Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn. Let's
let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive.
Speaker 2: Han's to Hester and Hester got it?
Speaker 1: Fata Pa, you're locked in to off the bench control
the Live from the Raising Kine studio. Here's Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Jo, welcome in. Here we go off the bench Friday. Friday, Friday,
Good morning, everybody. Great to be here, Great to be alive.
Another day excited Flynn Launder day, Tay the tripod riding
one more time this week? That came the dog here too.
Off the bench from the Raising Cane studio. Good morning everybody.
How we doing Team Foxhole? Yeah, what's going on?
Speaker 3: Great Friday.
Speaker 2: You got a sweet jersey, aren't you?
Speaker 4: If anybody can guess, it's Joe Burrow jersey. Yep, Dad
got it for me for Christmas.
Speaker 3: I haven't worn it Christmas.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 3: Oh no, my hoodies in the way. It's still a
lot cool this morning.
Speaker 2: Her great time to bust it out though. Yeah, every
day is a great day. Go Joe, go Joe.
Speaker 5: Could you wear a number nine jersey without Burrow on it?
Like everybody knows at this point, like, yeah, yeah, a lot.
Just gonna walk at the studio and be like, hey
nice John di orstres Landra.
Speaker 2: I mean DeBie Anderson was a great steward of the number.
So it was early due set, so it was early
du set. But yeah, no more, no more. Yeah, it's
it's it's already times.
Speaker 3: Should we retire it?
Speaker 2: Yes? The players kind of have right yeah and five five?
Nobody should wear seventy two. We got that a couple
of years ago, didn't I Yeah, Gared Dellinger had it. Yeah,
I didn't like that for sure. He's a great kid.
Take the number off. Hm. Look I put a collar
on today.
Speaker 3: I noticed where I walked in a big deal wearing.
Speaker 2: Well because got cynthis ponchos Oh is it? It's win?
They got three Marty gral ones. They're pretty fantastic. Yeah,
so how do I look? Great? Great? Pretty great? Thanks?
Speaker 3: They sent you all of them. There's three of them, right.
My dad sent me a picture and he was like, look.
Speaker 2: They did I know. They're fantasto. Here's a little crawl
fish on him.
Speaker 3: Wait, that's so cute. I didn't realize that's what that was.
Love it. Wait, do you have a pin on or
it's the little tag that's right.
Speaker 2: I don't know where are you looking at.
Speaker 3: The it's sticking out.
Speaker 6: It's just little oh zipper, look that keep your heaters
in there?
Speaker 2: All right? Well, what do y'all think? This is day
five of the Tripod of the Tripod.
Speaker 4: I'm a huge fan of the Tripod. I can't wait
for to come back.
Speaker 2: I got to tell you towards second back half of
the show yesterday, I was I was wondering if I
had reached my maximum word limit for the week. Did
you know I did? We found nowhere here. Friday is
like a reset, Yeah, like Fridays like this is. We're
on the back half of this week. We got the
weekend coming up. But yesterday is like that's you know,
it's a lot, yeah, for sure. But it's been enjoyable.
It's been fun.
Speaker 3: You never had to really do it for the full
week by yourself.
Speaker 2: Did we do it two days in a row? One time?
Speaker 1: Two?
Speaker 3: Or three?
Speaker 2: I don't No, definitely, no, three, No, No, you did it.
You did it too. That's right, Okay, we did it too.
Right before football season. Mm hmmm, sounds right. A couple
weeks ago, Jake had to go to the coaches thing Pittacle. Yes,
I'm sure it is electric.
Speaker 3: Remember I probably just blacked that out my memory.
Speaker 2: All right, So we're on the precipice of the weekend. Yeah,
I know, I know we're throwing big worries at you today.
Do y'all have any big weekend plans? I know we
got the Super Big Game Bowl Sunday. Yeah, do you
all have any plans outside of that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: My birthdays tomorrow, so we've got dinner. We got dinner
Resi's does.
Speaker 4: Everyone Literally everybody reacts like that When I tell them
I'm going to doze, They're like, it's so good, So
I'm excited to try it. I hear their tamalas are good,
but like, I literally don't eat tamal is. Are not
my mom's. So I am going to eat them, but
I'm gonna judge them pretty harshly.
Speaker 2: I think rightfully. So if like that's your if that's.
Speaker 3: Your they're that popular, If that's your.
Speaker 2: Gold standard, I don't know if anybody's gonna really meet that.
Did that work? I think we need to lower her
expert Like they're good. Yeah, they also like you're compared
to your moms. We're white, you know, like, h I t.
Speaker 3: I didn't even notice you forgot.
Speaker 5: I don't know how like a traditional molly is even
like this is.
Speaker 3: I know, I saw a picture. They look good.
Speaker 2: When they are and they don't like they think they
do like a little side bowled chili. They have a fried.
Speaker 4: Okay, I was to say, I'm an appetizer girly, So
if you got app recommendations, what's.
Speaker 2: The app we got? Yeah, that's a good spot for
the for a birthday. It's like one of those spots
that I don't you know, and for us, for my crew,
my people, we don't really think about a lot. So
I don't go that often, but every time we go,
we're like, oh yeah, let's go.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah. I thrive by me.
Speaker 5: I've never been st It's only on their lunch menu.
Their cheeseburger is excellent.
Speaker 2: Nice, it's right down the road. I have ordered that
more times than I would like to admit more times.
Do you like to admit? I got me? Dude?
Speaker 5: It's it's what a five ten minute drive from here.
I'm sitting there, I'm like, what I want for lunch?
Speaker 2: I'm like, you know, call them? Do you guys, just
go pick it up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because like basically when I called, they're like, oh,
give us ten or fifteen minutes, like Taylor's jump in
the truck.
Speaker 2: It's just a good spot to go for like if
you want really good food. But then you also just
want to be yourself because it's loud. It's like you
don't have to like feel bad about going with a
group that's going to like laugh and be loud.
Speaker 4: Okay, So I don't have to worry about that. No, okay,
because everybody is loud that.
Speaker 5: I think about steak cause you're like, oh, it's not
like white tablecloth.
Speaker 2: Note you can go.
Speaker 3: Well, I've seen that outside of it.
Speaker 4: But okay, I'm glad because I'm taking I said no
boys allowed.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: Sure, so none of y'all got an invite.
Speaker 2: Fair.
Speaker 3: I'm around y'all all the time all the time.
Speaker 2: You don't want to bring work to does?
Speaker 3: Well, there's some coworkers that I'm close with.
Speaker 2: That you want to bring boys to. No, No, that's
what I said. You guys, we'll have birthday. Thank you,
Happy Happy birthday twenty eight. How do you feel about it?
Speaker 3: I was having an existential crisis, really right.
Speaker 2: Well, we're throwing big words at people and it's not
even seventen.
Speaker 4: I know, the kids don't even understand what we're saying.
Oh no, they're on the precipice.
Speaker 2: Of the precipice of understanding existential crisis. Guys, y'all gotta
y'all got a chill.
Speaker 3: I'm just like my life. He's like, I don't know
whi y'all are?
Speaker 2: Did? We didn't learn that till junior year of high school. Yeah,
you only learned that from like a movie too. Yeah,
you didn't learn that.
Speaker 3: No, they did not.
Speaker 2: Have memorize it in school. You didn't learn it. It
was your junior year of high school.
Speaker 5: They were like Taylor put it on the crayons in
the coloring book. Okay, pay attention. We're trying to learn
what existential means.
Speaker 3: It was like two teachers and sixty y'all in class.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we had a We had a really good uh
teacher to student ratio, at least did my.
Speaker 3: Yeah my class.
Speaker 2: Which crayon is your favorite flavor?
Speaker 3: You feel like an orange guy.
Speaker 2: You either love it or you hate it? Yeah, red orange,
that area one of those.
Speaker 5: We got a busy weekend though, Matt all right crave
Oriyan ball birthday. I felt bad ago because she was
talking about, oh oh yeah, I've never been to the
Enemmian or whatever.
Speaker 4: With the break, I was like, I'm going to the
Endimiana because Gwen Stefani is playing.
Speaker 2: And then I.
Speaker 5: Found out, like a couple of days later, it's like, hey,
it's a it's Crew of Orion here, it's not the Enemian.
Speaker 3: He was trying to rub it in my face.
Speaker 2: Very very similar, very similar way. You're not going to
Endimian as well. No, I'm going to crouve o'riyon to
just say, if you go to two balls, I feel
like that's this is my first Marty girl ball, no
idea what to expect. It'll be fine, You'll have a
great time. I wait. I went to Ori a couple
of years ago. I think me and Jacob were Grand
Marshalls or or like something at the end where we
were sitting there throwing beads at people because I kept
trying to I kept trying to hit people with them.
M that was a cop. But we had a great time.
The balls are always fun. You got a tux? Oh yeah,
do you own a tux.
Speaker 5: I actually bought one for the well I was I
was telling Haldane because he's going to it's like the
amount of times I've rented talks like it was in
three weddings last spring. It's one hundred and twenty bucks
every time to rent one, Like I might as well
just yep, it's been a couple hundred more and just
buy one.
Speaker 2: Yep. I did the same thing. I think I did
the same thing for the the O Ryan Ball because
I think I went they were it was on sale
or something, I like jose Banks or Ben's Warehouse or
something like that, and it was like, yeah, it was
like two or fifty two or seventy five bucks to
buy me a tucks I know it. I'm like, it's
one hundred and twenty to rent one. Absolutely now the
fairness to the rental companies. I've only worn it once
and that was like probably six or seven years ago,
so maybe I would have come out better. Oh, I
get it.
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna wear this one a lot either, but
I have it on a rainy day in case, just.
Speaker 2: In case, always prepared Taylor Shark.
Speaker 5: And then Sunday Super Bowl I found some bingo cards
found the Super Bowl car oh. I had to create
a Pinterest account to get them because I tried to.
Speaker 2: Go without your wife didn't have a Pintres's account. This
was an impulse buy. Okay, surprised, and this was an
impulse thing.
Speaker 5: At work yesterday, I was sitting there because Chris had
been putting together like a super Bowl thing, and I
was like, so we can find a bingo card and
if you don't have an account, it's a blurred So
I had to create an account, and then you had
one with commercials, like a commercial Bingo thing which commercials
will play one just game like what's going to actually happen?
Speaker 2: And then to make sure of both printed out fine.
So I'm assuming it's kind of kind of follows the
same lines as like a lot of the prop bets,
like the novelty bets, kind of.
Speaker 5: Like it was like a playbe reviews, first Penalty, that
type of thing.
Speaker 2: Ah, those are fun. That's a good time. What a
great weekend. So lander we didn't get into any more
of like the existential crisis. Is it just like anything
specific or just the generic twenty eight.
Speaker 4: I think it's just the generic twenty eight, Like it
just feels so serious, like it feels very close to thirty.
Speaker 3: I don't have my life together like at all.
Speaker 2: There's really no benefit to any other age forever, Like
I think twenty next year. I think twenty br Let's
Gonda nine.
Speaker 5: Twenty nine sucked for me because I was like, I'm
thirty basically.
Speaker 3: That, you know.
Speaker 4: I feel like literally everybody I know is having a
child right now, Taylor Brand, I don't know there's other
people I know that are Yep.
Speaker 3: I'm just like floating through.
Speaker 2: Life, just crushing in the foxhole.
Speaker 3: Crushing in the fox That's all that matters.
Speaker 2: Just keep being a good person. Life will come to you.
Speaker 3: I don't know why those you just tried so hard.
Speaker 2: That funny. I don't sound advice sound advice.
Speaker 3: Keep being a good person, being.
Speaker 2: A good person, live your life.
Speaker 3: That is great advice.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you. There's something I'm known for just.
Speaker 5: I just think that that's one of those pieces of advice.
It's like, hey, it's not going to work out for you,
but just keep going.
Speaker 4: Your life is not together, you are going to be
alone forever, but just be be a good person.
Speaker 2: Weren't you what year was it? Your professional young professional
of the Year last year, last year. It's not a
big deal, so not many people have that.
Speaker 3: That's fair.
Speaker 2: How do you think Kane the Dog is Ah, it.
Speaker 3: Looks pretty like a puppy. Still the real King the
Dog or this one?
Speaker 2: This one, he looks like a puppy. Whendn't we get
it read before football seasons? When we get it? It's
not an it? When did we get her? Thank you
just looked it up. The original King lived from nineteen
ninety two to nineteen ninety eight, so thirty four years.
Good for her. All Right, we got a fantastic show today.
It's Friday. We're just gonna have some fun today. We're
gonna talk sports. There's a lot to go over. We're
gonna give you, certainly final thoughts on the Super Big
Game Bowl on Sunday. We'll do a little Pontoon parlay action,
but a prop bet version like pontun parlay bets are
tough to hit, so this one's gonna pay big. Then
a lot to get to from NFL Honors last night,
we got Winter Olympics opening ceremonies. Today and later in
the show, I got a big announcement, I got a
huge award to give out. We saw yesterday that uh
New Orleans Saints starting quarterback Tyler Shuck was named PEPSI
zero Sugar Rookie of the Year. That's pretty good. Yeah,
it's pretty decent, but it's not as big as the
award I'll be announcing later today. Can you zoom in
on this? Zoom in.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what this is.
Speaker 2: My High zero Sugar Rookie of the Year award will
be given this out in the show. Now, that's very prestigious.
Obviously there's a football on there in the corner and
there's also a smiley face. So we'll be announcing that later.
It's a big show for you. Stay tuned right here.
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Speaker 1: Mea Tigers turn talkers. This is off the bench.
Speaker 6: Twenty seasons, thirteen Pro Bowls, and the second most passing yards,
completions and touchdowns in NFL history.
Speaker 2: One of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. Hall of
Famer Drew Brees. There you have it. Drew Brees officially
a first ballot Hall of Famer, the Class of twenty
twenty six was announced last night during the NFL Honors
along with many other awards, but Drew brees Get in
the Hall of Fame with a fantastic, fantastic recognition of
an incredible career, an incredible poster child for the Saints,
has been an incredible the best player to ever play
and put on the uniform. So we want to give
a big shout out here on off the bench to
Drew brees Man that was one hundred and fifty one
and ninety four as a Saints starting quarterback, Super Bowl
champion and MVP, thirteen time Pro Bowl selection. Retired as
the NFL all time leader in passing yards with eighty thousand,
three hundred fifty eight and completions seven forty two all
just silly silly numbers. Had a record five seasons with
five thousand plus passing yards, fifty four consecutive games with
a touchdown pass at one point. Highest single season completion
percentage seventy four point four percent that was in twenty eighteen.
Two time NFL Offensive Player of the Year, NFL Player
of the Year, seven time NFL passing yards leader, four
time NFL touchdown passes leader. Walter Payton Man of the Year.
What did this guy not do? Okay, there's one thing,
but it doesn't matter. That doesn't matter. He probably should
have at one point. The man is legendary in the
quarterback world. The man was legendary in the Saints world,
in the Saint's history in Saints Loire, and now he
will be enshrined. His bust will be in Canton, Ohio.
Rightfully so. And I got the opportunity, in the last
year of myself ever playing football, ever putting pads on too,
be teammates with Drew and certainly got to see firsthand,
you know what made him special, what made him great.
I got to see him perform being on his team,
I got to see him prepare. From a guy that
might not have had like the skill set of a
lot of other all time great quarterback, he certainly made
up for it with intelligence the way he prepared, always
prepared for anything that he saw. And uh a tough
dude too. He was one of these guys that in
practice never wanted the backup to take a snap. He was.
He had a foot injury when I was there and
played through it when he didn't have to. We weren't
making the playoffs. He didn't have to do that. He
just didn't like anybody else doing it except for him.
He was He was that kind of guy. And I
got a first and I got a front row seat
for on the other sideline of Drew many many times.
I don't think I ever won a game in the
Superdome with another team. He defended his home territory better
than most quarterbacks. And so you know, kudos to Drew
and well deserved, absolutely well deserved first ballot Hall of
Famer Taylor, Do you have him to find a I
don't want to get one of these names wrong. Do
you have the list of the class of twenty twenty six?
I know Larry Fitzgerald, Larry Fitzgerald, Luke Keighley, yes, Adam Vinieri,
Roger Craig, and Drew Brees is okay, So the first
ballots on this one, on this class, Drew Brees, is it? Larry,
Larry fitz okay, And it's not Luke? Right? I think
Luke was eligible last year, Okay, for sure? For sure,
Drew Brees, Larry Fitzgerald. So about those people, about those players,
I think we can all agree that absolutely deservedly first
ballot guys, and certainly Drew Brees for everything he's done
for the Saints, everything he's done for this fan based Louisiana,
New Orleans at a time of need, and yeah, we
just want to say congrats. Anybody got any thoughts on
mister Drew Brees.
Speaker 4: He is my goat just because I am a Saints
fan and like I grew and like the numbers are
there to make the argument too, I feel like, and
I'm just very happy for him, and I'm glad that
he was first ballot. I know it's gonna suck that,
like Bill Belichick and Robert Kraft and all them aren't,
but like Drew Brees deserves that, and I feel like
his career has been overshadowed by something like he just
kind of gets like I don't know, people don't really.
I know people talk about Drew Brees, but I don't.
Maybe I'm not saying this right, but I feel like
he gets overshadowed, Like the tweet the other day that
was like, is there anything more emblematic than Drew Brees
being a first ballot Hall of Famer and it's getting
overshadowed by Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right.
Speaker 4: So I'm very happy for Drew. I'm happy for the
Saints or organization.
Speaker 2: Two and.
Speaker 3: Emotional night.
Speaker 2: Did you watch were all able to watch it? Any
of it?
Speaker 3: But I was doing the women's basketball game last night.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I watched it, And I mean, that's a great
point because he doesn't get over shatted, like he doesn't
have the seven Super Bowl rings of a Tom Brady,
doesn't have all the MVPs of a Rogers or.
Speaker 2: The name of a Peyton Manning.
Speaker 5: But I mean he was out there and look at
the numbers while was He's up there, right there with
the best of them. And so a lot of people
last night say, oh, well, my favorite Drew Brees game
was this, or obviously when he led him to the
Super Bowl, or when he broke the you know, the
whatever record he broke.
Speaker 2: And I was telling you guys this.
Speaker 5: I interned at WAP my last year in college, right
across the street, and it was during football season, was
fall of twenty eighteen. Me and one other intern we
got to pick which Saint's a game we went to,
and you know, I was looking down.
Speaker 2: I was looking down.
Speaker 5: I was like, if I time this right, I could
go to Monday Night football against the Washington Redskins.
Speaker 2: Well, damn at a time it right, And.
Speaker 5: I went to Monday Night football against the Washington Redskins,
and that is one of the coolest sporting experience I've experienced,
because like it was a who's who who's.
Speaker 2: On the sideline.
Speaker 5: It's like I met Kurt Warner that night, one of
my favorite quarterbacks of all time. I mean, Adam Schefter's
three feet away from the Rich Eisen's right there on
the sidelines. And then you got to go into the
locker room and get the interview with Drew Brees. David
Baker at the Hall of Fame, had the football that
he was putting in Canton that he threw to tray
Quan Smith to break the record. It's just so many
memories here in Louisiana. And like I was telling you
the other day, Yeah, we were in eighth grade. That's
when the Saints made the Super Bowl run, and our
whole school we got like a different Saints theme every
single week. You know, they had different like Saints desserts.
They had Number nine cookies in the cafeteria and like
this is a middle school, Like the whole state was
just enthralled with Drew Brees for twenty years was incredible.
Speaker 2: I can say that the way he played the game,
the way he played in the era of quarterback NFL.
He was in with Brady Rogers, yeah, Freeze like that era,
and he was a huge catalyst. It changed the standard
and the expectations of quarterback play. Like forever, quarterback play
was you gotta have the big arm, you gotta do
this like you're gonna throw interceptions. That's just gonna come
with the territory. Like the Brett fav Like mentality. You know,
he leads seat. He led the NFL with touchdowns, we
also led him with interceptions. And the completion percentage forever
we talked about it like a good completion percentage for
guys was fifty eight to fifty nine to sixty percent
completion rate. But the way this era, that era of
quarterback greats absolutely one hundred changed the standard when you
talk about quarterback play because of these guys, these guys
that paved the way with high completion. You don't have
to throw the interceptions, take care of the ball, be smart,
work the field, be extremely accurate and disciplined your reads.
And that's what he did and be ultra competitive, and
he was ultra competitive. So kudos to him and all
the quarterbacks young quarterbacks playing now, they're playing with a
different standard and expectation that is on their plate because
of the things that Drew Brees was able to do
on the field. So we all want to tip our
cap to him, take our hat off to him, and say, congratulations,
absolutely well deserved, very good. We're proud of you. He
did the Saints well and he joins I think he
joins ten other Saints in the Hall of Fame, which
I was looking at the list of that and I
was like, Earl Campbell got that on the list and
he played one year with the Saints. Jim Taylor certainly
taking some weird credit there, but certainly at the top
of that list. Stolen valor for sure, Tim Taylor, Come on,
Drew Brees. Congratulations and yeah Taylor, you got that video
Herbert We're gonna play or something.
Speaker 7: Every generation has its stagger. For New Orleans, it wore
number nine. He arrived with questions.
Speaker 3: I felt like this is where I belong to be
a part of, not only the rebuilding of an organization
but also a city in a region.
Speaker 7: But left with answers carved into history. The Saints have
won the Super Bowl, records, facts, history, Sunday's change belief
became permanent now the game makes it official.
Speaker 4: It's truly an honor and a pleasure to congratulate you, Drew.
Speaker 2: You've had an amazing career.
Speaker 4: You're deserving of being first ballot into the Hall.
Speaker 2: You are the greatest thanks players of all time and
will deserve honored. The work you put in was special.
I know he was gonna get in, and then the
first ballot me and a whole lot to a lot
of players he deserved. I never did great.
Speaker 1: The leadership was so imminent and so at the parent
at a post Katrina.
Speaker 7: Drew Brees didn't just play.
Speaker 2: Here but don't touch down.
Speaker 7: He changed what here meant.
Speaker 4: When I leave this game, I would like for people
to look at me and say that, hey, Drew Brees played.
Speaker 2: The game the way it was supposed to be played.
Speaker 1: He left the game better than when he found it,
and he did things the right way.
Speaker 2: And then he was a problem.
Speaker 7: We knew long before the gold jacket ever did.
Speaker 2: Our goat. That's only what the world.
Speaker 7: Welcome to the Pro Football Hall of fame off the bench.
Speaker 2: WHOA, that's pretty good.
Speaker 3: That was great.
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more shocking things that I discovered this morning while looking
up kind of some of these Drew brees and was
that Earl Campbell played for the Saints. Anybody know this? Yeah,
lead in his.
Speaker 5: Career, his last year he played. I mean people forget
that Kenny Stabler played for the Saint.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the last three seasons actually, so he's a little
bit more. Jim Taylor played. I didn't know that Jim
Taylor did. But Earl Campbell no clue, learned something new
every single day, constant and never any self improvement. People,
You're never too old to learn something new. Just remember
that Earl Campbell played for the Saints and they claimed
him in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 5: If you claim Earl Campbell in the Hall of Fame,
then you have to say Earl Campbell is the best
running back in Saint's history.
Speaker 2: Have to you do. That's a good point. I mean,
we love Duce McCallister around here.
Speaker 5: He ain't know Earl Campbell, But I mean, if you're
gonna claim him, you gotta claim it. Did Earl when
he was here wear a tear away jersey, I would imagine,
I mean that might have been outlawed by that point.
Earl Campbell the Tyler Rose Tyler Texas yea not a
big deal.
Speaker 2: Rose Capital of the World.
Speaker 4: Tyler got a whole magazine named over after him.
Speaker 2: A magazine.
Speaker 3: Wait, is it Earl or Dave Campbell? Is Dave Campbell? Yeah? Yeah,
the soups are named after him.
Speaker 2: Damn it, we're naming something on the show.
Speaker 3: Okay, Earl Campbell's But what.
Speaker 5: Actually, I think I know where you're going. As great
of a brandingness that would be. This is actually a
real product. Earl Campbell makes sausage now, yes, no, he's
made it for a long time, has he? Hot Links?
Speaker 2: I had it when I was a kid. I don't
know if that was the Texas things. Yeah, okay, I'm
not a hot link. There's still kids. No, I bought
a cheese sausage. There's like a cheese sausage er Old
Campbell Brown. It's pretty good. And the picture of the
on the front of the sausage like on the packaging.
Used to be like him with a cowboy hat, cowboy boots, jeans. Sweet,
I remember those, Taylor. You brought up an amazing stat
from another fellow Hall of Famer from the class in
twenty twenty six, another first Battle guy, Larry Fitzgerald. Because
we're talking about him like, he's not the most flashy
of receivers. But if you ask wide receivers give you
to give you their mount Rushmore, they all say, Larry Fitzgerald, this.
Speaker 3: Might be the craziest that I've ever heard.
Speaker 5: I'll just talking about a little bit when I filled
in for y'all on Friday. I will argue anybody on this.
In my opinion, Larry Fitzgerald the top five wide receiver. Five,
He's actually five, He's top five for Larry Fitzgerald played
seventeen years in the NFL. Also twenty one different quarterbacks
he called passes from. So I know we point out
Randy and t O and Calvin Johnson, shout out to
those guys, but they played with elite quarterbacks. Larry Fitzgerald
played with Kurt Warner for about three years and that
was it.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 5: It was kind of journeyman throughout his career. In seventeen years,
Larry Fitzgerald has more tackles than dropped passes by a lot.
He has forty two career tackles, and some say that
his drops could be as low as twenty nine and
a seventeen year NFL career.
Speaker 2: Holy cow. As a wide receiver, that's unreal. Who plays offense,
So it's not usually the offensives job to tackle the
defense unless there's an interception or fumble. I thinking about
the QBS he played with, Yeah, a lot of interception.
I assume that Larry is probably like on the like
the Hail Mary defense team, like back there deep So
I'm trying to think if he would ever any other situation.
But yeah, that's a lot of a lot of tackles.
Larry Fitzgerald was a guy that was certain. He had
his flashy moments. Obviously ultra talented, and I think a
lot of people forget him as this incredible dominant receiver
because towards the back half of his career, he wasn't
like the number one guy, Like, he wasn't that guy anymore.
He was more of a glue guy in the locker room.
He always did things the right way, though of course
he never dropped passes. He threw it to him, He's
going to catch it no matter where it was. I
remember seeing him catching passes where he's like the hardest
catches to make in the world, Like you're running across
the middle, and you got to catch it off your shoe,
like your shoelaces, like low passes like that. He made
it look easy, and he made it look routine, but
he did things the right way. It was an incredible
role model for young receivers, young kids watching him play
the game because he blocked downfield, he was never too
good to do the dirty work on offense. He finished
through the goal line with the ball and holding the
ball correctly, he handed the ball to the official. He
did things the right way, played the game the right way,
celebrated with his teammates, only never made it about himself.
And one of those great stewards of professional football in
the game of football that we all know of love
so cute as to him so seventeen years one team,
seventeen years one Team. Oh, and also on Earl's super
commercial multiple times as well. Earl Campbell. Yeah, we named the.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you're right, Larry Fitzgerald was on him.
Speaker 2: It's good for him. Congratulations. All right, I don't want
to step on Larry Fitzgerald's toes right here. So we're
gonna come to break, Go to break, and then we're
gonna come back and talk a little Saints starting quarterback
the awards show and we might present him a new
award maybe or it might be another rookie I don't know.
Might we have the Mahi zero Sugar Rookie of the
Year Award to give out.
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Speaker 1: Girl from the locker room to the airwaves. Gets off
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Speaker 4: You got him black.
Speaker 2: I can tell by your Chimo.
Speaker 3: How you see he had a show in Mexico. He
had an apology too.
Speaker 2: How did he do that apology?
Speaker 3: He bought an ad in the Washington Post.
Speaker 4: I believe what Washington Post New York Time is one
of those big organizations, but he bought a what are
you laughing at?
Speaker 5: I just allowed was like, you had an issued apology first,
and like at this point, dumb Kanye's brought up.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what's he apologizing for?
Speaker 3: Well, he was just apologizing for everything.
Speaker 2: Yep, He's.
Speaker 3: Some crazy years.
Speaker 2: He said something about he got in the car.
Speaker 4: Acts gotten a car accident where like they had to
wire his jaws shut. But apparently he had brain damage
from the car accident that nobody ever diagnosed until like
twenty twenty three is what he was saying. But he
had a show in Mexico and people were posting videos
from it.
Speaker 3: I need to go to a Kanye show. This is
this is gonna be.
Speaker 4: Maybe controversial because of like all the stuff that he's done.
But can we like just acknowledge that he was on
a run for a while, Like what he was just
putting out incredible album after incredible album and is like
a creative genius.
Speaker 3: Sure says crazy stuff.
Speaker 2: It's like my football Kach used to say all the time, though,
what have you done for me lately?
Speaker 3: Did a show in Mexico?
Speaker 2: Show Mexico. But apparently it's the brain damage. It's not
his views on its brain culture, brain damage.
Speaker 5: But that's that's what made me laugh when a long
just like get a issued an apology first, and I
feel like that's how you should lead every Kanye.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Kanye had to apologize. I don't really take types
of people.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna apologize for anything in the future as well.
Speaker 2: Guy, He's like, let's they sold brain damage.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be my excuse for everything.
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Tyler Shuck NFL honors were last night and as expected,
tedor Rod McMillan won Offensive Rookie of the Year. He
had over a thousand yards receiving. He was the number
one receiver on a playoff team. He did it for
the entire season. He had a full season, a video
full season of playtime, and that was the big advantage. Now,
I would say, if you had a second half of
the season Offensive Rookie of the Year, it's going to
go to Tyler Shuck. He was one of the top
passers on down the back half the season, one of
the top passer ratings in the fourth quarter in the
whole NFL in the back half the season as well,
so but he did get awarded yesterday. It got a
real trophy as well. Okay, Pepsi's here, sugar.
Speaker 5: Is it a big Pepsi can, because that's a nice
opportunity If it's not.
Speaker 4: When did y'all see this great value ask polar bear
that they had out there?
Speaker 2: No Pepsi.
Speaker 3: Pepsi had a polar bear out there, Polar bear. Yes,
look it up. Tyler Schuck has a picture with this
Pepsi polar bear. They're trying to they're trying to steal
Cox thunder. We all know the polar bears Cox thing.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because of the super commerce. But why a
polar bear? Like, just pick a different bear.
Speaker 3: It might not be a polar bear. It's just a
big white bear.
Speaker 2: So the Tenner McMillan got forty one first place votes
and Tyler Show got five, so he was actually second
place in the vote. Uh, Tradon Henderson got one, Jackson
Dark got one. Those only people that got votes for
off Jackson Dark got one. He did get one. That's
been a New York guy the show. But I told
you about this today?
Speaker 1: What up?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's a polar bear man that looks
like a real polar bear head.
Speaker 5: He's got the he's got the Pepsi jean jacket one.
It's actually pretty cool jacket.
Speaker 2: That's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: The jacket is cool.
Speaker 2: The polar bear hand, well, they can't trademark a polar bear,
can they? I guess not, But they have the opportunity
next Christmas just roll out Santa.
Speaker 6: But look at this, Like the mouth, it's like it's moist.
That's the guy's tongue in the outfit. Guys, I mean
that's I mean that looks like a legit polar a
bear head and like the lips have a shine on it.
The teeth have a little yellow at the bottom like that.
Speaker 2: It's kind of weird. It's like too realistic. Yeah, that
it makes it kind of creepy.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Do we think the guy's head is actually like right here?
I mean, where's he seeing? Where is he singing out of?
Is this a real polar bear? That's what somebody in
the check is and they just kill it. Actually they
just kill it's a taxi.
Speaker 3: Where is he looking out of?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I know, Tyler Shark's kind of tall,
but I think that'd be a short polar Bear. I
still feel like it'd be a short one. Yeah, a
baby polar bear. Did they kill a baby polar bear?
Pepsi Pepsi. Well, we talked about yesterday how trash PEPs.
Speaker 3: He was out here killing baby polar bears.
Speaker 2: Oh, we got a huge story. We got an Olympic
scandal that we're going to come back with an hour
number two right here, off the bench, Off the bench,