Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn. Let's go,
let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive.
Speaker 2: Hen'sday, Hester and Hester.
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describe control the live from the Raising Kine studio.
Speaker 1: Here's Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 4: Yo, let's say say.
Speaker 3: You could help himself.
Speaker 5: Welcome in no TV here on this Monday morning, Jake Flynn,
Alandra Tata, the wolf Pack back together for a Monday
morning show.
Speaker 6: All right, the America can wolf Pack.
Speaker 3: See now that's the Winter Olympics.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the last two weeks.
Speaker 5: No no, no, no, no, no no no that watching the
USA and women's and men's hockey take down Canada.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like the little bumpy heels going down. No good
for them. It's impressive for them. But that's the Winter Olympics.
Speaker 6: I would say there's more skill involved in this whole
Winner Olympics than the Summer Olympics, for sure.
Speaker 3: Sure, a no big deal. Just second on the medals.
Speaker 5: Count twelve, most gold's ever, right, most golds ever? Yeah
to Norway wins the medal count right, Norway wins the
medal count. They got forty one.
Speaker 6: You just saying thirty three total, But like Norway got
it medals and a lot of stuff that doesn't really count.
Speaker 3: Just like, hold up, hold up, you're contradicting yourself here.
Speaker 6: No, I'm contradicting Norway because I said a lot of
the Winter Olympics doesn't count. I'm trying to be patriotic here. Okay,
you're just trying to people. They Norway is just really
good on putting on skis for a long time and
going a long way with them fasting.
Speaker 5: So they're like in the Summer Olympics, like the ones
that run like.
Speaker 3: The thirty eight mile.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly, Like that's like they start a race, you
go get lunch, they come back, they're still running.
Speaker 3: That's what Norway does on skis. Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 5: You know USA does just dominate wins gold and hockey
against too Canada.
Speaker 3: Canada, oh my gosh.
Speaker 6: And officially good at nothing.
Speaker 5: Officially the coping of Canadians online. Oh hard gosh.
Speaker 4: You see John Cooper, they're head coach, Like, come on, buddy,
like I get it, Like, yes, fans could have double standards.
Fans can cope online. I do that all the time.
That's what fans are supposed to do. He gets up
there in the press conference and criticizes the Olympics for
having a three on three and over time. Oh yeah, well,
there's a reason we don't use it in the NHL
because it's so flawed, Like did you not know that
those were the rules and put your team together before
the Olympics started?
Speaker 3: And hey, fella, you had regulation to go win it
and you didn't.
Speaker 4: Also, they won two overtime games in the Olympics.
Speaker 5: Yeah, huh, it's so good seeing their players. We we
think it's pretty easy to tell. Thank you, tell who
the better team was. Yeah, so the one with more
goals in the end. Yeah, that's usually the better team
with three letters on their chest.
Speaker 3: Hey you bums? Sorry Canada yet you officially do you
officially do have nothing? Now?
Speaker 6: So you just won the World Series.
Speaker 7: You almost won gold with boop gate. I'll talk about
that last year last week, boop boop gate?
Speaker 4: Dioud you just make that up?
Speaker 6: Yeah. I was seeing the picture. I was like, oh,
he's booping the rock, That's all I got.
Speaker 4: His excuse was, why are you on even looking for
stuff like that? I'm like, can you imagine getting called
and be like, why are you trying to.
Speaker 6: Catch How dare you put that camera angle on it? Idiot?
Speaker 5: Walk in on your spouse cheating? Why are you trying
to catch me? Why we're supposed to be here? Your fault,
it's your fault. You weren't even supposed to be here. God,
what a dork Canadian?
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 5: And the fact that they like, go win golden nobody
said anything either, like yeah, the Olympic committee dorks.
Speaker 6: Whoever? I don't think the Swedes are dropping it though
they're not happy. I wouldn't be either.
Speaker 5: And then and then you always know when somebody's wrong,
and they know they're wrong when they're defensive like he was.
Immediately like the curse words start flying, you start puffing
your chest a little bit. It's like, oh, you did this,
like you're you're guilty and you know it.
Speaker 6: Sorry, though didn't know women their women's team to do
it too.
Speaker 4: Oh curling, I think they actually did.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Uh, the Canadian guy and the curling things. You see
him in the last match, he did like a three
sixty slide and then threw the rock. I mean that
that's cool and it seems not that cool. You're still
a Curlery didn't look that cool. But did everybody wake
up yesterday? And I know it's a weekend, what watched it?
But I said that alone from seven am.
Speaker 4: I was like, I gotta make sure I don't ever
sleep because somebody like seven to fifteen.
Speaker 3: For the hockey. Yeah up, yeah, Yeah, that was electric.
Speaker 6: That's what is. And I'm glad. You know, I'm glad
that USA won gold. So Jake could come and talk
positive about the Olympic. Yeah, you're jumping on the Olympic
bandwagon now that we've got a record amount of gold.
Speaker 5: Y'all bat me up that. I also said, hockey is
like the peak of the Winter Olympics.
Speaker 4: You said, you said, like two or three weeks ago,
when hockey starts, I'm locked in.
Speaker 5: But he said, so, I get what you're saying about
maybe the totality of it. Yeah, but I'm just really
focusing on the hockey portion.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, you're kind of wrapping yourself around
the who Olympics right now And.
Speaker 3: Oh not at all.
Speaker 6: You can't just jump on that bandwagon now, No, you're
wrapping yourself in those stars and stripes right now. We've
been doing it for two weeks. Bud he rats.
Speaker 5: I know you can celebrate the the bumpy hills, and
I'm gonna celebrate the hockey, and you can celebrate the
hockey too.
Speaker 6: So many great gold battles, twelve of them should have
been should have been more too. There's some missed opportunities
and some favorites. Which sports, which events? How about men's
figure skating? Never heard of it?
Speaker 3: The quad God? I definitely Barkley he.
Speaker 4: D kind of We talked about that the other day.
You know, he gave himself that nickname.
Speaker 3: I do I did hear that?
Speaker 6: Not great, which, you know, not the best look, but
you know what, I gave myself a nickname.
Speaker 4: So but that's official though it's on your packages.
Speaker 6: It's on my packages. That's how I gave it to himself.
Do you think he gets his packages shipped him, says
quad God. Yeah, one hundred percent. Yeah, he kind of
blew it though. You could tell he was kind of
like he his he's kind of figure skating version of
a kicker. Oh so he went like mental, he went mental.
He's going into the free skate second second routine. He
fell one time, then after that because he doesn't fall
he's like by far the best. Then he felt like
three or four times till he wasn't till he wasn't. Yeah, yep,
he's like a kicker. He'll be back.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna focus more like on the hockey portion again,
because there was the ultimate display of like grit and
determination like the Hughes family, which we'll get to in
weekend winters without question, but like to get hit with
a hockey stick in your teeth.
Speaker 3: Split them, split them, spit and keep going.
Speaker 6: Pretty good.
Speaker 3: Don't know that many other sports would do that?
Speaker 7: Ye?
Speaker 6: Did y'all see the This was kind of late last night,
did I'll see the video that I sent you guys?
Speaker 3: I do love the fact I had just sent it.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, well I wouldn't really twice. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I woke up this morning and I'm like, does he
do this on purpose? Does he send what we send
in the group chat on top of what we just
sent as a troll?
Speaker 3: Or is he just not care?
Speaker 8: It's like when he breaks news that I had already
broke exactly.
Speaker 6: I often say things I've already talked about. Yes, look,
Lacy was out of town yesterday, I had kids, we
were busy. I wasn't really paying attention to the phone.
Speaker 8: It was the message like right above the one that
you sent though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well back to back.
Speaker 6: In my defense, I didn't read it. So that's what
we're calling you out for.
Speaker 5: In your defense, we're calling you out for being a
bad teammate.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 6: That's a good video.
Speaker 5: Though it was good, I don't think we can play
because I think it's got oh yeah, cursewords.
Speaker 6: Any curse words in it. It's basically showing uh, mister
Hughes taking a hockey stick to the face, cracking his teeth,
then scoring the winning goal in overtime win gold against Canada.
Screw you, Canada. And then it shows Anthony Davis hurting
his fingernail out three years out, three years in. Definitely
this is the difference between hockey and basketball. He looked like,
oh my god, he looked like such a baby when
he heard his fingernail.
Speaker 3: You think that's it, frants out, career ending.
Speaker 6: It's a hangnail, Taylor, So yeah, pretty big deal, Pretty
big deal.
Speaker 3: That was awesome.
Speaker 5: Though it was awesome yesterday to watch that, to see
all the scenes, to see the locker room, to see
the celebration too. You know, to the day do what
you did in Lake Placid and to you know, finally
get over the hump and win goal. And then honestly,
just to see the Canadian tears was awesome as well,
just to see them trying to cope with it online.
And I'm talking about like a lot of people like
head coach players and my guy, you.
Speaker 6: Lost, just lost.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry the part of losses where yeah, sure I
felt like we had opportunities, but I'm not gonna go
out there to be like, oh, we were the better team.
Speaker 3: I mean, no, we lost.
Speaker 5: I mean it's a it's a people say didn't lose it,
like like USA limped into that final.
Speaker 4: USA was if you go back and watch the box
score whatever you want, Regulation wins in the US was
the much better team throughout the entire way.
Speaker 3: It may not. It might not be the style that
you want to see Canada.
Speaker 5: It might be a little grittier, it might be a
little tougher, it might be not as maybe rehearsed.
Speaker 3: Looking right, you're a smooth machine, Canada.
Speaker 5: You got some really good NHL players, some of the
best out there, right, and you work in Unison. Great,
that's fine, that's how you play. USA plays a different
style and their style beat your style.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, it's just like Silver's pretty good Canada, It's
not bad.
Speaker 4: They said after the Women's Olympics that it shines just
as bright. They said that when the women beat them
on Thursday. They didn't say that yesterday.
Speaker 6: Wow, you love to see it. So Jack Hughes with
the golden goal and that image of him with the
flag draped around his shoulders, face, the tooth missing, the
bloody face that needs that needs to live on for
a long time does And it's you know, stereotypical of
hockey players. I was thinking hockey old school, old school
hockey players, at least with no teeth.
Speaker 5: Well, it really happened, and like live action yesterday, yes,
and no blood from the incident. Yeah.
Speaker 6: And Jack Hughes just continues to be a pain in
all Canadian men's side.
Speaker 3: First you look at that.
Speaker 6: First he uh starts dating the Canadian princess Tate McCrae,
and then he dominates wins gold. Sorry, there's nobody in
Canada that likes him. No, what a smile, what a smile? Wow,
handsome fella.
Speaker 5: Oh man, that's awesome, that's incredible, Like that that needs
to be on T shirts everywhere in America, just that
that picture, and I guess post game we're playing that
maybe three times today of him talking about his love
for his country, because my god, do we need some
of that?
Speaker 9: All right?
Speaker 3: I can talk about this one, and we probably will
just the U.
Speaker 9: I saw a really good post yesterday, and I'd like
to say, like, obviously we'll talk about this game throughout
the show, but it says, you know, water covers seventy
percent of the earth, Well, Connor Hellibut covers the other
thirty percent.
Speaker 6: Might be low. It might be low. Like that guy
was unbelievable. Yeah, they missed one shot with an open
net towards the end, but like US missed about three.
US missed about three. But my god, I mean both
both teams had incredible goalie performances. I'm not going to
sit here and say that I like soak in a
lot of hockey throughout the season, but like, I've never
seen anything like that.
Speaker 4: So the way Connor played, my dad was talking me,
He's like, man, that dude played the game of his life.
I'm like, you know what you think about Connor Hellivum,
It's kind of hard for the course.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that was reminded me of Now the
USA lost this one, but in the World Cup when
Tim Howard was going against Belgium, and Belgium like Pepper
the golf or like it felt like a hundred shots
and he saved every possible thing that he could and
finally like they scored two goals and USA lost two
to one and extra time. But like that's what it
felt like, because like it was like there's no way
Toihoward's going to make another save.
Speaker 3: Then he would dive and he'd make a save and
he'd keep the USA in it.
Speaker 5: Now the USA couldn't help him out and score some
goals and so they ended up losing again in extra
time in the World Cup. But that's what it felt
like like. It felt like it was just one of
those performances. And Tim Howard obviously legend uh Soccer Hall
of Famer, played in the Premier League forever, but it
was like that was the moment where he had an
out of body experience on that stage to be able
to do that, And that's what I felt like that was,
even though it's a really good player who always plays.
Speaker 3: Well, to do that on that stage he was locked in. Yeah,
he was very he was dialed in.
Speaker 6: He was dolled in.
Speaker 3: Okay, he popped the addy before he.
Speaker 6: Had some add medicine. For sure, he was locked in.
Sucker didn't take his eyes off the putt.
Speaker 3: All right, All right, man, that was a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: And again you're gonna hear a lot about USA Hockey,
probably in winners and in different portions of the show today,
but certainly wanted.
Speaker 6: To What a terrible country they named a goose after them, What.
Speaker 3: A terrible bird? Team America try to tell.
Speaker 5: Us, Yeah, they did long time ago, decades ago, boopgate.
You might be on something there. All right, we'll take
a break. Obviously, LSU baseball went down to Florida. They
had a lot of success as well. So you know
our baseball expert Lune is going to break all that
down for you when we come back as well.
Speaker 3: Stay locked in. The foolth pack is back here.
Speaker 6: On O TV.
Speaker 2: Off the bench.
Speaker 5: Well, boy, I know it was early yesterday, but imagine
enjoying USA Hockey winning gold with a nice cold dose
skis in hand.
Speaker 3: Yes, afterwards, they for sure were.
Speaker 5: And so if you want to, you know, kick relax,
you got some LSU baseball, got some LSU softball coming up.
Speaker 3: LSU gymnastics.
Speaker 5: Sporting events are always better with your feet off with
a nice cold dough Sekis in your hands. So it's
always a great time to enjoy some great sports and
go for dose.
Speaker 6: Yeah, as you don't know, Jake and I were on
a little week long vacation. Well, when you're on vacation,
you like to kick back a little bit, maybe have
a couple of adult betties, And that's what we did.
That's what I did. A lot of dose Sechis, delicious
Mexican lager, some amber special, whatever it is. So it's Monday,
you know what, everybody's got a case of the Monday's
Cure for that, maybe one or two dose secis. It's
even go to the story, go for dose, say third
for his drink.
Speaker 10: Do sectis got the starting line engines pumping and thumping
in time the green light flashes, the flags go up.
Speaker 2: Churning and burning the urn fold us up.
Speaker 10: They definitely maneuver and muscleful. Rank do burning fast on
a tempty tank.
Speaker 1: Tiger's turn Talkers, This is off the bench.
Speaker 10: Had secretly stern as they speed through the finish, the
flags go down, the fans get up, and they get
out of town.
Speaker 3: The arena is nampty, except for one.
Speaker 10: Man still driving and striving as fast as he can.
The sun has gone down and the moon has come up,
and long ago somebody left with the cup.
Speaker 2: But he's driving and striving and hugging the turns. I'm
thinking of someone called he still burns.
Speaker 3: He's going.
Speaker 5: All right, welcome back in OTV here on this Monday morning,
whole gang back in studio, at least for one day.
Speaker 3: We're dabbling and being back together in studio.
Speaker 5: I do have to cover the NFL combine this week,
so leave a little bit later today, but I'll be
joining the show from Indy, where it's like degrees a
couple of them, and there's storm somewhere up there. I
think it's northeast. I think I'll be okay. I know
there's snow in Indie, but actually I think i'll be okay.
I don't get into like super late tonight work super
early tomorrow morning.
Speaker 6: So hey, you're gonna join the show, though you just
said that I'm gonna joined the first hour. You're just
saying that they got our work.
Speaker 3: Because they don't. I'm trying to.
Speaker 5: They don't take daylight savings time, so even though it's
right above us, it's still on Eastern time right now.
I believe, I believe, you know, I see your brain
working over there.
Speaker 6: They're definitely Eastern.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but normally they would be on the same as US.
Speaker 6: Hmm for half the year.
Speaker 3: They are interesting, I know, no though, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: So I'm working for NFL Radio all week up in Indy,
but hopefully gonna catch up with Kella Moore Mickey Loomis
and we'll send those interviews back so you can hear
here on OTB as well.
Speaker 6: Back when you covered the combine, what does so you're
gonna be like on the field stuff.
Speaker 5: You gotta you know what the first time, first time first, Yeah,
the first time we're here, I hadn't been, hadn't been
to Indie. Uh see, we played the Colts like in
twenty twelve. It is probably like the last time I've
been there, and before that it was actually do the combine.
Speaker 3: So yeah, you're probably super fired up for like way
in I don't know, Wonder Lake, dumba there, let's go boys,
wonder Lake.
Speaker 5: They don't do that anymore. Right, probably not. I don't
think they do it. Actually I did an other test. Yeah,
what's that called.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Taylor knows, he's ready's chomping at the beds. I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's it's short two tests. Yeah, they don't have to
do like if the train leaves the station at eight eight.
Speaker 4: This is like a cognition to sou Actually.
Speaker 8: Well, the one that I'm thinking about, it's like all
on the field.
Speaker 3: It's not I think you're right.
Speaker 8: That sounds very it's the two I am right, ain't
no guess.
Speaker 5: I trust me when I say I fully believed when
a Lauder said, because I had no idea.
Speaker 3: The Wonderlick was like an IQ test, pretty much.
Speaker 8: Like a football IQ test.
Speaker 5: I would have done much better. Yeah, this this guy
over here, a big dumb dumb to my left.
Speaker 3: He crushed the.
Speaker 6: Wonder leg well the highest scores ever, it's not a
big deal.
Speaker 3: He really did up.
Speaker 8: There with Colin Kaepernick.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm, he have a high one.
Speaker 8: He had the same one as Matt We stand together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, take an easy pal. What you got? What
seven or eight?
Speaker 6: What did you get?
Speaker 3: Seven or eight?
Speaker 9: What somebody did? There's a quarterback.
Speaker 3: Quarterbacks. No, it was like, I don't know, I have
forty or something like high.
Speaker 6: So right Patrick Road low Bree Fitzpatrick has the highest ever.
Speaker 3: I didn't count.
Speaker 6: I went to Harvard. Yeah, it didn't count. I think
it's like top five quarterbacks of all time. All right, wow,
I don't think that we'll look it up. But let's
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Speaker 8: Just found it. You got to thirty eight.
Speaker 3: Boom you.
Speaker 8: Colin Kaepernick and Matthew Stafford got a thirty level.
Speaker 3: Not a big if.
Speaker 8: Fitzpatrick got a forty eight, so did Oh this is
going to pay me to say this. Greg McElroy also.
Speaker 3: Got to that track, though I mean he probably cheated.
Speaker 8: Probably Eli Manning thirty nine.
Speaker 3: Oh all right there?
Speaker 8: Who so Aaron got a thirty five.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, let's put it an idiot list. List some
quarterbacks under thirty eight.
Speaker 8: Tony Romo and Andrew Luck got thirty seven.
Speaker 5: Scrubs Andrew Luck really smart guy, not a big deal.
Just Flaco feels like somebody not smart enough. Pretty hot.
Speaker 8: Johnny Manzel got a thirty.
Speaker 4: Two Johnny cheated on that test.
Speaker 6: Definitely.
Speaker 8: Peyton Manning got a twenty eight.
Speaker 3: I think I was like a twenty and Russell Wilson.
Speaker 9: Yeah, those guys got They did abba kaba dabba.
Speaker 3: That's what you do in your scan tron. If you
don't know the answers.
Speaker 4: See Peyton doing that, he's gonna be the first pick.
Speaker 3: He's like, you know what, Oh he could have scored
just filled in.
Speaker 5: He'd been c c scoring to twenty three.
Speaker 4: I mean I've seen I was gonna say, I've seen
way lower score.
Speaker 9: I think you can get a fifty. Who's the core
of uh? Was it Bence Young?
Speaker 3: I think low one?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Seven?
Speaker 3: Yeah, not great, not great at all? Bench Young wonder
lick score. V Y got a six six.
Speaker 6: That's not good.
Speaker 3: It's dang all right.
Speaker 4: Well McCoy twenty five. So Colt was also better at
the Wonderl's weird, m I think he was a better quarterback.
Speaker 3: Taylor will die on that hill?
Speaker 8: Is that a controversial hill?
Speaker 4: That Colt was better than the Why shouldn't everybody's gonna
look at the one season with Vince Young? Colt was
a stud for four.
Speaker 5: Years, I'm saying, But Taylor always brings that up pretty quickly.
I'm cloudy because like, Colt's my boy, so yeah, I'm like.
Speaker 3: His career was one of the best in collegetable.
Speaker 6: He always go back to before that and say they
never should have benched Major Applewhite for Chris Simms.
Speaker 3: Would no.
Speaker 5: I remember being at the like, uh my visit to
Texas Tech and when Texas Tech beat them and they
were like a top team, and.
Speaker 3: I was like, why is Chris?
Speaker 5: Like why is CHRISTI I'm still in this game like
he's throwing it to Texas Tech or throwing it out
of bounds, like Major's over there, just chilling. Can anybody
tell me the quarterback that Vince Young replaced who at
the time had the highest passer rating in the country.
Speaker 8: I know this, and I can't remember his name. I
know who it is, but I can't remember.
Speaker 5: It's in them you're gonna say, I'm gonna say, and
you like, at the time he had literally the highest
pass in fascerating in the country and got replaced by
v Y and then Vince just obviously took the job
and ran chance.
Speaker 3: Mock Chance mock Wow. What a name?
Speaker 5: Yeah, how would you like to lead the country and
passer rating get replaced.
Speaker 3: It's like deep and deep, kind of deep ish into
the season too. Would this have been in two?
Speaker 6: Three? Who?
Speaker 4: Probably probably three because wasn't five Vinces last year, and.
Speaker 5: Three because I was on a visit when like Mock
was still playing. So three, yeah, Vince. Was he older
than us or younger than he was? He was older
his first year? Actually yeah, yeah, two has been his. Yeah,
he was a year above. He was a year above, y'all.
Speaker 3: MRI cult.
Speaker 5: McCoy didn't get hurt in the Natty game. I was
at that game in the Rose Bowl. They win that game, probably.
Speaker 3: Beat Alabama, and then his Alabama end up being Alabama.
Maybe not.
Speaker 4: I think that's why he's he's kind of forgotten just
because you know, Vince wins the Natty. Cults the starter
four years doesn't win the Natty in Texas's I mean
they went on a free fall after that, so people are.
Speaker 3: Like, oh, yeah, yeah, forgotten.
Speaker 5: I mean Texas fans love Colt mccaordy, like if if
you would have won that Natty. I think we talked
about Colt mccordy like in the top you know, top
five career college quarterback.
Speaker 6: I agree, launch, I don't think it's a hot take.
I think people are gonna have different, like differentiating opinions
on that, but that one game certainly does one game
can make an entire career.
Speaker 3: And the way he well, he can just put the
final stamp of like right forever.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, that's won that game by himself pretty much.
He beats by himself at the height of their powers.
That's true, and so that was that. You can't you
can't unsee that. But I mean, he's nowhere close to
as good as arc no.
Speaker 5: Ark the goat know where you're gonna go?
Speaker 3: I should have known. Huh.
Speaker 5: All right, y'all know we're squirrel sears here. We saw
a lot of squirrels during that segment. I promise when
we come back, going to give you a breakdown of
L s U base ball and how it went over
the weekend. They sweep, they win every game in the tournament.
We'll tell you how they won those games. Would we
come back here on OTB.
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Speaker 5: LSU Baseball goes down to Florida and they come back
eight and oh on the year because they sweep the
weekend fourteen to seven on Friday against Indiana, nine war
on Saturday against Notre Dame, and eleven to Nada, A
run roll on Sunday against ucf A Ladra, a lot
of great baseball. LSU moves to eight to o. This
team continues to hit the baseball at an elite level.
The lineup looks like it is loaded one through nine.
What were your thoughts on the weekend? LSU Baseball now
eight no, So.
Speaker 8: My thoughts are that they're actually playing some pretty good
competition in the beginning of the season. Like Indiana was
leading that game five to four until the eighth inning
when Zach York had that three run home run and
they had like a nine run eighth inning. So they're
playing some pretty good teams to start the season, which
is good. Like Kent State beat Tennessee.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they will be it won the series regional team.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and they looked good when we played them too,
So I think that LSU is doing a pretty good
job at the beginning of the season, not just playing
Perdue fort Wayne like they did last season.
Speaker 3: You know, but who doesn't even have a baseball program anymore.
Speaker 8: That's crazy. I didn't know that.
Speaker 3: What I'm pretty sure the program folded.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's insane. Yeah, but the team looks really good.
What we've been talking about the entire like few weeks
leading up to it and last week as well as
just the depth that LSU has. And that's just what
really stands out to me, because if one person's not producing,
the other person's gonna come off the bench and do
it for you. And then Zach York just continues to
We were worried about replacing the offensive production from Jared Jones,
but Zach York is doing a really good job of
doing that. And then what I'm happy to see was
that on Sunday, William Schmidt he pitched five scoreless innings.
He looked great. You know, we were kind of like,
after last weekend, kind of okay, let's see, let's get
him a little more time, but let's see what ends
up happening on that Sunday roll. But pitches five innings,
gives up only three hits, one walk, and seven strikeouts
on Saturday Sunday, so William Schmidt might be might be
coming into his own a little bit. And then Cooper
Moore gives up his first walk of the season, like
took him nine innings to get there, but gives up
only one walk, six strikeouts and gave him a couple
of runs. But bullpen comes in and holds off Notre
Dame and the only one that I'm gonna like kind
of look as like Cason Evans look good. But I'm
just wondering, and we said this last week, but I'm
just wondering if Jay is gonna end up moving Friday
and Saturday, Like if he's gonna end up moving Cooper
Moore to be the ace and then Caseen Evans Saturday.
But never know. I fully trust coach Johnson, So whatever
he thinks happens.
Speaker 3: He's not afraid to make a move.
Speaker 8: No, He's really not, Like we never really know with him.
Speaker 3: So and like this is a new role for case
In Evans.
Speaker 5: Yes, I mean last year he was kind of to
stop out the yeah right, I mean he was the
guy that came in when you had a lead seventh
inning on and he would shut down the game. He
would stop the game right where it was. And so
now he's got to adjust to this. And so somebody
very talented. But you're right, I mean, like Jay's not
afraid to you know, mix and match and try to
move guys around to see what he can do. But
your original point was probably the biggest one for me
is William Schmidt and what he was able to do
against UCF.
Speaker 8: Like he used two pitchers on Sunday, right.
Speaker 5: And and that's huge. Yeah, And for William Schmidt to
only have one walk was huge, right.
Speaker 3: Because that's kind of been one of his issues.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he had seven strikeouts in five even last week,
stuff was there. But when he have four walks, five
walks last week, like didn't give up a ton of runs.
But yesterday, I mean, I was another studio dude was nails.
I mean, didn't fall behind and count what you saw
a lot of last year. The control was there. That
was his best game since he's been here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree with you there, And so like we
know what the talent level is, Like we know because well,
I mean played high school baseball literally across the street.
Speaker 3: You're own government, and.
Speaker 5: Then we've known where he would have been, Yeah, where
he would have been drafted if he goes into the drafts.
Speaker 3: He does and he wants to play for LSHU.
Speaker 5: He goes there, and you know, in baseball a lot
of times we judge a freshman too soon because we're
so used to freshmen being impactful in that sport.
Speaker 3: There's other sports that they're not, but that sport they
can be.
Speaker 5: And so you start to see him, he's like, he's
a Tuesday guy, a Wednesday guy. And then Jay Cam
on this show he's like, I don't know, we'll see
him on the weekdays anymore.
Speaker 3: And then he started to struggle a little bit.
Speaker 5: After that, Well, he has certainly, you know, started to
find his way. And that's a guy that if he
gets comfortable, we know what the talent level is, he
can be as good as anybody out there, like literally.
Speaker 8: Anybodys gas and like, that's the one thing that we
were saying at the beginning of the season, and last week,
can you just find the control? And he looks like
he found it and like he was commanding the strike
zone again. Seven strikeout. It's only one walk in five innings, right, the.
Speaker 3: Competition was good too.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, what did they do on the weekend
as a whole, because I know coming into the week
that weekend series we talked about a little bit. Last week,
UCF won their like run ruled all three games in
their opening series. They lost to Miami, who's nationally ranked.
Speaker 3: Did you watch one Miami game? They blew the Miami game,
I think five.
Speaker 5: I think they were up five to two in the ninth,
gave up three runs to tie it up with two outs,
gave up three runs, and then they end up losing
that game in extra innings. But they had a commanding
league going into the ninth.
Speaker 3: And just blew it.
Speaker 8: Whenever we faced UCF, I was like, wait, well, first
of all, Chandler Dorsey is on their team. Now I
don't know if y'all notice that, but he's on there
that he pitched against us. But then Camden Wicker sounded
familiar to me. So then I looked him up and
he was on Wafford so we had faced him before. Yeah,
And I guess like maybe Zach Cowen was like, oh
my boy. But I was like, wait, Camden Wicker, We've
heard this name. So that was interesting to see like,
but Cooper Moore still is super impressive.
Speaker 7: To me.
Speaker 8: It wasn't like the outing that he had last weekend.
But to go nine in a third innings without giving
up a walk is ridiculous, Like that's unreal. But to
your I had a point about William Schmidt that I
forgot about squirrels William Schmidt, Like we saw that though
already with Kate Anderson, like where you start in the
midweek and you're like, oh, this kid looks good and
then they move him and then like he ends up
being the ace. And then we saw it with ty
Floyd a little bit too. So there's like a there's
like a path for him and I kind of see
him taking that same one, but like we just need
him to stay consistent with that and what he had
this past weekend. I think he could be.
Speaker 4: Boy's the cop for William Schmidam and he has to be.
I remember, I'll give Doug Thompson credit for this. He
never said it on air.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: You sent me a text few years ago when ty
Floyd was coming into the game, first game a Tiger.
He goes, hey, get ready to overcord some strikeouts here
because if this guy puts it together, he's gonna be
really really good. And that was Floyd's issue, right, it
was his control, and once he put it together, we
would He have seventeen strikeouts in his last alleting as
an LSU Tiger, like William Schmid, has out ability to.
Speaker 5: The lineup obviously, I mean showed up down in Florida
as well, putting up a ton of runs in every
single game. And Jake Brown continues to just be incredibly
impressive and kind of the same thing, like we've always
known Jake Brown to have the talent and you're kind
of waiting on it to be a full time and
certainly he's given you moments in his LSU baseball career
and he's had big hits, he's had big home runs.
He's played a key role in national championship team. But
you know there was still times where he was like
a platoon player even last year and then this year
hitting four fifty nine on the year already, he's got
four home runs, three doubles, continues to stay hot down
in Florida as well.
Speaker 3: Seth Dardar is a player.
Speaker 5: Oh, he has been highly u impressed too, Like he
might have been the biggest name that you got out
of the portal. But somebody from Louisiana. You know, we
always wanted to play for LSU. I mean he's hitting
a smooth four hundred right now as well. And that
was a position. Second base was the position. We're like, hey,
we don't really know is anybody going to take this
position and run away with it?
Speaker 3: Right now? Seth Dardar looks like he might be that guy.
Speaker 8: I can't leave him out the lineup. Him and Mason
Brawn I came in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, three hits.
Speaker 8: I feel like those are two that you can't you
got to have those two in the lineup. And wait,
where were you? There was something else I had to
point on and then you what were you just saying?
I don't know why I keep losing it.
Speaker 3: I took Jake Brown from you, and I took Seth
Dardar from that was a.
Speaker 6: Power man with some dingers or what from a lot
of different guys.
Speaker 4: Yes, Like remember remember we were like, okay, Jared Jones
twenty home rounds? Is anybody gonna get twenty? Does it matter?
I mean if you got four or five guys that
in fifteen sixteen home runs? Like who really cares? At
that point, like when Dardar came in, like that was
that was my guy? Like when he comes in, he's
in a three way battle for second base. I'm like said,
daughter is gonna run away with this because of his
bad in the lineup, And man, that's exactly what he's done. Curiel.
People forget hit six home runs last year? Can he
get to double digits? Like there's power all through this lineup?
Speaker 8: So I'm curious to know like Jay's philosophy and like
how he teaches timely hitting because aside from maybe Friday
night when they were down versus Indiana until the eighth inning,
this team is really good at that, Like when you
need to score when you have runners on base and
you have a runner in scoring position. I don't know
what the average with runners in scoring position is right now,
but it's got to be pretty high. So I'm curious
to go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this team has done a really nice job offensively
all season long. Every single game, it's been multiple guys
stepping up. Aaron bet somebody wit and even talked about
like what he's been able to give you. Look, I
mean we've again, like you know, the talent's there. You
hear about the talent. You see him a little bit
in flashes last year as a young player. That's somebody
that his powers already showing as well. He's got three
home runs already on the year. So, yeah, we can
continue this conversation when we come back. We'll get We'll
let Matt get some points in here on LSU Baseball
when we come.
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Speaker 1: Com locked in on LSU football twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Off the Bench, all.
Speaker 5: Right, welcome back in OTB talking about LSU baseball.
Speaker 3: Last couple of segments, I actually got something, but I
got the baseball game.
Speaker 2: More.
Speaker 6: The performance was very impressive. But what's even more impressive
is y'all's ability to watch the game. I told you
I tried.
Speaker 8: I was gonna make D one Baseball a weekend loser,
because why are we still doing that tournament? It was
the same thing last season, like nobody could watch it.
When you tried to watch it, the stream summed ass
like it was.
Speaker 6: I finally found a stream for it yesterday and got
about an in and in and.
Speaker 3: Then they and they took this down.
Speaker 8: Yes, it's so dumb.
Speaker 4: It worked. Me and Musso were watching it. I was like, Moose,
look who's on the mound for LSU. They had Trent
carra Away up there the third basement as the picture
and it was case in Evanson.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so is that out? Everybody watched it. It's just
what Yeah, everybody. You just had to keep finding the
legal streams.
Speaker 8: If you had a D one Baseball subscription, you still
had to pay to get the game. Like you didn't
get the game with the subscription, you had to. It
was so like we can lose their early weekend loser
D one Baseball and the way they stream their games.
Speaker 3: Come on, yeah, come on, people better.
Speaker 2: Let the boy.
Speaker 3: You gotta be.
Speaker 8: Ready if you're going to do that, have it together.
Speaker 6: I was ready. I was like, I'm about to I'm
about to soak in some baseball that sweet takes this
week did not.
Speaker 4: We were also too much. So we worked out the kinks.
Last year, that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 8: He didn't, you didn't.
Speaker 4: It was probably worse this year. It didn't crash mid
game like last year.
Speaker 5: But my god, one player that we didn't highlight in
that last segment that certainly needs to be highlighted. Gavin Gidry, Yeah,
he is back. He is healthy, and he is pitching
like he did before he got hurt. No one saw it,
the good job, five and a third on the year,
already eleven strikeouts. Uh, he is back to the form
that again, like we've certainly seen him at times and
honestly might be at his best right now. And that's
a player that you were counting on last year wearing
number eight, gets hurt, your won a name back all
year you didn't really know. Then you shut him down
for the year, and he has come back in a
big way, hasn't let up a run yet, and again
has eleven strikeouts and only a five and a third pitch.
So if you can get Gavin Gidry to come in
shut down games like he has in his.
Speaker 3: Career, it's just another added tool there for Jay.
Speaker 8: Johnson and I all of his attitude.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that sound effects you're making over there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, Well we're gonna move up weekend winners
to eight because we got a lot we want to
get to.
Speaker 3: So we'll have that for you when we jump back
on otb off the bench.
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