Speaker 1: Off the Bench with to Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Let's go, Let's go from a championship backfield to your
morning drive.
Speaker 2: Ham'sday. Hester and Hester got it?
Speaker 3: Faa pa, You're.
Speaker 4: Locked in to Off the Bench. Filer's Brad control the
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Speaker 1: Here's Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: You and welcome in.
Speaker 5: Off just the start right here Thursday Morning, Off the
Bench Live from the Raising Kine Studio. Flynn, Ladra take
takin in the house this morning. Good morning. We hope
everybody's having a great day. Great morning. We're always thankful
for another day we get to pet our feet on
the ground and attack the world.
Speaker 6: You are ready to roll always.
Speaker 3: I'm actually ready to roll today roll.
Speaker 5: Hey, y'all.
Speaker 7: Naturely you sound surprised. I'm tired this week? What I've
been I've been a little tired this week, but we're good.
What was your was you saying yesterday? You woke up
bright eyed and bushy tail as me today?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 3: I'm you from a day ago?
Speaker 5: Deal?
Speaker 2: Mm hm?
Speaker 5: That was a good yo too. Proud of the strong
We bounced back a little Tuesday. Whoopsie do on the
yo Caine, what's up? How are we doing? Caine was
was under the table, not under this table. The yeah,
I know, the producer, Well, that's close for comfort, a
little too close for comfort. She brought it home.
Speaker 8: Her ears messed up.
Speaker 5: I know I did. The room was empty because I
got here, put my stuff down, walked down the hall
for a little bit, came back, ears whipped. I don't know.
People are talking. How's everybody doing this morning? Taylor? You
said your bright eyed, bushy tailed, but you said you've
had a bad week. It's weird. You've hit it well though.
Speaker 3: No, I just I've been tired this week.
Speaker 5: Why.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Man here, it's.
Speaker 5: One of them weeks, man, But maybe because it's a
morning show and you gotta wake up early.
Speaker 3: That that's my contribute.
Speaker 5: Is it different this week than it is any other week?
Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit. I don't know why.
Speaker 5: It was just all right, a.
Speaker 3: Little lethargic waking up.
Speaker 5: What are the what's been your energy drink of choice
this week? Well?
Speaker 3: You know me, I like to mix it up, okay,
I mean.
Speaker 5: Sure, yeah, you got to keep the body guessing.
Speaker 7: Yesterday we the Vanilla Berry like winter edition red Bull.
Speaker 5: That was yesterday today vanilla berry.
Speaker 3: It's good.
Speaker 5: That sounds terrible.
Speaker 3: It's not.
Speaker 7: I agree, it sounds bad, no question about it. Today
we went we went straight up just just orange monster,
this orange, this good little orange in the morning.
Speaker 3: So we mix it up every day, all right?
Speaker 5: Is there is there a brand or a flavor besides
vanilla berry that you kind of go to more often?
Speaker 7: So the winter version Red Bull puts out a different
winter every year. They put out to this year because
they brought vanilla berry back from a year ago. It's
like a cinnamon apple that they put out for this year.
Speaker 5: It's good. Gross, dude, do you like you like all
like the seasonal bruise?
Speaker 3: Normally?
Speaker 7: No, But I was telling you I had a sam
Adams winter ye over the weekend. That's what it's called.
I said, do you have any sam Adams because that
wanted a while. She goes, yeah, we have this bring it.
I was like, okay, cool, And it was a winter
and it was actually pretty good.
Speaker 5: Okay, good for you. Well there it checks out.
Speaker 6: The vanilla berry Red Bull is so good. Last year.
I think last year it was the first time it
came out, or maybe the year before. I don't remember
but one year, I think it was last year, people
couldn't find it anywhere because it was so in high demand.
Speaker 5: The vanilla berry sugar free. Who do you think put
those things together?
Speaker 8: I don't know, but they're great.
Speaker 3: It's yesterday vanilla. That's that's what I had yesterday.
Speaker 5: Yeah, just with a hint to berry.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I would say it's more vanilla than berry.
Speaker 5: So is this something that I need to think about
for my.
Speaker 8: High what vanilla berry?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Maybe it could work.
Speaker 5: It's got to be done well though.
Speaker 8: Yeah, like maybe we got a.
Speaker 7: Pretty high flavor when I get a sugar free, so
you can still make like a healthier version of it,
so it didn't have to be like artificial or everything
like that.
Speaker 5: How many milligrams cafe we rocking in one of those cans?
Not enough?
Speaker 7: You'll be surprised to hear this. I'm not a nutrition
label reader. Sure here, I have no idea.
Speaker 3: I cannot.
Speaker 5: You just looks like there's monster scratches on the front. Yeah,
just gets you hyped.
Speaker 6: Jack, I'm gonna get me possessed.
Speaker 3: I'm the little like ten year old walking down the aisle.
Speaker 4: It looks cool.
Speaker 3: I'm getting it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Okay, well, I told you we got our We're
gonna have our energy product coming out from the electrolyzed
and energy. So like I'm trying to figure out how
many mgs to put in it? Um, I don't want
to be I have like.
Speaker 6: A quad espresso every day, so maybe don't ask me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe you don't do that.
Speaker 5: Okay, maybe the people that do the morning show five
times a week aren't the people I need to probably
check with on the amount of milligrams.
Speaker 3: More normal audience more.
Speaker 6: I like to feel like I'm about to have a
heart attack.
Speaker 5: Because you don't have to be completely on at seven am. Right,
all right, I'm about to feel like I have a
heart attack. How heard you doing this morning?
Speaker 8: Great?
Speaker 5: Are you?
Speaker 6: I told you all this morning. I struggled a little
bit to get up this morning. But it's fine, Okay,
We're gonna get through it. I told you all that
I could fake it through this.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 8: I did.
Speaker 6: Like I hit snooze a couple of times more than
I'd usually do. I can usually like hear my alarm
say like one, two, three to myself and that makes
me get up, but I couldn't do it this morning.
Speaker 5: That's where you're you got a little technique.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, there's no other way. I get up at
four fifteen in the morning and like on three, I
have to get up.
Speaker 3: If not, she inflicts self harm. Yes, it's a big deal.
Speaker 8: I snapped myself with a rubber band.
Speaker 3: There are consequences.
Speaker 6: Yeah, sometimes you can't matter.
Speaker 8: No, I do want to three Okay? Is this weird?
Speaker 5: No, you should do like three two, you should count down.
You like a blast off.
Speaker 6: Three, two, one, blast off. I tried doing the thing
where you know, people say, put your alarm on the
other side of the room.
Speaker 3: Oh, you have to, you have to turn it up.
Speaker 5: That's annoying.
Speaker 8: I think I like the one two three better.
Speaker 5: Well, he alarms your phone these days. Yeah, so you're
not going to sleep with your phone on the other
side of the room.
Speaker 6: I mean, there's no reason for me to have it
when I'm awake or asleep. Just in case, just in case,
I don't know, i'd be on D and D. There's
you're not getting to me in an emergency.
Speaker 8: Don't call me.
Speaker 7: I'm the I'm the type of person that like gets
mad when I send a text and it says.
Speaker 3: This person is anyway, Like I.
Speaker 7: Texted all It texted Chris Morlady yesterday he was taking
engagement pictures, Like I get it. The cinema text was like, hey,
he puts his Kiffin video or not, and it said
you want.
Speaker 3: To notify anyways. I was like, oh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, Lane Kiffin, Yeah, I do want to. I
do want to not If I have through the engagement pictures,
that can wait. I can always wait. Lane Kiffin's got
these kids dunking right now. I got some rest last night,
but I think it as much.
Speaker 8: Today.
Speaker 5: I am a little bit. I stayed up a little
late last night. We got a pack of cotes in
our backyard house kind.
Speaker 6: Of back okay, steal ste Steel.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's fine. I don't think I've informed the audience.
So we've got a pack of Cody's and they've been there.
So my house backs up to some woods and it
goes to kind of like a little bayou back there,
and we've had some coyotes ever since we've lived there.
But the pack is growing and they're getting loud, and
it's had a creepy little sound. You've ever been in
the woods heard a pack of Cody is like getting
after it a little bit it's a creepy little sound.
But anyway, my dog steal big dog talking corso he does.
So he's way bigger than them, way more intimidating. But
there's a lot of them. There's like it's a pack
of like seven or eight at least from what i've
when i've I've seen about seven or eight together at
the time. And so like usually he'll go out there
and he can handle himself. It's almost like they're playing.
It's like their buddies back there. Like he'll they'll chase
him into the yard, he'll chase him in the woods,
and like he comes back with a big smile on
his face. I'm sure you know, dogs don't really smile.
Maybe they do.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 5: He's tail waggon, he's excited, slobbeign. Uh. Well, two weekends
ago they bet him.
Speaker 8: Yeah, mm hmm.
Speaker 5: Ever seen Uh what's that? What's the movie is it?
Is it Shooter? Or is that one? Saying Mark Wahlber,
He is like, I don't He's like, I don't think
you understand the seriousness of the situation. They killed my dog. Yeah, okay,
they didn't come on, he just bit my dog, right, Okay,
had a puncture when he's on some antibiotics. Had to
see the vat it's gone too far, do you monster?
I gotta take matters and my own hands. And so last
night I heard him howling, so I had to make
sure steels inside, make sure he's protected, got to protect
the family. So I was up a little bit late.
Speaker 8: So did you see them?
Speaker 5: Oh? Yeah, in my backyard. We're gonna talk, going to
disclose what happened or didn't happen. There was about eight
of them in the backyard last night, just chilling. And
so there's this little you know, still late, you know,
has this little area of the living room area that
he sleeps in. Yeah, and they can see him because
it's like a litt glass window that sees outside, and
they're just setting. They sit out there like in a
pack and then facing like all bow legged and like
with their shoulders rolled forward, and they just bark at
him and yap at him.
Speaker 6: That's crazy complaints.
Speaker 5: Dare you? I wish you would.
Speaker 7: Do you have any close neighbors, like proximity wise to you?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 5: Yes, and no, like in the backyard, I can't see anybody.
Are you inside the city limits? What city I don't
know what city are you. Look, there's plenty of cities.
I'm not in the city limits. I think we can
solve your problem.
Speaker 8: Matter you don't mess with the dog.
Speaker 5: That's that's what's stepped too far. It was fun when
y'all looked off friendly and happy and get lucky. He was,
you know, wagging his tail.
Speaker 7: But after the bike, if hell, if there was seven
or eight in the backyard last night, there'd have been
seven or eight in the backyard when I woke up.
Speaker 3: This morning too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I don't think. I don't think firearms are
in play here. That's that's how that's gonna be. Like,
it's gonna be like movie The Predator, be like, I'm
gonna be laying with like a knife in my in
between my teeth, laying in the mud.
Speaker 3: It might actually be more fun anyway.
Speaker 5: It would be a lot of fun. Sure, they're pretty
brazen too.
Speaker 6: There can we get a night vision camera on this?
Speaker 5: And then I woke up this morning, I'm going to
turn my car on a little you know, started from
start from the house, getting it warmed up a little bit,
sitting next to my back door, kyote a pause, a froze,
We just stared at each other and he looked at me. Yeah,
and he wanted to give me a coyote middle finger,
no doubt. Oh yeah. Then he just jogged off. He
didn't even sprint off.
Speaker 6: He's like, you're keeping my friend indoors s.
Speaker 5: Right, He like jogged off slowly, all disrespectfully, like I
didn't appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Slow jog away, slow jogwa shoulder.
Speaker 8: Like I'm coming back for you, coming back.
Speaker 5: I'll be back, all right.
Speaker 8: This is my new favorite rivalry.
Speaker 3: This is exciting. Though I need to sleep over.
Speaker 5: I'll keep you updated. I don't know how much I
can should disclose on air, but I'll keep you updated
all of it.
Speaker 3: It's coyotes. They don't belong to nobody.
Speaker 5: I don't belong nobody. Right.
Speaker 8: One could say they're a nuisance.
Speaker 5: One could say and if you're gonna judge me, just
think about it. What if they would have been your dog?
Speaker 8: All bets are off.
Speaker 5: We'll be on the Coyote Watch West Canaan Coyotes. Hey,
we got a lot of good sports tidbits talk about today.
We've got a great show for you. We will talk more. Uh,
we'll talk about more things than just Coyotes and my dog.
We got NFL honors tonight. We got a lot of Saints,
potentially getting some more. It's getting some acknowledgments this evening.
Did y'all know win our Olympics?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think this is start this technically day negative one.
It starts today opening ceremonies tomorrow, we'll talk a little
bit about that, some of the favorites that the USA has.
And then, of course, as Taylor told you in the
opening there we got Lane Kiffin spoke yesterday to the media.
In a long time following, I guess did we get
two signings yesterday?
Speaker 3: We get our guys, y'all one and a half.
Speaker 5: Ah got one and a half guys signed yesterday in
National Signing Day. So got a great show for you today.
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Speaker 7: What's sun.
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Speaker 5: Alrighty, welcome back here off the bench Thursday morning, the
tripod riding again. Glynn elandre Ta ms Caine Jake. Is
this first time you're tuning in this week? Thanks for
joining in, Thanks for hopping on with us. Jacob Hester
is in San Francisco super Bowl coverage all week. We
are going once again today. Later on in the show,
we will try to get Jake on in an update
from him. Hopefully we can get a hold of him
before like five seconds before the last segment of the show.
We'll try to be a little bit more prepared and Landra,
you got any bump music theme today? No, I don't
just going just feeling it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, fell on the flow just this song was in
my head when you're just kind of feeling it.
Speaker 5: M who you're what do you think your top like
three artists are you go to for bump music?
Speaker 4: Mm?
Speaker 8: That's a great question.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Check your Spotify wrapped?
Speaker 5: Mmm.
Speaker 6: We well, I use YouTube, but I don't know.
Speaker 8: I feel like I do like smashing pumps.
Speaker 5: You do a lot of smashing pumpkins. I was gonna
say that they're kind of a They're kind of a
fallback for you.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I probably default to like nineties all.
Speaker 5: That is definitely your comfort zone for sure. If you
can't think of anything, yeah, you're going there.
Speaker 6: This one. I was just feeling this is a good one.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I've heard this one in a
long time.
Speaker 8: It's a banger.
Speaker 6: I would have to look at my YouTube. I think
YouTube does like a Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 5: We should do that later in the show. We should
find out our my my my Spotify thing or Apple
Music or whatever I have. Right now, it's gonna be
like Zombies the kids musical. Yeah, that'll be all over mine.
Speaker 6: I'm trying to see if I can find it on.
Speaker 5: My all right, So Laane Kiffin took to the mic,
took to the podium yesterday. I think they had the
first team meeting. Media was able to join him. So
we are going to talk to Ta Ta about that. First,
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I did listen to a little bit of Lane Kiffin's
press conference. I did not listen to the entire thing.
I was slang in hydration yesterday. But I also saw
some clips of first was it their first team meeting
as well?
Speaker 3: Yesterday?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: And well I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Tuesday was their first
team meeting?
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 7: At the press conference, he said, yesterday, so tuesday was
their first meeting.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 5: I did see some clips that came from looks like, indeed,
LSU is a basketball school. They got a basketball goal
in the team room, is it? And you got a
first hand look at it? You were there yesterday?
Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, it's I mean, it's it's a full it's
football Like. When I walked in, I was like, how
am I going to get around this thing? Okay, it's
kind of right there by the door entrance.
Speaker 5: Uh, not a cheapo. No.
Speaker 7: And it's funny you mentioned basketball. At one point in
the press conference, Keivin was talking about, you know, l
O shoes more than just football. He goes, you know,
you look at the baseball team and you got the
best baseball athletes in college and women's basketball.
Speaker 3: It was the pauls.
Speaker 7: The women's basketball was telling but you know what he
didn't say it, Vince, you must have forgot.
Speaker 5: You might not have heard it. You said he was
kind of a low talker. You might not have heard
that part low talker is an understatement. Did Lane not
see them beat South Carolina? I don't know, weekend missed
itssed it.
Speaker 7: He was busy, but uh, I mean, you know, for
the most part, he was good. He talked about you know,
why he came down su I mean, you know, that
was a big recap. He did a lot of recaping,
but kind of the big news coming out of the
press conference yesterday he mentioned Sam Levitt and what he's
able to do, uh in the spring, and you know,
we weren't super concerned, like you were talking about guys's
been in college a number of years, like eleven on
eleven's not gonna help him maton. He said, as of
right now, Sam Levin can do all the seven on
seven work that he needs to do. He said, he
can't really do the full contact padded period, which quarterbacks
not gonna really do full contact in spring anyway, So
what's it matter? But I mean, I know a lot
of people worried was he gonna get the playbook down.
Is he going to get the timing with his receivers.
It sounds like Kiff and saying, okay, he's good to
go as far as actually throwing the ball, getting out there,
getting repped.
Speaker 3: So that was good this year.
Speaker 5: I can't remember is it left foot or right foot?
Speaker 3: I believe it's his left.
Speaker 5: Okay, that.
Speaker 3: Could be wrong about that.
Speaker 5: If it's the left, let's confirm that before well coin
flip there. But if it is his left, it is
the better foot for a right handed thrower, because that's
not the fat you push off on, so you can
kind of protect it. You can protect your left foot
a lot more than you can your right foot when
you're throwing. So I mean that is good news to
hear because you do want that that chemistry to start
to be formed as soon as you can. But I
will say that a lot of that chemistry comes like
in the summer workouts in the summer seven on seven
leading up into the season. Right, okay, well, never mind
red foot, Well you were wrong playing that one on
you you believe I can remember.
Speaker 3: I mean I watched him play a few times and
he was holding the limp.
Speaker 5: I don't remember which, and I also believe that tails
never fails. Sometimes it loses though that coin that coin
toss doesn't pop up the right way. But that is
that is interesting. I mean, I think that's a pretty
fast turnaround, uh for some levet. But of course you
do want those guys, the quarterback, the receiver to get
that chemistry. And look, you're paying same level of a
lot of money. So if he can go and perform,
do you find a ways around practice? You find a
way ways to structure practice around getting him in at
some point, even if you have to slow things down,
even if you have to dumb a period down during
practice just to get him in there, to get him
some reps, to get him some throws, to get him
some timing routes. But of course you're definitely not going
to put him in a situation where you can get
stepped on, which would be a team. Of course, quarterbacks
aren't supposed to get hit all the time. The hell,
we were at Senior Bowl last week and Sawy Robinson
got completely up ended and flipped over on a play.
It was just accident. No one was trying to do it.
Just you know, guys get a lot of effort around
him and he nearly got cut in half. Kind of
a big deal.
Speaker 3: Well, he talked the ball. He was obviously asked to
follow up of.
Speaker 7: How much did that impact bringing in three quarterbacks, whether
it's a land of Clark, whether so who's on Long Street?
And Kiffin's a I would have brought him in with
or without Sam Levitt. He's like, my job here is to,
you know, bring in the best players I can. He
seems to be really high on both of those guys.
But what I love the most was he was actually
asked about visiting Knoxville, like going up to follow Sam Levitt. Yeah,
he was asked about that, and Kevin goes, look, I
don't like to be told no.
Speaker 3: He said.
Speaker 7: When I when I'm told no, I'm a little bit
more competitive than what not. He goes, I went up there.
I knew we had to have this guy. I let
him leave and shouldn't have and went up there and
he's like, and I did everything I could to get it.
Speaker 5: Did he say it like that, as in he's confirming
that he didn't initially get told no.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 5: He he just didn't want to hear no.
Speaker 3: He did say whenever I get told no, I don't
like it. Like that. That's how he started the answer.
Speaker 7: So yeah, I mean he kinda he kind of did,
you know, kind of hint towards them.
Speaker 5: So he did kind of screw it up at first,
but we fixed it, so it doesn't matter. Mixed it,
it doesn't really matter. Got our guy, and you got
two other guys who I did hear the part talking
about the quarterbacks. How believes that everybody is capable playing
and he was impressed with you know, those are the
kind of guys that he wants, the guys that aren't
afraid of competition, And well, where I one hundred percent
agree that you never want anybody that's afraid of competition. Like, Okay,
I don't care. He's a number one guy in the portal. Cool, fine,
I'll beat him, it doesn't matter. That's the attitude you
have to have when you are a high profile college quarterback,
when you're a professional quarterback, or any position. I'm not
just going to highlight quarterbacks, it's literally any position in
any sport, and that's attitude you should have. Now counterpoint
to that would be this day and age, it's a
little bit more of a business than it used to be.
So the dollars and cents do matter? Was it? About
a month ago when Blake Baker was on our show,
he talked about, as a defensive coordinator, I don't want
to know how much money somebody's making because I don't
want to influence my depth chart and how I make decisions. Well,
who's going to make the decision on the starting quarterback?
The head coach, the guy that is negotiating the dollars
and cents, So certainly very familiar Langkiffen is with the
dollars and cents. So like it or not, whether you
want to compete or not. In a professional sport, the
guy that makes the most money has to absolutely lose
a job before anybody else even gets an opportunity to
play over it, or of course has to be an injury.
But what an opportunity for the other quarterbacks that are
coming in with spring with him not being able to
go full practice, So what a great opportunity to kind
of show that they're the next guy up. If Sam
Wevitt does falter, if he isn't completely healthy, if he
does quote unquote lose it or lose the job or whatever,
I'm the next guy that'll replace him. And great opportunity
for them, and I respect the heck out of that
attitude from those other quarterbacks. And I don't care if
Sam's coming, I'm coming and I'm gonna beat him out.
That's great now this day and age. Like I said,
it's a little bit different with the dollars and cents
because like it or not, it is. Can I just
say semi pro, it's professional, it's professionals football, So and
it's here to stay. Go Tigers. Though, we'll continue to
we'll go to break work, continue to talk about Lank
Kiffin and I did like there was a comment mind yesterday.
We'll keep talking about where he did make the comparison
that we've kind of made on the show. He's like,
I'm surprised that more kids aren't going in the portal.
If you any other professional sport, if a kid has
the opportunity to be a free agent, every single year,
they take it to test the market to see where
their value is. So we'll keep talking about all things
Lane kivin, all things LSU, and a little bit more
super Bowl right here off the bench.
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bit more of what lane Kiffin said yesterday to the media.
Of course, Lane Kiffin spoke to the media yesterday over
in the UH football ops building at the team room,
O got Taylor, I was there, So Lane has Lane
has had a busy last what month and a half portal. We've,
of course we've talked about his portal class forty three
people that he brought in. We thought we talked about
even may certainly equally important, but it maybe even more
important retaining a lot of the players, especially on defense.
You look at Trey daz on offense, like the two
running backs. You retained a lot of guys that were
certainly had a lot of question marks, but potentially the
biggest two moves that he either brought in or retained
weren't really players, were coaches. And he talked about that
extensively yesterday, Taylor. Who was he talking about there?
Speaker 7: It was Blake Baker and Corey Raymond, you know, and
that was his first order of business. I mean, think
about it, before you even got your first transfer, right
before that early signing period, you had heard a late
night meeting with Blake Baker because you thought Baker was
taking the two lane job.
Speaker 3: And you know that that led into.
Speaker 7: Someone asking the question of okay, yeah, well Lamar Brown,
Richard Anderson, they weren't sure if they were going to
sign early. And you know, Kiffin was very humble in
that answer of saying, like, see, guys, this isn't Elaine
Kiffen thing like, They're not coming to LSU because of me.
He's like, they're coming to LSU because of the brand,
because of the coaches that I have on the staff.
He's like, I thought it was important to bring back
Blake Baker and Corey Raymond. He's like, I've seen what
they can do in college football. It a number stops
and I mean he basically said, like before any other
recruit he wanted to sign, like that was paraty.
Speaker 3: Number one was bringing those two guys back.
Speaker 5: Certainly, those two guys are huge. Haven't had a huge
impact on how the transfer portal went, how retaining players
on defense has gone. Corey Raymond's resume speaks for itself.
Architect of DBU. If coach coached LSU for a long time,
I mean, what a It kind of highlights the mistake,
how big a mistake it was with Brian Kelly letting
him go to your rival for a couple of years. Now,
to Brian Kelly's credit, he did right that wrong and
got him back right. So credit where credits do? I guess?
But that of course is a huge order business of
keeping Corey Raymond here, and you never know how that's
going to go. You don't know what these coaches' relationship
is prior to this. You never know if the coaches
are going to have like beef from other schools. You
just don't really know. Nobody knows their personal history, so
you just don't know how they're going to mesh when
they get there. Is Lane's coaching style, is his schedule
that he's going to demand from us? Does it fit
my lifestyle? Does it fit my coaching style? So you
just don't really know. You can hope, and you can say,
as fans like man, it'd be a great thing for
them to keep Lake Baker and keep Corey Raymond. It
just makes a lot of sense because you got the
offense covered with Lane and now you got, you know,
add that to a good defense. But you just don't know. Personally.
You got to remember there's humans involved in this, right,
There's humans making these decision. There's families that are involved
and helping make these decisions. So it certainly worked out
and Lane has done everything the right way. So to
this point, Lane has a a plus plus grade for
you know, we've said it. At the beginning of January.
He's about to start his first gradable test for LSU
as a head coach, and he's clearly passed with flying colors.
The resources that he has, the money that he was
provided to go after and do it the right way.
But he can't take all the credit, and he didn't yesterday.
He is also saying it's because of these coaches, but
he does get the credit for maintaining those coaches, keeping
that chemistry on the coaching staff and Blake Baker, that
to me, that was like the biggest That was the
biggest take. I mean not to like take anything away
from the core raiment, but like when you're given a
opportunity to go head coach, be a head coach of
your alma mater, most people are taking that right lane.
In the laning company, they found a way to keep
their guy. And so that has just been the catalyst,
the springboard, if you will, for this transfer border, for
keeping all those guys, keeping those guys on defense. So
everything signs pointing up green arrows up on LSU football
right now. Now, I do have a big concern after
what I saw from yesterday. Now, I know the team
meeting was on Tuesday, not that yesterday. Most of the
times coaches don't like their players playing basketball risk of injury.
Now I saw somebody the team cheering. Somebody got I
think got their shot blocked. Looked like at the front
of the room big time? Are we a little bit
big time?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Not even close. It wasn't even like he got deep, barely.
Speaker 7: Got off the ground. I don't know who it was,
but stick to football bud.
Speaker 5: Six football six six inch vertical something like that. Are
we worried about the risk of injury playing basketball in
the front of the team room?
Speaker 3: I never won.
Speaker 7: That's like you gotta put these kids in bubble wrap
twenty four to seven. Like you could get hurt falling
down the stairs at your apartment complex. You could get hurt,
like it happens, Like, yes, don't be negligent about it.
There's obviously you know ways to prevent it. But I'm
just one of those people. Like it was a story
of an NBA player a couple of years ago. He
slipped getting out of the shower and sprained his ankle.
Was out for like a month.
Speaker 3: Like if it's gonna happen.
Speaker 6: It's gonna happen, isn't that what happened with Sam Lovitt
was playing basketball. That might just be a rumor.
Speaker 7: I don't know, no idea. No, So there there was
a thing. Williingham was mad after he was injured. He
was playing that after he was let me tell you something.
But I mean it did hamper his return.
Speaker 5: The amount of I saw more than a handful of
careers in the NFL ended because of off season basketball.
Speaker 8: That's ridiculous.
Speaker 7: I know.
Speaker 5: Like, so if you get hurt playing a sport like
in professional football, Yeah, you could hurt playing a sport
in the off season away from the facility. Your contracts
like no a void.
Speaker 8: Yeah that sucks.
Speaker 5: Now every contract is a little bit different now. Most
of the guys were younger guys, guys fighting for a position,
multiple offensive linemen DB's. They came back with like, uh,
like a sprained mcl or touring him like something happened,
and they're like, well you're cut.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, it's not funny, but like, why are you
playing pickup basketball?
Speaker 5: Well, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: While we played pickup basketball the team, Remember when editwards
you're on was here. I believe it was Dennis Johnson.
They called a meatball, right, he was like the D
line coach.
Speaker 3: He tore both knees.
Speaker 7: I believe he was playing basketball in the off season. Like, sure,
he's a coach, but I'm pretty sure it was both knees.
I know for sure was one. Uh you know, playing
playing basketball.
Speaker 6: That's so stupid.
Speaker 5: Oh man, the kind of things that I did. I
did know a go that tour both a cl or
no tour, both achilles tendons.
Speaker 6: That's wild.
Speaker 5: At the same time, I want it's like crying, Like
at the same time you're running one pops, They're like,
oh my god, you hit your other leg that one.
It's kind of a it's kind of a funny picture.
Speaker 8: Double whammy.
Speaker 5: It's a double whammy. That's it's not your day.
Speaker 6: You must have tear both achilles.
Speaker 5: He must have had double those were like, yeah, double vaccines.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, were screaming for help you go.
Speaker 7: In July of twenty nineteen, l s U D Line
coach and Dennis Johnson suffered severe injuries to both knees
while playing pickup basketball, nice acquiring surgery and a wheelchair
that forced them off the field in nineteen I remember
you didn't coach that year.
Speaker 3: Remember what year was.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was both knees. That's tough. That's a tough look. Yeah,
when you hurt both these at the same time, or
tear both achilles at the same time, it's a tough look.
Ultra boosters, ultras.
Speaker 6: I know they got like, you know, so many boosters.
Speaker 5: Double it. I know what they're telling me to do.
Double that, all the boosters, all the boosters. All right,
we're gonna get a break and when we come back,
we're going to close out hour number one. It's already
been almost a full hour here on this show. Pretty
wild stuff talking about when you got some like actual
LSU football stuff to talk about. It's fantastic what youre
talking about, Link Kevin. We got Winter Olympics coming up.
We'll give you a little preview of the Winter Olympics
an hour number two and then we'll guess what we
got tonight. NFL Honors. We get to see who's bringing
home the hardware in the NFL. We got a lot
to get to on Thursday. Show Off the bench, Off
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Speaker 1: She's locked in on LSU Football twenty four to seven.
Speaker 4: You're listening to off the Bench. She's she's, she's not.
Speaker 2: She might be Zimandre.
Speaker 5: You've out done yourself on this one. President's of the
United States of American.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a little bit. She's a little bit of
a deep cut. I don't know.
Speaker 5: No, it's not long by President.
Speaker 8: I haven't heard him forever.
Speaker 5: We're talking about that.
Speaker 3: I was going to say, like, I just haven't.
Speaker 8: Heard deep because the wrong thing to say. But I
haven't heard in forever.
Speaker 5: So this was one of my favorite compact discs when
I was in fifth grade. I think this is like
fourth fifth grade for me when this one came out.
And then Peaches. The song Peaches was also on this album.
Uh Little Dune Buggy. It was also in that one.
They had some bangers like cover to cover. This CD
was fire. This was the only one though, But they're
not a one hit wonder because they had some bangers
on there. We should play some more, Okay, this makes
me happy? Is the other one was popular Kitty. I
think Kitty might have been the name of I think
that was like the first song on it.
Speaker 6: I think this one was so good, though it's gonna
be stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
Speaker 5: Are y'all?
Speaker 8: The banger's always too short, like this song is already over.
Speaker 5: If you had to choose Winter Olympics or Summer Olympics,
Summer for me only because growing up I loved Michael Phelps.
Speaker 3: Because I just again, I said this the other day.
Speaker 7: If there's an athlete who's dominant in a sport I
don't normally watch, it makes me gravitated to that's they go.
And I don't think there's anyone ever more dominant than
Michael Phelps.
Speaker 5: So you just don't like it in the sports you
watch a.
Speaker 7: Lot, right, Maybe maybe I like it if you don't
have a dog in the fight. I like it in
individual sports maybe more than team sports. I guess you
want to go that way. Uh huh more an individual sports.
And that's fair. That's fair. It is impressive to see
one individual dominate for a long period of time, make
something that is extremely hard look easy. And you do
get that in the Olympics lab and know no one
better than Michael Phelps. Lantro, what about you?
Speaker 6: Uh, they're both very entertaining, But I think I'm gonna
go summer because of the boxing is in it and interesting.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I've ever watched Olympic boxing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's like people that catch before they like, make
it big, Yeah, make it, make it Joshua was an
Olympic gold medalist before interesting.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah I did know that.
Speaker 6: Now, as you say it, wrestling, Winter Olympics are bad.
Speaker 5: I've always been a Winter Olympics fan more than summer.
I loved it to the kid. I remember watching like
the Nagano Olympics when I was a kid. I was
I got a cool age where but when the Olympics
come on, Flint family was watching. We got it on TV.
It's background fodder. I don't care. It's awesome. I love
all the sports. I love the crazy sports. We'll get
into it more hour two right here on Off the bench,
Off the bench,