1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:01,960 Speaker 1: Let's all start to it. 2 00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:04,960 Speaker 2: You want to presents Off the bench with Jacob Hester 3 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:06,400 and T Bob Abert. 4 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, off the bench with Jacob 5 00:00:10,199 --> 00:00:11,640 Hester and C Bob. 6 00:00:11,439 --> 00:00:13,519 Speaker 4: Aber I gotta come off the bitch. 7 00:00:13,599 --> 00:00:20,920 Speaker 1: Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert. What's going on? 8 00:00:21,039 --> 00:00:21,280 Speaker 2: Y'all? 9 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:23,239 Speaker 1: Welcome in, Oh too. 10 00:00:23,519 --> 00:00:28,679 Speaker 3: February twenty seven, twenty twenty five. It is Thursday, actually 11 00:00:28,719 --> 00:00:34,600 Thursday this time, and I'm really excited for today's show. 12 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,320 We got a great show, as Taylor just kind of 13 00:00:37,399 --> 00:00:39,840 laid out there. We're gonna run the gamut. Thursday always 14 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:42,799 meets Mounchy Shnanigan, ton of stuff and basically the weekend 15 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:45,479 starts today, guys, so let's have ourselves at time. 16 00:00:46,399 --> 00:00:47,479 Speaker 1: I'm T Bob Abert. 17 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 3: We got Taylor Sharp here and Cindio Jakes joined us remotely, 18 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,600 and we got what I'm very excited about. We got 19 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:59,240 our girl, Alandra Vireal back from the Big Apple and 20 00:00:59,359 --> 00:01:05,040 she is is pining for the Big Apple. You know 21 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:07,079 how it is when you visit that city as a 22 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,560 young person and you're absolutely infected and infused with its 23 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:14,280 energy and romance and potential, and you want to move 24 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:16,359 there and see if you can make it there. Ladra, 25 00:01:16,439 --> 00:01:20,000 how are we feeling on the other side of your trip. 26 00:01:19,719 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: To uh Manhattan? 27 00:01:21,159 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean you pretty much said it. But I've 28 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:25,359 always wanted to live there, like ever since I was 29 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:25,920 a kid. 30 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:28,480 Speaker 1: I have always like my I didn't go to New. 31 00:01:28,439 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 5: York until I was like, mmm, in my twenties, I think, 32 00:01:31,599 --> 00:01:34,000 like I think I was maybe nineteen, I don't know, yeah, 33 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,480 but like my whole life, like I was just enthralled 34 00:01:36,519 --> 00:01:38,760 with it, and then like the first time I went, 35 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:40,159 I was like, oh my god, I love it here, 36 00:01:40,239 --> 00:01:42,200 and then I don't know, every time I go, like, 37 00:01:42,239 --> 00:01:45,040 I just love it so much, and I wish I could. 38 00:01:45,239 --> 00:01:46,959 I wish I could like find a job out there. 39 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:48,359 I would so move out there. 40 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 3: We have, Look, we have an OTV to Barstool Pipeline, 41 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:53,680 as we've sent Megan making Money and Ben Mint up 42 00:01:53,959 --> 00:01:56,519 to Barstool before. We also have an OTV in New 43 00:01:56,560 --> 00:02:00,400 York pipeline though Nathan Belasquez and Sammy Flavors Yeah, both 44 00:02:00,599 --> 00:02:03,480 uh through you know, jumped into the deep end and 45 00:02:03,519 --> 00:02:05,439 moved up there and have now made it our and 46 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:09,439 are living. It's funny though, because in my own personal life. 47 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:12,240 I think I went through the exact same experience you 48 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:15,919 as a kid through movies and stuff, right obsessed with it. 49 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:18,199 And I think my mom actually took me the first 50 00:02:18,199 --> 00:02:20,879 time and like my eleventh birthday, fell in love with it. 51 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:23,560 Went back a couple more times, and then pretty much 52 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:25,319 my twenties, me and wife would go every single year, 53 00:02:25,319 --> 00:02:27,759 and every time I would go because even my sister 54 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:29,719 ended up moving up there and starting a business and 55 00:02:29,759 --> 00:02:31,000 so she did that whole deal. 56 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 1: So every time I went, I thought like. 57 00:02:33,599 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 3: Oh my god, I just want to throw it all away, 58 00:02:35,319 --> 00:02:37,159 whant to move here and see if I can make 59 00:02:37,199 --> 00:02:40,000 it right. The energy of the city's incredible, it's infectious. 60 00:02:40,199 --> 00:02:43,639 But that's how I knew I was getting old. Yeah, 61 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,080 because the last time I went, a couple of years ago, 62 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:47,240 we brought both kids up. 63 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: We only had two at. 64 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:52,039 Speaker 3: The time, and I'll be damned, for the first time 65 00:02:52,039 --> 00:02:54,159 in my life, I didn't just feel like a country group. 66 00:02:54,479 --> 00:02:54,879 Speaker 4: Really. 67 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,479 Speaker 3: I was looking at the buildings and I was like, well, damn, Bollamo, 68 00:02:57,879 --> 00:03:01,039 some big building over there, and I'm kind of like, 69 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:03,199 there's a lot of people that live in here. Man. 70 00:03:03,319 --> 00:03:05,039 Speaker 1: This is this is pretty crazy to me. 71 00:03:05,199 --> 00:03:10,199 Speaker 3: Man, so I think it's kind of sad to say, yeah, 72 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:12,000 but I think I missed my boat. 73 00:03:12,159 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, so if you're really. 74 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:16,439 Speaker 5: About it, yeah, I kind of feel like I missed 75 00:03:16,439 --> 00:03:22,479 it a little bit already. But I think my southernness 76 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:24,159 started to show a little bit when I went to 77 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:29,280 this play. And this play was a little crazy, and 78 00:03:29,439 --> 00:03:31,599 my aunts were like, what did you think about it? 79 00:03:31,599 --> 00:03:32,800 And I was like, it was a little too much 80 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:34,759 for me, but it was kind of funny at times. 81 00:03:35,479 --> 00:03:39,319 Speaker 3: But yeah, I'll tell you off air about and y'all know, 82 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:44,560 I got some pretty dirty experiences and without a doubt, 83 00:03:44,639 --> 00:03:51,439 the most hedonistic, weird, depraved night of my entire life 84 00:03:52,039 --> 00:03:55,479 at a New York place called the Lodge one time. 85 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:58,919 Speaker 1: Jakie, what's going on, man, how are we doing this morning? 86 00:04:00,159 --> 00:04:01,039 Speaker 4: I'm doing great. 87 00:04:01,439 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 2: I got a dental appointment because, as I told y'all 88 00:04:04,919 --> 00:04:08,639 a couple of weeks ago, I'm a real redneck and 89 00:04:08,719 --> 00:04:10,960 swallowed one of my caps and so now I've got 90 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,840 to go actually get a replaced because I didn't want 91 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:14,240 to get on. 92 00:04:14,199 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 4: A cruise ship and then all of a sudden. 93 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,639 Speaker 2: Have a situation where the temporary one popped off and 94 00:04:19,639 --> 00:04:21,360 I'm in the middle of the ocean, and I can't 95 00:04:21,399 --> 00:04:22,560 really do anything about it. 96 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 4: So I got to go get that fixed. And Alandra, 97 00:04:25,319 --> 00:04:26,040 I'm glad you had. 98 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,600 Speaker 2: A great time in New York, but the Yankees hat 99 00:04:29,639 --> 00:04:34,879 still makes me better. Nineteen ninety six and nineteen ninety nine. 100 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:37,879 Speaker 3: I remember those as well growing up in Atlanta. That's 101 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:40,959 the reason why I hated the Yankees growing up. Certainly 102 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,160 took a couple of World Series from those amazing Braves 103 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:46,959 team who's still despite the fifteen divisions in a row, 104 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:50,120 only got one championship. All the Marlins and the same 105 00:04:50,199 --> 00:04:53,639 stretch took home two, which has to be one of 106 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:59,680 the craziest sports factoids in history. Jake also wrote an 107 00:04:59,759 --> 00:05:02,319 article for Louisiana Sports Done that about his time at 108 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:04,480 the Combine and with the Combine really entails, so I'm 109 00:05:04,519 --> 00:05:08,560 excited to pick his brain there as the NFL Combines underway. 110 00:05:08,639 --> 00:05:11,839 Saints that availability yesterday. We'll get into what they had 111 00:05:12,079 --> 00:05:17,040 to say. But last night LSU Top twenty matchup on 112 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,399 the Diamond. Let's go ahead and get this thing started. 113 00:05:21,759 --> 00:05:23,839 It's time to Oh, good job, alund I thought maybe 114 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:25,759 it's gonna be a little old and staffing well, so 115 00:05:25,759 --> 00:05:27,600 they can help take care of screening. 116 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:28,959 Speaker 1: Training, professional and more. 117 00:05:29,439 --> 00:05:34,399 Speaker 3: Now for starters, Remember, guys, Tiger Labor and Staffing truly 118 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:37,839 vets their employees by building relationships with them. Okay, they 119 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:39,439 don't just look at their job as you're not just 120 00:05:39,439 --> 00:05:41,839 looking at resumes. They get to know every potential employee 121 00:05:41,879 --> 00:05:45,800 during the in person onboarding process and every morning over 122 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:48,279 a cup of coffee because again they're up in the 123 00:05:48,319 --> 00:05:53,519 morning five am interviewing, dispatching in person. They also have 124 00:05:53,519 --> 00:05:55,759 the shortest hiring terms of the industry at sixty days. 125 00:05:56,199 --> 00:05:58,160 They do this because they understand the quality employees they 126 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:00,720 have and they want your business to succeed over all 127 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:01,360 of your staff. 128 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:05,639 Speaker 1: He needs Tiger Labor and Staffing. Yeah. 129 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:12,319 Speaker 3: So last night LSU DBU in in Texas and LSU 130 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:16,720 comes away with a seven to three win, and it's 131 00:06:16,759 --> 00:06:19,800 it's a bit of an interesting game in that I mean, 132 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:21,439 that's a good it's a good final score. It's top 133 00:06:21,439 --> 00:06:25,199 twenty teen, seven to three, without a doubt. However, it 134 00:06:25,399 --> 00:06:30,160 could have been much worse. LSU left a lot of 135 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:34,319 meat on the bone, while DBU actually kind of made 136 00:06:34,319 --> 00:06:37,279 the most of the meat that they were offered. Because 137 00:06:37,319 --> 00:06:39,199 when you look at it statistically, I mean, what is 138 00:06:39,199 --> 00:06:40,759 the favor I think it was like twelve hits to 139 00:06:40,879 --> 00:06:44,439 three by the end of the game. But LSU goes 140 00:06:44,439 --> 00:06:46,879 three of sixteen with runners in scoring position. They left 141 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:51,439 fifteen runners on base, whereas so LS you had twenty 142 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:53,480 six at bats. I don't hunt Palmer losing to sports 143 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:56,160 on that breakdown, they had twenty six at bats with 144 00:06:56,279 --> 00:07:00,680 runners on DBU had six only have three men on base. 145 00:07:00,959 --> 00:07:04,519 So it's a weird game where the score is not 146 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:08,879 like there's nothing to kind of turn your nose up 147 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:11,480 at it. It's a four run win over a top 148 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:15,920 twenty team, but the score is a bit closer than 149 00:07:15,959 --> 00:07:19,680 the flow of the game, as LSU was great at 150 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,800 the plate until it came time to send guys home, 151 00:07:23,439 --> 00:07:28,000 and was great on the mound save for just giving 152 00:07:28,079 --> 00:07:31,240 up a couple of home runs. Do a DVU lineup, 153 00:07:31,439 --> 00:07:34,519 like we said yesterday, that is very powerful. 154 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:39,319 Speaker 2: Yes, I mean everything that you said is certainly true. 155 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:43,279 And by the way, whoever continue to try to sabotage 156 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:46,120 the stream, like what are we doing here? I mean 157 00:07:46,399 --> 00:07:48,759 flow Sports of all people is able to keep it 158 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:51,519 down a little bit. But to your point, t of 159 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:55,240 the game. It didn't maybe play out the way that 160 00:07:55,639 --> 00:07:58,000 a normal game would play out when you dominate them 161 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,319 and you have twelve hits and they only have three. 162 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:01,759 But still, at the end of the day, like you said, 163 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:03,720 like they came up with the hits when they needed them. 164 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:06,839 You ambushed them early, which I thought was important getting 165 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:08,680 a run. I know you wanted more in the first 166 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:10,480 but still you were able to get on the board. 167 00:08:10,519 --> 00:08:11,839 Speaker 4: That felt like it was big in the game. 168 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 2: Pitching was lights out, and so sure, like we can 169 00:08:16,199 --> 00:08:17,759 sit here and we could talk about the people you 170 00:08:17,839 --> 00:08:20,120 left on base. That's never what you want to do, 171 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:22,800 and I know there's a situation where you try to 172 00:08:22,839 --> 00:08:25,240 squeeze play. It certainly didn't work in your favor, and 173 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:26,759 a lot of people are going to point to that, 174 00:08:26,959 --> 00:08:29,519 But at the end of the day, you still went 175 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:32,639 on the road in somebody's hometown and you beat a 176 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:35,639 really good baseball team, And so sure there's things that 177 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:37,399 you could point to you wish they went a little 178 00:08:37,399 --> 00:08:39,919 bit better for you, But I did like a lot 179 00:08:39,919 --> 00:08:42,639 of what I saw, certainly like the table setters for LSU, 180 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:45,480 the top of the lineup getting four hits, and like 181 00:08:45,519 --> 00:08:47,679 I said, scoring in the first inning there. 182 00:08:47,759 --> 00:08:48,799 Speaker 4: So there's a lot of good. 183 00:08:48,639 --> 00:08:50,320 Speaker 2: And it was a good win for LSU, and that's 184 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:52,759 going to be one whenever talk to Jay later on, 185 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:54,759 he's going to tell you that's a massive win. It's 186 00:08:54,799 --> 00:08:56,519 a win against a team that's probably gonna win their 187 00:08:56,519 --> 00:09:00,279 conference championship. And it might seem, you know, here into 188 00:09:00,279 --> 00:09:02,480 February like it doesn't matter, but that is going to 189 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:03,480 play all season long. 190 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, And look, I don't bring up I don't want 191 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,360 to be misconstrued here. I don't bring up the runners 192 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:12,039 left onto the meat left and the bone to try 193 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:15,679 to highlight the negative here. I'm merely trying to give 194 00:09:15,759 --> 00:09:19,080 shape to how the game played out, because I think 195 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:22,120 if we take a step back and you look at, Okay, 196 00:09:22,159 --> 00:09:26,039 what problems would you want to have after a game 197 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:26,399 like this? 198 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 1: That's a good problem to have. 199 00:09:28,799 --> 00:09:31,399 Speaker 3: Like LSU is going to strand a lot of guys 200 00:09:31,399 --> 00:09:33,159 this year just because they're going to put a lot 201 00:09:33,159 --> 00:09:36,840 of people on base because they are so good in 202 00:09:36,879 --> 00:09:39,039 that lineup, or they have been up to this point. 203 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:42,080 Like if you're telling me that the biggest problem is 204 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:44,679 plating guys, hitting its runners and scoring position, like I 205 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:47,320 know Jay Jobbs can figure that out. So I love 206 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:51,519 when I see again only one error defensively, I love, 207 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:55,480 I mean the arms, The arms continue to impress. Connor 208 00:09:55,519 --> 00:09:59,279 Ware comes out there on fire for perfect inning. Six 209 00:09:59,399 --> 00:10:02,000 k's on sixty pitches. Now obviously got ends up getting 210 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:04,159 chased in the fifth, but that's a guy who if 211 00:10:04,159 --> 00:10:05,720 he keeps this up, I don't know, man. Maybe he 212 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:08,960 even starts to threaten a weekend spot, depending what happens there. 213 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:12,080 Zach Collen comes in and is a bit of an 214 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:14,399 early wobble, but then I love seeing him recover. He 215 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:16,639 goes three runs in the three and in striking out 216 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:18,360 five gets to win. 217 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 1: And and and then you have we're thinking. 218 00:10:22,159 --> 00:10:25,159 Speaker 3: A little sketchy, And I like having to play in 219 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:27,440 late game situations where a play has to be made 220 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:30,759 and really played. A highlight there would be after LSU 221 00:10:30,799 --> 00:10:33,559 stranded about a million runners in the seventh and eighth, 222 00:10:33,919 --> 00:10:35,759 d WU comes up and thanks to a couple of 223 00:10:35,759 --> 00:10:39,159 Cooper Williams walks, uh, they have the bases loaded. Bottom 224 00:10:39,159 --> 00:10:42,840 of the eighth, one out. Cason Evans comes in and 225 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:46,240 you can say it's a bit of luck, and sure 226 00:10:46,279 --> 00:10:47,919 it is, but the play had to be made, both 227 00:10:47,919 --> 00:10:50,200 by Evans and by bar Jones at first, but he 228 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:52,840 adduces a liner that Bear Jones catches steps from the bag, 229 00:10:52,879 --> 00:10:55,039 double play, ending over threat over in the case, and 230 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:58,480 Evans calmly closes it out in the ninth. 231 00:10:58,519 --> 00:11:01,200 Speaker 1: So again, annelis game with way. 232 00:11:01,039 --> 00:11:03,960 Speaker 3: More good than bad, and as Jake pointed out, a 233 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:08,759 big RPI win for LSU that could potentially bear some 234 00:11:08,799 --> 00:11:12,000 fruit and and well, no matter how much of an 235 00:11:12,039 --> 00:11:15,799 impact it has, will have a positive impact on the 236 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:17,200 resume comes season's end. 237 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:21,879 Speaker 2: Yeah, and see when you look at the players at 238 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,399 LSU's able to throw out there on the mound this 239 00:11:24,519 --> 00:11:27,279 year compared to last year. And this isn't rhetorical, Like 240 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:33,240 I'm asking you, I feel just incredibly you better about 241 00:11:33,279 --> 00:11:36,279 the situation. I just feel more confident about the situation, 242 00:11:36,919 --> 00:11:38,799 like I saw. I'm asking you, like I'm not trying 243 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:40,879 to put an answer in front of you, but I 244 00:11:41,039 --> 00:11:43,240 know that's how I feel. Like you look at some 245 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:44,840 of the arms they have coming in the back end 246 00:11:44,919 --> 00:11:47,720 of the game, and it's just like, gosh, ninety seven 247 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:51,440 ninety seven, Like everybody they throw in there is somebody 248 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:53,720 that looks like they could go finish a game for you, 249 00:11:54,159 --> 00:11:56,799 Like it just feels different, right, Uh. 250 00:11:56,679 --> 00:11:58,639 Speaker 1: No, I mean it's unbelievable, dude, it is. 251 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:01,759 Speaker 3: It feels like and I know this is I think 252 00:12:01,799 --> 00:12:04,039 been like a common line of message boards and stuff, 253 00:12:04,039 --> 00:12:05,919 so I guess I'm stealing this through. 254 00:12:05,759 --> 00:12:07,159 Speaker 1: Just internet osmosis. 255 00:12:07,919 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 3: But it does feel a bit like this staff is 256 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:12,799 the staff that I thought they had last year where 257 00:12:12,799 --> 00:12:13,440 he talked. 258 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:15,200 Speaker 1: About them having an overwhelming amount. 259 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:18,200 Speaker 3: Of options, almost too many arms, like they really actually 260 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:22,679 have almost too many arms now to have where and 261 00:12:22,759 --> 00:12:28,759 Cowen and Evans as like, your midweek options are insane? 262 00:12:28,799 --> 00:12:31,879 Those would be weekend guys for the majority of people 263 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:34,360 and what so those aren't even the first arms out 264 00:12:34,399 --> 00:12:35,960 of the pen on the week I mean maybe they are, like, 265 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:39,240 but we'll see how this all shakes out eventually, but yes, 266 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:43,960 there is a what was where Blake Baker was talking 267 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:45,879 about the LSU Davids a couple weeks ago, and he's 268 00:12:45,879 --> 00:12:48,080 about the idea that now he feels like they have 269 00:12:48,159 --> 00:12:51,799 competitive depth. This is the chance which is a hallmark 270 00:12:51,919 --> 00:12:58,360 of any championship caliber team. And this staff has more 271 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:02,840 competitive depth than any that I have seen since I've 272 00:13:02,879 --> 00:13:06,919 been covering this LSU baseball team, which I mean admittedly 273 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:10,639 is probably a little under ten years, but it is 274 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:13,960 shocking the amount of options that they have. 275 00:13:14,039 --> 00:13:14,720 Speaker 1: You could tell that. 276 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:19,159 Speaker 3: Coach Johnson not wanting to feel the same way that 277 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:21,360 he felt last year and the first year when he 278 00:13:21,399 --> 00:13:23,159 took over this team, and he's I'm gonna kind of 279 00:13:23,159 --> 00:13:25,960 squeeze blood from the stones. Nate Yesky doing a great 280 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:28,919 job a second year on the job, finally retaining a 281 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:32,720 pitching coach. So yeah, they're fantastic right now. Alander, you're 282 00:13:32,759 --> 00:13:37,159 a resident LSU baseball head. I know you were traveling yesterday, 283 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:39,600 so I don't know how much you got to see 284 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:41,840 or not, But what are your kind of just thoughts 285 00:13:41,919 --> 00:13:43,679 on the team the win at DBU. 286 00:13:43,799 --> 00:13:46,559 Speaker 5: Yeah, unfortunately I didn't get to watch the game last 287 00:13:46,639 --> 00:13:50,679 night because I was traveling. But I pricked up about 288 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:53,360 like when you said Nate Yesky, because I'm very glad 289 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:56,799 that people are finally seeing because I feel like I 290 00:13:56,879 --> 00:14:00,360 was like dying on a hill last season. Like I 291 00:14:00,399 --> 00:14:02,480 don't know if y'all remember, but the Nate Yessky talk 292 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:05,600 was pretty negative last severy negative, and I was like, no, 293 00:14:05,759 --> 00:14:08,960 he is good, like I promise you, And so I'm 294 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:12,720 glad that, like that is moving in. 295 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:13,639 Speaker 1: A positive direction. 296 00:14:13,799 --> 00:14:16,200 Speaker 4: But also like I also. 297 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:18,080 Speaker 5: Kind of hope that people stop with the lack of 298 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:20,600 competition talk, because we just beat a top twenty teen 299 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:24,120 seventy three, which is a great score, like you said earlier, So. 300 00:14:24,519 --> 00:14:28,039 Speaker 1: Didn't set him lose last night as well? I'm not sure. Yeah, 301 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:31,559 they lost, I mean it doesn't really matter, but like whatever. 302 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:35,519 Speaker 5: Yeah, and I mean, I'm just like y'all excited to 303 00:14:35,519 --> 00:14:38,879 see the rest of this tournament. And I think that 304 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:42,080 LSU is in a really good spot right now with 305 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:44,000 the bullpen and the offense. 306 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean again, like the the the problems 307 00:14:47,399 --> 00:14:51,000 last night are good problems I have at this point 308 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:51,519 in k TE. 309 00:14:51,519 --> 00:14:52,960 Speaker 1: You got anything to add on the way out here. 310 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:55,360 Speaker 6: You may have found a closer in case and Evans, 311 00:14:55,399 --> 00:14:58,519 I'll tell you that he uh you remember opening weekend 312 00:14:58,519 --> 00:15:01,159 he looked really good as well. And yeah, well Gavin 313 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:02,840 Gidrey is going to get the first shot at that 314 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:03,720 one sec players. 315 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:05,440 Speaker 1: We haven't mentioned that on this show. He's hurt by 316 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:05,679 the way. 317 00:15:05,799 --> 00:15:10,080 Speaker 6: J Johnson, Yes, yes, but again, the more that Lingers, 318 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:12,559 you're gonna have to have somebody come in. You mentioned 319 00:15:12,559 --> 00:15:15,039 in the seventh inning, like this game was still pretty tight. 320 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:17,360 You go to a guy whose first year is on 321 00:15:17,399 --> 00:15:19,919 the team, get him the eighth and ninth inning. He 322 00:15:19,919 --> 00:15:22,320 gives up no hits in the eighth and ninth inning. 323 00:15:22,519 --> 00:15:25,159 He's looked phenomenal at the back end of these bullpen 324 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:26,679 rotations multiple. 325 00:15:26,279 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 1: Weeks in a row. Now, uh so. 326 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 3: Uh a really great night for LSU baseball and a 327 00:15:33,679 --> 00:15:36,759 top twenty win here early on in the season. So 328 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:40,159 this team, which so much potential, continues to trend in 329 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:42,639 the right way. How many weeks away away from conference play? 330 00:15:43,279 --> 00:15:43,559 Speaker 1: Two? 331 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 4: Three? Damn? 332 00:15:45,639 --> 00:15:46,039 Speaker 2: All right? 333 00:15:46,279 --> 00:15:47,279 Speaker 4: Yeah, you got three weeks. 334 00:15:47,399 --> 00:15:50,519 Speaker 2: You've got North Dakota State coming up, You've got North 335 00:15:50,559 --> 00:15:53,559 Alabama coming up, and then I think you get Miszoo, 336 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:55,759 who's struggling right now. 337 00:15:55,799 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 3: Bad uh So excited to see the rest of this 338 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:02,480 time in plays up Coming up next here on O 339 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:05,200 t B, the NFL combines in the air. Let's talk 340 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:08,679 to Jake about what it's actually like. Boots on the 341 00:16:08,679 --> 00:16:12,200 ground at the combine. More off the bench coming up. 342 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:14,279 Speaker 1: Next, Off the bench. 343 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:21,120 Speaker 3: Tommy's windows doors insiding g e a ux, Tommy's dot com. 344 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:25,159 G e a ux Tommy's dot com. If you need 345 00:16:26,759 --> 00:16:30,399 hardy plank or vinyl sighting winter vinyl windows. Maybe you 346 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:34,159 want to upgrade, adore anything like that. You work with 347 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:36,919 Tommy's and you're gonna see the difference clearly. And look, 348 00:16:36,919 --> 00:16:40,720 there's a few reasons where Tommy separates. First off, in 349 00:16:40,759 --> 00:16:43,679 the experience department. Tommy's been in this business for thirty 350 00:16:43,799 --> 00:16:46,600 years now, okay, work for somebody else for twenty of 351 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:49,799 them said I've learned everything now and here are things 352 00:16:49,799 --> 00:16:52,279 that I would do differently. And that's why the full 353 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:54,320 decade that Tommy's winterstor is at tidy has been around 354 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:56,440 the taking over the Angie Sewer super service word every 355 00:16:56,440 --> 00:17:01,240 single year. Do you know you're getting elite customer service? 356 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:04,519 What about functional advantages? Energy efficient options that pay for 357 00:17:04,559 --> 00:17:07,799 themselves by lowering your bills over time, but not a 358 00:17:07,799 --> 00:17:10,559 lifetime warranty, so you got peace of mind after the 359 00:17:10,599 --> 00:17:14,119 work is done serving Louisiana with quality products and service. 360 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:17,000 Tommy's windows, doors inside. I'm gonna talking big terms here. 361 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:26,680 Whoever the UL people are reporting, Cajun, you are the 362 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:27,880 scum of the earth. 363 00:17:28,079 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 1: You freaking suck. 364 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:35,559 Speaker 3: If you know this guy personally, whoever this is, and 365 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:39,160 you are listening to this, let him know that the 366 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:43,319 firm stance of off the bench, of everybody really in 367 00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:46,960 this area, and of many other SEC fan bases as well, 368 00:17:48,079 --> 00:17:49,799 is that you are trash. 369 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:51,079 Speaker 1: You are scum. 370 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:56,640 Speaker 3: You are a boot liquor, you are a water carrier 371 00:17:56,720 --> 00:18:03,359 for who, for copyright people like, get off your knees, 372 00:18:03,519 --> 00:18:07,319 you suck whoever you are and let it be not 373 00:18:07,519 --> 00:18:09,640 like next time you go to do something like this. 374 00:18:09,759 --> 00:18:13,119 I'm sure you're little your your little troll self probably 375 00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:16,039 gets offty hearing this, but it doesn't matter. It needs 376 00:18:16,039 --> 00:18:19,920 to be said anyway. You're just on fun. You're probably 377 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:24,559 miserable at parties. And I doubt that we would get 378 00:18:24,599 --> 00:18:26,319 along if we were to meet casually. 379 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:30,240 Speaker 1: And I hope you stub your toe today. 380 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:34,200 Speaker 6: Why does the University of Louisville hate the kjun homis broadcast? 381 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:37,279 Speaker 3: Uh, I don't know. I'm not I'm not. I'm not 382 00:18:37,319 --> 00:18:40,319 doing this. I was gonna not doing this dance. I'm 383 00:18:40,319 --> 00:18:44,839 not doing this dance. Also, Stephen Ridley, apparently Chad s 384 00:18:44,839 --> 00:18:50,680 telling me, went on Julian Edelman's podcast and called Jake 385 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:54,839 the the baddest white boy ever, which you know, fair absolutely, 386 00:18:55,319 --> 00:18:58,279 But he also told a story about someone defecating on 387 00:18:58,319 --> 00:19:02,119 themselves during the one ten test. Now I'll say this 388 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:04,240 and Chad saying that it was me, it was not me. 389 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 1: I will not name I will not name who it 390 00:19:06,319 --> 00:19:07,799 is because it doesn't matter. 391 00:19:08,559 --> 00:19:10,400 Speaker 3: But I will say this about Ridley is that he 392 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:14,599 did not actually witness or experience it because this was 393 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:17,279 one ten test day and used to run according to group, 394 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:21,240 and so this was during the big skill one ten tests. 395 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 1: Because of course it was right. 396 00:19:22,759 --> 00:19:27,279 Speaker 3: So again Ridley ended up seeing the aftermath because they 397 00:19:27,279 --> 00:19:29,119 couldn't clean it up for the other groups. 398 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 1: But basically, if. 399 00:19:31,559 --> 00:19:34,920 Speaker 3: You did not make your one tens in time, you 400 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:38,000 would have to wake up during camp at five am 401 00:19:38,039 --> 00:19:38,359 and run. 402 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:40,640 Speaker 1: I had to do it. It was miserable before two days awful. 403 00:19:41,559 --> 00:19:43,359 Speaker 3: But if you didn't make your times, you had to 404 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:46,000 do that right, And so the thing was you better 405 00:19:46,079 --> 00:19:48,039 make your times. 406 00:19:49,039 --> 00:19:53,920 Speaker 1: And okay, well, I think we got some news in 407 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:54,319 a second. 408 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:59,680 Speaker 3: But but basically one of our teammates around repped like 409 00:19:59,759 --> 00:20:01,839 A or nine. When you're in the dead middle and 410 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:05,200 you're really struggling and you're trying to push through mentally, 411 00:20:10,319 --> 00:20:13,000 one of our teammates just pulled his girdle to the side, 412 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:15,039 and just defecated on the ground. 413 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:19,039 Speaker 1: And it's about seven am. 414 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:22,680 Speaker 3: The little dew in the air, and it was steamy 415 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:28,720 and hot and of a texture that you would not enjoy, right, 416 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:32,839 sort of a pancake mix sort of thing going on. 417 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:35,720 So it was one of the more disgusting things I've 418 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:39,559 ever seen. And all the coaches did was put orange 419 00:20:39,559 --> 00:20:43,599 cones around it. And you know, not even a second 420 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:46,839 of a break, not even you got forty five seconds 421 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:50,599 between reps. We didn't even get fifty five, not a 422 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:54,160 second lost. And credit to the man himself, he ended 423 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:55,400 up passing that test. 424 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:59,359 Speaker 6: He does this mid run like never breakstride, No. 425 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:01,240 Speaker 1: No, he does it the forty five seconds. 426 00:21:01,559 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 3: So after he finishes round in the end zone, he 427 00:21:04,079 --> 00:21:07,400 pulls his girl to the side and just you know, 428 00:21:11,079 --> 00:21:11,880 steams it up. 429 00:21:12,559 --> 00:21:16,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, that didn't happen. It was crazy as nasty today 430 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:16,960 as it was then. 431 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,319 Speaker 3: And they left it on there for the you know, 432 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:24,079 until they for the rest of the every group to see. 433 00:21:24,799 --> 00:21:26,880 Speaker 1: Wait, okay, somebody said, is this is this true? 434 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:27,000 Speaker 2: What? 435 00:21:27,319 --> 00:21:29,720 Speaker 3: Okay, I don't know if this is true, So we'll 436 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:31,920 find out within a couple minutes. Somebody said bo did 437 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:33,640 lead to the Saints we talking about We're not talking. 438 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:35,240 Speaker 4: About yeah, Bo Davis. 439 00:21:35,559 --> 00:21:39,160 Speaker 2: So, according to Luke Johnson, the Saints are expected to 440 00:21:39,279 --> 00:21:42,319 hire Bo Davis to be their defensive line coach, according 441 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:46,960 to a league source, adding another coach from the college rinks. 442 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,839 Of course, Davis most recently words as a defensive line 443 00:21:49,839 --> 00:21:53,480 coach at LSU and is considered one of the NCAA's 444 00:21:53,519 --> 00:21:54,960 a better d line coaches. 445 00:21:55,079 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 4: Kitlyn Moore, I'll fight. 446 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:02,400 Speaker 3: You, oh man, that's a big hit for LSU. I mean, 447 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:05,079 they paid a million and a half dollars to get 448 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:06,079 Bo Diddley. 449 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 4: Kellen. 450 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:14,440 Speaker 3: He's an elite technician, he's an elite recruiter. I guarantee 451 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:18,359 he's absolutely sick of the college game. I mean, remember 452 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:20,839 when he's berating Texas players a couple of years ago 453 00:22:20,839 --> 00:22:22,279 about their toughness and everything. 454 00:22:23,079 --> 00:22:24,759 Speaker 1: And now when when you think about the. 455 00:22:24,799 --> 00:22:26,680 Speaker 3: Players that he's got to deal with the transferport of 456 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,640 everything else like a long time college coach, Like, yeah, 457 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:31,720 the NFL. Plus they probably paid him more, right, I 458 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:34,240 imagine you have to even that's a lot of money 459 00:22:34,279 --> 00:22:34,920 for an NFL, A. 460 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:36,839 Speaker 4: Lot of money for NFL actually. 461 00:22:36,519 --> 00:22:39,119 Speaker 3: Almost, I mean, I wonder, I wonder. I mean, but 462 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:42,039 would he leave, Like, is that how miserable he is 463 00:22:42,079 --> 00:22:44,480 with the new generation of players that he would leave 464 00:22:45,599 --> 00:22:49,559 for less money. But man, that is a big hit 465 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:54,599 at a not a great time of the year of 466 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:55,640 the hiring kind. 467 00:22:55,559 --> 00:22:57,880 Speaker 1: Of cycle for LSU here. 468 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 3: I mean, what bo Davis did with last year's deepense 469 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:02,680 of line was fantastic. 470 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:08,839 Speaker 2: It was I mean, you talked about a position group 471 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:11,960 that just left a lot to be desired with this, 472 00:23:12,279 --> 00:23:15,960 you know who you had available. There was some misses 473 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:18,519 in the transfer portal, which I mean maybe I guess 474 00:23:18,599 --> 00:23:20,960 looking back retrospect, they weren't as big as we thought 475 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,799 they were with the players and how much they actually 476 00:23:23,839 --> 00:23:27,279 received and what they did with their team. But he 477 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:31,000 took a defensive line that was held together with duct 478 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,960 tape and super glue and made them respectable. Like they 479 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,640 weren't the best in the SEC, but with who they 480 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,480 had and who they were rolling in there, they played 481 00:23:40,279 --> 00:23:44,039 damn hard and they played above their ceiling like gopi 482 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:47,240 as is somebody that went in there and you got 483 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,000 literally the most that you possibly could. And then you 484 00:23:50,039 --> 00:23:53,000 started to play some of these young defensive linemen. You 485 00:23:53,039 --> 00:23:54,680 could see them by the end of the year that 486 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:56,799 they were ready to play in the SEC, and so 487 00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,519 I think a lot of people were excited because you know, 488 00:23:59,559 --> 00:24:02,279 that group got elevated this year. You can have a 489 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,880 you know, a better opportunity to go be one of 490 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:07,960 the top, maybe deep in the fronts in the SEC. 491 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:09,519 Speaker 4: I think your talent went up there. 492 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,640 Speaker 2: And Bo Davis is somebody that everybody knows what he 493 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:14,920 can do. He did it at Alabama, did Texas, did 494 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,319 it here in a single year back at LSU, and 495 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,559 so yeah, there's no way to sit here and like 496 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:20,319 shrug that all. 497 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:21,839 Speaker 4: That's a major loss for LSU. 498 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:27,519 Speaker 3: Yeah, Now, if I wanted to maybe you know, temper 499 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:31,599 some of the disaster here, you still have Kevin Peeples 500 00:24:31,599 --> 00:24:33,480 and that's the guy who works with the edges. And 501 00:24:33,519 --> 00:24:39,359 so don't attribute the success of Swinson and Savan Jones 502 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:43,359 and those guys on the edge to Bo Davis. But man, 503 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:48,680 from a recruiting vibe technician standpoint, yeah, I mean there's 504 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,200 a Again, there's a reason why Bo Davis was paid 505 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,640 a million and a half dollars a year to come 506 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:56,920 be LSU's defensive line coach. 507 00:24:57,559 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 1: What's funny about this is at a time and when. 508 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:05,079 Speaker 3: At a time, Yeah, okay, Nookie says, Louisiana fans are 509 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:06,599 pissed of the same. How can we make it worse? 510 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:10,440 And in time when people already are starting to loathe 511 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:15,839 Mickey Loomis, loathe Mickey Loomis, he hits him with the 512 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:19,440 one two of hey, we're committed to Derek Carr and hey, 513 00:25:19,599 --> 00:25:20,640 I'm hiring Bo. 514 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:22,759 Speaker 1: Davis away from your favorite college team. 515 00:25:23,039 --> 00:25:23,519 Speaker 4: Yeah. 516 00:25:23,599 --> 00:25:26,039 Speaker 1: Absolutely brutal. 517 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:33,519 Speaker 2: It's not good, not good, not a great time for 518 00:25:33,599 --> 00:25:35,559 the Saints. And we were doing so well. We were 519 00:25:35,599 --> 00:25:38,519 so excited about all the hires that you were making 520 00:25:38,559 --> 00:25:41,400 and bringing in nuss Meyer to be EUROC and Staley 521 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:45,119 to be your DC and Terry Joseph, uh somebody that 522 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:47,000 was you know, is a part of the Joseph family, 523 00:25:47,039 --> 00:25:49,880 which is you know, obviously a huge name of Louisiana 524 00:25:50,079 --> 00:25:52,839 Shawl legend. All of it was going so so well, 525 00:25:53,559 --> 00:25:55,680 and now you're stealing one of the best coaches at 526 00:25:55,759 --> 00:25:56,400 LSU had. 527 00:25:57,759 --> 00:26:00,920 Speaker 4: There goes the momentum. 528 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:02,079 Speaker 1: Damn Mickey. 529 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:07,200 Speaker 3: Huge bummer for the players themselves, as I mean, who 530 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:08,759 do you? I mean, well again, let's see you. They 531 00:26:08,839 --> 00:26:12,000 end up being replaced with. But like as a player 532 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:18,279 with a position, coach when you know you have one 533 00:26:18,319 --> 00:26:22,400 of the greats. That is inherently exciting because Bo Davis's 534 00:26:22,559 --> 00:26:26,240 resume is such that he doesn't have to convince you 535 00:26:26,319 --> 00:26:26,960 to trust him. 536 00:26:27,319 --> 00:26:28,240 Speaker 1: I always talk about it. 537 00:26:28,279 --> 00:26:30,119 Speaker 3: The main thing that you want from a player to 538 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:34,799 coach relationship is do I have full concrete trust that 539 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,720 if I do what you're telling me, that it's going 540 00:26:37,759 --> 00:26:39,720 to make me better, even if I think it sounds 541 00:26:39,759 --> 00:26:42,200 a bit weird or maybe a bit crazy doesn't work. 542 00:26:42,319 --> 00:26:44,240 And when you have that trust or the coach, it's 543 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:46,200 one of the best feelings in the world. Those are 544 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,599 the coaches that you remember for the entirety of your life. 545 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,480 Bo Davis's resume and skins on the wall were such 546 00:26:51,839 --> 00:26:55,400 that when you walked into that room, you immediately. 547 00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:59,319 Speaker 1: Trusted him. You didn't have to be convinced. It didn't 548 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:00,519 have to be to you. 549 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:03,720 Speaker 3: Who knows if that's the case with the next guy, 550 00:27:03,839 --> 00:27:05,440 and I want to be paid for clear by this. 551 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:07,359 Speaker 1: I have seen some. 552 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:12,119 Speaker 3: Position coaches that I would not describe as very good coaches. 553 00:27:12,279 --> 00:27:13,640 Speaker 1: Now generally they'll have a strength. 554 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:15,559 Speaker 3: Maybe this guy's better at recruiting, Maybe this guy's better 555 00:27:15,559 --> 00:27:18,279 at scheme, maybe this guy's better at technique, but Davis 556 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:22,039 was one of the best at combining all of the 557 00:27:22,079 --> 00:27:25,880 different elements there. I mean I knew a coach one 558 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:27,720 time that we convinced that when we were in the 559 00:27:27,759 --> 00:27:30,640 indoor that we shouldn't have practiced on the end zones 560 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,680 because they were more slippery. I mean, it's all the 561 00:27:33,759 --> 00:27:38,480 exact same turf. So like it, can you better hire 562 00:27:38,559 --> 00:27:40,960 well because you can certainly hire poorly? 563 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:43,599 Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I agree with you there. 564 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,359 Speaker 2: And you can get to even a place like LSU 565 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:50,079 and not be the best football coach and you're strictly 566 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,640 a recruiter and you get on like the board in 567 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:55,960 front of his position group and you're like, wait a minute, 568 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:57,720 do I know more than you? Yeah, I mean, no 569 00:27:57,839 --> 00:28:02,000 situations happened. Maybe maybe that's changed a little bit. Recruiting 570 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,960 certainly different than when you and I were in college football. 571 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:09,079 Speaker 4: But one thing that I'm gonna be paying attention to now. 572 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:13,440 Speaker 2: Okay, So like Jacob and Gillory, he's had multiple multiple. 573 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:14,359 Speaker 4: D line coaches. 574 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 2: I'm not worried about him, right, I Mean, this is 575 00:28:17,039 --> 00:28:19,799 somebody that he's been here a long time. He's going 576 00:28:19,839 --> 00:28:22,200 to be a leader. But like, now, okay, am I 577 00:28:22,319 --> 00:28:26,480 bro Dominic McKinley. Man, you you have to think that 578 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,039 they are going really tough to struggle with this for 579 00:28:29,079 --> 00:28:31,799 a little bit because that was their guy when they 580 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:33,960 got in as a freshman. And I had a position 581 00:28:34,039 --> 00:28:36,640 coach change and a head coaching change when I was 582 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:37,160 a freshman. 583 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:42,599 Speaker 4: It's tough. It's like, man, wait a minute, true. 584 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,279 Speaker 1: Wait, hold on, Jake here, because I want you. 585 00:28:47,279 --> 00:28:49,799 Speaker 3: I want you to continue this point the the internet 586 00:28:49,839 --> 00:28:52,559 sort of dropping for a minute. We'll get back to 587 00:28:52,599 --> 00:28:56,359 you in a second. Uh, let me know whenever that 588 00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:58,400 stream catches up to Because I never went through a 589 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:04,119 position go change. Actually, I was very rarely fortunate in 590 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,200 that I had the same coach for. 591 00:29:08,039 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 1: For five years. 592 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,559 Speaker 3: But even coach to drawa who I love dearly was 593 00:29:12,839 --> 00:29:18,279 more of a film guy, scheme guy, kind of a 594 00:29:18,319 --> 00:29:21,279 motivating guy, but less technique, whereas like Ben Wilkerson had 595 00:29:21,319 --> 00:29:23,000 to be added to the mix to really give us 596 00:29:23,319 --> 00:29:28,920 the full full coaching that we needed. Jake, So what 597 00:29:29,079 --> 00:29:34,200 happened when you went through a position coach change? 598 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 1: No? No good? Okay, never mind, all right, let's do this. 599 00:29:37,799 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 3: We'll continue to react to the Bo Davis news when 600 00:29:40,759 --> 00:29:42,519 we get back as well. 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It's, on one hand, you 633 00:31:23,279 --> 00:31:27,759 should be happy that at a time when the Saints 634 00:31:27,759 --> 00:31:30,160 are trying to find their way, they add a one 635 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,440 of the best defensive line coaches to try to help 636 00:31:33,519 --> 00:31:36,359 guys like Brian Berze in this new defensive line that 637 00:31:36,359 --> 00:31:38,920 you'll probably invest even more to try to develop and whatnot. 638 00:31:39,079 --> 00:31:42,359 Speaker 1: But you're robbing Peter to pay Paul. 639 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:46,319 Speaker 3: You're taking away from your favorite college team. And here's 640 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:50,359 maybe the most disappointing part. So Sylvain on Twitter says, 641 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,279 not only are the Saints bad, they can't let ls 642 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:52,880 be great. 643 00:31:53,079 --> 00:31:54,119 Speaker 1: So I think I. 644 00:31:54,039 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 3: Think, to me, the sentiment there I do agree with, 645 00:31:57,359 --> 00:32:00,519 which is that and look, I'm happy for bothavis personally 646 00:32:00,559 --> 00:32:03,400 because the NFL life is way better than the Cobbs life. 647 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:07,440 But the sentiment there I do agree with in that 648 00:32:08,119 --> 00:32:14,880 Bo Davis means multiple orders of magnitude more to LSU 649 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,759 than he will to the New Orleans Saints. There's no 650 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:23,400 recruiting in the NFL. Bo Davis is an expert level recruiter. 651 00:32:24,359 --> 00:32:27,400 Like and the Saints are so bad. This does not 652 00:32:27,559 --> 00:32:30,039 all of a sudden make them good. It makes them better, 653 00:32:30,039 --> 00:32:32,160 but it doesn't make them good, doesn't make them playoff team, 654 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:35,839 nothing like that. Whereas with LSU, Bo Davis I viewed 655 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:40,079 as a key piece of any potential champion pursuits that 656 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:42,839 you would have over the next few years. So maybe 657 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,359 that's if you're purely an LSU fan, that's maybe, or 658 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:48,759 or even give me your afraid of both. That's the most 659 00:32:48,759 --> 00:32:52,400 complicated thing to parse in my mind is I'm happy 660 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:56,359 for Bo. It's good for the Saints, but the impact 661 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,200 on LSU is greater. The absence of Bo Davis is 662 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:02,519 a greater impact LSU than it is in the addition 663 00:33:03,119 --> 00:33:04,640 for the Saints. 664 00:33:05,519 --> 00:33:08,000 Speaker 2: Yes, and I'm not a Saints fan, so I can 665 00:33:08,039 --> 00:33:14,599 be really mad this. Gosh, you said it perfectly there. 666 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,559 Like he's a great coach, like on the field, and 667 00:33:17,599 --> 00:33:20,480 I've known Bo forever. I mean he was an assistant 668 00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:23,000 in the weight room. Yeah, when I first got to LSU. 669 00:33:23,119 --> 00:33:24,960 I mean, that's that's kind of where he started after 670 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:26,759 he played at LSU. So I've known Bo for a 671 00:33:26,799 --> 00:33:29,440 long time and you could always tell he was going 672 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:32,839 to be a really good football coach and a great motivator. 673 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,359 And it's no surprise that he crushed it on the 674 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,319 recruiting trail. So he's going to make the Saints defensive 675 00:33:38,319 --> 00:33:40,359 line better. I don't think there's any question about that. 676 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,480 But you do take away a skill set that he 677 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:44,960 had that was elite. 678 00:33:45,319 --> 00:33:46,759 Speaker 4: You don't recruit in the NFL. 679 00:33:46,799 --> 00:33:50,759 Speaker 2: You're right to like people beg and scratch and claw 680 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:52,759 to be in the NFL. They do whatever they can. 681 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,039 They you know, we got a whole group in Indie 682 00:33:55,119 --> 00:33:56,960 right now trying to make it to the NFL and 683 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,680 be the next stars of the National Football League. So 684 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:01,599 you don't have to do that. So you know, that's 685 00:34:01,599 --> 00:34:04,160 probably something maybe he enjoys that. You know, maybe he's 686 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:05,960 really good at it, but he doesn't enjoy it. I mean, 687 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,800 there's skills that all of us have that maybe we're 688 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,840 good at that doesn't mean that we like it. So, 689 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,239 you know, for him personally, he can just go coach 690 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,880 football now, which if he's getting paid close to the 691 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:19,840 same that he was at LSU, I'm sure that he's 692 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,599 excited about that. But there's there's no show that can 693 00:34:23,599 --> 00:34:26,320 come on here today and tell you this isn't a 694 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:29,239 major loss for LSU. And if they tell you that, 695 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:32,800 they're either lying to you or they don't know ball. 696 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:34,480 That's just the way to put it. This is a 697 00:34:34,519 --> 00:34:36,719 big loss for LSU. It is not going to be 698 00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:40,079 something where you just handwaive this. Bo Davis on the 699 00:34:40,119 --> 00:34:44,360 field off the field in recruiting was a big benefit 700 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:46,599 for you, And when you got him from Texas, we 701 00:34:46,599 --> 00:34:51,239 were all celebrating. Yeah, in the transfer portal too, not 702 00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:53,920 just high school recruiting, like because Bo Diddley can go 703 00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,920 out there and be like, hey, here's who you know 704 00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,800 I've put into the NFL, and hey, you've got one 705 00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:02,039 more year left and I can do that for you. 706 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,599 I mean, so it wasn't just high school. It's gonna 707 00:35:04,599 --> 00:35:06,599 be the portal, it's gonna be on the field stuff. 708 00:35:07,159 --> 00:35:10,559 And I think as much as you know, this is 709 00:35:10,559 --> 00:35:13,239 going to probably help the New Orleans Saints on the field. 710 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,760 Speaker 4: It's a massive loss for LSU on and off the field. 711 00:35:17,119 --> 00:35:20,400 Speaker 3: So let's let's en wrap this Bo Davis talk by 712 00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,320 talking about a couple of potential names. Obviously, Chad is 713 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:27,559 saying coach Joe, which, to be fair, would actually be 714 00:35:27,639 --> 00:35:30,119 great because that's a guy who's an even you know, 715 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:35,840 probably like I mean, legitimately almost goat status recruiting wise. 716 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:36,400 Speaker 1: Everywhere. 717 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:41,079 Speaker 3: He's been an incredible resume of guys that he sent 718 00:35:41,119 --> 00:35:44,480 to the league, an incredible technician. But there's just no chance, 719 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,920 right once you have supped from the head coaching cup, 720 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,119 you're not gonna come back and be d line coach. 721 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:55,400 Speaker 2: Vance Joseph was a head coach of the Broncos. Now 722 00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:56,599 he's a defense coordinator. 723 00:35:58,079 --> 00:36:01,800 Speaker 3: Yes, maybe a bit different in the NFL and a 724 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:05,360 plus with the added context of how things ended with 725 00:36:05,519 --> 00:36:08,320 O and BKA and everything coming in, and. 726 00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:11,000 Speaker 1: That would be the dream. So I don't think that's happening. 727 00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:13,320 Speaker 3: I don't know though. Jake like there's not. And this 728 00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,039 is why Bo Davis was kind of interesting in singular, 729 00:36:16,679 --> 00:36:19,920 there's not really a name out there that is going 730 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:21,400 to have a lot of recognition. 731 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:23,960 Speaker 1: What is Ryan Nielsen doing nowadays? 732 00:36:25,199 --> 00:36:28,760 Speaker 4: Oh man, that's a name I haven't thought about in 733 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:29,440 a long time. 734 00:36:29,519 --> 00:36:32,039 Speaker 2: I mean, we had conversations about him, you know, potentially 735 00:36:32,039 --> 00:36:35,239 being the coordinator at LSU for a long time. I'm 736 00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,599 with you, and maybe there is a name like in 737 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,760 college football circles. But the thing with Bo is he 738 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,400 played at LSU, he was around LSU, and then when 739 00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,360 he wasn't around LSU, he was still around the SEC, 740 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:49,239 and so his name was always fresh on our mind. 741 00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:51,880 And so yeah, there could be I mean, you're LSU. 742 00:36:52,039 --> 00:36:54,480 You shoot for the moon. You don't just settle for somebody. 743 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,320 You go now, you go steal somebody, You go get 744 00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:00,760 whoever the best one possibly that would entertaining coming to 745 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:04,599 Baton rouge. But you know, well we'll have to see, 746 00:37:04,679 --> 00:37:06,719 like we'd have to be proven that he's better than 747 00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:09,960 Bo Davis, because again, Bo being a Tiger, being someone 748 00:37:10,039 --> 00:37:13,119 that's been around the SEC, we just we know him better, 749 00:37:13,119 --> 00:37:15,159 we know his resume better, we know the lure of 750 00:37:15,199 --> 00:37:16,559 bo Davis a little bit better. 751 00:37:17,599 --> 00:37:24,440 Speaker 3: It looks like Ryan Nielsen is he was the decoordinator 752 00:37:24,519 --> 00:37:27,920 for Jacksonville last season. He may have been fired to that. 753 00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,519 Looks like he's a senior defensive assistant for the Bills 754 00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:35,039 right now. So I mean, actually, maybe one interesting name. 755 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:38,760 And again this is just this is one that's just 756 00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,000 a bit headline gravy. Somebody and Chad said it though, 757 00:37:42,519 --> 00:37:45,400 talking about Warren Sapp who's falling in love with coaching. 758 00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,320 He's an assistant on Colorado's staff. I don't know, we'll see. 759 00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,519 There's a million different options. I don't know the d 760 00:37:50,599 --> 00:37:54,239 line scene well enough. But the big news here, good 761 00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:58,320 for the Saints, worse for LSU Bo Davis leaving the Tigers, 762 00:37:58,639 --> 00:37:59,519 going to the Saints. 763 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:00,599 Speaker 1: When we get back. 764 00:38:00,639 --> 00:38:04,239 Speaker 3: Let's wrap up our number one of OTB off the bench, 765 00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,719 get Gordon and get it done. Two two five eight 766 00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:11,840 eight eight eighty eight eighty eight Gordon mccurtin. 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So head over to get Gordon dot com. 778 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:45,880 You can fill out a console right there. They get 779 00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,119 in touch with you immediately. You can also see all 780 00:38:48,159 --> 00:38:50,639 the cases that they handle. You can see results of 781 00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:54,559 past customers as well, or as always, put your area code. 782 00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:55,800 Speaker 1: We'll say two two. 783 00:38:55,679 --> 00:38:59,400 Speaker 3: Five eight eight eight eighty eight eighty eight. You get 784 00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:00,920 the man who's gonna fight for you to get it done. 785 00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,079 Good guard and get it done. Elm on social media 786 00:39:03,199 --> 00:39:06,599 at guess what good Gord, Jake, what do we have? 787 00:39:06,639 --> 00:39:08,559 Speaker 1: We have you for one more segment after this? Are 788 00:39:08,559 --> 00:39:09,239 you out? After this? 789 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,000 Speaker 4: I am here till eight fifteen? Sir? 790 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:17,440 Speaker 1: Okay, okay? Then what did you start? Why did you 791 00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:18,280 start to take us? 792 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:20,760 Speaker 3: Then you wrote an article for Louisiana Sports dot net 793 00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:26,639 about with the NFL combine is actually like right, more 794 00:39:26,679 --> 00:39:29,559 than a test you mental. You mentioned the hospital gauntlet, 795 00:39:30,679 --> 00:39:35,000 changing jobs, the whiteboard battle with Jack del Rio. What 796 00:39:35,079 --> 00:39:37,360 do these guys actually go through this week? 797 00:39:39,039 --> 00:39:41,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we had a meeting yesterday and Matt 798 00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,239 it's like, hey, if you want to write something, I'm 799 00:39:44,519 --> 00:39:46,559 sure we invite it all. And I'm like, well, I'm 800 00:39:46,559 --> 00:39:48,800 a meathead. I've never written anything, but I'll give it 801 00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:50,719 a try. And so I just I was like, okay, 802 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,119 well the combine's going on right now. I know a 803 00:39:53,159 --> 00:39:55,440 little bit about that. I went through the process. Now 804 00:39:55,639 --> 00:39:59,639 it's a long time ago, it was seventeen years ago, 805 00:40:00,559 --> 00:40:03,679 but it's still the same for the most part. And 806 00:40:04,679 --> 00:40:07,639 my whole point was just to and our listener. You know, 807 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,480 our listeners have heard me tell stories about this before. 808 00:40:10,559 --> 00:40:14,159 But it is more mental to me than physical. And 809 00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,440 it starts as soon as you get off the plane. 810 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:19,360 When you get off the plane, you get you know, 811 00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:22,960 on a bus, in a car whatever, a group of two, three, four, 812 00:40:23,119 --> 00:40:26,119 five of you, and you go straight to the hospital. 813 00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:30,079 And that's like the first mental grind, the first mental test. 814 00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:33,280 And I had never missed a game in my life, 815 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,800 like just did I didn't miss games high school, college, 816 00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:38,079 like just didn't happen. 817 00:40:38,519 --> 00:40:41,360 Speaker 4: And I was still there for nine hours, and I 818 00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,599 was in and out of MRI machines. They're tugging, they're pulling. 819 00:40:45,159 --> 00:40:47,639 Speaker 2: And I always tell people, like, if you weren't injured 820 00:40:47,679 --> 00:40:49,519 when you went to the hospital, you're going to feel 821 00:40:49,519 --> 00:40:50,800 like you were injured when you left. 822 00:40:51,039 --> 00:40:52,920 Speaker 4: That's just like what the process is like. 823 00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,880 Speaker 2: And Tee, that's the first kind of mental hurdle because 824 00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:59,079 as soon as you spend nine hours, you know, hours 825 00:40:59,079 --> 00:41:02,000 in the hospital, Well then you immediately go and start 826 00:41:02,039 --> 00:41:05,800 having like little breakout sessions with different teams. And it 827 00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:07,679 can be you and the running back coach, it can 828 00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:10,360 be you and the coordinator. Sometimes you go up and 829 00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:15,400 it's you and the entire Seattle Seahawks staff, everybody, head, coach, GM, 830 00:41:15,519 --> 00:41:19,039 owner and so like, you just spent nine hours at 831 00:41:19,039 --> 00:41:19,639 the hospital. 832 00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:22,239 Speaker 4: Now you've got to be right back on your game. 833 00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,719 Speaker 2: And you know, I told a story about me and 834 00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:26,800 Jack del Rio going back and forth the other day, 835 00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:28,960 but that's what it was. For fifteen straight minutes. He's 836 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:33,119 given me every defensive scheme possible. Here's your offensive situation. 837 00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:35,320 How would you handle if I brought strike blitz? What 838 00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:37,960 if I brought Lynch Blitz. What if I brought Cowboy Blitz. 839 00:41:38,159 --> 00:41:40,119 What if we ran this run Blitz and you had 840 00:41:40,119 --> 00:41:42,239 his own run? Which gap are you going to try 841 00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:45,119 to press and hit the most? And it was I mean, 842 00:41:45,159 --> 00:41:46,960 I'm you know, I'm fresh out of college and I'm 843 00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:50,559 going head to head with Jack del Rio. Yeah, And 844 00:41:51,159 --> 00:41:53,119 we later were together in Denver. He's like, oh, I 845 00:41:53,159 --> 00:41:54,880 was always hardest on the running backs because I was 846 00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:55,519 a linebacker. 847 00:41:55,559 --> 00:41:57,599 Speaker 4: I tried to get you all the time, and so 848 00:41:57,679 --> 00:41:58,000 it's fun. 849 00:41:58,039 --> 00:42:00,320 Speaker 2: I was like, well, I felt that, I felt that press, sure, 850 00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:02,679 and so like that's a portion of it. And then 851 00:42:03,599 --> 00:42:06,760 like for me, I'm going from full or sorry tail 852 00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:08,920 back in college to full back in the NFL. Those 853 00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:12,239 aren't the same positions, and so bench press was really 854 00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:12,960 important for me. 855 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:14,679 Speaker 4: And I've told you this story one hundred times. 856 00:42:14,679 --> 00:42:17,519 Speaker 2: But I'm chalked up, taped up, ready to go, like 857 00:42:17,599 --> 00:42:20,320 in my head playing like heavy metal. I'm about to 858 00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,559 get under the bench and they're like, actually, guys, let's 859 00:42:22,559 --> 00:42:24,119 go take the Wonderlig test real quick. 860 00:42:24,119 --> 00:42:25,920 Speaker 4: And I'm like, what, I got to talk on my hands? 861 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,079 Speaker 2: You think I give a damn about a wonder Lig test, 862 00:42:28,559 --> 00:42:31,000 But that was another mental hurdle. They were trying to 863 00:42:31,119 --> 00:42:33,280 see if we could pass to go from you know, 864 00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:36,079 turn up to an eleven to the wonder lig and 865 00:42:36,119 --> 00:42:38,840 then come back and then bench as well. And I mean, 866 00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:41,039 it's just it's that time and time and time again, 867 00:42:41,119 --> 00:42:43,559 and then like the forty yard dash is such an 868 00:42:43,559 --> 00:42:46,760 important thing, and I was disappointed in my time. Now 869 00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:48,760 looking back on it, it wasn't that big of a deal. 870 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:50,519 I wanted to run a four or five to three 871 00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:52,440 and it ran a four, five nine and a four 872 00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:54,320 to six one, Like, it's not that big a deal. 873 00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:56,880 But I remember there was a Green Bay packer scout 874 00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,159 that came over to me. It's like, hey, like I 875 00:42:59,159 --> 00:43:02,239 can tell your disappoint in, but chill out. Basically, he's like, 876 00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:04,800 we all saw you in November and get up and 877 00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:08,039 catch Kareem Jackson from behind on an interception. We know 878 00:43:08,079 --> 00:43:09,920 how fast you can run on a field with full 879 00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:14,239 pads on. Hell, He's like, that didn't matter. Go make 880 00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:16,039 sure that you forget about it, kind of like the 881 00:43:16,119 --> 00:43:18,400 Caju you can and went snap and clear and go 882 00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:20,920 finish the rest of the day, Finish strong here in Indy. 883 00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:23,000 And it was like the best advice that I'd ever gotten. 884 00:43:23,039 --> 00:43:24,000 I don't even know that you know. 885 00:43:24,039 --> 00:43:26,840 Speaker 1: This guy, Oh wow, man, yeah, that's great. 886 00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:28,760 Speaker 2: Didn't even get the guy's name. He just like said 887 00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:30,559 it to me, and I'm like, man, that is great. 888 00:43:30,559 --> 00:43:33,519 That is incredible advice. And so I just wrote about it, 889 00:43:33,559 --> 00:43:36,079 wrote about my experience kind of the mental grind. I 890 00:43:36,079 --> 00:43:38,719 think it's more mental than physical. They already know physically 891 00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:40,559 what you can do. Now you got to go show 892 00:43:40,599 --> 00:43:41,519 them you can do it mentally. 893 00:43:41,639 --> 00:43:43,760 Speaker 3: So guys go check that out Luisiana Sports on that 894 00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:47,239 and recognize when somebody does test very well. Now you 895 00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:49,760 have the context of everything that's going on our two. 896 00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:51,519 Speaker 4: Next, yeah, off the bench.