Speaker 1: All starts.
Speaker 2: You want to present Off the Bench with Jacob Hester
and T Bob Abert. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, Off
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Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 3: It's crazy. I just saw a video during the break
of a of a flat screen that mounts itself to
a wall. You just put it up against the wall
and it's got some sort of technology on the back
where it's like hold it on, These like little circles
fill up and then it's like okay, attached. Uh huh,
what will the world think of next?
Speaker 4: It probably doesn't have a built in stud finder. You'd
probably still have to line up where to mount it.
Speaker 3: No, like it's not actually penetrating the wall. Yeah, some
sort of suction cups something technology. I don't know what's that.
Speaker 4: Don't know if I want to.
Speaker 3: I mean, I wouldn't fully trust it, right, I want
some sort of warranty in case it fell off the wall.
But but it would be cool if it actually ended
up working.
Speaker 5: There's somebody that charged just way too much to hang TVs.
It's like, damn it, because they are very proud when
they hang TV's.
Speaker 6: That's why I do it myself.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I I I like everything else like that.
It's like I hung them in the past. And then
eventually I was like, I don't know. Actually I think
I'm just gonna get somebody to get somebody to do it. Uh,
it's just not not not worth. But then again, I
don't know. You gotta have like do you have a
good Uh we my wife has a has a good
handyman that she seems to really enjoy. He's over all
the time, even when there's not any jobs going on.
I don't know the deal.
Speaker 6: There is how many projects we're talking about it, That's
what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Not that manybody comes over like a couple of times
a week.
Speaker 7: Is this after the central plumbing guy comes?
Speaker 4: Or no he spent time?
Speaker 3: No he finally he finally finished laying all the pipe
for the bathroom remodels. So yeah, he's uh, he's he's
good to go. Anyway, our two guys, what's going on?
Welcome back to OTB Jake. You didn't get a chance
to weigh in on the baseball game yet. Of course,
that's what we open with. Talk about the massive win
last night, a really tough fought win, in which absolutely miserable,
only then to be, you know, just as happy as
you were miserable. What were your thoughts in the game.
Speaker 5: Obviously the fifth inning is going to be the thing
that stands out. Great approaches by everybody that came to
the plate, and when you needed the big play, you
got it, and you got it from the usual suspects,
which is, you know always what you want, like when
your guys come up in a big spot, what can
you do to lift your teammates? And so you saw
that from the middle of LSU's lineup, and once they
came back, and once they took the lead like that,
like Zach Cowen comes in and absolutely shuts the door.
I mean, going four innings only giving up one hit,
striking out seven. He was so dominant and you had
to bring him in in that moment.
Speaker 6: And I know we.
Speaker 5: Talked with Jay yesterday about that and he's like, when
the game matters, it's on the line, he's coming in. Well,
once you take that lead, you're down six to two,
and you come back and you take a seven to
six lead, you had to shut the door, like you
did not want to lose that momentum that you gained there,
and he did that and then some and so the fifth,
you know, fifth inning was awesome. It was so great
to see those approaches to lead to those runs. But
for me, Zach Cowen's going to be the story of
the game because they touched Kate Anderson up, yeah, a
little bit, way more than he has at any point
this year. And Zach Cowen came in against the same
lineup and just did not allow them to even like
take a deep breath.
Speaker 3: What uh was the and granted I think the cold
and flu medicine was making everything kind of start to
uh uh blend together a little bit, But it was
the eighth inning in which he struck out the side,
right am? I crazy?
Speaker 7: Think it was either the eighth or the seventh.
Speaker 4: I think I think it was a seventh.
Speaker 3: Was this seventh?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I feel like there was one inning where he damn
near had a perfect era immaculate inning. I mean, wasn't
it like twelve pitches or something to your maybe like
ten pitches? K's ten?
Speaker 6: Pretty sure?
Speaker 3: Was that the nie when he struck out the side though?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: So is that one pitch away from an immaculate inny? Yeah,
that's insane, right, That is insane, like, immaculate innings don't happen, right.
Speaker 7: Last time it happened was last year in the MLB.
Speaker 3: Michael Kopek, Oh wow, all the jelandra to have that
off the top of your head. Uh that not but
not often?
Speaker 7: Right, it doesn't?
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, I know, so, I mean so credit too.
I guess it's worth pointing out, like is that going
so locked in? Last night? Damn near gave you an
immaculate inning.
Speaker 5: And like we were talking about during I think it
was last break you okay, you to use your best arm. Yeah, well,
and you made the great points he Bob. You basically
used two pitchers. Yeah right, I mean you were able
to get Anderson and Cowen and pretty much that was
all you had to use outside of, you know, two
thirds of an inning. So now everybody else is still available.
They got to step up. Yeah, that's what it is.
Everybody basically outside of two guys is available.
Speaker 6: On your staff. Hey, you gotta go win a game.
Speaker 5: You gotta go piece it together, find a way win
the series, win a game. So you had the luxury
of using two guys, but now you have to have
other guys step.
Speaker 3: Up and step up. Look, I think they will. And
and again I'm not saying that the pitching is going
to be dominant, but I think this is an LSU
team where it's greatest strength as its offense anyway, at
least at this point in the season. And so to me,
the pitching doesn't have to win you the game. The
pitching has to be good enough to win the game. Like,
I trust that the LSU bats are going to break
through eventually. They're going to produce runs, even if they
struggled maybe the first time or two through the lineup
tonight against Missippi State's ace. What is it, Pico? Yeah, uh,
he has very good numbers on the year, to be fair.
Speaker 8: Look, sorry, I'm looking at the recap from last night.
Speaker 7: It was the top of the eighth and it was.
Speaker 8: Ten pitches, so he struck out on he struck out swinging.
Stevens did Cup struck out swinging on three pitches, and
then the last hitter, Powell, he threw a ball and
then he yeah, so it was a very very close Yeah.
Speaker 3: What a freaking tea. So what any was it? Though?
Speaker 7: That was the top of the eighth.
Speaker 6: Look at that he was seven nine Even.
Speaker 7: In my it was it was Steven's Cup Powell.
Speaker 3: Even in my terrible brain fog seeing sensing it there,
I remember I was. I was like, whoa, that's crazy.
Come you got this.
Speaker 5: I'm with Jet back in the by U four chat
as well. Feels like Hunter Hines has been playing at Mississippish.
Speaker 6: I thought he was coach now years.
Speaker 3: I was surprised, like he was player coach like Jackie mood.
Speaker 6: He wasn't there when Jake Mangum was there. He was
there when Rivers went to school.
Speaker 3: There without question.
Speaker 6: I thought, how long he been there?
Speaker 3: I thought he was quoted in the article that Rivers
wrote about the history of the series he.
Speaker 7: Played he was in their last championship winning team.
Speaker 5: Oh my goodness, uh shutting credit to him because that
means we know exactly who he is because he's been
doing it at a high level.
Speaker 6: But I agree with Jet pack my goodness, he's been
there a while.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So, and then like thoughts on tonight's game, like
like Jake said, somebody's just got to step up. I
think the bats do their job e acentually enough pictures
got us up and it starts to the Heinton Man
the same way that Cad took a little step back.
Maybe this is where Ianson locks in and and and
gets on a heater and takes a bit of a
step forward.
Speaker 5: One other thing that I did want to mention, I
totally forgot. I like Tanner Reevees being at their base. Yeah,
I just like having him in the lineup. It's nothing
against Braswell. Braswell came in as a defensive replacement. He
just has like a spring in his step. He just
it just feels a little bit different when he's in there.
He kind of makes things happen. It's a little wiry.
So you know, if you want to bring in Braswell
as a defensive replacement, I completely understand that.
Speaker 3: So you're saying, you're saying regardless of left to your righty,
because isn't that the isn't that the thing? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Braswell right now, I just i'd want him in the
lineup to he's bat and not the same amount of
it bats, but he's batten three eighty five.
Speaker 6: Braswell's at two sixteen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I just think he kind of gives you
a little life there at the bottom of the order,
which you I mean, you you need that. Stanfield, obviously
you're thinking more of a double leadoff situation with his
skill set.
Speaker 6: So I like that as well.
Speaker 5: But when you got a guy batting three eighty five
that kind of gives you that juice that we're talking about,
it'd be hard for me to take him out of
the lineup until he shows me that he can't, you know,
perform at the level that he's doing now now.
Speaker 3: But generally, and krrect me if I'm wrong here, but
isn't it? Isn't it normally? Braswell? If it's a lefty.
Speaker 4: I believe, Yeah, it's a lot like Ethan Frye who's
been in there, like certain lefty ready man.
Speaker 3: And is Pico a lefty?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I believe believe so.
Speaker 3: Right, So we'll see if we see uh braswell or
or Tanner Reeves. Wasn't it?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: What's it?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 7: Sorry, I was just gonna say.
Speaker 8: I googled out of curiosity the last immaculate inning in
college baseball.
Speaker 7: They actually had one a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 8: Arkansas Parker Coyle had one March second versus Charlotte Parker.
Speaker 3: What coil coil?
Speaker 7: Parker coil sounds like from Arkansas, which Arkansas always has.
Speaker 6: Her Parker Cools has great pitch.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And then before that it was Ryan Prager at Texas
A and.
Speaker 3: Is a lefty.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't remember who asked, was it up Cone is
a lefty? Uh?
Speaker 3: Was it wasn't in Stanfield on the squeeze last night
where he just bunted too much, too straight back to
the pitcher. Yeah, I don't mind that call. Again, you
wanted to be execute better. But that is one of
the elements that I like about this l Shoot team
thus far this year is they've proven to be pretty
adept at being able to uh manufacture when they need
to and find multiple different ways to to create that production.
So a really big win last night. Again, like I said,
we're talking about this Jake Lake. You could feel the
narrative swirling when it was going badly, like, oh else,
you's about to lose their third SEC game in a
row over, like all that sort of stuff, And so
to have all that weighing over you say no, put
your heels in the ground and come back and win. Really,
I mean, you can launch off of that confidence and
momentum wise into the rest of this series, and that
starts to in the box, get Loud, Get crazy.
Speaker 7: Although has a right comment in the chat.
Speaker 8: I wonder if Mississippi State considers Pico degayo.
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Speaker 2: Were sports talk meets pure chaos off the Bench with
Hester and t bob Tee.
Speaker 5: Did you wear athletic gear because you were sweating so
much yesterday and like the nice formal snapshirt you had on.
Speaker 6: No, oh, I thought you were just like getting ready
for the inevitable.
Speaker 3: No, I was just you know, when you get sick,
you don't do anything that you're supposed to do. And
so like my my closet's just just a mess right now,
so I couldn't. I was just grab whatever I could find,
and this is this is what I can No, I
actually have a whole box of new Snap shirts to
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But Uh, if you ever buy any use the Coach
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They have LSU shirts.
Speaker 6: Oh, speaking of shirts.
Speaker 3: Uh, Taylor, you have a Nashville Predator's jersey on. And
it's one of the more odd interactions that I've ever
had in that you like, you are very excited to
show me and tell me about your national Predator's jersey,
but I don't really have any context for it. Why
do you have a Nashville Predator's jersey on?
Speaker 4: Always wanted a hockey jersey? They were on sale on
a NHL shop dot com.
Speaker 3: It's simple, okay, not not like gearing up for a
playoff run or anything.
Speaker 4: They're actually not great this year. They're like twenty eight
and thirty seven.
Speaker 3: Have you have you always considered yourselves a Predators fan if.
Speaker 4: I had an NHL team, Yeah, that'd be That'd be
that'd be the one.
Speaker 3: You just wanted to do a little hockey sweater Friday.
You couldn't let me know. I have my Florida Panthers
Jersey Day would have done in Jersey Friday.
Speaker 4: It came in literally like seven o'clock last night.
Speaker 6: You know you can text at seven oh one.
Speaker 3: I could have looked like a Canadian lesbian for a
second weekend in a row.
Speaker 4: But a last today, you will find something else to
make you look like that.
Speaker 3: I'm sure I'll try my best.
Speaker 7: Well, we have dark shirts on, so we kind of
match a little.
Speaker 3: It feels like a reach, but I guess it's technically correct. Yay.
So I didn't watch any of the Sweet sixteen games
last night. All I watch was LSU baseball. I'm glad
I didn't want to have to watch Alabama what just
apparently make seven thousand.
Speaker 6: And threes, all of them all.
Speaker 3: I know that I continue to feel like more and
more of an old man, but just the three point
revolution in modern basketball has not paired well with my
basketball loving sensibilities and the basketball that I grew up on.
I mean, at one point I've read I think they
were twenty two of forty four. How many did they
end up taking? Fifty?
Speaker 4: Let me hit twenty five.
Speaker 5: The final number was twenty five of fifty one for
forty nine percent, which is just ludicrous BYU struggled. They
were six of thirty for only twenty percent.
Speaker 3: I'm saying, fifty one threes, how many possessions you even
get in a basketball game.
Speaker 5: Well, see, they only shot sixty six times, and fifty
one of them were three. I'm saying, bruh, that's like
fifteen two's fifty one threes.
Speaker 4: Mark Sears hit ten threes, had thirty four points, so
thirty of his thirty four points were three.
Speaker 3: What happened when we What happened to dieing by the three? Right?
You live by the three, you die by the three.
You gotta have a good big man there in the middle.
You gotta be willing to work the post. You gotta
have a killer who can work the mid range with
some great pull up jumpers, little fade away.
Speaker 6: Steph Curry happened to that. The Splash Brothers happened to that.
Speaker 3: Joelico he called it a market inefficiency, and my god,
was he right. So Alabama onto the elite eight. What
else happened last night?
Speaker 5: Florida took care of Maryland, Florida. I think Florida is
still my favorite to win this entire thing. With the
way that they're playing they win eighty seven to seventy one.
Duke takes down Arizona. Really good game, one hundred to
ninety three. Damn yeah, I thought that game was going under,
like no doubt. It went forty points over.
Speaker 3: Oh wait, what was the crazy over under yesterday that
we were talking about? Was that the Alabama game alvamby U.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and it went over.
Speaker 3: It went over?
Speaker 6: Okay, it was one seventy five and a half was
the number?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 5: And then Texas Tech Arkansas best game of the night,
Arkansas up sixteen when like ten minutes left to go
in the game and they.
Speaker 6: Lose in overtime eighty five to eighty three.
Speaker 3: Oh, Caliparies, so close, so close. Arkansas basketball still hasn't
made a Final four.
Speaker 6: Right since win because they've won a National Championshop.
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, yeah since but like modern since they've
been really good.
Speaker 6: The last year'll always get them to the Elite eight.
Speaker 4: Was yeah, Malseman took him to the Elite eate two
or three?
Speaker 3: Tis yeah, sweet sixteen there as well. Man always so
close for the Hogs, can't quite get it done.
Speaker 4: They should have won that game too.
Speaker 3: So when is the next set of games tonight?
Speaker 5: Or tomorrow tonight, Yeah, tonight the second half. Your first
game is going to be Old Miss and Michigan State.
Right now, Michigan State is a three and a half
point favorite. Total in that game one forty four.
Speaker 1: And a half.
Speaker 6: You've got Kentucky.
Speaker 5: Tennessee gonna be tipping off at six thirty nine Central time,
Tennessee even though they've lost twice to Kentucky, a four
and a half point favorite. Total number one forty four
and a half. You've got Michigan and Auburn. That tip's
going to be eight thirty nine pm Central time, Auburn.
Right now, it has gone down minus eight and a half.
I Love I Love Michigan. One fifty three and a
half is the total. Purdue and Houston going to be
the late Boy nine oh nine pm Central time, Houston
right now, minus eight and a half. And because Houston's
got the best defense in the country, the total one
thirty one and a half.
Speaker 3: Pray tell why do you love Michigan against?
Speaker 5: I think Michigan was misseeeded. Michigan was second in the
Big Ten in the regular season. They won the Big
Ten tournament. Outside of the SEC, the Big Ten had
the second most teams in March Madness, and they won
that league's tournament. Yeah, they were twenty seven and nine.
They've got some great victories in the non con and
I just felt like they should have been a three,
nine to five.
Speaker 6: So I like them to cover.
Speaker 5: I'm not calling for an, you know, outright win, but
you're giving me eight and a half points against the
Big ten champ I like their chances Michigan. I mean
they got size, they got two seven footers.
Speaker 6: I think it's gonna be.
Speaker 5: Kind of a clunky, not really smooth basketball game, if
I'm being honest. And so now Auburn's gonna have the fans.
It's in Atlanta, it's right down the road.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's gonna be packed out for Auburts. So
to give you an example, whememb that's all Auburn has
right now.
Speaker 5: Like in the West Region in San Francisco last night,
you could get in for sixty bucks. In the Midwest
Region in Indye, you can get in for ninety five dollars. Yeah,
in Atlanta for the South Region, three hundred and forty
six dollars cheapest ticket.
Speaker 6: To get in.
Speaker 5: Aren't they playing in the Plain State Farm Arena. So
the Hawks, Okay, so they're not they're not playing out Okay, yeah,
which is crazy. Yeah, but still three forty six just
to get two feet now the Midwest is playing in
Lucas Oil.
Speaker 6: So that's it. That's a big of the reason.
Speaker 3: Uh, who's brackets winning? Here in the office? Am I winning?
Speaker 4: Clumson winning at all?
Speaker 3: So? I don't think so?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think, Well, I don't know. I don't really know.
I think we're pretty much all three of us are
pretty close.
Speaker 5: You're you're miles behind. Yeah, I don't really care about that.
I want to know which one of you three is winning.
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Did y'all see And this is completely random, but did
y'all see the Bulls Lakers finish last night? Get that
video up. It is one minute of the most insane
ending of a basketball game that you may ever see
in your entire life. Just absolutely wild stuff. Also, why
is Jeremy Pruitt suing the NCAA for one hundred million dollars? Dude?
Speaker 4: Jeremy says that the NCAA collaborated with Tennessee to make
him the fall guy.
Speaker 3: I mean, it is one of the funniest firings in history.
That Tennessee was like, yeah, man, we were cheating. Bad.
Look at all this stuff we found. We're cheaters. Yes,
you gotta take Pruit you know, I guess we have
to fire Pruit oops for cause no buyout.
Speaker 7: I think it was the two and sixteen overall conference
record that got him fired.
Speaker 3: No, that's what I'm saying, right like, look at what
Look at what Tennessee did when the NCAA started sniffing
around Hypel they went to war and they won, and
they got injunctions and said, fu, you can pay the
like get out of here. You don't, don't try us.
When they came after pru It, they were like, yeah,
you know, you're right. This guy's cheating his dad. It's disgusting.
I hate it. Should get him out of here. The
human thumb Jeremy Pruet. All right, here is if you
have not seen it, here is the ending of last
night Lakers bullsk fell. Wait, back it up, back it up,
back it up, back it up, back it up to
the very beginning. What are we doing here?
Speaker 4: Was the very beginning. It's a fifty second video.
Speaker 3: No, there's you need the one that has both threes
in it. There's there's because they're down five with like
eleven seconds laft, that's the that's the steal after the
initial three is made with the with the three to
uh to to take the lead. Damn and my, my, my,
my stretch for the video is Jeremy pru a bit
suing them for a hundred million dollars?
Speaker 5: God if I have to see that stupid picture of
him wearing that thing on his head from COVID again,
I mean, that's.
Speaker 3: Are you got out all right? Here's anything game twelve
seconds levels at the hurry, twelve seconds on bus down
po get it.
Speaker 1: Into qick Pastor Williams big shot.
Speaker 3: Two point lebron lazy and does.
Speaker 1: Just down for the lead, big time place covid. Wait,
so one got the chip in last night to beat
the Pacers. Dontics took the final shot before that. Here's
Reeves Reeves straight to the top.
Speaker 3: It at the.
Speaker 1: Ths. A lot of timeouts two seconds left, get you
for the lead?
Speaker 6: Sound Hey, hey, hey, go back, go back just real quick.
I want to hear that sound. I want to hear
the sound of that half court shot in just one
more time.
Speaker 3: Also, watch watch Josh Giddy he knew.
Speaker 1: Pulls a lot of timeouts. Two seconds le game, So no.
Speaker 6: Wait the announcer hit the fret sand for Elizabeth.
Speaker 3: I'm coming to see you.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, that is so good.
Speaker 3: Giddy too knew it was good because he held that
follow through like he or he Diden knows he liked
it out of his hand. Yeah, from half of it
in his hand, kept his hand in the cookie jar.
So what an insane sequence? Twelve seconds left Lakers up five,
and you had three lead changes, three game winning shots made,
three turnover three. Then Austin Reeves comes back with what
looks like the game winning layup to Getty to come back.
Any game winning three from half court. Just that's awesome, dude.
Speaker 5: Oh man, that doesn't get much better than that here
in that half court shot go in and just hearing
the net.
Speaker 3: Don't have you heard what they're calling Austin Reeves Dalton
connect and Luka Doncic.
Speaker 6: I imagine it has something to do with exciting whites.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like that isn't that great? I hate the Lakers,
so I'd never wear a Lakers shirt, but I would
bet that Tris's shirt would. Uh you know, it's tempting.
It's tempting. I love trist Oh, it's so good. Nico
when ant makes incredible.
Speaker 6: Have you always hated the Lakers?
Speaker 3: Uh? No, I used to love the Lakers a chat
growing up. There's like one of my favorite teams because
I was like Sequille Neil l shoe guy. I was
like obsessed with Check when he's in Orlando, and so
I just followed him to LA. I didn't really care
about Kobe because I was always a Shack guy. And
then so yeah, no, I started to dislike them actually
post Shack and then I always like Lebrawn. But then
he goes there and then the Anthony Davis stuff went
down and that was no, never again.
Speaker 6: Yeah Anthony Davis for me, I was like, I don't
really care one way or the other, but ain do it?
Won't do it?
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to off the bench, where the takes are
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that was one of the fun surprises of my Disney
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it had a had a little arcade and they had
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Speaker 3: It was your favorite?
Speaker 4: That was a good That was my favorite guitar Hero
I had.
Speaker 7: Like bulls on Parade was a really good slow Ride,
which is a banger.
Speaker 4: Got some kiss songs as well.
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the main days to give you song or the song
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that that whole entire opening scene is just absolutely fantastic.
All right, So, the New Orleans Saints win totals for
twenty twenty five are out, and just in case anybody
is not suffering from ED, let me attempt to induce
some in you, as Vegas believes that the over under
on the New Orleans Saints should be five and a
half wins. So at a time in which you're already
incredibly frustrated by a team that has done nothing but
spin its wheels and tell you, look, we're not doing
anything wrong. Okay, we're not doing anything wrong. Maybe it's
a bit of bad luck. You are the problem, not us.
At a time when that's been the last three years,
well uh. In terms of setting your expectation for this fall,
Vegas is saying, well, you know what, we think you're
five and a half wins. Good. So now you, as
a New Orleans Saints fan, get to say, okay, well,
will we go five and twelve or maybe even pull
off a six and eleven? Where do you land? For
what it's worth, the twenty twenty four win total was
seven and a half, only to finish with five wins.
I'm feeling polish guys. No, you don't think they get
to put a six wins. No, I'm not gonna put
my nuts on line. You don't think they can get
the six wins though an offensive? Okay, new coaching staff,
so we love a new coaching bump. Do we think
Kellenmore is good or not? I don't know. I think so.
Speaker 6: Can I get with you after the draft?
Speaker 5: No, I'm not.
Speaker 3: Not quite not. No, you cannot not not for this. No,
I'm not going to loud that. You have to make
your your this segment right here. You have to make
your call. I'm with right now. My problem is when
it comes to over underwin totals, I almost always think
the team I cheer for is going over. Like I
think I would have bet the LSU over each of
the last ten years, and I probably would have been
wrong six of the ten, maybe even seven. So I
don't know that i'm the best to answer this, but
new coaching staff, Like, if we're using five wins as
the base from last season, I think you'll be better
than last year. Last year the offensive line actually got
a little bit better. Now you got another year on task.
You you know you you should have much better injury
luck than you had last season, like adding Brandon Cooks.
As you said, Jake, you got a lot of draft
picks with which to play. Don't really care about Derek
Carr too much. But I like bringing in Kellen Moore. Yeah,
I think, Okay, I can kind of see it. I
could see you know, a good, a good solid six
and eleven season out of your New Orleans saying, a
good solid six and eleven.
Speaker 8: So you don't think that like somebody who's never been
a head coach, You don't think he's gonna struggle at all.
Speaker 3: No, I mean that could definitely be the case, but
like he's also probably better than that. He's I was
gonna say, he's a place in a guy that we
knew was a bad head coach, he continued to be
a bad head coach. So uh, in the Schrodinger's coach
that is, Kellen Moore is the cat alive or dead.
I'll choose to believe that it's alive, Okay for now?
Speaker 4: Well, and I know we've talked about, like why are
the Saints trying to get in win now? They don't
have the router to do it. You have done better
in the off season, like you signed Justin Reed, Like
you could say, oh, you signed Brandon Cooks. He's older,
he's better than what you had last year as a
wide receiver three, Like you have objectively gotten at least
a little bit better in the off season.
Speaker 3: You know, you got Chase Young coming back again for
whatever that's.
Speaker 6: Worried about that contract.
Speaker 3: You've added some one other defensive, You've had some defensive
pieces here and there. Again, I don't think this is
a great team, but last year's team won five games,
and that was a team with a record setting amount
of injuries that hated their head coach very clearly got
fired in the middle of the year. So like you're
telling me that this team shouldn't be able to do
better than that disaster.
Speaker 7: They should be able to absolutely yes.
Speaker 3: So then I feel like over five and a half
wins is not a bad bet, and maybe not overly
sunshine pumpy. Though again my season total wins, I would
lose more often than I won, because every year I
seel shoes total. I'm like, oh, I think they should
definitely go over that, and they have failed to do
so more often than not.
Speaker 7: As a plate, I'll be the pestimist and say five wins.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, we'll see.
Speaker 6: So if I'm not mistaken, you play the NFC West
in the AFC East. Correct.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm actually not sure. I haven't even looked at
the schedule, which is.
Speaker 6: You know, well the schedule information. Well you don't have
like the dates or anything.
Speaker 5: But I'm pretty sure that's the way that it lines up,
is you're going to play the West out of the
NFC in the East out of the AFC.
Speaker 6: So does that change anything for you?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 3: I mean, look, the Niners are way way way down
from what they used to be.
Speaker 6: So Niners, Cardinals, Rams, Seahawks.
Speaker 3: So what I'm saying, Rams are still really good. But
like you know, otherwise, the NFC West is not what
it was a few years ago, where it was basically
all the best teams in the NFC.
Speaker 5: All right, So t I might actually I might follow
you to six wins because goal you have the forty
nine Ers, who are in a rebuild right now, you
have the Jets and also the Patriots and the Giants.
All those games are going to be at home there
you go, so you like where those games are. Those
teams are still trying to figure out a lot of information.
Speaker 6: About the Panthers.
Speaker 3: Games thrown in now on the road fail can well.
Speaker 5: I mean the Panthers might be better than you away
on the road. You do have a tough game against
the Rams. That's going to be very difficult. You got
to go to Buffalo, You got to go to Miami.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're gonna a lot of what Miami's who knows.
Speaker 6: You get to go to Tennessee.
Speaker 5: Who is They earned the number one pick, so I
still think they're going to struggle. You go on the
road to the Bears, depending on where Caleb Williams and
how much they've grown and were in That falls on
the schedule.
Speaker 6: I do like the home games though.
Speaker 5: I like having the Cardinals, the forty nine Ers, the Jets,
the Patriots, and the Giants all at home.
Speaker 3: Feels like six wins at least. Guys, there it is.
We figured it out here on OTV. If you were
watching this on YouTube, act now before the wind total
gets bumped up five and a half wins, hammer it
saints over and Mickey loomis gonna be smacking that gum
right in your face when he's sitting there on top
of a sexy seven and ten exceeding expectations. Record.
Speaker 6: I see, I told you.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, Vegas, they don't know. Yeah, aren't doing anything wrong?
All right, just because we were five and twelve doesn't
mean we did anything wrong. Okay, it's gotta stick to
the process. I'm actually gonna bet this sorilla right now
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Speaker 2: Welcome to the seventh ranked morning sports show in America.
Off the bench and with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 3: Ya was heading y'all, welcome back to OTB. Yeah, I
want to wow Vies pre It seems like Chad did
not love that Saint segment. There's a lot of a
rectile dysfunction talk going in. Te Bot keeps accusing me
of having a Ferris Bueller's day off on Wednesday. It's
not true.
Speaker 5: Tibot did not like me saying that I thought Mississippi
State's throwback ish uniforms last night were pretty solid.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, look between I thought they were nice.
I loved the big number on the back.
Speaker 3: Between you choosing Florida to win the championship, you know,
throating Alabama yesterday. I'm serious, talks about their ability to
shoot the three.
Speaker 6: Which they set an NCAA record. So I feel vindicated
in that way.
Speaker 3: And now what was this last one? You said uniforms
were nice?
Speaker 9: I mean, geez, what are you the sec town bicycle.
Everybody gets a ride, everybody but Texas. Oklahoma doesn't seem
real tight either, But Texas, that's what Texas is.
Speaker 7: But there it is, there is this morning.
Speaker 3: But Orange. Yeah, but Orange, tell ya exactly exactly.
Speaker 7: I heard something I never thought i'd hear this morning.
He said, credit to Texas.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, just for for managing a gaming Well just
no more. The context was keeping l shoes lineup and
check for a game and a half, because one through
nine this is a damn strong lineup with a very
disciplined to plate approach. That as a pitcher, I would
just feel.
Speaker 6: Helpless.
Speaker 3: I mean just intimidated, like you have no margin of air.
I mean, look at last night, it was going so
well until it wasn't. You walk curial, then you got Bear.
You're scared of him, You walk him, and then you
get the protection from Dickenson joining. Okay, you want to
turn that two run threat into a three run bomb?
Speaker 8: There?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Florida lost again last night. They are now and
seven an sec play for the Gators.
Speaker 6: I'm good.
Speaker 3: Uh, yeah, it is funny. It's like after what l su,
my brackets got.
Speaker 6: The least amount of red of it?
Speaker 3: Whatever you go, whatever you got to say.
Speaker 6: I don't know, you both got a lot.
Speaker 3: Oh am, I actually beating the Ladra.
Speaker 6: I don't know. I'm seeing I can see the red.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, dude eating the Ladra. But you learned some sports.
Speaker 4: She has a lot of red, but her natty is
still intact and yours is not.
Speaker 3: So bro I'm kidding, I know the least college basketball
in this room. I I would say Landra knows way
more about baseball.
Speaker 6: The last time a perfect That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly what.
Speaker 7: Michael Kopek, Yeah, shout out. The White Sox were holding.
Speaker 6: On good White Sox. Fact. Probably that was my.
Speaker 3: Favorite meme that I solved from opening day yesterday. It
was something it was like happy the opening day and
then it was like an on three graphic you know
that style, but it was the White Sox and he
just said eliminated.
Speaker 6: They actually won yesterday if I if I mistaken, I
believe they won. I think they beat the Angels.
Speaker 3: Wait, how did skeens? He do?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 5: He went, I think five and two thirds, maybe struck
out seven, gave up a run, but the bullpen blew it.
Speaker 4: The White Sox did win eight to one.
Speaker 3: Uh h, don't look now, south Side of Chicago back, Yeah,
a big way seven.
Speaker 5: How did my cubbies do? We finally managed to get
a win? They were beating Arizona last night when I
went to sleep.
Speaker 3: Let's go one and two fly the w first time
on the year. We love to see it. A hunt?
What the year?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: No, the Dodgers exist and this is nobody's here except
the Dodgers. Yeah, even though it.
Speaker 7: Is Tawny already homered in two different countries on opening day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, there's something very appropriate about the Dodgers
already having a two to ozero record on opening day,
given their given their favored U status, even though I've
thought a lot about them. And the problem with baseball
is not actually the Dodgers, it's all the cheap owners. Yeah, right,
Like there needs to be a salary floor.
Speaker 7: I agree.
Speaker 3: Like if they don't want to do a cap because
they'll never get the PA to agree to a cat h.
There needs there's too many owners that are just taking
in the profits. With no incentivization to actually win and
not really trying.
Speaker 8: And that's kind of why they don't want a salary cap,
because the owners are going to make more money than
the players are if you do that.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, the owner has already lost that battle.
They'll never get they'll never get a salary cap. I
just think that for the for the quality of the game,
salary floor would probably not be the you know, the
worst thing.
Speaker 7: They want repair the union.
Speaker 3: And what what like what they don't have that already
on like the TV deals or something confused? Interesting, All right,
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