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Speaker 3: Welcome back in our number three, a Friday edition of
Off the Bench, Taylor Sharp and the host show Landra
Villar y Alcasis bizzally along as well. Speaking of the
Bomp music, the only person trying to sabotage O TB
is our guy Joel. Joel thumps that guy.
Speaker 2: We were walking out yesterday and he saw this again.
Oh wait, I don't think we told you this. So
after the show yesterday, Mickey Loomis comes up and he's like,
they let y'all out of Baton Rouge and starts like laughing,
or like.
Speaker 4: They let you have a job, like.
Speaker 3: What jesus Mickey.
Speaker 4: So, Mickey, Mickey might be a O TBP one.
Speaker 3: We don't know, but I'm sure he loves me.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he's heard me talk about I
don't think he would have liked what I had to
say about him.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you appreciate my Mickey Loomis fact checks.
Speaker 2: When we were leaving, Joel was leaving also, and I
was like, Hey, maybe we can get you on like
next week to recap the Senior Bowl and what you
saw like in terms of scouting for the Saints and
blah blah blah. And he was like, Oh, I'd love to.
I'm like, I'm sure he would. I'm sure you would.
Speaker 3: Here aware it is all right here now our number
three guys, We're gonna have a little bit of fun.
We'll do an early Super Bowl talk here real quick.
Super Bowl next Sunday, but Jake's gonna be out all
week next week, so kind of want to do like
initial thoughts here on this game. I got some fun
facts for you guys. You're gonna love well have jace
Lejarn of grid Iron Football coming up at nine to
fifteen to win the next segment talk their All Star Bowl,
some of the top players coming up into the high
school ranks, and then kind of get his thoughts on
all things LSU and then we'll close it out like
we do every day with ass the bench. But obviously
Super Bowl next Sunday, Patriots versus Seahawks. Nightmare scenario for me, guys,
probably to my two least favorite teams in the entire NFL.
And it's weird, like I hated the Patriots for twenty
years of my life because of Tom Brady. I love
Tom Brady now and I still hate the New England Patriots.
I think it's a Belichick thing. Not a big Belichick fan,
not a huge Robbertcraft fan either. But look, the Seahawks
had the tougher path. I mean, on pay they probably
have the advantage here and they're they're pretty good sized
favor favorite for the Super Bowl, so that makes sense.
Everyone mentions the Patriots easy schedule, and then on the
flip side of things, the Seahawks had a tough path
and they always find a way to win. Now, the
Patriots in the playoffs, you look at the teams they played,
They're all top five defenses, So I mean that they
didn't have an easy path to get here by any means.
As far as the regular season. Now, when you go
look at what the Patriots did in the regular season,
they played seventeen games. Three of the coaches they played
did not get fired, So fourteen out of the seventeen
coaches that they faced last year got fired. Dave Canalis
with the Panthers he's back, Kellen Moore with the Saints
obviously he's not going anywhere, and then somehow Zach Taylor
with the Bengals. Those are the three coaches they faced
last year that kept their job. So it was easy
in the regular season. That was kind of the knock
on Drake Mays. You know, when they were talk abou
who's gonna win the MVP, it was the Patriots had
beaten one team with a five hundred or better record,
it was the Buffalo Bills, and they went one and
one in that So that's kind of a wash. Like
maybe I'll eat my words on this. I'm just I'm
one of those people that she's like, you're gonna have
to show me you can do it at the highest
level before I take back the things I say about you.
I understand he's been great. Sam Donald's gotta go do
it one more time. Sam Donald wins this game coming
up on Sunday. I'm on board. I'm a Sam Donald believer,
no question about it.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: I think the team around Sam Donald is phenomenal. I
do think New England has the advantage of quarterback, but
every other spot seems to favor Seat in a big way.
I think that with Zach Sharpenayott it does take a hit,
but power running game. Kenneth Walker is one of the
best in the business.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: The Patriots are great as well. I think Treyvon Henderson
was the best rookie running back in the NFL. I
think he's going to wind up being the best rookie
running back out of that draft class when it's all
said and done. Or and Andre Stevenson really good player.
But the power running game the Seahawks have following that
big offensive line, letting Sam Donald just I mean Sam
Donald could take over games, he could manage games. But
Sam Donald does exactly what he needs to do in
that offense, and that's why he's been so successful. Like
you go look at the game against the Seahawks and
nobody's like, oh, they dominated him forty one to six.
Sam Donald was twelve of sixteen for one hundred and
twenty four yards in that game. Sometimes he doesn't have
to do it all, and that's a credit to the
rest of the Seahawks team. Like when the Saints traded
Rashid Shaheed first few weeks, like Shaheed didn't do anything
all right, Okay, no big deal, and he really hasn't
done a ton in the receiving game. Rashid chi Heat
has been a godsend for that team on special teams,
special teams, defense, running the football that wins games where
you and Seahawks do all three of those things very
very well. So they obviously have the advantage in this game.
But I do think New England has the quarterback advantage.
I understand Sam Donald's been great, he's a good story,
but what I've seen from Drake May and or two
is is a lot to be excited about. But here's
a nugget for you guys.
Speaker 5: Two.
Speaker 3: Actually, the New England Patriots are the first team in
NFL history to go a perfect nine and oh on
the road. That's regular season and postseason, so they can
win away from their backyard, which is important here in
the Super Bowl. Also, a landra is gonna love this one.
Every time this century the Super Bowl is played between
two teams, one traveling East and one traveling West. The
team traveling West wins. And this goes back how it
goes back to two thousand and two. This is little
graphic every single time, Like I.
Speaker 4: Don't understand how people come up with that stat.
Speaker 3: When the Super Bowl was in New Orleans in two
thousand and two, the Rams traveled east, the Patriots traveled west.
They won. Patriots are traveling west in this game and
they're a perfect nine and oh on the road.
Speaker 4: I don't get that. I give find that.
Speaker 3: I gave Hunt this stat before the playoffs even started.
I told him to bet on the Seahawks. He didn't
believe me, he said, he's what was the one about
the Pope's that's the one. That's what I'm getting at.
So in two thousand and six there was a new pope.
It was Pope Benedict. Seattle Seahawks made the Super Bowl
that year. Twenty fourteen, new Pope, The Seattle Seahawks made
the Super Bowl that year. What happened this summer boom?
New Pope, Seattle Seahawks back in the super Bowl. That's
three times in a row, guys. And it's not like, oh,
it's every four years every No, it's just when the
pope dies and they elect a new one. Yeah, it's
at random, and it still works out in Seahawks favor.
Speaker 4: That's God giving you a lot right.
Speaker 3: Well, now, if you're wondering, oh, the Seahawks are gonna win.
They're one and one in the in the last two,
so I mean they they lost in O six. They
won in the previous time. It was against the Denver Broncos,
so they're won in one in that game. But they
make it every time there's a new pope. So next
time we have a new pope, Oh, sprinkle a little
bit of money on the Seattle Seahawks to win the
Super Bowl. But yeah, nightmare scenario for me. Team wise.
I've never been a fan of either of these teams.
And if you think that you don't want to watch
this Super Bowl or you're not interested, I want you
to think about how Tyler Lockett feels. Tyler Lockett spent
a decade on the Seattle Seahawks, and it wasn't like
he was a scrub. Like he was a Pro bowler
in twenty fifteen. So he was in Seattle from twenty
fifteen until twenty twenty four. Last season, last time the
Seahawks went to the Super Bowl was fourteen, so he
missed that last Super Bowl. Went on an incredible ten
year run with them left in the offseason they go
back to the Super Bowl. He had been there two
years and was a season short of two Super Bowls.
If that's not bad enough that two teams he played
for this year with the Titans and the Raiders, who
are probably the two worst teams in the NFL, but
to off a break for him as far as this
game goes, though, I keep wanting to pick the Patriots
in this game. And I don't know why because I
think Seattle's better. That may change next week, but I
trust Mike Rabel and I understand it's his first year
in New England. But you got to remember, this is
a Mike Vrabel that played under Belichick, he played with Brady,
He's played in these big games. He's won these big
games as a player, obviously not a coach. But when
he gets hired on with the Tennessee Titans, he takes
them to the one seed. Not only are they the
one seed, they're the one seed with Ryan Tannehill as
their quarterback, and they had every opportunity to go to
the Super Bowl. Some things didn't fall their way. But
think about the Tennessee Titans being the one seed in
the AFC with Ryan Tannehill as their quarterback. Since the
Titans moved on from Ryan Tannehill a few years ago.
He hasn't even been back in the NFL. And look
where they're at now. They're a bottom feeder. They've been
one of the worst teams in the NFL over this
last three to four year span. And here's Mike Rabel
taking the Patriots to the Super Bowl in year one
in New England. I mean, he was the talk of
the town last year, right, Like, there were a lot
of people down here in New Orleans was like, hey,
could you go after Mike Rabel. The Patriots snatched him
up so quick. He was the first coach off the
board last year. I mean, that's how much they believed
in him and what he could do in this city.
And you know, it's like, if you're a Patriots fan,
you're loving this. If you're a fan of any other
fan base, you hate this. Because think about all the
teams out there, yes, the teams I routed for in general,
that haven't made it to the Super Bowl. You see
the Patriots form a dynasty, win six super Bowls. The
greatest player in NFL history leaves wins the Super Bowl. Elsewhere,
you fire your Hall of Fame coach, you burn it
all to the ground. And you build it right back
up and get back to the super Bowl before some
of these teams even had an opportunity to go. Think
about how well run of an organization that is. And
you can say what you want about Robert Kraft and
all this. I understand everybody you know gives all the
flowers to the Rooney family and the Steelers for how
that organization's ran. And it's great. I don't think there's
a better run organization in the NFL than the New
England Patriots. And I don't even like the Patriots, but
what they have done, like, let's tear it down to
the base and build it back up almost perfectly in
such a short period of time. I I mean, Belichick's
only been gone two years. Like a lot of people
forget about that because he's been in the media so
much and he's done so much since then. They had
Girodmeo for a year last year, it didn't work out,
it got rid of him. They hired Mike Vrabel. This
is year one for Vrabel. So Belichick's only been gone
two years. So you move on from Brady and Belichick
two years later you're back in the super Bowl. That
gets a lot of opposing fan base is Matt. I'm
sure the Patriots love it though. But you know, we'll
get into this a lot more next week, but just
wanted to kind of give surface level thoughts there. I
don't know why I keep leaning Patriots in this game.
I do think Seattle is the better team, but we'll
break it down more as next week goes along. Okay,
we're gonna take a quick time out right now. Coming
up on the other side of this break, I got
Jace Lejeern if Gridin football is gonna hop one. They
hosted an All American Bowl for Gritar football a few
weeks back. We'll talk about some of the top prospects
in that game aims to watch and I'll just get
his thoughts on all things LSU. That's coming up next
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Speaker 1: This is Off the Bench.
Speaker 3: Without welcome back in our number three Friday edition of
Off the Bench. Taylor Sharp here with you, going out
to the phone lines right now, bringing on my guy
Jace Ljerne from grid Aron Football Jas. How are you
this morning?
Speaker 9: Doing good? Taylor's been a minute. Hope you're having yourself
a good new year so far.
Speaker 3: Dude, it has been a minute. I missed you. It's
no more episcopal football, Like what are what are we
gonna do with our lives here? But speaking of football,
you guys have grit ourn football y'all. A little all
star game a few weeks back. How'd it go?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 9: Very busy? It was a very busy event, I could.
I could say that for sure, Taylor. We had about
one hundred sixty senior players and attendance from five different
states across the country, and we had four different teams,
so we actually had like a little bit of a
tournament elimination for the four teams, so we had three games,
including a championship round. So it was a lot of
great football. Was at LSU Louisian Christian University, and we
actually had a junior high game as well. That way
we can cover a lot of the players that are
on the rise as well from sixth or eighth grade.
But we also had the senior game that's really our
main event through that day on December thirtieth. But it
was a great event.
Speaker 3: Who standouts we have? Man, you'll got any big time
players out there?
Speaker 9: Oh? Yeah, we have a lot of talent. This year,
it was plenty of really great talents. And what the
talent has been better every single year since I've been
there at grid Iron Football, and in this year, we've
actually had a lot of LSU fans will probably remember
the last name Randall, Marcus Randall. His son actually played
in our bowl game, Cayden Randall. And you know, he
actually was a defensive MVP of the bowl game. He
was making a bunch of hard hits throughout the game.
He's actually signed to play at Southeastern Louisiana University. Uh,
we had a scambia in Pensacola. That's actually where Emitt
Smith played high school football at. They had a defensive
lineman Andrew in Battle. He was pretty much unblockable the
entire game. And Marshall South Florida. Some of those types
of schools are looking at him. Johnny McCarty, he's actually
receiver from Saint Michael High School right here in Baton Verge.
He actually made a little bit of national headlines. It
was actually when you got moss right, yeah right, you know,
one handed catch and pretty acrobat catch as well. But yeah,
we had a lot of great players. Uh that took
place Zion Lee. He's at You're gonna play football at
the Naval Academy and running back from Monkey High School.
So we're with the talent. It just gets better and
better each and every year. And these are gonna be
a lot of prospects that you might not hear about,
you know, immelily. But because of the transfer portal, I
think that's what this Green Iron Football Game really helps.
You'll see these guys the next two or three years,
and that's where we've seen from the bowl game of
those guys going up the charts.
Speaker 10: Really.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, I'm glad you mentioned the portal because that
kind of gets into what I want to talk about next. Look,
obviously you know a lot of those guys, those are
the names to watch coming out throughout the high school ranks.
But Jason, as far as college football goes, transition a
little bit to LSU, like it has been all about
the transfer portal for about three or four weeks now
really since it opened, and LSU finishes with the whale
of a class, I mean, number one class in the country,
forty two transfer portal signees. If I had to ask you, like, okay,
letter grade, what do you give Lane Kiffin and the
staff first transfer portal class.
Speaker 9: Oh, I have to give themselves an a. I mean
just what they were able to do, especially because you
come into a situation like Lane and you have a
lot of players that are leaving and you're trying to
figure out which guys are coming back and staying and
and you have a lot of holes you have to
fill in your roster when you're whenever you have a
coach and change, especially uh you're being coming a new
coach of the of the team. But really have to
give itself today with the class. I mean, I don't
think you can really do a better job considering the
circumstances that Lane Kiffen and the staff did.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 9: They pretty much reloaded at you know, pretty much every
position you look on offensively and defensively. And you look
at they got three really talented quarterbacks. Obviously Sam Levitt,
you know, leads the headlines the class and the wide receivers.
I'm really interested in spring football. Would go see the
Tigers in the spring proasses, they wich which of these
receivers stands out? Because they got themselves like nine of
receivers from the transfer portal. And you know, I think
they did a better job and the offensive line was
obviously weakness last year, and I think they got themselves
at least two starters from that group when we talk
about you know, Jordan Seton and Devin Harper. But I'm
actually more excited to about the defensive side and the
additions that got on that side of football. I mean, Princeville,
you my mio, and I mean there's a big time
pickup for them on the defensive end, and really the
two Ole Miss guys, him and TJ.
Speaker 6: Dottary.
Speaker 9: I think it's gonna be two big time pickups for
the Tigers and Todd Benneville and in the secondary as well.
Say you go with a really great group in the
back end of the defense. I'm really excited about the
transfi world class.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned the defense, you know, to
start the show, was talking about a little bit earlier,
like the top transfers. Ti Bennefield might be my favorite
player in this transfer portal class. Like I understand, it
wasn't maybe not a huge need because you already had
Deshaun Spears and Tamarcus Cooley, but that's going to mean
so much to your defense because he's so versatile. I
love that signing. So let's get away from individual players.
Maybe look at uh position groups as a whole. Like
obviously kicking in the staff, I mean I just mentioned
forty two players. They they dominated in every aspect, But
is there one position group like remember last year's edge rusher, Right,
you brought in Pyeburn Butler, Patrick Payton. I mean, is
there any position group this year? You're like, yeah, all
those guys can make an impact.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I really I can look away from
the wide receiver position because you look at some of
these guys, right, you have a little bit of a
mix of everything. Because you know, Lane Kiffin likes to speed.
He's got these speedy guys at the wide receiver position.
He's also got some length at the receiver position too,
and it's improven commodities as well. So now you look
at I mean, Winston Watkin is another old miss guy,
Trey Wilson from Florida, I mean Jackson Harrison. Why Chase Brown.
I pretty much figured that at least it's gonna be
hard to really take a guess who's going to really
be starting. But I feel like Jase Brown's gonna at
least be one of those starting receivers in that rotation
or you know, at least going to be in the mix.
So I feel like at the wide receiver position, I
know the coaches really like Roman mother Shiit as welcome Troy,
So that really stands out to me the most when
we talk about a position group, and and really you
got to also commend them for the quarterback position because
for a while there was no scholarship quarterback on the roster,
and I feel like you have three guys. I mean,
Sam Levitt, you've seen what he can do at the
Arizona State and going back was at the track record
of getting Arizona State quarterbacks has been pretty good for LSU.
But you look at the back of quarterbacks as well,
in Long Street from USC and Landing Car from ME.
I like both those two guys as well once Levit
does leave. So I mean, I think, really look at
the two skilled positions. Here is what really drew my interest.
And we talk about this transfer port class'd, I'm glad.
Speaker 3: You talked about the quarterback spot. Like, look, Sam Levitt
was my favorite quarterback in the transfer portal. I mean,
I think, you know fully healthy, most people probably feel
the same way him and Brendan Soarsby, Like, I think
those two guys are interchangeable. I understand that, you know,
lsu Vans were upset when when Soresby big Texas Tech.
That was early on in the process, and like if
you followed Soresby, like it was always going to be
Texas Tech. But you know, you wind up getting Levitt,
who not going to participate in spring ball. But I'm
not concerned about that as much like he could still
throw with the receivers, he could still learn the playbook.
He's just not gonna be out there full contact, which
what quarterbacks in full contact are in spring anyways. But
as far as the other two guys go, who'sa on
long Street? Land and Clark? What do you make of
both of those guys because they're both talented, but you
see Whusa on Long Street? I mean, the former five
star didn't play a ton last year. I believe he
played in about three games last year for USC. Then
you have Land and Clark from Elon, an under recruited guy,
but he's a baller. His tapes impressive. He put up
a heck of a lot of numbers last year at Elon.
I think the spring's gonna be huge for both of
them because they're battling for that number two spot and
you're a playaway from Sam Levitt re injuring that foot
to getting in there. Do you what do you think
of the battle that's gonna happen between those two?
Speaker 9: Noah, I agree. I think really the backup quarterback position
is gonna be really looked at even more than it
usually is, just because you talked about you know, Levit's
injury history. But yeah, it's gonna be interesting to watch.
I mean, in the good thing is all three of
these guys, if you know, they're pretty much interchangeable what
Lane Kivin wants to do.
Speaker 5: I mean, these are two.
Speaker 9: Guys that were dual threat guys. They can beat you,
They can beat defenses with their arm, they can beat
defenses with their legs. Those are the type of quarterbacks
that obviously that Kiffin would like in his offense. And
you saw, I mean you pretty much trust h Charlie White,
you trust Lane Kiffen their quarterback violation because you saw
what they took a chance on trend at Chamis and
you saw what happened there and then you know landing
card definitely gives me a lot of those you know
type of similarities as a guy that's you know, really
under the radar. But really, I mean, I think it's
a perfect fit for his offense. And if he's on
Long Street, you know his ability as well running the
football and being a five star quarterback too. So seeing
both these two guys in spring football's really important because
I truly believe there's a good chance you'll see you know,
one or even both of them a lot this year
because of uh, you know, Levitt and his injury history
in the past. But I really like all three pickups.
Tell what you did getting those quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: Chase Joon of Gridain Football our guest right now. I'm
glad you mentioned Lane and Clark kind of being an
under the radar guy. That's where I kind of want
to go next. I mean, you know, like take take
quarterback out of it. You know, all the big time guys.
Is there a guy that you know, maybe a lot
of people aren't talking about that you think can flash
for these guys.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean there's a couple of guys on here
for example, I mean there is there's Dylan Jones from Wiscott, Wisconsin,
you know, as a running back. We haven't really talked
too much of the running mass because you you kind
of know what you get at the top of that
pecking order coming back and Kayden Durham and and obviously
Harlem Barry, but you need some depth there as well
at that position. So I think lsu I mean that
kind of went on our notice or under the radar.
We're getting that some of those guys at the running
back position, and and Gilry from du Tauh and Rod
Ganey from Charlotte, So those gonna be guys look at.
And uh, Jordan Ross, I think he's another guy to
kind of look at from Tennessee. Uh, And I think
a change of pace and change the scenery for him
is gonna be really good. But this is a guy
with plenty of talent him and he was a five
star coming out of high school. And now I mean,
I think he can really be into rotation. So watch
out for some of those guys on the defensive line.
We all know about Princeville, but some of these other
guys like like Jordan Ross and Leek Blocked and guys
like that Achilles Woods. I'll try I'll probably keep an
eye on them as well.
Speaker 3: All right, Jason, one more for you. You know, I
was just a second ago talking about how Todd Bennerfield
might be my favorite player in this class. Like obviously,
you know, we all know about Levitt, but is there
one guy in this class you're like, if somebody makes
an immediate impact, it's this guy, Like, who's maybe your
favorite player they signed?
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, I mean he's definitely one because you're looking
for somebody and he's I probably agree with you there,
because he's somebody that you can put in the star position.
You know, you can put him in the box, and
that's something that's a position that you know, LSU really
takes a lot of pride in at that star position.
We get Harold Perkins in the year's past, so you
can line up Time Benningfield pretty much if you need
him in the you put them in, you know, as
a deep safety, you can put them there as well.
So his versatility I think is gonna be really huge
for the secondary. And this is really a strength for
this OLSE football team coming back. But I also really
like TJ.
Speaker 5: Dottary.
Speaker 9: I mean I really like that pickup as well. I mean,
he's won the leading tackers I think he believe he
was lean tackle with the SEC last year, and you Pitt,
you really place him with Devon Keys and with Weeks
that that lineback and Creer is gonna be pretty scary,
and uh taking up t J. Dottary, that's that's a
really good pickup for this defense.
Speaker 5: And play Baker Jace.
Speaker 3: Year one before we get you out of here. Like
expectations for Lane Kiffin. I mean, after you put together
this portal class is it? Is it playoffs or bush
You're one?
Speaker 9: Yeah, you don't. I mean you don't really want to
stay playoffs or bus you're one, But it kind of
almost feels like like it because you see what Indiana
has done in only two years, and you've seen what,
uh what other teams have done. It's just a sure
amount of time because of the transfer portal, and it
was a little bit of a shorter window because you
got the expand play off and you can get these
guys you can win right away in the transfer portal,
so you know what to expect from Lane Kiff and offense.
You know they won't score some points and I know
I have a question about that. And then you bring
Blake Baker back. You don't know how much you got
Blake Baker left when you're coaching staff. So to be
honest with you, it kind of does feel like, even
though this is year one, it does feel like a
playoff or bus And I know that the LSU fans are.
I've been pretty hungry for ls you get back into
the playoffs. So a really a lot of proven talent
from the transfer portal and with this transfer portal class,
you can kind of see now that, Yeah, this is
that type of year for all Is Shoe to make
the playoffs, and you know, I know that will be
a great first impression for Lane Kiff in his first year.
Speaker 3: Jason Football Jays, thanks so much for hopping on with us.
Speaker 9: Man Absolutely time Taylor.
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Speaker 5: Nope, I didn't think so. How you doing, young lady.
Speaker 10: The feeling that you give him really.
Speaker 5: Draves me crazy. You don't have a playoff on the
show's having of words first time?
Speaker 1: Then we spoke from the locker room to the airwaves.
Gets off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
You expect me to just what if you.
Speaker 3: Not Jacob Hester or Matt Flynn. They decided to take
this Friday all Alandra was the only one cool enough
to actually show up after being out there in mobile.
So Taylor Sharp here with the Elandra Villa Reale, Cassie Spizzally.
Uh had a little bit of an early wake up
call this morning. Sorry about that, Cassie. You can blame
Matt Flatt, not me.
Speaker 5: Andandra.
Speaker 3: You keep hestering me about this show.
Speaker 4: I pester everybody about this.
Speaker 3: The Traders. Okay, so get it off your chest. What
is it?
Speaker 4: Jacob Matt got it all?
Speaker 2: Like, what do we have here? It's the best show
of all time and it's a great show. Okay, It's
like the best show on TV right now.
Speaker 4: It really is.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: So it's basically like a murder mystery clue type situation.
There's a bunch of people living in a mansion, Alan
Cummings mansion, and three of them are traders. This season
there's a secret trader though, and nobody knew, not even
the audience knew who the trade the secret trader was. Yes,
and then so the traders know who each other are,
but nobody else knows who it is. Every night they
kill somebody out of the they kill somebody off the castle.
And then every night there's also a round table traders included,
where everybody is.
Speaker 3: Like calling each other out each other out not like
that that seems like.
Speaker 2: A perfect Yeah, it's so funny because everyone's so paranoid
and they're so loud and so wrong, like they have
no idea who they are, and then they like make
got stuff to convince themselves that somebody who's a faithful
as a trader.
Speaker 4: It's so funny. Is the best show on TV right now?
Speaker 10: Rob?
Speaker 4: This guy Rob is on it.
Speaker 2: He might be one of the I still think season
one SuRie she was the best trader that I've seen,
but Rob is giving her a run for her money.
And Rob is also very attractive.
Speaker 3: Okay, are these celebrities?
Speaker 2: They are celebrities. They're like reality TV people. Yeah, so
they like separate them. So there's gamers so like Survivor
Big Brother stuff like that, and then there's like Daniel
Saine hashtag justice for Ron on here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, justice for Ron.
Speaker 2: They said he was a trader just because he was
super quiet and he wasn't freak.
Speaker 4: It is like housewives are on there too.
Speaker 2: It's reality TV people, but the first season was like
half celebrities and then half normal people.
Speaker 3: Okay, so I.
Speaker 4: Really liked that one because it was just so funny.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think this is like one of the
most entertaining shows on TV right now.
Speaker 3: So I know it's highly unlikely, but I guess it's possible.
What happens if like there's three traders, four traders have
many and like they all just get eliminated within the
first four weeks.
Speaker 4: I don't know, like just hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I guess it's possible.
Speaker 2: It's just over faithful's like they split the money up
or something like that, because they're also doing challenges, right,
and like every challenge you can win money toward the pot.
Speaker 4: So like if there's a trade.
Speaker 2: And then like if there's two traders left or like
three traders left, they can decide if they want to
like throw each other under the bus or split it
amongst themselves.
Speaker 3: Cassie, it's great. Should we should we give should we
give Traders a show?
Speaker 5: What do you think?
Speaker 10: I don't know.
Speaker 11: I I feel like I might like it, but I
don't really watch like reality.
Speaker 3: That's true, You're not You're not a big TV person anyways,
like in general, Oh.
Speaker 11: No, I binge watch shows. I don't watch like reality TV.
Speaker 3: See I love Uh, I like I like Love is
Blind Like that's that's that's a shame with like, I
don't care who admits it. Look, I do hot yoga
and watch Love is Blind people. Okay, it's twenty twenty six.
I can do what I want. Yeah, And I hate
to tell you you're wrong though.
Speaker 4: No, I'm not. I don't care.
Speaker 3: See she says Traders is the best show on TV.
It's not the best show on TV.
Speaker 1: Is the Pit?
Speaker 4: No, Traders is better?
Speaker 3: I've never Okay, So the pit it takes place at
just like some generic Pittsburgh medical center. Okay, And they're
in like the trauma room, the operating center, like worse
are the worst? Right? The entire season is one bit
like season one episode one starts as at six am,
seven am, so like it takes you real time, and
I mean they're this back to back to back, and
like they don't pull any punches either. It's not like
a grae anatomy where like everybody everybody lives. There's a
bunch of drama. No no, no, I mean the season one,
like you lose multiple people per episode. Like it's like
it's like harditting, yeah, but it's it's not like a
it's not real. Well it's not real though, like it
seems like it's real, but like they were still actors
playing parts, you know what I mean. But like they
had a mass shooting at a music festival in Pittsburgh
and like that was two episodes worth of like bring it,
like it is like real life stuff. It's it's intense,
but I love it because there's like six or seven
things happen in per episode. It's like you gotta go
to each room and each room and it's just like
it keeps you on the edge of your seat. Like
I love it so much that, like, Okay, a lot
of people two bubb used to make fun of me
a lot because like I don't watch any TV shows,
Like I watch a ton of movies, no TV shows.
I couldn't get anything done around the house because of
this show, Like we would watch it every night in
my Victoria, you want to watch the pit like we're
watching it together, which trying to get that woman to
watch any TV show with me is impossible. She's like, no,
you'll just fall asleep, and I'm gonna watch it by myself.
I'm like, then restart the episode, Victoria, You're gonna because
it's it's guys, It's something we could do together as
a couple, Okay, Like do I want to fall are?
Do I want to fall asleep three minutes after it starts? No, Okay,
I clearly have a condition. Okay, I don't want to
do that, but I do. I'm telling you, guys, I
can like be wide awake. I will pick out the movie.
I will be excited for it. We turn it on
three minutes in, I'm out for it for hours, like
and I'm not even tired when we start it, like
if it's seven thirty And Victoria's like, you want to
start a movie, I'm like, no, I fall asleep. Can't
do it daytime movies only, Like I can't. I can't
do it. I've fallen asleep in movie theaters twice, like
during the movie.
Speaker 5: I can't.
Speaker 3: I can't do it. It's just something about come on, it
relaxes me. But so season two is out of the
pit and I'm scared to start it because there's only
four episodes and I'm like, I can't wait a week
for each. So like that's me, like I can't wait,
Like I can't watch it episode by episode, week by week,
like I gotta have the whole season out. I gotta
binge it all of that. So, like Traders may be good.
I think Alundra's rolling on this one.
Speaker 4: This is so good.
Speaker 2: And wait, Daniel did like he brings up a good point.
I forgot about this. There has been times where like
they knock out like a trader or two, and they
sometimes the traders can pick to make somebody in the
castle a Trader, or they'll bring in other people, like
they'll bring in like a surprise person.
Speaker 4: I think they did that with Uh. I think her
name is Kate from Below Deck.
Speaker 3: Victoria loves Below Deck. I've never watched it.
Speaker 4: I never really got it.
Speaker 3: She loves it. Okay, so you mentioned you mentioned a
secret Trader yeah, do the other Traders and then okay,
so they don't.
Speaker 4: They don't even know.
Speaker 3: She were saying, like all the Traders know each other. Yeah,
but they don't even know that.
Speaker 2: But this is the first season they did the secret Trader. Okay,
but the three Traders didn't know.
Speaker 3: Who it was the season three Season four?
Speaker 4: Is this season four?
Speaker 3: Season four?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, I mean.
Speaker 4: Maybe this one is really good.
Speaker 2: Season one is still the best to me, but like
this one is depending on how it goes the rest
of the way.
Speaker 4: This is like pretty good too.
Speaker 3: We we watched something Victoria made me watch something last year.
It's not that, but it's on Netflix. And it's like
you're intentionally cat phishing the other members of this apartment complex.
Like well, everybody knows now you can be yourself, like
all of you talk online. And the goal at the
end is like everybody has to vote, like if you're
you either got it, you're either voted out or at
the end, they're like that person deserved it. Like so
so each person votes on who wins the money. It
wasn't great, but like it's it's similar. So like some
people choose to be their actual selves, like other people
are like no, that's not you, right, and then some
people are like, obviously not them, and then people think
it is like it's just it's based on your answers
and stuff. But so, I mean it's it's similar. I'm
not a huge fan of that, but I'll give this
a shot. Victor has been wanting to watch it, like
even before you brought it up to me. She was like, hey,
there's a show called The Traders. I mean, apparently it's
the best show ever. So, I mean, we gotta it's
so good.
Speaker 4: I've been trying to get people to watch it for
like a year and a half.
Speaker 3: We got to check it out.
Speaker 10: But so good.
Speaker 3: Well, we'll give it a shot. Maybe if either of
you actually watched The pit No, okay, well I'm not
watching this. Sorry, I guess I'm already.
Speaker 10: Watching this show.
Speaker 3: What are you watching?
Speaker 10: Well, the new season of Bridgerton.
Speaker 11: Came out last year Bridgerton, but it's only it was
only the first four episodes. Like I have to I
watched what I watched all four episodes last night, right,
but like I have to wait until the end of
February for the second half of the season to come out.
Speaker 10: But I love Bridgards.
Speaker 3: So we use at our wedding the like bridesmaids walked
down the aisle to the uh the girls like you
string quartet, the Marine five.
Speaker 10: The music is so.
Speaker 3: Because it was on Bridgerton. We we did that at
our wedding. Shortly after we got married, Victoria invited her
sister over. She's like, yeah, I'm cooking this big breakfast
or whatever. Never really told me why her sister's there,
and like, I'm like, oh, okay, what's up. She's oh, we
came to watch the season premiere for Ridgerton. Yeah, Mike,
you woke up at nine am. Yes, fixed all this
food just so y'all can watch the season premiere of Bridgerton.
Speaker 10: Yes.
Speaker 3: I stayed in my run for like two hours. I
was like, what am I gonna do? What am I
gonna do in this situation where am I gonna get?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And it was a Saturday. I'm like, store, it's Saturday,
Like we are we doing this? Yeah? She's she's big
into Bridgerton.
Speaker 10: But I don't wake up earlier. But I would wake
up to do that.
Speaker 3: All right, we may give traders a shot. We'll see,
all right, guys, we'll take a quick time out we
come back. Look, we actually have a full last segment.
This is very unlike Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn explains
why they're not here. But get your Ask the Bench
questions in the chat. We're closing out with Ask the Bench. Next,
Y're on Off the Bench.
Speaker 1: Off the Bench from the locker room to the airwaves.
Gets Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in final segment. Here on a
Friday edition of Off the Bench, Tailor Shop and the
host chair for Jacob Pastor and Matt Flanna Landrevilla Real
Cassie's Bazaly here and we've been rocking and rolling all
morning long. We got one segment left. It's time for
a little bit of Ask the Bench. This first one
is for Cassie. Ask the Bench Cassie's favorite lego sets.
Speaker 11: Oh, I think I have to go with a Millennium Falcon,
so it's it's okay.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 3: See I'm learning a lot about it with this whole Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yes, they are super expensive, so I usually asked for
them for like Christmas, for my birthday, so I did.
I got this one for my birthday, so I have
no idea how much it was, but it's like it's
it's pretty big and like it's it's thick, so like
like there's so much inside of it.
Speaker 10: And that one took me a while. But that's like
my pride.
Speaker 3: To joy I was we were talking about a little
bit earlier, went to the Lego store at Downtown Disney
when we went to Universal back and scept yeah, and
you know, I mean we flew so I was like,
I'm not gonna buy anything big, like cause I got
limited space in my suitcase. So we just went and
looked around. There was like some Star Wars when I
don't even remember what it was. I'm not big on
Start Wars.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 3: Well, I walked in, I was like, oh, that looks
pretty cool. Let's see how much that is? Six hundred
dollars for that set, y'all.
Speaker 11: Pass I refuse to spend like myself if I'm buying
for myself or super used to spend more than like
one hundred dollars on it.
Speaker 3: Asked the bench most anticipated movie of the year, obviously
Doublewares product. Were you doing hearing us? No, I'm big
on horror movies that there's a ton of them coming out.
I mean more to list right now any any of those.
Everybody always says don't trust January and February horror movies
because they were left over from the year before. See
the Bankers in January and February. Like Friday the Thirteenth
came out in February back when I was in like
seventh or eighth grade, like that one. That one's better
than the originals. I don't care what anyone says that
Friday the thirteenth is much better original Friday the thirteenth
not very good, like it's nostalgic, but like Jason's not
even in it, like no, not not not that great
of a movie. So we're gonna skip on that one.
Ask the bench with he mash.
Speaker 4: We didn't even answer.
Speaker 2: The Odyssey is coming out this year this year, Yeah,
I mean, I like any Christopher Nolan movie, so I'm like,
I'm anticipating it, but also I'm not at the same time,
because like from the trailers, it just feels like maybe
Christopher Nolan might have his first miss of his career.
But also somebody said that Travis Scott is in it too,
and I'm like, why is Travis Scott in The Odyssey?
Speaker 4: There's no reason for that.
Speaker 2: So that kind of like is turning me off from it,
but I still am looking forward to watch it.
Speaker 11: Cassie is coming out, no, but I am looking forward
to Avengers Doomsday.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, that's coming in November.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so I mean the big Marvel Girl, big Star
Wars girl Avengers legos up.
Speaker 10: I would love of an Avenger's lego, said, they there's
not as many as Star Wars, but they're there.
Speaker 3: I was telling you, like Victoria's big into the puzzles,
which I just kind of feel like are similar. Yeah,
Like she'll sit there for like days at a time,
you know, like a few hours here, a few hours there,
and like build this puzzle and it's a massive and
then she immediately just tears it down and was like, okay,
time for the next one.
Speaker 4: I'm like, Victoria, she doesn't even like frame them.
Speaker 3: No, she'll leave them out for probably a day, just
like sitting there. But no, she normally just takes them
down starts on another one. I'm like, okay, well that's
that's a choice. Before I ask this, does anybody actually
know who is singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl?
Speaker 11: No clue.
Speaker 10: I feel like I've heard it but I can't remember.
Speaker 3: So somebody asked, is it going to go over the
allotted time? I don't know who is singing the national
anthem at the Super Bowl. Oh it's Charlie Poot. Charlie Poot.
Charlie Poot could hit the notes, so I'm gonna say over.
I don't know what the over under is. No, only
it's about two and a half minutes to twenty somewhere
in there.
Speaker 11: I don't think he'd go over. You know, he's really good,
but I don't think he like overly holds out notes.
Speaker 3: Too long because I think a couple of years ago
Stapleton did it. Yeah, and everybody's like, oh, that's a
guarantee that it went over, and I don't think it did. Yeah,
I think it actually went under. That was like the
the biggest surprise, Right, you've convinced me I'll filip it.
I'll go under. Charlie Pooth gonna be quick faceted in
a hurry with the national anthem, Ask the bitch? Are
y'all trashing? Full back one and QB one?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yes and no?
Speaker 2: Because I told them yesterday, I said no, if I'm
gonna be there, y'all better be there, Like I was
visibly irritated when they said they were gonna not come in.
Speaker 3: But also like if we're just stating what actually happened,
like we're just giving you the facts, like are we
actually are we trashing them or did they do it
to themselves? Because like we haven't made anything up, we
haven't said here and like you know, exaggerated this whole thing.
They were all atomobile. They all got back roughly around
the same time. Flinnif's actually earlier and Elundra showed up
and they didn't. I mean, I don't am I missing
anything here?
Speaker 2: No, that's the those are facts. Those are objective facts.
The difference is I don't have like kids. I can't
I can't be like, oh I need to see my kids,
which I get. I really understand that they were gone forever,
especially Jake, but like I.
Speaker 4: Don't, like, I don't have it like a I don't
want to say excuse, but I don't have an excuse.
Speaker 3: No, Well they did and they used it all right, guys.
That'll that'll pretty much do it here for for Asadnchem,
I have about a minute left in the show. What
do you think? Jason Jern from grenawnd football hopping on
Ross Jackson.
Speaker 5: Look.
Speaker 3: Ross had a ton of articles coming out all week long.
And when I mean articles, I mean like articles thick boys,
like they took a while to read, and I enjoyed
every bit of it. Like nobody's locked in on New
Orleans Saints quite like Rossa's.
Speaker 11: Look.
Speaker 3: We talked LSU football, We talked men's and women's basketball.
Here's the gist of that. The women are really good,
the men are awful. There's your LSU basketball Take four.
Today's show made Landra do a little recap of Mobile.
We found out Cassie's like big into legas Like so
many things happened today. But Jake and Matt both back. Well,
actually Matt is back next week. Jake will be out.
I'll be a long time till we have all four
of us back together, but we'll see you on Monday.
You're on off the bench, Off the bench.
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