Speaker 1: We welcome into Off the Bench, presented by All Star Toyota.
Speaker 2: You're scary.
Speaker 1: We're bringing in the school US Sports talking so with
Jacob Hester.
Speaker 2: And terrifying terrible.
Speaker 1: Why from the Haunted Studio, here's Jacob hesterm.
Speaker 2: Uh yo yo yo off yo. We're back. Okay, okay,
we got back. Yeah. Sure they were getting close to
Halloween show.
Speaker 3: Well we didn't do it yesterday, you know obviously, and
the way that game played out, they didn't deserve it. Yo,
deserve to know, but well we deserve it. It's Tuesday, Tuesday,
like we deserve it. What's Tuesday's our day?
Speaker 2: Now? You know that.
Speaker 3: So even you know, with the bad get a soft
yo and a Tuesday.
Speaker 2: How we doing? How we living?
Speaker 3: Jake flann Elandra Tata all here with you, didn't get
a chance to, you know, say our hello's yesterday.
Speaker 2: It was kind of right into it. We're doing.
Speaker 3: It's fantastic. I love this time of year. We didn't
get a chance to talk about the this is my
favorite time of year. It's it's peak and it's like
leading up to even more of my favorite time of year.
We didn't get a chance to talk about the ten
new Packers going a little playoff run. Did you know
some teams you gotta you gotta peak at the right time.
That's right, you gotta peak at the right time.
Speaker 2: People.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like the Uh let's see twenty eleven
in Green Bay, we were fifteen and one. The Giants
were awful throughout this entire season, but they peaked at
the right time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. They beat us first round the playoffs, first round.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I guess what the first round we had
to buy, but they beat us first game out. Yeah,
thirteen and three. I think they went on a run
forrus won eleven games in a row. Yeah, the Jets
and Mark Sanchez, Yes, that Mark Sanchez came to San
Diego and and they beat us.
Speaker 4: Mark b all up.
Speaker 3: Uh hey, we got a little angry he does that.
Speaker 2: But we've seen it in sports people.
Speaker 3: We see that the teams get hot, teams that were
nobody suspected, teams that people that rode off earlier in
the year, and they just catch fire at the right time. Well,
the ten you flag football Packers team had one win
on the season, had a lot of losses, a lot
of good tries, a lot a lot of a lot
of great tries.
Speaker 2: A lot of good tries. Earlier in the season, it
was ugly.
Speaker 3: We were getting blown out mid season, wasn't It was
getting closer. By the end of the season. We were peaking.
Talking playoff win We're.
Speaker 2: Talking about we're talking, we're talking to playoff wins. People.
Speaker 3: We were the second and last seed going into the playoffs,
number two seed went down first round.
Speaker 2: Boom.
Speaker 3: Guess what turned into a doubleheader. I expected to be
home watching Sunday night football. Nope, got to play the
second game, got to play the three seed, push them
to overtime. They scored a last minute touchdowns had them.
There was a pick six that we had got called
back for flag guarding. I think my guy was just
checking to see if his flag was still there. Did
you let the referee know that's what he was doing. No,
they were doing a nice job. They're refs. You know,
they sacrifice their time. They volunteered. Trust me, they got paid. Yes,
I saw the checks. I mean I knew they weren't volunteering.
They were volunteering their time to get paid for such event,
which is normally called work. Hey, rest were serious that night. Yeah,
we brought in the pros. Yeah, brought in the big guns.
Speaker 2: Yeah we did. They were good. Yeah, they were good.
We had a couple of standoffs. No yelling. I don't
yell at refs. Really do ten U football?
Speaker 5: You don't strike me as a yell at the refs
guy for like flag football or little league's.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, I'm gonna.
Speaker 4: Strike me as a rough conversation guy.
Speaker 2: They're rough. Quick question, Bud, Yeah, oh yeah, what was that?
I had to walk out. I hey, why does the
clock stop there?
Speaker 3: And he was like, well, you know, it's like I
get it shouldn't have, but you gotta gotta you gotta
work with us. There's a fifteen year old work on
the clock and she's about sixty yards away, and I
was like, well, and she's scrolling on her phone. Well,
you know what, Bud, this is ten U football.
Speaker 5: This serious.
Speaker 3: We're trying to let anybody run the clock. Now we're
trying to yell what are we doing? Yeah, we're trying
to uh complete our second upside.
Speaker 2: Of the day. Yeah. Anyway, proud of those boys.
Speaker 3: I don't necessarily yell like minds. When I get mad
at referees. It's like you get the handout and it's
like when you make your point, every point that you
feel like you make, your voice gets a little like yes,
you know. It's kind of like when you talk to
somebody that English is their second or third language, and.
Speaker 2: For some reason you talk louder because that's gonna help
exactly it's supposed to start.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, well, hell of run by the packers,
well done. They just need to feel I needed to
fill me Landra.
Speaker 2: How are we doing?
Speaker 5: Yeah, doing well. We didn't get really Uh there's kind
of something that happened on Sunday, so we didn't get
to talk too much about the game yesterday.
Speaker 2: Which is wild.
Speaker 5: Yeah lot.
Speaker 2: Yesterday. Yeah, totally blacked out.
Speaker 5: So I don't know. My grandpa and my dad came
into town, so that was cool. It sucked that they
had to see us so down bad so Saturday night, but.
Speaker 2: Because you know, they grew up probably Texas fans.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so they still don't like A and M and Yeah,
but I think they still enjoyed the experience. It was great.
I was happy that I got to hook them up
with some sideline passes.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's great.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they were right on the fifties, so they got
the hook up. I think they were happy either way.
Speaker 2: Hey, they they got to feel.
Speaker 5: It for a half, yes, yeah, yeah, for a half
it was it was fine.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And my grandpa was making fun of me because they
would A and M would score and I'd get mad,
and then he's like, it's fine, you're gonna get happy
here in a little bit because then LS she would
score and I'd be all happy. And then but then
we didn't know, and it was terrible. But to be fair,
I told them before they wanted to come, and I
was like, okay, I mean, we're gonna get ran all over.
Speaker 2: Let him know.
Speaker 3: You're a ball noer and you knew what the offense
was going to do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I let them. I was like, y'all there, we're
gonna lose, but sure, come.
Speaker 3: On, hey, you know it's third and nine, right, yeah,
hear me out. We're about to throw a receiver screen
behind the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 2: The guy next to me, you're not going to expect it.
Speaker 3: It's not the same formation that we've always.
Speaker 5: The guy next to me kept going, why don't they
throw a screen? And then I was like, do they
know that the middle of the field exists or are
there like a blockage.
Speaker 3: Just for l call I said, they think. I think
that they think that there's crime scene tape and you
can't mess with the investigation if you go in the middle.
You know, like my children, they always play the floors, lava, inside,
the hashes, the middle lava. Yes, hey, we we did
complete a pass over the middle though the one that
we attempted.
Speaker 2: It was beautiful, was like late first quarter. Yeah, it
was beautiful and.
Speaker 3: Slums like, we ain't going back to that two games
in a road that that's sat So I will say
that on that. Like with all the craziness yesterday the
show being all about the coach moves and everything, we
didn't get a chance to get our film view article out,
but it will come out this afternoon and we go
over a lot of those things. But let me tell
you there was a lot of There was some positive,
real positive takeaways actually watching the film, and we can
get to some of that throughout the.
Speaker 5: Real quick harlem Berry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty good for real positive. Yeah, real positive.
Speaker 3: Why didn't he have a bunch of yards in the
second half, Matt, I don't know, that's a great question.
Speaker 2: In the first half, did he gets sick? I thought
I saw him out there have homework.
Speaker 5: Maybe it was a homework we could have had like.
Speaker 3: A midnight project, little project, you guys, we student athlete
and that order.
Speaker 2: So I get that. Yeah, we're gonna so we'll go
over a little bit today.
Speaker 3: But there was some actually things that we talked about
last week in the film movie that they that they
did that we needed to be fixed and it and
it helped Harlan Berry get some explosive games.
Speaker 5: And I'm pretty sure they read your article. Well, well, yeah,
you are the Boolish starter.
Speaker 3: Listen, y'all joke, but there is a strong chance that
they saw no for.
Speaker 5: I'm not joking. I think that they read your article
and they implemented what you were saying in it.
Speaker 3: I was sitting there, they read the article, They listened
to the broadcast, you know, they I was sitting in
the north end zone. Second play of the game, I
nearly passed out. I was like what, Oh, I couldn't
believe my eyes. I was like, oh, was that a receiver?
It just got involved in the blocking scheme for a
running play. No shock that it went for twenty yards.
Speaker 5: Second place, they dig out the safety.
Speaker 2: They dug out the safety.
Speaker 6: I didn't want to give you a big head but
a Thursdaday, I went for the coach of press conference. Yep,
hit a couple of your quotes on the on the
whiteboard in the article good it was up there. Oh yeah,
I'm sure it was. Your name was underneath. It's like
the dash mad Flinn.
Speaker 3: So that's yep, sob surtle that they actually wait till
that comes out to make the game plan.
Speaker 2: Obviously.
Speaker 3: Yeah, clearly by there they got a little extra time.
They got a little extra juice. That's why we related
another day. So that's that's gonna be dropping this afternoon.
But we'll go through some of those plays today on
this here show.
Speaker 4: They're like, Matt, we have one day to the game.
Can you hurt them?
Speaker 2: Put that article out a little bit of receivers?
Speaker 3: When you say dig out of safety, what does that mean?
Speaker 2: Explain yourself?
Speaker 5: Explain it for the non ball now.
Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: But like like the people that don't mean oh, they
don't run their routes on run plays.
Speaker 2: That's weird, that's weird.
Speaker 3: They don't run MENI most worthless routes outside what uh god?
We did it though, and they didn't. They did it
multiple times. Receivers did a great job, and the receivers
did an incredible job. And it's so good, like for
for something they haven't had to do or we're you know,
not asked to do at all. They're out there literally
in the worst situations and getting the shop done. They
did so good that we didn't want to show it
anymore after halftime.
Speaker 5: YE had to save it, Yeah, I had to save
it for the bowl game, the rely Quest Bowl. Actually,
I think it's gonna be the cheese a Citrus hell
A representatives there.
Speaker 3: I like it's going to be another Texas Bowl.
Speaker 5: Is that worse than the Cheese d.
Speaker 2: I feel like it is, right.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't know the pecking I don't know, say,
I don't know bowl hierarchy.
Speaker 4: I mean they're probably you know, similar.
Speaker 5: But one of the masks for Chris Marler's card from
the cheese At Bowl. Do you really think Chris Marler
had a card?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: He was like no, And then he was going to
write down his number and he asked me for a
pin and I was like, I don't have a pin.
It was the most frantic. I don't know, but It
was the most frantic, funny asking for a number.
Speaker 3: Evers, how did you used to keep numbers that a
high school, like before you had a cell phone?
Speaker 2: Good question.
Speaker 3: I mean I know my parents had like like a
legit roll index. It was like one of those classic
bands like note cards. There's like the contact information yeah someone,
and they did. They had all their friends names, their
address written down, phone number, old school. I meant, like
you for the young ladies, but I want Alvin and Ruth.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, good question.
Speaker 3: And you know they'd usually write it on those notes
that they'd fold up and write you know, your name
on the front with like the big bubble letters and
color men and like ladybugs and stuff on them.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay, then like do you want to go out? Girl? Check?
Yes or no? Maybe? Do you love me? Do you
want me? That was fun. That was what a time
to be alive.
Speaker 3: Calling and like you know the person the girl you're
calling that her dad answers, her mom, Hey speak with.
Speaker 5: That's why people don't have social skills. Now you don't
have to do that, Like oh.
Speaker 3: My gosh, I hope the mom answers, Oh my gosh,
please let it be the mom.
Speaker 2: This is that from school? What do you want from
what do you want with her? What do you want
with Jessica here in sixth grade? Oh no, so I
just wanted to let's see what she's doing.
Speaker 5: I know, she gave me her number that talk to.
Speaker 2: Your daughter about it?
Speaker 4: She told me color.
Speaker 3: Oh it's like then then you know whoever gets on
the phone like, hey, hey, what what are you doing?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Nothing, what's about? He did her?
Speaker 3: Okay, do you do you want to sit with me
at lunch once? Yeah, that's it electric electric conversation. I
used to have a US is like way back like
middle school, used to have a paint pen, and I
had white walls, and like any friend that came over,
it's like, hey, write your number on the wall. And
so like my my bedroom wall had names with phone numbers,
like in like a blue paint pin.
Speaker 6: You see Jake standing with the flashlighted like midnight, trying
to dial the right number.
Speaker 3: So usually it's like you're not supposed to you get
in trouble if you ride on walls, but unless you're
using it as an address and for contacting. Yeah, I
know my parents are like okay, well makes sense. I
guess that's cool. Yeah, I thought it was kind of cool. Yeah,
I like that.
Speaker 5: So someone tweeted me that the wide receivers had practice
blocking on all the screens. That's why they were like, oh,
let's do it out the same.
Speaker 2: Well, no, this was a cause.
Speaker 3: This was this was a hell of a job by
Nick Anderson, by Trade eds Green. They were putting the
worst position to have to dig out the safety and guess.
Speaker 2: What they found A way they did it. It's crazy
because they're pretty athletic.
Speaker 3: And and the South am didn't expect it. No play
the game trade as HD A guy cracked him side
of the head and you see, I got a good
clip that got a good screenshot of it. I'll have
in that article. That guy's feet just straight up in
the air. Yeah, it's great. We were in the ooped
up twice and once we had a play that it's
not as bad as you think. Little teaser for the article,
Oh tease. A lot of people are mad about it
in real time, but it was actually a good play call.
It was all right, we'll take our first break of
the show. Of course, we're going to dive into you know,
Brian Kelly not being the coach at LSU who's going
to be the coach? What does Vegas say? What are
we hearing from around the sports world? A lot to
get to, a ton to get to. We hadn't even
broke down the Saints game and how that all played
out and a panic move to replace your quarterback.
Speaker 2: All of that.
Speaker 3: We got Nick Underhill joining us at nine as well
to break that down. Stay locked in here to otb
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Speaker 7: If you say that you are.
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One day is fine, the next it's black. So if
you want me, hep your back.
Speaker 3: Welcome on, all right, Welcome back here, no TV here
live from the Raising Kine Studio, something we didn't really
get a chance to get into yesterday.
Speaker 2: Just quickly here.
Speaker 3: It is going to be Alex Atkins who's going to
remain as the tight ends coach but also serve as
your play caller. Tim Ritay is going to coach the quarterbacks.
Cortes Hayton's going to stay in his role as receivers coach,
and then of course Frank Wilson is going to be
your interim head coach. I think Cortes will have a
little extra responsibility with the running backs as well.
Speaker 2: His brother, his brother.
Speaker 3: His brother's going to Yeah, he's helping special teams and
he's going to have a big role with the running
backs now that Frank is the interim head coach. Of course,
Frank has been head coach in two different spots to
UTSA and McNeice, and you know, Frank's been here for
so long. Everybody knows Frank loves Frank very well respected. Yeah,
for sure, for sure. And they've got a bear in
front of them. They've got a road trip to Alabama.
They've got a road trip to Norman, Oklahoma. They've got
Arkansas at home, and you've got Western as well at home.
Nobody gonna feel sorry for you. Talk about that often.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: Alabama is going to try to do exactly what Texas
A and M just did to you, Arkansas scoring points
on everyone. Now, they're not winning the games or losing
close ones, but Arkansas is certainly not going to feel
sorry for you and buy Petrino is trying to win
that job. He's trying to get the interim tag removed
and be the full time head coach again at Arkansas
and Oklahoma, your first trip to Norman as a member
of the SEC. So we'll see what happens there. But
you can't quit, can't lay down. You still got to
play these games, and you're going to see who really
loves the old purple and goal here in the next
four games, you're going to see who is prideful about
the helmet those three letters that we always talk about.
That's one of the things in an interim coach situation,
it's typically one way or the other. It's a situation
where it's just more of the same, you know, and
you just go out there and you lay an egg
or maybe turn it into UCLA and you turn it
into something where it's a rallying cry to say, we're
not gonna.
Speaker 2: Allow this to happen anymore.
Speaker 3: We're gonna go out there and we're gonna make sure
that we play to the best of our ability. And also, look,
the cool thing about having an interim coach, because you know,
a lot of it is not fun, because that means
your season is not going great. But the cool thing
about it is it's kind of the why the hell
not mentality, Let's just do whatever we want to do.
We can try a couple of things that maybe we
wouldn't have tried before, and you got an opportunity to
go out there against some good teams and see what happens. Yeah,
you said a You said something there that says you're
gonna find out who loves the purple and gold real quick.
You're gonna find out who cares about the three letters
on their helmet, three letters on their chest. And I
know one person over there for sure does and that's
Frank Wilson.
Speaker 2: I know he cares a lot. He loves this university.
He's come back.
Speaker 3: It's mean, it's meant a lot to him for a
long time, and I know this opportunity means a lot
to him, and I know he doesn't take it for granted.
A lot of respect from these two chairs for Frank
and the time that he has spent, what he's done,
what he's what he's meant to that room. I mean,
I think you saw an outpouring of former players talking,
sharing stories about Frank and wishing well and just like
sharing the love for him because he has loved the
university and respected his position and really like cherished his
spot on his staff here at l s U for
a long, long, long time. I remember him calling me
a long time ago. I was already in the NFL.
I think Frank Frank was right after our senior year
when he when he joined the Yeah, pretty much like
missing by a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe a couple of years.
Speaker 3: I remember him calling me when I was in Green Bay,
introducing himself and like, hey, we we really like your help,
you know, talking to or I can't remember what it was,
or sending a message or something like that to Zac Mettenberger.
They were recruiting, and it's like because he just always
always wanting to reach out to former guys and and
interlock former.
Speaker 2: Guys current guys and and things like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's he's had me when I was living in Treeport,
not even living in Baton Rouge yet, I just retired
and I wasn't I wasn't gonna be able to make
it on like a Friday, like to go speak to
the running backs. He's like, no, we're good, Like I
don't I don't care if you're here in person, like
we'll put you on a speakerphone, Like I just want
them to hear from you. Yeah, and then you know,
once we moved here, I've done it a couple of times,
and it was like important for him, and this is
the way he presents it.
Speaker 2: He's like, it's.
Speaker 3: Important for for me that this generation hears from you
know what y'all did and what it means to y'all,
and so like, yeah, it's something he's always been really
big about.
Speaker 2: Which again, like.
Speaker 3: We talked about yesterday, that wasn't That wasn't the theme
with with Brian Kelly. No, No, it certainly wasn't. But
he didn't he didn't really care about that part of
And I'm not saying he like you have to at all.
Speaker 2: It's a it's a choice. But if you make that choice,
you better be right. Yeah. I yeah, I hear you.
I hear you. I don't agree with the choice. I'm
just saying, like, you know.
Speaker 3: A place like this, it's like a lot of us
live here and move back here for a reason.
Speaker 2: And I've I've been around a lot of college programs.
Speaker 3: I know a lot of people work with a lot
of different people that played at great programs, but they
live elsewhere.
Speaker 2: This, this place is, this place is a lot of
people move back here.
Speaker 3: And so when you don't feel like you can just
and look, you got to have some structure. I know
that it's like you can't just have hate a lot
of former players, And I think it's like in this
in this world this, and we harped on this yesterday,
so we don't need to get too deep into the
weeds with it. But like you know, in this world
where you are paying that come in, they might have
already been in two different schools, they might only be
here for one year and trying to take it to
the next.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what their why.
Speaker 3: For playing is, whether it's for money, for the love
of a school, for their family, whatever. It doesn't matter
what their why is. You still need to get them
to play hard. But in a world where it's not
like everybody on your team signed here out of high school.
They've been here for three, four or five years. This
is their shot and they love the university. Blah blah blah.
It's not always like that with everybody. I'm not saying
it's not like that, But with the entire team. When
it's becoming a little bit more of semi professional football,
it's less and less that that heartfelt love culture that
we all know and love about college football. So I
think at that day and age, you having those guys
around is the right thing to do to kind of
set that culture and tell that what is expected. What
do we talk about last Thursday when we were at
Pro Dreams And obviously they got memorabilia there, so we
started to get into kind of like a memorabilia talk
some of my best memories from playing at LSU. We're
having conversations with Jim Taylor, and Jim Taylor was on
the championship team that was fifty years before ours. But
I was like, that's Jim Taylor. I'm going to listen
to every word he says. I'm going to take it
all in and I'm gonna try to use it because
this man has won a national championship, a super Bowl
and guess what, he's got a jacket that's gold, right
and he didn't buy it at Burlington, all right, it's
because he's a Pro Football Hall of Famer. So yeah,
I'm gonna listen to this even though we played fifty
years apart.
Speaker 2: From each other.
Speaker 3: There's no doubt, like Pete, people that have and it's
not even like guys that were Hall of famers. I mean,
this is guys that were And it is a little
different for you because you were, you work for the team,
you do it. You're like you have the access and
even even me with with my high and just you
know whatever access. But like, you know a lot of
people that were you know, role player special teams guys
or backup linebackers that meant a lot to the team
and were understood it, they just didn't feel welcome, right,
And I think, you know, I don't want to share
in film, like not suppose to. But if Frank's already
kind of like reached out to a lot of people, Yeah,
a lot of people.
Speaker 2: And Frank yesterday and he wants to immediately change that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I could tell, I mean you could tell
just based on that he didn't like that portion of
the way the program was that portionately, So he's already
kind of started to want some of those guys around. Yeah,
I think it's important right now to have those people
around because, like we just talked about to start this segment, right,
this is going to go two ways. Either gonna lay
down and quit, which I don't think is going to happen,
but it's certainly something that you see when an inter
coach comes in. Or you can have those people around
the program to tell you kind of what it meant
to them and what it means to them still and
that can help the process.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the team's not getting any less talented right overnight. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh, they're still the same, the same guys that have
been walking out there on that field all season.
Speaker 2: I think now you just kind of get Hey, you.
Speaker 3: Get that interim bump, and what everybody's like, why are
you going to Why is the interim bump a thing? Well,
because when you when you start going down, momentum carries you.
Momentum is a beautiful thing and it could be an
ugly thing, like bad momentum is an ugly thing.
Speaker 2: Good momentum is a great dance.
Speaker 3: Why college football a lot of times in the swing
of the game is how the momentum goes. Well, there's
momentum to a season as well. Mimniums against you. You
start pressing, you start thinking too much, you start you
stop reacting to to plays and teams and game plans,
and you start trying to force things, You start trying
to look in the mirror a little too much and.
Speaker 2: Try to make things up.
Speaker 3: Bad things start to happen and you start to press
when things when a big shift like this, haven't it,
interim bump comes because there's new energy. There's new energy
that's brought to the team. Hope is a is a
is a powerful thing. And when you have hope, you
have a chance. When hope starts to go away, it
starts to fade away, and you're like, man, this isn't working.
I don't like this. That can be detrimental to a team.
And I think you've seen a little bit of that.
I mean a lot of it. There's a lot of
reasons why that you lost these games, and you know
they're we're actually playing pretty good against A and M,
and then the second half it goes goes to hell.
So but you get an energy, you get a new hope,
and yeah, I'm look, I'm excited to see what kind
of product they throw out on the field, because yeah,
a lot was said. We spent three hours talking about
one coaching move yesterday, But guess what, there's still tackle
football to be played and a lot of it, and
you've got a good team still, so why not go
out there? Why why can't we went out because we
can got the talent to do it, a little new energy,
make some plays. Don't call wide receiver screens on third
and eight.
Speaker 2: Are a motion.
Speaker 3: You're tied end to run a three yard flat on
third and five, which was certain seven it was an
RPO too. Even better third and seven, it was an
r PO tied end to the flat only option.
Speaker 2: Mhm.
Speaker 3: Hey, anyway, Frank, I got don't don't not right now.
Don't do it to yourself, buddy, huh. Just thinking about it,
just thinking about some of the situations and all the
dynamics that came into the game plan and the first
fifteen and all those situations.
Speaker 2: But but but.
Speaker 3: You got a new voice, and hopefully that understands that
when you need seven yards, you can't run a three
yard are out. I think Frank does when it's the
only option that your quarterback has. So a lot to
get to and we will get to some film today. Obviously, yesterday,
like Matt said, was three hours about the same thing,
because it should have been.
Speaker 2: That's big news, big move.
Speaker 3: You pay a coach fifty four million dollars to not
come into the building the next day. It's a big,
big day, and like we don't even know that it's
going to end up being fifty four million dollars by
the way, Like we'll get there once we get there
and we find out the actual number. But makes sense, right, Well,
today we're going to get into some of that, and
we'll get into some of what we're hearing about who
potentially could be some candidates for.
Speaker 2: The LSU job.
Speaker 3: And also we will watch some tape because you still
have a football season, you still have four games, and
you still can make corrections. You still can champion for
the things that actually went right on the field on Saturday.
Certainly in the first half there was a lot. Second half,
I would say not so much. But we'll watch it
all today and we'll do it right here on OTB
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you as well. All Right, you got those you got
those motores screens? I do those motor screens are incredible.
Speaker 3: Oh I don't really like where that sun's at right now.
Push that button. We don't have them right now. Help
me get some real soon. I got faith you can
get it done. Because it's like a it's like an
eight night song.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Once you asked the DJ what the
theme is?
Speaker 5: Its eighties, right, Yeah, that's eighties Tuesday.
Speaker 3: I know, but like sometimes you'll even go like eighties
but sub band.
Speaker 5: No, I'm just going hits.
Speaker 2: Play the hits, the hits. I don't care about them.
Speaker 3: DECUPTU play the hits?
Speaker 2: Who does sure to not play the hits?
Speaker 5: Yeah? But who doesn't love you too?
Speaker 2: Apple? Does? You're talking about us too?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Who doesn't love you too?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Right? Am? I? Right? Do we really like you too?
Speaker 5: I like you too?
Speaker 3: Like I like this though, no, I'm trying to think like.
I don't like how they invaded I don't like.
Speaker 5: That they they invaded your phone too. They invaded everybody's phone.
I don't like that. But they make some good music.
Speaker 6: I don't even know they did that till we talked
about it the other day.
Speaker 4: That's awesome.
Speaker 5: Though, good for them, it feels like a violation of
my privacy.
Speaker 3: But I think Bona was also the voice of Clay
Callaway and sing too.
Speaker 5: Never seen it first?
Speaker 3: He's the lion, the rock star Clay Callaway. Okay, I
think I can get there. I seen it first for you. Well,
you know, I'll watch things with my children. Shout out
to No, I do too, but the name like, how
quickly you knew that like I've seen sing a thousand
times with the kiddos, I couldn't tell you Matthew McConaughey's
characters name. Hey, I'm gonna ta I'm gonna take a
shot in the dark hair. See if my family is
in the car and listening.
Speaker 2: I want to get it.
Speaker 3: Late latest, three three minutes late birthday, shout out to
my second two zette.
Speaker 2: Birthday three days ago, three days ago.
Speaker 4: Three minutes.
Speaker 5: Was the wish that she made before she blew her
candle out for Brian Kelly to be fired.
Speaker 2: It might have been I need what you don't ask
him because it want true?
Speaker 5: Well what it already happened?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can ask.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure because of two set she did?
Speaker 2: All right too? Is that what you whispered? Right? All right?
Speaker 5: Twos shout out to her.
Speaker 2: Happy birthday.
Speaker 3: You said number eight, big number eight, big eight.
Speaker 2: There you go. All right.
Speaker 3: So at some point during the show, and then probably
when't we come back from this next one, h we'll
kind of update you. Because Vegas, as you know, like
anytime you have a coaching vacancy like l s U,
you're gonna have odds on it. Vegas is gonna bet
on everything. Now you might not can get odds on
the next U A B coach, but you're gonna be
able to get odds on the next L S U coach,
and so we'll update you there. But as we were
talking about in the last segment, what's left still on
your schedule, you do have a trip to the number
four team in the country and a trip to the
number eighteen team currently in the ap pole in the country.
You if you went three and one, which is it's
a lot to ask right now for after what we
just saw. If you went three and one, you'd be
eight and four, which would be you know, I'd wins,
I say so, which would normally be very disappointing.
Speaker 2: It's not where you want to be.
Speaker 3: But considering you're five and three right now, eight and four,
when I think the momentum that you would need from that,
and maybe because I don't think it's going to be
in an entire rebuild situation, whoever the next head coach is,
I do think there's things in place that you can
build off of.
Speaker 2: There's things that you can keep in place.
Speaker 3: There's things that I just talking about the roster and
talking about some of the people like I love this
defensive staff. I think given the right offensive staff to
help compliment each other, this could be a defensive staff
that can go and do a lot of great things.
So I think if you go eight and four, I
think you and you show some fight, and you show
that hey, maybe maybe there was some things that were
holding us back yep, then I think you could potentially
have those conversations of bringing what was working, bringing the
good that you have on this team back.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think the usually what happens in these situations, especially
this day and age with transfer portals and windows in
il that when a situation like this happens, when a
coach at a big program, when he gets when he
gets fired, has to move on to new coaching staff,
especially after a up to this point of disappointing season,
especially especially after an embarrassing game at home where you
were hosting recruits, uh, there is usually an exodus of
not only of recruits and recruits starting to look at
other places, but of your current players. There's an exodus
of players that are going to look for a different
opportunity with a safer place, a more established player, a
place that didn't just get embarrassed at their their home field.
Speaker 2: That's what's gonna happen. And I'm sure that is what's
gonna happen.
Speaker 3: But if you can find a way to salvage some momentum,
to salvage some pride, and you just talked about going
three and one, if you can do that and then
make the right higher, you can save a lot of that.
You can turn that around and become just a small
exodus instead of a mass exodus. So it's important. The
next few weeks is important for this team. It's certainly
important for the fan base. So as a fan base, yeah,
we certainly got we got to breathe new life. We
got to do what we can as a fan base.
There's not a lot we can do, but there's a
little bit. You can show up to the games, you
can support the team. You can be publicly supportive, you
can be social social media supportive like this is. This
is because not only like on social media do the
players and coaches they don't really see that stuff. But
I tell you who does see it. Recruits. Oh yeah, players, parents, players, brothers, players, sisters.
Speaker 2: You're gonna be like, nah, dude, they hate you.
Speaker 3: Get out of here. Y got no support. Fan base
is killing y'all. But there is a way to salvage
this whole thing. And it's natural, right if you're you're
a if you're a student athlete, and you have one
or two years of eligibility left, and there's coaches leave
and things aren't looking good, it's natural to look elsewhere
if it is legal to do so, which in this
day in college football, it is all right. So we
will take a break here. We are going to show
some film today, so don't worry. And I know that
a lot of defensive questions, and we're gonna show some
tape that has the right call, not the right execution,
And there's gonna be some tough there's gonna be some
tough love, at least for me whenever we show some
of the defensive film.
Speaker 2: Can't hold any punches.
Speaker 3: It like I get you and you keep saying the
same thing over and over about a certain player, but
also like that players needs to make the play. So
we'll get to the defensive film probably an hour number
two of the show here more OTB when we come
back live from the Raised King studio.
Speaker 10: Off the bench.
Speaker 3: All right, well, hopefully hopefully you at least were able
to enjoy tailgating and some ice cold dose sekis before
you went into the stadium, and hopefully you were able
to enjoy some in the first half of the game.
And somebody who has enjoyed a do Seki's at a
Mexican restaurant last night, what's roe thatt on social media?
Speaker 2: Which restaurant would that be? Uh? One of the local establishments?
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, I also enjoyed at dose sekis this
weekend at that same local establishment.
Speaker 2: It's always a great time to go for dose. It's
never a bad time.
Speaker 3: I can tell you that you got a bye week,
you want to kick your feet up, watch a couple
of games, you should do it while going for dose.
Speaker 2: Al Right, go for dose.
Speaker 3: Whether it's the delicious green bottle or green can, it's
a Mexican logger with a nice freshly cut lime squeeze
into it, or the amber especially out of the lime
and salt zero whatever. There's so many options if you're
going to do it. If you want to delete some
beers this week, maybe a little midweek beer, whatever it is,
make sure you're going for dose.
Speaker 2: Drink responsibly. Dose seconds.
Speaker 8: Locked in on LSU Football twenty four to seven. You're
listening to off the bench?
Speaker 7: Do you see dreams?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: Welcome back you o TV here on this Tuesday morning.
Speaker 2: The Pelicans row and three Kyshaw.
Speaker 4: Warner held Zion do last night though you had.
Speaker 2: A good game, I didn't play. You got hurt.
Speaker 3: They they faced off against the oh and three Celtics
at home and lost one to ninety. They got outscored
in the fourth quarter thirty five to twelve.
Speaker 2: They cover cover, They got covered up after plus thirty three,
after what the Celtics did to him.
Speaker 3: That I've about to say that all that. That was
one clip of the Pelicans I've seen. That's how you
got the flipping to You should always say flock up.
Speaker 5: I don't care.
Speaker 3: They're four no, yeah, the Spurs are hells are rowing
three dying.
Speaker 5: Uh Harper the rookie almost said freshman. The rookie had
twenty points last night.
Speaker 2: School.
Speaker 3: If y'all didn't hear the first segment, it doesn't really
matter how you start the season. The ten New Packers,
sure how you finished.
Speaker 4: Don't let us get hot.
Speaker 2: Don't let them get hot. Revenge by Zion though jumps high.
Speaker 4: Same mindset.
Speaker 2: It's a long season. It's not even Halloween yet.
Speaker 3: Oh and three mm hmm, it's gonna be some tough
times there on a Maroline Highway. H A lot of
season left them both, guys. A lot of season left
them both.
Speaker 5: Oh, there's a lot of season left in the NBA.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I really don't feel like
this even fair for the NBA to start right now.
Speaker 3: I said they should start like Christmas. Yeah, I think
it's dumb. We still got baseball play being.
Speaker 5: Played, which that's insane. They played basically two games last night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, right, I ain't saying that. Eighteen eighteen.
What time Central Standard time did it end?
Speaker 5: I don't know, sep right. I woke up in the middle.
Speaker 2: I fell asleep on twelve.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well I was asleep way before that, but I
fell asleep with the game on. Woke up in the
middle of the night. It was still on.
Speaker 4: Sure Tani reach base all nine times last night.
Speaker 2: That's cool.
Speaker 3: My god, he's good at baseball, so this Frederick's pretty
good too.
Speaker 5: He probably had the over or something.
Speaker 2: I know. We'll get there.
Speaker 3: All this stuff coming out about betting, it's like we.
Speaker 5: Sure, we we sure, sure, Just let's.
Speaker 3: Show as quick as we did two fifty a m
Eastern so one fifty Central Standard time. Yeah, ain't that
you did, which I appreciate. All Right, we'll be back out.
Number two of o TV
Speaker 8: Off the bench.