Speaker 1: All start to it. You ought to presents 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 C bob Abert.
Speaker 2: I gotta come off the bitch.
Speaker 1: Now here's Jacob Hester and T bob Abert.
Speaker 2: What is going on everyone?
Speaker 3: I hope you're having an excellent day.
Speaker 2: It is January ninth, twenty twenty five. Oh man, January
ninth day. That probably doesn't mean anything to most people,
but mean something to some people around here as Unfortunately
this is now the what thirteenth anniversary since the National
champige over there in New Orleans against Salabama. But I
didn't actually pend on certain the show like this. I
literally just realized it a couple of minutes ago Dick
Conon tweeting out a video. Actually, why don't you go
to Dick's Twitter real quick and bring up this video
of the postgame press conference and we can get into it. Bee.
I don't expock to do this, but nice to the date,
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So, uh do you have the Commons video ready
to roll? Yes?
Speaker 1: I do?
Speaker 2: Okay? So On January ninth, Junior nine, twenty twelve, an
undefeated SC champion LSU played a one loss to Alabama
in a rematch National Championship and we all know it
went did not go well, Tom and zero did not
cross the fifty. And here was coach Miles postgame press
conference with Bobby Abert asking a question, OHS.
Speaker 5: Did you ever consider bringing in generally considering that you
weren't taking any changes down the field. Now I know
Alabama's defense is dominant. Come on, that's ridiculous. Five first downs?
I mean, uh so, it's almost approach. I'm a tap
from the fans standpoint that how could you not maybe
push the ball down the field and a bring bringing
it gyroally? So what if you got a pick six?
It seems like the game plan that you're not pushing
the ball down the field. Considering dat it's like a
Ruben Randall Ordell Beckham junior. Now I know the past
rusher to Alabama, but there's no reason why the five
first downs. I mean, they are a great defense. El
Wi's a great defense, but that's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Do you have a question?
Speaker 5: No, that's the question cut. Do you think you should
have pushed a football more downfield?
Speaker 2: I don't know when the last time I heard that
audio is if I've actually I don't know that I've
ever actually heard that, To be completely honest all the
way through, what I do know is that that line
of questioning led to some insane fallout in my personal
life where immediately the next day I start getting calls
from radio stations all over the country asking like about
rumors and what happened and why didn't you play? And
all these other sorts of things. I would say that
question has aged very well though, right especially with the
careers that Ruben and O'Dell went on to go have
in the NFL. Why would you not try something different?
Do you have a question? Is very funny, that is
the question and indicative of well, what went so wrong?
You got tunnel vision that game and and you're stuck
with it. And I know people are like, tell the
truth about the game, Tell the truth about the game. Well, unfortunately, guys,
a lot of times in life, the simplest explanation is true.
And the truth is everything that coach Miles did in
terms of who played, the strategic decisions made were things
that he was doing not because he wanted to punish someone,
not because there was drama, but because he thought those
were the best things to win the game. And you
can say that that's ridiculous with the benefit of hindsight,
How could you believe that it was so clearly not working,
so clearly frustratingly stubborn. And I'm not saying that I disagree,
but if you look at the play down the stretch
of the season from that team, there were multiple games,
be it Arkansas or I mean the Georgia SEC Championship
will probably the premier example of this, where you literally
we elics you's offense. Did I get a first down
in the first half against Uja? And so if you
look at the games in the run up to that,
there was a rhythm where the offense would struggle, struggle, struggle,
but you'd keep doing the same thing. Tyron Matthew would
make a play and you would come back, You would
win the game, you would dominate. So again, with the
bene of it of hindsight, it's easy to paint a
strategy so frustratingly stubborn as to look stupid and maybe
even as to look malicious in some sort of way,
when in reality it wasn't keeping with kind of the
same rhythm of the game that you had the last
few the only difference being you never broke through because
Alabai was different that year and you couldn't simply outpower
them or out talent then because you were on equal
footing when it comes to power and talent. So it sucks,
But again I always say this, nobody stood to gain
more than coach Miles with a win there second national championship,
one that nobody could save was one with savings players.
I think he got a million dollar bonus just straight
up if he won that game. So again, it's not
like he wasn't doing everything he thought was right. But
that's the great thing about sports, right you have a
plan and you do it and you enacted and sometimes
it tried it sometimes it's not, and well you suffered
the consequences. Man, the thrill of victory and the agony
of defeat. Solid question by the cannon right there, though,
I don't know that I've ever heard a question like
that in a press conference actually, just a straight up
critique and a now of a god awful game plan
while asking a very simple question, and why didn't you
give you know, your second quarterback a chance?
Speaker 4: So I have actually never heard that in its entirety either.
I've heard later on like somebody just straight up asking like, hey,
you know, should you have played Jared Lee? Why did
you continue with Jordan Jefferson, And Miles answered something like, well,
you know, we just thought it was appropriate to let
him finish what he had started and all that. But
I love the fact that Bobby's like starts halfway asking
a question and it goes on a tangent. He's like,
let me, let me explain to you at a fan perspective,
and he starts talk about how it's like ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I've never heard it once. I never either,
I don't think and I should be painfully clear about this.
Jordan Jefferson gets way too much blame in all of this. UH,
as a player, you have to trust your coach to
put you in a position to succeed. I want you
all to put yourself in Jordan jefferson shoes. Okay, For
two weeks in the run up to the National Championship,
basically all you do is practice different versions of the option.
What was the one play you had success with in
Game one against that defense the option? Do you think
Nick Saban and that incredible defense with multiple NFL players
littered throughout practiced how to stop the option. So then
what happens when in the rematch you're going against the
defense that has multiple first rounders, even more draft picks
on the two deep even and you have to run
the one play that you practiced in the one play
that they practiced. They have to and they're like, hey,
be successful. You got Jordan's fault. It's insane. It's insane.
And then because of the other dynamics where he doesn't
play the other quarterback, which again is not Jordan's decision. Jordan,
somebody gets to blame for that. So, uh, it is
absurd how how people treat Jordan Jefferson after that game
and it angers me. Yeah, but one nine twelve a
day which will forever live an infamy. While I have uh,
you know, gotten over it in terms of like moved
all in my life, et cetera, et cetera, it's it
is one of those things that you never will It
will always be a point of a bit of regret,
bit of anger, and a bit of pain. As there
was a I mean the metaphor that I always used,
like you spent your life trying to climb this mountain
and right when you're about to summit, somebody just kicks
you in the chest and you fall all the way
down and you die. Instead of your death being treated
as a tragedy, people are celebrating the person who kicked
you down the mountain, Chris Save the greatest ever, you know,
celebrating Alabama, the very team that you beat, who did
not even win the conference championship, gets to win the championship.
In the end, they achieve immortality. You forgot in a time.
So the guy who killed your dog, he's going on
a news tour and they all love him for it. Yeah,
it is hard to believe those thirteen years ago, Scott,
I agree, or yeah, thirteen cheese, what the hell's going on?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 3: Moment of silence for twenty thirteen?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, really, a moment of silence for the inexorable
March of Time. Yeah, and the fact that it doesn't
feel that long go still in my head. But it
was now thirteen years ago, and I'm closer to death
than I've ever been, as we all are, right, every
single day you wait, well, every single day you wake up,
and by definition you're closer to death. Yeah, wherever you're
not going every second, every millisecond. Yeah, there's no going
backwards there. Yeah, jeez, really sent me in a dark
spot so many segmented than it didn't mean for this happen.
It was an incredible mood. I was listening to Eric
Pride's call on me, not five minutes ago or thirteen
minutes ago, I suppose five minutes Agoo again, March of
Time thirteen A Yeah, well, yeah, uh he's he's as
a respect you for division, my boy, but his boy.
But I disagree with him, Jefferson. The thing is, you
don't really have a platform to disagree on because well
it's not just that. But like I, I, I know
exactly that I'm right, Like I I, It's this is
not as the canon would say. This is not opinion.
This is a fact. I'm not telling you Jordan Jefferson
was a great traditional quarterback. I think Jefferson and Jared.
I think Jared Jordan both had roles to play on
that team for us to be at our best, for
us to be at our max. Uh So I'm not
I'm not telling you to do something like great pocket
past or anything that. What I'm telling you is that
night is not on him. And that is a fact.
No one, Johnny Faulton, no one would have had success
if they were put into the same situation as as
as Jordan does. Um, all right, let's uh, let's do this.
Let's okay, when we get back, we got to Ryan
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sort of.
It's off the bench with Hester and T Bob.
Speaker 2: Welcome back. Oh GP. Hope everybody's having a excellent day
this Thursday morning. If you got a drink in hand,
maybe you got a coffee something going on, pour a
little bit out. I'm not going to, not in the studio,
but metaphorically pour one out. Because although this is not
surprising news, it appears that one of the greats is
the one as Ryan Ramchick has agreed to reduce his
salary for this upcoming year from eighteen million dollars to
a league minimum one point two five to five million dollars.
Freeze up sixteen point seven million dollars in cap space,
and really what it means is that a retirement is coming. Now,
Let's get to the Saints cap real quick. Okay, they
enter the off season sixty million dollars over the cap,
so this gives you some immediate savings. Area're starting to
chip away at that sixty million. Like all cap conversations,
there's always something kind of lost in the sauce with
these numbers where it's really hard to pars exactly what's
going on because it says it freeze up sixty million,
but they'ren till technically like a touch above fifty million
over the cap, so it's more like a ten million
dollars savings. But then with like post June's second cuts
and processes of retirement after then you can free up
another eleven million by deferry payments to twenty twenty six.
So it's just let's let's deal with instead of getting
because this is not something where the details actually matter, right, Uh,
Ryan Ramchick basically nuked his contract. He's going to retire,
brings you from about sixty million to fifty million on
the cap. That's all you need to know for Ramchick though,
And that's what I want to focus on because right
now you look at the Saints team and out of
that incredible twenty seventeen draft class, of which was that Ramchick,
Mike Wait wait a minute, what's what's what's can't guard
Mike's last name?
Speaker 3: Thomas?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, can't guard my ct. I could remember
his Twitter.
Speaker 4: Handle and on his that's gonna does a lot more
on Twitter now see, but.
Speaker 2: Not back in the day, because he was a twenty
seventeen class as well. That was Ram, Mike Thomas, and
Alvin Kamara legendary class. And what's wild about all three
of those players is I do not use this lightly.
I am not trying to exaggerate. I believe all three
of those players had a half decade of their career
where they were on a Hall of Fame pace. And
let's focus on Ramtick specifically, because he was immediately All
Rookie and a Pro bowler year one. I believe he
was already All Pro in year number two. And for
those that don't know the distinction, all Pro is way
more like Pro Bowls whatever, Right, it's not whatever, it's
it's still a huge accomplishment, but it's voted on by fans.
A lot of players make if you are All Pro
at your position, that means the other players are saying
that you are the absolute best at that position, right,
And it's and it's from the NFC and a f
It is a massive deal. And every year in which
he was healthy from the second year on I'm pretty
sure Ryan Ramchick was an All Pro. And then you
look like Mike Thomas, a guy who, again the first
four or five years of his career, Hall of Fame potential,
setting NFL records, NFL Offensive Player of the Year, injury,
it falls apart. Look at Avia Kamara, a guy changing
the game in terms of receiving, catching yards from scrimmage
under Drew Brees. Hall of Fame potential doesn't have a
quarterback anymore. At all falls apart. And so what these
three stories do is, I think they highlight, when you
see someone make the Hall of Fame, just how incredibly
rigorous and full of pitfalls it can be to try
to put together a true Hall of Fame career. I mean,
it is years and years and years of showing up
every day and doing everything you can to make it happen.
And hell, sometimes you do everything right and your body
just betrays you. Look at Ramchick. Now, I won't necessarily
though Thomas in there, because I think with Thomas's injuries,
I think it was some personal mismanagement which also ended
up causing a lot of problems as well. And then
Thomas maybe had his own kind of problems with processing
it all and whatnot. Oh, okay, Mike Thomas is twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3: That meant a lot more.
Speaker 2: But the point still stands in terms of the path
to a Hall of Fame career and how tough it
can be. And when you're talking about Ryan Ramschick, I mean,
he has to go down as one of the biggest
what ifs in New Orleans Saint's history, because not only
is it incredibly rare to find a guy with Hall
of Fame potential, but when you do in there have
the career like Ryan, did you expect them to play
for like ten fifteen years. They're gonna be your stall
Wark guy. I mean even Tront Armstead, it feels like
you got damn year decade out of and then his
knees just betrayed him and now he's retiring. Hold his
Ryan Ramchick thirty, I'm looking at that. Let's see, thirty
years old, thirty years old and really hasn't played. He's
like twenty eight, so right when he was entering his
kind of I find from like twenty eight to thirty
two is a lot of times when players are at
their best mental and physical mix, right, maybe your raw
athleticism is not where it was when you were twenty three.
But the savvy vet tricks of the trade, the mentality,
the way the game slows down mentally and how you
process it is such that's probably your prime. So right
when this man was achieving prime age, his body not today.
And now he'll never be a Hall of Famer, and
maybe he makes the Saints Hall Fame, but he'll never
be in the Ring of Honor. It makes you appreciate
guys like Jerry Evans, like Ricky Jackson, guys who anybody
who can make the Hall of Fame and finish the fight.
So godspeed, Ryan Ramchick. He's a big farm boy, right
is he from Wisconsin? I believe he's from somewhere up there,
But I hope that he enjoys retirement. Know that you
are a warrior. Put the body on the line. We
had a lot of fun watching you, Ram. It was awesome, man,
but out of a lot of excitement. One of the
key cornerstones in that revitalization of the final window of
the Sean Payton Drew Brees Era in that five year
stretch from seventeen to twenty two when you won more
regulations and games than anybody in the NFL. Ryan ramtick
was a major part of it. And I'll never forget it,
and who knows how long it'll be before the New
Orleans Saints experienced something like that again. And we'll always
have that god awful Chinese Ryan Ramchick jerseys that I
bought online, sleeves, two long numbers, off center, colors, all wonky.
But you know what, Ryan, it's mine and it's yours,
and that will make it special. It's singular. Greg Wan says,
Mike T completely falling apart, broke my heart. Yeah, man,
I know he was incredible. He was incredible. He I
mean he was the best receiving in the league. Again,
I mean, what was it, one hundred and forty nine
catches nearly one hundred and fifty catches in the year,
which he set the NFL record. And I'll be damned
if you know, Ramchick. It's injury, Thomas, maybe a bit
of injury, but more so than anything with Mike T
and Alvin Kamara, it's quarterback offensive scheme. Right. Look at
Christian McCaffrey was in Carolina. Then look at Christian McCaffrey
when he's healthy in San Francisco. Even look at Kamara
last year under Pete Carmichael versus Kamara this year under
Clint Kubiak had a lot more success. How frustrating would
it be? Because that's one of the interesting parts about
wide receiver and running back and stuff. It's like, as
much as you do help out the quarterback, and you
definitely do right, we're seeing the value of receiver more
than we ever thought in the past. That's just another
kind of funny element of this one. Mike Thomas was
on the come up, it was insane to pay a
receiver twenty million dollars. Now you feel like you have
to pay a receiver your quarterback needs it. But it's
a weird position receiver because you also need that quarterback
and it can severely limit your output if you don't
have that guy. And I think that's something that a
lot of these skill positions have here in New Orleans
have struggled with the last few years, and it's something
that has cost them. Luster, cost them stats, cost them legacy,
and you can't get back legacy. It's why Mike Evans
getting us five yards so that record is such a
big deal. E. You can't just get another shot at that.
That is a record that is eleven years in the making.
And so I don't know what Ryan Ramchick's legacy will be.
I don't know how remembered he will be. But if
you're my age, our age, however you want to say it,
I think we will remember him. So thank you Ram
for your time, my friend. It was awesome when it
was awesome, and it's a bummer how it ended. But
you know, don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
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There also edits for Locked On. But according to Ian Rippapa,
the Saints have officially requested to interview Washing Commander's offensive
coordinator Cliff Kingsbury. How exciting is this? Uh, that is
what I'm trying to parse how I feel because in
terms of being a head coach in Arizona, I did
not think he did a great job. I think he
did a good job of getting a lot out of
Kyler at time. I think he did a good job
having that offense being pretty good when it fell apart,
though it fell apart fast and it was never really
a complete team. I understand the kind of sexy nature
of Kingsbury both basically and uh in like the football
since right, and that he is a genius offensive mind
that has the ability to get a ton out of
young quarterbacks. I mean, you bring him in and whether
it is Derek Carr or though a lot of people
intimating that if you bring him in that it's not
Derek car but whoever the quarterback would be, you would
be excited maybe that individual's potential. I don't know how
excited I would be about the team potential under Cliff Kingsbury.
And the thing that I keep going back to and
why Aaron Glynn kind of remains my favorite. I keep
thinking about this idea of being a leader of men
and who would you rather follow. And it's not any
fault of these guys like Joe Brady, Cliff Kingsbury, but
if you look at their resume and their come up
compared to someone like Aaron Glenn who played and then
earned his way every single step up the ladder, it's
hard for me to believe that they would inspire more
organizational confidence or belief than would an Aaron Glynn. To Tay,
what do you think about Cliff Kingsbury as a head
coach of the New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 4: I think it depends on what you do on the
defensive side, right, Like, if you bring in a competent
defensive coordinator and basically, just like Cliff Kingsbury be the
de facto offensive coordinator, and kind of set up practices
and stuff. Don't worry about the defensive set of things.
Because we were actually talking about it in break yesterday,
right after Jake brought up Davis Web and started looking
at like how Kingsbury got his start in college. He
went from Baker Mayfield. Mayfield left because Davis Web beat
him out. Davis Web left because Patrick Mahomes beat him out.
That's the depressive runs on quarterbacks, getting them, developing them
in the college. And then you mentioned his work with
Kyler Murray. Kler Murry has been worse since Cliff Kingsbury
has been gone. I mean, I think we can I
think we can all accept that. I Mean, he was
okay this year for the most part, but I think
he was at his best when Kingsbury was there. So
I think he's a really good offensive coach.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's a great offensive coach. But I mean
we've said it multiple times when talking about Jaden Daniels
this year, he's some guys are coordinators, some guys are coaches.
He feels like maybe someone who is a coordinator. Also,
it would feel a bit odd to go all in
with a coach like Kingsbury. Maybe when you don't necessarily
know who the quarterback's gonna be. If you had the
number one pick lined up and you want to go
all in on young quarterback, maybe then this becomes a
bit more at trackings. I should also say that there
is some h This is the second or third time
where there's conflicting reports as to whether or not he's
actually been requested for interview. Uh, but you know some
of the big names saying he has, some of the
local names saying maybe he hasn't. But I again, I don't.
I don't think that I want Cliff Kingsbury as the
head coach. Yeah, I mean twenty and thirty seven. Overall,
it was weird that thinking about his time that the
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playoffs here a bit, and there's a really good piece
by Ryan McGee uh in on ESPN dot com basically
playing with the idea of I don't know who wins
the championship, but whoever does win, it will be a
massive deal for that school. And here's the first excerpt
from the article. Redemption, retribution, revenge. Whichever these words you
revere the most, they all relate. As the college football
Playoff rolls into the reckoning that is this week's semifinals,
a quartette of stories that are wildly varied, but at
their core are essentially the same. And it took me
that James Franklin talked about as well. He said quote,
but to me, the real story is the opportunity we
all have to reward these great universities and the people
who have supported us through thick and thin, to bring
that championship feeling back to this town. That will make
every single step to get their worth it. So these coaches, yeah,
they know that they're gonna talking, They're gonna talk about
them for the but for them, this is their chance
to honor those that have supported them. You look at
a Hoto State, four years since they beat Michigan, four
years since they won the Big Ten, a decade since
the national championship. They have a chance to fix that.
You look at Texas last championship was twenty years ago,
and if you look at after that five championship, it
was dark times. One Big twelve championship in two thousand
and nine before not winning again till twenty twenty three.
In fact, how many national championships do you think Texas
has won post nineteen seventy two? One one, They won
in sixty three, they won in sixty nine, they were
co champion in seventy though that is up for debate,
and then they won to O five for one of
the winningest schools ever. They do not have the natties
that you think they do. They have an opportunity to
add to that number. Look at Notre Dame hasn't won
a championship since nineteen eighty eight, embarrassed forty two to
fourteen in the twenty twelve National, embarrassed in multiple playoffs.
It's their opportunity to do something they haven't done since
before we were born. Penn State thirteen undefeated seasons in
their school histories, only two national titles eighty two and
eighty six. Even longer ago, Joe Pah had five teams
that went undefeated and were not given finals. Howe of
this in nineteen ninety four, you're talk about pain. In
nineteen ninety four Penn State team that had two Heisman finalists,
fifteen draft picks, they won the Big Ten, they stopped
Oregon in the Rose Ball, and they got picked second
behind Nebraska. Also indicative of why a playoff is so
much better, because that sucks and that's insane. So I
don't know who it's going to be, and we'll discuss
who we think will advance. But whoever it is, the
glory will be great and it will have been a
long time coming. So I cannot wait. We kick off
five days of playoff football, and hour number two we're
gonna kick it off talking about the games themselves, break
them down here. To close out hour number one, let's
get to hunt Palmer's portal profiles coming up next here
on O TV.
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on Louisiana sports Net has kicked off an excellent new
uh series Okay in his portal profile series. His series
here Ry. But again, if you haven't been going on
Louisiana Sports on net, Hunt is doing a great job
as Ross's Christ's great website. But he's starting with Florida
cornerback Jaquem Jackson. So let's talk a bit about him. Okay,
he's six' to. One coming out of high scho a
couple of years, ago he was a number five corner
in the. Country he was number fifty five player, overall
so a top one. Hundred damn near top fifty. Player
he was an under Armour All american who ran a
ten nine in the one. Hundred as a true freshman
At florida Under Corey, raymond he played in eleven. Games
he had seven, tackles he had three. PBUs that was
not as a full time starter going into his sophomore.
Year this last, season he was a full time. Starter,
however he suffered an injury in game number two which
ended up holding him out for the, season so he
ended up red. Shirting what that means now is In
Jakeem jackson at a position of, kneed you are getting
a six'. One corner that is big for a cornerback
who is a red shirt sophomore who has multiple years of,
eligibillity left though it does mean he will be draft
eligible even after. This season but you're getting a veteran
with all, the size all the, natural talent playing for
a coach that knows him well enough now that they
have followed each other to two, different spots a coach
that believes, in him a coach that has teamed up with.
HIM twice i think the Potential For jakim jackson next
year is through. THE roof i think he is an
immediate starter on, the OUTSIDE and i think this could
be the catalyst for bringing what we think OF as
dbu back to The, forour now that's maybe a bit
unfair to some of the guys who have been very
solid the last couple. OF years, i, Mean Obviously, zia
alexander one of the top five rated PLAYERS on lsu,
this season will likely be the first one Drafted Since
jerick bernard conference heard his name a couple of. Years
ago But what i'm talking about is bringing back that
idea that you don't really want to THROW an lsu
or we're gonna play man and you're gonna have to.
Beat Man zia alexander could do that. This Year stampson
woodland at time have. Done Well but jackson with his side.
Natural beily maybe he is, that guy or maybe. He's
not maybe he gets, beat out but you can, know
this if you beat, him, out well then you should
be excited about whoever won, that job, because again this
is a guy that was Starting up florida here as a,
true sophomore as a true freshman that played in every.
Single game so he's. Got experience and we TALKED about
nfl guys entering their. Physical prime, you know maybe that
like twenty eight to thirty two, in college that red shirt,
sophomore range that's when. It's, time okay you've been at
it for. Two years you understand what's required of you
mentally to make it through, a season physically to make
it through. A season and everything really slows down at.
That point and you got a great coach that you
believe In In, corey rieman and you have a great
defensive coordinator that you believe In In. Blake baker and
how much Better Can blake baker be if he can
and trust the guys on. The outside and So Although
jaim jackson's highlighting this Segment Him ELIJAH Pickett, Dj Pickett,
Aid Nanding, ASHTON. Stamps, pj woodland all of. These guys
you've got Enough now Mansord. De lane you throw enough
of these guys against, the wall you're going to merge
with some really solid play and it is going to
Unlock What blake baker does. Next YEAR so i Think
jam jackson was an excellent player to Start The portal
profile series With Again louisiana Sports a net because he
could be one of the biggest immediate impacts out of
the portal men that we'll get to a bit next hour.
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