Speaker 1: All right, welcome back in our number three OTB one
oh four five, ESPN baton rouge. I'm talking about LSU
baseball here as they get set for their series against
Mississippi State. It's gonna be in the box, remember Thursday, Friday,
Saturday series. And let's talk a little LSU baseball, SEC Baseball.
Kendall Rogers D one Baseball joins us now. Kendall always
a pleasure man. Hope you're doing well.
Speaker 2: I'm doing awesome, man, how about yourself?
Speaker 1: Doing fantastic? And before we maybe get into some of
the nitty gritty overall takes, I guess in the SEC,
after a couple of weekends, maybe some surprises positive negative
surprises you've seen so far.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, have you told me that Florida and
A and M would be a combined as the SEC?
I probably would have thought you were on crazy pills
or something. But yeah, yeah, that obviously would be the
negative surprise. I think that the positive surprise for me
would be you know, I think Tennessee's probably a little
bit better than I thought. I mean, they looked like
A or not yet again, I thought they actually entered
the end of the season with a few question marks.
They've been awesome, and you know, LSU has kind of
been what we thought they would be, which is a
really good team. And then the other team for me
is Georgia. I think we would all agree, like you know,
you being as an LSU guy, like I think we
Wes Johnson got that job. I think we all thought
Wes was a really good pitching coach, right, Like, you know,
his personality was kind of like, man, that's kind of
an interesting hire as a head coach. But I'm not
sure I saw what George is doing this year or
frankly what they even did last year coming at all.
I mean, their their offense has been phenomenal. I think
it's been since like March eleventh that they haven't scored
at least eight runs in a game. They've been awesome,
and so Georgia just being absolutely dominant has certainly been
a positive surprise for me. They've been just terrific.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and going back, you're right about A and M
in Florida. I mean A and M. We all know
the expectation coming into the season. I mean everyone just
across the country this was going to be one of
the best teams in the country. Not just the SEC
what has gone so wrong for Texas A and.
Speaker 2: M Yeah, I think it's kind of twofold. I think one.
I think obviously, you know, maybe that's whether it es
Coaches Bowl, you know, other outlets. You know, maybe we
did kind of diss a little bit too much. But
I mean, you know, there's been an adjustment period for
Michael Early. I mean when you look at some of
his decisions late in the game, and you know, and
I think I might have said this a match show
coming in the season. Is the biggest question mark for
me was how does he manage latent games? And so
far this year it has not been great. But their
their issues are way deeper than that. I mean, if
you look at their offense, even with Grahovic on the shelf.
You know, Cirell's back this week in a preseason All American.
He's back in the in the lineup this weekend. But
I mean they've got guys like jas La Vallette who
were lead hitters last year, who have been very below average,
even bad at times this year. So their biggest thing
is Aidan is ranked I think what the seventh in
the country A team or all three of their starting
pitchers had eras under two to five, and yet they're
zero to six in the SEC. It's because their offense
has been really bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know you mentioned some of the surprises
as well. The Georgia Bulldogs have been great. I mean,
I mean crushing the baseball. What they did to Florida
last week. Do you think that was more of Georgia
than necessarily Florida. Is it a combination of both, because
I mean those games, I mean they ran away with
most of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a combo. I mean Florida's feeling it a
little bit. I mean, I don't know if you callow
they're getting gets de fi you last night, but yeah,
you know they had a lead in the bottom of
the night and they will want to guys hit a
batter intil single grand slam. I mean, that's a brutal
way to lose to your arrival. So I think things
are spinning out of control a little bit for Florida.
That doesn't mean they can't get the car back in
the lane, but you know, things are spinning for them
a little bit. But you know they've got injuries. Leam Peterson,
they're a really good Friday guy was out of the
Georgia series, so they are already kind of behind the
eight ball against the Dogs. But I mean, i'll tell
you what I mean. If you look at Georgia's offensive
Robbie Burnett and Ryland Zabarowski. You know, Zaborowski's probably been
one of the biggest surprises in college baseball. I mean,
if you go look at what he did in Miami, Ohio,
You're like, wait, where in the world did this come from.
I mean, the guys hit there with four seventy would
premium power. So I think the biggest thing with Georgia
is they're really really powerful and offensive, and West hasn't
even gotten their pitching staff out then yet. Once that happens,
I mean, the skuy's a limit for them.
Speaker 1: Before we get to LSU Kendall, I do want to
ask you about somebody near and dear to LSU's hearts.
That is Paul Menary, now the head coach at South Carolina.
There you go seventeen to nine overall, one in five
in conference play. What were your expectations maybe of the
game Cocks coming into this season and how have you
viewed their play?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean my expectations at Game talks coming in
the season, was like, if they could just be in
the regional discussion, that's a successful season. I think with
their talent level, I don't know if they're going to
be in that discussion. I mean, if you look right now,
they don't really have like a marquee series win. They're
gonna have to now have ground to make up in
the set. So it's gonna be a tough first season
for him, and I think the biggest thing for Paul
it's gonna be an adjustment. I mean, you know, when
you're used to being at LSU, it's like, Okay, you
know what, we didn't We didn't meet our expectations. The
next year, we're going to be supreme, liutalented. That's always
a guarantee in a place like LSU, and that's not
always a guarantee a place like South Carolina. So I
think for Paul it's gonna be one more fact, probably
the most fascinating offseason in the history of his career,
just to see the adjustments he's able to make with
that program.
Speaker 1: Catching up with Kendall Rodgers d one baseball here on OTB. All, Right,
let's get to the LSU Tigers. Twenty three and three
on the season, four and two in conference play, they
go to Austin, Texas last weekend. They take Friday night's
game and Saturday's game was a great baseball game. It
was back and forth. LSU drops that when they allowed
it it looked like to bleed into Sunday. They lose
this series. There, you know how it is, you know
how it works in these marquee programs. A lot of
questions that are being asked. I mean that Saturday game
was right there for then they take the leader if
they're able to shut the door. Probably having a different conversation,
but just early thoughts on LSU this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what, I don't take too much you
know bad or you know good from the weekend for LSU.
I think, if I'm being frank, I think this is
a big kind of statement weekend for Texas. I think
they had this weekend circles. I think if you look
at the energy level the last couple of games between
the two teams, I think it was obvious that Texas
was very much invested, which they should be in year
one under Jim Saustagle. I thought LSU the last three
to four as of Saturday and pretty much all the
Sunday's game did not play very good baseball, and yet
they still had a chance to win that series. So
my takeaway for LSU is like, hey, we didn't even
play very well and we you know, a couple of
things happening here and there, we could have very easy
won that series. So I think on the positive side,
I still feel pretty good about the offense. I mean,
Barret Jones was I mean just awesome. You know, we
talked so much about his offense, and rightfully so, but
I thought his defense over the weekend was exceptional. I mean,
he saved a couple of runs with the way he
kind of stretched out. There's almost Tray Morgan f a
little bit. Yeah, he's been awesome, and you know, I
think if you look at you, Derek Curryell, he just
continues to look fantastic. I think the biggest question mark
for me with LSU and I and I think it's
something they'll I think as a season progresses, I think
all these younger arms will kind of settle in and
the refine their stuff, get a little more comfortable. But
I just thought that some of the younger guys, you know,
like you know, Will Schmidt, et cetera. You know they
should premium Velocity, but they didn't show Premium Field to
pitch over the weekending in Texas. And you know what,
it is different. I mean, I don't care what anybody
says about how talented anybody is. When you go on
the road and you're playing it front of eight thousand
people that are going crazy, it's different, man, It's just
way different. And so it you know, there's gonna be
some growing pains in that regard.
Speaker 3: But I thinks the.
Speaker 2: Biggest thing for LSU is, you know, what does Jay
do with the weekend rotation movie? For that's what I
Haveston actually was okay, Chase Shores was not okay. You know,
he missed a lot to his glove side and his
command is gonna have to get better because guess what
teams are gonna do. They're gonna pop in that Texas
tape and you're gonna go, hey, what make this dude?
Their strikes? And so Chase Shorts is the name my
circle is kind of a guy I'm keeping an eye
on against Missipi States this weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's one of those situations, Kenna, we were
talking about it where it's like Zach Cowen, you know
he can do it. Watford, you know it went out
there a year ago when you were in the regional.
You saw him do it. He's done it so far
in an LSU uniform. It's like, do we have the
luxury right now to try to put him on Sundays
because right now you have a bullpen, Like you mentioned,
you were counting on young arms. They haven't quite yet
caught up to the college game. It's like, Okay, can
we take maybe our best bullpen piece, or at least
one of our best bullpen pieces, I mean Evans has
been great too, and put him in the starting rotation.
Can we maybe assume we'll get the same from Shores
in the bullpen that we're getting from Cowen right now? Like,
those are the questions you're asking because it's like the
pitching staff right now is so thin that you're maybe
a little worried about moving some pieces.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I would say this, and you know
Jay is starting to know this more than I would.
But here's what I think I would do. I think,
with how just dominant that Katie Anderson has been at times,
I think I like the idea of him starting on
Friday's closing Friday out with Case and Evans, moving Cawen
to the weekend rotation, probably in that Sunday roll. I
would probably keep Buyingston where he is, but then put
Callen in that Sunday roll. Then you had the option
to bring Evans back out of the bullpen on Sunday. Yeah,
and then you have the rest of your guys. That's
probably what I would do, because I thought Evans was
actually you know, I don't want to just you know,
do a blankets Steven and all the young arms. I
actually thought Evans was really good over the weekend in Austin.
So again I like the idea Vanderson, Evans, Cowen on
Sundays and then go from there.
Speaker 1: I like that as well. Kendall Rodgers is our guest
again d one baseball here on OTB. One final thing Kendall,
before we let you go, always appreciate the time LSU
Mississippi State this weekend inside the box. Mississippi State right
now sixteen and nine overall, one in five in conference play,
and you never ever in the SEC want to assume
anything but LSU. Pretty nice bounce back spot right here,
considering they lost those two of three in Austin. To
be able to have Mississippi State trying to find some
things right now going their way coming into your home stadium.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean when you look at just how mad
Jay was at the end of that game on Sunday,
it gets tossed, dude, I think it's very obvious he
was kind of done with that game a little bit. Yeah,
that's not a very good sign for Mississippi State. I
think LSU came out on fire last night against Occasions.
I think they're going to go into the weekend breeding fire.
I just think it's a really bad spot for Missippi
State team that did not really play complete baseball. I
will say this for State, I think the big key
for them is they're going to have to get another
great start from Pico Cone. He threw really well in
Norman last weekend. He's a very kind of lefty. He
can kind of keep her back your your you know,
your objective lineup off balance. But again, if if if
he was just his star, there's really I mean, there'd
be there has to be some sort of massive like
turnaround in the week in rotation the rest of the
weekend for them to find a way to win this series.
So I like LA shoots out of three pretty easily
in that one that's not sweeping in all right.
Speaker 1: There he is Kendall Rogers D One Baseball. Kendle Man.
We always appreciate the time. Thanks for hopping on with
great insight as always, and we'll catch up again soon.
Speaker 2: Thanks Jacod Man.
Speaker 1: I love talking baseball. I love talking college baseball, love
breaking down like other teams in the SEC as well,
and Kendall does a fantastic job of it, so we
always are thankful for his time. Actually, I kind of
like his idea there as well. We talked about it
and Elandra I saw you make the face, So go
ahead throw the microphone over there, because I know, I
know that you have different plans.
Speaker 3: I just I just disagree with starting Cowen. Like I
think he has to be a bullpen arm. Whether it's
on Friday night, Yeah, it's that, and like, yeah, Chase
Shores is getting hit and he really doesn't have like
the command that he should now, but like he's gonna
get there, Like it's he needs to get innings under
his belt. Like and I've been saying this, they should
have well I'm not gonna tell anybody what they should
have done, but like if if it was like I
would have started with Chase Shores in the midweek, like
early in the season so that he can get injury, yeah,
so that he could get those innings under his belt.
And then they kind of did that with thatcher Heard
when thatcher Heard was coming back from his injury, where
like they started him in the midweek, ended up pitching
on Sundays. But like, I just disagree with having Cowen
be the starter. And I think that like Jay does too,
because like I said, I did the Jay Johnson Show
the other night and Chris asked him about that, and
he's like, I mean, there's no question that he can start, yeah,
But like I just don't, I don't know. Like I
I think that you have to keep him in the
pin just off of what Jay says, where like if
you if you need it, like Cowen is gonna win
the game. So I I disagree with that. I think
you keep Chase Shores there, let him figure it out.
Speaker 1: Now, I value your baseball opinion as much as I
do anybody, but I'm gonna throw another point at you
to see how you feel about it. Yeah, if you
did move Zack into the Sunday role. Yeah, do you
not think Chase Shores could give you what Cowen's given
you in the bullpen? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I guess so, Like, but we also haven't seen it. Yeah,
it's like I guess, like you just haven't seen it,
and like.
Speaker 3: He already like is shaky starting, So like I just
don't know if like it would be better out the
pin than it would than what it is now. But yes,
I can see that happening too. I just I just
don't know, But like I would me personally, I'd rather
it be the way that it's been.
Speaker 1: And Taite obviously jump in here as well if you
want to. So, would it only be a certain day
for Zach Cowen to come in for you? Like, you know,
I think we were talking about this, I think earlier
in the week. It's like, hey, you know, maybe another
day for him out of the bullpen where he can
go a little bit longer. Maybe your starter doesn't go
as long because on Fridays, you know you're going to
get some you know, strong efforts from Kate.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what if you need Cohen two innings on Saturday,
and then you need him on two innings on Sunday,
and then you can do that because again, wins or wins,
it doesn't matter where you get them. We were talking
about earlier about everybody saying you have to win Friday.
If you lose every Friday game the entire year and
win every SEC series, you're a top five team in
the country and you'r a host site for everything in
the postseason. Wins or wins, it doesn't matter where they
come from. So I mean, do you throw Cowen on Sunday?
Do you keep him for multiple days? But to your
point about Chase Shores, like Jake, what if he's Zach Kiss? Yeah,
but if he's dominant out of the pen, because it
was the other way with s Hes was incredible as
a freshman as your closer. You tried to start in
the next year, he just couldn't do it. You wound
up moving him back. I mean, who's to say that
they can't be Aha Shores. Now we haven't seen it yet,
but I mean maybe this time for some teen cream.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And like I don't know, to me, if you're
putting all your eggs in like the Friday basket, then
you're throwing Saturday and Sunday out the window, like it.
Speaker 6: Just yeah, like just does not care they lost.
Speaker 4: They care that they lost on Friday. So if you're like, oh,
we got we have to win Friday, we have to
win Friday.
Speaker 3: I understand what you're saying, but like, you have to
win the series. Like the win on Friday now means
nothing to me. It was a great win, but it
means nothing to me because we lost the series.
Speaker 6: Texas shoes.
Speaker 5: Yeah at this point, yeah right, I mean they took
two out of three, they came back after losing game one.
Speaker 6: It's perfect.
Speaker 1: And this isn't like, oh, get right spot as far
as Misissippi State's one in five, but it's somebody that
you know very well. It's been a great rivalry, you
know in baseball, you know, back and forth and national
champs and all that type of stuff. So you're gonna
have the attention of the team. Yeah, Mississippi State comes in, right,
they're not gonna really care that it's one in five.
And Kendall mentioned like how excited Texas was to host LSU. Yeah, right,
I want that same thing for LSU against Mississippi State.
So when I say it can't you know a situation
where you can get right. I don't mean that because
Misssippi State's one and five. I think because you have
Mississippi State coming into your building. You're pissed off that
you lost two of three to Texas. You took some
of that out on ULL last night. I think you
have that opportunity here to fix some things that you
need to work on. Adrenaline like efforts. Not anything I
worry about, but adrenaline and Texas wanted that badly.
Speaker 4: They wanted it.
Speaker 1: You should want, yeah, you should want that same situation
against Missippi State. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And Kendall's right about Saturday where like LSU didn't play
their best game and they still could have won that game.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So yeah, hopefully this weekend we can take out some
anger on the people over in Starkville.
Speaker 1: And it started. That anger started last night against ULL
and hopefully it can continue into the weekend. All Right,
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Speaker 7: Day. It's time for Dayday's NFL Story of the Day Day,
your daily dose of NFL news from Taylor Sharp.
Speaker 6: This is gonna sound old, but I promise it's not.
Speaker 5: The NFL Committee, the Competition Committee, is likely to propose
a change to the league's kickoff rules again again. I
know it could raise return rates for the twenty twenty
five season. So the proposal, it's expected to be submitted
in time for next week's league meetings out in Florida,
it would spot touchbacks at the thirty five yard line
instead of the thirty yard line, which is already way
too close. In twenty twenty four, obviously it was the
inaugural season and that revamped kickoff, they spotted touchbacks at
the thirty yard line. They were saying that the shift
and field position could prompt some coaches to instruct their
kickers more often than not to place the ball in
the landing zone between the twenty and the goal line,
allowing for more kick return. I don't like this at all.
I love the kickoff. I think the kickoff still has
a place in this game. I was one of the
ones that was against the kickoff rule until I saw
it in action and I was like, hey, you know what,
it's not that bad. I'm not worried about any of that.
Giving a touchback to the thirty five yard line. This
league is already very, very offensive centered. I mean, think
about how big of an advantage offensives nowadays in modern
NFL football to give them the ball at the thirty
five yard line. I mean, you have to go less
than seventy yards. I don't like this at all.
Speaker 1: No, look, I'm not a fan, not a fan of
the new kickoff role because I'm biased for these special
teams players.
Speaker 6: I feel.
Speaker 1: No, it's for player safety. We still do it at
high school and college level. I know people want to
get more returns. Just back the kicker up, Yeah, back
the kicker up. And you're like, yeah, but you're trying
to cut down those collisions. It's football. You know it
is what it is.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like you kind of knew that going in.
Speaker 1: I had, like I had teammates, they were there for that. Now,
when I first got into the NFL, you could have
like a five man wall, and the Chiefs used to
have like three offensive linemen and two d linemen in
that wall. Was that fun? Hitting? It wasn't my favorite thing.
But we're going to go in there like a bat
out of hell and try to do anything we could
to break it up. Maybe that's not the smartest thing
to do. But since they made the rules where you
can only have a two man wall, okay, like that's
good enough. I don't I don't know I understand for
player safety. Maybe I'm being too much of a meatthead here.
I like the old kickoff rules. Back the kicker up
five yards you'll have more returns.
Speaker 5: Well, and then like, why do they keep moving the lineup?
You can say, okay, well we want more returns.
Speaker 6: Are you sure?
Speaker 5: Because you previously said you don't want more returns, which
is why you changed the kickoff rule, And then you said, well,
don't worry, it's going to give more returns. Well, now
we're going to move it up. Like when I was
growing up touchbacks worth the twenty yard line. Yeah, now
they're going to potentially be at the thirty five. I
mean that's awful that you have to go sixty five yards.
Think about the offenses and and how centered it is.
I'll go back to that, Like, think about the scoring
in the NFL today. Everyone wants to see offense. I know,
I think the game is so tilted towards the offense
already giving them sixty five yards to go. I mean,
that's that's a that's nothing, because most kickers nowadays are
going to hit fifty yarders. I mean, what you gotta
go fifteen twenty yards kars field goal range.
Speaker 1: Kickers in the NFL hit fifty yards rolling out of
bed now, yeah, like you gotta go kickers up here
just smacking fifty yard field goals.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't. I don't like this rule at all.
Like you can't. You can't just put it at thirty five.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thirty five, that's it. That's that's a step too far.
I'm with you there. Thirty is one thing that's already
I'm with you there as well, too far. But thirty five,
my god, I mean, you hit you hit an eighteen
yard dig route, run the ball once and you got
a chance at a field goal. That's that is. That
is not something I'd be in favor of. So we'll
see if that gets pushed through. I want to throw
an NFL story at y'all, want to get your opinions here,
because we mentioned it quickly earlier. Russell Wilson going to
be a New York Giant. So now Jamis Jamis? What
a dynamic in that quarterback room? Those two personalities. I like,
Jamis is just fun and all about team and you know,
make it. Russ is awkward and all about one person
in that room himself. That is going to be a dynamics.
Speaker 5: Some of you, it's a little weird that they gave
Jamis a two year deal. Wilson only got a one
year deal. I'm assuming they want Jamis to be the
backup for whoever they draft in twenty twenty six, because
I think them drafting Shad or Sanders at three is
completely out the window now with a move like this,
because you brought back Tommy DeVito, who I mean not great,
but like he can come in and do some things
for you, Like Tommy's had some success, so you have Wilson,
Winston DaVita. Know, you're not drafting a quarterback, you're not
keeping four on this year's rosters, so that's not happening.
Speaker 4: They just they.
Speaker 5: Just didn't bring Drew lock Back, who I actually kind
of liked. But yeah, well, I mean, Davido, he's just
he's in New York. He's on the team for you know,
appearances and all that crap. But you know, about two
weeks ago, it was reported that the Cleveland Browns really
wanted Russell Wilson.
Speaker 6: They brought him in for a visit.
Speaker 5: Wilson apparently turned down the Browns, and I get it,
they're the Cleveland Browns. I understand that, But I mean,
is he in a significantly better situation? Because look, everybody
used to clown that division with Jayden Daniels and Jalen
Hurts there. Now like the division went from easy to
tough in a hurry. I mean, is he in a
tougher situation now?
Speaker 1: I mean it's kind of the same. But I guess
you do have Elikue neighbors. You do if you're you know,
a New York Giant, Jerry Judy, if you're Brown's your
best receiver the situations are kind of the same. Maybe
Russ because his ego is so big, he didn't want
to have his name attached to that jersey. He didn't
want to be another name on the bottom of it.
Speaker 6: I get it. He is all about his image.
Speaker 4: So I would rather live in New York than Cleveland, Ohio.
Speaker 6: Oh for sure.
Speaker 1: The mistake by the lake, Yeah, Cleveland.
Speaker 4: Sierra was like, I'm not living in Cleveland.
Speaker 6: That was probably deciding that I love you, my guy.
Speaker 1: We just lived in Pittsburgh. We are not going to Cleveland.
That might be something. So Sanders isn't getting drafted by
the Giant. I wouldn't think so, but right, I mean,
if you signed, if you signed James to a two
year deal, you signed Russ. I mean, I know you
don't have a lot invested in it, but do you
really want to have those three guys in the quarterback room?
And it that this is a move to me that says,
let's push it down the road, Let's try to get
by this year. Next year's quarterback class is much better,
and if we suck, we'll draft a quarterback.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 3: The thing is is like that was kind of their
strategy last year too, Like, hey, let's kick the can
down the road and like get through this year, and
then next year see what happens. And it's like that
didn't work out for you, So why do you think
it's going to work this year? Because it's Russell Wilson.
Speaker 6: I do like it for one reason.
Speaker 5: I hate when teams you draft a quarterback knowing that
after their first year, they're just going to fire the
head coach. In the GM, the Chicago Bears do this
all the time. Everyone and their mother knew that Matt
Lieberflus was going to get fired. You should have moved
on from him before Caleb Williams. Now it's almost like
Caleb's starting over. He's in a new offense, he has
a new head coach. You expect it to be better.
I mean, let's call it like it is. Joe Shaye
and Brian dabol are dead men walking at this point
in New York. Barring something unforeseen, I would have waited.
I actually think this is the correct decision. Not only
is the quarterback class better, but I mean, you'll have
a new GM, you'll have a new coach in all likelihood,
and a quarterback. They can all grow together. Actually, I
actually liked them waiting this year.
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doesn't go to the Giants, that makes it interesting because
you're laying it out. I mean, there's not a lot
of quarterback hungry teams after that, and then you've got
all of a sudden, the hype of Jackson Dart as.
Speaker 5: Jackson Dart go before Shdor Sanders is the question I'm asking.
I think he's going to fall because do you think
that if he doesn't go seven at the Jets. I
think that's his only option in the top ten, because look,
the Giants weren't three. New England's not taking a QB
at four Jacksonville, whether you think they should or not,
it's not going to at five. I thought the Raiders
was going to be all over him, but after signing Gino,
that's not happening. Jets at seven might be the team
because after that it's the Panthers. Who is Bryce showing
the answer? Maybe maybe not, but he should promise. They're
probably gonna roll with him. The Saints, I don't trust
them at all to take a quarterback in the first round,
and it's been fifty years. I mean the Bears forty nine, Ers,
Cowboys ten, eleven, twelve, none of them are doing it.
I don't think the Dolphins do it. I mean the
Colts are at fourteen. No, I don't think they do
it either. Then you have Atlanta at fifteen, Arizona at sixteen.
I mean Kyler was actually okay last year seventeen, Cincinnati, No,
Seahawks eighteen. They just signed Darnold. The Bucks have Baker
at nineteen. I mean, I don't know where he falls, Like,
where does he go he doesn't go seven to Jets? Yeah,
the Steelers would be it if.
Speaker 1: He doesn't get right now twenty one Bason, Rudolph Skyler
Thompson the only quarterbacks they have on their roster.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean think about how far those If he
doesn't go seven, he could go all the way down
to twenty one.
Speaker 6: I think he will.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think Jackson Dart though, ends up as a
Steelers quarterback. So okay, and they're going that's gonna be
a lot of people are going to say that's Kenny
Picket two point zero. But I think Jackson Dart's more
talented than Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 6: I did two for sure, and well you broke it down.
Speaker 1: And they have tiny baby hands.
Speaker 6: Across the board.
Speaker 5: He got better every year in the SEC like that's
not easy to do, and it was not just in
one category.
Speaker 6: But I mean, do we now think that Dark could
go over Sanders? I guess this is the better.
Speaker 1: Question anytime we think we have the NFL draft figure
out and throws us for a loop.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think the only thing that we do know is
cam Ward's the best quarterback right now. Yeah. I think
that's now. That's that is widely known. Everybody thinks the
same thought process. Cam Ward's the top guy now. Even
if he goes number one overall, we'll see, but he's
the top guy. We don't really think about it. We
don't really know, Like this is one of those drafts
that we don't know what the top ten is going
to look like I love it like that because it's
something where it's unpredictable and we get the oh my god,
did you see that moment? But if Sanders doesn't go
at three, which I don't think he will, now, if
he doesn't go at seven, he could last all the
way down to twenty one. And you know, I just
don't we I say we'd hear. I think we hear
about that. We'd have to hear a whole all season. Yeah,
about falling to number twenty one. So we will see
not a deep quarterback draft, just interesting. Russell Wilson signs
there kind of changes a lot of the math, at
least we assume it does. Even though it's just a
one year deal. It feels like the Giants are just
going to wait another year, suck another year, and then
maybe select a quarterback in the next season. All Right,
we will take a break here more OTB when we
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Speaker 7: Com Welcome back to more sports talk. What's some other
stuff mixed in off the bench with Hester and Ti Bob.
Speaker 1: What would you consider the music we've played today, because
it is it is right in the wheelhouse for me
as well.
Speaker 4: I don't know, just like nineties rock, I mean.
Speaker 1: A little bit, but it's been some of it's two thousands,
but it kind of falls.
Speaker 4: Into the nineties rock I guess adioss I.
Speaker 1: Mean they, I mean members up Ondio Slave were certainly
big in the nineties.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Just vibe this whole album. Vibe incredible.
Speaker 4: I don't know, Like this version sounds kind of.
Speaker 1: Weird though, turn it up this way, like do you
play more of this on your show?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 3: We go some like deep cuts too, though, and well
even we'll even play like stuff that's not you wouldn't
traditionally like hear on a rock station. Like I've played
Cheryl Crowe on there, and I've played like you wouldn't
hear Cheryl Crowe any other day on Eagle ninety eight
point one. But like we played that, I played uh,
I played some Snade O'Connor. Oh yeah, I played some
Fiona Apple.
Speaker 1: So that plays for me. See that's a music station
like that. Okay, So when you have so the Tiger,
they can play whatever they want because they play current Yeah,
it's yeah, like Eagle doesn't do that, right, we don't
play current and they don't play current hits they play,
so after a while it changes yeah, like how far
back you go changes? And so I actually think Eagle's
probably going into its nineties grunge. I Fiona Apple kind
of like independent, yeah, kind of feel to it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, uh we play Criminal by Fiona a lot.
But yeah, I would say I do more like traditional grunge,
like I do a lot of Nirvana.
Speaker 4: I do a lot of Alison chains.
Speaker 3: Like if you're turning on coffee and flannel, you're gonna
hear some Alison chains. You're gonna hear smashing pumpkins at
least once you should. Yeah, I don't know. I like
to go with like the Sheryl. I like to do
like the alternative kind of stuff too, Like we do
No Doubt. You won't hear No Doubt any other time?
Speaker 1: So what do they play like that? That all makes
sense to me what you're saying. So what what's Dick
Condem playing in the morning?
Speaker 3: Probably some like led Zeppelin. I've heard some ac DC
when I'm rolling up into the building.
Speaker 1: You're not listening. You're not listening to Murphy Salmon Jody
like Teaba.
Speaker 4: I know I don't do that. I don't betray my coworkers.
Speaker 1: I just wonder I'm not a poodle. It's gonna be
so mad at us, and it's all gonna be I
know it's gonna be all at me. I'm just ready
for it.
Speaker 5: I'm just like, excuse for why he listens to Murphy
Salmon Jody is crap because he always says, oh, well,
you know, like I get like my.
Speaker 6: Traffic updates from there. Do you know how many stations?
Speaker 5: First off, three of our shows in the morning. This
is the only station that does not do traffic. And
he's like, well, yeah, I get my traffic from him.
It's just just convenient that way. Like, bro, three of
the four stations we own here and guarantee you have
morning traffic reports. So that's that's just a crap excuse.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he likes them.
Speaker 6: I think he likes them like I think he's given in.
Speaker 4: But I'm like, oh, they're not even funny. And he's like,
but they're very good at what they do. I'm like,
shut up.
Speaker 5: He's like, well, you just not one of their audience,
Like you just don't get like they're very good at what.
Speaker 1: I have heard I heard the other day. I'm like,
what do you mean, we're very good at what we do?
Speaker 7: To you do too.
Speaker 6: No, but yeah he did.
Speaker 1: She said that.
Speaker 5: He was like, well, like you just don't get it
because you're not in that audience. But like, trust me,
they're actually really good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because you're their audience.
Speaker 3: It makes me so mad, Like he's like one of
those people that will like play Devil's Advocate and I'm like, stop,
just stop.
Speaker 4: They they're not funny. Just leave it at that.
Speaker 1: We're going to them one day when the days or
we could just get nominated for Best Sports Show and
we as well. That is you know what now that
you say that, because that is such a layup. No, no, no,
I want to stay so I don't want it. I
want to stay in Best Morning Show and one day
somebody in the middle of this country because that's who
votes in Indiana's Kansas and Illinois and Kansas and all
these states that are well, Kansas is a flyover state.
I guess I've drove. I drove through there a couple
of times. My in laws were in too. Peka. I
did not know like tumbleweeds were a real thing until
I drove from Denver to Topeka. They are. But you
know what that's also like if they send it to
somewhere that had a little bit more of a vibe
to it. We would probably win. Who listened to Murphy
Sam and Jody Tumbleweeds, Yeah, the Midwest and a lot
of other people apparently whatever.
Speaker 3: And it just like makes me so angry when he
says that. And like to Taylor's point about like him
waiting on a traffic report, do you not have ways?
Speaker 4: Download the bob you won't ever need to wait on
a traffic report for.
Speaker 1: You, and it'll tell you the way to go. I've
got a couple of places that I go in my
life that I can get there with my eyes closed,
but I use ways, Yeah, because I want to know
what the traffic situation is exactly right. My son practices baseball,
Both my boys, my middle Boys members and Hudson at
Jefferson Baptist shout out to the lug nuts right as
the crow flies. It ain't very far from our house,
but that crow's got to take a lot of different
ways to get there. Yeah, all right, the traffic is
not fun at five o'clock, I'm gonna put it in ways.
I'm gonna see which way I need to go. That's
gonna be my traffic report. I don't need Murphy, Sam
and or Jody to tell me that. I need them
to tell me about getting your nails done in the
car wash and putting contacts in.
Speaker 4: I guess I just don't put number enough.
Speaker 1: I think Murphy, Sam and Jody know about us.
Speaker 4: No, I mean Murphy came up and started talking to
Matt at the table.
Speaker 1: I think they're in cahoots.
Speaker 3: I was about to say, does this mean they're no,
they know Matt. I think, guys, I know what we're
doing wrong. We have not posted not one recipe video
on O TV's instagram.
Speaker 6: Shoe I got one. I'll give out my orange orange
chicken recipes. The only thing.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's gonna put us over the top. The
guy from Walker putting out his orange chicken recipe.
Speaker 6: It wakes.
Speaker 1: Alandra. Can you whip us up a Mexican dish because
you always talk about like ones? That sounds so great.
I can do it, Okay, I'll come up with a
meathead Monday recipe. All right, just steak and tightters. We'll
come up with that. Okay, we'll put it on t
Bob and Taylor. I can't let you put out orange chicken.
Speaker 6: I don't know how to make anything else good.
Speaker 1: How the one thing you know how to make orange chicken?
Speaker 6: Tell you what cheese? I'm good at it? Do that
you do?
Speaker 4: Grill cheese?
Speaker 1: Grilled cheese cheese?
Speaker 6: Yeah, girl, cheese to made a basil super combo.
Speaker 1: That makes sense? Like that fits you? Corn chicken did not. Yeah.
Speaker 3: All I'm saying is is that Murphy, Sam and Jody
did not do the investigative reporting that I did whenever
I found out that Mormons.
Speaker 4: Are vampires, exactly like I found that out and I reported,
I broke the news on the air. They're not doing that.
Speaker 1: Oh, my Mormon friends, I love you. I love you, Eric,
You're my God. You're not.
Speaker 6: How do you know that?
Speaker 1: Maybe he is? He's really good. I mean played with
a torn peck at the Super Bowl.
Speaker 6: He left, came back two years off, Yeah, and then
won the Super Bowl with the ram.
Speaker 1: I think that was well vampire because he did.
Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe the same he.
Speaker 1: Played with a torn peck in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: M I mean that sounds like healing power, Like forty
one is a safety.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, Well we'll dive back into that.
We'll see what we can pull up with the facts
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close it out with Ask the Bench here on OTB,
Off the Bench.
Speaker 7: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sorta
it's Off the Bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 1: All right, welcome backgain OTB. Time now for Ask the Bench.
Do you appreciate constructive criticism from people you know have
your best interests at heart or do you think screw
them haters?
Speaker 4: I think it depends on how it's delivered.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who it is, who it is definitely, Like there's
some people I know are going to tell me if
I suck, and I want to know if I suck.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, Like if y'all gave me constructive criticism,
I'd be like, all right, yeah, cool thing.
Speaker 1: Somebody else. Yeah, there's definitely people like I'm onet of
my coaches to tell me, Hey, you suck at this,
get better at it. I don't want to tell I.
Speaker 6: Was telling y'all, I didn't know Apple this song sassy.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: Okay, so young, but I like it. It's a great song.
How many SEC teams make the final four? Two? Two? Yeah,
that's the bench. What's worse go not voting o TV
number one for the National Award or T Bob being
a fan of Murphy.
Speaker 4: Salmon Jody, T Bob being a fan of Murphy Salmon Jody.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because the National Award is a national This is
literally bad and Reade, You're like.
Speaker 6: This is direct.
Speaker 4: Also like he's part of this show, T Bob is,
so it feels more of a betrayal.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I hadn't even told Matt this, so I actually hope
he's listening because we'll get a good laugh. Whenever he
was explaining why he didn't vote OTB number one and
number two, he's like, and I voted for on campus.
It's like it's off it's off campus and on campus.
I was like, I didn't have the heart to correct
you because it was like a serious conversation, but I
appreciate the vote, asked the bench, can we get Austin
Bain to come back in and do traffic and the
occasional sweaty live reads. Y'all aren't here for that, my
man Austin Bain. Cousin Austin, he used to have like
a live read he do and he got so so nervous,
Oh my gosh, I mean almost would throw up every
time he had to do it. Gosh. I missed those days, man.
That was fun. Me Austin Bain and Flynn just doing
Shenanigans for two straight hours. All right, it's gonna do
it for us today. We'll see the same time, same
place tomorrow. Until then, enjoy the rest of your day
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