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Speaker 2: You want to present some off the bench.

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Speaker 3: Say is what we have been waiting for.

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Speaker 4: The hype is over.

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Speaker 2: Off the bench. Now here's Jacob Hester.

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Speaker 1: Yo and welcome in to OTB one oh four five ESPN,

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Baton Rouge eleven thirty am, the Tiger up in the

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Port City ninety four to seven, ESPN. And Alexandria, Jake,

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Alandra and Cassie here with you on this Thursday morning.

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Good news is Thursday, got here quick. Some more good

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news we can start the weekend vibes if we want

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to here on the show. Some more good news is

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we get a long weekend. Some bad news is Alandra

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is gonna be stuck with Tata all week next week.

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Speaker 5: This is ruined my weekend.

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Speaker 3: I did. We were talking before the show and we

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were kind of trying.

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Speaker 1: To hype each other up, like, dude, this week's going

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by fast, everything's going great, and I was like, yeah,

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but you got Taylor by yourself next weekend, and joy

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next week all week, even the weekend all week.

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Speaker 3: At least get Cassie one day.

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Speaker 5: Then one day I get Cassie. I'll be here Tuesday, yes, Wednesday.

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Thank God for.

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Speaker 3: That, Wednesday and Thursday.

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Speaker 1: It is going to be take On, Take On, take

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I'll be back Friday to Friday.

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Speaker 3: I'll be back Friday, thank god.

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Speaker 5: Yes, so it's only Wednesday and Thursday.

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Speaker 3: Just Wednesday and Thursday. Oh that's true.

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Speaker 1: See see not too bad, getting better like a weekend though,

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it is getting better.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, two days a week, it's getting better.

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Speaker 1: Friday, I'll be back. I don't know now Flynn's not

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going to be here. I mean because he starts like

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officially official on that Monday.

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Speaker 3: But I do think he's coming back tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so tomorrow's show has kind of turned into a

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QB show. Aaron Murray, Colt McCoy, Flynn. We'll see if

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we can add one or two more quarterbacks. I was

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supposed to actually catch up with Tyler Schuck last night. Yeah,

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he was like still in meetings like late, and he's like, hey,

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I'm so sorry. Hit me with the sir, It's fine.

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I'm a man, I'm forty. And I was like, okay, well,

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look let's push. Like I remember being a rookie and

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you're swimming in it, you're trying to stay at the facility,

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and I was starting fullback you're probably starting quarterback a

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little bit different there. So eventually we're gonna have Tyler.

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Shuck was talking with him yesterday. You know, maybe maybe

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he can add himself to the quarterback show. I don't know,

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but today's show. Also, we've got a lot going on.

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Connor o Gara Saturday down South, who he did pick

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LSU to win a national championship.

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Speaker 3: He's joining us at seven thirty.

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Speaker 1: We've got LSU offensive coordinator Joe Sloane joining us at eight.

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We've got head baseball coach Jay Johnson at eight thirty.

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We've got Munchie still with chef Michael Johnson. So we

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have a ton to get to. But before we get there, like,

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how is everybody going? You know, Thursday, Taylor in the

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Future kind of put a little Taylor a little bit

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of weight on, you know, a laundry butt. Finding out

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it's only two days, Like, yeah, it feels like we're

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back in good spirits.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and I am ready for the long weekend. I

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don't know if Hanny's gonna make me come up here

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on Monday. I help him with the handy cast?

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Speaker 3: Is that so? Is that just Hanny?

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Speaker 5: Is Hanny? Dan Cannavery and Doug Thompson.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I hadn't thought about cano in a long time.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's it's a hoot, a real fun time.

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Speaker 3: It's like something they would say on that podcast. I

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know it's.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Somebody told me that I answer the phone like a

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forty year old man the other day.

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Speaker 5: So it's fine. All I say is hello. I don't

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know what is wrong with that.

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Speaker 1: But hmmm, I'm trying to think now, because I have

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talked to you on the phone before. Yeah, whenever I'm

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just away and I call in, sometimes I can tell oh,

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Elana's not having a good day. You don't hide it

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very well. I can tell you that, man. But I

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don't think it's like a year old. And what's wrong

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with answering the phone like ty year old?

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Speaker 5: Nothing's wrong with that.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you said it like it was a bad thing.

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Speaker 5: No, I'm just not that, all right. I'm just not

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forty or a man.

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Speaker 3: That's true, true on both accounts.

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Speaker 1: Cassie, all good, doing well house, waking up back to

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back mornings.

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Speaker 7: Yesterday, I was doing good, but this this morning was

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a little rough to wake up.

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Speaker 5: She's here tomorrow too. I am here tomorrow. I snoozed

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my alarm once many times this morning.

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Speaker 3: What time do we set the alarm if we're doing OTV?

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live like in the morning with no traffic, it's only

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like ten fifteen minutes. Yeah, so I'll usually leave like

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five point fifty you're rolling out, Yeah, quite literally. I

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leave myself just enough time to wake up, get dress,

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brush my teeth, and leave.

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Speaker 1: Like you've probably got like the closed toothbrush is the toothpaste.

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Speaker 7: On the tooth rush ready, But like I I sleep

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as long as possible.

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Speaker 1: It's fair, that's fair. I do like this time of

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the year when nobody's in school. Yeah, I mean it

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takes me fourteen minutes because you get from my house

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all the way here, when normally it's like it could

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be like twenty eight thirty minutes. Yeah, I mean we're

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talking about double the time. So I do appreciate I

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can hit snooze.

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Speaker 3: At least once.

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Speaker 6: I feel like maybe I'm not remembering correctly, but I

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feel like kids go to school way earlier than I

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used to.

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Speaker 5: Like, what time do your kids get to school?

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Speaker 1: Seven twenty five, seven thirty. I feel like we were eight.

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we were eight to three. Yeah, because like the as

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I got older, it was eight to two forty five.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they have to be there. They start at

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seven forty.

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Speaker 7: We started at like seven fifty seven forty really, I

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think it.

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Speaker 6: Was like eight, and then when we got to high school.

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Speaker 3: It was nine oh nine. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Doing in Texas, chilling must be nice. So, uh, nobody's

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going to be surprised by this. But the first class

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that we had when I was in high school was football.

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Speaker 3: I feel like, so.

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Speaker 6: If you were in football, wouldn't that always be here

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like whatever that last like whatever whatever the last hour is,

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which I think it's seventh hour. Yeah, Like they do

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that like workout, then they go straight into practice. We

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were we had workout any any running, any speed drills,

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like as soon as we got there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so like we we had to be on time.

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Speaker 1: But I think you said, like it wasn't eight o'clock,

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but we had to be there like at seven forty.

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Speaker 6: We had like a quote unquote optional workout in the

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mornings that we had to go to during the.

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Speaker 1: Off seas optional which was not really almost like summer

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workouts here were optional with Maffitt. Yeah, just like OTA's

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were optional in the NFL. Yeah, it's nothing optional about it.

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It's like it's optional and they can't technically find you

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in the NFL, but like they'll find a way to

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get some from you if you don't show up. So, Cassie,

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you you told me you actually called Hunt out.

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Speaker 6: I did.

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Speaker 3: I'm not paying up on his steak dinner. She did

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it on air. It was great. She sent it to me.

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It was awesome.

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Speaker 5: Wait do you have the video? I do have it?

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Speaker 3: Oh do you have ready to play? Yeah?

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Speaker 7: Let me Oh my gosh, I do you see this?

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Let me unmed it and let me change this too.

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Speaker 1: And Hunt didn't say like where it can be anywhere? Yeah,

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there's there was no price. There's no like, hey, we're

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going to like Texas Roadhouse, which is nothing wrong with

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Texas Roadhouse.

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Speaker 3: Fantastic.

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Speaker 1: I mean I will I'll go there as well, Hunt,

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but no no price limit. Here's Cassie making sure that

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Hunt actually pays up on his bets.

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Speaker 7: Uh. Well no, one second she does the wrong the monitors. Okay,

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got it. TV and according to Jacob Pesters, you own

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him and steak in it.

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Speaker 4: I will take that, I absolutely do. I can't believe

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he's still referencing this. I mean a wonderful wager. It

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was a great play, It was bold, it was ambitious,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, to be on. But it did lose.

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Speaker 4: I thought that Les Miles would never win a Big

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twelve game as long as he was the.

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Speaker 3: Head coach at Kansas.

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Speaker 4: I thought he would go over his entire career. And

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he won one on a blocked field goal that got

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fumbled in overtime.

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Speaker 8: So wait, so wait, that was years ago.

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Speaker 5: Yes it was you still holding my grudge?

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Speaker 8: Okay, it's not a grudge. You you bet him and

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you I al mistake. So why is it not happened yet?

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Speaker 4: Hunt, I don't want to pay for the stake because

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because I thought it was a good bet and I

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deserved more. If he had won like nine, it would

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be a blowout. The only one he won was a fluke.

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The bet bet is a bat. Hunt, you lost the bet,

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but I had a great bet.

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Speaker 3: It was a great beat.

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Speaker 8: Okay, yeah that we can all agree that it was

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a good bat. Hint, But you lost. You you gotta

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you gotta come correct.

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Speaker 3: I don't think so. I think you do. It's pretty.

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Speaker 4: It's not I phrased that wrong on the spot. It's

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not that I mind paying for the steak, no matter

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if that's garden variety or whatever, or or mad that

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you lost that I lost the bet because it was

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a great bet. Because it was a terrible higher. I

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called it out at the time. They should have never

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won a league game the whole time he was a

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coach there, and they did on a fluke, and I'm

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salty about it. So therefore I've renigged on the bet.

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Speaker 8: It is a bad look, and you could easily remedy

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it by simply getting a steak.

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Speaker 4: Maybe the moodle strike me. Now that we're neighbors, I

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Speaker 3: Your neighbors too. That's just it. That's all. That's pretty sad.

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Hint show's about to How is it a good bet?

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If you lost, like it's a good bet. It was

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a good bet. No, you lost. You said they wouldn't

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wind one, and they won one. I don't care if

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they won two. To nothing.

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Speaker 1: I don't care how it happened. Kansas beat Texas Tech.

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They won the bet. He literally lives like one hundred

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yards from me. Hunt, you can't like he kept saying,

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good bet, A bet either wins or it loses. If

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I have a seventeen parlay and six hit and one loses,

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that's not a good bet. It's a bad bet because

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it lost. And then he admitted that he didn't want

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to pay for it. Then he felt cheap, and then

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he tried to go back on it. We're talking about

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five years and me trying to get this steak. Hunt's

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coming on later to break down. Oh he is, well, yeah,

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he's coming on at nine. I forgot to mention that

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he's coming on at nine. Yeah, he's like, he likes

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to bring it.

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Speaker 3: Up on air. Yeah, I'm trying to shame you into

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paying up.

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Speaker 5: He deserves it. But this is so funny that he's like,

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it's a good bet. I lost it.

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Speaker 6: It's a good bet because he had to write up

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I'm trying to find it. He had to write up

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on Louisian Sports done yesterday that I saw that he

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was like looking back at the bold predictions that he

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did preseason, and one of them was that Gavin Gidrey

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and Connor Ware were each gonna have like four saves or.

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Speaker 5: Something like that. But then he gave himself a C

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minus on that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I was like, they're both wrong.

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Speaker 3: Neither one of them had a save.

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Speaker 5: I'll give them right.

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Speaker 6: I'll give him I maybe D minus because Gavin Gidrey

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was injured so he couldn't.

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Speaker 5: We wouldn't know either way.

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Speaker 6: But that's just so funny that he's like, it's a

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good bet and I'm gonna give myself a C minus.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Hunt, that's the same energy when you

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say you had a good bet that lost. All right, Well,

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he's actually he's going to SEC media days this year.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. Oh, he's buying us stake.

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Speaker 1: He's buying me a steak, and because how long it's taken,

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he's buying Flynn a steak too.

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Speaker 3: I think it's his team OTB.

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Speaker 5: Now that's a tax.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, he's buying not only me, but buy one

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as well.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, that's the interest on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're gonna make him know the entire time

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that he's buying Flint of steak, who's got way more

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money than both of us and he's paying for it.

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Speaker 3: That's gonna be the kicker. All right.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, Landre is going to update you

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on what's going on in Hoover, Alabama, and we'll do

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it right here on OTB.

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Speaker 2: Off the bench, all right.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to off the bench. That's right, big.

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Speaker 3: Pimp and spinning cheese. Talk to them, bumpy timp, chick

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a man. You know why tug them ubble double people

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out on trust?

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Speaker 6: All right?

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Speaker 3: Welcome back?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, otb here on a Thursday morning one oh four

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five ESPN Baton Rouge And now we are going to

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get an update from Hoover, film Alabama.

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Speaker 3: What has been going on? Who's winning? Who lost?

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Speaker 1: Remember, no more double elimination, only a single elimination. We've

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had some weather, but maybe not as much as we

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normally have in Hoover, Alabama. Elandra Howe did it play

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out yesterday?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: So, if you remember, on Monday, the Texas A and

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M and Mississippi State game got delayed to the next day,

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So they played yesterday morning and Texas A and M

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slamming the door on Mississippi State nine to zero.

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Speaker 3: Hey, I did not see that one. Come. Yeah, I

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thought Mississippi.

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Speaker 5: State would have some fight.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they won five in a row.

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Speaker 1: They you know, were plus thirty one hundred to win

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the SEC tournament, like that would kind of be like

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a state thing to do, like to get hot, interim coach,

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maybe go make a run, and then Texas A and

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M is like, who are you?

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Speaker 8: Who are you?

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Speaker 6: I would be surprised, honestly, would not be surprised if

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they like make a run in this tournament and sneak

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their way into the.

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Speaker 5: Postseason because as of now, I don't think.

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Speaker 3: They deserve it.

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Speaker 1: Wins right, like they're two away from from what we've

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always said, get.

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Speaker 6: To thirteen, but highlighted by a jas Loobylett grand slam

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in the second inning. So they got up six to

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zero in the second inning and Ryan Prager uh did

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a great job holding Mississippi State to zero runs, and

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so did their closers.

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Speaker 5: But they play Auburn to tomorrow.

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Speaker 6: Yeah tomorrow, So no, no, no, today, my best today,

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this last night.

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Speaker 1: In my mind, I'm like no, no, no, Thursday day.

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Speaker 3: Yeah tomorrow and then LS she plays the Winter Yes.

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Speaker 6: Yes with you yes, So they play Auburn tonight. So

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the Tigers have a chance to avenge a series lost

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either way because they lost the series to Texas A

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and M got swept by Auburn.

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Speaker 5: I know same, especially if they say.

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Speaker 3: I hope oh glasses wearing it. I don't know what

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it was, but I'm like, hold up, wait a.

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Speaker 6: Minute, because they swept us and it's your somebody who

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you had on your team is out here dealing. Then

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Tennessee versus Alabama fifteen to ten, Tennessee winning that game.

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Speaker 5: They had twenty hits and took four Ever, yeah, I

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mean twenty hits. That game is gonna take a minute.

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Speaker 6: So they'll face Texas next, which is I forgot if

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that's today or Battle for UT Battle for U T Yeah,

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And then OU versus Georgia three to two. Oh you

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getting the win there, and they used Kyson Witherspoon. He

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pitched a gym yesterday. He season high seven and two thirds.

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They'll face Vandy next, which should be a really good

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game because Vandy and Oklahoma just flying under the radar.

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Speaker 5: They really are like seed in the tournament.

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Speaker 1: But like nobody everybody's talking about Arkansas. You know, l

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s U is certainly getting some love other teams that

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are like get a double by Yeah, nobody talks about Vandy.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but that should be a good game because they're

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in terms of like stats and where they are in

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the rankings, they're pretty similar in the SEC.

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Speaker 5: And then Ole Miss versus Florida.

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Speaker 6: I watched some of that last night, but I fell

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asleep because it was a late one. Ole Miss ends

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up getting win three to one. Ace Hunter Elliott was dealing.

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The one run that he gave up was unearned, and

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from what I watched, he was doing a great job.

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Speaker 1: So Florida was a team that I thought maybe would

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make a run. Yees, because not that I think Mississippi

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State or Florida were the best teams in the SEC,

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but they were playing well.

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Speaker 3: They still had something to play for.

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Speaker 1: Like Mississippi State in the latest D one projection was

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a three seed, Well they want to They don't want

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to be a three seed, right. That means you're facing

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off against two really good teams, like you want to

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be at least a two seed. You're not going to host,

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but you want to improve it. In for Florida the

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same thing, like you want to just continue to improve

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the resume there. So those those teams going out in

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the in their first game, it did certainly surprise me.

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But shout out to Oklahoma. I mean, they've kind of

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played this thing. Well, now they've got a couple of victories.

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They were on a three line in the latest projection there.

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Certainly I think now they've done enough to be a two.

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I don't think there'll be a three anymore.

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Speaker 5: For uh for regional Yeah yeah.

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Speaker 6: Oklahoma you mean yeah, yeah, I mean, I mean Oklahom

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had a good season.

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Speaker 5: So I kind of agree with you.

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Speaker 6: But it's just so hard to tell sometimes with the

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committee and what they're thinking, because you never really I

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don't know. Sometimes I think I haven't figured out, and

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I never do. But so today we'll have Florida versus

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Ole Miss or just kidding that happened last night.

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Speaker 5: Why isn't this updated?

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Speaker 3: It was three to one Old Miss, right.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, So I don't know who they'll play next, but

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I can look at that real quick.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna have Jay Johnson join us at eight

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point thirty and gonna preview LSU, And you know, obviously

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still waiting around to see who they're going to play,

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but maybe hopefully I'll keep trying to get how they're

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going to play it out.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, at a Jake so Ole Miss will face Arkansas.

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I forgot they were the other team with a double buye. Yeah,

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and then Tennessee Texas, Oklahoma, Andy Ole Miss Arkansas, and

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then we play whoever wins versus Texas, A and M and.

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Speaker 3: All Arkansas is still the answer.

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Speaker 1: Like so on off campus on my afternoon show, we

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have a lot of D one baseball people, ESPN baseball people,

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and I kind of always throw them the question, all right,

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now that we know where we're at and we're in

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conference tournaments, like who's your favorite?

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Speaker 3: Like who do you think can go make a run.

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Speaker 1: It's a tough question because we have so much baseball,

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but it's been unanimous Arkansas. Yeah, unanimous, like I've had

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I've asked seven people probably that cover baseball every single

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day and they just love Arkansas. Yeah, say most complete

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team team that they can see, you know, finally winning

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a championship. And I'm like, they're good, They're really good.

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But it's crazy how quickly that answer comes out.

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Speaker 6: It is because well we talked about it, like you

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said there before LSU faced Arkansas, That's what we talked about.

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Speaker 5: They're the most complete team, but LSU b Arkansas.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's just like I said, it has been

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like unanimous, not Arkansas and it's quick too as well,

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So we'll see if the Razorbacks are able to win

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in the SEC tournament. Very excited to find out who

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LSU is going to play because a great point by

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a Landra.

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Speaker 3: Either way, they are going.

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Speaker 1: To be able to have the opportunity to get revenge

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on A and M, who took two of three from them,

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And of course Auburn was the only sweep that LSU

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went through this year. And then for Texas, A and M,

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we were kind of joking, but not joking, like we

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don't know who you are. They started off number one

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team in the country and then it was just bad.

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It was bad from Jump Street right and then it

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hit like, oh here they come, and it was like, okay,

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well they figured it out. And then it hit like

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another little roll and then they beat LSU two of three.

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It's like, okay, well, this is who they're going to be.

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They're gonna go sweep Missouri. Yeah, all right, they're going

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to get to be fourteen wins.

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Speaker 3: In the SEC.

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Speaker 1: They'll make the postseason and look out. Then they get

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swept by Missouri, the only wins that Missouri has and

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now they beat Mississippi State nine to nothing. So like I, I,

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can they make the postseason with eleven wins unless they

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win the SEC.

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Speaker 6: Turn, unless they go deeper and win the SEC tournament.

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Speaker 5: I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: I mean I had some people tell me yesterday if

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if they made it to the weekend, they felt like

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I was like, man, eleven's just that's crazy. And maybe

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the math has changed a little bit because you go

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from fourteen to sixteen, But I still don't know that

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eleven wins deserves to get into the postseason.

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Speaker 5: No, and they just had just a really bad season overall.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so I don't think so. But maybe this is

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just my bias against the Aggies and I'm like, they

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don't deserve it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they really don't.

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Speaker 3: You need yell leader Taitey in here to defend the Aggies.

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Speaker 1: Real quick before we get to connor ogeire A Saturday

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down South. Obviously, the SEC's the SEC, but the ACC

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is probably the league outside of the SEC is going

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to get the most teams in the NCAA Tournament. You

473
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had a an upset cal yet again, remember they beat

474
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Miami twelve to two a couple of days ago. Yesterday

475
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they beat wake Forest fourteen to twelve. They are a

476
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team that only won nine conference games, nine and twenty

477
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one in the ACC, but yet again they are victorious

478
00:22:12,039 --> 00:22:15,160
in the tournament. And it's just crazy how that plays out.

479
00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:19,119
Clemson took care of va Tech, probably ending Virginia Tech season.

480
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They were one of those teams that need to make

481
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needed to make a deep run in the ACC tournament.

482
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Duke takes care of Pitt, so pitt season is done.

483
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And then Boston College, like CAL eleven and nineteen in

484
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the ACC, but they beat a bubble team in Virginia,

485
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So now Virginia's got to sweat this thing out. Boston

486
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College and Cal still moving forward in the ACC tournament.

487
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And I believe we're still gonna have like the early

488
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games here that are going to start at the end

489
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of the show, So we'll continue to update you on

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some of those scores as they come in. But when

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we come back again, we're gonna be joined by Connor

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Speaker 2: This is off the bench, I'm holding on your room, SIMPI.

515
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Speaker 1: Off ground all right, welcome back in OTB on one

516
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O four five ESPN Baton Rouge. Always a pleasure to

517
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catch up with our next guest, Connor O'Gara Saturday, down

518
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South joins US.

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Speaker 3: Now, Connor, what's going on, sir? How we doing this week?

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Speaker 9: I'm doing well.

521
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Speaker 3: You know.

522
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Speaker 9: I have a severe sports fomo last night after going

523
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to bed when the Pacers and Nicks had about like

524
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:54,200
two forty left. And that's that's tough, like that that

525
00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:56,839
fomo of waking up the next day and seeing what

526
00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:59,400
I hold it that you've missed out on. Like if

527
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I had to stayed up fifteen minutes, I could have

528
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:05,559
seen it. But yeah, pretty tough look for me to

529
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wake up and see that.

530
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Speaker 3: So you went to Indiana. Are you a Pacers fan?

531
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Speaker 9: I am not, but my wife is, because my wife

532
00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:17,200
is from Indianapolis. Just had my father in law in

533
00:25:17,319 --> 00:25:20,200
town got to watch the other side of the Eastern

534
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,559
Conference finals last week, and we were watching we rewatched

535
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:27,519
the winning time documentary the thirty for thirty Reggie Miller

536
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against the Knicks. We're rewatching that kind of getting the

537
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spirit of the series. And I texted my father in law.

538
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I've already been texting with them this morning about it,

539
00:25:35,839 --> 00:25:38,680
and yeah, let's just say I have a lot of

540
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,319
interest in the Pacers, but as someone who grew up

541
00:25:41,319 --> 00:25:45,640
in the stubbers of Chicago with the ninety bowld. I'm

542
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,359
more of a believer that Reggie flopped at every chance

543
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:48,839
that he could.

544
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I Look, I'm with you.

545
00:25:50,559 --> 00:25:53,240
Speaker 1: I'm actually like a Knicks fan growing up, because the

546
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:56,519
Pelicans weren't here yet and the MAVs were kind of new,

547
00:25:56,559 --> 00:25:59,400
and that was the closest team. So I just I

548
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,279
was like, hey, who's like the gritty team? And it

549
00:26:02,319 --> 00:26:05,720
was like Anthony Mason, Charles Oakley, John Starks, Patrick Ewing.

550
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Speaker 3: So I went with the Knicks.

551
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Speaker 1: And so I watched last night's game all the way

552
00:26:09,519 --> 00:26:10,680
to the finish of overtime.

553
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 3: It was fun, it was great.

554
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:16,359
Speaker 9: That's that's tough. Look, but as a Knicks fan who

555
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,759
experienced the nineties, you get it. I mean, at this point,

556
00:26:19,839 --> 00:26:22,480
even though it is a different era, like, you understand

557
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:26,640
the dynamics that come to play. Look, I wasn't allowed

558
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,720
to say that I hated anyone growing up, with the

559
00:26:29,759 --> 00:26:32,599
exception of one person. I think I might have told

560
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:34,880
you this before, but just in case I haven't. The

561
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,359
only person that I was allowed to say I hated

562
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:42,519
growing up was John Starks. Oh really, that's the only

563
00:26:42,559 --> 00:26:45,160
guy because you know, he had the big time dunk

564
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:48,079
on the left side coming down the baseline or whatever. Yeah,

565
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,079
but John Starks was just the guy yeah or whatever.

566
00:26:51,319 --> 00:26:53,000
But like he was just a guy that could get

567
00:26:53,079 --> 00:26:54,960
under your skin in such a unique way. And I'm

568
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,240
sure there are a ton of those people in college

569
00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:00,559
football that there's just always been that one. Maybe for

570
00:27:00,599 --> 00:27:02,799
a lot of Georgia fans this year, Carson Beck is

571
00:27:02,839 --> 00:27:07,119
that guy, Lord knows. For Tennessee fans, Nicolava.

572
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:06,759
Speaker 3: Is that guy.

573
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Speaker 9: Those are guys that are villains for different reasons, But

574
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I feel like it's been a while since we've had

575
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,279
true villains in a way that a John Starks was,

576
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at least for me as a kid.

577
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Speaker 1: I was hmm, So I was maybe not allowed just

578
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:25,480
to keep my hate at one person. I hated the

579
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entire nineteen nineties, certainly early nineties Philadelphia Phillies because me

580
00:27:31,279 --> 00:27:35,240
being a Braves fan, so like Lenny Dykstra, Darren Dalton,

581
00:27:35,319 --> 00:27:39,960
John Krug, Mitch Mitch Williams, oh my gosh, him for sure.

582
00:27:40,039 --> 00:27:44,640
It's like especially Shilling was on those teams. I'm pretty

583
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:46,960
sure Mike Mordecai was on those teams, like all of them.

584
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:48,039
They could get all the hate.

585
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:52,680
Speaker 9: Lenny Dyster, though, is just such a Jacob Hester type

586
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:53,400
player though.

587
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,200
Speaker 3: I mean that's yeah, trying to steal people's money.

588
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,599
Speaker 9: But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, player not it's just a player,

589
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:03,960
not per I still have a baseball card of Lenny

590
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:10,759
Dykstra with just the fattest lips. Oh my gosh, I

591
00:28:10,759 --> 00:28:12,880
mean that guy is he was. He was one of

592
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:16,839
one Nails all time great nickname, true gritty nickname. There

593
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:18,799
was a kid that I played high school football with

594
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,759
that got the nickname Nail, and I was so unbelievably

595
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,880
jealous of that, just for the Lenny Dykster association. Again,

596
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,039
Lenny Diyster, the player, not Lenny Dykers.

597
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Speaker 3: Yeah, what position did Nails on your team play?

598
00:28:31,519 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 9: Every position that I played like? He was played strong safety,

599
00:28:37,279 --> 00:28:40,200
He played uh, he played a little bit of full back,

600
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:44,279
which I know you would appreciate, but then played you know, yeah,

601
00:28:44,319 --> 00:28:46,880
of course, and then played guard and basketball, played in

602
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:50,119
the outfield in baseball. He didn't catch those about the

603
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,400
only thing I did differently than him. But he was

604
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:56,160
objectively tougher than me and a much better comp for

605
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,119
the the Lenny Dykstra player Association than I was.

606
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,039
Speaker 1: Shout out to Nails. If you're listening somewhere, I'm sure

607
00:29:03,039 --> 00:29:06,160
you're still you're jealous now of Connor and all the

608
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:07,839
big things he's doing in sports media.

609
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:08,799
Speaker 3: How about that Nails.

610
00:29:09,839 --> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 9: I look James Pecoon, if he's listening someone out there,

611
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:18,200
good dude, good dude, Nails. Nails is just an all

612
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,400
time cool nickname. I would stick with that forever.

613
00:29:22,079 --> 00:29:24,519
Speaker 1: So this was not like a self given nickname. And

614
00:29:24,599 --> 00:29:26,880
I still don't know, like whatever, how I feel about it.

615
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:31,160
Our radio announcer in high school gave me the nickname

616
00:29:31,279 --> 00:29:33,920
freight Train. I was playing running back, you know, just

617
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,519
kind of whatever, and they made T shirts and it

618
00:29:36,599 --> 00:29:40,960
was like the Purdue boiler Maker logo, like bursting through

619
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,839
like freight train hester or whatever. And I still have

620
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,000
friends and they know, like I just like, what are

621
00:29:47,039 --> 00:29:49,799
you doing? They still call me freight Like, so, do

622
00:29:49,839 --> 00:29:51,839
you still call Nails Nails?

623
00:29:52,319 --> 00:29:54,799
Speaker 9: I would, yeah, I would if I saw him Nails

624
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,440
to have that nickname. See that that's incredible because you

625
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,839
can step into a room and Freight's coming like that

626
00:30:03,359 --> 00:30:06,079
every single time you walk into the cafeteria.

627
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:06,799
Speaker 3: Oh is that?

628
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:10,079
Speaker 9: Jacob Pettner and a freight is coming. He's got a

629
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,559
tray full of chicken nuggets and a paper cup of

630
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:17,119
chocolate milk. He's ready to roll that. Okay, now, I'm

631
00:30:17,119 --> 00:30:19,880
more jealous of you than I am of Nails from

632
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:20,480
my high school.

633
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:24,559
Speaker 1: Well, I'll send you the poorly bait t shirts when

634
00:30:24,599 --> 00:30:26,839
I get home later on today and I'll show you

635
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:29,079
what I was talking about. But shout out to Nails.

636
00:30:29,319 --> 00:30:31,599
Glad he made it here on the show today.

637
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Speaker 3: I want to.

638
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,119
Speaker 1: Ask you first SEC question because I do want to

639
00:30:35,119 --> 00:30:37,640
get to the LSU stuff and LSU fans are going to,

640
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,400
I think, enjoy what you have to say. But so

641
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:42,640
our guy Aaron Murray. I don't know if you've heard

642
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,119
the clip yet. He went on our SEC show on

643
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:48,359
Sirius X and M and was talking about arch Manning

644
00:30:48,519 --> 00:30:51,240
and basically, to sum it up, if he was as

645
00:30:51,279 --> 00:30:53,319
good as we say he is, would he have sat

646
00:30:53,359 --> 00:30:56,440
behind a seventh round draft choice in Quinn yours, which

647
00:30:56,599 --> 00:30:58,680
I think is a little unfair to a lot of people.

648
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:02,279
I get kind of what Aaron was trying to say. Basically,

649
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,680
we've already crowned arch Manning even though he's only started

650
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,519
a handful of games. And we have some other quarterbacks

651
00:31:08,559 --> 00:31:11,640
in the SEC that have done it for the totality

652
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,920
of a full or maybe even two full seasons. But

653
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:16,759
what do you think about what Aaron had to say

654
00:31:16,799 --> 00:31:17,640
about arch Maning?

655
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 9: Yeah, I texted Aaron this week to let him know

656
00:31:20,519 --> 00:31:21,960
how much I disagreed with this sack.

657
00:31:22,079 --> 00:31:25,279
Speaker 1: No, he's coming on tomorrow, So just talk to him

658
00:31:25,319 --> 00:31:26,960
now exactly.

659
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,759
Speaker 9: I'll try and talk some sense into him. Look, I

660
00:31:29,799 --> 00:31:32,279
get what he's saying, and I think that there is

661
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:37,039
definitely a desire to jump the gun with arch Yeah,

662
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:41,559
I understand kind of that dynamic of Look, if your

663
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:45,119
guy is supposed to be up and coming, then eventually

664
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,039
that talent is going to win out and a coaching

665
00:31:47,039 --> 00:31:49,359
staff is going to see side by side, this dude

666
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:50,119
is better than the other.

667
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 3: Grud Okay.

668
00:31:51,319 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 9: I think we need to remember, though, that it's not

669
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:56,920
so much where they were at last year, it's where

670
00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:00,599
were they at this season before, because arch Manning was

671
00:32:00,599 --> 00:32:03,000
not the second string quarterback as a true freshman. He

672
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,119
was the third string quarterback because Malik Murphy beat him out.

673
00:32:06,359 --> 00:32:09,400
And Malik Murphy came into spring and really had the

674
00:32:09,519 --> 00:32:12,440
right approach, and so there was a lot more separation

675
00:32:12,559 --> 00:32:15,759
between Arch and Ewers in twenty three than I think

676
00:32:15,799 --> 00:32:18,920
we remember, and so coming into last year was all right.

677
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:20,960
Now Arch gets to be the backup. He's kind of

678
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,079
moving off the ranks. Quinn Ewers comes back as one

679
00:32:23,119 --> 00:32:25,799
of the top five or top ten, depending on where

680
00:32:25,799 --> 00:32:28,160
you look quarterbacks in all of college football, and nobody

681
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,200
at the time is saying this guy is a seventh

682
00:32:30,279 --> 00:32:33,240
round pick. And he gets off to a great start.

683
00:32:33,279 --> 00:32:35,039
I mean, let's go back to that Michigan game, what

684
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,960
he did against the defending champs in ann Arbor. I

685
00:32:38,039 --> 00:32:42,000
know it didn't age unbelievably well because Michigan didn't have

686
00:32:42,119 --> 00:32:46,319
this incredible season, but it was still a remarkable performance

687
00:32:46,319 --> 00:32:48,000
in which he was so dialed in. And then he

688
00:32:48,039 --> 00:32:50,640
obviously gets hurt and the season follows a different kind

689
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:52,519
of pathform where he's playing with a torn o bleak.

690
00:32:52,839 --> 00:32:55,559
Still going in the NFL draft, nobody thought Quinnwers is

691
00:32:55,599 --> 00:32:57,279
going to be a seventh round pick. And that's where

692
00:32:57,279 --> 00:32:58,079
I would push.

693
00:32:57,880 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 3: Back on this.

694
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Speaker 9: We thought he'd be like a Day two type guy,

695
00:33:00,359 --> 00:33:02,839
maybe in early Day three or something like that. But

696
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,000
that'd be the part that I would say that that's

697
00:33:06,039 --> 00:33:07,920
kind of where the argument falls apart a little bit.

698
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,400
He had established more seniority and he had done more

699
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,599
in the Steve Starkusian offense to show, hey, this guy

700
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,160
is ready to go, and quinns is ready to play

701
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,960
now and not necessarily deal with some of those freshmen mistakes.

702
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:22,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I actually think that Quinn's going to get

703
00:33:22,839 --> 00:33:26,000
an opportunity in the NFL. And I actually think that

704
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:29,839
he has the qualities of a starting quarterback in the

705
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,480
NFL in the right situation. And so even though he's

706
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:34,720
a seventh round pick, I still wouldn't just write him off.

707
00:33:34,799 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 3: So we'll see how that plays out.

708
00:33:37,079 --> 00:33:39,559
Speaker 1: But if I ask you this question, because there's a

709
00:33:39,599 --> 00:33:42,279
lot to choose from, if I was like, Hey, Connor,

710
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,440
your jobs on the line. You have to choose one

711
00:33:45,519 --> 00:33:49,160
quarterback to lead your team into this one game scenario

712
00:33:49,279 --> 00:33:52,440
next year. Out of SEC quarterbacks, who would you choose.

713
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 9: I'm not just saying this because of the audience, but

714
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,720
I would still go with karen Na Smeyer, and I

715
00:33:58,759 --> 00:34:01,200
have been saying that since he announced who's coming back

716
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:03,839
to school. I think there's definitely a part of me

717
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,079
that goes back to the drive that he had laid

718
00:34:06,079 --> 00:34:10,880
against Olenists, wherein he showed so much resilience in that

719
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,039
moment to understand, Look, I have not had my best

720
00:34:14,119 --> 00:34:16,119
day at the office. This has been a rough go

721
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:19,039
against one of the nation's best defenses. But I've got

722
00:34:19,079 --> 00:34:21,360
a chance. And sometimes in this game, that's all you

723
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:23,119
can really ask for, and it's up to you to

724
00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:25,400
kind of seize that moment. Now, obviously he didn't seize

725
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,239
that moment in the same sort of way against Texas

726
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,440
A and M, and he fell apart in those key

727
00:34:29,519 --> 00:34:32,480
moments and that was a huge defining moment of LSU's season.

728
00:34:32,639 --> 00:34:34,719
But do I think that by the end of the

729
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,440
season he figured out enough to be confident in his

730
00:34:37,519 --> 00:34:40,920
abilities to understand that no matter how he's performing, he

731
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,239
can still put forth his best effort and lead you

732
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:45,519
on that game when you drive. Yes, I believe he

733
00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:48,440
figured those all important things out and I think it's

734
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:51,000
going to pay huge dividends for LSU next season. So

735
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:54,320
while you could definitely go in a variety of other directions.

736
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:56,679
DJ Lagway, I love me some DJ Lagway of his

737
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,719
shoulders healthy. Lenora Steller's the try that he had laid

738
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,519
to be to be Clemson in in the other Death Valley.

739
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:04,960
I just think that there is still something about nuss

740
00:35:05,039 --> 00:35:08,199
Meyer that just makes you go, Yeah, that guy can

741
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:10,760
just find a way and fourth down, I'm just going

742
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:12,559
to find a way to trust that guy, and I

743
00:35:12,559 --> 00:35:14,000
think he's going to deliver in the clutch.

744
00:35:14,199 --> 00:35:17,079
Speaker 1: Yeah, Connor, I want to get to some some LSU thoughts.

745
00:35:17,119 --> 00:35:22,079
But what about John Matier coming from Wazoo to Oklahoma.

746
00:35:22,159 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 3: It's a little bit of a mixed bag.

747
00:35:24,039 --> 00:35:25,679
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people are excited to see

748
00:35:25,679 --> 00:35:27,840
how it looks in the SEC. You come with your

749
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:32,000
offensive coordinator. John Matier did some really big things for Wazoo.

750
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,199
Oklahoma needs to be dynamic at quarterback. They were not

751
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:36,960
a year ago. Where are you at right now with

752
00:35:37,079 --> 00:35:37,599
Job Matier?

753
00:35:39,119 --> 00:35:44,519
Speaker 9: I am definitely lower than the consensus is because I'm

754
00:35:44,599 --> 00:35:48,000
surprised that so many people are already assuming he's one

755
00:35:48,039 --> 00:35:50,079
of the top five quarterbacks in the sport, not just

756
00:35:50,119 --> 00:35:53,039
in the SEC. And to me, that's jumping the gun

757
00:35:53,079 --> 00:35:54,960
a little bit for a guy who played against a

758
00:35:55,039 --> 00:35:58,760
mostly Mountain West schedule. And You're right, I do think

759
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:00,280
it's a mixed bag. Like there are a lot of

760
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:03,000
different numbers that you could point to with him and go, well,

761
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,719
that's really good, but also that would that would terrify me.

762
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,079
Like he had thirteen turnover where he plays when he

763
00:36:08,159 --> 00:36:10,079
was kept clean, that was tied for the third most

764
00:36:10,119 --> 00:36:13,199
in FBS according to PFF. But at the same time,

765
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:16,800
it's like, well, he also had sixteen big time throws

766
00:36:17,039 --> 00:36:19,519
when he was kept clean, and that's really really good.

767
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:21,840
So like, I think he's going to have a lot

768
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:23,360
more variance. You know, you look at some of the

769
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:27,239
downfield numbers where you know he threw more interceptions, he

770
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:31,519
had six of those than than anybody an FBS on

771
00:36:31,559 --> 00:36:34,360
those on those types of throws. So there's certainly a

772
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:38,679
gunslinger mentality type element to his game. But I wonder

773
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,159
how that's gonna pair with Brent Vnables because last year

774
00:36:41,199 --> 00:36:44,639
Brent Bennables did not tolerate mistakes Jackson Darnel at that

775
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,079
stage of the season, with the receivers that he had

776
00:36:47,119 --> 00:36:49,639
banged up, with the offensive line that was new and

777
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,079
not up to the task, he did not perform well

778
00:36:52,159 --> 00:36:54,159
enough to be able to keep that job. According to

779
00:36:54,199 --> 00:36:56,719
Brent Fvnnables, is Jeo Matsier going to get that kind

780
00:36:56,719 --> 00:37:00,719
of grace? Can he stomach too maybe three dud games

781
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,440
in a row. Is that variants going to be too

782
00:37:03,559 --> 00:37:06,679
much for Brent Ventables, the defensive minded guy, to tolerate.

783
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:08,519
That's what I want to see play out. And I

784
00:37:08,559 --> 00:37:11,239
know he's got his offensive coordinated with him at Ben Arbuckle,

785
00:37:11,519 --> 00:37:13,480
and I know it's going to be an improved offensive line,

786
00:37:13,519 --> 00:37:16,360
better pass catchers who will stay healthier. But I agree,

787
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:18,239
I think the variants could be all over the place.

788
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:19,840
I think there could be moments in which he looks

789
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:21,840
like an all in CD quarterback and then moments in

790
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:23,440
which you wonder if he's about to get benched.

791
00:37:24,519 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 1: Catching up whether I got Connor o Garre Saturday down

792
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:30,960
south here on OTB. All right, Connor, you made a

793
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,519
statement last week and you were I think it was

794
00:37:33,639 --> 00:37:34,119
me and EJ.

795
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:35,119
Speaker 3: Might have been me and Bobby.

796
00:37:35,159 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 1: Either way, does not matter about how you feel about

797
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:42,280
this upcoming football season for the LSU Tigers. And I'm

798
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:44,320
not even going to try to steal your thunder. Just

799
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,480
tell our great audience here what you think the expectation

800
00:37:47,639 --> 00:37:48,719
should be for LSU.

801
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 9: I have LC winning a national championship, and it took

802
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,000
me a while because at that point I was not

803
00:37:56,079 --> 00:37:58,079
at that point in January. I don't even think I

804
00:37:58,159 --> 00:37:59,679
was at that point in April. If I'm being a

805
00:37:59,679 --> 00:38:02,519
horn then honest. But the more and more I think

806
00:38:02,559 --> 00:38:04,920
about the moves that have been made to this roster

807
00:38:05,039 --> 00:38:08,199
from Brian Kelly and the staff that he's assembled and

808
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:11,079
all the pieces that are in place, I just think, Man,

809
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,760
this is the opportunity that's there for the taking four

810
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,320
LSU a team that I don't really believe was that

811
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,360
far away this past season, and despite the fact that

812
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,000
obviously they didn't end up making the College Football Playoff

813
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,440
when they seemingly had a wide open path to be

814
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:26,920
able to do so. But I think they make those

815
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:28,960
improvements this year. I think they have more of a

816
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,519
defensive identity in year two with Blake Baker. I think

817
00:38:31,559 --> 00:38:34,760
the addition of Monsieur Delaine is going to be instrumental

818
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,320
in a secondary that just needs to show it's not

819
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:40,159
a doormat. Had six consecutive games to close the regular

820
00:38:40,199 --> 00:38:42,480
season without allowing two hundred and fifty passing yards. I

821
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:44,199
think this is a defensive line that you're going to

822
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:47,800
have questions about. Can they have that post spring edition

823
00:38:48,199 --> 00:38:50,760
that they got from South Florida. I'm blanking on his

824
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:52,599
name right now. If he's going to be the difference

825
00:38:52,599 --> 00:38:54,679
maker to kind of be that run stuff er up front,

826
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:57,400
that's a massive question. But this offense should be one

827
00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:00,679
of the top five offenses in college football. Nick Anderson

828
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,440
can stay healthy, the addition that he is going to

829
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,719
be for that team is going to be so important.

830
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:08,960
He's not a contested catch guy yet, but he is

831
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,760
a big play waiting to happen. He and barry On

832
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:14,360
Brown and then Aaron Anderson, who is the number three

833
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,840
receiver in the SEC as far as I'm concerned, maybe

834
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,239
one of the most underrated players in all college football.

835
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,239
That group is going to be special. So on top

836
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:23,840
of the fact you already know how I feel about

837
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:27,239
Garrett Nutsmeyer. An offensive line that has an interior that's

838
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:31,199
rebuilt via the portal, I just think this is elsu's time,

839
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,639
and I think that they are ready to finally capitalize

840
00:39:33,679 --> 00:39:36,360
on this. They have this sense of urgency. There's no

841
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,480
better time than the president for Brian Kelly to get

842
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:38,920
it done.

843
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:41,199
Speaker 3: Yeah, very well said, and I agree.

844
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 1: I mean the moves that they've made and what they've

845
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,800
done in the portal along with the high school recruiting

846
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,679
and the guys that have already been here. If not now,

847
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:52,519
then when certainly feels like the time for LSU. Connor,

848
00:39:52,639 --> 00:39:56,000
you're the man, appreciate your time as always, sir, tell Nails.

849
00:39:56,039 --> 00:39:57,719
We said what's up, and we'll catch up again with

850
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:02,480
you soon. Absolutely all right there he is, I mean,

851
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:04,760
and I do want to kind of point out for

852
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,519
we go to break like this isn't one of those

853
00:40:07,559 --> 00:40:12,199
situations where you know Connor leans LSU like Connor covers

854
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,679
the entire sec I've been catching up with Connor for.

855
00:40:17,159 --> 00:40:19,119
Speaker 3: I guess seven seven eight years.

856
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,559
Speaker 1: Now, and I've never heard him be that bullish on

857
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:25,840
an LSU team, no, no team, no team ever, like

858
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,760
in obviously twenty nineteen, Like there wasn't a lot of

859
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:31,559
people predicting that, but I've never heard him be as

860
00:40:31,599 --> 00:40:35,280
bullish as he is on LSU. Certainly some high expectations

861
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:38,159
here in Baton Rouge for all the things LSU has done,

862
00:40:38,159 --> 00:40:40,880
who they have coming back, and so it's going to

863
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:44,400
be exciting season. And we've got Joe Sloan LSU offensive

864
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,119
coordinator set to join us in about fifteen minutes from now.

865
00:40:47,559 --> 00:40:49,920
He obviously can talk nus Meyer break down kind of

866
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,480
that receiver room, the offensive line. It's going to be

867
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:55,639
certainly completely different. But we saw in that bowl game

868
00:40:55,679 --> 00:40:58,559
against Baylor those guys are ready to play as well.

869
00:40:58,599 --> 00:41:00,559
All Right, more OTB when we come back here on

870
00:41:00,559 --> 00:41:02,960
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871
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to off the Bench.

894
00:42:07,039 --> 00:42:07,559
Speaker 3: You love me.

895
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:10,039
Speaker 2: On conditionally.

896
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Speaker 1: Let's say you never leave me.

897
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Speaker 3: No matter what.

898
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:25,079
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, all right, Welcome back in OTB Thursday morning,

899
00:42:25,119 --> 00:42:26,480
Little R and B Thursday.

900
00:42:26,559 --> 00:42:27,880
Speaker 3: Here on OTB.

901
00:42:28,079 --> 00:42:31,599
Speaker 1: Gonna catch up with LSU offensive coordinator Joe Sloan in

902
00:42:31,679 --> 00:42:36,199
about ten minutes from now. I can't wait to dive

903
00:42:36,519 --> 00:42:39,960
into what this offense is going to look like. And

904
00:42:40,199 --> 00:42:43,519
Connor mentioned, like some of the transfers that LSU brought in,

905
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:49,000
they're not going to just easily walk into starting roles

906
00:42:49,079 --> 00:42:52,760
on this LSU offense. Like I think Nick Anderson, Barrion

907
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:57,639
Brown great players, but they got to go earn the job.

908
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:00,800
Like we saw what Chris Hilton can be at the

909
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:03,000
end of the year, certainly in the Bowl game, and

910
00:43:03,039 --> 00:43:04,760
that's why you want him fully healthy.

911
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:06,159
Speaker 3: Was not healthy last year.

912
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:09,239
Speaker 1: Certainly we saw in camp what it was going to

913
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:14,000
look like and his health is a concern, but Xavion Thomas,

914
00:43:14,039 --> 00:43:16,400
like that's a player that's got some real juice to him.

915
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:21,639
So those players, Anderson Brown very excited about them coming

916
00:43:21,679 --> 00:43:25,119
to campus, transferring in from Kentucky and Oklahoma, and I

917
00:43:25,119 --> 00:43:26,840
think it's a great thing that they're going to have

918
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:29,760
to go out there. They're gonna have to earn those positions.

919
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:32,199
It's certainly not going to be given to them. Same

920
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:35,559
thing with Braylan Moore, Josh Thompson, who you get from

921
00:43:35,639 --> 00:43:40,760
Virginia Tech in Northwestern on the offensive line, those players,

922
00:43:41,159 --> 00:43:43,760
you know, DJ Chester is not just going to give

923
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,679
that job over Weston Davis, not just going to give

924
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:49,639
that job over Tyree Adams we saw in the bowl

925
00:43:49,679 --> 00:43:51,880
game and some last year just not going to give

926
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:56,159
that job over. There's real competition. There was in spring football.

927
00:43:56,599 --> 00:43:59,920
I fully expected to be all throughout training camp as well.

928
00:44:01,519 --> 00:44:03,880
And that's what it should be like when you bring

929
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:07,119
players in like this and it's not out of necessity,

930
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,480
like you bring in good players, let the cream rise

931
00:44:09,519 --> 00:44:12,039
to the top, and that that should be very exciting

932
00:44:12,119 --> 00:44:15,039
for all LSU fans. The fact that they brought good

933
00:44:15,119 --> 00:44:18,639
players out of the portal, that everybody wanted, like you

934
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,599
had to be very competitive to get these players. But

935
00:44:21,679 --> 00:44:24,480
it doesn't mean that they're going to be day one starters.

936
00:44:24,519 --> 00:44:27,960
Because you had some guys that raise their level of

937
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:29,960
play in spring football because of it.

938
00:44:30,599 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 3: And really that bowl game and that bowl game prep.

939
00:44:33,679 --> 00:44:36,159
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be times that we go back

940
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:39,719
next year and we highlight what happened in the Texas

941
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:42,360
Bowl and it was a meaningless game against Bayle Like

942
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:44,400
what do you mean. I don't think it was meaningless

943
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:48,800
because you had your best players decide to not play

944
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and you know, get ready for the NFL Draft.

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Speaker 3: That happens all over the place.

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Speaker 1: But what it did, it gave the offensive line like

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all these new faces. Fifteen practices with Miles Fraser, Remember

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he played in the game. He was like the mentor

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for everybody throughout that couple of weeks of practice, and

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I think we're gonna point back and say, okay, well,

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like this was huge, Like this was a big step

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forward in them becoming the guy they've been waiting their turn.

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So certainly on offense. Now in defense, maybe it's a

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little bit different. Like Pyburn from Florida, he's gonna have

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a role in the team he comes in as a transfer.

956
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But you heard Blake Baker say, like gab Brotherford's not

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going to just give up those snaps, right, So it's

958
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gonna be competitive there. Maybe if Patrick Payton is the

959
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day one guy always going to be the guy. There's

960
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a couple of guys, certainly in the defensive backfield that

961
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Blake mentioned yesterday as well, DeMarcus Cooley somebody that I'm

962
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very interested to see kind of where he lives. But like,

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even with all these transfers coming in, and I think

964
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more on offense and defense, but even defense, as you

965
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lay it out and you kind of look at the

966
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depth chart, it's not just guaranteed, Hey, you're coming into

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the portal, you're going to start, which I think again

968
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is a good thing. I think that's happened times before

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where you count so heavily on somebody out of the

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portal and maybe it doesn't work out, or maybe they

971
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don't have that competition that's pushing them every single day.

972
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I just don't think that's the case. Maybe in the

973
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defensive back room that's where you're thin. So maybe like

974
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defensive back's a little bit different. But when I start

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looking at these edge defenders, when you start looking at

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defensive tackle, when you start looking at receiver, when you

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look on the offensive line, when you look at the

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tight end. Room like it is going to be competition

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throughout training camp, and we're gonna catch up with LSU's

980
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offensive coordinator Joe Sloan to break it all down. How

981
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did they finish spring, what's camp looking like moving forward?

982
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What's Nussmayer looking like heading into this season? And we'll

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