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Try how many milligrams we're going with caffeine in there?
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you just whispering the wind, see.
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I drink four cups of coffee here seven to ten?
Speaker 6: Yeah I can. I can't drink a cup of coffee
at nine thirty at night? Yeah, and be asleep.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Probably mean to that as well. Can we get to
my high with caffeine?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Actually we've actually been working on that for a while.
But well we have because I have a couple of
friends that every time I see them, are like, you
got it?
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old or not? I think you know that you were in.
You said multiple times you're all in. I mean I can.
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the one making it, are you? Are you certified to
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originates it, but anyone getting like blended?
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I wanted to know if you could ever get in
that vault, you get that my high recipe. Yeah.
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into my body. If you were the one doing all
the figuring out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's a big deal.
Speaker 6: I mean, knowing that recipe, it's like coke, like not
everybody knows the full recipe.
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guys know a little bit over there.
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close to figuring out the full recipe.
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like it.
Speaker 6: I can't speak of this right now, why because I
need people to come work for you so I can
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Speaker 5: It feels like something you really do. It does feel
like something you really do. Tata laid out the show
very excited. We're gonna have Ross Jackson join us, talk
a little New Orleans Saints coming up in twenty five minutes.
We do have Jay Johnson, else you had baseball coach.
We've got Mikey Matzuk joining us at nine. Of course
we've got chef Michael Johnson as well. We got a lot,
a lot to get to excited to catch up with
coach Jay Johnson, though, I mean a lot of questions
certainly that want to ask about last week and then
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Speaker 5: All right, and we will dive into a little LSU baseball,
and before we get into like the nitty gritty, because look,
we're gonna have the head coach on coming up in
our number two. We're gonna have Mikey Matuk who played
and won a college World Series title, played in the
big leagues, and so you know, going to lean on
them certainly to break it all down. But just from
a mindset, just from a we are hosting a super
regional West Virginia, the Big twelve regular season champ is
coming to town. I'm excited for the opportunity to see
how LSU responds because I felt like they responded incredibly
well to getting punched in the mouth on Sunday night
by Little.
Speaker 7: Rock, and they got punched again to start.
Speaker 2: The game on Monday.
Speaker 5: And there's a lot of people out there as a narrative,
it's like, oh my gosh, look what you had to
do against Little Rock. But if we're being honest and
we're not just sitting there and saying, well, you're LSU,
you should win that game. Look across the country, Look
across the country. What happened in baseball? And you had
teams that went out there and were not afraid to
do whatever it took and to change their game and
play the best version of themselves. And look, we could go,
we could go to Nashville, we could see what right
state did they knock out the number one overall seed.
Speaker 2: Columbia gets a win in Hattiesburg.
Speaker 5: Saint Mary's got to win in Corvallis right against Oregon State.
We can go to Eugene where it was Arizona, but
remember Utah Valley beat Oregon who was the one seed.
We can go to Conway, South Carolina where East Carolina
was the three seed. We can go to Auburn, Alabama
where Stetson had some success. Look, we can pretty much
go to any regional that you want to. You look
at what happened in Athens, Like Oklahoma State is a
three seed, had some success, Murray State is a four seed.
In Oxford they advance and so now they're going to
be in a superregional. And then UTSA beat beat road Runners.
I mean they go win in Austin, Texas, and so
this is college baseball like things like that are going
to happen.
Speaker 2: Can you respond?
Speaker 5: And there's been times in elshu's history that they didn't
respond and they lost Stony Brook, Right, we all remember
twenty twelve. So like the fact that they did have
Little Rock come into town, put up football scores against
Dallas Baptist and Rhode Island, a team that was playing
whatever the best version of themselves was, and they found
a way. I am not going to like dock points
from you are confidence from you because that happened.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's I was listening to you go down that
list of all the sites, all the success these smaller
schools were having against the big boys, the powerhouses, the
guys you expect to see in supers every single year.
I was like, you know, normally, normally you see that
because there's a couple of schools that have some dogs
at pitcher right and they're gonna they're gonna pull pull
some games out when they just got some dudes pitching.
But it seemed like this year, just walk watching and
looking and listening to this list and seeing the scores
on the ticker, it's like this is spread out. There
is a ton of parody. And I know baseball is
a streaky sport and a team can get hot. You
mentioned the Stony Brook again, like team can get hot,
but seems pretty consistent all around the country. We were
seeing these teams come in and compete, and if they
didn't win it, they were certainly pushing people in scaring.
So if I'm Jay, and I mean I kind of
like to ask them it's coming off of this past weekend,
I would have to feel that Jay's job besides the
the I'm gonna say the exos that's not ex's and
o's in baseball, But besides like the strategy, game plan,
the line.
Speaker 5: That actually talks in football terms a lot when it
comes to baseball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, beautiful.
Speaker 6: I would say, like I'm sitting there with Jay, if
you if your team is full of some dogs, like,
if you got a championship type of mentality, your job
is pretty easy from a motivational standpoint. We look at
it and I always kind of compare to the football
terms when you have that wake up call in the
middle of the season against a team you should beat
and they drive you to the to the edge, but
you somehow get to you somehow pull it out and
win at the end, Hey, you get that wake up
call with not having to have the loss on your mind.
So if you got some dogs on your team, they're like,
all right, we almost like we were one like spastic
pitcher away from going home right, being done right. So
I would think that the motivation is there. I would
think that these boys want to get back on the
field as fast as they can.
Speaker 2: So got West Virginia coming in.
Speaker 6: I'm not sure they are excited like you got a
big you got a big name on the hat, big
name on the jersey coming in yep. And I would
think from a motivational standpoint, those guys in the locker
room are looking at each other motivating themselves after something
like that.
Speaker 2: It shouldn't take a lot.
Speaker 5: I mean, this is a big twelve regular season champ
as a team that was forty four and fourteen, nineteen
to nine in conference play. You saw what they just
did in Clemson South Carolina, right, They take care of
Kentucky after being down. It was one of the better
games of the opening day in postseason play, they come back,
they beat Kentucky four to three. They go beat Clemson
in their own ballpark nine to six, and then it
was a high scoring affair. They take care of Kentucky
and game number six did not force the game number seven.
Speaker 2: Thirteen to twelve.
Speaker 5: And we talked about it, and always want to throw
this point back up there. Alandra and Tata talked about
West Virginia and it was one team they did not
want to face. So I'm gonna put you on spot
a little bit here. What was the one thing that
made y'all feel like okay? Out of Clemson out of Kentucky,
all these teams that are in the Clemson Regional, this
is the one that actually you hope you don't see.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 4: For me, it was a combination of pitching and hitting.
Like we talked about it yesterday. Damn near three hundred
batting average across the board. Now they don't need a
ton of home runs, but they can hit for average.
Their team ERA is four point three, so they've been
solid on both And everyone's going to point out, like
I mentioned yesterday, twenty four and five on the road,
Everyone's going to point out they played a lot of
February games on the road against some not very good teams.
Speaker 2: They did, but take competition out of it.
Speaker 4: They still know how to win away from their home ballpark,
which is what they did in Clemson. Like this team,
I'm just a bit impressed with what they've done. I mean,
we talked about Griffin Kern yesterday and like his era
doesn't blow you away, but one hundred k's to twenty
nine walks, Like they're just super consistent across the board.
Speaker 2: Who's the most famous person from West.
Speaker 3: Virginia, like from the school or the state the state?
Speaker 2: Nick Saban? Who else is from nobody else.
Speaker 5: Uh huh, all right, we're gonna go through. Yeah, jimbo Fisher, Sure,
Jim Fisher.
Speaker 6: So Taylor, So you're thinking West Virginia wins this weekend,
I didn't say that.
Speaker 2: I want to know. I want to know right here.
I don't.
Speaker 3: I think ELSU gets it done.
Speaker 2: But how many games?
Speaker 4: I think it goes three?
Speaker 3: I think West Virginia wins at least.
Speaker 2: One game, which one second? First? No, see, I don't
think when you bad jud you like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not trying to.
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to hold on. I want to come
back next Monday.
Speaker 5: Yeah, able to ridicule y'all were all wrong.
Speaker 2: You're all wrong.
Speaker 5: Quick Google search tells me Nick Savian is not the
most famous person from West Virginia is an entertainer.
Speaker 2: It's an actress whoa an actress from what.
Speaker 5: It was, who was once married to another very famous actor.
Speaker 2: There's so many of those. I mean, I don't have
a guess.
Speaker 6: Ah, Demmie Moore, I don't know why, but I was
gonna no way we are.
Speaker 5: No, it's not even more Alandra, I want to take yes,
her husband a time frame of her husband very Boston.
Speaker 3: Okay, So who was married to Mark Wahlberg. Is that
Damon ben Affleck.
Speaker 5: Jennifer Jennifer Garner. She is the most famous person from
West Virginia. Notable runner ups Jerry West of course the
logo n b A don knotts.
Speaker 2: Would Randy Moss?
Speaker 5: Okay, oh yeah, white Chocolate j Jason Williams and Brad Paisley.
Speaker 4: Doesn't that West Virginia though, they kind of kind of
got a little bit category.
Speaker 5: I mean, how is white chocolate not higher up on
this list? I want to know they watched his mixtape?
Speaker 2: Do y'all think have great? It's mix tape which they
has the like the the least amount of Alaska has.
All right, let's go there. Now, you're just saying, hey,
you don't count. No, I'm not saying that just because
you're dapping up Russia.
Speaker 6: You don't count when that ice bridge freezes over Idaho, Idaho.
Speaker 2: Yeah, West Virginia's got to be up there.
Speaker 6: I feel if you're Jennifer Barner, celebrity, the all State chick,
you're telling her, I.
Speaker 7: Don't think you say chicken the Year of Our Lord
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: I can't. Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Okay, Wait so confused. Something's going on in the chat
right now? Do you remember last night t Bob texted
the OTB group chat he said something about like a
Landra if that was you?
Speaker 2: And ute? Yeah? What was?
Speaker 3: I'm so I don't know. I'm confused because they're asking
about it Barner group chat like Blake Miller the or
in the YouTube chat goes Landra, would you like to
tell the class what you said in the snout's calm it?
And then they said, uh, that snap's comment was wild
o L And I have no idea. I did not
say that. That is crazy.
Speaker 2: Somebody, wait a minute, Bob's still doing snaps. Yeah, I
did see that. That dude's been gone from here for
a moment. Weeks, three weeks, and.
Speaker 3: I'm so confised. I will say, I don't watch snaps
like at all, so I'm.
Speaker 2: Usually on there.
Speaker 3: I don't watch that, so I didn't comment that. But
that was crazy.
Speaker 7: I don't know what the comment was.
Speaker 3: It's an insane com.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right? And his comment.
Speaker 4: Talking about the headache yesterday from no caffeine? Have you
blocked out?
Speaker 2: Do that crazy? I'll ever accidentally hit that microphone button
on your text?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: It catches everything. You say that all the time all
the time.
Speaker 6: No, I was not like you slowly, very carefully move
my finger to the X button so it doesn't send.
Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, all right, don't slip, you're shaking it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that X, like the exit out button is way
too it's uncomfortably close to the send button.
Speaker 5: I do love some of my friends are voice textures, though, like.
Speaker 2: When they don't say they are they.
Speaker 5: I don't know if they don't want like the messages
out there younger than the six things.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow. The only people I know that voice text
are hello.
Speaker 5: I mean, I actually do kind of love it. I
do kind of love a voice text. I don't do
it ever unless I'm talking to certain people who do
it first. But I do love a good voice text.
Speaker 6: You mean like voice as in you speaking to it
and then your your voice is what they hear or
you speaking.
Speaker 2: To it and it writes it. No, no, no, your voice
is what they are.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, that's that's a little bit more understandable.
I get that.
Speaker 7: But it's the talk to text you're talking about.
Speaker 2: The talk to text.
Speaker 4: As you can tell too, there's like no punctuation like
one it's bad.
Speaker 2: It's bad, especially when you're a redneck.
Speaker 7: It's real bad. Like that is not what I said, clearly.
Speaker 2: It is motoring yourself a redneck. SI you thinks I am.
I don't think so. You kind of wear skinny jeans sometimes.
Speaker 7: That's just because I got a big button, big dies.
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I got it big A lot
of money to look that type. Uh, the more money
for skinnier.
Speaker 6: Jeans, I think so. I think so you gotta like, hey,
just call out what type of gene it is just
because you got a weak chin and baby Cakes doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Baby Cakes.
Speaker 5: Most famous person from Idaho on the way out it
is a actor, and I will say that he is
most famous for a show that involves a lot of drugs.
Speaker 2: There's so many shows.
Speaker 3: Are the Jesse Pinkman or whatever?
Speaker 2: You're pretty close?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean Brian Cristenson forget.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Breaking Bad? Yeah? Pretty close? Is that the show?
Speaker 3: No, m that's crazy. Nobody's believing me that I didn't
say this. But I did not say.
Speaker 5: This, Taylor, You're very close. Aaron Paul from Breaking Bad's.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, I forgot his name.
Speaker 2: He's the most famous guy from Idaho.
Speaker 5: Yeah, which I actually want to protest because Jake the
Snake plumbers from Idaho.
Speaker 2: Yeah there.
Speaker 4: I bet New Mexico has an awful celebrity list.
Speaker 6: Website because Saban wasn't even on your West Virginia website.
Speaker 5: All right, well, I mean we we here know that
coach Nick Saban's very, very famous, but you know, is
he more famous than Jennifer Garner?
Speaker 4: If you go on the street, though, people are gonn
no Saban over freaking don not.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like two on that list. I think Jennifer
Garner maybe fifteen years ago.
Speaker 7: Whole question of the day, who's more famous Nick Saban
or Jennifer Garner.
Speaker 2: I think it's a no brainer. I'm not arguing in
my opinion. I mean, I love coach.
Speaker 6: That's a great question, though, because you kind of got
like an obscure.
Speaker 2: Like B list actress B list, like the top top,
top tier.
Speaker 5: All right, Well, I gotta take a break because I
still need to figure out what Elandra said in the Snaps.
Speaker 2: Comment section yesterday.
Speaker 5: And I'm also a little thrown off that T Bob's
still doing snaps even though he's been gone from here
for a.
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Speaker 2: I don't, but I'm excited about it. Yeah, I can
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that song was. But it's gonna be a lot of
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I can't remember if it was a tape or a tape. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: If it was a like an album, it was the
one that opened up with plastic. If it was just
a single. It would come in a sleeve with some
plastic over, you know, just normal plastic.
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Speaker 5: National Championship Baseball Sports LSU does have the best odds
to win the National Championship. LSU comes in at five
to two Arkansas four to one, followed by Tennessee at
five to one, North Carolina at seven to one. You've
got Alburn and Oregon State at ten to one, Florida
State at twelve to one, Coastal Carolina at fourteen to one.
And if I was to make a bet, because you
know me, I like like the long odds. I don't
really ever play the favorites. I want like, you know,
and juice. I want some juice, but also like ten
thousand something like that, you know me.
Speaker 2: Coastal Carolina at fourteen to one.
Speaker 5: Verty nice looking at that one UCLA sixteen.
Speaker 2: I want to take a look at that one. You
might want to hold onto that one.
Speaker 5: Duke eighteen to one, Louisville twenty five to one, UTSA
thirty three to one, Arizona at thirty five to one.
Speaker 2: Oh take them thirty five to one, a team that
just rolled through and is uber hydrated.
Speaker 5: The Hugene Regional, Miami thirty five to one, West Virginia
fifty to one, and let's choose opponent. And then Murray
State won twenty five to one. The ten bucks on
Murray State, you're getting twelve fifty.
Speaker 2: That's those kind of odds that I'm talking about.
Speaker 6: Yeah, never know, they get hot, Arizona's hydrated.
Speaker 7: We found out West Virginia's hydrated.
Speaker 2: Guess West Virginia.
Speaker 6: That's good, like big odds because LSU's the favorite, but
that well, fifty five to one, so she said, fifty
to one, fifty to one.
Speaker 5: If you're taking a look at these, like, if you
all right, if you don't want to play LSU and
you want a little bit of juice there, I think
North Carolina is a hell of a play at seven
to one.
Speaker 7: With the way that they went through their regional.
Speaker 5: I don't think Auburn has has what it takes to
go win a national championship.
Speaker 2: A lot of people like them at ten to one.
Speaker 5: I love Coastal at fourteen to one, and I look,
I throw a couple of shekels at Arizona at thirty
five to one.
Speaker 2: Yeah for sure, I mean obviously els she's gonna win.
Speaker 5: But look, you're betting, You're betting with feelings, you're betting
with emotion, a little hedge. Done it before, right, Oh,
no doubt. Every week you bet, I'll bet this team.
But if LSU wins, I basically paid for LSU to
win a national championship.
Speaker 2: So you gotta look at it.
Speaker 5: Which were worth it, which we'd all do, totally worth it,
every single one of us would do it.
Speaker 6: It's kind of like throwing the reverse jinks because like,
none of my bets ever hit. Yeah, so if I
bet on everybody else, then we're guaranteed to win.
Speaker 5: So so my afternoon show. A lot of times during
softball and baseball season, there'll be a game that starts
like an hour before us. It's like, okay, well, y'all
will pick it up right when that game ends. But
if this team wins, then there's no show today, and
you still get paid because you know you planned on
doing the show, and we get paid per show.
Speaker 2: It's how it works.
Speaker 5: So I it's an absolute we're like, oh and fourteen
in those situations and getting the day off, I mean,
oh for fourteen and me and each and the producers.
Next time it happens, we're like, why are we not
betting against this? So the next time that it happens,
there's gonna be a large wager on the team that
if they win, they forced another game, large one.
Speaker 2: It's oh for forty. It's hard to do that and anything.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I know, I'm sitting there thinking, like, man, that
afternoon off.
Speaker 2: Show. Yeah, three hour.
Speaker 6: Show, but sometimes it cuts down to like a thirty
minute show, right because of those games.
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, that's that's happened before. And when it
goes like rain delay, Yeah yeah, Raindow. I've done a
thirteen minute show before.
Speaker 6: If I was you, I was your boss, I'd make
you do that whole three hours, even if you weren't
on air.
Speaker 2: That's well, it's not how it works.
Speaker 5: And certainly because like a lot of times after me,
Coach K has his show. I don't know why, but
Coach K is a little bit ahead of me in
the pecking order.
Speaker 2: They bump you for Coach K. Yeah, amateurs, amateur hour. Dude,
are we doing Coach K?
Speaker 5: But probably Hey, he's got the quarter named after him.
They're at Cameron and you don't have your high school
jersey retired.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you can just say one letter and everybody in
the world knows who he is.
Speaker 2: That's actually a really good point. You say coach K
and everybody knows what you're talking about. E J has
to take a seat. Yeah, got K coming in, So yeah,
he pushes us. I get it, all right, makes sense.
Not mad at it.
Speaker 7: If it was like, you know, give me a really
bad basketball coach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. You know that.
Speaker 7: I almost said like four names and I know them personally.
Speaker 2: Can't do that. Not great though, I can't do that.
I can't do that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, But if it was that guy that almost said, yeah,
sure John, all right, how.
Speaker 2: Did y'all do this year?
Speaker 6: Like in baseball betting, I didn't bet based predictions.
Speaker 2: Okay, predictions betting. I mean we've been pretty decent.
Speaker 5: I mean in the SEC like I had l s U,
Arkansas and A and M. I bought into the A
and the hype just like everybody did. But those were
the three teams. I think that I had going the
farthest out of the SEC. Two are still alive, one
didn't make the tournament, So I feel like I definitely
need to get doctor major points from that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, two need to go deep. Yeah yeah, I
don't know.
Speaker 5: I mean, Alandra, I don't remember you waxing poetic too
much about a team that just fell off the rails
this season.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I can't think of one where I was like, oh,
they're gonna be good. The only thing that like I
was kind of off about was the Texas thing, Like
I thought they were overrated, and honestly, they still might
be because they didn't even make it out their own regional.
Speaker 5: But it's true. You were pretty Yeah, yeah, that's true.
It's actually a good one. You were pretty like, hey,
Texas is not as good as everybody says.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's actually a good one.
Speaker 3: And I kind of still feel that's true. Like I
understand they had a good season and everything, but I
still kind of feel like that's true given that they
played all the easy teams on the road and their
home schedule was like the quote unquote tough one. And
then you go into the SEC like you're regular season champions,
but you go into the tournament, you don't make it
too far and then you get knocked out your own
regional by UTSA, by Little Brother. You know. Yeah, so
maybe I was like off, but maybe they're not as
overrated as I thought they were. But they didn't make
it further than LSU did. But I can't think of
a team that I was like, oh, they're super good
and then they weren't.
Speaker 4: Yeah, nobody was like champion in this team, but I
think we all felt like Kentucky would be better than
they weren't. I mean none of us were like he's
gonna win the SEC.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they made to help a run last year.
Speaker 4: That was a thing that came into the season with hype.
Speaker 2: I mean I guess outside of A and.
Speaker 5: M, Yeah, after what they did last year, that's that's
another good team and because of the style of play
that they played, we think maybe they would be able
to continue on with that success. And look, they got
to the postseason by I mean just here and their
chinny chin chin. They got to the postseason and like
they had they got to the regional final series. Uh yeah,
Kentucky certainly one that we had a bigger, bigger not
hopes and that's in here rooting for Kentucky about we
thought that they would be a team that maybe had
a chance to get back to Omaha. Yeah.
Speaker 6: What I just heard in this whole conversation was that
y'all don't have like a betting segment on this show.
Speaker 2: We do here in football.
Speaker 6: Yeah, betting is year round people.
Speaker 7: I know it is, but there's some look and betting
college baseball is tough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm it was easy. Everybody would do.
Speaker 4: It's like we well, for football, we do on Friday,
but like baseball, it's like do we pick game one?
Speaker 2: Do we pick the series? Like it's a little bit,
a little bit more difficult, Gotta go some series props.
Speaker 3: Then we should bet like who's gonna make it out
the supers like a super parlay.
Speaker 5: Yeah we can, we can parlay that. Yeah, all right,
we gotta take a break. We've got Ross Shackson joining
us coming up here on OTV.
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Speaker 5: All right, Welcome back in Little R and B Thursday
Here on the OTB, I Guy Ross Jackson losing on
sports dot Net, joins us now talk a little New
Orleans Saints Ross always our pleasure.
Speaker 9: How you doing, sir, hey Man doing great, doing great?
Glad to be here with you guys.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: So Derek Carr uh saved the Saints thirty million dollars
and he came out yesterday and was like, I just
didn't think it was right to, you know, take that
money and if I had surgery and not play, and
so it kind of came off like, Okay, maybe he
did the Saints a solid Ross. I mean, I don't
know that Saints fans are ever going to be a
fan of Derek Carr, but do we think maybe in
this one instance, it's like Okay, well, hey, thanks Bud.
Speaker 2: We appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Look, the way that I kind of look at this
story is, you know, I think the only person we're
ever going to hear anything from about why the thirty
million dollars actually went back is from Derek Carr. He's
the only personal ever you're talking about this. I think
that it's kind of been given to him as sort
of his thing, and so I don't know that a
lot of Saints fans are going to buy it right
off the bat, like thirty million dollars. Like I will
tell you one hundred percent, Derek Carr is very nice guy,
met him in the locker room, got talked to a
bunch of the course in two years, who's here, very
nice guy. But I don't know if anybody is thirty
million dollars nice. I think that's a very different conversation.
And so, uh and if there is anybody out there
that's thirty million dollars nice, I'm here and I'm listening, and.
Speaker 8: So, you know, we gotta do.
Speaker 9: We don't know exactly what always down behind the scenes
and everything like that, but like, look the things gave
him his ten million dollar roster bonus, he gave back
the thirty million dollar base galery, and then they moved
walk away as amicably as possible from all of this.
I think that's the thing that's most important is that
the team ends up utilizing that money in the best
way possible as they move forward in order to make themselves,
you know, back into contenders. And that's going to be
the biggest thank you. That's going to be a thank
you back to the fan base that says, hey, this
didn't work, but here's here's what's going to happen with
this money. I think that becomes the biggest thing for them,
and of course that's going to be the goal, right
and so they'll get that thirty million dollars back over
the course of the next two years, we'll see what
they're able to do with it in terms of rebuilding
the team.
Speaker 2: Ross.
Speaker 5: There's one player and you actually highlighted this player during
you know OTAs that I want to ask you about
because when he signed his new deal with the Saints,
there's a lot of people questioning how much money it
was compared to what the production was. But we kind
of forgot about it because, as you well know, because
you got to write about it. This has not been
a quiet all season for the New Orleans Saints. I
mean it has been something that we have been able
to come here every single day almost and have like
some new news. But that player would be Chase Young
coming off the edge for the New Orleans Saints. It's
a position where a lot of people Ross thought maybe
they'd select somebody in the draft and use one of
their top picks perhaps if the right guy was there.
They don't, And now you've got a guy that you're look,
it's a pretty good salary for the production you had
from a year ago. What are you expecting from Chase Young,
your number two in New Orleans?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean he's going to be a featured role
in this New Brandon's daily defense. When you turn around
and make your I mean he was their biggest investment, right,
I mean, the big, biggest monetary investment. You know, you
can make the argument that a first round pick at
the big investment as well. That's not percent correct, But
in terms of the biggest monetary investment that this team
made three years, fifty one million dollars with intensives that
can take it up to fifty seven million dollars over
it still the lifespan. That's a big investment from this
New Orleans Saints team. And they bring him back because
he was one of the most disruptive players last season
at his position, number six in the NFL according to
NextGen Stats when it comes to pressures with seventy three.
The issue is that didn't finish play successfully at the quarterback,
only walked away with five and a half sticks, and
so you'd like to see that number tick up. But
I do think that this Brandon Stately defense, which is
going to deploy him as more of a stand up
pen you ears back and be an edge rusher, get
after the quarterback style player, I think that's going to
fit Chase Young very well. My understanding is that he's
down in terms of weight as well, playing around to
sixty to sixty five, and so they're letting him be light,
They're letting them be free. They're letting him use his
speed and athleticism to get after the quarterback, which are
more so parts of his trademark. And so I think
that he fits pretty well with what it is that
the Saint's new vision is, and so much that guys
like him and Carl Granderson, who's also slimmed down this offseason,
the things feel very comfortable moving ahead with him sort
of as the premiere focus as the pass rushers, and
those were two players that were within the top fifteen
last year in quarterback pressures. The next number that needs
to pick up is that sack production to make that
monetary investment, you know, fully.
Speaker 2: Play off Ross. What's up, brother, This is Matt Flynn.
Good to get connected with you.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 6: Look, we got like a full blown official quarterback competition,
so I'm going to be all over this with you.
So this is what I'm the most intrigued about as
well as everybody else. So just I guess from a
from a wide view perspective, being a practice right now,
what have you seen so far from both the young boys?
Speaker 9: Yeah, first of all, congratulations, dude's super excited to have you,
like for you to be here and everything like that,
Like we we the Marketer, are very lucky for your
thanks and son. Yeah, I think that, like when you
look at the kind of battle that's going on with
to youst you guys, and look, it's a genuine quarterback battle.
I think it's more genuine than that Jamis Winston Taysom
Hill quarterback battle they had a few years ago that
felt like that was Jamis Winston's job the whole way through.
But this feels a little bit more like a genuine thing.
I think that what we're seeing so far is the
tale of two quarterbacks that can both make big plays.
But to me, the tale is that Sincer Ratler has
been a little bit more consistent while Tyler Shuck has
shown you the bigger place. And so the big question
now becomes which of those two things is most beneficial
for this time? And then where's the growth between now
and by the time that they hit a football field
in August in the preseason. And so I think that
whichever one of them takes the biggest or THEO shows
the greatest amount of growth between now and then, that's
going to be the guy that walks away. The thing
that I like to try to remind people of is
and as you know very well through both of you,
the game of football is not made up of sixty
yard plays. The sixty yard plays are big, but the
NFL game is made up of three to ten yard
games if you're lucky. And so the big thing for
me when you look at these two quarterbacks is which
one of them is going to consistently be to move
an offense with consistency and efficiency. The Saints and the
Eagles last year, just looking, you know, making the Kellen
Moore comparison were separated in twenty plus yard plays by
just two plays last season, but yet their end results
were wildly different from one another. One of the big
reasons why is the Eagles were more efficient. They ran
eighty two more plays, they scored one hundred more points,
they got more help from the other phases of the
game as well. And so I think that when you
look at which one of these quarterbacks would be the
quarterback that's to sport for me, consistency and efficiency, which
matches kind of the trademarks of Kellen Moore, are going
to be the most important thing. I'm not ready to
say that one is ahead of the other after just
a couple of OPA practices that we've seen so far,
but I think that we'll be able to get into
that conversation of growth a little bit more when these
two teams come or when these teams come back for training.
Speaker 5: Gamp are there. He is got Ross Jackson. You know him,
You'll love him at. Ross Jackson NOLA is the handle
on social media. Check out his work on Louisiana Sports
dot Net. Also host of Lockdown Saints.
Speaker 7: Ross.
Speaker 5: We appreciate it every single time, man, look forward to
our next conversation.
Speaker 9: Yeah, thanks, guys, appreciate you having on y'all. Take care
you here soon.
Speaker 2: All right? Sounds good again.
Speaker 5: Check out what Ross is doing big things man over
at Louisianasports dot Net does a fantastic job covering the
Saints every single day. All right, I do want to
talk a little Saints here throughout the show, certainly when
we come back here on OTV. Off the bench, all right,
As we tell you, man, there is not a bad
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Speaker 5: Coming up, we've got a big deal and no big
deal to kick off hour number two. We've got Jay
Johnson at eight thirty. We've got Mikey Matuk at nine.
We've got chef Michael Johnson at nine fifteen.
Speaker 2: What a big show.
Speaker 5: Do you forgive Derek Carr for how bad he was
now that he's giving back thirty MILLI do I yeah?
Speaker 2: No, yeah, me neither you Landra No, No, I don't
forgive him because gonna get Derek.
Speaker 4: That's that's why he could be the nicest guy in
the world. Maybe I'm an awful person. I ain't turn
it down thirty.
Speaker 5: Look, if he turns down thirty million, I've actually got
more questions than before.
Speaker 2: That's the most ridiculous. That's wild. Behave no way he
turned down thirty We'll be back our two OTV.
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