Speaker 1: I'll start to what you want to present some off
the Bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob aber
Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: What's happening to y'all?
Speaker 3: Welcome back.
Speaker 2: Thank you DJ Trauma Gaming for a couple of super chats.
It's very kind comments about the show, but I love
this one. He say, you love the show, great hands.
The show could carry the weight of this channel. I
get on a Laundra and Taylor, but they're great, truly,
Look at that, dude. I know, Taylor, I know you've
had many run ins with DJ Trauma in the chat,
but at the end of the day, look our guy
loves you, dude, and again I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: DJ.
Speaker 2: I fully tell some of the things I said about.
Speaker 3: Some of the things. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Look, there are plenty of people in this chat that
I've had a cross word with, but I still look
upon because again I, like I said, yes, I'm very
grateful for everybody who who hangs out with us every
single day. Here is it Nookie's birthday?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Shout out? Is that right?
Speaker 5: Let me know if that's right, if it is happy birthday,
if not happy birthday, if it's not happy when your
birthday is exactly.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't know how I haven't put two
and two together.
Speaker 5: But you're not the only person that we all know
that has lived in Louisiana for a long time that
is moving to Chicago.
Speaker 3: Who else y'all have missed this as well? Where's this?
This is a good bit. Where's this going? T Bob?
And also Dennis Allen?
Speaker 6: Listen, some people are wondering if this moved to barstool
there to the story?
Speaker 2: Are you following, Dennis Allen?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean, look, y'all both lived here for like
a decade move at the same time.
Speaker 2: I did not know. I really had no clue whatsoever
where they was going. Oh, okay, you're right. Sorry, longra,
I'm all over the place right now, let's get Coach
Ena Coach Beth to Rena here on the program once
more into the frame. I apologize to that coach. I
am a bit frazzled, more disorganized than even normal, you know,
if you can believe that. But thank you once again,
coach for joining us here once again ahead of the
beginning of the NCAA tournament. How are we feeling?
Speaker 7: I'm sad. You just want song here like this is
our last one. I know, I know I need some
like extra tissue here and stuff today.
Speaker 3: I know, I uh were.
Speaker 2: I know I told you last night. But again, I
will be forever grateful that you accosted me in that
handshake line at that softball game and dressed me down
in front of everyone. Remember and and and may and
you know, basically demanded and alphaed me into bringing softball
into the fold. And you are absolutely right, You're absolutely
like sometimes in life we need our blind spots clearly
pointed out, and you were. And then I discovered the
berm and this wonderful team. Now you're getting to roast
a regional, a very intense regional. We'll get into all
of that, but yeah, it's it's crazy, coach. But again,
I just want to thank you. And I know, look
you'll continue with OTB, it's gonna be awesome. But for
me personally, when to thank you for how gracious you've
been with your time, everything you do, the teal walk,
it's it's it's incredible.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
Speaker 7: Well, thank you for supporting us and the opportunity and
you have such a cool way of like tell them
the truth but still supporting us. And it's just I
told you last night too, like you're a legend and
you always will be. But you can't run and hide
from us. We will find you.
Speaker 2: Hell that always it's Tigers for life, for life, I mean,
and I'm speaking to a legend. Selsu sopble team forty
one and fourteen year ten time elseh's winch reached forty
wins at her coach third time in a row. Now
I want to get into some of the actual let's sorty.
I'll start super positive. Your Torri Edwards se Freshmen of
the Year all time single season record hold of relsu
in slugging percentage eighty four eighteen and runs four Grand
Slams fourth and Ribby's sixth and on base percentage six
and bad and average a nine to eight eight field.
I mean, geez Tory Edwards, what a year?
Speaker 3: Coach? How do I frame a question out of this?
Like what more have you got to say? Yes? Yes? Yes?
What more do you say about your superstarng?
Speaker 7: Set me free? Set me Free? I think the coolest
thing is that the freshman class of the SEC is
incredibly strong. I mean incredibly strong. There's multiple freshmen with
double digit home runs. There's pitchers that have led their teams.
So to be the freshman of the Year in this
year's class is even more special. And I think too,
the cool thing about Toy is it's not just being
a freshman. She's one of the best players in the country.
Take her class out of it, first Team All SEC.
I know there's going to be more accolades coming forward,
but just one of the best players in the country,
you know, forget the fact that she's a freshman too.
Speaker 2: And Macy bergeron named to her first All SEC team,
Sidney Burr's on her third All SEC team. And then
how about Danica Coffee coming off of injury, grinding all
off season, picking up where she left off, making All
SEC for the second time in her career. How special
as it for you to been to be able to
watch Danica this year come back in the way that
she has.
Speaker 7: Yeah, incredible, What a great story. This year's been all
that storytelling for us, you know, and like that's such
a big part of our story. It's just how hard
she's worked to get back and what she means to
this program and this team, So all of the accolades
for her are well deserved and fun to see.
Speaker 5: Coach, I want to ask you, and one things I
always appreciate is the way that you prepare for things.
Speaker 3: It's like I used.
Speaker 5: To prepare and you try to make sure that you
get every single thing possibly cover. But when you have
a situation three teams coming into your ballpark, how do
you go about scouting? Cause you've play Southeastern this year, right,
and you've not played Nebraska, coach, but they've played Mississippi State,
they've played Tennessee, they've played UCLA teams that you've gone
against as well. So like when you're breaking everything down,
like do you go back to those games because you're like, Okay,
I know Mississippi State, I know Tennessee.
Speaker 3: I kind of know what they want to get done.
Speaker 5: Or is it just maybe you don't even think about
you playing the same teams they've played, and you scattered
the way you would anybody else.
Speaker 7: You really did your homework here this morning. Look at you, coach.
Speaker 5: You know there's a reason that a guy that looks
like me played six years in the NFL. And it's
not all the physical stuff.
Speaker 7: I think we're looking all the time to find, like
for me, using their offense to sign pitchers like ours,
so similar velocity to what we're gonna throw, So that
would require me to go back to Tennessee or to
Mississippi State or those games like that. And then on
that flip side, like how did those offenses that are
similar to ours right prepare and attack these pictures too?
So I think you're definitely right. We also look at
the most recent film too, just to see recent trends.
Things they're doing in Southeastern is tricky. You know, they
got all this short game stuff and squeeze bunt and
take feel and a million different I mean there is
a they have two hundred stolen bases this year. I
mean it's like this exactly. You've never seen a number
like this, So I mean I think, like that's the
whole game with them. But just like seeing what they've
got up their sleeve in the recent games too.
Speaker 2: And look, so the people are calling this the regional
of death. Uh, And it's not hard to see why now.
Now now I should be clear, like, look, you want whatever,
you test yourself.
Speaker 7: Remember what I said, the truth the truth telling. So
I like, how the reasonal death. But but coming right.
Speaker 2: But but I mean you all had the schedule of death.
So like if there's ever been a schedule that would
get you ready for this moment, that is it. And
there can be great confidence to be by vancing out
of this region. But I mean, you look, you got
Southeastern is the four seed, Southern Conference champions, like you
just said, it's told two billion bases. Yukon as the
three seed, Well they just won the Big East Tournament.
And then you got Nebraska, a team that has hit
ninety eight home runs, fifth in the nation, led by
Jordi Ball. One of the craziest stat lines I've ever seen.
She's twenty three and six on the mound, a sub
to eer And how about this, guys, she had not
swung the bat in years, and so she picks it
back up this season. She's hitting four fifty with nineteen
home runs. I don't know how any of that is possible.
Speaker 7: He is right, you know who she is. She's the
kid that won two national championships on the mound for Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: Yeah, from Oklahoma. Yeah, and then she transferred back to Nebraska,
and she got hurt last year, right, and then got
cut short and then came back this year. It's like,
oh swing again, Okay, sure what so again hugely challenging regional.
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 2: How are you? How are you approaching this with the
team kind of getting their mind right for this challenge?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean we can still and complain about it
all day because there are some things that really don't
add up, you know, And I mean there are some
things that really don't add up Southeastern. It's not a
four seed, you know, they're just not And like the
things that you have to do to like that you're
required to do to win that game instead of a
typical four seed game, right, like just not typical. And
then I mean full transparency. I was kind of up
the night before thinking like, all right, all these two
seeds who could be coming to bat Ruge like anybody
but in Nebraska, going through all of them, and then
we get this thing, and I'm like, all right, all right, perfect,
So I mean all you can do is just embrace
it and understand if you get through this one, or
when you get through this one, like your team's really
really battle tested and it's truly earned their way. You know,
everybody's good this time year, right, everybody that's left playing
is good. So you're gonna have to beat somebody. You're
gonna have to beat somebody at some point. So I
think that's what we've embraced with this.
Speaker 5: So the coach, I also, look, it gets it in
Tiger Park though, right, I mean, you you are the
number one seed. They got to come to you. I mean,
how exciting is it to have postseason baseball. We all
know what that place can be when it's rocking. And
so they, you know, they are saying the same things
right now that we're saying. They're like, man, we got
LSU and we got these other teams in this regional,
So I expect Tiger Park to be turned up to
an eleven whatever full tilt looks like it's going to
be that.
Speaker 7: Oh, no question, no question. There's just kind of stuff
in our favor. And you know, that's kind of what
we talk to our team about too. It's like, just
play the shirts on the other side and play ells
do softball, and you know, you've had an incredible season.
Every right to host this thing, and you've earned the
right to do it. And I think, like we just
have to believe in ourselves and you know, understand that like,
we're going to go out and play all and softball
and we can beat anybody in the country. We've proven
that we can actually beat every team in the country. Yep,
we've proven that here.
Speaker 2: So cannot wait. Guys, get out to Tiger Park this weekend.
Make it loud, make it crazy, support this team. It's
going to be a fun weekend. Coach Tarina again, as always,
thank you so much for being so gracious with your time.
I know that y'all, y'all have so many demands on
your times. It means a lot that you wake up
with this every single Thursday here and give us such
sincere and thoughtful insight.
Speaker 3: Thank you, coach.
Speaker 7: What means a lot that you've given me the time
as a part of your show too, and just the
opportunity for this program. So thanks for helping put us
on the map and keeping us there and always supporting us.
It means the world to us too. We'll be pulling
for you too.
Speaker 3: Thanks always, Go Tigers, Go Tigers.
Speaker 2: The legend Coach Beth Terina. It seems so crazy because
coach always seems so whoa Okay, I know, y'all, this
is not okay. I'm just gonna say it, coach, seems
so youthful, like an exuberant that it seems crazy to
me that you could already have ten forty wins seasons
at LSU, right like that. That's a lot, that's it's
it's actually a good point.
Speaker 3: That's a great point. That's all.
Speaker 5: I didn't know where you were going to get I
know anytime you pauls yeah for concerned.
Speaker 2: What, Well, you don't know how people are going to
take age stuff. Well, that's what I was saying, Like
just because you're leaving, that's not that is not what
I'm saying. That's not what I'm saying. Is Like I
read that stat and I kind of had to do
a double take, Like how's that possible? Already have ten
forty win seasons under your belt, three in a row.
So shout out coach.
Speaker 8: She's been here as long as I followed LSU softball.
Speaker 2: Yeah me too.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, like I was in high school.
Speaker 3: She's probably playing at Florida.
Speaker 2: Did you get the job at like twenty two?
Speaker 3: She got it? Yeah, she's not that much older than
I am.
Speaker 5: I think we might have crossed, like our college careers
might have crossed.
Speaker 2: Paths can I get a blank map of the US
brought up and Chad challenge me to point to Chicago
on the map. You can do it now, and if
I can't point to it, I'm not allowed to go.
Speaker 8: I wish that was real, because I know you're gonna
get this.
Speaker 6: Well, what's you Daniel Basha had a better idea. He goes,
why don't we just get a map change Baton Ridge
to Chicago. He'll never know, you know what?
Speaker 2: Good point? Maybe I camember somebody said, uh, good content idea.
Speaker 3: Make me drive my family up there with a like roadmap.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, GPS.
Speaker 5: Did you know coach Terarina was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois.
Speaker 2: I did not know that. You go to all right,
Oh my god, you're not doing this. I'll I don't
even know which state Illinois.
Speaker 8: Is already you're going to get there?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: Okay, you don't know what is water? What se here
hold on.
Speaker 3: Is?
Speaker 2: Okay? Okay, like what's water? And what's right there right
there in the middle, right there in the middle. I
feel that this is water. That's one of the Great lakes.
Speaker 3: I feel like this is water.
Speaker 8: Yeah, definitely the water.
Speaker 3: I just don't know is this Illinois or is this Illinois? Neither?
What wait? What did you say was Illinois? I got neither?
Speaker 2: The which one of the which one?
Speaker 3: That's Minnesota? That's Wisconsin. Yeah, sheesh.
Speaker 5: So I'm gonna guess right here, you'd be right, that's
exactly where Chicago is.
Speaker 2: I would have never gotten that right if you I
thought I thought one of these was Illinois.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, here's where you're going to be if you're
not pointed.
Speaker 2: If you had not pointed that out, I would not.
Speaker 3: You're still gonna live in Central time zone. Case you're
wondering that.
Speaker 2: Great, that's big for you for like interviews, and that's
big for us. I think I think I think Central
time Zone is the premiere I've lived in all of them.
It is, Yeah, exactly just right. It's a Goldilocks time
soon Mountain still too early, you're close Mountain, you were Mountain?
Speaker 3: What is an hour? Two hours?
Speaker 2: An hour? It's an hour one hour behind us, two
hours behind the East coast.
Speaker 8: Okay, because.
Speaker 2: It's seven fifteen right in mountains?
Speaker 5: Two hours yeah, California, it is right now, six sixteen.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, seven sixteen in mountain.
Speaker 3: There you go. Look at y'all.
Speaker 2: Yep, are you all dumb time?
Speaker 8: No, I know I didn't know mountain times.
Speaker 3: When I am.
Speaker 2: Dumb with geography, I recognize that for sure. You just
never thought about mountain time for this moment right now.
Speaker 8: No, I have no reason to know anything about mountain like.
Speaker 5: I said, I've well, no, I'm not lived in the
East Coast. I've lived in Central Mountain Pacific.
Speaker 4: Like, I couldn't even don't want to live in what
region mountain I would assume, like.
Speaker 3: Hey, Denver's in mountain time.
Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah, if I'm thinking of like what would be
mountain town like mountain time zone, I'm thinking definitely anything
in Utah, think anything in Colorado. Yeah, I'm throwing both
Dakota's in there.
Speaker 6: I think Montana wyom mean yeah, Idaho. I just think
of where the rocky mountains are.
Speaker 2: What about like New Mexico.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's about the time, right mountain there?
Speaker 2: You go, look at us, Oh, look at us all
right when we get back. I don't know exactly tv
ffter bench Christians says from a purely sports perceptive, Pacific
Times best for football season.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you gotta wake up pretty early. But I think
what he's saying, is like, you do get games all
day long. You have a nine am kickoffs all day long.
Eleven am is the perfect time I used to get
to you know, I get home from practice and the
braves would already be like in the second or third inning.
Speaker 3: I was telling you all that the other day. That
was that was good.
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Speaker 1: Hoo come in to the Best Morning Sports. This show
around off the Bench with Ester and t.
Speaker 2: Bob's that's uh, Nookie says, I fear we all of
an emotional hangover a Monday, which is completely unfair to
the new show. Uh yeah, there's a lot that's gonna
be unfair to the new show. So just asking you
everybody to be under anything kind in the switch up,
because it's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 3: You're gonna love it. It's gonna be different. You will,
You'll love it.
Speaker 2: The ship of theseus sales on.
Speaker 5: Look, I'll go ahead and get out in front of
this because the new new doesn't start until later on
the next two weeks. So next week I'll be I'll
be here, but i'll be solo. The new host won't
be here yet. And then the next week Tata is
taking over because I'll be at SEC spring meeting working
for serious ExM. But I'll be I'll be sending back
great you know, eights coaches, the whole deal back, so
Tata can play those. But the next two weeks won't
be what it's going to be. June the second will
be that. And again we'll announce kind of bigger plans
tomorrow on the show. But you know, like when I
joined this show, my man Tea Bob was in the
wilderness for a month, even though we kind of had
a plan together.
Speaker 3: So just bear with us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and and again just you know, I know that
many of y'all won't listen to this, but my request
would be, if you don't have anything kind to say,
just don't say anything and just approach you with an
open mind. Again, though Taylor, I was gonna say Taylor
and Jake are tough, it doesn't matter. I'm just saying
for my own like, just I don't know, you know,
I just don't think there's any point in doing that,
and I know that it's it's all like I said, Yes,
it's an insecure time as you're figuring out new chemistries
and chemistry is a hard thing. I mean, Jake were
pretty lucky. We had it pretty much out of the gate.
And to be fair, I think the next guy does.
I think I think they will. But it's still even
if you have the natural chemistry, it's still a process.
It's still a process.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Look, you know I built it up on my other
show with Bobby and then they made a change, and yeah,
you know, then EJ and I had to completely learn
each other. Yeah, you know, e J and I had
common people that we played for and Jimbo and like
that helped, and we tell stories and try But he,
Bob and I were very very lucky. He is not lying,
like from day one because we were teammates. We were
friends before and that doesn't doesn't happen, No, very often.
Speaker 3: No, and just a great again, just a great natural chemistry.
Speaker 2: And Jay can talk about anything sports like literally any sport,
but also anything except for Star Wars in real life, which,
by the way, guys, my god, and Or season two.
I guys, guys, guys.
Speaker 3: Did you know about Andor?
Speaker 9: Like?
Speaker 3: Is that a character? Or is that a made up character?
Speaker 2: Cassie and Andor came from Rogue one, okay, which was
the first of the Disney Star Wars movies released that
wasn't in the Skywalker Soccers. Remember they relaunched Force Awakens
and then I'm pretty sure Rogue one was next, uh,
and then they did Solo and stuff like that. But
but Rogue one pretty blood but it introduced his character
of casting Andor. And at the time, I was a
bit cooler on Rogue one than most were, although upon
another rewatch, I was I don't know what was up whatever,
I never really Yes, after further review, I ended up
really loving it, but I would have never fathomed how
I would feel about casting and Or after Tony Gilroy
got his hands on him, because this man is writing
his ass off. You know the uh you know, you
know the gift online that people use it like the
quill that's on fire where the guy's like riding on
a parchment. It's like if like that's that's the writers
of and Or season one. I was already blown away
with the head over heels in season two, episode nine.
I still have two episodes left, but eight, nine intense,
certainly nine, and I can't wait. And it's like it's
like it's like getting they do these three episode arcs,
so it's like you're getting these almost three hour movies
and everyone's good. Episode nine is some of the best television,
flat out ever I've ever watched anything ever. Blew me
away like we are entering uncharted territory when it comes
to the quality of writing with Star Wars. God, it's good.
I cannot wait to finish those final two episodes and
you don't know what it's gonna because I'm gonna watching
the baseball game tonight. But I really really want to
watch those last two unbelievable, unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Hey, you know what, baseball team, don't be selfish tonight.
Go win one for t Bob. We can't come in
here tomorrow.
Speaker 2: We need a big dub. Definitely need a big dub.
Figured it out, guys again, I'm not even putting on
the pin bats. Figure it out, Okay. See North Carolina's
staff sucks, straight up. I'm sorry they do. Look at
the numbers. It's objective. I know they're slightly better at home.
I know you struggled on the road. I know anything
can have it at baseball. I don't care.
Speaker 3: Good luck.
Speaker 2: You're the number one team in the entire country. Go
out there and beat him down. Beat him down with
the bats. Yeah, because I wouldn't be celebrating win tomorrow. Also,
I think we can bring a lot of champagne tomorrow.
Speaker 5: We have to celebrate a victory in this studio tomorrow, hopefully.
Speaker 2: To try not to drink another half of a handle
of whiskey today. I actually think you should no, no, no.
If I had to do a show with how I
was feeling Saturday morning, MM could not would.
Speaker 8: Not text us like I am so hungover to get
it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know, and normally, like you know, I'll
do some Thursday night drinking now, but I'll wake mass up,
work out would be good to go. I could not
have done that on Saturday again. Sneaky bender, sneaky bender.
You know how those work. And it's always the straight
liquor that leads to the sneaky benders. And it's always
baseball because every pitch is too stressful. And then and
then you get into that reenforcing cycle where it's like
I'm stressed, so I drink, I drink some stress and
it starts to taste better and better and better, and
it's going to one am, and then you did so yeah,
we're gonna drink some champagne on air tomorrow for sure,
for sure.
Speaker 3: Thank you, t Pat. I love this.
Speaker 2: I love this show as well. People starting to make
their co host predictions and the chat, Yeah, let's do
some odd should have had a board, we should have
had the father put a board together.
Speaker 3: Somebody said that on Twitter last night. Where we.
Speaker 2: Are we announcing tomorrow?
Speaker 5: Yeah all right, cool, Yeah, tomorrow, tomorrow is the day.
Tomorrow is the day you gotta tune in. And I
don't know when we're gonna do it in the show.
Show hadn't planned past that.
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Speaker 1: The bench with bombs?
Speaker 2: What heading y'all back to TV? The uh I'm thinking
about the Chargers schedule is still The Colts joke was
very funny. I had a race between Anthony richardson Daniel
Don and.
Speaker 3: Who's the third guy competed for the job? Riley Leonard?
Speaker 2: Yeah it doesn't matter.
Speaker 8: Uh yes, someone sorry someone?
Speaker 3: I know what I realized as you answered it like
it could not.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter, doesn't I got you odds out on
the new co host and I think they're really funny.
Speaker 2: Where like on on what on the chat?
Speaker 3: What do we got?
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, here we go? Yeah Erickel Oh wait, sorry
to finish this point so real quick?
Speaker 3: No no, no, so good.
Speaker 2: So, first off, they're highlighting how bad the quarterbacks the
cults quarterback races, which is very bad, and then in
the middle of it, Anthony Richard pulls over and abandons
the race to fight Pat McFee. So good on the
Los Angeles charges for absolutely punking the Indianapolis.
Speaker 5: Did you catch the commander's one when they were announcing
the commanders how they.
Speaker 3: All like fell on top of each other, like I
saw all the uh, yeah, I saw it.
Speaker 2: I saw like now entering their stadium, and it was
like a just awful dungeon because remember when Allen.
Speaker 3: Hurst was walking back into the tunnel, Eagles fans, oh
I for.
Speaker 2: Gleaning on the rail.
Speaker 3: They literally all fell.
Speaker 2: Yes, Okay, no, I did not. I forgot that specific reference,
but yeah, I did get that. They were just making
fun of the Commander's stadium for being just got off.
Do they from a stadium?
Speaker 3: An they're getting one? It's tea, Bob, it is bad.
I was there for Army Navy.
Speaker 2: I was like, bro, it was literally sprained sewage water
on the fans recently. Yeah, like like spitting crap legitimately
on the fans. Crazy and Snyder, you suck anyway, good
thing You're gone. All right, Alondra, give me the odds.
Speaker 7: What are the next?
Speaker 2: So tb cos Eric.
Speaker 4: Held came up with these odds in the chat. We
got Matt Flynn at minus one twenty. Okay, Rivers at
plus one fifty.
Speaker 3: Okay, already even a plus money okay.
Speaker 4: Moves at plus two fifty, okay, Hunt at plus five hundred,
Mikey Mautuk at plus eight hundred or Taylor at plus
twelve hundred.
Speaker 8: Hey, I feel like we should have like better odds.
Speaker 2: Whatever I was about to say, I am deeply offended.
Speaker 4: Plus twelve hundred is kind of crazy. Another former LSU
athlete plus fifteen hundred, which you have to already in there.
But Jacques do say plus two thousand Field plus twenty
five hundred.
Speaker 2: Okay, I like, I mean, I like, I like the list.
The list is there's a couple of names that are
not on the list that have been discussed, and there's
a couple of names at vice versa. Yeah, but uh yeah,
pretty good odds Taylor and Landra. The disrespect I know, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I agree with that. I mean, Taylor's literally hosting the
show for an entire week too, like like coming up here,
and he's done it in a week A lot of
weeks before.
Speaker 8: Shout out coach, Hell though, shout.
Speaker 4: Out coach Hellelle coach where did he go Coachella.
Speaker 8: High School? Remember which one?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 2: Coach helda here get coach school forever.
Speaker 3: Forever?
Speaker 2: Oh hell yeah, dude, I was just trying to make
a bad coach e yah hard, very hard. It's kept like.
Speaker 3: It's really slamming my head against the wall.
Speaker 4: So this one, I think, so Jordan, I heard Jordan
Jefferson is taking Tea Bob's job because they fought in
the locker room at halftime.
Speaker 3: Oh, you probably gonna.
Speaker 2: Tell the story tomorrow, Yes, tomorrow. What happened on January ninth,
eight am? Me my wife were talking about this though
it is actually academically fascinating in terms of studying the
human psyche. How much the questioning of that day immediately
stopped when el She won the Natty in nineteen and
great trades a bit of time as well. Right the
farther you get some way, But but I was still
asked pretty freaking consistently.
Speaker 8: So excuse me, but.
Speaker 4: Part of my ignorance, I don't really get the question,
like what's I don't know the context behind, like the
halftime joke.
Speaker 2: So in the in that game I did not play.
I don't know why. I mean, I I do know why.
In that the coaches, I think just thought that Wilford
was a better option. I vehemently disagree with that. I
guess the reason why I say I don't know why
is because I had no indication that was going to
be the case.
Speaker 3: Leading up to the game, You've been practicing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the same thing I did all year. I mean,
listen what they freaking did to me, dude, I'm having
you know, we're in a classic Less Miles Natty prep,
which is let's just do camp again. And I'm doing
two plays at left guard, two plays at center, two
plays at right guard, two plays out I mean, a
freaking three to one into out do it a tabata
and yeah, so and then what I've been doing all year,
it's all good, you know. And I started every game
blah blah, and so I was like, okay, and then
I just didn't play.
Speaker 3: So I would have loved side because it was it
was the most.
Speaker 2: Emotionally challenging experience I'd ever been through up to that point.
Speaker 3: Which maybe that's, you know, a point of privilege.
Speaker 2: It's like, assume things that I had an easy life,
but but it was, it was it was very I
mean again, it embittered me for years. It was a
poison that seeped into my bones that was not alleviated
until I finally talked to a coach sud about it
years and years later. Yes, people think that.
Speaker 8: You didn't play because you fought Jordan Jefferson during halftime or.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so so I didn't play. Jared didn't play, okay.
And then in the post game, my father had a
very aggressive line of questioning I don't believe that coach Miles,
in which he had a you know, and he gets
into his kind of law. I mean, as all play,
just pull it.
Speaker 8: Up, just pull it up, Okay, I want to hear this.
Speaker 2: He starts questioning why Jared didn't play, okay, and and
it's this whole kind of testy exchange and basically like
you didn't make any you didn't do anything, and all
these disparate elements combined to create a conspiracy that I
didn't play because like there's a bunch right because like
me and Jordan got in a fight in the locker
room before the game, or that like I or.
Speaker 3: Then I went up and went like Rudy style, like
put my jersey.
Speaker 2: On the desk, like I'm not playing unless Jarrett players,
blah blah blah, like like all these sorts of crazy
stuff I've heard ones about, uh, you know George's and
the Casuto part not. I mean, I think fine bombs
even tried to say that, like get out of here, Paul.
Speaker 5: Jared.
Speaker 2: I've heard about like rooms, about like Jarrett hooking up
with like it's just crazy. It's just crazy.
Speaker 8: A bunch of coracies.
Speaker 2: But the one that caught fire and and the people
seemed to lean into was that I was the cause
of some sort of revolt which caused me.
Speaker 3: To be bent so like a.
Speaker 8: Like a team, the team was revolting against.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and I was at the head of a coup.
Speaker 8: I loved it.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't remember many games like going that I wasn't
playing in. I remember everything about that.
Speaker 2: Which is funny because I remember nothing about it. Yeah,
I blacked it out.
Speaker 5: I sat next to former LSU star Lewis Coleman, and
let me tell you something, that man loves LSU football
more than I do.
Speaker 3: He was pissed it it was.
Speaker 2: It's a fascinating personal experience to go through because I've
never I I never knew what it was like to
experience when you know the truth and nobody believes you
that you're telling the truth, to the point where then
I would question, like you were getting did I miss something?
Like did some drama happen? That I was not aware of.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's not unlike I don't know if you
said this on air off air, but I don't think
you care about the Texas de Brazil story.
Speaker 2: I was actually just thinking that I had like thirty seconds.
It's not unlike that, Hey, did.
Speaker 3: I helicopter in Texas? The only the only different is
we're saying it.
Speaker 2: The only difference is in the January ninth stuff. I
know I didn't do anything. I just started to wonder
did I miss some outside drama somehow because everybody's saying stuff.
But here was the question to coach Miles in the
post game.
Speaker 9: Coach, did you ever consider bringing it generally considering that
you weren't taking any changes down the field. I know
Alabama's defense is dominant, but come on, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Five first down.
Speaker 9: I mean, so it's almost approach. I'm gonnall you from
the fans standpoint that how could you not maybe you
push the ball down the field and bringing a general
lya so what if you get a pick six? It
seems like the game plan that you were not pushing
the ball down the field. Considering that it's like a
Ruben Randall Odell Beckham junior. Now, I know the pass
rusher of Alabama, but there's no reason why the five
first downs. I mean, they are a great defense. LS
is a great defense, but.
Speaker 2: That's what they can do.
Speaker 9: You have a question, No, that's the question. Do you
think you should have pushed the football more downfield?
Speaker 10: I think if you watch our calls that we did
to the football down the field, we didn't necessarily get
the football down the field. And I can tell you
that the pass rush, we did consider it, surely, and
but we felt like with the pass rush that we
were getting that we needed a guy that could move
his feet and you know, not sustain you know, you
know that pass rush.
Speaker 3: That is the question.
Speaker 2: Hearing that answer again ridiculous.
Speaker 6: I remember, so I was. I was a sophomore in
high school when y'all played that game. So, like, obviously
I heard so many crap rumors, right, yeah, the one
about the fight. The story that I had originally heard
was the offensive line wanted Jared Lee, the receivers wanted
Justin Jordan Jefferson or vice versa, you know, whichever, and
the whole line and the fight happened at halftime eleven line.
It was until years later that I had heard that
one t Bob Abart like started the whole thing. But
like the initial thing that I had heard was like
the O line wanted Lee, the receivers wanted Jefferson or
vice versa, and then that's how the fight started at halftime.
Everything was good going into the game, and then at
halftime that's when everything.
Speaker 2: So, I mean, there was no it's it's so dumb, like,
like there was no allegiance one way or another for
the game. Both quarterbacks had had really key roles in
that season, Like Jarrett was so awesome for the majority
of the season, but we don't win the Alabama game
if Jordan doesn't come in. Jordan's of difference in that
game in Tuscaloosa, right, So, like both quarterbacks had their
moments the regulars. Right now, I think where coach Miles
screwed up was after that Alabama game just kind of
making it a full time switch and not doing as
much of a platoon or two quarterback system as you
should have done. Like I think that was kind of
the big mistake. But yeah, no, it's it's and the
game playing going in Alabama was awful.
Speaker 5: The work the defense was able to still get done
knowing offensively how bad it was.
Speaker 3: That tells you just how elite that defense was.
Speaker 2: Relishyit it just again, you know, with the benefit of hindsight, guys,
these things can become a bit clearer. It was Nick
Saban against Less Miles with a month to prepare, with
two evenly matched teams. It was never gonna work out.
It was never gonna work out. And I don't mean
that to be overly disparaging to coach Miles, because, as
I've written about at length in the past, he was
the architect some of the best experiences of my life.
And it's like anything else in life, you have agreements
and disagreements. But I also give him credit for again
being responsible for making me a part of these teams
that defined my life. But we practiced the option for
a month straight like that was the game plan, different
forms of the option. I think Alabama wasn't ready for that.
The one thing we had success within and I was
bought into the game plan, to be clear, and that's
the other thing is nobody's trying to rock the boat.
Then he's trying to rock the boat or cause any drama.
Now I will say there is one piece of end
game story that would lend credence to maybe some rumors
like that, where are they go in the second half.
I do know of a player who got on the
headset and did ask know, maybe we should try Jarrett coach,
and he was told to just shut the f up
and block.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 2: So but even then, when I want to be really
clear in it is not on Jordan, it is on
the game plan. Nobody could have had success. Uh in
Jordan's shoes. You're telling me that you're you're you're having
your quarterback go up against that Alabama defense and they
know exactly what you're doing. I mean they're literally pointing
to the holes that you're running the ball in like
they knew through and through.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh, it's just yeah, we got lucky to win game
one and with a rematch in a month, and we
didn't say a chance.
Speaker 8: And that also kind of just feels like a typical
coach player dynamic where.
Speaker 4: You're like, hey, coach, maybe we should try this and
the coach is like, yeah, all right, yeah exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So so that doesn't even feel conspiratorial to me.
Speaker 2: I was not the player I had on the head set.
Speaker 3: Are you crazy.
Speaker 2: I wasn't even playing the guy the cachety get on
the headset. Yeah, God, talking about furiating. I don't like brand.
Speaker 5: Like Brandon points out in the chat, Honestly, at the
end of the day, you know whose fault it is.
Speaker 3: Oklahoma State.
Speaker 2: Yeah, losing that Friday night game to Hiowa State, Yeah,
would have smashed. I've hated Oklahoma State since that.
Speaker 3: I'll never like him again.
Speaker 2: According to Uh.
Speaker 6: According to Gundhy, Oklahoma State wins that game forty five
forty two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've heard Gundy says, yeah, yeah, good forty five.
Speaker 3: On that forty five forty two.
Speaker 2: Y'all did not have the offensive firepower to hang with
Brandon Wheaton.
Speaker 3: Guys.
Speaker 2: The only thing is I will say that y'all legend
the offense. We were really sputtering at the end. I mean,
we didn't get a first half, we didn't get a
first down in the first half against Georgia. Well, we
kept doing this thing, retiring would make a huge play
and then we'd pop off.
Speaker 6: But like I was, Uh, I was at the Arkansas game.
That's when y'all still played Arkansas last game of the year.
Y'all had nothing going there. I had the big power
turn there, y'all scored, Jordan had a seventy yard run, yeah,
fourteen fourteen.
Speaker 2: Then y'all rolled after that. But I mean it was
three games in a row that y'all were sputtering. No,
I know, I know, that's what I'm saying, because he
made the full time switch. Yeah, and he shouldn't have.
He should have been in platoon. You should have been
two quarterbacks anyway. Whatever, let's go to break more into
me next. God, he's some annoying memories in some ways.
Speaker 3: Ah, but you still have a natty though, Yeah, yeah,
you still have one. A lot of people that lost
that game didn't.
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Speaker 1: Back to off the bench where the takes are hot
and the sports talk is questionable.
Speaker 2: So, uh, Taylor, I want you to get into the
anecdote that you just said, because one that I heard
and Big Wes neighbors told me this and he would know,
is that Nick Saban had a sports psychologist study LSU
and that what the psychologist said was that looked very
clearly Tyron Matthew is the head of the snake. If
you can demean him in front of the team like everything,
you know, the body will follow. Cut off the head, right,
and they did that right. When you think about how
they attacked Tyrany, it was against the sideline.
Speaker 5: He was like, right, God, ready to make the player.
They would just yet they would make the bigger. It
was a good thrown some carea or whatnot. So so
so they purposely had a play in meeting. But Taylor,
real quick, what did you just tell me?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna have to find it.
Speaker 6: Mccaren was on a podcast last fall and he was
saying that when Sabin lost LSU in twenty eleven, he
became obsessed with LSU and like he had hired a
guy and his sole job on staff was to watch
the LSU or Alabama tape make notes. He would meet
with Saban every day after practice. When he was done,
he would go watch the tape again. He goes, he
basically did that from November all the way leading up
to the championship. He goes, Saban became obsessed with it.
And I mean, and that's why Nick Saban is who
he is.
Speaker 2: We practiced in Indie, right, you know, speed option, readout power.
We just practiced the option. And he's got sports psychologist
studying the team. He's got somebody who he hired to
autistically study this single game film.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 2: That just I mean, that's what we're talking. That's what
I mean, though, when I'm saying, in hindsight, can't we
accept that it's just again, it's not even a super
it's not attackings coach Miles. That's why Nick Savan's the
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