Speaker 1: I'll start Toyota Presents off the bench with Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Hester and Hester.
Speaker 1: From carrying each other to and Natty to carrying each
other on the air.
Speaker 2: Its pro control for ye.
Speaker 1: Live from the Mercedes Benz Baton Rouge Studio.
Speaker 2: It's off the.
Speaker 3: Bench, all right, Welcome back again, Howard number three.
Speaker 4: We did good that last hour.
Speaker 2: That clock management of O TV one O four to
five USPN battermine. Yeah, okay, we shouldn't have to say
it anymore. We were both molded by less miles. The
clock management's not going to be our strong suit. It's okay.
We still won games.
Speaker 4: We sure did, and you think we're winning right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had the Saints head coach.
Speaker 4: We're gonna be down a few.
Speaker 2: I mean, I find it really impressive that we ran
to downtown, got in studio, did that with coach, and
ran back here two rouses in time for this segment.
Speaker 4: I know we got a fast car, real fast car.
Speaker 5: We even got here before we do that live read
right afterwards abruptly roughly, yeah, Kelimore is real specific was like, hey,
y'all have to do it in studio. You have to
put on your clothes that you wore yesterday, clothes you
wore yesterday.
Speaker 2: Do that interview. Yep, we do appreciate his time obviously
though that was a lot of fun. I enjoyed that.
Speaker 5: Enjoyed that he's throwing around good questions at us left
and right.
Speaker 2: I mean, you didn't get a chance and maybe we
can play that last answer that he had a little
bit later on in the show, because we did have
one more question for him, and uh, in total, we
got three good questions from the same said coach Touner.
Flynn won for me feels like a big win.
Speaker 5: It's a huge win, but it was it was it
was good. It was good of them to jump on
with us. Hopefully we can do that a couple more
times throughout the season. But you know, do the video.
The video. He just kind of getting a comfort zone
a little bit. And I think I thought Kellen Moore
gave some really good answers, made us feel, you know,
really Pilely gave some good answers on Spencer Rattler and
about what they saw with him throughout the off season
and this consistency. Uh, he kind of talked about and
say it in this term, but he kind of talked
about a little bit of a dog mentality yeah with
Spencer Rattler, but kind of just gave an overall view
of like kind of why he was a decision. It
was really consistency, playing within the system, understood what they're
trying to do and get accomplished. And and of course
we all know that they there is arm talent with
both these guys, so but we we understand that it's
a tough path this year. And he also made mentioned
of you know, there's ebbs and flows that you can't
get too you can't get too high with the highs,
you can't get too low.
Speaker 4: With the lows. It's a long season. Seventeen weeks is
so darn long, it's crazy. So it's a long season.
Speaker 5: A lot of forward to I think I know everybody
around here it's kind of walking around with their head
down going into the Saint season. But look, you know,
you have some young guys, you have so you have
a brand new head coach, you got a brand new system.
Speaker 4: So let's let's cheer hard for him, you know that.
Speaker 5: I think I think they have a chance to surprise
us all. You know, of course, we don't expect them
to go to the playoffs and make a run for
a super Bowl or anything. But like, man, I think
they got a chance to be exciting here and there.
So it and it look it's first year with a
new with a new coach, so just give him the support.
And he was nice enough to join us, so we're
gonna support him as well, so Goo Saints.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I like what he said too about how the
way he kind of, you know, envisions a quarterback, because
it is impressive that he's done it with multiple different quarterbacks,
multiple different styles and kind of his thought process and
how he takes a little bit of here, a little
bit of there, and you start thinking about some of
the minds that he's been with, and it is really impressive.
You know, he's put it on. It's an amalgamation of
all these different offenses that he's been he's put them together.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I was really because it is impressive the just
to be able to go from as an offensive coordinator
and a quarterback coach somebody that is they're talking to
the quarterbacks each and every day about their reads and
about the scheme and about the playbook. To be able
to go from a number system to a West Coast
is not easy to at least be able to to
be able to fluently talk about it, casually talk about
and understand the ins and outs of it.
Speaker 4: It's not easy.
Speaker 5: Like I I went to a number system that people
started talking to me about number system, I'm like, no,
I don't even care to learn this.
Speaker 4: I don't want to do it.
Speaker 5: It's not the way my brain works. I am fully
functioned and learned, and this is this is my first
language is West Coast and concept and long word type
of play calls. But it was interesting to me to
see that he kind of did say, like I would say,
the core of his foundation he.
Speaker 4: Said, was what they kind of did at Boise State
when he was there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I have no idea what that offense is. I never
studied it when he was at Boise State. I just
know they threw for a billion yards every single game
and he was the fourth in the Heisman voting list.
From a guy that you know, I don't think anybody's
gonna I don't think he's gonna fool anybody on like
the most arm, talented, fast, big arm guy in the world.
But in that system, with his decision making, he was
one of the best quarterbacks in the country at that
time with that system, So it was interesting to me
to hear him say, no, it wasn't North Turner, it
wasn't Mike McCarthy. The core of what we gotta do
is kind of goes a lot of the philosophy's date back.
Speaker 4: To Bozie State.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we'll look. We'll have that full interview for
you obviously on YouTube. You can go check that out.
We'll have a clipped up put on social media as well.
A lot of great information there from Saints head coach kellemore.
So again we thank him for a time and hopefully
we can get him on again at some point during
the season. But now it's the moment you've been waiting
for weeks. We're gonna get you down to the number
one team in the OTB Top twenty five deals. What
is gonna be? It is a big deals We've been
telling you over the last couple of weeks. All right,
quick recap. I know Flynn loves this part so much.
I'm gonna give you the number two team in the country.
A laundra is gonna give you the number one team
in the country at twenty five. It is a Boise
State at twenty four, Memphis at twenty three, Baylor at
twenty two, Georgia Tech twenty one, Tennessee twenty, Iowa State nineteen,
Texas eight and four eighteen, Indiana seventeen, Old miss You've
got sixteen, Florida fifteen, Texas Tech fourteen, SMU thirteen, Arizona
State twelve, Alabama eleven, Miami ten, Illinois nine, Texas eight,
Oregon seven, Notre Dame six, Georgia five, South Carolina four,
Penn State three. The Clemson Tigers, the number two team
in the OTB Top twenty five. Don't keep us waiting,
the LSU Tigers, the number two team, the LSU Tigers.
They've got to match up with the number three team
and the OTB Top twenty five, the Clemson Tigers coming
up tomorrow night. As we all know, I think number
two is a great spot for LSU. I think you
look at what they've got coming back, all the things
we've talked about for weeks, for months, for half the year.
I like LSU this year. I don't love the aj
Halsey stuff here in the first game, not playing the
first half, But I am a big believer as we
all are. In Garrett Nesmeyer and what he can do.
And one thing that none of us, and I mean
none of us, anybody, not here, not anywhere in the state,
anywhere covering college football, has talked enough about actually jumped
from year one to year two because you're one was
so good when you throw for four thousand yards in
year number one. If you came back and you had
another year just like that, it'd be great. But we
give everybody else the oh, well, you know, actually the
jump from year one to year two is the biggest
jump that you'll have as a quarterback. Okay, well, if
that's the case, you had a guy that threw for
over four thousand yards last year. What does that tell me?
It tells me that he has set up to have
the same production as far as yards, but he is
going to go up in touchdowns and down on interceptions.
That's what that tells me. I think this team is
going to go as far as Garrett Nessmeyer takes them,
which is all the way I think to an SEC
championship game, a couge football playoff, and an opportunity to
win the entire damn thing. I'm high on LSU, I'm
high on Garrett Nessmeyer. If the defense does what I
think they can do, they'll be in the conversation. Will
they go undefeated? No, I don't think LSU going to
go undefeated. I think they're going to be a ten
and two football team. Again, that makes it to the
college football playoff once you get there. The team that
won it all last year was ten and two. It
is a different game now. I love two lost national
champions myself, so LSU's gonna have the opportunity. I'm not
calling for them to win the national championship just yet.
We'll get there. We'll cross that bridge when we get there.
But I do think they're a college football playoff team.
I do think they'll make an appearance in Atlanta for
the SEC championship game. Give me the LSU Tigers number
two team in the country.
Speaker 5: All right, they're not number one, but you got them
a number two and just like you said, equally is
important on the defense a lot of different pieces. Of course,
Aja Halsey bat news isn't fantastic that we were so
blessed with yesterday. But Harold Perkins, we've talked about it.
If he plays at that All American standard, the standard
if he lives up to the athleticism he has.
Speaker 4: That's special. We all know.
Speaker 5: The special talent is that special skill set. It's finding
where he fits on the puzzle. Where does that puzzle piece,
because it is an amazing puzzle piece. If you can
figure that piece out, whether it's star position, and if
he's an All American, I will be happy.
Speaker 4: I'll be the first to say I love the star position.
Speaker 5: Okay, if he has that run, if he is an
All American, and if we are talking about him in
the same light as we did after the twenty twenty
three Alabama game, if we are doing it, if he
is on that trajectory, we will be the SEC champions
and we will be playing for a national championship.
Speaker 2: That is a fact.
Speaker 5: That is how it is going to be. And you
talk to you just not hit on the nuts Meyer
about that. People are not talking about that year one
to year two jump. Well, LSU fans, we are pretty
familiar with that. Yeah, Joe Burrow, how is that jump
from year one year two?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 4: Jaden Daniels, how is his jump from year one to
year two as a starter?
Speaker 2: Pretty good?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 5: Garret Nussmeier, you're up, buddy. Is time check out this shirt.
Speaker 2: The nuts bus.
Speaker 5: I know it's got the wrong number one. Now, I
know you're number eighteen, but it's okay. We're all on
the Nust bus. I've been driving that thing for a
long time and it was sometimes it was all hard
to drive it by myself. But you know what, it's
a big ass.
Speaker 4: Bus right now.
Speaker 5: So we're all behind you. We're all behind the Tigers.
And if you have the season and that jump like
we think you're gonna do, like we know you're gonna do,
like you're capable of doing, we will be playing for
that big trophy at the end of the year.
Speaker 2: There you have it, LSU the number two team in
the OTB Top twenty five. Now here's what we're gonna do.
I'm gonna turn us down and turn a laundra up
as she gives you the number one team and the
OTB Top twenty five.
Speaker 6: The number one team and the OTB Top twenty five.
You left me with no other choice but to rank Ohio.
Stay all right. They got some of the best players
in the country returning, so Jeremiah Smith obviously at wide receivers,
star safety Caleb Downs, and Bobby Mentioned linebacker sunny Styles
also so got a lot of good returning production they
have or they missed Quinchawn Judkins, but they go into
the portal and replace him with c Ja Donaldson from
West Virginia, so Ohio state looking really good coming back.
And they are our number one team and the OTV
Top twenty five.
Speaker 2: Hey, there we go.
Speaker 4: We did it.
Speaker 2: We did it. Thank you, Elandra. Great breakdown of the
buck Eyes there the number one team and the OTB
Top twenty five. And you know, Elandra, I you know,
only gave for a lung choice. But whoever had the
number one team right, you know, only going to have
one choice though, But I feel good about it. Great breakdown, Alandra,
great breakdown team throughout the process of naming the OTV
Top twenty five.
Speaker 5: And if there's one thing that we can hang our
hat on here at Off the Bench is our journalistic integrity.
And I want to tell you that is the only
reason we didn't pick LSU at number one, is because
we wanted to maintain that nationwide, that worldwide integrity that
we have as journalists here at Off the Bench. We
wanted to go number one. I just want you all
to know that. And they're going to be number one
at the end of the year. Lu I mean, look,
if you're number two, you're playing for it.
Speaker 4: Hey man.
Speaker 5: When we had some Ohios State guys on the show today, yep,
we did Bobby Carpenter a J Hawk here of course
part of the quadbox. So we're going to make them
number one and number two Ohio State LSU. The championship
game is going to be national championship game all out
two thousand and seven.
Speaker 2: That's right, last time this happened, and we know how
that went for the Buck guys.
Speaker 4: Yep, punishment face.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the National Chichampionships in Miami doesn't matter,
pretty sure. I was just trying to get a trip
playing with AJ and Bobby. Yeah, and then Bobby gets
the crowd all hyped up for nothing's gonna lose.
Speaker 4: Raise the roof.
Speaker 5: He definitely helicopter towels on the sideline, no doubt, standing
on the bench.
Speaker 2: There's no doubt Bobby did that. All right, we will
step away, take a break. We still got to kind
of give you some of the matchups that we're gonna
be looking at for this Clemson LSU one. Kind of
some final thoughts there, some predictions for the game. We
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of the things we're gonna do here in this segment, Matthew,
we're gonna look at some of the matchups that you
could decide the game. And right now, our guy Hunt
Palmer has an article up three matchups to watch LSU
at Clemson on Louisiana Sports dot Net. Now for him,
he's got the Clemson defensive line versus the LSU offensive line.
All right, it's one of the big matchups everybody's gonna
be paying attention to. He's got the Clemson receivers versus
the LSU defensive backs certainly now with the aj Halsey news,
that maybe even be at the top of the list.
And then special teams was the last one there. And
for special teams in LSU right now, I mean the
returners that they have. And look, we could talk kicker
and punter and stuff. I'm talking about the return game
LSU has got. I mean Barry and Brown, they got
Xavion Thomas a j and Ers from returned to kick
for a touchdown a year ago. I mean, you've got
plenty of options there, so certainly going to favor LSU
in that matchup. But if I threw that question to you,
if I said, all right, position versus position here versus there,
where are you going?
Speaker 5: I got two that I'm looking at and it's not
one of them is not positioned versus this coach versus coach.
Speaker 4: Okay, it's Blake Baker.
Speaker 2: Yep, how is he?
Speaker 5: How is that chess game so Blake Baker versus Garrett Riley? Yeah,
so how is that chess game going to go between
these two coaches? Of course, Blake Baker that we did
a lot last year last season ls hu's defense, I
would some would say it overachieved based on the talent
levels that it have from top to bottom on the defense.
Now we have filled this and of course I know
that we are going to be missing one of our
starting safeties for the first half.
Speaker 4: But how is that check?
Speaker 5: Like, the Clemson Tigers have a Heisman candidate quarterback who
is dead with his feet, can be and deadly and
accurate passer. So how can we get that guy move
in east west and instead of north and south are
How is Blake Baker's scheme? How is he going to
use Harold Perkins? How is Harold Perkins? How can he
get him in a position to affect the game? And
so I'm just really curious how that's going to play
out because I've watched film of Clemson and I've seen
games where they are explosive. Then I've seen games where
they struggled. So can Blake Baker kind of pick out
what those teams did last year to make Kate CLEBMC
feel uncomfortable, to make them struggle on third downs? Can
he decide? Can he figure out what the game plan
is to do that? So that is something I'm really curious.
How are we going to use Harold Perkins and what
is that? How is Blake Baker going to scheme up
this Clemson this Clemson offense, because it's gonna what we
see tomorrow is going to paint a pretty big picture
for the rest of the season because of the offenses
and the quarterbacks that we face that are kind of
built in that same mold as Kate Clubnick. They can throw,
but they are also very deadly with their feet. The
next matchup that I'm looking at tomorrow is the LSU
running game. Can we improve from last year? And it
won't be hard. It's not gonna be hard to improve
from the running game from twenty twenty four. So schematically,
what are we doing? Are we being creative in the
running game? Are our offensive linemen exploding off the ball?
Are they moving their man back? Are they moving him backwards?
Are we going backwards?
Speaker 4: Is there going to be.
Speaker 5: Daylight and holes that are running backs can use vision
and and not have every get contacted at the at
the line of scrimmage every single time and have to
fight for one to two two and a half yards
on first down? Can we stay on schedule with the
running game? Because if the running game can be at least.
Speaker 4: Dangerous, it doesn't have to be the best.
Speaker 5: Running game in the country, because you do have an
incredible passing game. But if it can at least be respectable,
if we can at least stay on schedule on down
and distance, and if we can at least threaten the
defense that we can pick up three four five yards
running the ball consistently, then Garrett Nusmeyer has an opportunity
to go on one of these incredible seasons and going
in one of these runs that is going to be
one of the best passing seasons in LSU history. But
it all starts with the running game. If we're gonna
rely on get to the fifty to sixty times a game,
look out, yep.
Speaker 2: I agree with the running game. It's got to go up.
It's got to be more diverse. It's got to be
something that teams respect. You can't just sit Garrett Nessmeyer
back there and just every single time the defense knows
exactly where the spot is right and he's just sitting
there and they know what they can rush to.
Speaker 4: How do you do that?
Speaker 2: You slow them down, You run the football player pass,
they've got the running back to do it. In Cayden Durham,
we'll see if the offensive line will be able to
hold up their end of the bargain. But it's got
to be more diversity. It's got to be more than
just inside zone. It's got to be outside zone. It's
got to be power, it's got to be counter, it's
got to be duo, it's got to be all these
things that we talk about. Hey, get on the edge,
you know, run, stretch, lead, whatever you got to do.
Get the ball to Cayden Durham with an opportunity and
with something that is more than just one singular style
of run play. So, like, that's my big key to
the run game is diversity in the run game. As
far as like matchups, I mean, we talk about the
Clemson defensive line versus the LSU offensive line. What about
the LSU defensive line going against the Clemson offensive line.
Their offensive line is not full of world beaters, it's
not full of first round picks. I mean, it is
a unit that certainly has had tough times in the past.
And if this conversation was last year, I'd say it
doesn't really matter. But LSU has done a couple of things.
They've added players through the portal on their defensive front,
they've got a player back from injury. And also those
young guys that were forced to play as true freshmen
last year are now going into their sophomore season. So
you bring in Jack Pyburn from Florida, You bring in
Patrick Payton from Florida State, you go get Butler from Nebraska.
You go get Bernard Gooden from South Florida. Okay, that's
who you bring in. You get Jacob and Guillery back
from injury, Gaberellaford, Dominic, McKinley, A mob broke all those players.
Now they've been through the fire. They understand what it is.
They all had to play a ton as true freshmen.
This defensive line room is so much more talented than
it was a year ago. A year ago it was
held together with Duck tape and super Blue. Now you've
got some Jimmy's, you've got some Joe's, and oh yeah,
you've got one of the most intense beings I've ever
been around, and Kyle Williams coaching them every single day.
If anybody's going to expect and ask you for your
very best every single day, it is Kyle Williams. We're
not talking enough about this defensive line going against that
offensive line. And I understand while we're talking about the
other I get that, I understand the question. Clemson's got
two All Americans, you've got four new starters. But if
you flip it, Clemson should be asking themselves about LSU's
defensive line, where that was not a question a year ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they.
Speaker 5: I like how we keep bringing Kyle Williams up every
when we talk about defensive line because we know this
line is going to be very well coached. And going
into a game, playing a quarterback like club Nick, you
have to be you have to be so buttoned up
with not making a mental air as a defensive lineman.
And what I mean about mental air is you always
have to be gap sound when you're rushing the quarterback.
We talked yesterday about mistakes that teams made last year
playing k club Neck. They rush north and south, all
four of them. And when you do that, you create
these huge windows of opportunity for a quarterback to not
only see daylight, but to understand exactly what your body
momentum is and the speed of what you're going up
the field, so he knows which gaps I can run in.
It just clears the way it makes it so easy.
So when you play a running quarterback like this that
can beat you and can make explosive plays, you have
to be so.
Speaker 4: You have to have gap integrity.
Speaker 5: You have to rush not necessarily north south all the time,
not with everybody at least, you have to do a
little bit of east west as well. And you got
to keep them in the pocket. You got to close
those gaps. The distance between the center and the guard
and guarden the tackle. You need to try to tighten
that up as much as you can. You don't want
three four five feet in between each guy because that
makes it really easy for a quarterback to see where
his window of opportunity is to beat the defense with
his feet. So yeah, defensive line, I mean, I'm excited
to see what kind of juice Jack Pivern brings to this,
to this pass rush, and what kind of juice he
brings just that off the defensive line. So I expect
that defense to, you know, go out there. There's been
a lot of talk, a lot of confidence I feel
like coming out of training camp with with that defense.
Excited to see how they come out and play with
their hair on fire man. They're gonna be playing fast
and hopefully they make some plays, but just going to
be a battle of two really, really good teams. So
I'm excited for these this opening game. I wouldn't want
it any other way. I wouldn't want to be going
out and playing.
Speaker 2: Some really small Arkansas.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't want to be playing central Arkansas. Did you just
take it? Did you just take a swipe at Missouri?
Speaker 2: So they played yesterday?
Speaker 4: I know that's your team that George is playing.
Speaker 2: Marshall hate to the Austin p.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Give me a game that I'm sitting here and I've
thought about for seven months.
Speaker 4: Better than Penn State.
Speaker 2: They played the State's got Nevada, f i U and
Villa Nova their first three games.
Speaker 4: Beta moves Penn State.
Speaker 2: That's their non con games.
Speaker 5: Guys, you know what, won't you be a man and
schedule Clemson on the road.
Speaker 4: That's it? That's it? Ye's it?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 4: Again?
Speaker 2: A great article, buyer, Guy Hunt Palmer. You can check
that out. Losing on Sports. Done that one one final
thing here before we get out. I do like that
he mentioned special teams. I know we've mentioned returners in
a game like this, and I'm pretty sure Barrier Brown
returned to kick for a touchdown against Clemson when he
was at Kentucky, So he's got experience there as well.
In a game like this, in a magnitude like this,
when everything heightened, special teams can be that deciding factor.
I'm not trying to sound like every single special teams
coach and the history of football, but it is that
third phase. It is a part of the game where
you can steal possessions, you can steal points, field position,
all of that. LSU has got the best returners in
the country. I mean, when you have that many players,
what do you have three guys that have returned to
kick for a touchdown either a punt or a kickoff
on your roster. That speaks for itself and so that
is going to be crucial in this matchup. We'll step
away kind of give you our prediction for this game.
So got the pontoon parlay to put together. We have
all that for you when we come back here on
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Speaker 1: From players to legends, Hester and Flynn breakdown LSU football
like only champions can.
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give our LSU prediction, okay, and then let's give a
pick for the pontoon parlay.
Speaker 4: Okay, how granny are you want to get on this prediction?
We like passing yards exactly.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no no, just hoop wins and maybe
a score if you want to. Okay, I'm looking for
you know, thesis on this. Then you got to give
a pick for your pontoon parlay. Which last week I
believe we went too and two. We're going for four
and oh four today this time. That's what's gonna be,
all right, would you like to kick it off?
Speaker 5: Yeah, lu prediction, So my prediction, I mean there's gonna
be no shock we are. We are not afraid to
pick LSU every single week.
Speaker 4: We are homers. We played for LSU. Okay, so sorry
that we did, Derek that we did.
Speaker 5: Don't expect anything different from us. Yeah, LSU's gonna win.
There's no doubt about it. I I think I said
this Hunt had a station survey two weeks ago. I
believe LSU wins by double digits. Even uh, I know,
I get it. We haven't won five we haven't won
the last five years. Well, this is the year and
it's uh, it's gonna happen. You can feel confident l
s U fans that LSU is gonna win this game.
I feel ultra confident. Yeah, I felt ultra confident the
last five years, but I felt even more ultra ultra
confident this year. We are going to be tested. We
are playing the best team we have faced on an
opening game in a long time, and we are playing
it in their house. But I think that is going
to help us. I think the energy we are going
to bring it. I think the talent is there. We
have brought in the pieces to complete this puzzle, and
I think our coaches are going to do a great job.
I think we win by ten and which is going
to boost Garrett Nsmeier to be the top one of
the top Heisman contenders all season long. So that is
how I feel, and I believe the score. Don't quote
me on this, but I said it the other day.
Thirty eight to twenty seven.
Speaker 2: Okay, LSU Tigers, all right again. We gave this out
a couple of days ago to hunt palm where you
can find that on Louisiana Sports Done Net. But I'll
stay with my.
Speaker 5: Looking for an alternate line. Bet LSU minus nine and
a half. That will pay, that'll pay, that'll pay, that
might be turnover chain worthy.
Speaker 2: I'll say it is.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's my bull prediction, LSU minus nine and a half.
Speaker 2: Okay. I picked thirty one to twenty eights in favor
of LSU a couple of days ago. I'm gonna stick
with that. I think it is a game that features
some really great plays on offense. I think both quarterbacks
are going to make plays. I think there's going to be,
you know, opportunities for some of these receivers from both teams.
We've talked about so many times here in the build
up the last seven months getting ready for this game.
And I think they all show out. But I do
think it is hey balls in Garrett ness Meyer's hand.
There's you know, a minute and thirty seven seconds left.
He gets it on his own thirty yard line. He
drives LSU down there, they get in position. Boom, field
goal goes through the upright as time expires. LSU wins.
I think it's in dramatic fashion. I like LSU thirty
one Clemson twenty eight. Let's throw it back to Studio
Tata and Landro. What you got got, Tata? Oh you
want me to go?
Speaker 7: I'll go very similar to Jake. I'm gonna go thirty
to twenty eight LSU. I think Tigers are down in
the fourth quarter. Garrett nel smart takes them on that
fourth quarter drive, puts them ahead, sack on the defensive side,
endstincts for Clemson when they get the ball back to
try to go down and win that game. I think
the Tigers get this one done, all right.
Speaker 8: I think the Tigers get it done because there's no way,
absolutely no way, that we lose six openers in a row.
I just refuse to believe it. If we do, then
we're cursed, and it's just I don't even know what
to think about it anymore. But my final score prediction
is gonna be thirty eight thirty one LSU.
Speaker 2: All right, thirty eight thirty one. Eventually the losing streaks
got to stop. Might as well start right now. Lsho's
done a lot in the portal. They have tried to
add to this roster. They have spent eighteen million dollars
on this roster. I believe that's the number that I
saw from Brian Kelly the other day. So look, if
not now, then win, go ahead and break the curse.
Go win a season opener for the first time since
twenty nineteen when Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase, and Justin Jefferson.
We're on this football team, all right. They're also going
to give you now our picks for the pontoon parlay.
I'll start us all so y'all can get y'alls ready.
Mine is going to be a maction team on the
road in the SEC to cover. Give me Toledo plus
ten and a half versus the Kentucky Wildcats in Lexington.
I think Toledo covers. Toledo absolutely ran through Mississippi State
a year ago on the road. I don't know that
they out right win the game. But I've got Toledo
covering against Kentucky plus the ten and a half. I'll
take that all day, Flea.
Speaker 5: Do you know much about the uh Toledo team this year?
Do you just know plenty about Kentucky?
Speaker 4: To us?
Speaker 2: How your bet against Kentucky? Here a little bit of it.
But no, Toledo actually a year ago was a good
football team. As I mentioned, they went through Mississippi State,
They had a couple of other big wins. They beat
pitt in a bowl game in a six overtime bowl game,
forty eight to forty six. I believe that was the
game above Sports Bowl a year ago. So look, they're
not gonna be scared. Last year they went into Startville,
Mississippi and beat the Bulldogs forty one to seventeen. Wait,
give me the Rockets to cover they be seventeen? Yeah, Startville. No,
swear to God happened? Truth? I got Levy Yep, yep,
that's unbelievable.
Speaker 4: I don't believe it. I don't believe it. All right,
my pick for the point?
Speaker 2: No, you know what Levy felt after that?
Speaker 4: Well, preach, we haven't used this enough today.
Speaker 5: I know, I'm sorry, all right, my pick number two
on the pond two parlay that will factually happen one
hundred percent. I'm looking at the current lines for Texas
Ohio state and trying to figure out if there's something happened.
We just have some betting, some big dogs, some sharks
coming out to bite right now and betting a lot
on Texas. But on a line that has been that
opened up on I think August tenth at plus three
or three and a half for Texas, it's kind of
stayed in that area and it's kind of slowly moved.
Speaker 4: It is a point plus.
Speaker 5: Texas is plus point five points, so basically a chalk
matchup right now. From a betting perspective, I don't think
Texas wins this game. I don't think Ark Manning has
the game that people expect him to all over the country.
I think he's going to be a great quarterback, but
this is a big, big, big, big situation for him
to get thrown in there first game as a full
time starter.
Speaker 4: And it's eleven AM game.
Speaker 2: Quarterbacks hate playing eleven AM games.
Speaker 5: I just don't think he's gonna have that. It's I
think they're a really, really good team. I don't think
they are deserving of the number one rank just because
they got a new court, just because of a lot
of different things. But I don't think they are going
into Ohio State Week one and beating them. Ohio State
wins that game. We got them ranked number one on
OTB Top twenty five poles, so it is a They
are point five point favorites right now. I am taking
that all day and going home with it. So give
me Ohio State at minus point five. Crazy to have
the line move though, like three points in two weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been movement.
Speaker 4: There has been.
Speaker 5: There are some big There are some people in Vegas
right now laying some big dollars on the long hauns.
Speaker 2: All right's go back to Studio tit in a Landro
give us your pick for the pontoon parlay.
Speaker 8: My pick for the pontoon parlay this week. And I'm
glad Matt went first so that he couldn't snipe me
on this one. But I am going to go Alabama
versus Florida State. I'm gonna take the under in that
game forty nine and a half. I have no idea
what Ty Simpson's gonna do. So, I just don't know
how much belief I know everybody's has him like at
eight nine whatever. I just don't know how much belief
I personally have in Alabama this season. So I'm gonna
take the under in that game. Alabama FSU minus forty
nine and a half.
Speaker 2: Heyay, yeah, I'll oh go ahead, go ahead. Oh I
thought they were gonna I'll.
Speaker 7: Go South Carolina Virginia Tech.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 7: Uh, South Carolina nine and a half point favorite right now.
I know that's a big number, but Lenora sellers the
hype train. Let's see how it goes Week one. Virginia
Tech disappointing season a year ago. I don't expect that
to turn around any Timson. So I'm gonna go South
Carolina in Atlanta to cover the nine and a half
against Virginia Tech.
Speaker 2: All right, So there it is on the pontoon parlay.
Let's see, We've got Toledo plus ten and a half
against Kentucky, You've got the under in the Alabama Florida
State game. You've got the Buckeyes Ohio State to cover
against the Texas Longhorns, and you've got South Carolina to
cover against the Virginia Tech Hokies. Go ahead. It's called
a pontoon parlay for a reason. You can put all
those picks together and we're gonna go four for four.
Go ahead and feel in that right now. Went two
and two last week and so feeling good.
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yeah yeah. Let's starry take the back, take a problem call.
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Speaker 1: From players to legends? Hester and Flynn breakdown l s
U Football like only champions can.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back? Yeah no, TV one four five, ESPN,
baton rouge. Let's see if we can get to some
of these. Ask the bench for you?
Speaker 4: For you who Sam? Don't bump?
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fall down that hill?
Speaker 2: Ask the bench. I got invited to a dinner where
Gordy is the guest speaker. Will I be inspired when
I leave?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah sure yeah Gordy is a great inspiration. Great,
Ask the bench? Do you dip your wings? Ranch, blue cheese,
et cetera. Or eat them as seasoned. Does anybody just
eat them as is? Oh you got mental problems if
you don't dip them. You got a dip, You got it.
Dip always dipping. I don't know anyone that dips blee
cheese either. It's always about that ranch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you on that. Let's see from ask
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Speaker 4: Nope, do that.
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