Speaker 1: Yo, what's going on y'all? Our number two here on
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Beautiful day for a golfer, beautiful day in the capital.
Sitting now in fortune, Jake, you did not get to
do any Saint Patty's Day. Yesterday you drove all the
way too Shreeport. In the morning you'd put on your
football camp. Then you drove all the way back. Yeah,
it's a lot. How was the camp? It was good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I've always done it on Saturday, but
I moved it from Saturday to Sunday because I also
wanted to go.
Speaker 2: To the Saint Patrick's Day Parade.
Speaker 3: That's something I look forward to and it's I think,
the best parade we have. And Mother Nature had other plans,
and so I thought I was being the smartest guy
in the room.
Speaker 2: Turns out I don't know anything.
Speaker 1: No, I mean, no, no, no, no. I think that's just
a bit unlucky.
Speaker 3: I mean, some goes to the rain and they move
it to Sunday, and so yeah, I didn't get a chance,
but I'm glad my family, some of the family got
to go to the Saint Patrick's Day parade. But me
and my oldest son Jay had a great time because
we drove there, drove back, and he participated in the
camp as well. Uh So it was kind of cool
to see him go out there and compete. We we
had kind of all over Ringo Louisiana. We had a
deritter Louisiana. We have somebody that drove from Missouri, ten
hours from Missouri, uh to come to the camp.
Speaker 1: Damn.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's very well.
Speaker 1: You drove ten hours from ben Rude, so.
Speaker 3: It was good. It's always it's always fun to watch
them compete. I told you before the show or during
the show. I uh yeah, I kind of didn't really
realize I was out there doing the cone drills with them,
but I kind of was.
Speaker 2: I kind of woke up.
Speaker 1: I'm like my back so sore, like I felt that
to yesterday. I was like, God, my neck hurts. Why
is that? And then I remember that I was head
banging all Saturday night. I got a video of yeah,
bab yeah, oh did you I've not seen tid video
and you were in the text that said since was
I okay, Well I've been telled it was Look, it
was aggressive, head base, a grindy thirty six hours. To
be clear, I'm avatar, I out evolved this morning. Rivs
trying to help me recover from my bad decisions, and
I'm working out and I'm like, I feel awful. What
is it's? You know, it's a classic, like God, why
do I feel so bad? And then it's like, huh,
I don't know. Maybe the thirty six hours of green Beer,
Irish whiskey, VP, Dancy Eating Eating like crawfish on Saturday
into and then randomly as a dismount, five pm yesterday,
after a day of parading and whatnot, why not go
get some Mexican and some Margarita's just to really just
really f up your entire body, interior and out. Tier. So,
but we're feeling better. The road to recovery has be goone.
I will see this a bit of a tasteful irony here.
And this is supposed to be a week in defined
by bad weather, and certainly we had it when it
was there. But my god, it created the most beautiful
parade day weather that you could ever possibly imagine yesterday.
I know. That's why I feel very I want to
I'm not trying to rub it in, but it was
like legitimately the best parade weather you could ever hope for.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the weather wasn't nearly as bad as they made
it sound. Now like Saturday, like Hutson still played baseball
and now we had to wait it out.
Speaker 2: Things got delayed.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it wasn't nearly as bad as they thought
it was going to be and turned into perfect weather.
Speaker 2: That's cool to you, Bob, It's very.
Speaker 1: No, that's the worst part. And it not only screwed you,
but then it also made the best day ever weatherwise. Yeah, guys, outteririor,
not exterrier. Okay, Like I said, we are moving a
little slow on this Monday. Turns out, at thirty six
years old, you can't do thirty six errors in a
row any longer. And I never even changed outfits. I
had the same kilt shirt and wizard belt on the
entire time, which was kind of fun. I got that
little man in potion, I filled it with whiskey, and
I kept making people drink from my potions.
Speaker 2: So was that was?
Speaker 1: That was kind of I did enjoy that, even though
Bobby lost one of my man of potions. Dumb ass
your quad, Bob, Yeah exactly, my little son freaking beat
him up. Dude.
Speaker 2: How'd you get it?
Speaker 1: I don't know it was. It was months and months ago, actually, unfortunately.
But then I was reminded of it when I went
to get my belt.
Speaker 2: Ready, your potion belt.
Speaker 1: Look at this guy? What's up, pleaser? Look at it?
Ready to go? Looking, ready to go?
Speaker 3: Looking go oh l shoe bag. You better shoot well
with that bag, Bud, Let's go.
Speaker 1: God. He just looks like an excellent golfer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I bet he is.
Speaker 1: Uh any good, Quil says, I feel you're paying tea, Bob.
Friday night was Friday fishing, a twelve back of purple Hayes,
Saturday gym, then four hours ac work in the Attic
hockey game, five beers finishing sea work at midnight five am.
Set up for the bread home at five pm from
the breik. Yeah, hell yeah, let's have ourselves a weekend
for sure. For sure, let's just run it back this
weekend so I can go just running back now, I
mean exactly right, like I think, And and the worst
part is to the older you get, you really need
to take Sunday to like get your life in order
and get everything ready for the week out with all
the kids. And that's what I think led in part
to this disaster of a morning. Yeah for sure, no
clothes were washed, nothing was properly cleaned up in the house.
All my keys and wall are like spread out everywhere.
I must have left the house and walked back inside
five times before I had everything I needed to go.
I gotta remember.
Speaker 3: But the just you know, oh I did actually late
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Speaker 3: I know I've brought this up a lot over the
last couple of weeks, this one movie scene. But as
I've heard you talk about kind of your weekend, the
fun that was had, having a Sunday that probably felt
like a Saturday and never really stop a yeah whenever
you found out that the show was here and not guarantee.
I almost feel like you were Jake Taylor answering the
phone where He's like, if you're gonna pull this issh,
at least you could have said her from the Yankees.
Speaker 1: It's you know what's funny at that at that point
in the Uh, at that point in the morning when
I realized I drive it, but I already But I
only live like that, you Taylor, I only live like
five minutes from here, so it would have been super
easy to get here. But at that point it had
already been such a disastrous morning that I was just
beyond Karen.
Speaker 3: I was like, ah, you know what, I'm a vet.
Speaker 1: I could swipe my card this one day. Like it
wasn't like any freak out, there's no panic. I felt
bad that Bo was out here solo dolo, but no,
it was just kind of you know what with him. Uh,
it is what it is. Oh yeah, that's true. Brain
was out here. He got started at six, So I
was just at that point, I was just very much
it is what it is. We'll get there. When we
get there, we'll do the show. I mean, you saw
my kind of lazy, unbothered stroll up here, not my
normal I take out you know me.
Speaker 3: You called me I'm like a cool but yeah, exactly,
only only they like with a situation like that happens.
Like I said, it's like, all right, how much do
I get into the thing before?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Before? Yeah? Now, and I think I think we
handled it quite well. I do want to talk some
spring practice this week. If you go to Louisiana Sports
dot Net, guys, it's a great resource we are developing
here uh in at one of four five ESPN hunt
Palmer doing an excellent job covering all things l s U.
If you want to hunts breakdown on the three game
sweep of the weekend, you want to hunt spring practice reports,
they are all there at Louisiana Sports uh dot net.
Really everything it's it's it's a fantastic site also for
all your n CUAA tournament needs. Jake, how we feeling,
baby Turny? What's starting up Thursday?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean if you got your first you know,
games and date and that are going to be earlier
in the week.
Speaker 2: But yeah, because.
Speaker 1: Wednesday when winter the play in, Uh.
Speaker 3: Tuesday and Wednesday, okay if I'm not mistaken, but yeah,
of course Thursday is like the big day. It's like
a national holiday for a lot of people, including your
boy here.
Speaker 2: I love it. It is. I mean, it is utopia.
I'm off of afternoon.
Speaker 3: I was gonna ask Yeah radio because of it on
Thursday and Friday, so I'll be posted up watching all
the games looking forward to it. I uh, you know,
I was giving bets for the for the conference tournaments,
and you know, some up some downs. I did have
one perfect day six and o's four and one yesterday.
Speaker 1: Six and O and a Ford. What's our overall record? No, no,
I need to tally it up, tally it up here
in this commercial break, and of course this is this
is the uh but the pick and roll yeah on
Louisiana Louisiana Sports stunt net if you want to tail
Jake's picks again, guys, Jake is and we don't get
to talk about as much anymore because we don't have
Megan or Minci on uh. But Jake is very good
at gambling college basketball, and so like I I know
that a lot of times with gambling content, it's hard, like,
well do I follow this guy even? I mean, do
I care? Got into like whatever? The point is, Jake's
good at it. The picture on Louisiana Sports dont Net
go check him out. He's he's been winning, feel because
like you were four through the other day. Yeah, so
then you had a six and oh and a four
to one day.
Speaker 3: I think I was six and oh on Friday. Uh,
struggled on Saturday it was two and four still, then
went four and one yesterday. You know what I tried.
You know this is my problem. Okay, So the game
I missed was the IVY League Championship, and I went
with the under okay, because it was Cornell, it was Yale,
and they both they score eighty plus points a game.
But Yale had just had a rock fight in the
semi final where they the total barely got to one hundred.
The total was one sixty. I'm like, oh, it's a
championship game, they're gonna be a little tiny. It turns out,
as I said yesterday, I'm just not smart enough to
play the IVY League.
Speaker 2: I should have known that.
Speaker 1: Wait, what do you mean they're just not smart enough
to do anything in the league. I have an idiot, Yes,
I say, yeah, it's just stay away spot for me.
Lack of them, yeah, lack of academic prestige and intelligence there. Yeah,
well look man again handing out winners though on the
pick and Roll Louisiana Sports. It's funny on Friday too,
because you were kind of crafting your Friday picks throughout
the uh, throughout the show, kind of thinking about them,
touching them, feeling them, and then you end up going perfect.
It's awesome.
Speaker 4: Yeah, which was good because throughout the show I knew
I had to kind of do it, so I kind
of had three hours to kind of look at them
and really dive into it.
Speaker 1: Since we're here, what's your reaction to men's basketball declining
the n IT bid. I see some people very up
in arms about it, and I just got to be honest,
and this is probably the most damning thing that you
can say. This is the absolute last pace you want
to be. I just feel an apathy where I'm like, okay, sure,
I mean, I'm not gonna pretend like I would watch
the n IT games anyway, you know, I'm and and again,
we just had a week where softball sweeps a great team,
baseball sweeps Tom Nassas in the regular season SC Championship'm like, okay,
like you know, there's bigger, better things going on right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with that as far as you know.
Declining at South Carolina also declined it. So the two
SEC teams that didn't make the NCAA Tournament because made it,
they both declined it. Gosh, I guess I'm not one
way or the other really on the NI portion of it.
Now we'll say, uh, like Matt maan Man has to
look at this and be like, Okay, well, only two
teams in our conference didn't make the NCAA Tournament, and
I know what the NIL situation is. But he has
to know that the pressure is going to go up now,
like when you have a conference that is that successful,
that dominant as the SEC was, and you're one of
only two teams that you know don't fall into that category,
then the pressure goes up to an eleven. And it's
already been out there that he's going to come back
coaches basketball team again, and it's also gone out that
they're going to put more resources, more than IL money
into the program. And so this is this is the year,
like this is the year where it is going to
go in that fork in the road we always talk
about it. Is it going to go right, continue more
the same and probably look a lot different in the
next basketball season, or are you now that you're going
to have some better resources, you know what the expectation
is going to be.
Speaker 2: You know, all the things where you took this.
Speaker 3: Job over with no players, like all that grace is
kind of out the window. Now, are you going to
take that left and turn this into a NCAA tournament
basketball team?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And I think the toughest part is just creating,
creating like passion for it, creating emotion for it, because
again I think I think my now, now, now, if
you're listening to this, there's a chance that maybe you're
like one of the real true P one hardcore LSU fans, right,
so maybe you're gonna disagree with I say, but I
think that my emotion that I'm talking about, apathy, is
probably the majority opinion with a lot of people. And
again that's the the worst place to be. But that's
a great part about sports is that in life we
always want very clear cut, Okay, what do I need
to do in order to be successful? And it's not
always that easy in life, right, Sometimes you work your
ass off and you get unlucky, You're not in a
good situation, somebody didn't give you the credit. Like it go,
it can go awry, right. Not in sports, you win
and everything happens like you win and everybody loves you.
Like look at coach Molki when she took over that
women's basketball team was den in the water, nobody's going
to games. Somebody gave it him. What did she say?
He said, Look, we're gonna win. I'm gonna fill that
place up. Essentially said I'm gonna create a cultural phenomenon.
And promises made, promise is delivered, and don't be wrong.
It's a tough part to live up to, right, It's
a bit like say, no, just be like Nick Saban. Okay,
well I'm tek me just be like Kim Molky, Right,
why can't just do that? But the point is that
she took over a similar situation and laid that out
and now made what seemed impossible at the time, made
that into a reality. And we'll see if men's basketball
can fourteen teams making it. Yeah, new record. The old
record was eleven by the Big East back in twenty eleven.
And then texass to go to the play in Xavier
on Wednesday. You think Texas wins that game?
Speaker 3: Look, Texas has got a player that can take over
a game, and so yeah, I would favor Texas in
that matchup, and they were kind of the last SEC
team obviously to get in. But like kind of going
back to your LSU point before you kind of break
down some of the play in games. Coming into last week,
baseball was number one in the country. Gymnastics was number two,
softball was four, men's golf was seven, women's indoor track
was seven, women's tennis was ninth, women's basketball was tenth,
beast volleyball was eleventh, women's golf was thirteenth, women's swimming
and diving was nineteenth, and men's swimming and diving was twentieth.
Speaker 1: Were you at Stanford? We coming for that cup?
Speaker 3: They call it the President's Structors something cut.
Speaker 1: We're coming for that thing.
Speaker 2: It's a big, beautiful trophy.
Speaker 3: So like I think that And then of course we
know football and like where that lands, so like that plays.
Speaker 2: Into it as well.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, because.
Speaker 3: Men's basketball is one of the you know, revenue generating sports. Now,
you know, fortunate for LSU they have other revenue generating
sports that typically aren't that at other places, like a baseball.
But that's pressure, like when you have greatness on on campus,
when you have everybody in the fray. When you have
everybody that's at least relevant and then you're one of
only two that doesn't make the NCAA tournament, like that's
going to turn the pressure up in your own neighborhood
just from the outside looking.
Speaker 1: In, and and and and objectively, it uh, it should,
it should, but uh you know, I mean, hey, it's
it's it's tough to complain with everything else that Jake
just said though, because no matter what sport you are
into right now, and even basketball, you have a women's
seem that's incredible. No matter what sport you are into
right now, LSU is putting a good product right down
the road from you if you live here in ben
Ruthe so go check him out. All right, we'll we
come back talk a little spring football, so we haven't
touched on much. I also want to look at other
results around the SEC. Keep it locked here on off
the bench, off.
Speaker 5: The benchcome back to off the bench where the takes
are hot and the sports talk is questionable.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, bbl uh So looking around the SEC.
Then over the weekend, uh, some pretty interesting results. Now, Jake,
we opened the show talk about the Lshue sweep, and
how I think some of the reaction to sweep has
been funny because it's kind of been like m nose okay,
but like you know, it was a little I guess
it was a little negatively tinge considering you swept over
the weekend. Uh. I think the reason why, though, is
because everybody here is already looking at Tennessee, right, and
it feels like teams are on a collision course of joy.
I mean, they are on the schedule quite literally, but
even beyond that in terms of championships and whatnot, and
so it feels like you're not even maybe measuring yourself
against yourself as much as you are measuring yourself against Tennessee. Right,
And yeah, look, you swept Maszoo, congratulations, But Tennessee swept
a Florida team that, when it's all said and done,
will probably be quite a bit better than Miszoo. So
the volunteers taking care of business over the weekend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Florida number seven team in the country. Yeah,
Tennessee just swept. And so that's a great point because
you do feel like it's like, all right, well, it's
everybody in the SEC, It's everybody in the country. But
right now it definitely feels like Tennessee versus LSU. Yeah,
like those are the conversations that you're having, and so
you're like, hey, we swept Missouri and you're like, oh,
cool story. We swept the Florida Gators, who are top
seven baseball team, and so a little different. It feels
like it's going to be like that Teabob probably all
season long. I mean, there was what three sweeps in
the weekend in the SEC he ended up with four
because he did. Texas swept Mississippi State.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Texas swept State, sorry about it, rivs, and.
Speaker 2: Then Alabama swept Texas.
Speaker 1: A and M. I love that, My god, how quickly
the mighty have fallen at A and M and and
I and I and I almost feel bad And again
I hate what SCHLASHSNAKEL did. And I so desperately want
A and M to be able to rub it in
his face. Not that desperate, but I do want them
to be able to rub it into his face. But
here he is sit Texas three and oh after sweeping
a Missippi State program that you know, just want NAT
champion really recently and A and M H and three
completely Cratering got to finally drop out of the rankings
now after this weekend, have to And oh man, oh god,
there was some great stat about like a number one team.
It makesically the struggles of a number one team and
how quickly they've fallen out, and it was like, you know,
this has never happened to any other team since Texas
A and M back in twenty eighteen. So yes, it
looks like whatever mediocrity seems to be infecting the football program,
like some sort of virus has passed over and is
getting baseball as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's not great. You start off with
all the expectation of what it was going to be.
Speaker 3: You give a coach an opportunity, and a lot of
people are like, look, that's you know, you're giving the
keys to somebody just got their license.
Speaker 1: You're giving them a Ferrari.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't know how that's going to go.
I don't know how well you know he is he's
going to do and is he ready to take over
that program? And obviously right now they're struggling ten and
nine on the season after being the number one team
in the country in the preseason. But I mean, not
the only SEC team that's struggling, Missippi State thirteen seven
on the year. Like we said there, I mean even
Vanderbilt fifteen to five they lose.
Speaker 1: Dropping the series to Auburn this week, and thought that
was a bit interesting as well. So I mean, you
look at the stands right now. So Tennessee sweet sort
of the three and no Bama sweeping there three O
LSU in Texas all atop. Georgia again ironically just gives
up a ton of runs but scores a ton. They
just outslug Kentucky. They manage to take two of three.
Who did Oklahoma have this week in South Carolina? So
Oklahoma taking two or three off of Paul Manari's game Cocks.
As you said, Jake, I know, it's so weird Auburn
taking two or three out of Bama and and oh
miss losing this yeriares to Arkansas despite I think winning
game one. Didn't they win Friday Night yet one Friday
Night only to drop two in a row. So one
week in the books and LSU find themselves atop. Of course.
I mean you look at the three note teams over
the weekend and look at the overall records Tennessee's twenty
and no Bama's twenty one, LSU's twenty and one. Texas
is seventeen in one, having won seventeen in a row.
So lost their lost their first game in the season
and have not lost since. So here, let's she's won
fifteen in a row for once. That's worth.
Speaker 3: Tennessee obviously twenty So Baseball America they just released their
latest Top twenty five. Tennessee is one, LSU two, Arkansas three,
Texas five, Georgia six, Florida a Oklahoma nine, Alabama ten.
You've got Auburn coming at number seventeen, Vanderbilt at eighteen,
Ole Miss at nineteen, and then you got Kentucky at
twenty four. And now it sets up for LSU on
the road a top five matchup against the Longhorns. So
give me, give me that, give me that top five again, Tennessee, LSU, Arkansas,
Florida State, Texas.
Speaker 1: So for the top five, how many in the top
ten or sec?
Speaker 3: Let's see five, six, seven, eight, What eight of the
top ten you got Tennessee, LSU, Arkansas, Texas, George, Florida.
Speaker 2: Oklahoma, Alabama.
Speaker 1: Okay, game on, guys, and look if you thought, uh,
maszoo was not the measuring stick. You want it well
as you said, right, Uh, Top five on the road,
Top five on the road this weekend. Tighten up, boys,
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But I don't know if anybody's feeling better weather right
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This Adam saying the quarterback market has been completely reset.
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of athletes. First shout to David feeding Adam to get himself,
a little shout out to So okay. My reactions are
thus first, another continued trend jake of although it is
not codified, players moving towards nearly fully guaranteed deals. I
mean eighty nine of the ninety million. Also kind of
more short term, right, No more seven years one hundred like, no,
no more fake deals. These are actual deals that are
that that that are that are what they are when
you put pen to paper. So three years, ninety million,
eighty nine guaranteed, shout out Stingley. My second reaction is
my god, how much money as a twenty nineteen football teammate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because just last night Jamar Chase signed a four year,
one hundred and sixty one million dollar deal that includes
one hundred and twelve million dollars guaranteed. And so they
just continue to get paid, they continue to thrive. The
stars at that team have been stars in the NFL,
and like Congratsu sting Man, that's like cornerback that that's
unheard of to get that much money that early, but
he has certainly earned it as someone who sat and
watched the playoff game in which nobody could get open
all Derek Stingley Junior in person. I mean he continued
to do it all season long. He's done his entire
career so that twenty nineteen team and then just continue
to show that it was not fluky. It was not
just because of one person or two. It was a
total team effort.
Speaker 1: Man. You had an embarrassing amount of talent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe in the offensive line that you really
get talked about. Like Cush has signed a second deal.
D Lou signed a massive second deal. I mean, Sadique
Charles was starting before he decided to retire early and
now he's back. Yeah, now he's back. Anthony Bradford right
playing well in the NFL. I mean that's just guys
that like a.
Speaker 1: Good scouting eye by me. Guys, I told you Bradford
was gonna be good, and we talked with the young guys.
You're noting here. It's I mean, somebody do. I'm too lazy,
but I know y'all obsessives are not out there. Somebody
do the math. Give me the total amount of salary
earned by the twenty nineteen l shoot football team. And
you can also do it in a couple of different
like you can do it breaking out my position if
you want, maybe just look at the top earners as well,
separate out. But I want to know the total number
earned because it is abelievable at this point. Yeah, so
they paid Jamar who now has It's so funny, Jake
this title. This is a title that has gotten passed
around four or five times in the last couple of days.
Jamar Chase now getting the highest paid non quarterback in
NFL history title. I think it was Max Crosby they
got it first, then maybe Miles Garrett. Then I'm missing
one other person in between, and now Jamar Chase getting that.
How about them also giving t Higgins four years one
hundred and fifteen million with the first two years fully guaranteed.
That's a bit surprising at a time when you're gonna
let Trey Hendrickson look around because you don't want to
make him the highest paid non quarterback ever.
Speaker 3: I like I understand if you're look, if your quarterback
who's one of the best in the NFL is going
to be your franchise quarterback, I mean I would decade, right,
I mean I just knowing Joe Burrow and knowing how
he's wired in the DNA, So what does he need?
What does he want to be happy and feel like
he can put his best foot forward. Then you go,
and you've got the cap space, you go sign both
those players. Like Jamar Chase was the obvious thing, right,
that's a done.
Speaker 1: Yes, of course, that was never a question.
Speaker 3: But like t Higgins is somebody that Joe Burrow and
a lot of people like like he unlocks a lot
of things for that offense. He allows Jamar Chase, who
is as talented as anybody in the NFL, though, to
maybe even go up another notch. And so I think
it makes all sense in the world if you can
get Trey Hendrickson, because the defense was so poor as
you know a year ago, that's obviously going to be
probably where they attacked the you know, the NFL draft
the most as well. But good on Joey b good
on the Bengals. They actually spent some money.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say a bit shocking that you have
Cincinnati Bingles, traditionally one of the most h tight, waldain
frugal of franchises, now with the highest paid non receiver
in NFL history and the highest paid wide receiver two
in NFL history. And remember we talked about Josh Allen
at the time of signing accounting for nineteen percent of
the cap. When burrough signed, he kind of for twenty
four percent of the cap. So the Bengals are investing now.
It just uh, it just has to it just has
to pay off. But shout out Derek Stinglely as well,
which what who all the texts out of this offseason,
Chauncey Garner, Johnson, any other big names. No, I mean
it hadn't really done a whole lot still, Addie. I
mean they've they've basically gotten rid of their whole low line,
which you may say, well why did you do that?
Like what'd but they were already bad except they were
bad and expensive. Now maybe they'll be bad and inexpensive. Uh.
And I do love bringing CD Deuce into that secondary
with Derek Stingley junior. That's gonna be uh that that's
that's gonna be intense, uh, as it always is with CD.
Here's the I mean, what like his career. I know,
look at it.
Speaker 3: Everybody loves that he's on their team for the time
that he's on their team, but that's just not a
long period of time.
Speaker 1: He's got Brandon Cooks disease.
Speaker 2: Like the clock just kind of runs out. It's like, hey, dude,
you were really good.
Speaker 3: We appreciate you, but that's about all we can take
in you, Bud.
Speaker 2: It is it is.
Speaker 1: It is crazy too, because he's always productive. I talked
about this not too long ago. Let me find here
it is, Jake. This is his ranks. And then why
I say Brandon Cooks He's remember Brandon Cooks would get
like a thousand yards every year, but nobody would keep
him around, Like he always represented a little bit more
on the open market than when they actually cared about
him being on the team. But here's Chargon Gardner Johnson's
PFF ranks among safeties in twenty twenty four. Last year,
he had an eighty six to eight coverage grade. That's
fifth in the NFL. He had six picks, that's third
in the NFL. He had seven forced incompletion that's third
in the NFL. They still let him go, but now
he teams up with Derek Stinglely and that Texas defensive amiga.
Ryan's already very already very good. Okay, okay, I see
a Texans, Uh pretty good, pretty damn good.
Speaker 3: That's uh, you know, it's a's a team that didn't
feel like they needed to make a ton of moves.
They felt like they you know, just want to run
it back. Didn't really you know, not active in free agency.
So we'll see what the Texans were able to do.
And obviously they wanted to take care of their own
and Derek Stingley and they knew he was coming up
as well, so that plays into it. But I kind
of going back to the original, like just how ludicrous
twenty nineteen was, Like we don't even talk about a
Grant Delpit that he's making twelve million dollars a year?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 3: Yeah, like Grant he like he's already signs an extension.
I mean, we don't like how many three years? Thirty
six million? What's Patrick Queen up to?
Speaker 1: Now? I know he got to be a contract with
his first one Jacob Phillips SA suddenly Uh no, okay, okay,
So there had to be There had to be There
had to be one. It had to be one that
didn't make billion dollars. Shout out to Daily Joy on Twitter.
H lsu Alum. It's like a lot of sec ball.
But she reminds us Happy third and seventeen day to
all those who celebrate. I didn't realize that, Oh, because
it's Mark seventeenth. I'm an idiot.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, dah hell yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh well, I'm so stupid, dude, I'm my god, a
long weekend, Okay, but am I, like, am I seriously
the dumbest person on the planet? Oh my god, it'd
be so hard on yourself.
Speaker 2: You know, Patrick Queen by the way, three years, forty
one million, jeez, so there you go.
Speaker 3: Screw Texas too, by the way, Uh gosh, that's probably
like Patty's say, guys, yeah that as well that I
wasn't involved in. Like we watched the game. Katie and
I were on the sidelines for that game.
Speaker 2: Oh what yeah damn.
Speaker 3: I don't remember how we scored another sideline pass, but
we were sitting there and like we with the back
view of that play and to watch all that play out,
it's like a core like in grade, like just right
here in my memory, like I can see it all.
Speaker 1: It's funny because it's a it's a it's a it's
a core memory for me. I remember exactly. I remember that. Well, actually,
let's do this, so let's go to break and when
we get back. Have you said Patty Day Heavy three
seventeen day. Let's uh, I want to go down memory
lane for a second talking about that play because it
is one of the most singular plays I've ever experienced
my entire life and that entire night in general. Uh,
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Speaker 5: Welcome back to more sports talk. What's some other stuff
mixed in off the bench with hester and T Bob's.
Speaker 1: Hadding y'all looking back o TV. Happy Saint Patty's Day,
Happy third and seventeen day, which is not because this
is the day which game was played. T Bob, you
stupid idiot. It's rather because it's Mark seventeen, three seventeen,
and Jake you mentioned being on the sideline. Can't imagine
what that was like because I still think back to
the TV broadcast with McConaughey and the crowd's going absolutely insane.
He's feeling himself. They're setting the scene and then they
just get completely eviscerated by the legend. I mean, so,
how much money is throwing to how much money there
at that point between Burrow and to Jefferson? What's that
like two hundred million throwing a one fifty or something
like that. It's insane, but it's it's funny because you
mentioned being on the sideline and how could you forget that?
But it's like it didn't matter where you were. That
was a play and a game that transcended time in
a way that I remember Zager Wars I was just
in my neighbor's backyard. But the best part about that game, Jake,
was that was still and I think this is maybe
why I want to bring it up, but he gets forgotten.
Is we still at that time the concept of LSU
having a dominant offense was ridiculous. Yeah, like that was
still Remember at Manning Passing Academy earlier that summer when
Burrow said, oh, I think we're gonna score like forty
a game, and we were all like what, I don't
think so, Bro, And then you came out and who
was it? Maybe like Georgia Southern Utah State? I mean,
you know there's Utah State. Were those the two games?
Speaker 2: Yea?
Speaker 1: And at both those games you looked awesome. Yeah, you
put up a ton of points, but it was like, Okay,
this still feels a little fake here, right, do it
when it matters, and I'll never forget it. I'll never
forget it because against Texas as you start going score
for score late in that game, it started to feel
more and more ludicrous, like you were being dragged across
the finish line of this idea that no LSU could
actually have an elite offense with the next level quarterback play.
Like I remember me and all the other day sitting
there and be like, oh my god, like, are they
gonna do it again? Are the arthwaite? Are they gonna
be able to spawn again? Are they somehow going to
be able to spawn again? And then third and seventeen happened.
And it was at that moment when a when a
switch flipped and it was like, Okay, no longer am
I going to expect him to fail. Now I'm actually
gonna expect the offense to come through. And I mean
come through they did. What a sign of things to
come from later year and really now from that play
that moment, think about how the perspective on LSU offensive
football has changed, right from a graveyard to now one
of the premier places in the country to go if
you're a quarterback playmaker. Two Heisman's later. It's actually pretty
surreal to think about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, at that time, seventeen yards felt like it might
as well be eighty seven yards, you know in the
LSU football, like third and seventeen, Can we have like
five tries at it?
Speaker 2: Is that possible?
Speaker 3: Because there's no way we'll pick it up in one
And that's probably you're right, that's probably the play where
you're like, okay, all right, like we have officially caught
up with college football offensively, and now these plays don't
seem like they're impossible. And you have a quarterback and
a receiver room and a couple of coordinators that you
feel really confident putting the ball in the air, because let's.
Speaker 1: Be like, we gotta be honest.
Speaker 3: Before then, there was no chance in hell you feel
confident in that. I mean, you got to go back
to like the met days to feel confident in a
third and seventeen situation.
Speaker 1: I mean again, guys, at that point, you're only three
games removed. I mean, I guess the UCF finish was
a sign of things to come, even though at the
time and maybe felt like the exception not the rule.
And honestly, the A and M game was pretty damn
strong as well offensively, But I mean you were only
a few games removed from just a very pedestrian season
from Burrow and company, and then that game became the
launching pad that changed everything everything. It's crazy to think about.
So thank you a Daily Joy for bringing that up.
And shout out to three seventeen day Burrow climbing the pocket,
finding Jefferson on the deep cross.
Speaker 2: Mmmmmm, Clive picking up the blitz.
Speaker 1: It's a team effort, boys, all right. Our three of
our TV coming up next. Off the bench