Speaker 1: Let's all start to you to presents.
Speaker 2: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and Bob Amer.
Speaker 3: I got to come off the bitch.
Speaker 1: Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 3: What's going on y'all? The bed go to be T Bob, Jake, Aljavila,
Tella Huba hanging out with you today. Got a good
show planned for you today, A lot to get to talk,
a little lsu A and M to start here, quick
little preview of how things have gone for two teams
this year. Then we know where Tyler Schuck ate his
first meal. Guys, big news and it's way different in
that bum dear car uh we Also, I want to talk.
I want to celebrate cam Ward today and tell you
cam Ward's full story. You know, one of my great
regrets of this past week. I came down and I
think we touched on it yesterday. But is that you know?
We we we All we did was talk about Shadur
and lost in the sauce was the incredible story of
cam Ward, one that should be trumpeted and told to
young kids everywhere about what's possible and whatnot. And Jeff
Allen the Athletic before the draft had a really good
write up about his journey, and so we'll we'll break
that down right, because that's one of the bad parts
of this business sometimes is that we get hyper focused
on someone's failure as opposed to someone's success. But we're
gonna do that. We're gonna coach Trina coming up, Coach
Jay John to come up at A thirty. We're just
gonna join us in the last hour of the show
today instead of tomorrow's. It's gonna be a fun show.
If you want to ge involved, YouTube dot Com, Slashato,
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I'm getting distracted. I made a bad husband mistake here.
After doing the kid switch at Jurassics yesterday, I accidentally
left the shoes in my car and so it looks
like me go to cause my daughter to be tardy
in my family is all displeased with me, which yeah, yeah,
I almost had it too, you know, I almost had
I went back and I got all the backpacks out. Yeah,
I told myself I was gonna go get those shoes out,
and the day got away from me. I blame freaking
stupid Jim Rome idiot, because that's what I was thinking about.
That showed.
Speaker 4: I was about to pull out of the neighborhood this
morning and I saw the trash pick up pull into
the neighborhood and immediately knew I forgot.
Speaker 3: Uh did you turn around? Okay? Okay? Hell? Yeah, dude, okay,
good call.
Speaker 5: I did I turned around? I was like, nope, nope, man,
dang it?
Speaker 3: Anyway, a lander, what's up? How you doing today?
Speaker 6: It seems like I'm doing better than you, But.
Speaker 3: I'm not in a bad spot. I just feel like
an a hole. I'm trying to be. You know, you
want to be like, yeah, just regular shoes has one pair? Yes,
so some.
Speaker 5: You'll I mean maybe yeah, you'll kind of over you'll
you'll like.
Speaker 3: It somehow, fluctuates can't explain it. Sometimes you'll be overflowing
and shoes and sometimes there.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, Also, they'll find one that fits
and they like the way it fits, and even though
they got seventy three other options, and I want those
those shoes that I can't have.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So it's you always want what you can't have,
that's right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, never grow out of it.
Speaker 3: I guess it's one of the base, uh parts of
being a human. I suppose always every Sunday, every Sunday,
and y'all chicken opening up soon, just opening up on Sunday.
I think it was supposed to be a play again,
the name could probably workshoped. I think it was supposed
to be a play on all because it's all chicken,
Like the whole venus just chicken. Try to make it Southern. Okay, heyday,
what's up with you, dude? How you doing this morning?
Speaker 7: We're gonna do good.
Speaker 8: We had a little uh birthday dinner for a buddy
Vane last night, so uh did a good time.
Speaker 3: That's cool.
Speaker 7: Yeah, keep it keeping Hooters of Louisiana and business well.
Speaker 3: Is thriving.
Speaker 7: Well. I mean, it wasn't my birthday, so it wasn't
my choice, but yeah, but it was.
Speaker 5: Put on a very Wednesday and Wednesday night.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean Wednesday's actually Wednesday.
Speaker 6: That's true.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, did they have a special, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 8: Like so it was like ten ninety nine for a
dozen or something like that.
Speaker 3: Well, that special has gone downhill. When I was in college,
I was I'm pretty sure like it was like five
bucks all you could eat wings or something. Yeah, even
though they used to do that and we kept showing
up every Wednesday, and they literally changed it during our
streak of showing up there because her and Johnson uh
was just eating the entire flocks of chickens.
Speaker 7: Yea, so he's to blame for.
Speaker 3: I mean, I played my role, yeah, but I'm sure
much bigger and much more noticeable.
Speaker 7: What a massive human being that guy was.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, baby Louisiana and all that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I saw this tweet about, like some random tweet and
some wings at someplace were five for two dollars all
night long, and somebody was like, you'd have to drag
me out by my neck out of that place. You'd
have to drag me out by my neck.
Speaker 3: And it's five dollars. Two dollars is a good deal.
Speaker 6: But the five dollars all you can ease?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, and that I might be making that up.
Maybe it's like twenty bucks. I don't know, I can't remember.
Speaker 7: Twenty's a big five. It was it was either five
or twenty.
Speaker 3: It could have been ten. The point is it was
a good number.
Speaker 7: You paid it, and all you can.
Speaker 3: Shutting it down because it was too good of a deal. Uh,
but it just sucks me in. Something about wings. They
shouldn't be over twenty five cents a wing, but here
we are like dollars a wing. Yeah.
Speaker 4: You know what else I missed from our college days
that doesn't exist anymore was the walk on cookie bowl.
Speaker 7: I don't think that sounds amazing.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: It was just like chocolate chips on the bottom, loaded
ice cream on top. Was warm cookie too, I mean
whipped cream, cherries, hot fudge.
Speaker 3: I mean I need in my life right up your alley.
Speaker 4: I mean me, Flynn, will Arnold, Richard Dixon would go
smash cookie bowls like sometimes not even get food, just
straight cookie bawls.
Speaker 3: I think, uh, the only the only thing you walk on.
I think of it as like being like, Okay, I'm
here and I have to have it because I'm here.
We're always just the the the fries, the cheese fries.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I mean that's I've never been there when
that wasn't ordered. Yeah yeah, yeah, not one time.
Speaker 3: Some'm gonna tasty, tasty wretch.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 3: All right, so I want to I want to do
a quick overpass of text A and M so let's
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All right? So uh, real quick, I've got some numbers
on the A and M LSU series all time here,
and why am I looking at the papers? I need
that for this and it's kind of it's very close.
LSU leads the all time series against A and M
twenty eight to twenty six. LSU's twelve and eleven in
college station. How about this the last ten matchups five
and five very even the last game they played last season,
A and M coming away fourteen to four winners. However,
that was after losing the series the first two games
at Baton Rouge. Last time LSU went the Colleen Station
twenty twenty three, you actually won that series as well.
So the Tigers hitting the road looking to make it
three series in a row against an A and M
team that started awfully, is desperate and is playing much better.
In fact, if we look at last season, everything's just
flipped right because in LSUN A and M played last year,
LSU was the one who I'm trying to remember exact
timing of it was A and M the first series
after the first fifteen It was like, was it the series?
It doesn't really matter actually, because the point is LSU
was the team that had been highly heralded falling apart,
then was desperate and had to have a series win,
and they went and got Like all of the dynamics
are completely inverted this year with A and M being
in that position, and the question is can els you
do what A and M did not last year?
Speaker 5: This is like so when you take a look just.
Speaker 4: At who A and M is and who they've been,
it's a weird series because they were number one in
the preseason, and then they were awful, and then they
were really good and then they get swept. But they
get swept by the number one team in the country,
the number one team in the SEC. It is not
even close and they were all close games games one.
So like the mindset for this series is the most
intriguing thing to me because and you know, Jay Johnson
does as good as a job as anybody and getting
his team ready. But you know, you see the record
and you see eight wins in the SEC, it's like, well,
do you hope LSU's players understand like just what this
is because just because you lose the series, you know,
by a total of three runs against the number one
team in the country, this team has figured things out.
So like even like looking at the SEC standings where
Texas A and M is next to last and batting
average and you could go down the list of categories
next to last and hits.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're not going to find anything terribly impressive statistically
from A and M this year. Right, So you see,
you see all of that, and you're like, oh, LSU
should be fine, l you should go get two or
three on the road in College station.
Speaker 5: But this baseball team talking about the Aggies.
Speaker 4: They have figured a lot out and if they're one
of those teams, t if they somehow some way get
to thirteen wins and make it to a regional, they're
going to be a two seed somewhere and that one
seed is gonna hate their life as soon as they
see it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because of the potential. Yeah, because of the potential.
But that again, that is the thing. Is what two thoughts,
uh one that we played with yesterday? How does A
and M respond to what just happened against Texas? Because
when you add in the Slashnagel factor, that is a
that is a series that could break you, like whatever run,
whatever spurt you had. Uh that that that is so disappointing,
so bitter, so that that that it could maybe make
you kind of toss your hands them say what is there?
What does the matter anyway? Or you approach you like okay,
well look now there is no margin of error. We're
completely desperate, we're wounded, but we're going to come out fighting.
Right when is the old wounded animal most dangerous when
it's back into a corner. So we'll see, uh what
what A and M's We'll see where their heads are
at in in that regard. As far as LSU goes,
I don't think it's like I think because A and
M was so highly heralded preseason and because they just
won the series at Tennessee at Arkansas, Like, I don't
see how LSU could come into this game half step
in right, and they're on the road in College station.
Like the Tigers, I'm sure are cognizant of the challenge
that they're going to be facing. You know, statistics be
damned when it comes to uh what they what they
It's just a matter of whether or not they can
they can perform. It's a brutal league. It's a brutal league.
What happened the last time you hit the road? You
got sup by an Auburn team that is good, but
it is not as good as you. So yeah, it's
we're gonna see. But there are some interesting uh there's
some like you said, there's nothing that's really gonna jump
off the Patreon and but but you can start to
see maybe why they've struggled a bit. And and one
area is they just don't strike people out. In fact,
this might be the biggest kind of statistical difference between
the two teams LSU second in the SEC with five
hundred and twelve ks, rocketing past Tennessee after last week series,
by the way, but five hundred twelve k's A and
M fifteenth, only three seventy six. The pitching staff just
knocking on text A and M like bad teams do,
shooting themselves in the foot, second to last only to
Missouri in terms of fielding percentage. And then you mentioned
like TmrA, batt and average. It's all kind of lower
half of the SEC also, Jake. It's one of those
deals where I'm used to looking at the A and
M lineup these last few years and being kind of
intimidated by some very big numbers, both average wise and
home run wise. And you look right now and you
got one two, You got four guys hitting three hundred
on the year. But even then, I mean, is Caden
Sorels still I mean even then, like some of them
coming on later, it's just not I mean, Terrence Kills
second leading the way at three twenty nine, White Henciler
at three eleven. Lavalllette's only down to two ninety one
this year. It's just not the lineup that you're used
to seeing over the past. Few years.
Speaker 4: No, I mean they've had guys and those guys right
now are top one hundred prospects in the MLB. They've
had guys that absolutely terrify you. Yeah, and they've had
guys you know right there, two, three, four in their
lineup that if you made one mistake, they would completely
change the narrative of the game. And even those guys
that have that talent for whatever reason, for A and
M and you mentioned a couple of them there, they
just they haven't been themselves. It's you look, it's a
new coaching staff. There's a lot of new there for Texas,
A and M him. How do you handle the success
that you had a year ago. That's not always easy.
Not everybody can do that. So again, they're very talented
and they can on a weekend certainly jump up and
bite you. And what they were doing before the Texas series,
they were as hot as anybody in the SEC. So
they are starting to figure some things out. You got
to be careful there. And this is another one on
the road the obvious statement where game number one, you've
got one of the top I think three best pitchers
in the country going for you. It's one of those
we got to go get the first one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, can Caid take his level of play that he
has when he faces the best guys and lock it
in for maybe when he faces not like a necessarily
one of the top aces in the conference, because when
you put him against Kisu, when you put him against Liam,
damn near perfect. It's been some of the other games
where maybe some of the focus has wobbled a bit.
But okay, look we gonna go to break. I gotta
go in like this car, so they get the shoes.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sorta.
It's off the bench with Hester and T Bob.
Speaker 3: What's up y'all? Welcome back? Oh, T b jn't go
chasing waterfalls? Guys, set it once, it set a million times. Gods,
we've been continuing to give ourselves over to Tyler Shuck.
Did you see where Tyler Shuck had his first meal? Yeah,
as a New Orleans Saint, not Chipotle. Not Chipotle. Fletch
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But he had his first meal Tyler Schuck did at
Dragos with owner Tommy's Ftanovich. That's what I'm talking about, guys.
That's the good stuff right there. That guy gets it. No, Chipotle,
a corporation that once had a great product, yet, trying
to save money in the margins, has continue to sacrifice
the customer experience and size of the burrito in pursuit
of stockholder dividends.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 3: No, this man went to Dragos, where you know they
serve ourstirs. What do you do with oysters, guys?
Speaker 5: You shuck them?
Speaker 3: Okay, this is gonna be great. This is gonna be great.
This has golden era of the Saints written all over it.
For fifteen more years, guys, fifteen more just like Drew Brees.
I can feel it in my COEs. Uh Fuder Mackall
was told that the dinner lasted three hours and that
everyone loved Chuck quote, he's smart and polite, but we're
most but we were most impressed with how respectful and
humble he is. Tell shuck QB one, screw your deer, Carr.
Speaker 7: Also, look at the pig. Look how tall our guy is.
Speaker 3: It's tall. I mean, look at it. That's a that's
a that's a nice cut figure. What he says? An
adorable dog six five two twenty runs a four to six?
Speaker 7: Wait what kind of dog chucking?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 5: A golden retriever.
Speaker 7: That's that's a good dog to have.
Speaker 3: Shook with a golden video.
Speaker 7: Here, hang on, I have it. It's a door. I
completely forgot about.
Speaker 6: That green fly. You gotta you got Golden retriever?
Speaker 3: Green fly?
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's a that's a good that is a good dog.
Speaker 3: What you didn't go to Chipotle?
Speaker 6: You got a golden Retriever?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're tall. A lot of green flags, a lot
of green and fast yeah or six you know.
Speaker 8: So there he is getting drafted to watch the dog
going nuts dog.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's Jordan's.
Speaker 6: Married, beautiful wife, gorgeous dog.
Speaker 3: He was so excited a lot of blonde in that video,
even down to the dog. It's a family of Golden Retrievers.
Speaker 8: No, they had people were making funny uh comments on
the video. They're like the dog realizes treats are about
to be upgraded.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you finally can afford that chewy subscription.
Speaker 6: What the Farmer's Dog or something like that.
Speaker 3: Oh is that like a yeah, I don't know what
the high level version we have ascription.
Speaker 7: We have bark box. We have that that's like a
once a month they.
Speaker 3: Just send you a box of crap everything.
Speaker 8: Victoria is like signed up for it and like literally
once a month she'll text me, hey, can you go
to the mailbox Frankie's bark boxes here?
Speaker 3: Now, are these like toys that stand the test of
time so they continue to accumulate or is it like
treats that are transient and then move on?
Speaker 8: Oh no, I mean we got we're overloaded with treats
right now, Like I mean we got like a bucket
is just overflows. And then what they do is like
at least bark box, like they'll give you a toy
and if it's like if it's Christmas time, they'll send
like a Sanna or something like that.
Speaker 7: And they're like Valentine's like, yeah, they keep up with it.
Speaker 3: Christnable said that dog had a Saints bandana on that
same night.
Speaker 4: Dang, yeah they have all thirty two bandanas or maybe
they probably just had like six.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they had a I think they had a good idea.
Now probably maybe maybe, I mean I don't know what
the pre draft was like in these other places, but
would have got a Steelers one maybe Brown Brown's one
for sure.
Speaker 8: Probably got like a poodle or a pulk like that,
Like Derek, do you know what You're right?
Speaker 7: Derek's a cat guy.
Speaker 3: Well, well let's chill out on that.
Speaker 6: I mean, he's probably like a no pet.
Speaker 3: He's probably a no pet guy exactly.
Speaker 5: Erald went out for Gerald.
Speaker 3: This is big, This is I mean, this is big.
Guys eat it drags. I just wonder what he got.
If only we can get the reporting on what meal
he got, then I could know for sure whether or
not he is the prince that was promised.
Speaker 6: It looks like they had some red wine at the table.
But other than that, right, uh, a little sweet tea.
Speaker 3: Who's this guy in front of him? Is? Right? Now?
This no of that guy new balance shorts on I
haven't seen newbound shorts in the Maybe ever in a
long time, who has.
Speaker 6: New balance shorts on that guy?
Speaker 3: Shorts scrolling down in the picture, the whole picture, the
whole picture. Look at the document. I don't know, maybe
I got a bigger picture in there.
Speaker 4: My first meal in San Diego was a junior's restaurant.
Speaker 3: Okay, that sounds like that. Sounds like a perfect place
for a newly minted charger.
Speaker 4: Yeah, to go right by the facility.
Speaker 3: Uh, what do they serve at? Sales? Like a pokey house?
Speaker 5: They had? They had that they had. I actually got
a bunch of stuff, like the menu was actually pretty big.
They had that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, some good bar food as well. Hell yeah, shout out.
I wonder if they still have it, so they no
longer have the team.
Speaker 5: Oh my check, I ain't think about that.
Speaker 3: Leonardo da Vinci says, Nookie says hot Takes. I didn't
grub in Louisiana. I'm completely free to say this obsession
about the first meal is weird. Af Look it's it's
It's only weird if you're not intelligent. So I apologize
because obviously this is no different than Sherlock Holmes right
when he's trying to solve the case, and he sees
scratches next to the keyhole, as if who's ever unlocking
this door Regularly's hands are shaking, therefore able to deduce
that perhaps they have a bit of an alcohol addiction,
and when they can't get their hands on it, they
get a little shaky, right, And an alcohol addiction leads
you to be able to deduce where he was the
knight of the crime. So yes, no, this is this
is all just clue finding for the hyper intelligence. I
want to expect you necessarily to understand.
Speaker 6: Well, but also, like, what's one of our biggest complaints
besides this play that we had about Derek Carr, Like
during the Super Bowl, we were like, oh, Derek Carr
is nowhere to be found. The face of your team,
the quarterback, is nowhere to be found. He didn't care
for New Orleans at all, and we don't like that vibe, right,
Like that's something that we complained about a lot. And
then you have he went to Chipotle for his first
meal and then Tyler Schuck comes in immediately has dinner
at Drago's with the owners, is already out dying the
dog with the bandana, Like this dude, is sold, Like
I mean, he's a he's bought in. And Derek Carr
he was never bought in. He never wanted to be here.
So like, yeah, guy, it's pretty right, it's pretty exciting that, yes,
there's somebody that wants to be here in your quarterback room.
Speaker 8: So like it's there's evidence, Like she just pointed to
all that evidence, So it's not it's a weird, there's
evidence behind it.
Speaker 3: Uh, Leonard da Vinci NOOKI. It is the sycophantic media
in this case, covering for this tragic mistake of a
draft pick.
Speaker 6: The tragic mistake was Derek Carr and Dennis Allen.
Speaker 3: Dennis Allen Uh yeah, Dennis Allen was the was was
the ultimately the the mistake. I think I think that
the tragic mistake of a draft pick thing is interesting
because I don't I don't have the confidence in my
scouting ability to to absolutely say whether or not a
quarterback is going to be good in the NFL. Like
I don't know. Nobody doesn't nobody. These people pay millions
of dollars and they don't know. So like I can
offer pre draft opinions like and I told you, like
just from an instinct victual level. I thought Shuck as
a pick was unexciting, but once it happened, once a
Herd coach Tief talk about him, you know, you do
start Jake showing me film missing you say to watch
a little more of it, Watch a little closer. You
see the size, you see the measurables, You hear about
how the meetings went, and you kind of start to
see the picture of Okay, I get why they're rolling
the dice with this guy, and that's what all of
these are. It's a roll of the dice. Every single
quarterback pick is. But I'm glad for you, Leonardo, that
you took a break from designing flying machines to be
able to accurately evaluate quarterbacks better than anybody in the NFL.
Speaker 8: Well, I will say this because I post our YouTube videos.
Speaker 7: I read a lot of the comments.
Speaker 8: Obviously, there are a lot of people that hate Shuck
before he's ever gotten a chance. And on the flip side,
like blindly supporting Spencer. Now here's the thing, Yeah, I
don't Spencer. Rattler was starting to a bad situation. It
was a makeshift offensive line. The team around him was hurt.
I understand that there were also a lot of head
scratchy moments from Spencer Ratler, Like there are a lot
of Saints fans being like, we got a roll with
Spencer Ratler. He was zero and six last year, and
again a lot of that's not his fault, but like,
there's so many people.
Speaker 3: That don't like Derek Carr. But I know I'm saying,
but that's why. Because Spencer Ratler became their rallying cry.
There are a lot of people being like, I'm done,
I'm good with Shock. Rattler's better.
Speaker 8: I don't really understand how anyone can say that, but
that's comment that pops up a lot.
Speaker 3: I would say this, Uh, I'll be I'll support whoever
wins the job. I think it's great that these two
are going to go head to head. I think Shuck
is pulling from a deeper well of physical potential, but
I think that Rattler is pulling from more experience. He's
got a full year under his belt in which he
played significant steps. He's been locked in the off season
process from day one. He's been out there working grind
and trying to make himself the starter. So yeah, I'm
not so married to either. This is a good thing.
Get the old malcontent out of the room, and like
it's the dark night, snap the pool stick in half
and have the two youngins fight to see who gets
in the gang.
Speaker 7: Ye joker least they won it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, That's what I'm saying. So no, rattler or shuck.
I don't care who it is. I just love that
they will both be pushing one another, even though, Jake,
you can speak to the like kind of dynamics at
play here. Who has the advantage it is shucked because
of the resources spent, or is the second round or
maybe not enough where it's like they're not gonna put
their thumb on the scale. Too hard for him.
Speaker 4: No, I've said it over the last couple of days
with draft choices. Now, if you're a first round or
you're gonna get multiple opportunities. But once you get there,
it doesn't say what round you were selected.
Speaker 3: On in your helmet.
Speaker 5: It doesn't.
Speaker 4: And just a piece of tape, shuck, piece of tape rattler,
and that's what it is. You know, and you'll have
you'll have a quarterback battle, and you'll have an opportunity
to see both quarterbacks.
Speaker 5: They'll both get reps with the ones.
Speaker 4: You know, they'll both have to get reps with the twos,
and preseason is going to be important, but we always
talk about it. The team organically tells you who the
starting quarterback is going to be before the coach can
tell you. They start to gravitate towards that guy, like
this guy's making more plays than that guy.
Speaker 5: And so a training.
Speaker 4: Camp is going to be interesting, and you know, the
media that is there is going to be able to tell,
all right, this is the guy that they're kind of
rallying behind right now.
Speaker 5: But Spencer Ratler is still going to get his reps.
Speaker 4: To your question, it's not gonna be like, oh, well
we took Tyler in the second round, Spencer, go sit down.
It's going to be Spencer Rattler out of the gates
and OTA's and mini camps and the lead in to
the season is going to get the.
Speaker 5: First reps with the first team.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then Tyler's gonna have to go prove that
with the second team. He's starting to develop, starting to
make plays, and then as I said, he'll start to
get some of those first team reps. He'll be there'll
be a twelve team period and Spencer will get eight
and Tyler Shuck will get four and then what you
do with that, right, and then that can change they
give me six and six, and then he can flip
on its head.
Speaker 5: Where you get eight and he gets four.
Speaker 3: And so we're gonna watch that process play out. Uh so, yeah,
I mean I probably disagree with both camps there. I'm
gonna go independent here. I'm siding with neither party. I
just know that I don't want the Cardi party at
this point. Well yeah, yeah, again, I.
Speaker 6: Know that I agree with you, like, have them compete,
because like healthy competition is a good thing, right, They're
both gonna raise their level of play. So whoever it
ends up being, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm excited as iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another, right.
It's a cliche for a reason. And yeah, Alanjo, you're
absolutely writing the chat. Look, the Chipotle joke is well
first joke, but secondly it's it was It's a thing
that at the beginning we made jokes about but was
not a big deal. But again, then when everything goes
as disastrously as it has, that becomes the rallying cry
red flag of oh look look at what we you know,
we we should have seen it. Mainly it's a joke,
but you know, uh, but it is also kind of like, yes,
it is a bit of the principle like that, like
if he played great, then nobody who cares it wouldn't
be anything. It's only because it was kind of like
it's like that meme with the tiny domino into the
big dominoes. That was the first little domino of evidence
that we had for how this thing was going to
go down here in New Orleans. Yeah, and then the
big dominoes, like faking a shoulder injury? Would you bean clear?
You said you didn't do some I don't know, Las Vegas megachurch.
Speaker 9: Him the vague megachurch megachurches, Like, look, if you have
multiple locations as a church, you're a megachurch.
Speaker 6: That's crazy.
Speaker 3: When we get back, I want to tell you about
cam Ward Celebrate cam Ward More to be coming.
Speaker 1: Next after bench.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to more sports talk. What's some other stuff
mixed in off the bench with Hester and t.
Speaker 10: Bob, Welcome back, OTB, Tajacolander, Taylor hanging out with you
today and uh okay, so I got I want to
do this as a way of balancing the scales and
righting wrongs here but I want to celebrate the story
of cam Ward.
Speaker 3: It says I alluded to earlier. We fell into that
most disappointing of traps when it comes to doing this
sort of job, and that is getting hyper focused on
someone failure rather than someone's success. And when you're talking
about Cammoret's story, you are talking about a story that
should be an inspiration to kids everywhere who want to
make their dreams a reality. And I'll say credit Jeff
Halle of The Athletic for this, because this is where
I got really pretty much my sole source for the
info here. So you probably heard this. We're going to
in a little bit of detail. First off, just as
family like, he's the youngest four kids. He's from Texas,
West Columbia outside of Houston. Jake. This is a guy
who in high school was not even the starting quarterback
on his high school team. As a sophomore. Yep, Now
he was athletic. He was a little chubby. Funnily enough,
this is funny. He was two forty in high school.
But he actually is his high school's all time leading
scorer in basketball. So you could see the athleticism, you
could see the competitive drive. Maybe just you know, maybe
it's like to eat a little bit. Started on the
baseball team too U and so yeah, apparently that is
one of the undercurrents here. He always had a rocket arm,
but he wasn't always able to showcase it because what
offense at his high school run the wing team. So
he's not even started a sophomore. He finally becomes the
starting quarterback as a junior. In two full seasons, he
only throws two hundred and sixty seven passes. And what
this means is he had zero stars come out of
high school, not one, not two, literal zero star recruit.
In fact, there was one coach that offered him, and
it was Incarnate Word's head coach, Eric Morris. And what's
interesting is Morris is actually coached Baker's coach Mahomes, and
he saw Ward throw and he's like, wait, this guy's
got a rocket arm. Dude, Okay, nobody's gonna hung I'll
offer him. So Ward shows up to college and Incarnate
Word and they have a quarterback, John Copeland, he's been
the start of for the last two years. He shattered
all the Incarnate Word record books and he's returning for
his junior year. What is Ward he walks into morris
office day one, he says, Coach, I'm going to be
the starting quarterback this year, just walks away. More so well,
lo and behold. After brief delay from Covid, who was
the starter that spring when they had that six game season,
cam moorere what he do as a true freshman zero
star guy won the Jerry Rice Award best Freshman in
the FCS. So he ends up kicking ass. Uh there
now Morris the head coach, he leaves to be Washington
State's OC. Cam enters the portal. Things have changed now though, Jake,
he's got interest, he's got offers. Old Miss comes with
a pile of money. Lane Kiffin, Old Miss Major Football.
Kim Ward, though, says, look, you don't want me, then,
you don't get me now, and he takes significantly less
money to go to Wazoo, all the way up to
Pullman Friggin' Washington and he locks in and in two
years he throws her seven thousand yards forty eight touchdowns,
just completely kicks at yes. Then he's like, okay, do
I go to the NFL? Do I stay in college?
And he starts testing the waters. The NFL. They tell
me he's going to be a middle round pick. He's like, no, no, no,
I'm the same guy that walked into the office as
a Zerstir recruit and said I'm going to start and
beating out the guy who's breaking records right now. The
same guy said I should be the number one quarterback.
You're tell me I'm going to be middle rounds. I'm
going back to school. Also, a little side note here,
Apparently him and Cheulder have been tight this entire time,
and Chaudeur was one of the main reasons why he
came back to school because they liked competing against each
other and talking to each other and seeing who is
better blah blah blah whatever. So those videos are not
out of nowhere. Yeah, yeah, those videos are not out
of nowhere. So decides I'm gonna go back to college.
I got something left to prove, and he goes to Miami.
And this next line is why cam Ward went from
during the pre draft process. This is why cam went
from being it maybe the best quarterback, maybe a franchise quarterback,
to easily the number one overall pick, and the Titans
are so comfortable with believing in him is because of
stuff like this. So he gets some Miami. The first
thing he does is ask for pictures and names of
everyone in the building, not the players, just the players
at least, but you know, equipment training, everybody he shows
up day one, He's calling everybody by their first name. Right,
everybody's blown away. What else does he do? He requests
a locker in the locker room with the most foot
traffic so he can get to know the team faster,
so he can be he can be Jawn with the boys.
And if you saw, there's a great clip after the
draft of I think his guard from Miami like on
FaceTime with him and they're celebrating together, and you can
just tell that he he gets it. And here's a
chance of Dawson had to say about it, say quote,
he's got the best personality in the world. He understands
interpersonal relationships and how all that stuff matters in the
grand scope of things. He understands that quarterback is a
very dependent position, so he needs guys around him to
do their job. So that's why Kim Wore made it. Guys.
And there's so many lessons to be learned there right,
self belief, overcoming adversity, a consistent work ethic and drive
to prove people wrong, relying on your teammates no matter
the business interpersonal relationships. The story of cam Ward is incredible.
From zero stars to the number one pick in the NFL.
That's insane, absolutely insane. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I thoroughly enjoyed sitting down and I never really had
a chance to meet him, but we sat down with
him for about fifteen minutes on Wednesday of last week.
And EJ's been telling me about him because he works
out at the same gym that EJ works out down
in Miami, and so he's gotten to know him.
Speaker 5: Really well and a big fan of his.
Speaker 4: And he was telling me, like last March, I remember
he covered their spring game for the ACC Network. He's like, look,
I'm just telling you, cam Ward at Miami is going
to be different.
Speaker 5: And it was. But his mentality was incredible.
Speaker 4: I loved every answer on air off air, completely locked
in like Tennessee made the right selection. There was no
doubt by the end of the process, he was the
only quarterback that was worthy of being in that conversation.
Speaker 5: Of being drafted that high. He's going to be a
Day one starter.
Speaker 4: I mean no disrespect to Tim Boyle or Brandon Allen
or Will Levis, but like it's his franchise now, I
mean Warren Moon allowing you to wear number one. He
kind of speaks to what the organization thinks of you.
Speaker 3: So shout out to cam Moore. Wanted to celebrate your
story and kids, remember, don't give up, believe in your dreams.
You probably won't end up his number one pick, but
it can't hurt, you know, cat hurt. All right, let's
close out our number one next.
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Speaker 1: Back to sports talk, maybe off the bench.
Speaker 3: You know what was crazy about yesterday? Guys, it's so
funny doing this job, how things line up. But we
had the perfect ying and yin and yang storylines yesterday,
where on one hand, you had an incredibly immature son
doing something very embarrassing in Jack's olbrick that his father
Jeff Ulberg, had to sit up there and and take
responsibility for and smooth over, et cetera, et cetera, And
the same day you had an incredibly immature action by
someone's father in Halliburton whose son had to sit up
there on the podium and smooth things over and take
responsibility for it. Like what a fun little uh, you know,
a fun little echo of one another, a little inverted
echo little bizarro world there.
Speaker 6: Hopefully Tyrene won't have to pay one hundred thousand dollars
for that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean, so the family, the Olbrig family
got fined one hundred k eight, oh god, and the
Falcons got fined two fifty.
Speaker 7: I was thinking about this lesson.
Speaker 8: Why are the Falcons being fined more than older Not
their fault because they have more money.
Speaker 5: It's probably like their iPad.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but I mean I'm thinking, this is your coach.
You should be able to trust that guy that that
info is not gonna come out.
Speaker 3: On Jeff's fault. Either. It's Jackson's fault.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a little Turret's fault.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's Jackson's.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but it's more Jeff's fault than the Falcons.
Speaker 3: And how dumb.
Speaker 6: Drawing quarter him in the plaza.
Speaker 3: Actually, the thing that sucks is that Jackson's with an
X were so hot. I mean, Dart justin got drafted first.
Speaker 4: Jacks just Brew the Jacks X like my Jackson is
with a.
Speaker 3: C K.
Speaker 6: Jackson. They were actually I know, but they.
Speaker 3: Were breaking those stereotypes. Dart just went first round for
good pre draft processing and then this guy shows up. Yeah,
I agree Betterina coming up next year.
Speaker 1: No TV off the bench