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Speaker 2: I feel like we got so passionate in our one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got we gotta let the room breathe.
Speaker 2: Someone in this room forgot to remind me that.
Speaker 5: It was my pick, or someone just forgot that it was.
Speaker 3: I was just about to say, like, we just took
up for you by not throwing you under the bus,
and what do you do immediately try to someone.
Speaker 6: Forgot the order that we've been going in since twenty five.
Speaker 5: That was like the most non Fox whole thing ever.
And we were being super far like we weren't even gonna.
Speaker 2: Know I was clearly joking.
Speaker 3: That's when somebody says, like, hey, no offense.
Speaker 5: Offense, with all due respect credit to myself, I'm sorry
I made you feel that way.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: It's like, hey, I'm sorry I made you feel that way.
Definitely not my fault.
Speaker 2: I have used that one before. There anything I could
do to change it.
Speaker 3: Don't do that. No, it's just your face. Don't do that.
That is not what people want to hear. All right,
So it's okay, Look we stay cock lock and ready
to go here on OTV. So Spencer Rattler will start
the final preseason game for your New Orleans Saints. You
have to imagine this is a situation where Spencer Rattler
is the leader in the clubhouse. He's going to get
one more opportunity, and as long as he doesn't fall
off a cliff in the game, he's gonna be your
starting quarterback. Certainly at the beginning of the season.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I would say this is this is kind of
the sign in kind of how we thought projected, kind
of with guess that it might play out based on
the experience and what we've been hearing.
Speaker 2: Is that Spencer Radler is going to get the.
Speaker 7: Start in the third preseason If he doesn't go and
fall in his face, it doesn't really matter to me. Like,
this is the this is how I envision it happening.
Like if he goes out and throws for you know,
one hundred, one hundred and twenty yards in his allotted
time completion percentage, then turned them all over two or
three times, runs the offense, the offense looks functional, it
looks really good. Maybe not really good. It looks like
it's functioning, staying on time. Nothing terrible happening. That is
his fault. You gotta imagine that that would be enough.
Based on the Saints starting him in the third preseason game,
the final preseason game, the fin final tune up game,
getting the reps with the.
Speaker 2: Starters, he would be the Week one starter.
Speaker 7: It doesn't matter if Shuck comes in and throws for
twice the amount of yards in the second half, If
Rattler looks the part, if he doesn't fall on his
face in this game, I believe he would be the
Week one starter.
Speaker 2: Based on this decision alone.
Speaker 3: I agree with you. If not, then Tyler Shuck's going
to be the guy that goes out there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and if that's not the decision making process. Why
would you put rat Let out there first and get
him the reps. At that point, it's like, all right,
this is the decision we're gonna make. This is how
we're feeling, this is how we're leaning. Let's see if
our feelings are correct on this third preseason game. Yeah,
if our first team offense looks functional, the operation is good,
we're making plays, he's making reads. Okay, that solidifies what
we're thinking. It doesn't really matter at that point what
Chuck does with the second and third team guys, because
what they're feeling now is I believe that Rattler is
the person that we're gonna give these first team reps
to and we feel might be the one. So if
it's fifty one to forty nine, how the coach is feeling,
where it sixty forty, seventy, thirty, eighty twenty, whatever it is,
it doesn't matter. If he goes out there and looks functional,
looks capable, and does the right things, makes the right decisions,
he's the obvious choice for week one. Now again, seventeen
week season, we'll see how it all plays out. But
to start week one, I would say if he does
those things. Now, if he goes out there and falls
in the space those a couple of picks, makes some
really dumb mistakes and then shut comes in and looks good,
then maybe we're talking about a whole other situation. But
if the games play out like they have the first
where both quarterbacks at times have looked very capable and
make good decision, We've said it the first two games,
a quarterback has not been the issue in these games.
There's been a couple of picks, but there's a lot
that goes into those those two picks that are the
one pick that each of them threw.
Speaker 2: They've all looked very capable.
Speaker 7: So if that continues, if both guys look decent and
look good and running offense, then I believe based on
this decision, Rattler would be the starter.
Speaker 3: So I think this one is important to note because
you know you've had multiple guys start here in the preseason.
But I think it's of note that more did say
the plans who play as many starters as they can
against the Broncos. So some players like Eric McCoy maybe
Ak that have not played in the preseason yet get
an opportunity to go out there and so, like Matt
was just laying out there. If you're going to for
the first time for the first time this preseason, have
some of those guys out there, and Spencer's the guy
that you want to have out there with them, that's
a big telltale sign.
Speaker 7: Yeah, if you're not leaning that way, those are wasted reps.
If you're not leaning that way. If an organization really
was trying to push for Shuck to be the guy,
then it's a waste of those crucial, crucial reps from
a unit that hasn't been together with live bullets coming
at them all preseason, completely together at least now. From
a receiver standpoint, I know they've all kind of they've
been out there, but from an entire unit standpoint, ultra important,
ultra important. I know there's a lot of other teams
out there that don't play starters, they don't play everybody,
but those are solidified teams.
Speaker 2: Those are teams with chemistry.
Speaker 7: Those are teams that are looking to make deep playoff
runs and have Super Bowl aspiration. Realistically, we're not in
that situation to put your guys out there and play.
Speaker 3: So here's a couple quotes from Saints coach Keller Moore,
who look, they said a couple days ago that they
weren't gonna name a starter until after this game. But
he said, I think our whole goal at the beginning
was not to put a timeline on this thing. When
it's ready, it's ready and we go. We've got patience
on our side and we'll be just fine. He said.
We are not going to be one of those college
teams that walks the guy out there the first play
and you guys get to know who the starter is
at that moment. Don't worry about that. So it's got
to happen after this game. And I'm not just talking
about for us to sit here and talk about it.
I'm talking about for that locker room. That locker room
needs to say, Okay, Rat's our guy, even if it
was Chuck. They need to be able to be like, hey,
this is going to be the guy that leads us
oude of the tunnel. This is going to be a
guy that's a captain on this team. Probably because as
Spencer Ratler wins a job, he's probably gonna have a
C on his jersey. They need to know that because
like that is like, at least for me being somebody
that did not play quarterback, Like I would want to
know who is our guy, who is the voice in
the huddle? We need to be with that guy. That
guy needs to be in front of the meeting. He
needs to be leading the protection meeting. If he's going
to be our guy. Let's go over. Hey, let's go
over our cadence one more time. Let's have a cadence meeting.
And that might sound well while you're in the pros,
while you're doing that, because his is different than Tyler Shuck's, right,
And now that we got everybody together, Hey, let's have
that meeting. It's quick. It's seven minutes, give me seven minutes.
All those things to me, I don't know how you
feel it because you were the guy leading those meetings.
Like that's such important to me because everybody does it
a little bit differently, and you want to be on
the same page as much as you possibly can when
you're playing in the National Football League.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I think as the Saints fan base needs
to kind of be realistic about everything to like from
top to bottom.
Speaker 3: They're I think they understand the assignment right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're two deep rosters, not the best yeah.
Speaker 7: Okay, So it's a it's a long season, like this
is seventeen weeks, like this is it's gonna be long.
We're gonna see both quarterbacks play. Realistically, there's we might
see both guys start. I don't know what's gonna happen,
but like if you just look at it like unless
and it might not even be completely the quarterbacks fault.
But if a team gets into a three, four, five
game losing streak, they're gonna try things. They're gonna try
different things. So if Spencer starts and that happens, you
might see shuk. If Shuck starts and that happens, you
might see rally like and it might not be completely
like kind of like last year, Spencer Ratler was put
in a really tough situation, like how many quarterbacks are
going to be successful in the situation that he was
put in last year with a Saint. But as a coach,
you have to just keep throwing things at the wall
to see if the works.
Speaker 2: So I think we will.
Speaker 7: I mean, you have to be realistic and say you're
gonna see both of these quarterbacks play and hopeful, hopefully.
Speaker 2: At the end of the season.
Speaker 7: You know, one hundred percent without a shadow of a
doubt that you either got a guy or you don't
got a guy, right, because at least you know yeah,
And the worst thing that can happen in any part
of life is indecision, and it's the fear of the unknown.
Like you have to end this season no matter what,
no matter if you win zero games or twelve games
or anywhere in between. You have to know, without a
shadow of a doubt what you're doing at the quarterback position.
Speaker 3: Real quick, before we take a break, speak on the
fact that Tyler Schuck is a second round pick and
the narrative surrounding this quarterback battle, and multiple people that
are really good at their job that have kind of said,
the Saints want Tyler Schuck to win this job, or
at least that's their feel, that's how that's how they
kind of read the situation. You were somebody and a
point at all time that beat out a second round
pick is the backup to Aaron Rodgers. You were a
seventh round pick. The packer said, we don't care once
you're here. You're a packer. That's all we care about.
You win that job. Is there anything in your mind
that would be truthful about the Saints wanting their second
round pick to win the job.
Speaker 7: Well, certainly, I have not spent any time at a
Saints practice or within those within that the walls there
or the field. I haven't, Like I hadn't talked to
any players or coaches. You were, you were there one day.
It's not like we would actually really know what is
in their head. We can speculate, but I can tell
you just from a a guy that's been there, a
guy that's been in multiple organizations, Like an organization doesn't
care who the starter is unless you're like a top
top pick, or unless you just got paid but ton
of money, unless that's happening by default, like you have
to start just because of the investment. Like a second
round pick to an NFL organization is an investment in
a draft pick. Sure, but it's not like this huge
capital investment to where like you have to we're definitely
to push him in there to play blah blah blahah.
Speaker 3: Like guys Isaiah Foscue was a second round pick.
Speaker 7: So they drafted at what was what was the overall
what was the pick overall came forty four shuck fortieth pick.
They they used the fortieth pick to draft a quarterback
to have a potential starting quarterback, It doesn't matter if
his name plate says shuck or not. If it pushes
another guy to beat him out, it's not a waste
to pick if he beats him out as successful. Hey
I was. I was a seventh round pick. I beat
out a second round pick in the first training camp.
They didn't care because it didn't cost him anything anymore.
That I beat him out didn't cost him any the
last Yeah, they couldn't take the money back that they
paid him because I beat him out. They couldn't pay
me more because I beat him out. It's just the
payroll was the same. So they drafted a second round
pick and they still got a quarterback. So and then
I made the explanation the other day, like, even if
Jordan Love would not have panned out in Green Bay, yeah, Giraffe,
spending that first round pick on him led to your
current quarterback having back to back in MVP seasons. Yeah,
that's a good first round pick. That's a good yeah,
because it pissed them off and it drove him. That
was a It ended up being a really good first
round pick. And Okay, so yeah, he has panned out.
But even if it didn't, I know, they didn't win
the Super Bowl those years they could have, Like if
if they you get two MVP seasons because you made
that pick, Blake, So whatever, it doesn't matter what the
name plate says, like, as long as you're getting a
guy and if you beat if somebody beats him out right, yeah,
it doesn't matter. So like to to say like an
organization is like wanting somebody kind of makes me head
that it kind of blows my mind that people would
would think that unless it is me, yea.
Speaker 3: Hold that I'll get. I'll give you a I know
we got your break. A quick example, we we drafted
Moneyball in the second round when I was with Denver,
Wisconsin running back great college career. We signed c J.
Anderson as an undrafted free agent out of cal By
the end of that training camp, CJ Anderson had moved
ahead of minding Ball on the depth chart. Undrafted free
agent second round pick. Yeah, CJ kept making a play
after a play, after a play after a play, and
he was behind No Sean. He was the two right.
No Sean got hurt and here comes CJ. Anderson. So
sure that they wanted to work out, but they're not
going to sacrifice the greater good of their team just
because of where you were drafted.
Speaker 7: Owner of the greatest tier I've ever seen. Greatest tier
was fat. If it came out today, you people would
think it was AI. Probably so probably so.
Speaker 3: All right, when we come back, we hope we'll continue
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Speaker 6: Fourth and fifth grade if you were, If you were
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. It's great for its time.
Speaker 6: When they play this in the movie Ray, the little
montage they have going, good.
Speaker 7: Scene, scene, great song. But you can know like that
we're the greatest of its time. Maybe not of all time.
Speaker 3: Everybody's got a different taste, but it's good. You don't
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Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 3: It's just like, you know, I love my fifties music now.
It makes me want to play some Jerry Lee Lewis,
you know, like my sixties Melvis, some Johnny Cash, some
Sam Cook, Otis Redding.
Speaker 2: That's what you're trying to talk bad about seventies music.
Other day.
Speaker 3: I don't like disco.
Speaker 4: I don't even mind disco. It is seven a weird hate.
Speaker 7: It is seventies. Let me say it's a weird hate
for discos. Said, there's so much great music in the seventies.
I would say seventies is one of the best.
Speaker 3: Said disco. Yeah, seven disco.
Speaker 4: I don't even really mind it. I actually kind of
like disco.
Speaker 3: Yeah again in the summer. It's all that is. Great.
Music is something I will never are you if you
love whatever. Yeah, I might not like it, but I'm
not gonna hate on you for it. Because music is
to each their own.
Speaker 2: True. Yeah, no, if you don't like the music, I like,
I kind of.
Speaker 4: Judge you for it, and I really only judge M
people O.
Speaker 2: K pop.
Speaker 5: Oh, he's been watching a show called the Demon hunter
one Demon Hunters?
Speaker 2: I'm like, what who thought of this? What high person
thought of this idea?
Speaker 6: I know they say, don't like, don't judge a book
by its cover, don't judge a title. It's a terrible
title for a show, but like.
Speaker 4: It's for kids.
Speaker 2: It's for kids. It's a kids show.
Speaker 4: But I guess they're at least they're hunting the demons.
Speaker 8: Can you play K pop Demon Hunters soundtrack? I'm like no,
You're like that doesn't sound appropriate. But then I'm like,
then of course, I you know, break down. I'm like,
all right, fine, which track?
Speaker 3: Is there a genre of music where you can see somebody?
You know exactly what they listen to?
Speaker 4: Wait?
Speaker 3: What see somebody?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, I grunge.
Speaker 7: I would say, oh yeah, you know for sure? What
kind of what kind of music do goth people like?
Speaker 4: The Cure in the Banshees or something?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Probably pop Roach in the uh in the rotation? Anymore
and more popper roach, man.
Speaker 2: I like some popper roach. Maybe just listen to just
listening to sound effects. I don't know.
Speaker 4: The cure is good, though, The cure is good.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: The smith's feel goth too. Yeah, Marilyn Manson, that's a
good pool.
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That is crazy, removed story the first I don't even know,
is it true? Everybody heard that? Middle?
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The OTB top twenty five. We are working our way
to number seven. Matt was certainly prepared for this segment
today at twenty five, Boise State at twenty four, Memphis
at twenty three, Baylor at twenty two, Georgia Tech at
twenty one, Tennessee at twenty, Iowa State at nineteen, Texas
eight and four at eighteen, Indiana seventeen, Old miss sixteen,
Florida fifteen, Texas Tech fourteen, SMU thirteen, Arizona State, twelve, Alabama, eleven, Miami, ten, Illinois, nine,
Texas eight, Oregan and numbers.
Speaker 2: Can we just get a graphic next time?
Speaker 4: I think we're waiting till the.
Speaker 7: Wait till the Yeah, like it's you're kind of running
out of breath reading. All right, So I got the
seventh pick.
Speaker 2: I'm not happy about it. I don't want to have
to make this.
Speaker 7: Pick, but I'm trying to stop y'all from having to
make this pick any higher. Yeah, it's a team that
I have zero respect for. It's a team that I
don't like. And it's not because I don't think their
mascot's cool or I don't think their.
Speaker 2: Traditions are cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they got an updated logo yesterday.
Speaker 7: It's not because I don't think they're gold helmets a girl.
I like all of the things that this school brings
to the table from a college football perspective, but I
got no respect for them because they are a bunch
of betas walking around. You're putting Texas A and at
seven they're king. They are the kings of Beta scheduling,
the independent Catholics, the fighting Irish, Notre Dame. It's coming
into the OTB number seven because I didn't want them
to be any higher, is why I'm putting them here.
Speaker 3: It's a new logo, it's new, Yeah, they unveiled it yesterday. Normally,
the the Leprechaun has his fists right.
Speaker 2: Yes, and put them on. Yes, throw fisticuffs all right.
Speaker 7: I want to like Notre Dame because I do think
they have great helmets.
Speaker 2: I love their traditions.
Speaker 3: They do got a lot of great traditions.
Speaker 7: They got great traditions. I like their alternate green uniforms.
I like all this stuff. That's about it. Pick a conference,
play people. I know you schedule USC a SEC, the
kind of go to the ACC, go to the Big Ten,
come to the SEC, whatever it is. I don't care
pick a conference, but trying to be like, look at me,
look at me, look at me.
Speaker 2: Play nobody. And then at the end of the year.
I didn't even do a deep dive on their roster
because I don't care.
Speaker 3: DJ car just got a name starting quarterback about three
days ago. I'll say this about them, obviously shout out
to Mike Denbrock. One of the things about coach den
Brock that I always appreciate doesn't really matter what kind
of quarterback he has, he will tailor his offense around
the skill set of the quarterback. I think that is
something that a lot of coordinators try to make the
quarterback change to their system. But look, he's had Desmond Ritter.
He's had Jaden Daniels, he's had you know, last year
he had Riley Leonard. Like, he's had different quarterbacks and
been successful with different skill sets, and so I can
appreciate that is CJ. Carr those quarterbacks, I don't think so.
But it's the first time and the last couple of
years they didn't go get a one year transfer rental
out of the portal. So they believe it. In my think
they do.
Speaker 2: They got the best running back in the country or
potentially the best.
Speaker 7: They got the best run back in the country. Jeremia
so kind of a dark horse Heisman candidate. We'll see
what kind of happens. Marcus Freeman. We both have a
ton of respect for Marcus Freeman. We played against them,
We've seen him rise up through the coaching ranks.
Speaker 2: He's got a lot of respect. Very very handsome man
as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, chill out, Marcus. Yeah, he's and Pete's.
Speaker 9: Save some from Matthew, probably the most handsome coach league
at Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2: So his handsoenness puts him in the top ten.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, that's what pushed him over the edge.
So he's gritty and.
Speaker 2: Pretty that's tritty and pretty, and they were talking.
Speaker 3: About the combination of both.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we were talking about the receivers as well. He
said they started coming on at the end.
Speaker 2: Of the year last year.
Speaker 3: You know, they certainly did, because they struggled out of
the gates and it was a position that they were
looking for anything, because it became really reliant on Riley
Leonard's legs on like almost any third down and really
even third down and medium, like not even third down
in short and Jeremiah Love obviously he was catching balls
out of the backfield. He was playing really well. But
they needed their receivers to step up. And I was
talking with Ajay right before we came into this segment.
They actually did at the end of last year. Like
if you go back and you look at their run
at the end of the year and into the playoff,
I mean they had multiple guys. Great Hoouse is probably
the one that a lot of people Jaden Greathhouse from
his game against Penn State, But I mean they had
multiple guys Faisons, somebody that dual sport athlete there at
Notre Dame that certainly had some moments against Georgia. You
go get Will Pauling from Wisconsin. That is somebody that
got should go way back and think about the bowl
game LSU played against Wisconsin. He was a big star
in that game. So he comes over to join the
fighting Irish. You get Malachi Fields as well. That is
somebody that had eight hundred and eight yards at UVA
a year ago. So the two guys that are coming back,
you add two guys through the portal, and I think
it's actually going to be one of their strengths, where
last year it was a real weakness early in the season.
Speaker 7: Looking at their schedule, I mean to credit to them.
I will give them some credit. They have scheduled smoths.
They open the season against Miami and then they played
Texas A and M which last year they went into
Kyle Field and took care of business, looked very good,
which kind of helped them, you know, with their rankings
throughout the season. But then after that they played Purdue,
then they play Arkansas, Boise State, North Carolina State. Then
they have their game at home USC than Boston College, Navy,
pitt Syracuse, Stanford. Certainly not a complete schedule that would
strike fear in anybody, especially if you get past the
first two weeks.
Speaker 3: First two weeks are crucial though, those are two tough
games for them.
Speaker 7: But the way like that's this is what bothers me.
The way they set up their schedule. They could still
drop one, they could even drop two, and it'll probably.
Speaker 3: Northern Illinois last year ran the table and made to
the National Championship game.
Speaker 7: They could probably they could probably drop both of them
and still make it somehow because they're Notre Dame and
they're on NBC.
Speaker 3: I will say, I'll give I'll give Notre Dame their flowers.
When when I went and covered them in the Sugar Bowl,
I was on the sideline for that game and the
pads were popping. They brought the physicality to Georgia, which
that doesn't happen very often. So I will like, I
don't like they've had a shift in mindset. And I
will say that that was impressive to me that they
brought the fight to the Georgia Bulldogs because Mark's coach. Man,
typically Georgia is going to be that one that's you know,
out there, alpha out in front. But Notre Dame. Man,
it wasn't even close, to be honest with you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, they were a good team, and they'll probably
be a really good team this year. I just you know,
I have a hard time giving them any respect join
a conference simple.
Speaker 6: I actually think seven is a perfect spot. Like I was,
I was gonna put them at eight yesterday. The only
reason I didn't Oregon's got a lot less returning starters.
They're both bringing into New QB. So yeah, and like Jeremi,
Love was kind of the deciding factor for him. But
this is actually where I was hoping you were.
Speaker 2: Going boom, nailed it. I'll put him twenty six if
I could. You could have. I couldn't have. We only
started with twenty five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you could have.
Speaker 7: Somebody else would have picked them, and then we were
gonna be in danger of them being top five.
Speaker 3: Right, But I took a bullet. But for you, if
you didn't select, and you could say I had him
in twenty six, it was Jake's spout. He picked him.
Speaker 7: And how soft are they for not wanting to play
in Dublin Ireland every single year?
Speaker 2: Soft?
Speaker 3: Remember you put you picked this team. You're kind of
yelling at us like we did it.
Speaker 2: That's made me do this to myself.
Speaker 6: Look, they're gonna be able to run the hell out
of the ball. They're gonna have a great defense. Like
I know we talk about Judiarian Love, I mean Jeremiah Love,
Jadarian Price, the backup running back.
Speaker 2: It's good a year ago. He's as well.
Speaker 6: Like they got a little one two punch there.
Speaker 3: Williams is a good player too.
Speaker 7: So reluctantly I am choosing on the OTB Top twenty
five preseason Top twenty five, the only preseason poll that
matters in the entire world, this one. Notre Dame. Lock
it in number seven. It ain't no guess that's what
it's gonna be. End of the season, they will be
the seventh best team in the game.
Speaker 3: That ain't no guess, that's what it's gonna be.
Speaker 4: Put the house on it. Put the house on it,
your whole mortgage, because you're gonna do.
Speaker 2: In that four to one k. Don't do that. Actually,
that'd be really responsible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, probably get a penalty on it, big penalty.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, we spent enough time talking about them, all right,
we'll take a break.
Speaker 3: Continue OTB. Remember we do have a guy, heard Benson
from the SEC Office joining us at nine forty to
break down the new schedule model in the sec. We'll
get to some of your questions as well throughout the show.
We have got to try to put together a pontoon
parlay for this week zero slate of games. It's not
the best slate. We all know that it's fine, but
still doesn't mean you can't bet on a poor slate.
We'll do that coming up in our number three as well.
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Speaker 9: I want to do.
Speaker 1: From the locker room to the airwaves. It's off the
bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: Don't you want to get out? Do you want to
get down?
Speaker 2: Tell me.
Speaker 3: How you gonna do it?
Speaker 1: If you really don't want to dance by standing on
the wall, tell me how you gonna do it.
Speaker 3: If you really don't want to dance by standing on
the wall.
Speaker 2: Totally redeem yourself.
Speaker 3: Because we're not gonna throw shade at her for playing
Ray Charles. Like it might not be what you wanted,
but we're not gonna throw shade at her. That's Ray Charles. Okay,
she ain't gonna do that.
Speaker 2: I'm not throwing shake her.
Speaker 3: But she like she had done something bad. She played
Ray Charles.
Speaker 7: We're all out here, she could probably admit that it
wasn't funk. She needed to renew herself. I didn't put
that on.
Speaker 2: She knew it. We all knew it.
Speaker 3: You're being very judgmental this morning. You know what, very
non fox.
Speaker 7: I throw a ball over your head. I'm gonna look
at you. I'm gonna tap my chest. You know that
ain't Truella tap my chest.
Speaker 3: You'd be like, whoa, why didn't you run over there
and dive and jump and get it. It's like, man,
I'm five ten bud, you were throwing to a six
or four guy? You would You're the last guy that
would hit this.
Speaker 2: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3: A last one?
Speaker 7: Are you kidding me? I jumped on so many grenades
out there. That was a bad analogy. I shouldn't say that.
It's because.
Speaker 2: Not comparing myself to people.
Speaker 3: It's like you don't know what it was like only
were in foxhol You're comparing yourself. No, I men and women.
Speaker 2: That one of those things I immediately regretted when I
said it out loud. It's on me.
Speaker 3: I didn't want to be hit by the way.
Speaker 2: I didn't want to be like Kellen Winslow in the
locker room.
Speaker 3: Oh, I forgot about that.
Speaker 2: Ryan. Yeah, that one't great, and I just felt bad
about saying that one.
Speaker 3: We never, I don't think we never as a group.
I wanted to, you know, come together and have three
teams that we want to see LSU player. I know
we each kind of had one that we wanted to
maybe put up to a vote. But one thing about
O t B is, despite that last comment from Flynn,
we are going to be a wolf pack in the
foxhole here. So there's four of us, which can get
a little tricky, But we need to come up with
the three teams. It needs to be the official OTB
stance of who we want the l s U three
permanent opponents to be.
Speaker 6: Well, there's a lot ritten on this too, because like
the SEC is taking our advice only so.
Speaker 3: Like these are going to Yeah, why do you think
we're having herb on later?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Can I tell you all something too? Nobody cares about
the Boot the Golden the Golden Socks.
Speaker 3: Well, I love Louis, you know we didn't U Arkansas
the Golden I know David Basar, guy who played for Arkansas,
great human being, one of my favorite guys. He's the
one that came up with the trophy, designed it and made.
Speaker 2: It a deal.
Speaker 3: It's fine, but Arkansas cares way more about it than
elseh Does I think it's fair to say it's a
heavy age trophy. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 2: Do you think Arkansas Morning Sports show this conversation, LSU
is probably first one.
Speaker 3: Yes they choose, I don't uh Missouri or l Shooter.
Now if I don't, I don't do they Oxford? Does
Oxford have like sports morning radio shows?
Speaker 2: If they do?
Speaker 3: L s U for sure is the first one that
they're saying it's hard not right?
Speaker 5: Yeah right, Well yeah, so that was whenever I was
saying Mississippi.
Speaker 3: State, I don't know, yeah right, I don't know, like
Missispy State like a given, like the that's gonna happen.
Speaker 6: So L s U, right, I mean Missippi State, Old Miss,
like those will be the that'll be a permanent but
like outside.
Speaker 5: Of that was the second one that I was like,
I'm adamant about to the other one's Old Miss. Because
when you talk about like your best memories in Tiger Stadium,
I think about that Ole Miss game last season, yeah,
and I think about a couple other ones. So for me,
It was the answer I gave Chris last night when
he sent the station survey.
Speaker 4: It was A and m Ole Miss in Florida. So
I think we all agree on Florida.
Speaker 3: Yes, Florida, like not even not even after discussion, like
I'll fight to the death.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and then after that, I mean I would say,
you got to juggle between Ole Miss Auburn, Alabama, and
you said Texas A and M.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I think I'm the only one so we
can take that one out.
Speaker 3: I'm not totally against that. I'm not totally against Texas
A and M. It certainly has become a thing. Yeah,
I think it certainly, even when like Gordy played like
he talks about like they had some good games with
Texas A and M like so like that was a
game that they played back in the.
Speaker 2: Day for sure, and like hate all the yell leaders
is fun for the it is for us, right, Florida.
Speaker 3: Okay, so they're in. So we got two teams.
Speaker 2: Last night in the group text, I said Florida three times,
you did?
Speaker 3: You did? I don't know if we're going to get
that one pass though home away neutral site game.
Speaker 2: With a twenty eighteen playoff. You might play them three times.
Speaker 3: You know, we'll meet you in Birmingham to play the
little elimination.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, we're gonna play a Friday Saturday Sunday series.
Speaker 3: Here's here's one of the questions we have to ask ourselves.
All Right, So for the Alabama portion of this, they
are going to play Auburn. I believe with almost certainty
they are going to play Tennessee.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: Would the SEC give them Auburn Tennessee and LSU? No,
I don't think they'll.
Speaker 2: Give them Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt was there.
Speaker 3: Look if you look, if you have Auburn Tennessee and
they throw you Vanderbilt who beat him last year, I know,
and that was their.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't believe they'd give them Auburn Tennessee and LSU. Now,
the LSU Alabama game is a cash cow for TV networks.
I mean, it doesn't matter how good how bad. Over
the last fifteen years, that has been must watch TV,
probably even going back to seven when Saban first coached
against US back against LSU. Are they willing to get
rid of that? It's gonna be a.
Speaker 7: Question who's going to make these decisions? Is this something
that they're going to league office. But certainly are they
going to rely on input, like, say, every team, give
us your top teams that you'd like to play and
if things match up and it works scheduling wise, like
A and M, who's the number one team you'd like
to play every single year?
Speaker 2: Is it Texas? Is it l s Uh.
Speaker 3: They're definitely going to take input. Yeah. No, I mean
even if they say they're not, they are. I mean
I've I've heard that they're going to Hey, I mean
they should. Hey, who, Like, we're not gonna we're not
promising you anything like it might not happen, but give
us your list, like who do you want to see
in your stadium every other year?
Speaker 2: Right? Who?
Speaker 3: Who you know? Who does your fan base want to
see every other year in your stadium as well? Yeah,
so they'll definitely have some input in this, like I would.
I would love to ask Scott. Hey, Scott, if they
asked you that question, who you going with? M?
Speaker 2: Give me a call.
Speaker 3: Athletic director. I'll text him. I don't know if I'm
cold calling here on the air.
Speaker 2: Who are you choosing?
Speaker 4: Answered?
Speaker 2: What if he said he.
Speaker 4: He's like?
Speaker 2: What if he said Mississippi State Vanderbilt in Kentucky.
Speaker 3: Scott's got too much great for that. Like literally, like
if Scott heard you even joke like you just did,
he'd be very sweet. Right now. Yeah, Like if I
was a joke everybody knowing Scot like I do, he's
gonna say. He's gonna say, like Florida, Alabama and A
and M probably probably.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 7: Man, are they going to give us Arkansas because of
that dumb trophy?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 6: Because they already took that. It used to be the
last game of the year that's now been replaced twice.
I don't think anybody cares about the game.
Speaker 3: Florida A and m an Old Miss. How do we
feel about that?
Speaker 4: My original list.
Speaker 3: Florida A and m an Old Miss.
Speaker 6: I don't think you gotta have you gotta have one
of Alabama or Alburn one of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, you can't take away Bama. You just
like you mentioned, that's a cash gown.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: My answer, and this was with my heart, This was
not what I think is going to happen. So I
sent this to Marler, who's putting together a station survey.
I said, Florida, Auburn, Obama.
Speaker 2: That sent the exact Samon. That's the only one.
Speaker 3: That's who I want.
Speaker 2: That's the only one.
Speaker 3: That's who I want. I want those three teams. Don't
sing it, bring it. I want it every year.
Speaker 2: I want those.
Speaker 3: Teams in Tiger Stadium every other year. Those games, like
I talked about, to open, immediately create incredible emotions with
every LSU fan. You can tell me exactly where you
were on seventeen different Florida games, on seventeen different Auburn games,
on seventeen different Alabama games. I would love it, and
you'd be like, Okay, well that's very tough. Okay, sec
is tough. Life's also tough. Winning championships is tough. Now,
the other six would kind of rotate in and there
would be years where you would have a bear of
a schedule. I understand that, but again, that is my
meathead brain saying I want to play those teams. Do
I think that's who you're going to get. I don't
don't think that's who you're gonna get. I think you're
going to you know, you're going to get two really
good teams and then you'll get one that's a little
bit easier. I don't think you'll have three teams like that.
I don't think that. I don't know that they'll include Florida,
which hurts hurts my heart. They've played every year since
the early seventies. It's become one of the craziest, wildest, unpredictable.
You never know, like something's gonna happen in those games
that's never happened on a football field, like throwing a
cleat and getting a fifteen yard penalty. I don't want
that to ever go away. But for Florida, we got
to think about it like we think about with Alabama.
For them, they're gonna play Georgia. That's certain. Tennessee gonna
be certain for them. That's a game they like to
play a lot like. You have to also think like
LSU's one of those schools that doesn't have the without
a doubt one hundred percent, are main rival. This is
who it is. LSU's got a lot of teams they
don't like. A lot of teams don't like LSU. But
there's other teams have Alabama has Alburn, they have each other,
Old miss Mississippi State they have each other. You know,
Florida has Georgia, they have each other. So Texas and
Texas A and M. Now, so you don't have that,
and so that's what makes it so intriguing with LSU
is kind of hate everybody, and everybody kind of hates
you old heads talking about Florida. How about we look
to the future and play Texas. Hey, we got called
old heads. So I think that Jayden Daniels game against Florida,
like was one of the best games of that year. Like,
that's not just an old head take. And hey, let's
play Texas too, why not.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's an old head take, but I
do think that, like whenever I gave mine, I'm thinking
of Like I think Texas A and M is a
more recent rivalry than Florida, Auburn, Bama, Ole miss because
they've played forever, and like text A and M has two.
But like you said, after the seven overtime game, it
really became like a thing.
Speaker 3: All right, we gotta take a break. I agree, I
mean it took that, but once that happened, certainly a thing.
All right, we'll take a break more OTB. But when
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U football like only champions can.
Speaker 3: Now you're playing the hits is a hit.
Speaker 2: Obviously it's funk.
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