Speaker 1: Oh, good morning, Lucy.
Speaker 2: I hope everybody's having a great morning here on this Wednesday,
March twelfth, twenty twenty five, March twelfth, a day which
means a lot to me because it is Isaiah Ryder's birthday.
It also happens to be my little brother's birthday. So bo,
if you're out there listening, happy birthday, brother, have a
great one. Good luck in the can. He's grinding for
a little small sliders up in Saint Louis nowadays kicking
ass and I'm proud of you and I love you.
Happy birthday, brother. What's going on though, guys? Is gonna
be a great Wednesday show for you today? Though if
I didn't believe that, I would say that anyway. So
you can't really trust me, now, can you? No? But
what can you trust your own digestion ingestion of the show.
So the only way you're going to figure out whether
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you can hang out chat via for YouTube, chet all
that good stuff. It's very fun. All of our old
friends there will welcome in Jake. In a second, he
is getting his mic setup. We realized as we started
streating down a microphone. Turns out that is uh one
of the kind of main pieces of equipment when it
comes to doing radio. There is Wakey, Wakey, Eggs and Jake,
how are we doing today? Doing well?
Speaker 3: You know they always talk about everyone listens in like
ten to twelve minute intervals.
Speaker 2: Of like any kind of radio show. I don't know.
I think a morning shows a little different.
Speaker 3: Let me look a lot of homies on YouTube that
hang out the whole time, especially like if you live
in a city with the traffic of a Baton rouge,
You're not getting out of carpool in twelve minutes.
Speaker 2: You got to listen.
Speaker 3: Certainly at the start of the show, we got you
for like twenty eight minutes.
Speaker 2: I know, I feel like, I mean, you know, I
know it's some traffic like doing carpool and stuff, but
I feel like for most of my professional career I've
kind of dodged it given the times that we were
on the road. But nowadays I dropped the kids off
a carpool and then I've been having to immediately turn
around at like four o'clock and head back down here
to get the office through the room show. And so
I am learning now what many of you deal with
every single day, and if we can be some part
of alleviating that, that will be our continued goal to
make you laugh, make you have fun. And yeah, and
if you ever do want to be one of the
real sickos that's in there all three hours. Again, we
got a lot of homies in the UTB to like, literally,
I feel like these are like all my best friends
that I hang out with every day. YouTube basically feels
like cheers, even though I've never really seen cheers, but
I do know the idea of cheers right the bar
where everybody knows your name, it's your it's your warm
cozy spot that you go that's comfortable every single day.
And it's uh, it makes me very happy to see
all these familiar names in there every single day. Uh Aldre,
what's up girl? How are we doing today?
Speaker 4: What up doing well?
Speaker 2: So you're talking that ish on Posatani on Twitter yesterday,
feeling yourself I felt glock going, it did feel.
Speaker 4: Incredible, felt amazing.
Speaker 2: Taking borderline thirsty selfies, talking trash on Phil what's going
on how are we doing today?
Speaker 4: Doing great? I feel good? Also p s A. We
all okay?
Speaker 1: So we live like in this area where we live
in this era where like everybody has like stuff out
in their house on like you know, like flags politics,
like you know, they have stuff on their house that
like people on their sleeve, and you know my neighbors
happen to be people that do that as well.
Speaker 4: And just a p s A.
Speaker 1: How do yeah, pissa, I don't care like what you like,
I don't care, right, but don't like come up to
our house and start talking to us and calling us traders.
Like somebody came up to us and was like you're
a trader, and we're like, all right, bro, I've never
gone up to somebody's house that had signs that I
didn't agree without in it and like started going off
on them. So like, everybody just mind your business and
will be good. You know, like you don't have to
agree with everybody all the time, and that's fine. It
just don't like come to my house unprovoked and start
calling us traders like a nine year old outside I.
Speaker 2: Know, and I hesitate to say this because all the
kind of centrist we can we took to be to
any more. Talk is so tired and old. Well, no exactly,
but that's the thing. But it is true. Like the
second you allow your entire identity to be defined by
that and you can no longer even hang out with
a person who who feels differently, well, then you you've
probably crossed your.
Speaker 1: Own feel the need to like, unprovoked go up to
somebody's house, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Some people, they it becomes so wrapped up in everything
that they are that uh that that it they feel
like a literal conviction. And I and I felt that
in the past when I was a bit less apathetic,
a bit less cynical, a bit more full of hope. Uh,
I felt that in the past as well. So I mean,
I get there, I've been there, but I'll be damned
if I'm not ground down to just an absolute nub
of of of just accepting that just a freaking not
even a drop of water in the tides. Yeah, I
mean nothing.
Speaker 1: Like obviously I have strong opinions. You literally call me Magalandra,
but I don't care enough to like go up to
somebody's house and be like, oh take that down.
Speaker 2: I would I would say that our views do not align. Yeah,
in the slightest and sometimes we debate them here, all
fair and fo that, but it's not like but we
still love each other hang out.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm gonna stop talking to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly exactly, it doesn't. But your opinions are trash.
Magolanda's very clear about that. Uh, Taylor Teal? What's going on? Babies?
How are we doing? If I know? I know, I know?
If you don't know why I'm calling him Taylor Teal.
I got a little sneak peek from my robic son
of a tea bot tweet coming later that will explain
the joke a bit further and probably a joke that
should only be really explained in the third hour of
the show. Speaking of listening to all three hours, heyday,
what's up.
Speaker 5: Dude, what's going on? So you know, you and I
had this conversation before the show. I had I actually
honestly did not know what Bonnie Blue looked like like
her actual like appearance. I told you, like I I
had heard an audio clip of her on a podcast,
but it wasn't any video associated.
Speaker 2: It's like talking that how chronically online you are that yours.
Speaker 5: I'm only does I'm saying, I'm only really on TikTok.
So I guess you just didn't never popped up in
my algorithm. But I will admit we look similar. You
made that joke and you were like, Tyler, this isn't
even a photoshop picture. That's what she actually looked like.
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, let me look dissimilar.
Speaker 5: We could be relative. You could be like, yeah, yeah,
we we we do look somewhat similar. So that was
an interesting way to get the day started. I guess
we're all moving in slow motion because I like literally
did and set Jake's mic up. And the funniest thing
about it is we were actually all in here like
five minutes before the show, just chit chatting.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, just no, look, don't put that, don't put that.
Move so on me. I feel great back in the flow.
After Disney Evolve wetcheck Wednesday, already in the books, I
got an MRI I lined up to try to stop
this ever deepening pain in my shoulder. I'm pretty excited
for this hump day.
Speaker 1: I'm just this question sorry, because it's so we keep
getting questions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so we keep.
Speaker 1: Getting questions about Spotify. We got taken off of Spotify
due to copyright issues, but we did come up with
a solution to not get copyrighted again, and we're trying
to get back on Spotify, So just be a little patient.
You can find it on everything else, though, Like you
can find it on Apple pot or.
Speaker 4: What is it? Apple podcast?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Apple, You.
Speaker 1: Can find it on YouTube, you can find it on
our website. You can listen on demand on one of
four five ESPN dot com. So, yeah, we are off
of Spotify right now, but we're trying to get back on.
Speaker 2: I wonder this is not a conversation that needs to
happen on air, but I wonder why some of the warnings.
Speaker 1: Behind Okay okay, yeah, okay, yeah, okay, I can tell
you the story.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, good, you can fill me in a
bit later, Yeah says Yeah. Goggie says, going up to
someone's house and screaming at them is definitely the move
to bring them over to your side. Yeah, Sue. I
think that's one of the things that's also just led
to my cynicism is nobody changes their mind about anything.
We're all stuck in all of our algorithmic bubbles where
all we do is have all of our opinions reinforced
by evidence. And I'm using evidence in air quotes because
it's just evidence that agrees with stuff that you want
to hear, and so nobody's mind is getting changed. It
doesn't matter, dude, Just treat people nice.
Speaker 1: You know, like minding your business is so easy.
Speaker 2: I mean to be fair, Yes, it is easy to
not go over and yell at your neighbor about a
Trump or.
Speaker 3: I don't get any political stuff in my algorithm right now.
And this conversation is going to screw me. U phone's
gonna hear y'all talking. You're gonna mess me up.
Speaker 5: Wait a minute, This was not somebody in your neighborhood.
This was somebody driving by. Yeah, just how on the
hinge that you're just cruising right? You got the pretty
trees on a Launder Street hanging road, like it's it's
a nice drive, and like you're just so enraged at
a sign or a flag or whatever you feel the
need to get out, like that's a problem.
Speaker 2: I don't, I don't disagree.
Speaker 5: Like I look from someone who almost had a bad
case of road rage last night. Mine was justified. This
one was not.
Speaker 2: How do you how do you not quantify? How do
you defined? Almost have almost had a bad case.
Speaker 5: There wasn't anybody to yell at.
Speaker 2: So what happened?
Speaker 5: So okay, So this was again, this was not my fault.
This was whoever decides to work on the roads in
our state of Louisiana. They just do a phenomenal job
of shutting down the interstate to one lane at eight
o'clock at night. Decided to do that.
Speaker 2: Nobody's on the road at eight o'clock.
Speaker 5: Well, I set in traffic for thirty minutes, so I
beg that I was dead stop. Yeah, dead stopped. I
was on the road. And also here's the worst part.
Speaker 2: Do you know what?
Speaker 5: The only vehicle on the road was the damn dude
putting out the orange cones. There was no construction. There
was not a single construction truck. I go down that
raid all the time though there's nothing that needs fixing.
They're not fixing anything. Why are you setting up cones
and you go from three lanes down till one eat
o'clock at night? I don't know, maybe do that, I
don't know. Midnight when like nobody's on the road, there's
a thought. This is just just an idea, just throwing
that one out there.
Speaker 2: So you were you were, you were tiffed. You were
miffed at the not at a singular person, but just
at the idea that you would you would choose to
do this?
Speaker 5: Why why would you do that? Also, it caused the
rat Do you want to point that out? It caused
the rat because people are trying to change lanes at
last minute because they're idiots, and somebody hid somebody else
from behind. Then they had to pull over, and I'm like, cool.
I hope putting out the orange cones and sit in
one cop car there to block things off was worth it.
Hope that was worth it.
Speaker 2: I had a similar moment recently where I was trying
to rush home. I had to get to an event
with my It was a dance is after after Rous's
on a Friday. We had the Daddy daughter dance. I
really wanted to be home by X time because I
wanted to take her out to eat before we went
to the dance. And I've never see anything like this.
I should have filmed it, but instead all I did
was lean my head out the window and repeatedly yell,
what in the f are y'all doing?
Speaker 5: That's what I wanted to do.
Speaker 2: Are y'all dumb? This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen.
They had a home on a flatbed, on a big
eight miller flatbed, and they're going down Perkins right there
Perkins Seagan, where there's a bunch of trees crowding this
two lane road. The flatbed is extended outside of both
lanes and they have five or six workers on top
of the house as it's moving with chainsaws, cutting down
branches so the tree can get through. At it's five
pm on a Friday. It was unbelievable. I ended up
taking the minivan off roading on a sidewalk through some
trees to get into a parking lot that connected my
neighborhood to get in, and as I was going by them,
I just repeatedly telling them, this is the dumbest thing
I've ever had, what the hell are you doing? And
of course a lot of like fews, there was every
yelling at them. Everybody's yelling, and I'm like, these guys
can't do anything about it. I mean, they could have
chose a different route. I mean, I'm talking about the
boots on the ground. I'm not talking about whoever made
the high level decisions. I'm talking about the poor guy's
boots on the ground who are sitting on top of
a moving home having to actively cut down branches to
clear a path for this house. It was just a
bad idea that they got caught in the middle of
poor guys.
Speaker 5: Speak speaking of speaking of all that, while we're on
the topic, yesterday in the roundabout at Walker, an eighteen
wheeler going too fast turned over shut it down for
four hours.
Speaker 2: Oh and it sucks you because roundabouts are such wonderful
solutions to traffic normally, but I've never been it, That's
what I say. I've never thought about like an accident
happening around about your your.
Speaker 5: Cook because they are turned over blocks both lanes. Like
you should have to write a public like apology to every
person that had to sit there for four hours because
you were a moron.
Speaker 2: Why did moron? Uh? He was really going fast.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so that's the problem.
Speaker 2: Right to flip an eight wheeler hit a right a roundabout.
It's not a fast thing. You're supposed to keep traffic movie,
But yeah, it's like generally everybody gets under an acceptable
speed and you kind of work with each other's like
a ballet of sorts. This guy was coming in there
just Benny diesel swinging and slanging.
Speaker 5: I saw I saw one happen one time, and like
the driver gets out and he's like, I just I
don't I don't know what happened. I'm like, you know what,
You're right. My vehicle randomly flips over twice a week
because I feel you just it's just one of those
things we can't prevent. Clearly, it wasn't your fault.
Speaker 2: Oh man. Uh anyway, be nice to your fello neighbor.
Guys all right? Coming up next are your person you're
driving by their house? Right? Or be nice to the
person that's having to put out cones to block a
road because it's just doing his job. Nice. Yes, yes,
all right. When we get back, let's go ahead and
talk to sports and get this show started. Off the bench.
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Stavage looks coo baby. All right, So last night a
couple of great games on the diamond, and we'll salt,
we'll salt. We'll start with Beth Tina's squad. As don't
look now, but LSU softball is on fire. Normally LSU
UL is one of those is highly competitive, two of
the better teams in the entire country. H UL going
to last night coming off of a win over Alabama,
and well, last night you all got introduced to Heavener,
who dominated and the bats dominated LSU, the number four
team in the country. Of the score six in the first.
They end up with a fourteen zero five in Mercy game.
It's their fourth consecutive five inning win. It's there eleventh
on the season. They won nine in a row. They're
twenty four and one on the year. And Heavener was
a couple of outs away from doing a no hitter.
I mean this LSU softball team again, conference plays what's
going to decide all and it's an incredible conference as
all ways, But this LSU softball team looks different this year.
Speaker 5: Think about how good Heavener is. She threw a one
hit shutout and like just kind of seems run of
the mill at this point. Yeah, and like to your point,
like I actually had to do the game last night.
Hitch he gave up was like a single in the fifth,
and like it was the last one team, it doesn't
matter like its a single in the fifth, But I mean,
you know you're going through it and you're like, hey,
she hadn't given up any hits. You're like, oh, I
mean we've seen this multiple times this year, Like that's
just how good she's been.
Speaker 2: It definitely looks different.
Speaker 3: I mean, they they've got what one loss on the season,
They've played some really good teams, They've beaten a top
five team already this year, and so now they get
a chance to go into SEC play going against a
Kentucky at home. Now, as we know, like in SEC softball,
everybody's good and everybody always makes the tournament. But I mean,
you know you're better than Kentucky. Like Kentucky's twenty third
in the country. You're fourth in the country, so and
you're at home, so you have that advantage. And I
think that's great for them to be able to kind
of build an SEC play with an opponent that I
would be surprised if they don't take at least two
of three, and so they're gonna have an opportunity to
kind of create that momentum, keep that momentum going as
they head into SEC play and then they go to
Georgia in their second series. And so all signs are
pointing to this being like a championship level softball team.
Speaker 2: I agree, And so it pairs nicely then with what
looks like it could be a championship level baseball team.
As last night in their final tune up before conference
play starts this week and against Miszoo in the box,
LSU Baseball absolutely blows away Xavier kochie Riley with a
great stat in Today's Times Picky un The Advocate, as
well Nold dot Com wherever you get quote the second
largest lead through the first three innings since twenty fourteen,
So the second largency that had the firs three innings
in a decade. As LSU hung seventeen by the end
of the third seven three seven, Curial, Bear Pearson, Brown
Reeves all had multi hit games, final score eighteen to four,
seven innings, and this team looks ready. I have a
question I don't want to post to you all in
a minute, but takeaways from last night's game and really
the preseason in general up to this point.
Speaker 3: I mean, I would just say the depth of this
LSU baseball team that we talked about, and we could
talk about it as much as we we have, there's
certain seasons we've talked about it and it hasn't been
the case. The depth that we thought was there just
wasn't there. But this one was different because of what
you brought in through high school recruiting, through the transfer portal.
You got so many people through high school recruiting that honestly,
you never thought would be on campus. And that's an
added benefit. I mean, we're talking about guys that you
thought for sure, we're going to be in the minor
leagues right now, and so, okay, well what do you
do with that depth? And well, they've done a lot
with it, and they've had multiple players that have had
great runs already here in this young season and now
gives you the opportunity to really create what you feel
like is going to be a mismatch for your opponent,
and you got so many different puzzle pieces that you
can play with. Now you have to figure out, you know,
a core group of guys. Certainly as you head into
conference play, you don't want to be, you know, tinkering
too much. But so far, Jay's done a really nice
job of figuring out who needs to be where, and so, like,
I'm excited to see where all this depth can kind
of go as you go into conference play and it
kind of tightens a little bit. You probably could three
or four players that have been getting pinch hits or
maybe they've been a defensive sub well that that might
go away. But you've got a really good core group
to choose from depending on who's on the mound or
whoever for the other team.
Speaker 2: So, speaking of tinkering, that's the question I wanted to
ask Alandra Tanner Reeves. Is he your third baseman going
into conference play? He started five games in a row
there braswell of course started the season there, but he's
been struggling at the plate. Reeves Reeves has been doing
anything but struggling at the plate. In fact, last night
closes out the scoring with a nice little grand slam
to push from thirteen to thirteen. Is Tanner Reeves the
third baseman going into conference play?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he has to be.
Speaker 1: And you know, like I love Michael Braswell, and I
think he has We've seen it. He has a lot
of potential and he's great at third base, but the
bats just not doing what he was doing last season.
So if Tanner Reeves is out there producing grand slams
like that and every time he's been was that like
his second home run? I think he's hit one already.
Speaker 2: Did I read second and four days? Yeah?
Speaker 1: He hit when this pass?
Speaker 4: So yeah he Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean Tanner Reeves I think has to be your
third baseman, uh, coming into SEC play, just because he's
been more productive at the plate than Michael Braswell has been.
Speaker 2: And as far as Braswell goes, I look, I can
empathize here in terms of Okay, you're senior, you were
such key piece last year, you come back this year,
and now right at the edge of conference play, you
kind of find yourself on the outside looking in. That
is a very tough spot mentally to be that could
be very demotivating. But the worst thing that Michael Braswell
could do right now would be to allow that to happen.
And you have to really lock into that mantra that
we've heard Jay Johnson talk about, big we, little me
and because your time's gonna come, Like this is a
sport in a game with ebbs and flows, where who
knows how Reeves does when you suddenly jump in a
conference play, Because wasn't that one of the big separating
factors with Braswell, like he struggled to actually last year
out of conference you got into SEC play and his
bat was one of the most consistent towards.
Speaker 5: The end of the year. He was your what top
three four hitter on the team.
Speaker 2: Yes, So just all he can do is keep the
blinders on head And this goes for anybody who's upset
with their playing time right now, but especially the upper
Classic because that's kind of a tough that hurts a
little more. But you keep your head down, keep the
blinders on, you keep working, You trust your process, and
your moment will come and if if you've handled things
well and correctly. It's not to say that you're guaranteed
going to succeed in the moment, but you give yourself
the best chance of succeeding in the moment, and that's
that's what Braswell and anybody else needs to do well.
Speaker 1: That's a good point about like he did really well
an SEC play last season.
Speaker 4: Though, it is like, you got to think they're.
Speaker 1: Used to SEC level competition because even before he came
to LSU, he was at South Carol and then people
like Tanner Reeves and like the new people coming from
the Juco's and the freshmen they're us. Yeah, you talk
about they're used to the competition that we're playing now.
So it could be just, you know, you got to
get back into your swing of things, and right now
Tanner Reeves is facing competition that he's used to seeing.
So it might be like, Okay, we get into SEC
play and Michael Braswell ends up doing better than Tanner Reeves.
Speaker 4: We don't know.
Speaker 2: I agree, I agree, We'll see now. I hope that's
not the case, because these bats are so hot right now,
not in the Brasil specifically, but just that these you
know that all these new guys aren't just taking advantage
of seeing uh that and everything doesn't fall off a clip.
I don't expect it. Well, of course there's gonna be
a regression, because there's gonna be a regression. Go look,
we laid it out yesterday. Look at the overall records
of all SEC teams. Everybody's a seventeen and one eye.
Exactly what you do? Guys, you never wanna you never
it might should I even say that? I've been being
accused of being a mush all out of time lately. Yes,
so you don't what what does that mean? Kind are
what does that mean? Are you big mush? Okay okay,
yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Instead of blaming the athletes,
how about you blame me? Sure?
Speaker 1: That makes it well umsat Canada and hockey and then
we did the whole free birth thing and they lost.
Speaker 2: That's not my fault.
Speaker 5: They did start that, Todd McDavid's fault.
Speaker 2: But also, like Ibu, I loath the idea of a mush.
It's it's it's like my wife clowning. You know. Years ago,
do you ever heard a conversation after Big l SU
come back football win, two bros talking and what I
was like, dude at halftime, I went a change into
the shirt that I wore last week, and like everything changed.
It's like, okay, yes, exactly, thank you. That that is
what I mean.
Speaker 3: You did not cut your hair or beard in the
nineteen season because of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's uh well no, so you know what that
became not my personal belief, but God helped me. I
knew if I cut it and then LSU lost the
amountain rap that I would get. I was like, no, no, no, no,
no chance am I opening myself up to that level
of attack. I could see Nookie and everybody else like
look of Fonds and said it's his last year, t Mush.
I could see everybody just waiting to pounce on me
like like a like a like their vultures, and I'm
a freshly dead carcass. Not today, guys, not today, el,
you should sweep this weekend? Oh my god, do you
remember last year swept? We had.
Speaker 1: We had somebody from Mississippi State on and he was
like basically like, oh yeah, Mississippi State's not that good.
Speaker 2: Yes, And we were like this, he's playing awesome, you
are gonna come out there whoop that ass. And well,
little did we know, even though again though we were
being kind of willfully ignorant because the red flags were there.
They were in out of conference play unlike this year,
and we ignored the red flags out of just sheer
belief and we quickly learn now credit to that team
how they ended up finding their way. But this year
does feel different, the same way that softball feels different.
This year baseball feels different this year.
Speaker 4: I don't even have the runners left on base concern.
Speaker 2: Again, they're going to leave a lot of runners on
because they put a lot of runners on, so be
careful falling into too many traps there. And now there's
gonna be nights where that does happen and you only
score one or two and it's very frustrating. But overall, yeah,
I don't think that's going to be a big issue
with this team. All right, So there it is. Man
very excited, will continue to I think maybe tomorrow do
like a like a Mazoo preview. I mean, we know
they're eight and eight, they're lasting the SEC. They're by
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to O tb eronnes Wednesday. I hope you're
having a good one. Bomb New Orleans Saints getting active
yesterday in free agency. Do we want to start with
the good, the bad or the ugly. The good. I
would say the good is signing Justin Reid, chief safety,
Louisiana native, brother of Eric Reid, seven year starter all
seven years he's been in the NFL, A man who's
won championships with Kansas City. He's twenty eight years old,
in his physical prime there and it's a solid value deal.
Three years, thirty one and a half million, twenty two
to five guaranteed you lose Will Harrison free agency. You
reworked Tyrant's contract yesterday and again shout out the time
everyon'll get into his contract, and a bit the man
continues to put it on for the hometown. You know,
the return of the prodigal Sun, forced to go find
his fortune elsewhere. Now that he's back, he continues to
be all in Tyron does. And now you pair him
with another native son of Louisiana. I love the idea
of this all Louisiana safety group, you know, this pairy
and this tag team taking the field for your New
Orleans stats. Also, I think their skill sets match up nicely.
Tiring can be more of that kind of deep guy,
bit of playmaker and read maybe a bit more around
the box. He's an excellent run stopper. You look at
where the same scene helped the run defense was got
awful last year. He would look like he would be
a key edition in that regard. So I really like
the Justin Reid mood.
Speaker 3: Yeah, certainly considering what we thought they had available, right.
And so you get a player that has proven himself
multiple organizations in the NFL, like you said, coming back
home and really does play well off tyr. And so
now you have a defensive backfield that's going to have
Alonte Taylor. It's gonna have Justin Reed, Tyron Matthew and
Koolai McKinstry. And so like you hope that kool A
because I mean you were bullish on him a year ago. Yeah,
you move up to select him, you hope he takes
that next step because you know Paul clon Deebo's now
in New York, so he's gonna have to step up.
Speaker 2: He's gonna have to be the guy.
Speaker 3: And then you now have a third safety and a
Jordan Howden thatck and because he's had flashes, man, there's
been good for him, there's been a lot of bad too,
like his feast or famine. It feels like for him,
but now like he can be a rotational piece, he
can kind of be in the background and you know,
not a bad solid choice if you need him to play.
So it opens up kind of some depth there as well,
if you find the right nickel press, pretty solid defensive backfield.
Speaker 2: Which who they have young and old, you know, kind
of a great mixture of everything. And it is interesting
you seem to be Kellen Moore does at least this point,
and maybe because in the draft he'll start to supplement
the offense some more. But he seems to be trying
to help out Brandon Staley a bit, right. Yeah, yeah,
you bringing Godshaw, you bring back Chase Young, which, as
we said, maybe a bit of an overpay, but that
the context is the context. You don't really have a
way around it. I think you're still better with Chase
Young on the team than you are with him off. Now,
if we want to get into that was the good,
I want to get into the bad and the ugly.
It's the Juwan Johnson deal. Juwan Johnson five hundred yard
tight end, fifty catches, three tuds last season, a lot
of that coming at the end of the year when
really he was the only guy left on the field,
so those numbers may even be a bit this even
in that way, Juwan Johnson signs a three year, thirty
million dollars deal. I can get all the way up
to thirty four and a half million with the Simmons
twenty one and a quarter guaranteed eleventh highest paid tight
end in the league, and I just don't know. Now, Again,
this does kind of reinforce the idea that we've been
seen all around the NFL free agency is weak. Teams
are having to overpay to keep their guys because of that.
But man, I do not know what he has done
up to this point to earn this cop Like they're
paying for potential here, they're not paying for any production
that's been done up to this point. That contract.
Speaker 3: When I saw it, and I'm not trying to be
funny here, I was like, oh, that was supposed to
be twenty yeah. That wasn't supposed to be thirty yeah.
And I say that not to say that he can't
be really good in the passing game. Like you laid
out the stats, that's fine, that's fine stats. But he's
a one trick pony. Yeah, doesn't block well. Last year
pass blocking which has a tight end in the NFL,
even if you're Travis Kelce, Antonio Gates, Tony Gonzalez, you
got to be able to pass protect. I mean, you're
going to be in line. No matter if you're an
F or a Y, You're still going to at times
be in line. He graded out at twenty percent gross.
In the run game, he graded out at fifty one
point four percent disgusting place tight end. Again, he's an F.
He's not a why false moro is more of a why.
But you got to be able to give me something.
And so does his receiving skills outweigh all what I
just talked about. I don't think so. I think he's
a good receiving tight end. I don't think he's a
great one.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, with your knowledge of NFL
ORG structure, do you think this is Kellen Moore saying, look,
I think I can get more out of this guy.
I want to keep him here. Or is this Mickey
saying we'd we're keeping him here? You would hope it's
like if it's Kellen Moore. My point of that is,
if it's Keil Moore, you're at least like, okay, whatever,
let the new coach do what he wants to do
and let him go prove it. But if it's Mickey,
I mean, there's just no trust left in him.
Speaker 5: At this point.
Speaker 2: Okay, So so you asked that.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, they played the Eagles last year, right. His
offensive grade for that game overall was a twenty nine
point six. He had a fifty receiving grade, a twelve
pass blocking grade, in a thirty three run blocking grade.
Speaker 2: So it wasn't that game that would have convinced Kellen Surta.
So I like, you know, and he played twenty eight plays,
I don't know that it would have been that game.
Speaker 3: It's not to say that he hasn't watched tape or
he doesn't have a belief, but I mean, Dallas Godd
it was somebody that was pivotal in the Eagles offense.
So they needed they, you know, tight ends important, Yeah
to them. I mean, ever, going back to when he
was with the Chargers, who do you have in Dallas Tate, Like,
who was the tight end that it was?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he had some some big time so they
you have to have a tight end in this Kellen
More offense for sure. Now you just have to try
to figure out was it the front office that said, no,
we got the guy, or is it Keller. Moore's like, no,
I think I can get what I've gotten out of
these other Titans from him. I hope it was more
because it wasn't the Eagles game last year.
Speaker 5: For sure.
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not heard any sound played today. Who is this?
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Speaker 2: Well done? Uh, Tyre Matthew agrees to new reworked deal.
The man wants to be here. Okay. Took a pay
cut and it's a pretty interesting deal here, Jake. It's
a one year deal where every like how much he
makes is solely dependent on playing time. It's a three
and a half million dollar base that goes up to
four million if he plays fifty to fifty nine point
nine percent of the STAPs four point five. If he
breaks into sixty percent of the snaps anywhere in the
seventies gets him to five two five, anywhere in the
eighties gets into six two five, and then if he
plays over ninety percent of stamps, he gets to a
full seven two five. So Tyn Matthew team friendly, taking
a taking a pay cut and betting on himself and saying, okay,
let me prove it with availability to maximize how much
I make this year. I mean, that is about as
hometown team friendly as you could get. And regardless of
what you think about his level play on the field
right now, that should engender some goodwill from you.
Speaker 3: Well, if you look at how it went last year
and you looking at the flow of it, he started
out incredibly strong and then where he got into trouble
was about week seven against the Broncos, so the Broncos,
Chargers Panthers weeks. He really struggled there, but he did
bounce back and really finished the season strong and finished
on a different level of play than he played at
in the middle of the season. So that's what you
hope it look, you know, Tyronn, tell you this. I mean,
he's an older player, right, and so some of those
things are going to happen within a seventeen game season.
But I wouldn't want to get him off this team,
not with some of the young defensive backs that you have.
He still can give you something himself. I think is
a great mentor as well. And now you bring in
a player that is better at what you were asking
Tyron to do when you bring in Red. So I
do think it's going to free him up to be
a little bit more of a playmaker, which that's when
he's at his best. And so not just because it's
Tyron and he's our friend and he played at LSU.
Speaker 2: No, I think this is a.
Speaker 3: Solid move for the Saints, considering he's taking less money,
he's betting on himself, and I think he can give
you added benefit not only on the field, but in
the meeting rooms as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not getting anybody better than Tyre Matthew, especially
from a price to production standpoint, not even close. So
shout out the best football player I've ever shared a
locker room with. I am biased. I love him and
I can't wait to watch him and read kick Ass
this fall more Hour two next
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