Speaker 1: All Star Toyota presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where the.
Speaker 1: Plays get broken down, then science gets denied to come
off the bench. Hour two of Off the Bench Live
from the Mercedes Benz so Baton Rouge Studio starts now.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in oh tb here a Monday, Monday, Monday,
LSU victorious.
Speaker 4: We're celebrating here on the show.
Speaker 3: We're going to continue to break it all down and
their matchup coming to get up against the Hogs and
what is going to be the rowdiest omahall game. Maybe
maybe all time, but certainly in this cycle.
Speaker 4: Looking forward to that.
Speaker 3: Got our guy Devin Snow joining us in our number
three because what's Monday red beans and rice, the whole deal.
But here at eight am, gonna do a little weekend winners.
Speaker 5: That's how win it has done.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 4: We can't have anyone to freak out out there.
Speaker 6: Okay, he's got a ky bark apologer, got too far.
Speaker 4: I'm by winning. I went here and I win there?
Speaker 3: Now, what are you doing what it takes to win
a championship?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 2: Winning? Well, then I guess there's only one thing left
to do. What's that.
Speaker 4: Win the whole thing? All right?
Speaker 3: My first weekend winner goes to my middle son.
Speaker 4: Let's go Huddy Paul Hester eleven U lug Nuts.
Speaker 3: They're in a tournament yesterday in bracket play, the game
was all tied up at seven. Little context here, Hoddy
got moved up to the lead off spot this game.
Doesn't typically bat leadoff, but got moved up the game.
You know, I'm like, okay, if anybody can't, yeah, there
you go, if anybody can handle it mentally, like Huddy's
not gonna be phased by like moving in the lineup
and like having pressure or whatever. The kid doesn't worry
about a whole lot there. And it was a very
cool moment. I typically don't coach his team. His coach
coaches two teams and had to be with the other teams, like, hey,
can you fill in because I coach another lug Nuts team.
And I was like absolutely, I would love to sit
there and have that time with my boy, Huddy Paul.
And so he steps up to the plate. Tied at seven,
and here's how it goes down.
Speaker 4: Thing, Let's go home, Let's go turn them all.
Speaker 3: Nice job on the coach holding everybody back there. We
can't celebrate yet.
Speaker 2: Get back.
Speaker 4: Puddy throws his helmet at second base. Wish he would
have waited a little bit longer. You see the buzz
and bleach haircut for baseball season. Touch them all. Walk
off home run over the fence?
Speaker 2: Unrealuddy, Jacob or Katie, I don't know, man.
Speaker 3: We were all pretty fired up because like Katie had
she had Harlow, so she hadn't been having the opportunity
to film the game. And I see her get her
phone out, and I'm like, Okay, she hadn't. She hadn't
filmed the whole game and you got game changer. But
she's like pulling out her phone. I'm like something big
about to happen. And then all of a sudden, I
mean literally, like the first pitch after she hits record,
he hits a walk off danger and again, man, he
was fired up. That was he round second base and
there was one dad on the other team, and I
know who you are.
Speaker 4: I saw you.
Speaker 3: He's trying to get the umpire to call Hudson out
for throwing his helmet. I seen pointing to his helmet, like,
let me tell you you are like let me tell
you one. The umpire laughed at you because he's like,
the kid is eleven years old, just had a walk
off home run over the fence. If you think I'm
calling this kid out, the umpire was like laughing at him.
Like for you to try to get an eleven year
old called out after he had a walk off tank,
that is sad. It's not even like a loser or like,
that's sad that you were trying to get an.
Speaker 4: Eleven year old called out for celebrating.
Speaker 2: A walk off home. Now it is. It is a loser.
Speaker 3: I was like, I was like yelling across, like my guy, goat,
you got family here.
Speaker 4: You're embarrassing yourself. Get out of here. Shout out to
hoodie Paul Hester, shout out.
Speaker 2: My dog Danger.
Speaker 4: That was a lot of fun, man. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 6: He got every bit of that ball.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, we're not going to top that this segment,
but like, I'm sorry, that's killer awesome.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's summertime, so once he wakes up he'll
see this.
Speaker 2: Here we go. Is that celebrating? Is that late celebrating?
Speaker 3: He was watching every the one that went viral in
football football year? Yeah, this kid. Yeah, this kid all
over the place. Yeah, he's look Alanda knows this. He's
you know, he's one of one. You gotta watch. Eddie
Paul you got he's got a nickname that we won't
share on there, but Landri knows it. I mean, my
guy is always interesting, like he's he's my dog.
Speaker 6: I will I will say that.
Speaker 7: When we were at walk On for tea Bob's going
away party, he went into Katie's bag to get some
cash to go play some games, and you had to
check how much cash he grabbed out that bag.
Speaker 4: Is like one of those guys like will be your
best friend, but you're like, where are my watch?
Speaker 6: Go see shout out hoodie hit.
Speaker 2: All right, we can win it here. Y'all tired of
talking baseball?
Speaker 6: Yeah no, no, I'll never be tired of it.
Speaker 2: I am. So let's just flip it a tennis real
quick rating spike coming that? Yep?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: My weekend winter, My first one at least is Carlos
Alcarez in an absolutely electric French Open finals yesterday. When's it? Uh?
He beats Skinner or Center, I can't remember his name,
the center He beats him in five hours and twenty
nine minute it match, which I think is the second
longest in like a major or in the finals like that,
and that's the second time to win it. So like
the Spaniards continue to dominate.
Speaker 6: Hell yeah the French chip, shout out Spaniards.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, I did, I did have this cool stat here,
So let's see where is it all right? Carlos Alcarez
and the other famous of course, rapping the doll, both
of them twenty two years old, one month in three days,
and they both had five Grand slams on that exact
same day in their life. Day fifth Grand Slam each
of them came on twenty two, one month, three days.
Speaker 3: We were talking tennis, I mean, shout out to Coco
for being the first American to win the French and
how long I mean it's been.
Speaker 4: It's a long long time.
Speaker 3: And lost the first set and then came and battled back,
and then her opponent was like, basically it wasn't her,
it was me, uh no, you lost.
Speaker 4: You lost to the American, and hey, guess what, you
got to.
Speaker 3: Win more than one set in tennis, So sorry that
you won the first win and you win it like
you lost it, and she didn't win it because she
did go and win it.
Speaker 2: The Cocoa Golf twenty one years old, Carlos Alcarez twenty two.
Tennis in pretty good hands right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you dabble in it, adul't, but you do.
And look you you you know tennis and.
Speaker 4: Do you do cycling? Ors?
Speaker 2: It just I just yeahs let doors, all right, that's
the only thing. I'll tune in and I'll start I'll
start like shaping up on my knowledge how the season's going,
how the favorites are looking leading up to let Tour.
But then I'm then I'm dialed in.
Speaker 3: Eva said, I've been listening to OTB since day one,
and this might be the first tennis ever talked about.
Speaker 2: Look, Tennis to me is one of those things that
if you put on, like normally there's not a lot
going on on a Sunday outside of outside of football
season besides, like you might get one baseball game, but yeah,
it's not an all day or deal where you're watching three,
four or five games. It's one of the things that
you put on and then there's a good match. I
don't care if you're not a fan, like you're locked in,
You're locked in when you when you got these sudden
death points happening. Yeah for a French for a French Open,
You're sorry, people.
Speaker 3: Look I can get behind I get incredible athletes for sure.
Speaker 2: And five and a half hours running back and forth.
Speaker 3: Look, is anybody as cool as Andre Agacy when he
had the dangle cross earring out there on the court. No,
probably not. He had a great mullet. But you know what,
I can still get behind it.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, tennis.
Speaker 3: That was it Michael Chang that had the the the
rebock pumps with the tennis ball in the front.
Speaker 4: I believe it was. We need to look at that up.
What was his name? Michael Chang? Wasn't wasn't that the
tennis player?
Speaker 3: We had a rebock pumps, had the like literal like
tennis ball on the tongue of the shoe, and you
pumped it up, you rebock Ye huge tennis guy here,
huge tennis guy.
Speaker 4: Look at that shout out.
Speaker 6: You never heard the name Michael Chang before today.
Speaker 2: But boom, boom count it.
Speaker 7: I got a weekend winner, well real quick weekend loser,
Tennessee because lol, but my weekend winner, tite. I put
a couple of things in the weekend winner in the dock.
Uh Mikey Linton. Shout out Mikey Linton. He is a
LSU Tiger super fan and he's the guy that went
viral this weekend for catching Derek Curriel's home run ball.
The memes that were coming out of this, they made
like a bronze statue AI pick of him holding the
ball like that is so funny. And then I put
the video of him catching it too if you want
to play it. But yeah, shout out Mikey. True LSU
fan had a great moment this weekend went viral.
Speaker 6: Weekend winner Mikey Linton.
Speaker 3: Shout out, Mikey, shout out. Let's go He'll sworn that
was bull Hurley.
Speaker 6: But meeting him at walk that's really funny.
Speaker 2: Sometimes sometimes your jokes man, they cut deep. What say?
Speaker 4: That was a great ki Let's go sweat.
Speaker 6: Let's go sweating, bro, it was hot out there.
Speaker 4: Heyday, what you got for us?
Speaker 2: So I got two weekend losers.
Speaker 8: One of them was a girl who played cocoa golf saying, hey,
you know it wasn't used me. She actually went as
far as to saying I played so bad today. I
actually believe the opponent I beat in the semifinals could
have came out here and beat Cocoa Golf today. Don't
do that.
Speaker 2: He lost. Take the loss like a man.
Speaker 8: But my second weekend loser, this one should just be
a permanent weekend loser.
Speaker 2: The Pittsburgh Pirate, so they.
Speaker 8: Actually won and Paul Skeen's his last start. They win
two to one. But here's why they're a weekend loser
because Skeens still did not get the win. Seven and
two thirds innings, two hits, no runs, seven strikeouts. Couldn't
get it done in that timeframe. He ends with a
no decision. But it's worse than that. So on the
season right now, Paul skiings one point eight eight e LRA.
He has one win in his last seven starts. In
his last seven starts, he has a one point one
two e r A and one in six with a
one point one two e r do better, Pittsburgh Pirates,
standing weekend loser.
Speaker 6: Let him go.
Speaker 2: I feel like that's a hot take right now. I
know I get defending Paul, but weekend loser. They just
they swept, didn't they? And I get it one. They
swept the series.
Speaker 7: They became there is perpetually weekend losers though, because I mean,
what a terrible way to run your organization. Like you
have somebody like Paul Skians who had doesn't have many
wins and he's about to win the cy young but.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you gotta be a standing weekend loser.
Speaker 4: What what do.
Speaker 3: Y'all do if you're if you're Pittsburgh, Because I've seen
like some of the the trade packages that potential teams
would throw at them, and they are not even in
the realm of a Paul Skiings, Like Pittsburgh has a
decision to make.
Speaker 4: I get that, but like you're gonna have to give
me everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like whatever your farm system is, I need one, two,
and three. Whoever your all star is, I need him
as well. Yeah, you're well, we're talking generational. We're talking
about I'm gonna do that though, you're just gonna have
to spend the money to get the exact We're talking
about a Paul Skiing too, Like the way the guy
gets ready for like a single game, Like he takes
care of his body as well as anybody out there.
Speaker 4: He's locked in.
Speaker 3: You're talking about somebody that's got a long prime still
prime And.
Speaker 2: The other thing that I think about with them is
he didn't pitch till halfway into his college career. He
didn't have like a full time doesn't have to wear
and tear on an elbow or his arm or shoulder
or anything like that.
Speaker 4: That kids his training regiment's incredible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the way he preps, but like I just look
back at the history. How many throws does his arm
have compared to a kid that's been pitching since they
were in sixth grade? Yeah, and as they griped the
curveballs at fifteen, sixteen years old, stuff like that, it
creates a lot of wear and tear. You're right, this
is general like you could go on a decade long
like generational run.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean we're talking about somebody that could set
your franchise up minimum.
Speaker 4: I think the.
Speaker 3: Next six years of like frontline, all star cy young
type pitching. Yeah, and you ain't gonna give me a
handful of prospects in a middle reliever.
Speaker 4: Ain't gonna get it. I ain't gonna get it done.
Speaker 3: Like, you have to give me literally your entire farm system.
And I need a good farm system, not a bad one.
So the Braves, you're out because your farm system.
Speaker 2: You'd a roster that looks like the ninety four Texas
Rangers that was ninety five.
Speaker 4: Either one, either one doesn't matter. Yeah again, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: Again that team slow pitch softball, elad regular baseball.
Speaker 2: Okay, I got a winner, winner and loser here, and
it's really your turn, and it's I know it's not.
I'm skipping you because we're coming up on I want
to get this out because I'm gonna set up for
another segment later. We're gonna talk a little bit more
about the details of why this is a winner. Okay,
but the big weekend winter, huge financial benefit from this.
Rocos Pizza and Cantina. Oh yeah, the jealous shots, Yeah,
the jello shots, La Shoes coming to town.
Speaker 4: Every bar.
Speaker 3: I put this out there last night, every bar in Omaha.
Rocos is the popular one, every bar in Omaha, every
restaurant in Omaha. When Chase shores through strike three, I
promise you, I promise you.
Speaker 4: They jumped up for joy note and Fish pumped and
high fived everybody in the room.
Speaker 2: What's the Barretts? Is that the yellow sshe bar?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean they're they're gonna be popping too.
Speaker 7: You know what comes to mind is like the Popeyes
meme of the Popeyes worker.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's gonna I'm gonna kind of break down. I've
been I've been doing and a little bit of research
here breaking down like the financial impact of the Jealo shots.
So to hour three for this because I still got
a little bit more research lines into. I got two
lines right now, but I got in my head, I
got a lot more than Okay, so that's gonna be.
So sixty eight and eighty eight I believe were the
yellow Shots last time, right, that's the record. So which
sets me up to my weekend loser is the part
time minimum wage employees at Rockos Pizza and Cantina. They
are in for it.
Speaker 4: Like can you imagine the hours that they have to do.
That's what a lunch is. Just basically, I know that's.
Speaker 2: A huge So every temp service, every high school kid,
they're probably going to be employed, probably fifty of them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a lot of JeOS.
Speaker 3: It's a lot of Jelo shots, a lot of shots.
Like everybody here for parade is made Yello shots.
Speaker 4: That's a lot.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Like the process of thinking them, Oh my gosh,
that's so true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they gotta have it. I mean, they get it
down to a sign for sure, because last time they
were probably ready for they'll be twenty times.
Speaker 3: They'll be more ready this time. You should feel sorry
for the ones I had to do it last time. Yeah,
all right, anyways, I do have one more week in winter.
What he's putting together, his his math, his math ain't math.
And right now, Christiano Ronaldo and Portugal weekend winners. They
take down Spain in the Nation's League final. They win
on penalties. But it's not even really that. It's the
emotion that you saw from Ronaldo forty years old. He
had to be subbed off for injury, but sitting there
and couldn't even watch the penalty kicks because like he
was so nervous, and then they won it, like what
it means for like his nation, and I want like
every United States men's national team player that is taking
a vacation this summer, some time off and not playing
in the Goal Cup, which is something that has always
been important for the United States soccer team. To look
at Ronaldo, who is considered a top three player of
all time ever to ever play soccer, and you feel
like you need to take a break, you need to
take arrest.
Speaker 4: When he's forty years.
Speaker 3: Old and is out there playing in the Nations League,
which is basically it's the same thing as your Goal Cup,
and the US is hosting the World Cup next year,
So going into the biggest time in your international soccer career,
instead of going out there and with a new coach
creating some momentum in chemistry, you decide to go take
a holiday. And one of the best players in the world,
Ronaldo ever is out there at forty giving you everything
he's got for Portugal.
Speaker 4: Messi gives you everything he has for Argentina.
Speaker 3: And until we start taking soccer seriously, we're going to
continue to be okay.
Speaker 2: And you would know how that feels to be forty two.
Speaker 4: Yeah, running up and down a pitch, No, is.
Speaker 2: That what they call it field? Call it a fields
a field.
Speaker 8: I'm learning all the I'm learning all the soccer.
Speaker 2: Slam is what Paul does. Yes, it's not what you
run up and down.
Speaker 3: Your ass just got up here and talked tennis and cycling,
and I can't call a pitch a pitch.
Speaker 4: That's what it is.
Speaker 2: We're in America. It's a field. It's still a pitch
in America, it's a field.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: This guy talking cycling French Open in the French Open
has given me a lesson on America.
Speaker 4: That's rich.
Speaker 2: Paul Skans pitches a field is what you run on.
Speaker 4: Jedi Robinson.
Speaker 3: That his nickname, but he goes by a big Star
Wars fan. Yeah, Anthony's is real name, but he goes
by Jed.
Speaker 4: Doesn't matter. You're cool enough to know.
Speaker 2: You can't call it a pitch and then call it soccer.
There's got to be some sort of etiquette rule there.
Speaker 8: Football, football, pitch, soccer and field.
Speaker 2: It's soccer and field. It's a soccer field. It's not
a soccer.
Speaker 4: You call it football too, like in England it's not football.
That's yeah.
Speaker 3: In other countries it's a pitch In America too. You
play soccer on a pitch. No, it's not that hard
to figure out.
Speaker 2: Do you? Soccer field?
Speaker 3: You know who you're acting like exactly everybody else knows?
All right, anybody else got any winners or losers? Loser
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Louisiana sports, Flynn.
Speaker 2: Sports, Where are you from it? I don't know what's
a soccer uniform called cool?
Speaker 4: Are called boots?
Speaker 6: Oh that's so dumb.
Speaker 8: Here's the here's the weirdest one hockey jersey sweater sweater.
Speaker 4: You'll make fun of hockey players and get your ass whipped. Lodger.
Speaker 3: You, you and you and I both we fumbled the bag,
missed a weekend winter but certainly you brought it up,
so I'll let you have the floor here.
Speaker 6: Yeah, weekend winner for me.
Speaker 7: And I know everybody's going to start with the stuff,
but it just is what it is. Texas softball winning
a national championship, and as somebody who like grew up
playing softball and going to all the games when I
was a younger, when I was younger and everything like,
it was for me really good to watch Texas win
a national championship in softball because it's been a long
time coming.
Speaker 6: And you beat a million dollar picture shows money can't
buy you a nattie.
Speaker 7: But yeah, also or extra weekend, extra weekend winner to
Mia Scott, their third basement.
Speaker 6: She was playing on a torn ACL all weekend.
Speaker 3: So and that's yeah, that's where I was gonna go,
like ball, and yeah, there she was on third base, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Making every single play with no a.
Speaker 3: CL, No a CL gone, no a CL. I tell
the story often. I wasn't I wasn't there, but I
hear the stories of it.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Philip Rivers tore his a CL in the divisional round
against the Colts on the road. Billy Voloch had to
come in and won the game. But the next week
they were going to New England to play in the
AFC Championship game. It's freezing cold obviously in January and
New England.
Speaker 4: But Philip went.
Speaker 3: In and like guy his like a CL just cleaned up,
didn't repair and played an AFC Championship game.
Speaker 4: No a c L.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look my guy super athletic, like a hell of
a basketball player, but not the quickest guy.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 4: He had like a knee.
Speaker 2: Brace that look remember that knee brais I mean huge, huge,
biggest one you've ever seen.
Speaker 4: And he was he was not the most mobile quarterback.
Speaker 2: How do you, I guess I don't know enough about
how the knee and the leg operate, but from quarterbacks,
It's like, how do you even was it? His right
is left? It can't be his rights. It's gonna push on.
Speaker 4: To be I'm trying to be left because if this
is right?
Speaker 3: Uh, I mean, I know Phillips got a different throw
in motion, but he uses his legs obviously didn't.
Speaker 2: Philip also have to I have a hurt left hand.
One time, I have to hand off everything with his
right hand one time?
Speaker 4: Was that staff? He said that before Brady.
Speaker 2: Brady did that too. Yeah, it looks so weird. Were
running running crosshanded?
Speaker 4: Oh tell you what?
Speaker 8: Though, he didn't come back from a AC joint.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's right in two weeks.
Speaker 3: I mean, Philip Rivers played with no A C. L.
Flynn missed a game with an AC joint.
Speaker 4: Sprain.
Speaker 8: You came back in Arkansas though, huh through that thirty
yard pail.
Speaker 2: Mary, I've never seen a less fox old guy than
Jacob on Monday, June Night.
Speaker 4: The Year of Our Lord. All right, all right, all right,
I'll dollar back. I'll dial back.
Speaker 2: Go get your your boots on and run on a
pitchy with your kid, with my kid, with your kid on.
Speaker 3: Trying to think there's any more. Anybody that's watched Ted Lasso.
Speaker 8: The couple of the coaches a gaffer, yeah, a gaffer
like g A F F E R.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And if you're like the interim coach, you're a caretaker,
I believe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm in the I'm in the middle of now.
They're just making the.
Speaker 8: Caretaker via Jake's recommendation. I'm in the middle of right, Yeah,
I was. I was going to text you Everton suffered
a historic law now in the in the over the
weekend for me.
Speaker 4: Not definitely used to that though.
Speaker 2: Even in the I don't think there's any spoilers anymore. No,
the the.
Speaker 4: Clock clock right out Jamie is he's gone.
Speaker 8: Yeah, man, City scooped him up.
Speaker 6: Yeah. That one was for cat Asterman. Shout out to her.
She really was.
Speaker 3: It is funny that we're talking about talking about handing off,
and I started thinking, like every quarterback is so different
in the way they handle football off and it seems
so elementary, like of course, like everybody does it the same.
It's like no, no, no, no, you have to know, just
like you had to know what center was in the
game and snap. It different every quarterback I ever played
with handed it off differently, like some like were very
passive and like barely had it in their hand and
they wanted you to take it. Some were like shoving
it like like right in your belly and just like
way too much.
Speaker 4: Like whoa hold on a power? Yeah, just like that.
Speaker 3: And the one thing about Jay Russ and we're gonna
have Jay Russ on pretty soon. I was talking with
him the other day. He would talk to you as
he was handing you the ball off, like if you
were on like a like a zone extra, like you
open step crossed over so you got some time, and
he'd be like, right out eighteen, right out, right out,
right right out eighteen right hit it outside, eighteen, hit
it outside.
Speaker 2: And they were like, that's the three.
Speaker 3: I've never had a quarterback talk to you as he's
handing you the football off and also knocking the wind
out of you at the same time, like she's handing
the ball off to you.
Speaker 2: I remember watching the hand off. Yeah, he would put
that thing in the belly pretty aggressively.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: But you're right though, I mean, it's one of there's
so many like little things you take for granted in football.
The handoff is so like even the running back taking
put in its arms right. Some some like give you
pretty wide pockets. Some are like really really small and tight. Yeah,
but if you if you've never believed that the handoff
is a big deal, can be different and something you
have to like get good at, like go go coach
first grade flag football, you'll figure out how like non
just like natural that whole situation is.
Speaker 3: But everybody always like they put their arms like under
the football like this. No no, no, no, it's like you
flip it. It's like then they never do it the
right side. I'm like, look, all right, whatever way you go.
If you go to left, your left arm is on
the bottom. If you go to the right, your right
arm is on the bottom. It's like I'm trying to
like the like okay, bread basket, yep.
Speaker 2: And then if they do it right, sometimes like their
palms are like facing down like this, like well that
that doesn't make make much sense.
Speaker 4: I know, I know.
Speaker 3: The little things about like all the mechanics that go
into like it's just a normal basic football play is
pretty cool because you take them for granted, like center
quarterback exchange, uh, the quarterback getting the football to the
running back on his zone steps, because every zone step
is going to be different. Like some guys are kind
of like short striders and they don't get out there.
Some guys, like if you got Derrick Henry back there,
who is you know, incredibly tall for the running backs,
Like his open steps gonna be a little bit bigger
than Darren Sprolls.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: It's like and you're as a quarterback, like it's on
you to get me the ball, right, It's not on
me for me to get to you, because I've got
a process, I've got steps. And how many times you
seen like quarterbacks certainly like Peyton used to be the
worst at it because they ran so much stretch.
Speaker 4: Zone that he had to get out there and he.
Speaker 3: Would be like head duck like ball fully extended, like
please please get there.
Speaker 2: Yea, and he went real fast.
Speaker 4: I didn't say that Peyton. That was Flynn's that said the.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's not a hot take, not a
real hot day. Yeah, but everything not the quickest. There's
things that matter on the football fieldmal sports that that
you'd never notice as as a fan or a casual
fan watching it. And that's kind of the things like
like this year and the show that we're going to
probably try to break down and teach a little bit
of everything, Like even from this offensive lineman.
Speaker 4: Splits, so like is it a one and a half
foot split?
Speaker 2: Two foot split to like and that the split means,
it's like how far is the right foot of the
center away from the left foot of the right guard?
Speaker 4: Like how far do the lineman split out?
Speaker 2: Because when a defensive line or a defense lines up,
they're not lining up depending on like the distance of
they are from the ball, like the defensive tackle the end,
they're not like counting their yards from the ball. They're
lining up on a leverage or a shade of the
offensive lineman. So we spread out a little bit more.
They spread out a little bit more. But then there's
weaknesses to that, there's and there's advantages to it. So
depending on just like you said, a zone step might
be different for a for an offensive lineman depending on
who it is or what the play, but like more
so of what the play is and what defense they
are lining up against. Yeah, if if a if if
a sinner's lined up on a shaded nose, he's gonna
step a lot different than if it's a three tech
to that side. So, I mean, it's there's a lot
of just so many interties. It's interestcy.
Speaker 3: They're like, you're asking, you're asking this meathead over here.
I just you know, get up here and just wing it.
You know, Uh vocabulary, sure words heard of it. I
don't know, just talk for a liven.
Speaker 4: It.
Speaker 3: It is something that I always tried to make sure
I was ready for, but it's just so difficult in
the moment, like which tight end do you have blocking?
And who's set in the edge. Is it Antonio Gates,
is it Randy McMichael. They're gonna block it completely different, right,
Gates is going to try to reach the outside right now,
and if he gets beat inside, he's like, hey, he
has you.
Speaker 4: Better run anybody get out there, uh Like.
Speaker 3: And for Randy, Randy was always trying to kind of
like log everything right there and then kick him out late.
So you were gonna put your foot in the ground
and go inside of that block. And it's just in
the moment, like it's obviously it's incredibly fast speed. It's
hard to even tell you how fast. Like if you
have a running lane in the NFL, if you don't
get in there quick. It is going to close up.
But it's like you have to know pre snap stuff
because personnels are changing. You're going from twenty one personnel
twelve personnel, eleven personnel, and there's going to be somebody
different in there, and maybe you bring in the two
bigger tight ends and maybe Gates goes to a receiver position,
but it's still technically twelve personnel as a running back
or as a quarterback. Like those things that you have
to know while also knowing your assignment. And also you're
reading the defense. All right, where's that shade at? Okay, well,
if this guy flows here, I got to go there.
Whatever it might be. I that safety comes down on
a strike blitz. I gotta know this turns into that
there's so.
Speaker 2: Many things for all that then you have to worry about. Oh,
it's also Lance Briggs coming down full speed, Yeah right, yeah,
or Thomas Davis.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah right, it's oh Patrick Willis is going to
be the one wait on me's school school you know,
I I I get I get asked that question pretty often,
probably more than any like who's the best guy you
ever played against? It's always and Pete Willie is always
my answer, And like I played against like Ray Lewis
and all that, and Ray was so good because Ray
knew her to be like that was the thing that
he was best at. Ed Reid Is certainly in that conversation,
Troy Polamalo's in that conversation. We could go on and on,
but it was Patrick Willis for me because I say
it all the time.
Speaker 4: He was smarter than me, faster than me, and stronger
than me.
Speaker 3: That's a bad three strike situation for your boy here.
And that's what people like understand about him. And he
retired early. I haven't played like eight years. He could
have played fifteen if he wanted to. And then on
top of everything, he was the nicest guy in the world.
That really made it the worst we ran I don't
know if it was now. I was six, so you
weren't there quite yet. We ran stretched to the left,
so left side run stretched, and stretch is supposed to hit,
you know, outside of the tackle. And Patrick Willison was
playing linebacker like basically like on the right side on
the line almost. I mean he's kind of like in
like a three yard position, and I just remember getting
the ball on a stretch and as soon as I
got the ball, put my foot in the ground and
number forty nine was waiting on me.
Speaker 4: I was like, where in the hell did you come from?
And how did you get here?
Speaker 2: Offsides? But I had never seen anything, and you had
to take that hard hand off, hard hand off.
Speaker 3: He had a cast on, because Pee Willy didn't play
unless he had a cast.
Speaker 4: On his hand. He did have that kind of damn
clumb at all times.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you couldn't get rid of that guy either College NFL.
He was in your nightmares.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Pee Willy is actual nickname of his. Say it again,
pee Willie Patrick Willis p Willy? Uh, before we take
a break? Who's that guy for you? There's always he's
always the answer for me.
Speaker 2: I mean it's hard. It's so much different for a
quarterback because I'm not taking on anyone like one on.
Speaker 3: No, I'm talking about that, like it's not even like
that's what it's not even like all this guy hit
the hardest. So like that's probably James Harrison probably, And
I'm talking about in the totality of when I knew
we played the forty nine ers, it was like I
was the Popeye's meme. I was on the bench like
the oh christ this guy again. Yeah, and we played
him every year in the preseason or in the regular season.
Speaker 2: It's like, again, it's different for a quarterback because you're
worried about like eleven dudes. Oh my god, but give
me an answer when we played the I would say
Paula Malu with the Steelers because just for the sheer
fact that he never did what he's supposed to do,
Like you could. You could look at any playbook and
look at the x's and o's on what a defense
is supposed to do. That's what make good quarterbacks do,
like they understand the why of what the defense is
trying to do. He broke all the rules. Charles Woodson
was like a lot like this too, but I was
on his team, so it didn't really matter as well.
Like Paulamala, if he was supposed to be in single
high coverage, you would find that sucker four yards from
the line of scrimmage covering a curl flat or covering
a hook rop. Yeah, something like that. You just never
knew where he was gonna be. So he's a person
post snap on as soon as you get the snap
you're supposed to you know, kind of look at some
keys on the defense where you know where your guys
are going to be. You always had to find him
because he was always in random, weird spots and that's
one of the reasons he was so smart and was
able to do that. He was so good for so long.
So yeah, Paula Mala was a paint in the.
Speaker 4: Ass being the a gab and drop and play cover too.
Speaker 2: Yeah what are we doing?
Speaker 4: Snap?
Speaker 3: Like my guy, I'm gonna see if I can find
this play and I know where long for a break
will take it out. I'm gonna see if I can
find this play where we're playing in the playoffs, And
he had like no regard for his body. He just
tried to knock my block off and didn't care, didn't
care what the play was behind him, totally didn't know,
like he knew his assignment, didn't care and that's just
who he was and he could get away with it
because he was so good.
Speaker 4: And then Ryan Clark did a really nice job of
covering up for him.
Speaker 3: Like that was Ryan's biggest strong shoit in my opinion,
was he would see what Troy was doing and he'd
cover whatever he left open.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he gonna leave something open.
Speaker 2: If you if you're gonna study safeties like as a
youth player, a high school player, don't study.
Speaker 4: No, no, don't do it because you can't do what
he did.
Speaker 2: Do what he did because you don't be in trouble.
Nobody can.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 3: All right, we will take a break more OTB when
we come back your way here at one O four
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Speaker 4: I don't recognize this one, Tata.
Speaker 3: You linked an article here in the doc Anonymous SEC
coaches predict what l s U football missing the college
football Playoff.
Speaker 4: Would do to head coach Brian Kelly.
Speaker 2: It's not good. You can believe that.
Speaker 8: It's probably the shacker of the day. They had about
two or three anonymous coaches, and you know, one of
them mentioned a, look, it's the expectations here in bad
Ruge every year. But depth Charty put together sebssi's had
since he's been in bad Ruge, and Kelly's been open
about that. Kelly said, this is the best roster he's had.
They're they're just they're basically talking about the the pressure
that he's had and and what it's going to look
like like. One of the quotes right here says, the
big talk is the way that they've restructured. This isn't
an autonomous coaching culture anymore. Austin Thomas has a huge
role building the roster, and it showed this offseason the
internal evaluation of LSU football will look more professional. They're
going to build BK the best possible roster to go
out and win games. So we're just talking about, you know,
how impressed they were with what they did in the
off season, but can they turn it into a playoff?
Speaker 2: Frount?
Speaker 5: All?
Speaker 4: Right? So the best thing about this is duh?
Speaker 3: I mean I think we all know that. Yeah, I
think we know the expectation. I think Brian Kelly knows
the expectation. I think Blake Baker, I think Joe Sloan,
every coach over there knows that the expectation for LSU
football is to make the college football playoff and if
they don't, that would be a disappointing season. The best
part about it is when I caught up with BK
and Destin like he doesn't run away from that, right,
Like he knows that he's known that since he's been here.
Speaker 4: Right, this isn't a coach. It's like, how could you
say that, Oh my gosh, No, he knows that. Every
coach and I just mentioned the coordinators we've had them
on the show. They know that.
Speaker 3: These players we had with weeks, they know that, right,
they understand. That's what it is. That's what the expectation
of a place like LSU always is like, even when
it's a fourteen playoffs, Like people were malet, you gotta
make it, you gotta make it, And that's okay, right,
that's what happens when you are a blue blood type program.
Remember the last twenty five years of college football, Alabama's
got what six or seven national championships and then it's
Ohio State and Lshue tied at three. So they have
been a standard of college football in last twenty five years.
All right, So duh, go make the playoff And everybody
is running towards that and not away from that. And
I think that's the best part about this. And I
also agree with these anonymous coaches. I think Austin Thomas
and the staff have done a hell of a job
putting the best roster together.
Speaker 4: Now you've had top tier talent like.
Speaker 3: We see them on Sundays with Jayden Daniels and elite
neighbors and Brian Thomas, like we see that. But in
the totality of the roster, this is the best because
the depth is better. Man, you were thin, I'm talking
about paper thin at some key positions over the last
couple of years. So this roster, now, it's got some
juice to it.
Speaker 4: It's got some beef to it.
Speaker 3: Behind the starters, behind one, behind two, Like you've got
some guys that have experience that you can count on
those freshmen that played on defense last year, right, you
can now count on all of those guys that they
had to play last year because of injuries and other things.
But just when you look at everybody available, when you
look from top to bottom, certainly, like look at the
receiver room, my god, like there's gonna be good players
that don't play tent right, So yes, I agree, this
is the most talented, deepest roster that this coaching staff
has had. And this staff, the fan base, the players, everybody,
they get it. It is make the college football playoff
or it is a disappointing scene.
Speaker 2: You said it too. I mean, Brian Kelly, Joe Slumla,
none of those guys are dumb, right, They understand the expectation.
But that's why you come to a place and coach
at a place like LSU because there is that And
it's not like that expectation hasn't been there the last
couple of years. It's always been there. It's just one
more year. I think the noise gets a gets a
little bit louder from the expectation standpoint, and everybody keeps
saying that this year leading into the season because now
the excuse there's no there's excuses are kind of gone
on this season because of the complete roster. The biggest
questions is in the trenches this year. Yeah, but from
a defensive standpoint, since Brian Kelly's been here, on paper,
it's the best roster top to bottom that that he's had,
So those the excuses are kind of gone. But like
you said, they're running towards this expectation. They're not shying
away from it. And that's what you would expect because
you don't go to LSU if you don't want that
expectation put on right. So, as a former player, as
a fan like we I'm excited about the season because
you're bringing back so much. There's no one else in
the country in my opinion, that's bringing back the skill level,
especially from an offensive standpoint that LSU has. So yeah,
the excuses have kind of run out. So now you
just got to go out there and do it. You've
you've shown so much, so much good in the last
couple of years, put it all together and you got
to do it seasoning. But you know SEC SEC schedule,
it's uh, it's a ballbuster, man, So you have to
you have to play good. You have to be on
it every single week. You can't have a down week.
And then of course it's football collision sport. You have
to hope you got a little bit of luck with
the on the injury stand front too.
Speaker 3: Yep, you've been a lot of good. You need to
be a lot of great this year. We'll see that
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