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Speaker 1: Welcome.
Speaker 4: In our number two Monday edition of Off the Bench,
Taylor Sharp here with the filling in for Jacob Hester
and T Bob a bear. We got a Landra Villarrial,
we got Cassie Spizzelli, and we were rocking and rolling
here on this Monday morning. A lot of negative news
and our number one we're gonna try to be a
little bit more positive here in the hour number two.
Want to start this hour by Riekevn. That l s
U Spring Scrimmage, if you want to call it that.
It was essentially just an open practice where fans could
go and then they had of a meet and greed
where players signed autographs after.
Speaker 1: But well we'll go ahead and call it the Spring Scrimmage.
Speaker 4: If you're looking for like a full play by play breakdown,
Matt Moscona has a really good ride up on louisianasports
dot Net. Haunt Palmer put out one a little bit
later kind of given his overall thoughts on maybe what
this offense is going to be centered around based on
what they have seen during spring. You know, it sucks,
like normally I go out there a lot during fall
practice because I got to do like post practice interviews
and all that. They practiced at like eight am and
they're done at nine to forty five, so it's really
hard for all of us to get out there. But
Matt and Hunt they have done a great job all
spring long of covering that. So kind of how the
scrimmage worked. They did a full scrimmage. You know, the
first offense started at their own thirty five yard line.
It was a full tackle, and then they did a
two minute offense punt team, goal line, field goal unit
seven on seven red zone offense. That's kind of how
the scrimmage broke down. And again Matt has like a
play by play breakdown of what occurred in that. I
just have a few overarching thoughts. Shocker, Lsu is loaded
at the wide receiver position. If you were at the scrimmage,
you saw that. You go back and look, Barrion Brown
made a lot of nice plays, whether it was from
Nussmeyer or Michael van Buren. Kyle Parker stood out. He
caught a touchdown pass from Van Buren. That was Van
Buren's best pass of the day. It was during red
zone period. He split the corner in the safety, fired
one in there to Kyle Parker, parked at a nice
job holding on to it. Nick Anderson ran some really
nice routes. He's a guy that's six foot five. He's
a guy that I've been high on since he got
the campus, mainly because you don't have anybody else like
a Nick Anderson. He is a guy who six four
six five. I mean, you have traded as green, but
I'm talking pure wide receiver, gonna line up out wide
every single play. You don't have a guy like that
outside of Nick Anderson. Van Buren missed him on a
few throws. There was one deep one down the sidelines
where if Nick Anderson catches that ball, it's likely a touchdown.
Van Buren just sailed on him a little. We'll get
to him a little bit later on. But Xavion Thomas
was really good. He is going to be used in
a variety of ways. You saw this a little bit
last year. If you remember last year. Sometimes through some
of the games, even the opening game of the year
against USC the line save on Thomas up in the
backfield and they'll they'll hand it off to him. Savion
Thomas scored on an end to round in that scrimmage
guy in the red zone period on Saturday. He caught
some nice balls as well. He is going to be
a part of this offense. Now, is he going to
be in every down wide receiver? No, and I think
he's going to be more of your gadget guy. Of course,
we know about Aaron Anderson. I mean Aaron Anderson is
your leading returning receiver from a year ago in terms
of yards. I mean we talked about Kyraen Lacy earlier.
He had about eight ninety five. Aaron Anderson was a
little under one thousand yards. I mean he had a
lot better season than a lot of people realize because
when he caught on like game four, game five of
the season, I mean, he was the go to guy
then on out. I don't think much of that is
going to change. But look, we know the offense is good, right,
I mean we know this offense. Tebuf talks about it
all the time. The combination of the first offense and
the second offense, O line quarterbacks skill positions is as
good as any in the country.
Speaker 1: Because let's look at it, like, let's.
Speaker 4: Say your starters, the starters in spring right now have
been your returning guys. So let's say Chris Hilton, Aaron
Anderson Xavion Thomas are your three starting receivers. Just for
arguments it, do I think it's going to necessarily shake
out like that, No, because I think all these guys
are going to mix and match depending on the game.
Speaker 1: Okay, so those are your first three.
Speaker 4: In the second group, you got Barryon Brown, Nick Anderson,
Kyle Parker, and that's six really good receivers. You got
Bower Sharp and trade Has Green at tight end. Nuss
is one of the best quarterbacks, maybe the best quarterback
in all of college football, returning for this season. We
know what Cayden Durham can do. I'll get to him
in a minute. He actually did not practice. But then
behind him you got to Caleb Jackson. You got a
Harlan Berry, Michael van Buren. I know he was thrown
in there because of injury and there were some mixed
reviews on him, but this is a guy that was
still a starter in the SEC last season. He is
your backup quarterback now. And then we know about the
O line rotations. Whether it's a DJ Chester, Braylan Moore
at center, you got Josh Thompson. Is he going to
be in the starting lineup? Is he going to be
that swing player coming off the bench. I mean, you're
not proven on the offensive line as far as returning production,
but I think there's a lot of talent there. I
think you're actually deeper maybe talent wise than a lot
of people realize. So we know this offense is going
to be good. I want to focus on the defense
a little bit because I think this cornerback room in
particular is going to be a lot better than it
was last season. PJ Woodland had an incredible diving interception
on a pass from Knolt Smyer, and.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 4: Peop are gonna say, oh, well, that's typical dawsm are
trying to fit the ball somewhere where he can't fit it.
Speaker 1: No, I mean this ball looked like it was in
a safe spot. PJ.
Speaker 4: Woodland dives out for it, makes a grab, really nice play.
That was the play off the day on defense in
my opinion DJ Pickett. Look, he got beat a few times,
but he showed some flashes. He looked like a freshman
out there at times, but at times you saw Okay.
I get why he was a five star. I get
why he was the number one dB in high school
football last year.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 4: You can see the hype that's going to come with reps.
DJ Pickett is as talented as anybody on this team.
Mansord Delane, whether it's been in spring practices, the spring
scrimmage everyone was allowed to go to on Saturday, Mansord
Delane is all over the field. There is a spot
for him on this team. I think he's going to
be a starter on this team somewhere. Look, Perkins is
supposed to play nickel. Can you move Mansword Delaye to safety?
Is he going to grab one of those outside corner spots.
I don't think it matters. Mansword de Lane has been
really good on this team so far. In the sprint
and then Stamps kind of the forgotten guy, the guy
that's started pretty much every game for you a year ago,
and I get it. All the hype was around Zie
Alexander because he was that dominant shutdown corner. I thought
Stamps did some nice things last year. At times he struggled,
but at times, I mean he came up with plays
for you. It's a guy that at least starting an
experience at Lshue wise, he is by far your most
experienced player. He made some plays. I thought he looked
really good. So, I mean the DB's as a whole
safeties were okay safeties.
Speaker 1: It was like it was one of.
Speaker 4: Those situations where they didn't flash, but they didn't look
disastrous either. And in a spring scrimmage when you're breaking
in a lot of new guys, I'm okay with that.
If the safeties don't stand out negatively, I'm good with it.
They don't necessarily have to flash and make a huge
play because I think the corners are going to do
that for you. If you can just not get beat
deep as a safety, come up, make the play when
you're supposed to do, I'm good with because that's better
than what we've seen the last two to three. A
player I want to highlight though, is is Caleb Jackson.
He got a heavy workload and he performed well. Now
the heavy workload, Caden Durham did not practice in that scrimmage.
There are reports that some saw him on the sidelines.
It doesn't appear to be anything serious. I mean, it
could just be one of those precautionary thing. We know
what Caden Durham can do, right, I mean, he's going
to be your starter coming into this season. I think
he's one of the best backs in the SEC. I
think he showed that last year. But Caleb Jackson got
a lot of run. I mean, just look, so Matt
has that that Playboy play breakdown I told you about
on louisianasports dot Net. When you go into the full
scrimmage period, Caleb Jackson got the start over Harlem Berry.
First and ten, Caleb Jackson for nine yards, Second and one,
Caleb Jackson for six yards. Nos throws an incompletion. What
do they do on second and ten? They go back
to Jackson for a short game, Then you throw some
balls around and then the second series your two's come in.
But then in the two at offense, you throw a
screen pass to Caleb Jackson, something we didn't see last year.
Not a lot of passes to the running backs out
of the backfield. And when you had it, it was
likely Cayden Durham, Caleb Jackson really didn't get a lot
of run this past season, and a lot of that
was because people said, Okay, well he can't catch the
ball out of the backfield. He's not a great pass blocker.
He caught the ball out of the backfield.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 4: On Saturday, he caught a few passes out of the backfield.
And I'm glad to see that because you know, I
set up here a few weeks back. I don't remember
if it was on this show or when I was
filling in for Hunt Palmer, and I said, as talented
as Caleb Jackson is, I think he could potentially be
a transfer risk. And it made sense at the time because, look,
you have Cayden Durham. He passed up Caleb Jackson last season.
Kaden Durham is gonna be your number one. There's no
question about Harlan Berry's coming in. He looked explosive on Saturday.
He had a good game. But you have Harlan Berry
coming in. He was a number one running back in
high school football.
Speaker 1: If JT.
Speaker 4: Lindsay coming in, he's not here yet, but he's coming
in the fall. I just looked at it as if
Harlem Barry can pass up Caleb Jackson in the spring.
Jackson's already behind Caden Durham. He knows JT. Lindsey's coming
in in the fall. Would he consider other options and
he may still do that. I'm not saying he will
or he won't. That was just a thought that was
going through my head. If the scrimmage is any indication
they're gonna use Caleb Jackson a lot. Now, again, I
get it, Kaden Durham wasn't there, but I mean Caleb
Jackson got a heavy workload. That scrimmage was a time
where they could have thrown Harlan Berry in there and
given him reps, but they didn't. They went with Caleb Jackson.
That's any indication Cayden Durham, No, Caden Durham. Caleb Jackson
is going to have a role on this football team,
which is good. You're going to need a guy like that,
Barry Lindsey. They're on the smaller side. I mean, Cayden
Durham's not huge either. Caleb Jackson's that one guy who's
that big body back if you need short yardage. Maybe
that's a role he can carve out in the fall.
I hope he sticks around. I think there's a chance
he does now. Overall takeaways of this scrimmage, though, the
playmakers on offense top to bottom are as good as
anyone in this conference. Again, they don't have a lot
of returning production outside of an Aaron Anderson and a
Caden Durham. But top to bottom, talent wise ones and twos,
I think this team's as good as anybody in the SEC.
As for ast offensive playmakers and the dB room, I'll
keep going back to it. They should be a lot better.
Safety is still as slight concern. However, they didn't look
disastrous on Saturday, but that dB room made a lot
of plays. And again, you're going against Garrett nol Smeier,
You're going against Michael van Buren, You're going against guys
that have started games in the SEZ. He's still performed
well because I get it, man Sword delaying. He's new
to this team. He started a bunch of games at
Virginia Tech. DJ Pickett comes in, has no experience, but
you know how talent he is. And then Ashton's stamps.
Some people may feel a certain type of way about him,
but the fact of the matter is he's played a
lot of games. His first two years here. He's your
most experienced guy, at least under Brian Kelly. You have
a lot of different guys that can do a lot
of different things offensively and defensive. Though the pass rusher
looked good, Jack Pibern got back there a few times.
That's good to see because Pyburn came here to rush
the pass. I mean he mentioned, Look, I didn't get
to quite do that at Florida as much as I
wanted to. I came here to do that. And Jack Piburn,
he was a third and ten play. It was the
second series during the full scrimmage. He got a sack
on third and ten to end that drive for the
second offense. Pyburn can be a third down pass rusher.
We talk about it all the time. You have Gabrieliford,
Patrick Payton, Jamari Butler, Jack Piper. There's a kind of
the four big names to watch as far as that
d n edg rusher spot who can take over and
be that third down pass rush. Pyburn came because he
wanted to prove he can do that, and he did
it on Saturday. He's not gonna be the only guy.
Patrick Payton can rush the passer. Gabriel Ralliford showed promise.
Usher Jamari Butler has been a productive player in college.
But the fact that Piburn was able to get in
there and make some plays pass rushing wise is a
good sign because you can't ever have too many pass rushes.
All right, Look, that's kind of just the broad breakdown
of what we saw on Saturday here in that spring scrimmage.
Coming up next, We're actually gonna have Mike Scarborough from
Tiger Bay dot Com. He's gonna give us a little
bit more of a detailed breakdown, and I'll ask him, like,
here are there any spots LSU may need to fill
in this spring portal window.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to him next. Coming up on Off the Bench.
Speaker 2: Off the Bench, back to sports Talk, maybe off the Bench.
Speaker 4: Welcome back in Monday edition of Off the Bench, Taylor
Sharpier with you filling in for Jacob Pastor and t
Bob Abay right now, want to go out to the
phone lines, talk a little LSU spring football. Bring in
Mike Scarborough from Tiger Bay dot Com. Mike, how are
you this morning?
Speaker 5: Hey? I'm doing good to it good be with me, man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks so much for making Tom Mike Okay, Look,
the LSU spring scrimmage, if you want to call it
the open practice to the fans, occurred on Saturday. Kind
of give you a broader question to start, whether it's
the game as a whole, orange of spring practice in general.
What's kind of been your biggest takeaway? Like anything surprised you,
either positively or negatively.
Speaker 5: Look, a lot of spring games are going, although I
think the previous two were decent as far as spring games,
you know, it's always a thing we say, the best
thing that comes out is that if you can get
at it without an injury, and of course you host
a lot of recruits on that day. But uh, Saturday
was really totally uneventful. And if you were trying to
look for something on Saturday to hang your hat on
to justify you get whether you had have LSU going
eleven and one or ten and two, I don't. I
don't think you saw it on Saturday.
Speaker 4: Any concern about the offensive line, I mean, I know,
like everyone talks about how talented this LSU offense can be.
Be like, oh, line probably the biggest question mark right now.
Speaker 5: Right it absolutely is Uh. I'd say O line and
safety Uh one for offense one for defense. I mean, look,
you can sit there and say, you know, at this
point the defense should be ahead of the offense. But look, man,
you've got a lot of new faces on defense. You
got a new defensive line coach, a lot of transfer
portal guys coming off the edge. Those were the guys
that impressed most during during the spring scrimmage. You know, look,
we know you can look at the resumes of everybody
they signed in the portal, top portal class in the country.
I've been out of every practice. I mean, there's a
lot to be excited about. But for the minutes that
we've been out at practice, I don't know. There's a
whole lot that where you see where coaches will say
so and so flash today or this and that. Sure
like Pyeburn, I sure like all the edge rushers, Robert
sceiver corps loaded. Despite Durham not being out there on Saturday,
I think that group's gonna be strong. But the offensive
line is a big worry and a lot of talent.
There a lot of size. I mean, when you look
at the old line and the D line and you
look at them coming at you on the practice field,
you're like, man, this is an impressive looking group. But
is this is this offensive line gonna be able to
produce a running game? And uh, you know, is Brad
Davis gonna get some scrutiny or is the end of
the microscope this upcoming football season? I say he is.
Speaker 4: Mike switching to the defensive side here real quick. You
were talking about how impressed you were with all the
edge rushers. What has been, in your opinion, the biggest
improvement defensively you've seen during the spring, Like, is it
a drusher?
Speaker 1: It could be maybe the dB group.
Speaker 5: Uh, I'm gonna say the ed rushers. Uh, I keep
saying in our practice reports. Uh, I know, man Steward
Delaine is a very good cornerback. But has there been
a multiple days where we've been out there and there's
this fifty to fifty balls and he's, uh, you know,
one more more often than not against the Chris Hilton.
We just haven't seen those type of things. It's not
it's not to say it's not happening during the minutes
that we're not out there. I still think safety is
the concern, though, you know, whether it's mean Tolviano by
our tuble had seven tackles on Saturday, and the Spears
of course had a couple in. But yeah, I like
that they've got safety in numbers at corner and safety.
But I don't think we're gonna know what they've got
until they we see him against Clemson. Uh, we get
two more practices, we get a little bit more time
out there tomorrow, we get Brian Kelly after that, and
then again on Thursday, and then players and that'll be
the end of spring.
Speaker 4: As far as the secondary goes. Mike Mike Scarborough and
Tagerbay dot Com joining us. Now, you know, you got
a lot of bodies there at corner safety, not necessarily
the case, like is that somewhere you can see Brian
Kelly maybe dipping into the spring portal window.
Speaker 5: He could if there's one that he thinks he could
help him. You know, I think if there's a defensive
tackle there that if they think could be of help,
and and and the price tag's not high, uh, that
they'll go for somebody there to be realistic. I was,
you know, talking to some guys about the LSU roster.
What will be the over and under on how many
LSU guys get in the portal? And I don't know
what you think, but kind of think of three or four?
Is that probably a high end?
Speaker 4: I don't know, Mike, as far as you know, whether
it's the portal or anything like that, Like what do
you you know? You mentioned defensive tackle like dipping into
in the portal. But as far as on the field goes,
obviously they lose Bo Davis, they bring in Kyle Williams.
What have you seen from Kyle Williams out there practice?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I just I like how it gazed he is
and it looks like the players have responded to him.
I'm hearing a lot of positive things. I mean, certainly
a guy like sadeor Mitchell who came in was recruited
by Bo Davis, transferred in LSU. You know, heard things
that he was exactly happy when he got the word today,
which was leaving. But I think when you bringing a
guy like Kyle Williams, who's highly revered up in Buffalo
and his NFL career ended not too long ago, Uh,
that had to have been an eye opener. Despite not
having much experience coaching defensive lineman other than at the
high school level, seen some new drills out there that
we haven't seen before. So he brought some of that,
but there's no denying the fact that, uh, he knows,
he knows the position, and I think he's.
Speaker 6: Uh, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I like what I see. I just like the way
the interaction that I see out of him with with
his players, with his group.
Speaker 4: Mike switching back to the offense, you're a little bit
you know, the tight end position. You obviously lose Mason Taylor,
who's like your most productive tight end you've ever had. Here,
you bring in Bauer Sharp, you obviously have Trade's Green
like bowershop is gonna be your more te additional tight end.
Speaker 1: Where do you see Trade as?
Speaker 4: I mean, I know like a lot of people like
him out wide, a lot of people like him. Is
that traditional tight end role? I mean you think he'll
kind of be that hybrid.
Speaker 5: I think he's gonna be. I mean, I would love
to know what their target weight for him is and
how many calories they're trying to put him these day.
Is there a is there a way that they say
this is the maximum we want to go to him. Uh,
if we go any heavier than that, he'll lose his
effectiveness as a receiver. At the same time, you want
him to be able to run, block and and and
move move the move the uh move his guy down
the red zone. You know, Bower Sharp is not exactly
a big guy either. That's what I was just kind
of like, you know, if you if you ever go power,
do you have the tight ends for power you? I
love what I've seen how they have been utilized in
Bower Sharp, Uh in practice, some of the plays we've
seen with him and quick flanks and so forth. If
they utilize some of that stuff in games, He's he's
an absolute weapon. And so yeah, I mean Lafloor obviously
has gotten bigger already, but he's a true freshman. You know,
I've kind of wondered for months out loud that you know,
if there was another tide end there where they get one,
not just because you not that you need one, that
maybe just need one for just for safety purposes in
case of you have an injury or two at that position.
Speaker 4: Mike Scarborough with us right now, Mike, before I get
you out of here, just one more for you offense,
defense wherever you want to go, like going into the fall,
leaving spring, what do you think Ellis use.
Speaker 1: The deepest position is.
Speaker 5: Wide receiver you know that when you start talking about
whos gonna get in the portal, I mean, they've got
so many capable wide receivers.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: Let me ask you this, if John Johnson wasn't needed
at quarterback, where would he.
Speaker 2: Be right now?
Speaker 1: Yeah? You know, I was.
Speaker 4: I was thinking about that the other day because, like
you know, with Colin Hurley coming back, I'm like, do
you move into defense? Do you keep him at running back?
It's like you're not going to play him at a receiver? Yeah, No,
I get it, Like that's such a deep group.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And so you look at uh, if you you know,
go one through whatever with your wide receivers, who's your
last wide receiver? And I guarantee you he's a very
good wide receiver. You know. Is there is there a
guy there or two that say, man, it's just too
deep here and I'm not going to get to play.
I think Juwan Johnson is a wide receiver, but he's
not a wide receiver at LSU, and he's certainly not
a wide receiver at LSU. But he keeps getting moved
around and doesn't get a chance to develop there.
Speaker 4: Mike, thanks for hopping on with us before we get
you out of here. Let people know where they can
find yourself.
Speaker 5: That's it. Go tiger Bak dot com our YouTube channel,
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at Scarborough Mike.
Speaker 4: All right, Mike, thanks for hopping on with us today.
Man soon yep, it's Mike Scarborough with Tigerbait dot Com.
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Speaker 4: Eight o'clock hour here on a Monday off the bench.
Taylor Sharp here with you, filling in for Jacob Hester
and t Bob Abear Laundre.
Speaker 1: Tell me if you've heard this before.
Speaker 4: Okay, the LSU Tigers got swept at an SEC road
series this weekend.
Speaker 1: We already talked about.
Speaker 8: This, right Unfortunately, I don't think we have.
Speaker 4: That's true because this is the softball team, not the
baseball team. Both swept in the exact same weekend. Look,
we mentioned it at the start of the show.
Speaker 1: Guys. Not a great weekend for LSU athletics.
Speaker 4: It was kind of a carbon copy of what we
saw from the baseball team. So on Friday, your starting pitcher,
Sydney Burzon, who has been your ace for multiple years now,
got hit and got hit often. The Tigers lose game,
won twelve to seven to Texas A and M of
all teams, like it had to be Texas A and M.
Here's Burson stat line. I mean, we're used to Burson
going a full seven innings. No reliever comes in like
she she's pretty much as she has as long a
leash as you want to give her. Four innings, eight hits,
nine runs, six of them earned.
Speaker 1: Four walks, only one strikeout.
Speaker 4: I don't think you'll ever see a Sydney Burson stat
sheet like that ever. Again, especially the one strikeout. I mean,
this is a pitcher who has been a dominant SEC
pitcher for multiple years now. So again, your starting pitcher
wasn't great. What happened on Saturday? A and M wins
a close one, nine to seven.
Speaker 1: What happened.
Speaker 4: LSU had a late rally, They got down by seven
runs in this ball game, and they had to try.
Speaker 1: To come back at the very end. Couldn't do it.
Speaker 4: Fell up a fell a couple runs short, not unlike
LSU's four to two loss to Auburn on the baseball field.
What happened in that game, Jaydon Heavener. She was charged
with the loss. Gives up seven runs, five hits, one walk,
just one strikeout, went two thirds of an innings, and
did not even make it out of the first inning. Now,
for what it's worth, maybe one of the only bride
spots for the saltball team, Ashley Vallejo came in pitched
the final five and a third. She only allowed two
runs on three hits, struck out two. She actually came
in for Burzon on Friday as well, so she was
the first reliever out of the bullpen in both games.
Speaker 1: LSU.
Speaker 4: They fall behind by seven runs. They tried to battle back,
they fall just short. It's nine to seven on Saturday yesterday.
You get through the first three innings, the game is tied.
Nothing nothing, It's a low scoring ball game. And what
happens in the fourth inning. Texas A and M plates
four runs, a lot of it thanks to a three
run homer hit by Texas A and M. Starting pitcher
in that game, Tatum Clopton, maybe the only starting pitcher
this weekend that actually performed well for LSU. She does
five innings, gives up four hits, four earned runs, again
one of them off that three run homer, only walk
two did strike out too. But although she pitched fine,
she's kind of been your midweek starter. Hasn't been that
a game three. Game three has kind of been some
sort of combination of Emily Casanova and Ashley Valeo. Look
a lot like the LSU baseball team you're starting pitching struck. Wait, look,
your three starting pitchers were Burson, Heavener and Tatum Clopton.
Speaker 1: They gave up a combined a lot of runs.
Speaker 4: They gave up a combined fifteen runs this weekend. Fifteen
runs by your three starting pitchers.
Speaker 1: That's not winning. That's not winning softball.
Speaker 4: I mean, we talked about it with Kate Anderson, with
Anthony Ions, and with Chase Shores. None of them went
further than five innings. That's exactly what you saw in softball,
and a softball is obviously only seven innings, so that's
a lot further. But I mean, none of them, and
even Tatum Clfton wasn't that bad. She only gave up
four runs with fifteen runs in three games. I mean,
that's that's not going to get it done from your
starting pitchers.
Speaker 1: What happened.
Speaker 4: The bats were cold at the beginning of the game.
They tried to come back. The comeback fell just a
little short. You picked a bad weekend for it to
happen because you were rolling. You were number five in
the country. This is your first sweep from A and
M since you're joining the conference. A and M has
never swept you. Ay, you do it on the same
weekend as LSU gets swept. Look, both were top five
in the country. Both are going to fall from there. Alanda,
you said, U D one Baseball has LSU baseball where.
Speaker 3: Now it was Baseball America D One's Yeah, they were eighth,
so we droped five spots.
Speaker 4: That's probably about where the softball team is gonna be.
I mean, it's and look, it's not gonna get any easier.
We talk all the time about, oh well l Shue
baseball has this gauntlet of a schedule. Guys, look at
the softball team that's coming up. You got Texas at
Texas this coming weekend. It's a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, no
midweek for LSU softball for what it's worth, which is
probably a good thing. Then you play Florida, then you
have Arkansas on the road, then you have the SEC Tournament.
I mean, it's not gonna get any easier for the
softball team as well. It's just it's it's one of
those weekends where everything that could have went wrong did
because a lot like the baseball team you're starting, pitching
was really good on the softball team. I mean we
had talked about it, how big of an impact Jayden
Heavener made on this team, because in years past they
Barzon was dominant. Outside of that, you kind had to
piece your other two games together. With Burzon and Heavener,
you had two pitchers that could go the entire game,
did not have to use any bullpen arms. That wasn't
the case this weekend. On Friday or Saturday. It wasn't
the case for Kate Anderson, Anthony Irons, and Chase Shores.
I mean that's why you're like, oh, both teams got swept.
You know, it was a carbon copy. Bats were cold,
the pitching was awful at the beginning of the game.
Your bullpen came in, settled it down a little bit.
You tried to make a comeback at the end, but
you're playing top ten teams and you failed to make
a comeback. I mean, that's that's kind of what it
boils down to. And this is not I mean the
loangra was talking about Jay, you know, changing the matchups
or the lineup matchup based. Saltball didn't really do that.
I mean it was just all of your hitters. I
mean Tory Edwards, who is like one of the best
softball players in the country. She had an off week
Danica Coffee. She didn't get on base like she normally did.
In top to bottom one through nine on that saltball
roster is usually pretty good. They all picked the weekend
to be bad because you could say, okay, well they
they scored seven rounds on Friday and still lost. They
were in a seven to nothing hole. They had to
battle back. They were bad at the.
Speaker 1: Beginning of that game.
Speaker 4: I mean when I say it's a carbon copy of baseball,
it is a carbon copy of baseball because that's exactly
what happened to the Tigers this weekend. Both teams need
to bounce back. We mentioned LSU will play McNeice at
home in baseball. The softball team, for what it's worth,
no midweek game. I wish that was the case from Lajhue.
Because the Tigers looked really bad. They looked tired. I
wish they didn't have a MIDWEK game, but softball no
midweek game. They got a chance to kind of maybe
regroup fine too, some things, maybe change up some stuff
before they take on the Texas Longhorns this coming weekend.
All right, we're going to take a quick time out
and we get back. The Masters was this weekend. A
lot of people's favorite golfer took home that green jacket
for the first time in his career.
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Speaker 4: My welcome back in Monday edition of Off the Bench
Table Sharpie with your philling in for Jacob Pester and
Ta Bob Aber. Landra was out at the Strawberry Festival
this weekend and Landra, what was the best thing you ate?
Speaker 8: I don't know. I had a strawberry shortcake that was
really good.
Speaker 1: Was it from Ariti Booth?
Speaker 8: Yeah? It was?
Speaker 1: I forget, Oh never mind.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, maybe you remember, because that they
do the same every I can't remember.
Speaker 1: I think it.
Speaker 8: Their booth was super cute, like it was painted pink.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's either API or find. You can't not remember.
But uh yeah we uh we had the booth right
next to him.
Speaker 1: We used to sell.
Speaker 4: Uh we used to do red beans, corn nuggets, rod pickles.
That's what our booth did.
Speaker 3: Oh man, I love corn nuggets, and y'all know, I
made it part of my Master's meal. I love boodan
egg rolls, and there's a softball team out there that
was selling bud and egg rolls, so I was like, let.
Speaker 8: Me support this softball team. And also I.
Speaker 1: Love support myself with no I get it.
Speaker 8: So it was good. There's some crawfish out there.
Speaker 3: I didn't get any, though I should have because I
wanted some crawfish real bad this weekend.
Speaker 4: Speaking of making a meal and what a Launder's Master's
meal would be, We're gonna have a new Master's meal
next year. As Rory McElroy wins the Masters this season
in about as dramatic a fashion as you possibly could,
so if you were staying tuned throughout the week, Rory
was kind of, you know, hovering around two three under
Friday and Thursday and Friday kind of hovering around that
six or seven spot storms back on Saturday, hits a
sixty six after hitting a sixty six in round two
that put him at twelve under, so he was at
twelve under going into the final day. Bryson Deshambeau was
at ten under, and then there was a gap of
about eight under seven under, and I was like that,
if you remember, Justin Rose was the leader after the
first two days. We'll get to Justin Rose in a second,
but you know, Rory and Bryson de Shamba paired together
on the last day. I was pulling for both of
these guys. I think Bryson gets a lot of unnecessary
he hate. I mean, you know, I'm not a huge
golf watcher, but I watched that a little right along
he did with Donald Trump, and he just seemed like
a really fun guy. I mean, he was cracking jokes
the whole time.
Speaker 1: Like I get it.
Speaker 4: A lot of people are like, oh, well, Bryson de Shambau,
this is this and this. They get mad at every
single thing. Oh No, Bryson seems like, all right, guy.
I don't mind Bryson to Shambaud. I mean, Rory Mcarel
is a guy who's come so close in so many
Masters and just was never able to break through. A
lot of people wondered if he ever would. So Rory
comes in the final day twelve under. De Shambo comes
in at ten under. Those are the top two. Justin Rose,
who I mentioned, had to lead through the first two days.
Justin Rose came all the way back. He shot a
sixty six.
Speaker 1: In the final round.
Speaker 4: Rory, on the other hand, shot seventy three, so he
actually lost the stroke. So Rory finishes at eleven under.
But so does Justin Rose. Bryce said to Shambeau, he
fell apart. He shot seventy five. He lost three strokes.
Yesterday he finished tied for fifth with seven under. What
it's where Scotty Shaffer, everybody follow us. He finished fourth
and eight under him. That's kind of where he hovered
the entire tournament. I mean Friday. Friday did not have
a good day, but he still managed to finish like
six or seven unders. He kind of hovered it seven
or eight under the entire weekend. But Rory McElroy, Justin Rose,
they finish eighteen tied. They have to go into a playoff.
Justin Rose hits a bad shot, he sings it. It's
up to Roy McElroy if he can make it in
one less shot than justin Rose, he'll.
Speaker 1: Take it home. He has a pretty easy.
Speaker 4: Putt, he knocks it in and then ultimately wins the Masters.
But if you watch that video, like you saw the
emotion of Roy McElroy, I mean a lot of those golfers,
you know, they'll throw their hands up, they'll throw their club.
He did that, but he immediately fell to the ground.
He put his hands on his face and he just
started crying. I mean, Rory just started crying there in
front of everybody. You know, we know how big of
an obstacle this was for a guy like that. It
was exciting to see. So big congratulations to Rory McRoy.
Will obviously get to him uh in weekend winners. But okay,
what do we think Rory McElroy's Master's dinner will.
Speaker 1: Be next year?
Speaker 3: I gotta do some Google. I know nothing about Rory McElroy.
Speaker 1: So Rory is Northern Irish.
Speaker 3: I do know he had a terrible outfit on when
he threw out the first pitch with the Giants.
Speaker 1: Did you see he's from where Northern Ireland?
Speaker 8: So he's Irish?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I always thought he was American.
Speaker 1: No, he is. He is Irish.
Speaker 8: Probably some Irish food.
Speaker 4: I don't know, some peas, what's the the bangers and mash?
Speaker 8: Yeah, oh not.
Speaker 4: Irish food is not that great. I mean, like I
like a good Irish pub, but I'm chickens.
Speaker 1: Pie shepherds, okay, shepherd he did like a fancy shepherd's pie.
Speaker 8: Yeah, like a good shepherd.
Speaker 4: Plenty of alcoholic beverages and Jewish rum. Whether it's like
an Irish red Ale and be okay, I mean we're
getting into it. Guinness, Yeah, he could do a Guinness.
He could do like an Irish red Ale something like that.
I don't know the wine situation in Ireland, but uh no,
it's good to see Rory McElroy whin the uh the
Masters will continue to do a dive on what we
think Rory mclroy's going to do for his master's meal.
But look the guy who sits in this chair. One
to three, Hunt Palmer. You're going to see Hunt come
in here super super excited. You know, Hunt always like
he wants to pull for the American golfer, right, but
like Hunt came in today or Friday and he was like, guy,
he was like, I'm pulling for Rory.
Speaker 1: Wow, oh, I know, I know.
Speaker 4: We me and Musso gave him a little bit of
crap on Friday. But he's like, guys, Rory's never won.
He's he's such a nice guy, Like I have to
pull for Rory McRoy. And we know how Hunt feels
about live Golf, Like if you have ever considered playing
for live golf, like Hunt, Palmer wants nothing to do
with you.
Speaker 1: So he hates Price and Newshamba.
Speaker 4: He hates all these guys that went and played for
live Golf. But uh well, I confronted Hunt on mat
and Hunt admitted something laundrum. He admitted that if he
was offered four hundred million dollars to play on the
Live Golf Tour, he would also got God, he's such.
Speaker 1: A I told him. I was like, Hunt, you wouldn't
take that kind of money.
Speaker 4: I was like, I would. I don't care if they
make me sign it in my own blood. Wow, I'm
signing a four hundred million dollar contract. Because it's very
easy for everybody to sit up here and be like
I would never my morals, I'm loyal to the PGA
and Arabia.
Speaker 1: All this change.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you had four hundred million dollars in the face.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Like the difference between like us who's admitting it, and
somebody else you saying they wouldn't.
Speaker 1: Is that we're not lying.
Speaker 4: Everybody's taking that money. But like Hunt's ole point was, well,
I make the game of golf worst, Taylor. He's like,
take half of the best players in the NFL and
half the best players in the NBA, Like take them
out of the league. The league's worse because they're all
going to live. And so my thought process was kind
of like, okay, Hunt, but like, couldn't you just watch
and live golf instead?
Speaker 1: That didn't go over well, Huggers. I'll never watch a
second of Live golf trailer. They have ruined the PGA Tour.
Speaker 4: They they've just ruined golf, and them like, would you
take the money?
Speaker 1: He's like, if I'm those guys, I was like.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no, not if you're those guys, if
you were Hunt Palmer, would you take the money?
Speaker 1: He's like yeah, probably. I'm like, like, we can't be
like that.
Speaker 4: But but stick to your guns, right exactly exactly, stick
to your guns.
Speaker 3: They got this thing called soda bread in Irelen, a
quick bread made with baking soda, flour and buttermilk.
Speaker 8: All right, that just seems like normal bread.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like what, Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 4: I mean maybe the baking soda, but I mean, don't
I kind of feel like that's normal.
Speaker 8: I feel like you put baking soda.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so far the Irish food sounds like it sucks.
Speaker 8: Yeah, not a fan.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not like I'm an awful cook. I've
explained that to you guys multiple times. Cassie, I broke
a microwave cooking Easy Mac one time.
Speaker 8: How do you do that?
Speaker 4: Well, it's amazing what an extra zero does time wise.
I mean, you wouldn't think a zero would make that
big of a difference.
Speaker 8: So well, that's kind of.
Speaker 3: On you for not being like, huh oh no, no, no,
why would this take ten minutes in the microwa.
Speaker 4: That's about when I realized it was about ten minutes later.
So if you look at the easy mag it's the craft,
the Easy mag, everybody's had it. You look on the back,
it says add water to fill line, cook for three
minutes and thirty seconds. So I just punched the number
trying to tie three to thirty. I must have typed
like thirty three minutes. Keep in mind, I'm in like
seventh grade at this point. I'm sitting there watching TV,
and I'm like, I feel like it's been a long time.
Like I feel like it's been like at least ten minutes.
Now I stand up. I got to the kitchen. Kitchen
absolutely filled with smoke. I'm like, my mother is going
to kill me when she sees this. So I opened
the microwave. It's sparking in there and everything. I have
to take it out. Like the bowl in the mac
and cheese just looks like a big pile of like
black ash. At this point, that's pretty much what this
mac and cheese looked like. And the microwave was sparking.
We tried doing it like we tried cooking something else
and it sparked. Immediately, had to get rid of it.
I had to get another microwave. Luckily, I was only
in seventh grade and didn't have a job, so I
actually did not have to buy the next microwave, even
though I probably should have. But anyways, long story short,
shout out Rory McElroy for winning the Masters completes the
career Grand Slam. He has now won each of the
four major tournaments that professional golf has to offer. The
Masters was obviously the hurdle he never thought he could
get over, but he ultimately does. All right, look, that's
going to do it. For hour number two, we got
one more hour left. We have been jam packed with
LSHU news, the New Orleans Saints. We just tuck the
little Masters there. Coming up an hour number three, we're
gonna have some fun. We got weekend winners coming up
at nine am. Devin Snow is going to hop on
with us at nine p fifteen. We'll see where that
conversation goes. Devin's a guy that likes to hit a
bunch of different topics. And then I do want to
mention Nico Iamaliava news that well just tickled me to
death on Saturday. Happened to Nico i'am aliava and the
Tennessee Volunteers football program. We'll get into all of that,
so stay tuned. That's all coming up. We'll close it
out with us the bench as we do every did
after Bench