Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 2: I'll start to you to present off the bench with
Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert. Yeah, yeah, off the
bench with Jacob Hester and Bob Abert.
Speaker 1: I got to come off the bench.
Speaker 2: Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 3: Yo.
Speaker 1: What is up? Everybody? Welcome back to a brand new
O t B.
Speaker 3: And we are excited at least a short term to
be back here in he's been Badge Studio back for
the launder, back with Taylor live here. But it's great
to see you guys. How how how have you been?
Did you miss us for the week that we were gone. Yes,
I'm sorry Lunde that you had to be locked in
here with Taylor just talking at you.
Speaker 1: I was the week that I'm sure he actually kind
of was.
Speaker 4: Oh really yeah, we got to check on him a little.
We might have to check on him.
Speaker 3: He was.
Speaker 4: He actually was a little quiet as.
Speaker 5: We Yeah, I really was unbelievable, like I did minimal takes.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm I'm I'm a bit shocked.
Speaker 3: Yeh uh. Maybe you're muse Taylor. Maybe you need me
to bring out the best in yourself. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Uh, super happy, are though?
Speaker 3: Very happy? Now I wish I did. I almost said
I almost. I was worried of a bit, but it's
just not cold, and this is your first time in studio, right, yeah,
you would take pulled up. I was like, what if
you had a Google map to get it?
Speaker 1: Do you remember?
Speaker 5: We don't get you be farther down the road than that,
because I think I left like a day early.
Speaker 6: Yeah, before then, so over two weeks, Well.
Speaker 3: Don't get too comfortable because next week will be at
Radio Row. We actually have pre MEI or like placement
on Radio Row right by like ESPN, TV, ESPN, Radio, CBS,
like right by all of the main stages. So it
should be a very fun week next week in the
as we go back to another convention center, going to
be a good time.
Speaker 5: I love the Mobile Convention Center. I love the Senior Bowl.
It's gonna be a little bit different.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say probably probably if I had to guess. Yeah,
So look, I hope everybody's having a wonderful Friday. Let's
have ourselves this final day in January. Let's have a
great show. A lot to get to today. It's gonna
be fun. How's everyone doing? Everyone good?
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 7: Good? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Excited?
Speaker 6: We found.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's up?
Speaker 6: We found our way here this morning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt, dude. I feel much better. I stient
like a rock last night. I mean probably seven hours
is awesome, dude.
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LSU women's basketball team last night, man and apps loot
battle with Oklahoma in the PMAC, players getting ejected, scuffles, toughles,
clipboards being slapped to the ground, nearly one of the
most insane comebacks you've ever seen. Both teams scored over
one hundred points, but in the NLSU emerges victorious, holds
on to win the Top fifteen matchup one oh seven,
one hundred. Give me the Smaya Sith video here. Smith
video here. First Taylor see everything the ejection was was warranted.
But man, what a game last night. I gotta be honest. So, guys,
I actually missed the comeback attempt. I turned it off
because LSU was so thoroughly dominating. They're up like twenty points.
It's eighties of the sixties something like, Oh okay, yeah,
Tiger's got this. Turn it off, Landra. Did you stick
around for all of the fourth quarter madness?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I did the game last night, so I watched the
entire thing and it was the entire game was insane.
Get started off really hot with the Samia Smith thing,
and then the officiating was just god awful, pretty soft officiating.
It was bad. And the Big three that we call, yeah,
they just kind of went a little cold, and that's
kind of just what started the comeback. But I mean,
way to fight back and that last drive with Williams
hit that last three and then they tipped it at
the other end of the floor and Flage came back
and laid it up. That was icing on the cake
to d that the insane game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, MICHAELA.
Speaker 3: Williamson's up at thirty seven points. Coach Mulki said she
got a technical and her technical, the referee told her,
was for pointing at the scoreboard, and she's like, I
don't know.
Speaker 1: I thought I was just looking at the scoreboard. So
the rest of feel little sensitive. Last night.
Speaker 3: Here's the here's this couple they got Samaiah Smith ejected
and we know, don't really need it. Sound like, you
know they're pushing, you don't need it. Some were fun, Okay,
I don't know, man, I've watched this a few times
this morning.
Speaker 1: It's you know, it's it's a push.
Speaker 3: It's a push. Old girl's feet weren't set. She's kind
of crossed up a little bit, didn't have a good bass.
Feels a little floppy to me, dude, I don't know.
But so she got ejected, though Gloma player came up
and pushed. Smith got ejected, and that means a boat
now can't play and the next game either.
Speaker 1: How about this, how about nobody gets ejected. You know,
it's just a little push.
Speaker 8: I'd got I'd go like double technical or something like that.
Speaker 1: Ejection. Injection is a little much for that.
Speaker 3: You want to go technical, you want to go flavor
like whatever. Sure, absolutely, but come on, ejection raph, what
are we doing dude?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll also question the Oklahoma player that that did
the pushing quickly got out of there too.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, like you know, I mean, actually I
didn't even mort Matt if I was her? She sure
that wasn't even a Was it a shove? Was it
a gentle extension of the arms? Like that's crazy? That
got her rejected? So that's the tone for what was
gonna be a really weird night. Mckil williams hot else
she jumps into a massive lead. They almost booked, but
they end up holding.
Speaker 1: On the other thing that's been memed all over the
place about that.
Speaker 3: This is the number one story on three right now
on the overall website.
Speaker 1: Is that fight?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And I use the term fighting right in the loosest
of terms.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now, I think there's another question we have to ask.
Was coach Mulky out of pocket for this moment on
the sideline with Simona Augustus as she's fired about something?
You know, this is classic Nick Saban Kim Moulky stuff
right up twenty two and something has made her so angry,
and she turns around and not even know she I
don't even know if she's cognizant of exactly what's going
on about. And she slaps the clipboard out of Simote
Augustus's hand to the ground while yelling at Bob Starkey
and Simon with great comedic timing. Uh does not move
her hand, and it just kind of like, uh, what
does that happen? But look, some people are laughing about this.
Some people were like, ah, this is wrong. Where where
do we fall in this? I don't think it's a
big of ad.
Speaker 4: Also, like my thing is is if I know that
somebody can get caught up in the heat of the
moment and kind of like lose it or whatever, I
don't take it personally, you know, Like she didn't slam
that clipboard because it was my clipboard that I was
holding and she wanted me to Like, she just slammed
the clipboard because like it was the one thing in
sight and she just slammed it. I don't even know
she knew that she did it. She was like, and
I don't even know she knew. Simone was the one
that had the clipboard in her hand. And I don't know,
I think it's super funny that Simone just stood there afterwards.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I complained it very very very comedic, and.
Speaker 4: She didn't say anything. But I live by like, listen
to what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it kind
of thing.
Speaker 1: So it's like, so I understand everything you're saying.
Speaker 3: I think in everyday life, though, a lot of what
you're saying just you're making a lot of excuses for
what people would say is toxic behavior. I'm not saying
that necessarily in this situation. I'm saying, I don't know.
If I love these philosophies your spouse and it comes today.
Speaker 1: Life's like, don't let it.
Speaker 3: If some guy is somebody or friend is acting like
an a hole and out here telling.
Speaker 1: You that crap, tell him to have off because I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't agree as far as this situation, Jake, it's
like Lawrence Taylor, you.
Speaker 1: Know, I I gotta be honest.
Speaker 3: If I saw Nick Saban do this, you know, okaylib
or whoever right, Will must Champ probably not saving as
much like must Champ.
Speaker 1: Yeah, i'd be, I'd be, I'd be making.
Speaker 3: Fun of him, you know, lack of poise all that
sort of stuff like you should be the leader, blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah. But it's the same
way that you know, a rookie defensive end on the
Giants used to watch Lawrence Taylor's sleeping on the bags
during practice and ask Parcels.
Speaker 1: Well, what the hell man, I'm in here? Like what's
he doing? He's like, hey, can you? Like, are you LT?
Speaker 3: Can you get after the quarterback? Like okay, if you can,
you could sleep on the bags too. In that way,
you know, the normal rules don't apply to everyone. Yeah,
and I'm not gonna hold coach will get the same
standard when the legend that she is and that that
is her style, and so this is just kind of
par for the course in terms of how fiery she gets.
Speaker 6: I've got an LT story.
Speaker 5: You've heard me tell this one before, but Ladenian Tomlinson.
So we're watching film and Nora's up there and he's
getting after the running back and it was Darren Sprolls
and he's running an angle round. He's like, Sproulls, you
gotta get inside that linebacker. You got to sell the
flat more. You have got to be able to get
open when you cross his face and they go, hey, coach,
that's LT.
Speaker 6: He goes hell of her out, lt he goes to
the next play.
Speaker 1: There some of that in there exactly.
Speaker 3: So yes, if you all want to accuse me of
not holding coach the same stare, and I'm gonna say, well, duh,
did you win your natty in the second year here,
So get the hell up out of here.
Speaker 1: I'm fine with it.
Speaker 6: Look, and this game meant something cool.
Speaker 1: I mean, they got to work that, but I'm sure they're.
Speaker 5: I'm sure they are, and I'm sure you know they've
certainly had a conversation.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that's another Alpha. That's another team by the way,
Yeah that's that's another fame.
Speaker 5: So this game meant something to her when we talked
with her on Tuesday. I mean, I don't know that
I've ever heard her talk about an opponent like she
talked about Oklahoma, and that is a rival for her
when she was at Baylor, and so that is something
that when she sees that logo, it probably triggers some emotions.
And I'm not saying that Coach Molki doesn't get fired up.
She certainly does, but like this game felt like even
more than normal, and so I think it was everything
to combind you. Coming off South Carolina loss. You looked
okay against A and M, but you knew this was
going to be a better team, top fifteen team in
the country.
Speaker 6: An old rival for you. You had.
Speaker 5: The way the game started, it was in the pback
sports centers there, you know, sold out, white out, the
whole deal. So I think all of that, combined with
each other, probably had a little.
Speaker 6: Bit more juice for coaching. Molk.
Speaker 1: Did you see Dylan Cruz.
Speaker 3: Dylan Cruise is out there in a white queen of
sparkles blazer, fully understanding the assignment as the legends from
LSU continue to come home. And it's exactly what Miles
Frazer told us to the senior bowl Man. From an
outsider's perspective looking in, he was always wondering why all
these people that would go on to become professional superstars,
why were they always coming back to Baton Rouge, Why
were they always so tied in? And like Miles alluded to,
it's just something a bit different. Look look, Jake, not
even full white, kind of like a white pink, a
pinkish white queen of Sparkle's jacket for Dylan Cruise.
Speaker 5: I got the butterflies on there and there that's a
that's a full bit. I mean, Gavin, do guys next
to him, Hey, chill out, guys say something for the
rest of us. But he's just in a little white
T shirt. Come on, he looks That's what I'm saying, Like, gosh, lord, Okay,
now that's been interesting. So I would not have noticed Gavin.
Speaker 3: And that's this is like when I showed Rivers the
mac Hollis video and the things that we notice that
were different about the video. Uh so you're talking about that,
you're talking about that that four army.
Speaker 1: You've seen a little bit.
Speaker 3: Of aut Okay, yeah, guys, look at him. Okay, Gav,
I see bro, Damn you really have been in the gym.
I bet your Instagram algorithm is starting to throw a
bunch of it is swell dudes. I get swell dudes
all the time. Yeah, I get swell dudes all the
time in my algorithm. Do you all get swoll dudes
in your algorithm for different reasons?
Speaker 1: Though? No, no, no, it's all working out. It's all
working It's the same thing.
Speaker 8: I think Jake's is based more on lifestyle tea bobs.
You just like strictly likes.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's not Taylor, What are you talking about? I lift,
I lift all the time. I lift, bro he does.
Speaker 3: I don't drink protein. I need to drink more protein. Yeah,
we need to bring going to buy a costco protein powder.
So no, no, no, no, no, no, you love you. No,
it's that's that part of it. I don't care.
Speaker 5: I love you, but I need to tell you something.
You're too lazy to do the powder.
Speaker 1: No, no, no I'm not no no, absolutely not not.
Speaker 5: Lazy because you don't want to have the effort. Your
mind doesn't want to remember it. No no, not true,
not true, not trure. I do the I do the
ag one powder every day.
Speaker 1: I do. No, no, not true, not true. I ever. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, once you get that, once you get one of
those drink mixers where you just put it in there and.
Speaker 5: You see you got pre made by the by the
fair power.
Speaker 1: No, it's too expensive. I don't like. I don't like.
I don't want per bottles. I don't want bottles and.
Speaker 4: One you could buy a pack and you can get
one Amazon like a whole thing or Costco. You can
get them like a whole thing at Costco.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get a giant Costco.
Speaker 4: Think of powder, you can get a giant thing of
core at Costco.
Speaker 3: Like a bunch of bottles, Like, yeah, what does matter?
I don't want I don't want a bunch of bottles.
That's like feels too expensive to me. If if if
it's powder, then I just you know, I just have
a bag way list of store.
Speaker 1: It's just a bag you dump it in. It's all good, guy,
it's so good. We're gonna we're gonna protein it up
either way.
Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, I'm proud of that.
Speaker 5: So yeah, man has been working his butt off for
years and doesn't treat his body to any protein.
Speaker 1: I mean, what what do you mean? I eat meat?
Speaker 6: How long after eat?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true, it's eight hours.
Speaker 4: I've been like a trainer's told me, like, if you're
not eating.
Speaker 3: To be fair, though, I'm probably not gonna take down
the shake anyway right after the workout, because you need
to the interma stuff.
Speaker 4: It like cancels out the workout if you don't take immediately.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think you can have any right Jake,
you're probably can have protein on the internet.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're not supposed to even have I think.
Speaker 1: I think you get.
Speaker 3: All you can have is black coffee and water. Yeah,
it's all good though. We'll protein enough guys.
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Speaker 3: Uh you think. I don't think protein is what is
stopping the apps. I think it's probably it's the amount
helping sesame chicken and trimp lo mayonnaise.
Speaker 5: See, but you can do that every once in a while.
I did that last night. You talked about it all
the way home. I said, oh, this is happening.
Speaker 1: So good.
Speaker 6: We got the family Pana express.
Speaker 1: Had a little bit of a food hangover, but it's
so good. It was. It was delicious, all right? Coming
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sorta,
it's Off the Bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 1: What's that again? Welcome back to TV.
Speaker 3: What For some reason, Chat is talking about us riding
a tandem bicycle.
Speaker 4: I know. I was about to say, what are we
talking about?
Speaker 3: Because I don't know, and then it turned into a
pedal pub, which the pedal pubs are the things that
you're right around Nashville, right you and you drink?
Speaker 4: Really yeah, I'd be down to like strap up some
cameras on it.
Speaker 3: We should absolutely do a a a pedal pub video
where yes we we I don't know if we do
a show or exactly what we do we do? No, no, yeah,
I'm not saying, like do a full show, but like yeah,
but I don't know, like do we just like do
like a second like what Like I don't know what
we're gonna be talking about on the pedal pub.
Speaker 1: We can figure that part out.
Speaker 3: But yes, But but doing a show basically from the
pedal pub would be very fun. Even though they're saying
that I wouldn't pedal at all, that's not that's not true.
Speaker 1: I'd probably pedal the best, Okay, I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't think I don't think the best.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't think anybody has done more spin in
this room than I have.
Speaker 4: That's probably fair.
Speaker 1: Also, I don't think you actually have to.
Speaker 8: I think that's like the thing like it'll it'll go
without you pedaling.
Speaker 1: What does it have? An engine? It's got like a driver.
Speaker 4: A driver. I've never done one, but there is a driver.
What if we like did like a series where we
interviewed like people on the pub on the pedal pub.
Speaker 1: Uh, that could be very fun.
Speaker 4: I don't know how possible.
Speaker 3: A lot of logistics, A lot a lot of logistics.
I think we try with us for first and see
if we can make it happen.
Speaker 1: You don't have to pedal them. What's the point is
it fake pedaling?
Speaker 8: I mean, look, you ever seen the Bachelorette parties at Nashville.
Speaker 1: They don't pedal at all. I know, But what am
I saying? Am I like a child? You give me
a steering wheel for the cars just to make them
feel like they're driving. We'll think about it.
Speaker 8: They're also facing each other, so you're not even when
you're pedaling, it's not even going forward. Yeah, like the
pedaling is in non existent.
Speaker 3: You don't have to do it, Scott says, are not
very comfortable for big people.
Speaker 1: I'll be the judge of that.
Speaker 5: We'll see we'll stolen valor and the pedals look like
you're working hard but you're not working at all.
Speaker 3: Well, I think I think more just like, like, am
I an idiot? Like you just you you're trying to
You're trying to trick me here again, it's like you
put that steering wheel in the back for the kid,
and they think like like Maggie, look at Maggie and
the Simpsons, right, Yeah, she'd thinks she's driving.
Speaker 8: Well, I guess to your point, if you don't actually
have to pedal, why add pedals.
Speaker 1: In a small seat, why not put like a big
seas know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Like now, now, maybe in a situation where you don't
have to pedal, but if you do, you are going
to lend power to the locomotion.
Speaker 1: I'm okay with that. Maybe I'm okay with that.
Speaker 3: I don't want vestigial pedals though, in fact, I think
that's one of probably the biggest problems with society currently
vestigial pedals on the Pedal Pub.
Speaker 1: It's something I've thought.
Speaker 3: About a lot, and nobody ever wants to talk about it.
So I'm glad that we're finally willing to have the
tough conversations here on off the bench.
Speaker 4: That's why we're the ninth ranked morning sports show in America.
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly hopefully to be number eight at least.
Speaker 3: At least hope, So, guys, I hope so because look,
you know what though, I don't care because in my mind,
the show's the best that it's ever been. So that's
all that matters. You know, forget outside validation, Okay, Uh,
we don't need that. We are going to find our
pride through here, through ourselves.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't mind if, like when sales goes out there
they're like, hey, you know, these guys are number nine,
the only show in the state.
Speaker 6: That's on the list.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, I mean, you know, that'd be wouldn't hate that,
It'd be cool.
Speaker 3: We'll we'll see note we we we will fingers crossed,
we will see.
Speaker 5: They're not they're not awake yet.
Speaker 3: Let's let's have a pedal pub drinking competition with Murphy
Salm and Jody.
Speaker 6: They don't want this much.
Speaker 3: We got to figure out some way what the parameters
would be.
Speaker 5: Tepa would drink himself to death before he lost to Murphy.
Sam and Jody don't drink me.
Speaker 3: I mean like Gimli and the exten edition to Two
Towers where they and legalists are going to drink for drink,
and like.
Speaker 1: This is like I think, I feel it tingling in
my fingers and is like liquor, and he passes up
God the comedic cart and Soul.
Speaker 4: Who they would out drink each other. Between Jake and Taylor,
since they're like the least drinkers in.
Speaker 1: Here, why do we say that, I wonder.
Speaker 3: I think it's I think it's I've seen Jake drink,
though I don't know that I've ever actually seen Taylor drink.
He's just so like confident and composed. He's literally someone
who does not crave alcohol for social situations. And even
though I I mean, I I do quite frankly.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 5: I do have faith though that Tata would get competitive, because.
Speaker 1: He does have he does get competitive.
Speaker 5: But I think the entire squad would rise to the
challenge against Murphy Samon joke.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean, look, you can be competitive as hell,
but you know you ain't gonna go curl fifties day one.
You know what I'm saying, Like, I don't know, Jake Wilkinson,
that was the return of the King t Bob. Oh
my god, you're right. Wow, he's right. It was pat
because after the Battle of Helms even Wow, this guy,
I gotta go hit some stairs. To the commercial break,
I apologize, Thank you, Jake, thank you for keeping me honest.
I'm not even mad. I'm mad at myself. I'm not
mad at you because you're absolutely right and I'm in
the wrong here.
Speaker 1: M All right.
Speaker 3: Let's go then, Uh, let's talk about LSU football a
little bit here. And I know this feels randomly timed.
You could argue, but I say no, because all these
lists are starting to propagate and and come about. And Jake,
you talk about expectations for next season, and we talk
about ls You have the number one transportal class eight
players of the top one hundred and all the toworts up.
No other FBS team in the country had more because well,
quite frankly, the mass says it'd be hard to because
you won school almost got ten percent of the guys,
UH turning quarterback. You just had Alex Atkins, the guy
who two years ago is the Pearls Award winner OC
for the for an undefeated Borderline National Championship team. You
had him as your tight ends coach. Top to bottom.
You have investment all over this team. UH, make no mistake, Jack.
Last couple of years, the expectations have been maybe playoff adjacent,
but it was never just like they they have to.
It was never just consensus agreement that they have to. UH,
without a doubt one, no argument to be had otherwise
LSU must make the playoffs next season, or it's or
or or they have failed, they've missed the mark.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I agree wholeheartedly.
Speaker 5: I think that is not just part of the conversation,
It is the conversation now. And I think everybody around
the program realizes that. And I think there's a lot
of things that they are excited about. I caught up
with BK yesterday actually at the Senior Bowl, and I
know he's excited about the players that they're bringing in.
He talked about how excited he is about the receiver
room and it has everything that you need, like every
skill set you need in a receiver room and they
now have that, of course, Garrett neuss Meyer, but even
he was talking to me this was kind of off
the air about how excited he was about the offensive
lineman getting those fifteen Bowl practices and then having the
performance like they had in the game. And he talked
about Miles Frasier kind of being their mentor and how
much that meant to him that Miles stuck around mentored them,
you know, for those fifteen practices, and he said, he goes,
I think that really helped them.
Speaker 3: And so that's crazy too because it was a goal
that Miles stayed. Yeah, then he wanted to get accomplished.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and so he actually, I mean, I think just
talking to him again on and off the area yesterday,
I think he really likes the position and where they're
at and the additions that they've made. And I'm not
saying that it's a perfect team, but you had deficiencies
that a year ago you didn't really attack in the portal,
and they attacked everything this year in the portal and
they said they were going to and they got it done.
And you're gonna have to count some young guys to
step up at some positions, and you know, offensive line,
you had one good game. Now what can you do
going out there for you know, an entire season. But
right now with what they added, they did what they
had to do up to this point, and now you
got to take what you've added and you got to
go in the fourth quarter programs, spring practice, summer workouts,
fall camp, all of that. But the roster did feel
a lot of the knees that it had where last
year we were sitting here, we were doing shows, We're like,
who's going to play that position, Who's going to be
the backup at this position? You don't have as much
as you had a year ago, at least at this
point as we sit here last day of January, well.
Speaker 3: And you know, it's it's it's it's it's not justse
you have. Greats happened to your two for that defensive staff,
You're getting Harold Perkins back against all odds. Rise of
wit weeks again through the portal, you seem to address
all the officions.
Speaker 6: Like like coming out of nowhere.
Speaker 3: And it's not just us saying this either, because again
that's kind of what spurred this entire segment is you
go on ESPN dot com right. Now, you look at
the ESPN College Fotball staff writers, they did their way
too early predictions LSU's in the playoff. You look at
Bill Connolly, the main ESPN analytic, creator of the S
and P plus. I love Bill's riding. He is LSU
firmly in the playoff. You hop over to the Athletic Jake,
which they put a lot of money into college football.
They had they had an article for where they asked
a bunch of twenty twenty five questions and they pulled
the entire staff and okay when they tell okay, They
were asked who's going the national championship next year? Coming
in first place with fifteen votes Texas, But who was
second place?
Speaker 1: LSU with four?
Speaker 3: Now granted, you see the gap there, right, but to
be the second place team that had a Penn State, Georgia,
Ohio State, organ everybody else to receive those votes. Named
three teams that'll make the playoffs twenty twenty four, that
miss playoffs twenty four and make it twenty five. LSU
number one in that list, ahead of Alabama, My Ammi, Michigan,
everybody else. So make no mistake nationally, Locally, the expectations
are clear. It is time for LSU to make the playoffs,
and there is no excuse when you have put everything together,
and this will be the moment where I think you
officially if you have not yet, even though again I
think I said I've adjusted my ceiling, though the floor
remains high. Right, I have doubt in the Brian Kelly
sitting that he did not have before. But it is
doubt at this point. I don't feel like it's a
sure thing. If you fail to make it next year,
then I'll never I don't know that I'll ever believe
that you will.
Speaker 5: I mean, and I think that would would be fair
because of the expanded playoff, because of who you are,
and you know, when you look at three o seven
eleven nineteen like it's time, you're actually a little bit
past where you normally have been, and so I think
that would be a fair assessment.
Speaker 1: Is it going to be easy?
Speaker 6: No, You open up.
Speaker 5: At Clemson, you got Florida early in the season, you
got Old Miss on Road early in the season, Yes,
South Carolina after that.
Speaker 6: I mean, the schedule is the schedule.
Speaker 5: It is not going to be one where you can
roll the helmets out there and just think you're going
to get it done and it starts in little death
Valley against Clemson and you have to have to.
Speaker 6: Have to win an opener.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you if you want to make the playoff,
you can't start behind the eight ball again and be
zero to one.
Speaker 1: No, it's gonna.
Speaker 5: Be so hard to climb. And they've done a good
job of climbing out of that, but it has.
Speaker 3: Been the thing that's held them back every year. Yes,
you know, they still have done a good job of
two the years ago, going six and two in the SEC,
or find a way to do this or that, but
at the end of the day, every single year, the
math dictated by that loss has been the thing that
has held them back from much bigger and better goals.
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Speaker 7: On what happened in y'all?
Speaker 3: Welcome back to otb tuker Lille Saints coaching search as
I don't know this as much of a surprise, but
it does appear things can still change. Who knows what
happens in the Super Bowl, but it does appear as
if the markets believe that Kellen Moore will be the
Saints' next head coach. Uh And well, look, obviously this
makes sense from the perspective that who these Saints are
going after hard flying to Philly to meet with him
and whatnot, And it's who they would want now at
this point, after everybody else has pulled out or said no,
So it wasn't like that.
Speaker 1: Look, we know who the Saints are choosing. I guess
it comes down to does Kellen.
Speaker 3: Moore say no, or did he take the opportunity that
others have turned down?
Speaker 6: What happens if he does? If he says no, where
where do you turn immediately?
Speaker 5: Because that would be another embarrassing headline for the New
Orleans Saints.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you just go back to the Wrizzler? I would,
although again I.
Speaker 3: Think they there does seem to be an attraction to
Kafka still as well, And at that point it's kind
of like, it doesn't matter what you do, So just
take a shot if you wanted to on Kafka or
the Wrizzler, like I wouldn't, I wouldn't carry the way
and me the Rizzler would makes it. I would probably
go Rizzler because I think he did a pretty good
job of rallying that team last year and he seems
to have the player support.
Speaker 1: But I mean my expectations, well, it just it would be.
Speaker 3: So bad if Kellen Moore said no that I would
be very interested to see if it could get toxic
enough for the unthreatenable to be threatened, Like could Mickey
Lewis's job security actually maybe come under a bit of
legitimate scrutiny not just people yelling by people angry about it,
but like legitimate people with the ability to make that
move scrutiny. I still don't think so. But if Kellen
Moore said no, that would be a real rock bottom
disaster moment.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 3: Now it looks like he's probably not gonna say no,
or at least that's to the markets believe, like I said,
like sportsbooks, everything else.
Speaker 1: Uh, what that.
Speaker 3: Means is Kellen Moore potentially going to be the Saints'
next head coach. What's your immediate reaction when you hear that?
Speaker 6: I mean it, I'm kind of like.
Speaker 5: It's a higher ceiling than some of the other people
that they talk to, but the floor kind of still
stays the same. He's someone that we talked about it
on I believe it was Monday. The fact that he
retired and then the next year got a quarterback coach
job in the NFL, that kind of tells you with
the same club kind of tells you. I think, what
a lot of people thought of him early in his career,
The fact that he could handle that. He's done a
good job as a coordinator. What he's done in Philly
this year has been impressive, and he's got weapons. But
he you know, he's had to do it, you know,
with some limitations in some of these contests, had some injuries,
but I mean Saquon certainly with the job that he's
done there. Saquan stayed healthy this year and stayed healthy
in his career. So there's things that we could sit
here and I think we can. We can make up
a lot of positives of Akila Moore. I do think
the ceiling is higher than some of the people that
we've talked about, but we don't know. He's never been
a head coach, and this would be his first opportunity.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's a weird one because you always want
to be a head coach, but you're stepping into a
pretty bad opportunity, or at least objectively we think so
outside looking at it doesn't look great. One interesting side
note here that shout out to Fletcher Mackwell. He points out,
so Kellen Moore, of course he oc coach at Philly
right now, you know the quarterback coach in Philly is
it's Doug Nussmeier. Well, if Kellen Moore were to get
the job in Nola, it would make a lot of
sense for Doug nus Smeyer to potentially come down in
that same role.
Speaker 1: Maybe no, sa roll, you have to wait and see. Uh,
but maybe steal a little bit from Cam Newton here
we're talking about that.
Speaker 3: Maybe you know, next year doesn't go great all of
a sudden, here's Garrett Nusmeyer ready to be drafted as
Garrett Smier ended up leading the Saints with his father Doug,
and Garrett Nusmyer becomes a hero of the whot At Nation.
Probably not, but it's fun to think about. It's fun
to think.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean yeah, Nessmeyer is certainly very familiar with
Kellen Moore and that, you know, it'd be a cool story.
And nuss Myer's been some minds, you know, had a
lot of success in his career, different stops, different roles,
quarterback coach, coordinator, So probably would happen if he does
end up taking the job.
Speaker 1: So Kellen Moore, though, was it? Ch was it? If
you're kell more likely going to be tach coach?
Speaker 3: I think Golf South makes a very salient point saying uh, saying.
Speaker 1: If it's more, I'm sure he's already agreed to take
the job. No way.
Speaker 3: Loomis waits for more of that confirmation, right, like, I
think that's right. It's you're not just gonna sit around here.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: You probably in that meeting on Monday told more like, look,
you gotta give us. We won't go public with it,
but you got to give us like a verbal here
otherwise we're gonna move on and we're gonna go talk
to Rizzy Kafka whoever. So like, in all likelihood going
to be Kellen Moore. So random. I never would have.
Speaker 1: Thought that Kellen moo would be the Saint No Orleans
say tech football coach. Let's if we had this conversation
in December.
Speaker 3: All right, when we get back here on off the bed,
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Off the bench, wait.
Speaker 1: Head in, y'all, welcome backster. Alright, so.
Speaker 3: Baseball season, guys, right around the corner, you know, February fourteenth,
that'll be February first tomorrow. Talking to that catcher were
talked about first base. Let's continue our hunt Palmer. Positional
previews would you can find on Louisian sports dot net.
They were doing great job on the site, guys, go
check them out. Today we're talking about second base.
Speaker 1: Now, of course the.
Speaker 3: Paul Rolling You're gone. Stephen Milam is back. But Stephen
Milam not going to play second. He'll be on the
other side of the infield. We're not exactly sure where,
maybe shortstop, maybe third. So who then is in the
mix here? The biggest name is going to be the
Utah Valley transfer Daniel Dickinson.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: The other guy in the mix Tanner Reeves, who's a
blend transfer. Now, Daniel Dickinson Jake is someone who has
a ton of expectation being heaped on his shoulders as
somebody who, although it's going to be a step up
in competition in Utah Valley State, people are looking for
big things. In fact, I think d one Baseball actually
has him as a preseason All American. In his two
years at Utah Valley State, he hit three sixty nine
twenty seven home rounds.
Speaker 1: He stole thirty two bases.
Speaker 3: First team Whack Baseball America had him tabs as a
number two player in the portal. So this is a
guy who enters it with a lot of hype, great bodies,
six foot two hundred, but as Hunt points out, he
struggled a bit in the Cape, Codley barely hit over
two hundred and reportedly in the fall was you know good,
but but it wasn't like that.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean we look, we've heard so many times,
wasn't good in the fall?
Speaker 6: Here?
Speaker 5: Sure, Stephen mylom perfect example. Yep, couldn't do anything in
the fall when the springtime comes around. I mean he
was a stud. So yeah, I mean you could take
something from it if you if you want to. But
it's not to say all be all no.
Speaker 3: No no, and and and to be fair to to
to Hunt. I think I think more of what he's
saying is it almost felt like in reading hunts Riding,
it almost felt like he just is protecting himself against disappointment, right,
not wanting to necessarily give himself over to the hype,
because as he goes on to talk about Hunt kind
of frames tickets and as the piece to could potentially
put LSU over the top if he.
Speaker 1: Can live up to that potential, because.
Speaker 3: Right there in the middle of the lineup, like you said,
maybe provide a little protection to somebody like bear, right,
like if he does end up being all American good,
then else use something, maybe championship good.
Speaker 1: So if those are the stakes.
Speaker 3: I can almost feel Hunt being like, well, look, I
definitely want that to be true, but let's just let's
just pump the brakes and I get too ahead of
her skis and see what he can do. So Dicktson
is the name here, Reeves is the wild card. He
put up crazy numbers at Blynn's the lefty in three
ninety eight over two years, twenty eight home runs, twenty
eight doubles, one hundred and forty two ribbies. Maybe maybe
he ends up workingtting the dhroal a little bit either way.
A couple of big bats making big step ups in
competition with big expectations, especially with Dickinson that's looking like
who's going to be your second baseman this year?
Speaker 5: Yeah, And you have a lot of players on this
roster that were top transfer portal players and you never
quite know how it's going to work out in a
new spot, and so you want to fully give yourself
over to all the players that we've talked about, and
you do have to wait and see.
Speaker 6: To Hunt's point, there a ton of potential. You do
have multiple.
Speaker 5: Players that feel like you can test their rotate around there,
and if you had to go back to you know,
a mile in there just because something else happened.
Speaker 6: You could not that.
Speaker 5: You don't want to do that right now because you
want them on the left side of the infield. But
you're hoping that all these portal players live up to
not not even necessarily the hype that they were at
their smaller school, but you know, get close to what
they were, like, can they give you close to the
same production, because it's the SEC, the SEC and the
whack no offense to the Western Athletic Conference, they're not
the same thing. You're just hoping that he can show
some of the same tools that he did in that conference.
Speaker 3: So right now we basically have Aaron Beattie start penciled
in as the starting catcher, though that's up for a
bit of debate. Bear Jones is number one with a
bullet at second, and now we can go ahead and
what I say first my bet?
Speaker 1: No no, I said second.
Speaker 3: At first, and then I think I think Dickinson a
pretty safe bet to get that NOD day one there
at second. So slowly guys are starting to learn, okay,
we're sort to see the infield take a bit of
shape here.
Speaker 1: God, I can't wait for baseball.
Speaker 3: Sorry, Londra, I meant to leave you time, but we
are twenty seconds here from the end of the hour.
Coming up next, let's dive into one of the juiciest
takes that have ever read it. Absolutely fantastic. Cam Newton
just out here cheffing it up. Keep it locked, OGB
off the bench.