Speaker 1: I'll start to you to presents. Off the Bench with
Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yea yea yeah.
Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob aber
I gotta come off the bench now. Here's Jacob Hester
and T. Bob Abert.
Speaker 3: Welcome man, our number three Monday edition of Off the
Bench Taylor Sharpier with us sitting in for Jacob Ester
and T.
Speaker 2: Bob Abart. We got a Ladra Villarrial.
Speaker 3: We got Cassie Spizzali on audio and video. Look, we
have covered a lot in the last two hours. LSU's
elbow and baseball both swept. We recapped LSU spring scrimmage
that they had on Saturday. Therek car might be done
for the twenty twenty five season. What does that mean
for the Saints? Does anyone even care? We dove into
all of that right now, though, I want to start
this hour as we do every Monday in the nine
o'clock hour, with some weekend winners.
Speaker 4: That's how it has done.
Speaker 5: That's right.
Speaker 2: We can't have anyone to freak out out there. Okay,
he's got a k bark Apolser got too far.
Speaker 1: I'm by winning. I win here and I win there.
Speaker 6: Now, what are you doing what it takes to win
a championship?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 2: Winning?
Speaker 1: Well, then I guess there's only one thing left to do.
Speaker 2: What's that.
Speaker 7: Win the whole thing?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 3: My first weekend winner, uh, the girl that just keeps
on winning. I'm gonna go Page Becker. She is just
won the national championship with you Come. She's projected as
the number one pick in the upcoming WNBA draft, and
over the weekend she's onned a three year deal with
that three on three unrivaledly league that like a lot
of the women are going to because it seems to
be a widely popular league. So Page Beckers, in the
last two weeks national champion, projected number one pick, signs
a pretty good deal, a three year deal with the
three on three Unrivaled League. So my first weekend winner
is Page Backers.
Speaker 8: Yeah, shout out Page Beckers. She's amazing. We all know that.
Speaker 4: My first weekend winner got to give a week in
winner to my guy, Patty the BATTIFC this weekend.
Speaker 8: And I love Patty.
Speaker 4: I've been on the Patty train for a while now,
I really he's.
Speaker 8: One of my favorite. The lightweight division.
Speaker 4: Is probably well, I don't know now that Teporia well anyway,
so it might be one of the most exciting divisions
in the UFC right now. But I love Patty the Batty,
extremely charismatic, like has great Mike skills, but he gets
the win over Michael Chandler, who was ranks number seven.
Speaker 8: I think Patty was fourteenth or fifteenth, I don't remember.
Speaker 4: But technical knockout in round three from Patty really proving himself.
Speaker 3: Patty is so much fun to watch, so fun. Have
you seen the video of him like training the Marines. No,
there's a video of him.
Speaker 2: It just came out like last week. You need to
look this up. It's great.
Speaker 3: So he's doing jiu jitsu and he's kind of helping
these marines train to do jiu jitsu for like hand
to hand combat.
Speaker 8: That's awesome.
Speaker 3: In two minutes he submitted ten different marines. Oh no,
like keep in mind, like someone who did jiu jitsu
like that crap is tired, like you get tired. So
the fact that he fought ten different guys, he stayed
in the mat this kind of time, submitted ten different marines,
like all these marines.
Speaker 2: Like they had done this before.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, yes, they were amateurs compared to a
professional fighter, but like they weren't like you and I, like,
they were trained in hand to hand combat, and he
took them all down with ease, and I mean he
did it in a variety of different ways.
Speaker 4: Like he's he's so fun to watch, like in the
octagon and.
Speaker 8: Out of the octagon.
Speaker 4: So he's really good for the sport where it's kind
of I don't want to say it's falling off.
Speaker 8: But it's falling off a little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But yeah, we can winner Patty the Battie.
Speaker 8: We can loser Michael Chandler.
Speaker 4: He didn't fight for like two years, waiting on Connor McGregor,
and then he fought Charles Olavera a few months ago,
lost that one, and now loses to Patty Pimblet.
Speaker 2: A lot of people don't like Michael Chandler's if I
got that correct.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it was really like the whole waiting
two years to fight Connor McGregor kind of thing. But
I don't know, I don't really have too much of
an issue with.
Speaker 2: Him, Cassie, what we got, I don't really have a winner.
Speaker 7: I guess we already, Okay, I guess this could technically
be a winner.
Speaker 8: I filmed a wedding on Friday.
Speaker 2: Yeah that I'm assuming this is your first wedding filmed.
Speaker 8: This is my second time.
Speaker 7: That's also my high school like broadcast teacher who I
still keep in touch with, is like I wouldn't be
where I am today if it weren't for him, and
so he does like wedding films on the side. So
I filmed a wedding with him and that was it
was just so much fun.
Speaker 8: Like just but my arms, my arms are so sore.
Speaker 5: Me.
Speaker 7: I'm really so out of shape because I was just
like holding like a gimbal, so if you don't know
what a gimbal is, it like helps It's like a
stick type thing and like help steady the camera. And
it was so heavy, just like and like my right
arms steadier than my left arm, so like it's just
my right bicep, just like holding it all night for
like three four hours filming the whole wedding. But it
was it was so much fun and like really good experience.
Speaker 3: Cassie's getting ripped at the weddings Cassie the weekend.
Speaker 8: Super School just her right arm, Yeah, just my right.
Speaker 3: So my next weekend winter we talked about Rory McElroy
winning the Masters. My next weekend winter is all the
people on the internet on Twitter that are going to
make memes out of this. I had Cassie bring up
the picture during break. If you guys did not see
this on Friday, I don't remember which hole. Off the
top of my head, me and Moose were watching it
here in studio. Scotti Schefler hit his ball into the trees.
I think it was maybe eighteen. I think that's maybe
how he finished the day. Scotty Scheffler did not have
a great day on Friday. You actually able to manage
it a lot more than some golfers would. But he
hits it in the middle of this big magnolia tree,
and guys, it's like a ten to fifteen minute discussion
with the crew about like, hey, do we take a drop?
Speaker 2: Do I hit it out of here? What do we do?
Speaker 3: And there's a point where Scotty Scheffler, you can get
and pull up the picture is sitting in this magnolia tree,
contemplating life, contemplating where he's going to hit this ball.
I am ready I am disappointed in the lack of
memes already.
Speaker 2: I am ready for all the memes here.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you guys were watching this live and
you see how big of a tree this was, Scotty
Scheffler looked like a speck just sitting there contemplating everything
in his golf career.
Speaker 2: And he's sat there for a good five minutes or so.
Speaker 3: So we can winn Scotty Scheffler because he actually hit
a pretty good shot out of those trees and was
able to save par on that hole. So my next
weekend winter Scotty Scheffler for not only hitting that good
shot but giving us all something to laugh about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a weekend loser. Weekend loser, Nico Iyamaliyava.
And I think his dad too, because I feel like
the word around town is that his dad was heavily
involved in this.
Speaker 2: But big Niko U.
Speaker 4: Yeah, big big Nick, Big Nico weekend losers because I
mean Nico Yamaliava was shopping around and then he sat
out on the spring game and Josh.
Speaker 8: Hipel was like, we ain't doing that, we ain't doing this.
Speaker 4: So they're gonna move on from Niko Yamaliava and hopefully
pick up a court.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know about hopefully.
Speaker 4: I don't hope they do anything actually, but probably pick
up a quarterback in the portal somewhere and goodbye, Nico.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you brought this up. We were doing any
deep dive on this at nine thirty. I have a
lot of thoughts on this. I love this move by Tennessee.
We talked about it a little bit on Friday about
what was going to happen.
Speaker 2: But good on you, Josh.
Speaker 4: I was about to say big props to Joshipple.
Speaker 3: Joshiper, We're gonna give weekend if she gives a weekend
loser to Nico, I'm gonna give the weekend winner to
Josh Hipel.
Speaker 2: A lot of coaches would have folded. You did not.
Speaker 3: You stuck to your guns. You let him know that
no one player is bigger than the team. The rest
of your team is going to respect you.
Speaker 2: Because of that. You have actually gained a fan.
Speaker 3: I have been super critical any offseason I'm filling in
for anybody on this show. I am super critical of Tennessee.
I called them the Texas A and M of the
SEC East because that's what they've been. I've been critical
of Josh Hipel Josh hippel Is gained a fan this weekend.
As far as I'm concerned, Cassie, what else you got?
You got a weekend loser.
Speaker 7: I mean, I guess loser could be the baseball team
and the softball team. I know already talked about it,
but like that, it was just so disappointing, and I
kind of I didn't.
Speaker 8: Expect it from softball.
Speaker 7: Baseball is kind of I don't, not that I expected
it from baseball, but like, I feel like it was
just kind.
Speaker 3: Of like baseball looked so good for so long that
you were like, you know something's going to happen.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, you knew it was gonna happen eventually.
Speaker 2: I mean, to your point, Oh sorry, no, you're good.
Speaker 8: Good.
Speaker 4: I was just gonna say, like, okay, lose the series, fine,
but getting sweat, yeah, getting swept. I was saying on Sunday, like, look,
if you're gonna lose the series, just don't get swept.
Speaker 8: And what did they do? They went and got swept,
and I'm just like, oh man, you just can't do that.
Speaker 2: You can't do that, my weekend loser.
Speaker 3: This is just a standing weekend loser until further notice.
My weekend loser, the Dallas Mavericks. So the Western and
Eastern Conference, the NBA playoffs is set in the Western
Conference obviously the thunder of the one seed Rockets two
and at the three seed the Los Angeles Lakers, who
have just been dominant as of late.
Speaker 2: They're thirty one and ten at home.
Speaker 3: I mean they they have been excellent in their last
ten games. They're six and four. They were even better
than that their previous ten games. They have looked like
one of the best teams in the NBA since the
Luka Dantia trade. And obviously Dallas was fighting for, you know,
a lock up playoff spot. Well, Dallas Mavericks the ten
seed now in the Western Conference.
Speaker 2: They're not going to go very far at all.
Speaker 3: They finished their season with a losing record after making
it to the NBA Finals last year, thirty nine and
forty three.
Speaker 2: And Nico Harrison.
Speaker 3: You know, we want to make fun of nicos today
on this Monday, Nico iamaliavo Well, Nico Harrison might be
the biggest moron of all the nicos out there.
Speaker 2: So standing weekend loser to the.
Speaker 3: Dallas Mavericks, because first off, you're making me pull for
the Los Angeles Lakers because I love Luka Doncic and
I hate the Los Angeles Lakers. So not only do
you have all my emotions and it tizzy, everybody else
kind of wants to see the Lakers succeed at this
point as well, and I never thought I would see that.
Like I guarantee you that game you played last weekend
in Dallas when Luka Doncic returned home, I promise you
nobody outside the city of Dallas wanted the Dallas Mavericks
to win that game. And that's saying a lot because
the Los Angeles Lakers are probably the most hated franchise
in all of the NBA.
Speaker 2: So not only did you screw your entire.
Speaker 3: Franchise and nego, you may the Los Angeles Lakers likable.
Speaker 2: I don't enjoy that. I don't know how to feel
about it.
Speaker 3: So they're standing weekend loser, Dallas Mavericks, and you co Harrison,
anybody else got anymore?
Speaker 8: I don't think so. I know, I said the Dodgers
during the break.
Speaker 3: But oh yeah, okay, so the Dodgers everyone said they
were undefeated.
Speaker 4: Right, Okay, this is this is what I was thinking
about yesterday, right, like everybody was complaining about, you know,
no salary cap and no salary floor whatever, why watch
baseball if the Dodgers are.
Speaker 8: Just gonna keep winning, Well they're not.
Speaker 4: And I know they started off real hot, and baseball
is a long season, so they can get hot again
at any time. But they they've been like the last
two they lost to Nationals.
Speaker 8: I think they maybe lost.
Speaker 4: The series with them, and then they lost the series
this weekend versus the Cubs, and they lost sixteen to
zero versus the Cubs on Saturday, and lost yesterday as well. So, uh,
getting a little cold the Dodgers are. So it's just
funny because it's just funny because everyone's like, well, why
even they're gonna watch it. They're gonna just keep winning
the World Series. It's like, you should watch it because
this happens.
Speaker 3: Look, this is gonna sound contradictory on my part because
I am part of the crowd to where like pretty
much any sport across the board, I don't like any
New York or LA team.
Speaker 2: I just don't.
Speaker 3: However, like the Dodgers get a lot of hate because
where they play, because they're the Dodgers, because they spend
a lot of money. And this whole torpedo bat thing
it is that is caught the Major League by storm.
I promise you if the New York Yankees were not
using it, no one would care about the torpedo bats.
Speaker 2: No one would care.
Speaker 3: All they have two or three players on the Tampa
Bay Rays they use this bat before anyone on the Yankees.
All you heard about all well, typical New York Yankees,
you know they they sign, Yeah, and he's used it
longer than anybody on the Yankees. But when the New
York Yankees get it, it's a big deal. Everyone wants
to criticize. I'm like, I'm not a Yankees fan, but
if I was, I would feel some type of way
about that, because it's like, look, you haven't won that
recent like, and everybody still treats it like you win
every single year. You always get the benefit of the doubt.
But in reality that's not just the case. So, I mean,
I'm not a Yankees fan, but I get it if
you're a Yankees fan and you're you're kind of feeling
some type of way about that. All right, Look we're
going to take a time when we get back. Devin
Snow Hoole Tomato is gonna hop on. We'll chat with
him about the weekend there was in sports, and well
we'll see where it goes with delv because he always
takes it to an interesting place. That's coming up on
the other side. Here on off the bench, Off the bench.
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Speaker 10: Back at it for sports talk meets pure chaos off
the Bench with Hester and Ta Bob.
Speaker 5: I don't believe that.
Speaker 3: Welcome back in Monday edition of OTB. Taylor Sharps sitting
in for Jacob Hester and Tea Bob A may we
do it every Monday about this time, Let's bring in
our guy, Devin snow hold the mayo.
Speaker 2: Dev. What's going on today?
Speaker 5: Taylor? What's up?
Speaker 2: Man? I am doing good.
Speaker 3: Not a great sports weekend for anyone here in Louisiana.
Speaker 2: It started Friday.
Speaker 3: And I mean, depending on how you feel about Derek Carr,
kind of on your mood, what are your thoughts on
that situation? Man, you know, possibly out for the year
with a shoulder injury. I mean, what do you what
do you think about that?
Speaker 5: Just I mean at this point, just not surprised by anything, right,
So this is a very Derek Carr moved to me.
I just thought, I'm just not surprised And it's almost
like the last straw. You know, something, there's something beyond
just he's hurting April and can't play off seat. Something's
going on and we're just not getting the correct communication
on it. You know, I compare how Derek Carr handles
all this to like Osama bin Laden. Dude, I gotta
be honest, like, you know, it's like he's got a curry,
you you know, and he just passes messages and we
just got to deal with it. And you know, I'm
so exhausted on it to where I don't even care
no more about what's going on with this guy. You
know what I'm saying, It's just a colossal waste of time,
colossal waste of money, h colossal horrible free agent signing.
It'sn't it's gotta be the worst of all time.
Speaker 3: Again, I guess that's that's where I was going next,
Like where do you where do you rank the Derek
cars signing all time?
Speaker 2: Like of all the Saints.
Speaker 5: Blunders, the worst, the worst, especially since I've been alive,
the worst. You know, there's been worse quarterback that we
brought on. But you know, when you look at the
whole entire tention, this is just the worst experience the
Saints have ever been appalling.
Speaker 3: Off And you know, I'm looking and like I know
that there's reports is like, oh, well, they may have
known about this before they restructured his contract and all that.
Speaker 2: That's fine, but like have they said how this happened?
Speaker 5: No, they haven't. And it's been seventy two entire earth. Yeah,
since they announced it and we've gotten no Like you
really think that they haven't figured that would happen by now?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like that's my thing because like it happened Friday,
and I'm like, all right, by the time I host
the show Monday, like, so much more information is gonna
come out? We have nothing like did he hurt it
working out in the off season? Did he slipping fall
getting out of the shower hurt his shoulder? Like what
happened with this guy?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: All we know is that he's in Paris having a
having a nice Paris time. You know what I'm saying.
I don't.
Speaker 3: Well, he's got all the guaranteed money right right, No,
he could he could put stock in in the Eiffel
Tower right now with all the money.
Speaker 5: He got from Louisiana for sure.
Speaker 3: Dev moving on from uh Derek Carr Real quick, did
you watch any of The Masters this weekend?
Speaker 5: I did, man, especially yesterday, all four of it. It's
just that's why people tell you to watch the Masters. Yep,
that right there. Just it's just great drama. And look
I had Byson to Shambo obviously did Yeah, obviously that
was tragic yesterday. But you know, I got to give
props to Rule. I mean he literally he overcame all
that adversity and that was a lot yesterday, you know,
so props to him.
Speaker 3: Patty Pimblet this weekend. I know you're a big fighting guy.
What'd you make of it? Taking down Michael Chandler.
Speaker 5: That was the worst I've ever seen Michael Chandler to
get warm. And he's been in some wars, but I mean,
that wasn't even a war. He just got absolutely smoked.
Patty Pemblet is the real deal man, and I've been
a Patty Pemblet fan. But what he did to Michael
Chandler was nothing short of improv It was. It was amazing,
It really was.
Speaker 4: He beat He.
Speaker 5: Beat the electrolytes out of my.
Speaker 11: Depth.
Speaker 2: Have you seen me here?
Speaker 8: Real quick?
Speaker 4: Okay, I was gonna say, like we know, Michael Chandler's
favorite thing ever is to get on the mic after
he loses and be like walk on and just like
try to give this motivational speech. He didn't even get
his motivational speech time because Patty beat him that bad.
They took him out of the octagon like almost immediately.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, well yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean he
had to go to the hospital. It was that bad,
you know, yeah, it was It's crazy. And then the
Volk Volkaninsky. Man, I put a lot of money on
Diego Lopez because I mean I watch UFC and what
I've watched in UFC is Diego Lopez is a problem.
And he fought Volks game. He did, but definitely three rams.
He just fought Volk's game, and that's how Volk wins.
You know. I like Volk, but I always said he's
a round fighter, you know Patty.
Speaker 3: I mean, uh, dev have you seen the video of
Patty it came out last week. Is uh He's going
to help these marines train in like hand to hand
combat and they go to jiu jitsu. Ten marines in
a row came in that ring. Patty submitted all of
them like under a minute.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and that just goes to show you it's just
a whole different game. And obviously Marines are you know,
they they they warriors, but these dudes in Mma are
like they just no different things.
Speaker 3: Dev This weekend in Potitula was the annual St Raberry Festival.
I don't know if you were out there or not.
Have you ever been because this seems right up your alley.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I might have went when I was a kid.
I don't really remember, but no, I haven't been in
a long time. If I have been, I don't get
out of the parents a toola much. I mean, yeah,
I just don't get out there much. But I know
it's a huge festival, so I mean, I just don't know.
I don't know if I'll have a go.
Speaker 3: Well, the thing is man like, it's big, but like
we were talking about it a little bit earlier, if
that festival holds three thousand people, Patchatula is like, nah,
we could fit ten thousand in here easy.
Speaker 11: I mean, it is.
Speaker 3: Shoulder to show. It's one of those things like you
show up and you're so overwhelmed. You're like, all right,
let me get a thing of strawberries and get the
hell out, Like that's that's where you're at.
Speaker 2: Like it is, it is awful.
Speaker 3: Like my fraternity in college, we just have to work
it every single year, so i'd have to be there
like Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Speaker 2: Just not not for me.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, I'll tell you what. I'll try to make
it out there. I guess maybe next year. Yeah, and
see what it's all about. There's another thing that's out
that way whatever, that thing that T Bob goes to
every year or it's called the like it's like a
medieval festival or something.
Speaker 2: The Renaissance festival. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I gotta go to that.
Speaker 3: That's a lot better because like the layout of that
is like centered around the lake and like all the
stuff's kind of like the perimeter. Like it's a lot
more open. It is not nearly as bad as a
strubbery festival.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it just seems interesting, you know what I'm saying.
It seems like you find some interesting cats if you do.
Speaker 10: So.
Speaker 3: I went for the first time. I mean I think
we took a fourth grade field trip there when I
was in school. I went for the first time back
this year, and uh, there there are some interesting characters
to say, though you would thrive in that situation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, I definitely got to make it to that
for sure.
Speaker 3: All right, dev let me let me ask you a
quick pills question. Obviously, their season was terrible, their season
is over. But Mike Malone got fired last week from
the denver Na Gets. It was a move that surprised
me a probably surprised a lot of people considering they're
like a five seed in the playoffs. They just won
the championship a few years ago. Should the Pells go
after Mike Malone?
Speaker 5: Me up? My And my favorite part about Mike Maloney
kind of sounds like it's from the West Bank, you
know what I'm saying. If you listen to him talk,
it kind of sounds like he's from the West Bank.
So yeah, I'm all about it, don't get me wrong. Look,
I do like Willy Green. I think he's a great person.
This situation all around from David Griffin, will whatever, the injuries,
just hasn't worked out, you know what I'm saying. So
that's just a part of the business. And I'd be
shocked if they kept both of them. They kept David
Griffin and Willy Green. But anyway, Yeah, I mean, we
got to make a change. Man. I was talking about
this last night on my show. You know this this draft,
you got a chance. You know how they always say, hey,
build a Raam Zion, build a rams Ions been saying
to night. Okay, now it's time to find somebody that's
just as good as Zion. Do you see what I'm saying. Yeah,
it's been that, it's been that long. It's been long enough.
Find somebody that's just as good as Zion, and let's
move forward. Not saying get rid of Ion, but find
somebody that's just as good as pay him with Zion,
and let's see what we got, man, because a lot
of these guys that we've invested in, they can't stay healthy.
And you see what the result is, man, sixty one losses,
which is impactable.
Speaker 3: Well, and to your point, like, look, you can like
Willy Green, that's fine, and you know I'm I like
Willy Green.
Speaker 2: He seems like a good guy.
Speaker 3: But the fact that all these other teams make moves
like quickly after success because they're tired of it, Like
the Denver Nuggets won two years ago.
Speaker 2: I was talking.
Speaker 3: I was talking about it with somebody here at work
the other day, Like, if you remember in twenty eighteen,
like Dwayne Casey won Coach of the Year in the NBA,
didn't get the playoff results, the Raptors fired him.
Speaker 2: What did they do? They brought in Nick Nurse. He
won a championship.
Speaker 3: A couple years later, they fired Nick Nurse and like
the Pelicans like just seem like they're okay with being
an NBA purgatory.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, it's extremely honest, exactly because I mean,
so you're seeing so many solid teams move on from
their coaches, and uh, here we are. You know what
I'm saying, sixty one losses. I mean every time I
say it, it grosses me out. Man, It's like, how
does it get this bad? So you have to make
a complete overhaul. You know, I don't know who's in
a worse position, the Saints or the Pelicans, but I'd
probably say that if I wasn't what Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, well, the fact that like both of your
New Orleans franchises are awful right now, Like because there's
been a lot of talk about, oh, can the NHL
bring a team to New Orleans?
Speaker 2: I'm like, the way the Saints and Pelicans have bad luck, Like,
do you want another team? To have to cheer for
that's perpetually losing.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean, look, I don't want to say I
wouldn't welcome it. Yeah exactly. Man, it's like, what kind
do you want? Triple dysfunction?
Speaker 2: That's one of those things where it's like I feel
like it'd be.
Speaker 5: Fun for like two years, yeah, two months too much?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, sure that before I get you out of here?
Where are we going for rbn R Day?
Speaker 5: And I never know until laster I get off of
this show right here. You know what I'm saying. I
never really at it, but you know, I'm thinking somewhere
around booty Home area or something like that. Okay, so no,
not too far now now, never too too far, you
know what I'm saying. Because I do this day up.
It's not like I filmed this. Yeah yeah, he's ahead
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Speaker 2: Devin Snow all the Mayo thanks for hopping on with
us this morning.
Speaker 5: Man, all appreciate you'll. Y'all take care of a great week.
Speaker 3: Yeah you too, Budon. That's Devin Snow right there. Alright,
Look we're going to take a quick time out when
we get back. We talked about it a little bit
there and weekend winners. I kind of want to break
it down a little bit more, the Tennessee situation with
former quarterback Miko Iamlaiava. Will break down that on the
other side here on off the bench, off the bench.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back in Monday edition of Off the Bench. Just
a few more segments to go here on this Monday morning.
And I gotta tell you, guys, there are very few
things I love more than a random T Bob a
bear live read when he is uh, when he is out.
And you know, a lot of people like, okay, since
I'm normally on video, I'm here now, like whether it's Kaszie,
like Jordan's asked a few Tom's like why don't y'all
just pull one that's not random? You don't understand they're
all random. That is the most normal. Me and Lauder
were talking dur him break like when they get back,
like we might just get Jake after the show to
just record basic generic ones by himself and those are
the live reads we're going to play.
Speaker 2: Like Okay, last segment we had Devin snow on. Okay,
we didn't talk any baseball.
Speaker 6: LSU's baseball and softball got swept and T Bubb goes
speaking of baseball, the incredible play we've seen on the field,
grab a dose Eki's like, there was an incredible play
on the field.
Speaker 3: We weren't talking baseball. It's just those are all of
T Bob's live reies. He doesn't know any other way.
It's part of the reason why we love him. But like,
that's one of my favorite parts about filling in. I'm like,
what is T Bob going to say? Like, half the
time a laundre will play one of these generic live why.
Speaker 8: My best to find a normal one.
Speaker 2: They're all like that, it doesn't matter. You don't even
need to look at me.
Speaker 8: The one that I tried to tried to pull it
was like, what am I supposed to do with that?
Speaker 1: Taylor?
Speaker 2: Oh, I know half the time he's just yelling and brading.
Speaker 4: Me or have to my favorite at thirty second live
reay because he's.
Speaker 3: Like my favorites is like if one of my poor
family members are listening and Cassie, this happens more than
you would think one of my family members happens to
be listening and the Goodwood read comes up and t
Bob goes, are you limp like Taylor will get Goodwood?
I'm like, Bro, I'm just sitting here. I'm just sitting
here minding my business.
Speaker 2: T Bob. Why we calling me out? But that's that's
just who T Bob is.
Speaker 3: Okay, Look, I want to talk real quick about the
situation with Tennessee football and Nico yama Liava. Talked about
it a little bit in weekend Winners at Lauder gave
Nico a weekend loser rightfully, some as we kind of
break down a little bit what occurred and knocks all
over the weekend. So all last week really Wednesday Thursday,
we had heard that Nico Yamaliava.
Speaker 2: Wanted more money.
Speaker 3: So reportedly he had kind of an nil contract type
of deal. There was two million dollars over a two
to three year span. He wanted around four million dollars
for this upcoming season. There's a problem with that one.
Nico yama Liava is not that good. That's part of
the reason the Tennessee offense struggled last year.
Speaker 2: You don't believe me. Let's look at his numbers.
Speaker 3: He goes sixty three point eight percent completion, that's fine,
a hair over twenty six hundred yards, twenty six sixteen,
nineteen touchdowns, five interceptions.
Speaker 2: That's average to below average this day in college football.
Speaker 3: And I've heard a lot of people say, oh woo,
Terry and Mensa got this amount of money, and he
was at tu Lane and this guy got this amount
of money. Yeah, Darian Mensa was a lot better than
Niko IAmA Liava last year. You can say I want
market value. You're getting market value. In my opinion, You're
getting paid more than what your play has shown on
the field. But one of the things that I wanted
to applaud over the weekend was how Tennessee handled this situation.
So we were talking that, you know, he demanded more money,
and also like what kind of a crappy move to pull,
Like right before spring ends. Tennessee's kind of backed into
the corner because who knows who's going to enter the
transfer portal in the spring window. So what does an
ico do right before the spring window opens? He comes
through it, he says, hey, I want more money or
I'm out of here. And you know, Teaba pointed this
out Thursday, and he's absolutely correct because a lot of
schools actually would have thought this way. T Bob says, Okay, well,
Tennessee might have to do this because what are their
other options at quarterback? I totally understand that. My point
on Thursday was what are Nico's options if he leaves Tennessee?
Because I don't see a lot of teams wanting to
knock down his door, especially if the four million dollars
is indeed his asking price. Let's look at some of
the top teams that are around that maybe we think
would pay that money. Ohio State they have Julian saying
I think they're happy with him.
Speaker 2: They're not going to do it.
Speaker 3: Michigan just paid price Underwood all that money. They're not
paying that for another quarterback. Oregon's got two quarterbacks. It
brought in Dante More to sit last year. He's likely
going to take over.
Speaker 2: I mean, where do you go?
Speaker 3: And everyone's going to say, oh, well, it's clearly the
Alabama Crimson tie, is it? I don't think it is.
Kaylen de Boor brings in Austin Mack. He set last year.
Austin Mack was a guy that was committed to him
when he was in Washington. They have Ty Simpson. You
can say what you want about Ty Simpson.
Speaker 2: Is he good? Is he not good? I don't know.
Speaker 3: We haven't seen much of him, but he's been in
that program for a number of years and this is
now his second year under Kaylen de Boor. He knows
what that coaching staff expects. And then they bring in
five star freshman Keilan Russell. They already have three quarterbacks
on that roster. Whether you love him, hate them, or
you're somewhere in between. I don't believe that they're going
to bring in a guy like a Nico Yama Liava,
especially with a five star freshman like Keilan Russell on
the team, They're gonna want to keep Kielan Russell around.
I don't see Alabama doing that. Who are the other
teams out there that are your top NIL spenders that
have the money, that are championship caliber programs? I mean,
I say championship caliber program's about to bring up Notre Dame.
I don't think they're championship caliber, but they're certainly in
the hunt. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish was the first
team that I thought of Friday when I found out
Tennessee was moving on.
Speaker 2: They have Steve an Jelly.
Speaker 3: If you remember Steve Anngelly the playoff game that Notre
Dame faced off against Georgia, Riley Leonard gets hurt, he leaves.
Steve Angelly comes in and actually leads a touchdown drive. Now,
he hasn't played a ton, but what we've seen from him,
he looks pretty good. He's likely the projected starter in
Notre Dame. They also have a guy named CJ. Carr
who's looked really good in spring practice. Now what Nico
has on his side as far as transferring into Notre
Dame the last two seasons, Marcus Freeman has brought in
a transfer quarterback. If you remember two years ago it
was Sam Hartman who started his career wake for US.
Then last season he brings in Riley Leonard from Duke.
But that doesn't necessarily mean he's going to do it here.
So if it's not Notre Dame, who else could you
look at? Florida State was a team that came to
my mind two years ago. They were right there in
the thick of it for the College Football Playoff. A
lot of people, myself included, believe they were snubbed for
that spot. They lost a redshirt freshman quarterback to the
transfer portal this weekend, but they did bring in Thomas
Castiano's from Boston College last year. If you remember Castiano's,
he's the dual threat quarterback. He was a big part
of how Boston College beat Florida State earlier in that year. Now,
he suffered some injuries and finish the season as Boston
Colleges starter. But I mean he made some nice plays
on the field. I mean he's probably still an upgrade
from dj Uyunglila. I don't know if it makes sense
to bring in another transfer, even though you've already brought
in Castanos.
Speaker 2: No, I get it. If you think Nico's better, you're
gonna do whatever you can.
Speaker 3: But I imagine Thomas Cassiano's got a pretty good nil
package to go to Florida State because they needed a
quarterback that bad. Again, are you gonna spend that type
of money on another player?
Speaker 2: I don't know if you do that.
Speaker 3: So everyone can say, oh, well, Tennessee, they made a
mistake by doing this. He could only aava made a
mistake in my opinion, because if he doesn't go to
one of these contenders. If none of those guys knock
on his door and say, hey, we want you bad enough,
you know what he's gonna do. Somebody like Boise State's
going to pay him, which is fine. He can make
his money and he's not gonna win anything of any significance.
But shout out to josh Iipel and Tennessee for doing this.
Appreciated that they did this. This is the move that
I wanted them to do, and you know, I talked
about it a little bit earlier. I've been very critical
of Tennessee. I've been very critical of josh Iipel. I
think they're overrated the majority of time going into seasons.
But I think they nailed this. Josh Iipel told reporters
on Saturday after their their spring scrimmage that no one's
bigger than the program. And so the tipping point was that,
you know, Nico threatened to Oh, I'm gonna leave, I'm
gonna leave, I'm gonna leave.
Speaker 2: He was a no show on practice Friday.
Speaker 3: In the post practice meeting, the report is that josh
Iipel told the team that they were moving on from
Niko Yami Leap. The Nico calls the offensive coordinator Friday night,
he said he's in the process feeling out his paperwork,
planned to enter the portal when it opened on Wednesday.
Tennessee called Nico's bluff, and Nico ultimately moved on. But
I don't know if that's going to work out for
Josh Iipel. I mean, after their spring game on Saturday,
I think you said it beautifully, he said. This program
has been around for a long time. There are a
lot of great coaches, a lot of great players who
came in and laid the cornerstone pieces the legacy and
the tradition that is Tennessee football. It's going to be
around for a long time after I'm gone, and after
all these players are gone. No one is bigger than
this program. And he's absolutely right. There are a lot
of coaches out there. I believe it would have folded
that would have given into this. Josh Heipel did not.
Josh Iippel stuck to his guns. He did what he
thought was right. He did what he thought was in
the best interest of his program. I've never been a
Tennessee van, I've never been a Josh Hippel fan, but
you know what, I got a little bit more respect
for the Tennessee football program and Josh Hippel after this
happened also.
Speaker 2: Don't want to not mention this.
Speaker 3: There is a report, it is not confirmed, but there
is a report that Niko was actually shopping himself around
to other programs, like before he entered the portal, before
the fallout with Tennessee, before he know showed a practice,
he was shopping himself around and that Oregon was one
of this. According to ESPN's Pete Damil, representatives from iam
Aliava had reached out to Oregon as one of the teams,
but the Ducks were apparently not interested.
Speaker 2: I talked about the Ducks. They have a quarterback battle
going on.
Speaker 3: They like Dante when we're the former five star Dan
Lanning had a press conference after Oregon's latest spring practice
if he had reached out to Josh Hipel, because there
is a report now that Dan Lanning called Josh Hipel
and said, Hey, Nico's reaching out to other programs. I
know this because he reached out to me. Now that
has neither been confirmed nor denied. But when asked about it,
Dan Lanning didn't exactly say no. He didn't confirm it,
but he didn't deny. He said I'm not going to
get into anything except our scrimmage today. The Ducks worked
really hard at our practice. I'm happy with everything I
saw and I want to move forward there. And a
lot of people can say, oh, well, Dan Lanning's a snitch.
If this is true, like, honestly, props to Dan Lanning
as well. There's not a lot of coaches out there
that would do that. I've always been a big Dan
Lanning fan because I don't even like Oregon. I don't
even like Oregon until Dan Lanning got there. But if
that's true, like, that's that's a classy move.
Speaker 2: By Dan Lanning.
Speaker 3: In a day and age in college football where every
player goes to the school that's going to pay you
the most money, there's tampering, there's calling guys before they're
even in the transfer portal. If this is true and
this actually occurred with Dan Lanning, like shout out to
you as well, because you're giving Josh iipel a heads
up on Hey, you're starting quarterback, like might not be
as committed to you as you think. And you know what,
at some point that's gonna come back around on you.
If that happens in your program, I bet Joshipel's gonna
call you up and let you know. It's always good
to have friends in this business. And look, josh Iipel
shout out for what he did. If the reports, again,
these are just rumors at this point, nothing is confirmed.
But if the report's about Lanning and calling Josh Hipel
are true, like, good on you, Dan Lanning. I don't
hope they are true, because that's that's a good move
in my opinion. All right, look, we're going to take
a time out. That's enough on then Eco situation. I'm
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Speaker 3: In final segment Monday edition of Off the Bench, Taylor
show up here with you sitting in the big boy
chair for Jacob Ester and t Bob abear. All right,
we're gonna close the show out today like we do
every day with some Ask the Bench. This was a
perfect one for Alandra. Ask the Bench favorite British band.
Speaker 4: There's so many good ones. The one Plane right now
is pretty great. I do love Oasis, I really like
def Leppard, a lot too.
Speaker 2: No, I didn't think about death one.
Speaker 4: I guess I'll go with Oasis because I've been on
an Oasis kick lately.
Speaker 2: Cassie favorite British band.
Speaker 7: I can't think of any right now?
Speaker 8: One direction?
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks Cassie. That was gonna be my answer.
Speaker 8: Okay, Queen is British.
Speaker 2: I think I think I'll go Queen. This guy.
Speaker 3: This shows you how much I know about British bands.
We were in break and I said, hey, Lodger is
a Rolling Stones British. He said yeah, It's like, all right,
well that's my answer, So my answer will be the
Rolling Stones.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Led Zeppelin's great too.
Speaker 3: Zeppelin's another good one. Ask the bench which saints QB
from past? Other than Drew Brees? Would you want to
be QB one right now? Over Derek Carr. People are
gonna get mad about this, Honestly, Outside of Derek.
Speaker 2: Carr, I mean, uh, Drew Brees. I mean we'd have
to go way back.
Speaker 3: I mean I'd have to go way back, like I'm
either going Archie Manning or Bobby Abear. But like in
recent history, can't think of any recent history. It might
be Derek Carr. No, not Jameis Winston, like Teddy Bridgewater.
Speaker 8: Maybe probably your best bet.
Speaker 3: I mean, look at look at the quarterbacks you've had
between Breeze and Car Teddy Bridgewater, Jameis Winston, Taysom Hill,
I mean, Trevor Simeon, he was great.
Speaker 2: Remember Trevor Simmeyon about Ian Book? Like, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't know if there's an answer, Like I'll go
way back and say Archie Manning or Bobby Abert. But yeah,
outside of those guys, your Saints, your Saints quarterback not
being great throughout history. So I mean people are gonna
be like, oh, well there's so many, there's there's really
not that many.
Speaker 2: Ask the bench and yep, Andy Daltons. What Jake would take?
Andy Dalton?
Speaker 3: I think him and him in car about even Yeah,
I agree. Somebody said give me Ian Book.
Speaker 2: I'm just not going I can't.
Speaker 3: I can't give Ian Book. Ask the bench. How ugly
were those Auburn baseball uniforms on Friday?
Speaker 4: They were?
Speaker 2: Yeah, ask the bench. This is for you two. If
you gave up anything for lent, how far have you
made it.
Speaker 8: I'm still going strong.
Speaker 4: I don't know about I'm a little skeptical of not okay,
let's go.
Speaker 8: Well, I'm so proud of myself.
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getting Chick fil A every day, I'm gonna eat it
right next to Cassie.
Speaker 2: I haven't done that one time. So we are all
growing as people.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: That's going to do it for a Monday edition of OTB.
Tune in tomorrow. We're here the rest of the week
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