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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back here Off the Bench. A football
Friday l s U tomorrow gonna take down those Arkansas Razorbacks. Alright,
I hate him that golden boot.
Speaker 2: I can smell it. I gotta tell you I sold
the golden boot yesterday. It was just the Frank's left
at the press conference. Not too gold, not too gold.
I think it looks like a shiny pity. I would
personally call it the copper boot. It also doesn't say
the golden bootle and he just says the boot with
the boss boot. It was a little dusty, though, you
can say. They dusted it off with the Applo claws.
Speaker 3: So they brought it out. Okay, So we found out
it weighs two hundred pounds. I said two thousand yesterday. Sorry,
misread it. Okay, can I make extra Can I make
a mistake? Two hundred pounds again? We told you The
Stats of the Day was made in nineteen ninety six,
ten thousand dollars worth of gold put into that thing. Taylor,
it's not copper. It is gold. Maybe it's rose gold.
Maybe it was the lighted Uh does you know? And
I don't think gold just fades over time. Pretty sure
it is made here. Bronze boot is a good name.
The bronze boot is actually better. What is It's not
the gold but it's just a boot, right.
Speaker 2: I always heard battle for the Golden Boot, but all said,
like I have a I took a picture of it.
It just says the boot, like it doesn't say the
Golden Boot anywhere else. Yep.
Speaker 3: There's no trophy out there that stirs more emotion, that
makes a tingle come over you.
Speaker 2: It gives you goosebumps, like the Golden Boot. That's copper Man,
that's Coffer. This looks like copper. Yeah. No one cares
about the boot.
Speaker 3: I hope the guys do. I hope they get excited
for it, be as fans. It's Arkansas. I mean, they
always play us good. They care about the bit. We
don't care about the bit. They care about it.
Speaker 2: I like the Arkansas rivalry more than most people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's a good Robert because it's like always
a good game.
Speaker 2: When I became a hardcore LSU football fan, it was
probably three to four. I mean, Arkansas was really good.
I mean, dude, when you guys were playing them, I
mean everybody members the seven game obviously, but like growing up,
we would always go to Gallenburg for Thanksgiving. Guy, every
year we did that for Thanksgiving. You guys always played
Arkansas the day after Thanksgiving, So I mean that was
the that's where I fell in love with Jim Hawthorn
because of the LSU Arkansas games. I mean I would
have to listen to that game on the radio because
we would be driving home typically or driving up to Gallenburg,
depending on when the game fell the day after Thanksgiving. Like,
those were the games that like, like I remember, that's
the core memory for it, Like okay, yeah, they look,
I'll admit it. I remember crying when you guys lost
to Arkansas, yep, because my dad promised me, okay, if
they get back to New Orleans for the Natty, because
I was a little young in O three, if they
get back to the Natty in New Orleans, will go.
I mean, you guys lost to Arkansas and in triple
overtime and all of a sudden, they're crying and Chop
Steakhouse and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Okay, I remember this. Like
my older sister's laughing at me. She's like, Taylor, it's
not that big of a deal. Why are you crying?
That made me cry even more. I mean, and I'm
probably ten years old at this point, but I mean,
like the Arkansas game is a core memory for me,
so like I like it more than most, but like
do I care if it goes away? No, I don't care.
Speaker 3: Yeah, It's like it's one of those core memories that
people like you hear, like your parents or your people say,
I know exactly where I was when John Lennon was
shot or JFK was assassinated, or when nine to eleven happened.
Those are core memories for them. They know exactly where.
For you, it was just us losing a triple overtime
to Arkansas, right like the first one.
Speaker 2: The first one, I was like Kentucky. I think one
of my friends in sixth grade had like a birthday party,
like a pool party or whatever. I'm eye hustle in
the game because I mean I cared more than probably
the average sixth grader did, but that that Arkansas game.
I mean, I like vividly remember that, being just like
devastated that you guys lost that game.
Speaker 3: Hey, I was pretty devastated as well. Apparently not as
much as a sixth grader, though.
Speaker 2: Oh I was, dude, I was.
Speaker 3: I was not in a good place listening a creed.
Speaker 2: I'm not blaming you, but like that kind of ruined
my trip that year. That's on me. I mean, yeah,
y all scored fifty points. That's not on you.
Speaker 3: I did play pretty bad in the first half, though.
I'd like to watch that film and break down how
bad I was in that first half. But then I
got sprained my shoulder and got a lot of light
of ganthone in there.
Speaker 2: It was numb. It was real numb.
Speaker 3: Uh. But so we were watching Jake and I were
watching some clips of Arkansas. I don't remember if it
was this, it might have been yesterday at Pro Dreams.
We were watching like a game from two years ago,
and we saw somebody on their team running around with
the number five jersey on, and we were like, why
is somebody in Arkansas wearing number five on?
Speaker 2: It was Raheem Sanders, who eventually transferred to South Carolina
also played running back. But yeah, like Darren McFadden first off,
should have won the Heisman Trophy over Troy Smith. I
don't understand still to this day, why Troy Smith won
that Heisman Trophy. I mean that year, I think it
was Troy Smith, Brady Quinn, Darren McFadden were the three finalists.
I think McFadden like finished third behind Troy Smith and
Brady Quinn. That's ridiculous. Like we we told the other day,
Jonathan Taylor's been great, but like it's a quarterback award.
Heisman's kind of a quarterback award too, because there's no
reason Darren McFadden should not have won that award.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta, like, if you're not a quarterback and
you're gonna win it, you gotta be special, right, But
Darren McFadden was absolutely.
Speaker 2: Sooner Fadden threw passes for our consult he rickoll returner.
I mean he was everything for that team. Yeah, he was.
Speaker 3: He was everything, And it is a it is a
shame that you looked around, you looked at I think
we talked about it with Tebow fifteen at Florida, you
looked at McFadden five.
Speaker 2: You look over here.
Speaker 3: I hate seeing somebody here at LSU wearing seventy two.
It's like these jerseys, like people just read the room
a little bit like celebrate, it's your Arkansas celebrate a
generational guy that everybody knows and respects. Was a great
human like I was teammates with him in Oakland. He
was awesome, real quiet, humble, confident, like everything you kind
of want in that type of guy. Reward somebody like
that celebrated. You don't think it looks good for recruits
to hear about that story.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: And maybe his name isn't the state and they just
don't they have a rule against the jersey, and I
don't know. We were just watching it and it was
a random thought like why in the hell is somebody
at Arkansas wearing number five?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It just pisses me off. Of course, I played against them,
so I'm a little bit biased towards that. And yeah,
I got it, people, you can shut it. We lost,
they beat us.
Speaker 2: I got it. Yeah, sorry to bring that up. Well.
Freshman Taylor freshman wide receiver Ja Kayden Ferguson wears five
this year seems electric to me. Freshman wide receiving number
five to a freshman. They should, they should, If that's
to happen, they should get.
Speaker 3: Written signed permission by Darren McFadden to wear that jersey number.
Speaker 2: He might be the best SEZ running back of my lifetime.
I mean, I wasn't there for Herchel Walker, Bo Jackson,
all those guys, Like I get all that, but I'm
talking like can do everything. Like obviously he wasn't the
physical runner of a Fournette or at Derrick Henry or
anybody like that. But Guyl should be on that list.
I gotta tell you, before his injury, Todd Gurley would
have been on that list his first couple of years
at Georgia. I would put him on that list for me.
Derrick Henry's on that list and that's three.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, because Alabama had some Heisman winners, right.
Speaker 2: They had marking mark Ingham ship won. Shout out to
mark Ingram. He did a lot for the Saints. Mark
Ingram shuld not have won that heusmand Co McCoy should
have won that Heusman Trophy. I say that all the time,
like that's big col McCoy guy here Texas wins the
Naty and the only guest we get on the show
that you get nervous on. No, that was a laundra
she gets Lad's big, she's the big Lauder.
Speaker 3: Why do you get so nervous when you got call
Colt McCoy.
Speaker 4: So I've said this before. I don't get nervous calling
anybody at this point. But for some reason, maybe because
I grew up just like, wait, hold on, let me put.
Speaker 2: The camera on me and there we go.
Speaker 4: Sorry, I'm struggling back here. Okay, So for some reason,
I think because I grew up and he was just
like such a Texas legend. And obviously, I mean I
was a little girl. He's good looking, probably had a
crush on him. So whenever I call him my, that's
the only person I get nervous. My hands starts sweating
and my heart starts like fluttering a little bit.
Speaker 2: Heaste fair, that's a fair point. I mean Colt McCoy
for the show. So like again, unpopular opinion, I get it.
When people ask me best Texas quarterback of my lifetime,
I say cold McCoy, not Vin Jeng. I love Ben Jong.
He was electric in that National championship. Well, Cole McCoy did. Like, Okay,
remember remember like when when Burrow was in college, they
were like, oh, he'll break the single season record, but
you know, Baker Mayfield played for five years, all the
Big twelve records. Cole McCoy had all of those single
season records that Joe Burrow broke, he hit all of them.
I mean, people just forget how good he was because
it didn't result in a Natty, it didn't result in
a Heisman Trophy. But I mean cold McCoy like in
my in my that's the best Texas quarterback in my lifetop. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I grew up obviously in Texas. I remember that
whole situation, the drama between like Major apple White Chris Simms.
I think I was early high school at that point,
maybe late middle school. I can't remember exactly when, but
like everybody that we all everyone I hated Texas in general.
I was a Baylor guy, but like just watching it,
everyone even more so hated Chris Simms because this guy
shouldn't be playing. I know he can spend it for sure,
Major apple White, that guy, that guy's awesome. Then he
came into that bowl game they had it was it
was awesome Lattimore.
Speaker 2: How about Latimore in South Carolina before Marcus Lottimore would
have been would have been on there as well. Like
I hated the injury of Marcus A. Lottimore And like
remember when when they beat Alabama, Stephen Garcia was the quarterback. Look,
Stephen Garcia made things happen. He wouldn't have ever considered
a premier quarterback in the SEC. But that team had
a freshman Marcus A lot of more. They had a
sophomore al Sean Jeffrey. That South Carolina team that beat
Alabama that year and I ultimately went to the SEC championship.
Now Auburn destroyed him because they destroyed everybody that year
with Cam Newton, but no Marcus Latimore. Man, I mean
I remember, oh well he came to Tiger Stadium. It
was him. Jadavian Clowney was at thirteen twenty thirteen, his
last year there. This was actually after the first injury
and he was still really good. It was that second
knee injury it did him in. Like I remember when
the forty nine ers picked him up in the NFL,
Like I was excited because I was a big Marcus
A lot of more fan and it just wasn't like
a super like nice dude too.
Speaker 3: He tore every he tore all four ligaments in his knee,
So his injury looked a lot like you were way
too younger.
Speaker 2: I don't know even if you're born.
Speaker 3: When Willis mcgahey got hurt, yeah, in Miami, it's like
the same type of injury everything. Wils mcgahey ended up
coming back. He had a long dad played with the
Ravens for a while.
Speaker 2: I believe Buffalo Bills as well.
Speaker 3: Buffalo Bills your former team, Yeah, my former team.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Also, you were asking why people are allowed to
wear five after Darren McFadden, Why is Josh Allen allowed
to wear seventeen of the U ward. That's a really
good point.
Speaker 3: Like a lot of people think that Josh Allen just
like maybe seventeen popular up in Buffalo. I'd argue that
one game I dressed up, I was a backup quarterback
there one time against the Bengals we won. Coincidence, I
don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I don't think they weren't good
when you were there, Like they were not the dominant.
You could be like, oh you won the game, Like no,
like you could do the difference maker.
Speaker 3: Actually, Jeff Toole was the starting quarterback that gave that
I was bad. It was my it was my first
week there or my second week there. Jeff Tool Washington State,
Is that right?
Speaker 2: I think so? Yeah, it was wild.
Speaker 3: Nathaniel Hackett was the offensive coordinator. We had nine plays
going to that game and we just went really fast.
Speaker 2: Jeff Toool was Washington State. Yeah, I mean he was
used at the times again.
Speaker 3: All right, well, check out in front of this desk
right here. Little hydration, little perfect hydration for fell, a
little thirst. If you're ready for a little walker tomorrow.
I like to call that like a just a nice
fresh cocktail. You can walk around with, call a little walker,
walk and talk a little bit, mingle a little my high,
maybe a little podka, maybe not having next to do sekis,
whatever it is. Drink my high, stea hydrated, a little
perfect electrolytes. Don't do what Taylor does and try to
go for the competitors. Taylor's that kind of guy steps
out of the foxhole sometimes when he needs a hydrate.
Speaker 2: Now, look, I told you this, and I don't like
to stroke the egos, so you know, I mean it
when I say it that fruit punch my High man
like that's the only one I drink anymore. I don't
know what it.
Speaker 3: Is, that's right, It's just like it's just something about it.
It's all that research and development we did, Taylor, in
summer months when I cut the grass, and I cut
the grass a lot, know that the.
Speaker 2: My High hits hits. What you do is see I
got I got the trick down. You cut half the grass. Okay,
you stop, you go, put the my High in the
in the bottle, put it in the freezer because it's
not gonna freeze over. I only have like twenty minutes left,
but you come out it's a little iced over. Oh okay,
come on, come on, come on. Great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what you call about being proactive, right there, Taylor.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: People in the chat saying, yeah, Taylor definitely knows more
about Matt's career than Matt.
Speaker 2: It's that. Look, the seventeen it's not because I work
with the two guys I get it to. Oh seventeen
is my favorite L Shue team of all time because
again I was young in O three. I mean I
was what second grade two thousand and three, Like the
seven team was the that was my first national championship
team that like I vividly remember. So yeah, like that's
always going to be my favorite team. Height Rivers shout
out too.
Speaker 3: Someone's noticing the staggered display here, I got that's not me.
Speaker 2: Rivers put this staggered.
Speaker 3: It creates a little uh little texture, a little little
design element right here, really pops.
Speaker 2: It's nice work.
Speaker 3: If people are also talking about in the chat, we
know that Jake's not sick.
Speaker 2: We know he's interviewing with Verge right now. What position?
I don't know. Well, maybe he's part of the committee.
Maybe he's help me pick. He could be. I think
he's lying to us. He might be, because like he's
he's asked, hey can I be part of the committee
so many times, like it might actually be on it
throw the well. And then I was thinking, okay, well,
if Jake's interviewing, it's clearly for the head coaching position,
but the way the LSU's done everything so out of order,
it's probably not. They'll probably hire the coordinators and be like, hey,
head coach, you gotta roll with these guys. Yeah, these
are the coordinators.
Speaker 3: We handpicked ourselves as business owners, right not as football guys.
Uh Yeah, I honestly I wish I could tell y'all
that that was the case, that we were actually lying
and that he was helping pick or at least having
some sort of input or a suggestion, maybe a suggestion
box type situation where you can blindly put in suggestions.
And here's my reasoning is why I wish that Jake
was able to do that Because what better person to
be qualified than a guy that knows that literally has
relationships because of all these interviews and all the travels
he does with all these coaches to be able to
tell you a guy's background, a little bit about guy's personality,
a little bit of a guy's grip that he might
have all over the country. I'm not talking about from
coast to coast he does because this show he does
every DAYWN serious, that's national, that's not just SEC. So
he knows Dyllingham person, everybody, everybody in this at a
personal level.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't know any anytime I see somebody
on TV and I'm like, I wonder what they're like
in real life, I'm like, called Jake Keuster knows, he
knows the story with him, He has a relationship.
Speaker 3: He knows the guy that if that does have the
relationship and he can get that type of fun and
I know other people do too.
Speaker 2: He's not he's not unique.
Speaker 3: I just hope that that you know, and I'm talking
about him specifically now, I just hope that that is
part of there's people like that consulting with the situation.
But based on the people name to the committee, I
don't know if I if we have that or not,
but I guess we're going to trust the trust. We
are gonna hope.
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, I'm excited. I am excited.
Speaker 3: And look, the coaches, let's talk about that when we
come back from break here, we'll talk about the coaches,
the situation, names and just know there's not just one
person that would be really good at LSU.
Speaker 2: There's multiple people.
Speaker 3: So cast the net, see what happens, hopefully get some
good feedback. But yeah, we'll keep talking about that, the
coaching search. We'll keep talking about LSU Arkansas right here on,
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What's up, dude? It looks a little different here, Richard
the Dick Dixon.
Speaker 2: What's happening joining us? We got it.
Speaker 3: We got a little three person desk here.
Speaker 2: Three elite athletes, and you're talling up.
Speaker 3: To where your three lead athletes. Absolutely, Uhre's chair works.
The breakfast chair works because you're talling. We're at the
same height. I'm slatching a little bit.
Speaker 5: I feel like I might a little back here right now.
But yeah, I'm excited. I love this week love DLAs
Arkansas games gonna be the only game I'm going this weekend.
First going, Yeah, I got some uh. I got a
lot of family from Arkansas that are coming in for
the game.
Speaker 2: So we're all.
Speaker 5: Gonna go hang out. You got family from Marcus. Yeah,
they're all from Mississippi that now living on it. Okay,
while they go little duckin Uh duck hunting is great
up there. It's more about the paper mills. My whole
family grew up another paper mill. They built a paper
mill in Ashtown, Arkansas. A section of the Dixons all
went up there.
Speaker 3: All right, have you have you ever been to Faville?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: We always played little Rock, Yeah, we always play. But
when they talk about like my brother when he came
through that he played they played Fable, Yeah, and they
said it was so much better, Like they love that stadium.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've heard of all accounts like fade those awesome.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we didn't get to experience it. We didn't get
to experience it at all.
Speaker 3: Like strangely enough, like like northern Arkansas sneaky pretty like
you like we used to go up there, like in
the mountains and stuff, and like when I was like
when I was growing up, middle school, high school, we
go fly fishing up there.
Speaker 5: Don't think I like the White River. There's some tourism
deal up there in the mounta. You can go like
look for diamonds, like they got some diamond mines and
some stuff that people can go fi. You can go
find some gold. Oh yeah, you can go find gold
all types of good stuff. Yeah, that's where they got
the gold from the boot.
Speaker 2: Actually you know that right right there.
Speaker 5: Taylor said it was.
Speaker 2: Bron it's pretty bronze.
Speaker 5: I mean it's not I don't ever remember touching that
thing like for me, But what was all funny? That?
Speaker 2: Ain't that? Ain't gold?
Speaker 5: No, And like it was always funny playing in that game.
And you win the game and not trying to be
mean or rude or whatever. Like you turn around and
look who ran to the hold the trophy first, Like
all the clean jerseys ain't nobody, you.
Speaker 3: Know, So he's gotta get it. I said yesterday, I
reported it was two thousand pounds. It's not two hundred,
but I thought it was two thousand.
Speaker 5: And zeroes don't hurt anything. Yeah, it just makes it
sound stronger.
Speaker 2: Yea. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I remember like after that game early on in my
credit and I'd never heard of the Golden Dude. I
think I barely had heard of LSU when I decided
to come here. Right in my recruiting process. I grew
up in Texas. I didn't really like my horizons weren't expanded,
and so I hear about it and I see and
they're like, oh yeah, we beat Arkansas, we get this trophy.
And I was like, oh, tight, that's real, real cool man,
cool dude, that's a big raveerry but whatever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know, man, Arkansas during my time was
was pretty dangn good.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I heard you'm talking about Darn McFadden buy no question,
best running back in my life.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: I heard you say you know, he wasn't the powerful back.
Darren McFadden was six one five. He's pretty dangn powerful.
Was also so fast, Yeah, I mean I remember when
we played in his ankles by this big six when
he broke one and dusted Laurn. Landry and Laurn was
a fast go with Lauren were like a four to
three something to forty when Lauren got dusted by McFadden
and the guy that's like six one six twenty five,
that dude was rolling. But then you also had Felix Jones.
I mean they were running the freaking wishbone in two
thousand and six, in two thousand and seven, and you
had Casey Dick at quarterback. Yeah, he was a hitch
mustang Casey Dick. They went through a whole little thing.
It didn't matter. You had Darn Fadden, Peyton Hillis and
Feeler Jones. Yep, Fadden threw more touchdowns in the quarterbacks.
I remember say Houston Nutt was a quarterback or the coach. Yeah,
then you had Casey Dick, and then you had Robert Johnson.
I remember the headline on the newspaper one time, he
said nut benches Johnson for Dick. Oh Houston. That was
an a hole man. He didn't like that guy in
great headline.
Speaker 2: You know that.
Speaker 3: You know that whoever that Colin Ryder was or that
news was just chacklin. You know he was giggling the
hotel for sure, There's no doubt.
Speaker 2: But so Houston.
Speaker 5: I got recruited pretty heavily by Arkansas. Like I said,
my uncle was up there. My next door neighbor growing
up was like an Arkansas All American, Bruce Jones. Bruce James,
I played d Lion Hecks, got a radio show up
in Arkansas, and so I was always interested in. One
of my favorite players to watch as a kid growing
up was Matt Jones. When he was he was awesome.
I mean, he was such a fun guy. He was
Cam Newton.
Speaker 2: He was He was like an LSU killer too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, but like go back and watch that tape.
He was Cam Newton before Camon. He was six six,
He ran a four to four bulldozed people. I mean
when you played the n CUA A PlayStation games back
in like two thousand and two or whenever it first
came out, he was a cheekoo. You went to Arkansas,
you played with Mat Johones.
Speaker 3: Wasn't he he was a basketballer, baseball player.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I can't remember. I thought I played
wide receiver.
Speaker 3: News Matt Jens had a nipple.
Speaker 5: Pierce I got to I met the got a little
bit later in life when got what was our wide
receivers coach in two thousand and six, seven, two and six, Uh,
McCarthy was monkinking, Yeah, Monky. So when Monkin went to
Jacksonville's the receivers.
Speaker 2: Coach, Carthy was after that.
Speaker 5: He was seven of the Yeah, McCarthy head it rough,
but Monkin was awesome. I mean, and he'd been went
to the NFL. He's a guy that I'm surprised and
I'm kind of all over the place right now. But
didn't stay in the college ranks longer because when I
almost went and worked for Hi when he was coaching
at Southern Miss and uh, he took that program to
like eleven and one, twelve and two. They were killing
it when he was there, and I was gonna come
out and work for him, and He's like, nah, buddy,
I'm not gonna be here like he was.
Speaker 2: The next name to go get that that job.
Speaker 3: You almost crazy if I'm wrong, So you got a
couple of operas. You almost went worked with Henson at Missouri, right,
because Henson was offensive coordinator at Missouri.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and uh, you know at the time they wanted
to go GA. It was a little bit too late
in life where the offer of like thirty five grand
a year to go coach football was just new. Wasn't
going to cut it for me? Right, you got kids
on the way. I was like, I can't go backwards
in life right now. But if I was single and
everything was good, I mean that that was the dream.
Everybody wanted your coach football. You could have lived in
the dorm and lived off thirty five grands.
Speaker 3: Right, Taylor, When Matt Jones was quarterback in for Argus,
how old were you?
Speaker 2: What year? I think it was his diapers? Two? Right? Two? Three?
Six here seven?
Speaker 3: He locked in go go YouTube, So didn't ruin any
six year old birthday parties.
Speaker 2: When Matt Jones beat Us, I kind of got locked
in probably four so little after Matt Jones, Okay, I
know who he is, but I want to say he
was a senior in like four.
Speaker 5: Maybe wanted to look it up because I know the
only reason you know.
Speaker 2: I know he was. He was there two to four Okay, yeah.
Speaker 5: Because he got drafted by Jacksonville and then he just
got in a little bit of trouble.
Speaker 2: He got a little bit of t to have a
little fun. He was also basketball. Yeah, he was like
six seven. He had the Arkansas state scoring record. Actually.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's just a big, old, lanky guy that was
fast like he would. I remember his legs every time
he strode out, Like every stride was like three or
four yards a stride.
Speaker 2: It didn't look like he was moving real quick.
Speaker 5: No, I mean he is probably one of the better
quarterbacks in Arkansas history that he gets forgotten about because
of his troubles kind of troubles Bud. He had some
dust problems. He has a dust snow snow. Oh my gosh. Well,
I don't know.
Speaker 3: If their current quarterback has any problems like that. But
on the field, he sure seems pretty good.
Speaker 2: Oh he's awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's doing a Taylor Green he is. He makes plays.
I don't he's I was watching him earlier and I
watched some film of him last year and I was like,
this guy is explosive, and even earlier this year, like
a lot of the easy plays he was making kind
of look hard. But the hard plays he is can
look pretty easy.
Speaker 5: He's a guy that's perfect for paternal Yeah, he can
kind of mold those guys how he wants them. I
want to say, you know, I don't remember having a
big game against this last year, but I also think
he was nicked up.
Speaker 2: He was, he was. He was actually a game time
decision coming into the last year's game.
Speaker 5: But I feel like they've had a lot of speed quarterbacks.
I mean, you know the latest Arkansas game that you know,
I remember, you know, to come out for Harrold Perkins
as a freshman when he made all those plays and
kept them in the game. You know, this is just
one of those games that doesn't really matter to the
record or what's going on. It's always just been a
tough game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for whatever reason, and because I went to and
because they're always talented, right they always have and the
way they're coach, they always seem to play their best
against LSU for whatever reason. I mean, and we're giving
like this whole we're making fun of the Golden Boot
a little bit, of course, but this is a big
game for It's a huge game for Arkansas, so you
always get their best shot. And usually LSU is one
of the top dogs, so you're always getting everybody's bet
best shot, and even more so when Arkansas faces you.
So I am and we certainly know seven. They beat
us in triple overtime, and it was, uh didn't hurt
that they had Peyton Ellis and Felix Jones and Darren mcfatten.
Speaker 5: And McFadden threw for two touchdowns in that game. Pretty impressive. Yeah,
and then they score on a fourth and ten, Yeah
to beat us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, long touchdown past the Jacob got called back for
a legal formation.
Speaker 2: It was tight, all right.
Speaker 3: Well, we got Richard Dixon the house, we got Taylor,
we got a Lunder back in the studio.
Speaker 2: We're just crushing it here. Do we even need Jake?
I don't think so.
Speaker 3: Hey, he just needs to feel bad, Jake. He's just
got a little baby tummy. He got a little sickness happening.
I know your immune system. It's a little shot. We
get it. It's okay, We forgive you. We got this, Foxhall.
We're gonna come back. We got about another hour and
a half left in the show right here at Rowse's
so we got a lot to talk about, a lot
to get to right here, and we will.
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Speaker 1: Because you said two thousand and seven, Champs Purple and
Gold to the core. This is Off the Bench with
Hester and Flynn Baton, Rouge's go to for all things
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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back off the bench right here live
at Rouse's ralses on Burban.
Speaker 2: Come check us out, come see us.
Speaker 3: There's a little time left, I think on this breakfast bar,
still see the steam arising. I can smell it here.
My gotta still make it sushi. By the way, that
dude's been making seashee for two hours now. It is
good stuff, really good stuff. So if you want a
little breakfast, maybe come over here for lunch. They got
the little salad bar, they got the lunch station.
Speaker 2: What's your favorite thing on it? On which one? Breakfast bar?
Speaker 3: I like the bacon I got a little usual. I
don't know what they have to day because I hadn't
been over there, because you know, Jacob left us Sylvan
prepping mid.
Speaker 2: Nervous six o'clock. That's right. Uh, the biscuits and gravier
are good.
Speaker 3: The other day they had like cinnamon rolls, French toast,
they had all the sweet stuff.
Speaker 5: Bacon's are good chores. Yeah, not a bad choice, Taylor.
Speaker 2: What about you? What's your favorite stuff? I'm a sailor's
never been over here.
Speaker 5: Y'all are sitting up here in the breakfast bar promoting
for and you got to get there and have to try.
Speaker 3: And I've had breakfast every single week I've been here
because I got a prep I gotta direct this show commercial.
Speaker 2: You heard the professional today, That's right.
Speaker 3: You heard me when I called you at six fifteen
or whatever. It was one of those panic in.
Speaker 2: The voice I've never like, I've never heard you sound
that nervous. And I've been a.
Speaker 5: Lot of huddles with your stressful situation stressful situations, and
that was the most nervous you've ever been in our life.
Speaker 3: Well, you know what it's like, Taylor, Like when when
you're good at something, it's like you don't get nervous
for it. You get some butterflies, you get you get
ready for it. But like when you're not real confident
at something, the whole deal is like nervous.
Speaker 5: You know what everybody tells you is the more you
prep so you don't have to be nervous on game day.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 5: You know what's going on. So what you just admitted
to everybody is this morning was changed. You are not
prepared for this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it was the middle of the night text.
I mean, in your defense, it was it wasn't on you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is our game planning when you when y'all
have known that the Hesters have been sick all week,
you know it. It's just a matter of time before
Jake got it. Yeah, this should have been a conversation
going like Jake, we know it's coming.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, that was part of the ship.
Speaker 3: That was part of the when to sign on to
do this, Like no, but you're not allowed to ever leave.
You're not allowed to be sick, you're not allowed to
go on vacation.
Speaker 5: There was one time we were doing a postgame show
and uh, I don't know if Charlie got stuck in
traffic or what happened, but like we're five seconds before
it's starting and to do the open and I'm like,
I will walk out of this place right now.
Speaker 2: I'm not doing it.
Speaker 5: I think we made Musho come do it like Musa,
you were going to talk until Charlie gets here.
Speaker 2: I can't do this. Yeah, it's uh, but it's it's
been good.
Speaker 3: You know, we got to step up next man up situation,
I mean, and life, life comes at you real.
Speaker 2: I told you Teaba Babyar actually prepared me for this
moment because there were times Jake got a legitimate used
to be out, like you know, they're both on vacation
at the same time. I'd get a text at eight
o'clock the night before t bubs, Oh we missed the flight.
We're actually gonna stay extra day. Yeah, okay, I'm like, well,
I mean there's a show tomorrow morning, Buds. We gotta
make something up.
Speaker 3: But did you say there was another time where he's
just like man, I gotta gotta catch up on the sleep.
Speaker 2: Oh dude, just everything, just everything you could think of. Oh,
thank he had you. I mean, you do it.
Speaker 5: Damn good job.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Uh, well, what's your favorite game this weekend? I was
just kind of looking at that I was going through.
I mean as far as like the helmet matchup, Texas
going to Georgia is gonna be a good one. Oklahoma Alabama,
Like I've been talking about Oklahoma, I feel like they're
fools gold.
Speaker 2: I feel like.
Speaker 3: You know, they got a good defense materiars done some
things that I had the injury. Alabama's good. I don't
think they're elite, but I think they're really good at
a lot of different levels and a lot I think
ty Simpson's elite.
Speaker 2: I think they're running game is not very good.
Speaker 5: I don't think they're Like when I go back and
watch that game we watched the film, I think the
most frustrating thing was as bad as we played, Like
there's enough plays in there to win a game, and
we just didn't finish. And when I'm looking at that
and knowing how bad we have been offensively, I don't
really think that defense is that that great. Uh, Alabama,
I think is gonna get exposed at some point. I
think they're they're a good team, but they're not like
a team that's just gonna go dominate somebody.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, he I think that.
Speaker 3: When I watched them, they have really Their offensive linemen
to me, is elite at pass protection. They do some
really they they have some running schemes that are really good.
Like I watched them against I think I was watching
the Vanderbilt game, and they were dominating Vanderbilt in the
running game, or at least early on running game and
the passing game. They just they got hit some penalties,
they didn't convert on some third downs, so the score
never got like crazy, but they were physically dominating the
game on offense. Now you didn't see just of course
you didn't see it in the run game against LSU,
but like ty Simpson makes four or five plays every
single game.
Speaker 5: He was throwing diarms like that the one where PJ.
Willon had good coverage on the left side of the
tight end, Like he dropped ball to where it is uncoverable. Yeah,
a perfect throw beats in he coverage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got his great coaching tape for quarterbacks doing
quarterback drills, quarterbacks up and coming in middle school, high school.
Ty Simpson's really good coaching tape because his movement in
the pocket, the way he dips, the way he steps up.
Everything he dips, he steps up. Then he gets his
left shoulder square. He gets his right hip to his
target every single time. That's something like if what ups
notice like comparing, and I compared this past week watching film,
was comparing nuss Meyer mechanically, not reason, just like mechanically
to Ty Simpson. What Ty Simpson does the best back hip.
That's all for all throwers, all swingers, all rotational athletes.
It's all about your back hip. So if you're right hander,
it's all about your right hip. You want that right
hip to be.
Speaker 2: Going towards your target when you're throwing.
Speaker 3: And Garrett's kind of good just goes laterally, this year
laterally and a little bit backwards. Ty Simpsons goes right,
right hip goes right to he He looks.
Speaker 5: Like a robot, like he was a drone up how
to do this? Yeah, and he does it perfect every time.
The only bad play I thought he made was really
on the Perkins fumble. I mean, he's a better quarterback
than that, Like he knew there.
Speaker 2: Was enough time.
Speaker 5: When Perkins in front, it's get rid of it, get
rid of it, get rid of it. I think he
held onto a little bit too long. But yeah, by far,
he's been the best quarterback I've watched this year, which
was surprising. I didn't know much about him coming into
the season. I don't know did he play much last year.
I feel like he might have gotten some spot play.
Speaker 2: Not a tongue, Oh, Taylor.
Speaker 3: We didn't even know if he was going to be
the starter. I think people have thought they thought he.
Speaker 2: Was, but they brought in Kielan Russell, who was the
five star freshman, and then Austin Mack came with Kaylin
de Bor from Washington, So I mean that was like
kind of his guy. He's been there for two years.
But yeah, I mean, were there were people that did
not want ty Simpson to start. He's just one of
those guys who's been in the program three years. People
were like, oh, he hatn't broke it through. Now when
are you ever going through? He proved everybody wrong.
Speaker 5: Well Julian saying didn't break through the freshman or he
could just commit diala mana. I mean you started looking
at the quarterbacks that committed over there.
Speaker 3: Hey com to kind of to make our point about
Ty Simpson. Twenty one touchdowns, one interception.
Speaker 5: It's pretty good. The twenty one touchdown. I don't know
is that good anymore.
Speaker 3: I'm hard to tell that, but you could tell the ratio.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can tell the ratio is great, less than
five percent. I think, what what? And we were talking
about this the other day, just how crazy the numbers were.
What Brow throw sixty touchdowns?
Speaker 2: Sixty? I mean, that's.
Speaker 5: Unreal and we're talking about it. You know, we're talking
about a Heisman front runner throwing twenty.
Speaker 3: I know there's we we we've kind of discussed that
a little bit on the show. How there's not like
the obvious Heisman pick this year and we can kind
of go through that. Well, well, we'll talk a little
bit more about those Heisman front runners and kind of
who's leading the list. But like usually the Heisman winner
comes to you, yeah, he declares us.
Speaker 5: It's usually November.
Speaker 3: This year, I think Heisman voters are kind of trying
to find who it is instead of the Heisman winner
finding the voters. So it'll be an interesting. It'll be
an interesting race to see there. It'll be interesting to
see who kind of like continues to project themselves for that.
Speaker 2: That top award.
Speaker 3: But yeah, we'll keep talking about that, all the Heisman
front unners, We'll keep talking about all the matchups. And
I think our three, even though Jake's not here, we're
gonna still do our Of course, we're gonna do.
Speaker 2: A Ponting party. We're gonna do it. We're gonna do
our party barge.
Speaker 3: And then we're also gonna continue to play what's the
ticket where we like to guess rich are gonna be
part of us. We're gonna guess who the most expensive
ticket in the country is to get a seat in
college football, and who the cheapest is to get into
college football.
Speaker 2: So we got a lot left to do.
Speaker 3: We're gonna wrap up our number two when we come
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Speaker 2: Here on off the bench, Off the bench, all right.
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Speaker 1: Com two thousand and seven. Shams Purple and Gold to
the core. This is off the Bench with Hester and Flynn,
Matt and Rouge's go to for all things Louisiana Sports.
Speaker 3: All Right, welcome back in off the bench here closing
out our number two, Me and our guy Richard the
Dick Dixon chilling here at Rouse's right here, Ol Burt.
Speaker 2: We got rivers over here.
Speaker 3: Taylor just headed back to the studio, gonna be uh
uh getting a little produced to over there. Launder's been
holding down the two jobs, killing it over there. We
appreciate everybody stepping up today, Jake, last minute. We gave
Richard the panic call this morning. So everybody, if we
do have a team, we do it.
Speaker 2: That's the key word there. We got the team.
Speaker 3: We step up Foxhole, everybodever is together. Yeah, guess what.
The microphone is still gonna come on a seven, no
matter what's happening.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this microphone is a lot better. The other one
was just like it was a little floppy, little floppy.
They'll floppy. That's not good.
Speaker 2: It's never fun.
Speaker 5: You feel like you got a hold it the whole
time while talking. Are you going out there this weekend?
Speaker 2: H that's a great question. I don't.
Speaker 5: It's a perfect family game. It's eleven forty five. I know,
Like you don't have to tailgate that. Like I'm sounding
so negative. I like my state with the kids. Yeah,
Like I want to be tailgating for maybe an hour
and a half and then they're kind of.
Speaker 2: Over it get to the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And like I love like seeing the tailgates and
the families that are there there all day they have
like I just don't have that at this time, Like
I don't have the I don't go out there and
I set up a tent. That'd be fun to do.
Like we don't have the RV. I know we should, right.
Speaker 5: Because I got a couple buddies now who's their parents
got some RVs and they don't even always go to
the game. They buy the RV parking pass or the
lot for the season, and then the RV's there every weekend.
You can go hang out, watch games and RV tailgate.
That's the way to do it. You know, they get
anything there early.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And so it's so we're at that point because
we don't do those things that we don't have a setup.
Then hey, the kids don't love the tailgate yet and
at this point in their life, like I don't know
when that's gonna come. Like they just don't get when
you can do our I'm oldest is ten, right, But
in my second eight and so they there's that there
in It's like there's younger kids that are out there
all day. They just don't understand at this point, like
they just don't like sit around.
Speaker 2: And the way to do it.
Speaker 3: Man, Like I have a beer and watch a game
and stand around. They're like, hey, why aren't we aren't
we at the stadium?
Speaker 2: Right? Yeah? Yeah, it was.
Speaker 5: It was never fun bringing the kids until this year.
Like I've done to a couple of tailgating events and
then left to go watch the game. And Uh, the
RV's make a big difference. The kids go out there
and they're playing a little flag football or touch football
or they're you know, playing hill Mary, then they could
run inside and get some snacks.
Speaker 3: I get it, dude, that'd be a fantastic da. It's
just something we've never been proactive enough to go explore.
Speaker 2: Why don't you do it? And we'll just go do
with you? Or you get the OTB always should get an.
Speaker 5: No TV and then you'll go there and you'll have
an OTB tailgate and everybody comes up there and you'll
do like a live show on Saturday would have fun.
That's a money maker. I want a piece of it.
Speaker 2: That's a moneymaker.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're gonna charge cover, No, but you're gonna sell
sponsorship and advertisement for.
Speaker 2: Let's do it.
Speaker 5: That'd be pretty sweet, all right, like a little Oh
we might get in troubles about like a do our
own little pregame and then was just put it for
you put it up. Yeah, it'd be fun. Okay, would
be pretty cool most it.
Speaker 3: Well, but then you got morning games and you have
to get there, like we had two morning games this year.
Speaker 5: I know, but it didn't. It's your deal, though, it's
your deal. It's right you do a postgame on the
morning games. It's our party. We pick it, we choose it.
Speaker 3: Do you remember we were talking about this yesterday, Like, okay,
eleven o'clock game, we get it.
Speaker 5: Kickoffs usually eleven to five, but eleven forty five. Don't
remember that one.
Speaker 3: I don't remember, Like I don't remember any game every I.
Speaker 2: Remember ten of them. Kickoff. Yeah, well we'd like to
forget that one.
Speaker 5: I remember me and you splitting headphones before the game,
which we typically did, and it was like trying to
listen to pump up music at five thirty in the morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, this is kinda suck.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And they try to like keep the same routine
for like your pregame meal too, so it's like your
pregame meals at like five thirty in the morning and
they're serving fil A's.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and like same food.
Speaker 3: Like I don't want to term it knows that I'm
a college kid.
Speaker 2: Love.
Speaker 3: Yeah, any free steak you give me great, But like
I just woke up and it's like five Yeah. That
was like the one game I look back in our
career the biggest distraction game playing a early morning game
in New Orleans, and I'd say, let coach Miles is
the biggest mistake was, Oh, if your parents are there,
you can stay with your parents. Well, all of a sudden,
all of our parents were there because nobody was going
back to back New Saturday night. The whole team was
staying in New Orleans. I remember like getting there and
people like it was a distraction. Everybody had plans before
the game for the weekend, what you were doing, and
then we came out a little sloppy in the first half.
I think you got five sacked five times?
Speaker 2: Fa yeah, I got I think I had sacked six
times in that game.
Speaker 5: It was five and the first half and we just
played like crap, yeah, get up, and then we coming
back and we wake up and play a normal time
in the second half of.
Speaker 2: Them with their butts.
Speaker 5: Was that the Rise of Poenix game the Purples in Phoenix,
But it was that the first purple jersey, white helmet
game LSU's done.
Speaker 2: It was the first one I know of.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like, if you're if you're listening, just in the chat,
let us know if you've if that was the first
white helmet, purple jersey game ever. All right, Hey, we're
going to close it out right here, hour two. We
got a big hour coming up. We're gonna have a
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