:37:45,519
just a sign of assassin. He's out a huge emotional

789
00:37:45,519 --> 00:37:47,440
guy either. He just goes out and gets it done.

790
00:37:47,519 --> 00:37:49,920
And you talk about Look you talk about Anderson number

791
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:52,039
two of the country in strikedoffs right now, I Anson

792
00:37:52,159 --> 00:37:54,920
right behind him at number three in the country. Liam

793
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:56,800
Doyle leads it from Tennessee. And the only reason he's

794
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:58,519
ahead of both those guys because he's got two more

795
00:37:58,519 --> 00:38:00,719
appearances than both of them have, you know. And so

796
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:03,559
that's how dominant this staff has been. It's one A

797
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:05,559
and it's one B, and it's the reason why LSU

798
00:38:06,079 --> 00:38:08,159
should be in Olma Hall here in about a week.

799
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:09,639
Speaker 5: Ben.

800
00:38:09,679 --> 00:38:12,280
Speaker 4: When you look at LSU and Kate Anson and Anthony

801
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:14,519
Ansen like you just laid out, I mean, obviously the

802
00:38:14,559 --> 00:38:16,880
best for me one two punch in the country. But

803
00:38:17,039 --> 00:38:19,880
if you get to a game three, because we saw

804
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,920
in game seven of the regional right you start Zach Cowen,

805
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,480
but here comes Evans in and he strikes out nine

806
00:38:25,519 --> 00:38:26,039
straight guys.

807
00:38:26,079 --> 00:38:26,800
Speaker 5: He was electric.

808
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:29,320
Speaker 4: What do you think happens if you get to a

809
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,480
game three again, do you think it's going to be

810
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,360
the same situation because you know Cason Evans, maybe it's

811
00:38:34,599 --> 00:38:35,480
you know, he needs to.

812
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:36,079
Speaker 2: Come out of the bullpen.

813
00:38:36,159 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 4: Maybe that's the juice that he needs, whatever it might be,

814
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:41,679
even though he has starts against Tennessee, Arkansas and others.

815
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,719
Because Zach Cowen, although he started at another place, that

816
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,760
was his first start of the year for LSU, how

817
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:49,760
do you think game three would go right now if

818
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:50,800
you do in fact play one.

819
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:55,840
Speaker 3: Well, look, I mean LSU need Zach Cowen to be good.

820
00:38:56,039 --> 00:38:58,320
And if you go back and look earlier in the year, man,

821
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:00,079
this guy come out of the bullpen, was out that

822
00:39:00,159 --> 00:39:02,559
if you mentioned he was at Watford last year, got

823
00:39:02,599 --> 00:39:05,239
fifteen starts at Watford last year. That's how Jay Saul

824
00:39:06,119 --> 00:39:07,960
Calvin when you know they went to the Chapel Hill

825
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,159
Regional and Calhen was pitching for Watford and he talked

826
00:39:10,199 --> 00:39:13,239
him into coming over to LSU. Obviously he was really

827
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:14,960
good earlier in the year. He had scoffed a little

828
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:16,760
bit as a lake, but he's used to starting. If

829
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:18,280
you go back to last year, it was his first

830
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:20,199
start this year, but he started a ton his last

831
00:39:20,199 --> 00:39:22,760
two years prior to coming to LSU. But I think

832
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,639
that's gonna be your two guys. I mean, you know,

833
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:28,440
Evans is a guy that I think you could start him,

834
00:39:28,519 --> 00:39:30,079
or you could bring him out of the bullfit, whatever

835
00:39:30,119 --> 00:39:31,840
you think it's best. Now here's a wild part of that.

836
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,480
You guys know this. If there's a chance to close

837
00:39:34,519 --> 00:39:38,000
out in game one and our game two, Evans is

838
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,320
gonna beat the guy like he's the rover back in football, right.

839
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:42,800
I mean, he could do a little bit of everything,

840
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,480
and so if you need to close him out tomorrow night,

841
00:39:45,559 --> 00:39:47,360
he's gonna be your guy. He's gonna come close out

842
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:49,400
game one, or he could close out Game two, and

843
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,000
then you got to back up a punt and figure

844
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:52,679
out what you're gonna do. Having said that, if he

845
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:55,400
doesn't pitch him one or two, I could definitely see

846
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,280
a scenario where he is starting and Jay's not messing around.

847
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:00,679
He's starting Game three and then you have Calvin and

848
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:03,039
the boys behind him. But that's a concern for relusue

849
00:40:03,119 --> 00:40:04,599
right now. When you get to the back end that

850
00:40:04,639 --> 00:40:07,519
bullpen minus those two guys, you don't really know what

851
00:40:07,519 --> 00:40:09,559
you're gonna get. And that was on display, you know

852
00:40:09,599 --> 00:40:12,159
in Game one against Little Rock when LSU got beat.

853
00:40:12,199 --> 00:40:14,360
They walked eleven and eight of those eleven walks came

854
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,119
around the score. So that's a concern fail issue because

855
00:40:17,159 --> 00:40:19,480
you know, we talk about shore wars sometimes of William

856
00:40:19,519 --> 00:40:22,000
Schmidt and Rizzy and those young guys back there learning

857
00:40:22,599 --> 00:40:24,719
how to pitch back there if you get sideways from

858
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:26,039
time to time, and sometimes it does.

859
00:40:26,679 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 5: All right, Ben, we're talking about who's gonna be on

860
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:30,400
the mound and different strategies there. But let's talk about

861
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,280
who they're facing. We got West Virginia coming in game

862
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:36,079
start tomorrow. Kind of give us your breakdown of West

863
00:40:36,119 --> 00:40:39,239
Virginia and how they match up with the LSU pitchers

864
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:41,239
and the LSU LSU lineup.

865
00:40:42,159 --> 00:40:44,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, if you talk about West Virginia, you

866
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:46,760
can you know a team that really wasn't playing well.

867
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:50,440
I mean, they did rid the regular season Big twelve championship,

868
00:40:50,679 --> 00:40:54,880
and they did it back to back years as well,

869
00:40:55,039 --> 00:40:56,920
you know, and so they are a really good team.

870
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,800
Having said that, they struggled a little bit coming down

871
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:01,920
to I mean, they only won I think there were

872
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:04,239
four or nine to the last thirteen games. If I

873
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:06,760
look at their overall numbers, I was breaking down they

874
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:08,800
hit for a good batting average. They're right there with LSU,

875
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:10,480
right at three hundred, you know, and they do scot

876
00:41:10,519 --> 00:41:12,760
from runs right at eight runs per game, same as LSU.

877
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:15,199
The difference for them is it's more of a small

878
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:17,639
ball approach. They only got fifty five homers on the year.

879
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:20,440
L she was approaching one hundred home runs this year. Now,

880
00:41:20,639 --> 00:41:22,639
the one thing they do better than LSC, they're gonna

881
00:41:22,639 --> 00:41:24,800
press you up. They gotta over one hundred stolen basis,

882
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:26,559
so they're gonna get on. They're gonna run a little bit.

883
00:41:26,559 --> 00:41:29,440
And so if your Luis Hernandez whoever's catch it for LUs,

884
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:30,679
you could be air and bad. You got to be

885
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:32,519
ready to throw some guys out, because I think that's

886
00:41:32,519 --> 00:41:34,599
what West Virginia does best, is they get up and

887
00:41:34,639 --> 00:41:37,480
they go. And this is only their second Super Regional appearance,

888
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:39,159
and they've done it in back to back years. Now,

889
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:41,880
you know the Mountaineers, and so it's a team that's

890
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:44,559
not expected to come in here and win. I think

891
00:41:44,559 --> 00:41:47,119
that's dangerous. As you guys know, sometimes, like you like

892
00:41:47,159 --> 00:41:49,119
Little Rock, you know, when you don't have expectations that

893
00:41:49,159 --> 00:41:50,840
you're kind of free and easy, it opens you up

894
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:52,400
to be able to just go play the game and say, oh,

895
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:54,519
well we did our best wed and win. But those

896
00:41:54,519 --> 00:41:56,599
are the dangerous teams to me, you know, And so

897
00:41:57,119 --> 00:41:58,840
LSU will have their hands for if you look on

898
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,719
the mountain, they have a a couple of veteran guys

899
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:04,639
that's gonna pitch for them this weekend. This gripping Karen

900
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:06,800
is a kid that's a red shirt senior who's been

901
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:08,840
around a little bit. He's got over three hundred career

902
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:11,639
collegiate innings in he's a really good picture. I mean,

903
00:42:11,679 --> 00:42:13,920
he didn't win but five games that didn't score many runs,

904
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:16,519
but the era is outstanding and just a shade over three.

905
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:18,719
He can strike you out and got more strikeouts than

906
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,039
each pick. But he's a left hander, and look, left

907
00:42:21,039 --> 00:42:23,599
handers have given LSU problems this year, that's no doubt.

908
00:42:23,639 --> 00:42:25,320
You go look at the batting average and the runs

909
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:28,599
per game versus left these versus righting LSU not nearly

910
00:42:28,639 --> 00:42:31,519
as good versus left handed pitching. So that worries me

911
00:42:31,599 --> 00:42:35,440
in some ways. And then they're gonna face partsna the

912
00:42:35,559 --> 00:42:38,920
right hander who is older too. Now he's twenty four

913
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:40,880
years old and these guys are a little bit older,

914
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:43,000
and they got a lot of the experience under their belt,

915
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:44,760
so I don't think they're gonna be intimidated by the

916
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:47,239
environment and eleven or twelve thousand in the box when

917
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:49,480
you have those veteran guys on the mound, and that's

918
00:42:49,519 --> 00:42:53,599
what West Virginia has, and so it's gonna be interesting

919
00:42:53,679 --> 00:42:55,960
to see the small ball versus big ball. Now we

920
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:57,920
know at the box this time of year, anything could happen.

921
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:00,920
I mean, look, Little Rock came in with not many

922
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:02,719
homers them the year, and they hit seven of them,

923
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:04,679
you know, And so when the wind starts flowing out,

924
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:06,800
they can they can get a little bit sideways on

925
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:09,679
you from time to time. But LSU certainly should come

926
00:43:09,679 --> 00:43:11,559
out of this super regional, that's no doubt about that.

927
00:43:11,599 --> 00:43:13,599
But it will not be I feel like West Virginia

928
00:43:13,639 --> 00:43:14,840
is gonna give them everything they want.

929
00:43:15,519 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 4: All right, there is our guy, Ben McDonald, LSU legend

930
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,639
gonna be on the call for ESPN in the box

931
00:43:20,679 --> 00:43:24,840
starting tomorrow, LSU versus West Virginia for that super regional

932
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:26,119
to move on to Omaha.

933
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 2: Ben, you're the man. We appreciate your time and look

934
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:29,119
forward to the next conversation.

935
00:43:30,039 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 3: All right, appreciate you guys, take care all.

936
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:34,360
Speaker 4: Right, you as well again the great Ben McDonald. All right,

937
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:36,639
we will step away, wrap up our number one. When

938
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:40,519
we come back here on OTB off the bench. Are

939
00:43:40,519 --> 00:43:43,639
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941
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942
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not matter. If you have an emergency, they are the

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place to go. Flynn talked about tankless water heaters yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Man, I cannot tell you how clutch those are.

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Speaker 4: So y'all know me, got a lot of children, got

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a lot of sports going on, so we get home late. Well,

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once you get home, you gotta shower, You got to

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do the dishes still, you gotta wash the laundry, You

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gotta get everything ready for school the next morning. And

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if you don't have a tankless water heater, you gotta

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wait and do that, or you gotta shower with cold water,

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and nobody wants to do that.

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Speaker 2: So if you go tankless, you know what, you never

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do run out of hot water.

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Speaker 5: Ever. Ever, Hey, the other day last weekend, washing the

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dishes the night after dinner, all of a sudden, water

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starts spilling on my dishwasher that sucked, and I'm not

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very handy. So Central Plumber call them today two.

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Speaker 1: Five two, two thousand and seven. Shams purple and Gold

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to the core. This is Off the Bench with Hester

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and Flynn, Matt and Rouges go to for all things

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Louisiana sports spigger.

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Speaker 2: Speaker.

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Speaker 3: I love.

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Speaker 5: I love gold. I want to put that one in

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the skin box. It's a keeper, all right.

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Speaker 4: Short stake here. I mean again, we'll apologize, but you

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know what it is.

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Speaker 5: You know what it is like.

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Speaker 4: I played three years, Flynn played three years for less

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clock management.

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Speaker 2: Not a strong suit.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna get better, we want to.

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Speaker 4: He's absolute, man, I make no claims to be better,

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zero claims.

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Speaker 2: That was him. Uh if Ben McDonald's give me an

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answer on West Virginia, I'm all that big Ben Cook.

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Speaker 5: He did you see his video of him feeding his

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h his bass crawfish of SI. I wonder what like

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the biggest fish and he said he's at fifty five

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acre Lake, so he's probably got some big oldlunkers.

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Speaker 4: Fifty five acre Lake is a pretty bit. So is

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our number two of this show. Coming back to you?

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Speaker 2: O TV, Off the Bench, you say, big.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I didn't know. Boujos Electrical dot Com.

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Speaker 4: That is the website to go to to get your

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quote today for that free Generac quote, because the last

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thing that you want right now as storm season approaches

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is to be without power anywhere, honestly, but certainly in

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South Louisiana.

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Speaker 5: How much does that quote cost?

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Speaker 2: It's free free.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, hm f R e E. So why not like

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a why situation?

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Speaker 3: Do that?

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Speaker 2: Have that done?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, not just for your home. He had commercial for

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your business there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I mean if you got uh stuff, you want to

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protect that in your office at the house, if you

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want to keep your deer meat safe all summer long

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