Speaker 1: Merry Christmas from Off the Bench, presented by All Star Toyota,
joined Jacob Hester and t Bob Avery as we spread
some holidays year and talk all things sports live from
the Mercedes Benz Up Baton Bruce Studio. Let's get this
Christmas party started.
Speaker 2: It's up. Tell me if.
Speaker 3: The only thing that could set the mood better than
Ariana is going to see.
Speaker 4: The nut Cracker this weeking, so do it, guys, good, It's.
Speaker 3: Get a few tickets on sale, Get in now. Also,
have you never been to the Raising Kines Theater since
they refurbished it a couple of years ago. It is
really really nice, really really beautiful. We're not in the arena,
We're in the theater. Also, remember, guys, if you're like
me and you love the Baton Rouge Symphony, they do
the music. You know, this is live scored by the symphony,
So it is. It's really beautiful. Line go to ben
Rouge Ballet Theater dot org and get your tickets to that.
Speaker 4: I believe one of our football coaches, I think is
still a part of the production. Tony. He was there.
He was there last year. Do you no, not this year?
Not this year?
Speaker 3: No, one of my former teammates, though, shout out Lamine Barrow.
His daughter's in it. Not the party scene, but she's
she's in a former number eighteen.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I saw Leman last year and then I saw him
ex I'm when I went to the Vanderbilt game with
the fam a little bit ago. But yeah, one of
the fastest human beings I've ever seen in my entire life.
Definitely one of the fastest linebackers of all time. All Right,
so there's a lot of coaching news going on in college.
Speaker 4: Hoill right now.
Speaker 3: I just saw a headline that, of course Scott frostbag
at UCF, but Mackenzie Milton back as well, and I
thought he was coming back to play. I just assumed
somehow he had some al Jillia Lapinou he's come back
to be a.
Speaker 5: Coach, Yeah, okay, come back to be a coach. He
was coaching last year I think at Tennessee. Okay, yeah,
so he's been in the coaching world ever since his
football days were over.
Speaker 3: You know what's weird about Tennessee is the fact that
Josh Tipel originally wanted to start Joe Milton over Hendon Hooker.
Then Joe Milton gets pinched, Hendon Hooker takes over Hendon
Hooker's incredible Joe Milton starts the next year. Things don't
go great, but they go respectable nine to four. But
you know, you paid Nico Iyamaliava four years, eight million dollars,
so he has to be the starter basically, so you
kind of forced Milling out the door. You bring in Nico.
And honestly, Nico's just been Joe Milton from last year,
like statistically, And I'm not saying that, I'm talking to
him like I was talking to SEC Mike the other
day about this. He's a he's like a rabid Tennessee guy, right,
and he agreed it's and and now I will say this,
I think Nico's ceiling is very high over time. This
is his first year starting like it's in respectful first year.
But what's fascinating to me is that Josh Hipel has
managed to get Tennessee where they're at with defense and
running the ball. Now we know that Tennessee always wants
to run the ball, but really, I mean just with
like from a guy who was speed speed, speed, overwhelmed
Blitzkreek offense off its offense. Yeah, he's in the playoff
with only two losses because they control the game with
a very physical style of football and they play great defense.
So he has adjusted to the meta quite nicely. And
really it's a theme that you saw throughout a lot
of college football.
Speaker 4: Right, Why is.
Speaker 3: Texas better than they've ever been in the past because
their defense is way better? Ole Miss felt like, you know,
before they blew it against Florida. Oh, we're all thinking
this team could like the best thing to win the Netty.
Why because they suddenly had a defense, Georgia winning against
a very tough schedule. Because it's it's been fascinating to
see even though George would't necessarily fall in this category,
these tradition offensive juggernauts like even Oregon, Right, why are
they finally way more.
Speaker 4: Relevant in championship ready than they've ever been before.
Speaker 3: Because they have a great defense. So shout out to
Josh Heipelman. Probably a lesson to be learned there and
building a team.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And it's the biggest misconception really in football as
far as what people think a team is to what
they actually are. Yeah, just because you go fast doesn't
mean that you're always going to be you know, pushing
the ball down the field. I even hear people like
people that do this for a living called Tennessee like
this air raid offense.
Speaker 4: I'm like, are you no ignorant? Like now you watch.
Speaker 5: Like this is a team and we were breaking it
down yesterday. Of the teams left in the college football playoff,
they've run more power and more counter which are like, hey,
we're coming right downhill. There's no hiding what we're trying
to do than any team and it's not even close,
Like when you break down the metrics of it, like that's.
Speaker 4: Who they are.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they'll do it out of eleven personnel, which
is highly impressive to me. I mean their receivers are willing, Yeah,
I mean get into the fold.
Speaker 3: They they they spread you out and they want you
to light in the box and they're gonna attack it
and if you don't, in theory, they throw. They've just
been struggling with the with the latter part a bit
more than you.
Speaker 4: And they're running back. They're running back.
Speaker 5: Probably of all the people that we talk about across
the country, and you know, top tier players, he might
actually get the least amount of discussion. They think about,
like how much we don't talk about he's.
Speaker 3: Part of the running back big three. To me, this year,
there's Jent, there's Scataboo, and there's Dylan Sampson. Right, you're right,
but we never talked about Dylan Sampson and nobody ever.
Speaker 5: Sampson's he get talked about on like SEC shows, yea,
on national shows. I mean, Samson led the SEC in
rushing by two hundred and eighty four yards.
Speaker 3: And how many touchdowns did end up with? I haven't
looked twenty yeah, twenty two touts.
Speaker 4: I mean the only person that was close was Jaylen Milroe.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'll be damned of Alabama didn't love a
little like QB sweep, QB Hornboss, QB whatever every time
they got on the goal line.
Speaker 4: This year, you get you have Tennessee any chance against
Ohio State and Columbus.
Speaker 3: I do because guys, let's reach into our big bag
of football cliches.
Speaker 4: What travels well running the football and defense? Damn you know?
And what are Tennessee's strengths running the ball on defense?
There you go? You know what also was happening in
Knoxville yesterday?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: It snowing? Oh really?
Speaker 3: Oh okay, little weather acclimatization, acclimatization.
Speaker 5: So for everybody's thought that the SEC was going to struggle, Yeah,
we got to the stadium.
Speaker 4: It gets cold as hell in Knoxville, Tennessee. Yeah, so
I don't know, I did not realize that. Actually, I said, yeah,
but I.
Speaker 5: Really outside of SMU going to Penn State, we really
don't have any of those situations.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna be tough on SMU.
Speaker 3: I mean already you're dealing with a very big and
physical team in Penn State and you're from Dallas and.
Speaker 4: You're going there. We got Texas.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, relax, I mean Dallas is hot, Okay,
I mean does it suck, Yes, it's Texas.
Speaker 4: Just you know, are there?
Speaker 3: Are there?
Speaker 4: Are they are? They do they get high on their
own farts? Absolutely?
Speaker 3: You know they just sit there and straight from their
be hole. But but that's on the point. The point is,
I do think that's a heavy lift for Yeah, that's
a that's a big weather change. And like I don't know, Jake,
I don't have any experience playing very cold, uh, but
I feel like in cold weather, physical teams start to thrive.
They do, and SMU for how good they are now.
I do like the front seven. They're pretty big on
that D line, very big.
Speaker 4: Actually they've got good pieces for sure on offense and
eve into line, but it's not but there they are
fast and flash. Yeah, pony express.
Speaker 5: When you when you play in cold weather like that,
even if it's not snowing, I mean, the ground's different,
no matter if you have a heated field or turf
field of what like, it doesn't matter. So everything becomes
You're no longer a strider.
Speaker 4: You're choppy.
Speaker 5: Like everything is choppy because you can't get over your skis,
you'll start to slip around. You won't have the great footing,
you won't have the power that you normally do. So
everything becomes condensed and it's all choppy kind of movements
at receiver, running back, at offense, and defensive line, like
every position. It changes how you've played the game like
you have to be able to adjust to it.
Speaker 4: Well, now that we're talking this out loud, though, guys,
maybe SMU's social media team was onto something here about
the Arctic. They were playing.
Speaker 3: Around with their acc posts. They were just ahead of
the curve. Their third eye was fully open. They knew
they had a cold weather game coming. They just used
their graphic a bit too soon. So yeah, they've they've
been preparing to go play in the cold weather.
Speaker 4: You know, another portion of this and that graphic is
still I mean Game of Thrones wall type stuff. But
another portion that SMU is going to have to deal
with the biggest stadium they've played in this season was
Scott Stadium For UVA, I preferred Tom Stadium. I don't
get it because.
Speaker 3: Like Scott Stadium is just the most basic as stadium name.
Speaker 4: I can possibly imagine.
Speaker 5: What are you talking like Scott's lawn care or something? Right,
you hear the full name, just call it Scott Stadium.
I thought it was just called Scott Staium. I don't
really appreciate that.
Speaker 4: The full name is the Carl Smith Center, home of
David A. Harrison. The third field at Scott Stadium.
Speaker 3: Uh what yep, But it's called Scott Stadium though the
field has a crazy name.
Speaker 5: The stadium is just Scott Scott Stadium that holds sixty
one five hundred people right now where they play in
Dallas or home games Ford, I think Ford Field, it's
like thirty two thousand. They're about to go to Beaver State.
Speaker 4: I prefer Chevy Field. It's that's the president, Gerald Ford.
I prefer Reaganfield.
Speaker 5: Yeah, perfect, okay, Beaver Stadium as one hundred and six
and seventy two.
Speaker 3: I prefer Platypus Stadium. I was trying to think of
something vaguely beaver like, what would be beaver like your mom.
Speaker 6: Probably I thought you were gonna go the appropriate.
Speaker 3: That's what I was doing with your mom, think by.
Speaker 4: Like, I prefer Vaginal Field, like something along those lines.
Speaker 6: It's gonna be the other one.
Speaker 4: But yeah, oh lord.
Speaker 7: Like I thought it was gonna be since it's opposite,
I thought you were gonna do the mail equivalent.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, I prefer Taylor Field. That's the opposite Fallis Field.
Speaker 3: There you go, Fasfield gets there without being too crash.
Speaker 6: I'm glad we worked that out.
Speaker 4: Neturett, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I prefer neutu At Field exactly
the Beaver's Cajun cousin.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: How much does be Versadium hold up? For real? One
hundred and six thousand, So you know, it's gonna be
a little bit different environment.
Speaker 3: Almost plus forty k from what they've played in. And
I'm gonna go out and live and say yeah, and
in a playoff and this there's a slight difference between
the uh, you know, the Monticello, Virginia fan base and
the Happy Valley fan base. That is going to be
a significantly crazier I didn't consider that, just a way, way,
way wilder situation.
Speaker 5: You know, luckily for SMU we're talking about weather and
maybe atmosphere. That is a classic Big ten noon kickoff
noon Eastern time, so eleven am.
Speaker 4: But okay, but is that is that a disadvance?
Speaker 3: I get that crowd won't be as looped up, but
is that a disadvantage because is this is this you
used to that they might have played a few new
games this year.
Speaker 5: I'm sure they've played some early games. But I mean
that is the but like a Big ten that their speciality.
I was thinking whether though the sun will be that's true,
that's true, and like you said, you won't be as
hydrated in the crowd.
Speaker 4: You can't have a wide out situation. You could, but
it's not the same when it's not at night. The
problem is you can't have a blackout situation. That's true.
Oh you could. You just have to get started really real.
Speaker 3: Early or just go really hard, really fast, which is
ways too dangerous.
Speaker 4: Please don't do that, guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you're spending you know, eighty six dollars right now,
the cheapest ticket to get in.
Speaker 4: I don't know that you want to, you know, have
a blackout. No, no, you'll fall the probably die. It's
very high. We like to play like what's the ticket,
you know, obviously on Fridays and give you there it
should we play today's and you're gonna be gone tomorrow. Good.
Let's just I mean, let's just real quick, all right,
is it right now? First round matchups? You're right? Yes, right? Uh,
Indiana Notre Dame. We're looking for most expensive.
Speaker 5: Let's just I mean, since there's a few games, just
you can get both. Okay, Indiana Notre Dame.
Speaker 4: We all know, all right, s m U Penn State, Clemson, Texas, Tennessee,
Ohio State. Okay, I am going to go.
Speaker 3: Lowest on SMU Penn State, even though maybe the wealth
of SMU has been pisted up here and I'm gonna
go highest, I don't. I'm gonna take a shot. I'm
gonna go Indiana Notre Dame highest because of geography?
Speaker 8: What uh? What was the first game you threw.
Speaker 5: It's Indiana, Notre Dame, SMU, Penn State, Clemson, Texas, Tennessee, Ohio.
Speaker 3: So y'all may not know this, but Notre Dame is
actually in South Bend, Indiana.
Speaker 4: Indiana is in Indiana.
Speaker 8: That that makes sense, you know.
Speaker 4: So they share the same state that they do, Derek.
That blew my mind me too, Alandra.
Speaker 6: Wait, can you see them again?
Speaker 4: Indiana, Notre Dame, SMU, Penn State, Clemson in Texas, Tennessee,
Ohio State.
Speaker 7: So I think the lowest one is going to be SMU,
like you said, and then.
Speaker 6: The highest I want to say Texas just because it's
at Texas.
Speaker 4: Oh, that's fair point they taken.
Speaker 6: I know is that I'll go.
Speaker 8: I'll go Tennessee, Ohio state is the highest, okay, and
then the lowest I'll go Penn State.
Speaker 4: That makes all right. We'll go from the lowest to highest.
You all got it right. On the lowest, here we go, guys,
eighty six dollars. The next is at.
Speaker 5: One hundred and forty four dollars Texas and Clemson.
Speaker 2: There we go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, next up would be at two hundred and
twelve dollars.
Speaker 4: Again cheapest ticket to get.
Speaker 5: In two hundred twelve bucks, Ohio State and Tennessee.
Speaker 4: Let's freaking go just wait, ta wait?
Speaker 6: What was the cheapest ticket.
Speaker 4: To get in SMU? Penn State is eighty six?
Speaker 5: Clemston, Texas is one hundred and forty four, two hundred
and twelve for Ohio State, Tennessee, and so Notre Dame,
Indiana is the highest. Wow at six hundred and twenty
two dollars.
Speaker 4: Guys, would you look at that? Who's geographical knowledge came
through in the end?
Speaker 8: I mean, you knew that in the state of Indiana
is amazing Texas.
Speaker 6: You know where Indiana is?
Speaker 4: Yes, in Indiana, it's in Indiana.
Speaker 8: Where is it located on the mountain?
Speaker 4: Shot that he knows where Indiana is on a map?
Where's Indiana on a map?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Where is it?
Speaker 4: It's next to Michigan. Hey, can we get a blank
map and then have you do that?
Speaker 3: I feel like I feel like that meme where the
guy walks into the press conference and he's looking around
like challenge me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's next to Michigan.
Speaker 8: You're just Shawn Foster right now?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they're both in Indiana. I'm just saying,
y'allccuse me of no geographical knowledge. I just used my
geographical knowledge to win. Just what's the ticket? So not
to break m hmm, I mean he's I mean he okay?
Is it northeast, south or west of Michigan?
Speaker 3: Though, what it's west? So they call it West Lafayette
for purduers, Well.
Speaker 8: That would be the western part of the state more
than likely.
Speaker 7: But yeah, look not where it is are correct?
Speaker 4: True or false? Wait? What do you mean? Indiana's western Michigan?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 5: Oh no, And Michigan's literally literally right on top of Indiana,
but like maybe a little west. So like the way
it goes is it's Indiana. Not really, you're doing Indiana.
Speaker 4: On your left hand. It's your west hand Indiana, Ohio,
and then Michigan's right on top of it. But like,
does Indiana bleed out on the west.
Speaker 6: Or actually it would be like the eastern side.
Speaker 8: Of No, would be it would be the western. It
would be the western.
Speaker 4: It's not west.
Speaker 7: Like it's east of Indiana, but it's western.
Speaker 8: Michigan bleeds over Ohio. Indiana, here's Indiana, here's west.
Speaker 4: Look at it.
Speaker 8: I slightly yeah, west for sure? I mean no, it's
not if you have a multiple choice tests.
Speaker 3: And usually if you're thinking, I'm looking at this from
a y access perspective, well hold up, hold.
Speaker 5: Hold you see that green part above Wisconsin, that's also Michigan,
which is what.
Speaker 3: I forgot about the Upper Peninsula classic yuppers. Yeah, excuse, yeah,
I know, not Wisconsin's Wisconsins.
Speaker 8: Like guys like you can you can have it. You
can have the upper part of the state. We'll just
be a little bit small.
Speaker 4: That's why Wisconsin doesn't have an ASH championship.
Speaker 8: That's fact.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I I should have I should
have been clear. That's on me.
Speaker 3: I meant mainland Michigan when I was talking about it
being west. I apologize I wasn't I sometimes you know
it's crazy. But if you if you guys know anything
about Michigan culture, sometimes the Upper Peninsula of the yuppers,
it's almost like considered to be like a differ front part.
Speaker 4: I got a different culture altogether.
Speaker 5: One of the things that that like, I had a
T Bob moment on a map, congratulations whenever I got
to San Diego.
Speaker 4: San Diego is actually north of Shreeve Board. Like I
thought that I mean, I think, I guess all of California,
think of southern California, and you're thinking, oh, like I'm touching,
Like I can drive to Mexico in about fifteen minutes.
It's actually north of street.
Speaker 3: Board reh bro we we I mean we were down
here in the drain. Yeah, we were down here in
the drain of the States. Just everything funneling down into
the swamp. It's true does and it all results in
a wonderful original production of Nutcracker.
Speaker 2: This Cracker.
Speaker 5: Support our guys.
Speaker 4: I said I was gonna sell tickets. I know, sell
this thing out?
Speaker 7: Is it?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 4: Do we know numbers? I think it's probably close on Saturday.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure though, I don't know this yere last year,
I think three of the four shows sold out, so.
Speaker 4: Four four we need four for the need four of four?
Speaker 6: Where do where do you get tickets at?
Speaker 4: Let me get you?
Speaker 3: So you just want to make sure that you're going
to the Baton Rouge Ballet website. I think it's br
Ballet dot org, but I can uh give me one second.
Speaker 6: It is Batonrouge Ballet dot org.
Speaker 3: Okay, Batonrouge Ballet dot org. That's where you want to
go Batonrougeballet dot org. All right, let's go to break.
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Speaker 3: Gone, No, give it to me, Boo Blaze there stay
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Speaker 2: Say well walk Win to wonder.
Speaker 4: No, he's not doing that. It's very dispectful. I saw
something like Michael Buble is like the ultimate.
Speaker 5: Fantasy football player really and like takes it like as
serious as anybody.
Speaker 4: He's from Canada. To shout out.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look as the resident fantasy expert on
the show, I'll reach out to him.
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Speaker 6: Yeah he is Canadian. Did we already talk about Bill Belichick?
Speaker 5: No, but chat real quick. We did see that Deshaun
Willmack went to Old Miss. We talked about it during
a break. I think that's what T Box said during
the break as well.
Speaker 4: So we saw it. We saw it more like DeShawn Homack. Yeah,
whack Yeah, yeah, Sean.
Speaker 3: Wo mac me for leaving and there was a whack move.
They not look dude, whatever, go get your money. But
like Deshaun Womack did nothing. And I've heard, you know, rumors,
We've heard rumors. I guess you could say that they
like maybe didn't pursue people in an effort to keep
him happy and have him not transfer. So like, uh,
let this be if that is true. If that's a
big if. If that is true, let this be a
lesson to all coaches out there. You can't play those games,
like not unless you think you got some sort of
certified superstar.
Speaker 4: Can't play those games. Go the heck about it here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you're scared of competition, yeah, in this day
and age of college football, want you to pick something
else to do.
Speaker 4: Don't want you because it's gonna happen because I guess
what like, if you're not good, they're gonna bring someone in.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So so either get better and compete or get on
you know, And and to be fair, to be fair
to Womack here, situation doesn't matter. You know, maybe he
ends up doing aspital miss like sometimes it just doesn't
work in his space. See this in the NFL all
the time. I think you're gonna see if you've seen
in college more and more now in the portal air
where a guy sucks here, can't get it done.
Speaker 4: And then maybe it's coaching. Maybe he's like more happy
off the field. Maybe it's scheme. Like there's a million
things that it could be.
Speaker 3: So I don't really like wish bad on Sean Wilmack,
but like, you know, if you don't leave LSU and
go play for Ole Miss.
Speaker 4: Like you're dead. You know you're dead to me. Bottom line.
Speaker 5: I you know, you could take a look at what
the other edges on this team did, which was razor
level of play with Kevin Peeples as the edge rusher
ed rushing coach.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's coaching or scheme or anything.
Speaker 5: For whatever reason, you know, he didn't turn that corner
that I think everyone expected him to turn.
Speaker 4: Maybe he does it at all, Miss, Maybe he does.
Speaker 5: But you know, I'm sure LSU had an opportunity maybe
to compete with whatever to keep him here, and they
looks like they decided not to Florida too. Yeah, I
in pain, I would go, I would go. I'd go
put that money into a new guy. This guy's now.
It's not to say that you don't need it. I
mean you need like three engines. Three that's too many.
You need to, you at least need to. I mean
you have Gabriella for really coming on in the end. Yeah,
Suggs went in the porter yesterday too.
Speaker 4: I saw that in the way.
Speaker 5: But what no, no, I'm saying, but like, I think
that's more of the guys at his position, being very
young players that are already showing a lot of promise
and guillery coming back.
Speaker 3: It just sucks because I feel for Suggs because I
would if I was in his situation, I'd probably have
been frustrated too, because I don't think anybody had a
higher impact to play ratio than did Javier Sugs an
interiorny line. But I also understand he's a bit smaller,
and so he's maybe not from a body standpoint, viewed
as the best down to down guy. Maybe he could
have been, they'd give more a shot, but like, yeah,
he probably you know, he wants to play more, and
Javier Sugs he okay, and that and there and lies
also a key difference, right, is like Javier Suggs. I
understand why he wants more because he proved on the
field that he deserves more with his play. I did
not see that out of as Shaan Willmack. Maybe that
works out for him, I'll miss. And to be fair,
I mean, look, they very good edge guys this year.
It's a good it's a system. I don't know, we'll say,
but but yeah, I'm I'm I'm bummed about Javier Suggs.
But I'm also like, I wish him the absolute best
because he was a pleasure to watch this season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm right there with you.
Speaker 5: He was, and certainly like early it was with his
past rush and then he became much better in the
run game. Even though you know the last game Mads Oklahoma,
I thought maybe was his best overall game as.
Speaker 4: Far as pancaked alignment in the backround into the running back.
So hey, can you do me a favor.
Speaker 5: Can you pull up a picture of Ben Bell from
Texas State. It's an edge rusher who is currently the
highest rated edge rusher in the transfer portal. De Hun Willmack,
by the way, was third, I think it was fifty
first overall. This player is actually the fourth overall rate
of player inside of the transfer portal, just because I
want T Bob to see his head.
Speaker 4: Ben Bell is that Bill Tell's brother. Get it now?
Speaker 5: He's like, okay, now I need to well, I mean
that's a that's good two risk guards, but I need
I need its like actual like that guy plays hard, yes,
but guarantee guaranty like program and you'll and if you
see the one I'm talking about, you'll know why.
Speaker 3: Now let's revisit the Bill Tell joke for a second here,
because you think I was just being random. But what's
Bill short for William William William Tell? What did William
Tell do telephone? I don't know, to be honest, I
just know it's a name. I think the William Tell
overtures the thing? And did he fire?
Speaker 4: Did he fire an apple off of someone's head? Was
that William Tell?
Speaker 2: WHOA?
Speaker 4: This is Bill Bell? Ben Bell. Yes, that's the one
I wanted. That's Ben Bell. That's why I brought him up.
That's what I wanted to hear. We need that guy.
Look at that greasy redhead Holy Game of Thrones, Yeah,
we need him.
Speaker 3: I mean the look boy always need a couple of
on the d line. You want to psycho white boy,
you need representation matters, you need one.
Speaker 4: I don't need more than one.
Speaker 3: You know, maybe the only room for one, but I
need one, and right now you have zero. Ben Bell
would definitely maybe go to Wait.
Speaker 4: Wait, I'm being dumb.
Speaker 3: I he was the one time I watch it Texa
State this year was that Thursday night Aergers Tam and
he was awesome.
Speaker 4: He was kicking ass the entire time. I'm telling you
he is. Right now, he is the fourth rated player
in the portal. It's from Cedar Park, Texas. Where does
he want to go? Does he want to go to
like tagg thin? No, I mean he didn't look like
a Texas player. He starts show with his tight pants
and his stupid burn orange glasses.
Speaker 9: Let's see he go to Louisiana Tech as well. I
know he committed there the picture of mountain he did.
He did Jake there for two years, climber and a
marksman with a cross.
Speaker 4: He's marksman exactly, apple on the head. Thank you all right.
Speaker 5: So he's already been in Louisiana at Tech. Then he
transfers to Texas State. Oh, he was at LA Tech.
Speaker 8: This will actually be his sixty year of college football.
Speaker 4: Okay, good, salty Vet psycho white boy, I'm all in.
Speaker 8: He only played in four games this year because of injury,
which is why he got that extra year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll give the h I'll get the recruiting pitched
me on the squad.
Speaker 4: I'll do it.
Speaker 7: I'm trying to see what high school Ben Bell went
to because I might be able to get a little record.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean.
Speaker 3: You know what's wild about Ben is that he is
actually the Alexander Graham Bell family with a park.
Speaker 4: Yes he is.
Speaker 8: He's in a park hometown in Cedar Park, Texas.
Speaker 4: How far is that from you?
Speaker 6: Not far at all. It's literally the next town over all.
Speaker 4: Right, I need you in the case called Ben. Don't
divert your focus from Zuck. Yes, you need to.
Speaker 6: I can handle. I can multitask. Okay, Good and Jake,
we're going to Cedar Park and we're getting Ben Bell.
Speaker 3: Okay, me and Taylor going to Cedar Point. We're gonna
ride roller coasters. Let us know how it comes, and
we'll let you know how it goes. I've never been
a Cedar Point. It's one of the great failures of
my life. One day, one of the great failures of
your life.
Speaker 4: And what are the others?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 3: Not check an email? Yeah, I told, I told John
and that yesterday. She asked me, how are you an adult?
I said, it's literally the biggest failing of my adult life.
Speaker 6: Turns out, William What turns out? William Tell's not a
real person, of course not. He's a folk hero.
Speaker 4: Yeah, part of the Canterbury Tales.
Speaker 6: I don't remember him from the Canterbury Tales.
Speaker 3: I don't remember the Canterbury Tales, but I always want to.
I want to read them again one day. I think
I slept during most of high school English from.
Speaker 4: Bumps me out. I do think, I do think the greatest.
Speaker 3: No, I loved English too, but like senior year, we're
always staying up play you know, blah blah. And I'm
an English teacher who he had the weirdest teach style.
He would look at the ceiling the whole time and Unford,
you so nice, but unfortunately so tired. And I would
sleep and would just never call anybody out for sleeping.
So you just have an entire room of sleeping kids.
It's sad. I love you, mister Jones. Oh you're a
good teacher too.
Speaker 4: I so I went to summer school every year to
get ahead.
Speaker 5: And so my my senior year, I only had football
and then one other class in third hour, and then
I was done.
Speaker 4: I was done.
Speaker 3: You that ca you cannon post state championship schedule. But
you'all are going to brand you weren't actually engaging in truancy.
Speaker 5: No, I went to summer school every every single year,
and so that way I was ahead. So my yeah,
my senior year, did I stay up there, have lunch
with my eventual wife Katie, and then leave?
Speaker 4: Wait, so when did you get a body? So you
were ahead? So you were ahead when you get about it,
you got I'm on fire? What happened? This is what happened.
If I don't have a computer, you know, we're just riffing,
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Speaker 3: The charge is not long enough. I tried to plug
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Speaker 4: Classic?
Speaker 9: Uh?
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Speaker 4: Job s all right, we're back, we're back to TV.
What so this is William tell overture?
Speaker 6: So I didn't know that that's what this was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So, like I said, this is what goes through
Ben Bell's head every time he's rushing the passer.
Speaker 4: Turn this up.
Speaker 6: I don't think that's what's going through his head when
he's rushing the past.
Speaker 8: I could think of worst pass rushing songs, but yeah,
a good pass rush.
Speaker 4: So this is a good pass rushing song. Don't don't lie.
No it's not. It's not.
Speaker 11: I mean, and then yeah, some like look, this is crashing,
bashing the trenches, swims, reps, spins, no quarterback down.
Speaker 6: Celebrates what you're gonna celebrate with the to the quarterback?
Speaker 8: My friends, does Ben and Bell talk like that?
Speaker 3: Tell me?
Speaker 4: Says make you want to ride a horse through a
freaking spear?
Speaker 6: I mean it kind of does a little bit, but.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I mean if that was if Ben's job
was to ride horseback, yes, all four.
Speaker 4: Look, you lead a horse to water, but you can't
make him understand good opinions. You know, said it once,
said a million times. Speaking of good opinions, is it
a good.
Speaker 3: You got it idea to bring Bill Belichick to you
and see, Yes, here's the pitch from Bill Belichick on
the Pat McAfee show.
Speaker 4: Let me put this in capital letters.
Speaker 10: If yeah, yeah yeah, if, if, if I was in
a college program, the college program would be a pipeline
to the NFL for the players that had the ability
to play in the NFL. It would be a professional program, training,
nutrition scheme, coaching techniques that would transfer to the NFL.
It will be an NFL program at a college level
and an education that would get the players ready for
their career after football, whether that was the end of
their college career or at the.
Speaker 4: End of their pro career. But it would be you know,
geared toward.
Speaker 10: You know, developing the player time management, you know, discipline,
structure and all that. That would be life skills, regardless
of whether in the NFL or in somewhere in business.
And and you know, I feel very confident that I
have the contacts in the National Football League to pay
the way for those players that would have the ability
to to have the opportunity to compete in the National
Footall League. Whether good enough or not, I don't know,
but they would be ready for it. I don't have
any doubt about that. So, you know, that would be
the you know, the first comment that I would make, uh,
you know, relative to the structure of the program, it
would be an NFL program, but not at the NFL level.
Speaker 3: All right, that's it's it's uh, that's kind of the
in there. So okay, I'll say this, that's a good pitch,
you know, backed up by obviously Belichick's innumerable skins on
the wall. Right, I think without a doubt, a Belichick
team Jake in theory, should have a massive schematic advantage
almost weakly right from a football scheme standpoint.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I heard some conversation about is that actually the biggest
differences between like college NFL coaches like college and good
recruiters BENFL guys Generally, it's more.
Speaker 4: Like what whatever doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: My question to you is how is that pitch that
different from what the big teams are already doing. I'm
sure that might separate you and see from where they're
at now, where their kind of peers are at now.
But like, is he gonna do what he just said
better than Georgia and Ohio State and Alaba and all
these other schools that are putting everybody into the NFL
every year.
Speaker 5: I think it just depends on who he brings in,
Like who are your assistants. Bill Belichick is one of
the best football minds that we've ever had. I mean,
think about like he is the person that kind of
taught Nicks Saban a lot. Yeah right, I mean that
was his mentor. Nick Saban's the greatest college football coach
that we've ever seen. And that's trickled down to Kirby
Smart and Dan Lanning and all these different coaches. You know,
so incredible football mind. Now, could he translate what he
knows to the college player? Is it too much information?
Like all those you got twenty hour rules and and
look those I mean are suggestions when.
Speaker 4: You go longer than that, but still like count especially right,
like come at me, come on, yeah exactly. And everybody
you know does all their classes online. But you know,
can you you know, get what you know? And does
it make sense the going to class anymore? A lot
of them don't know weird times. Yeah, can you translate?
I don't know, you know, it's it's that's difficult. I
mean you get now, Like so for me, like because
he's very used to being like, if you don't get this,
you're out and I'll find some what who does you
can't do that? He's famous for saying I'll go down
to Foxboro High and I could get somebody that could
do that.
Speaker 5: I mean, that was his classic line to everybody. But
but so you know, every offense and every defense is
gonna be a little bit different. That's why a lot
of guys struggle want to get to the NFL because
they've been in this vanilla system offensive defensive wise, and
it's like, no, that's not how we do it here.
And always credit like Jimbo got us ready because his
system was kind of difficult and it was NFL Like,
but can that translates to.
Speaker 4: The college player? We'll see.
Speaker 5: But who he brings into me is going to be
the key to all of this. Like if he brings
in some old headed offensive coordinator that the game's passed
him by, that's gonna be doomsday for me.
Speaker 4: But if he's like, hey, I'm going to bring in
this Matt Patricia, who, Yeah, I'm going to bring.
Speaker 5: In somebody that understands offensively where the college game is
right now, I have no doubts.
Speaker 4: That defensively, they'll get that done. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure,
Bill's gonna he'll come up with the scowns on defense,
and him and his son, they'll come up with the scheme.
He'll be great. But offensively, who who they actually you know,
who they bring in it coordinator? What kind of offense
they're running.
Speaker 5: Like that to me is going to be as important
as any because they'll get he'll get players there. They're
gonna pay this man ten million dollars a year their
nil reports you know, I don't know this from four
million to twenty million on the roster.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they're gonna, like to be clear, you
don't make this move.
Speaker 3: And and Belichick is very upfront about this, right he
was like, you have to be all in. I need
a coaching staff, I need a recruiting staff. Like we're
gonna have to have the money. Yeah, Like, no, you
don't make this move unless you are willing to spend.
And I think you and CC's look if I'm one
of these big acc schools and look at look at
Duke just paying Darren minsa over about you know, rumor
to be a million and a half dollars like there's
opportunity in the ACC especially right now, Jake to climb.
I mean, you just let freaking SMU come and make
the playoffs year one. Yeah, I would be pissed if
I was you and c or Duke or any of
these other schools Virginia Tech like, So yeah, you commit,
you commit, and this is commitment and I'm gonna be
fascinating to see if it works or not.
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't.
Speaker 3: I think they'll be better than they are. Will they
ever be like a power? Well, we'll we'll only we'll
find out over time. I would like to make one
Belichick dating a young girl joke. Okay, I've avoided it
the entire time, but there's a lot of memes online.
Do you know the Steve Belichick video where he's like
and he's like licking the air and stuff. I want
to do that video and say Bill Belichick looking at
the cheerleaders. Okay, that's the only want to make it though,
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is now on the edge of missing the flight. We'll
see if he ends.
Speaker 4: Up making it or not.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take you through the next opening segment of
the hour, and then we're gonna hand it off to
the young guns, Tay. Tay and Alandra gonna take you
the rest of the way. And Tay has quite the
segments playing for you, So look forward to that. I
have to go perform for these kids. You know just
what I do, very selfless. So we talk Scott Frost,
talk Billy Belichick, Rich Rod back at West Virginia, Let's go.
Apparently McFee was big in pushing this. As we mini
former West Virginia kind of golden era players. We'll see
if it ends up paying dividends. You know, sometimes it's
hard to recapture that magic, but sometimes you can. Right,
even Mac Brown, You and C they had a little
bit of magic going there for a little minute. Maybe
rich Rock can do something similar. That is one of
the funny parts about you and C is you know,
you get rid of Mac because you want to go younger,
and then you actually go older.
Speaker 4: Isn't Bill Belichick a year older than Mac Brown?
Speaker 8: I think maybe seventy three to seventy three mac Brown's
seventy two. It might be my biggest polls on that higher. Like,
I get it, Belichick's been way more successful. You almost
hired the same guy.
Speaker 3: I don't know about the same guy, but you did
hire another very old man or very old coach.
Speaker 8: Most believepcial years or behind him.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it is weird though, because we don't have
any college Yes, we have no which to pull there,
so it really could go either way. Who is it,
Spencer that said that William tell overtures what's going through
Belichick's head when he's walking down Sorority Ron.
Speaker 4: It's a very good joke, Spencer.
Speaker 3: Congratulations, you win joke of the day, And I thought,
I a lot of good ones to say, so that's
a big deal.
Speaker 4: Our three come next off the bench.