Speaker 1: Good morning at seven am here on Monday, March second,
Today and Ben Reuge you could expect sunny skies with
a eighty.
Speaker 2: Now we're one of today's show.
Speaker 1: We'll recap LSU Baseball's weekend series. Is they get a
clean sweep out at the box, and we'll talk about
some of the top performers at the NFL Combine. You
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Off the Bench Live from the Raisin Kines Studios starts
now Off.
Speaker 3: The Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn. Let's let's
from a championship backfield to your morning drive.
Speaker 4: Han'sday, Hester and Hester got it five.
Speaker 5: Out your locks in to Off the Bench. Yea, let's
strive to troll for the.
Speaker 3: Live from the Raisin Kines Studio. Here's Jacob Hester and
Matt Flynn.
Speaker 6: Yo, Wow energy, Hello, Hey buddy, what's happening? How are you?
Who is that voice?
Speaker 4: I don't know, It's barely hanging on by a thread,
but it's here.
Speaker 6: You took a whole week off of talking. Basically, I'm sure,
no doubt. Didn't talk at all.
Speaker 4: Jake, Flynn, Moose and tat here with you, Oh TB
on this Monday, Monday Monday, Taylor your sunburn?
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I becoming.
Speaker 6: I looked over there. I hadn't really looked at it.
Old boy forgot the old SPF.
Speaker 2: Did he The line at the ankles is a leap
just from mowing. No, it's just not from mowing.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: I did a flag football event at same Santamal over
the weekend.
Speaker 6: Whoa, whoa?
Speaker 4: You did an event that could be coaching, playing broadcasting.
Speaker 1: No, I just kind of like hosted the event. Yeah okay,
and it was outside for like six hours.
Speaker 8: Yeah, not a ton of shade. So it just it happened.
Oh yeah, I got a very important question about this sunburn.
What's your question? Do you tan or do you just
get burns peeled and go right back?
Speaker 2: So I actually believe it or not actually tan?
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, for the most part, I'd burn easily,
but it kind of it does switch.
Speaker 6: Does bronze a little bit?
Speaker 2: Yeah a little bit.
Speaker 1: I mean most people would think, like, you know, like
I'm normally fair complexted hare that I don't.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I do a little bit.
Speaker 4: All right, Good for you, man, for you. Sure you're
not the only one that was outside. I'm sure Moose
was in the box.
Speaker 7: I'm going to assume yeah, yeah, maybe yeah, three days
in a row, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 5: Absolutely you for tonight we'll see boys feeling comes six o'clock.
Speaker 6: Okay, along when here? Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna have double
duty today. Were you in the box the whole time?
Speaker 9: Or did you get like a game where you're above
to dugout slam of some beers anything like that?
Speaker 6: Nothing?
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, no, I mean I I had a few
beers Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 4: A few beers, a couple, a couple of good pops.
Most you've had the same seats forever, right, Yeah?
Speaker 5: My family, they've had their tickets since ninety.
Speaker 6: Three, That's what I thought. Yeah, in the same spot.
Yeah yeah, yeah, what about you, stitch head.
Speaker 9: I was not able to make it physically okay, any games,
but certainly locked into multiple innings on the television.
Speaker 6: No games. I didn't throw any complete games out there.
You could find the games this week, though.
Speaker 9: I could find the games, which was a huge upgrade
from last last week. I tried most you weren't here
last week at our show, but I was. I tried
to watch as much baseball I could last week.
Speaker 7: I respect that. I respect the hell out of it. Man,
I really do the efforts there. That's what's important.
Speaker 9: That's all that really matters, is the effort, not the
outcoming life.
Speaker 6: Do you want?
Speaker 4: Baseball didn't put the effort we needed them into the broadcast.
Speaker 9: Now there's multiple people trying to illegally stream it. They
put in a lot of good effort. They got taken down,
they did by the YouTube cops. Yeah, but not this week,
the fun police.
Speaker 6: Not this week. Upgraded the old ESPN app subscription. Not
a big deal. You got to expense that, you should.
Speaker 9: That's a good idea. It wasn't extra like work related.
What was it extra nine ninety nine a month? Yeah,
it's work related, just to watch watch the old baseball team.
Speaker 4: Worth it. We're good. I'm glad you watched. I was
really hoping. I knew a laundra was going to be
out today. That's our baseball go to, and so I
was like running around that corner. I was like, I
hope I see Moose in that chair. I hope I
see And I did so I'm glad. I'm happy about that.
I got in like ten thirty Saturday night from Indianapolis,
and then at six thirty Sunday morning, I was up
in Adam driving a Lafayette for the lug nuts Well
Baseball tournament. No, boy, already it's the first one. It's
like the first real weekend that we play. March first,
it's basically spring. Let's have a full blown tournament. Lafayette
started February twenty eighth. Yeah lord, yeah, bidding Lafayette. I
guess it was.
Speaker 6: Where was it?
Speaker 4: Technically wasn't Bruce Sard That's the other ballpark, doesn't really matter.
Speaker 6: Great ballpark though, nice, really good ball week.
Speaker 4: They got a couple of complexes there in that area.
I'm like, man, this is nice speak.
Speaker 9: It's so nice that you wanted to travel there on
March first, exactly February twenty eighth.
Speaker 6: I mean technically I didn't get there until March first.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Well, this has been a lot about you know,
you asked us some questions, but the big news from
last week is how your trip was. You had a
pretty substantial gig. Yeah, in Indianapolis, NFL Combine. For those
of you who've heard of that? Pretty big deal? Uh
NFL is it? What is it the NFL Network on serious?
Or is radio NFL Radio? NFL Radio on serious? Yeah,
the Big Show. Welcome to the Big Show. Welcome to
the Big Show. You had, you know, fill farting around
in this college football stuff.
Speaker 4: It'll now, we were with the big Boys dog and
I think if anybody appreciates that, it'd probably be you.
Speaker 6: Absolutely anybody, That's what I mean.
Speaker 9: We there's you know, college football is an absolutely just
disaster of a mess right now.
Speaker 6: So welcome to the Big Show. I'm excited. Oh yeah, well,
thank you. I've been there before. Yeah, welcome, Welcome.
Speaker 9: So how did it, guys, say, I know, a lot
of long days, but awesome opportunity for you.
Speaker 6: Great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was so great. Uh So I did the
show here on Monday. Then I flew out to Indy
on Monday afternoon. I got there, so Tuesday I joined
the show here via FaceTime because we got a little
bit of a later start. But then it was twelve
hour days on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and then a
three hour show on Saturday. It's twelve hour days because
the players come in waves like there's three big groups
and they have podiums out there and it's US and
it's NBC, CBS, Bleacher Report, ESPN, and then they.
Speaker 6: Kind of take players to different places.
Speaker 4: So you're just grabbing interviews everyone that you can, and
you're grabbing multiple and you have a sheet, you know,
and with our partnership with the NFL, like they're gonna
make sure, you know, they bring them over there.
Speaker 6: But so you're highlighting the sheet.
Speaker 4: But there's also two other NFL radio shows on the
same channel, you know, there's Morning, midday, afternoon, and so
you're kind of trying to like make sure each show
kind of gets there request if you can right now.
Of course, like all the meatheads, they knew exactly, like Haneskiing,
They're like, we know what Joe Haynes King's going on.
Speaker 6: Don't worry about.
Speaker 4: Us, obviously. But it was a lot of fun. I
worked with Pat Kerwin, who's og. I mean, he's been
in the game for a very long time, worked for
the Jets front office forever, been do an NFL radio
for two decades plus, and so.
Speaker 6: It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: And it was a lot of fun because this was
one this was a really good group. So a lot
of intelligent football players in this group, just all the
different position groups, just having those conversations with the next
wave of the NFL.
Speaker 6: I mean we caught up with.
Speaker 4: Probably sixty players, sixty sixty five players that we interviewed.
Speaker 6: And you knew all their names.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was nobody like surprise, now we'll say this.
I'm not gonna be Tommy tough guy on nuts.
Speaker 6: That's true. Well it was eight seven o eight, so
I went tough guy. It was eight oh eight. That
would have been different. Tough guy nuts.
Speaker 4: I can see I've got to rain you back in
on Saturday. You're like ted last week, your like nightmare.
So we have an offensive lineman already up there. Another
top offensive lineman was coming and they throw like this
sheet in front of me, like who it is, And
it was a last name that had thirty seven vowels
and it was about a mile and a half long,
and they throw the sheet in front of me and
I'm like, well.
Speaker 6: Here we go, here we go, let's got it. I
don't remember what it was, but I was like, maybe
like a head's up.
Speaker 9: Yeah it's something, and my guy's coming up, like the
we get the parentheses next to it.
Speaker 6: That tells me how to sound this out like a child.
Speaker 4: Let me get my finger out and sound it out
like a child, because there.
Speaker 9: Is thirty seven thousands more like European? Was this more
island islander? Yeah, okay, that's a tough one. It's tough,
but you know what, we made it.
Speaker 6: We made it.
Speaker 9: Did you just him like like casually drop his first
name in the first letter of his last name.
Speaker 6: I don't remember what I out I should have. Yeah,
it's a good move. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: You remember the old commercial like when collect calls used
to be a thing, and the guy didn't have money
for the collect call and so it's like, hey, say
your name on an old collect call. So your name
is like uh and then just had a baby, right,
and he was trying to get as much as he
could in this little bitty windows.
Speaker 6: Like, Bob we out of baby. It's a boy.
Speaker 4: It's calling you. I felt like that's what I called
that guy. Yeah, Bob we out of baby.
Speaker 6: It's a boy.
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 6: I like that. Yeah, But we did it. Do you
accept these charges? N He did not. He did not.
He did not. Uh so yeah, sixty five or so.
Speaker 4: Players energy was great my co host was great. It
was a lot of fun. Again, it's fun because he's
a front office guy. I'm the player, all right, different
perspective on that process and the combine. I think you
would have really enjoyed that process. I know interviews aren't
your favorite things sometimes, but you would have really enjoyed
I think sitting down with some of the players, some
of the quarterbacks, for.
Speaker 9: Sure enjoyed sitting down with the quarterbacks. You would have
enjoyed the sinners too. Okay, a lot of protection talk,
A lot of protection talk. Do you did you call
the mics in college.
Speaker 6: Or a lot?
Speaker 4: So one of my questions any center and quarterback that
we got up there, I wanted to know their process.
I said, all right, it's third and long, third and
seven plus we're in our base sub protection. Walk me
to the line of scrimmage and give me your process.
Speaker 6: And they did. And it was awesome.
Speaker 4: I mean, like I said, some really smart football players.
Pat Coogan from Indiana was awesome. Jake Slaughter from Florida
was awesome. I'm singing some of the logan Jones from
I was awesome singing some of the sinners.
Speaker 9: Hey, center center, you know John Doe, What was your process?
What was Did you call the mics on protections? And
if they said yes, I'd have been like, well you
were at a trash offense. That would have been my response.
Speaker 6: Well, Helms, he called the mic sometimes until you told
him he was dumb.
Speaker 9: Dumb hey called the mic on running place. I mean
sometimes he'd suggest he did not call the mics. I
remember getting in an argument when he tried to one time.
Speaker 6: Had a fist fight. Uh, he threw the ball at me,
but I remember, yeah, yeah, I was there and it
wasn't a snap.
Speaker 4: But the centers like in the way they see it,
it was, I mean different ones at different levels of
how they saw it, but it was.
Speaker 6: It's good.
Speaker 9: That's fantastic that those those are the two that Hey,
you're right, the center's quarterbacks.
Speaker 6: That would have been the ones I would have nerded out.
Speaker 9: It wouldn't have been a good interview because I would
have just nerded out and started talking about like one textree.
Speaker 4: Okay, so again, like I'll go back to it on
the show that I've always done on Serious Probably not.
Speaker 6: The NFL radio is a it's a different vibe.
Speaker 4: The listeners are pretty in tune, a little bit more nerdy, yeah,
like pretty more in tune in too, like some of
the x's no's and the process in the way. I'll
have to go back and either listen or think about
the way that meant. Fernando Mendoza said it. His was
they had like an acronym. It was PIMP P I
m P H on his process walking to and he
went through the whole thing. It was incredible. I have
to think of what p I M P stood for
still for something different. I thought fifty cent song, but
it was impressive.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm.
Speaker 9: I will think about that the race, see what it
could stand for. SOMP.
Speaker 4: But I definitely have some favorite players. Yeah, some favorites
that favorites that we talked with it and we're going
like when we come back, like to get the show started.
Speaker 6: Like else.
Speaker 4: You had a hell of a baseball weekend, so mostly
gonna get you smothered and cover there. But at some point, yeah,
I'd like to put my list together of the guys that.
Speaker 9: You came in today, saying that it was a group
of really well spoken young man well spoken uh huh.
Speaker 4: From every different location in the United States, different schools,
very intelligent.
Speaker 6: Group, very wealthy group as well. We made a lot
of money, some of them did. Yeah.
Speaker 4: One of the ones that may have made the most
money was my favorite interview of the week. So we'll
get to that. That's a little that's a tease down
the road, to tease down the road. All right, So
glad to be back, Happy to be be back here.
Speaker 9: Thank you for holding it down. We did something. I
don't know if we held it down, but hey, Taylor,
we survived. There was I think we did more than
I mean the ratings we got to huge boost.
Speaker 1: Probably we encourage the LSU guys to run good forties
and they did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that is true. I mean, we did a lot.
Credit to ourselves. There was no pink tag in the
locker when I came back. There was no pink tag.
We made the squads. We didn't lose too many sponsors.
Speaker 9: Well, no, it's tricky sometimes.
Speaker 6: That's okay, we'll bring them back.
Speaker 9: But I think, uh, I think our listeners had a
pretty good time. That's all it matters. That's all that matters. Sure,
we had some interviews. I didn't confuse Kim Milky this time,
and that's what you were there. She understood the question.
She understood every question.
Speaker 2: I asked, which killed the J Clark interview Friday?
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, ine three head coaches, but by myself, no,
think no, Andred Taylor fed me a lot of questions.
Speaker 4: Jay Johnson too, Oh yeah, I heard you were trying
to Were you talking philosophies with him? What was that
you were dealing with them?
Speaker 6: I told him.
Speaker 9: I was like, Hey, can we just swing away on
three to zero? Guys, let's stop taking owned some meat balls?
Speaker 6: Yeah? What do you say to that? Uh?
Speaker 9: He said absolutely, Glenn, you got it, he said no,
he gave the right answer.
Speaker 6: He said we He said, I do do that. I
do like to do that.
Speaker 9: At the time, like you started talking about all these
like yeah, if the if it's a left.
Speaker 6: Handed batter, and this is they have all this stuff.
Speaker 9: I was like, I don't know, coach their meatballs three
and oh right down the middle.
Speaker 6: It's the best pitch you gonna see over the fence.
Speaker 2: Matt learned about the ghost in the building last week.
Speaker 6: The Diddler. Yeah, no, old diddler, the old ghost Diddler. Yeah,
Taylor's favorite place to go see. Yeah it is. That's
It's so weird how it takes him so long to go.
Speaker 1: It's the weirdest thing. I'm telling I'm selling mad move.
So I asked me one time. I was like, won't
you use about them on this floor? I was like,
I like the other one better yeats down.
Speaker 6: And on that note, we'll take our first break of
the show.
Speaker 4: More O TV when we come back here live from
the Raising Knees Studio.
Speaker 10: Off the Bench, MP, thanks thanks stopping, thanks.
Speaker 3: Stopping, Tigers turn talkers. This is off the bench.
Speaker 10: Thanks stopping, thanks stop it stopping.
Speaker 4: Lonely Sun, all right, welcome back in oh t B
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certainly glad to have Moose with us as well after
being out last week. A Launders like, we can't have
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I think that's in New York City, New York City,
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Speaker 6: You got it. I appreciate that. All right, So yeah,
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Speaker 4: All right, we are, as I said, we were very
happy to have our guy Muso here with us today
and obviously our own stitchhead Matt Flynn yep, over here
to break down a little baseball. After the midweek lost
there to McNeice, and I didn't get a chance to
watch it was still on air, but man, I was
living through it through uh the wolf Back and y'all
were going through it. We were, Yeah, but you lose
that game seven to six, and then you come back
and you get a win on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Dartmouth
a couple of times, and Northeastern. So I will throw
this one to you, Moose. Your biggest takeaway from the
LSU Baseball weekend.
Speaker 5: The pitching staff.
Speaker 7: I mean, I know a lot of people are gonna
want to talk about the offensive struggles.
Speaker 5: Whan we can. They weren't very good over the course
of three games.
Speaker 7: But the pitching staff picked up all the slack that
was left there, and that's great to see. I mean,
you want to see them win games in different ways,
and I think there is value in them winning five
to two, three to one, and then three to nothing.
You got really good efforts from all three starters over
twenty innings combined in a one three three, one three
four era. From that group, they punched out twenty nine.
I mean, you look at Cooper Moore and William Schmid.
They both got you into the eighth inning. I mean,
that's your Saturday and Sunday guy case. And Evans really
found his way into a groove after a little bit
of a rocky start with some free passes.
Speaker 6: So you love that.
Speaker 5: And your bullpen through shutout ball, And what.
Speaker 7: You also saw is you saw LSU on Friday and
Saturday only use four pitchers, which if you can run
Evans and Gidry out there on a Friday, you feel
pretty good about that. If you can run more and
Shearing out there on a Saturday, I think you feel
pretty good about that. But your bullpen, in the process
of throwing the shout out ball, came up with some
really really big moments in the game and got you
out of some tight jams in close matchups, which, given
LSU's offensive prowess in the first eight to nine games
of the season, that really wasn't an opportunity because they
were just steamrolling everybody. So to see them do that,
there is value there because, you know what, you're not
gonna steamroll everybody. Once the thirty game gauntlet starts, You're
gonna have to come in and get some tough out.
So for me, it's the pitching staff far and away.
I mean again, if you're getting three earned from your
starters and shut out from your bullpen, you're feeling pretty
good about that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the pitching staff certainly has been something
on Saturday and Sunday. I mean, we've talked about it
so many times, Moss. I know you've talked about it,
like if you can get that on Sunday from William Smith.
You weren't really sure, like, you know, the talent's there,
But he's still a young player, still only a true
sophomore last year. You could see why everybody was excited
about it. But again, right, he's a young baseball player,
true freshman, playing on a national championship team, and the
way that he started this season is like the best
possible scenario I think for LSU baseball. If you get
that version of him, I think about it, a guy
that was going to be first round pick, a guy
that every scout loved, and you got him on campus.
We were all shocked when you got him on campus.
If that guy gets the ball every Sunday and has
this mentality, because it feels like that switch has flipped.
It feels like he remembers, Oh, I'm really really good,
and when I go out there and take care of
my business, I can be a Friday night stuff guy
on Sunday. I mean that is like a utopia situation
for LSU baseball.
Speaker 7: The confidence really stands out watching him, especially yesterday. I
mean you could still see him kind of feeling his
way through it. I feel like against UCF because he
had a little bit of a rocky start against Milwaukee,
pitched great against Central Floor, I mean five shot out, like,
he was very good, but I think you could still
see at times some kind of feeling his way through it.
Speaker 5: He through everything with conviction.
Speaker 7: Yesterday, got the ball, went was confident, just it definitely
looked like he said okay, wait yeah, that I can
do this. I mean, he faced four over the minimum
all day long. That's I mean, that's really good.
Speaker 5: He landing the breaking stuff has helped.
Speaker 7: But to me, the confidence yesterday that he showed is
the biggest difference that I've seen in williams Strutt so.
Speaker 6: Far, because I mean, the walks, the control, that's what
got him in trouble.
Speaker 5: For sure.
Speaker 4: It's freshman season, so to see him go back out
there command the plate, it's it's something that certainly, if
it continues, LSU is going to be exactly the team
that we thought they were, which is a team that
goes deep, a team that has a chance, a team
that has an opportunity to run him back again.
Speaker 6: There.
Speaker 4: So I know it's not your favorite brand of baseball, Matthew,
because you liked Aangers.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 9: I Like, I asked Jay Johnson last week because they
had just come off the midweek loss and said, like,
you're you get all the accolades for being a great
coach and what you do on the baseball field and
how you get pictures ready and hitter's ready and and
everything you do with the lineup, everything all that is awesome.
Speaker 6: I was like, but any really good coach.
Speaker 9: Is a part time psychiatrist, basically, right, And you're dealing
with the mentality of eighteen to twenty three year old kids.
Speaker 6: They just started a season. There's no way to prepare
for a seaton in baseball. They're playing.
Speaker 9: They've played a lot of baseball right, right, and so
you have to, like you talk about the lineup struggles
and you talk about earlier, you know, the pitchers trying
to figure it out, and it seems like they have
figured out certainly this weekend. But you're gonna have the
ups and downs at the plate, you're gonna go cold,
you're gonna you're not gonna have the you're not gonna
have the success every single week and that you do
the weekend before. It's just it's one of those things.
You're still we just got into March. They've played a
lot of baseball in the last couple of weeks. The
lineup is still fantastic, so there's nothing to be where
like kind of like the Moose's point, it was kind
of nice to see the pitchers have to have to
make pitches, have to get out, and they certainly did so.
Speaker 4: Mus I'll throw back to you and Tayay if you
got anything, obviously jump right in when you look at
the offensive struggles, right And I'm trying to watch a
little bit there while I'm doing some of the shows
in Indie, it really felt like to me, and it
could you know, it could be a different case, but
it was really there was no table setting. It felt
like the top of the lineup really struggled as well.
And I went back and I'm kind of reviewing some
of yesterday's game, and it's just you can't start a
game where you're one and two hole hitters go zero
for eight with four strikeouts. Like to me, that was
like the issue as we all know, like you want
to get guys on base, you want to get the
top of the lineup going, and yesterday, for me, it
felt like those struggles came from the top of the
lineup because they didn't give themselves a chance. I mean,
I want to say, I don't even know if they
got on base outside of maybe one.
Speaker 7: Error the leadoff to I don't even think they've reached
base on air.
Speaker 5: Korea, Yes, Korea.
Speaker 7: On the eighth inn, he reached reached on the air
because then Brown hit the double over the center fielders
had to score him. So yes, they reached on the
air there at the top of the order. Definitely struggled that.
It is kind of just all throughout though, man one
through nine all weekend. I mean to steal a phrase
from Jay Johnson, they seem like they're very out of
character at the plate right now. There's a lot of flyouts,
which that's not what Jay's ever looking for. He wants
it middle of the field and backside on a line
on the ground, hard hit balls, doubles in the gap,
that type of thing. And to me.
Speaker 5: The timing looks off for them an awful lot.
Speaker 7: And I don't think their pitch selection was the best
this weekend, But it's.
Speaker 5: One of those things where.
Speaker 7: You look at it in the vacuum, you say, okay, yea,
it was bad, Like unless you hit one sixty four
as a team over these three games.
Speaker 5: That's not good. Like that, that's bad.
Speaker 7: But I also can't unsee the first nine games of
the year where they hit like three sixty as a
club and score ten runs a game, Like it's in there.
We know they can do that. And last time I check,
number two is still in the dugout. So if he's
still in the dugout and running the program and working
with the hitters. They're they're gonna get it figured out.
Every team that man's ever had anywhere has hit this
one already has this year, and they will again. It's
it just wasn't great this weekend.
Speaker 4: And this is gonna sound is gonna sound so elitist,
and I don't want it to, but it's going to.
Speaker 6: It's fine whatever.
Speaker 4: Like even coaching young people baseball, right when you've been
facing good staff, good staff, good staff, good staff, throwing
kind of what you've always kind of seen, right, and
then you come to a staff that's maybe hitting eighty
nine to ninety one.
Speaker 6: Now they're hitting their spots.
Speaker 4: You gotta give him credit, yeah, but they're not throwing
ninety four ninety six. You got to make that adjustment,
like it happens to us and youth based ball time.
Like you got guys our whole team, like their front
foot is in the very tip top of the batter's box, right,
You're trying to make those adjustments, and like sometimes you'll
have a weekend where that happens, and you got to
find a way to grid out some victories and they
have and else she's three and zero in the process
sometimes and we've seen this in LSU baseball history certainly,
when you go what you're used to seeing and then
it dips down from ninety four to ninety five to
eighty nine to ninety one, some of those adjustments don't happen.
Speaker 1: Well, it's it feels like to me, they're trying to
kill it. Like we talked about that, We.
Speaker 6: Talk about that they were trying to hit Tiger Stadium.
Speaker 1: They fell behind like pretty big against McNeese, and it
looked like they were trying to kill it. I mean,
he mentioned all the popouts over the weekend. Like yeah,
and if you guys heard Jay Johnson's postgame comments on
the radio interview on Friday night, he said, somebody else
is gonna have to run this program because I'm going
to live with this team in the batting cages. You
gotta trust that Jay Johnson's going to turn this thing around.
Somebody else is going to have to run the team
because I'm going to be in the adding cages with
these guys until further notice. And like yeah, Curie all
and Brown they were great, but like Friday night they
were good. I mean Friday night, Curiole what two for five,
scored a run two rbr's Jake Brown one for three
RBI drew a walk.
Speaker 2: It was just after that.
Speaker 1: I mean you you go look at the rest of
the lineup, and even with those two the last two
games of the series, I just think they're trying to
do too much.
Speaker 2: At the play.
Speaker 9: They went one to sixty four against two teams that
had their uniforms made by Russell Athletics.
Speaker 2: Hey, we talked about it.
Speaker 6: Though I didn't know they were still in business. I
don't know they're still making unis.
Speaker 1: We talked about it though. You were like, oh, they're
facing Dartmouth nerds. They're probably studying. They don't stand a chance.
But then we were like, wait a minute, they're calculating.
Speaker 6: The ball velocity. A bunch of nerds speaking.
Speaker 4: Teams say, if any sport has the analytics that you
can try to cheat it here and there, it's baseball.
Speaker 6: I don't know if Dartmouth had a player that could
see over a five eight fence. Bro. They they were not.
Speaker 2: I'm about to look up the road.
Speaker 7: They are not very tall out there, the big green,
the big Green, not very big.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, but they were gritty, man.
Speaker 9: They were.
Speaker 6: They got to be gritty with uniforms that scratchy.
Speaker 7: That's hey man, I'll I still say the worst unions
that have come through the box so far this year
were Milwaukee, the ones they wore on Sunday where it
just said m K E across the chip I mean,
and then the state of Wisconsin on their hat and
no one could figure.
Speaker 5: Out what it was like.
Speaker 1: You're like, if your state is not recognized, shap like like,
let me say it's the boot. Nobody knows what Florida's like,
get your wisk, Caltain, nobody knows.
Speaker 5: No one knows that the outline of Wisconsin looks like.
Speaker 6: You're about to get there.
Speaker 5: Okay, you lived here and you played there, all right.
Speaker 4: All right, l s U Baseball gets another opportunity, as
Mouse said, coming up tonight six thirty pm, first pitch
against Northeastern. We'll see if they can get some of
those issues inside the batter's box turned around.
Speaker 6: All right, we will take a break when we come back.
Speaker 4: Let's maybe get into some of the top performers from
the NFL combine and we'll do it right here on
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Speaker 4: All right, NFL Combine, did we have any standout performances
that anybody in the room would like to talk about
before our wax poetic about one certain player.
Speaker 1: Yes, Xavion Thomas made himself some money over the weekend.
Speaker 6: It's funny.
Speaker 1: An article came out last week and uh Me and
Matt were chopping up about it. It was like five
players that could potentially break the combine forty record and
we were like, hey, two tigers are on here and
Brown and Chris Hill.
Speaker 2: Now they both ran well.
Speaker 1: Barreon Brown was a four four zero and I think
Chris Hilden was a four four to one. And then
I saw Xavi on Thomas go out there and on
a four to two eight, Like that should show you
the embarrassment of riches. Did LSU had last year receiver like,
which is why the administration had to make a change. Yes,
with everything, It's just like I watched it. I was like, man,
I'm happy for Xavi on Thomas. I was like, I'm
kind of pissed off at LSU's offense from a year
ago because I mean, not some Mayer's performing well the receivers,
but Xavi on Thomas, if you've ever heard an interview
with him, when he came out to player interviews, nicest
guy on the team, Like, couldn't happen to a better dude.
Speaker 2: So he made himself some money over the weekend.
Speaker 6: Love it.
Speaker 9: I think aj Halsey not only did he confirm and
solidify his draft spot, but he probably enhances it he
goes out and runs a four or five four we
were talking about last week, all if he runs a
four to five, that answers all the questions that you
could potentially have on him.
Speaker 4: He looked different than every safety out there in the
best way every other and he ran that.
Speaker 6: I saw the video of hitting the gauntlet. Yeah, like,
yeah he did, You're right. He looked thick.
Speaker 4: He looked like, I can give you some will backer
and certain defenses if no doubt, if they ask.
Speaker 9: You to do that, Like he's he's he's screaming like
camp Chancellor to me. Yeah, that's like the comp that
I have in my head for him. I was in
I saw him run the gauntlet. Yeah, where they you
catch you catch the ball here, you turn on catch it,
then you run down the middle of the field.
Speaker 6: And he looked a lead like people will.
Speaker 9: Watch that and be like, oh, that was good, but
people don't understand how elite like his rep was, Like
that was a really good rep for a high profile
wide receiver. And then I also kind of look at
it too, so maybe like he's a big guy, so
I think he's six foot two fifteen. I believe this
was this host. I think got over two twenty at
the official way. So his ten yard dash was a
one point six to two, which was like in the
lower like twenty four percent, not very not very good.
But his forty yard dash was four or five to two,
which is sixty seven. So in between that ten and thirty,
so his get off isn't like the fastest, but like
in between that, he's running at an elite top speed.
Going from twenty four percent out to sixty seven in
the last half of a forty shows you, like the
top end speed that he does have and a perfect
example of a drop down safety and maybe not the free,
maybe not the free that's roaming the Earl Thomas type
of got but I think he solidified. The other guy
who I think helped himself and it has nothing to
do with what he did physically, was Garrett Neustmeyer. Yeah,
going into more detail. Now everybody's like, well, what the hell,
like this is frustrating. Now he was injured, we get it,
he's talking about it. We're probably talking to his doctors. Now, yeah,
he said it, you know, senior boy, he talked to us.
Speaker 6: But he's the first time he ever really opened up
about it was with us. He went into more detail.
Speaker 9: And it's the best piece of advice he could have
gotten from an agent, from a dad, from a coach.
For whoever, open up about it, give him details, create
doubt in their minds about why you played bad. And
I think just that interview alone has to like move
him up yeap, just because like, okay, well let's go
back and now we got it. We can only evaluate
when he was healthy. Now, well, when he was healthy,
he was a projected first rounder.
Speaker 4: So in the circles that you're around and look and
there's everybody's in this room, and I mean we had
Kevin Stefanskiwa had Shane Stikeen, we had Dan Quinn, Steven
Jones from the Cowboys, Mike McDonald who just won a
Super Bowl. We had all these coaches on, right, and
so you hear stuff, You hear people talking, You hear
some different whispers going on. And Garrett Nessmeyer, I think
is actually more talked about in a positive way in
those circles than he is like maybe in a national narrative.
Now some of that's coming around too, but he's still
very well liked. Oh yeah, and you hear things like
but you don't know how he crushed the interviews and
like we knew that was going to happen if we
can get him back to health of the year before,
Like we feel like this guy's going to be steal
Like those conversations.
Speaker 6: Were going on.
Speaker 9: Yeah, this is going to be such an interesting draft,
such an interesting offseason at the quarterback position in the NFL,
the NFL. The quarterback position in the NFL is such
a healthy spot. There's so many good players, Like it
was hard making a top ten list every single week
during the season because who do I keep out? Who
do I put in? Like there's so much great NFL
quarterback play happening. But this is such an intriguing offseason
because you want to hear your list of free agents
Yeat Tua, got Kyler, Murray Kirk, Cousins, Gina Smith, Malik Willis, period.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So if you're the Jets and you need a quarterback,
and that's the list that you hear if you don't,
if you don't get one, or even trying, But who
they going to get because that free agent classes week.
Speaker 9: I'll tell you what they do have. They have six
first rounders and they on draft day they'll have seven
because you can you can trade up to I think
four drafts in advance and on draft day they'll have seven.
They can have a lot of quarterbacks we got. You
want to talk about a blockbuster trade if they want to, Yeah,
how about five first rounders for Frenanda Mendoza, five first
rounders for Joe Burrow, five first rounders.
Speaker 6: For Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 9: Like at some point, everybody's got a price that is
a price that the Jets can match, and only the
Jets can match.
Speaker 6: Yep. So there's a weak list of free agents yep.
Speaker 4: And you can't win if you ain't out one, you
can't do it. And you can say old Sam Sam
Donald's the top five pick. They went to a horrible franchise.
Speaking of the Jets, it's not like he forgot how
to play quarterback. He just went to a terrible situation,
was still very young and found his way. Look at
the quarterbacks that have won the Super Bowls, look at
the quarterbacks that have made the playoffs. There's a reason
why we all know exactly where Brock already got selected,
because he's the outlier.
Speaker 9: You gotta have that, dude, Daniel bashm great point five
first round US for Rattler, no doubt.
Speaker 4: Oh we'll get to somebody that. Come on, man, tell
me you don't know football without telling me you don't
know football. But anyways, Moose for you take a break,
because mine's gonna take a whole segment somebody that shoot
out to you.
Speaker 7: Uh yeah, well I was actually gonna go with nuss
Meyer for the for the reason that Flynn said, Man,
it looked like he threw the ball really well too.
Speaker 5: So not only did he.
Speaker 7: Explain the injury in great detail be able to really
control that narrative, he also went out there and showed
that he was healthy. He saw a couple of the
deep ones that he was able to uncork kind of
just on social media. And I mean you patch that
up with his performance at the Senior Bowl and then
the combine. I mean, I get it, this season didn't
go the way he wants. You don't have as much
tape recently, but as you said, Matt, I mean he
just told you.
Speaker 5: I basically couldn't throw the football. Yeah, this past season.
Speaker 7: So you go back to four when when he was
really really healthy and really good, and I think, I
don't know if it's enough to play himself back in
the first round, but I think he's definitely risen on
day two.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's definitely in the conversation of second quarterback off
the board, I heard that with my own ears there,
Boots free Agents.
Speaker 6: We just gave you, all right, when.
Speaker 4: We come back in the last segment of hour number one,
I'll give you the player that stood out to me
the most at the NFL scouting combine, and we'll do
it right here on OTB.
Speaker 5: Off the bench.
Speaker 10: The morning.
Speaker 3: From the locker room to the airwaves. Gets off the
bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in OTB here on this Monday morning. Uh,
being in Indianapolis for the last week, had a chance
to catch up with, as we said, sixty sixty five
players I know somewhere around that and a lot of
really really good, just young men I think going into
the NFL well spoken right reasons. Uh, very refreshing to
kind of have those conversations with them. But one stood
out more than any other player this is before testing,
before he did what he did on the field, and
that was Ohio State linebacker Sonny Styles blew me away
with his football like you during the interview. His dad
played six years in the NFL. His brother ran a
four to two eight at the NFL Combine as well,
So it certainly comes from a nice lineage there. But
just hearing him talk about coverages, hearing him talk about
run fits and all these different things blew me away.
Speaker 6: And then he went out.
Speaker 4: There and put on an epic performance. So he measured
in at six four and some change two hundred and
forty four pounds, ran a four to four to six,
vertical jump of forty three and a half, a broad
jump of eleven to two, crushed the three cones seven
zero nine forty yard schednel four.
Speaker 6: To two six.
Speaker 4: He has started over forty games at Ohio State, played
in over fifty and is still twenty one years old.
Speaker 6: I'll say that again.
Speaker 4: He started over forty games already in his college career
as twenty one years old.
Speaker 6: Did that as a seventeen year old.
Speaker 4: He started at safety, moved to nickel, and then became
the Green Dot Mike linebacker. You know how hard that
is to do to be able to do all three
of those things. But he did them at an incredibly
high level. So if you're in the camp of you
can't take an off the ball linebacker at this spot,
you don't know the player. You're just saying that based
off other players. I love Jacob Rodriguez, he can't take
him there.
Speaker 6: I get that.
Speaker 4: Sonny Styles is not Jacob Rodriguez, and I mean that
with all due respect. Sonny Styles is a game changer.
He's lined up on all three levels. He can continue
to line up in multiple spots. He can line up
on the edge here, he can line up as a
green dot mike linebacker. He can line up wherever you
need him. If you have a pick and you're in
the top ten, do not put Sonny Styles in the
same camp as every other off the ball linebacker.
Speaker 6: He's different.
Speaker 4: He's different with his football IQ, he's different with his
skill set, and he has gotten forty five starts twenty
one years old. There's still more development that can be
had with Sunny Styles. We'll be back hour number two
off the bench