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Speaker 1: Hour two of Off the Bench Live from the Raising
Kine Studio.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back to you. In hour number two,
have O TV here live from the Raising Kine Studio.
Jake Flynn, Alandre at tte Oh here with you on
this checks watch Thursday morning. Right there you go. We
spent the last segment talking about the New Orleans Saints
and a lot of people are mocking them to Jeremiah
Love running back out of Notre Dame. Now Notre Dame,
you know, obviously featured him, and he was a really
really good player and maybe the second best back in
this draft might also be from Notre Dame. So I
get the intrigue.
Speaker 2: Certainly do.
Speaker 3: I think he's a really good football player, But I
don't know that he's a really good football player for
the Saints right now here in this moment, and he
tore it up and Indy, no question about it, only
solidified all the thoughts that we had about him. But
he's gonna to start, He's going to be a really
good player. No doubt, but where you have needs, they
don't match up with a running back. And y'all know me,
I'm always gonna fight for the running back, but not
in this case because I think you can get somebody
in free agency that can help you. And if you
still want to pair them with Alvin Kamara, right, if
that's what you want to do, you can do that.
But you've even got younger backs on this team as
well that can give you something. But let's say, I
mean you can go get Kenneth Gainwell helps you, right,
that's somebody that's different than obviously.
Speaker 4: Ganwell was balling at the end, and like different, like
really good player, like you could not stop that guy,
like ganinning yards after he was hit. Explosiveness. Just vision
you playing really well. And there's a list of running backs.
Speaker 3: And Kenneth Gainwell is probably gonna cost you two point
nine million per year, So you can find some value
at that position because it's not so bad in your
current situation that you have to take one at eight.
I just don't feel that way about the running back
position for the New Orleans Saints. So I'm a little
surprised that people continue to mock a running back to them.
I think a playmaker. Absolutely, you need a playmaker right now.
But when I look at this roster, this is guys
that are either like under contractor coming back. This isn't
guys that are your free agents, that are unrestricted free
agents that could sign back with you.
Speaker 2: I'm just talking about what you have right now.
Speaker 3: Like I look at the running back room, and it's Aka,
it's Andre Miller, it's Devin neil idrig Estime. You got
bodies there, okay, and capable ones when I go and
I do the same thing. At receiver for the Saints,
it's Chris Olave, It's Vele It's Mason Tipton, It's Kevin
Austin Junior, It's Bob Means, it's Ronnie Bell, It's Jalen
Polk and Trey Palmer and Dante Pettish Steep. So which
one of those needs more help and which one is
going to be more impactful?
Speaker 2: It's the receiver room.
Speaker 3: Now. If you don't love any of these receivers at eight, okay,
you could, dude, like we talk about, you could trade back,
get in the teens and still select a receiver. You
could select one, certainly at forty two and still get
a good play or maybe maybe go tight end getting
Sadik out of Oregon right because your tight end room
right now with Juwan Johnson. We don't know what Taysom
Hill's gonna do. We don't know where falseham Moro is
going to be. Obviously, like Whiz Contract, that's a playmaker
now even at eight. And now it's like, but I
like that more at eight than I like a running
back at eight. We were talking about a tight end
that was the no doubt, without question, top tight end
in his class. And then he goes out there and
runs a four three nine benches two twenty five twenty
six times, which that's important for him being a two
forty guy.
Speaker 4: I hear the thought there. I cannot get behind it.
I'd rather Jeremiah Love than a tight end of eight.
And you know, I'm a big running back hater, but
I'm still not taking tight end. Like we talked about.
It was Monday, it was the last first round, or
at least like top of the first round.
Speaker 2: Tight end. Goup Hits is one that six out of
my mind. I took him five years to get gone.
I think the the other we mentioned was Vernon Davis. Yeah,
pretty good, actually awesome.
Speaker 4: To your point, it's two guys, two guys, like I mean,
you just it's not a physician that you selecting top
ten very often, Yeah, it's not, but like you better
be sure, that'll be real sure. But like if you're
taking I would rather Jeremia love that what some people
just like you said, I think is a top.
Speaker 2: Prospect of the draft, if you're going to do right.
I don't like either one of them at eight.
Speaker 4: I'll be honest. I don't like either one of them. No,
I don't at all. I don't like I don't like
picking an eight this draft for the needs that you have.
So I'm like a broken record on the trade back,
trade back, trade back, like I don't for the needs
that you have and you want. I don't like the
eighth pick. It's valuable though you talked about the who's
the linebacker you talked about recently, Sunny Styles. You talk
about Sonny Styles about.
Speaker 2: How like he might be pull my hamstring might be
to the commissioner. He also might be the best prospect
in this entire draft.
Speaker 3: I think he is the best.
Speaker 4: If you have two guys that some people think in
some views and in some camps.
Speaker 2: It's the best.
Speaker 4: Prospect Jeremiah Love Sonny Stott, Like. If you have those
two guys there, like, that's a valuable in set to have.
Speaker 3: If you have Jeremiah Love and Sunny Styles available and
you go Jeremiah Love, it's the wrong move. And it's
Bourline agregious. If you take either one of them, it's
the wrong move. I take Sony Styles at eight, now,
oh I would.
Speaker 2: Okay, I could get behind that more, I guess.
Speaker 3: But Sony Styles is somebody that can play on every level.
Speaker 4: I know, but it goes against everything that we've been
saying about. You got your quarterback.
Speaker 3: If Sony Stouts has edge rusher ability too, and so
Tomorio Davis isn't gonna be in the middle of that defense,
I can make a case for that easy. If tomorrow
Davis is in there, Okay, Sony Style's there, he's got
a green down on the back of his helmet and
he's gonna get everybody ready to go. He just played
in Matt Patricia's offense in Ohio State, which is a
very difficult defense, a lot of complexity to it, NFL guy,
and he had the green out for a reason. I
can get behind that, I can make a case for that.
I can't really make a case for jeremih Love right now.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying, if either one of those and in
some camps both of those players are the most could
be the best prospect in the entire draft, including Fernando Mendoza,
then you have a valuable asset to trade at eight.
Somebody that's picking in the late teens in the twenties
is also going to.
Speaker 3: It's a smart move.
Speaker 4: But if you are forced to pick one, yes, I'm
with you. Take the linebacker that could be a Day one,
huge impact at multiple levels of your defense.
Speaker 3: Could we see the Saints get the receiver in free
agency and not the draft. We've talked about this receiver class, right,
Jordan Tyson hamstring guy soft Tissued don't love it, love
him as a player, Don't love that Carnel Tate. I
don't love the fact that he's ever been the guy.
Like we go on and on and on. I actually,
for the Saints, I wish you could trade back, get
some picks and select Omar Cooper out of Indiana somewhere
in the late twenties. I mean, that guy is awesome.
That guy's gonna play for a long time. That's not
their history, it's not what they do. What about free agency?
Some of the top guys. You got Juwan Jennings, you
got Alec Pierce, you got one, Delle Robinson, Deebo, Samuel
Tyreek Hill, Rashid Shaheed who obviously you know very well,
Mike Evans, Romeo Dobbs, Keenan Allen, Hollywood Brown, Christian Kirk
that's your tipe receivers. Is there anything in there that
can make you sign a veteran player out of that group?
We just talked about the running back group from free agency.
Speaker 2: What about the receivers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean there's some there's some good players, some
great players on this list. You just named a lot
of them, and I was trying, I'm going down the
list here.
Speaker 2: Like you said, I like the Christian Kirk move. You
took the page Jawan a lot, but j want Jennings stud.
Speaker 3: Juwan's going to on the market. The value right now
is twenty two per Heiris is twenty per one. Delle
Robinson seventeen. The belief for Christian Kirks, he's gonna get five.
Speaker 2: Y'all might laugh at this a little bit.
Speaker 4: They also have a free agent out there that could
you could get for cheap and Hunter Renfro I.
Speaker 5: Was just about to say that Hunter Renfro was still
right there too.
Speaker 4: You might get some laughs out there. But do you
remember the it was a podcast where I think it
was Durwin James was.
Speaker 2: It was he was naming the.
Speaker 3: It was with Ryan receivers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like he was some of the top five dogs
wide receiver and he listed.
Speaker 3: He said it and then like all these all the
guys in the podcast are like laughing record scratch and
he had like a straight face.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: He was like he's like, go watch film, Like have
you ever watched film on him? And you tell me
what you see. Yeah, he's I don't stereotype it because
that guy is a dog, So I mean you can
get him. I think it's According to this website.
Speaker 3: They played in six games last year, fifteen catches, twenty
six targets.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what about Wandell Robinson Jake, Like a lot of
people will say, oh, well the Giants had a bad offense.
All they have some elite neighbors. Wandell Robinson at a
thousand yards receiving last year. Yeah, and the year before that,
he had seven hundred and that was a really bad offense.
Speaker 2: Daniel Jones.
Speaker 6: They had traded him mid season. He wasn't good at all.
They weren't good at all after they traded Daniel Jones,
like Wandell Robinson seventeen hundred yards eight touchdowns in the
last two years in a Giants offense that hasn't been great.
Speaker 5: Do you hear me out? Okay, I was gonna say,
hear me out.
Speaker 7: Free agent out there that you might can get for
a good price, Alec Pearce, And I actually think that
he's I mean, he had a thousand receiving yards this
past season.
Speaker 3: Peers per is great. Yeah, I love Pierce. He's going
to cost you about twenty.
Speaker 6: That's the thing when you when you brought him up
a minute ago, Like if A. J. Brown is released,
he's obviously going to be the number one guy right now,
kind of like Juwan Jennings. Great players, big body guys,
great in this offense. How much do you want to
pay because you're gonna pay Chris and Lave.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Nicole, how much do you want to pay everything?
Speaker 5: I guess twenty.
Speaker 4: Wanda Robinson, he's like they're projecting him at least seven seventeen.
Speaker 5: But I think like you would really help alave.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 6: People people crap on him because he's had hit or years.
May imagine he's had hit or miss seasons, but he's
also had hit or miss quarterbacks. I've always like Christian Kirk.
He can play inside, he can play outside. He's hovers
around six feet tall. I mean his looks like five
point three million is his market value right now. And
you need help in the slot because if you put
him in the slot Veyle worked out on the other side,
you could be versatile with a guy like Christian Kirk.
He's a guy always liked.
Speaker 2: I can I interest you in Rashid Shahed? You actually can't,
And I'm back home. I'm coming home because it doesn't look.
Speaker 5: Like he's gonna Everyone knows I was a sh truther.
Speaker 4: So yeah, market value for Rashid shahied sitting at fourteen MILLI.
Speaker 6: I love Shahed in your offense, He's probably a three.
That was always my biggest complaint about Shed a great returner.
I think you had a three playing a two.
Speaker 3: Oh, I disagree with that. I think he at times
was played more like a one.
Speaker 5: Then that's what I think that's the opinion.
Speaker 2: I had to know he was great with the deep balls.
Rashid like Rashid Rashid.
Speaker 7: Yeah, why am I tripping out Rashid Shahed God, I.
Speaker 5: Just short circuited.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I thought that he'd played like a one like
for Seattle.
Speaker 3: To your point, Seattle, that that's how they used him.
I really liked rashikha heat in New Orleans.
Speaker 5: Me too.
Speaker 6: He was he was great and at times he would
come up with big time games. At times he would
have one catch for twelve yards. I mean he was
He was a hit or miss guy. And I love Shaheed,
But do you pay fifteen million dollars for him?
Speaker 2: Because that's probably what he's gonna get.
Speaker 5: Say the same for a sure.
Speaker 3: Okay, did Rashiki he how many? How much time did
he get with Tyler Shack?
Speaker 2: I'm trying to go.
Speaker 5: One maybe like one game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't d have to running back at eight he
moved back.
Speaker 2: Select the receiver in the teams.
Speaker 3: You'll get a good one, a couple of them, get
a pick, get a pick somewhere before you're forty two,
where you're at in the second round.
Speaker 2: How good would you feel if you trade it back to.
Speaker 3: Twelve with the Cowboys because they moved to eight to
take Monsoeur.
Speaker 2: Delaine before the Chiefs do it nine.
Speaker 3: Okay, so the Cowboys move up to eight, you get twelve,
and then you get their second round pick.
Speaker 2: Chiefs aren't taking Jeremiah Love.
Speaker 3: Well, they just traded Trent McDuffie yesterday, so they got
they gotta need at corner too.
Speaker 2: Cowboys have two first round picks.
Speaker 3: You get twelve, they get eight, and then you get
their second, their third, and a lot and you change
your roster and you still get the position that you wanted.
Speaker 4: Receiver. I love it. I'll trade back further. Take that twelve,
Please make back to twenty. Please make it trade to twelve,
then trade that twelve to twenty, trade that twenty back
to twenty five.
Speaker 2: Well you'd be stacked. What do you, Bill Belichick?
Speaker 3: Yeah, keep trading back.
Speaker 2: They won a few they have to go.
Speaker 8: Well, Tyler, shuck, shuck if you buck, you can hearing
to Tom Brady, wo yep, sure did said better. I
bring in Hunter Renfro.
Speaker 2: There's your West.
Speaker 3: Well, there you go. We just did it right. I
like Hunter Renfro a lot, I really do.
Speaker 4: But there's clear is that clear and obvious comparison, Jake.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're tiny and white.
Speaker 2: Yep, that's about it.
Speaker 6: But look, you can get it for league minimum. I
mean you could, I mean why not. It was just
a little weird that he never does with anybody's.
Speaker 3: Better than Tipton. Well, yeah, who's the fourth receiver, Mason.
I get talked about every training camp Tipton.
Speaker 5: M Yeah. And then during the season.
Speaker 3: There was one point I banned t Bob from Sayd's name, and.
Speaker 2: I will say, it's training camp.
Speaker 5: Start you go to the.
Speaker 3: Free agent don't.
Speaker 4: Let's just put like to put a bow on this
conversation about free agent wide receivers. We talked about this
a couple of weeks ago about how like forever New
Orleans Saints, you ain't getting anybody good in free agency
because nobody wants to come play for the Saints when
it's not going well. Nobody wants to come in the
post Drew Breeze era, and with with not really knowing
who the coach is played for, Dennis out like it's
not a it was not a desirable destination. Well, now
you can make an argument that it is desirable for
certain positions, and yeah.
Speaker 2: Wide receiver.
Speaker 4: I believe should be one of them because of what
Tyler Shuck has done.
Speaker 3: And you have a young.
Speaker 4: Head coach, very offensive mind, very offensive mind going to
his second year, has proven to be successful and have
successful receivers and quarterbacks and offenses wherever he's been. So like,
I think that you do, like for the first time
probably in a while, you have a desirable location. Like
and I don't mean that as a like I'm not
trying to take a knock on the anything with the organization,
but like it's not ever a free agent lane, like
you're like, oh, yeah, I'm dying to go there.
Speaker 2: Like it's not.
Speaker 4: It's just not And I hate to say that, and
if you didn't know that, I'm sorry, but like free
agents aren't like, oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, New Orleans, That's where I want to go. No,
that's not how it usually is.
Speaker 4: But I think right now you can make the argument
that it is it is starting could be, for at
least certain positions, a desirable location.
Speaker 3: It was I think it was when Sean Payton and
Drew Brees were rolling. Yeah, certain costs of living and
the passion of the fan like all that did play
into it. I mean, I had teammates that went from
Sprosey when he went from US to New Orleans, like
that was a lot. And then it went away in
a big way because of Dennis Allen and the way
the franchise was going, and it just didn't look very
fun no way for the New Orleans.
Speaker 4: I mean, Drew Buries just got into the Hall of Fame.
So's it's been five years, so like it's half a decade.
That's how numbers work.
Speaker 2: Got it.
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Like if I you if I know if I point
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, zoom in on my hand please? Yeah?
Right there.
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen a cough button that if you
truly coughed on it, that might be the last step?
Speaker 4: It might Actually, this is actually when my microphone is
plugged in, and I told him Matt before the show,
is like, don't don't touch it.
Speaker 2: If I microphone is literally plugged into that.
Speaker 4: So this cough button, I see, if it works, push it?
Speaker 3: Okay, that works.
Speaker 4: So we push this button if we have to cough
or make any other noises, like when I take a
big sip of coffee. Button And usually it's just a
nice little click. Now, I guess it's a two handed thing.
I gotta hold this, make sure I don't electricute my
left hand.
Speaker 2: I'll push the other way.
Speaker 5: Well, I don't.
Speaker 7: Think you'd electrocute yourself. But well, I mean yeah, I
think you're fine.
Speaker 2: Jake, hold up your look, mister Heusters isn't much better?
Oh look it's yeah, don't pick it up.
Speaker 3: Look.
Speaker 6: The only reason Jakes is together is because no one
touches that one. That one true, That one's messed up.
Speaker 2: Too cool good.
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I learned yesterday.
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Speaker 5: Though, push one.
Speaker 3: And I'm curiously I have heard that again this could
have been our old engineer just saying it. So we
didn't just sit up here and like hit the button.
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quick here, let me get it right, I can put
his back on.
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Speaker 2: There's no way do it last segment.
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our sponsors that I know I got to tell our
great listeners about, I would hit it.
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the greatest of all time. Like there's a big red
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think like the we're gonna.
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Speaker 3: Because we've heard bad things.
Speaker 2: We've heard bad things will happen. We've heard bad things though,
rum I don't I don't know if anything will happen.
Speaker 5: I don't think any.
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Speaker 3: It could be a boat behind the door, you know,
it could be.
Speaker 4: A nuke, could even be Michael Parsons. Michael, we're gonna
trade May Parsons for a first round pick. Who knows
we could even get at Michael Parson's that first ye
That dude, dude the other day struck a nerve with me.
It was about two weeks ago. You started talking to
you freaking Jerry. Come on, He's like, jeer bear.
Speaker 6: He's like, well, you know we got Kitty Clark and
we got all these other guys on defense.
Speaker 2: He's like, really, we're a pass rusher away. It was like, Jerry,
you had a top three pass rusher, buddy. Yeah, I
will give Jerry some credit.
Speaker 3: They were what thirty six million dollars over the cap,
and now they have nine million to spend just by
making three moves, including Dak Prescott and Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 4: Also helps the NFL raises the salary cap by like
thirty million this year.
Speaker 2: That helps.
Speaker 3: That helped, but also to clear forty million dollars and
three moves is pretty impressive when you got deep pockets
and you just guarantee it and you just just a
flick of the.
Speaker 2: In signing bonus. Yeah, guaranteed money.
Speaker 3: I'll take one of those, but I'll make two million
base salary if you give me that thirty million dollars's.
Speaker 4: Right, sure, Hey guarantee. We're trying to make some with
the salary cap right now.
Speaker 3: The teams that are over the salary cap the Miami
Dolphins at one point six over the Colts four point seven,
the Packers at five, the Lions at six point five,
the Bears at seven point four, the Texans at seven
point nine, the Bills at eight point two, the Saints
at eleven point six, the Jaguiles at sixteen point nine,
the Browns at seventeen point one, and the Vikings.
Speaker 2: Forty six point six. They reel over. Does that even
mean anything? Now?
Speaker 3: I mean no, you can get I mean you can
get under, but you gotta be creative, like you gotta
make it happen.
Speaker 2: It matters in like big free agents.
Speaker 4: That's some kind at GM at least just ask chat
GPT these days, Like what I need to do with
my roster.
Speaker 3: You can get under, but I think it does handcuff
you from signing like Mark he free agents and a
bunch of them. Like if I'm the Browns and I
suck and I'm seventeen over the cap, I don't love that.
I mean, the Vikings have a good roster, so they
can get creative and how they move some of their
money around. And He'll be okay because the roster is
still good. They'll have to get rid of some players,
but they still have enough good players to be able
to be competitive.
Speaker 2: The Browns don't have that, certainly on offense. Bad Man.
Speaker 4: Speaking of the Vikings, I know we've been really heavy
NFL talk today, but I know what about nine any?
Speaker 2: Does he have any trade value?
Speaker 3: Nine nine?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 3: JJ doesn't?
Speaker 2: Nine nine? Yeah? Was that true? Is that a true report?
Speaker 4: Because I saw the report earlier this week and maybe
wouldn't report, maybe just a post, but it was like
from an official source that said that.
Speaker 2: They're moving on from JJ McCarthy. But what does that mean?
Speaker 3: Really?
Speaker 4: Like they're they're open to the idea of bringing somebody
else and to compete with him.
Speaker 3: I think that's what it means. It's not his job.
Speaker 4: He doesn't have the nobodies right, Like, he's got to
compete if he's gonna if it's gonna be his.
Speaker 3: He's got to go win it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean there was even a report at the combine
that they were interested in Anthony Richardson. I remember that
that clip surfaced of KOC Kevin O'Connell talking to Anthony
Richardson afterwards the game that they played. It's like, Hey,
you're still gonna be a good player in this league,
keep your head up, You're incredibly talented, blah blah blah
blah blah, and so maybe he has an Infinity four
Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 2: No way, Dan Campbell's not pushing that. I'm Dan Campbell.
I'm begging Kevin O'Connell to sign Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: The Rams hate draft picks.
Speaker 6: We already talked about those bring and JJ McCarthy let
him learn it during Matt Stafford.
Speaker 3: But Sean mcn they're going to take gary ness Smeyer
in the draft, Nowork they should?
Speaker 2: The Rams are? They should? They are?
Speaker 4: For four years, I've been comparing Dar's style of play
to the way that Stafford played in college. I'm not
comparing the two. I'm turned up the style of play.
Speaker 3: I actually feel confident that that is a real likelihood.
Speaker 2: They love him. It makes sense, That makes a lot
of sense. Yeah, they so good.
Speaker 3: They also say never meet your heroes. Well, I met
Dan Campbell, love that guy. That guy was awesome.
Speaker 2: Ever he got lucky, then he was right.
Speaker 6: It could have been Anthony Mackie could.
Speaker 3: And somebody wrote me on Instagram, let me see if
I can get this guy's I don't want to get
like the full name. Let me see if I can
get it here social shout out to Patrick, Oh, I
actually know that is He talked about meeting Anthony Mackie
in a New Orleans bar and told him how much
he loved Captain America and how much he like he
loved that Captain America was from Louisiana and loved how
Lsu got name dropped in the series and said it
was good interaction.
Speaker 5: Well, he had a very normal interaction with Jordan's.
Speaker 7: I don't know like what Jordan's tripping about.
Speaker 3: I mean to like slander that man's name like Jordan
did before. The story is wild water.
Speaker 7: To Anthony Mackie and say, you need to see this man.
He lives in a country club.
Speaker 5: It's fine to me, he did.
Speaker 2: He said, I'll okay, but it was Tuesday hour two.
Speaker 3: Send it to me. I'm so Anthony.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So why are you being We had a coworker
say this about you.
Speaker 5: We all defended.
Speaker 2: Why don't you why didn't you stay? Stay there for
the follow up question even though you didn't know there was.
Speaker 3: Like people like around Jordan's circle here that like Anthony
Mackie is a bad person, and then that spreads, that spreads,
and it spreads right, And so that interaction that was
completely overblown and had no justification to it. Is how
things like that get out the.
Speaker 5: Normal interaction that he had with him.
Speaker 6: I was giving him a hard time during break after that,
and he's like, well I knew.
Speaker 2: I knew he was going to go that way. People
in the bar told me he was a jerk. I
was like, okay, So you had.
Speaker 6: A preconceived notion and you were looking for some reason
to confirm and you asked.
Speaker 3: For a bad question.
Speaker 2: You look like the Marvel movies.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like what man.
Speaker 2: Love to Marvel? Like like like what you did with him?
Speaker 3: Oh man?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Like this guy, like Patrick said, man, I love that
Captain Americas from Louisiana five beer.
Speaker 2: I haven't sent to him.
Speaker 7: Respect whatever Anthony Mackie Beer, what I do?
Speaker 2: I go for this responsibly do it?
Speaker 5: I would go for with Anthony.
Speaker 6: Anthony McKey carried his team and crossover to so respect
to him for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he lost the rat battle to be rabbit, he did,
but it's okay.
Speaker 2: He was hooping though.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do feel like Anthony Mackie spends a decent
amount of time in New Orleans.
Speaker 2: Bars. That's two stories true. The only two stories Bars.
Speaker 6: Country pro right must be the boogie on the taco
bells around Overspoon Bar.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I really won't try to get Anthony mackey on
the ship. Jordan's on. We got to bring Jordans in
for that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, studio, you're gonna kick me off.
Speaker 2: For the good guests, We'll bring him in.
Speaker 6: They do like the shame They do the explain this tweet.
We just play the audio clip a Jordan and be like, Jordan,
can you explain this please? We have Anthony Makey on
the phone.
Speaker 7: Not even tell him that Anthony is on the phone,
play the tlip and be like, would you like to
explain this, and then bring Anthony Matt and be like, Anthony,
what do you think about this?
Speaker 5: And bring Anthony Jordan.
Speaker 2: Anthony has actually been listening in this entire time.
Speaker 5: I like, I'm calling him Anthony, like we're on a
first name basis.
Speaker 2: He goes by Tony for this close to him.
Speaker 6: That's right, So we're gonna call him Tony May.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that's so good. Get him in studio,
bring the shield. You don't live far from here.
Speaker 7: The real person in New Orleans bars that I want
to hang out with this child above.
Speaker 5: Mmm, I want a party with him.
Speaker 3: Might not be there for a long time, but he's
there for a good time. Yeah, tell you that.
Speaker 2: M mhm.
Speaker 3: Strange fella. I was like, I wouldn't say strange, I'd
say interesting. Strange a negative way to put that, say
an interesting fella?
Speaker 2: Mmm, okay, sure whatever, I think this means the same thing.
Speaker 5: No, what's a nicer way to put it.
Speaker 2: The name of the show is stranger things, not interesting things.
Speaker 5: But it could be interesting.
Speaker 4: It could be that's not the same thing. Such a
bad That's the first thing that popped in my head.
Speaker 3: Strange.
Speaker 2: It was a terrible argument.
Speaker 4: I knew it in my head when I said it,
but i'd said it with conviction.
Speaker 3: You did?
Speaker 2: You said it with your Yeah you did. Would you
say full throated that what you call it? Fully throated endorsement? Yeah?
That was a tea bob ism. Sure, all right, Well
leave it at that before we go to break such
a bad example.
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Speaker 1: Off the Bench two thousand and seven, Champs Purple and
Gold to the Core. This is Off the Bench with
Hester and Flynn Baton, Rouge's go to for all things
Louisiana sports.
Speaker 2: You're laughing at those people of the chat share with
the class.
Speaker 4: No, No, I can't, I can't about radio. Hey, if
you're listening though out there tuned in, of course not
if you're driving. You're just sitting at the opposite at
the house. Join us on YouTube that checks out, come
interact with us. We see I'm not gonna say we
see all of the posts. You see most of them.
We see a lot of them. Wonder and ta, they
got a pretty good finger on the pulse of this thing.
I drift in and out.
Speaker 5: That's just generally, Yeah, that's radio.
Speaker 6: Feel like I drifted in and out of conversations and
the chat and the show.
Speaker 2: And I don't drift in it out. Hydration though it
drinks drinking my head.
Speaker 5: I come so Rivers sent me this sweet.
Speaker 7: I think I found out why it's coming to me
now why LSU baseball is dropping these games. People were
saying that they'll sacrifice the baseball season to higher Lane Kiffin.
Remember I do remember when the hiring cycle was happening.
This this is on everybody that said that they were
going to sacrifice baseball season.
Speaker 5: And Lane keivin better win.
Speaker 7: If this is true, we were still early in the season.
So we'll see what ends up happening. If we sacrifice
the baseball season for Lane Kiffin and he doesn't make
the college football Playoff. I am rioting because LSU baseball
is everything to me, and I know football is everything
to most people. But if we sacrificed for Lane, he
doesn't make the college football Playoff.
Speaker 6: Okay, now, obviously this is hyperbole, but just this season,
right as far as the sacrifice.
Speaker 5: This tweet that I was since says this season.
Speaker 6: Yea, okay, Well, I mean even if LA doesn't win
year one, if Lane eventually wins and baseball just keeps
going good after this season, it's worth it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: As fans, we deal in a lot of hyperboles, right,
we say so many emotional things, Like I think even
last year during the run, it's like, man, if we
could win a national championship, sacrifice, We'll sacrifice next year
season whatever, like win now situation. And we looked at
it like in twenty nineteen we won the national championship. Well,
the next year was bad, but it's like that's okay,
we sacrifice this year because we won last year. Yeah,
we're talking a lot of hyperboles, but when it comes
down to it, we don't really mean it.
Speaker 7: Again, like during the Arkansas game, Yeah, I was like, bro,
I will sacrifice the football season, does Arkansas win?
Speaker 3: And there you go.
Speaker 5: Let me, what goes around comes around.
Speaker 3: Let's what Justin said.
Speaker 2: How much would we have to sacrifice for basketball to
be good?
Speaker 5: We would have to sacrifice.
Speaker 2: Of every sport? Oh boy, there's nothing. All right?
Speaker 4: So last week we baseball loses McNeese, Okay, cool, mid
week whatever. This week we'll win three games in a row,
but don't hit well Pitcheon's good. But then lose the Northeastern. Okay, fine,
it was a fo Monday.
Speaker 5: Yeah, whatever, you had just beat them.
Speaker 4: It's fine, Like we get it, take the day, take
the night off kids. Oh well, last night lose the Lafayette.
That's three of the last six. How do we feeling?
How we feeling out?
Speaker 2: Still? Man? Still whatever? To get it? Rid?
Speaker 5: I do too.
Speaker 7: And also we were kind of talking about this a
little bit before the show, how like it really is
just the mid weeks, like they're still winning on the weekends,
and it goes to like the bullpen can't find a
we were talking about this, can't really find a midweek
starter that's gonna.
Speaker 6: Get you where you need to be, right, you started,
Gavin Gidrey last night, that's your best midweek.
Speaker 2: Reliever, I mean no weekend reliever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's a different mindset. I mean we've seen
that all the time. Think about the most elite closers
in Major League Baseball. Look come in the eighth inning
and just suck. Yeah, it's like what changed. It's like
that guy's a ninth inning guy. It's like it happens
all the time. So I was surprised to see Gavin
Gidrick get the start there. Maybe you're seeing me. I
mean he was pitching so well. His pitch hadn't given
up a walk in nine innings, hadn't given up a run.
So you're like, hey, that to say that this guy
has to be in that role to see what he
has and but it goes as well for him.
Speaker 2: Obviously.
Speaker 6: You could see the fan reaction like it was on
Twitter last night. You've seen it in the chat and
every show. It's like people want to freak out, but
I think they don't want to be proven wrong again
by Jay Johnson. You could feel it right like they
didn't want to freak out bad, but they're not doing
it yet.
Speaker 4: What's interesting is like I brought up the question and
y'all just kept going to well, it's the midweek pitching.
It's the midwek pitching well, patting to ten no last
six games, So it's not the pitching. I'm like, it's
were seven they scored three in the first inning yesterday,
then you give it for the rest of the game.
It's not an insurmountable amount of runs to overcome if
you're getting close to touching the ball. Like it wasn't
eleven strikeouts. I think we had we sun got eleven
times last night.
Speaker 2: Even the Northeastern game.
Speaker 6: We were talking about it the other day, Like if
you didn't watch the Northeastern game, you're like, oh, they
lost thirteen to ten. You know they hit a home
run later whatever, it was eleven to one in the
fifth inning of that game. You didn't hit in that
game until the very end.
Speaker 7: So because you had asked me to look at the
last six games, right, So all these numbers are from
the last six games aside for like Northeastern really was
the outlier. You gave up thirteen runs in that game,
but aside from that, the other five games you allowed
seventeen runs. Right, So like on average three and a
half runs per game, Right, that's pretty strong pitching. If
you like, if you're so to your point, if your
offense is backing you up, that is good pitching that
you can. But it does fall off in the midweek
where you kind of dig yourself into a hole that
when your offense is cold, you can't dig.
Speaker 5: Yourself out of it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but you're getting like ten strikeouts a game, like
had ten versus Northeastern William Schmidt had nine versus Dartmouth.
Speaker 2: Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Dartmouth.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Kate and says Dartmouth Maverick Rizzley came in yesterday
and was throwing fantastic.
Speaker 2: He gave up four, he gave up, he gave up
a run.
Speaker 4: But like he he had he had some sort of
yet he kept throwing it in a while, but like
it's something you get cleaned up control.
Speaker 2: It wasn't like they could. It wasn't like they were
teen off. I thought.
Speaker 4: I thought he pitched really well. I thought he was,
I mean even nominated on the mat, except for the
wild Like this one pitch he just couldn't get right.
He kept throwing it.
Speaker 2: Like jab was saying, he had four strikeouts. Yeah, yeah,
ain'ting in a third right, four strikeouts.
Speaker 4: Something like that, but and he gave up a run,
which is one of the seven rounds, like just because
of one pitch and ConTroll it just I think three.
I thought I saw at least three or four wild
pitches that went to the same spot like way low
and left.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I like that batting average with the ball and
play stat I feel like that tells a bigger story
than what everything else does.
Speaker 3: And again, we'll hope at some point today to catch
up with LSU head baseball coach Jay Johnson. We'll go
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Speaker 1: The bench, from the locker room to the airwaves. It's
off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: All right, Welcome back in OTV. According to Peyton Malone
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