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I gotta say, dude, I thought Walter Norlan was a sweetheart.
Speaker 4: I was expecting something like a like kind of a
mean next Yeah, yeah, me too, just.
Speaker 2: The way he plays. But now you're right, very very
nice young.
Speaker 3: Man, very cerebral talking about his his how you know,
being well, okay, this I guess I guess why his
interview resonated with me the cannon, so we all know
that the canon as his canonisms, right, his core kind
of core things that he used to impart and right
behind one snapping clear was maybe even ahead of once
having clear Honestly, it's not the football golden rule, but
it is the main thing you have to be, and
that is be coachable. Yeah, and and don't have too
much pride, be willing to accept the coaches telling you
that you are wrong and that you need to do better.
And it was so interesting hearing Nolan consistently arrive at
that or or speak on that by himself, right, And
really it sounds like it was a journey because, as
he said, come out of high school, he's like, aah, whatever, man,
I'm the man.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna kick ass.
Speaker 3: But like, yeah, coachability you cannot be and it's something
that you know, to go full old man here. It
is something that I feel like is going to be
maybe a bit tougher and tougher as these guys get
paid more and more and kind of are you know,
maybe believe in their own success a bit more where
you're not as like a controlled or beat down, but
you know, a little more power.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 3: The point is, you have to be willing to take
criticism and and improve when when the coach tells you
what you're doing wrong and some can't and and so
to hear Nolan rhyme, they're like, that's a great sign
of what's going to potentially lead him to being very successful.
Speaker 4: Yeah, very humble for a unanimous all Americas. Yes, yes, exactly,
well like in a good way, not like in a
passive way, but in a hey, here's what the scouting
report says. I don't think it's true, but it's on
me to go prove that this week. I thought that
was very mature of him to say it like that.
Speaker 3: It's even like my old man was at the house
the other day and he's playing with Bobby and he
was like soft tossing him little uh little little uh
things they would like the softball bat, and Bobby's like
yelling at him, you know, yelling at him to like
I guess like they're like, he was telling me back up,
he didn't want to yell God to be coachable. No,
buddy's got to be coachable. And then he throws it again. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
he throws it again. And then quad Bob cranks it
and smacks him right in the face, hits the ball
right back right after he's tell him to be coachable.
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Speaker 3: So the Saints coaching search continued over the weekend Jake,
and it was not exactly a banner weekend for the
New Orleans Saints. One of the main memes over the
weekend was somebody posting an Instagram poll saying who want me?
And the answer was one hundred percent no, all right,
and so that was a screenshot floating around. Unfortunately that
has now been applied to the New Orleans Saints after
Joe Brady just didn't say no, but kind of vehemently
said no, you know, very happy in Buffalo, not going anywhere.
So you now have Aaron Glenn choosing the Jets over
the Saints, you have Joe Brady saying no. And look, functionally,
I think there's a bit of an over reaction where
I don't know if this like matters too too much,
because look, you see McCarthy, if you want now, you're
in telling more on Monday, like maybe you back into
a good coach, but functionally it's not the biggest deal.
There's no guarantee Brady's gonna be great or anything like that.
But symbolically it does cause me to question, Jake, how
do people in NFL circles feel about the New Orleans
Saints right now? Right how is the organization and the
franchise viewed? And of course that conversation extends into how
is Mickey Loomis viewed.
Speaker 4: I think you're kind of getting your answer right now
in real time.
Speaker 2: I don't even think it's really a question.
Speaker 4: Right now, you have coordinators that would the stay coordinators
than be your head coach. The coordinators that want to
be head coaches, they're going other places that have been
dysfunctional for a long time. Yeah, it's true, Like they're
going to places that I think it's personally going to
be harder to win, much more difficult divisions than the
New Orleans Saints play in. It's telling you everything you
need to know about how the franchise right now is
viewed in NFL circles. And it feels like now you're
like just bargain ben chopping and hoping somebody takes your job,
which is wild.
Speaker 2: Like four years ago.
Speaker 4: If this job came open, it would have been one
of the hottest ones in the streets. It would have
been the one that everybody was trying to run to
the front of the line. Now, speaking of one on ones,
you know that guy who kind of didn't really want
to go in one on ones and he kind of
like stand in the back a little bit and didn't
want to get the extra reps And he's like, hey,
you already go, So yeah, I got two reps.
Speaker 2: It's like, no, you didn't go already of course.
Speaker 4: Like he's me, like that's right now, Like that's what
these candidates are kind of doing with the same job,
Like they're hiding in the background, like hoping they don't
get called on. Yeah, and there's a lot now of
doomsday situations of guys that if they get hired, it's
gonna be a full off season of just spewed hate
towards that head coach because you don't believe in them.
Speaker 3: I mean, I wonder, right, if you get more, it
feels like and I know Can has been pushing more,
it feels like more would still make people happy. McCarthy
is gonna be kind of the same thing that always.
Speaker 2: Would have been.
Speaker 3: But again, it's the reputational damage that Jake is talking
about here, and really, what does it mean for Mickey Loomis?
Is this a outside condemnation of Loomis?
Speaker 2: And I can't help Jake.
Speaker 3: When you were out last week, we talked about this
a lot, but look at look at the Jags. Liam
Cohen saga, Yeah, where and because there were some ideas
out there that one of the reasons why Aaron Glynn
didn't want to You know, these are rumors, I should say, right,
some that have been vehemently refuted, but we've also seen
other things vamilliarfeuder that weren't true. Remember when it was
vehemently refuted that Aaron Glynn didn't prefer New York.
Speaker 2: And well, okay, no, he obviously did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but there were some ideas out there that Aaron
Glynn said, Look, I'd be interested in New Orleans, but
I want to be able to help choose the GM.
You have to be willing to move on from Loomis rumors.
Rumor is saints. Obviously he said no because basically Loomis
sing no. But then look at the Jags. Right, So
in that same way, Trent Balkey brings in Liam Cohen
for an interview. Liam Cohen lets it be known through
back channels that look, I'm interested, but I don't want
to work with Balky like I want to bring in
my guy or whatever. So I initially there's no deal.
Cohen's going back to the Bucks. He's sign the extension.
Then they fire Balky and all of a sudden, Liam
Cohen flies back and he is now the head coach
of the Jacksonville Jaguars. So it is real that can happen,
that exact rhythm and situation.
Speaker 2: And in Mickey.
Speaker 3: Loomis, who knows how he's viewed when you have a
Zach Bond now who is a first team All Pro
and who's talking about He used to cry in the
parking lot in New Orleans pulling up to his jobs,
real miserable it was. You had Dennis Allen for the
last few years. Sean Payton's no longer, Drew Brees no
longer there like the things that made you popular amongst
the league. Remember Sean Payne one of the best locker
rooms in the leagues. Where in Jordan's Emmanuel Sanders come
in here talking about, oh my god, this dude's just different.
That's gone, and now you're left with Loomis who's nearly
seventy years old and gives you quotes like this, just
because the results aren't what we want doesn't mean we're
doing something wrong. After the Saints go five and twelve,
we mentioned that postseason press conference is one of the
most gaslightly press conferences you'll ever see in your entire life.
But he just all looks a bit out of touch
right now.
Speaker 2: And so you look at what the odds are.
Speaker 4: And this is two days ago, so Joe Brady was
still at top.
Speaker 2: We know he's probably not coming now.
Speaker 4: So you look at the odds of who the next
head coach is going to be in Kamflica for the
Giants being at plus four fifty the second best odds
to me, that's shocking, and Kella Moorries got the third best,
and then Mike McCarthy I think has the fourth best,
and then goes to Anthony Weaver. But if you hire
the Giants offensive coordinator, okay, I want you to think
about your offseason and what the narrative would be because
you just lost your offensive coordinator to Seattle, so you're
gonna be running his offense, probably gonna be his his stuff,
right Yep. They were thirtieth in yards per game out
of thirty two teams. They were thirty first in points
per game of thirty two teams. So you're telling me that,
after the just the backle that Dennis Allen was in
his tenure Saints head coach, you're going to bring in
a guy that just led the thirtieth best offense as
far as yards per game and the thirty first as
far as points per game, and Saints fans are supposed to.
Speaker 2: Feel good about that with Derek.
Speaker 4: Carr and all the challenges you have on offense, right,
you play guys off the street a receiver this year,
you hope you get a live a Shaheed back and
they're fully healthy, ready to go all of that.
Speaker 2: How in the world are.
Speaker 4: Saints fans supposed to feel good about a situation if
you bring in an offensive coordinator that was horrendously bad
as an offensive coordinator and he's going to be your
head coach and you're supposed to feel good about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So, I mean, Kafka would definitely be the worst
pr backlash at this point if you get Kellen Moore,
you know, with him being in the Super Bowl, I
think people maybe And by the way, the Saints are
flying out Monday to go meet with more in Philadelphia,
obviously going to see him since he has a Super
Bowl to get ready for, but like, yeah, because he's
having so much success this year, people probably cool that
Mike McCarthy, he has a resume to hold back on.
Kafka is the guy that would be really head.
Speaker 2: Scratching, you know.
Speaker 3: It's kind of dumb though, I'm kind of like, Okay, well,
I don't know, Like I don't know, even with the
Saints roster, who could be a good head coach to
be frank we've talked about, right, is this almost like
a bridge coach anyway?
Speaker 2: But if that's not the case, all I'll say for.
Speaker 3: Kafka is this is that something he does in the
interview rooms or somebody in NFL circles, like there is
belief that he's better than what that Giants offense has
been for whatever that's worth. Because he's been a finalist
for multiple jobs over the last couple of cycles, and
that's without a lot of on field success. Now is
that a major red flag. Absolutely, you know, sure, but
there's it's just something that I've been kind of thinking
about a lot lately. I don't know who the sts
next head code is gonna be. Again, the facts right
now are they the only job left? More's there, Kafka
is there, McCarthy's there, and they just have to convince
one of them to take the job. So we'll continue
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Speaker 4: Like the other thing. And by the way, he's a
young guy. I mean he's younger than I am. He
came into the NFL Kafka did as a player, I
mean after I got drafted, So if they're looking for
some youth, I mean that certainly checks that box. But
I get a little worried when he's been touched by
the Kent City Chiefs, and that's kind of like what
his star attraction was.
Speaker 2: I get nervous when that happens.
Speaker 3: Smoke Break says the only time Kafka had play calling
duties took the Giants to the playoffs. I mean, you
know Saquon obviously, Look, I mean that's the thing Kafka
is going here Okay. So actually, to your point, maybe
Jake Kafka has been dealt an awful hand in New
York objectively right, really bad front office decisions. Okay, but
what's better in New Orleans? You know, yes, like Derek
Carr is better, don't get me wrong, but it's not
markedly better. You're still not gonna have anybody like So
it's it's I don't know, man, God, it's depressing. I'm
sitting here talking about Mike Cofka.
Speaker 2: I don't know. That just kind of hit me.
Speaker 4: And by the way, Wikipedi gotta hit me all at
once already has him like as the same tick.
Speaker 2: They got a full in the bio there.
Speaker 3: But better hope you better hope, Mickey, I mean, you
better hope this guy works out of that being.
Speaker 2: The part about Kansas City is that's Andy Reid.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like we've seen the raggy, We've seen like
other coordinators and you know, good coaches, but it's Andy Reid,
Like Andy Reid is the magic there.
Speaker 2: That's what we talked about earlier.
Speaker 4: When you got Hall of Fame head coach, hall of
Fame quarterback. They make everybody around them better, not just players,
but coaches as well.
Speaker 2: So if they make.
Speaker 4: The move there, it's going to be an all season
of just you know, takes of them underachieving, not hiring
the right guy.
Speaker 2: And maybe you can get proven wrong.
Speaker 4: But it ain't going to be sunshine and rainbows as
you head into training camp.
Speaker 3: No, you just got to batten down the hatches and say,
like you said, lock in, let's prove everybody wrong. Well,
a dark weekend for the New Orleans Saints. Uh, Chad says,
wait where was it here, some dude? Oh, Taylor, I
need you to get more takes that were two of
the Cowboys hired a coach. I haven't eve heard a
single complaint yet. Uh. Yeah, So when we're on site,
it's a little hard because it's little bit of a delay.
But Tata, if you want to open up your mic here,
give us a take. Brian Schottenheimer, come on down. Jerry
has picked you out of an anonymity like like like
like it's the Hunger Gangs or something he's made.
Speaker 2: He's gonna make a star of you.
Speaker 3: Shoddy is Brian Schottenheimer career assistant now the head coach
of the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we me and you were talking about it last week,
Like the guy's fifty one years old, so he didn't
even have the youth like y'all are talking about with Kafka.
He's been a coordinator in a lot of different places
and it's been kind of hidden this now. He hadn't
had a lot of good quarterbacks. When he had Brett
Fahrvi at the Jets, they actually had like the eight
ranked offense in the NFL. But like, think about what
Jerry Jones is doing. You get rid of Michael McCarthy,
who was your play caller, You hire an in house
coordinator who wasn't even a play call in that coordinator spot.
I mean that's when you were you were talking about,
Oh Taylor, the Cowboys going to hire Dion. My first
reaction was, no, Jerry wants to hire somebody he can control.
Deon's way too big of a personality. Jerry wants to
run this team. He wants all the attention on the Cowboys,
but he wants it on him. That was never going
to happen with a Dion Sanders or a young guy
like a Kellen Moore. Brian Schottenheimer is a perfect candidate
to do that. I mean he propped up Jason Garrett
for twelve years. He never should have been there as
long as he was. This is what Jerry does. I'm
not really surprised by this at all.
Speaker 3: Uh, Taylor, who would you have rather Brian Schottenheimer or Dion.
Speaker 2: Sanders emotionally or on the field. No, I know who
you wanted, the Cowboys? He coach? You rather wanted the Cowboys?
Speaker 5: Hey, coach, Oh man, y'all are putting me on the spot.
I did say I was going to denounce my Cowboys
fandom if Dion was hired, So I guess I'll go
with Schottenheimer.
Speaker 3: Oh, hesitation shows you how deeply under siding the Schottenheimer
higher is that it made you even consider a coach
that you once said you would renounce your fan hood
if he was chosen.
Speaker 2: Well, good luck, good luck. Here we are.
Speaker 3: Look, we're all just this is just crap, talking crap
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. I mean, hey, you've you look,
you've earned it. Mike McCoy.
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Speaker 2: We're all playing in the same game. Back to O TB.
Speaker 3: Hey, Alandra, open up your mic real quick before we uh,
before we get into this Elijah Haven's story. What is
this super Bowl conspiracy that you've texted the group about.
Speaker 6: Oh, so, there's like a conspiracy theory where if the
logo that they put out at the beginning of the
season of like the super Bowl logo, the colors in
the logo are the team that are going to go
to the super Bowl, go to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Ah And so okay, I'm looking at the logo right now.
Have you seen this, Jake, So this this logo was
released before the season.
Speaker 4: Yep, yeah, inter it was released like basically at the
last Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: Interesting, yeah, because it is indeed red and green. And
you could say, well, yeah, rad, I mean whatever, the
Chief of course, like yes, red the Chiefs seven AFC
champions of the Road three, so like, yes, obviously, but
remember at the time, the Eagles are dead. Eagles are
completely dead in the water. So look, the NFL's ricked.
We all know it looks like the new season. You know,
the focus groups have proven that t Swift and Kelsey
and Mahomes, they they got to be on the stage.
Speaker 2: So they got to be on the stage.
Speaker 6: I haven't done further research on it, but I do
remember seeing it like last year, so I don't know,
like how many of them have predicted.
Speaker 3: It being the most interesting thing. So Elandra, if you
do further research, like give me a good nugget or
a good hook to really sell it to the people.
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guy who is at least, you know, maybe like half
a decade away from the Senior Bowl, would be the
number one quarterback in the nation for twenty twenty seven
or twenty six twenty seven.
Speaker 4: He's the number three overall prospect in twenty seven, I
think number one quarterback.
Speaker 3: And that is done in quarterback. Elijah Haven. Elijah Haven
has just signed a prep nil deal with the Matt
Bowers Auto Group.
Speaker 2: Press releases yesterday.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about how excited they are to be a
part of this, and well, you know, people's wheels immediately
start spinning. And Matt Bowers very powerful, very big Saints fan,
you know, raise a huge stink Ethan Olan no call
all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: Uh. He was.
Speaker 3: He was one of the guys behind the the the protest.
Remember when the Saints fans, all protests of the Super Bowl,
nobody watching through a big second line party or whatever.
But turns out Matt Bauers is an old miss fan.
Speaker 2: So here old.
Speaker 3: Miss in I l already trying to get their hooks
into Haven. Look, let me be clear by this upfront.
Hell yeah, Elijah, Haven, get your money. Okay, the market
continues to show you that they are willing to pay
to get talent and to get players. Uh but Jake,
I did have a question for you because you might
know more about it than I do. In missoo, if
you're a high school player, you can start getting in IL.
But isn't it only if you commit to Maszoo? Is
that how the state law works?
Speaker 2: Or am I? Am I wrong here? No?
Speaker 4: So I think it's not if you commit to Missou.
But I do think with Missouri being like the only
really major football program, that's where kind of their advantages
come from.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, Well anyway, Louisiana has a similar rule where
high schoolers can to ANIL because yeah, of course, the
only reason you could in the past were because of
benc doable a rules to make you ineligible.
Speaker 2: No longer the case.
Speaker 3: Shout out Haven Uh, do you think this works as
a tactic to give All Miss a leg up?
Speaker 2: And maybe it does, and maybe that.
Speaker 4: You started this early, you're going to have kind of,
you know, the first entry into the door to try
to convince Han to go to All Miss.
Speaker 2: But this is nothing new.
Speaker 4: I mean t bod this was approved in April of
twenty twenty two. Yeah, so I mean we're talking about
going on three years that these high school kids could
have Nil does.
Speaker 2: This is not the first one either.
Speaker 4: Now it's going to be kind of highlighted for a
couple of reasons because well because it's a number three
overall prospect. Yeah, it's the number one quarnderback, and it's
an old Miss fan that's coming into Louisiana. He's in Louisiana,
but he's going, you know, into Baton Rouge for Elijah Haven.
Speaker 2: And so sure it's going to get headlines.
Speaker 4: And like, we don't know what the deal is going
to be, but this is honestly, like when we thought Nil,
this is what I thought it was going to be.
In the totality of it. I thought it was gonna
be car dealerships. I thought it was gonna be restaurants.
I thought it was going to be deals like this Now,
I mean we're completely off the rails with collectives and
different things. But I mean this is kind of what
nil I thought originally was made up for. And so
I don't know, you know what commercials he's going to do.
I think Matt Bowers has what twelve dealerships you know,
throughout this region. So I mean he's going to probably
be on a billboard or two. And yeah, it doesn't
hurt Old Missus chances that one of their fans. I think,
is he an alum?
Speaker 2: Do we do? We know that? I'm sure maybe sort.
Speaker 4: Of kind of whatever, he still roots for the Revs,
and so, I mean, you know, can't hate on him.
Speaker 3: In the release, they say this is quote a great
chance to quote will fire his brand and further his
connection with fans and local communities. They ELSEO call this
deal a first of its kind. Remains to be seen.
Speaker 4: How they're I know, there's been high school in il
Dill's in Louisiana already. Now they might say first of
this kind of deal maybe car dealership wise, don't.
Speaker 3: I don't know the certain there is something deeply funny.
I mean, does he have a learner's permit. Does he
have a license yet?
Speaker 4: Let's see twenty twenty seven, we're in twenty five. Graduate
at eighteen, he's how soft?
Speaker 2: Maybe? Oh you seventeen? Wow? Okay, so but fresh to
a license he's seventeen. Does he go to Evangels? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can say that because I'm an evangel alone.
Speaker 3: So either way, something to watch for. I will say this,
though we talked about it. Do not get married to
five star quarterbacks?
Speaker 2: Okay? For two reasons.
Speaker 3: Well, first off, maybe Larry Ellison's secret Internet fifth wife
who's forty years younger than him comes in and for
Christmas as so the number one player in the nation, right,
Like that could always happen.
Speaker 2: We learned that.
Speaker 3: But also there's all kind of crazy numbers about five
star quarterbacks that go to a school less than fifty
percent of the time finish at that school nowadays.
Speaker 2: Also, as we.
Speaker 3: Were talking about the car ride over here last night,
there's a lot of big time quarterbacks in that class
with ties to LSU. So it's gonna be a fascinating
battle to see where else you goes who the prioritize
haven is still going to remain number one on their list,
I would assume, but this is not some sort of
skies falling end all be all. My main takeaway here
is shout out of Elijahavin. Also, it's kind of crazy, man.
These kids are gonna be asked to grow up sooner
and sooner and sooner, Like just start striking these deals.
You got to conduct yourself like a professional. You can't
do what I was doing in high school.
Speaker 2: You know you can't.
Speaker 3: You can't be putting those pictures on Facebook. If you
with the helmet on and the two beers and chugging
them out of there like you got. You gotta start
to run a tight ship nowadays.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're just glad that camera phones were flip phones
when you were in high school or you would have
been in some real trouble.
Speaker 2: But going to put everything on Facebook, that's true. You
weren't really trying to hide it. No, it was crazy, dude.
Speaker 3: That was before like schools were looking at it and
all that just wild.
Speaker 4: So what you're talking about, and I'm sure a lot
of our listeners know when it comes to the twenty
twenty seven class, like some of the top quarterbacks, I
believe it's like four of the top six quarterbacks are
going to have some type of Louisiana LSU tie. So
you've got nus Meyer's brother, that's an obvious tie there.
Twenty twenty seven, you're gonna have evangel quarterback Peyton Houston
being in the state of Louisiana, Elijah Haven obviously who
we're talking about here. And then also you know Gunner
Rivers his uncle Steven Rivers. Philip Rivers is Gunner's father,
but Stephen Rivers his uncle who coaches.
Speaker 2: He went to LSU.
Speaker 4: They're right actually down the road from where we're at
in Fair Hope, Alabama, so not that far from Baton Rouge.
Speaker 2: And so he's got a tie to LSU.
Speaker 4: So you're gonna have four quarterbacks that have a Louisiana
slash LSU tie and it's going to be a very
interesting class.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's what I thought.
Speaker 3: So so Elizjnns he's fifteen, he is okay, you said seventeen.
I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, are you.
Speaker 2: Or he's not?
Speaker 3: No, It didn't make a lot of So he literally
does not have a license and he's going to be
and he's going to be pushing cars.
Speaker 4: Hell yeah, dude, football baby, Uh like in a couple
of years when I get my vehicle.
Speaker 2: It's going to be from Matt Bowers.
Speaker 3: Actually, you know you can do some good marketing there, right,
do like some defensive driving bits or like you know,
make him go to like driving school or something like.
Speaker 2: There's I could see it.
Speaker 3: I could see it's a shout out of Liijah Haven. Dude,
get that money man.
Speaker 2: Uh. But we'll continue to watch your recruitmental with great interest.
Speaker 3: All right, coming up next here on ot b H
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Morning Sports, This show around off the Bench with Esther
and T Bob.
Speaker 2: I was londer, what you know about that strawberry wine girl?
Speaker 6: I love strawberry wine.
Speaker 3: I used to feel this way about Anthony Davis when
he left, Like I know, it was longer than a summer,
but you know, we had just this incredible time together.
I fully gave myself over to him, and then before
he knew it, he was gone. Never another word helped
callous me to the vagaries of NBA free agency, which,
by the way, guys, a clip made the rounds over
the weekend and it's been around for over a year.
But at CP three, I think he's on the pivot
and he's talking about his feelings on New Orleans and
the breakup. And I was never really spoken on him before,
and it was always you that CP three forced his
way out and all this sort of stuff, and look
like it's not not untrue, but from his perspective, like
he said, he's coming into work every day, they're telling
him the moving the team, they're moving out of ne
Orleans and moving to San Antonio, they're moving wherever, and
he just talks about how much he loves the city
and how he has real family down here and they'll
always have family down here. And it kind of made
me think, Man, I think as a New Orleans fan
base with the Pelicans, I think we need to stop
booing CP three.
Speaker 2: Do you all agree?
Speaker 3: Maybe do a poll in the in the chat, Taylor,
I would like to see if the people agree or
if I'm being a softie here, because what I've seen
from my responses on Twitter is that it's kind of
a mixed bag. Some some are with me, some say, nah, man,
you're dead until it's over.
Speaker 2: I don't know, like like.
Speaker 3: I feel, I feel vastly different about the CP three
breakup than I do Anthony Davis. So I, for one,
will be cheering for Chris Paul next time he's back here.
I'm not gonna and I boot him like a madman,
you know, like in that Sun series every single time
he touches the ball. And it's funny he talked about
he kind of feels some type of way about the
reaction that he gets. So maybe let's show CP three
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basketball over the weekend, Jake. They ls you men fall
to Alabama eighty to seventy three. And it sucks man,
because in a way, this was as perfect as the
men's team could have played. I mean, they're on the
road against the fourth ring team the entire country. They
won paint points, rebound, second chance points, blocks, steals, field
goals attempted. They kept the turnovers manageable at just fourteen,
only eleven points off of those turnovers for Alabama. But
in the they just couldn't make a three. Yeah, three
of twenty three from beyond the arc. And so it's
a close game, but alas one in which you do
not get the win.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Certainly the story of the game was the three point shooting,
and I know Pat Bradley and you know they made
a point of emphasis talking about it on the broadcast.
They weren't bad looks either. They weren't forcing a lot,
They just weren't going down. It was a great effort.
I mean Corey Chas having eighteen rebounds, I mean nine
to nine, nine offense, nine defense. I mean he was
all over the place. It was a lot of great effort.
I mean they were in the game, they stayed in
the game. What the spread I mean it was was
it almost twenty something?
Speaker 3: Close?
Speaker 4: I mean it got wild out there and Lshu kept
it close the entire time. Trade As Green even had
a highlight where he steals it and throws it down.
Speaker 2: That's really the.
Speaker 3: Story of the game for me is trade has screen
is a freak, dude.
Speaker 2: If you haven't.
Speaker 3: Seen the highlight, Yeah, he steals it and just yams
at home on a breakaway in his first action in
a Tiger basketball uniform.
Speaker 4: Look, it was a value effort. I think seventeen and
a half. So that's where the line. Seventeen and a
half where the line was. And look, they fought like
hell the entire game. It's tied going in to the
second half obviously, you know Coleman Colisseum thirteen thousand plus.
It was a great environment, and those are the type
of games that I think you can take something from
even though you had a loss. And I'm not saying
moral victories. But this l Shoe team, we know they're
not right there yet. They're not there to compete with
a top five team in the country maybe consistently, but
they can on a given night go out there and
give you this type of performance, and so it gives
you hope for some of the you know, the games
on their skin that are managible, that are winnable games.
Speaker 3: So and Hunts right up on Louisiana Sports dot Net.
He had a very This is not said with any animates,
but it was pointed out and is deeply funny to me.
Curtis Gibbons doing his best Tony Net Tony Snell impression
houses for a box score. Jake Gibbons finishes zero five
for the floor, two turnovers, no assists in minus seventeen
and eleven minutes.
Speaker 4: And at the start, I mean, you know, Jordan Sears
came off the bench, he gave you twenty one points,
was your leading scorer.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's not the box score that you want.
Speaker 3: So unfortunate for men's basketball there unfortunate for women's basketball
on Friday is in a huge matchup South Carolina on
the road ESPN. They just can't get it done.
Speaker 2: Just cut it again.
Speaker 3: It's kind of story remains the same for Lshue. South Carolina. Tough,
hard fought South Carolina wins in the end a seventeenth
time in a row. We'll talk more about some of
the drama that happened after the game during weekend Winners
and Losers says South Carolina is instant eadian production. Pulled
what I would say is a certified home move, but
the women fall on Friday. They come back though Sunday
against A and M at home, beat A and M
sixty four fifty one back in the win column. These
are not just her thousandth career point. Look, they gotta
get this South Carolina monkey off their back. Eventually they
will have most likely another opportunity this season. So it
was good to see them flush the disappointment of Friday,
a game that's so built up right to flush that
immediately come back get the A and M win, But
certainly it remains chasing Kimulki squad remains chasing Don Staley
and company.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, obviously you know this staff hadn't been
there for all seventeen of those. But it's it's tough
because you've got a national championship program, right, you've won one,
and you're in every game that you play, and there's
this one team that you can't figure out and you
play hard well and spurts and you know this game again,
this line was crazy too.
Speaker 2: I mean I think it was sixteen points.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and so you covered there and you had multiple chances,
multiple opportunities, and you know, call here, call there goes
against you.
Speaker 2: And what the end up?
Speaker 4: What was a free throw numbers in this game? Because
I know they were all right. So for LSU, you
shoot let's see nine, you shoot nine free throws. They
shot twenty six free throwsam right, So that's a big
difference in the game. I mean they're eighteen of twenty
six or seven of nine. So you were making your
free throws. You just didn't get to the line like
they did. And so you know, if that game's in
Baton Rouge, is it officiated a little bit different? Maybe
it is, but like that's a big difference in numbers there.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, and they're gonna have some ad of motivation.
I guess I'll just talk a little bit about some
of the dramas referencing. So after the game, the DJ
played a song by Camouflage, who's the stage of Flage's
late father, former former rapper, and then highlighted it on
her Instagram story as like with the chef's kiss hand emojis,
talking about you know, it's kind of the perfect play.
Flage then screenshot that and say, look, man, I'll take
the al on the chin, but this is just vile
as you're basically celebrating, you know, about her late father
after loss.
Speaker 2: So certainly you.
Speaker 3: Want to talk about added motivation for the next time out.
This Tiger team is going to be pissed off even
more so than they was if you could add to
this matchup more. All right, when we get back, go
to hunt Palmer player portal profile. Also, we got scrimmage
notes as baseball took place over the weekend. We got
weekend winners coming up. Keep it locked here on OTB
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Speaker 1: Welcome in to the best morning sports this show around
off the bench with Esther and T Bob. Mind better
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Speaker 3: Wrapping up our number two here Live and mobile Alabama
the Reese's Senior Bowl Day one. Still a little slow
here picking up everybody, checking in, getting ready to go.
Today's going to be meetings, weigh in.
Speaker 4: What I mean, what right, Jake? Is today kind of
a meet Well, they probably started the meeting market sort
of day. Yeah, we've already got some coming in. I
think I saw Trevor sick of my talking about some
way ins and guys where they needed to be and
then they pass the test there So and if you
don't know what we're talking about, today is a day
where you go up in front of a room full
of NFL coaches exacts media like just well, I don't
know media is in there, maybe some NFL people. But
you go out and it's a stage. You walk on
to the stage and just your tights and it's basically
they're gawking at you for thirty seconds. Uh and it
might still be I don't know if Jim does this,
but all now and so you know T Bob A
Bear Louisiana State University Center and T Bob you get
up there and you put your arms by your side,
and then you put your arms up and then you
kind of do a little twirl and and then everybody
is sitting there and they're taking their notes about your
body and you know, what's you know, what's his core
look like, what's his thighs look like, what's his shoulders
look like? And then they get a height, they get
a weight on you, and you know, you know, acopester
two hundred and twenty one pounds, and you know, everybody
takes little notes and so it is truly a meat
market today.
Speaker 2: I mean, what is that?
Speaker 3: What does it feel like to be objectified like that?
Speaker 2: Okay, So for.
Speaker 4: Me, I I wasn't told that it was going to
be like what it was like I was like, I
got shorts on, but we also like we were going
to go do like a light workout, and so I
was a jockstrap wearer. Yeah right, And so they're like, hey,
you're gonna wear your tights. A're like, well, I don't
have tights on. This is this is what I have.
And guys, I'm not getting up there in the strap.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah.
Speaker 4: So I had to like tuck my shorts kind of
like under underneath it a little bit there. So like
I was like that that what was kind of was
on my mind. And you know, my weight was kind
of weird because I didn't really know. Am I supposed
to be heavy? Am I supposed to be light? What
do you want me to play? And so like it
wasn't that bad. Although when you get up on that
stage and you see a room full of people with
a yellow notepad and you don't know if it's good
or bad, right, wrong or indifferent, but they're taking notes
over your body, it is a it's an interesting feeling.
Speaker 3: Mark wants to know my hand and feet measurements at
Pro Day. I didn't do this, but at Pro Day
again nine and chance, guys, not to brag I don't
remember the feet were. I don't know, soay's twelve. I'm
we're in size thirteen's right now, you know. Again, not
to brag. Don't want anybody to be too impressed by that.
Speaker 2: I don't think you want to brag when I wear
the same size.
Speaker 3: Again, you are the outlier, not me, So that's that.
I'm completely fine with that. You should have just gone
mac Hollis style, Jake and just gone freeballing, just freeballing,
free swinging. As if you missed it, mac Hollis shows
up the AFC Championship game yesterday dressed like Animal from
the Muppets, But I mean, I imagine Animal from the
Muppets probably doesn't wear any underwear, and mac Hollis definitely
did not either, as my guy was swinging and jangling
all the way into the game. Credit to him though,
for making a play, because if you show up dressed
like that to that game, you better make a big play.
And he did, but it still was not enough in
the end.
Speaker 2: It was their leading receiver there, so he made some plays.
Speaker 3: I just feel I feel for. And then chat's kind
of talking about Jane Daniels. The fumbles let him down yesterday. Man,
I feel for him a lot of this Texas group
of staring to meet through the television.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is funny.
Speaker 3: Sorry, River's gonna expose you a bit here, because on
the ride over, I was just showing the video because
I'm like, this is a ridiculous thing to wear into
the game and think, way we play that again. I
was like, ok, okay, sure, yeah. I thought, you know,
I thought it was kind of a glance and see
what's going on? And and then she was the one
that pointed out to me, uh what what exactly was
going on there? And certainly when you zoom in, I
mean yeah, I mean you get yeah, it's it's there.
Speaker 2: Shout out Mac. Great body, Mac does.
Speaker 3: He would do very well on on the meat market
stage standing up there.
Speaker 4: I would I I would say, I'm trying to think, gosh,
I'm trying to think who, Like I think it was
maybe Jake Long somebody like that that got up on
the stage of my year, and like, oo ah, maybe
it's Chris Long.
Speaker 2: I don't know one of the Longs.
Speaker 3: Well, both of them great bodies as well. I would say,
all right, look, we got a third hour of TV
coming up. We got our weekend winners coming up next.
So we're gonna get to our t infl story today day,
our Palmer player profile.
Speaker 2: No, hold the mayor today.
Speaker 3: He's gonna come in tomorrow and we'll continue to get
you ready for a Senior Bowl week m My time
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